16 years ago...

"Aeris...Aeris..." a disembodied, pensive voice called her name... Aeris opened her eyes, as she spun in mid-air in the Promised Land somewhere beyond the Lifestream, her long reddish-brown hair whirling about her.

" Who are you?" she asked.

" I am the Voice of the Planet. I have no physical form...but I have come to tell you of something you must do." The Voice said. " An evil that you thought that your friends defeated has become reborn in the future...there is currently nothing that can stop it."

" Sephiroth?" Aeris asked.

" No." The Voice said. " Sephiroth wasn't really your enemy...he was the puppet of the evil Ancient, Jenova."

" Jenova..." Aeris mused. " So she is the threat in the future?"

" Hai..." The Voice of the Planet said.

" What am I to do?" Aeris asked.

" You must follow your friends into the future...all of them have been reincarnated in that time. For all of them met their deaths trying to defeat Sephiroth...Cloud Strife died soon after defeating Sephiroth." The Voice said. "Sephiroth is another key element in defeating Jenova...you need his strength on your side. You must prevent Jenova from manipulating him again." Aeris nodded.

" Cloud was reincarnated?" she asked.

" Yes." The voice said.

" Then I still have a chance..." Aeris remembered the blond man with who she had wanted to live with forever. Then Sephiroth had killed her, while she prayed for the Holy materia. " I'll go..."

A gate opened up in front of her. Aeris took a deep breath.

she called to Ifalna, who was somewhere in the Promised Land. Then Aeris stepped out of the Promised Land, and threw herself to the mercy of the Lifestream...

15 years ago...

A woman lay in bed weakly, crystal-clear aquamarine eyes looking around the room, and her waist-length platinum blond hair cascaded around her, framing her angelic face. Her husband, wild with grief, glared at her. " Stupid woman

? Why? Why did you do it?" the man yelled at her in a voice filled with anguish.

" Because I wanted to have your baby." //Because it was necessary...// she thought, as she closed her eyes forever and lay still, at peace.

The sound of a baby's crying echoed softly, but no one heard. Suddenly, the image of a woman with reddish-brown hair and striking green eyes appeared before him, and one ghostly hand gently stroked his head.

" Hush, little one..." she said. " I will always be with you." The little baby stopped crying, and looked at her with his innocent eyes. " Oh, little one...destiny has given you a hard path to walk. You have the power to save your world...you'll meet the others soon enough..." The woman disappeared...and no one noticed that for a moment, the fuzzy golden curls that were already starting to grow were reddish brown, and his bright aquamarine eyes, so much like his mother's, were emerald green...but a moment later, bright gold and brilliant blue were restored. And there was no inkling of the supernatural vision that had just occurred...

15 years later

The golden-haired boy stood on the hatch of his Gundam. " We shouldn't be fighting each other! It's wrong!"

The hatch of the other Gundam opened, and a tall, slim teenager with brown hair and sharply slanted bangs that covered one emerald eye stepped out, his hands raised in surrender.

" Put your hands down. I was the first one to come out and surrender, remember?" the petite blonde said. The two of them stood there a moment longer, as emerald met aquamarine, and each of them held the other's steady gaze. And each was thinking the same thing: //I know I've met him before...but where...//

A girl stood on a lonely mountaintop, her long reddish-brown hair that was pulled back in a braid blowing in the wind as was her pink skirt...a crystal staff with various materia set in it was held in one dainty, slender hand, and startling green eyes were contemplative in a pale, angelic, beautiful face.

" It begins..." she said. Her flutelike voice carried on the wind. An echo came back, faint and clear at the same time. " It begins..."

End Prologue

Preview of Next Chapter: Chapter One: A Girl Meets Her Destroyer Again

The mysterious, reincarnated Aeris Gainsborough begins her desperate quest, and her Ancient powers lead her straight to Sephiroth...what connection does Duo Maxwell have with the man who killed her years before? And who is she in this time? Can she save Sephiroth from Jenova's cruel manipulation, or is she doomed to watch history repeat itself again...in her own death?