I was born and raised in a small town called Nibelheim. When I was young I was weak. I was tired of getting in fights with the older boys and i was tired of being blamed for what happened to Tifa. If only i was stronger...she forgave me but no one else in the town did so i didnt see any reason in staying. I left for the big city of Midgar to join SOLDIER hoping to one day become as strong as the great Sephiroth.
When I got there I enlisted to try out to be in soldier but failed. I had nowhere to go but the shinra army. I soon found myself on a mission back to my home town of Nibelheim with a guy named Zack who i met and became freinds with while we were in tryouts fir SOLDIER. Not only did Zack make it but soon crawled his way up to first class. Another person coming along this mission was the one and only Sephiroth.
I got back to my home town but refused to let anyone I knew see me. I told them all I was going to be in SOLDIER and there i was in a shinra uniform. on that mission Sepiroth found out to much about his past. He went bersek and destroted my home town. He burned everything to the ground, and for that I will never forgive him.
I followed him back to the Nibelheim reactor where I found Tifa's father on the ground dead. I continued farther in the reactor to find Tifa barley breathing. As if that wasnt enough there was Zack on the ground unable to fight. How am I suposed to beat the great Sephiroth if a first class SOLDIER can't.
I dont remember much of that but in terms of skill i couldnt have beat him. I found myself waking up in a green tube in the shinra massion basement. Next to me was an idendical tube with Zack in it. I found out later it was Hojos experiment to make Zack and I into Sephiroth clones and in a way it worked.
Zack and I escaped from the shinra massion and headed for Midgar. Well, I guess Zack escaped and sort of dragged me along. I can barley remember any of it. We hitch a ride to Midgar and almost made it untill a group of shinra soldiers found us. If Zack wasn't defending me he could have beat them no problem but that wasn't the case. I woke up to find Zack dead by my side and why they didn't kill me I'll never know. I picked up Zacks sword and in a way his idendity. Something happened in that tube to make me believe I was Zack. Our memories were fused into one, and thankfully so was our skill, well, Zacks skill. I made my way to Midgar to later find Tifa and a group called AVALANCH and the rest is history.
It wasn't till much later that I descovered my true past and realized I was not Zack. I have Tifa to thank for that. I don't know what I would do without you Tifa.
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