Min and Jenna sat beside each other on the train. Jenna was looking out the window for a place no one would find them. Min on the other hand, was distracted. Genesis, the red haired young man, had nearly read her name. Min and Jenna were the exact same age, eighteen-years-old. Five years earlier they had found out the truth, before they had been shoved into cryogenic sleep. Jenna was fuzzy on the details of the incident, only that the rumors said someone had died. Frankly she thought it was bull. Hojo probably pinned one of his crimes of them. Jenna could read people like no one had ever seen, and both she and Min's essences were still clear. They had murdered no one.
Jenna blinked for a moment. The train car was empty. And she could hear nothing. Outside the train....no one was there.
"Min." She whispered. Min blinked and nodded as they reached the train stop in the middle of no where.
"We get off. I'll sense around." She said, rising and running to the door. Jenna ran after her quickly, thinking about when they discovered the origin of their powers.
They had been thirteen. Min had wanted to go desperately to see the play Loveless with Jenna. The critics were abuzz about it. And everyone who came in and out of Shin-Ra HQ, where Jenna and Min shared a dorm for most of their lives. For some reason they couldn't figure out, Hollander was nervous about letting them go. They'd been begging him to let them go when Hojo stepped out of the lab.
"Because of who you two are...and where your DNA came from."
"Our...DNA?" Min whispered as Jenna paled, hearing his thoughts.
"N-no! We're not! We're us! We're not just clones to follow other paths!"
"Clones?" Min cried out, turning to the scientists.
"Your DNA came from two beings we found hidden...sealed away. Goddesses maybe. You have no parents. You're just duplicates."
"N-no!" Jenna cried out, falling to her knees and holding her head. Min had stared at her arm, at the words.
"So this name...isn't mine. And her name isn't...."
"N-no!"
That had been when Min decided they wouldn't take the names on their arms. So she declared while they were in the infirmary, before they'd been put in a cryogenic slumber, she was Min for now on. And her friend would be Jenna in the future. Just because they were replicated off other DNA didn't mean they were bound to keep those identities. They'd write their own stories.
Min stood on the train stop, her eyes shut as she sensed the surroundings. it was...silent. Something had happened recently...she had to see what.
She was seeing things oddly backwards, but then she'd see scenes. It had been an air strike, wiping out all of the structures. The only life to speak of that had died was orchards of Apple Trees. The apples one some trees had blossomed while others hadn't. They were all bluish purple though. Banora. That was the name of the village. A bit further...a Dragon! She knew that Dragon! It was hurt!
Bahamut! No!
"Min!"
Jenna's cry snapped her back as Min's eyes jerked open. She'd fallen to her hands and knees.
"Min? What did you see?" Jenna whispered. She'd knelt next to her friend in fear. Min sighed lightly.
"It's safe. No ones there anymore...." Min stood up slowly, walking towards the ruins.
"Is there shelter?"
"A cave system with a lake. Still some trees by the entrances. Food and water. Hope you like apples."