Disclaimer: we all know I don't own anything from FF7. No characters. No locations. No vehicles. No Chocobo.All I own is myself, and I'm not even sure about that one.
Oh well, at least this story's mine. See, I can see the silver lining to every Cloud ...:-p
Sorry, couldn't help that one :-p
Don't upset the Lifestream... I want to share the fun too. Wait for meeeeeeeeeee!
Part 1: Prologue -North
Lucrecia had been avenged.
His goal reached, he had nothing else to do, nothing else left to him . The day they had made of him an ageless monster, they had also taken away from him his life.
Now, he was purposeless, with no ties, no home, no one to go back to. When Meteor was destroyed, while the others rejoiced, Vincent Valentine had quietly gone away, slipping in familiar shadows. All he had done for a while was to wander around the world, seeing the way it had changed in the span of thirty years.
Monsters still roamed the countryside, so gil was not a problem. The Death Penalty was as much in use as it had been in the days of Avalanche.
And as time passed by, Vincent became a monster hunter, killing those which were threatening human habitations or that just had the misfortune of crossing his path.
He occasionally saved stranded travellers, but his contact with people in general was all but non-existent. Some might have argued that he might as well have gone back to his coffin. The ex-Turk would have once agreed with them, but something was stopping him from going back to oblivion.
And that something was telling him to go north, always and further north, whispering that he was still needed there…
Author's Notes:
7th December, 2006
Hello. First of all, if you're expecting lemons in here, be prepared to be disappointed. I don't do lemons, and that's the bottom line of it. What you can expect is action, introspection, hell, even drabble. Comedy is not my forte but I shall strive to make some.
'After the End' is to date my greatest writing project. It is to span the whole of the FF7 timeline and might even go back before 'Before Crisis' (BC) or well beyond 'Dirge of Cerberus' (DoC). I have segmented the story in four distinct parts:
Part One will follow (mostly) the 'Advent Children' (AC) storyline and will attempt to answer some of the questions most of us have been asking ourselves when we saw the movie (Like: What the HECK is she talking about? And how did he get there? O.o) Another of my goals is to link it ultimately to the alternate universe of 'Kingdom Hearts' (KH). It IS NOT a crossover; I will just integrate themes used in it to this part of the fanfic. As wont by AC and KH, the story will mainly revolve around Cloud and his little family. However, Vincent will also be protrayed here (think of it as a supporting role), being given that he will figure prominently later on in the fanfic. Ultimately, there might be some changes when 'Advent Children Complete' (ACC) comes out, but the author sincery thinks that nothing much should be affected by the new scenes revealed in ACC.
Part Two will cover events happening about three years after Meteor; the basis will be DoC and the central protagonist Vincent Valentine. Happy? ;-)
Part Three is more or less my speculation of what will happen after DoC; being given that sources fromSquare-Enix (Sq-E) have stated that DoC will be the last installment timeline-wise, speculation is the only thing open to me. I will draw my sources from 'Crisis Core' which has yet to be released in the U.S. (come on, you know what that is ;-) and some other obscure official sources... like the lesser-known ff7 official short stories, which I regularly use throughout Part One.
And what is the last part? It's the Past Imperfect. Think of it as a series of bonus short stories that I will release throughout the fanfic and which will focus about one character in particular.
Far from me to claim to be doing a 'serious' fanfic, but I do try to keep as close to official published material as far as possible. Those of you who are obsessed as I am and who've scoured the Web to find each and every parcel of information, please notify me privately if you see a logic flaw somewhere or something that I missed out on, with supporting arguments. I try, but it's not easy when you've got to juggle studies and everything else with keeping up with the ff7 story. Arigato gomezainasu!
If you like fanart, wallpapers, e-cards and fan mangas, please visit my otaku portfolio; the link is on my profile page and you will see artwork that I have produced exclusively for this fanfic... I mainly use Photoshop (thank the fashion industry for requiring training designers to explore and use it)
'After the End' is not really here to entertain. It's not a novelization either. It's not a fantasy of a fantasy world. It's a construction on the ff7 saga, and I have poured my knowledge and heart and feelings in it. Please read it with your heart too, for sometimes, some things cannot be said; then, it is up to our hearts to understand what language cannot convey. Even then, you might understand something else entirely. It will please me very much to know how it made you feel, so feel free to leave a review or a message.
Sincerely yours,
Celeste Bloodrayne
