At the Night of Full Moon

A/N: I don´t own Final Fantasy VII or any of it´s characters.

Hey! This is my very first fanfic so be easy on me :). And so that you know I´m finnish so english isn´t my first language, so it´s prbably going to be full of mistakes so bear with me :) . And as warning there is going to be lots of OC in later chapters, about seven I think, but they only have minor role, so no worries.

Prologue

You have to remember one thing if you want to survive in Mount. Nibel. Don`t never, ever, step even one step into forest surrounding Nibelheim. And if you somehow find yourself in situation that you can`t avoid going in there: DO NOT go there without weapon you can use to defend yourself. And if you have to go into the forest, be sure to do everything you had to do before sun disappears behind tree tops and night swallows the last light of the dying sun.

Everybody of course knew why forest was of limits, it was because of powerful monsters and creatures that roamed inside of the forest boarders and rocky mountain roads. And most of the monsters were more active during a night than during day time, so you couldn`t avoid bumping into them at the night occasionally.

Most of the monsters were easy enough either to defeat, to drive away or to flee from. But there were two monsters you wouldn`t want to meet even in bright day light, let alone run into them at the middle of the night.

The first one was Nibel Dragon. These big reptiles were always green in colour and biggest of them could easily eat adult man in one bite, if you were lucky enough. If not they would either tear you apart limb by limb or if they were angry enough they would fry you alive with their burning hot flames. Not very nice way to die, you would imagine. So if you ever see one run if you don`t want to die very painful death.

But so that you know, it isn`t so easy lose those big, badass dragons. Why is that? Because unfortunately they hunt in pairs. And if you were fortunate enough and survived dragon`s assault alive, it`s miracle if you didn`t lose any of your limbs. Those few who survived always arrived to the village at least one limb less.

although someone swore that he once saw one man who come into the village burning like torch. But I highly doubt that, because if someone really came to the village burning like that, there should be many others who would recall such thing, and if that really was the case it would mean that dragons would had been right behind the burning man, and there would be one burned village as prove.

So what else there is to know about Nibel Dragons? They are most active at the day. Why hasn`t the whole village burned to ground yet you ask? Well that is because they only live near the summit and they spend most of their day hunting food for themselves, so they don`t have time to go down the mountain and fry human villages for their own amusement.

There is actually very few native people who have seen one of these dragons. Because nobody in Nibelheim is insane enough to seek them out. Those who have seen them, were always there to guide some idiots who thought that people of Nibelheim were too paranoid, and that they were exaggerating dragons abilities. Though it was very hard to get anybody to actually guide someone even couple of kilometers to mountain, only those who were rich enough, were able to pay the price. Price was always personal, it was always enough to support guides family and/or themselves if they were either injured or died in assignment. Usually it was only the guides that made it back alive.

That is all you need to know about Nibel Dragons, but as I mentioned there were two monsters that you didn`t want to meet. And unlike Nibel Dragons almost everyone in the village has seen the other of the two monsters. The second monster you need to be aware of is Nibel Wolf.

Even though Nibel wolves aren`t as big as Nibel dragons or that they are lot weaker than green reptiles that resided at the summit, they were equally dangerous if not even more so.

These canine animals were almost found in any color from white to black, and to many colors of brown, and they were much bigger, stronger and blood thirsty than any other canine species in the world. They were numerous and they always moved in packs so if you come across a Nibel wolf, you soon find yourself surrounded by more wolves you can count. They usually hunted after sunset because they could see in a dark as well as in a day time, but their preys could not, so that made hunting more successful.

And they also lived within the reach of the village, so if you went into the forest without any kind of protection you would get eaten and ripped to pieces by dozen of blood thirsty and hungry wolves. And because of the harsh winter in the mountain area, wolves would sometimes come down to the village at night to get something to eat. It could either be some of the winter stocks or it could be someones pet dog. And if winter was harsh enough wolves would sometimes attack villagers and drag them into the forest. You probably know what that means so I don´t have to tell, don´t you?

So you all are probably wondering why I´m telling you this? Well, that is actually pretty all know the saying when you´re dying, one can see his or her whole life flashing in front of their eyes? Well I don´t know if that is true or false, but it comes really close to that.

Why I know that, you ask? It`s from personal experience. The very first time this happened I was only 7 years old. After that my life went from bad to the worse. I had to endure many years of hardship and suffering because of that. And after many years of struggling it all started to get better bit by bit.

And now after long time I´m having the same feeling I had when I was seven. It feels like time has stopped flowing, like someone casted Stop spell on you and to the enviroment. You can´t move but nothing else isn´t moving either. The only thing that moves freely is your own mind. And I can´t help but to think about the first time this happened, and about the event that changed my whole world.

And I can´t belive that all of this only happened because of humans stupidity, malice and coincidence.

And it all happened at the night of full moon.