All characters and all settings taken from Final Fantasy 7 are property of Squaresoft, I'm just toying with their lives to make me happy. Olivia, however, is mine... And if you want her, Squaresoft, you're gona have to pay me for her... Enjoy :-)
Life leads to love -Prologue-She had practised her skills ever since she found out she had them, and being the hopeless cause she thought she was, used them to entertain travellers and gain money to survive in her own travels around the world. She often heard spectators mutter about her cheating and hiding orbs of materia on her body somewhere, but to be honest she had never even held or touched materia in her life. She really could use magic without materia.
She had found this out fourteen years ago when she was ten. She could sill remember what happened as if it had happened yesterday. It was a day she could never forget.
The last few weeks had been hot and not a single drop of rain had fallen in those past weeks. Everyone was scared that the natural wildlife would die. The river that ran through the great Wutai was drying up and the fish were in danger of dying. All the trees behind her house were almost dead, and the leaves were bone dry.
She was sitting on one of the many bridges that crossed the river, watching the reflection of her purple hair and bright blue eyes in the water and the little and big fish swimming by. The one thing that everyone feared was a forest fire, everyone including her. She may have only been ten but she was very aware of her surroundings.
The first sign that something was wrong was the shouting of passers by as they all stared in horror at the flames that had now ignited themselves on the trees behind the little girls house. The flames quickly spread, heading towards the house and then leaping onto the roof, setting it too on fire. The flames engulfed the house and the occupants, her parents, ran out and towards her screaming.
Everyone prayed to the great water God that a storm would come and put out the flames, but to their dismay nothing happened. The little girl too was praying but also at the same time wished that she could do something about the fire. She closed her bright blue eyes and pictured, in her head, a great tidal wave of water washing over her house and the trees. She first heard a low rumbling coming from afar and then a few people gasp in wonder at something. She snapped open her eyes in time to see exactly what she had pictured in her mind. The tidal wave, causing the flames to fail but with no damage to the house by the water.
She couldn't believe what had just happened. The tidal wave had come, just as she had pictured it, and put out the fire, just as she had hoped. She was totally convinced she was the one responsible for that wave. But all onlookers were sure it was their water God who had come and saved possibly their whole town from ruin.
After that she had practised things on her own. Setting fire to small individual trees and putting the flames out again. Covering even the hottest ground with ice, before the heat melted it. She did all sorts of different things, testing her skills and how far they went. This new fact intrigued her and by the age of fifteen decided that she would leave and seek more knowledge about herself. For five years she kept her little secret to herself, she didn't even tell her friends or family. She wanted a proper upbringing with no special treatment. So when she was fifteen she told her parents that she was going to travel the world.
Her travels took her to many places, meeting many different people but still she told no one. The place she most frequented was Cosmo Canyon. Mainly because of their wide knowledge. She could have asked these people if they knew anything that might have caused her to have these powers, but instead she asked for knowledge on materia. Gaining all the knowledge she could, she tested what sorts of magic she could do. She found that she could do all the different magic type attacks and could do command magic. Independent and support magic she could not do, but as she thought about it she didn't need them. But what was really annoying for her is was the fact that she couldn't do any summon magic.
Now at the age of 24 she started to feel urges to travel north from Cosmo Canyon, she didn't know why but decided to anyway. She said goodbye to the many friends she had made there and started on her way with a bag full of supplies. She had no idea where she was being drawn to but noticed that it was towards the Nibel mountains, at least that's what she could see from how far away she was.
A day later she arrived at the place that she believed was calling her. In the town of Nibel stood an old mansion and just by looking at it she could tell that this place was going to give her many new discoveries.
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