Okayyyyy, so I tried writing this fanfic like 3 years ago.

I have now just re-wrote the first chapter and I do plan on continuing with it.
I do not own Final Fantasy.
Enjoy.


Hope Estheim was looking at the huge gate with a depressed look on his face.

"Why did my father send me here?" He muttered

He stood there, not quite sure if he should enter.

"This is my last chance to turn away and never come back" He thought

He took a step towards the gate pushing his thoughts to the back of his mind.

"Ahhh, let go!" A girlish scream stopped Hope in his tracks as he began to run towards the high pitched voice. He sprinted around a corner to see a young red headed girl being pushed against the wall.

"Hey Vanille how about me and you go someplace less crowded" The man spoke with a snigger.

The girl was struggling under the man's grasp "get off me, someone please help!" she screamed.

Hope did not know why, but his legs were moving towards them on their own. He knew he couldn't take the guy on, but he assumed he could distract him so the girl could escape.

"Excuse me but I think that you should get the hell off of her" He said in a tough tone
while glaring at the man.

The tall man turned around to see a small boy "Are you talking to me shrimp?" he demanded while pushing Hope.

Hope's fists clenched at the name "Shrimp" He looked up and swung his clenched fist in to the man's nose. The redhead used this opportunity to run to safety.
Hope gave a smirk which quickly dropped as he saw the rage in the man's eyes. "Oh
shit!" He said.

The older man grabbed Hope by his collar and slammed him in to the wall. "So, you're trying to act all high and mighty little man?" The man spoke in a menacing tone. "Well, now that you helped Vanille get away I guess I'll have to make you pay"

He raised his fist and swung it towards Hope's face. Hope closed his eyes waiting for the impact.

"What the Fuck!" The man shouted

Hope's eyes shot open to see a tall, well built boy with blonde hair which was being covered by a black hat holding on to the man's arm, preventing it from moving forward.

"What do you think you are doing?" The blonde boy asked.

He threw the man's arm back making him stumble and making him drop Hope.

"Dammit Snow! You have to ruin everything." The man said to the blonde boy.

Snow looked at the man who took a step back. "Get out of here, Now!"

The man turned around and started walking away. "I'll be back shrimpy so don't forget me".


Vanille was running after Snow "Damn Snow can run fast" she said while panting.
She had gone to tell Snow that a boy was about to be hurt and he just sprinted away to help him.

She turned around to where she was getting harassed.

"Thank you for helping me" The young boy said as he took Snow's hand

Snow pulled him up "Don't mention it, my name is Snow Villers by the way". He replied in a confident tone.

"My name is Hope Estheim" Hope said, giving a smile

Snow smiled back at him "You are a lucky guy Hope, If Vanille hadn't told me you were here you could have been seriously hurt."

"Vanille?" Hope asked quickly realising that the girl he had helped was called that. "Is she okay!?" he spluttered out quickly.

Vanille began to creep up behind Hope.

Snow gave a smirk seeing how worried Hope was about the Redhead sneaking up on him "Yeah she is fine thanks to her hero."

Hope blushed "H..Hero..." he stuttered looking at the ground.

Vanille let out a shriek as she tripped just as she was about to surprise Hope. Hope turned around to see a falling Vanille and just catch her before she hit the ground.

"Thanks again Hope" She whispered which caused him to blush even more.

"D...Don't mention it" Hope replied.

Neither of them noticed Snows smirk as they were too caught up in the moment of being in each other's arms.

"Well children, if you are quite done with the lovey stuff" Snow said jokingly "We should probably get going to class"

Hope and Vanille both looked at each other and went red. "Yeah!" They both replied fast paced.

Snow laughed, "School is gonna be interesting now" He thought.


"It's a good thing you are in the same class as me Hope" Said the bouncy redhead who was sat next to him.

"Why is that Vanille?" Hope asked out of curiosity.

She looked at him with a huge smile "Well if I ever get in to trouble you will be there to save me" She laughed

Hope smiled "well I can try". He smiled back.

The door swung open and a tall, dark skinned man with an afro entered and sat at the teacher's desk.

"Hello class" The man announced with a smile "I am your teacher Sazh Katzroy and in this class I'll be teaching you monster taming. I hope we can all get along and become good friends."

After Sazh took the attendance he told the class to get into pairs for their assignment. Hope not knowing anyone paired up with Vanille.

"Well at least I'm with someone nice" Hope thought.

"Okay, now you are all in pairs I'll pass your projects out." Sazh said. He went from desk to desk handing out a baby chocobo to every pair.

"Everyone's assignment is to nurture this baby chocobo to a full grown chocobo". Sazh laughed "It's quite a difficult task so the pair with the best full grown chocobo will be rewarded with a weeklong trip to Gran Pulses best hotel."

The whole class raised their heads, their eyes filled with excitement.

"I'm going to win this" someone said at the back of the class.

"Like hell you are" said Snow who was a few rows in front of Hope.

The class filled with shouting and arguments.

"Calm down now" Sazh stopped the class "You have to have the best chocobo, so you can all finish early so you can get to know your chocobo" Sazh finished.

The class got out of their seats and started to leave the room. Hope stood up and grabbed his belongings and shoved them in to his bag.

He looked down at his desk once more and picked up the yellow chocobo which replied by chirping.

Hope gave a smile "What should we call you?" He smiled not realising Vanille was walking towards him.

"C'mon Hope" Vanille shouted dragging him out of the class room.

"Vanille, slow down" Hope feared for the little chocobo that decided to rest in his hair.


What did ya think of the new version? :) I hope I didn't change it too much.

Please review as I would love to know what you think about it. :D