Epilogue

The Turk Called Cloudia

AN: /blah/ = thoughts/inner monologue

*blah* = PHS conversation

Genesis Rhapsodos frowned as he looked around the small mountain village of Nibelheim, which basically consisted of about a dozen houses, an Inn and the Shinra Mansion. He had been helicoptered out and accompanied be the Turks Reno and Rude and a trio of troopers. Now they were just waiting on the arrival of the three Firsts still travelling... Angeal, Sephiroth and Zack.

/So this is where Cloud grew up... it seems very dull and restrictive./ He shivered suddenly. /And very, very cold.../

"Sir! One of the troopers have spotted the others walking up the pass..." Rude said as he walked up to Genesis.

"Finally. Now we can start searching for anything out of the ordinary in this village..."

It was painful wherever she was... but she wasn't alone. Somehow she knew it wouldn't be long before she was fetched so she was trying her hardest to gather the strength to fight... even if wherever she was being held was draining her of her will to survive...

Meanwhile, in the basement of the Shinra Mansion, a lid on one of the coffins slowly creaked open...

"I need to find her..."

END OF PART ONE