Genetical Curse
Chapter One: A Shadow of the Past?
Katfreak: Yo folks what up? I'm back!
Yazo03: Are you feeling alright?
Katfreak: frowning yeah, why?
RoloPolo: Well you only just put one story up yesterday and now you put another up now! What gives?
Katfreak: Well this is my New Years resolution: to put more on and more frequently!
RoloPolo: Ok…… to Yazo03 quick get the thermometer she's got to be feverish!
Katfreak: Watch it Rolo
K-D: Calm down Katfreak
Katfreak: Ok…Oh that reminds me! K-D got me onto Final Fantasy!
And I'm gonna ask her for a lot of help on this! I don't own
Final Fantasy and never will, enjoy!
Silence reigned supreme in the moonlit night, creating tension for the uneasy who stalked the shadows.
This was especially true for one flaming redhead, who sweated nervously; fiddling with the generally unused gun he had, his back pressed against the wall next to the door.
He was waiting for the tell-tale sound of a gun through the door, signalling the end of the mission and when he could relax and finally clock off work for the evening. They were merely here as back up anyway.
Glancing across the door, his eyes fell on his bald taller partner, eyes covered by the ever present sunglasses and features set serious and focused. He mirrored the redhead: gun in hand and ready for anyone or thing.
The redhead briefly mused, noting how the darkness and pale moonlight made his darker skinned partner look like a guy out of an action movie: really handsome.
He blushed lightly; he really was a pervert.
His partner suddenly glanced up and noticed him staring. Only he would see it but for a split second a reassuring smile was on his features. The redhead smiled gratefully.
He loved his partner, he really did.
Suddenly a loud shot rang out.
Looking quickly at each other they turned to look at the door nervously. Then the door opened and a young woman with pale blond hair and her dark haired male partner stepped out sombrely.
"It's finished."
"Finally!" exploded Reno as the door to Rufus ShinRa's office closed and they were finally free.
Elena smiled slightly, Tseng rolled his eyes and Rude shook his head at his partner's energy as they walked to the lifts.
"It is nice to finally be done for the evening…" admitted Elena.
"Yeah!" growled Reno, "But Boss has been doing this for the last week because of next Friday! I can't take much more of this!"
"Reno, He obviously thinks he needs us to complete the most urgent and serious missions before our time-off," said Tseng firmly, glancing disapprovingly over at Reno.
Reno shrugged. "Well I wish Friday would hurry up!"
"The sooner the better" agreed Rude from behind him. Reno turned and smiled.
During this short exchange, they had reached the elevator and filed in. Soon Tseng grew annoyed.
"Before you start, Reno, don't", growled Tseng sharply as Reno began to fidget. He wasn't one for enclosed spaces.
"But I wanna get out of here- and quick!" said Reno defensively, turning around.
"You should have taken the stairs then," growled Tseng grouchily.
Before Reno responded, Elena broke in.
"Stop it you two, try to be nice to each other please?" Elena, who had been standing next to Tseng, shyly slipped her hand into his own. Tseng blushed and coughed.
Reno grinned and shared a knowing glance with his more silent, yet smirking, partner.
They both knew the two liked each other and had recently got together, but weren't good with public displays of emotion, especially Tseng.
This gave Reno an idea.
"Don't mind us, love birds, we don't mind," smirked Reno, winking exaggeratedly at the pair.
Elena giggled at both that and Tseng, who had twitched, coughed again and blushed harder.
He shot Reno a filthy look that said "you won this round, bastard".
Reno chuckled but then it turned into a yawn.
Elena looked at him, "Tired, Reno?"
This was unusual for the lively redhead to yawn or be tried at all, yet more recently they had been more frequent for the last few weeks.
Reno smiled tiredly, "Yeah."
Rude gently placed a hand on Reno's shoulder, "Those nightmares again?"
"Yeah…" said Reno, who gently touched Rude's hand. "But I'm alright, really!"
"Nightmares?" asked Tseng in interest, "You?"
"What are they about Reno?" asked Elena curiously.
Reno paused and thought. "It's not coherent or anything, its just flashes; experiments, labs, torture, people…"
Elena shivered, "Sounds awful."
"I'm ok though, so don't worry about it."
"Yeah but you don't sleep again afterwards do you?" asked Rude bluntly, from behind him. Reno chuckled, hand behind his head sheepishly.
Suddenly the lift finally reached the bottom floor and the doors opened. "Well, whatever," said Reno quickly, almost dashing out, "I'm outta here, night guys."
"Goodnight Reno."
"See you later."
"Don't be late or else."
Reno smirked, stuck out his tongue at Tseng, smiled at Elena and lent up to kiss Rude on the cheek before dashing out of the door.
Elena giggled at Rude, who blushed and touched his cheek with a dazed smile.
Tseng, who knew that like him and Elena, Reno and Rude liked each other but wouldn't admit it even if it was obvious in the way they behaved with each other, smirked at Rude.
"So, Rude, how do you know Reno doesn't sleep after his nightmare?"
Rude coughed and blushed.
Oh shit.
Reno stretched tiredly, wandering through the nearly empty streets of Edge, away from the ShinRa Company building.
He briefly considered about getting some take out but dismissed it.
Fuck that I need to sleep…
He was getting annoyed with these recent nightmares, God he was tired…
Too lazy to walk the long lit streets, he decided to take the short cut back allies to get to his apartment.
Wandering down one, he looked around.
Fortunately, he reflected cockily, no-one was there.
Suddenly, he caught a brief whoosh and flicker out the corner of his eye. Him and his big mouth.
He wasn't up for this; so he tried to dash through the winding allies to lose his stalker. This proved no use, however, as his stalker matched him exceptionally, almost anticipating his moves.
Whipping around, and thoroughly pissed off, he roared "Alright who's fucking there?!"
A loud chuckle came from his right as someone seemed to melt out of the darkness; he stained to see in the dim light.
A middle aged man, around thirty five, with icy blue hair, tied back much like his own except the front bangs were flat, stood on the crates. A black leather like mid thigh trench coat, gleamed in the dim light.
"Tut, tut, Reno, what a way to say hello after so long," mocked the man, raising his face, revealing thin wire glasses and flashing silver eyes.
Reno's own water like eyes narrowed as he felt an unusual pang, "Who the hell are you?"
Discreetly he reached into his coat pocket for his trusted retractable rod, just in case.
"Well, this is interesting; you don't seem to recognise me. How surprising…"
"What?" growled Reno crudely, "What the hell do you want?"
"To see you, see how good you really are and-"
That gave Reno all the invite he needed. In an amazing amount of speed, he ripped his rod out of his pocket, retracting his rod and charged forward, smashing through the crates easily, destroying them.
Looking smugly over his shoulder, however, he was shocked to see the man standing behind him, a smirk on his features.
Suddenly the pang flared again, more powerfully then before, filling him indescribable fear, anger and… familiarity?
Then he realised something.
He sped forwards to swing his weapon down on the man in a flurry of bows. It appeared that he wasn't fast enough as the man dodged and blocked his blows with apparent ease.
Coming back for breath quickly, he launched himself forward for one final attack, in an irrational attempt to end this.
The man's silver eyes flashed and a cruel smirk appeared.
Reno felt the indescribable fear again, and for good reason.
Faster than he could see, the older man forcibly knocked the rod out of his hands and kicked him back by the stomach into the ally wall.
Slamming back harshly, he cried out as pain blossomed in his stomach and he anticipated fall down. But it never came.
He looked up and into framed silver eyes. He then realised that the man had him pinned tightly to the wall, with his face so close he could feel his breath on his face.
Reno's eyes widened as the man suddenly pressed his lips onto his own, forcing his tongue inside the redhead's mouth.
Reno was too stunned to react or respond, the pangs becoming an unbelievable pain in his chest. This only enhanced the one thought remaining in his confused and alarmed mind:
My God, why is this happening? Someone please help me…
Suddenly the older man broke off the contact and looked at him thoughtfully; Reno's eyes stared blankly back.
"So, you really have forgotten everything, haven't you?" he mused gently, tracing Reno's scar on the left side of his face, "Maybe I shouldn't bring you in just yet…"
He stepped back, releasing Reno who slumped against the wall. He smiled gently at the redhead.
"I'll see you soon, Reno…" Then he was gone.
Reno didn't move, almost didn't breathe but suddenly the enormity of the situation came crashing down on him, making him collapse painfully.
His emotions were in turmoil, now the happiness of earlier in the evening long since drained away; only one thought remained as the rain began to fall:
That man… He was in my nightmares...
Katfreak: Duh, Duh, Dun! What you think?
Turns around to find she is completely alone. Notices a note on the desk which says:
Gone to lunch, be back at 2, l8r, signed everyone
Katfreak: Seeing red and hissing wildly OHHHHHH!!!!! I'm gonna get you guys for this!!!
Runs off then remembers and comes back
Katfreak: Sorry, I gotta go! Thanks for reading the first chap, sorry if it sucks, please review, no flames and I'll see you for the next instalment of "Genetical Curse"!
Runs off