DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to Final Fantasy VII or any of its Compilation. I am merely a fan who hasn't had her fill of these amazing characters; this fic is written for pleasure only, not for profit.
Finally, after years of sitting on it, I am happy to present this first part of my main FFVII work. Please enjoy :)
Those Who Have Been Broken
-prologue-
Some planets fell slower than others. Some quicker.
Seek, Infect, Destroy.
Each world she had come to inhabit presented different challenges - or rather, different variations of the same challenge. For it didn't matter how long she had to wait...what deceptions she had to employ...it all ended in her triumph. Another world devoured, another world conquered...another world left a lifeless husk while she moved on to the next target.
Seek. Infect. Destroy.
Of all her conquests, this planet had proven the most unique, the most resistant. The people here had found a way to trap her, binding her body with ribbons of green and sealing her away within the ice.
No matter, she would wait.
"A human with the abilities of an Ancient? How lucrative…"
It had paid off.
She had never had an offspring before. Her conquests were just that; she spread her seed the only way she knew how. But these humans had shown her an entirely different process, one that involved the genes of not a single organism but two. She could feel her own cells...first bonding - infecting - the larval human, then multiplying and growing as it did. A biological process she had forgotten all about.
"Your mother's name was Jenova."
('Son'? Was that the human word for it? This little thing with silver hair and only five limbs?)
"She died giving birth to you."
Her son was perfect. He had grown up remarkably: intelligent, strong...built with her own cells and clever at manipulating them in ways she had never dreamed of. He thought bigger and better. Visions of bright futures and conquests, traveling the cosmos and creating worlds of boundless opportunity…
Yes, yes. They would conquer the universe in this way...her ever-brilliant, her most powerful son. She had learned so much watching him...and now they would rise, infecting the planet once more and twisting its curtain of glowing life into one of death and darkness. They would roam the cosmos just as he wanted...then strike and devour as she craved.
"Rise, my son. Our time of slumber is over."
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Looking at end-of-March for Chapter 1. I'm working on freelancing as well as original works, so please bear with me. If you enjoyed, leave me a review; it encourages me to keep going! Thank you!