The Great Fair Chase
This short side story takes place in the Mako City- 's a story about Reno and the now deceased, Zack Fair, doing an action packed chase all around Midgar. The point of this chase, it was for the hell of it, just kidding. It was Reno's attempt to capture Zack Fair and bring him back to the Turks, not SOLDIER. But Reno sadly fails, but their friendship never ended, though Zack's life ended shortly after this happened. (Remember: I DO NOT OWN ANY characters in this story, all characters belong t the Square Enix Company)
Chapter 4: The Museum: Part Two: Floor #2
After running through memory lane's hardships of the past, Zack finally made it to the 2nd Floor's staircase. After looking back at the hall he past through to get here to from where he started, he gave a small smile and thanked it for the memories he almost given up on. But, it wasn't just a 'thanks', it was a good-bye; and he slide down the rail to the 2nd Floor.
Reno on the other hand, was falling behind, due to him slipping on Zack's tears. But he shrugged off the pain, and kept chasing him. "Zack, please, you need to get yourself together and soon. If you don't…if you don't…you're never going to get to see Aerith again. Not Cloud. Not Rude. Not Tseng. Not Cissnei. No one." Reno pleaded to himself as he tried catching up by sliding down the rail just Zack did before him.
Zack was now on the 2nd Floor of the Museum, it was the Hall Of Mako Energy history. It provided information on what Mako energy looked like in a gaseous, liquid, and solid form. Mako Energy comes from the Earth's life stream. In other words, the stream of life; where they believe where all the souls of the people that had passed on, go in, and become apart of the Earth itself in some way or form.
The gaseous form of mako energy looks like a bright green stream of smoke that gave off an enormous amount of green glow. When it enters the atmosphere of the Earth, it really flows like a stream upwards into the sky. There is only one person is able to 'talk' to the souls in the life stream and that is Aerith, because she's an ancient. Ancients are people who lived in the past who were able to have 'access' the life stream of their own free will. This means, she is a target to over throw the monopoly of energy, Shinra, down.
The liquid form of mako energy looks like a toxic waste pool of bright green bubbling liquid. If you ever have fallen into these giant pools of mako energy, you would die in a matter of seconds, no matter who you were. When Cloud defeated Sephiroth, he claimed, just before he fell into Mako Coma, 'Sepiroth fell into the Mako Energy below us.' It gives off a very stout smell and if it has been there for a while, you could see the gaseous form hovering above it.
The solid form of mako energy is called materia. Materia can hold all sorts of magiks, abilities, and power up your skills. Ranging from a level 1 spell like Thunder to a level 3 spell like Firaga. These materia spheres can also be fused together to form an extraordinary magiks and skills like the materias Fire and Blizzard combined would give you Thunder. Zack always kept handy materia on hand, Dark Thundaga and Dark Firaga. These two alone and along with a Curaga and Cura was all that he needed. The higher the level of marteria used, the color was darker, except if you fused two healing materia.
As Zack ran through this hall, he pulled out his Dark Thundaga, and looked at it and remembered all the memories he had it. To activate it, all you had to say, was the spell's name that the materia holds. Zack looked back and saw that Reno was still on his tail, he pulled out one his materia that he used rarely was a simple Blizzard materia. He held it behind him as he was running, and yelled, "BLIZZARD!" Right when he said it's name, a small chilling cloud of ice swept and froze the floor solid.
Reno just about to catch up to Zack, suddenly fell, and slipped, and sledded across the hall into, yet again, a wall. "OOOWWW! ZACK! I WILL CATCH YYYYYOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU!" Reno yelled at the top of his lungs while he laid there in pain.
Zack laughed a little, but kept on going to search for the 1st Floor's staircase. He turned to left and saw the staircase was within reach. He had a strange feeling, like a 'warning' kind of feeling. Telling him that if he were to keep on going, something big is going to happen, but he disregarded the feeling and focused on getting back to Cloud.