FFVII Fan Fiction 
Submitted by: Ultima Weapon 
The Sign (Part 1) 
*For the following story below, the narrator is Cloud Strife and all FF Characters mentioned 
play an important role especially Tifa... 
I closed my eyes and thought about it. I thought about yesterday... 
Yesterday, we defeated Sephiroth and Jenova and kinda saved the planet, not to mention Midgar. 
We were, well, heroes in a kind of word. 
I also thought about the Lifestream and why it showed me the way towards my change. Why did 
it help me??? Why did it make my coldness warm and tender??? Was it a sign of Aeris??? I sign 
of my confusing past??? Or was it simply a trick or phenomenon of the earth??? What!?! 
I was startled with a gentle tap on my shoulder. 
I spun around slowly and saw the graceful figure of my childhood friend Tifa Lockhart. She 
smiled her usual smile and her usual greeting. 
"Cloud? Can I ask you something?" Tifa asked calmly and softly in her sweet voice that I haven't 
realized for these past years. 
"What?" I asked in my sharp voice. 
"Well... you were thinking about yesterday right?" Tifa questioned still without a change in her 
voice. 
"Kinda... I was thinking about the Lifestream and Aeris..." I choked out. 
"Oh... we're all thinking about her aren't we?" Tifa chimed with me as her smile slowly faded 
away. 
"Yeah. Don't feel sorry for me or anyone else... this was just our fate." I coldly but emotionally 
said. It kinda hurt me thinking about her death... aarrgghhh!!! 
Tifa walked away and sat on a small, rounded rock near the landed Highwind. It was a bright 
afternoon turning evening. The sun's glow was bright and well... had a special meaning to me. 
I looked over to Tifa and saw her head down, she was looking at the ground. 
I walked towards her and saw that she was sobbing a little. I didn't bother to comfort her. What's 
the use anway??? 
"Hey Cloud! Come ya look so darn blue?" Barrett Wallace asked me. 
"Oh it's nothing actually. Just sad today." I said and turned away from my friend. 
"Oh. Well, ya better cheer up coz we're goin back ta Midgar... er what's left of it." Barrett said 
and walked away leaving me alone. 
I was still thinking about Sephiroth and how we defeated him. Was he really dead??? What if he 
wasn't??? Would he try to end the Lifestream and life as well again??? That won't happen... 
never!!! 
I turned away from my clear view of the silenct, dark blue ocean and walked towards the 
Highwind. This day was going to be the longest day of my life. 
I was boarding the airship when I saw a faint glimmer near the trees on my right. I looked closely 
and catiously at it. Nothing now... guess it was just reflected sun's light. Funny. 
I climbed the last rung of the ship and glanced around the ship. Same as well. The old kinda 
misty and rusty balcony of ship and the smell of metal and machine. 
I ran down the stairs as fastly as I can and entered the main room where I quickly saw Barrett 
chasing Yuffie Kisaragi, the nosy Materia thief. 
Yuffie was carrying a small sack that bulged with round materias that could have been Barrett's. 
Barret was angry and I saw how red he was. 
"Give me those Materia back ya damn thief!!!" Barrett screamed and chased Yuffie out of the 
room. I saw them running to the hallway bridge. 
I re-entered the control room and saw two more figures. One was Tifa, she was leaning on the 
bars looking at the ocean as well. The other, Cid Highwind who was busy with some 
calculations. 
I marched up to Tifa and saw that she wore a gloomy expression on her face. She was sad, and I 
can obviously say it was because of me... 
"Tifa, do you think you could ever forgive me for being so rude and mean to everyone?" I asked 
Tifa, nervously. 
"Why yes. Of course Cloud." Tifa said startled wondering why I could have asked such an 
intriguing question. 
"You really think so? I mean... what about her? What could she have said to us before she 
died???" I questioned myself and Tifa as well. 
This, I think caught her again. She looked at me, eyeing me suspicously if I were sick or 
probably flipped. 
"I think Aeris could have said to you this..." Tifa went. "Cloud... After this is all over and we 
win... I'll go out with you." 
I was shocked and I trembled a little. I could still see the sweet and tender caring of Aeris in her 
eyes, the day before she had to go away. I didn't realize that she really cared for me... that much. 
"Well, she still promised me she'd go out with me." I tried to sound cal amd cool like I always 
did. But today and yesterday, I was feeling so down and blue and a loser in some sense. I felt 
incomplete and so devastated. 
I didn't realize I was actually shaking all over. The look on Tifa's face showed me that. 
"Cloud! Y-- you're g-- glowing green!!!" Tifa shrieked it startled Cid he actually fell off his sit 
and bonked his head on the desk. 
I looked at my arms and touched my face. I really am glowing green! The color of the 
Lifestream! Was it a sign??? From whom??? Aeris? Myself? Or was I dead? 
I was so astonished I drew my Ultima Weapon and slashed the railbar. It glowed a luminous 
green, my glow! 
Cid, Tifa, Yuffie and Barrett were all crowded, watching me, their mouths wide open and their 
faces were shocked. 
"Where are you??? I know you're there!!! Help me please!!!" I screamed at the top my lungs...