Disclaimer: I don't own anything that has to do with this game. I only own my version of what I think Genesis would look like as a girl! Please read and review it. I don't mind if your opinion of my story is bad. A few pointers would be nice since this is my first time doing this sort of thing. But please keep flames mild... I dont feel like getting 3rd degree burns on my first story. =)

Chapter 1: Desolation's Hand

"When the war of the beasts brings about the worlds end,

The goddess descends from the sky,

Wings of light and dark spread afar.

She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting.

Infinite in mystery is the gift of the goddess,

We seek it thus, and take into the sky

Ripples form on the waters surface.

The wandering soul knows no rest.

There is no hate, only joy

For you are beloved by the goddess

Hero of the dawn. Healer of worlds.

Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul

Pride is lost

Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.

My friend, do you fly away now?

To a world that abhors you and I?

All that awaits you is somber morrow

No matter where the winds may blow.

My friend, your desire.

Is the bringer of life, the gift of the goddess.

Even if the morrow is barren of promises,

Nothing shall forstall my return.

My friend, the fates are cruel,

There are no dreams, no honor remains.

The arrow has left the bow of the goddess.

My soul, corrupted by vengeance,

Hath endured torment, to find the end of the journey.

In my own salvation,

And your eternal slumber.

Legend shall speak,

of sacrifice at world's end,

The wind sails over the water's surface.

Quietly, but surely.

Even if the morrow is barren of promises,

Nothing shall forstall my return,

To become the dew that quenches the land.

To spare the sands, the seas, the skies.

I offer thee this silent sacrifice.

There are times in life, no matter who you are, that we feel like we shouldn't exist. That we are only a hindrance, a burden hidden in secret on someone's shoulders who would not admit it openly. Something that had no place in the sea of faces...

One woman clad in a red overcoat, black trousers, and military issued boots, sat in a crowded lobby. Even though with so many people around, she still felt this way. She was no stranger to this kind of setting. But even in the midst of many, she always found it odd... that she still felt so utterly alone. Her only company being a book she cherished and was never seen without. Its binding showing abuse from frequent use. The title etched into its side, "Loveless".

The book itself was a played out script. Filled with Acts to tell a story believed to be myth.

Not only is this woman known for her strange obsession of a simple book that could be bought at any dime store. She was also a well known first class SOLDIER. One of the 'Bloody Trinity'. Her hair was a perfect shade of auburn, matching her brash personality perfectly, reaching down to her waste. Her eyes a baby blue, dull and listless for reasons unknown, but only to her. Her figure, slender and feral. Nothing but grace flowing from her. A long red rapier blade nestled into a notch on her belt. Black, char-coal, gloves with nodes made specially to hold the woman's favored fire materia.

Sighing, the woman snapped her beloved book closed, growing tired of the racket some cadets playing poker in the adjacent sitting area were making when one would win or lose. Standing up, she proceeded down a random hallway. All the way being stared at by cadets and other ranked military persona. Genesis ignored them all, until she got to a door with the numbers '61B' etched into the polished wooden surface.

Shoving a hand roughly into her right front pocket, she yanked her apartment keys out. Quickly slamming the appropriate key into the lock on the door. Hearing the mechanical guts of the doorknob unlocking, she opened the door silently before closing it behind her.

Baby blue eyes scanned the apartment over briefly. Not much could be said about the apartment. It was a fairly sized room for a First. Housing a masters bedroom, a guest bedroom, which had never been touched. A bathroom, kitchen, living room, and an added request, a private library. Full of literature and other various poem books. The request was easily fulfilled because she was the only female SOLDER. There were females in the cooperation but they mainly resided as nurses and such.

The only indication to show it was indeed Genesis's apartment were the few red touches spaced throughout the room. Varying from rare red lilies sitting on her kitchen counter, to the red couches and drapes.

Genesis walked into her living room, throwing her keys onto the dining table as she passed by, and setting her beloved book on the coffee table, as she plopped onto the couch nearest to the window. She leaned over so she was now laying on her back on the soft cushions. She didn't know if it had been mere minutes or grueling hours, that she had stared blankly up at the ceiling above her, when her phone in her back pocket started to vibrate.

She shut her eyes, letting out a annoyed breath through her nose, trying to ignore the vibrations of the phone. Unfortunately for Genesis , this caller was persistent. The minute the phone stopped its insolent buzzing, a sigh of relief escaped her, only for her to cringe half a second later when her phone began to vibrate again. Genesis laid there, glaring at the ceiling, imagining it to be the caller and they were going to burst into flames from Hades. It continued off and on to vibrate for roughly twenty minutes, she counted.

Squeezing her eyes shut, she rolled over onto her side to make access to her back pocket. Reaching into her pocket she ripped the phone out, flipping the cover open. Glaring at the number displayed on the screen, along with the name, "Irritating as hell, Angeal's puppy." Genesis pinched the bridge of her nose knowing full well if she didn't answer the phone, Angeal's precious puppy would continue to call until she dug herself her own grave. Even then she wouldn't be surprised if the pup found some way to harass her in the Life Stream.

Slowly opening her eyes, she stared at the screen wishing she could just melt the phone in her hand. But she couldn't. Cell phones were hard enough to come by, and they were not exactly the cheapest things out there. As her finger hovered of the Send button to answer the call, she was going to make sure Angeal was not going to hear the end of this from her.

Pressing the pad of her index finger into the Send button she placed the phone up to her ear. Knowing the pup didn't need any 'Hello' to know she had finally answered her phone.

"Hey! Genesis! Were are you?" Zack's voice filtered through the phone loud and clear. A little to loud.

Pulling the phone a little ways away from her sensitive ear, she replied bluntly. "At home."

"Good!" Zack's voice resounded, "You want to come with Angeal, Sephiroth and me? Were going down below the plates."

"I'd rather not." Was Genesis's ingeniously dull response.

"Aw! Come on Genesis! When was the last time you been out of that damned apartment of yours? I finally got Sephiroth to agree to come with us this time and your bailing out!" Zack screeched through the phone like a kid who's Popsicle was taken away from him.

"I care not for what you and those two are up to. But I have no interest in participating with any of you this evening." Genesis said sighing silently as she shifted her body into a more comfortable position on the couch.

"Killjoy..." Genesis heard Zack mutter, clearly not meaning to let Genesis hear it. But forgetting temporarily of her enhanced hearing. This caused Genesis to scowl. She didn't want to go with them because if she knew Angeal's puppy well enough. They were only going to go below the plate for a chance to engorge on alcohol, that would not even begin to make them tipsy until hours and countless shot glasses later.

"Sorry it is such a inconvenience, I never asked to be invited. If not for your persistent calling I would not even have known!" Genesis snapped, slamming the cover of the phone closed. Ending the call. It may have been childish of her to snap at the youth, but she didn't care. If she was such a killjoy why was Zack so persistent on trying to force her into these little social gatherings he kept throwing together with her two closest friends.

Genesis glared at the closed phone, her fist tightening around it until she could hear a creaking sound as it protested the pressure of her fist. Huffing she threw the phone onto the other couch. Flipping over so she was facing the back of the couch she was laying on. She shoved her face into the cushions. She may act like a tough and endearing person when out in public, but she always came back to her apartment emotionally and physically drained from the day. She was slowly cracking and tearing at the seams.

She was a failure. So notably stated by her creator. She was born from a experiment called 'Project G', aka 'Project Genesis'. Professor Hollander had tried to create a copy of Sephiroth that Professor Hojo had made. A perfect SOLDER. But with Genesis's birth they found a flaw. A major one at that. Instead of being born a male, she was born female. And for every wound she received, it took her four times as long to heal, then it would a normal human or SOLDER. Sometimes she didn't even heal at all and had to be rushed into the OR to be infused with a chemical that helped reproduce the cells and healing attributes of the body to help mend her wounds.

She couldn't escape the emptiness she felt. She would sit in the lobbies just so she would feel somewhat normal. Trying to mingle. But she never spoke to anyone in the lobbies even when a cadet or admirer would try to strike up a conversation. She just couldn't open up. She was alone. Maybe not on the outside, but the inside its like desolation's hand was after her. Never to know what it would be like. To scared to try. That night Genesis fell asleep on the couch shivering from the low temperature in the apartment. Unannounced to her, her phone began to ring throughout the night, finally ceasing after two hours.

Hope that was a good start... Tell me if it was good or not. Or if I should stop while im ahead! ^.^