((Chapter Three is up and running! Please stay tuned as this is just a short teaser chapter, as I am writing the interesting chapter where Beth meets Sephiroth for the first time, AND the other chapter where she meets Vincent... (side note, am I keeping the characters in character so far? I want it to be as close to the game as possible!) Please Review and let me know how I am doing...))

KukaruiValentine: Has anyone else seen the preview to the Movie FF7: Advent Children? I saw a teaser of the characters and I have to say that VINCENT IS IN THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!

Vincent: Aren't I cute?

KukaruiValentine: Yes you are... now... (Sorry, I just had to say that...)

Chapter Three: Kalm's story and Chocobo charmings

The group of Cloud, Tifa, Aeris, Barret, Nanaki and Beth had just bought a room for the night. Cloud had told the group his story of life and the group remained quiet for a few moments before Nanaki looked at the dark shadowy figure of Beth sitting in the corner of the room and said something quietly, "Beth... could you tell us of your life?" The lion animal walked over towards Beth and sat on his haunches by her side.

"If you wish..." Beth said quietly, straighten up and smoothing her dress with her metal clawed hand. "Where should I begin?"

"The beginning is a very good place to start..." Aeris said.

"I was raised in Mideel, but my mother and father weren't my birth parents. My birth parents are Lucrecia and Dr. Hojo."

Gasps escaped from around the room. "So...Sephiroth..." Cloud sputtered out.

"Is my twin brother." Beth nodded softly, "I was suppose to be dead, my father wanted me destroyed shortly after my birth, but I was rescued by a man and taken far away from Midgar, and far away from my brother and Mako and everything else that has changed our lives."

"So... how do you know this?" Tifa asked.

"When I was almost twenty, I went to join the Turks of Midgar, I had always admired Tseng, and he was one of the best Turks ever. I joined the Turks and then I looked up possible parents. Right before I had left for Midgar, my mother had passed away, but before she died, she told me that I was discovered on her doorstep one night, and that my real parents were not known. She begged me to find them, and with her dying breathes she told me to live life to the fullest, and never forget the mother who raised her. I told her that she would always be my mother, no matter who gave birth to me. She died there holding my hand."

"Shortly after we buried my mother in the cemetery at Mideel, I traveled towards Midgar. I joined the Turks with Reno and Rude and Tseng. I was the youngest female Turk in at least fourteen years. In my off time I searched for any records of a lost or missing infant child. I found one, Dr. And Lucrecia Hojo had twins, one was the legendary General of SOLIDER, Sephiroth... the female was 'destoryed' after birth, but when I saw a picture of Sephiroth from the file, I knew I had found my true family."

"I met with Sephiroth shortly after I had started dating Reno of the Turks, and it wasn't a perfect meeting. At this time, I wore my hair long and my clothes dark, just as I do now and I looked almost exactly like Sephiroth. We even have sister swords, he has his Masamune, and I have my Independencia... almost exact. The same person had forged our two swords out of the purest titanium and metals in the hottest hellflames at the same time. My sword is two feet longer than Sephiroths, but by the looks of it, he has been using his for what the maker had never intended."

"Two years after I became a Turk, Dr. Hojo found me, and he used me as a guinea pig for his experiments. He killed me and brought me back... gave me a gauntlet and....... Panthera." she seemed touchy on this part of the subject, she grew quiet, as if to say that was all she was going to talk about.

"Wow..." Cloud said.

"Yes, I am still looking for the man who rescued me..."

"Do you know who that is?" Barret asked.

"I have a name, but other than that... I have nothing..."

"What's the name?" Aeris said.

"Vincent Valentine."

Early the next morning, the group went towards the Midgar Swamps, making a pit stop by the Chocobo Stables.

Cloud and the two boys went inside as Beth, Tifa and Aeris stood outside by the chocobos in the yard.

"I wonder what they are saying..." Aeris said.

Beth started to make a soft cooing purr and the chocobo returned the noise.

"What is she doing?" Cloud came walking up towards the group.

"She's talking to that Chocobo!" Tifa said, shocked.

"He is going to take the group across the swamp." Beth said.

The group were on the backs of two chocobos as they raced along, trying to avoid the Zoloms. The girls were on one chocobo, the men were on another.

"WATCH OUT!" Cloud called to the girls.

The girls were on the chocobo running towards a rock, and Beth turned the chocobo too late, it fell over and dumped the girls right into the swamp. The Zolom attacked immediately. Tifa screamed, Aeris cried for help, but Beth snarled, pulling out her sword. With a leap and a slash, the snake was impaled on a nearby tree, not to far away from another impaled snake.

"This snake was killed by Sephiroth..." Cloud said quietly, looking at Beth. Then Cloud looked over at the snake that Beth had just killed. "And..."

"Creepy!" Said Nanaki looking at both snakes.

"He is, after all, my twin..." Beth said, sheathing her sword. "Although right now, I am not too proud of that..."

"Let's get moving... he is far ahead of us!" Tifa said.

((So far, it's not too different than during the game, but coming soon there will be a twist that SquareEnix should have thought of!

Stay tuned for the next chapter...))