I was never that gifted. I mean, I was a good student and everything. But I wasn't my sister. My parents always saw her. "Oh Elena, your sister-" It was always something. My sister had passed our father's course in the Shin-Ra Military Academy-at age 14. When I succeeded the same task six years later at eighteen? Not that impressive anymore. The point is I was constantly in her shadow. My sister became a Turk, a Shin-Ra Special Agent, at age 18. I was sixteen at the time, still attending public school, a B-Average Joanna. So I decided to visit her after school one Day. it didn't per say help that day I was trying to duck away from Sector Six and Shin-Ra HQ wasn't that far. That was when I began to see the world different. Someone saw me and didn't CARE who my sister was. I will never forget that Day. It was when my life really began.

My name is Elena Gunn. And this is my story.