This is my first FFVII story, so please tell me how I did on my first Chapter! Oh, Im using Yazoo, Loz and Kadaj; Cloud, Tifa, Marlene, Denzel, Yuffie and the rest too, but almost nothing. Cloud and Tifa will be appearing most of the time.

I don't know how old the characters really are, so Im setting them what I think their age should be. In this case, its like this;

(blah, blah blah; 2011 update: I'm deleting this little piece right here about the ages; I realized that there was another direction I wanted to take with this story after an almost 2 year thinking process… I know, too long, I'm really sorry I've kept all of you guys waiting… but I'm back! :D)

That's all, please review. Thank you! (Actually, I don't care if you review or not, as long as you just read the story lol if you want to review that's fine; I'm allowing anonymous reviews so you won't have to log in if you don't want to; if you're shy about public and all that, that's fine too… )

"C'mon Brother! It's raining!" said a teenage girl, running out of her house and leaving her brother to look at her strangely.

"You're 17, for Pete's sakes Sei." Her brother said, rolling his eyes.

"Don't give me that, I know you'll enjoy being under the rain as much as I am." Said Sei, looking inside the house at her brother.

Her brother faked a groan and smiled. He had to admit that his sister was right. He did like to be under the rain, but he just wanted to see how much would Sei push before he actually joined her.

"Don't go too far." he said. "Those monsters might come back."

Sei came closer to the house and looked at her brother strangely. "'Don't go'? Don't you mean Lets Not Go Too Far?"

"I'm too old for this." Said her brother, widening his smile.

"Goodness Jake, you'd think you're 89 years old instead of 23. You're never too old to play under the rain. C'mon." she said, reaching into the house and grabbing her brothers arm with her wet hand and pulling him towards the outside world. Jake only faked an irritated sigh and hugged her, letting her guide him into the curtain of rain. Being outside, he raised his face to the sky and let the rain drops touch his face before running down his chin, neck and chest. He looked at his sister; she also had her face raised towards the sky. Her mouth was open and her tongue sticking out, tasting the rain.

"Tag, you're it!" said Jake, touching her shoulder and running off into the white trees that surrounded their house.

"You won't get away that easy!" cried Sei, chasing after him.

They climbed trees, tripped over rocks around the location and slipped in mud puddles; it was the usual, just having a bit of fun.

All of a sudden, a big explosion was heard from the city. Sei and Jake stopped running and looked over to where the explosion seemed to take place. It seemed to be coming from the ruins.

"Hm." muttered Sei, narrowing her eyes in concentration.

Oh, no. here it comes. Jake rolled his eyes away from his sister. He knew her all too well.

"I wonder..."

"No, don't wonder." interrupted Jake. "Let's go into the house and stay there."

"But brother—"

"Don't 'but brother' me, sis. In the house." Jake grabbed her arm and started pulling her towards the house.

"Oh come on! It could be exiting!" she said pulling her arm free and starting to run towards the origins of the explosion.

"HEY! COME BACK HERE!" yelled Jake, gazing at Sei. He knew it was useless to chase after her on foot, so he turned around and opened the garage. He hopped into his black car, turned the engine on and stepped on the gas to catch up with Sei.

"Man, she's faster than I remember," whispered Jake, maneuvering the car to park it right in front of his sister without having to worry about running over her.

"What the hell?" she yelled in surprise, stopping short at the sudden appearance of the car right in front of her.

"C'mon, well go in this baby. If we have any trouble, it will be easier to take you back home."

"You saying we'll actually take a look?"

"Yeah." Said Jake, almost rolling his eyes. "Now, hop in before I change my mind."

Without having to hear it twice, she ran around the car and hoped into the passenger seat.

"Let's go then!" she cried, happily.

Jake let an exaggerated sigh escape his lips before he stepped on the gas and headed towards Midgar. There was no doubt his sister was an adventurer, but sometimes he couldn't help wonder if "Danger" existed in her vocabulary.

The boy lay on the ground, face up, letting the rain drops land on his face and body. He opened his eyes and tried to figure his current location. He couldn't move, with the exception of breathing and blinking. Other than that, he didn't think he would ever budge.

To prove this wrong, he tried to shield the rain from his face with his arm but a pain shooting up all the way to his shoulder stopped him. Maybe he would have to lay there forever. He wouldn't mind it one bit if the rain coming down from the glorious sky wasn't the one causing that stinging pain all over.

He let his head roll to the side only to see an empty house in an empty lot. The door was gone; the windows were broken, staring down at him with inviting darkness. The little house looked like if it was about to collapse, but who cared? It would provide shield from the rain for at least a couple of days. He would recover and then leave… somewhere.

He tried to make his body obey the command he gave to sit up, but it refused. "I have to get out…" he whispered fiercely, more to encourage himself than to hope anyone would hear him. He forced himself to roll over and although his body screamed and protested in pain and refusal, he managed to drag himself a few inches towards the abandoned house. He stopped and through his wet silver hair, he looked again at the house. It was so far, yet so near… A few more yards and then he would be in that house, away from the pain, safe from the rain.

He blinked away the rain drops that had managed into his eyes and they rolled down his cheeks. They almost felt like tears, only one thing, he never cried. He only knew what tears were because of his older brother… speaking of which, where was he?

"Loz…" he whispered, narrowing his eyes eager to locate his brother. He moved his eyes until it was necessary to turn his head to look beyond the territory his eyes could cover. It was literally a pain in the neck he was willing to stand just to find his brother… If he was alive, if he had survived just like himself to the explosion… he wouldn't be alone anymore…

"Loz..?" he said in a hoarse voice.

Suddenly his head weighed too much for him to keep up. Confused, he blinked, hoping that feeling would vanish. Instead, his body gave way and let gravity take over him, his head landing hard like a stone against the floor, opening a small wound on his forehead. He tried to crawl further towards the house, but the pain was so much, that he fainted, in that position. Deep inside, a little voice told him that he would die a slow and painful death. As he slipped away into a whirlpool of darkness, numbed pain and desperation, he admitted to himself that he deserved it.