Notes and Disclaimers:
I began writing this before Advent Children was
announced and due to laziness, I decided to abandon
the project. I make no claims to say this is what Advent Children
will be like, because this has NOTHING to do with
Advent Children.
Chapter one: Twenty-Two Years Later….
"Bye, Mom, Dad, I'll see you in a week!" A teenage
Girl called to her parents.
Her parents—a tall man with spiky blond hair and mako exposed blue eyes turned around and waved at his daughter. "Be a good, Yumeo." Her mother, a woman with short blond hair and chocolate brown eyes walked up to her and gave her a quick motherly hug.
"I have all the emergency PHS numbers on the 'fridge,
make sure you be careful when using the stove, and absolutely NO parties."
"Elena," Cloud chuckled, "Yumeo is able to handle herself." He said as he patted his daughter's head that was covered with slightly spiky blonde hair, "besides, we've been gone before."
True, Elena and Cloud have visited their villa in Costa del Sol during the summertime, but they usually took their daughter along with them. This time, it was Cloud and Elena's fifteenth anniversary of being married. Yumeo insisted that they go on a vacation and she was old enough to take care of herself. "Mom, I'll be alright," Yumeo insisted. "There's no one in this boring place to party with, anyway." She said, then gave her mother a hug before adding, "I just want you to enjoy yourselves once in a while."
Yumeo was referring to her hometown of Kalm. After the war with Sephiroth, Cloud moved to the peaceful town of Kalm to relax, get a job, and live a normal life. While the Neo Midgar was being built, Elena decided to visit family. Cloud and Elena saw each other at the bar. They had a short fling, Elena got pregnant, and they got married. Elena quit the Turks after her got married, but stayed in the military.
"I'm just worried about ya, kiddo." Elena said with a
playful smile. "This place sometimes doesn't live up
to it's name, you know."
"Elena," Cloud said getting impatient, "We may want to think
about actually leaving."
"I'm coming, I'm coming," Elena said matching Cloud's voice. "Bye, Yumeo."
"Bye, Mom, bye, Dad!" Yumeo called again from the doorway. She rolled her eyes as her dad put an arm around her mother and loudly announcing, "Let's mosey!" She smirked slightly when their parents left in the buggy. She closed the doorand locked it. Her eyes shined mischievously as she unfolded her hand to reveal a key to the attic; a room she was "forbidden" to go in. She stole it out of her mother's pocket when she hugged her. On her way up the stairs she tossed the key in the air and caught it with the opposite hand she threw it with.
"Oh shit, Amon! Watch out!" A woman with brown hair held in a loose pony tail and hazel eyes yelled as she pushes her comrade out of the way of a falling wall of the cave.
"Why the sam hell did Reeve send us to investigate?" Amon complained as she got up off the ground,
Marlene shrugged her shoulders, "because Violet wants all the female SOLDIERS dead? But wait...didn't Reeve order Violet to send SOLDIER here?"
"That's probably it," Amon agreed, "sending the female division of SOLDIER to investigate the North Crater while the men get the sissy mission. He wants us all dead."
"Damn sexist mayor," Marlene grumbled with a tone of good nature. "Shall we try to find the rest of the division?"
Amon looked over the circular cliff to revel an almost bottomless pit, "How 'bout not.."
"It's just the Lifestream Marlene said as she took a look
down the cliff and lost her nerve as well.. "..How about this, I'll throw a rock down there, and if we hear it land, we go down, and if not, we sit here and pretend to do something?"
"Works for me," Amon said as she picked up a rock
from the rumble where the wall crashed as she handed to Marlene, who tossed it down the pit.
When a small crack was heard when the rock landed, Marlene looked slightly taken aback. "That doesn't sound like rock hitting rock to me."
"You probably just knocked out a monster, that's all," Amon said with a shrug.
Marlene looked at the crater some more before she finally concluded. "I could have it someone in SOLDIER, who knows how far they could've gotten by now."
"Does that mean that we better get our asses in gear before they send a search party up to see who the wise guy was?" Amon asked.
Marlene nodded and started down the rocks, trying to keep her balance along the way.
"If we get chewed out by that bitch Turk, you're taking the blame, Gainsborough."
Hosia swore slightly under her breath as she climbed by the rigid cliffs that were the North Crater. A few minutes ago, a rock hit one of the members of SOLDIER in the head, causing her to lose consciousness, but
hopefully it wouldn't cause major brain damage. She informed one of the First-Class SOLDIERs that she was going to check it out since Marlene Gainsborough, and Amon Adon disappeared a little over an hour ago. Hosia knew too well that those two were the clowns and made any division look like fools just having them there. It wasn't so much Marlene as it was Amon---she was a bad influence on her friend, that was for certain. Marlene had the potential to make it to First-Class, but due to her constant goofing around, a promotion was not in her future.
Hosia hated looking for the misfits, but it was her
job and Hosia Gast always did her job, no matter how
much she hated it.
"I thought you two would turn up somewhere," Hosia
said with annoyance clearly in her voice as the two SOLDIERs jumped down to the ledge she was currently standing on. Marlene glares at her, she couldn't stand the Turks and defiantly not this particular Turk. What was so goof about her, anyway?
Hosia was young, and she was already very well known. Newspaper said she may be the Next 'General Sephiroth.' In many people's eyes, she looked just like him, tall, beautiful, petite, but well built. Her eyes were just the same has his: turquoise orbs that mocked everyone around her. The only difference was her hair, which was light brown and not silver.
"We're..ugh...incredibly sorry, ma--Ma'am," Amon stuttered, forgetting about her earlier words. "But you see, there was this avalanche and we got--stuck..."
"It's true," Marlene cut in, "we tried calling for help on our radios, but they were...dead."
Hosia struggled not to laugh at such a corny story, "telling tales such as that may be the reason you two aren't moving up in rankings," she said before motioning for the two to head down.
"What a bitch," Marlene muttered under her breath as
she followed the Turk.