Prologue

A heavenly night, filled with countless stars, looks down upon a boy, sitting alone next to a well. A girl approaches and sits herself next to the boy. "Sorry I'm late. You said you wanted to talk about something?" the girl says. "Come this spring, I'll be leaving town to join SOLDIER," the boy replies. "All the boys are leaving town." "But I'm different from all of them! I'm not going just to find a job; I'm going to be the best SOLDIER there is, just like the legendary Sephiroth!" The girl looks at him, "Isn't it hard to join SOLDIER?" The boy ignores the question and continues contemplating, "I probably won't be able to come back to this town for a while." "Will you be in the newspapers?" "I'll try" The girl pauses to look up into the sky, then, "Hey, let's make a promise.um.if you get really famous and I'm ever in a bind.you come save me, all right?" "What?" "Whenever I'm in trouble, my hero will come and rescue me. I want to at least experience that once" "What?" "Come on! Just promise me!" "Okay, I promise."

























Chapter I