It was a summer morning in the city of Midgar.
Everyone was now awaking to the sound of birds and the blinding sunrise gleaming through their windows. The year was 2012 and it's been a while since anything remotely abnormal happened around these parts.
" Argh, morning already?" said a disgruntled Cloud sprawled on the bed. His room was a mess, papers everywhere, curtains had fallen down and a photograph of his chocobo lay smashed on the ground.
" Probably should go see Barret, I still owe him a beer, or two."
Suddenly a loud ear shattering screech came from the window behind.
" CLOUD! WAKE UP! WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD!"
He walked to the window and yanked the window open to view a very excited Yuffie with a handful of glowing materia.
" What? Is someone in trouble? Has Sephiroth returned? Has anything important happened...at all?"
Yuffie backed away slightly.
" Why do you do this every single morning Yuffie! I need my sleep too you know! "
Yuffie grinned.
" Uhm, just get ready and come to the door okay? "
Cloud sighed and slammed the window shut, making his way out of his room.
Meanwhile outside, Yuffie was examining her precious materia.
"And I'm going to call you 'Fred' and OH! You can be 'Tony' "
" I prefer the name Vincent personally " said Vincent doing his daily patrol of the city.
"Yeah...yeah well you would! You big poo head." Yuffie stuck out her tounge and continued naming her materia.
" You know, I was wondering Yuffie, you collect all this materia, but you never seem to use any of it. "
" I'm waiting, just nothing has come about recently, isn't that right Fred?
Yuffie looked at her materia, somewhat worryingly waiting for some sort of response in her favour.
"...Well Fred's sleeping but he'd back me up here. "
At this moment Cloud slammed his front door open and put his polished shades on and brustled his hair.
" Morning Cloud, make sure the materia don't give you any backchat." Vincent said as he begun walking off down the path.
Cloud looked confused but decided not to question.
"Cloud! Do you know what time it is?"
Cloud looked towards his watch and sighed.
" Well I had a hard night last night, and I'm certainly going to suffer for it now right? "
Yuffie smiled and dragged Cloud down the path.
" Wait 'til you see what I found! "