12.29.06 Data File: Dawn of Beginnings
Data File 0.6: Chapter 6
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In the grassy fields where Suna and Sora always play-fought... Cloud was faced with an adversary. His opponent was an army of MPs. They looked so familiar... They were actual human beings dressed in mechanical blue gear, head-to-toe armor, and they carried huge machine guns. They wore helmets, visors, and lots of armor. Cloud gasped at the tiny army of guerrillas, and growled...
"Dad, who are they!?" Suna called out at him.
"Suna, stay back!" Cloud warned. "They're MP soldiers from Shin --"
"Huh?!" Suna said when Cloud resisted to finish his own sentence.
"Somethin' that happened a long time ago." Cloud made that excuse, and focused his attention on the MPs.
"Surrender and we'll spare your lives." a MP soldier threatened.
"Why're you here!?" Cloud screamed. He prepared his sword... Wait -- a sword!? Suna glared, examining and observing the strange sight he was seeing... the peacemaker he knew as a father... was wielding a SWORD? It had a metal blade, and was bandaged with wrappings/dressings as if had broken several times. This meant that his father had fought a lot more than just twenty, thirty, or fifty times. Suna stared... "This isn't what it looks like!" Cloud said.
"We're here to take the boys to the Turks!" the MP soldier said. "ShinRa is rising again!"
"Again!?" Cloud and Suna asked.
"What do you mean again?" Suna asked. "What the hell's ShinRa?"
"Suna, shut up!" Cloud ordered. Suna looked at Cloud for a moment, sighed, and backed out of the battlefield. "This's somethin' I have'ta deal with!"
"Cloud!" Tifa screamed. "You're not supposed to be battling in front of the twins!"
"There's no time to lose, Tifa." Cloud said. "Help me out!"
"Help you out?" Sora asked.
"Sora, don't you get it?" Suna said with an amused and astonished look on his face. "Mom and Dad were warriors!" Sora gaped when Suna said this.
Cloud prepared his sword, and Tifa snapped on her gloves. They nodded at each other, and Tifa motioned for the boys to come in with their wooden swords. Tifa guarded them like it was her life, but explained some details to them. "Twins, listen up." Tifa told them, and immediately they did eye contact with her. "Every warrior has weapons, right? Well, we can name our weapons, and some of them have a default name."
"Yeah, we know." Suna said, but apparently Sora had just learned something totally new.
"See your father's sword?" Tifa asked. "That's called the Buster Sword. He received it after his friend died."
"The girl?" Suna asked.
"No, it was a male friend." Tifa said.
"Ah..." Sora said.
"Not all weapons have to be offensive like a sword." Tifa explained. "My weapons are my fists. I wear gloves to protect my fragile hands from serious wounds. I took martial arts as a teenager, y'know."
"Wow, Mom!" The twins said simultaneously.
"The gloves I'm wearin' are Leather Gloves." Tifa said. "I've worn them all my life."
"Cool!" Sora said.
"Sweet!" Suna said.
"Our weapons are twin wooden swords." Tifa said. "That's what we'll call them."
"Okay." They said.
"When you attack, hit points are taken off of your enemy..." Tifa said as Cloud prepared to do a single-blow attack. "Watch your father."
They watched as Cloud attacked simply, and the MP soldier seemed to be greatly injured by it. "He just removed eighteen hit-points, because the Buster Sword is strong enough to do that."
"It looks heavy." Sora frowned.
"That's cool!" Suna cheered.
"Okay, boys." Tifa said. "Watch me." Tifa ran and attacked with both fists. When she leaped back, she said, "I remove thirteen hit-points."
"Why don't you do as much as Dad?" Sora asked.
"Because my fists aren't as strong or heavy as your father's sword." Tifa said. She glared at the MP soldiers. "These MP soldiers can be a little dangerous..." She looked at Suna and quickly demanded, "Suna! Copy your father's attack! Go!"
Suna froze for a moment, but found his body reacting with his mind left behind, an out-of-body experience, probably. He ran and attacked, but it only took off three hit-points.
"That's alright!" Tifa said when he came running back. "It's our faults for not training you properly."
"What do I do?" Sora asked.
"Repeat after your brother." Tifa said, and she watched Sora. Although, he took off two hit-points. Tifa sighed and gave the same praise and self-blame strategy for him.
"Tifa, use the armor!" Cloud suddenly said.
"Armor?" Sora asked.
"We have armor!?" Suna asked.
"Yes!" Tifa said. "We have the Bronze Bangle." She revealed it to them, and it looked like a bracelet. She clipped it onto Sora's right wrist, he was curious of what she was doing, until she looked up to get eye-to-eye. "Use it wisely, Sora. This defends agains eight hit-points damage. It'll do you good." She patted his wrist and turned around. Sora felt lucky to wear it. Suna felt lucky that he didn't need any armor, just like his parents, and saw Sora as a weakling now.
"Do we have any accessories, Tifa?" Cloud called out.
"No, you told me to give them all away!" Tifa responded.
"Accessories?" Sora said.
"We'll find more, don't worry." Tifa said.
"Teach them how to use items!" Cloud was constantly repeating his simple attack as he tried to warm up to battle, even though there was an entire army of MP guards ambushing them, and probably were beleaguring the area.
"Boys, look at me really quick!" Tifa said, and she pushed them gently out of the battlefield. "Items are very useful. They can do very marvelous things to you if used properly, and known what it is for."
"Okay." they said.
"This is a Potion." Tifa introduced the shiny bottle that contained a green healing liquid. "Drink this and your hit-points will be restored by a hundred." She gave Suna three and Sora five of these. "Don't drink them now, though. You're not injured or wounded... or even scratched."
"Got it, Mom." Suna said.
"Thanks, Mom!" Sora said.
"I'm giving both of you a Hi-Potion." Tifa said. She held up the shiny bottle that was a little larger than the Potion, but the contents were more a goldish-green. "Drink this and your hit-points will be restored by five-hundred." She gave Suna and Sora one. "Don't ever drink them unless you're near death. These are rare right now, since we need to buy more at a convience store."
"I was wondering what those were!" Sora chirped.
"Okay, boys, pay attention." Tifa said. "Your father needs help, so I need you to do a big favor for me..."
Suna and Sora saw a black leather case that was locked shut. Tifa took the glowing key and opened it. "I promised myself to only use these if ever there was trouble..." She sighed, to show the concealed items inside. It was beautiful. Glowing crystal orbs that were illuminating in a heavenic sense, and they ranged in all sorts of colors. They had plaques engraved in the red velvet that marked and explained which was which.
"What're these called?" Sora asked.
"Materia." Tifa said. "They're Green Materia, meaning that they're Spell Materia. They cast spells on monsters such as these. They're very useful. We don't have any Yellow, Blue, Red, or Independent Materia... But these Spell Materias will do." Tifa held up the blue-colored Spell Materia that looked crystalized inside. "I'm entrusting this to you, Sora." She placed it in his hand, and Sora flinched.
"It's cold!" Sora said.
"Guess what kind of spell it'll do then..." Tifa grinned.
"Ice!" Suna said.
"Yes, ice!" Tifa said. "It's Level 1 Ice, but it'll do. This will deminish them faster. Go, Sora. Go fight... with your father." Sora nodded and took off.
"You really do favor him, don't you?" Suna glared.
"I have a special Materia for you, too, Suna." Tifa smiled. "We have only two Materias, didn't you see? It wasn't one, there was two."
"I thought you or Dad was gonna use that." Suna said.
"No, I'm entrusting this to you, Suna." She placed the golden, sparkling Materia into his hand. Suna's eye twitched, and she gave a strange look.
"It feels static..." Suna said.
"It's my special Lightning Materia." Tifa said. "Now, go, help your father."
Suna never thought this day would come, and he almost had an emotional, sobby, crying moment here... He held it back and smiled at Tifa. "Thank you, Mom."
Tifa nodded, "You're welcome." She smiled a motherly smile. "Now, let's go!" She held Suna's hand as they rushed into battle.
It was twenty minutes before the MP soldiers were all defeated... "I thought they'd be a little easier." Cloud joked. He did his victory fanfare dance.
"So you're warriors." Suna said to break the silence. "I still can't believe it!" Suna looked at his weapon and then at his Lightning Materia. Suna growled and sat on the floor, where he began pounding the soil with his bare fist. Sora frowned, and tried his best to calm him down. Sora sat down beside Suna.
"How many items did'ya use?" Sora asked.
"Mph." Suna said. "A Potion."
"Aw, man!" Sora said. "I used all of my Potions!"
"Ha-ha." Suna felt a little bit better, but he still was mad. "Mom! Dad! Why didn't you tell me we were warriors? Dad, you said no secrets! You promised!"
"I didn't have time to tell you." Cloud said. His voice was extremely stern and firm. "I would've told you then and there, but I couldn't!"
"Still, a secret hidden for fourteen years!" Suna said. "How could you, Dad!? How could you, Mom!?"
"Well, at least we told you!" Tifa said. "Cloud, we should've told them and trained them since they were small. It's in their blood!"
"You're damn right it's in my blood!" Suna screamed. "I'm beyond appalled at you two! C'mon, you hid somethin' as big as this!? Mom! Dad!"
"Suna, calm down!" Cloud demanded.
"No!" Suna shouted back. This stunned Cloud and Tifa was pretty shocked, too. Sora gaped, and Suna looked furious. "I won't calm down! You lied to me!! You lied!!"
"Suna, this isn't a good idea..." Sora said.
"Suna, get in the house!" Cloud screamed just as loud as Suna did.
"I won't!" Suna shouted.
"JUST GET IN THERE!!" Cloud shouted.
Sora looked terrified, and was on the edge, just ready to cry at the frightening display his father was putting on. It seemed his punishment would probably be death for Suna's act of disrespect. Suna chuckled, and ran his hand through his hair. Sora couldn't imagine how Suna could be so calm. "So, that's it, then." Suna said. "You're gonna boss me around after keepin' something this big."
"Suna, don't do anything stupid." Sora whispered.
"Cloud, honey..." Tifa cooed.
"Don't touch me, Tifa!" Cloud said. "I need to talk to Suna and talk to him NOW."
"You're not gonna get that." Suna said. He took off running.
"Suna...!?" Cloud shouted. "Suna!!"
"See what you did, Cloud!?" Tifa blamed. Sora was still too scared to move. "You're giving Sora... a heart attack!"
"Ugh..." Cloud mumbled. "I'd better find him. I'm actually worried for him now. He just vanished."
"Why didn't you run after him, Dad?" Sora asked.
"I didn't think he'd be that stupid!" Cloud said, and took off for the house. "I'm gonna get some supplies! Tifa, Sora, we're takin' the tents, the motorcycle, and some survival supplies. We won't be home for a while. We've gotta get Suna, he couldn't have gotten too far, but 'he' is alive, and ShinRa is re-establishing."
"ShinRa...?" Sora asked.
"Long story." Tifa replied.
"I'll help pack." Sora offered.
"That's very kind of you." Tifa said.
"I love you, Mom." Sora said.
"... I love you, too, Sora..." Tifa put her arm around Sora as they walked to the house.
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Author's Note:
I'm gonna take a little break for a while... I'm on Whee and I can't stop, so I'm gonna try to rest my eyes. Agh...
Anyway, there's the fighting scene with Cloud and Suna... Yeah, that was heartbreaking to write, but hey, happened to me all the time, so it was easy.
The battle scene was fun fun fun FUN FUN FUN! I got a little carried away in explanations... If you've played Final Fantasy 7 numerous times, you'd probably skip through that. I don't blame you... ha-ha. I got carried away away away AWAY AWAY AWAY! ... by the wind.
Told ya the fun begins! Suna's run away and his family has to find him... Also, ShinRa is revived. O.o We'll find out the history on ShinRa soon enough.
In the original chapter drafts, I was going to have the guy at the taco bell drive-thru that Cloud attacked tell them all about how Cloud is a hero. Suna gets upset, takes his sword, and runs away, giving him several hours head-start. Sora's left home crying all night until Cloud enters the room and discovers that they've been fighting with Sora opens the closet door... Cloud then reveals his closet to Sora. They then search for Suna... But then how would they know that ShinRa revived? Tell me which version you think is better.
Oh, and Saddam Hussein died today... Me and my buds are celebrating, so I'm gonna rest my eyes and drink cider for celebration... I'll write up more chapters tomorrow! Enjoy and I still need REVIEWS! Ooh, 150 hits... I'm happy now. .
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