"Final Fantasy * Suicide Kings"
Chapter One: "~Seki-Ray~"
by nuri (gel_edge@hotmail.com)

{Author's Note}
This is just a stupid fanfic. It should only be read by smart, open minded people, but probably no one at all. It involves the characters from FF7 (which is copyright of Square, but yo, this fic ain't gonna make any money, believe you, me) and a weird "twist" of course. A previous knowledge of FF7 IS required, I guess, but I added a lot of made up stuff and real life non-made up stuff. All I ask is that you don't flame me, cause flames aren't worth ANYONE'S time. : 9
{End Note.}

"Hmph." A bored, man's voice echoed throughout the small cavern. Candles lighted up around him, to reveal who he really was. Silver mane of beautiful locks to match slightly with a black outfit. She stood up from his chair and stared deeply into a pool of black water.
"What's wrong, Sephiroth?"
He bolted up from his solem thoughts to acknowledge the visitor's presence. "Apsu."
A tall, yet beautiful woman stood beside him, doning a long black dress that was cut in the middle to expose her stomach. Her hair trailed behind her, as she walked slowly to where the man stood.
She smiled softly, joining him beside the watery pool of darkness. "What were you thinking just now?" He shook his head at the question. Sighing again, he responded, "Thinking. About THEM."
"If you keep thinking about those who defeated you, my dear, then you shall never enjoy the new life have brought to you." She flicked a couple of loose strands of hair that hung over her pale shoulder. He shrugged, and she grinned eviliy.
"Find them. And destroy them." She softly whispered to the pool at her feet. Her mirrored image faded away, leaving the image of a man with a wild mane of spikey blonde hair. He looked confused and angry as a crowd of people gathered around him.
"It looks like Kalm." Sephiroth said, looking up at Apsu. She didn't take her eyes from the pool as she nodded in response.
"Sin."
Over the pool, a woman with blonde hair tied in pigtails appeared. She folded her arms and bowed. "Apsu, how can I serve you, my Queen?" Apsu motioned to the pool's picture of the man.
"I shall find him." Sin said softly, and disappeared.
"Does she even know what she's doing?" Sephiroth said, with a hint of annoyance in his voice. Apsu glared at him for that comment.
Balling up her hand into a fight fist, she started deeply into the man's eyes. "Do not doubt my judgement, Sephiroth. Sin is my best warrior, and she shall have this man by midnight. I can sense it."

It was loud in the crowded city of Kalm this day. A new handful of jobs had been posted out onto a small board right outside of the local bar. Several interested young men and women crowded around to see what was new. Cloud Strife was one of them. Aggrivated as he all ready was, he hated the feeling of all these strangers crowded up around him and touching him. He had never really been a people person--but this wasn't by choice. Childhood was too blame, wasn't it always? Slicking back one of this golden spikes, he stood on the tips of his toes to see what job he could take before the amatures around him could snatch them up before he could ever have the chance.
News of job openings in Kalm were always a big event to everyone on the planet, it seemed. Ever since the FF7 warriors came about, everyone and their grandmother wanted to play hero. Nuri Meideiros scoffed at the thought of wanna-be heroes. She sighed and put on her classic mask, painted by her deceased friend Mana Iglesias. As long as she was here, she thought, walking up to the posting board, she might as well not let anyone else see the face she hated so much.
She walked up to the board and got a few strange glances for wearing a mask. Nuri didn't really care about these people she'd probably never see ever again in her life. All she wanted was money and something to pass the time with. Life was getting way to dull for her as it was, so petty mercenary jobs were all she had to look forward to these days.
"Excuse me." She said softly. No one must have been able to hear her though, as everyone stayed put in their place. "EX-cuse me..." She said with a bit more force. 'If these people don't move their stupid asses, I'm going to have to MAKE them sooner or later...' she thought.
It was a lost cause for her, though. No one moved and Nuri started to give up hope. She looked around to first see if she maybe knew anyone in this crowd. 'Nope, no one.' She thought to herself. The crowd pushed up further, and she found herself next to a man with high spikey blonde hair.
'Who is this masked guy?' The man thought to himself. 'He must think he's pretty high and mighty if he decides to wear a mask to cover his face.' He gave Nuri a quick glare as he thought, but Nuri didn't notice. _She_was too busy staring at his hair. 'Whoa. I swear, people are pretty creepy these days.' Nuri thought. Looking down further, since there was nothing else to do but stare at other people, she saw the radiating face of an angel. She silently gasped to herself, taking in the sight of this beautiful creature.
'Sweet Dios...' She thought, not wanting to take her eyes off of the stranger. A hit in the head from behind made her regain consciousness to the outside world, and walk up further to the work posts.

Sin sighed, she hated looking for people. She was glad she got to do something, though, sitting around in tha huge black castle was getting too boring for her. Looking around in Kalm, she spotted the man from the pool of black water her master had appointed her to capture. She grinned evily and raced over to him.
"HEY. PEOPLE." She cried to the huge mass around him. "GO AWAY. BLONDE FREAK, YOU STAY."
The people didn't move to her warnings; They just sighed and keep trying to look at the posts. Sin frowned, "DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YA!" She gathered up a huge mass of black engergy in her palms and launched it at the crowd. "DARK MOON THERAPY KISS!"
A large amount of people were hit, while the makeshift heroes ran off, terrified. Nuri stayed where she was and looked up at the girl who had launched the attack.
"SIN?!" Nuri cried. The blonde angel looked at Nuri surprised. "What the hell are you doing here?!"
Sin looked down from her hovering position and smiled. Landing softly on the ground, she looked at Nuri with a critical eye. "Well well, if it isn't pitiful Nuri Meideiros. I haven't seen you since the old GARDEN days." Sin gazed over at the post boards and evily smiled, "No one wanted you then, so what makes you think people will want your help now?"
Nuri scoffed off the remark and folded her arms. "What are you doing here?"
"This doesn't concern you, idiot." Sin replied, "I'm to get this blonde freak." She pointed to him.
"Who sent you?" The man replied. Nuri looked over at him and smiled from under her mask. 'So', she thought, 'He has a voice. My angel has a voice...'
"Your old buddy, I hear. Remember the name...Sephiroth?" Sin smiled.
"Wha wha wha...? We killed him!" He cried.
Sin looked at her nails, bored. "Well, he's alive now. Thank Queen Apsu."
"Hmph." Nuri smirked, "Working for the bad guys now, huh?"
"Better than working for some stupid corporation like Shin-Ra, or some lame ass group like Avalanche. Hey aren't you the leader?" Sin laughed, pointing to the blonde man.
"Shut up!" he cried.
"What are you doing now, Nuri? Last I heard you got kicked outta GARDEN, lost your best friend and ...what, now you're looking for doofus jobs in Kalm? Too bad you couldn't be like me and hold it all steady. I have a large sum amount of money, power like you could never imagine because of your primal brain, and also..." She smiled and closed her eyes, "A family."
Nuri bull rushed Sin, knocking her to the ground. "You're such a BITCH!" Nuri cried, punching Sin in the face a few times, "You ALWAYS were, always WILL be..."
Sin knocked Nuri off of her with a simple kick. "Why don't you mind your own business and let me do my job?!" She cried, about to throw a blast towards Nuri.
"I'm not letting you--with your inane insults, you not only insulted me, you've insulted every single hard working, honest person here in Kalm--not just in Kalm mind you, but on this entire EARTH!" Nuri cried, pulling her slashers from inside her coat.
Sin grinned and balled up her energy-filled fists, "Still using that old chivalry thing, eh? Back in school..."
"WE'RE NOT STILL AT GARDEN!" Nuri cried, launching her slashers towards Sin. Sin manuvered out of the way, and launched her Therapy Kiss towards the girl. Nuri barely missed getting hit.
"For crissakes, why won't you just die?!" Sin yelled, about to launch another energy spell. Nuri caught her rebounding slashers. "Huhn....?"
Sin fell to her knees, feeling her right side filling with blood. "You...you..."
"I got better." Nuri said softly.
"I'll get you, Meideiros..." Sin said, disappearing into her void. "I'll get you back...you can't protect that guy forever..."
Nuri turned around to face the blonde stranger. "Are you okay? You weren't hurt or anything, huh?"
He shook his head. "I'm fine. Is Sephiroth and a lady named... Apsu, trying to capture me now?" Nuri shrugged.
"I don't know. I'm sorry, I really don't know." Nuri scratched her head.
"I guess I should thank you." He said, extending a hand. "My name is Cloud Strife."
"Nuri Meideiros." She replied, shaking his hand. She blushed from his grip. And he was really good looking too. Damn.

Sin sighed, leaning up against the castle wall. Her wound hurt like hell, but she wasn't about to tell Apsu she failed. "Damn you Nuri Meideiros, for interfering. Damn you..." She whispered, as her thoughts slowly faded out to black.

"Cloud. Cloud Strife." Nuri whispered to herself. She laid in her rented room, thinking about the man. "I helped interfere with the kidnapping of Cloud Strife." She smiled and turned over on her back, "Cloud Strife's abduction was stopped by me. ME."
Daylight wasn't too far off, and she hadn't been able to get one ounce of sleep because of Cloud on her mind. As soon as dawn hit, the city of Kalm because it's usual self--full of noise and people. Nuri looked out her window to see Cloud and another girl. She had long, brown hair tied at the end with a red ring, a tank top, and a short brown mini-skirt.
"Who the HELL is that?!" Nuri cried to herself. She ran down the inn's stairs and made up a lame plan to go and check the posts again so she could spy on Cloud and this female. Nuri though, had forgotten to put on her mask.
"Hey Tifa." Cloud said with a small smile. "I told you I'd be back at Avalanche as soon as possible. You didn't have to follow me. I'll be safe."
Tifa shrugged, "I just get worried. Sorry." She giggled, "I know I shouldn't be, you practially saved the Earth all by yourself." She dug her toes into the dirt. "And Aerith was making me go insane...clean this, do that, that girl...ever since she was revived by Holy..."
Cloud looked up and saw someone familiar. 'Is that the girl from yesterday?' He thought to himself.
"Who ya lookin at, Cloud-kun?" Tifa smiled, lookin around. "Did you....find someone here all ready?"
Her voice broke through his thoughts, "Huh? Sorry. Hey I'll be back as soon as I can though, all right? Just tell everyone I'm safe." He said. He didn't mean to sound like he wanted her to just leave him alone. Cloud knew how much of a worry-wart Tifa could be sometimes.
"Okay...I'll go. Bye Cloud. See you soon, I better!" She giggled and ran off out of the town.
Watching her go, he thought about why he was in Kalm in the first place. To find money to help finance Avalanche. Ever since Sephiroth was gone, they hadn't gotten much money and were quickly going poor. He shrugged, trying to just relax, and walked up to the post boards once again.
Nuri was confused about what was going on. She couldn't help but think that brunette headed girl was Cloud's girlfriend. She sighed, "Why do all the cute ones have girlfriends?" She whispered to herself.
"Hey."
"Huh?" She looked up, "Oh...uhm...hey."
"Were you asking a rhetorical question just now?" He asked her. She shrugged and played it off.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She smirked.
"You look different today." He pointed to his face, "You're not wearing your mask."
"WHAT?!" She cried to herself. "Don't look, don't look!" He smiled.
"Too late." He said, smiling at her.

"NERGAL!!!" Sin cried within the castle. "Come help me real quick."
A woman with firey red hair appeared from the darkness. She had her hands on her hips and looked very annoyed. "What do you want, Sin?"
"Come assist me in taking down this evil female and capturing this man." Sin replied.
"Don't you all ready have too many problems for me to get wrapped up in them?" Nergal sighed, unamused.
"Just come. You'll be rewarded, okay?" Sin said, with much more force in her voice this time. Nergal sighed and nodded.
"Just lead the way."

end chapter one
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nuri's note: chapter two will be uploaded soon, so check it out!!!