Cid huffed and tried his best to follow after the group, yelling at Vincent. "Where do you think you are going?"
Vincent shot him a cold glance and mumbled, "Danielle is alive, I know it... I just have to find her..."
"This isn't another girlfriend like that...that Lucrecia chick is it?" Barret asked.
Beth shot Barret a glance, "You mean my mother?"
Barret shut up.
"No... Danielle is my sister who I thought to be dead... She disappeared while I was still with the Turks..." Vincent said, rushing onto the Highwind. "Cid, drive us to the town of Bone Village..."
Cid looked at the crazy dead guy and started up the Highwind. "I think you're crazy, chasing after an old book about your sister that you found at who knows where!"
Vincent pulled out his Death Penalty and glanced at Cid, "Pardon me? Whose got the gun and whose got the wussy little spear?"
Cid grumbled, "It isn't that wussy..."
Tifa giggled in the corner, "I've seen him coming out of the shower, and yes, it IS that wussy."
Cid landed the Highwind as close to the small town as he could. Vincent was the first out of the ship, which was still in midair and caused him to fall onto the ground.
"DAMN IT VAMPIRE BOY WAIT UNTIL I $# LAND THE ($&()& SHIP!!!!!" Cid barked.
Nanaki ran off as soon as they landed and made sure Vincent was okay.
"No injuries..." Nanaki said.
"Just to his head..." Cid growled as he looked at the others.
"Then he's just fine..." Cloud said.
Vincent stood up a little woozily and rushed towards a small bone house at the edge of town. He flung open the door and ran inside.
Nanaki followed him into the dark and dusty house. "Nobody has lived here for years..."
Vincent looked around, "I know... me and my sister lived here after our parents died." He grabbed things and read books.
Cloud and the others decided to rest for a while and took a short snooze.
It was almost after midnight when Vincent yanked Cid out of his bed and took him by the hair out to the Highwind. Beth had been awake and saw this...
"Vincent... can I help you?" Beth said, running along side of Vincent, and poor Cid, who was being drug almost a mile.
"My sister... Danielle... I need to find her." Vincent said, dropping the half asleep and half drunk pilot at his feet. "Can you help us? I need to use the Highwind."
"You mean an adventure?" Beth said, smirking.
"What about the others?" Cid yawned,
"Leave them... they should be fine here... we won't be gone long, anyways." Vincent said, and both Cid and Beth followed him onto the ship.
"Where to Vincent?" Beth said, looking at the two books that he held in his flesh hand. His claw was empty, which was normal, because Beth knew he liked his claw about as much as she liked her own.
"The last entry in this journal says she was heading to the Gold Saucer to try to work." Vincent said, reading the dusty books. "It is dated almost twenty years ago..."
"And Vincent... may I ask why we are searching for her now?" Beth said as the Highwind took off.
"Because I found something about another Valentine in the Shin-Ra ruins, the census report." He smirked. "And she is my sister, after all... I do love her..."
Beth smirked.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, tell me why WE don't have that kind of relationship???" A voice behind Beth almost made her jump out of her gauntlet and dress.
"Because Sephiroth... we didn't know we were related until YOU were trying to destroy the planet..." Beth turned to look at her brother, who was joining them on this trip, like it or not.
"Geez, I just killed about a half of the population of the planet, do you guys have to bring that up every day? I on, can't a guy make a few little mistakes?"
"My mistake was letting YOU live and travel with us..." Beth said, holding her head at her temples trying to alleviate the headache that was her brother.
"On to Gold Saucer..." Cid said, yawning and lighting up a cigarette. At the same time.
"How dependant to those cigarettes is he anyways?" Sephiroth said.
"Let's just say that one of his limit breaks are 'I'm out of Cigarettes" Beth said. "He used it once... and mutilated the poor Master Tonberry..."
"POOR? POOR!?!" Cid barked, "Have you seen those things attack? It's horrible."
"That Tonberry had it coming, it took his last cigarette..." Vincent smirked.
Beth nodded, "Yes, but you didn't have to make it resemble oatmeal. Just killing it would have been alright."
"Besides," Cid said, "It took my last pack of cigarettes. Bad move on it's part."
"Is there an echo in here?" Vincent said, looking around.
Beth sighed and watched as Cid landed the plane near North Corel.
"It's getting light out... we'd better hurry." Vincent said.
"Yeah, don't want Vincent-vampire-boy to melt in the sun..." Sephiroth laughed at him. Vincent raised one eyebrow and shot Sephiroth in the arm. Blood trickled down Beth's arm. Beth growled and punched herself in the crotch, making Sephiroth fall over.
"Vincent, remember... since the final battle, if you hurt me... it hurts him and vice versa!"
Vincent shrugged and kicked Beth out of the Highwind and she landed right on Flapbeat that beat the crap out of her. Sephiroth screamed in pain as his leg broke and as he got all bloody from the beating. Beth stood up just fine and without so much as a scrape or scratch.
Sephiroth growled at this and stabbed himself in the arm with his sword. Beth yelped and ran her sword along her leg. Sephiroth began bleeding.
"ENOUGH!" Cid yelled, "We know you can hurt each other! STOP IT!"
Beth put her small charm on, and so did Sephiroth, their special charms that kept their pains to themselves. Beth winced and quickly used Cure3 on herself and Sephiroth.
"Onward to the Gold Saucer," Vincent said, running into the sleeping town of Corel.
"What do you plan on saying to every female there in the Gold Saucer? 'Pardon me, Miss... but I was just wondering if you have a brother and he is an undead shotgun toting fool that thinks he's hot shit?" Sephiroth asked as they rode the ropeway up to the Gold Saucer.
Vincent looked at Sephiroth and smacked him, then, terrified, glanced over at Beth.
"We are wearing our charms, so each one's pain is their own... you didn't hurt me..." Beth said smiling.
Vincent smirked widely and brought up his Death Penalty, Cid brought out his 'wussy' spear. Together, the two of them soon made poor Sephiroth resemble Cream of Wheat.
After they had beaten the tar out of Sephiroth, Vincent and Cid sat back down, then Vincent leaned in and whispered, "I owe you a date don't I?"
The Ropeway stopped and Beth stood up, but whispered to Vincent, "You owe me a lot more than JUST that... but I will accept your date..." Beth smiled as she gave her brother a potion to restore him to his pre-Creamy state. Then, with a gleeful laugh, she pushed her brother off the ropeway and onto... Nanaki.
"Nanaki? What are YOU doing here?" Vincent said.
Sephiroth was running around yelling about his flaming butt, courtesy of Nanaki's tail. Nanaki just sighed and looked at Beth, Vincent and Cid.
"I am here with Kukarui, as sort of a 'getting away from it all' sort of deal." Nanaki said, ignoring the Sephiroth who was now dragging his ass on the ground in order to put out the flames.
Cid glanced at Sephiroth and cast Ice3 on him, "Chill out, Dude!"
The icy attack left Sephiroth frozen from the chin down. He stood there as solid as a statue and super pissed off. He tried his best to move anything but failed in doing so, save for his mouth.
"GET ME OUT OF THIS HUNK OF ICE THIS ISN'T RIGHT ITS INHUMANE!!!!"
"Yes, Sephiroth, and so is killing half of the worlds population!" Beth smirked at her incapacitated brother, who was still trapped in his icy pair of 'shoes.'
"Ah, alright..." Vincent smirked evilly, "If you want out, we'll get you out."
"FIRE 3!!!" Cid and Vincent yelled together, enveloping Sephiroth in a blanket of flames.
"Now...shall we continue?"Beth said happily as Vincent and Cid rearranged their bangles that held their materia, and as Sephiroth lay helpless on the floor, a pile of dust.
Beth and the other two gentleman left Nanaki go on his way. Then the trio went along and went into the Gold Saucer station to find where this person they were looking for could possibly be.
"Hey... I'm rarin' fer ah drink... guys, hows about we git ta a bar 'afor' my 'angover gits back!?" Cidi said happily lighting a cigarette.
"Sure, I guess we could drop you off at the bar..." Beth said, looking at Vincent.
The trio walked to the bar, the newest addition to the Gold Saucer games and attractions. Beth pulled open the door and a cloud of smoke hit Vincent, Cid and herself in the face.
"Ah... I'm home..." Cid said, walking towards the bar.
"Come on, ya bags o' bones, get some balls and ante up!" A voice from the corner was saying.
Vincent turned around and saw, with his own eyes, his sister, Danielle, and three skeletons playing poker.
Danielle was a sight to behold, Vincent couldn't move as he saw his sister there. She had longer black hair than his, it was almost down to her ankles if she were standing. She wore tight black leather pants and vest, with a black leather hat pulled down over her forehead. She had two large silver wings, the feathers delicate and silver, with a black stripe down the center of each feather. Those wings were folded and hidden in a dark shadow. A cigar stuck out of her lip and she held a drink of whisky and coke in one hand and her playing cards in the other. Vincent couldn't believe it was her.
Neither could Cid, he had seen this angel from across the bar and sent her a drink of hard whisky and a can of coke. He walked over to Vincent who was frozen in time and, sipping his drink, asked him. "Ya know 'er?"
"Y...yes," Vincent stuttered, "She's my sister...Danielle."
Beth looked at the nice looking pale women dressed in leather, and smiled. "I can see the family resembliance..." Beth said, insinuating the pale skin of both brother and sister.
At the mention of her name, Danielle lost control of the skeletons she raised from the dead and looked up, causing a rainstorm of bones to hit the wooden floor.
"Who dare say my name?" Danielle said, cigar hanging out of her mouth, as she drank all of her whiskey and coke that Cid had sent her. She did this without removing her cigar from her mouth. Puffs of smoke came off the cigarette as the drink disappeared down her throat.
"I think I'm in love..."Cid said, putting his hand over his heart for a moment, before taking a moment to remove yet another cigarette from the pack on his hat and lighting it up.
"Cid!" Vincent hissed before looking at his sister, "Danielle..." He stepped forward.
"VINCENT! You dirty old hog's ass! Where the FUCK have you been for the last thirty years?" Danielle sprung to her feet and ran to either hug or kick the shit out of her older brother.
"Long story short, I'm undead now..." Vincent said, showing a smile that he hadn't shown in years. "How are you?"
"Ya know, same ol' same ol'... Necromancer and shit." She said, the cigar smoldering out. She grabbed another one out of her belt and reached for her lighter.
"Allo' me!" Cid said, flicking his own lighter in an attempt to get her attention. She gladly accepted the light, then hissed at him.
"And YOU are?" She said, taking a deep inhale of smoke and blowing smoke rings.
"Sis...this is Cid Highwind, a fellow hero of mine..." Vincent said.
"Ahhhh.......yes... the heros..." Danielle smirked as she exhaled, something affectionately called the 'dragon smirk' "I've heard ALL about them...nothing much about YOU..." Danielle and Vincent continued to talk for a while.
"Cid...stop drooling, you're going to put my tail out..." A harsh voice said.
Cid looked down and saw Nanaki there, growling at him. "I'm not drooling."
"Yes..." Nanaki smiled, looking at Danielle, "You were....and now I can see why."
Beth had stood in the corner for some time, the tobacco smoke interfering with her powers from her Mako infusions. She wanted desperately to get away. "Vincent... can we chit chat elsewhere with your sister?"
Danielle's gaze turned to Beth, who seemed to shudder, even though she had stared into the eyes of her own brother and father and never faltered. There was something different about those eyes... they were... silver and cold, yet warm... Danielle finished off her drink in one gulp and inhaled again on her smoking cigar. "And who are you?" At the end of each word, Danielle blew a ring of smoke into her face.
Beth choked and gasped for air, tobacco smoke filling her airways. Vincent walked over to her and gently grabbed her shoulder and led her outside, "Sis...follow..." Vincent said.
Once outside, Beth took deep breaths of the clean air... mumbling something about how bad it was that they were traveling with ONE smoker.
Danielle was even more eerie in the light of the station. "And I repeat to you..." Danielle said, walking over to Beth, looking her over... "Who..." She exhaled a ring of smoke... "Are..." Another ring of smoke... "You." The ring encircled Beth's head and she coughed before awnsering.
"My name is Beth. Hojo. Valentine." Beth said, straining the last word of her sentence.
Danielle glanced at Vincent, "Can undead get married?" She seemed to be mocking him. "I mean, to a living girl?"
"Beth isn't living, she is undead like me..." Vincent said, happily, "And yes, we undead CAN get married, but only in Las Vegas..."
Beth, Cid and Danielle stopped for a second and looked at Vincent, who continued.
"This is Beth, my wife... and sister of Sephiroth....and daughter of the late Lucrecia and Dr. Eugene Hojo."
"LUCRECIA??? DEAD!" Danielle roared, "And you are married to you're ex-lovers DAUGHTER? Did some random monster cast confuse on you!"
"I do beg your pardon, but that is MY sister you are talking about..." Sephiroth said, walking out from behind the shadows, and for once, Beth was actually glad to see her older brother.
Danielle turned around and smiled, seeing the beauty of Sephiroth's evil. "Did I say something wrong?" Danielle squeaked mockingly before turning and looking directly at Cid, her cigar still in her mouth.
"And who is this man here?"
"I'm stanin' righ' 'ere...ask me yaself!" Cid said, flicking his lighter.
Danielle grabbed the lighter and light her next cigar. Then in her sweetest tone she looked at Cid, "Who are you..." She said, and Cid almost lost himself in the gaze of those eyes.
"M...my name is Cid Highwind... I drive da ship tha' takes us from 'ere ta dar!"
"Cid...and Sephiroth..." Danielle smiled evilly before turning back to Sephiroth.
"Sooooooo..." Danielle said, inhaling a deep puff of smoke. "My brother is married to YOUR sister..." She exhaled in his face, which became full of tears as he tried to get away from the smoke.
"Yes." He stood his ground and smirked.
"What did you have to say about that?"
"Nothing much... I was out at the time." Sephiroth said, growing more and more comfortable.
"And with a sword like that... you let them both live?"
"I can't hurt my sister... it hurts me too..." Sephiroth tired in vain to explain what was going on with him and his favorite twin sister named Beth.
Danielle talked to the group for almost an hour before she stood to leave. "I must be going bro..."
Vincent grabbed her arm and looked at his sisters' silver eyes. Their pupils were just slits in the moonlight.
"Danielle... please... come with us."
"On one fuckin' occasion!" Danielle said, lighting another cigar, Cid took a deep breath and sighed.
"Name it sis... you got it." Vincent said, holding his wife's hand.
"I want to share a room with Sephiroth and Cid."
Cid, Beth, Vincent and Sephiroth all did an anime fall. Vincent was the first one on his feet and glanced at his sister.
"You're serious?" He said, his scarf dropping enough to see his mouth. Beth gasped and stood up beside her.
"Yes, I want to get to know Cid better at least..." Danielle said.
"I think you may like Captain Cid's room better than bro's..." Beth said, nodding at Danielle, "Sephiroth lives in the chocobo cage."
"Why is that?" Danielle shot a glare at Beth.
"I tried to kill a few..." he hesitated as Cid and Beth stared at him, "half the world's population, so I am... besides..."
Vincent smiled, "It's the only room left."
"And they are so nice to me, they even let me sleep in as late as I want to, plus, they keep me safe at night with a big metal padlock so nobody else can get in!" Sephiroth beamed.
"Yet he still gets out without us knowing..." Beth hissed.
"Is he Captain Oblivious or what?" Danielle said.
"Nah, that would be Cloud... you haven't met him yet..." Vincent said.
"I'll come... Cid... but tell me you have some good booze." Danielle said, lighting up another cigar.
Cid just nodded and smiled.
Now there is Danielle... sort of a Cid/Vincent/Sephiroth/her own way hybrid. In one word, Danielle.
Sorry about how long it took, now that I have a job it's kinda hard.
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