Final Fantasy VII Script

• Table of Contents

• Scene 37: Cloud Begins His Story
• Scene 38: Our Monster
• Scene 39: Nibelheim - Homecoming
• Scene 40: The Mountains Of Nibel
• Scene 41: Monsters Of The Nibel Reactor
• Scene 42: Sephiroth's Thirst For Knowledge
• Scene 43: Realization
• Scene 44: Nibelheim Aflame - Tifa's Revenge
• Scene 45: J-E-N-O-V-A
• Scene 46: What A Fascinating Story...

(The scene changes. We are now in a military truck, on a bumpy ride along an old, almost-forgotten road. The windshield wipers do little to defend against the pounding rain. Boxes and crates are strewn about. Cloud stands near the back of the truck. Two Shinra soldiers sit on crates. Sephiroth sits on another.)

Cloud
         "It sure is raining hard."

(He walks over to one of the guards. He isn't looking well.)

Cloud
         "Hey, how are you doing?"

(The soldier makes a dismissive gesture, then sinks down lower.)

         "I'm all right."

Cloud
         "I wouldn't know..."
         "I've never had motion sickness."

(He walks to the other guard.)

Cloud
         "Everything okay?"

(He walks to the middle of the truck. Sephiroth looks up.)

Sephiroth
         "Hey."

(Cloud turns.)

Sephiroth
         "Settle down."

(Cloud starts doing his squat thrusts.)

Cloud
         "They gave me new Materia."
         "I can't wait to use it."

Sephiroth
         "...just like a kid."

(Cloud stops.)

Cloud
         "You going to brief us about this mission?"

Sephiroth
         "...this isn't a typical mission."

Cloud
         "Good!"

Sephiroth
         "Why do you say that?"

(Cloud walks to the back of the truck and looks out.)

Cloud
         "I joined SOLDIER so I could be like you."
         "But by the time I made First Class, the war was already over."
         "My big hopes of becoming a hero like you ended with the war."
         "That's why I always sign up whenever there's a big mission. Kind of a way to prove myself."

(He turns.)

Cloud
         "Say, how do you feel, MISTER Sephiroth?"

Sephiroth
         "...I thought you wanted a briefing?"

(Cloud smooths his hair and walks to Sephiroth.)

Sephiroth
         "Our mission is to investigate an old Mako reactor."
         "There have been reports of it malfunctioning, and producing brutal creatures."
         "First, we will dispose of those creatures, Then, we'll locate the problem and neutralize it."

(Cloud taps his foot.)

Cloud
         "Brutal creatures... Where?"

Sephiroth
         "The Mako Reactor at Nibelheim."

Cloud
         "Nibelheim..."
         "That's where I'm from."

(Sephiroth nods.)

Sephiroth
         "Hmm... hometown..."

(A loud crash rattles the whole truck. The driver turns to the back.)

         "Sir...s, something strange just crashed into our truck!"

(Sephiroth stands.)

Sephiroth
         "That would be our Monster..."

(Battle sequence in which Sephiroth and Cloud fight a massive dragon. We see that Sephiroth has 30 times Cloud's HP, and can do about 300 times the damage. Sephiroth never loses any HP to the dragon's attacks. The scene changes, back to the inn at Kalm.)
 

Cloud
         "Sephiroth's strength is unreal. He is far stronger in reality than any story you might have heard about him."

Aerith
         "So... Where do you come in?"

Cloud
         "Me? I was mesmerized by the way Sephiroth fought."

Tifa
         ".........."

Cloud
         "......and then we reached Nibelheim."

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