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A Father's Legacy 
Part 1
Calm Before the 
Storm

	The boy, only 16 years of age, sat 
against the large maple tree in his back 
yard, staring up at the old, rusted shuttle 
launchpad.  His large white, long-sleeved 
shirt fluttered in the cool breeze that blew 
some of the leaves off of the tree above 
him.  His large weapon sat, stuck into the 
earth next to him.  His weapon was a large 
dual-sword, a sword hilt with a blade coming 
out of either end.  He hadn't gained his 
fathers love of the spear, or his father's 
foul mouth, but he had gained his father's 
attitude, and his mother's tendency to 
double-check everything.  
	The cool breeze felt good against his 
sweat-covered face.  He had been outside in 
the hot summer afternoon training with his 
dual-sword.  He was fairly good with it, but 
he could never beat his father whenever they 
sparred.  He loved his weapon.  He loved the 
rapidness at which he could hit his 
opponent, and he loved the physical demand 
it took to use it.  He loved the fact that 
he had to keep getting stronger if he wanted 
to master it.  
	"Lloyd! Get your lazy butt in here and 
wash up for dinner `fore I come out there 
give you a thrashin' that you'll never shake 
off!" the scream came from the back door of 
his house, which was not too far away from 
the launch-pad he was looking at.  In fact, 
the launch-pad was in his back-yard.
	"Will you stop tormenting the boy!!" 
Lloyd heard his mother's voice come from 
inside the house.  
	"I'm not tormenting him, Shera, I'm 
gettin' him ready for real life.  Life ain't 
always gonna be easy on him," He heard his 
father's arguments.  His parents always 
argued.  They never became more than 
arguments, though.  His father would never 
hit or abuse his mother, although they never 
did get along.  Lloyd often wondered how 
they ever did get along long enough to have 
a son.  He didn't disapprove of his parents 
or anything, he loved his parents.  He just 
wished that they argue as much.
	Lloyd stood up to go inside, and pulled 
his dual-sword out of the ground.  He walked 
in the house and hung his weapon on the pegs 
on the wall of his room.  He walked into the 
bathroom and washed up.  
	At dinner Shera hit Cid and Lloyd with 
some exciting news.  "I got a letter from 
Cloud and Tifa in Nibelheim.  They've got 
five tickets for the Gold Saucer, and they 
invited us to come with them!"  Cid and 
Lloyd both froze
	"The.....Gold.....Saucer??" They both 
said in unison.
	"What's the matter?  You look like a 
pair eight-year-olds who just got their 
first chocobo," Shera teased them.  
	"I haven't been to the Gold Saucer in 
about sixteen years," Cid said.
	"I've never been to the Gold Saucer," 
Lloyd said.  His parents could never afford 
to take him.  Plus, they never really wanted 
travel that far.
	"We'll leave tomorrow morning, get to 
Nibelheim at night and stay at the inn 
overnight.  The next day we'll leave with 
Cloud and Tifa for the Gold Saucer in the 
morning," Shera mapped out their itinerary.
	"Why don't we just stay at Cloud and 
Tifa's house?" Lloyd asked his mother.
       	"I don't know.  Cloud said we 
couldn't stay at their house, and he 
wouldn't tell me why."  Lloyd found that 
very strange.  He knew that Cloud and Tifa 
were very good family friends.  They fought 
together with his dad to save the planet 
sixteen years ago.  Once, they came over to 
Rocket Town, and Lloyd and Cloud sparred 
together.  Lloyd lost horribly, but he 
learned a whole lot from Cloud, and Cloud 
seemed happy to teach him.  Lloyd just let 
it go after a while.  
	The next morning they saddled up their 
gold chocobos headed east toward Nibelheim.  
They reached their destination a little 
after dusk.  Cloud and Tifa were waiting for 
them at the inn.  They sat down with some 
coffee and caught up on old times.  They 
stayed up late talking about this and about 
that.  It was fairly late when Shera finally 
made them all turn in for the night.
	It was before dawn when they all got up 
and got ready to leave.  It was about dawn 
when they finally got going.  It normally 
would have taken them a while to get to the 
Gold Saucer, but their chocobos could climb 
mountains so they made excellent time.  
	They spent the night at North Corral 
Village, and in the morning they rode the 
cable car to the Gold Saucer.  When Lloyd 
first stepped into the Gold Saucer, his eyes 
lit up.  He reacted just like his mom said 
he did when she told him that they were 
going.  He looked like an eight-year-old who 
just got his first chocobo.  The amusement 
park looked so lively and colorful.  It was 
just how he had thought it would.
	The day was filled with fun and 
excitement.  Even the adults had as much fun 
as a kid.  Lloyd had brought his dual-sword 
with him so he could test himself in the 
battle arena.  He did fairly well, but once 
he got to the eighth he got royally creamed.
	Cid mocked him as soon as he came out.  
"Ho! I would hate to have to depend on you 
in a real fight.  Your mother could protect 
me better than you could.  Ha, Ha, Ha!"  
Lloyd ignored him and ran off to go to the 
arcade.
	The rest of the day went great, everyone 
had a fantastic time.  Cloud won some money 
betting on chocobo races.  They went on the 
gondola ride just before they left.  Cid 
didn't go on at all, Cloud went with Tifa, 
and Lloyd went with his mother, Shera.  Tifa 
was walking toward the lobby when she 
suddenly stopped, a look of shock and horror 
on her face.
	"What's wrong?!" Cloud asked.
	"I don't know, I just got a strange 
feeling like.... I can't really explain it."  
What Tifa didn't know was that that feeling 
was a premonition.  A premonition of 
something evil, something very, very evil.  
Evil that hasn't been seen or heard of for 
sixteen years.

To Be Continued.....