Greetings readers! I'm Wyxlan_Lonestar

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Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy. I just own the OCs that appear in the story

Chapter 1 – Wishes Upon a Cell

"Hey…"

"Wake up…"

"Eliot..."

"MISTER FLETCHER!"

My eyes popped open from my sleep as I heard a loud smack. I lifted my head and looked in front of me to see a very blurry spot. "Mister Fletcher, how many times did I tell you to not fall asleep in class?" A voice questioned me.

"Uhm, five?" I groggily replied. All of the students laughed at my obviously idiotic response. I rubbed my eyes until the blurriness disappeared. When I looked up again, I saw my teacher glaring at me from his desk.

"Wrong!" he yelled as he slammed his pointer on his desk. "I have told you that almost every day, every time you attend my class, and every time you doze off."

Then this turned into a rant about how we high school students are really lazy, flippant about life, and other bullcrap he would rant about. After wasting ten whole minutes, he then continued on with the lesson.

"God damn..." I groaned. I stretched out my arms in an effort to get some feeling back into them. "I think I have a hangover."

"No, that's just you having an enormous headache," Someone said. I turned my head to the right to see a guy with raven hair and a calm disposition looked at me. He gave a short friendly wave. I returned him a wave to him myself.

"Gee, what gave you that idea, huh, Joshua?" I sarcastically asked. Before I snickered, the teacher turned around and eyed us. "Mister Fletcher and Mister Valenti," called our teacher. "Would you like to continue your discussion in detention?"

We shook our heads as an answer. He was still eying me with annoyance gleaming in his eye. "And how many times have I told you to take off your hat? You are ignoring the rules of conduct of our school."

That question made me latch my hand onto my hat. "Actually ever since I came to this class everyday," I replied nonchalantly, not even worried of the building annoyance that was shown on his face.

"You'll be receiving a letter to your parents about this, Mister Fletcher," he stated and went back to his lesson. I sighed and remained quiet until the bell rang to signal that classes were over for today.

I got my things and went outside where Joshua waited for me. "Bad day?" he asked me.

"Oh yeah. I'm having a very bad day," I replied. "This day just can't get any worse for me."

Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw an short, angry-looking, red-haired, burning hazel eyed girl appeared right beside the corner. She approached like she was a predator looking at its prey. "ELIOT!" the girl yelled. Darn, it just got worse.

"What do you want?" I turned to face her, and her fist somehow got to my gut. I staggered as I held my mid section. "Ow! What was that for!"

"That was for abandoning me earlier at lunch," she answered. And then she grabbed my collar and put my head in a headlock and started to noogie me. "And this is for bailing on me during Chemistry. You know that I don't do well with the chemicals there. I almost caused a nuclear explosion. And you didn't even tell me that you were leaving!"

I struggled under her grip and tried to get out of the damn hold. "Will you let me go for a sec!" I demanded. She let go of my head. "So, are you going to tell me why?" she asked. "Or will I have to unload another noogie on you? Got it memorized?"

"That won't be necessary," I said, glaring at her while feeling if my hair needed some fixing. But I decided against it since I was wearing my hat.

"First of all," I began, "you were starting another fight with the jocks and you were using me as your 'partner' for that fight. Second, I hate Chemistry. Third, there were basic instructions given to us that I retold you again and again. And lastly, I told you that I left when you were trying to follow what Mister Red was doing." I took a deep breath after finishing that last sentence. She still glared at me after my explanation. She turned her head to Joshua, her look asking if it was true. He nodded. "Fine…" she muttered.

"I told you it was gonna get worse," I said. She took that as an insult and slapped me in the back, hard. Once that was out of the way, she grinned. "Now that we got that out of the way, let's hang out at the mall!" I shuddered. Sheesh, changing moods like that could be unhealthy, then again, it was her.

"What did you say?" she demanded. Joshua shook his head while I avoided her gaze.

As we were walking out of the classroom, I felt something weird. I couldn't describe this feeling that I had. And for some reason, my phone rang. I quickly got my phone from my pocket.

"A text message?" I muttered.

"Do you wish for something?" the message asked. This was a weird message. I felt that this was one of those pranks the geeks at school would try to pull, and they had been for the past few weeks.

Even though I didn't know what the meaning of this message was or who had sent this, I made a reply.

"Yes, I do. I wish for something, something life changing."

Then just like that, the reply was sent. If this is a prank, I'll try and play along. If not well I just hope I don't meet this person because I'm going kill him, maybe literally.

"Hey, Eliot, what's the matter?" Joshua asked, and I finally realized that I had stopped walking and both of my walking companions had been staring at me for some time.

"Oh, it's just a text message," I replied.

"I bet it's a girl, is it?" teased Kit, poking me after each syllable that left her lips.

I rolled my eyes. "Where did you get that idea?"

*-FF-**-FF-**-FF-*

The three of us left our school and boarded the bus that stopped along the sidewalk.

"What do you mean?" she asked, waving a fist in front of my face.

"I mean that going to the mall with you is going to be like this: you shopping until you reduce your credit to nothing and us being ordered by you to carry all of your stuff. We're not slaves, you know," I explained. She mocked gasped at my accusations.

"Why, I cannot believe that you, of all people, would think of me like that." she said with sarcasm dripping from her words.

"Actually, I do think of you like that. Since you shop like a maniac and you let us carry the things half your size." She then punched me. "Okay, now you have to stop punching me. It hurts, you know." I said. Both of them laughed.

I had been thinking for a while now. Life had never been interesting these past years. This god forsaken town has never done anything exciting, let alone be a dull town. Events here tend to bore me rather than fill me with energy. I'm thinking of moving from this town. Maybe move into somewhere more exciting, like New Orleans or Texas, at least I'd get to party in the Big Easy or get to be a cowboy in Texas. I'd bet no one would miss me I'm sure of that and I wouldn't miss the people here. They'll just think I didn't exist here, which would be a good thing.

"Are you okay?" Joshua asked. I snapped out of my trance. "Oh uh, yeah. I'm alright, I guess." I said. He must have noticed that I haven't been paying attention for the past two minutes.

Both of them were staring at my face. Their stares made me feel strange. "What?"

"Nothing, nothing," she said, waving her hands in defense.

I raised my eyebrow at her and she chuckled nervously. The bus stopped and we got off the rusty automobile and onto the sidewalk.

Then my phone started to ring for the second time today. This was really odd as I had never received two text messages in a day unless they're about my parents, who were travelling around the world because of their jobs.

"Ah, the unreachable dream-the best kind of dream. And what is that dream that you are trying to find?"

Again, I thought of not replying to the message. I wanted to reply, but I never did trust any random person texting me who wanted a quick chat. It would be wise for me to not say anything important.

"I'm sorry, I don't trust you enough." And after pressing a button, the reply was sent. There, no important stuff. I just hoped that person wouldn't be asking about it anymore.

"What are we gonna do now?" asked Joshua. Since we were not going to the mall now, we were left with nothing to do.

"Oh I know! Let's play some games at Eliot's house," Kit suggested. Before I could object, she had already decided on it. Sure, decide on it without the owner's permission.

"Stop your bitchin' Eliot. You know your mom loves it when you bring company," she said.

"Yeah, I'm sure she loves it when I bring a member lost smurf and a yes man home." For that, she punched me right in the gut.

We reached my house just around 4:30 since we took a detour for a snack. I unlocked the door with the house key that was kept under the rug. It was such an obvious hiding spot for keys, and my mother hid the key there all the time.

"Eliot, where's the bathroom?" Joshua immediately asked after entering the house. I pointed to the door at the end of the hallway. He muttered thanks and quickly walked to it. Kit sat on the couch and picked up a shoebox containing some disk cases. Those must be the games that I had left lying around. I was playing some games before I went to school this morning. Or maybe that was yesterday.

"Do you have any game in mind?" I asked. Kit's fingers scrolled through the disks.

"Where's your Kingdom Hearts 2?" she asked back.

I sighed. "Anything but that," I muttered. She glared at me. "What? I don't want to play it."

"Then I'll play it."

"You just finished Kingdom Hearts 2 two days ago."

"Then I want to play the remake of Chain of Memories."

"No, no, no, no, no! You finished that a week ago. And it was just rented, so I returned it."

"You asked for a game to play. You shouldn't have asked in the first place if you're gonna refuse to play it, anyway!"

"First, I didn't want you to play at my house. Second, you play Kingdom Hearts at your place almost everyday!"

I turned around, crossed my arms, and grunted at her. She must have done the same since I heard her grunt as well.

"You guys really can't stop fighting." Turning my head, I saw Joshua out of the bathroom and drying his hands with a paper towel. He approached Kit and randomly took a case from the shoebox.

My phone rang again. Just in time. I couldn't take another second of arguing with Kit. I took my phone from my pocket to open the newly received message.

"But I can make that dream of yours a reality. Make it yours and yours only. Just say the word..."

I wasn't sure if this was still a trick or the real deal. It was so tempting. Maybe it was the truth, maybe this person can make it real. Or I'm being fooled right here.

"Whatever, see if I care." And I pressed send.

After closing my phone, I was approached by Joshua. "What was that about?" he asked. I just waved my hand to dismiss the subject.

"So, to be fair, let's just play this one." He said, waving the case around. He gave me the case and sat next to Kit on the couch.

"Final Fantasy IX? Are you sure?" I asked with a little bit of disbelief in my voice. Well, I had to be sure. He did pick it at random, so maybe he picked the wrong game. But what luck he had to pick my favourite game of the Playstation One console, the greatest game I have played, Final Fantasy IX. Ah, this brought back memories.

"Yes, Eliot, I'm positive on this one," he replied. "Of course, we can play a different game if you want."

"No, uh, no need. We'll play this," I managed to say while waving my hands. I stood up and loaded the game into the PlayStation. Joshua turned on the television and switched the channel to AV 1.

"How in the name of hell are we–the three of us–gonna play a single player RPG?" asked Kit. She looked as thought she was still mad at me for earlier.

"Simple, we take turns," I answered. She frowned. This was gonna get us into another argument.

"Are you kidding? You mean each of us gets to play after a turn?" I nodded. She groaned while Joshua chuckled. The game started to load, thank god. My PlayStation was really old and sometimes froze or did not load the game. I guess that's what old age did, even for gaming consoles.

"Eliot," Joshua called. "Your phone is ringing."

For the fourth time today, really? I felt that something was wrong with this picture, and with 'picture' I mean today's events. If it's that guy who's sending me messages, then pigs should be flying above my head.

The prologue scene started playing with its wonderful flute solo, or so I think it was a flute solo. Where the Square Soft logo is showed and then started to show different places on the map of Gaia. I was about to read the message when Joshua tugged my shirt.

"Dude, something's wrong with the TV." he said. The logo of Final Fantasy IX was supposed to be right there after the prologue but it wasn't. It was actually blinking and flickering with static. And in no time, the TV died. I knew it. My playstation won't let me play my favourite game. Kit stood up and started banging the TV to bring it back to life, sadly it's not working.

I took my phone out of my pocket and looked at the previously alerted message. But this message kinda shocked me. Instead of seeing text, I was seeing 0s and 1s. It's like the Matrix! The TV then came back to life, still flickering and blinking like crazy. The lights of the house started blinking along with the TV, the fan was slowing down and then going faster, it's like the whole house is having a power shortage.

The short red headed girl grabbed me by the collar of my polo shirt. Her hands shaking and her eyes were showing panic. "What the hell's going on?" Kit demanded to know. If I did know, I wouldn't tell you naturally. I was about to reply when my cell phone rang again, this time in my hand. But I was suddenly feeling very tired. My eyes started drooping, yelling to be closed at once. I raised my phone to see a glimpse of the message before I dropped to the floor, darkness taking over my senses. The last thing I heard was Kit yelling my name and Joshua's panicking words.

Then I remembered what I saw in the phone: "So shall it be... A new adventure begins."

That chapter took longer than I have anticipated. Anyways, now that I'm finished with this chapter I'm gonna start with another one, probably gonna be shorter than this one.

Thank you for reading. Please review. Let me here the opinion of the people. You can even tell me the mistakes I made in this chapter. I accept criticism, but not flames.

Edit: Just made some changes to some parts I wasn't satisfied with. No harm done.

Wyxlan_Lonestar out!