Fifth Act Cloud Strife

Note: Cloud is NOT supposed to have green eyes...Sephiroth has green eyes. Green-eyed cloud is VERY bad.

And I'm going to stop with the horrible, cliched understatements.

This is from an AMAZING fan-fic called "the Fifth Act": [link]

Here's a sample of her writing:

Three hours of hard riding later, and there stood the proof. Midgar.

Cloud let the reins slide from his fingers, shocked into stillness at the sight of a whole, un-ruined, pre-Meteor Midgar.

It was true.

He’d gone back in time.

Slowly, he reached back, and nicked his finger across First Tsurugi’s outer edge. Blood welled briefly from his fingertip, before the mako regeneration took over and healed it before his eyes, leaving a faint burning sensation behind. Not a twisted dream then, and far too detailed to be a hallucination.

The knowledge didn't hit him as hard as it realistically should have. Maybe he was becoming used to unpleasant surprises. Discovering he'd somehow travelled back in time was far less emotionally challenging than coming to terms with the fact that he'd been unwittingly living a lie, or that Sephiroth just didn't have the good grace to stay dead.

Until he thought that last sentence over, and felt like he might throw up.

Sephiroth was still alive.

And not just Sephiroth. Zack. Aeris. His mother.

Hojo. Jenova.

He sank to his knees, vision blurring.


--Check it out! (I do not claim to own ANYTHING final fantasy VII or the story the Fifth Act)