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"Looks like Ol' Janie has drunk one too many Megalixirs" said a boy with a somewhat 'dorky' haircut. He had a funny, albeit nervous way about him, and had a crush on Felicia for quite some time. He was a bit chubby, but you could see some muscle developing underneath. He was wearing a light blue tunic, which didn't really match his hair, but he liked it anyway.

Alex (sorry Angelic XP) never called anybody by their last name, he figured that gave them too much power over him and what were these teachers doing but merely exerting power? Like Jane told them in one of her previous lessons, everybody has an instinct to possess...an instinct to own. What the professors were teaching was only used to buff up their own sense of self-importance. They'll never actually use all this junk. Machines do everything now, human existance was a waste of space. But still...he just wanted to be alive, no more than that, he wanted to FEEL alive.

He suddenly remembered Chocobos while staring down at the exaco laser, as kind of a distant memory. He always wanted to ride one and just forget about the world, but they were extinct now. It's not that they CAN'T be brought back it's just...the government won't do it because the Mecha ones are much more efficient. He still dreamed about the natural chocobos, and hence that was his power...his dreams and visions weren't just his imagination like Jane's, but were events that actually happened.

There was no real 'classl' for Alex's power so he just called himself a Clear Mage. He thought it was cute, in his own quirky way.

Alex snapped back to 'reality' or at least, Jane's perception of it. He sighed...he felt so trapped in this classroom. "Let's get out of here" he told Felicia.

"Oh I just wanted to show you a cool place" he said with a devilish grin on his face.

The streets were mostly rocky and flat, with little to no vegetation. The weather was always a comfortable 70 degrees which was pleasant, but lacked variation. Hovercrafts buzzed and whizzed above them, while clear pipes could be seen wrapped around tall buildings like snakes.

He then turned around and looked down a dark passageway, leading to an abandoned train station. "Looks dark and scary, doesn't it? Watch." He grabbed her hand and suddenly jumped down into the pitch black darkness.

They arrived in a new place that was filled with bright, natural sunlight. It looked like Paradise really, with lush green grass and vivid colors. "Time moves much more slowly here. Sometimes I even doubt it's existence." He picked a flower from the ground and handed it to her, watching in amazement as another one blossomed rapidly in its place. "The only bad thing about the spot is that it's quite small, but maybe there's other Sanctuaries like these over the world, that we could somehow bring all together. I suppose I SHOULD start thinking of a way to use this place for the Greater Good, but I kinda just wanted to have something that was OUR spot, ya know?"

Alex looked up and saw nothing but clear blue skies thinly veiled with hazy, dreamlike clouds. "My powers tell me that this land is called the Calm, or what's left of it anyway."

He clenched his fists until they were almost white, this place was wonderful and all but you still kept your own emotions. "I don't want that b***h Jane EVER finding out about this place" he said bitterly through gritted teeth.

As the chocobo lied sleeping two young humans approached. It had no memory before this. It raised its head and tried to drift back to sleep. As they talked he got a sense of clarity from one of them. The male human was unusually in tune with nature. The chocobo then raised up and walked over to him and pressed up against him. So as to say "I trust you".

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Alex nodded at Felicia. He understood, he did, but it didn't mean he had to like it. He scratched behind the Chocobo's ear and suddenly, a small rock shaped thingie plopped out.

"Materia...we all heard about this in History.." He rubbed its smooth texture inbetween his fingers. "Most Materia nowadays would be obsolete, considering the power the world has to run on. But there's one special materia that's timeless...been said to have the power to stop wars with a single life's breath. It's said to be the source of White Magic and it might just be what's needed to stop the Nightmares... I'm speaking of White Materia, of course."

He looked up at Felicia, with a hopeful, youthful expression. "Can you summon more Chocobos? White Materia is extremely rare yes but...we might get lucky. Summon everything you can, umm it will bound to show up?" He was gasping at straws now, he knew this. Alex didn't think his friend had the power to summon White Materia directly, but it was worth a shot.

"Even if you can only make it corporeal for a second...that's all that's needed. We can drive away the Nightmares once and for all."

Alex was asking a lot from her, he knew this. "Just think...if Jane finds a way to stop the Nightmares before we do she'll get all the glory, and she'll inevitably run the world. Is that what anyone wants?" He figured if that couldn't spark her motivation, nothing will.

"No! This is supposed to be our place!" Alex screamed, a strange fury taking over any amount of reason he might have had. "How did he get in here!!!"

Alex wanted to punch the scrawny professor in the face, he really did, but then he remembred his powers were passive. Felicia had the active powers. He had the dreams, but she turned them into reality.

"Can't you summon a truck to make him like, not be here anymore?" He was done with that school. ******** his 'education.' He knew it was somewhat snobby of him, but he didn't think he could be taught anything. Whatever he needed to know, he would simply dream about it.

"No, no she wasn't really angry with you she was just... ... Disapointed in you." Remus then smiled and turned to Alex. "I'm sorry for making you upset, but I saw this marvelous creature over here and i had to say something." At this the chocobo cooed and Remus just smiled some more. "Anyways, Felicia you have an amazing gift. This place is beautiful."
"Alex, You need to remember that things are not always as they seem." Then the scrawny Prof.'s body began to change into a well built handsome body. Very Much resembling Alex. "Alex I want you to remember a quote from the ancient times before the Mechas 'Education is the best provision for old age.' That was said by a philosopher named Aristotle. You would do well to remember it."

"No one else will know about this, and I'm going back to the school I have to teach in 20 minutes. You both are welcome to walk back with me and we can continue this discussion. This would also give you both the opportunity to apologize to Prof. Weston for leaving her class she really wanted to see what you two could accomplish."
While saying all this he was gradually changing back into the scrawny professor that had put so many students and teachers to shame. For Remus although younger than most of his studentsand most certainly younger than his collegues understood more than most people and not just academically. He could sense potential. These two people before him, Just screamed with it.