Chapter One
Hello. My name is Aeris Gainsborough. I am, or rather, I was the last surviving Cetra. I have returned to the Planet. When I was alive, I knew so little of my ancestors and my destiny. I only knew what my mother had told me. She told me that she and I were Ancients; the protectors of the Planet. She told me that we that lived in a place called Icicle Inn, on the North Continent. She told me that my father had been a kind gentle man who worked researching the Ancients and was killed by a greedy colleague called Hojo.
Hojo.
I still remember when I was young, lying in a cage, alone, watching that monster leer at me as he prowled his laboratory. Me and my mother were imprisoned in the lab for 'experiments', because we were Cetra. Hojo was always there, staring at us. If there is anyone I truly loathed on the Planet, it was him. But he is dead too, and there is no reason to hate him. Mother died too, when we escaped from the Laboratory in Midgar that we were trapped in. The tests had weakened her greatly, and she collapsed in a Slum station. Then I went and lived with Mom; my foster mother Elmyra, who took me to her home after my Mother died. I spent most of my life in the city of Midgar, selling flowers I picked in the church, and walking the dark alleyways of the Upper World, where the voice of the Planet rarely reached my ears and the pollution was so thick, it choked the stars themselves.
Looking back on my life, I don't think I would have ever left that hellhole, or ever been able to see the sacred city of the Ancients, nor would I have been able to help save the Planet, and I wouldn't have been able to make so many friends, if not for one man … one man, who helped me find my destiny, live my life and die. But not in vain.
This is my story, the story of my life. So sit down, and listen to a great tale, of strength, courage, love, hate and sorrow, told by this simple flower girl.
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