The air had taken on slightly more of a chill the following morning. They had decided to hold off on their trek to the mansion for a little bit ( Read more... )

Angeal stood outside the Shinra Mansion. He had never felt so conflicted and isolated in his entire life. After their short walk to the Mansion, Genesis had warmed back up to him a bit, but he was so caught up in everything that Angeal was not anywhere near the forefront of his mind ( Read more... )

Genesis ran his hands through his hair, trying to think of a way to breach the fact that he and Sephiroth had been human experiments since birth. It wasn't exactly a topic covered in his etiquette classes as a child. Finally, after a bit of deliberation, he came up with an opening ( Read more... )

It was early morning when Cloud's mother led them to the Shinra mansion. He remembered the stories about this place growing up and his mother, like the rest of the village parents, had warned him away from it. The fact that his mother knew what was in here, what had taken place here first hand, was another unsettling fact for him to get over ( Read more... )

It was early morning when Cloud's mother led them to the Shinra mansion. He remembered the stories about this place growing up and his mother, like the rest of the village parents, had warned him away from it. The fact that his mother knew what was in here, what had taken place here first hand, was another unsettling fact for him to get over ( Read more... )

Cloud thought about checking in with Genesis for a moment, before going to find this Highwind person, but he wanted to get his brother home as soon as possible. He decided to try his luck with the Rocket first, as much as he didn't want to disturb the man at work, the shop keeper had said it was the place he was most likely to be ( Read more... )

Once Sephiroth had left them, Cloud felt that he could breathe again. The matter of pairing up Genesis's men and handing out the materia was easy enough and Genesis seemed to be very good at giving out orders, while extremely pleased to be doing it. To his surprise, several of the 3rds were left in his command after all, even though they were ( Read more... )

Genesis sat in the meeting room of the large aircraft taking him and his men to Wutai. Cloud, still under the guise of simply being Genesis's student, sat next to him. Several other random men sat around the table, Genesis knew they were his unit leaders, 10 units consisting of 20 men. Each unit was broken down into 1 first (the unit's leader) 4 ( Read more... )

Cloud was sitting on the couch, desperately trying to follow what Genesis was saying about Loveless. It was something that seemed to mean a lot to the man and he was trying his hardest, but, really, he was just confused. He was about to suggest that he should read the book on his own when there was a knock at Genesis's door ( Read more... )

Genesis could barely sleep. His shoulder was sore and, when he could get his mind off it, it went to his deployment in Wutai and then to the small cadet down in the infirmary. He had to admit that he could see a bit of a resemblance. Heck, he had looked familiar to him when he first walked in. Only after he found out about their relation, did he ( Read more... )