Top 25 Short FF7 Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length FF7 fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
The Completely Inept Courtship of the One-Winged Angel's Cloud
by Anonymous
Sephiroth finally manages to kill everyone during one of his many returns from the dead. He is a badass, nearly all powerful god of destruction and completely bored out of his oh so perfect, superior mind now that he’s gotten his way. He starts missing his fights with his only rival and the entertai
The Key to Survival
by jesso
Cloud is sent back to his own humble beginnings with his badassery fully intact, but one thing is very different about the world, and that one thing changes EVERYTHING. Featuring: Soulmates, The Implication of Time-travel, Mama!Strife, Smol BAMF Cloud, Emotionally-Stunted Sephiroth, One Very Distres
how about that
by esama
Cloud ends up back in very sexually frustrated times.
Home Run
by ToastedCatBread
Omegas were supposed to be subservient. They were supposed to wait at home, caring for young pups and tending to the family. Their heats were unbearable, satisfied only by an alpha’s knot, unable to think of anything but the thought of being bred.Sephiroth held the ice pack to his head, scowling dan
Hidden in Icy Heights
by Gemsom
An average human could never survive the harsh winters of the Nibel Mountains. When Cloud, a young hunter, gets caught in an early snow storm and stumbles into the nest of a Nibel dragon - all seems lost. However, this dragon has a secret and a proposition.
Without Mercy, Without Grace
by BloodyWar2411
When Angeal died, it was without Honor. Rejected from the Lifestream, he watched his friends fall and the Planet crumble. And when the end arrived, he was ready for it. What he wasn't prepared for was the chance to try again. Armed with nothing but the fail-safe of Cloud Strife's soul, Angeal attemp
Closing Time
by surveycorpsjean
The same customer buys coffee every day right before closing, and Cloud absolutely hates his guts.
A Small Change
by Rhiw
The world is dying. It’s slow, it’s long; the last bloom of life on Gaia won’t happen for decades, for centuries. But it is dying and something must be done. It takes everything the planet has to reach back, to change something; just one thing, one small thing, one hope to change the path of the wor
Holy, Holy, Holy
by corvidkohai
Cloud Strife is an old god trapped in a Summon materia, which Sephiroth finds hidden in Nibelheim.
Beckoning Blood
by Gemsom
The sickness had already wasted Cloud’s mother away to nearly nothing, and Cloud knew the illness had already settled in his own lungs. It might have been easier for Cloud to burn alive with his mother when the villages came to purge the illness from their mountain.But Cloud’s unchanging friend Zack
A Leaf Falls
by modeoheim
After an urgent SOS, Cloud is assigned to replace a fellow Infantryman at one of ShinRa's many secret safe houses hidden in the wilderness. It's a two month long mission, mostly sitting and waiting for a comrade in trouble to come by, and every day of it is expected to be boring and lonely. Twenty
it rains ashes on golgotha
by harmony
To Cloud’s astonishment, a previously undiscovered Materia pulls in Zack from a parallel world – a timeline where Cloud was the one who’d died on the cliff, and Zack had lived.
Shaping Fate
by orphan_account
Everyone is born with a mark on their skin, to help them find their fated pack. Their soulmates. And everyone wants to find their soulmates, right?Zack Fair is an alpha and a First-class SOLDIER. So are his three soulmates and they all love each other very much. Everything would be perfect if it was
Us Against the World
by kzam
As the only human born into a pack of wolves, Cloud grows up the town reject. There's nothing tying him to Nibelheim after his mother passes away, and so he sets out for Midgar with the hope of living a normal life among other humans.That was working out just fine until one day he realizes maybe all
Hero
by Sameya
Cloud gets a chance to set things right.
Sugared Starlight and Candied Collars
by beachbby
In all his time working as an omega-for-hire, Cloud Strife had never expected to be contacted by Shinra. It seemed outlandish, completely unheard of, but it was real. Being hired to help the First Class SOLDIERs through their ruts was something he would have never thought possible. Well, at least he
Full Moon Reprisal
by Gemsom
Sephiroth, Angeal, Genesis, and Zack live in a small, close-knit pack of wolf shifters deep in the mountains. They rarely see outside interference and certainly never in the dead of winter. Still, some hunter must have made their way into their territory, because Zack finds himself gravely injured a
Just Another Attempt at Saving the World
by Anonymous
The plan was simple: go back in time, destroy Jenova, get rid of the reactors, save the Planet. Unfortunately, it failed to account for anything that could go wrong, mostly because anything could go wrong, and it wasn’t really possible to account for that.Yet, of course, what went wrong was the last
Permission To Touch
by Miko
Thanks to Zack, Cloud has a chance to finally meet his childhood hero, Sephiroth. There's just one tiny hitch...
Warm to the touch
by Akira17
Cloud was once a normal boy living in the small village of Nibelheim, that is until he catches the eye of the most powerful vampire royal in the world, Sephiroth. Sephiroth, the vampire king that conquered and rules the world of Gaia with an iron fist. After seeing his home destroyed before his eyes
Itsy Bitsy, Teenie Weenie, Yellow Polkadot Bikini
by orphan_account
Short sequel to Shaping Fate.After months of training, Cloud goes on his first mission as a Turk.------------"”Oh, good, it’s your uniform."The bag was much too small to contain anything of the sort. Cloud huffed. He really wasn’t up for any of Reno’s stupid jokes.”Ha ha.””Hey, don’t shoot the messe
Oops, I Omega’d
by TerracottaSoul
Cloud Strife, a regular beta, starts experiencing strange changes after meeting Sephiroth, a strong powerful Alpha. His senses go haywire, and suddenly, Alphas can’t stop staring at him. After collapsing during a delivery, Cloud wakes up in the hospital to discover he’s now an Omega.
Sanctuary
by spyder_m
On her way back to the Sector 5 Slums, Aerith happens by two injured Soldiers at the station. With seemingly no one interested in helping them, she takes it upon herself to step in. A what-if scenario in which Zack and Aerith never met during Crisis Core and Zack survives his last stand. Originally
funeral
by ypperlig
Death is just another door. That’s what Ifalna used to say. Aerith studies superstitions, myths, and death practices across the Planet. Tifa reluctantly helps.
Lotus Blossom
by Gaudan
After Sephiroth's defeat, he finds himself trapped in the Sleeping Forest - a realm of the universe possessed by Aerith. Ready to collect its debt, the lifestream tugs away at Aerith’s conscious, slowly absorbing her memories. Aerith feels herself fading, so she begs him to share his memories with h
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About This List
This list of 25short FF7 fanfics spans 730,865 total words. Kudos range from 61 on the newest entries to 8,168 on the most established. 60% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (11 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics · Omega Verse · Time Travel · Alternate Universe - Time Travel · Time Travel Fix-It.
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