Dear readers,
I would like to share with you my second Fanfic.
This story is about Eden Fox, an ambitious SOLDIER Third Class and OC. The story follows the line of Crisis Core, Final fantasy 7 and Advent Children. For our Sephiroth fans out there, this is a Seph/OC pairing, although much later on, it will become a Reno/OC pairing. Feel free to see this Fic as two seperate stories, or continue to read it to the end, which of course, I would prefer.
I realise not all the facts correspond with those in the original story, but I tried to make it work. Also, the timeline might be slightly different.
Having said this, the only thing left for me to say is; Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to the Final Fantasy games, movie, storylines or characters, other than my own.
Chapter 1
Life wasn´t always like this, empty, hollow, lonely. Once, I had close friends, family if you like, and even some form of a relationship, though complicated in nature.
Once, when I was seventeen and already quite rebellious, I joined the army, the Shinra Inc. army, something all the boys dreamt of, hating my gutts when I was accepted. Shinra army wasn´t meant for everyone or just anyone, and requiered one to be made of more than mere flesh and bone. Either that, or you were seriously screwed.
Back then, life was what I wished it to be. I worked hard, trying to achieve my own dreams; earning a place amongst the most fierce, feared and respected of the army devisions, the elite; SOLDIER.
But I wasn´t the only one striving, and living with a bunch of competitive boys could be a pain in the ass sometimes. They would try to get me down, try to bully me out, but it only made me work harder. I had always been sarcastic, cold some would say, and their attempts had simply failed. Soon, most gave up and some even became my friends. Of course, there were always those few little asswhipes who couldn´t handle a girl being an equal. Screw them anyway.
I kept working hard, and four years later, at the age of twenty-one, I finally managed to maintain a SOLDIER Third Class status, and I gave everyone who ever doubted me the huge finger, right in their face, what a laugh that was, good times.
I made friends in SOLDIER and I even found someone I cared for greatly. Then, suddenly, everything turned to shit.
Shinra had grown rapidly, becoming the world-dominating company in energy, and they harvested it from the planet's lifestream, which is energy in it's purest form, sustaining all life. Back then, nobody felt too bad about the greedy, distructive ways of President Shinra, but as always, with great power, well, comes great insanity. Where Shinra had started out as just an energy company, it had grown out to be much, much more than that.
Spying, secret missions, experiments, murder, kidnapping, all was part of the plan in this ever growing company. To tell you the truth, as an insider, you didn't see all the bad, all the rott; it was just the way it worked.
But Shinra had gone too far, and the world would suffer for it, for in their insanity, they had created life. They had attempted to create super-soldiers, Project-G. Needless to say, it was a bad idea.
In SOLDIER, First Class consisted of three soldiers, and three only. Rumour was, they had grown up together and trained together, becoming the first ever SOLDIER First Class in history, at the age of twenty. Now, at the age of twenty-seven, they were still the only ones. One, a kind man named Angeal, had always been friendly to me on missions, teaching me what he knew, never going hard on me. He had shown me respect and admired me for my full potential and expected no more than that.
Genesis, well, he was a poet and definetely not my type of person, always scrutinizing, making others feel useless, acting as if the very sun was shining out of his pearly-white ass. Still, after some time, I really got to like him, for a while that is.
Angeal greatly respected him, and they where close friends, which was really the only reason I tolerated him in my presence, for where Genesis' blade was quick and sharp, my tongue was equal in skill.
The third, I guess that is where it starts to get complicated.
Sephiroth.
He was a man unlike any other, calculating, strong, wise, cold, but yet gentle in some ways and he made my heart beat faster every time he spoke, in a way no poet like Genesis could ever muster. I believe that might just have been Genesis' problem.
Sephiroth was unequaled in skill, indestructible, and he had been mine for some time. He had been a beautiful creature, for that was exactly what he was. Like I said, it all started with Project-G, also known as Project-Genesis.
