Cataclysm

Chapter 1

Prologue

Five years ago, a mass organization ran the world. They were known as Shinra. The Shinra electric power company was the worlds only supplier or power, making the world as some see it "civilized". They started off as a normal company, with innocent goals. Soon, greed took over. They discovered that their reactors could create valuable materia, a substance that was formed by concentrated MAKO, and which took years to form naturally. Upon discovering this, they began mass producing it, and selling it. Still, this wasn't enough to satisfy the owner of the company. He ordered his scientist to began working on new, more powerful materia. Soon their were many, more powerful, more dangerous materia. People began to die. That was when the team of scientist began working on a new type of materia. More powerful then life, which was meant to save close to death people, revive materia could resurrect anyone. Soon, everyone was saving up for the materia. Back then, I was part of an organization known as Avalanche. We were on a mission to put an end to Shinra when it happened. A man committed suicide, but forgot to remove his materia. He was resurrected, and started attacking people. Soon, they too were resurrected, and joined in the slaughter. We attempted to flee back to the headquarters, but ended up barricaded in my mothers home. Cloud, and the others found us there, but soon after that, some of our friends disappeared. We couldn't wait for them any longer, and we escaped the city that had become a tomb. We made it to the city of Kalm, and spread word of what happened. Soon afterwards, Shinra began to cover up the accident, claiming it was actually caused by a MAKO reactor exploding. The Gigases lay forgotten in Midgar for years. Then, about a year ago, it happened. No one knows who did it or why, but the doors to Midgar were opened, the Gigases escaped. They began to spread over the world. We could of stopped them, but the world was cast into turmoil. Instead of joining together to kill the Gigases, they turned on Shinra. The company was destroyed for it's lies. But the the Gigases soon attacked the cities, and me and my friends were forced to flee. We were picked off, one by one. Soon, it was only me, Red XIII and Barret left. We found ourselves in the caves between Kalm and Junon, but we had no idea where to go from here.