AN: okay guys sorry it took me about 56 million years to put up this chapter but I hope that you will forgive me; yr 12 is an absolute killer. Let's see if you can play spot the final fantasy character that I do not own, of course this leads into the disclaimer, I own nothing but Rayne. T^T

Chapter 1

Shortly after, Zanna was found by the police. She was placed in the witness protection program and was now known as Rayne. Rayne however was not aware of that fact, due to her parents' murder being such a traumatic event. As she slept in the hospital that night her mind erased all her previous memories of her parents. When she awoke the next morning the doctors had told her that she was in a minor car accident and had sustained a case of amnesia. They had told her a fabricated life in order to save her the psychological damage that would occur if they had recounted the previous night's events. After she was given the all clear to leave she was placed in an orphanage that the doctors had told her she lived in all her life.

3 years later

Rayne sat at her window mindlessly fingering the thick layer of dust that had mounted on the cracked sill. The stench of the rain seeped through the frosted windows as buckets of water cascaded down from the roof like a waterfall. Thunder shook the window and Rayne was jerked back to reality as the younger orphans ran crying to her bed begging for comfort. Rayne took the children away from the window as the lightning illuminated the small orphanage. She laid each of the whimpering children to bed and kissed them on the head one by one. Rayne stay by them as they drifted silently off to sleep, the thunder and lightning passed as though it too were succumbing to a peaceful slumber.

"RAYNE COME HERE NOW!" the screech made by the orphanage carer ripped through the early night stillness rousing the younger children.

"Coming" Rayne replied as she rolled her eyes and made her way to the office at the other end of the cramped building. Rayne knocked gently at the door frame before she entered. "You called me Ultimecia?"

"Yes, tomorrow is your 17th birthday correct?" Ultimecia asked looking over the top of her red rimmed glasses.

"That is correct" Rayne confirmed in a mechanical tone, wondering what on earth the carer had cooked up in her evil mind. For she knew that it had to be something of ill will, Rayne was totally and utterly convinced that there was not one good bone in her body and that if you looked under her floor length coat you'd find a red pointed tail and horns under her thick silver hair. "I've been reviewing our old policy and by your 17th birthday we are no longer obligated to care for you. We cannot keep you." Ultimecia said quite bluntly and Rayne could swear she saw Ultimecia's eyes flash with excitement at the notion.

"What? That is under the old policy though so you can't kick me out like this" Rayne defended. This had been her home her whole life and now she was being forced to leave.

"Au contraire dear Rayne, as you were put under my care in the time of the policy being effective it applies to you. You have tonight to pack any belongings you may or may not have" she said cruelly, a small smirk flashing across her evil face.

Rayne spent the rest of the night packing the very few belongings into a brown paper bag which Ultimecia had so charitably donated. Rayne was allowed to sleep that night in the orphanage but had to leave at first light the next morning.

Light seeped through the cack in the window illuminating a small strip on Rayne's face causing the young silver haired teen to stir from a fitful slumber. Rayne opened her emerald eyes slowly, not quite ready to face the day's coming events. She reluctantly got up from her hard bed and grabbed her paper bag, leaving the orphanage silently not wanting to wake the younger kids. As Rayne looked up at the stone building that held her captive for more years than she could count, she bean to cry, although the building held her captive it was still her home and now she had nowhere to call home. Rayne hobbled down the dank side street tripping on her own feet as she went on crying. Soon after the heavens opened and it began to rain as though the gods too felt her pain.

Rayne continued to trudge along the main street of the World that Never Was, mud was smeared all over her exposed limbs. Shivering, she mindlessly kept walking without a destination in mind, she began to feel faint as she stumbled and fell on an exposed piece of pavement. Passers by paid no attention to Rayne as her vision turned dark and she slowly slipped out of consciousness.

As she woke she found herself in the back of a car, covered by a black leather jacket. As she became aware of her surroundings she remembered how she fainted in the street. Rayne sat up a little too suddenly and immediately became dizzy to the point of nausea.

"Whoa there, I wouldn't sit up too quickly if I were you. I don't know how long you were out before I found you but you've been out of it in here for over an hour" the diver of the car warned, Rayne was unable to see the driver's face, only his eyes only his eyes reflected in the rear view mirror, they were a soft pale blue. "Perhaps you better lay down again" the anonymous driver suggested, noting how pale Rayne's face was beginning to turn, Rayne nodded taking the strange man's advice and she slowly fell back to sleep.

AN: okay so that was chapter 1. Can you guess the man? I bet you can't ^-^. Of course there will be cookies and a special mention in the start of the next chapter if you can. Please review it would mean more than the world if you did.