Parts 1 & 2
Basic Info: Your name will be whatever you would like, and it will be presented as ≈≈≈≈, you look however the **** you wanna look, and you are around 15-16, and going into 10th grade. You lived in Midgar your whole life, only leaving for vacations and things like that. You lived alone with your mother, your father was in prison for a crime he committed against your family when you were much younger; it was believed that he nearly killed your mother and did kill your bother, though his body was never found. He was to spend much of his life in jail now.
Your mother met a man who was visiting the city last year, and as time went by they were beginning to become more and more serious in their relationship. He recently proposed to her, and asked if she, and you, could move to Traverse Town. After giving it some thought, your mother decided that it would be best for you both to move away from Midgar and go live with Basch and his son. His son was a few years older than you were, but from the conversations you had had on the phone with him, you could tell that he was going to be easy to get along with, and very accepting. Basch, however, you weren't so sure of. He seemed like a nice enough man to you, but then so did your real father, Luxord (don't know what the hell I made him your dad, I was in 8th grade when I came up with this story, it's a little under-developed…hence why I'm rewriting it….). You decided that your mother was a grown woman and could make her own decisions, and that you should trust her and her decisions as your parent, so you gave her your consent to move. And today was moving day.
"≈≈≈≈, would you hurry it up? They're going to be here soon." Your mother fussed at you from downstairs. You clicked your suitcase closed and sighed, taking one last look around your now empty room. The movers had been by earlier that week to ship your stuff to Traverse Town, so it was just a bed now, but still, this room held a lot of memories for you. You couldn't really say that you were sad to leave, but there were things you were going to miss.
"≈≈≈≈, if you're not down here in 5 minutes-"
"They're not going to leave without us mom, calm down." You said, shutting your door probably for the last time and going to her room, where you thought she was. The only thing left in her room was a couple boxes contain your dads' old things; there wasn't really any use for them now, so they were to be left behind. Your hand moved to a thin scar on your left forearm that you had received from him when he came home from work in a drunken rage. You decided that Basch would be better, and if he wasn't…well you didn't want to think about that.
"≈≈≈≈!" she bellowed, "They're here." You sighed at her impatience, but you hurried down the stairs and out the door nonetheless.
It was dark outside, but then again, Midgar always had a gloomy look to it. The Shin-Ra power company allowed for their factories to pump all of the Mako energy fumes out into the open, polluting the air.
You threw you carp into the trunk of the Taxi then got inside, sitting in the backseat next to your mother. She looked out at the old house, and seemed much sadder than you would have expected, but you supposed she did live there all her life. You began to think about how you never really got to say goodbye to one of your best friends, and how you wished that you didn't have to leave so late at night. You were looking out at the dark city, when you heard your mother let out a sight.
"Excited?" you asked, trying to cheer her up.
"Of course, I'm just a little nervous about flying…" she said. You nodded, knowing she was terrified of gummi ships, despite them being the fastest and more comfortable way to fly.
After a few more minutes of driving, the cab pulled up to the landing docks outside of town. You got out and took your stuff from the back as you looked at the ship that was waiting at your platform. You walked over, forgetting about your mother completely, and stared up at the ship. A smile formed at your lips as you heard your mother groan at the thought of getting on. The main hatch of the ship began to open, releasing a ramp that lead into the ship, the ramp came down near your head, making your mother shriek and you just turned to look at her, her nerves bout flying were turning her into an overbearing mother again. You were about to turn to walk up the ramp, which landed right at your feet due to your standing unreasonably close to it, when someone grabbed you in a head lock, and began to ruffle your hair.
"Well now, you're a brave one aren't you, kiddo." He said, swinging you around a little.
"Cid, you let her go." Your mother scolded, walking up to him with a stern finger wag.
"well alright then," he said kneeing you in the back of the knee, making you stumble backwards. You landed on your butt on the ramp, but because of the incline you didn't really fall that far.
"And just who is that?" you asked, as the rather strange man bounced off to get the luggage.
"That is going to be your new uncle, Cid." Your mother explained, walking up the ramp into the ship.
"Seems like he's buckets of crazy." You mumbled, more to yourself than anyone, but you got an answer nonetheless.
"You get used to him." you turned around at the unfamiliar voice, but smiled instantly as you recognized the guy you were looking at to be Cloud.
You stood up and looked him over saying "It's nice to finally meet you in person." He was around 6'1, with light blonde hair and clear blue eye's. He agreed, saying that he came along with Cid to make sure your transition to Traverse Town was a smooth one, when he was interrupted by a voice coming form within the ship, "Hey Cloud, what's taking so long?"
"Will you shut up?" Cloud called back.
"Who's that?" you asked, trying to peak around Cloud.
"No one special." He said shaking his head.
"No one special!" the voice returned again, this time sounding overly hurt. "You have got to be the single biggest jacka—oh, well hello there." said a guy an inch or so taller than Cloud with jet-black hair and striking blue eyes. "I'm Zack," he began extending a hand to you, you put yours out, ready to shake his saying "≈≈≈≈" but Cloud intercepted Zack's hand and began to squeeze it, you saw Zack's cheeks puff up as he tried to fight the pain.
"Back off man." Cloud threatened.
"What?" Zack fussed.
"What do you mean 'what,' can I take you nowhere without you trying to get a girl?" he said releasing Zack's hand.
"Just what are you implying?" Zack cradled his hand.
"You are the absolute biggest manwhore I have ever met—"
"Wha—manwhore!" you couldn't help but chuckle at them, here were two big, strong, intense looking guys acting like 8 year olds.
"Yes, manwhore."
"Hey now—" Zack warned, when Cloud interrupted him.
"What about Cissnei?" Cloud taunted, causing Zack to turn into an even bigger child.
"What about her?"
"Aren't you two…?"
"No!"
Cloud snickered "whadya do this time?"
"It's not like that, she dumped me for Angeal, saying she wanted an older, more mature man." he said, crossing his arms.
"She doesn't think that you are mature?" you interjected.
"It's more that fact that he's an idiot." Cloud said.
"Ouch." You smirked at him.
"You…you are mean." Was all he could come up with.
You smiled, finding yourself having much more fun then you thought you would already. Cloud laughed and said something about looks not having anything to do with it, and when you asked what he meant he explained, "Well you see Angeal's this big huge guy who—"
"Looks like a gorilla." Zack huffed.
"He's just big…and a little harry." Cloud mused.
"So? What's wrong with that? Especially if he's 'mature.'" You stated, with a dreamy hint in your voice. Zack tilted his head at you and chuckled nervously, and Cloud smirked, catching on to you right away.
"He sounds appealing enough." You continued.
"You…you serious?" Zack asked, as Cloud led you into the ship.
"What's wrong Fair, afraid of a little competition?" Cloud said smugly.
"Competition?" you questioned in unison, you were vaguely surprised, and Zack sounded more like he was accepting a challenge. You looked over at Zack and he smiled at you.
"I have to put my stuff away." You said, turning away, feeling your face heat up. Boys didn't make you nervous, your best friend form home was a boy...but this, this was just ridiculous.
"Now what in tarnation's are you doing standing around?" Cid yelled, whacking Zack upside the head with a rather large wooden pole. "Get to work." he commanded, and Zack sighed and took off towards the engine room. "and you," he said, turning to Cloud, "help the poor girl with her stuff." He poked at Cloud with his pole now.
As Cloud shuffled off to deal with your trunk, Cid walked you over to and put an arm around you as he showed you around the ship, "This is the bridge, or the operating room," he said, and you noted the control panel and all the brightly colored buttons and nobs. You saw Zack was on the ground fiddling with some wires under the steering unit. "The adults will be staying up here while you kiddies sit in that back room there." you saw your mom sitting in one of the chairs up by the controls looking extremely uncomfortable, but she was trying to distract herself by making pleasant conversation with Zack.
You went into the back room and saw that Cloud was already inside sitting down. You joined him, and soon enough Cid popped his head in and told you that everything was ready for take off. Zack then entered the room and plopped down opposite cloud. "So, what are you the maintenance boy?" you asked, wondering why he was there.
"Hardly…" Cloud mumbled.
"Well, in a way." Zack shrugged.
"He saw a picture of you and insisted on coming."
"I just wanted to meet the new addition to the Strife family. And I gotta say, the picture did you no justice." He winked. You hid your face, and blush, by putting on the hoodie you had been carrying around on.
"Shut up Zack." Cloud said, closing his eyes.
"I have also volunteered to be your tour guide once we land." Zack continued.
"Tour guide?" You repeated.
"That's right, I'm going to show you all around our beloved Traverse Town." He beamed at you.
"A tour…with Zack…all day long…and all alone…the more I think about this, the less I like it." Cloud said crossing his arms. Zack huffed, and held up a fist jokingly.
"And just what do you mean by that?"
"I mean I might just want Yuffie to tag along."
"Yuffie?" you both questioned, you just not know who she was, Zack sounding disgusted.
"Well maybe not Yuffie."
"Oh come on, you don't trust me?" You asked, elbowing him lightly.
"Yeah you." He was eyeing Zack, who then turned on the puppy eyes.
"Come on man! I've been your best friend since diapers, do you honestly think that I would-"
"Yes!" Cloud interrupted.
"Well, I am insulted." He said crossing his arms.
"Who says I need a guide anyway?" you mused, thinking it might be more fun just to go exploring.
"Well you can only wander around for so long without getting lost." Zack said.
"Besides, your mother tells me you have a terrible sense of direction." Cloud said rather mischievously.
"Was that a threat?" you asked, narrowing one eye.
"Come on Cloudy, we don't need a babysitter." Zack half begged.
Cloud sighed, "okay, fine, I won't give you a babysitter. I'll just have a friendly tour assistant go with you."
"A friendly—Cloud I hate you." Zack fussed.
"I still don't get why I need a tour." You mumbled.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure its tons of fun for you."
Cloud chuckled. "Not if our little friend has anything to say about it." He stood up and walked over to the window, pulled out his phone and scrolled through it. Zack stood up and walked over to him, trying to get a look at who he was texting.
"Cloud do you really have to do this?" you asked, getting up yourself, thinking that now another person was going to be dragged into your little tour.
"I'm just trying to keep this guy off you ≈≈≈≈." He said, putting his phone away.
"Off me? He's not going to jump me. And besides, I can handle myself just fine thank you very much.
"I don't know," Zack said, grabbing you from behind in a bear hug, lifting your feet off the ground and squeezing you. "it's a tempting jump." It was then that you realized just how strong this guy was. He was a good bit taller then you, sure, but you didn't think that he was strong enough to crush you like it was nothing.
You decided to play along, saying "oh no you don't," and elbowed him in the ribs, then slipped away from his grasp.
"Well played." Cloud said, watching Zack hold his stomach.
"Maybe you don't need anyone with you after all." Zack said, eyeing you closely.
"I wouldn't say that but…"
A voice then came over the intercom, saying, "why don't you kiddies get some rest, we're not going to be there for a while. Someone forgot to bring along some extra fuel, so we can't warp our way there."
"Hey old man, it's not my fault! You didn't tell me to bring any spare things!" Zack yelled.
"No one said it was your fault Fair!" Cid yelled back.
"You just did!" "Pop a squat and shut up Zackiepoo." Cid bellowed.
"At any rate," Cloud said, leading you back to another room, "He's right, we should sleep." The room had four beds in it, already made and comfy looking.
"Dibs!" you and Zack both yelled at the same time, jumping on the middle left bed.
"Well it looks like we're just going to have to share." He said, with the cheeky-est smile you had ever seen. Cloud chucked the shoe he just took off at Zack, nailing him in the back of the head.
"You learn to ignore him." Cloud said, rolling over. You were about to get up out of bed when Zack popped up and hopped into he bed to the right of you, Cloud in the leftmost.
After a few minutes, you heard Zack start to snore lightly, and you rolled over to face Cloud, who was staring up at the ceiling.
"Hey Cloud?" You asked lightly.
"Yeah?" he asked, looking over at you.
"Who did you have in mind for the whole 'friendly tour assistant?'"
"Hmm, well I was only joking, but Zack seems to have taken and interest in you, so I might have someone else go…"
"Got anyone special in mind?"
"You don't know him." "just give me a name at least?"
"Fine, but you have to promise not to tell Zack."
"Kay." You said with a nod.
"His name is Zexion, he's a bit of a quiet guy, but I'm sure you will like him just fine. Maybe it will show you that not everyone from this town is as crazy as Zack is." you smiled, and laid back down, falling asleep within the next 10 minutes.
Sooner than you would have liked, you found you were being shaken gently awake by rough, but warm hands. You were hoping that by turning away, the hands shaking you would just go away. No such luck. The hands came back, even stronger this time, and pulled you up. You knocked them away and rubbed your eyes, standing up. You apparently stood up too fast, and felt all the blood rush from your head, giving you the dizzies. You closed your eyes and waited for everything to settle, when the ship lurched and your feet got tangled, you stumbled forward and nearly fell to the floor.
The same hands that woke you up caught you and pulled you back up to your feet by the shoulders.
"Well, looks like someone's not a morning person." A cheery male voice said.
"Uh…Zack?" you asked, the way he was holding you by the shoulders, you couldn't see who was holding you, the voice gave it away though. "it's too early for all this…" you said, rubbing the side of your face.
"It's nearly noon." He chuckled.
You stretched, "and I was having the best dream too."
"What about?" you smiled, conjuring up a plan.
"About you, of course." You said, turning to him.
His interest picked up, "Is that so? What happened?"
"Hmm, what was it that happened?" you said, taunting him.
"Come on, tell me!" he fussed, bending down to meet your eyes. You shrugged, still smiling like the devil. He turned, taking you with him, then pushing you up against the side of the ship.
"Zack!" you gasped, and you heard Cloud call out his name too.
"What do you think you're doing to my little sister?"
Zack straightened up a little so he wasn't so close to your face, and said, "Trying to get information."
"If that's how it's going to be I'm glad I called him to join the tour."
"Him? Him who?" Zack asked, looking over his shoulder, still keeping you pinned to the wall.
"Never mind, what kind of information?" Cloud asked.
"Apparently she had a dream about me." He said with a cocky smile.
"Is that so?"
"Yeah but she's stalling." He said, turning back to you.
"Zack, step back." Cloud said, causing Zack to look back at him.
"Hey kiddies, we're landing, you need to come have a seat." Cid said over the intercom.
"Well?" Zack asked looking at you. You ducked down, and slipped away from him, saying, "I donno, I was lying." as you left.
"What?" He called as you slipped out of the room.
You sat down and strapped yourself in one of the seats, and Cloud sat beside you. "So where were you during my wake up call?" you asked him.
"I was making a call to your babysitter." He said as Zack came into the room.
"All ready for landing, take us into the dock." He said sitting down.
"The dock? There's no landing station?" you asked, dumbfounded.
Zack and Cloud just laughed at you. "Oh, city folk." Zack said.
"Traverse Town is just a little bit too small for all that." Cloud said as Cid landed the ship.
"Hey Cloud, just who the hell is coming with us?"
"You'll see."
"I hate you sometimes."
"It's what you get for…you know what? Never mind."
"≈≈≈≈ do you know who it is?"
"Only his name." you replied.
"What is it? Who is it? Come on, come on, come on! Tell me!"
"Someone's a little bit eager." you said.
"Maybe he's upset he has to be watched." Cloud said, catching Zack's eyes.
"Shut up." Zack fussed.
The ship landed with a bit of a jolt, "Alright kiddies, we're here." Cid said, and you got up and walked out to the ramp to exit the ship.
"Thanks for the ride old man." Zack said, about to follow you down the ramp, when Cid called him back.
"ZACK! Get your scrawny ass back in here and help unpack, then you can refuel, then wash this puppy up, then give her a good vacuuming."
"Ooo, sorry, I'd love to help, but I have to give little ≈≈≈≈ here a tour, you'll just have to get Gippal to do it."
"fine then, CLOUD! You get 'er done." He said.
"What? You have got to be kidding me. Absolutely not."
"It needs doing son, don't worry, I'll get Gippal to join in later, I'll even pay you."
"WHAT? You never pay me!" Zack fussed.
"That's because you don't do a good job. Just get going." He said.
"This is bullsh*t." you heard cloud mumble as you and Zack exited the ship.
"So who's Gippal?" you asked as you both walked down the ramp.
"Only my best freeeend." Zack said in a goofy voice. You laughed and he smiled saying "you'll meet him soon enough, I'm sure."
"Okay then." You said, taking in your first look at Traverse Town. The houses were made of stone and wood and the sun was shining brightly. Then you noticed a guy sitting on a crate that was nearby reading a book. He lowered the book and stood up. He had bluish-sliver hair that covered one of his eyes.
"Are you ≈≈≈≈?" he asked.
"At your service." you replied.
"On the contrary, I am at your service, Cloud has asked that I accompany you."
"You must be—"
"Zexion! What?" Zack said, rubbing the back of his head.
"Fair." Zexion clapped his book shut.
"Zexy." Zack said, matching Zexions tone of displeasure.
You could tell by this little exchange that this was going to be an interesting tour.
