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VOLUME 1: Episode 1

Cloud Strife was never one for airships. He had just graduated last year from Signal Academy. Now he was stuck on an airship, the unfortunate lone means to getting to the next combat school so he could become a huntsman: Beacon Academy. This wouldn't be a problem for anybody, but Cloud was stricken with motion sickness every time he was on any aerial transport, though he was very sure that this would be far from the last time that this would happen.

He figured he'd be looked at like he was crazy. This would have been the case had it not been for a fellow blonde that had almost no tolerance for motion sickness. Chuckling slightly, Cloud thought he'd check out his fellow huntsmen/huntresses-in-training. In front of him (at this point he's sitting on the floor to lean in on his stomach so he can keep it in check), there were two girls talking, one with a black and red mix in her hair and wearing a cape while the other was blonde and wore mostly brown. The caped one had silver eyes.

How curious, Cloud thought.

At the far left end of the ship was a girl in bronze armor talking to someone he actually recognized: Prince Noctis Lucis Caelum. He, like Cloud, had spiky, but had raven hair. The blonde remembered that Noctis' father trained him from age ten and entered him into competitions at fifteen. Cloud humbly admitted that the prince of Lucis would be a worthy opponent. At the same time, it would be more beneficial if the both of them ended up on the same team these next years.

What are the odds of that happening?

Out of the corner of his right eye, he spotted someone else he recognized. There was the blitzball ace from the Zanarkand Abes, Tidus Setto. He was once a sparring partner of Cloud's back at Signal. After one of these practice matches he and Cloud agreed to become friends. Tidus was busy twirling his blitzball on his finger while conversing with this hyperactive girl in pink and white.

"So you came too, huh?" an all too familiar voice asked Cloud.

He looked up from his sitting position to see Squall Leonhart, along with two brunette girls. Cloud stood up and shook the scar-faced warrior's extended hand.

"Been a long time, Squall."

Squall gestured to the females behind him. "This is Rinoa Heartilly, my girlfriend, and this-"

"Tifa Lockhart." Cloud cut him off. Squall looked at him like 'how did you know'. "We both grew up in Nibelheim."

Rinoa anxiously shook the blonde's hand. "So nice to finally meet you. Squall's told me all about some of the fights you've competed in. He can't wait to experience a match against you firsthand." She let go of Cloud's hand and grasped her boyfriend's hand. "Let's let the childhood friends catch up." With that they departed, leaving Cloud and Tifa by themselves.

Tifa awkwardly asked her old friend, "How has it been, Cloud?"

A holoimage of Glynda Goodwitch appeared suddenly giving her opening remarks of welcome to the new initiates.

At least I recognize some faces here.

TBC...