Divine Being

I'm tired of waiting...

I want to go home...

What's stopping you?

I don't know... The fear of not being accepted? My father never was big on breaking the rules...

So just try...

I... I can't. If I just go back like this, he'll never accept me. I'm not the ninja girl that defeated the Five Mighty Gods... I'm not the sixteen-year-old from AVALANCHE. I'm not going to be able to go back... Ever. I don't even know how to get out of this never-ending darkness! I'm so tired...

So, so tired...

Go to sleep, child... Your duties have been fulfilled. You will awaken when the time comes.

Thank you...

Prologue

Blue eyes opened slowly to find herself in an ice coffin. Obviously, she was not happy with that. A mere thought made the ice shatter, leaving her to gasp for air like some low-life mortal. Oh, how she hated awakening upon Planet. She was always reminded of the need to breathe, of the temperature problem... As a matter of fact, she had destroyed numerous human vessels by forgetting about the temperature problem. This one, though, she had kept for nearly fifty years. She'd forgotten that she had allowed herself rest within the crater she had created centuries before.

Sighing, she picked herself up, stretching stiff joints and muscles. Pain was so far beneath her...

Looking around, she realized that the Life Stream was trying to break through. "Oh, dammit," she cursed somewhat childishly. "Sephiroth has lost! Damn him! And I laid gil down on his sorry ass!"

Growling to herself, the woman walked toward the chamber where the general and the mercenary had fought only a few minutes before. He lay there bleeding and she allowed a small smile to pass over her face. She could still win that bet... And let this man believe himself to be a god.

Oh, how she loved being a divine being.

"Darling Sephiroth... Poor fool. Allow guidance from a friend... From your new partner."

Slowly, the man's eerie green eyes fluttered open to see the silhouette of a woman standing over him. He closed his eyes again and felt his body sit up without his approval. He frowned. Who could possess such power to make him do something against his will? Surely this woman was a goddess?

"We shall fly upon swift wings to gentle fields of flowing greens," she said softly in his ear. "Allow yourself to come with me."

He nodded, this time of his own free will. If only he could possess that power! He felt the ground beneath him vanish, then all went black.

End Prologue

R: The prologue was short, but the REAL chapters will be longer, I promise. It's not going to be a normal fic. I've got something in mind for this one.

Surka: Please review! She gets agitated if people don't review!

Dracon: Hey... Is that woman... OH! I know who you're basing her off of, now!

R: I'm using one of my muses as the woman who "saved" Sephiroth. More characters will be in this story... Like all of AVALANCHE and the person at the beginning of this'n... (Yuffie, if you're daft). Please review.