Chapter 5: Excuses, Excuses
The CETRA, an ancient group of gifted people, they spoke of a land filled with the lifestream, the spoke of a land bound to all like them, they spoke of a land which others seek. On the eastern side of the world lied the frozed, deserted glacier lands. One did not wander there, but this was the location of one of the last living CETRA one that SHINRA had there eyes on from the start. In a small inn called the Icicle lodge was Professor Gast, the head of the research department in Shinra, he stood up reading his newspaper, others around him talking on there cell phones and smoking. Gast put down his newspaper and walked towards the innkeeper.
(Gast): "Excuse me sir, but have you seen a lady named Ilfana around here? "
(Inn-keeper): "Maybe I have. What for?"
(Gast): "Please, it's very important that I speak with her."
A person then interrupted them both, a lady in her 20's walked down the inn stairs standing near the inn-keeper.
(?): "Excuse me...is there a problem?"
(Inn-keeper): "Ilfana, no! I mean...er..."
(Gast): "Ilfana...could it be...the last living ancient..."
Gast looked closely at Ilfana, he then grabbed her arm running upstairs. He spoke quietly.
(Gast): "Ilfana, quickly. I know your one of the last ancients, we have to get away now! There are people here, from SHINRA who wish to use you as an experiment. A test subject! We have to get out of here now!"
(Ilfana): "But...why would you help me...aren't you one of them also..."
(Gast): "I've made mistakes in the past, horrible ones...I wont let it happen again!"
Gast grabbed Ilfana and ran downstairs slowly walking out the door. a man stood up at the door and stopped the two.
(Man): "Hold on Gast, where do you think your going?"
(Gast): Damnit! How could SHINRA be here already "Get out of my way!"
Two other men came up behind Ilfana and Gast and handcuffed them, one of the SOLDIER men on his cellphone.
(SOLDIER): "Yeah, Hojo. We have them both what should we do?"
(From Cellphone): "So...Gast decided to turn on us after all...how sad. Get rid of them both. I have no use for them, we have found another ancient, a girl much younger and lives here in Midgar. We have no use for them both."
The man on the cellphone nodded and flipped his cellphone off, signaling his men to pull out there guns. The bullets then fired out, Gast and Ilfana falling to the floor. The people in the bar screaming and yelling. Gast fell down holding his hand out to Ilfana as they were about to die.
(Gast): "...Ilfana...no..."
The two fell onto the floor, the SHINRA soldiers walking out of the door. It was truly a sad scene, the end of the ancients.
Back in Midgar, stood Barret on a bridge between buildings screaming into his celphone.
(B): "Cloud you have to help me out here! There going to get me!"
(From Cellphone.): "...sorry...Barret...im with SOLDIER now..."
The cellphone signal faded as Barret closed his phone.Two SOLDIER men busted through a door on the other side of the bridge, they held there guns out, Barret with no where to run. It was the end for him when they carried him out with hand-cuffs, he couldn't imagine what to expect next. Hojo walked out from the inn down the city streets, talking into his phone.
(H): "Yes that's right, Professor Gast is dead. That now grants me to the Head of the Research Department, things are falling right into plan.
(From Cellphone): Hojo, you filthy little snake. Haha! You make SHINRA proud, but what of the last ancient. How can you get her?"
(H)L "Do not worry Mr.President...I'm taking care of that right now. With Aerith we won't make the same mistakes we did with JENOVA. The promised land will be ours!"
(From Cellphone): "Im counting on you,"
The cellphone signal then faded away, Hojo closed his phone walking further down the Midgar street with a sinister smile on his face. On the road down to Midgar were the three SOLDIER's Cloud, Sephiroth and Zack sitting in the back of the truck. Cloud just recently hanging up his phone.
(Z): "Hey, who was that?"
(C): "...Oh...nobody..."
To be continued in Chapter 6