I do not own final fantasy or the characters of final fantasy seven. The only character that is mine is Orina.
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The First
Chapter One: Escape and Confusion
Orina stretched as she woke up, only to find that her arms were encumbered by something solid. Her eyes opened wide in shock. She was in a glass cylinder that was filled with a glowing green liquid. A sharp pain rips through her chest at the sudden jump in her pulse which was caused by the sudden distress. Orina begins pulling against the metal bands holding her in place. Her teeth grind together as she breaks free of the restraints. She then punches through the glass of the tank, the immediate pressure of the water flowing out of the hole pushed her hand through the jagged edges, causing her to wince in pain as the glass perforated her fore arm. It only took her a mere second to locate the release latch, pull it and retract her arm, slicing it up even more in the process.
Orina fell forward with the surge of water and landed on her hands and knees choking for breath. She blinks trying to clear the liquid from her brilliant, bright blue eyes. She sits back on her legs holding clutching at her ears, a loud siren was coming from somewhere nearby. Her blurry vision wasn't really helping her figure it out either. 'Where am I?' she looks around again, noticing a pulsing red flash that must belong to the siren that was ripping through her head. Orina staggers to her feet, just as a voice boomed over the intercom, sending a wave of pain from her skull to her feet. 'I have to get out of here', she shakes her head to steady herself and runs out of the room.
"STOP HER!" A blonde woman in a black suit shouted. Orina turned and ran the other way upon hearing the voice. It wasn't hard to assume who the woman wanted stopped. The building was like a make to her, but finally she found her way out of the building. Orina quickly glanced back able to make out with her quickly clearing vision a very familiar logo plastered on the side of the building she had just vacated. Orina stops dead in her tracks, confused. "The Shinra building?" She looks around her confusion only growing more and more by the second . Nothing looked the same, was she really in Midgar. Her hand flew to her chest, clutching at the pain.
Meanwhile back in side the building a frustrated Elena let out a growl. Tseng had warned everyone working in that sector that the girl might be coming too soon. Where had the scientists gone that were supposed to be monitoring her? Elena rolls her eyes, as she imagined the smart ass remarks she could expect to hear from Reno. Then Elena smiled as she remembered that Reno was leaving to go on vacation at this very moment. A whole week without that smartass around was a much needed rest.
*Inside the Shinra building in a housing area*
Reno sighed as he sat up, Rude had just walked in to go with Reno on vacation. Technically it wasn't time for Rude to go on vacation yet, but Shinra, or rather Tseng, knew that Reno would be more willing to go on vacation with Rude tagging along. All the same Reno wasn't looking forward to leaving work. "Well, let's go then." Reno said as he got up from his favorite chair and grabbed his bag. He exited his apartment just as he swung his bag over his shoulder. Rude let out a low chuckle as he followed him out the front door. They were both wearing Hawaiian shirts with floral print on them and khaki shorts. Reno clenched his jaw shut to keep from retorting to Rudes' chuckle. He had agreed to let him pick out their clothes, and of course they were matching. 'Oh god. Now their really gunna think we're dating' Reno thought to himself. "Why'd ya pick out such dumb shirts?" He had tried to hold it in, but that was something the red head had never been good at. "What I like them. Their…comfy." Rude locked Reno's apartment, knowing that his partner had forgotten to do so. Reno sighs and starts walking towards the elevators, Rude following along behind. They caught an empty elevator going down, to Reno's relief. He didn't want to answer any stupid questions at the moment, and was hoping to avoid the other senior TURK members at all costs.
As they exited the building sirens started to go off. Reno kept walking while Rude stopped. Reno turns around to face Rude already knowing what was going through his friends mind. "It's not our problem, we're on vacation now remember?" He turns back around, only to have someone brush past him seconds later. It was a girl, about his age, who had just run out of the Shinra building. As she glanced back her piercing blue eyes caught his attention more than anything else. They were the eyes of a SOLDIER. But there hadn't been any new Soldiers since Cloud. Plus it was only recently that the Shinra Company had really started rebuilding. He saw her hand fly to her chest as she looked around confused. Reno began to walk towards her, only for his partner to lay a hand on his shoulder. Reno looks at Rude, who shakes his head no. "Aww, C'mon she looks like she could use our help." Reno continues to walk towards her, Rude at his side.
Orina had noticed them as soon as they began approaching her. The muscles in her legs tensed as she prepared to make a run for it. But something about the red head causes her to hesitate. She had seen him before in a vision. Orina took another look around, catching sight of some ruins a ways off that she didn't remember having ever seen before. The general shape reminded her of Midgar but that couldn't be right. She walks over to a newspaper dispenser, the date automatically catching her attention. He eyes froze with shock as her numbed brain tried to take in the information she was seeing. Suddenly she was extremely dizzy and everything was going black. Reno caught her just in time. Saving her head from a most unkind meeting with the pavement. "Well Rude, I think this means that we're cutting our vacation short." Reno hefts the girl up over his shoulder and leaves his bag on the ground. Which of course Rude picks up before following him back inside. Tseng and Elena were waiting for them when they re-entered. Various Turk members were with them. Reno groaned inwardly at the sight but kept a smug look on his face as a few chuckles leaked out from the newbies at the sight of him and Rude.
