This is the first time I've worked on NIGHT in a while.
I gotta get back into it, but I think I'll do fine.
ANYWAY, Vincent Valentine will not be featured
again until a later PART. Sorry for the
inconvenience.

In this chapter we see Night as she developed
to be and her husband, Genesis. We are also
introduced to a naive Cloud and rather kind
Sephiroth. Sorry, but Sephiroth is kind
until he sees his Mother.

I am working on a new FFVII story involving
JENOVA quite a bit, too.
Look forward to it.


"Of course I don't have siblings in ShinRa."

The young woman with scarlet eyes and black hair glared down at the insolent recruit who had snapped at her. Next to her stood the auburn haired Genesis, reading the files on the SOLDIER recruit.

"What's it to you anyway?" The recruit continued.
"Refrain from using that ignorant tone with me!" Night Valentine's high voice was dangerous. The recruit before her flinched at the voice, narrowed his eyes, and went quiet.

"The recruit has no criminal record, Night." Genesis said softly, turning his green eyes on the recruit. "He is to be in Zack and Sephiroth's TEAM."

Night flipped back her long hair and took the clipboard from Genesis. She compared the picture accompanying the report with the recruit before reading off a list of questions.

"You are Cloud Strife of Nibelheim?" She asked.

"Yes."

"And you are currently fifteen years old?"

"So it says on my birth certificate."

"Why do you want to join the SOLDIER program?" Night's eyes flashed mako green.

"I have personal reasons." Cloud whispered.

Night snorted and closed the report before going on to the next recruit. Cloud was left utterly confused by her cold and bitter attitude.


Friday Hyperion, a SOLDIER captain, lounged out as she awaited the arrival of her newest recruits. Next to her stood the lieutenant of another TEAM, Zack Fair, and his recruits and SOLDIERS.

"It seems I have misplaced a recruit," Zack said to Friday.

"Again, Zack?" Friday teased. "Who is it this year?"
"Cloud Strife of Nibelheim." Zack read off the report he'd been given.

"He sounds stupid." Friday said dismissively. Her lieutenant, Mora Skyebird, chuckled. Zack's glare silenced her.

"You sound stupid, too." He pointed out, his dark eyes on Friday. "You mean little girl."

"That's just the echo of your voice that sounds stupid, Zack." Friday grinned. Her mako eyes taunted him.

"Watch out, Zack," came the calming voice of Aeris Gainsborough, a friend of Zack's allowed to visit the SOLDIER occasionally. She had just arrived in ShinRa and some of Zack's older SOLDIERS cheered out greetings to her. "Friday's tongue is as sharp as a Birds knife."

"Savage little beasts…" muttered Stella Moon. She would have said more but Aeris had suddenly bowed at three people who were approaching. The SOLDIERS all saluted the two Turks. They didn't salute the SOLDIER recruit with them.

Genesis Rhapsodos strutted cockily, his handsome features impassive, next to his lovely, sneering wife, Night Valentine, who's gait was extremely graceful and hypnotising. Cloud Strife, in contrast to the woman next to him, was ungainly and awkward. He did not fit in.

"I found this near the reactor room." Night spat at Zack. "It was on the verge of being lost."

When she shoved Cloud forward he turned his blue eyes on her and glared. She met him, glare for glare, and her red eyes flared bloodily.

"Good god, boy!" Halloween Asano, a friend of Mora's and a distinctly optimistic person, wrenched Cloud backwards from the Turks to Zack's side. "Do you have a death wish? You wouldn't stare a rabid wolf in the eye, would you? No offence, though, Lady Valentine. I used a wolf metaphor."

Night Valentine's laughter was soft and cold. Only Genesis and Cloud didn't shudder.

"As long as the image was a wolf, Asano, we are fine," she said. "Where is Zero by the way? Was he not supposed to escort me and Genesis today?"

"He reported himself too ill for service, Lady Valentine. Didn't Hojo or President Shinra tell you?"

"Hojo's words have no relevance to me," Night spat. "Zero should have reported to me." Her eyes burned with hate and rage.

"Hojo will never give up his position, Night," Aeris' voice was scolding. Night's face showed contempt upon turning to the Cetra. Genesis smiled mischievously, his own green eyes glowing ominously.

"Come now, lovely dearest," he purred as he took Night's slender hands in his. He pulled her with him even as her eyes burned hate at Aeris. "You aren't immortal yet."

Once they had gone the SOLDIERS relaxed and Cloud formally introduced himself. It was then that Halloween spoke.

"You know what?" She asked loudly. The others paused to listen. "I hope Night becomes a vegetable in the next lab done on her."

"Halloween!" Aeris exclaimed amid the snickers.

"Well, it is bound to improve around here without Night and her loyal dog Genesis antagonising us." Friday said as she pounded her fist with Halloween's. "Asano has it right!"

Aeris rolled her brown eyes and smiled kindly at Cloud.

"So how did the resident monster treat you?" She asked him.

"Not at all nicely," Cloud replied. "Does she hate me or something?"

"It's not you, kid." Mora said. "Night Valentine has beef with everyone. You're just stupider than the rest of us."

"Welcome to ShinRa, Cloud Strife," Friday laughed. "I think you'll fit in just fine here."


Yeah so I've finished this chapter.
I am contemplating putting all three
PARTS of NIGHT into one story, of course
I'll put short 'intermissions' in each with
hyperlinks to a few pages of the original
story I began to write two years ago in Grade 10.

It's only fitting that more than two people read the
first official FFVII story I wrote.

3 the Dead Possum