[Thread; Reviving (Closed)]

[heartofheaven]

Characters: Tifa, Celes, Garnet, Lightning
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: The casualties of war awaken at the Iifa Tree.
Location: Iifa Tree
Date: September 8th, 1804
Warnings: None

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[magitekrune]

That other one ended up being a well-known and very grumpy general. Celes didn't particularly recognize this place, having never actually been here at the very bottom of the tree, but as things started coming back to her, she put the pieces together. She was tired. She could feel the weariness, though it wasn't nearly as bad as she thought it should be after a fight like that.

Taking a deep breath, she pushed herself to sit up and ran a hand through her hair. So, this was the Iifa Tree. Which meant she'd died. Someone had finally succeeded where Kefka had continuously failed. Oh, the irony, so thick it was almost painful.

She pushed herself to her feet as soon as she could and not a minute later found herself being accosted by a moogle. "What-" Oh... it was a Sky Phone. She didn't respond otherwise as she tucked it into her pocket and glanced up to see Tifa racing forward. Instead of feeling relieved, she frowned.

"Tifa...? So I wasn't the only one caught in the blast."

[crowned_jewel]

The murmuring of distant voices filtered into the darkness. Their words were indistinct, a babble of a brook to her smoke-filled mind. Feeling returned slowly, as it does for the sleeping as they begin to wake. She felt both as though she'd been sleeping for a very long time, and then again like she had only just fallen asleep. Pulled from a nightmare, filled with screams and blood, and fire. Moments ago, she could recall, a pain so terrible she thought that she couldn't remember what it felt like to be whole and healthy. A cold chill, and a sticky feeling over her entire body. She'd been nearly bathed in her own blood. But now, she felt fine.

"...a dream?" she whispered to herself, hesitantly cracking open her long-shut eyes

[fulminous]

Lightning groaned loud, the only noise she could make at first when she woke up to the sounds of other voices echoing through where she was. Placing a palm to her forehead, she sat up, cringing a little at the bright green surrounding her body. It looked familiar, but alien -- almost as though she had fallen into Lake Bresha once more, but it was the wrong color, the wrong atmosphere.

This wasn't where she should be. Where had she been? The rocks, a battle--

Ultimecia. Lightning dropped her hand to her side and used both of them to lift herself up onto her feet, testing her legs. She remembered it almost too clearly now; the final blast, the sensation of her body being torn apart, her fleeting thought of an apology to Serah--

So death really was temporary after all. Reaching up to steady herself on a nearby root, Lightning slowly began moving forward, not trusting herself to be fine just yet, though she felt no pain, felt no weakness.

[heartofheaven]

"Celes!" Tifa hurried forward, looking at her friend with concern. "Are you okay? We must have... It must have happened at the same time. That's why we've woken up together."