BEFORE YOU BEGIN: Hey everyone, ring here. I just wanted to set a few things clear before you embark into the epic journey I have written out for your Fanfiction entertainment.
One: Screw everything you know about the Final Fantasy Seven map. It's completely irrelevant. The characters and immediate setting are not AU, but it turns that way—not in this particular story, but in the ones to come
Two: These chronicles are each based off of a song from the album 'Karma' by the band Kamelot. This opening story was pretty much completely based off of the song 'The Spell'.
Three: I would really appreciate it if you took a minute or two to review. In all honesty, it would make my day!
Four: I understand that this story might move a little slowly, I apologize and I hope it's not boring. Tell me if it is.
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Disclaimer: I do not own any Final Fantasy 7 Characters and/or Advent Children, in which they belong to Square Enix. I do own my own plot and a couple of the cities mentioned in this story.
The Karma Chronicles: I--The Spell
Preface
Three months ago, Midgar would've been a complete and utter mess. Buildings would be in shambles, the terrain would've been bright with orange flames, debris would've been scattered aimlessly throughout the city, and thousands of parents would've been thinking my God, don't let my children be one of them.
Three months ago, Sephiroth had come back, only to be destroyed again by Cloud Strife. Three months ago, Barret Wallace decided he belonged in Midgar with his friends and daughter after all, and settled down right next to Tifa Lockheart's and Cloud's Seventh Heaven Bar and Restaurant. He started helping Cloud out with his delivery business, just like he used to do.
All in all, three months ago, the chaos ended . . . leaving a very bored Marlene Wallace on Fall Break from school.
Of course she was glad her surrogate father was back home, but that meant he had to work. And like Cloud, that could sometimes take a very long time. A couple of weeks after the Geostigma went away, so did Denzel—to go live with Reeve, one of his friends and the son of the woman he lived with. The parting had been sad, but Denzel left her with the bright promise that they would see each other in school. Yes, but, will it really be the same? She asked herself every day.
So, really, life did go on as normal, except for without Denzel. She helped out Tifa in the restaurant, she did some school work, she went home to eat dinner with Daddy and sometimes Cid or Yuffie. When Barret was working late, Marlene stayed the night with Tifa and Cloud like she used to.
Life went on. It always does, Marlene learned, and it was amazing how often history repeated itself, but even a six-year-old realized that after living an epic, it's impossible to just go back living like nothing ever happened. Impossible.
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Okay. So on to chapter one!