CHAPTER 1
"Oh,
I need a break."
Inside
a basement of an old house, a young girl moaned while stretching her arms and
legs. This girl has long brown hair, deep green emerald eyes and had a real
beautiful face. She was nobody other than the ancient that had been revived
into a totally new body-Aeris.
Three
days had past since Cloud's death. Although it was only three days, the
Avalanche didn't take it very well and it seemed like three months to them.
After that incident, Aeris went to Icicle Inn to understand more about her race
and the rest of the team continued their lives in Kalm.
Aeris
got up from her seat and went to fetch her coat. It was winter here in icicle
inn and that makes this place even colder. After Aeris put on her coat, she
headed straight to the bar.
"Anything
strong, lady?" asked the bartender.
"No
thanks. Just give me a hot cocoa." Aeris replied.
The
bartender turned and made a hot chocolate for her. After he finished, he put it
in front of Aeris.
"Here
is your hot cocoa." the bartender said.
"Seldom
see someone as good looking as you in this place. The last cute one I saw was
Professor Gast's wife." The bartender continued.
"She's
my mother." Aeris replied.
"Oh!
So you are Professor Gast's daughter! My! I never know he had a daughter! He
had disappeared many years ago. So how is both of them now?"
"They…past
away when I was a child." Aeris replied sadly.
"I…I
am so sorry. Uh…Um…do you have a boyfriend?" the bartender tried to change the
subject.
"What
makes you think I have a boyfriend?" Aeris asked curiously.
"Well,
cute girls like you should have one by now." The bartender answered.
Aeris
kept quiet for a moment like she was deciding what to tell the bartender.
"Actually
I loved someone before. But since I just walked into his life, I turned his
life upside down. For me, he gave up his wedding and I felt really bad for
that. Um, I gotta go, here is the gil and bye." Aeris took out some gil for her
pocket and left the bar.
The
bartender watched as Aeris left. He couldn't believe that this girl had such a
tragic background. After Aeris was out of the bar, he continued serving the
other patrons.
"Papa!"
A
little girl was running toward a strong man with a gunarm. This man was really
big in size and looked real fierce. But deep inside of him, he was a good
friend and a caring father. He is one of the warrior that once defeated
Sephiroth and saved the world-Barret.
"Come
here, Marlene! Whatcha learn at school today?" Barret asked his daughter while
putting her on his shoulder.
"Our
art teacher taught us how to draw clouds today!" Marlene replied happily.
Barret
was stunned by the mention of the word clouds. This word seems to have a real
big impact on him.
"What's
wrong papa?" Marlene asked her father.
"Nothin's
wrong. Just thought of someone else only. We are late for dinner today, I'm
gonna getcha home quick or auntie Tifa will be mad." Barret replied and started
his journey home.
When
Barret reach the inn where they lived, suddenly he heard something crashed in
the inn. He put Marlene down and rushed into the inn to see what happened. All
he saw was Tifa picking up smattering of a plate.
"Tiff,
ya sure ya alright? That the third time today." Barret walked towards Tifa to
help her.
"I'm
alright. I was just…nevermind, those are just excuses." Tifa replied.
"I
know this is real tough for ya but ya gotta get on withcha live. You can't be
like this everyday!" Barret consoled.
"I
know. Just give me a little time, just a little more time…" Tifa said and
walked toward the kitchen.
Barret
shook his head and walked towards the dinning room. Only Yuffie was there.
"Where
the hell is everybody?" Barret asked Yuffie with a loud voice.
"Okay,
let's see, Tifa was in the kitchen, Red said he went to the library and won't
be back by dinner, Cid is killing himself with alcohol in the bar, Cait Sith is
staring his poker cards in his room, and Vincent is nowhere." Yuffie answered.
"What's
tha hell wrong with everybody?! People die everyday! It isn't the end of the
world after Spiky Head's death!" Soon after Barret shouted they heard a crying
sound from the kitchen.
"Look
what you done! Do you know how hard is it to make her stop crying?" Yuffie
scolded and walk into the kitchen condoling Tifa.
Barret
felt real bad for what he had done. He walked lifeless up to his room and
straight away lay down on his bed. He kept thinking about the team, they were
once so happy but now, everybody was devastated by the impact of Cloud's death.
There was nothing he could do other then waiting for time to past.
"I
really missed that spiky headed guy." Barret said to himself.
In
a desert somewhere north of the Gold Saucer, there was three people that were
riding chocobos moved slowly across the horizon. There were four chocobos all
together, three of them was mounted by three people in black suit while the
other one had a big cargo on it.
"That's
all for today. We're getting setting camp here." one of the riders said.
"What?
Camp here? Are you insane?! I thought we should only stop when we get out of
this desert!" a female rider replied.
"We
can't. The wind is getting stronger and we might get lost." The rider said
again.
"No
we are not. We are gonna get out here as fast as possible or not we will be eaten
up by huge worms." The female rider said again.
"The
hell I care with huge worms. I could have easily killed it with my nightstaff."
The rider shot back.
"Your
nightstaff? Oh please…it just makes pretty fireworks, that all." the female
rider said.
"Hey,
you can insult me but don't insult my nightstaff!" the rider scold.
"I
am not insulting your nightstaff, I am just telling what it really does." The
female rider said.
"Why
you %(&%% little schoolgirl!"
"You
red haired (%^&%(!"
Few
years ago, there were a number of elite secret agents working for the Shira
called the turks. These agents are very well trained and they job is to protect
and assist the president. Among these agents there are only four of them that
confronted with the top Shira enemy- Avalanche. These agent are nobody than the
infamous Tseng, Reno, Rude and Elena. But not long after they confronted the
Avalanche, Sephiroth killed their leader Tseng. At the fall of Shinra, the
other three disappeared and nobody knew about their whereabouts.
Now,
these three riders are actually the once infamous turks. After the fall of
Shinra, they lost their job and became mercenaries for hire. But they were no
longer as efficient as before. Now, Reno and Elena would quarrel for any little
thing while Rude just stay still and watch. They are no longer the turks Shinra
once admire. They are just escorts of a piece of cargo that has to be delivered
to Junon.
"You
$*(^$^)!!!!!"
"You
^%(%(&(*!!!!!"
"Would
you two just shut up!"
At
last, Rude shouted out. Elena and Reno looked at Rude with surprise. Rude
usually is the most quiet among them and they didn't expect him to shout out
like that.
"That's
better. Where is all that turk spirit we once have?" Rude continued.
"We
are not turks anymore. Now we are just a bunch of mercenaries that would take
any job for thee sake of money. Shinra is gone, Rude. We no longer need to
worry getting fired because we did stupid little things." Elena replied.
"Well
as long as we are still together I don't want anything as stupid as this to
happen again. Though we are not working for Shinra we are still turk and I want
you two to stop arguing over stupid things! Is that clear?!" Rude scolded.
Reno
and Elena kept quiet at once. They can't believe the always-quiet Rude could
say something that could get their attention and made them shut up. Thing had
really changed a lot since the Shinra day.
"Sorry
Rude. I didn't actually want to break up our friendship. So why don't you help
me to get the tent ready?" Reno jumped down from his Chocobo and reach for his
folded tent in his backpack.
"What?
I thought we are gonna get out here as fast as possible!" Elena said with
surprise.
"No
we are not." Reno replied.
"Yes
we are." Elena shot back.
"No!
We are not!"
"Yes!
We are!"
"Oh
man! Not again…" Rude said while shaking his head.
Suddenly
they heard loud rumble coming from beneath their feet. Their chocobos went wild
and in a sudden, a huge worm emerged from the earth nearby them.
"Uh…I
take back everything I said just now." Reno said.
"Good
idea." Elena replied and quickly took off into the vast desert.
