A/N: I had a very good talk with Ziggy pasta (Her stories are very good, so go read them!) and she said that if you have a good story line, you should do a rewrite, so I actually thought about when I was bored in Society and Culture at school, and started to write it. I really do hope you guys like it ^^. Oh and for the record, I'm going to try and write the chapters longer and sexier! More yummy lemons for all! Thank you Mitchel for being my beta like always XD!

Warning: YAOI!!! CloudxZack, yum yum! Might add some more later…

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy or its characters. I merely own the plot.

Rated M for later chapters.

---The Black Chocobo: The Rewrite---

When an individual dies, he, or she goes to the Lifestream. Sometimes the person will get granted a gift or a wish. Whichever way the individual sees it as. Though it does, however, depend on how good the person during their time alive was. The planet herself does wishes, and a majority of times, will send a being known as a "Cetra" to help a person receive their "gift". But this could take up to a day, to a decade to happen. Those who were to receive this were considered to be extremely lucky.

This brings us to meet our SOLDIER first class, with the name of Zackary Fair, but we'll call him Zack as we wouldn't want a million irritating nicknames about us, thrown back to us, as he doesn't like being called "Zackary". He was twenty-two when he died in battle to protect his comatose, young best friend. He had naturally spiky, ebony hair, that girl's just love to play with. Also he had a perfect Gongaga tanned skin with muscles to match. Most of the girls thought he was sexy. He even, too, thought he was pretty sexy, not that he'd actually stare at himself in the mirror, tensing up his muscles to see them, and kiss them *cough*. And lastly, his eyes -- a deep ocean, Mako bluish-green colour. But a few girls told him that his eyes reminded them of a non-polluted sky. His eyes reflected his personality too. His mentor and best friend, Angeal Hewley, called him a puppy, he minded it a little but grew to accept it. Now he was called 'the puppy' of SOLDIER.

Most people think the Lifestream is a black abyss of some sort, but are quite wrong. The Lifestream is like a whole new world. It contains quite a bit of magical essence as well, (minus the fairies and unicorns). To most people, this was heaven. Servants to slave over your every need, an exquisite piece of property on which you could live and do as you like, as well as anything else your heart could desire.

For our friend Zack Fair, it was something totally different. Mainly because he was bored to the point of counting all the leaves of the biggest tree in his backyard. But right now, he was just staring off into space. Angeal was meant to becoming around that day for a spar, but due to all the boredom and thinking, Zack had forgot. His main thoughts were focused on Cloud. His little spiky headed friend looked at him, as Zack was dying, with the look of loss, sorrow and most of all, of pain and hurt. Zack thought his death would make the young blond stronger in life. But as a result, he had closed off all his emotions, only showing some when they escaped his grasp. But the ebony haired man was happy, maybe even ecstatic, that Cloud had found friends on his own (with the help of an adopted personality of course). But there was still the fact that the now, not so young blond, was still hiding who he truly was inside. He was still the same boy who joined Shinra in hopes to become a SODLIER first, still the young cadet who went on the Nibelheim mission that mostly destroyed their lives.

It was only in the Lifestream that Zack had found out that he was Cloud's first and only best friend before he died. Excluding Tifa, as she only knew Cloud, and talked to him on occasion. Zack had cried when he first heard that. He was still very sad about it all, just not as sorrowfully.

Zack was still lost in thought when Angeal had knocked on his door. When he got no answer, Angeal walked in. The burly man looked around the main hall, before he started to walk towards the gym, expecting to find his puppy doing squats to warm up for the upcoming spar. When Angeal entered the gym, he noticed that the gym was empty. Angeal frowned. He thought of the next place where Zack may be. Maybe he was still sleeping. Angeal sighed and started to head towards Zack's master bedroom. Just like the gym, the room and bed lacked a human puppy. The dumbfounded man lifted his left gloved hand to rub his forehead. Surely Zack hadn't forgotten about him and the spar that was due, and went out with some of his friends. Never-the-less, Angeal continued his search for the, somewhat, lost puppy.

He soon found Zack at the breakfast table, staring into nothing.

The said ebony-haired man was now wondering if monkeys did throw feces, and if he could train one to throw its droppings all over the now sane Sephiroth. In the Lifestream, Sephiroth was now free from Jenova's clutches and the planet could hear his pleas of help. Sephiroth asked the planet all kinds of things, things such as forgiveness, redemption and most of all, freedom. The Lifestream was a sanctuary to him. A sanctuary from Jenova. Usually Sephiroth had worked to the best of his abilities for them all, but that really didn't stop Zack from irritating him like a Nazi on a homicidal sugar-high. What could Zack say? It was in his nature to do so.

When Zack was still thinking, Angeal was slowly sneaking up onto Zack, planning to scare him. When Angeal got close enough, he moved his mouth to Zack's right ear and moved both his hands to his shoulders to shake them.

When all was in position, Angeal yelled. He yelled hard and shook Zack shoulders fast. Zack screamed. He screamed like a little girl while jumping quite high in his chair. Angeal laughed quite hard whilst Zack was still screaming, while looking at his mentor. Zack soon stopped screaming and held where his heart was hoping to calm it down while trying to catch his breath. Angeal was leaning over with his hands on his knee still laughing while also trying to catch his breath.

After Zack had slowed his heart rate down, his face took on an angered expression, let out a battle cry and jumped on Angeal. How dare Angeal sneak up on him! How dare he scare him and make him scream like a little girl! How dare he almost make him wet his pants! How dare him indeed! Zack was still screaming out his battle cry while beating his fists on Angeal who was still laughing, while trying to protect his face from the onslaught.

Zack soon got up and glared at Angeal.

"Why did you scare me for Angeal?" Zack spoke while putting a pout on his face. Angeal soon got up while trying to catch his breath when he spoke.

"Well, you weren't in the gym doing your warm ups, so I had to come find you, so after I searched most of your house, I find you in your kitchen staring off into la-la land, so I decided to indulge myself in a little fun by scaring you." Angeal smiled and ruffled the spiky hair that belongs to Zack. Said man closed his eyes, smiling, forgetting about the event that had just happened. For some reason, he just liked being scratched upon the head.

"So how about that spar you invited me over for?" Asked Angeal, while taking his hand out of the even spikier hair, due to the ruffling.

Zack opened his eyes and replied "Oh yeah, let's go to the gym now. I just know that I can kick your ass again, and I got a few new moves I have been working on and you're the perfect person to try it on!" as he and his mentor headed into the gym. Zack still regarded Angeal as his mentor as he had not yet completed his training under Angeal, and still had things to learn (not that he needed them).

Once in the gym, Zack got out his new sword, as Angeal pulled the buster sword from his magnetic sheath. One of the reasons why Angeal still had the buster sword was because his wish that he got was from the planet was to have it back, even though it was still in the land of the living. Zack however has a brand new spanking sword that could beat a brand new car in shininess. It was of the same kind of design as the buster sword but thinner by two inches in width, but still the same length. It was onyx and had a gold pattern imprinted on the side. The handle was two handed but could be held by one, if the user wished so. The handle was wrapped in a blood red material with a small silver ribbon hanging off the end. It was incredibly sharp.

"Prepare to meet the end of my blade, oh mighty knight Angeal, because I, the awesome Zack Fair is about to slice your butt it twenty different places! Ah ha!" Said Zack before he jumped into battle with Angeal.

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After the spar, both opponents were tired and their muscles were burning like liquid fire. Zack laughed tirelessly.

"That…was… a damn…good…spar!" Zack huffed.

"Maybe so. But I still defeated you. You really need to work on your balance Zack. That's your downfall." Angeal spoke and then stood up. He walked up to Zack and offered him his hand, because Zack was still lying lazily on the floor like a rag doll, and still hadn't caught his breath.

"And you need to stop eating fattening food, and go on a diet to improve your health." Spoke Angeal. Zack looked right into Angeal's eyes with a serious face on.

"Did you just call me fat?" Zack asked in disbelief.

"I did not call you fat; otherwise I would have said it if that's what I mean. I said that you need to improve your health." Angeal stated. Zack just stared at him.

"I can't believe you just called me fat! That's it, you're getting it now Angeal!" Zack jumped up to grab Angeal but missed him due to the burly man jumping back. Zack tried to lunge at him again hoping to catch him but fell to the ground. When Zack looked up, he saw a white glowing feather fall to the ground. The ebony-haired man heard good-hearted laughing behind him. Zack got up and stared at Angeal with a 'you're-serious-aren't-you' face on. Angeal had both of his wings out and was hovering out of reach for Zack to reach him. This is known, because Zack was stretching his arms trying to grab onto Angeal's feet in hopes of pulling him down to the ground. As soon as Zack got close, Angeal just flew higher or maneuvered out of the way. Zack huffed out an angry sigh.

"Fine then, just hover here and there. Out of my reach..." Zack turned around and sat down with his legs and arms crossed with an angry pout on. Stupid Angeal hovering just above him and teasing him like his a dog trying to get a treat. Zack stopped that train of thought. What a pun was that?! Angeal laughed quietly to himself.

Just then, there was knocking at the gyms door entrance. Both men looked that the door, then at each other. Angeal shrugged and signaled Zack to find out who it was. Zack huffed and got up and went over to the door to open it when Angeal made a gentle landing on the ground.

On the other side of the door was Aerith smiling softly. Zack smiled back and ushered Aerith in the gym. She waved at Angeal and walked over to him, and Zack followed.

"Congratulations Zack, the time has come for you to collect your wish. Since you have helped protect the planet by helping to stop Genesis, she has offered you to bring you back to life. Do you accept or decline her offering?" Aerith said smiling softly.

Zack just looked right into her eyes with his mouth open. Zack had to say that he was truly happy to get his wish after waiting for three to four years, but to be brought back to life? Well, let's just say the puppy was screaming 'YES!' in his mind right now because his body wasn't active at the moment from receiving that piece of information from his ex-girlfriend.

"Umm… Zack?" Aerith asked, waving her hand in front of his face. After no response, she looked over to Angeal to see if she could get any help from him to get Zack out of his comatose state of shock. Angeal took a few steps closer to the 'dead-to-the-world' Zack and placed his hands on both shoulders and shook him. Zack blinked twice and looked around like he was lost. He sure acted like it too.

"What?" asked the blanked out puppy.

"Zack, I just asked if you want to be brought back to life as your wish. Well, do you?" re-asked Aerith. That seemed to bring Zack back.

"Oh my gosh! Yes I do! Did you hear that Angeal, I get to be brought back to life! I can't believe that I actually get to be brought back to life! I guess good things come to those who wait! Yay!" Zack screamed before jumping about, then running around in circles.

Angeal and Aerith both smiled at Zack. Well until Zack started to run at full speed towards Angeal. Before Angeal could do anything, like blink, Zack had jumped on top of the burly man and squeezed the life out of him. Said burly man, choked. Aerith giggled. Zack then slowly turned his head to face the flower girl with an evil smirk on his face.

"Oh Aerith, come to Zack. He he he." Zack spoke. Aerith stopped giggling and her smile dropped, and she ran trying to escape Zack's hyper-ness. Zack slowly got off Angeal and ran to Aerith. Zack caught up to her in no time at all and pulled her into a hug.

"Aerith, I can't believe that I get a second chance at life! When can I go?" asked Zack. He had a smile on his face that could stay like that if he wasn't careful.

"Well, we can start your transformation to become alive once again, but we still are not finished with it. Don't really know how long it will take though." said Aerith, tapping her right index finger on her bottom lip in thought.

"Wait, what do you mean 'transformation'?" Zack asked. His eyes held an uncertain look in them.

"Well, the only thing that we can do right now is that we can turn you into a chocobo. Possibly black due to your hair colour…" said Aerith looking up into Zack's eyes.

"…A chocobo…?" Zack's face was now blank. But looking right into Aerith's eyes.

"Yeah, that's all the space we got right now, a chocobo." Aerith looked right back into Zack's blank eyes. There was something shimmering in there, but she couldn't figure it out. It was either he was happy or sad.

"So, if I go…as a chocobo…will you be able to change me back into a human, when I'm back alive?" asked Zack.

"Yes, we will be able too, and we will do so as soon as possible." Aerith said.

"Sweet! I get to be a chocobo and a human when I get back alive! How cool is that Angeal! I'm so excited! Can I go now Aerith, can I go now? Please? I want to see myself as a chocobo! I think it will be totally awesome!" Zack was looking back and forth between Angeal and Aerith when he was saying this. He was going to be a chocobo! Zack was so excited about this he just wanted to do this right away.

"Yes, Zack, we go now if you want. I just need to take you to the main temple and we can get things started, ok Zack?" Aerith said.

"Ok. Bye Angeal, I hope you can watch over me." said Zack with a soft happy smile on his face.

"Always Zack, you will always be my little crazy puppy." spoke Angeal as he headed for the door to the outside and he took off in flight. Zack smiled a toothy grin and walked off with Aerith to the temple to be brought back to life.

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Zack and Aerith walked into the main temple and were greeted by the Cetra priest in white robes, and they were all hooded with only their mouths showing. The head priest had gold, red and blue imprinted in his robe that made him stand out of the rest. He moved towards Zack and spoke.

"Zackary Fair, I am the head priest of the temple of the planet Gaia. The planet is grateful for what you have done to help her, and she has told us that we can offer you to be brought back to life. As the young female Cetra behind you has already said," Zack looked behind him and Aerith smiled softly to him and gave him a hand signal to keep listening. Zack turned back around to listen to the priest again. "That we cannot turn you into a human right away, but we can give you an option of turning into a chocobo and when we can, we will change you into a human. So until the time comes, you will live like a chocobo. Do you accept?" asked the head priest.

Zack smiled and nodded to the head priest for them to start. Then he thought a bit "Why did you call me Zackary? Can you call me Zack?"

"No."

"Why? I'd rather be called Zack."

"Because Zackary was the name you were given from birth, and I am intent to call you that."

"Oh that's not fair."

"Of course it is not Fair, that is your surname, not your given name."

Zack's face dropped in confusion, as he did not understand the priest's meaning. He shrugged. "Can we start now? I want to be brought back to life." Zack said jumping on one foot to another eagerly.

"So shall it be." The high priest smiled a toothy and turned around. "Follow me."

As Zack started to walk, he noticed Aerith had walked back out the door to the temple courtyard.

"Hey Aerith, where are you going? Aren't you going to come too?" Zack spoke.

"I can't come Zack, I'm only allowed to go in the main hall." Aerith spoke with a pleasant smile.

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not high enough in rank yet, silly. Oh you might want to hurry up to the priest; I heard he doesn't like waiting." She giggled.

Zack let out something akin to 'Eep' before running off to the high priest.

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The room they had entered had an eerily green glow to it. There was a glowing green hieroglyph on the floor, and in the middle of it was a table. The table was woodened but it had a sheet over it with five candles on one side that were alit by a small green flame. The middle candle was a purple flame. The high priest moved behind the table, as Zack walked in. Zack stopped and just stared at the candles. He had never seen a candles flame those colours before and it had interested him. The priest voice and brought him back from the green and purple flame candles.

"Zack please lay on the table so we can get started." Zack did so. As Zack was getting upon the table to lie down, the priest got out a thick book from a chest that was under the table and opened it. Zack closed his eyes.

The priest started to speak the old language of the Cetra, and Zack started to feel something weird going on. Zack opened his eyes, and the hieroglyph was glowing brighter and brighter and the candles were growing harsher. The priest's voice was getting louder also.

Then, everything was white, and the only thing Zack could hear was the priest finishing his inscription in the book while his voice was going softer till his voice just disappeared.

Zack soon closed his eyes in a peaceful slumber.

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When Zack woke up, he was in a grassy field. He blinked and tried to move his arms to get up. Thing was, he had no arms. He moved his head and noticed he had a beak, and his eyes widened. It really worked. He was back alive, as a chocobo, but still, alive! He tried to get up but he failed. He heard laughing behind him. He turned his head. Who would have thought that he'd awaken here?

Chocobo bill was standing behind him petting a yellow chocobo that was standing beside him.

'Oh crap,' thought Zack 'He probably wants me to breed with other chocobo.'

---The Black Chocobo-The Rewrite---

A/N: And that's chapter one! What did you people think of the rewrite? Is it good or does it suck? Review and tell me XD!

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