(I do not own Megaman Zero...and I owe credit to the concept of Project Ezekiel to an unnamed group........you guys know who you are!)
Chapter 1
Nightmare
"ZERO!" a voice echoed in his head.
"ZEEEERROOOO!!!!!" It called again, more insistent this time.
He looked around his surroundings, a grassy field, with rolling hills and covered in wildflowers of every conceivable color.
He saw Dr. Ciel running urgently toward him. "ZERO!" She called.
"What is it?" he asked. "Something has happened! Look up there!" She said, pointing to the sky. He looked up, and saw the sky burning from horizon to horizon. Suddenly, the grass and flowers caught fire, as did his hair, but he ignored this, focused on Ciel, and the horrible visage of her, wreathed in flame. He rushed to aid her, but was too late, and the next thing he saw was the wind scattering her ashes into the now smoke filled sky.....
"GAH!"
Zero bolted upright, hitting his head on the bunk above him, awakening the Reploid above his bunk.
The Reploid looked around the side of the bed, down at him and looking at him from an upside down angle. "Nightmare?" the Reploid asked. Zero just looked at him for a second, then rolled out of his bed, and ran out the door. The Reploid just shrugged and fell asleep again.
As soon as Zero left the room, he began running, where, he did not care....just as long as it was outside he was going.
He ran past old Albert, who didn't notice. He almost ran into Alouet, but dodged her deftly in his mad dash to get outside.
Finally getting outside, he ran to a place no one had really ever bothered to go to, somewhere that he had made into a little place for him to be alone.
He fell to the ground and found that he was shaking horribly, from the shock of seeing Ciel die in that way, more than anything else. He thought about why he was so shaken by this particular nightmare, and not the other ones, where a mad Reploid that was bald and had blue, pupilless eyes, and wore a black cape while trying to kill him with a beam saber didnt bother him this way.
Then he knew why........
He held onto this thought, first terrified by the implications of it, then slowly likeing it more and more, until he realized that he would have to do something about it in the morning....he fell asleep right there, leaning against a tree, cherishing this one thought......