Denzel pulled another piece of dried rabbit out of his pack. He slowly ate the meat savoring every bite as though it were his last. "It actually could be," thought Denzel to himself. He looked at the lifeless plains. The Midgar Plains looked dismal. Nothing grew here, not since the fall of the floating city, or so it was called. He didn't even grow up here. No, he was raised in Cosmo Canyon. Red XIII was his best friend until he left to guard some ancient sanctuary. He never heard from him again. Denzel shed a tear at the thought of Red. He was so tired of running but he couldn't go back to his home, because Cloud would never forgive him for leaving. "He probably wouldn't even let me back in the house," thought Denzel.
He walked through the rubble of what used to be sector 7 of Midgar. His parents, his real parents were buried somewhere under here. He kept walking until he got to the bar. Cloud had told him stories when he was a kid about how Tifa ran a bar for Avalanche, a group committed to bringing down Shin-Ra. He told Denzel that they were not the ones responsible for the attack, that Shin-Ra was actually the one responsible. "Yeah right," thought Denzel, "I bet he orchestrated the whole thing." That's why he left Cosmo Canyon, to get away from his parents murderer. He walked into the bar, which was his current place of residence, and proceeded to pull the lever beside the arcade game. The elevator took him down to a secret room where he kept all of his belongings, which wasn't much. He sat down on the couch and fell asleep, or tried to, but he couldn't so he lay there thinking about all of the places he could still get to in Midgar. There was the Church he used to go to before the collapse, the bar, Shin-Ra headquarters, the wall market, and the gates of Midgar. He could come and go as he pleased with the Sector 6 Gate Key and no one really bothered him here he thought to himself. "This is the life isn't it?" Denzel sat up. Who was that talking? "Who are you," he asked with anticipation in his voice, "and what do you want from me?" The stranger just sat silently a sly smile across the stranger's face, "I found you." Denzel looked on in wonder.
