Alright, first of all… this isn't my first Fic. I have been writing on a CloTi Fic a year ago or something but had to stop on it as my computer crashed and I lost everything that I've been writing, ideas and chapter.

I always try to stay with the character from the game and the game world, more or less at least. I don't want to change their characteristics that much as I want to keep it "realistic". Maybe you will notice that though.
Moreover, I am like the biggest Cloud Fan on earth and played a lot of Final Fantasy's… Lightning is my favorite female character, therefore there was no hard decision which 2 characters I want to write about. I came up with the idea for this story as I got bored lately.

Hoping that my computer wont crash again completely I will be starting on this now… I have a rough idea of where this story should be leading to.

Oh, this story is NOT supposed to be a one shot, meaning, there will be more chapters to come around IF you like the story, comment and rate on it. If not, I won't be wasting my time with it. :-P

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Final Fantasy Universe; it all belongs to Squaresoft and SquareEnix.

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Chapter 1: Let's get it started!

~Prologue

Almost a year has passed since the last since the last clash of the two archrivals in which Cloud turned out to be the stronger one, the rescuer of the world. After defeating Sephiroth another time, Cloud was finally ready to start a new, start something he never had and never wanted till this point, a life. He stayed at the 7th heaven for the most nights, spending time with the Denzel and Tifa. He still had his contact to all of his friends of the past. Cloud has always been a self-deprecating person and never wanted anything from the manhood for saving them, he still lived a life like every else did, so was he still delivering packages for the Cloud Strife delivery service to get some money.

But still, there was something that made him special, he was still infused with mako and it was something that would never change. He was ageing slightly slower than other people around, he never forgot how to fight, he seemed to be stronger than other people and he still kept his brand label, the blue glowing eyes. You can tell them apart from normal eyes as the pupils seem to be somewhat fluent. During nighttime and while being really emotional those eyes seem to be glowing even stronger; making him recognizable for every person on gaia as a SOLDIER. Something he claimed to be but he never was. Zack was his mentor, his friend, his brother… someone he won't ever forget or won't be able to be replaced.

He was starting his day just like he did the others in the past year… nothing odd about it, but that should be changing pretty soon…

~End Prologue

The time I hit my alarm clock it was 7am on a Monday; still being sleepy I rubbed my eyes and stretched on the bed with a yawn. From the bed I had a perfectly clear look through the window, knowing this would be a great day…, birds were already singing and it didn't seem to be too cold, but time will tell. I slowly got up into a sitting position and started to scratch the back of my head while thinking about the deliveries I had to do today. Nothing special about it… a normal route through a desert looking area of gaia.

"Well… Let's get this new week started" I said to myself while getting up and walking to the bathroom to clean myself and change clothes. After washing my face, brushing my teeth and getting my hairs right I started to put on my clothes, some black socks, black shoes, black trousers and some kind of turtleneck in dark blue. Staring into the mirror and clapping my cheeks with the palms of my hands twice wakened me completely. I left the bathroom and made my way downstairs to the bar where I should be eating my breakfast soon, the smell of the breakfast was surrounding the bar already.

"Seems like Tifa is already awake… making the breakfast once again" I thought while moving towards a table in the bar, sitting down and looking out of the window.

"Tifa?" I asked quietly as I didn't know if the boy was awake already. I heard some noises and noticed it must be her, a few seconds later she was standing at the door from the kitchen smiling.

"Oh hey Cloud, you are awake… I am preparing breakfast for you." she announced while I gave her a nod.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Some fried eggs, bacon and bread, do you like it? I thought I would try out something different this time as you must be sick of seeing your cereals every morning" she announced somewhat shyly. I stared at her before starting to chuckle a little.

"Yeah… go ahead… that is absolutely fine. No worries, I will eat it" has been my answer with a small smile. "Is Denzel…"

She interrupted me here, "Yeah, he is still sleeping… wait, let me get your plate". A few seconds later she came back with the breakfast and put it onto the table sitting across of me and I guess watching me how I was eating the, let me say new, breakfast slowly.

"Mmh… really good Tifa, thank you" I said smiling.

"No need to thank me, you have to drive around a lot and therefore you need to be a strong boy" she said and started laughing. "Where you have to go today? Leaving soon? Nothing special right so it shouldn't take too long?"

I smiled, "Tifa… you seem to have many questions as always" I said while looking at her and she started to smile, "No…, nothing special, I should be home pretty soon again. Just one package to Wutai and that's it. And yeah…, I will be leaving right after finishing this so that I can be home earlier" I continued and started smiling a bit back at her.

"Good" she said and pinched my right cheek playfully afterwards while giving me a wink, "I thought it may take longer… but as you will be home soon again Denzel won't miss you and see you later, otherwise he wanted me to wake him up"

"I see… no need to wake him" I was about to finish up my food. "You want me to put the plate away?" I asked while pointing onto the plate and looking at her.

"No, I will take it" she said happily while standing up and grabbing the plate. She disappeared into the kitchen while I was standing up and grabbing my bustersword which was leaning onto the wall next to the door.

"Say…" I asked curious "...you have any special things to do today?" she rushed back into the bar after that question where I was standing.

"No Cloud, not really, why are you asking?"

"Well, you are asking me daily what I am going to do… why I shouldn't be asking you for at least once?" I shrugged while she was smiling.

"What you need your sword for?" she asked after a few seconds looking somewhat strange at me.

"Well, you never know, right? Thank you for the breakfast, it was really good." I put the sword onto my back and grabbed the doorknob. "Tell Denzel I will be home soon, and you take care of your businesses here. See you later today, Tifa."

"You too take care… Cloud, be home soon again, please" she answered while smiling as I walked out of the door.

I went to the garage searching for my bike, fenrir… the package which I should be delivering was in front of the garage, the people which want me to deliver always put it in front of it and let me know the address where I have bring it to. "Wutai" I said to myself shrugging a little, "I think I will be taking the route over the desert rock area… shouldn't take too long, really". I affixed the package on the seat of fenrir, right behind me, jumped onto the bike and started driving to the village I needed to go to.

After a few hours of driving through the desert something was shining pretty bright in the horizon, something I have never noticed before. I have been too far away to see it just now, but I decided to get closer so that I can have a look at it, it definitely looked strange and got my attention.

Some minutes later I reached an area which I didn't remember ever seeing before. On the first sight there wasn't anything special about it… just some small mountains and rocks lying around in the desert. I jumped off from fenrir and grabbed my sword while moving around "What is wrong with this area? What has been shining from here and why have I never noticed this before?" I asked myself. "Something has to be here…" I have been still walking around this not that big place and was searching for the reason of the brightness which I have noticed earlier "… I just don't seem to find it." I shrugged and was moving back to fenrir as it started again, the brightness was back. "What… is this?" I asked with wide opened eyes that were staring at the small mountain. A small, glowing, bright slit was in there and was blinding me amazingly with something which I have never seen before. I was walking closer to that small mountain again and touched the slit.

"What is going on here? This is so bright! I can barely see something. What is this slit for anyways?" I was still touching it and thought about its use while holding one of my hands in front of my eyes; just simply to save me from this bright light and let me see a bit. I noticed that something has to fit in there; it wasn't such a big slit… I just didn't know what. First I tried to put my hand and arm in there without any success. I was shrugging again. "What… do you want from me?" A few seconds later I noticed that a sword might fit in there, so I grabbed the bustersword and slowly put it in and it really did work. I decided to push it in deeper until the earth was somewhat shaking. I wasn't able to think or say anything; I have been stunned from what was going on. The mountain seemed to be splitting so that a hallway appeared and a small, round door case out of rocks was seeable at the end of this hallway while my bustersword disappeared with the splitting rock. Moving towards this door I have been thinking to myself… "What is this? This something seems to be liquid, where is this leading me to?" Once standing in front of it I've swallowed twice and stared at it without knowing what to say or to do.

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Alright, I hope you enjoyed the beginning. If you want me to continue please give me some review as I don't want to be wasting my time with something no one is reading :D

Thanks!