Note: I do not own any character described here!
I've been thinking about this story for two months now (since I finished playing Dirge of Cerberus!) \o/ and finely decided to writhe it. Well…yeah...I know it got too long my story…but wanted to write it anyway. Like I said it was all in my mind for two months…so I just wanted to pull it out of my system. :p
About the story…it is a continued story of ffVII first game...the advent children movie and Dirge of Cerberus…so yeah it contains some spoils.
And one more thing…I haven't played yet the of ffVII first game…I only watched the movie and played Dirge of Cerberus…so If I said any absurd thing about the story...please tell me…but remember…my story is not supposed to be a exactly replica of square's stories…so Yeah, I know I did changed a few information…
In this story, I mixed everything…drama, romance, horror, action and a bit of comedy…
There will probably be some grammar mistakes, so don't hate me for it, please, instead be helpful and tell me what is wrong, besides, like I said on my profile, English is not my original language, I just like it and want to practice it! ;)
---Chocolate and Cherry---
---Chapter 12 – New life---
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I was born three years ago…well at least that is what I like to think, since my oldest memories started there…when my body was found on a river's shore by Yuna and Basch, who took me in on their place. At that time, I had my head hurt, as if I fell down from some high place…or as if someone had hit me, as they told me. Anyway…I had lost my memories and not even my name I knew anymore.
So they started calling me Rinoa... they said that name fits me…
About them, they used to work on that collapsed company called Shinra. Yuna worked as a cook and Basch as a physicist. They told me a weird history about how Shinra collapsed…that one day they were working normally, when suddenly the entire complex started to shake, and a few seconds later a intense white light invade it all…so the next thing they remembered were waking among a lot of dead bodies. They said there were a really few people that left alive. And they were two of them…they also think I might have worked there too, since that river they found me was near by the complex…or I was just passing by…as I tell myself. That Shinra really gives me chills...but some times…I feel like it is calling me.
Of course I knew there were something wrong with me…and sometimes, I have some weird dreams…like the one I was laid in a dark room and suddenly I wake…and when I turn my self, I see four capsules made of glass…three of them were occupied of a female human body they were sleeping…or dead. When I get close to them, I get scared noticing that their all looked like me…except about the fourth capsule one…that was empty...and then someone stands behind me, so I turn around to face him…or her…in my dream I can't see the face…but by my expression on seeing that person, I know that I knew who that was… and after that, I woke up.
Yuna and Basch were living peacefully on a small community with some others refugees from that incident, but my desperate need to know the truth, to know what really happened there…what made that intense white light and what caused the shake before that…made them help me in this search.
But of course, as to compensate them, I used to help them too with the community duties. So when they had nothing to do…they were collecting information with people that lived near by at that time…because everything around the complex was destroyed.
And to each one we asked something about the incident, they tell always tells us a different story.
There was this lady that once told me, that some time after that incident; she was passing near by Shinra with her little brother when she saw a big dark thing flying out one of the buildings…with bat wings. She sounded so terrifying that I almost believed her…but it must have been some big black bird that she saw.
Basch told me that Shinra had so many people researching, that he didn't even knew a quarter about what people was studying in there…but he did knew that they were dealing with too many dangerous things, that he didn't doubt of anything that was told him.
Two years ago there was a big fuss around Shinra. People were getting sick, a dark stain on people's skin appeared, and they called it Geostigma. They said it was caused by one of Shinra's things that caused that. And one day, a group of people were fighting against each other on the streets. It was a really big fight…the whole town was practically destroyed…until they found a cure for Geostigma.
And then a year after, there were soldiers, nominated as "Deepground" inside Shinra, trying to cover up what happened from the society… but they were actually on a war...against another group so called "WRO". Several people died. And we couldn't know why or what happened… we couldn't know exactly what was that all about…we only know there was something really important called "Lifestream".
On that time, I had a lot of weird dreams and nightmares…one of them I still can't forget…was the first time I dreamed about him…I was talking to a young guy…he was taller then I, short dark hair…and sweet red cherry eyes…he had a sweet and gentle smile for me, and we were running on the ocean…he was so warm and cheerful…that I wished I could be dreaming about him forever. Gladly, I had a lot of dreams with him after that, and he was always telling me "everything would be all right" making me feel secure… he was always telling me that right before I wake up from my dreams.
Today was Sunday. The day that no one gets near Shinra because people say they can hear weird noises coming from inside. But the three of us used to sneak in to find anything that could tell us what happened… what kind of terrible story Shinra was hiding inside.
We took an old army truck that Basch found once abandoned in the middle of nowhere, but working perfectly. We need a vehicle to get to Shinra's, since the small community we were living was too far from there.
So far we had found a few documents about several things, but nothing related to the Deepground, WRO…Geostigma or Lifestream, but still we were collecting everything we could. Every Sunday we search for files on an upper floor of the complex…we started with the first floor of the highest building of the complex, because we believed the most important information could be there… inside the highest building of the world, the most scared one, placed in the center of the complex.
So this Sunday we were on the 30º floor...meaning that it has been 30 weekends we've been searching for something.
But again we couldn't find anything.
We were leaving before the night fall when We heard something crash on a upper floor.
-Is there someone else in here? – Yuna asked.
-I don't know…let's look –Basch answered.
So I follow them thought the elevator that luckily was still working.
We came to the 31º floor. We searched everywhere, but there was nothing. Those walls badly painted in red, with people's blood still makes me uncomfortable.
When we were passing through that glass door to reach the elevator, a part of the ceiling fell over Basch. Yuna started to scream out laud. I tried to take it off over his body but it was too late, he was already dead…
-Oh my lord… -I said letting tears fall from my eyes. And hearing Yuna crying like that, only made me get more nervous. But then I felt like there was something watching me…I looked up, I saw that there was also a hole on the 32º floor, like something fell from there, and I could see a shadow passing by on the 33° floor.
-There is…someone up there! I saw it! –I said to Yuna.
I tried to calm her down. And then we took the elevator again.
At the 33º floor, looking from that hole on the ground, we could see Basch's blood coming from under those pieces of rock that fell over him. Besides that hole, we found another hole on ceiling in the room number 33.2658 which was extended to the 35º floor.
-This is getting weird Rinoa...these holes… it looks like they have the same size – Yuna said taking my arm for us to get out of there.
On the elevator, I pressed the 35 button. Yuna looked at me with disapproval, but she didn't say anything. I simply felt like doing that…as if it was a call for me…I should go there.
The elevator stopped. I left first, carefully looking everywhere…but before Yuna could get out, the elevator closed the door.
- Yuna! –I screamed. I didn't get any answer. -…damn! –but I had to continue…there were something in that floor that keeps me telling I should be here.
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I took the names Yuna, Bash and Rinoa from FF-VIII, FF-X and FF-XII characters XD.