Donum Deae - Zack's awakening

Setting himself down at the Gryffindor table, Angeal glanced around absently. As per normal their small group had congregated down at the end of the Gryffindor table, a spot normally reserved for the new 1st years. With the group slowly awakening, they had taken over this section as it allowed them to sit with two members that were not normally welcome at the table. A Turk and the Ex-President of ShinRa, both of which were adorn by the black and green robes of the Slytherin house. A house that boasted cunning and sneakiness above all other traits.. currently housing two of the most cunning and sneaky people had had ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Grabbing a near by plate, he barely paid attention to what was on it, simply dishing himself some of the food and moved on to the next. Ever since his own awakening, the mako had surged in his blood helping to build back the bulk that he had been previously known for. The increase in mako also raised his metabolism which meant he was eating like a horse once more. It felt like his days as a brand new 3rd class. He had done the exact same thing after his very first mako injection. Genesis had made fun of him for weeks; at least until he too had gotten his injections and had gone from the picky eater he was very well known for being, to a absolute glutton.

Three to go, that was all that remained of their group that needed to regain their memories. President Shinra, Sephiroth and his puppy. Glowing blue eyes slid over to where said puppy was currently yapping his twins ear off. The irony of who his reincarnated twin was was not lost on him. The Turks trouble maker and his puppy often gotten into trouble a lot during their days at ShinRa. Most of that had been a certain red haired Turks fault, but Zackary was no more innocent in a lot of those 'adventures.'

Setting his fork down he looked at the food he had managed to pile onto his plate. What was he going to say to Zack when he finally did wake up? Nothing he could say could make up for what he had forced upon the young man. What he had done had been the ultimate in dishonorable actions.. forcing the young man to take his life because he was unable to pull that trigger himself.

Picking his fork back up, the sound of another fork hitting a plate had him jumping just slightly and glancing over. Fred was sitting stalk still, hand still raised despite the fact his fork now lay on his abandoned plate. Glowing blue eyes were staring off into nothing.

Could this be it?! Everyone had an episode like this, they either suffered through pain like he had or they simply stared blankly off into the distance. It was a lot to take in, all of them had at least twenty three years worth of memories that came flooding back all at once. The hardest to suffer through were their final moments in this world.

The scraping of a chair being pushed back had him shaking himself out of his dark thoughts. A blur of black and red barely registering with his scattered mind. He reacted on instinct, reaching out to stop what ever the blur was from slamming into him. Yeah.. that worked about as well as trying to stop a freight train with just your bare hands.

Zack slammed into Angeal with enough force to send them both careening to the ground and skidding a good several feet.

"ANGEAL! Angeal, Angeal, Angeal!" Shaking his head slightly, Angeal smiled sadly and wrapped his arms around the young boy, feeling the silent shaking of his shoulders. "Yes it's me.."

Closing his eyes, Angeal for once didn't care that they were in the middle of the great hall and that every eye was now on them. He had his puppy back and that was all that mattered to him at this very moment.

AN - I know really short, but I wanted to give you all something to show I am still alive. People were asking me for Zack's awakening.. so I decided to tell it from Angeal's point of view in a sense. Alright, so as you know chapters are increasingly slow but I am working on the next one right now. I just have to fit it in between taking care of my now one month old twin mini Turks.

Thank you all for hanging on and sticking around for this story. Right now we're working on making this into a web comic so keep an eye on the author profile for updates on that and the next chapter I hope to have up soon.. one word on what you can expect.. QUIDDITCH!

So please review..I know it's a sucky chapter but hey.. I tried lol.