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The Village Maiden

It was a stormy night, in a small village that it happened. The first sacrifice in 100s of years had been conducted. The villagers feared that she would anger the beast residing beneath their town, with her being pure of heart, and pure of touch. So they took her, the maiden, the virgin of the town, and cast her into the fiery pits below, where the beast lived.

They did this for many years, always taking the virgin who is of age to be taken. If there was no one, then they would take the last one to lose their pureness. It continued onward, until it came to a stop at the VII coming of Meteor. It was there that one man was the last to lose his virginity, and took it upon himself to take the fall, in order to save his love, and hopefully defeat the beast, and thus put an end to the sacrifices.

He was able to succeed, but at a cost. He could not entirely defeat the beast, and took his own life-force to create a barrier to keep the monster at bay. He was regarded a hero to the town folk. His love, who was impregnated by the man before he left, took on his name, and carried on the family with the son.

Soon he was born, and soon after that, the sacrifices started again. The son then did what his father had once done, and his child the same, and so on, until 14 years ago. It was then that the child to come from the last hero was a girl. Some how, the sacrifices didn't start up again, even after the child's birth. It seemed that it would be a normal life for Tifa Lockhart, the hero's child, for a while. However, this soon changed, as she then met a boy, who would grow up to take up the tradition passed on in the Lockhart family from generation to generation. And the name of this boy, is Cloud Strife.

So there you go. I got the inspiration for this when I heard someone bring up sacrifices. Thank you.