The Seventh Heaven Bar, Nibelheim/8:30 pm/10-8-2536

Tifa was getting ready to close up shop when she noticed the dark figure at the corner table. She was closing early because of the news of the death of her old Friend, comrade, and lover, Cloud Strife.

"Sir," she said to the cloaked figure, "Sir, we're closing now, so you'll have to leave."

"What," said the stranger in a voice Tifa remembered, but couldn't place,"No welcome for an old friend?"

With that, the stranger pulled off his hood, and Tifa's face suddenly lit up with joy. Then, the stranger picked up a large sword, triangular in shape, and glowing bright white and dim blue. Then Tifa's eyes widened in horror as she saw the malicious glint in his eyes.

"Nuh-Nuh-NOOOOOOOO...."

Her cries were cut short as the stranger took the flat of the blade and brought it down on top of her head, crushing her skull with a sickening crunch and painting the walls with grey brain matter and crimson blood.

"Oh shit," said the man, after lowering the blade, while wiping blood from his shirt, "That's gonna' leave a big, nasty ass stain." He replaced his hood and walked out, turning the lights off as he left. He noted a large mansion to his right, and headed toward it in the deepening dusk.

Shin-ra Mansion, Nibelheim/8:35pm/10-8-2536 The hooded man opened the front door of the old abandoned Shin-Ra Mansion, and stepped inside. The smell of rot and decay filled his nostrils as he moved toward the center of the entry hall of the large building. He looked around, then headed toward the large staircase in front of him. Heading up the stairs, he recalls his old adventures to memory. He thinks about the charade he led those gullible fools on the whole time. HE summoned Meteor, not that incompetent Sephiroth asshole. He and the Aeris girl. But that mother-fuckin' Sephiroth nearly screwed the whole plan. If he had arrived ten seconds earlier, then the plan would have failed. Fortunately for them, Aeris had finished summoning the big-ass-rock from space before Sephiroth killed her. Those retards for teammates actually believed that Sephiroth was evil. But now, it didn't matter. He had obtained Black Materia, so Holy wouldn't intervene this time. He would ressurect his mistress, after his old "friends" were all dead. He would Find the white materia again, and they would summon the rock once more.

He was at the top of the stairs then. He turned right, then right again. He entered the room on the left. He went to the stone column, and opened the secret door. He descended the spiral staircase to the basement of the mansion. The passageway smelled worse than the rooms upstairs. When he reached the bottom of the stairway, he walked down the passage. He felt some bats flutter by his head, and a smell of death met his nose. Walking along, he found an old door. He walked through the door, and saw three coffins. He walked toward the center one, and openedthe lid. Inside, lay Vincent. The man pulled out a wooden stake soaked in gasoline from his cloak. With his free hand, he pulled out a book of matches. The man plunged the stake deep within Vincent's heart. He then lit a match, and lit the stake. Cloud started to walk out, then saw a can of gasoline by the door, and turned back to Vincent. The stake now looked like a flower of flame upon the vampire's chest. He turned back to the gas, and then saw a few barrels of gun powder.

A grin spread across the man's face. He broke up the other coffins, and put that wood on the body of Vincent. He picked up the gas can, and pured a trail from Vincent's coffin to the framework of the room. He then lugged the other barrels gunpowder upstairs. He then took a barrel downstairs, and poured a trail of powder from the door frame, all the way to the other barrels, upstairs. He went back to the secret door and threw a match down the staircase. He had enough time to see the flames rushing up, before he bolted out of the house. He was beyond the gate when the flames reached the barrels, and a large explosion occured, destroying the old mansion.

The man walked off into the gloom of the night, headed toward Rocket Town...

Cid's House, Rocket Town/8:00am/10-9-2536

Cid Highwind awoke with blood on his face.

Yes, blood.

And Shera wasn't in the bed.

Oh God! He hoped this wasn't one of her crazy-ass jokes. But Oh God! This wasn't even funny. He got out of bed, and saw a trail of blood leading out of the room. He leaned over and followed the blood, to see where it went. He was glad little Cloud was away with Barret. While he was following the blood, his head nudged something warm and soft. Hesitantly, he raised his head and eyes. What he saw was Shera, hanging by her own intestines from a rafter.

"OH FUCK!"

"What's the matter Cid?" said a voice from the corner,"Don't you like my gift?"

"Huh? You? What the hell are you doin' here? I thought you were dead!"

"Tut-tut-tut Cid. Did you think that I'd die before you did?"

"You dirty ass bastard. Did you do this you sorry mother-fucker?"

The man in the corner waved his hand, as if brushing the thought to the side."Oh, don't worry about that, Cid. If were you, I'd be more worried about myself right now." With that, the man picked up his large blade, the one he used to burst open Tifa's head, and raised it above his head.

"Oh Shi..."Cid's cry was cut short as the sword sliced him in half. As the halves of Cid's body fell, they dumped a load of blood and entrails in addition to the still dripping mess of Shera's blood.

The plains around Cosmo Canyon/10:00am/10-9-2536 Nanaki, aka the great Red XIII, was roaming the plains, training his two pups, when an arrow whizzed by him. Another flew, and scratched his leg, deeply. Blood began to flow from his leg, and the wound burned, because the arrow stuck in the ground and the tail end tickled the wound. His kids screamed. Then he heard some footsteps coming from behind.

Nanaki whirled around and saw the person approaching.

"It's you. I have terrible news! I think someone's trying to pick us all off. You know, the old Avalanche group. They've already got Tifa, Vincent, and Cid! And just now an arrow flew and tried to hit me. I think someone wants to retry what Sephiroth did so many years ago."

"What I did."

"Huh?" It was then that Nanaki noticed the bow and quiver on the man's back. And the malicious glint in the man's eyes.

"YOU! You did it, didn't you! You killed them! You son of a bitch!"

Nanaki then leapt at the man, ready to tear him open with his fore-claws, with his chest exposed. The man merely thrust his hand into Nanaki's chest, grabed the heart, and ripped it out. Blood began gushing from the beasts body. The body was still flying at the man, and he batted it aside with ease. Blood ran from the hole where the heart used to be, and Red XIII's body went through a bowel evacuation, leaving shit all over the ground.

The man burst the still beating and bleading heart in his hand, then turned toward the frantic pups. He reached down, and picks them up, one head in each hand. He then squeezed, and popped their heads open like large pimples, blood, plasma, and some runny grey stuff ran through his fingers. He threw the bodies to the ground, then turned east.

10 days later some traveller found the bodies after tracing something that he said smelled like "rot and shit."

The Plains Around Midgar/10:00 am/10-11-2536 Barret was over alone emptying his bladder, When he heard footsteps. He quickly zipped up, and whirled around.

"Marleen, I thought I told you..." but he stopped as he saw that it wasn't Marleen. "Hey, man, how ya' been?"

"Okay..."

"It's been awhile, man."

"Yup."

"Hey, why don't you join Marleen, young Cloud and me for awhile?"

Cloud shrugged.

Barret saw that the man had his gun arm.

"Hey, foo, what are ya' doin' with my gun arm?"

The man shrugs, a maniacal smile crosses his lips. "This thing?" The man moves the gun arm.

"Yeah, that thing."

The man activates the gun, and empties the whole thing into Barret's chest.

Barret jerked around as the bullets hit him, and it stained his shirt with a pentagram of blood. The man turned toward Midgar, and walked off.

Two more "friends" to see...

Reeves' office, New Midgar/1:00 pm/10-11-2536 Reeves was working on a speech in his office when he thought that the old Cait Sith robot moved. Reeves had rebuilt Midgar and now ran it. He had deactivated the robot after the battle with Sephiroth, because it was no longer useful. He kept it in his office as a memorandum.But he thought he saw the thing move...

Reeves shrugged and went back to writing his speech. Within 6 minutes, he heard a soft clicking noise, and looked up to see that the robot had locke the door.

"What the fuck..."

Then, from the robot, came a voice he recognized, but couldn't place. "Hey, Reeves, long time no see. Well, I'm sorry we can't catch up on things but, hey, I have something for ya'."

With that, the robot rushed forward, and beat Reeves to death by constantly knocking him over the head with a diamond Megaphone.

Yuffie's House/11:00 pm/10-12-2536

When Yuffie Kisaragi came home the day after Barret and Reeves were killed, she noticed two things amiss. The first was that her Materia chest had been opened and emptied. The second was that her four-point shuriken was no longer hanging in it's accustomed spot.

"Hello, Yuffie." said a voice from her right, downstairs.

She swirled to face the voice, and saw at first only malicious green eyes from the darkness. Then the body emerged from the darkness.

"Cloud! What the fuck are you doing here."

Then the rest of Cloud emerged. He had a large bag slung over his shoulder, along with his sword, and her shuriken in his hand.

"OH SHIT! I'M FUCKED!" Yuffie turned toward the door, and heard a whir. The next second, the tip of her nose was bleeding, and the shuriken was in front of her face. She turned back to Cloud, who had come closer, and dropped a load of shit in her pants.

"Leaving so soon, Yuffie? But I thought you'd be interested in this."Cloud showed Yuffie a piece of materia she'd never seen before. He was making a slow pace up the stairway.

"What is it?" Her face was bright-eyed and curious. With a touch of greed.

"Necron," said Cloud. "The materia that brings people back from the dead. It could revive Sephiroth, or Jenova, if you wanted."

"Whoa... what do you want for it?"

"Want? I have an important use for this, child. I was just teasing you."

"Huh? What use?"

"Does it matter? You won't be around long enough to care."

"Umm... Cloud, what the fuck are you trying to do?"

"Why, what the fuck do you think, you teenage bitch?"

"Buh..Buh..."

Yuffie was cut off as Cloud reached her, and drew back his fist. He then punched her hard in the face. There was a sickening crunch as the bones of her face gave way to his fist, sending shrapnel of her skull into her brain.

Cloud pulled his fist back, and looked at the gory mess that was once Yuffie's face. He smiled a cold, heartless smile that would chill a person to the bone, reshouldered the bag, and left Wutai. He had a long road before he reached the Ancient's City.

That's all for Chapter 1. Please keep looking for Chapter 2 to come soon (i.e. as soon as I have the html up.)