Chapter 1: My time was filled with mako

DJ: I've rewritten this chapter and a part of the second, because I thought the first version wasn't really a good fit. I hope you still enjoy this.

Disclaimer Guy: DJ doesn't own any rights on the Final Fantasy VII franchise. She just enjoys the story and games a lot.

(Last Revision: 10/july/2010)

My time was filled with mako…

Ter..ra…Terra.

In my dreams there is this voice calling to me. Speaking out a name, asking if I will come to them. And time after time I promise them, but in the end I never make it…It makes me wonder about this life of mine.

'The project will be disbanded. The subject must be destroyed. She's of no use anymore.' Voices reached my ears behind the thick wall of glass between me and the world. The border of my cell which told me that my world ended there and were the outside world began.

'Understood, sir. We'll solve the problem in no time.' Another voice answered to him. I could now make out the two figures in front of me. The man who had spoken first was no stranger to me. He had raised me, well, he didn't exactly have these this talks with me parents are supposed to have with their children. Instead, he kept me in this glass tube filled with a glowing green liquid, which he had called mako. Only once in a while he would get me out and made me do this tests. None of it was pleasant and often I longed more for my confinement than anything else. Even freedom. Strange, isn't it?

I'm me, a girl like any other, caught inside a tube filled with mako. Somewhere in a basement, in a building, in a town, in a country, in that world. I knew there was a lot out there, but my stays outside this tube never took my further than the other rooms in the basement. I very rarely felt the need to go discover the secrets of the unknown world.

The name of the man that held me captive was Cayleigh, but I called him "white coat". I knew only a couple of things about him: one, he had a huge ego (He always kept reminding me of how smart he was.), second, he had learned his profession from a man named Hojo, third, he had promised Hojo to make me the perfect counterpart of his project. But I had disappointed him.

I can't tell you what happened, but then over years his faith in perfecting me disappeared. Together with all of the world I once knew. I couldn't understand why they leaved me. Had I been bad? I asked myself these questions over and over again in these past couple years. Till today. The day they finally chose to show up again.

'Understood, sir. We'll solve the problem in no time. How tough can she be?' The second voice laughed. I frowned were they talking about me? So it seemed.

'Don't underestimate her. I put my life in this project. She should give you quite a challenge. The battle information will be of good use.' I recognized the voice of Cayleigh and sighed. This man was going to destroy me. Without doubt I registered the fact and I felt a sudden surge of panic going through my body. I tried to scream but hit my head against the glass instead.

'She heard,' Cayleigh sighed in satisfaction. 'Say Mr. Fagan, did you ever here the scream of an animal in pain?'

Fagan looked a bit bewildered. 'No, sir.'

'Then you're about to hear it when you end her life.'

Cayleigh left and Fagan still looked at my tube. His eyes wide. Was he scared? Or was it the aura of danger that had suddenly appeared. I braced myself as he took out his sword. The glass wouldn't protect me this time.

'An animal, huh,' he smirked. 'Then you're not as perfect as he claimed you to be.'

I cried out as he lunged forward.

He never made it…

I wonder if there are actually people out there whose life doesn't turn on them over time, thought the winged man sadly. He watched from the sky as a certain ex-turk walked over the mountain path. Holding her arms tightly around herself. Trying to shut the cold out.

He remembered seeing her at work a couple of times. Before his life was turned upside down and he recalled her being quite lively. But since that day she hasn't smiled one single time and soon enough she disappeared.

Shinra knew where she'd gone to, but never really bothered silencing her. The man smirked, Tseng had of course something to do with it.

Get your head out of the clouds. It's time…

The man groaned as he heard the familiar voice in his head. Had she really spared his life just to make him her delivery boy? Of course not. He smiled and ducked.

Throwing the map he had been holding away in midair. Making sure it had landed perfectly before the woman's feet, before spreading his wings again.

Mission complete…

DJ: Hope this is better.