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Calamity
0 ReviewsOne by one people are disappearing, and those who are left start to forget they ever existed. It is a mystery that the Turks and Avalanche must solve before it's too late. TsengxElena, CloudxTifa, ...
Calamity
Chapter 1
That night like many others, the Turks had stayed in the Shinra building late.
"Where is it? It has to be here somewhere!" Reno was currently tearing the Turks office apart, much to Elena's annoyance.
"What did you lose this time?" She shook her head at the mess Reno was making; she refused to clean that up.
"My electro-rod, I'm not sure where I put it, help me look!"
Elena knew that if she denied Reno's request he would, not only whine about it later, but continued making a mess. "Are you sure you left it in this office?"
"If I knew where I left it, it would be a lot easier to find it. It could be anywhere." Reno just couldn't go on without his precious rod.
Elena sighed. "Fine, I'll go ask reeve if he's seen it." They were in his office earlier with some reports of WRO missions where there was assistance from the Turks. "Try not to make a bigger mess."
xoxox xox xoxox
Upon arriving at Reeve's office, Elena saw Cait Sith, curled up on his chair. Reeve was nowhere to be found, probably out for coffee. However, asking about the electro-rod was no longer needed, as she saw it in a corner of the desk. Reno must have left it there without realizing. She took it and headed back to the Turks office.
xoxox xox xoxox
On her way back, Elena saw Tseng heading towards the elevator. "Tseng!" Oddly enough, he didn't respond or even look back. "Tseng, wait!" Elena had a bad feeling about this, but she couldn't reach Tseng before the elevator doors closed.
Determined to find out why Tseng didn't answer, Elena took the next glass elevator and followed Tseng. She could see him through the glass, going further up, all the way to the roof, and followed.
As if in a trance, Tseng got out of the elevator and walked to the center of the roof. "Tseng!" Elena was once again ignored, something was very wrong.
It had rained earlier and there were small puddles of water on the roof. Elena tried to run after Tseng, she slipped and the electro-rod she still held, activated. The water she landed on conducted the electricity and gave Elena an electric shock. At the same time, there was a bright light from the skies of Midgar, and everything faded to darkness.
xoxox xox xoxox
When Elena woke up the next morning, she returned to the Turks office in search of Tseng. "Where's Tseng?"
Elena dropped the electro-rod on Reno's desk causing him to look up from the papers he was reading. "You found it!"
"Where is Tseng?" She repeated the question.
Reno gave her a confused look. "Song?"
"Tseng! The leader of the Turks, where is he?" Elena insisted.
"You're looking at him..." As far as Reno remembered been the leader since before Elena joined.
"Stop joking! Something happened last night. I followed Tseng to the roof and there was a bright light. Where is he?" Elena's heart raced. She could usually tell when Reno was joking, but this time it looked like he was being honest.
"You followed someone to the roof? Unauthorized personal?" Reno asked.
"No, I followed Tseng, Tseng of the Turks!" Elena slammed her fist on the desk in frustration. Her temper was usually controlled much better, but she felt very uncomfortable about what was going on, and she couldn't help it but to think Tseng was in danger.
"Elena, calm down, there is no person called Tseng in the Turks." Reno words were spoken calmly, but to Elena they felt like icy daggers. Without another word, Elena ran out of the office. "Elena!"
She ignored Reno and kept running, until she ran into Rude. "Rude! Do you know where Tseng is?"
"Tseng... I don't know who that is." Rude noted that Elena's looked worried. "Did something happen?"
"Do not joke about this, I need to see Tseng!" Elena insisted to no avail.
"Elena, I don't know who that is." Rude tried to explain again. Elena only ran once more.
'This cant be, it can't be!' She returned to her desk and anxiously accessed the Shinra data base. She looked at her profile, the records of all her missions. "Why isn't Tseng here? He should be in the system; he should be in the mission we went on together." This was too much, they wouldn't go through the trouble of changing the database just for a joke, and she couldn't shake that feeling that something was very wrong.
"Elena, who exactly are you looking for?" Reno tried to reason with her again. Rude had also arrived at the office.
"Tseng of the Turks," Elena tried to explain but the message wasn't getting across. "Tseng was with me when we went to the Northern Crater. We recovered the remains of Jenova, but we were captured by the remnants of Sephiroth. You got there just in time to take Jenova and-"
"Elena, that was a solo mission," Rude spoke with a complete certainty that bothered Elena greatly.
"No... Tseng is... He has to be..." Elena took a deep breath. Panicking wouldn't solve anything, she was a Turks; she could handle this. But as she wished for this to be only some kind of test, she somehow knew it wasn't. Something was going on, she didn't know what, but something bad was happening. "Sorry... I need some fresh air." Reno and Rude nodded and Elena left.
xoxox xox xoxox
Elena headed to the Seventh Heaven; surely Tifa and Cloud would remember Tseng. If they did, then it meant it was some sort of twisted test from Shinra. "Tifa! Do you remember Tseng? Do you know who he is?"
There was a moment of silence in which Tifa observed the panicked state Elena was in. Tifa slowly shook her head. "No..."
Elena sunk into one of the bar stools and held her head. "Why is it that only I remember?"
"What are you talking about?" Tifa asked confused.
"Tseng, he's in the Turks but Reno and Rude don't remember him at all. He's not in Shinra's database; I don't know what happened... Cloud, I need to ask Cloud! Maybe Cloud will remember!" It was Elena's last ray of hope.
"Did you call me?" Cloud came downstairs after hearing his name.
"Cloud, do you know who the leader of the Turks is?" Elena asked.
Cloud found the sudden question odd, but what was stranger, was that he had to think about it before replying. "Reno, right?"
"Try again," Elena waited for Cloud to think about his answer a little more and tried to give him a hint. "Tall, long black hair..."
Cloud tried hard to remember, this felt very strange, it made him feel uneasy. "Was there something like that in the Turks?"
"Yes! Tseng, his name is Tseng!" Elena was just about ready to give up on Cloud, when he looked like he remembered something.
"Tseng..." Cloud closed his eyes and tried to picture the man Elena described. "Tseng..." He remembered, the memory was blurry but remembered. Then his head started to hurt and his eyes glowed.
"Cloud!" Tifa rushed to his side and helped him sit down.
"I can hardly remember..." Cloud spoke slowly, unsure if this was a memory or an illusion. "When I try to remember my head hurts, it's blurry. Such a person really existed?"
"Yes, I'm absolutely certain. He's in danger, that's the only explanation, I don't know what's going on but it's not good." Elena thought back to last night on the roof. Tseng was in some kind of trance back then.
"Are you sure? Maybe that man was only an illusion, something you created..." Cloud was confused. He never wanted to doubt his memories again.
"Tseng is not an illusion!" Elena knew that Cloud would need some convincing, but she didn't have a fast way to prove Tseng's existence and there was no time to waste. "I'm going to find him."
xoxox xox xoxox
Elena had left the Seventh Heaven, but didn't know where to start her investigation. She saw a man she recognized as Barret heading for the Seventh Heaven. "Hey! Barret isn't it?"
"A Turk..." Even if Shinra was technically no longer the enemy, Barret was never fond of the company or anyone who was still working for it.
"My name is Elena. Tell me something, do you remember Tseng?" Elena asked.
"Of course! Tseng, the leader of the Turks, how can I forget any of you and what you did?" Barret did not understand why his bitter statement caused the blonde young woman to look so happy. Her face carried no malice, it was full of relief. "Why are you asking me all of this?"
"Because no one else remembers him; and Cloud got a headache just trying." She tried to further understand the scope of the situation and came to a hypothesis. "You were not in Midgar last night."
"Been spyin' on me, Turk?" Barret was not pleased with how the conversation was developing, and it bothered him even more that he didn't know exactly what they were talking about.
"I'll explain in the Seventh Heaven, that's where you're going right?" In the past, Elena would have never thought of getting clues from Avalanche in such a way, let alone possibly help. But Tseng's life could be on the line for all she knew and that was more important.
xoxox xox xoxox
"Cloud... did Tseng really exist?" Tifa had no memories of a man by that name ever existing. She couldn't think of anyone who matched Elena's description.
"I don't know... When I try to remember him, I feel like there's something trying to stop me from uncovering the truth. This time it's not me, I'm not hiding my own memories; something is hiding them from me. It feels like the pain of geostigma but it's different." Cloud's words only confused Tifa further.
She didn't remember Tseng, and she didn't understand why Cloud and Elena did. If this was some kind of side effect on Cloud because of the mako in him, that wouldn't explain why Elena's memories of Tseng appeared to be even more clear than Cloud's fragments of memories. "Could it be that Shinra experimented on Elena and this Tseng is actually an illusion?"
"Elena has no mako, I think she was experimented on and even if that happened, why are my memories blurry again? I have no reason to invent a person called Tseng." With that reasoning, it didn't make sense that Cloud vaguely remembered Tseng if he didn't exist.
"Maybe he's Elena's wish. Sometimes, a girl can wish for her hero, and sometimes, she becomes tired of waiting and makes something up." The hidden meaning of Tifa's words completely eluded Cloud.
"If Tseng is Elena's dream man then why would he be in my memories too?" For Cloud to make up an illusion he needed a reason, a motivation. His desire to be a soldier, to protect Tifa, to make sure he didn't let her down, but he had no reason to invent a man named Tseng.
"Do you think that Elena wishes for Tseng to exist so strongly, that somehow you're able to sense that?" Tifa came up with another theory.
Cloud wondered if she was right. "I don't know... I supposed it could happen. If Elena feels so strongly about Tseng then maybe, these blurry memories are hers, not mine. Maybe she gave me these memories somehow because she feels so strongly about this..." Cloud paused and gave it some thought. "But if that was it then I would be able to accept or deny those memories. I can easily deny them but if I try to accept them, I feel strange, as if something is stopping me. I don't like this. There might be more to it than we imagine."
Cloud was getting worried and that worried Tifa. "We'll solve it. Whether Tseng is real or not, we'll get to the bottom of these. We can't lose our memories." Seeing Cloud doubt his memories like that, Tifa started to doubt her own. She wondered if there really was a man named Tseng, and why would she and Cloud be forced to forget him.
There was a moment of silence between Tifa and Cloud, which ended when Barret and Elena arrived. "Will you just tell me what in the world is goin' on?!" Barret had grown quite impatient on the way.
"I'll explain it in a minute; I want Cloud and Tifa to hear it too," Elena looked at Cloud, who had a thoughtful expression. Did that mean he was trying to remember? Good, because now Elena had proof that Tseng existed. If Barret remembered Tseng, then Cloud and Tifa would have to believe he existed.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I do not own Final Fantasy VII. What do you think of this story so far? I wonder if anyone has any idea about what the mystery is about...
Chapter 1
That night like many others, the Turks had stayed in the Shinra building late.
"Where is it? It has to be here somewhere!" Reno was currently tearing the Turks office apart, much to Elena's annoyance.
"What did you lose this time?" She shook her head at the mess Reno was making; she refused to clean that up.
"My electro-rod, I'm not sure where I put it, help me look!"
Elena knew that if she denied Reno's request he would, not only whine about it later, but continued making a mess. "Are you sure you left it in this office?"
"If I knew where I left it, it would be a lot easier to find it. It could be anywhere." Reno just couldn't go on without his precious rod.
Elena sighed. "Fine, I'll go ask reeve if he's seen it." They were in his office earlier with some reports of WRO missions where there was assistance from the Turks. "Try not to make a bigger mess."
xoxox xox xoxox
Upon arriving at Reeve's office, Elena saw Cait Sith, curled up on his chair. Reeve was nowhere to be found, probably out for coffee. However, asking about the electro-rod was no longer needed, as she saw it in a corner of the desk. Reno must have left it there without realizing. She took it and headed back to the Turks office.
xoxox xox xoxox
On her way back, Elena saw Tseng heading towards the elevator. "Tseng!" Oddly enough, he didn't respond or even look back. "Tseng, wait!" Elena had a bad feeling about this, but she couldn't reach Tseng before the elevator doors closed.
Determined to find out why Tseng didn't answer, Elena took the next glass elevator and followed Tseng. She could see him through the glass, going further up, all the way to the roof, and followed.
As if in a trance, Tseng got out of the elevator and walked to the center of the roof. "Tseng!" Elena was once again ignored, something was very wrong.
It had rained earlier and there were small puddles of water on the roof. Elena tried to run after Tseng, she slipped and the electro-rod she still held, activated. The water she landed on conducted the electricity and gave Elena an electric shock. At the same time, there was a bright light from the skies of Midgar, and everything faded to darkness.
xoxox xox xoxox
When Elena woke up the next morning, she returned to the Turks office in search of Tseng. "Where's Tseng?"
Elena dropped the electro-rod on Reno's desk causing him to look up from the papers he was reading. "You found it!"
"Where is Tseng?" She repeated the question.
Reno gave her a confused look. "Song?"
"Tseng! The leader of the Turks, where is he?" Elena insisted.
"You're looking at him..." As far as Reno remembered been the leader since before Elena joined.
"Stop joking! Something happened last night. I followed Tseng to the roof and there was a bright light. Where is he?" Elena's heart raced. She could usually tell when Reno was joking, but this time it looked like he was being honest.
"You followed someone to the roof? Unauthorized personal?" Reno asked.
"No, I followed Tseng, Tseng of the Turks!" Elena slammed her fist on the desk in frustration. Her temper was usually controlled much better, but she felt very uncomfortable about what was going on, and she couldn't help it but to think Tseng was in danger.
"Elena, calm down, there is no person called Tseng in the Turks." Reno words were spoken calmly, but to Elena they felt like icy daggers. Without another word, Elena ran out of the office. "Elena!"
She ignored Reno and kept running, until she ran into Rude. "Rude! Do you know where Tseng is?"
"Tseng... I don't know who that is." Rude noted that Elena's looked worried. "Did something happen?"
"Do not joke about this, I need to see Tseng!" Elena insisted to no avail.
"Elena, I don't know who that is." Rude tried to explain again. Elena only ran once more.
'This cant be, it can't be!' She returned to her desk and anxiously accessed the Shinra data base. She looked at her profile, the records of all her missions. "Why isn't Tseng here? He should be in the system; he should be in the mission we went on together." This was too much, they wouldn't go through the trouble of changing the database just for a joke, and she couldn't shake that feeling that something was very wrong.
"Elena, who exactly are you looking for?" Reno tried to reason with her again. Rude had also arrived at the office.
"Tseng of the Turks," Elena tried to explain but the message wasn't getting across. "Tseng was with me when we went to the Northern Crater. We recovered the remains of Jenova, but we were captured by the remnants of Sephiroth. You got there just in time to take Jenova and-"
"Elena, that was a solo mission," Rude spoke with a complete certainty that bothered Elena greatly.
"No... Tseng is... He has to be..." Elena took a deep breath. Panicking wouldn't solve anything, she was a Turks; she could handle this. But as she wished for this to be only some kind of test, she somehow knew it wasn't. Something was going on, she didn't know what, but something bad was happening. "Sorry... I need some fresh air." Reno and Rude nodded and Elena left.
xoxox xox xoxox
Elena headed to the Seventh Heaven; surely Tifa and Cloud would remember Tseng. If they did, then it meant it was some sort of twisted test from Shinra. "Tifa! Do you remember Tseng? Do you know who he is?"
There was a moment of silence in which Tifa observed the panicked state Elena was in. Tifa slowly shook her head. "No..."
Elena sunk into one of the bar stools and held her head. "Why is it that only I remember?"
"What are you talking about?" Tifa asked confused.
"Tseng, he's in the Turks but Reno and Rude don't remember him at all. He's not in Shinra's database; I don't know what happened... Cloud, I need to ask Cloud! Maybe Cloud will remember!" It was Elena's last ray of hope.
"Did you call me?" Cloud came downstairs after hearing his name.
"Cloud, do you know who the leader of the Turks is?" Elena asked.
Cloud found the sudden question odd, but what was stranger, was that he had to think about it before replying. "Reno, right?"
"Try again," Elena waited for Cloud to think about his answer a little more and tried to give him a hint. "Tall, long black hair..."
Cloud tried hard to remember, this felt very strange, it made him feel uneasy. "Was there something like that in the Turks?"
"Yes! Tseng, his name is Tseng!" Elena was just about ready to give up on Cloud, when he looked like he remembered something.
"Tseng..." Cloud closed his eyes and tried to picture the man Elena described. "Tseng..." He remembered, the memory was blurry but remembered. Then his head started to hurt and his eyes glowed.
"Cloud!" Tifa rushed to his side and helped him sit down.
"I can hardly remember..." Cloud spoke slowly, unsure if this was a memory or an illusion. "When I try to remember my head hurts, it's blurry. Such a person really existed?"
"Yes, I'm absolutely certain. He's in danger, that's the only explanation, I don't know what's going on but it's not good." Elena thought back to last night on the roof. Tseng was in some kind of trance back then.
"Are you sure? Maybe that man was only an illusion, something you created..." Cloud was confused. He never wanted to doubt his memories again.
"Tseng is not an illusion!" Elena knew that Cloud would need some convincing, but she didn't have a fast way to prove Tseng's existence and there was no time to waste. "I'm going to find him."
xoxox xox xoxox
Elena had left the Seventh Heaven, but didn't know where to start her investigation. She saw a man she recognized as Barret heading for the Seventh Heaven. "Hey! Barret isn't it?"
"A Turk..." Even if Shinra was technically no longer the enemy, Barret was never fond of the company or anyone who was still working for it.
"My name is Elena. Tell me something, do you remember Tseng?" Elena asked.
"Of course! Tseng, the leader of the Turks, how can I forget any of you and what you did?" Barret did not understand why his bitter statement caused the blonde young woman to look so happy. Her face carried no malice, it was full of relief. "Why are you asking me all of this?"
"Because no one else remembers him; and Cloud got a headache just trying." She tried to further understand the scope of the situation and came to a hypothesis. "You were not in Midgar last night."
"Been spyin' on me, Turk?" Barret was not pleased with how the conversation was developing, and it bothered him even more that he didn't know exactly what they were talking about.
"I'll explain in the Seventh Heaven, that's where you're going right?" In the past, Elena would have never thought of getting clues from Avalanche in such a way, let alone possibly help. But Tseng's life could be on the line for all she knew and that was more important.
xoxox xox xoxox
"Cloud... did Tseng really exist?" Tifa had no memories of a man by that name ever existing. She couldn't think of anyone who matched Elena's description.
"I don't know... When I try to remember him, I feel like there's something trying to stop me from uncovering the truth. This time it's not me, I'm not hiding my own memories; something is hiding them from me. It feels like the pain of geostigma but it's different." Cloud's words only confused Tifa further.
She didn't remember Tseng, and she didn't understand why Cloud and Elena did. If this was some kind of side effect on Cloud because of the mako in him, that wouldn't explain why Elena's memories of Tseng appeared to be even more clear than Cloud's fragments of memories. "Could it be that Shinra experimented on Elena and this Tseng is actually an illusion?"
"Elena has no mako, I think she was experimented on and even if that happened, why are my memories blurry again? I have no reason to invent a person called Tseng." With that reasoning, it didn't make sense that Cloud vaguely remembered Tseng if he didn't exist.
"Maybe he's Elena's wish. Sometimes, a girl can wish for her hero, and sometimes, she becomes tired of waiting and makes something up." The hidden meaning of Tifa's words completely eluded Cloud.
"If Tseng is Elena's dream man then why would he be in my memories too?" For Cloud to make up an illusion he needed a reason, a motivation. His desire to be a soldier, to protect Tifa, to make sure he didn't let her down, but he had no reason to invent a man named Tseng.
"Do you think that Elena wishes for Tseng to exist so strongly, that somehow you're able to sense that?" Tifa came up with another theory.
Cloud wondered if she was right. "I don't know... I supposed it could happen. If Elena feels so strongly about Tseng then maybe, these blurry memories are hers, not mine. Maybe she gave me these memories somehow because she feels so strongly about this..." Cloud paused and gave it some thought. "But if that was it then I would be able to accept or deny those memories. I can easily deny them but if I try to accept them, I feel strange, as if something is stopping me. I don't like this. There might be more to it than we imagine."
Cloud was getting worried and that worried Tifa. "We'll solve it. Whether Tseng is real or not, we'll get to the bottom of these. We can't lose our memories." Seeing Cloud doubt his memories like that, Tifa started to doubt her own. She wondered if there really was a man named Tseng, and why would she and Cloud be forced to forget him.
There was a moment of silence between Tifa and Cloud, which ended when Barret and Elena arrived. "Will you just tell me what in the world is goin' on?!" Barret had grown quite impatient on the way.
"I'll explain it in a minute; I want Cloud and Tifa to hear it too," Elena looked at Cloud, who had a thoughtful expression. Did that mean he was trying to remember? Good, because now Elena had proof that Tseng existed. If Barret remembered Tseng, then Cloud and Tifa would have to believe he existed.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I do not own Final Fantasy VII. What do you think of this story so far? I wonder if anyone has any idea about what the mystery is about...
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