Final Moon VII.

Author's Note: I've decided to post two chapters today, as you guys probably can see, so, the story now really begins, and it's a mixture of both Sailor Moon(the original anime) and Final Fantasy VII, which I don't own either of them.

Let's begin!


Chapter one: Just an ordinary day.

RING!

"AAHHH!" screamed Serena, a fourteen year old girl with long blonde hair in a strange style. She was in bed when her alarm clock rang again, and it was a few minutes passed eight, which meant only one little thing.

"Oh no! I'm late for school again!" shrieked Serena who immediately threw off her pink PJs and threw on her school uniform for the ShinRa Academy she was attending against her will, but she wasn't complaining. She raced down stairs where her mother, Attina Townshed, and her older half-brother, Evan, who was gonna turn 17 years old this year, where sitting in the kitchen reading the newspapers, as she raced passed the door to the bathroom.

"Mother!" Serena cried out, heading to the bathrom to quickly brush her teeth, before looking back through the kitchen door while scrubbing, and asked, "Why didn't you or Evan wake me up at the last bell!?" before rushing away again to try and get to school.

Attina sighed, muttering, "I did, Serena, three times, but you told me that you could wake up on time."

"And you believed her?" asked Evan, skeptical.

"Not funny, Evan!" Serena screamed as she raced past to the front door.

"Whoa, wait! Serena!" Evan cried out.

"I gotta go!"

But the older boy raced out of the kitchen with a bag of lunch and asked, "Aren't you forgetting something, sis?" making Serena stop and turn back.

Realising that she almost forgot her school lunch again, Serena deadpanned, "Oh yeah." then grabbed it, putting her shoes on, while saying, "Bye guys! Thanks for lunch, mom!" slamming the door behind her and raced towards the academy in Sector 8 which surprisingly her mother managed to her employeed to. How, neither the siblings knew. Evan on the other hand, had to wait until his 17th birthday to find work.

While racing through the slums, Serena yawned while grumbling, "So sleepy. Why can't it be Saturday?"

Having made it through Sector 6 and heading passed the park, she heard a cat crying out in pain, and a boy saying, "Hold it still, so I can put the bandage on!" and stopped to see a trio of young boys all over a cat, forcing it down and somehow hurting it.

This made her angry as the kids were picking on the poor cat. "Hey! Leave that cat alone!" Serena yelled and raced towards them, causing the boys to notice and then run away in fear, just as she got close to the cat, while looking at the boys and muttering, "Rotten brats!"

Now turning her attention to the feline, Serena noticed that it was a black and surprisingly beautiful cat who was lying on the ground helplessly. She fell to her knees, sympthly saying, "Oh you poor thing." before picking the cat up.

"Did those mean kids hurt you, kitty?" asked the girl, only for the cat to meow in agony, pawing it's forehead as if it hurt and it tried to get away.

Noticing the bandage and seeing that the cat wasn't terribly harmed, Serena smiled and held the cat in her arms, saying, "Don't worry, you're okay. I'll take this bandage off you." which she did as she talked.

However, after that, she gasped at what she saw. A strange symbol implanted on the cat's forehead, golden and mysterious, and at this, the cat opened it's eyes, revealing that it's a female, and it had gorgeus orange eyes.

"Huh?" asked Serena, looking at the symbol. "Is that a Cresent Moon?"

In response, the cat leaped out of her arms, and then ran away to hide under the slide. Serena stood up in confusion.

"What a weird cat." but then realised the time and ran off herself, screaming, "Oh great! Now I'm really late!" unaware that the cat was keeping an eye on her, as if in deep thought.


Serena raced through the hallways of ther academy, and finally found her class-room, barging in, waving at the teacher and the entire class, saying, "Hi-" but ended up getting her foot stuck in one of the cleaning buckets, hopping out of control while trying to keep her balance, and in the end, smacked face first into one of the lockers, falling down and causing it to fall as well. The other students cringed and looked away from the clumzy sight.

Whining, but alright, Serena sat up, a bit dazed while muttering to her teacher, "Sorry about that, Ms. Quistis." who went up behind her.

Sweatdropping, Serena grumbled, knowing that she's in trouble again for not only being late, but also causing a mess in the class room. "I was up late last night trying to study, and I couldn't see my alarm clock this morning." she was making up an excuse, though she knew that it won't save her.

"Save it, Serena." Ms. Quistis said, "I was just telling the class that the school will be closed for a while and today's the last day, because the company's facing a bit of a problem and it won't be opened again for possibly several months."

This made Serena surprised, as she muttered a blank surprised, "That's uh...too bad."

"Yes, it is, isn't it?" Quistis said, "I won't be able to teach for several months." while returning to her desk.

Serena was even more confused. 'Wonder why the ShinRa company's having problems? Must still be fighting those AVALANCHE creeps. Not that I like the company, because I don't like them either.'

Unfortunately, the teacher came back, and handed her a piece of paper, saying, "Oh yes, one more thing. Try harder in your studies next time."

She looked at it, and Serena's face went pale at her results. Her maths exam results came in and...

Her score was only 30!


Meanwhile, inside the ShinRa building in one of the offices, Tseng, the director of the special elite group known as the Department of Administrative Research; Aka, the Turks, was busy with countless paperwork, when he got a phone call from the President about another mission, and was expecting one of his employees to come in for the assginment.

Someone then walked in without even knocking and Reno, the Second in Command of the Turks, but with messy red hair, his suit also scruffly and untidy, approached the raven-haired Director who was also a Wutaiian.

"You called, boss?" asked Reno, in an Midgar-slum accent.

Tseng nodded, "I'll be sending you to Sector 5 to retrieve Ms. Gainsborough and bring her here."

"Oh, it's one of those missions again, huh?" asked Reno.

"I'd go myself, but the President is getting a little impaitent." said Tseng. "I'll be sending a couple of grunts with you, just in case."

"You got it." Reno nodded, ready for another mission, and then walked out of the room.

Tseng in the meantime, sighed, and thought to himself, 'I wish it didn't come to this.'


The school finished early today, and due to the explosions of the two Mako reactors, the academy was deemed closed until in two years time, so the kids will have to do something else until then. Some considered in leaving and attend Junon's school, but others, like Serena, were stuck in Midgar for possibly the rest of their lives.

In the meantime, Serena went over to a run-down church in Sector 5 and met up with her best friend, Aerith, who grew flowers inside the church as well as outside her house, and was 22 years old. The two of them met when Serena was a young child and they hanged out alot despite Serena being at the academy and Aerith being different.

Right now, Serena was moping at her exam results and sat in one of the broken seats inside the church. Aerith stood next to her and tried to cheered her up.

"Don't worry, Serena." said Aerith, "It's only a test. It's not only it's anything that important."

"You don't get it, Aerith." Serena moped, "If my mom finds out my bad results, she'll ground me, cut my allowance, and I won't be able to play the pinball game at the Seventh Heaven in Sector 7."

Aerith sighed while placing her hands on her hips, and shook her head. "I think you should worry more about the world than the tests, since the Mako reactors are horrible."

Serena looked at her friend and asked, "You really think so?"

"And I'm certain that your mom would probably worry more about you and Evan than the silly exams." Aerith added.

Thinking about it, Serena decided that her friend was right, as always. "I guess so. Though I'm not keeping my hopes up." she muttered. She then stood up and said, "I'm gonna head off home and take a nap before I show my mom my grades." and sighed hopelessly.

Seeing that her friend is still worried, Aerith nodded and replied, "Alright. See you tomorrow, Serena."

Walking out of the church, Serena headed down and made her way back to sector 3, before stopping at the entrance to sector 7, sighing to herself, "Oh no, how can I tell mom I flunted another test?"

She pulled out her test and looked at it, then in paraninor, she scrunched it up, exclaiming, "How can I even show her this thing!?" and threw it away backwards into the air.

But as she began to walk away, her test landed onto someone's head, and the person behind her exclaimed rudely, "Hey, watch it, meat-ball head!"

Stopping and hearing a male voice, Serena turned and muttered, "Oh, sorry." but to her horror, the person who was a man with short dark raven hair, wearing sunglasses, a green jacket and gray jeans with black shoes, was looking at her exacm results.

"A 30? Admirable." said the guy, before lowering the paper and asked directly at Serena, "Are you stupid or, just, incrediably lazy?"

Feeling insulted by the rudeness of the man who was about the a year younger than Evan, Serena fumed, "Oh! How dare you!? Gimme that!" snatching away her results, then gave the man a raspberry and furiously walked away, fuming to herself, "Oh, the nerve of that guy calling me meat-ball head! Who does he think he is!?"

She then paused and looked back briefly, admitting to herself, "Still. He sure is cute." before walking away again, unaware that the man, named Darien, was watching her leave, pulling away his shades and revealing his blue eyes.

'There's something about that girl.' he thought to himself.


What do you guys think so far? Next time, Serena will discover something that will change her life forever, and the life of her best friend Aerith who is more than she looks.

Don't forget to review and tell me what you think so far, and look out for more chapters.