Chapter 3: Dad Man Walking
Darkness.
Not the warm woman who had come into his life, but cold, uncaring black that would consume everything a man held dear and destroy it. Dad had to escape, to reach the surface, to reach…wherever Cloud of Darkness had hoped to take him, to do whatever she wanted him to do.
Dad slowly opened his eyes, finding himself in a place he had never been, a cave with shining crystals.
“Where…where is this?”
“Lucrecia…”
Dad’s head jerked to the side, searching for the source of the sound. A pale man with a red cape, a claw for an arm, and a gun by his side.
“Uhh….hello? Who’re you?”
“Lucrecia…” The man did not move, still kneeling by a large crystal with a scientist in it. How odd
“Save us.”
Dad was so surprised by the new words that he almost fell over. “What? Save you? From who? From what?”
“Cloud…The Cloud destroyed us, and will destroy all.”
“Cloud? Cloud of Darkness? There’s no way she would do something like that! You lie!”
Dad reached over, grabbing the man by the scruff of his neck, when he noticed something in a crystal next to one with the scientist. There, suspended in a crystal of her own, was Cloud of Darkness.
“No!”
“Cloud will destroy us all…”
Dad felt his blood boil. Who was this guy, blaming Cloud of Darkness when she was imprisoned down here just like them?
“Who, who did this to her?”
“Cloud is the destroyer of all, the destroyer of destroyers, of light, of darkness, of hope, of despair. Cloud makes the world nothing. The Cloud of Strife.”
“That…that makes no sense! This…this Cloud of Strife seeks to destroy everything?
Then what will be left?”
The man finally looked from the crystal holding his beloved, looking at Dad with a stare that seemed to pierce souls.
“Nothing will exist when Cloud succeeds. Now go, and stop him.”
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Dad awoke with a start, coughing up seawater. He looked around frantically, seeing…sand, trees, normalcy?
“Good, you’re awake. I was wondering how much longer I’d have to wait.”
“C-Cloud of Darkness! Oh thank goodness you’re awake! I had the most terr-“
“You met Vincent, I assume. Then get up, we have to hurry to Midgar before Cloud of
Strife awakens fully.”
“How did you kn-Hey! W-wait up!”
Dad finally felt like an adventurer again, off to save the world from madness.
It felt good.
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