Mmm...I read that the opening scene was supposed to be some sort of motorcycle chase, but I don't think we got that far.
It just started with that lion thing running around the place and up a mountain for a view of the land. Then it shows a group of people in a helicopter flying down below through the clouds. The screen just hovers aobve the clouds so you can't see what's going below under the clouds.
All you hear is a bunch of sowrd slicing sounds, gun play, screaming, and swearing. Then it goes silent (except for the whirling of the copter) and then you see the heli fly back up through the clouds, but it doesn't show who's left in the heli...
Then a narrator voice talked about the aftermath of some life stream thing. I didn't play FFVII so I don't know much, and the teacher didn't play Reminisence of FFVII to let us who didn't play FFVII catch up a bit.
Then the bell rang.