Chapter 1: Beginning

6:00 PM, pull up a seat in the bar. Zack a member from soilder sat down woozily on his stool in a bar out to the west of Midgar. His head down on the table and his feet wobbling at the bottem of the stool. A shot of ale shaking in his right hand.Zach slowly rose his head up, his hand rubbing the top of his forehead as he grunted.

(Z): "Uhhhhh..."

He looked in his empty cup and slided it away, it was pretty dark in the bar...thick clouds of cigarrete smoke making there way through the area. Big men all around him with cigars barely lodged in there mouthes. Zack looked up onto the T.V. screen right above the bartender washing some glasses. Zack watched, his eyes still barely open. The show in black and white...it was one of SHINRA's new commercials for there mechanics, the screen then suddenly flickered, as did the lights in the whole bar, and then they went out.

(Bar-Tender): "Shit, not again"

Zack sighed again overhearing the men yelling to his sides, he pulled out some coins from his pocket and placed them down on the table next to his ale. He stood up from his stool and walked out from the door, one of the men sitting in the bar got up and pushed Zack back.

(Man): Hey you, SOLDIER. Fix our energy, you know your stuff about your damn Shinra.

Zack slowly got up, he wanted to beat the man in the face, but he kept his fists at his side, he didn't want to start a fight in the bar. He was probobly too lazy. Zack stepped outside of the bar door, disregarding the statement. Outside the rain poored down hard, mist covered the area, few people stood on there porches looking outside because of the no power in there homes. Zack sighed as he walked across the rocky road in the rain, in front of him was a black motercycle, on the back in white writing SHINRA. Zack sat himself down on it, he searched his pockets for a pair of keys and placed them in a hole next to the steering. He twisted the keys once, the motorcycle making little noise and then shutting down.

(Z): Shit, come on not today.

Zack hit the keys against the steering wheel, the rain now pooring down hard his wet hair down going into his eyes. He the placed the keys back in the whole now frustrated, he twisted it and the motorcycle started up the headlights now lighted up.The rain shining in front of him, the fog still thick. Zack rode his motercycle slowly up the rocky road, after a five minutes ride Zack got off his bike. In front of him shrouded by fog was a large Juno tower, these towers built by SHINRA operated to form energy through the lifestream. Zack had learned about the operations of these things. Zack walked around the tower, his clothes now soaking wet. He appeared to be searching around for something. Zack stopped in the back of the tower, he approached it and stepped on a metal bar, he put his ear down on the tower and listened, he then banged it.

(Z): "What the hell is wrong with it...?"

Zack got up higher on the tower tip-toeing on the metal bar, he pulled out a long chain of keys and looked around for a hatch, the rain pouring down across the tower onto his hands. Zack opened the hatch and searched for a key in his long chain of key's, found one and put it in. He twisted and opened a door on the left side of the tower, Zack hopped down from the metal bar and headed to the left, he swayed his hand across the tower as he walked and approached an open small door with a warning side on it.

Zack put his hands on the opening and moved his body into it. When he got in he was standing on a long metal platform, he heard the rain clanging down on the metal outside. He walked down the platform cautiously, moving to the left on to a platform on top of a set of pipes. Zack kept on walking untill he felt heat, he looked forword to see a door with smoke moving through the sides. He approached the door quickly and opened it, inside he could see large flames burning, this was the reactor's main core. In the fire Zack narrowed his eyes to see a black figure, it looked like the figure of a girls.

(Z): "What...the..."

Before he could finsih speaking a giant exlosion sparked down below, sending bursting flames upwords towards Zack, to which the point he blacked out. White engulfed the whole area, flames shooting from the explosion. The reactor had exploded. Zack now floating in the white all around him his eyes closed and his hair swaying on the back of his head. This is where the story begins. Zack's Story.

In the air not far from Midgar a helicopter flew, its wings making loud noise in the still foggy day, inside the helicopter a man with short silver hair sat down, his hair moving all over the place from the wind, he wore a SOLDIER's costume and a celll phone in his hand, he was yelling into it.

(?): "I told you already! We are heading there now, no signal from Zack!"

(From the Cellphone): Make sure that lifestream doesn't get exposed Sephiroth, i'm counting on you. These reactors aren't stable at all. An explosion of this magnitude could mean horrible things.

(S): "Shut up! You don't care about anybody do you, you just care about your Lifestream."

Sephiroth hung up the cellphone and stood up walking towards the left opening on the helicopter, his hands on the sides of the walls givng him balance, he looked down onto the ruins of the reactor and the city.

(S): "...Shit..."

500 feet down in the rubble Zach was lieing down slowly gaining consiousness. Blood flowing down his forehead and his eyes opening up, his cellphone to his side cracked. Zack opened his eyes and grunted from the pain, getting his body up was too hard. He moved his hand up to his forehead rubbing it and pulling it back in front of his face, it was stained with blood.

(Z): Damnit...

Pebbles fell down onto the floor from his sides and gasses of smoke in front of him. He tilted his head to the side facing his cellphone on the floor helplessly, the sound of an approaching Helicopter rang in his ears. A black helicopter marked with SHINRA slowly landed a couple of meters to the side of Zack. His hair swaying hard from the wind blown from the Copter. The young Sephiroth hopped down from the helicopter and ran towards Zack, he looked down and laughed.

(S): "Haha! Look at you, your a mess."

Zack let out a faint smile and looked back a Sephiroth. A group of Shinra soilders ran out from the helicopter rushing towards Zack, one of them with spikey blonde hair and familiar eyes, Zack stared hard into the eyes of the boy and then looked back at Sephiroth as his eyes slowly blacked out.

To be continued in Chapter 2