After meteor... holy... the life stream. When it was all over the sky was dark with clouds. The threat to the future was over, but the threat to the existence of the living had just begun to come to a close. And when the curtains were lowered, and the fat lady song- 'She song like a mother fuck' as Reno had put it.

The sky, a bright purple, was amazing and unbelievable at first, but scary at the same time. Mother nature was really showing off this time on how bad humanity had fucked up. After it was dark, the rain came down. Flooding over everything, it casketed down the mountains, roaring like an angry tiger.

Nothing was left un-touched by the great falls, it was as if the planet sensed the danger, the fear, the murder. It was trying to clean it's self of all the blood shed that a hundred years of this down poor could not wash away. The rain seamed to last days, and as he watched he finally understood why the Wutain people bowed down in honor of nature, in all it's grace... maybe. But at times like these in all of it's power more so then pure beauty. In the moments sometime between the clouds and rain, if he could have gotten down on his knees to pray, he would have... that would have been if he could have moved.

He couldn't quite remember what stopped or started first, the rain or fire. Some day much later after the shock of it all was gone, he would have to remind himself to ask one of the one's in the Highwind. They, as far as he knew, were high above the storm, and clouds that covered the land and waters.

The same vicious clouds that dared strip away the mountains, forts, trees or anything in there way. Those same ones came to a halt of there watery assault when fire scorched from the sky. It grazed threw the water like a burning sword threw butter. Soon after they started to fall the clouds vanished, but not the threat.

That lingered on, threw the length of the fire, and across to the turning of the sky. It seemed as though the heavens, for a small moment were turned inside themselves. In those few seconds the stormed stopped, the sky a yellow hue. It glistened over them like the sun should have been. In those moments the people should have run... but they didn't. They should have found there loved ones... but they didn't... it was, in a sick mix of animal curiosity and the beauty of it all that everyone froze. They all watched, from cabins, decks, towers, even from the heart of the storm in the slums of the once Midgar, as the sky lingered over them like a protective mother.

But that was only a sheep skin, the wolf soon leaped on it's defenseless awed pray. And it did this ten fooled. Lightning stabbed threw the chilly sky, nothing was spared from the glistening bolts as they streaked across the land. Then it was cold, to cold. The ground, people, everything. The water that had fallen froze in an instant. Those that were not frozen in place by the shear magnitude of it all, were now, literally. A breeze flew across the skies and lands and then died silent. So silent it stung into your heart, your soul. It stung deep into your mind.

The silence spread, making those caught outside forget about the bitter cold as the silence stole the screams, the comforting words, the cries for help. Everything stopped, for a moment nothing could be heard. If a pin were to have been dropped at that moment in Wutai, someone in Junon would surely hear it as it hit the now melting ice. The great ocean swelled as all at once the water on the land rushed into it, as did the melting water of the great glacier and snow.

The un-covered ground began to shake madly, as it opened and closed sending shock after shock threw the lands. As violently as it had begun it stopped. The element's had showed to the humans the greatness of there power, and it would not be something soon forgotten. That, however, was not the end though. Oh no that was not the end of this fat lady's solo. The intermission was short, but not taken lightly as this time people armed themselves. Anything that could be used as a weapon was used. The cries of the planet were screeching in his ears now.

After that he was uncertain of what had happened exactly. He remembered the battle, and what a battle it had been. He remembered the WEAPONS as well, but more this time and stronger. Many lives were lost, but in the end humanity made it threw. There were casualty's, but it was a war.

...a war to end all wars? ...not a chance in hell, but it was a war and for one split second, for one moment everyone, not just the Wutains, or Gongaga farmers. Not just the Rocket Scientists of the North West, nor the Miners of Kalm, Corel, or Bone Villages. Not the gamblers in that Floating Saucer, or the 'traders' of Fort Condor. Everyone was fighting together, with the Indian's of Cosmo Canyon, down to the thief's and so called 'Ninjas' that had no homes to call there own other then the open forests and lands.

Everyone was fighting as humans, as living animals, from this planet. Yes, there were fatalities in this war, and not one person that was lost will be forgotten. But for all that was lost, it was worth it to have that one second that no one cared what color you were, what city you were from, and there was no hate to anyone. For that one second that everyone picked up a weapon and fought together as one. It was worth it.

As the late Lord Godo Kisaragi said fifteen years ago in the last war that was said to end all wars- 'Kill the few to save the many, sacrifice yourself for your brother, even if it is not by blood you are related.' As crude as the quote was it had a point. If even one of those brave people that were lost would have been selfish and left the field of battle, literary hundreds more could have fallen to those great protectors of this planet we call our own. Humans came here from far away, as the Ancients told us... and in peace they lived together once here on this new world... we must protect the ones dear to us... even if we have not met them yet... and also we must protect the planet... and for that war we have a future... for the plant for our brothers and sisters... for the future of them all...

The future is now...