Prolog
A/N: Humm…well this was long in the making. Well, really what happened was my computer was restored back to day one and the original prolog/first chapter was completely lost; though I had backed it up on a disk but apparently not. Well, this is, if you didn't know, this is the sequel to 'In a Different Time and Space,' and the part of the story where it becomes AU from the game though some of the events that will happen will resemble what happened in the game. If I happen to find, if it's really saved to disk, the real chapter on it'll be out ASAP.
(Note before reading: This is a prolog and the rest of the story will NOT be written like this. Thank you, and now for the story.)
Prolog:
It seems so long ago now…since that day…since that day I let her leave not knowing the truth. I knew then I should have told her then, then before she left me…but I hadn't the heart. Knowing what I knew awaited her on her fateful trip, what had always been fated to happen on this road she's treaded upon since the very day she uttered her first cry. That day of her birth, a day that should have been joyous occasion…turned bad at the truth of it all…the murder of her mother…and my heartbreak of having to abandon her for the sake of staying alive myself. Fate has not been kind to her, or those who love and cared for her.
My beautiful daughter…my only daughter…my only child born to this hateful planet- I wonder now if she can ever forgive me. The very thing that has claimed her…I failed to destroy all those centuries ago…that vile creature that destroyed and entire civilization of my friends. My friends, who today the humans have come to call 'Ancients,' or even better known as 'Cetra', they came to call that vicious creature 'Crisis form the Sky'…though in truth I think there was more behind those simple few words than any one human could ever know, but I know…that creature was in truth a crisis, a crisis my friends gave there lives to stop so that their families and the young human race could have a chance to survive.
The 'Crisis from the Sky'…I can't help but think it could have been my fault, and thus my fault for my daughter's fate. You must understand something, I…I had seen that creature before, once before I even came to this planet. It was no different than what it is here, though at the time it had found a being of the planet it was plaguing that it could mate with…I destroyed that being and at the time I though that creature as well…then years later I found myself facing off with it again in an effort to protect my Cetra friends.
As how it happened on the first planet I met that creature…it set forth a plague that nearly wiped out my friends…and for that I am terribly sorry…I was never my goal to cause so much pain and suffering as befell my friends. To try and repent, I helped a few of the strong remaining of the race to destroy the creature and to protect the planet once and for all for the likes of it…but in the end we were all to weak to carry out our goals.
My friends…they paid the ultimate sacrifice to ensure the planets safety. To their dieing breaths, they used every last ounce of magic within them to seal away that beast of a creature while I held it at bay with my own powers. There were so few of them left after the crisis had passed…the only thing I could do for them was to offer my protection to them…to protect them form all that would do them harm…to protect them from another crisis that was called human.
I took those who were left to a secluded area away from the humans, helped to build them a new city that could be concealed for the cover of a forest…and even that in the end did not prove to be enough, some humans are relentless in their searches and found there way into the hidden city. I, in the end, enchanted the forest protecting the city…in a way putting it to sleep. It would allow my friends though and a select few who were given a gift item that would too, allow them through.
Even with all my efforts to preserve the Cetra race…they continued to die off slowly until it came down to the last five. It was then that they decided it was time to leave and to mingle with the humans in hopes of surviving. I lost track of them then as they went their own ways…I stayed with a young orphan who I had raised because his father was one of my best friends and was killed by plague as well as his mother.
Tay, as he was called, was outgoing and never once tried to hide the fact that he was not human…that proved to be his downfall. A human organization that had gained some power of a vast amount of people, to them known as Shinra Inc., they hunted Tay down and gave no second though to killing him. Then, they did not respect what he was, it was years later that they became interested in the Ancient race and sought out to find one.
Not all that long ago, not in my long life…I suppose it would have been about twenty years ago now…I myself was captured by the Shinra when I was weakened state. The only good that came of my capture was finding the one human I could love, the mother of my, now, lost daughter. But not all is yet lost. In her wake she has left behind something remarkable. This that she has left behind is the one thing I did not tell her about when she last left me.
I can only hope that she'll be strong…wherever it is she is at now. Shinra…they have taken my friends, my love…and now my daughter. This…this is the basis of there ever building downfall…my daughter is inevitably be the final cause of that downfall…if only she can find the strength to continue to push forward and to fight that in which has fated her…to change that fate and not allow it to run her over-as I seen would happen on the day of her birth, that day same day my love was lost to me…and ultimately the day I abandoned my child.
…I just hope—when the time comes, she can forgive me for my mistakes…and most of all I hope she can find a way to save her own love so that he and she can have back this in which they left behind unknowingly…this grandchild they do not yet know still lives…this tiny child that they both thought was lost the day that seems to be just yesterday…but in truth was some time ago now…
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A/N: And there you have it, first person view is not really my thing but I hope you all liked it. Less I find the already made 1st chapter this will probably not be updated for about 2 weeks. Tell me what you think and any ideas or suggestions are welcome.