Summary: Filia and Felis, two girls from our world, find themselves somehow drawn into the world of FFVII when they are involved in a freak car accident. One ends up with Avalanche, the other at Shinra HQ. So separated, will they be able to ever reunite with one another?
Okay, Peoples...
I came up with this wonky, extremely stupid and highly unlikely fanfic idea whilst me big sister played Final Fantasy 7. I'm not very good at playing video games, but I do enjoy watching others play.
Anywho, I just started thinking what it would be like if certain things were different and what I would do if I were there and created these two characters in my head to make it all happen. I would talk to my nee-chan about the funny things that would happen, but I always felt it was too stupid to write, since I don't really like Mary Sues. But nee-chan says it sounds good enough to write and post.
So, here go all my weird ideas.
Warning: it's an AU and a major Mary Sue. (--;;...That rhymed. Ick.) Oh yeah, there is no romantic interaction between the Original characters—my nee-chan and I—and the video game people. I promise. Well, bye all. Hope you like it.
Oh yeah, FF7 doesn't belong to me. Yeah.
Fantasy
Chapter One: Good-bye, Earth...
"Help..."
Who's there?
"Help...us..."
What? What do you mean?
"Help us, please..."
Help you? Who are you?
"HELP!"
Filia Haww snapped awake with a gasp.
The alarm on the dresser was blaring and was soon killed when the figure on the bunk below hers hit the snooze button. However, the other girl fell back against her pillow, wrapped her blanket tighter around herself and rolled over to fall back asleep.
Knowing her younger sister was supposed to be getting up soon, Filia sat up and looked over the edge of her bed to see the alarm clock. She instantly groaned and leaned her head against the mattress when she read 4:32 AM. How could her sister be insane enough to set an alarm that early in the morning?
Of course, the younger girl usually got up with the alarm the second or third run through, and that was why she set it so early. Even so...
"Oi, Felis..."
The younger sister moaned.
"Aneki, time to get up."
"In a sec..."
Filia sighed, also wanting to continue sleeping, but knew there was no way, since she was already wide awake. Hopping down to the floor, shivering without her blanket and going numb on contact with the tiles, Filia picked up the alarm clock, pushed the current time forward and held it next to her sister's ear. After a minute, the alarm went off and her younger sister, Felis Haww, sat up on her elbows with a start.
Upon realizing what her older sister had done, Felis Haww groaned and fell back down on her pillow. "That's mean, nee-chan...!"
"Then you shouldn't set the alarm to go off so early!"
Both girls looked almost exactly alike; dark brown hair, chocolate brown eyes and lightly tanned skin. But the two had their differences. Filia preferred her hair short and so it went down to just above her shoulders, she was somewhat thin and exceptionally tall for a girl; she was not as fully-figured as her younger sister, and although most mistook her for a boy, she tried to ignore it. Felis was average height, therefore smaller than most other girls were, and she had long hair usually kept back in a ponytail; although she was a very femininely built young woman, she did her best to hide that, preferring actually to be thought of as a boy or, better yet, ignored.
"It's not like you ever wake up with it..." Felis stretched and rubbed the back of her head. "I'm cold..." She grumbled.
"It's winter, hun," the older girl replied as she set the clock back on the dresser and headed for the bathroom. "I'm taking a shower."
"How can you take showers in the morning?" Filia asked as she started to pull of her night clothes and replace them with the outfit she had set out the previous night. "It's nuts, you hear me? NUTS."
Filia shrugged as she closed the bathroom door. "I can't understand how you can take a shower at night," she said, removing her own nightshirt. "It's creepy and dark."
"Not if you remember to keep the lights on!" Felis said through the door and then left to make herself breakfast.
Filia sighed and wrapped a towel about herself and turned on the water, waiting until it was warm enough and then hopping into the shower. The older sister shivered slightly in the hot water, but adjusted and sighed as she washed her hair. As she rinsed the shampoo out, Filia's hand passed over the scar leading up her back to just below her shoulder; stopping, the young woman touched the scar gently. Felis had a mirror-image of this mark on her own back, but she was proud to bear such a 'battle scar.'
Filia was different. Like some rare things, she felt differently about their partner scars. Neither of them could remember how they had been hurt to receive such wounds, but their mother never talked about it other than a slight mention to an accident. Filia tried not to dwell on it very much, but sometimes she couldn't help it and was very sad about it.
Felis and their younger brother, Van, had made an obviously fake tale of how they got their scars in a heroic battle against a dark emperor wanting to eat them all up when they were younger; this cheered Filia up, letting them go on with their ordinary little lives.
Why am I so worried about it now? She wondered as she turned off the water and stepped out of the shower. What brought up the blank memory after so long? Filia didn't know, but decided to ignore it and got dressed.
Her outfit of choice consisted of a pair of dark blue jeans and a white button-up blouse. Looking herself over in the mirror, Filia found this outfit made her looked more like a boy than usual, but settled with it with a sigh.
By the time she got out of the shower, Felis and Van had already left for school. It wasn't a problem—Filia was used to eating breakfast alone. After an hour or so, her mother woke up and rushed Filia to work before heading out to her own job.
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Should I ever leave thy side...
Then take my beating heart away.
Should I ever forget thy face...
Then damn me to a torture unspeakable.
Mother...
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Felis snapped awake as the release bell rang and sat up feeling very heavy and tired. She had fallen asleep while reading a word packet for her Vietnam history class again, but as usual, her teacher hadn't noticed, despite his desk being right behind her.
Yawning, she stretched and put her stuff away before heading out to meet her brother so they could walk home.
Van came out of his computer class and waved as they met at the end of the sidewalk. "Hey, Felis! Guess what happened in fourth hour?"
"What?" The older girl smiled softly up at her taller, younger brother.
"Some idiot switched the J and K keys on most of the keyboards and so the class spent half the time trying to fix it!" Van grumbled. "I bet it was Al and those other punks! They're always messing stuff up!"
Just then, their mother pulled up and they hopped inside the car.
"How was school?"
"It was okay," Felis replied. "Nothin' special."
"Same here," Van said. "Hey, Mom? Don't forget that you said I could go to Chris' house after school today."
Mrs. Haww hit the steering wheel. "Dagnabit! That's right!" She said running her fingers through her dark brown hair. "I'm going to drop you off at Wal-Mart, can you make it to your friend's house from there?"
"Sure!"
Felis, not wanting to be left alone at home, decided to pipe up. "Could I go to Wal-Mart, too?" She asked. "I can meet up with Filia and walk home when she gets off at three."
"It's alright with me," Mrs. Haww smiled and took a right turn.
Making it to the new Wal-Mart Super Center, the two siblings hopped out of the car, waving to their mother as she headed back to work.
"Well, later!" Van grinned as he headed off to his friend's house.
Felis sighed and walked towards the main entrance, stopping and looking up at the cloudy sky when she heard the rumble of thunder. She loved rain and hoped that it would come down hard with a smile.
The reply to her wish was a loud clap of thunder and rain pouring down in a light sprinkle before it started down harder.
Filia smiled to the woman as she took her bags and left her cashier stand. She then sighed and rubbed her sore neck; she had been working for hours and was more than ready to check out.
"Nee-chan!"
She looked up to see Felis coming down the aisle with two boxes of Star Crunch and Oatmeal Cream Pies with a bright smile.
"Yo, Aneki," Filia smiled. "What're you doing here?"
"I don't have any homework today, and Van went to a friend's place," the younger girl replied. "So I decided to go shopping and catch up with you."
"Well, you're just in the nick of time, I was about to check out."
After buying her junk food and after checking out, the two girls went to the McDonalds at the corner of the store and got lunch.
"How's school?"
Felis shrugged. "It's okay, I guess. Oh, yeah!" She started rummaging through her backpack. "I printed off the most recent chapters of BOUND and WHY ME today. I also found some new FF7 doujinshi, but I was only able to print off a few pages before the lunch bell rang."
"Cool!" Filia stuffed a frenchfry into her mouth to take the papers her younger sister held out. "Any good Zack pictures?"
"No, but there were some cool Rufus shots!"
The two paged through the pictures, but both suddenly stopped when they heard a voice screaming. "HELP US!"
A second voice quickly followed the first. One that sent waves of pain and fear to the marrow of their bones.
"DIE!"
Filia held her head while Felis leaned over on the table holding her stomach. There was a bright flash of blue lightning, but no thunder followed. The two girls looked up in time to see a huge something—a car? It all happened so fast they weren't sure what it was—break through the wall, bricks crumbling and plaster shaking free from the ceiling like chalky snow, and shatter the massive window in a spectacular array of dancing shards and light. They realized, too, late, that it was headed straight for them.
They both instinctively tensed for the impact, both knowing with those same instincts that they would never survive a collision at such close range. Felis clenched her eyes tightly shut, uttering silent prayer that it would be quick, that it wouldn't hurt too much, that her mother wouldn't cry... Her entreaty trailed off, however, when she realized that she hadn't been hit. Opening her dark eyes, she watched in awe as everything around them faded away and they found themselves drifting in darkness. Filia, in the last instant before their world faded, launched herself at her younger sister and wrapped both arms around her shoulders. Felis did the same, burying her face in her sister's chest and digging her fingers into the taller girl's back.
They clutched each other for dear life, but something painfully hot—like a sheet of molten metal, slammed first into the taller girl's back, then her sister's. Filia threw back her head and screamed, tears forming the corners of her tightly-shut eyes, and her grip on Felis slackened as she, too, shrieked in pain. The two found themselves pulled apart and they could do nothing but watch in heartbroken horror as the other faded away.
Filia hit something hard and fell to the ground in a daze of pain. She struggled to reorient herself and was vaguely able to take note of more heat—though this was nowhere near the level of whatever had struck her—and roar of an intense fire burning all around her. The ground suddenly creaked and snapped, leaning downward; Filia found herself staring down into a thick cloud of smog miles below. Fear gripped her and she grabbed hold of the railing attached to the platform she sat on, but the rusted metal crumbled in her grasp and she was sent falling.
She couldn't understand what was happening. Was she having a nightmare? It had to be a nightmare. But...
Filia began to black out, but an unfamiliar voice shouted something very near her ears. What was it? She couldn't even tell if it was a male voice or not, and was barely able to register someone's arms wrap around her and hold her in a warm, secure embrace as they fell. Clinging to consciousness a little longer, Filia opened her eyes and caught the sight of blonde hair before everything faded away.
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Not very long, not much happening in this chapter, but I promise, it will speed up and get a little more involved. This is my first FF7 fanfic, and my third involvement in a Mary Sue, so try and bear with me.
Please?