(Cloud leaves the shack and goes down to the Cosmo Candle. The others
are all waiting there. He sits down and talks to each one.)
Aerith
"I learned a lot.
The elders taught me many things."
"About the Cetra...
And the Promised Land..."
(She looks down)
Aerith
"I'm...... alone.....
I'm all alone now..."
Cloud
"But I'm..... we're
here for you, right?"
(She shakes her head)
Aerith
"I know. I know, but...
I am the only.... Cetra."
Cloud
"Does that mean we
can't help?"
(She looks away. Cloud gets up.)
Cait Sith
"I wonder how many
years it's been... Gosh, it brings back memories......"
Barret
"Cosmo Canyon... This's
where AVALANCHE was born..."
"I promised my guys
someday... when we saved the planet from the Shinra, that we'd all go to
Cosmo Canyon and celebrate..."
"Biggs... Wedge...
Jessie..."
"Now they're all gone...
died for the planet."
"...Really? To save
the planet?"
"We all... we all
hate the Shinra..."
"Do I even got a to
go on?"
"Will they...... ...will
they ever forgive me?"
(He shakes his head)
Barret
"...Right now, I really
don't know. But I know one thing."
"If there's anything
I can do, to save the planet... or the people livin' on it... Then I'm
gonna do it!"
"I don't care if it's
for justice or revenge, or whatever. I don't care..... let 'em decide for
'emselves."
(He stands up and waves his arms around)
Barret
"Urrrrrgh! I'm gonna
do it!!"
"Again.... Again....
AVALANCHE's born again!"
(He sits back down.)
Tifa
"Cloud..."
"Bonfires are funny,
aren't they?"
"They make you remember
all sorts of things."
(She looks at Cloud)
Tifa
"You know, Cloud.
5 Years ago..."
(Cloud nods)
Tifa
".........It's nothing."
(She looks at the fire again)
Tifa
"No, forget it. I'm
afraid to ask..."
(Cloud looks at Tifa)
Cloud
"What is it...?"
Tifa
"It feels like...
It feels like you're going far away..."
She looks at him)
Tifa
"You really, really
are..... you... right?"
(Cloud gets up.)
Red XIII
"......Long ago."
"...When I was still
very small. We were all around this flame..."
(He shakes his head)
Red XIII
"No, never mind..."
Cloud
"What happened?"
Red XIII
"It's about my parents."
"When I talk about
my mother, I am full of pride and joy..."
"And that's fine.
...But when I remember my father, my heart is full of anger..."
(Bugenhagen floats over near them.)
Bugenhagen
"...You really can't
forgive your father...?"
Red XIII
"Of course. He...
left mother for dead."
"When the Gi tribe
attacked, he ran off by himself, leaving mother and the people of the Canyon!"
(He shakes his head.)
Bugenhagen
"...Come, Nanaki.
There's something you should see."
Red XIII
"...?"
Bugenhagen
"The place may be
dangerous."
(He floats off)
Bugenhagen
"Cloud. Will you and
one other person come with us?"
(Cloud chooses who he will take with him.)
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