Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy VII

Chapter 1

Out with the old bike in with the new Chocobo

The air was musty in the small upstairs attic room that cloud resided in, the sunlight crept in through the one window that existed in the room. The old wooden window showing signs of decay and a layer of dust on its surface let the warm sunlight pass through it but just barely. The sunlight slowly crept through and on throughout the room until it met a large dresser with was well maintained and had many pictures around it, actually this area of the room was about 2 meters by 2 meters was spotless. The sunlight climbed up the dresser and onto the pictures that lay upon it. The rest of the room seemed untouched since the resident moved in aside from that one area.

The sunlight continued slowly until it crawled upon the bed and onto his face, squinting his closed eye Cloud slowly opens his eyes and stairs up at his ceiling thinking to himself " another day, I wonder if this well ever get any easier". He got out of bed and walked over to the dresser and put on his solder uniform reminding himself that he wears this as a symbol of respect and honour for a dear friend. He then continues to open and unlock a large vertically stood up chest which contained a large sword. This was however so much more to him than just a sword, it was more of an extension of his soul, of his heart.

This sword was given to him by his dying friend Zack who was tragically killed in a battle trying to protect Cloud from Shinra. In his dying words he told Cloud to live on as his living legacy. Cloud takes the sword and places it on his back, he hasn't used this sword in some time now yet today seems different and causes him to take extra precautions.

Cloud begins out his door locking it behind him and is met by Yuffie which says "why do you always lock your door? You know you could always let me go in and clean it up for you a little, maybe I could even do a little decorating for you". To which Cloud replied as he continued down the stairs "the room is good just as it is" "ahh come on I won't take anything, honest. Remember I did give you back your meteria last time didn't I. Well at least let me go on your route with you today, please". Hey Cloud you there? Cloud!!!".

At this point Cloud had already taken the 3 packages to deliver off the shelf, a small lunch and jumped upon his motorcycle and had left the area. He had 2 stops to make in sector five and 1 stop at the golden saucer. As he drove out of the main gate of sector 7 onto the greener filled areas which had been created within Midgar to give it a more environmentally friendly look. What were once old buildings and rubble plus many old military establishments, now abandoned since the last war now was a few miles of lush green highway. Driving along the highway he noticed a herd of chocobos racing alongside him to which almost put a smile on his face, as he looked closer he saw they weren't running because they wanted to, it was because they had too. They were being chased by a black four legged monster and upon getting a closer look Cloud could not believe what he had seen it was a shadow crepper but this is impossible only Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz were known to be able to bring these tainted beast from the life stream to a physical form.

Cloud quickly turned his bike at a 90 degree angle screeching to a hault and jumped off bringing his sword to the ready and stared into the black soulless eyes of the beast. The unholy animal growled and put out his claws ready to strike but unfortunately for him he was no match for cloud who quickly dispatched this beast with no more than one slash from his mighty buster sword. His worry was not of this beast but rather where it came from or who may have summoned it. All of a sudden the silence was shattered by a loud explosion and one of the beasts went flying towards cloud and fell to the ground swiftly before him. As he turned around he found the source of the explosion it was his bike, apparently one of the beast got the bright idea of trying to destroy it and I guess he went around it the wrong way and managed to kill himself in the process.

Cloud calmly puts his sword upon his back and looks around to see one of the chocobos still there, it was a jet back coloured chocobo, one in which there was no known species in existence. Cloud slowly steps closer to the animal when he notices that some shrapnel from the explosion had hit the large bird like creature in the left leg. Slowly while keeping a steady eye on the intensions of the wild animal Cloud begins removing the objects.

Finally the last shard removed and with that the animal sprung to life kicking cloud on his back and ran off down through the trees. It seems as if this chocobo must have some special healing properties in order to heal himself from his wounds that fast. No longer had Cloud taken the pieces of shrapnel from the bird and his wounds had closed up. "Oh well serves me right for stopping in the first place I guess, I suppose I'll be walking from here on out".

Cloud picks up the 3 damaged packages and what is left of his rations and begins to wonder wither he should go back and tell the others about the shadow creepers. No I won't have them worrying about it, after all it was just 2 of them I'll deliver the packages and check out the other sector just to see if there is anything wrong. Now I just hope I can get a ride somewhere.

Cloud now walking down the road for a couple hours begins to notice a dark figure has been following him since he left his bike. But this figure wasn't planning on doing him any harm it was the chocobos from earlier. It seemed almost curious as to why Cloud helped him and edged closer and closer the further Cloud ventured down the road. It was dusk now and Cloud knew that he really did need to get to his location so he took a chance and laid out some of his lunch by the road, thinking to himself that it sure is strange that there hasn't been any traffic since he left this morning. The large dark as night itself chocobo proudly stepped up to the meal and began to eat the almost toasted bread since the explosion. Cloud waited and waited until the bird was comfortable eating and he knew that he would only likely get one shot at this. He knew now that he couldn't wait any longer and with a swift leap he jumped upon the chocobo and for the next couple of minutes it was much like a bull rodeo.

I thought you'd never run out of steam Cloud thought to himself as he looked down into the light blue eyes of the animal. Hey wait your eyes are just like mine that means you've been exposed to large amounts of mako . Cloud knew now that something wrong must have happened as there wasn't any known mako reactors still in use ,at least to his knowledge the only mako reactor still in use was the small one in Midgar and that was only using the raw material that Shinra had already extracted some years ago, if they used it wisely they could have enough energy to last for hundreds of years if it was used sparingly. Somewhere there must be another mako plant and they must not care much for the wildlife or the environment in general. This poor chocobo was an example of that. If it were not for his healing ability I am sure he wouldn't be alive right now.

Something bad was about to happen, he was sure of it, Cloud began off down the road but staying far enough from the highway so as to not attract any attention once he got to sector 5's main gate with some trouble at first since it has been a while since he'd ridded a chocobos towards sector 5 to find things pretty calm, he went to the depot and dropped off the packages. He then gave his 3rd package to a young boy at the station who said he'd deliver it for him for some Gil. Cloud agreed knowing time was of the essence. He then continued down the road and soon found out why there was no traffic it seems as if the road is blocked off by some military presence and on the side of their veicheals two letters I guess an abbreviation for something SR. I have no idea what that stands for but those solders look like they are wearing Shinra uniforms but there is no what that is Shinra they were disbanded after the last war. The only difference with the uniforms was a crest on the shoulder of the uniform with those same two letters SR.

There's no doubt about it they are Shinra solders but how? This doesn't make any sense. Worried about his friends back at sector 7 and for the well being of the citizens if a fight broke out because of him Cloud begins to turn around his new friend and with a low wark the chocobo began back towards 7th heaven.

Cloud has a small journey ahead of him to get back to sector 7 and along the way he thinks to himself of the past and the things he wishes he could of changed, the people he couldn't protect and his sins. As he gallops along on the back of his new companion a tear runs down his face and onto the feathers of the chocobo. Zack, Aerith, the mere mention of their names in his mind made the salty water travel down his cheeks ever so easily. He wiped away the tears and gritted his teeth saying under his breath " no one else is going to suffer, none of my friends are going to get hurt, I don't care if I die trying I won't let these beasts from the past nor these solders lay a hand on my friends".

Cloud not used to this much action without knowing falls to sleep on the back of his new friend. Hours pass and night turns to morning, birds began to chirp and the sun creeps up along the landscape uncovering sector 7's main gate with lay just in front of them. Cloud awakes to discover that he had fallen asleep "Dammit" I have to get to 7th heaven to see if anyone knows what is going on.

Cloud rides up the front of 7th heaven and all seems to be normal "thank God". Cloud finds an old rope and collar in the storage basement of the bar and attaches it to his new friend that seems not to mind, almost as if he understands what Cloud is doing and that he isn't in any danger. The silence is once again shattered with the same finesse as the explosion " O my God can I keep him please? Can I name him?" to which cloud replied "no and he's a she". "humph you never let me have any fun around here maybe I should go back home". " You're free to leave any time you like, no one is keeping you prisoner here" . " O my God you can be so stupid sometimes Cloud" Yuffie then runs off back on up into her room. "Well I am home no longer than a few minutes and I have already sent one of my friends of crying" sigh, I guess I better get the group together to discuss what we're going to do about this new group SR and to see what we can find out about them.