THE MARK OF AN ESPER

Rating: PG
Genre: Adventure
Setting: A mix of FF89 landscaping, and FF10
Main Characters: Zidane

Note from the Authoress: This is loosely based on FF6, but set all over all the games. It's my new FF fic

Part 1

Zidane was waiting impatiently. He had been summoned to Regent Cid urgently. Now he was hanging around outside the Regents meeting room wondering what the fuss was about. As far as he knew nothing had happened around Lindblum, and there was no other reason he could think of why the Regent had summoned him. A guard opened the meeting room door.

"You can enter now" he said, in a gruff voice. Zidane walked through the doors. Regent Cid was pacing up and down the meeting room. Zidane saw Baku standing in the corner, looking incredibly serious, and various others were standing around the room, some worried, and some angry. All were serious. The Regent stopped pacing and turned around.

"Ah Zidane! Glad you could make it!" Zidane approach Regent Cid slowly

"Yeah, no problem. Er…what's going on?"

"I'm glad you asked. We have just been sent this letter." the Regent handed Zidane a letter, he opened it slowly and read the writing
It has come to our attention that someone in Lindblum holds something
very precious to us. We know you are hiding her. Hand her over to us
immediately and nobody in Lindblum will be harmed. She has a strange
mark on her right arm, at the top. If you do not hand her over your
city will be in grave danger!

Zidane scanned through the letter several times.

"So, uh, how do I fit into all of this?" Regent Cid gave a wan smile. Baku, clearly impatient now stood up

"To put it simply we have no idea who this girl is. We want you to find her and bring her to us!"

Zidane stared at Baku in surprise.

"So your gonna hand her over to the loser who wrote this letter!" One of the other members in the room gave Zidane a cool, calculating glance.

"That all depends on who the girl is. It is not up to you to judge our actions. Just find the girl and bring her here!" Cid glanced at the speaker. Zidane had noted that she had long dark hair, and it was possible that she had small horns on her head. She also sported wings, and had long fingernails. For some reason she reminded him of the black Waltz he had battled ages ago. Cid spoke up

"Now, now, Diamond, there's no need to be like that" he glanced apologetically at Zidane "Please can you find this girl for us?"
Zidane considered this for a moment.

"I'll see what I can do." he said, glaring at Diamond.

"Thank you my boy! Remember, she has an unusual mark on her upper right arm!"

Zidane nodded slightly, eyes still on Diamond, before backing slowly out of the room

END OF PART 1