The Four Orbs
              Chapter 1: Searching for silence

Beholding the splendor of the spectacle  waiting for
an answer, he stould by, watching. 
Watching as a giant rock tried seamlessly to break a
barrier of intervening green beams,
and finally the big flash of light, and not once did
the poor man blink, he just stould there
waiting, waiting to die, waiting to live, waiting to
see his fate.  The whole scene was
miles away, and from where he stould it just looked
like an and off and on explosion of
bright colors.  He than watched as amazingly the
bright lights faded away, and he
realized that the apocalypse was thwarted, and
shrugged the incident off stupidly, and
continued his treck across the horribly
scarred-looking Mt. Nibel on his chocobo, which
instead of looking at the possible end, had decided to
eat some shrubbery nearby.  His
chocobo was not fat, but for some reason it didn't
like to run, which sometimes angered
the man, but just like he does to everything, he
shrugged it off.  He did not like worry, or
responsibility for that matter.  He loved just looking
and listening, and occasionally
grunted or rarely talked to his chocobo, which was
uncertain if the chocobo could even
understand the man's foreign tongue.  So he continued,
marching on... 

"Damn, we have to land this son of a bitch!" the
arrogant Cid replied, as he saw
that the backside of the Highwind was almost totally
gone, being hit by a couple of
explosions, and he also saw that gas was leaking out
of one of the propellers.  Cloud just
looked on, not really caring, just gave Cid a silent, 
"Do what you have to do."  Tifa was
right with him, looking down at a torn-up Midgar, with
various fires spreading in some
places.  Tifa's crimson eyes traced the mass of
destruction carefully, could even
occasionally see some people who had somehow
miraculously survived the wrath of the
horrible red tornadoes that Meteor had spitted out
angrily at Midgar.  "So, looks like
Midgar will be going through some renovation."  Barret
said, smiling.  Red XII, standing
next to him, actually laying on the floor next to him
replied,  "Hey, innocent people were
lost in that city, dont make jokes."  That shut Barret
up.  Cloud looked over at Red XII,
nodded, and sat down in a chair in the cockpit.  "Are
you allright?"  Tifa asked him.  He
gave her an emotionless,  "Yes."  Cid was in the very
front about to land the Highwind at
Kalm.  "Here we go, this could get a little rough."
Cid said with a smile.  The Highwind
came soaring down to the ground and landed actually
very roughly, and came to a brief
halt.  Barret got the hell outta there.  He was really
starting to hate flying after what he
had been thorugh.  They all followed him  "the hell
outta there".  On ground, they
traveled to Kalm, which was only 15 minutes away.  It
looked so great, a nice peacful
town, finally.  But while others were in total bliss
and peace, Cloud was unsettled
thinking of many things: Aeris, and the wormhole he
traveled through to finally kill
Sephiroth. Was that an illusion? He didn't understand
any of what happend after they
finally destroyed Sephiroth.  Was Sephiroth really the
evil one, or Jenova? Why was
Sephiroth an angel?  He had to many questions but
above them all, Aeris.  Was that aeris
who stopped meteor, or just Lifestream?  He knew in
the beginning times, back when
there there used to be the four orbs, some very long
time ago, that it was possible for
Ressurection, but did Lifestream exist back than?  He
knew it probably did, but he didn't
know.  All he knew, and all he wanted to know, was if
he could find those four orbs,
could he revive someone from lifestream?  He heard so
many stories back in the
beginning, from his grandmother, but one stould out. 
He always loved to hear the one
that happend some 1,500-2,000 years ago, when Kefka
had a small dictatorship over the land and was finally
killed, and he remembered the three Goddess Staues,
which could
bring death, destruction, and doom to all the good who
opposed it.  He learned that after
kefka was destroyed, the Goddess Statues disappeard,
wand were blocked off by the
bunch who saved the world from Kefka, and they sealed
it off in a cave.  Maybe the orbs
were there too?  He didn't know.  But he knew he had
to find out.  And the first thing he
thought of when he heard "cave" was Mt.Nibel.  That
would be a very good place to
start.  "Cloud, are you sure your allright?" Tifa cut
in to his thoughts.  cloud once again
replied,  "Yes, im fine."  Tifa looked at him and than
walked away.  Cloud than walked
over to Cid, and asked him,  "How bad is the
Highwind's condition?"  Cid looked at him,
surprised that he would ask that, and answered, 
"Pretty damn bad, but its possible it
could fly."  Cloud than nodded and asked,  "Can we get
to Mt.Nibel?"  Cid looked at him
and shook his head slowly, wondering if anything was
wrong with him.  "Yes....."  Cloud
told the whole crew his plan to look for the orbs. 
Red XII shrugged and said,  "I guess
I'll go.  It will get boring just not doing anything,
and it is for Aeris."  Than Barret. 
"Damn right im gonig, if its for Aeris, and.." He
continued his crap, and Cloud looked at
Tifa.  "Im going to stay here.  Im pretty emotionally
worn out, sorry Cloud." Cloud
replied,  "It's ok, Tifa."  Looked over at Cait Sith. 
"I have nothing to lose except my
body, which can always be repaired."  Looked at Cid. 
"Well, you need an asshole to
drive you there, so fine, im going."