Disclaimer: I don't own FFVII, and for the record I can't skate to save my life.
A/N Today it snowed at my school, so I thought of ice-skating as I ate my lunch by the lake. And then I thought, "some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice, from what I've tasted of desire Hojo will end up dead either way." (If you caught what poem that is then you are awesome.) Anyway, little dog put in a request to do Marlene. So ladies and gentlemen Marlene Wallace!
Marlene looked up at the snow falling gently to the ground from the sky; she and Barret were taking a trip to Kalm. It was snowing so she was out preparing to go ice-skating on a nice lake while her father looked on happily. "Hey Papa, you should come too!"
Barret shook his head, "nah you just skate your heart out. I'm happy just watchin'."
Marlene nodded stepping onto the ice gliding along it happily, meanwhile somewhere around the bend in the lake Hojo was strapping on some skates. He was here to relax and get away from the lab on mandatory leave; he finished pulling on his skates and stood up before falling over on his face.
Back with Marlene, she was practicing her circles happily holding her Moogle doll as she zipped along. Barret stood up, "hey Marlene I'm gonna go get some food for us at the stand, stay where I can see ya."
"Okay!" She called skating along carving a perfect circle.
He walked off to the stand to get some food, Marlene saw Hojo attempting to skate around the corner zipping over to him. "Hey you wanna play? Come on!"
She grabbed Hojo's hand and pulled him over to where she had been skating. However what Marlene didn't know was that she'd been skating on thin ice, it was thick enough to support the weight of a four year old but it wasn't strong enough to support a fifty nine year old crazy lunatic. She smiled skating around Hojo in circles, "come on! I'll race ya!"
"Marlene let's go! I have a snack for you!" Barret called from the crepe stand.
She nodded, "I'll see ya later, 'kay? Bye!" She sat down in the snow pulling off her skates and pulling on her boots running over to Barret. The two set off down the path eating a nice warm desert.
Back on the ice, there was a distinctive cracking noise, Hojo looked down seeing a large fissure appearing in the ice. It grew perpetually larger, it went right between his legs, so he leaned forward watching it until he threw himself off balance causing not only him to slip and fall on his face but the ice to break. It split apart so Hojo was in the splits, he dropped into the frigid water, however a very sensitive part of his anatomy hit a sunken log as he bobbed under the ice. He gasped inhaling water quickly going into anaphylactic shock followed by asphyxiation and cardiac arrest still in the fetal position clutching his injury as he sank.
