Fires of Destiny

by Malachyte1

Five years after the Geostigma incident, a new darkness slowly makes itself known. What will happen? Well, read and find out. :3

1. Prologue

I don't own any of the FF franchise. Nor do I claim to.

Prologue

150 miles NE of the North Cave

Three months before the Fury

The ocean boiled.

Some six hundred feet below the surface, a mixture of tainted Lifestream elements–along with various minerals, gases, and other substances harmful to life–merged. Over the course of a few short days, fish and other sea-dwelling life forms were absorbed into this creation. After about a week, the malevolent Lifestream energy became aware, and the maelstrom began to...move.

Crystalline City, Forgotten Capitol

Two months, three weeks before the Fury

In the clear, crisp water below the altar where the last survivor of the Cetra, Aeris Gainsborough, had fallen some seven years before to the sword of Sephiroth, a white orb began to glow a faint blue…