1) He was five when he underwent the Cetra warrior caste power awakening ritual and came out the Planet's Weapon. It wasn't intentional, but he'd already started wandering the mountains around Nibelheim, and he fell into a Mako spring while badly injured - badly enough that he would probably have died otherwise.
1a) Immediately afterwards he left Nibelheim to find the Planet's Heart so they could restore their people.
2) Honestly, Cid is probably the only reason he managed to get to Midgar, as he reached Cid's hometown and met Cid there while Cid was on leave. Cid actually deserted to help Cloud, and to the day Cloud doesn't know why. (Neither does Cid, although he recognises that he's probably better off under the Cetra than he would have been under ShinRa.)
3) The cavern Cloud and Aeris needed to get to in order to awake the Cetra was in Wutai territory. They met Sephiroth on their way there, and Sephiroth helped them, partly because he remembered Aeris from the lab, and partly because something about Cloud made him want to make the boy happy. He was also impressed by Cloud's sheer will and how far they'd got mostly on their own, especially as the two adults were following Cloud's lead.
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Date: 2008-03-25 12:09 pm (UTC)1a) Immediately afterwards he left Nibelheim to find the Planet's Heart so they could restore their people.
2) Honestly, Cid is probably the only reason he managed to get to Midgar, as he reached Cid's hometown and met Cid there while Cid was on leave. Cid actually deserted to help Cloud, and to the day Cloud doesn't know why. (Neither does Cid, although he recognises that he's probably better off under the Cetra than he would have been under ShinRa.)
3) The cavern Cloud and Aeris needed to get to in order to awake the Cetra was in Wutai territory. They met Sephiroth on their way there, and Sephiroth helped them, partly because he remembered Aeris from the lab, and partly because something about Cloud made him want to make the boy happy. He was also impressed by Cloud's sheer will and how far they'd got mostly on their own, especially as the two adults were following Cloud's lead.