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It's been a year. One year since we defeated Sephiroth. One year since we, AVALANCHE, saved the world. I was the most tortured member of our group, you could say. Sinful, at the very least. My name is Vincent Valentine. I was trapped within myself, within Chaos, that demon who laid the final blow on Bizzaro Sephiroth, who tortured me while I lay helpless, immobile inside an unbreakable shell. All I could do is watch while Chaos annihilated what AVALANCHE strived so hard to preserve. But I broke free, pushing the demon back inside, into a prison made of a material even the Lord of Evil could not break. This is our story, of what happened after Meteor, and what will come to pass. It all begins here.

Prologue

I screamed in agony, the tortured sound echoing through the twists and spirals of the ruined city.

Chaos simply laughed at me and continued to kill the innocents who tried to flee. His bloodrage had gone farther than usual. When he would simply destroy the village and watch them run, now he captured villagers and twisted, maimed, and dismembered them, leaving dying heaps of shattered flesh on the bloody ground. He took so much enjoyment in his play, so much that would leave one convulsing on the shaking earth. It sickened me, at the very least.

I wanted to flee from my mortal prison, to at least have the sweet touch of death to comfort me where all else has failed. But not even death can save me from Chaos. All I could do was watch and wait. Wait until it all ended. Wait until the time when I could break away, or die trying.

But then it hit me.

I knew what could trap Chaos.

But how would I get it?