Alright, here's my shot at a Final Fantasy Advent Children story! Just a little disclaimer before we start.
I have not actually played through the FF7 game, so please forgive me if I have gotten anything wrong, and message me so I may make changes. Every error is greatly appreciating correction.
I do not own Final Fantasy, its characters or even the actual game. But if I did . . . Sexy parties.
Suki sped past a dozen or so tree's that looked the same from her place on the motorcycle. Over the years they had grown and now nearly invaded the road she rode her bike on. Narrowly she avoided a protruding root and duck beneath a low hanging limb.
The tree's all looked the same. They were all tall and overgrowing. Maybe that was why she hadn't ventured this way for almost two years?
She tried to remember the last time she had taken a day to visit her mentor. Surely she hadn't been gone for a whole two years? While it didn't surprise her, it did displease her a little. He must think she is the worst student in the world for shirking her visits for so long. That or he's dying of boredom all alone in the middle of nowhere.
Or perhaps both, she really couldn't be sure until she reached him.
Bang!
"What the fu-Who the hell is shooting at me?!"
She jerked her bike over to the far left suddenly, as what looked like a bullet whizzed by her. What the hell? Who would be firing a gun at her?
Suki narrowed her eyes, gleaming from mako infusion, and focused her sight straight ahead of her. In the distance she could see what looked like three bikes racing at her. She shuddered involuntarily as she thought of the chance she might have to fight them. Three versus one wasn't very good odds for her at all.
Two of the three separated and rushed towards her faster than the other one. Her eyes looked over them as they rode into a dangerously close position, and she gasped. The silver hair color and mako tinted eyes made her think of her brother before she forcefully removed him from her mind.
The one with longer hair pulled out a gun and began to fire at her. Suki shouted out and steered her bike away from the shots.
"Hey! What did I do to you?!" Suki sped her bike along the road as they made to follow her now. The muscular one with short hair drove up on her right and suddenly steered right into her bike. With a shout she was knocked clean off the road and into the mess of trees.
She held in a shout as she began to weave in and out of the trees, all the while avoiding gun shots and any other potentially harmful diversions. Cursing under her breath, the two pulled up beside her and trapped her bike between theirs.
"What do you think you're doing?!" She wanted to shout at them some more when quite suddenly a large tree loomed up right in front of her. Suki tried to bump them away from her bike so she could avoid it, but they stuck to her and forced her bike to stay in the middle. Faced with a split second decision of jump or die, Suki flung herself off her bike and rolled painfully across the forest floor before colliding with the hard trunk of a tree.
She groaned aloud from the brutal beating she had just gotten from nature, and watched as her bike collided with the tree and wrecked the metal around the engine.
Her back hurt already from the collision, but she didn't have time to dwell on her wounds as the two circled back.
The two men brought their bikes up close and to a stop.
"Hey Loz," The long-haired one spoke in a relaxed tone and leaned back onto his hands as he sat on the bike in front of her. "Do you think she has mother with her?"
Mother? Suki's lips parted to ask who this 'mother' was, and how she would have her but the expressions on their faces made her pause. They were so . . . careless.
"Who are you and just what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Suki drew herself up from the floor and forced herself not to lean on the tree for support, because it wouldn't do to look weak in front of these insane men.
"Now is that any way to greet your brothers?" The third, the one that hadn't taken part in chasing her around, pulled up between the other two. He wore an arrogant smirk that Suki just wanted to punch off his face.
"Maybe, if I had any brothers." She spat at him with malice. Suki took a threatening stance even though they outnumbered her, and tried to make herself more imposing. "I'll ask one more time who you are and what you want. Answer me or prepare yourself for a beating!"
They laughed at her. Laughed! She ground her teeth and clenched her fists tighter.
"Stop laughing at me damn it!" Suki leaped forward and took a swipe at the middle bike. The hood dented from the force and scrunched up under the pressure that eventually ripped it in half. The engine was revealed under the destruction, and it too suffered from the force of her punch.
The rider jumped from the bike as she was drawing back her fist for another round, and caught her fists in his hands. He smirked down at her and laughed when she was becoming even more frustrated.
"Easy little sister, we didn't want to rile you up." He spoke like everything was just a happy joke, a simple misunderstanding. But they had shot at her! Nearly rammed her into a tree and killed her! All his words did was pissing her off more.
"I'm not your sister." She struggled in his grip and winced. Damn his grip was tight around her curled fists. She could feel her circulation cutting off.
"Oh but you are!" He smiled at her. "In fact, we're more related than you think."
"Bull shit! I don't know who you are, now let go and fuck off!" Suki felt a rare moment of panic overtake her the more she struggled to free herself. She wasn't some weakling! She would never let herself lose to this man!
Hands lightly touched the side of her face. She whipped around with a shout of loud protest as the one with long hair caressed her cheek, and she screamed when the thirds arms locked around her stomach in what felt like a vile sickening perverted hug.
"Let go of me you-"
The hands went from caressing her cheek to brushing away strands of her bangs, exposing her forehead. There was an angry brown splotch of what could mistakenly be called dirt, but Suki knew it to be Geostigma.
"You see now? You have the Geostigma, like all of mother's children." The leader relaxed his grip on her fists and moved to hold her wrists instead as he stepped closer to her. Suki felt disgusted having these three men pressed so close to her. She wanted to shove them all away and vomit.
"And like us, you're waiting for mother's reunion." He leaned in close to her, and from between the anguish of the caressing on her face and the vile hug, she felt his closeness the worst of all.
"I don't care about some stupid reunion just get the fuck off of me!" She snarled and jerked her hands free from his grip. Quickly she sprung off of the ground and landed in the branches of a tree high above the three men. They looked angry, and Suki was ready to let them know just how much angrier she was when something darted through the trees.
"Get out of here." The figure wore red and his eyes promised death as he stared down the three men with silver hair. "Leave, before I unleash chaos upon you."
The leader curled his lip and sneered at him before casting Suki a long look.
"We'll be back for you little sister. Our mother's reunion draws near." His words were full of dark promise. As soon as they'd come, they were gone.
Suki jumped down from the high branches of the tree and landed roughly beside the man in red.
"Hey Vincent, I didn't expect to see you here but there's no way in hell I'm complaining." She didn't want to think about those three, but they had undeniably planted themselves at the forefront of her mind as dangerous.
Vincent nodded, the lower half of his face hidden by the high red collar.
"It's been a while." He stepped towards her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I didn't know you were coming."
Suki was beginning to feel more at ease now that she was positive the three bikers wouldn't ride out from the trees suddenly, and she cracked a smile.
"Maybe you would have known if you bothered to buy a phone. It would make keeping in touch much more effective than traveling up here."
"Hmm." He stepped around her and began heading into the woods.
"That's all you can say? Hmm?"
Vincent shrugged a shoulder. "Hmm."
Suki followed her mentor, trying to remember just what 'hmm' stood for in the language of Vincent. She almost pouted; she used to be fluent in his minuet expressions.
"So Vincent, do you know anything about those three?" Suki asked after a while of silence.
"That is Kadaj and his gang, Loz and Yazoo." His piercing eyes found her. "They are remnants of Sephiroth."
Suki drew in a breath. She had thought at the beginning that they looked strikingly similar, but this was a whole other matter. Her brother . . . She clenched her fists.
"How can they be remnants? He never had any . . . you know. Besides that, it's been two years since everything happened." A part of her didn't want to believe it. The Sephiroth incident was over, had been over, for the past two years. There was no way she wanted something like that to happen now, again.
"I doubt they're physically related. They must be the remaining Sephiroth clones, created by Shinra scientists." Vincent stopped walking and placed his hand on her shoulder. "It would be foolish to think something like the Sephiroth Incident couldn't happen again." He removed his hand and began walking again. "I thought I taught you better than that."
Suki scoffed. He was going to use the guilt card. Way to go, just make her feel stupid, Vincent.
"You can play that guilt trip all day long, but it won't work on me anymore."
"I am still your mentor. You'll listen to what I say even though you think you've outgrown me." Vincent said in his same monotone, but Suki detected a hint of teasing. She smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Are you going to keep saying that when I'm all old and deaf? Because by then I won't hear a word you say."
Vincent grew quieter, if that were even possible. Suki frowned. Had she said something wrong?
"Vincent, I'm sor-"
"There's no need. I know you didn't mean anything by it." They found the road and he stopped and looked over the forest. "There's something I have to do."
He turned to leave without another word, but hesitated suddenly and reached back towards her. Like lightning, he swept her bangs away from her forehead and revealed the sick looking blotch.
"You have the stigma." He grew quiet as he contemplated something. Withdrawing his hand, he said, "Go into Midgar and find Cloud. He might know more about Kadaj and his gang." Vincent pat her head awkwardly, showing a rare feat of affection for his former student. "Keep yourself safe. This talk about 'mother's reunion' is shrouded in evil."
Suki watched as Vincent took off into the tree's and disappeared quickly from sight. She stared off into the trees for a while longer, unwilling to move from her spot. A long sigh escaped her lips. She pointed her toes back towards the way she had come, mentally trying to pep herself up for the long walk to Midgar.
Vincent walked through the door and paused after the threshold. Something didn't feel right. The inside of the house felt too . . . empty.
" . . . ."
He didn't bother to check inside the house he just turned around and walked out the door again. Kadaj and his gang were a threat. Vincent felt the need to look in on them and find out just what they were up to.
If only to wait out for the inevitable.
"I hate nature."
Suki let out a shout as she tripped on a root. She had walked back into the tree's to search for her motorcycle, and found it wrapped around the tree. Not only wouldn't the engine start, it was almost curved inside the metal.
"Maybe I'll get lucky and Cloud will pick up his phone." She pulled her cell phone out from her pocket and scrolled through her contacts. She pressed call on Cloud's name, and waited for the ring. "Oh come on, Cloud!" The beep indicating she should leave a message irritated her immensely. "Hey, there's something up and I could use your help! Call me back, cross dresser!"
She snapped her phone shut and shoved it back into her pocket.
It turns out she would have to walk all the way to Midgar.
"Damnit, if only I had a chocobo."
"Hey look out!"
Suki turned sharply around and found herself getting tackled to the ground. Her head beat against the ground with a hard thump, and her vision swam with multiple visions of red heads.
"Whoa! Sorry about that! I was just telling Rude that his little inventions couldn't knock me from my shoes like in the movies and well," the red-head sat quite comfortably on top of her stomach. "He didn't knock my socks off but he sure sent me flying!"
"Not that I don't find this story interesting," Suki struggled from beneath him. "But I've already been groped one time too much for today, so get off of me!"
She pushed the red-head off of her and grunted in satisfaction as he hit the ground and complaints began rattling out of his mouth. Suki brushed off her clothes before realizing that she actually knew the idiot.
"Reno? What are you doing here?"
Reno looked up at her questioningly. "Wait, you know who I am?"
She resisted the urge to roll her eyes. But she failed and rolled them anyway.
"No, I just call every guy that manages to tackle me to the ground Reno." Suki looked down at him with a raised brow.
Reno gasped and his mouth dropped open comically. At that moment, Rude drove up to them on a bike similar to Suki's. He pulled over by Reno and flicked off the engine.
"Was that effective enough for you?" Rude said. Suki wasn't sure if he spoke with malice or just amusement.
"Hey, look who I bumped into Rude!" Reno scrambled to his feet and hopelessly tried to pat down his black suit. "Little miss Suki, from way back at Shinra!"
"It's been a while." Rude greeted her. Reno stood relaxed as he watched Suki and Rude exchange pleasantries.
"So hey, where have you been hiding the past few years? President Shinra has been looking all over for you!" Reno's mentioning of the new Shinra President made Suki want to gag. She never liked Rufus, even before his father had died and he became president. He was just too cocky. But the mention of him scouring Gaia for her with no success made her laugh. The two Turks looked at her questioningly, but she just waved off her behavior.
Suki smirked. "Oh you know, hiding out and traveling Gaia mostly. Poor Rufus, getting his Presidential panties in a twist over little old me! Ha!"
Reno rolled his eyes while Rude just gave her a stoic look.
"Yeah well you're just lucky we're not under orders to bring you back right now." Reno reached back and flipped his pony tail coolly. "And don't think we couldn't take you! It's just that right now I'm not in the practice of taking little girls captive."
Suki growled. "Who are you calling a little girl? I'll show you who's little when I kick your ass, carrot head!" She glared at him all the while she reined in her furry. Today just wasn't her day, and she didn't want to expend any energy on something as pathetic as Reno. "But I'm curious. What is it that has you two so busy?"
"We're investigating a group of thugs." Rude casually pushed up his sunglasses. "They're led by a man named Kadaj."
"Kadaj?" Suki clenched her fists. She seemed to be doing that quite often today. "Happy hunting, that asshole was just here an hour ago. You can probably catch up with them if you hurry."
"You mean you've seen them?" Reno was just about falling over himself. Suki comically thought that a tiny light bulb might have gone off in his head as his expression changed from shock to understanding suddenly. "So earlier when you said you'd been groped enough for one day-"
"That was Kadaj and his gang." Rude finished.
"Yep. They were talking about some kind of reunion." Suki studied them closely as Reno shuffled his boots and Rude shifted weight from one foot to the other. "You wouldn't happen to know anything about this, would you?"
Reno crossed his arms. "Maybe we do. But I'm not sure how exactly it would concern you-Ow!" Rude elbowed him in the chest. "Rude, what was that . . . Oh. Oh yeah, never mind."
Suki could smell exactly why Rude was beating Reno, and it made red-hot anger flare up in her chest. Just because she is the sister of him doesn't mean she's going to be involved with potential psychopaths like Kadaj.
"I'm going to ignore all of that." She spat out and reveled in the looks of shame and embarrassment on the Turks faces. Her eyes flickered past Rude to the bike. "Give Rufus an apology for me. I won't be dropping by anytime soon." She strolled past them, punching Reno in the arm as she walked, and moved Rude away from the bike. "Oh yeah, I'm taking your bike."
She started the engine and kicked into gear, whizzing past them and headed towards Midgar.
Reno gapped as he watched her drive away with their only means of transportation.
"Did you see that? What's the matter with you Rude? Why didn't you stop her?!"
"We should report this in to the President."
"What about our bike?!"
"Forget the bike. We have more important things to do." Rude adjusted his sunglasses and started walking. Reno pouted and followed along.
Midgar was fast approaching and it was about time too. Suki's fuel was getting low. She'd have to refuel before really starting her quest.
"When I find you, Cloud, I'm going to stress just how frustrating it is when you don't pick up your phone! You'll be so verbally chewed out that you'll always pick up your damn phone when I call from now on!"
She revved the bike faster as Midgar loomed closer. She really wouldn't have seen it at all if it had been a different color.
It was a flash of red in the distance.
Her heart stopped, because for a short moment Suki thought it was someone she knew.
Suki brought the bike to a halt. She had to lean back from the stop just to keep her balance on it, and the sudden catch of the brakes kicked up a sandstorm worth of dirt and dust.
Her mouth formed the name, Genesis, but she could see she was clearly mistaken as the dust settled. On the ground before her was indeed a red-head, but she was obviously female. Her eyes were closed tightly as she coughed up the dirt from Suki's entrance.
Cough, "I'm sorry but can I help you?" The red-head stared up at Suki after wiping at her eyes. She set aside a small novel on the ground beside her, and climbed to her feet. "That was some entrance. But I can't say I'd rate you pretty high because most of your cool effects ended up in my throat."
Suki shook her head to dispel her previous thoughts. "I thought you were someone I knew, but I really should have known better."
The red-head smiled and shrugged her shoulders. "No worries, people think they recognize me all the time. But I'm never the one they're looking for. Kind of makes you think, doesn't it?"
She wiped an onslaught of dirt and dust off of her coat. Suki studied her up and down. Surely she hadn't met this girl before? Suki could count on her hand how many red heads she knew, so why was this one striking that familiar cord in her?
"I'm Arien, pleased to meet you." Suki broke from her thoughts as the red-head held out a hand for her to shake. She grasped it tightly and shook.
"My name's Suki."
Suki looked around Arien and saw a bike in extremely poor condition. "Is that your bike?"
Arien glanced back at it before reaching up to scratch her cheek sheepishly. "Yeah, but it's a pretty old model. In fact, it just broke down on me as I was headed into Midgar. I've been sitting here reading for a little while now. I wasn't in any hurry to get there."
Suki debated on whether or not to offer her a ride into Midgar. "What brings you here anyway? You look kind of . . . different."
"Oh I'm looking for someone." She shyly averted her eyes and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks. "It's kind of . . ."
"Don't worry, I understand." Suki really didn't want to get involved in this girls emotional problem. It was almost painfully obvious she was going through a love-struck phase. "I'm heading into Midgar now, if you want a ride."
Arien nodded eagerly and gave Suki an extremely thankful look. Suki was a little thrown by just how much that thankfulness looked real.
"Thanks, I really appreciate it." Arien knelt to pick up her novel, allowing Suki to see just how long her hair was in a braided tail. Humorously she noted that it was a little longer than Vincent's, but not nearly as long as her own. "I've heard that there's this gang of thugs driving around attacking people with monsters. I can't say I'm very keen on meeting them."
Suki laughed and nodded excessively. "Oh man, I don't think you'll have to worry about that. Certain other people on the other hand are a different story." She started the bike and indicated for Arien to climb on behind her. "I'm driving down to Sector Seven. I'll drop you off there."
"Alright!" Arien held onto the bottom of her seat as Suki revved the engine and shot off towards Midgar.
A/N: And there you have it. Anybody else concerned about the silver head trio's apparent incest-like behavior?
