Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ To Rewrite History ❯ Reliving ( Chapter 1 )

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To Rewrite History (Prologue): The Deal

by gwf88

AN: Hey people! This is my first FF7 fic, so please be nice. Anyways, this fic
concentrates on Rufus...he's one of my fav. characters from FF7 and so I decided to write
a little fic on him. Please review!!

Rufus looked around my surroundings...black..darkness...all around him, never ending...what
is this place? Then a small green glowing orb landed on his shoulder. Could this...
But a voice broke his train of thoughts. "Hello, young Shinra." The voice said.
He looked around, alert, right hand close to his shotgun.

The voice laughed, but it wasn't sinister, it was in amusement. "No need to be
afraid, young Shinra." Rufus scowled, and straitened his posture. "Afraid? I
wasn't afraid...I was merely making sure that I wasn't going to be attacked. I am
the President of Shinra..." He said, flicking a part of his hair away from his eyes.
"You were." The voice replied. Rufus didn't step back in suprise. As a
matter of fact, he had a suspicion he was dead.

"Let me ask you something Rufus, do you know what the WEAPON's attack does?"

"Kills humans?" Rufus said to himself. "Well, yes..yes it
does." The voice said. "But, it also gives more people the opportunity to go to
the Promised Land and morelife force to flow into the lifestream. Also-."

"But, the Promised Land is only for Cetras." The young man interrupted, his
voice flat.

"Yes, but the Cetras also made the Promised Land available to every creature's
soul...or at least, to the every soul that deserves to go there."

Rufus smirked. "I'm not one of them." He said, no hint of sadness, just
amusement. "No, you're not." The voice agreed. There was a moment of silence.

"Tell me," Rufus said all of a sudden. "Everyone knows that the being's
life force goes back to the lifestream, which goes back to the earth...so why...?"
Rufus looked at his own body. "Ah. I was pondering when you would ask. Your life
force and soul are two different things. The life force comes back to me, while your soul
either enters the gateway of the Promised Land, but if you're not worthy enough to go to
the Promsied Land, then you fade to nothingness. However, the reason you're still
here is because I have a task for you." Rufus nodded, then looked up, as if looking
at the source of the mysterious voice.

"So, what is it?"

"Remember about what WEAPON's attack does?"

"We already went through this before." Rufus said irritably. "It kills
humans."

"Ah, yes, but you didn't let me finish. The Cetras always suspected that somehow,
someway, the creature you call JENOVA would resurface into the world again."

"...and...?" Rufus asked, annoyed at the pauses.

"Many people think that WEAPON was created by me, the Planet, but the truth is the
Cetras created them."

"And..?"

"The WEAPONS were created to destroy JENOVA and everybody who helps it."

"Then why did the WEAPONS attack humans?" Rufus asked.

The voice chuckled. "JENOVA was in a way, trying to destroy me. The WEAPONS were
made to protect me. You humans kept sucking the lifestream, so it was only natural the
WEAPONS attacked you. Also, the being that claimed he was an Ancient and the son of JENOVA
was a human. The WEAPONS realized this and then assumed the humans were also enemies.So,
Rufus Shinra...do you accept your mission?"

"What mission?" Rufus asked, narrowing his eyes. "To kill JENOVA."

"What do I get in return? Afterall, I'm 'dead' now. Why should I care?"

"Kill JENOVA...and I will grant you access to the Promised Land."

"I don't care for the Promised Land. Besides, hasn't AVALANCHE killed it
yet?" Rufus asked. There was a long silence. Rufus expected his astral projection to
start fading away, but nothing happened.

"Rufus." The voice said out of the blue, giving Rufus a bit of a start.
"What?" Rufus asked? He didn't know where he should look when he talked and that
didn't make him feel very comfortable. "Cloud and his friends have killed JENOVA, but
it is already too late...I am fatally wounded...I can only keep going on for a century or
so.."

Rufus shrugged nonchalantly as if to say "Why should I care?"

"Rufus, have you ever felt you were missing something? Something important?
Something everyone else had but you?"

Rufus mentally flinched as the Planet said that. As a child he was repeatedly beaten by
his father. His life was all black. No colors, no happiness. Everytime he saw a child
walking by, laughing as if he/she were having the time of his/her life, he would only look
on in confusion and sadness. He couldn't cry. Never did and wouldn't start any time soon.

"I had everything-" Rufus started, but was cut off by the Planet. "No
you didn't. And now you are given a chance to find what you were missing. The missing
piece to your being and access to the Promised Land. Are you going to pass up this chance
and dissolve to nothingness over , or will you accept your mission?"

Rufus glared at the dark void above him.

AN: Da da dun! What will Rufus do next?! (I think you all know, it's so obvious) Oh and
by the way, I'm sorry if all he WEAPON attack stuff and "your soul is different from
your life force" stuff got you confused. When I read it even I got confused. ~shrug~
I'm not good at making things up. And that missing piece to Rufus's being, what do you
think it is? NEwayz, please review!