Okay, so I know its been a really long time *cough* years, since I posted anything here. My only defense is that I have been insanely busy, I mean really busy. Also, I have been working on my own original work and I am looking for a beta reader for said original work, so if you are interested please let me know.
Lately just for the heck of it I was reading the reviews for Of Shadows and Flames, there were so many people asking for the sequel that I kind of felt guilty for not posting it. Yes there is a sequel to of Shadows and Flames that has been sitting on my hard drive doing nothing for about a year. Here it is.
For those of you who havent read Of Shadows and Flames, this will make no sense without it so I recommend that you look it up.
Oh yeah, one more warning..... RENOXYAZOO!
"How many of these fuckers are there?" called Yazoo over the sound of the gunfire and explosions around them from the Deepground forces.
Reno took out a sniper on a balcony and then glanced over at his lover who was taking cover just ahead of him. "I have no idea, Reeve isn't exactly sure."
Yazoo rolled his eyes and reloaded, maybe he was getting old but this just all seemed so disorganized. Jumping out from behind his cover Yazoo shot down two of the guards in the hallway in mid jump and kicked the next one senseless when he landed. Before the unfortunate man could recover his wits and stand Reno hit him with more volts than was probably necessary.
Turning away from the bodies Reno glared at Yazoo. "I thought we promised no fancy stuff! Loz and Kadaj will murder us if we get killed."
Yazoo ignored the probability of that statement and began striding down the hallway, tossing his words over his shoulder. "Then why did we come? If not to have a little fun?"
Reno took in the leather clad form and now hip length silver hair, ending with the mischievous glinting green eyes looking at him over a slender shoulder, hell if his lover wasn't sex on legs. When they had found out about the assault that would take place at the old Shinra building Yazoo and Reno had jumped at the chance to see some action again. Although Loz had been very thorough in laying down the ground rules.
Yazoo could still hear his brothers voice in his head, "I understand if you want to go, but just remember you have Kadaj to come home to and make sure you have enough bullets and protection. Are you sure you don't need the Dual Hound? And remember, no dodging bullets, take cover, no deflecting them with Velvet Nightmare, no taking on more than five enemies at once, no unnecessary fancy flourishes, no…"
The list went on and Yazoo couldn't help but thinking that his brother had become such a mother hen since Kadaj had been born…er reborn? It had become painfully obvious that it was indeed their younger brother who was in that tiny infant body. The main question everyone wanted to know was whether he could or would remember his previous life at all. Since he couldn't talk yet it made figuring it out hard.
Yazoo returned his attention to the problem at hand. Vincent Valentine was infiltrating the Shinra building, he was already there and everyone else was trying to fight their way in too while eliminating the ground forces. He started back down the hallway he had just cleared when the ground rocked beneath him and Reno.
Grasping each other to keep their balance they waited out the building shifting and crumbling, hoping it wasn't about to collapse. When the worst of the tremors ended Reno heard his PHS ringing.
"Reno."
Clouds voice came, static stricken over the line. "Reno, get out of there. Vincent made it and I think you should see this."
Reno hung up and shrugged. "Valentine got to the heart of it. Cloud says there's something we should see outside."
Yazoo sighed. "I was just getting warmed up."
Reno was already heading back to the way out, Yazoo just behind him watching their backs. But the building was silent and empty. When they reached the front of the building onto what used to be a street Reno looked up and caught his breath. The green ball of the lifestream that everyone had been calling "Omega" was rising up toward the sky.
Yazoo cursed. "We are too late."
Reno shook his head. "No, look."
He pointed to the blazing red pinprick meteor headed straight for Omega and then a blaze of white light blinded them all.
When their vision returned Yazoo blinked trying to get the dots in his vision to go away, then it registered. The dots were the glowing fragments of the lifestream falling back to the Planet. There was a sense of awe, hung over the utter silence of the ruins. Something in his heart hurt at the sight. Reno was standing shoulder to shoulder with him and he realized what it was. Someday, he would lose Reno to the beautiful light, or Loz, or they would lose him. This time Kadaj would lose them.
Reno must have been thinking the same thing because he shook himself and then turned to Yazoo, a wry smile on his face. "Not today. Come on, lets check in with Strife and head home."
Yazoo nodded, looking at the vague scar in the sky. Amidst the stars he thought he saw it, but he had to be wrong, he searched the sky for a moment then chalked it up to the light playing tricks. But he could have sworn he saw that lone, black wing…