☆ ━━━ Cloud has long considered the dilapidated church with its yellow flowers his personal sanctuary--a place little known, near to the breaking point, almost about to collapse from all it has endured over the years. He visits the flowers and takes care of them with his precious free time. He has slept there on the rotting floorboards, nearly died among the shattered, colorful windows.
But he’s discovered it is not only himself who goes there for solace.
He’s been around the church three times and seen him inside, standing near the edge of the flower bed. The silver-haired man is seemingly just gazing at the plants, hardly moving, standing there in the swirling dust motes and sun rays coming from the holes in the roof.
At first, Cloud wanted to fight him, rush inside and unsheathe his blade and yell at the puppet for all the senseless battles he caused. All the pain Cloud had to endure over again, because they felt bringing back a fallen angel was a good idea.
But then, as he watched Yazoo there silently considering the flowers and the fallen pews and all the books that lay open and torn...
He saw something familiar and Cloud merely backed away silently, not even passing the great oak doors.
Then, over the course of a couple of weeks, Cloud awoke to a new purpose: rid the Planet of JENOVA. And who better to find the location of ‘mother’ than Yazoo?
Today, Cloud sees him inside the church again, looking at the flowers the puppet once so despised.
The fabled ex-SOLDIER creeps into the shadows of the church. Despite Cloud’s boots and heavy gear, he slips into the slumped building near silently, his breath and heart equally still and tense. Slowly, his hand grasps the red handle of his sword, quietly pulling it from its sheath on his back.
The next moment happens in a flash: Cloud takes a few running steps forward, snaps his sword from the hilt and holds it up before him, the silver glinting from the failing sunlight.
He stands there ready to tear Yazoo apart, his eyes gleaming threateningly.
“Why are you here?” Cloud asks him and his tone is hissing, dripping with an unreasonable amount of hate, lightly coated with a rumble of thunder.