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A Chance for Happiness
Chapter One: Only Four Left…
Opening his eyes slightly, Vincent Valentine realized that he was not where he had last closed his eyes. His long black hair floated around his face, obscuring his vision of anything outside of the Mako tank he recognized as one of the evil scientist Hojo's.
How he got into it, he didn't know. Especially since Hojo was dead and all his labs had gotten destroyed by himself and his friends. How someone had caught him while he was sleeping in Tifa's Seventh Heaven when Cloud was home and managed to drag him all the way to some remote lab that hadn't been found yet, was completely beyond his imagination.
He needed to find out what happened and if his friends were okay. However, when he tried to lift his human hand he could hardly lift it high enough to place his palm on the glass. Luckily, it was high enough for him to realize that he was naked. For, he rarely took his red and black leather outfit off. Not even to sleep, no matter how safe he felt. And he never took his cape off. Now that Chaos had returned to the planet, he could access Chaos' form without pain and he needed the cape because it turned into his wings. Without that cape, he couldn't turn into Chaos' form.
He seemed to be gaining a longer and longer list of things that needed to be accomplished, and, as he was an extremely organized individual, he needed to set priorities. Priority one would be getting out of the tank, two would be finding his cape, three would be to find some clothes or at least something to wear, and four would be to find out where he was so he could return and tell of this remaining lab. That seemed about right.
Only problem he could see was that he was too weak to break out of the tank. He suspected that he wouldn't even be able to walk -for several hours at least- once he did get out of the tank. It was a vicious cycle though.
In order to get stronger, he needed to get out of that tank. Mako, if admitted to prolonged contact with, made a person weaker and weaker until they got Mako poisoning and became a vegetable. Too much more after a person became a vegetable and they died a physically painless death. Mentally, they're mangled so badly that the Lifestream doesn't even accept them anymore.
Well, for normal people that's how it goes. For Cloud and himself though, they merely got weaker or became a vegetable. It never got worse than that and once they were freed from the Mako, they were fine again after a few days. Normal people, once they got Mako poisoning, never recovered their original strength -physically or mentally.
Even weakened though, Vincent's hearing was better than any living person on the Planet. That is what alerted him to 'visitors' in the lab, when there had been no sound other than that of the bubbling Mako in the tank.
Having already deduced that he had been left in an abandoned lab, he had to wonder who it was that had found him. Yes, he believed they knew where he was. They had to; since they were making a beeline right for the room he was in from the sound of it.
Could it be his friends? Had they found him somehow?
Or was it the person who had kidnapped (odd way to term it since he was technically over 50 years old) him?
He had the feeling he would find out in just a few moments. He also had the feeling that he would detest the answer once he got it.
Too late to do anything now anyway, all he could do was close his eyes again and hope they thought he was asleep still.
He heard the automatic door hiss open and the footsteps of six battle trained adults and knew it couldn't be his friends.
He only had four left…