Blind Soul
By BlueFox

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Short Sum: Sequel to Blind SOLDIER. After escaping from the Shinra HQ, Zack and the rest of AVALANCHE begin to chase Sephiroth to save their friends and their world from a man who would easily take it all away… NO YAOI!!

Full Sum: Sequel to Blind SOLDIER. After escaping from the Shinra HQ, Zack and the rest of AVALANCHE have to chase Sephiroth, Cloud, and Aeris across all of Gaia in hopes of reclaiming their friends, and saving the world from a man who would take it all away…Contains Clerith, Aer-Seph, Zifa, and others if you squint and tilt your head to the left. NO YAOI!!

Intro: Welcome, one and all, to the continuation of Blind SOLDIER! (applause is heard in the background) Yes, yes, I'm sure we're all so very happy to be here, and a fair warning: if you haven't read Blind SOLDIER before reading this, you may find yourself scratching your head a lot. So yeah, go read that, then come back. Also, if any of you are expecting yaoi, please turn around now. You want yaoi, go read my Cleon fic over in Kingdom Hearts, or my AlFay oneshot in Star Ocean, cause you won't find yaoi here.

Anywho, you all remember the length of Blind SOLDIER, correct, about ten chapters and a Prologue. Multiply that by oh so much more (I don't know how much exactly) and you get the length of Blind Soul. Yeah, it's a pretty big project, and I plan on working on it pretty hard. So, yeah, bear with me.

Enough with this Intro! Let's get to the Prologue! Woo!

Disclaimer: …………………………

Part I
Prologue

"Ja ne."

Liberi Fatali

By Nobuo Uematsu

Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec

Rain fell in sheets that night, striking the flesh with its cold, dissuading most from leaving their homes. But still she continued. Cloaked under the cover of night, bandages wrapped heavily around her completely healed body, all she had to do was get out and away. Out and away.

Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec
Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec

Elmyra was truly a loving woman. And the redhead was absolutely touched at how much Marlene didn't want her to go. The little girl was terrified that she'd never see the older woman again. And deep in her heart, the redhead knew it was true. She knew how much time she had left.

She had seen her own death.

And in all honesty, she was terrified about it. Absolutely terrified about the life after death thing she had been told about in her dreams. Not only that, but her friends were here, and she was presumed dead to them. She couldn't let them see her alive and breathing.

Not yet, at least.

Excitate vos e somno, liberi mei
Cunae sunt non
Excitate vis e somno, liberi fatali
Somnus est non

With quick, methodical steps, she stole away that night, ahead of AVALANCHE, ahead of the other three, alone. She had been so close, so close in Shinra HQ, she found it funny that the silver-haired General himself didn't even recognize her power shrouding Cloud and protecting him. It was very funny, in fact, and she couldn't help smiling at the thought.

Lightning crashed not too far from her and she sighed, feeling the electricity shoot into her body. She loved thunderstorms, loved lightning, loved how the rain danced with the wind. When she had been younger, she had absolutely loved running out and dancing in it. Tempting as that was now, she knew she couldn't. It would waste too much of her time. Enough for Sephiroth and his entourage to catch up to her.

That was the last thing she would need.

So, with a final look behind her, she waved. "Ja ne," she parted with the town of Kalm, before turning and running into the darkness.

Surgite
Inventite
Veni hortum veritatis
Horti verna veritatis

In her dreams, Aeris danced with lightning bolts and swords.

Now was not the time to suddenly drop everything and dance around. He had found her. After rescuing her and helping her, she had attempted to leave Kalm, and he had given chase.

Their swords connected-black and blood red-and in the flash of sparks that erupted, two shades of red hair glowed.

Ardente veritate
Urite mala mundi
Ardente veritate
Incendite tenebras mundi

I don't wield a sword,

Aeris murmured in the dream world as she slept. This isn't me. This is…

Tiffania.

Tiffania spun away from the sharp edge of her opponent's blade as it came down at her and parried it with her own weapon. How had he known that she would run? How had he known?

Of course. Just the way he knows things, she answered herself, then swore as his sword bit deep into the top of her shoulder. Blood seeped out and he took a few steps back. He had won. He had drawn first blood.

Valete, liberi
Diebus fatalibus

It was surprising, actually, how he suddenly let her go. She only stood there on the other side of the Marshes, well away from the Zoloms that lurked within, and he had dropped her off there. She didn't understand why he did that, what the reason was. Did he know something she didn't?

She shook her head. Her Silent Rescuer/Rival. She didn't even know his name, had never seen him before in her life, yet he had been the one to dig up her broken body and take her away from the brink of death. He was an enigma, coming and going as he pleased, and always with the same parting words.

" 'Nothing shall fortell my return. Even if the morrow is barren of promises.' "

Shaking her head, she squeezed as much excess water off it as she could before entering the Mythril Mine.

Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec
Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec
Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec
Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec

End: What a twist! Aha, half of you probably thought Tiffania was dead, crushed, buried under tons of debris! HAHA, fooled ya! And I'm sure you can guess who her Silent Rescuer/Rival is, hmm? Or, at least, his fangirls will. Seeing as he ended up being alive in DoC, I rolled with it. Expect him to have few more appearances throughout this fic, that should make you happy.

Also, I've just put up two other fics today, Our Solemn Hour in FF8, and Whisper in FFX-Overs (it's an FF7/8). Please go check them out and tell me how they are!

Some things to look forward to in the next chapter: Zack relives the Nibelheim Incident. According to the script, it's a pretty long chapter, but depending on the amount of pages on my Word program, I might start the journey for Sephiroth, Aeris, and Cloud up until they encounter the Zolom. So yeah, be ready for that.

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