In a distant era on earth, human beings have achieved a high degree of mechanical civilization. Gradually, people discovered a new energy source-"magic light", which condensed The substance of the power of magic light is magic stone. This special substance can release extremely powerful energy and can be used in many aspects such as scientific research and military. The development and utilization of magic light has made human civilization advance by leaps and bounds. Regarding the use of magic light and magic stone, it was controlled by a huge enterprise called "Shenra". Due to the huge application value of magic light, Shinra soon took over the entire planet and devoted all its energy to the development of magic light. The use of magic light spreads throughout the world. However, there seems to be some terrible secret hidden in the magic light... Magic Light City is the largest city in the world and the headquarters of Shinra. Shrouded in clouds all day long, this place is a collection of bustling high-end markets and slums full of violence and poverty. In the corner of this bustling city, a flower girl was walking slowly and selling softly. At this moment, she didn't know what kind of fate she was carrying... In the other corner of the city, the mercenary Claude was attacking the No. 1 Magic Light Furnace with the anti-Shenra army. The leader of the resistance, Big Barret, told Claude that magic light is the source of life for the planet, and if it is mined for a long time, the planet will be destroyed. But Claude didn't care, now he was only interested in money and his own life. The battle was going well. While escaping, Claude sees the flower girl. In the midst of the panic and chaos, her surprising calmness showed her extraordinary temperament. Although there was not much time at the moment, Claude couldn't help but buy a bouquet of flowers from her. Following Barret, they finally escaped to their secret base - a small bar, where the proprietress was actually Cloud's childhood playmate Tifa! At this time, Cloud and Barret got into an argument about the reward, but since Tifa was there to dissuade them, Cloud certainly wouldn't say anything more. They didn't expect to be separated so soon, but something happened while attacking the next target - Magic Light Furnace No. 5, and Claude almost fell to death. However, this fall made him finally get together with the flower girl, and he learned that her name was Alice. She is really a peculiar girl. Her residence is a paradise in this dark and dirty city, and for some reason Shinra wants to catch her. She has a strange magic stone, which is different from the magic stone that Claude and the others use in battle. Hers is a white magic stone, and she has never known its use. Shinra is constantly chasing Iris while trying to subvert Barret's base. Although everyone tried hard to stop it, they still failed to defend the base; at the same time, they also fell into the enemy's trick of diverting the tiger away from the mountain, and Alice was also captured. Before leaving, the Shinra Army told what kind of "ancient species" Alice was... Street 7, where Barrett's base was located, was almost completely blown up by Shinra. While everyone is angry at Shinra's evil deeds, they are also curious, what is an "ancient species"? Isn’t Alice just like us? Everyone learned from Alice's mother that Alice was not her biological daughter, and her real mother had died long ago; but Alice was by no means an ordinary girl, and her attitude towards death was different from that of her biological mother. The white magic stone... In order to rescue Alice, everyone rushed directly to the Shinra headquarters, and unexpectedly got a companion, the lion-like "Red Thirteen", and he can actually speak! With his help, everyone finally defeated Shinra's experimental body, but was caught in prison. But here, everyone learned something about the "ancient species". The ancient species is a nation that called itself "Settra" thousands of years ago, and seems to be extinct now; only the ancient species knows the location of the "Covenant Land", where there is infinite magic light energy... Alice is from the ancient species Later, she could communicate with the stars, but she could only hear many people talking, but could not understand what they meant... Overnight, everyone in the Shinra Building seemed to be killed, and the scene was really horrific. . This must have been done by Sample Monster Jenova! But what surprised Claude the most was the sword that killed Chairman Shinra. It was the sword of Sephiroth, who was once the strongest warrior! Isn't he dead yet? Everyone took the opportunity to escape from the Magic Light City. Claude couldn't forget about Sephiroth, and he told everyone about his past... 5 years ago, Claude followed Sephiroth to investigate the abandoned magic light furnace near his hometown, and found Shinra's doctor here. Hojo is using magic light to create monsters. Sephiroth was very angry. After the mission was completed, Sephiroth spent many days alone searching for information in Shinra's secret laboratory. When he reappeared, his whole person changed, killing Tifa's father, setting fire to the entire village, and said he was going to the "Covenant Land". Cloud chased to the Magic Light Furnace and saw Sephiroth slashing Tifa down with a single blow. The angry Cloud drew his knife and rushed towards Sephiroth... Cloud couldn't remember what happened next, but he knew that he would not survive Sephiroth's knife; and Tifa didn't know that she How to survive. Later, I heard that Sephiroth was dead, but now... When she finished speaking, Tifa's expression was a little strange, as if she had something to say. Everyone began their journey to track Sephiroth. During the journey, everyone met new companions Kate West, zombie Vincent and ninja Yuffie.

And Barrett and Red Thirteen also recalled their bitter experiences in their hometowns... There was a debate in Barrett's hometown over whether to install a magic light furnace. Barrett's friend Dane did not agree to install it. But Barrett convinced Dane because he couldn't bear to see the villagers continue to live in poverty. However, the magic light furnace exploded, and Shinra blamed the villagers for the massacre. During the escape, Barrett's wife died, Dane fell off a cliff, and Barret lost his arm trying to save Dane.

In the huge entertainment city, a man with a gun on his arm was found killing innocent people indiscriminately. Barrett knew that it must be Dane. Facing his old friend who had already lost his mind, Barrett finally pulled the trigger... and Dane finally regained his consciousness before he died. Red Thirteen also told his past in his hometown. It turns out that the original name of the Red Thirteen is Nachi, and their family has always been responsible for protecting this canyon and ancient species. However, in an alien attack, his mother died in battle, but his father escaped. Red Thirteen has always been ashamed of his father. The elders here led Red Thirteen to the mysterious cave that had been sealed for a long time. Here, Red Thirteen was surprised to see his father. He had turned into a stone statue, and his body was covered with enemy spears. It turned out that in order to prevent the enemy from invading this secret passage, Red Thirteen's father stayed here alone and asked the elders to seal the secret passage and never mention it to anyone again. He himself was charged with being a coward... In the end , everyone finally arrived at Claude's hometown, but they were surprised to find that the village did not seem to have been burned as Claude said, which was a bit incredible. At this time Tifa seemed to have something to say again, but still didn't say anything. Everyone investigated the Shinra villa in the village and unexpectedly found Vincent, an artificial man created by Dr. Hojo in the basement. Vincent, who was tortured by Shinra's human experiments, resolutely joined the team after sleeping for many years. Claude and the others. Finally, in the library, everyone saw Sephiroth, and during the conversation with him, Cloud learned that Sephiroth was going to the temple of the ancient species. After saying this to Cloud, Sephiroth flew away. Claude and others followed the direction in which Sephiroth flew and chased into the mountains to the north of the village. Everything here was so familiar. That past event kept flashing in front of Claude's eyes, but each time it seemed slightly different. There was a difference... They chased across the mountain, but no trace of Sephiroth was seen, so everyone entered a small village at the foot of the mountain. There is a rocket launch site here. Claude and the others found Sid, the engineer in charge of rocket research, and learned that the rocket was originally used to carry out Shinra's space development plan. However, at the moment of launch, Sid unexpectedly discovered that his assistant-a young The girl was still on the rocket. In order to save him, Sid gave up his lifelong dream and stopped the launch of the rocket, and the plan was stopped. When talking about this, Sid seemed very unhappy, so he dismissed Claude's desire to borrow his plane. At this time, Shinra's president suddenly came here. Sid mistakenly thought that the plan was about to start again. After getting excited, he realized that Shinra just wanted to take away the plane. With the help of Sid's assistant, Claude and the others grabbed the plane first and tried to escape with Sid, but the plane was hit by Shinra and was forced to land at sea. Everyone had no choice but to use the plane as a ship and headed west to a continent. When they landed, Yuffie reminded everyone that it was dangerous here, but when Claude and the others dealt with a small group of Shinra soldiers, she actually stole all the magic stones from everyone and ran away. We chased all the way to a city with ancient Chinese characteristics, which is the hometown of Yuffie. After going through some twists and turns, Yuffie was finally caught, and she finally joined sincerely. Everyone returned to Entertainment City because it was said that the key to the ancient temple was in the hands of the director of Entertainment City. Because Claude once helped the director solve Dane's matter, he got the key presented by the director without any effort. Because the cable car unexpectedly broke down, everyone could only sleep in the entertainment city that night, but an accident happened again... Kate West actually stole the key to the Ancient Seed Temple and gave it to Shinra. Under everyone's questioning, Kate West admitted that he was a spy of Shinra, and the puppet under him was controlled by Shinra, so he had nothing to do. After everyone understood Kate West's difficulties, they decided to follow Shinra to the ancient species temple located on the southern island. When they came to the murals engraved with ancient knowledge, Sephiroth's figure kept flashing here, making people feel that he should be nearby. After defeating a giant dragon, Cloud found the powerful black magic stone, which was the purpose of Sephiroth's coming here. However, once the magic stone is taken away, the temple will collapse, so Claude decides to leave. At this time, Kate West regrets giving the key to Shinra and decides to exchange her body for the black magic stone... ...The temple collapsed, Claude got the Black Magic Stone, and what's even more surprising is that Kate West didn't die, she just changed the puppet underneath her! However, at this moment, Sephiroth appeared, and a scene that surprised everyone suddenly happened: Claude seemed to be under the control of Sephiroth, and involuntarily handed over the black magic stone that he had worked so hard to obtain to Sephiroth. Not Roth! Then, a white light flashed... In the dream, Alice's figure kept flashing in the dream, and her words came vaguely from the distance.

"Claude, I'm leaving. I'm going to the ancient civilization capital to find the power to fight against Sephiroth..." When Claude woke up from his dream, he knew what he had done and almost lost his mind. Fighting faith. But with the help of Barret and Tifa, Cloud finally understands that to learn his own secret, he must defeat Sephiroth. Everyone told him that Alice did not know where she was, so everyone set out to find Alice. The sleeping forest, this is the place in Claude's dream, and behind it is the ancient city. In the ancient city, Claude and the others discovered a crystal road leading underground, followed the road, and came to the temple. Alice was indeed here, kneeling on the ground praying for something. Claude slowly approached, but suddenly pulled out the knife in a daze, and slowly slashed towards Alice... There was a flash of white light, and a knife was inserted into Alice's chest. That was not Cloud's knife, Tifa's shout woke him up at the critical moment. That's Sephiroth's knife!

A white magic stone rolled down from Alice's body and sank into the pool below the temple. The angry Cloud couldn't stop Sephiroth from flying away. He could only shed tears and gently put Alice's body into the water. The beautiful girl slowly sank to the bottom of the water. Carrying huge pain, Claude was on the road again. In order to pursue Sephiroth, the group headed to the restricted zone in the far north. On the way, they passed by Alice's hometown, and from a hut there, Claude learned about Alice's birth. After an arduous journey, everyone reached the top of the big ice field, where it turned out to be a huge crater! The center of the pit is the restriction zone. In the constant pursuit, Cloud finally found Sephiroth. At this moment, a familiar hallucination broke into Cloud's mind. It was the time when he followed Sephiroth to investigate the Magic Light Furnace. However, this memory seemed to be very different from before. Vaguely, Claude seemed to hear the words of Bao Tiao who followed... "Claude, you are just like Sephiroth, you are his copy. Product..." Cloud's thinking was confused again, and he awakened Sephiroth's true power. The restraint zone was destroyed and turned into a huge hole, protected by a barrier. Shinra then arrived in an airship and captured Barret and Tifa. When Tifa woke up from her coma, Barret opened the window and let her see a terrifying sight. There was a huge red meteorite falling slowly in the sky! It turns out that due to the awakening of Sephiroth's true power, the ultimate magic in the Black Stone was finally activated, and the world was about to be destroyed... However, at this moment, Tifa was more worried about the fact that Cloud fell into the trap when the restraint zone was destroyed. In the sea, life and death are unknown... When Shinra was about to execute Barret and Tifa, a huge prehistoric creature suddenly attacked Shinra's base. Barret, Tifa and Kate West who came to help took a flight. The empty boat took the opportunity to escape. The airship landed on a small island in the southeast of the world. There is a hot spring village on the island. During the conversation with the villagers, everyone learned that a few days ago, an unconscious young man was found on the beach and is now being treated there. Tifa was surprised, was that Cloud? He is still alive! She quickly rushed into the hospital in the village and finally saw Cloud, whom she missed day and night. Two lines of tears fell from her beautiful eyes... However, no matter how Tifa called Cloud, Cloud was still unconscious. , saying some words that no one could understand. The doctor said that Claude was poisoned because he was exposed to too strong a magic light, and it would be difficult to recover. The heartbroken Tifa decided to stay with Cloud, while Barret and others embarked on the journey again. On the airship, Kate West overheard the meeting at Shinra headquarters. Shinra wants to collect energy crystals from magic light furnaces everywhere to destroy meteorites. Barret was very angry when he learned about it and decided to stop Shinra. After everyone's efforts, Shinra's two collection plans failed, and everyone decided to return to the hot spring village to visit Cloud and Tifa. Returning to the hot spring village, everyone found that Cloud's condition had not improved at all, and Tifa who accompanied her seemed to be desperate. At this moment, a giant dragon suddenly attacked the small village and caused a sea current. A huge shock wave destroyed the village. Tifa desperately pushed the unconscious Cloud in a wheelchair to escape, but fell into the hot spring... In a trance, Tifa entered a mysterious place, and there were four Clouds here! It turns out that this is Claude's spiritual world, and the four figures of Claude are Claude's fragmented memories. With Tifa's help, Cloud's memories merged part by part, and he finally remembered the truth. It turned out that Claude was not a high-level Shinra warrior as he had originally recalled, but just a small Shinra soldier. In that operation, the warrior carrying a big sword was actually Alice's first love Zack. When Sephiroth rushed into the magic light furnace, it was Zack who tried to stop Sephiroth, but he was knocked down. , at this time, in order to avenge Tifa and the villagers, Cloud picked up Zack's sword, rushed in and stabbed Sephiroth, but he was also killed by Sephiroth. A few years later, under the research of Hojo, Cloud was resurrected, but he became a copy of Sephiroth, and his original memories were also modified...

After learning the truth , Claude finally returned to normal. The two were rescued by Barrett and others, and Claude stood up again and returned to everyone. And the one who is most happy about this is of course Tifa.

Huge meteorites are still falling. Shinra installed the energy crystal on the rocket and prepared to use it to impact the meteorite, but failed to destroy the meteorite. Now it seems that there is no power that can stop the evil meteorite from falling. In despair, everyone came to Red Thirteen's hometown and discussed with the elders and old astrologers here. The elder asked everyone to go to the ancient city again. Although Claude really didn't want to go back to this place with such sad memories, for the sake of the planet, everyone still followed the elder's instructions.

After investigating the ancient city, the elders came up with a way to fight against the ultimate black magic launched by Sephiroth, which is the ultimate white magic "Holy". But what exactly is “holy”? I got a surprising answer from the elder: Alice's white magic stone is "holy"! However, the magic stone has been buried at the bottom of the lake with Alice. Everyone's hearts fell to the bottom again.

As soon as everyone returned to the ground, they found a prehistoric monster standing up from the sea and walking slowly towards the Magic Light City; at the same time, everyone was surprised to find that a huge monster had been erected in the Magic Light City. fort. It turned out that after a series of failures, Shinra decided to use all its last strength to build such a cannon to break the barrier over the Land of Restraint. The prehistoric monster is right between the cannon and the barrier... "Boom~~~~~~~~~" The cannon is activated! The monster was smashed to pieces by the powerful force of the cannon; the barrier over the Land of Restraint also disappeared under this energy; but the monster sent a final blow before dying, and the Shinra Building was submerged in the fire... Everyone Taking advantage of the chaos, he rushed into the Shinra Building and found the surviving treasure bar at the top. During the conversation, they discovered that he was actually Sephiroth’s father! And Sephiroth’s mother was actually Vincent’s original girlfriend! It was Hojo who stole Vincent's girlfriend and married her, gave birth to Sephiroth with him, and transformed Vincent into a zombie-like monster; then, he used the bodies of his wife and children for experiments, It made Sephiroth look like he is now... Hojo can be said to be the culprit of all this! Facing the angry crowd, Hojo injected Jenova's cells into his body! What a terrible scientist. Everyone defeated Hojo, and Shinra was finally completely destroyed. Although Shinra was eliminated, Cloud's mission was not over yet. Sephiroth must still be in the Land of Binding! Everyone once again headed towards the place where the constraints of the barrier had been broken. Sephiroth indeed appeared! At this time, he seemed to have the power of God! However, no one is afraid of powerful enemies. In the face of everyone's courage, powerful enemies will be destroyed! Finally, Sephiroth's body disappeared into the space... The battle was over, but Cloud felt Sephiroth's presence again. It turns out that Cloud is a copy of Sephiroth, and Sephiroth's consciousness exists in his body. At this time, Cloud bravely raised the knife... Sephiroth's last bit of consciousness disappeared with Cloud's "Super Martial God Slash". When Cloud regained consciousness, the Land of Restraint had begun to collapse. Tifa struggled to reach out on the rocks above to save Cloud, but accidentally slipped and fell. Upon seeing this, Cloud jumped up quickly, hugged Tifa with one hand, and grabbed the edge of the rock with the other. Tifa was frightened and happily nestled into Cloud's arms. Cloud was also happy to finally save the one he loved with his own hands... They all escaped from the place of restraint in an airship. But the fate of the earth is not good. A huge meteorite has descended on the earth. Due to the gravity between the earth and the meteorite, a huge whirlwind has appeared, destroying the surface crazily. Everyone's lives are at stake! Everyone on the airship looked at the meteor that represented evil and death, and no one was speechless. A miracle happened. Amid everyone's expectations, a piece of white light flowed out from the lake in the ancient capital of species, and soon formed a barrier between the meteorite and the earth! "Holy" is activated! However, it was too late. The energy of the meteorite could no longer be blocked by the "holy". It was slowly passing through the white barrier... At this time, green rays of light began to appear from all over the world. This ray of light was very... They quickly merged and grew stronger, one by one flowing under the white barrier, more and more, gradually covering the entire surface of the earth... This must be the source of life on the earth! Under the impact of the entire earth's power, the meteorite was finally destroyed. In the sky, everyone seemed to see Alice's beautiful face and her smile again...

Five hundred years later, Red Thirteen came to the top of the mountain with his two children. Looking at the ruins of Magic Light City, which has become the home of grass and trees, Red Thirteen told his children about the unforgettable past...

3. Advent Children [AC/ACC]

Two years later, people on the earth suffered from strange diseases of unknown origin, and Claude was even attacked by a group of mysterious men in black, Kadaqiu, who called Claude their brother. The Kadaqiu trio was formed by Sephiroth's longing for Jenova. President Rufus, the second-generation leader of Shinra, directed the Tuckers team to the space cave. He and Elena were in the space cave. Jenova's head was found in the hollow. Rufus fantasized about using the head to revive Shinra, but it caused another disaster. It turns out that the real cause of the strange disease is that at the end of FF7, Jenova's cells in the air invaded the body after the meteorite exploded, causing the body to resist and suffer. The Kadaqiu were controlled by the Jenova cells of the missing body and believed that Jenova was Mom, I plan to snatch Jenova, who has not yet been completely eliminated, and reintegrate her.

Claude, on the other hand, became cowardly and evasive because the two important people in his life fell in front of him one after another, and was defeated in the battle with the trio. Kadaqiu used the magic crystal to summon the ultimate monster in an attempt to destroy the planet. Tifa also almost died trying to save Denzel. At this critical moment, Barret and his friends came to the rescue, and Claude finally put aside everything, raised his sword, and with the help of everyone, defeated the ultimate monster and saved the planet once again. But in the end, Kadaqiu successfully merged with Jenova and transformed into Sephiroth. Facing the enemy who destroyed his hometown and friends, Cloud faced him again, but the reborn Sephiroth seemed to have the power of a god. Facing such a powerful enemy, Claude fell, and secretly met his brother-like friend Zack: "You are the proof of my life." "I am the proof of your life." No. Yes, Cloud once again mustered up the courage and used his highest skill "Super Martial God Slash" to defeat Sephiroth, the myth among Shinra warriors. And Alice also sent the source of life to the earth to cure Claude and everyone's illness. While everyone was in high spirits, the Kadajyu party raised their guns and pointed them at Claude, firing the last bullet - blood gushed out from Claude's chest. "If you want to leave, let's go together!" Kadaqiu Yudang smiled sinisterly. Bits and pieces of the past once again echoed in Claude's mind, and he once again defeated his cowardice and timidity: he raised his sword and gave the remaining members of Kadaj the final blow. In the distance, Tifa and her friends only saw a red explosion on the top of the church... In a daze, Cloud sank into the fountain of life. "You don't belong here!" Alice healed Claude, and Claude finally received encouragement from Alice and Zack and his own forgiveness, returned to his friends, and continued to defend the planet.

As the first protagonist of the epoch-making epic game Final Fantasy 7, Cloud is also one of the most popular characters in the FF series.

He is even ranked among the Japanese game character lists. He often comes out on top, and his popularity remains high. His status among game characters is almost the same as that of Final Fantasy 7 in stand-alone games, and he has become a classic.