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Final Fantasy VII: Resurrecting the Past Chapter 2: Revival
Sierra stared down at the gold metal plate still not believing the name scrawled on it. She looked on to the remains of the cylinder. If this truly did once hold the body of the long dead general of Shinra than they were in more trouble than they thought. " What should we do about this dude," asked Toren pointing to the cylinder holding Rufus Shinra. " Nothing, that's what," replied Raven sternly. " But we can't just leave him like this, can we," asked Carla.
A dark silence followed the statement. " We still need to find some materia. For now lets go ahead through that door. I think it will lead to the science labs. We can check and see if there is any materia," said Raven leading the way to a door hidden in the dim green glow. Raven pushed it open and walked in the others close behind. As soon as they entered a light turned on and the sound of an engine starting filled the air. " Grand," said Sharon from behind Sierra. " It could be worse," said Sierra commenting on the mess of the room that had once been the science lab. The science lab was a twisted wreckage of upturned chairs and tables, Sierra didn't want to think of all the things that seemed to be spilled on the floor, but she could already see the materia that glowed on the ground. Kneeling to pick up one of the materia orbs she showed it to Raven and the others. " We found our treasure," she said studying the orb. It was a green lightning materia. " That's not all," said Toren who had walked out a few more paces than them. He walked back holding a box filled to the top with many different types of materia.
" But why would they have left them down here," wondered Carla picking up one of the red summon materia on the top of the pile. It glowed in her hand giving the impression of fire. " You know, I was just thinking, why was this place abandoned and forgotten in the first place. Do you think there may be more to this place then we know," asked Carla looking up a serious expression on her face. " I don't know and I don't really care. We got what we came here for, so let's just get out of here," said Raven turning away to walk out.
" Yo! Raven how are we going to get this box out of here," asked Toren. " Carry it," called Raven over his shoulder as he walked out. Sierra shrugged before walking back out. " We haven't gotten all of the materia in this room. Some of it is still on the floor," said Carla reaching down to pick up another materia orb among the shattered glass of test tubes and measuring cups. " Leave it. In the future there may be others like us wandering into here and taking the materia. It wouldn't be worth it to take all the materia now anyways," said Toren before walking out carrying the box.
" Yeah, I guess your right," said Carla softly before dropping the materia back down onto the ground. She moved out along with the others and began walking. They only made it as far as the edge of the room they had found the cylinders in before the sound of growls and scratching stopped them. It sounded like it was coming from many different areas at once.
" There is more then one," whispered Sierra drawing her swords and looking around cautiously. Toren put down the materia in the middle of the group. " I guess they want us to stay. Although I appreciate the hospitality I would say we move for the exit as soon as we see an opening, " he said picking up a few materia, " let's see how these work." He held up one of the green materia concentrating on it. The nearest wolf like creatures that had been hidden before burst into flames.
" Damn show off," said Sierra before using her own fire materia to burn the other creatures that surrounded them. " There are too many of them," said Carla before trying her hand at the summon materia in her hand. " Ifrit," she called just as the fire demon appeared. It hung suspended in the air before going into an attack that left six more of the creatures dead.
The snarls and scratching noises grew worse even as more of the creatures were killed off. " How many of them are out there," whispered Sierra as she backed away along with the rest of the group. A sudden crashing noise behind them caused them all to turn and face the cylinders. Another one had shattered. Sierra couldn't hide the shock on her face as Rufus Shinra stood up from the ground. One of the wolf like creatures had managed to slam into the glass cylinder and shatter it. " Oh, Holy Meteor," whispered Carla.
The ground suddenly shook violently underneath the groups' feet. Cracks appeared in the cement floor and the walls crumbled. " Run," yelled Raven over the commotion, " Get out of here." Sierra didn't need to be told twice as she high tailed it out of there, the others right behind her. Toren ran right in front of her, but stopped so suddenly that Sierra almost slammed into him. " The materia," he cried before running back. The walls were already collapsing further back. All signs of Rufus Shinra once being there had disappeared. " Keep going," yelled Raven nodding as Toren passed.
The group ran through the collapsing underground passageway following the path they had taken when first entering. "You have got to be kidding me," said Carla as they reached the already completely collapsed hallway. " Raven, map might come in handy right about now," said Sierra looking up and down the hallways. The wolf like creatures from before had all mostly fled when the ground began to shake. " What about Toren we can't just leave him," yelled Sharon. " He has a backup plan that was created just for these cases, he will be fine," said Raven while digging out the map.
" If we take the hallway that was first guarded by those wolves, we should be able to reach an exit that ran to the south of Midgar, but there is a chance that it has already been sealed off. It was very near the Shinra building," said Raven trying to read the map even as the ground shook under his feet. "Is it the only way out of here," asked Sharon already headed in the direction of the hallway. Raven nodded an affirmative. Following the hallway was a difficult task as the lights that had once lit the hallway were flickering or completely destroyed. They navigated it more by touch as they stumbled along sometimes running into walls they didn't know were there.
It was a long walk/run that ran the length of the hallway and beyond as they found a room that opened up from the hallway. The ladder that lead up was still there, but the floor was still shaking and the door that lead to the outside was still closed, so they didn't know if they could get out. " So, who gets to be the lucky one to climb the ladder first," asked Sierra over her shoulder. " I'll go up," said Raven racing out in front of her and jumping onto the ladder as soon as he reached it. It held his weight as he climbed up banging on the door.
" The handle to the door is rusted in place," he said slamming into the door with his shoulder. Sierra pushed her way up the ladder standing next to Raven on the thin ladder and pulled out her sword, slamming it into the wood door. It went through. Sierra grinned at Raven as she used the sword as more of a saw and sliced through the door. She made an opening big enough for her to fit through and climbed up pulling herself out of the underground passageway.
Towards the west the sun was just about to set, but Sierra could still see her surroundings. They were just outside of the tower that had once accommodated the Shinra. The tower loomed darkly above the entrance to the underground. Shaking her head to snap herself out of her thoughts Sierra pulled open the door from above and pulled up Raven. Behind him the others were already climbing the ladder to reach the door. Carla slipped on the ladder; rocks falling into her face made her eyes tear and her vision impaired.
They all made it out fine, but getting out of Midgar was a different story. It was getting dark and as close as they were to the Shinra building it would take them a while to find the exit. " Should we wait for Toren," asked Sierra turning to face Raven who was idly pulling rocks and dust out of his hair. Carla was busy taking some water from her water bottle and Kleenex to clean out her eyes. " Ow, this hurts," she whined from where she stood. Sharon sat on the ground rubbing the sleeve of her shirt over her face to get the dirt off. Sierra guessed that she also looked pretty bad. Every now and then when she shook her head dust fell down into her face.
" We leave without him. If he does not show up at the memorial by late afternoon tomorrow than we will guess that he did not make it or he already went ahead of us back to Kalm," said Raven shaking his head to get more rocks and dust out of his hair. " So for now we should concentrate on getting out of here before it gets dark and the monsters wake up, eh," asked Sharon standing up from where she had sat.
Sierra looked out across the western plains, which looked like the easiest trek. It was a long walk that consisted of them having to climb most of the way going through one of the many sectors that had taken the least amount of damage. The group was silent even as the sun finally fell below the horizon and the walk became more difficult. Not much light made it into the sector because the plate was still there, but they kept walking moving along through the empty, silent sector.
" We need to figure out where we are in Midgar so that when we get out of here we can find the memorial again," said Raven finally breaking the silence that had been an ever-lasting mourning among the group. " It won't really matter will it? We can just circle around Midgar to find the memorial," said Carla her exhaustion showing in her voice and the way she seemed to drag her feet to keep moving. " I don't want to be out and about in the middle of the night trying to figure out where the memorial is. I want the quickest way there and I sure as hell don't feel like taking the long way around," said Raven shaking his head for emphasize causing more dust to fall into his face as he walked.
They walked through the sector finding as they exited, the doorway showed the number five. or what was left of the doorway that had once closed off the sector now presumed to be sector five. The group followed the edge of Midgar towards the memorial making it back easily enough with no strange occurrences. Sierra made good use of her knowledge of materia and started a fire in the small camp area they had used when they first came here. The group put together their supplies and came up with a small meal of bread and sausages that had been in their small carry packs.
" We weren't expecting to be out here for two days were we," asked Sierra as she stared at the orange flames eating the spare wood they had in the memorial. " It was supposed to only take half a day to get through the underground area," replied Raven from where he sat leaning against the wall. There was a short silence where in everyone looked towards the door. " So that's why you urged us to get moving after we found the materia," said Carla breaking the uncomfortable silence. " We needed to get out of there as soon as possible. A strong warrior could have sensed the dangerous air in that place," said Raven. Carla winced at the remark knowing full well that he meant that she was still a long way from being anything close to a warrior.
" At least I don't run away leaving my comrades behind," she hissed back before standing up and moving outside the building. Sierra and Sharon watched the exchange in silence not bothering to give their input. Sierra never cared much for bickering because she thought it was a childish thing to do. True she was worried about Toren's safety, but it was a warrior's code to die in battle. Toren could die, but Sierra would never allow herself to care too much about it. That was the reason for why she never had any relationships. She was used to death. It was a part of life in the world she lived in. When she had been young she had started her training as a ninja and had witnessed people sacrificing themselves. She had seen how easy it was for life to be taken away. It had been a long time since the last time she had cried for someone else's death. It was every person for themselves in this sad time, with the Shinra still trying to take over and monsters still infesting the world.
Sierra stood up and walked to the side of the room looking over the flowers that bloomed even in the darkness. She took one pulling it out of the ground. It was a simple white wild flower, but Sierra appreciated it for its simplicity. She walked out of the room with it, back towards the cliff facing Midgar and set it down near the edge walking back. Carla was outside watching her. " Is that your tribute to him if he doesn't return," asked Carla her voice dark and clipped. Sierra looked up facing Carla. The girl had long red hair that looked an auburn color in the darkness and bright emerald green eyes that sparkled with tears right than. " Don't cry for him," said Sierra walking on towards the entrance of the memorial. " Why not," asked Carla. Sierra turned back around, " he isn't dead yet." " What," asked Carla confused. " Call it a warriors instinct, but I know that he isn't dead yet," said Sierra, " the flower is to show him that we were here and have left." Carla stared after Sierra's retreating back. " How."
Meanwhile-
Toren cursed softly choking on dust as the walls still fell around him. It seemed that even after the initial shaking had stopped it would still start again every now and then. One of the plates above the underground tunnel had seemingly fallen causing the new shift of weight to bury them. Toren had discarded the cardboard box filled with materia long ago. It was too much to carry it through the dark caved in tunnels that had stretched off from the science lab. Toren had seen the tunnels when he had went to get the materia. They had looked more sturdy then the hallways so he had told Raven to run ahead of him.
It was true they were sturdier, but Toren still had trouble walking through them as the ceiling kept falling in places. He had put as much of the materia as he could in his pockets and the small pack he carried, but some of it he had left in the box. Another part of the ceiling fell down right on top of him. He fell to the ground his left arm going completely numb. " Damn it I can't see a thing," he managed to choke out. His voice was hoarse from all the dust, but he pushed himself back up into a sitting position and searched in his pockets.
He found the fire materia and aimed a small bit of its energy in front of him. A rock caught on fire, but even as it did the fire was already going out. He needed some wood or something flammable. Barely even thinking he reached into his pack and pulled out the flowers he had gathered at the memorial. ~Sorry, Mom I guess I better stop at the memorial later and pick you up some different flowers, ~ he thought silently to himself. The flowers would only last so and so long.
Toren took the time to study his surroundings finding only the ever- enclosing walls crumbling even as the shaking stopped. His arm had lost all feeling and he worried that he might have dislocated it when he fell on top of it. The tunnels had gotten pretty quiet, but the light was disappearing fast as the flowers burned to ash one at a time. ~ Ha, Some backup plan, ~ he thought chuckling softly even though it hurt his throat.
Toren trusted his instinct on which direction to go and began walking again. Gripping his useless arm he walked forward following the light that still came from the burning flowers. He followed the twisting tunnel. After a while the light from the flowers no long reached and he was forced to walk blind again. In all his stupidity he had used all of the flowers in that one area just to get some light for a moment.
He thought he saw a light in the distance, but for all he knew it could have been a hallucination. He sighed in defeat when suddenly he realized that the light he saw in the distance was actually there. It wasn't a hallucination. He couldn't remember what first stirred him to run. He just realized one minute that he was running and the next he tripped just before reaching the light.
He tried pushing himself up from the ground, but he was exhausted. He knew that he had been walking for hours. Someone was there, he knew they were there standing just to the side watching him. Toren managed to lift his head enough to see the strangers face. Eyes the color of green he had never seen before that almost seemed to glow in the darkness and hair that shimmered a pale silver in the small light given off by a lamp that sat on a large rock to the side.
" This can't be." Toren heard himself saying just before everything went dark.
------I'm really sorry, I just have the worst habit of leaving people at cliffhangers, but hey at least I got the chapter up pretty fast. I didn't think this story would turn out so original. I was hoping to have more of the Final Fantasy VII characters out by now, but their taking their lovely little time getting into the story. I'll update as soon as I figure out what to write in the next chapter! Got any suggestion just leave them in the review for me, ok?
Final Fantasy VII: Resurrecting the Past Chapter 2: Revival
Sierra stared down at the gold metal plate still not believing the name scrawled on it. She looked on to the remains of the cylinder. If this truly did once hold the body of the long dead general of Shinra than they were in more trouble than they thought. " What should we do about this dude," asked Toren pointing to the cylinder holding Rufus Shinra. " Nothing, that's what," replied Raven sternly. " But we can't just leave him like this, can we," asked Carla.
A dark silence followed the statement. " We still need to find some materia. For now lets go ahead through that door. I think it will lead to the science labs. We can check and see if there is any materia," said Raven leading the way to a door hidden in the dim green glow. Raven pushed it open and walked in the others close behind. As soon as they entered a light turned on and the sound of an engine starting filled the air. " Grand," said Sharon from behind Sierra. " It could be worse," said Sierra commenting on the mess of the room that had once been the science lab. The science lab was a twisted wreckage of upturned chairs and tables, Sierra didn't want to think of all the things that seemed to be spilled on the floor, but she could already see the materia that glowed on the ground. Kneeling to pick up one of the materia orbs she showed it to Raven and the others. " We found our treasure," she said studying the orb. It was a green lightning materia. " That's not all," said Toren who had walked out a few more paces than them. He walked back holding a box filled to the top with many different types of materia.
" But why would they have left them down here," wondered Carla picking up one of the red summon materia on the top of the pile. It glowed in her hand giving the impression of fire. " You know, I was just thinking, why was this place abandoned and forgotten in the first place. Do you think there may be more to this place then we know," asked Carla looking up a serious expression on her face. " I don't know and I don't really care. We got what we came here for, so let's just get out of here," said Raven turning away to walk out.
" Yo! Raven how are we going to get this box out of here," asked Toren. " Carry it," called Raven over his shoulder as he walked out. Sierra shrugged before walking back out. " We haven't gotten all of the materia in this room. Some of it is still on the floor," said Carla reaching down to pick up another materia orb among the shattered glass of test tubes and measuring cups. " Leave it. In the future there may be others like us wandering into here and taking the materia. It wouldn't be worth it to take all the materia now anyways," said Toren before walking out carrying the box.
" Yeah, I guess your right," said Carla softly before dropping the materia back down onto the ground. She moved out along with the others and began walking. They only made it as far as the edge of the room they had found the cylinders in before the sound of growls and scratching stopped them. It sounded like it was coming from many different areas at once.
" There is more then one," whispered Sierra drawing her swords and looking around cautiously. Toren put down the materia in the middle of the group. " I guess they want us to stay. Although I appreciate the hospitality I would say we move for the exit as soon as we see an opening, " he said picking up a few materia, " let's see how these work." He held up one of the green materia concentrating on it. The nearest wolf like creatures that had been hidden before burst into flames.
" Damn show off," said Sierra before using her own fire materia to burn the other creatures that surrounded them. " There are too many of them," said Carla before trying her hand at the summon materia in her hand. " Ifrit," she called just as the fire demon appeared. It hung suspended in the air before going into an attack that left six more of the creatures dead.
The snarls and scratching noises grew worse even as more of the creatures were killed off. " How many of them are out there," whispered Sierra as she backed away along with the rest of the group. A sudden crashing noise behind them caused them all to turn and face the cylinders. Another one had shattered. Sierra couldn't hide the shock on her face as Rufus Shinra stood up from the ground. One of the wolf like creatures had managed to slam into the glass cylinder and shatter it. " Oh, Holy Meteor," whispered Carla.
The ground suddenly shook violently underneath the groups' feet. Cracks appeared in the cement floor and the walls crumbled. " Run," yelled Raven over the commotion, " Get out of here." Sierra didn't need to be told twice as she high tailed it out of there, the others right behind her. Toren ran right in front of her, but stopped so suddenly that Sierra almost slammed into him. " The materia," he cried before running back. The walls were already collapsing further back. All signs of Rufus Shinra once being there had disappeared. " Keep going," yelled Raven nodding as Toren passed.
The group ran through the collapsing underground passageway following the path they had taken when first entering. "You have got to be kidding me," said Carla as they reached the already completely collapsed hallway. " Raven, map might come in handy right about now," said Sierra looking up and down the hallways. The wolf like creatures from before had all mostly fled when the ground began to shake. " What about Toren we can't just leave him," yelled Sharon. " He has a backup plan that was created just for these cases, he will be fine," said Raven while digging out the map.
" If we take the hallway that was first guarded by those wolves, we should be able to reach an exit that ran to the south of Midgar, but there is a chance that it has already been sealed off. It was very near the Shinra building," said Raven trying to read the map even as the ground shook under his feet. "Is it the only way out of here," asked Sharon already headed in the direction of the hallway. Raven nodded an affirmative. Following the hallway was a difficult task as the lights that had once lit the hallway were flickering or completely destroyed. They navigated it more by touch as they stumbled along sometimes running into walls they didn't know were there.
It was a long walk/run that ran the length of the hallway and beyond as they found a room that opened up from the hallway. The ladder that lead up was still there, but the floor was still shaking and the door that lead to the outside was still closed, so they didn't know if they could get out. " So, who gets to be the lucky one to climb the ladder first," asked Sierra over her shoulder. " I'll go up," said Raven racing out in front of her and jumping onto the ladder as soon as he reached it. It held his weight as he climbed up banging on the door.
" The handle to the door is rusted in place," he said slamming into the door with his shoulder. Sierra pushed her way up the ladder standing next to Raven on the thin ladder and pulled out her sword, slamming it into the wood door. It went through. Sierra grinned at Raven as she used the sword as more of a saw and sliced through the door. She made an opening big enough for her to fit through and climbed up pulling herself out of the underground passageway.
Towards the west the sun was just about to set, but Sierra could still see her surroundings. They were just outside of the tower that had once accommodated the Shinra. The tower loomed darkly above the entrance to the underground. Shaking her head to snap herself out of her thoughts Sierra pulled open the door from above and pulled up Raven. Behind him the others were already climbing the ladder to reach the door. Carla slipped on the ladder; rocks falling into her face made her eyes tear and her vision impaired.
They all made it out fine, but getting out of Midgar was a different story. It was getting dark and as close as they were to the Shinra building it would take them a while to find the exit. " Should we wait for Toren," asked Sierra turning to face Raven who was idly pulling rocks and dust out of his hair. Carla was busy taking some water from her water bottle and Kleenex to clean out her eyes. " Ow, this hurts," she whined from where she stood. Sharon sat on the ground rubbing the sleeve of her shirt over her face to get the dirt off. Sierra guessed that she also looked pretty bad. Every now and then when she shook her head dust fell down into her face.
" We leave without him. If he does not show up at the memorial by late afternoon tomorrow than we will guess that he did not make it or he already went ahead of us back to Kalm," said Raven shaking his head to get more rocks and dust out of his hair. " So for now we should concentrate on getting out of here before it gets dark and the monsters wake up, eh," asked Sharon standing up from where she had sat.
Sierra looked out across the western plains, which looked like the easiest trek. It was a long walk that consisted of them having to climb most of the way going through one of the many sectors that had taken the least amount of damage. The group was silent even as the sun finally fell below the horizon and the walk became more difficult. Not much light made it into the sector because the plate was still there, but they kept walking moving along through the empty, silent sector.
" We need to figure out where we are in Midgar so that when we get out of here we can find the memorial again," said Raven finally breaking the silence that had been an ever-lasting mourning among the group. " It won't really matter will it? We can just circle around Midgar to find the memorial," said Carla her exhaustion showing in her voice and the way she seemed to drag her feet to keep moving. " I don't want to be out and about in the middle of the night trying to figure out where the memorial is. I want the quickest way there and I sure as hell don't feel like taking the long way around," said Raven shaking his head for emphasize causing more dust to fall into his face as he walked.
They walked through the sector finding as they exited, the doorway showed the number five. or what was left of the doorway that had once closed off the sector now presumed to be sector five. The group followed the edge of Midgar towards the memorial making it back easily enough with no strange occurrences. Sierra made good use of her knowledge of materia and started a fire in the small camp area they had used when they first came here. The group put together their supplies and came up with a small meal of bread and sausages that had been in their small carry packs.
" We weren't expecting to be out here for two days were we," asked Sierra as she stared at the orange flames eating the spare wood they had in the memorial. " It was supposed to only take half a day to get through the underground area," replied Raven from where he sat leaning against the wall. There was a short silence where in everyone looked towards the door. " So that's why you urged us to get moving after we found the materia," said Carla breaking the uncomfortable silence. " We needed to get out of there as soon as possible. A strong warrior could have sensed the dangerous air in that place," said Raven. Carla winced at the remark knowing full well that he meant that she was still a long way from being anything close to a warrior.
" At least I don't run away leaving my comrades behind," she hissed back before standing up and moving outside the building. Sierra and Sharon watched the exchange in silence not bothering to give their input. Sierra never cared much for bickering because she thought it was a childish thing to do. True she was worried about Toren's safety, but it was a warrior's code to die in battle. Toren could die, but Sierra would never allow herself to care too much about it. That was the reason for why she never had any relationships. She was used to death. It was a part of life in the world she lived in. When she had been young she had started her training as a ninja and had witnessed people sacrificing themselves. She had seen how easy it was for life to be taken away. It had been a long time since the last time she had cried for someone else's death. It was every person for themselves in this sad time, with the Shinra still trying to take over and monsters still infesting the world.
Sierra stood up and walked to the side of the room looking over the flowers that bloomed even in the darkness. She took one pulling it out of the ground. It was a simple white wild flower, but Sierra appreciated it for its simplicity. She walked out of the room with it, back towards the cliff facing Midgar and set it down near the edge walking back. Carla was outside watching her. " Is that your tribute to him if he doesn't return," asked Carla her voice dark and clipped. Sierra looked up facing Carla. The girl had long red hair that looked an auburn color in the darkness and bright emerald green eyes that sparkled with tears right than. " Don't cry for him," said Sierra walking on towards the entrance of the memorial. " Why not," asked Carla. Sierra turned back around, " he isn't dead yet." " What," asked Carla confused. " Call it a warriors instinct, but I know that he isn't dead yet," said Sierra, " the flower is to show him that we were here and have left." Carla stared after Sierra's retreating back. " How."
Meanwhile-
Toren cursed softly choking on dust as the walls still fell around him. It seemed that even after the initial shaking had stopped it would still start again every now and then. One of the plates above the underground tunnel had seemingly fallen causing the new shift of weight to bury them. Toren had discarded the cardboard box filled with materia long ago. It was too much to carry it through the dark caved in tunnels that had stretched off from the science lab. Toren had seen the tunnels when he had went to get the materia. They had looked more sturdy then the hallways so he had told Raven to run ahead of him.
It was true they were sturdier, but Toren still had trouble walking through them as the ceiling kept falling in places. He had put as much of the materia as he could in his pockets and the small pack he carried, but some of it he had left in the box. Another part of the ceiling fell down right on top of him. He fell to the ground his left arm going completely numb. " Damn it I can't see a thing," he managed to choke out. His voice was hoarse from all the dust, but he pushed himself back up into a sitting position and searched in his pockets.
He found the fire materia and aimed a small bit of its energy in front of him. A rock caught on fire, but even as it did the fire was already going out. He needed some wood or something flammable. Barely even thinking he reached into his pack and pulled out the flowers he had gathered at the memorial. ~Sorry, Mom I guess I better stop at the memorial later and pick you up some different flowers, ~ he thought silently to himself. The flowers would only last so and so long.
Toren took the time to study his surroundings finding only the ever- enclosing walls crumbling even as the shaking stopped. His arm had lost all feeling and he worried that he might have dislocated it when he fell on top of it. The tunnels had gotten pretty quiet, but the light was disappearing fast as the flowers burned to ash one at a time. ~ Ha, Some backup plan, ~ he thought chuckling softly even though it hurt his throat.
Toren trusted his instinct on which direction to go and began walking again. Gripping his useless arm he walked forward following the light that still came from the burning flowers. He followed the twisting tunnel. After a while the light from the flowers no long reached and he was forced to walk blind again. In all his stupidity he had used all of the flowers in that one area just to get some light for a moment.
He thought he saw a light in the distance, but for all he knew it could have been a hallucination. He sighed in defeat when suddenly he realized that the light he saw in the distance was actually there. It wasn't a hallucination. He couldn't remember what first stirred him to run. He just realized one minute that he was running and the next he tripped just before reaching the light.
He tried pushing himself up from the ground, but he was exhausted. He knew that he had been walking for hours. Someone was there, he knew they were there standing just to the side watching him. Toren managed to lift his head enough to see the strangers face. Eyes the color of green he had never seen before that almost seemed to glow in the darkness and hair that shimmered a pale silver in the small light given off by a lamp that sat on a large rock to the side.
" This can't be." Toren heard himself saying just before everything went dark.
------I'm really sorry, I just have the worst habit of leaving people at cliffhangers, but hey at least I got the chapter up pretty fast. I didn't think this story would turn out so original. I was hoping to have more of the Final Fantasy VII characters out by now, but their taking their lovely little time getting into the story. I'll update as soon as I figure out what to write in the next chapter! Got any suggestion just leave them in the review for me, ok?