Final Fantasy: Gaiden Based on the Video Games by SquareSoft Published in North America by Square Electronic Arts (c)1997-2002 SquareSoft Based on Characters created by Hironobu Sakaguchi A AnimeCraft Entertainment LLC production Written By Jorge Antonio Rivera (c)2002 AnimeCraft Entertainment LLC Contact Information: ICQ#21497059 Yahoo IM:ikarishinjieva01 AOL IM: RyuDOA2Hayabusa MSN IM: latinfan@hotmail.com This story is a work of fiction and should be not sold for profit, as is a fan-made production. This story can be kept archived as long as everything is left intact, in electronic or printed form. Any persons, living or dead who may appear in this work is purely coincidental. Many thanks go to: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Nomura, Yoshitaka Amano and Nobuo Uematsu for bringing these characters to life. Also many thanks go to the The Final Fantasy Forum Mailing List for bringing me into the fold and myself, as long as I keep playing FF, I'll be able to write stories like these. This story uses characters from FF6-FF10 and if you spot any errors, please contact me asap though my contact list above. *********************************************************************** Terra: As long as I can remember, I always felt that there were other things besides us in this world. The espers proved that, that I wasn't the only unique being in this planet. I'll always treasure this...as my lasting gift of life. (In another world, a young woman of age 17 looks up to the stars and sees a meteor shooting across the night sky.) Tifa: I wonder, if we'll ever get married and have kids. Aeris did the right thing...she gave us, all of us hope. I can finally look up to the sky and say in my prayers, he kept his promise. (In another world which we will call Balamb, The same meteor passes through the night sky. Another brunnete, Rinoa Heartilly looks towards it and wishes upon it) Rinoa: I made him come out of his shell, to let him realize that he is not alone in this world. That he has everything he could ever dream of, the gift of friendship and belonging that everyone gets and takes for granted. I'm happy that he's like this now. (In another world, which we will call Gaia, A young princess steps out of Alexandria and wanders the streets. She sees a the same meteor...and smiles at it) Garnet: The desire to live, the desire to love, the desire to experience things and to get myself reacquainted, I have experienced those things through him. I don't know if I should be glad but I have to be happy, cause that is my reward in the end, to be happy and free as a canary out of her cage. (In another world which we will call Spira, a young summoner has finished her quest at the price of a loved one. She sees in the night sky the shooting star, and wishes herself a new beginning) Yuna: We have conquered Seymour and Sin, but Tidus is gone...and I feel all alone. He game the strength to go on this quest and now I feel that it's gone. I'm happy now, but I don't know if I'll ever be happy the way I was, when I was with him. Now, I need to be happy.. (Be happy) (Be strong) (Summon me...) (and he'll come) (The Meteor shoots through space, finally crashing on Midgar. The shell opens and a humanoid figure comes out, womanly shaped, she surveys the landscape. She smiles and begins her attack on the Cetra) (all 5 girls sense that something is wrong, a brilliant white flash shoots across their eyes. A doorway opens in each of their worlds and all of them are sucked inside.) Final Fantasy:Gaiden By Jorge Antonio Rivera Chapter 1: The summoning (The Planet Midgar, 5 years into the future) (Tifa gets up and looks around. She sees in the distance, the smoldering ruins of Midgar, the Shi-Ra Tower blown aprt in half. Not knowingly, she gently kicks Yuna on her side, her Summoner's Kimono all tattered and filled with dirt and mud.) Yuna:Ouch! Tifa: Sorry...hey, who are you? (Yuna gets up and looks at Tifa, seeing her own reflection in her deep brown eyes). Yuna: I'm Yuna, a Summoner from Spira. Where am I? Tifa: It looks like we got thrown somewhere outside of Midgar. (Garnet slowly opens her eyes, her angelic face covered in mud. She gets up slowly and trips over the body of Rinoa, who at the same time, sensing her soreceress' powers, gets up and starts talking to Garnet) Rinoa: You dress funny. Who are you? Garnet:(sarcastically):So do you. Where are we? (Terra finally wakes up and senses everybody's confusion and walks over towards Yuna, Rinoa, Tifa and Garnet) Terra: I'm Terra Branford of Narshe. (Terra sees the smoldering ruins of Midgar and slowly grasps the situation) Garnet:I'm Princess Garnet Til Alexandros, otherwise known as Dagger. (Garnet grabs her crystal and she slowly reaches towards her belt on her leg where she hides a Dagger that Zidane gave to her) Garnet: Where are we? Tifa: It looks like we got thrown 5 years into the future. I was home when I saw a shooting star fly across the night sky...today... (Tifa trails off and sees Midgar destroyed again and looks at the sunset, the sun shining brightly on the deep blue sea.) Tifa: I think we are at the northermost edge outside of Midgar. Yuna:Midgar? That is the city that you come from? (Yuna points it with her index finger) Tifa:Yes. I once lived there, but it got destroyed after we summoned Holy to destroy Meteor. Rinoa: Holy? Meteor? (Rinoa looks confused) (Tifa explains to everybody what happened in this world 5 years ago.) Garnet: How were you able to summon such spells? Tifa: With these(Takes out a small marble shaped ball and glows with frequency). This is a Cure Materia, but the one that we used was a bigger shaped Materia called Holy. Garnet: You summon here too? Yuna: How is that possible? Rinoa:Yeah, how so? (Terra looks on, introspective) Terra:Must they be talking about Espers? Tifa: Well, whetever you guys come from, we use Materia to call magic and so forth, including Summon Spells. I don't know, but I sense that Midgar hasn't been totally destroyed. (Garnet raises her dagger and sees something out of the corner of her eye) Somebody is coming. (Terra senses it as well and starts going into a trance) Tifa: Yo, Girl, get your butt over here... (Laser beams begin to fire and Yuna, Rinoa, Tifa and Garnet ducks while Terra finishes her spell) Terra:Fire.... (A huge ball of fire surrounds her and she throws it into the air. In the distance, they hear an explosion and hear men screaming) Tifa: We can't stay here... Rinoa: Agreed. We have to retreat. Somebody is protecting the ruins of your city and they don't want it disturbed at any cost.) Garnet: I guess summoning is out of the question. (Terra walks over to the group and stands there, listening) Terra: We have to find shelter, you, with the "ample bosom", do you know a safe place where we could go? (When Tifa recognizes what Terra meant by "ample bosom", she got up, slowly and looked kinda ticked off) Tifa: Watch your mouth, girl. You may have saved us, but this is a different land you are in. Attitude will get you killed. (Tifa takes out a small phone shaped phone out of her pockets and dials.) Tifa: Hopefully, I hope this works. (Phone rings and Cid picks it up) Cid: What is you want? Tifa:Hey, Cid, you still got that plane of yours? Cid: Who is this? Tifa: It's me, Tifa. Cid: Tifa...Tifa died 5 years ago in a accident on mt.Nibel. Stop playing these cruel jokes on me or I'll call the Shin-Ra Police. (Cid hangs up and Tifa looks puzzled) Tifa:....I died 5 years ago? Shin-Ra Police? What the hell? To be continued in Chapter 2... ********************************************************************** Author's note: Well, here it is, a small chapter on my part...but the next one should be longer. I'll include Yuna and Terra more on this but belive you me, this Midgar that Tifa knows is very different and Rinoa will have a major shock in the next episode. C&C always appreciated and if you guys want to archive this, you may but contact me first, okay? *********************************************************************** preview of Next Chapter: Tifa: Midgar, 5 years have passed since I was summoned here. As I get to know the rest of the group, we come and relaize that something major is going on. each of us will have the shock of our lives in Final Fantasy:Gaiden Chapter 2-Dazed and Confused Yuna: Aeons, I summon you...