A red dog runs through a canyon, tailed by two cubs of the same color. He leaps up the wall of the canyon stops at the top, looking back to see the cubs behind him as they should be. It looks almost as though the dog smiles, then turns to the lush land below them, and lets out a mighty roar.
"Tseng! Look at this." A girl said in awe.
"Hm... Pay dirt."
"Not a pretty sight, is it?" She said.
In a helicopter circling a snowy mountain, a redhead taps the arm of his pilot's chair in impatience. "Who cares? Just get the damn thing." He said into the headset he wore.
"Reno," The man, Tseng, said crossly. "the chopper!"
"You got it." Reno, said.
The helicopter swooped into the mountain, enveloping it in mist. Out of nowhere, came gunshot. It was impossible to tell how many times it sounded because of the echo.
"Whoa, whoa!" Reno shouted.
"Reno, hurry!" The girl shouted. "Reno!"
"Who the hell was that?"
There was the sounds of something loaded into the helicopter. Gunshots sounded again. The girl moaned.
"Elana!" Tseng shouted.
More bullets.
"Ge- get ou..."
"Gah, dammit." Reno muttered.
The gunshot was constant now.
The intercom went dead. Nothing but static on the other end. The helicopter rose from the mist, and flew away.
The Lifestream.
That's what we call the river of life circling our planet. Giving life to the world and everything in it. The ShinRa Electric Power Company discovered a way to use the life stream as an energy source. Because of ShinRa's energy, we were able to live very comfortable lives.
Wasn't that because we were taking away from the planet's life? A lot of people thought so.
ShinRa used their power to try and stop anybody who got in their way. ShinRa had a special group of warriors called, SOLDIER. And all of the SOLDIERs had Jenova cells put inside them. Jenova was a calamity that fell from the sky a long, long time ago- and tried to destroy the planet.
Anyway, there was one SOLDIER named Sephiroth, who was better than the rest. But when he found out about the terrible experiments that made him, he began to hate ShinRa. He began to hate everything.
ShinRa, and the people against them. Sephiroth, who hated the planet so much, he wanted to make it go away, and the people who tried to stop him. There were a lot of battles. For every battle, there was more sadness. Someone I love went back to the Lifestream too.
Ans then, it came. The chosen day. In the end, the planet itself had to make the battles stop for good. The planet used the Lifestream as a weapon, and when it burst out of the earth, all the fighting, all the greed and sadness, everything. Was washed away.
Sadness was the price to see it end, it's been two years since they told me that. But, it looks like, the planet is a lot madder then we thought.
They call it geostigma.
"Well, Marlene," Said a boy about ten years old. "how does it look?"
"Hm." Marlene said, cocking her head to the side.
Please... please don't take Denzel away.
Ring... Ring... splash, swish... Ring... Ring...
"He's not here anymore..."
Ring... Ring... squeak... Ring... Ring...
The woman standing at the sink in the bar was probably only in her late twenties. She had dark hair and deep maroon colored eyes. Her name was Tifa. She turned off the faucet, and walked toward a flight of stairs leading to the living area.
"Cloud... Where are you?" Denzel moaned.
Ring... Ring...
The woman sighed and grabbed the phone. Her hand hovered between a family picture and the phone, then she brought it to her ear.
"Hello, Strife delivery service. You name it, we delive-" She cocked her head to the side. She put a hand on her hip. "May I ask who's calling?" She chuckled. "Yeah, I remember you."
A/N: And so concludes the first chapter of Advent Children! The others will be longer, I promise! This one was hard to do because I had to pause every three seconds and figure out what the hell Marlene was saying! It was just the intro, so the fights and all will be WAY longer!
Well, it's two A.M., I'm clockin' out. (Giggles at Reno reference) Hope you like!
*~* Lartovio *~*