Chapter 1: The Beginning



Disclaimer: Although this story is based from FF7, and follows the exact same story line. I do not own any of this material, nor am I making any money off of this story. (silent sobs...)

Thunder rumbles beneath a starry sky, as the stars dance about without a care. A mysterious figure slowly begins to appear. The face of a young woman emerges from within an emerald display of lights. She then proceeds to walk down what seems to be a dark alleyway. She emerges from the dark hall to find herself entangled within one of the thousands of street ways of Midgar! Sudden thunder rumbles again as a device of motion hurdles forth from the spiral that is Midgar's center. The tram pulls cautiously into the Sector 8 station.

"Huh?!" Two guards stood confused at the end of the ramp way. Suddenly four figures sprang from within the tram. Amidst the confusion the guards managed to shout, "INTRUDERS!"

All but one figure had ran over to the guards. Soon after, both guards were lying on the floor, and the mysterious hero was introduced into the legend. As a fifth and the final figure jumped from the top of the tram, the lone figure who stayed behind revealed that they were gonna 'blow up dis reactor.' He ran off down the runway leaving the hero to follow. On the way he stopped and inspected each one of the fallen guards and from each he received a potion. He then ran to catch up with the group.

After a few battles with the local soldiers, and blood fangs he returned to the meeting site, which was just before the reactor gates. Here he met with his former companions currently referred to as mysterious figures. First there was Biggs, a computer wiz, and an all around nice guy. Next was Jessie, she made the fake ID cards they would use on the tram, and she was kind and caring. Finally, there was Wedge, this little pot-bellied person loved to eat, and was always plagued with extreme paranoia.

"An Ex-SOLDIER huh, well you must have been here before." Biggs incited.

"Well not really...but I did get to see the blue prints, this is actually my first time here." The mysterious hero stated. Just then the other figure who has not been named arrived.

"So, yous' an ex-SOLDIER. I don't trust ya, yous' was workin' wit the Shinra!" Our mysterious last figure then asked, "What's ur name?"

"Cloud. Cloud Strife of Niblehiem. Who are you?" The other said that was not important at this moment, and ran off through the gates. The others followed.

Inside, Jessie and Biggs were explaining to the mysterious one that they had found the security codes on one of the guards from the station. "Well...don't jes stand there. Open it!" The other shouted loudly.

"Quite down or they'll hear you." Cloud whispered.

"Who gonna here me!?" The mysteriously unnamed one shouted in aggravation.

"The guard bots. That who!" Cloud shut his mouth faster than light itself for he realized that he had just awoken three bots right behind the mysterious one. He motioned to the others and they all turned sheet white! A sudden battle was initiated. As Cloud, Biggs, Jessie, Wedge, and the other engaged battle the three 1st Rays that appeared used their special attack, 'Riddance Ray' upon both Jessie and Wedge, and also one Biggs throwing each of them out of the fight. This left Cloud and the other. Cloud quickly explained how monsters/enemies had certain weaknesses and strengths, and by using the right attack at the right time you could inflict a critical hit upon your opponent.

"Watch this..." Cloud shouted as he reared back. The other noticed a change within his aura structure, and soon enough the attack was underway. "Mighty rain, clash down from the heavens your painful sparks, Bolt!" Clouds' shout initiated a small bolt of lightning to emit from the sky, crashing down hard against one of the 1st Rays. This attack inflicted about 300 points of damage which was more than enough to send that puny robot to the scrap yard.

"Whoa!" The other gazed astounded at Cloud. Suddenly he was hit by the ray cannon attack and was damaged by 100 points! The small meter on his arm filled completely.

"Great! You now have access to your Limit Break. Go ahead and use it." Cloud shouted.

"Alright...here goes. Limit!!!!! BIG SHOT!" A ball of fire began to form around the head of the others' gun arm. Growing faster and faster until...WHAM! The energy ball flew from the gun with the force of a bomb, and crashed into the second 1st Ray. Demolishing it from the battle.

Cloud was suddenly hit by the same attack that had been used on the other man before. His Limit Bar was now full. "My turn, Limit!!! BRAVER!" Slowly sliding the blade of his sword across his hand the edge began to glow a bright blue. He then raced up to the final 1st Ray, and leaped high into the air. With the sword raised high above his head Cloud came crashing down, and the forceful blow split the 1st Ray directly in half.

"HA! I never miss!" With that the battle ended, they both gained some experience, and both leveled up Cloud went to level 9 while the other raised to level 8. Cloud received 2 explosives and 274 gil.

"Okay...now I trust ya. The name's Barret, Barret Wallace of North Corel, but you can call me whatever you want." With that Barret joined Cloud and they went off through the first door.



Scythe: Hey all how was it? I'm writing this as I play the game so plz bear with me. FF7 rules! Yes all the characters are going to appear, and I am also throwing in some of my own with new and unique weapons and limits. Of course I do need some help with who to kill off. No Aeris is not dying in my story. Personally I think Squaresoft was completely stupid to do that. I mean come on! She has all the best curative Limit Breaks. Of course I do see the challenge proposed in trying to obtain her extreme limit during only discs 1+2 but I seriously liked her in party at ALL TIMES! Anyway...plz R&R, flames are excepted as well. Chapter 2 invovles the fight with the Guard Scorpion( with a little twist) to find out !read! I promise chap 2 won't be to far off maybe by Wednesday at the least. Thankies and Don't forget to channel your Spirit energy kids.