Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Final Fantasy world and the characters, except Rhiley and Rancent, but I wish I did! Cuz Reno would be mine!

Name: Rhiley Mae Maccabe

Current Age: 19

Birth date: December 12th

Appearance: Has red hair and green eyes, black cat ears, which she normally hides under a bandana, and has a black tail, which she usually ties around her waist to act as a belt. She is usually seen walking around in a hoodie of random choice and a pair of baggy jeans.

Weapon of Choice: Two black-metal double bladed sword batons named Orrin (think Talem's off of Soul Calabur 2)

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Attitude: Rhiley is more of a loner. She likes to make friends, but never expects them to last long because when they find out what she is, they fear her and reject her as a friend. She is very outgoing and very kind, but once you cross her, there's no going back. She's a strong individual and it takes a lot to make her cry.

Family: Father-Deceased
Mother-Deceased
Older brother- Supposedly Deceased
Background: Shall be revealed.

Name: Rancent (Last name unknown)

Current Age: Unknown

Birth date: May 19th

Appearance: Think of a horrid cat-like demon

Weapon of Choice: Mind Powers

Attitude: He's very sarcastic all the time. He's ruthless, merciless and rude and loves to devour flesh and blood. Especially that of children's. He has unlimited knowledge and is stuck inside Rhiley's head, just like Chaos is stuck in Vincent, playing as her other half, but Rancent wasn't injected. He was living on his own, human as can be at one time, but that was long before Rhiley came across him. And he didn't always look this way. He's raised Rhiley since she was 8. Yes, from her mind (You got a problem with that? Yea, that's what I thought, walk away). He's been her only friend. Sure he gets on her nerves...all the time, but he does comfort her. After all, she controls their very being.

Family: Unknown

Background: Unknown

...11 years ago..."Now, while I'm in here, you stay put. You move an inch and you WILL regret it. You hear me?" my father snapped as he pulled out a gun out of the glove compartment. I quickly nodded as I started getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. "This will teach them to mess with me..." he said, more to himself, in his maniac tone as he slammed the door to the truck shut and quickly walked into the house and I was fearful as the suspense hit.

Then I suddenly heard a gun shot and I flinched as my 8 year old mind raced. I did the only thing I thought I could do. I jumped out of the truck and ran. I ran as fast as I could to the nearest forest. The forest that glowed. The Sleeping Forest.

I could hear my dad's shouts and a few gun shots as he ran after me. I jumped into a hollow, rotting stump and tightly hugged my knees as I heard running footsteps slowing down. I looked out a little hole in the stump and saw my father, red in the face, holding the gun out.

"Oh Rhiley..." he softly called as he raised the gun up a little higher. Come on out, honey, Daddy isn't going to hurt you..." he added as he walked around.

"I know you're here. Come on, let's go home..."

I ignored him and sat back, hugging my knees again, praying for a miracle. Please, someone please, help me! I screamed in my head as he came closer and closer to the stump. Oh PLEASE! I screamed again as he grabbed me by the neck and pulled me out of the stump.

"Here you are, you little bastard. What did I tell ya, huh?" he yelled in my face.

"Daddy...cough p-please..." I managed to cough out and then I heard the gun go off and I gasped as he dropped me and my hand instantly went to the bloodied hole in my stomach.

He smiled as he watched me suffer. He even laughed! As my vision went black, I screamed for help in my mind again. A desperate act to stay alive. Then, everything went black.

I woke up and was in a black...nothingness...

"Rhiley, am I correct?" asked a male's voice.

"W-who are you?" I asked, completely petrified. Was this hell? I knew it wasn't heaven cause the voice sounded...tense...un welcoming...

"My name's Rancent. I can help you. But first you need to help me." he said and I quickly looked around to try and find him.

In my peripheral vision I saw something black and red wiz by.

"How can I help you? Aren't I dead?" I asked.

"You are in a state. Not quite dead, yet not quite living either. And if I bring you back to life, to consciousness, you must promise to share your body with me." he said from behind me and I quickly looked back, but a moment too late.

"Wh-What do you mean?" I asked, a bit unsure if I was liking where this was going.

"Think about it. You're young. I shall grant you ever lasting life. I shall grant you infinite knowledge. All I need in return is half your life force. I shall live in your mind and we shall share your body." he said with a cackle. I thought for a moment. I really resented my father right now. How could he do this to me? I knew he hated me, but he killed me! Or at least tried...Right now I was so confused. I couldn't think. "Well? What will it be?" he asked, getting impatient.

"What about my daddy? He's going to kill me again." I said.

"Don't worry about him. When you wake up he'll disappear." he reassured.

"Alright. Deal." I said and he growled an evil laugh as he showed himself and I gasped as he rushed for me. I couldn't move! He collided into my body and I suddenly blacked out.

I woke to find I was lying in blood.

'Is this my blood?' I thought as I sat up.

'No. It's your father's. A deal is a deal. I made him disappear. He's in the life stream now.' I heard a voice say. It sounded familiar.

"Who are you?" I asked. He didn't sound very friendly.

'Don't tell me you forgot me already. Rancent. Remember? Geezus.' he growled.

"You don't have to be so mean" I yelled as I started tearing up, then I let it all out.

'Whoa whoa whoa!! Stop your crying!' he yelled and I stopped but the tears kept streaming. 'Alright. Now that that's under control. I thought you wanted this?'

"I did, but I didn't think you'd kill him." I said sadly.

...Present Day...

I rode my motorcycle to Edge. It was getting late and I needed some place to stay for the night. I rode until I got to a bar called 7th heaven. I parked my bike near a few others and got off and went inside.

It was actually a cozy little place for a bar. Not quite packed either. Just a few people...few drunks.

"Ah, a new face! What can I get ya?" asked a girl with black hair and brown eyes.

"Do you have a room I can stay in?" I asked casually as I sat down at the bar.

"You're not from around here, are you?" she asked as she went under the desk, most likely to get a key.

"No. I'm not." I said as I got out my Gil pouch. "How much?" I asked.

"On the house." she said as she handed me the key. How odd... Anyways, I walked up the stairs to my room and laid down on the bed, but before I could get to sleep, Rancent spoke up.

'You're going to bed already? But the night has just started!' he complained.

"I don't care. I've been riding all day and I'm tired." I snapped as I rolled over and put a pillow over my head.

'So? You never do anything fun anymore.' He pointed out.

"Your idea of fun includes kicking the shit out of people then eating them." I stated dully from under the pillow.

'And your point?' he asked. I sighed.

"If I got out for a few will you leave me alone?" I asked.

'Cross my little black heart.' he promised.

"That's a hollow promise." I muttered under my breath as I got up and walked over the window. I never realized how quickly it had gotten dark. I looked out at the night sky and sighed as I opened the window and silently jumped out. I casually walked down the silent streets and down a dark alley (dun dun dun) where I heard footsteps and smelt blood.

'Ohhh...someone I can eat...' I heard Rancent growl as I felt his hunger and his want for blood rise.

'Back off, we don't know if it's a bad person or not.' I said in my mind.

"What's a pretty kitty like you doing in a place like this?" a strange voice asked.

"None of your damn business that's for sure." I growled as my ears fell back and my tail swished vigorously behind me. I could tell he was holding something. A knife. Soaked with blood.

"Oh, did I make the pretty kitty mad?" he mocked. I started growling as I bore my sharp fangs. I could barely see the guy. He had a shadow covering his body. But he was pretty tall. That was all I could see.

'Can you see this guy? I'm getting nothing.' I asked Rancent.

'Damn the night!' he growled.

'Well, I'm not letting you out, unless I absolutely have to.' I stated.

He was about to protest, but I shoved him to the back of my mind.

"Now, you had best cooperate with my every need or I will kill you." he said.

"I don't act well with threats held over my head." I hissed.

The man ran, quite fast, actually, and pinned me against the near by wall. I decided to have a little fun with him, humor him, if you will, so I let him.

"Oh, you smell good." he said as he held me up. I smiled evilly.

"And what do you plan on doing with me?" I strained with a smile.

"I plan on having a little fun." he said and I hadn't realized that he had a knife and he slit my stomach open. I didn't think he meant this kind of fun. I winced in pain. I quickly kicked him off and he growled as he came at me again.

"Errrr...Damn you!" I growled as I held my stomach in pain.

"Noone's going to hear you scream now." he said as he lunged for me, but I quickly dodged and back flipped out of his reach.

"You're going to pay." I growled as I went to pull our my two double bladed sword batons, but I realized I left them on my bike!

'Er...Damn it!' I cursed myself for being so careless.

'Would you like help now?' Rancent asked plainly as I dodged another attack.

'I thought I shoved you away?!' I growled as I started breathing hard.

'Oh tired already? That's sad. All that training for nothing.' he mocked. That REALLY pissed me off.

"SHUT IT!!" I yelled as I charged the guy. But was instantly met with a knife in the chest. He had two different knives and I was careless. I blame it on Rancent. Why? Because I always do when I have noone to blame it on. I gasped as he pulled his knife out of me and I fell to my knees.

'God Damn, do I always have to save your ass?' was the last thing I heard from Rancent as I blacked out.

~~Noone's POV~~~

Reno and Rude were walking around, scouting for a serial killer, who was on the loose.

"Man! It's my day off! Why the hell am I out here?" Reno complained as he drug his feet behind his partner.

"Ask the boss, not me." Rude said, monotoningly as he kept his eyes peeled for suspicious characters. Reno sighed as he hung his head. He looked down an alley as he did so and saw something...out of the ordinary.

"Hey Rude, what's that?" he asked as he straitened up and stopped walking. Rude looked in the direction Reno was and tilted his head a little, in an attempt to identify the mass.

"Let's go check it out!" Reno said excitedly as he quickly walked up to the strange pile, but quickly turned away as his gag reflexes took hold of him from the smell. He put the sleeve of his jacket up to his face to block the horrid scent of rotting flesh.

"The sun must have quickened the rotting process." Rude stated as he walked up besides his partner.

"Look! There's a girl over there!" Reno said, astonished, as he pointed over to a dumpster.

There she was. A girl around Reno's age, at least, sitting up in a corner between the wall and a dumpster, but she looked different, not just because she was completely covered in blood. She was...a cat?

"What the fuck?" Reno quickly dismissed the thought when he realized she was still alive! "Rude! She's alive!" he practically yelled as he ran to her side.

Her eyes were open, but barely, and she was breathing hard, with a slight growl coming from deep in her throat.

"What happened?" Reno quickly asked her as he pulled off his jacket, put it on her wound and applied pressure. She had blood on her claws, her fangs, her stomach, everywhere! She flinched, growled, and swiped at him, but he jumped back just in time.

"D-damn...h-her..." was all she could choke out before she fainted. It was a weird scratchy voice. Enlaced with a deep male's voice, as well as, what he was guessing, her own. He quickly dismissed it and guessed she fainted from loss of blood. Though he was quite curious of what she meant by that.

"Reno." he heard his partner call him from behind.

"We have to get her to a hospital!" Reno said.

"The nearest hospital is in Healin. I don't think she'll make it. But look who this is." Rude said, as he held what looked like a wallet.

Reno wouldn't hear it. He felt weird just looking at her and he was curious about it, so he felt he needed to do everything to save her. To keep her alive.

"I know where we can take her." Reno said as he picked her up bridal style.

"Reno. This is the serial killer we've been after. I've examined the body and it looks like all the organs, all the meat has just... disappeared. For as mangled as this body is, there should be a lot more blood on the ground as well." Rude stated as he knelt down and put the wallet back on the body.

"What are you saying?" Reno asked. He already knew the answer to this one, but he was wondering if his partner was thinking the same.

"I think this girl is a cannibal." Rude stated.

"So what do we do?" Reno asked as he stared down at the girl's limp body.

"I'm going to notify ShinRa of the serial killer's current condition. I'll bring a chopper back to pick up the remains. You take the girl to where you were planning on taking her, and when she wakes up, call me immediately." Rude said as he walked out of the alley.

Reno looked at the girl one more time before walking off with her to Seventh Heaven.

My POV

"Has she woken up yet?" was the first thing I heard when I came to.

"No, she moved a couple times, groaned a few times, but that's about it." said a male's voice.

"Don't worry, Yuffie. She's going to be fine." said a familiar girl's voice.

'Wait a second. Who's Yuffie? And where the hell am I?'

'Two Turks found us and took us to that bar and that bar tender chick bandaged you up.' Rancent filled me in. 'You know, you're losing your touch.' he added.

'I wouldn't have if I wasn't busy keeping you contained in my head!' I snapped at him.

'Good point...' he said plainly.

I tried to open my eyes and after a while I had finally succeeded.

"Look! She's up!" the first girl's voice said.

"Wh-where am I?" I asked as I tried to sit up, but it made my head hurt so I just laid there.

I saw the bartender, a brown-haired girl and a redheaded guy.

"You're in Seventh Heaven. In the room you rented." the bartender explained.

"What happened to me?" I asked.

"We were hoping you could tell us that." the redhead replied. "I found you and a mangled corpse, which used to be a serial killer we had been after for a while, in an alley. You were soaked in blood. I couldn't tell if it was his or your own." he explained.

"What's your name? I'm Yuffie. This is Tifa (bartender) and this is Reno (redheaded Turk)." the brown-haired girl introduced.

"Rhiley." I said as I attempted to sit up again and with their help, I was leaning against the backboard of the bed in no time.

"So, what did happened to you? The guy's ID in his wallet was the only way we could identified him and that wasn't fun getting to that." Reno stated as he made a disgusted face.

"I was attacked. It was self defense." I said sternly as I cursed Rancent in my mind.

'Hey! I saved you. he stated matter-of-factly.'

"D-Did you eat that guy?" asked Tifa. They all watched me, waiting for an answer.

"N-no! I didn't eat him!" I said quickly. I wasn't lying either. "It's...hard to explain..." I trailed off, trying to think of how to answer them. Luckily I didn't have to because the door opened and in walked a blonde, spike haired man.

"Tifa, phone call. Who are you?" he asked when he noticed me.

"Her name's Rhiley. She's staying here until she feels better." Tifa said as she walked out and he followed her.

"Come on Yuffie, you have stuff you have to do too." Cloud said and she sighed as she followed them.

"Nice meeting you!" she said happily as she walked out. I nodded.

"So? Are you going to answer the question?" he asked.

"I honestly don't have a clue what happened. The man jumped me, then I fought him, he poked me in the stomach with his knife, then I blacked out. That's all I remember." I said quite truthfully.

"Are you sure?" he asked. I nodded as I looked down, not wanting to meet his gaze. "The last thing you said when I found you was 'Damn her'. Do you have any idea what you were talking about? Or are you drawing a blank on that one too?" he asked as he tilted his head to the left a little. I still kept avoiding his gaze. Afraid he would see right through me. Afraid...I would get lost in those eyes.

'Oh, you have a thing for him, don't you?' I heard Rancent taunt.

'Don't even go there.' I growled in my mind.

"You also had a really weird scratchy male's voice mixed with yours. Just thought you should know." he said calmly.

'Can I trust him enough to tell him?' I thought.

Of course Rancent had to put his two cents in. 'Judge for yourself. Don't tell him just cause he has a nice ass. Really. What is it with you people and trusting people cause they're good looking?' he asked.

'HE ISN'T GOOD LOOKING!' I scolded him.

'Fine. Think what you want, but you can't hide the truth from me. It's in the back of your mind. I can see it. Or have you forgotten?' he asked. I sighed.

"Are you okay? You don't have to tell me right now if you don't have to. But I'd really like to know. In fact, I kinda have to know. You killed the serial killer. Need I explain more?" he asked.

"No it's fine. I'll think about it." I said with a sigh. He got up.

"Well, I have to notify my partner you're awake and we'll go from there." he said and he walked out as he pulled out his cell.