"Come on Sephiroth. If you plan to beat your old man some day, you need to learn from your mistakes." Vincent said, holding a practice sword.

"Alright, here I come!"

Lucrecia was sitting in a chair, watching her son and husband practice while she was feeding their twin daughters Alexia and Veronica.

"Hey dad, when is Master Katarle coming by again. I always do better against you after one of his lessons." asked Sephiroth.

"He'll be here in a few day's actually. But you got to remember he is a busy man. He taught me how to fight along with two other students at that time. And they both also have children now who are eager to learn."

"Yes father." The two bow and sat down. Vincent and Lucrecia smiled. They knew that the old weapons master from Wutai was coming here to start a dojo. But they were keeping it a secret for now.

"By the way dad, what were your fellow students like?" asked the eleven year old. Despite his parents being black haired, he was born with white and it refused to let up that color.

"Well, sadly one of them is dead. But the other is still alive and well. He is Lord Godo Kiseragi of Wutai."

Sephiroth nodded and started eating a sandwich.

"Anybody home?"

"Back here," Lucrecia called.

A man in a black suit and deep red hair came in. "Mr. And Mrs. Valentine, I presume? I am Reno of the Turks. Representing the head of the Turks, Reeve, and Shin-Ra, we would like you, Vincent, on a mission."

"Reno, I'm retired. More over, I'm in my late forties. And I have cut all ties to Shin-Ra.

"And why are you being so formal? You should still be that pain in the neck that I left you as."

Reno smiled and dropped the tense look. "Reeve said I need to be more formal and such. I'll play at this for a bit and drop it soon enough."

"Would you like something to eat?" asked Lucrecia.

"Please. Last I ate was this morning. After some guys approached me, asked if I wanted to meet with you, probably because I was asking around, and blind folded me."

"With Shin-Ra sucking the life out of the planet anywhere they can, the people of Wishsong fear losing the Lifestream that makes their village beautiful. Robert, I know your there, where did you pick him up at?"

A teenager dropped down from a tree. He was wearing a ninja-sneaking suit, only colored in army green camouflage. He put a hand behind his head and said, "Heh, still not good enough to watch you unnoticed. We grabbed him at North Corel."

"Long ride." Vincent nodded and Robert left in the classic ninja jump. "Sit down. So, just wondering, what is this mission about?"

Reno took a bite out of one of the sandwiches on a plate in the center. "This is good Lucrecia, thank you. The mission is to go to the town of Nibelhiem and investigate increase in monster activities. The roster is a couple of Soldiers, a First Class Soldier, and Ganglere."

"Thee Ganglere? The hero of the Wutai war?" asked Sephiroth.

"The one and the same."

Vincent went over the profile sheets. "Clark Pentegarn, Cloud Strife, and Rikku Remineko were the soldiers. The profile for the second said that he had potential but no way of drawing that potential out has been discovered. 'Maybe necessary to give him the Soldier mixture to get top efficient use out of.'

"Zack Greyhawk is the first class soldier. Apparently, he could do anything. If he did something half heartily, most would think it was perfectly done. And often it was.

"And Ganglere. Age :17. Blood type: unknown. Date of birth: unknown. Birthplace: unknown. Unknown, unknown, unknown. What, is he a national public secret?"

Reno smiled and said, "Unknown. Really, the President has locked his file. Had to go through a mountain of paperwork just for that."

"Well, anyway, I'm not going so it doesn't matter."

"I'll give Reeve your reply…Am I going to be blindfolded again?"

"Yes. No one can know where this village is. I assume you'll come up with a different story on where you met me."

"Of course. Take care."

Author's Notes: I don't own Final Fantasy 7