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A woman ran swiftly through the shadows of the slums, her footsteps made no sound as they touched the pavement. Soon she slowed to a stop and looked down the street where she lived and noticed there was only one car on the whole block and she knew exactly who it belonged to.

"Shite." She cursed under her breath, they were there for retribution and she knew it. They blaimed her for Chantz's 'death' and said she was a traitor to their cause. She snorted at the thought, she only join their damn group to fight, it was her addiction and her whole reason for getting up in the morning.

She watched her home for a couple more moments before she slipped back into the darkness and dashed across the street quicker than anything else. She skirted around her house and looked through the window counting only three heavily armed guys. She looked up and smirked, jumping up and onto the roof with silent ease. She always had a way in and out of her home for emergencies, and getting her shuriken now was one of them.

'If they go missing oh well, they're interferring.' She smirked at the thought and slipped in through the hidden passage. She moved, pushing a kill switch for the lights as she went. She listened to them curse and stumble around as she grabbed the three knives she had hidden in the passage, knowing she had to get them the first time or it would come down to hand to hand combat in the dark. She mentally wondered if she was allowed to do this, but decided she needed her weapons and would get it at any cost. She heard one of the move right under her .

Aurora jumped down silently behind the man with a smirked. "Boo" He jumped into the air and landed only to a knife lodge itself deep in his chest cavity. The other two watched as their buddy dropped to the floor, giving Aurora the chance to nail one of them in the throat with the other knife. She ducked under some empty crates as the last guy began to shoot up a storm.

'What a waste of bullets at this rate someone will come in here.' She waited till she heard him reloadi before getting up and throw the last knife at him. What she didn't see was him grabbing another weapon instead. As the knife lodged itself in his thoat his finger pressed on the trigger. She cursed and hit the floor once more, not minding the fact she now had a cut where one of the bullets grazed her. She waited till she knew they were all dead before she got up once more. She walked quietly to the bodies and looked around.

"Look at the mess you guys made, all for absolutly nothing." She sighed and dragged the bodies down to the make shift basement and piled them up in the corner. She looked around and smiled grabbing her Large Shuriken. She brought it upstairs and piled her clothes into a duffle bag and some of her main weapons. She tossed them outside.

Aurora walked back downstairs, holding a small bomb that would just blow up the house and destroy everything in it. She set the bomb and walked out of her home and her past and into the arms of the future. As she made her way to one of the abandoned ShinRa Warehouse, she counted the seconds till the bomb went off. As she felt the small explosive go off she smiled.

"Pathetic fools"

"You must have cared about him a great deal, huh?" a smooth voice came from the doorway where Chantz had exited on that fateful night. It was the same door that he had come in moments later. "We thought you might come here...figured it was better somebody tagged along. You made quite a commotion down here, you know."

In the shadows of the doorway stood a man a bit taller than herself with a long, red ponytail and a pair of Turk-issued sunglasses resting precariously on his forehead. Twin scars under his freen eyes were reminders of his own clouded past, but it was something he had long since given up caring about. His suit was poorly kept, though to him it was a style. It got wet as he stepped into the room, as well as his uniform shoes which squished on the floor of the warehouse.

Reno leaned his rod against his shoulder and continued to stare at the newest addition to the Turks, wondering if she had what it took to be one of them.

Reno smirked, kicking a piece of furniture away from him that got in his way. He took another step into the room, watching the woman with some interest. She was still so young...it reminded him of Elena a little, but not that much. He tapped his rod on another broken chair.

"You probably didn't follow him because you know you would have died," he thought off-handedly, though it was more than likely true. "What's the point in dying if you don't have to, right?" The red-haired Turk tapped a broken piece of furniture again with his rod, causing the leg to fall to the soaking floor. It was funny, he thought...a flick of his finger and every living thing in this place would fry. 'Kinda makes you feel powerful...' he thought, dismissing the thought as it came to him.

"What're you doin' here, anyway?" he asked her, the question heavily measured.

"Come on, you know the answer to that," Reno laughed uneasily, scratching his back with his rod. "The ShinRa keeps us on a pretty tight leash. Once you sign up, your a** is theirs." The green-eyed Turk stepped through the water and past the woman, the equipped materia clearly visible in his weapon. He glanced back at her for a moment.

"You know, it's not good to dwell on the past, it'll only give you headaches," Reno told her seriously, though he still wore a small smile. "You're a Turk now, and that's all you need to know."

"I set it aside at my house and blew it up for fun, I came here to leave Chantz's damn problems here also. I will NOT allow his stupidity to hold me back. He made his choices and I've made mine."

She walked pasted Red and grabbed her Shuriken. She then grabbed her bag and looked at the two guys.

"So Red and Mystery, what are you two doing here, other than checking up on me?" She said with a smile on her face.

'Yep now there is nothing else to look back on, all I need to look on now is the future.' She thought to herself

"Sweet, So are you going to blow it up? Can I help?" She asked

'What a better way to end a day than blowing up not one but two buildings? Other than more than that.'

She watched them carefully as she leaned against the door frame.

"No time," he told her, following Rude out the door. "Better get a move on if you don't want to go up with it. The big guy here doesn't mess around." Reno set his rod on his shoulder and motioned for her to follow him out the door...a symbolic gesture, really...much like the one he had made her when they first raided the joint.

It was her chance for a new life, as a member of the Turks. But to do so, she would have to turn her back on the Dead Scientists...and Chantz, too. ShinRa wouldn't have it any other way.