Fairy Tale

By: zhak!

Disclaimer: Nothing much belongs to me. I don't own Final Fantasy 7 nor its characters, places and other elements. I don't even own the computer where I'm typing this thing. What I own are the fingers used in typing the story. Not too hard to understand, I hope.

Prologue: The City

Once, in a land that doubtfully exists, there is a great city called Midgar. Technologies unknown to our world today already exist in that great city. The people in that city were divided into seven sectors; the richest people lived in the higher sectors and the poor, oppressed ones lived in the lower sectors.

People lived in constant hardship and suffering. The poor were miserable and struggling to survive "underneath the rotting pizza." The rich led themselves to believe that they were happy because they had the ability to get whatever they want, but they aren't any better off than the poor because they had to work their asses off day and night to feel secure enough… but they never were secure enough. Too much money isn't enough. And worse, they are forced to see poverty and violence everywhere—and try hard not to care.

The city that once was un-industrialized and unnamed… the city that is now industrialized and named "Midgar," the Big City, the richest country in Gaea… the city that will return to the Planet, and be renamed Ivalice. The city full of unhappy people. Cranky, unhappy people who smells the pollution everyday when they wake. People who drink a lot. People whose kids scam travelers 10 gil for a nap in a rat-infested room. People who pass by the Church with flowers in it everyday but never attend the masses. People like that.

A city of a million stories... all of them so special, all of them held so dear.

You will be so amazed... so amazed.

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Author's notes: Another crazy idea that I'll eventually abandon if I become uninspired sometime. Gawds.
But this time, I have a goal: only three stories.
I know there's something wrong with my language... Bah, let it be. I'm a try-hard postmodern writer anyway.
Don't be compelled to review at this point, since it's really nothing so far. The fairy tales begin at the next chapter. XD