Dirge of Cerberus-Final Fantasy VII.

Author's note: I'm unable to focus on my current stories, and taking a break from my studies, I've decided to write a novelization of Dirge of Cerberus with parts of my previous FFVII story, "Where Are They" in it as well to make it more interesting, since no one else save for fellow author HiddenXEmotion has done so yet.

*Cloud appears*

Cloud: So in other words, you're combining the two together while re-writing the last story at the same time, right?

Authoress/Tashasaurous: Yeah, sort of. Hey, come on, what are you complaining about? This will be done before the Remake of FFVII will be.

*Reno appears on the Authoress' other side*

Reno: You're just moody because they're doing a remake and not the sequel after the mysterious return of you-know-who and what he's gonna do with the other you-know-who.

Tashasaurous: You'd be too since you were absent in the last title of the time-line, not to mention that Before Crisis will never get a full remake either. Anyway, let's let our fellow readers start up in reading the prologue, and the three of us shut up already.

*Clears throat*

Tashasaurous: I hold no credit and no ownership of Final Fantasy VII or it's Compilation. Square Enix hold all rights.

Prologue: Meteorfall.

It was almost completely dark, despite the massive meteor falling from the sky that will, no doubt, destroy the planet in short time. The City of Midgar is long abandoned by most who evacuated the city once owned by ShinRa which crumbled. Though some knew that Rufus ShinRa, the current young President of the Company, was still alive, having survived the WEAPON's attack and was found by two of his Turks who were now busy evacuating Midgar.

Rescue Operations were close in completing their task, including carrying the unconscious but still alive Rufus to one of the helicopters, and Yuffie, a female young sixteen year old Ninja who was secretly the heir to the Wutaiian Throne, was leading one group of the Rescue Operations, as the rest of her friends, Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Red XIII, Cid, Cait Sith/Reeve and Vincent were leading others, and, obviously, the Turks and their former Turks were leading another rescue operations in Sector 5.

"Come on! Hurry up!" Yuffie told the workers, knowing that there wasn't much time, "And try not to drop anybody this time!"

She was then approached by the head of the Rescue Workers and she inquired him to report. He reported with a salute, "Evac complete. All injured have been moved to the transports."

Sastified, Yuffie waved at the other workers and told them to leave, before turning to the captain and gave him her own orders, "Just remember to keep on guard until you're clear of the red zone!" reminding him. He nodded, before heading off to do his next task.

Pushing up her goggles to her forehead away from her eyes, Yuffie then held up her PHS to make a call to Vincent since he was the closest, as the others had done their jobs already. "We're all done here. How about you?" she reported.

Close to the Mako Cannon, where the evil mad scientest Hojo was defeated by Cloud and the others earlier, Vincent responded, "Finished." before requesting, "But Yuffie, I want you to check the mako cannon." having a sudden gut feeling that it wasn't even over yet. He hoped that he was wrong, but it wouldn't be surprising if his guts were right, and even, Chaos, who was a being inside him, felt that one of the enemies was still alive.

Yuffie blinked in confusion at this, before she pointed out that they already had done so and that Hojo was dead. Still, she looks up at the cannon, holding an electronic device which scans for life signs. To her shock, it detected one life sign, and she muttered in confusion, "What the...?"

"Just as I thought." Vincent muttered from the phone, clearly not surprised considering his tone of voice.

Yuffie shook her head in disbelief, protesting to her friend, "Hold on! Hold on! This is crazy. There's no way anybody could be up there. No." trying to believe that maybe the device Reeve gave her earlier had a glitch or something.

"Yuffie." Vincent ignored the young girl's protest, "Rendezvous with Cloud and the others. It looks like I still have some work to do." before he hangs up, much to Yuffie's dismay.

"Hey-Whoa!" Yuffie gasped, before looking up at the mako cannon, knowing that Vincent may already be there. She couldn't help but feel that something was wrong, and she was worried. Despite that Vincent was once a Turk, he wasn't that bad of a guy, considering that he's 'immortal'. Still, she liked him, and he was her friend. Something bad was happening up in the mako cannon, and she knew it.

"Vincent...Get out of there!" Yuffie shouted, "I have a bad feeling about this!" though she knew that he wouldn't hear her.

She was worried. Deeply worried. Yuffie didn't want to lose another friend again. Aerith was dead, and she remembered how upset she was, crying in Cloud's arms and the blonde had held her comfortly, even if he was silently crying himself. In fact, everyone, even Vincent, were deeply upset for the loss of the flower girl, whom Yuffie saw as an older sister.

No, Yuffie would not allow this to happen again. She had to find a way to save him. She looked around and noticed an oddly over-bike, and formed an idea, despite her stomach protesting, knowing that she would end up getting motion sick, but Yuffie was too stubborn. Her friends come first before her stomach.

Meanwhile, Vincent was running up the railing stairs all the way back up to the top of the Mako Cannon in determination and anger, knowing that his job wasn't done until the enemy behind the crisis and calamity that was Sephiroth and the Meteor. Eventually, he reached to the top, and slowed his pace.

Ahead of him, as lightning flashed around them, Vincent saw, slumping on the control panels, was the body of Hojo, not moving. Vincent stared at the scientest's form in pure hatred, for that Hojo was the one who started all of this, all out of desire and curiousity that endangered the entire world and everything in it. Pulling out his gun-Ceberus, Vincent took aim.

Suddenly, a stray lightning bolt strikes the gun, distracting him. Parts of metal around him broke off, and the platform was about to break apart, but Vincent managed to hold on. When he looked up again, however, he was confused and shocked that Hojo was gone.

Was he hallucinating? Was that a side effect of Meteor? Before Vincent could think about that, however, another explosion occures close above him and he looks up, seeing another parts of metal, covered in flames, falling towards him, and he just stood there, calm as always. He was no longer the man he was back in his youth all those 30 years ago.

"Vincent!"

Turning around at the person who called out his name, Vincent saw, in mild surprise, that Yuffie was heading towards him on a hover-bike, and realised that she came to get him to safety, despite that he could tell she looked green in the face. Not wasting anymore time, Vincent leaped off the platform and onto the bike, behind Yuffie but he took control of the bike, letting the young ninja take a break, as she looked ready to throw up, while they both flew away, as Vincent gave a final glare at the controls where Hojo was.

However, as the two flew away, what they didn't notice, was that the computer was still doing something as it was close in shutting down completely, activating words, "start" and "fragment program".

Three years later...

Cloud arrived in Fort Condor via his Fenrir motorbike with a package with him, turning the bike off, then approached a house which one of his clients waited. Since the old couple who were originally part of Mideel before it was destroyed by one of the WEAPONs three years ago handed him the package to deliever to their daughter, Freya, he couldn't help but feel that the name sounded familiar.

Arriving at the doorstep, Cloud knocked on the door a few times.

"Hello? Who is it?" came a young woman's voice from the other side, and Cloud felt that the voice sounded familiar, but he ignored it. Maybe it was his imagination.

"My name's Cloud Strife of the Strife Delivery Service." Cloud replied. "I've come with a package from the Laine family."

There was a moment of pause, before the woman inside the house replied, "Just a minute, please."

Cloud waited for a minute, until he heard footsteps from the inside of the house, and then the door unlocking, and the finally, it opened to reveal a young ash-blonde haired woman, around his age, her brown eyes blinking in surprise, as she wore seemingly expensive clothing. None the less, she smiled as she seemed friendly.

"A package from my parents, right?" Freya asked, then she giggled, "Thanks. How much to I owe you?"

"Just 35 gil." Cloud replied.

"Not surprised, considering how far you've travelled, and considering how my parents used to live." Freya said as she pulled out some of the money to pay for the single letter, signing the paper work. She then tilted her head slightly, and asked, "Do you remember me by any chance?"

Surprised, Cloud blinked, before thinking hard. Unable to come up with a memory of this woman at the moment, he shook his head, answering, "Sorry, but no."

Freya sighed, "Just as I thought." before smiling in sadness, "Cloud...I'm sorry I couldn't help you eight years ago. I hope we'll meet up again soon." taking the letter, and giving the confused man her goodbyes before closing the door.

The blonde-spiky-haired man stood there for a moment, before shrugging it off, muttering to himself, "Maybe I'll remember later." before turning around, then rode off on his bike to return to Edge.

From the slightly opened curtains from her window, Freya watched Cloud go, and sighed, before she went over to her couch and opened the letter.

It wasn't until an hour later that she got a phone call on her PHS, and answered it. As she listened to whoever was calling, Freya's brows furrowed, before saying, "Yes sir. I'll get there as soon as I can."

Hanging up, she went over to her wardrobe, and pulled out an old but still clean uniform she kept for three years, and Freya sighed. "Looks like it's time to get into action again."

Author's Note: This is the prologue of the extended version of Dirge of Cerberus. Please review, fellow readers, and I'll see you in the next chapter.