Chapter 2: 10 Years Ago
Thousands of people all cheered at once. Their cries could be heard for miles. And all this cheering was for a game taking place. A game that had two teams of six players. Each had their own great offensive and defensive players. In fact these two teams were highly known among the people that reside in this rather large city. These teams are known as the Luca Goers and the Besaid Aurocks. They were both teams of the under water sport that could only be named, Blitz Ball.
The score was tide; with each teams having twelve points. The clock was ticking away and the ball was free. One of the Besaid Aurocks grabbed the loose ball and swam his fastest. He had no time to spare and was talked hard to a stop as the team captain of the Luca Goers tried to steal the ball, but it was useless. He looked around, there was no one that was open. Ahead, the other teams goalie was staring him down, antagonize him to throw it where he was. It seemed to work, cause he winded up hard and threw the ball fast just as the teams captain talked him hard causing him to fall asleep. The goalie smirked and caught it with one hand.
The buzzer sounded and that was the end of the game. The both teams left to their own locker rooms. "Interesting game that was. Was worth the gil to see it. Well man, let's go. I'm sure your wife is wondering about your whereabouts." "I know, but wait a moment. It just can't be over. There really not going to end this at a tie? It was just getting interesting."
The crowds cheering began to die down, most of them began to get up out of their seats to leave. "Oh man, it is over. That sucks." "Irvine, get a grip. Your acting like a child." "Oh shut up Cloud. What do you know?" Cloud chuckled for a second. "I know I spent then thousand gil just for these seats. And for what? A god damn tie. Might have been fun to watch but..." "Ladies and gentlemen. Please remain seated for a special surprise. Both team captains have agreed on a 'Death Break Match'. This will be the second time that a DBM has ever been used. For the new faces here that don't know what a DBM is, please wait and I shall return and explain the rules."
Cloud and Irvine looked up at the speakers with confusion. "Death..." Cloud managed to get out before trailing off and Irvine finishing. "Break Match. Is that some kind of tie beaker?" Cloud looked over at him. "That's sure some name for a tie breaker." "That is really going to be interesting." Irvine smirked, now once again fully excited that the money his friend paid is going to really pay off now.
The people were starting to scream and cheer again. Looking around, there were not a single person in the crowd that had a look of confusions. It seemed that everyone knew exactly what DBM was. "Seems everyone knows exactly what is going on." Irvine nodded slightly. "Yeah, it seems so." It wasn't long after when the announcer began to speak again. "Alright everyone. I am back from personally talking to the captains of both teams. And they agreed to the measures and risk involved in this Death Break Match. It will start in ten minutes as the area is being changed. During that time I shall explain the rules for all that are new comers. Both teams will enter the arena and assume their normal positions. A time of two minutes and thirty seconds will appear in stead of the normal five minutes. Then both teams will be playing normally except for the other following changes. Throughout the arena are four black orbs. Inside any of them consist of either something good or something bad. People could be cured, or given every single states ailment. The ball too has changed, and now weighs five pounds, and is red. This makes it hard to throw and if missed will sink to the bottom of the arena. Also, this ball can be healed by one player for fifteen seconds. After that, if the player does not pass it it will explode, and KO the opponent. After passed, that player may never hold it again, as it will too explode."
"Holy shit man, those are pretty drastic measures for a tie breaker. I mean, the ball exploding, and KOing the player? I don't know about you, but I would not want to be KOed under the water." "Hell yeah Cloud. I'm sure it is pretty rough." "Of course its rough man. Don't you remember twenty years ago what happened on that boat, not to mention under the water when we were in Cids great invention? We were attacked by a Leviathan and nearly all of us were KOed if it were not for Xu." "Oh yeah," Irvine nodded slightly. "I remember that day. Boy its been so long since those days. I tell ya, sure glad that that is all over and done with." "Its not really far from over Irvine. Look what he did to the planet. He fucking split it to suet his needs, we didn't get to him time." "Well I am sure that we can live with this change, I mean sometimes change can be for the good." "Well for that, I hope you are sure."
"And because of that, he was killed when the ball went off and he lost his control over holding his breath. That is why we never have used the Death Breaker ever since. But, they both want to give you all a really great show. So without further a-dew, welcome back to the arena, The Luca Goers and the Besaid Aurocks." The music suddenly stopped. In its place drums were heard, creating a loud yet delicate beat. Then the music began. It was soft and something new, something never heard before in the arena. Everyone reacted to it the same, sheer loud screaming. Cheering till their hearts content.
Both the teams now walked out and into the arena. They stopped at the rim and Cloud noticed a tall young man wearing a yellow jacket and blue jeans, one side longer then the other, and he was talking to the caption. They seemed to have smiled on their faced. This made Cloud sit at the edge of his seat and he paid extra attention to that team, specially that one member. Both teams jumped into the water and swam to their designated locations. The clock was set and the new Blitz Ball shot out into the water, but as gravity took over it began to fall back down and the Aurocks just let the Goers take the ball. Meanwhile while they swam around to form their formation, but there was something that threw the Aurocks off their game. The Goers one team members just had to swim to close to the one of the black orbs and in doing so it exploded in a green mist and they were granted power ups to all their stats. That's when the fun began to really start.
The Goers stopped and the caption passed the ball to the player next to him. It was a girl, and as she held the ball the Aurocks were coming after them. Except with their power up they were now faster then before and they formed a special never before seen formation that made the team captain of the Aurocks upset and angry. The girl then stopped now reaching her point of the formation and threw the ball with the extra power that was given to her and it flew fast toward another member of her team. It was going like that over and over. The ball was caught and it was never healed long enough for one of the Aurocks to tackle and intercept the ball. It flew fast to each of the Goers until it came back to the caption. Though everyone knew he was the first to hold the ball, so it would explode, but he did not catch the ball, instead he turned and preformed a Sphere Shot. The force behind the kick was enough to break ones leg and that was what happened. After hitting the ball, bubbles escaped from the captions mouth and he swam to the surface taking in new air as he cringed in pain.
Meanwhile the ball flew hard and fast towards the Aurocks goal. It was spinning wildly but with luck the goalie caught the ball, but at a coast. The blow was so extreme that it sent him flying back into his goal. The force was just as great and caused the air from his lungs to explode out his mouth. He was suffocating, but continued to hold his mouth shut as he tried swimming to the surface. The ball was free now, and the Aurocks had the ball. Oddly enough they did the same formation as the Goers but what threw everyone off was that not even having the power up, their ball was flying much faster and harder then the Goers had it going. With sheer determination the yellow haired man punched the ball with his fist that made it rocket towards the goal, but it never was aimed at the goal, but the corner of it. It bounced back and the crowd was silent. It was the Jecht Shot he was performing. The young man began to spin around but there was a change in his formation. He spun the opposite way and he performed a back flip. The Sphere Shot. It connected hard and once again flew to the goalie, but the Goers goalie did not want to get the air knocked out of him and hence moved away as the ball hit the goal so hard it exploded and caused the barrier to shut down around that area long enough to le tout much water.
"My holy god ladies and gentlemen. The winner of this match is the Besaid Aurocks. With that sunning performance by Tidus. What ever that move was, it caused the victory for his team. Please, ladies and gentlemen. Stick around and we will have a interview with both teams." The crowd was going wild. The music could not even be heard form all the showing. "Come on man, lets get out of here while we can." "Your right.. Lets go." Cloud and Irvine got out of their seats and began walking out of the arena. No one else tho was leave, so it was very easy to walk through.
Cloud and Irvine manage to make it out the arena, some fifteen minutes later and walked out the lobby doors. "Well at least the seats were good. I'm glad we came here and saw this. Such a new experience. I guess what Sephiroth did was not so bad after all." "Listen to yourself. Did you just thank Sephiroth for what had done? My god your should have just thanked the man in person twenty years ago." Irvine looked over at him with glaring eyes. "First off I didn't thank him, and even if I wanted to back then. It was impossible. Lifestream swallowed him up. Could you just imagine what twenty years in Lifestream would do to someone. I mean didn't you spend a few hours and in it got Mako poisoning?" "Such memories I do not want to remember man. Lets just get the hell out of here and meet up with our wives alright?" "Fine."
"What the hell was up with that back there? That was our play, how the hell did you know it?" The captain of the Luca Goers smirked and pushed the man aside. "You bastard. I will not let you get away with this." "Hey, mister long haired freak. Don't talk to me or my team that way. Our plans are fully original." Yeah, originally stolen. That's it, forget this shit man." The captain of the Besaid Aurocks ran forward and talked the captain of the Goers.
"Wakka," Tidus said walked up to the two on the ground. "Knock it off you two. This will not gain you guys anything but a few black eyes and a bad reputation if seen. So stop, get up and act your age for crying out loud." The both stood up and brushed off. "Hey, you guys alright? We heard the commotion and saw you guys fighting." The both teams looked over at a tall man with bright yellow hair. "Excuse me?" Asked Tidus. "Um, Irvine and I saw you guys fighting and thought maybe we could do something to help." "No, that's alright. Everything is alright. Thanks though." "Yeah, thanks for whatever. But listen we're getting the hell out of here. So you guys believe whatever you want to believe." The Luca Goers walked off.
"Hey we watched your game, it was extremely great." "Yeah, thanks. Listen we really have to be going you see. There is going to be a party held for our victory, so if you guys don't mind. It was really great meeting your acquaintance." Cloud gave a small smile. "Yeah, sure thing. Besides my friend here and I have to be going as well. Before our wives get worried." The Aurocks continued on their way as did Cloud and Irvine, walking on over to the movie place where their wives had said they would meet them.
The movie arena was just as big as the Blitz Ball arena, and twice as many people. Inside there is a movie screen, but that has not been used in years. Most if not all movies in this place are of memories. Memories that are recorded onto little devices called movie spheres. For a price of four thousand gil, a single memory can be recorded and kept. Irvine knows these all to well, as Tifa has gotten a few of them several months after their honey moon and one every year of their Childs birthday. Though, recently they have not bought any in a long while, fifteen years to be exact. I guess for the one fact that Irvine would never get one for himself. He believes there is no control over the memories that gets recorded and he has had a rough life that should not be viewed like a movie. Tifa on the other hand had spent years trying and trying, but all was for not. He would always refuse saying, his memories are not to be ever dug up, even recorded for all to see.
"So you going to get one of those memory spheres this time?" Irvine looked over at Cloud and snorted slightly as he looked ahead and stopped outside the front doors of the Movie Arena and saw Tifa and Xu standing amongst the crowd. "No." He simply said opening the doors and walking in and up to his wife. Irvine shouted as he neared them both. "Hey, Tif, Xu!" Tifa and Xu walked up to Cloud and Irvine, meeting them half way in the center of the movie arena.
"Hey you two. Was the game alright?" "It was more then alright baby. It was breath taking. Simply the best game I have ever seen in my life." "Yeah, well that's good for you. I on the other hand just do not understand that game all to well. People holding their breath under water while playing a full contact sport. Makes no sense to me." "Yeah, so what did you two do during the game?"
"Oh, well Xu and I did a little shopping..." Irvine raised his eyebrow slightly. "What's wrong?" "Oh.. well... don't umm be mad if you happen to get a high credit bill in the mail next moth." "What," Irvine let out a sigh of frustration. "What did you buy and how much?" "Well, it was three hundred and fifty gil, and I can't tell you what it is. It's sort of private. But I'll show you when we get home." Irvine shook his head and turned to Cloud. He was talking to Xu, apparently she too had bough something, but not as pricey as whatever Tifa bought. The crowd was growing larger in the movie arena. Everyone much be buying movie spheres of the game.
"Hey, we have spent a bit too much time around here, more then what we had originally planed. This new world is rather interesting, but could we please be going?" "My my Irvine. You always seem to be in such a rush nowadays. Let loose and live a little." "One day. Right now I'm rather fond of just kicking back and doing nothing but relax. The way things should always be, no more fighting, unless its to fend off those damn fucking monsters." "Heh, you agree. What the hell was Reeve thinking? The world was hell with them, and hell once again with them back.."
Irvine, Cloud, Xu and Tifa all walked out the movie arena. It was growing much more crowded every minute that passed by. So they walked through the rest of city of Luca and neared the exit. It led them to a forest like terrene with a simple path that leads to the shore. No where else to go when you are on a island.
Up ahead they saw the formation of an airship. It was the one that they rode up on. Of course piloted by the one and only Cid Highwind. Who has been still working with his airships, but recently was thinking of retiring after having to help the president make a fleet of ships that have powers of the earths weapons fitted into each ship.
They arrive to the ship fully open. The cargo bay has been left open since they arrived but Cid had said that he was going to be around yet. They clearly saw that he was no where to be seen. "Where's Cid? Didn't he say that he was going to stick around?" "Yeah, that's what he said Tif. Maybe he's taking a leak." Cloud laughed slightly and leaned against the ship waiting. "He'll have to come back sooner or later."
And so they waited. The minutes were slowly passing by and Xu was starting to get a little worried. "That's a long leak." Said Tifa. "Tell me about it. You think we should look for him?" Suddenly there was a loud scream from the other side of the ship, and when everyone got around they saw Cid leaning up against the ship breathing heavily. "Every.. everyone.. We've got... to get out of here...." "Wha? What's wrong Cid?" It's... he's back...So.. powerful. I tried to.. hold him.. off...." "Sephiroth?!" Cloud stepped away from Cid and towards the patch of woods. "It can't be. Why the hell can't he stay dead?"
"Muahahaha, hahaha!" Tifa screamed suddenly from the sudden laughter. "No, it can't be Sephiroth, it's impossible. "No Tifa, not impossible, just improvable." There was no doubt about it. Some how he was able to survive. "Sephiroth..." Spoke Xu, trailing off. It was quiet then all of a sudden. They hared his voice, but it was distorted, and they could not pinpoint the location. "What are we going to do? Why now? I really don't want to fight anymore. I thought we fought for all that time to never have to fight anymore? Its just not fair. Why?" Tifa was beginning to panic, and Xu was just trying to understand this odd situation. Cloud and Irvine looked ready to fight, but confused where Sephiroth will pop out of. There are many places for him to hide, and sneak up on everyone.
Out of nowhere Cid began to laugh out loud. It startled Tifa, but after watching Cid cracking up she just became confused. "I'm sorry, did I just miss something?" "He's not here is he?" Cid smirked and laughed even more. "Why you son of a ... damn you. You know that you are a real bastard Cid?" "And do you know you are a gullible bitch?" "Well, I. well guess you got me there. But still That is not the kind of jokes to playing around. Spicily after what has happened to us."
Cid removed a remote from his pocket and pushed a button on it. The inside door of the opened cargo bay opened up. It led right to the bridge in which would also lead to other quarters. "I swear, if you only had seen the face on all of you. Shit man. I swear I should have took the extra time to hook up a camera. But never knew when you were going to come back." It was quit, no one was talking to or answering Cid. "What's wrong with you all? The old silent treatment thing?" No one of course answered him. "Oh I see how it is. After twenty years and getting married. Having fun alone in your houses you all seemed to have lost your sense of humor." He gave a little shrug walking to the controls. "Fine, whatever." He brought the engines to life and shortly took off back to their home in the Old World. Their home.
Five Years Later Present
The worlds merge was completed. Twenty years ago with a new power Sephiroth managed to open a rip in time. During that time new cities were formed and people on the other side of the world. He did this because he wanted everyone to remember him as a great being, God for better words. Except he still did not fully understand his new powers and messed up. And so a new world was forced onto the other side. The world of Earth, the Old World, and the world of Spira, the New World. Though more then just that happened during those twenty years. Could you believe that the hoers of the planet had gotten married and now have kids of their own. Even Reeve has gotten a child.
He has also gotten the most power on the planet for finding a secret complex on a little island to the north east of where the original Midgar used to reside. There now stands his pride and joy, Neo-Midgar. Completely stripped of reactors, this complete makes its power from the water under and around the island.
And so, after twenty years of good peace, president Reeve has gotten his mind twisted from power. Just as President Shinra, and as his son, Rufus. No matter what kind of person you are, no matter how good they seem to be. When they taste new power they can't help but want more.
A new chapter has been written in the book of life for this planet, but ink is running out. How much longer will it take for this planet die out from all the abuse it has been put through? What is the true fate of the world and it's inhabitants?