The Final Reality:

Children of Earth

By 'AngeLhearteD'

-Disclaimer-

Hi everyone… AngeLhearteD here! Not my real name, obviously. I'd just like to state the obvious for you all. I don't own any of the Final Fantasy characters included in this story. They are all solely the property of Square© and all rights are theirs to the characters and names associated with them. Do I wish I owned the Final Fantasy brand…? Well…don't you? Seriously, please don't sue me…I have no money, plus I'm doing this entirely for leisure and am NOT gaining any personal benefit like money out of it. Squaresoft© owns Final Fantasy and all related characters and environments and names etc. The rest of the characters are mine though...you know, all the un-Final Fantasy names! Oh and I nearly forgot…I'm writing this thinking this storyline is of my imagination…so sorry if I'm actually copying someone else's idea…I honestly don't mean to, so please don't get mad at me. I'm sorry if I'm copying…if I am I don't realise or mean to intentionally, right? That's all…so please enjoy and don't forget to review for me!

-End Disclaimer-

Chapter I: A Cry for Help

The world as we know it is changing. The seas are rising. The planet's atmosphere, which has for so long protected us from the harmful penetrations of the sun's rays and other toxic materials, is beginning to dissolve in parts. The sun…our glorious mighty sun…it is shrinking. It is compressing, and will eventually burn out just as any other star does on reaching the end of its life.

You are wondering how this affects you. As you read this, you are saying to yourself: 'The sun has another million or so years left to burn brightly!' You are thinking: 'The seas will never rise to dangerous levels!' You are thinking: 'The world is generally a safe place'

Ah youth! Safe from what I ask you? Do you mean safe from the sun for another million years? Yes, I consent that you think right. Safe from the slowly rising levels of the mighty oceans, for, say, quite a long period of time also…? What a clever youth you are, to think that!

…But is the planet safe from the outside threat of other worlds…?

Well youth…why is it that you stare at me so? You think I talk folly? Nonsense talk? The talk of science fiction? Ignorance they say is bliss. But how can it be so for you, who are young and have the future of the next generations on your inexperienced shoulders? For you are now the next generation…but your struggles to identify yourselves as part of the world will eventually lead to you contributing, I dare hope, to a better world for which the generations after you will be able to prosper in.

Why do you stare at me as though I have claimed that the world will end in the next 5 minutes? You do not believe me do you? You do not believe that the world, our planet Earth…She is under threat. She is in danger. She calls and cries out for help…She can see things in space that we humans cannot see. She calls for the help of her inhabitants…who for so many years have caused her nothing but pain, digging deep into her soils and sending up toxic fumes into her atmosphere, when all She has done has provided for us a means of life…She loves her inhabitants. She loves them and watches over them. But we harm her, constantly. We harm her trees. We harm her skies. We pollute many of her once crystal clear oceans. Yet She is reluctant to hate us…

'They are only human and must learn from their mistakes…'

Yet we harm her again and again. Ah mankind…when will we see the true extent of the damage that we have caused and are still causing to our precious Earth? She cries out for help…She cries out for help, for She who has protected us for so long is in need of protection now. They are coming, youth. They are coming to invade and spoil her lands forever. They are coming to do more damage than we could ever intentionally manage. She is crying out for help…

Now I ask of you youth, child of the next generation, child of this Earth; I ask you…will you listen…?