Chapter 1
Nibelheim, One year after Dirge of Cerberus:
President Shinra had ordered his soldiers and the Turks to start cleaning out the old Shinra Mansion that was at the farther end of Nibelheim. As the soldiers were loading crates with old research papers and books from the lower lab, Reno and Rude stood there lazily and watched the others work.
"Man, this is so BORING!" sighed the red haired Turk as he leaned up against the wall. He would rather be back at the Inn sleeping right now, or practicing his fighting techniques with someone. Reno was a Turk, and shouldn't be cleaning out an old rundown mansion. He wasn't a maid.
His partner, Rude, watched the younger man while his eyes were concealed behind dark glasses. He was the silent type, but when he spoke, it was a deep, burly voice. The bald Turk watched his fellow partner whine some more, and saw him lean against a stone Angel statue that hung onto the wall.
Reno sighed loudly and leaned more against the wall with his elbow on the statue. "We should just go back and-" the statue was pulled down by Reno's weight and the wall slid out from behind him, "Woah!" he yelped as he fell backwards onto the floor. Slightly dazed, he tried to look around the darkened room. The old lab looked like it hadn't seen the light of day in ages, dust and cobwebs covered the dank room.
Rude walked over to the red head and helped him up from the ground, after doing so, he placed his hand on the wall and felt for a light switch. Reno, after getting up, started dusting his suit off and squinted.
"Looks like an old Lab... I wonder if the President knows about this place?" he covered his eyes from the light after Rude had finally found the switch.
"I doubt it, he would have said something about this."
"Yeah, you're right I guess..." the younger Turk walked around and slid his fingers across a lab table, "It's so dusty, no one has been here for years by the look of it. Hey, what's that?" he pointed to a large cloth covering that was hiding something behind it. Rude followed him over to the area and pulled the sheet off.
"Well it seems that Professor Hojo had some secret experiments still going on." said the bald man as he stared at the tank. There was a blonde woman floating in what he would guess was mako. She was wearing a long white gown and looked like she was sleeping peacefully inside of the tube.
Reno looked over at the file folder and picked it up, after he opened it, he tried to read the faded yellow paper.
"Let's see here," he placed the folder to his eye level, "Name: Clara- holy crap." he looked at the last name once again, then he read it a few more times to make sure he read right. Then he looked up at the 'sleeping' girl and back at the file.
"That's a pretty bad last name if you ask me." said Rude as he also stared at the girl, she looked so familiar to him, but he just couldn't place it.
"Here, read the name!" shouted Reno as he shoved the folder in his partner's face. Rude read the name and then lowered his glasses to read again.
"Well I'll be damned, I wonder how the professor figured that out." he pulled his cellphone out and dialed his boss, "Hello, Sir? We need to show you something that's very important."
A/N: This has been on my computer for YEARS. I finally decided to post it hehe. I'm always trying to expand on my writing, please tell me how I'm doing, but I don't appreciate flamers. :)
