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This is a novelization of Final Fantasy VII mostly from Vincent's perspective and begins when they find Vincent in the Shinra Mansion. And the pairing is Vincent x Tifa.
Chapter One: Vincent ValentineThe team had reached Nibelheim, and was surprised as well as confused to discover that it was all there just as Cloud and Tifa remembered. The well was in the center of the town, the inn was still right at the entrance, their homes still stood, including Tifa and Cloud's own home; everything was like they remembered. However, upon asking a question to one of the villagers, none of them would know anything about what happened five years ago, and they would insist that nothing had happened.
Also, perhaps even more frightening, there were people garbed in heavy black robes that covered their faces, so you wouldn't know whom they were. Cloud had asked one of these people about five years ago, however, all they would mumble was Sephiroth and some sort of reunion. They wouldn't say anything more and would talk as if Cloud and his team weren't there at all. It was slightly frightening, Aeris and Tifa thought they were sick, but Yuffie thought they were "psychos" and Barret, for the first time, agreed with her. Red XIII and Cait Sith didn't say much about it, they both seemed slightly perturbed by these odd people's knowledge. Cloud, however, was actually frightened by these people's knowledge, and actually pondered if they were survivors of the incident five years ago, and had completely lost their sanity.
Though the team was concerned about what had happened to the town, they thought little of it for now. Right now, they were chasing perhaps the most powerful man in existence, and they could be more concerned about what had actually happened here later. Besides, for the Shinra, it would be just about the easiest thing in the world to cover up what had actually happened. Cloud decided that right now they should go to the Shinra mansion, where Sephiroth lost his sanity. The place where Sephiroth found some sort of truth and completely lost it.
The place where the nightmare began.
Ever since they had come to the town, Tifa would often think, Maybe I should tell Cloud… I'm scared but… he was never here five years ago… but… he knows everything about what had happened…
In the end, however, Tifa would always decide to go against these thoughts. Although she didn't mean to go against the good of the team, since they should all be completely truthful with each other, she was worried about Cloud. He seemed so strange and as the journey continued, he'd seem even stranger. He occasionally had very strange and frightening episodes where he seemed to lose complete control of himself, and she was very worried that if she told the truth to Cloud, he might go completely insane.
It didn't take them long to walk through the small town and up to the Shinra Mansion. The mansion was perhaps one of the most frightening places that any of them had ever visited. Tifa and Cloud could remember all the frightening tales they had heard about the Shinra mansion. Stories about ghosts roaming the mansion and zombies that are trapped inside the frightening place. The most frightening of these tales, were the stories about a vampire in the basement of the mansion.
As children, they thought the story was false simply because there was no basement, though as an adult Cloud had managed to find the hidden basement. However, most people, including some adults, believed the vampire story, because some people had sworn that they saw the vampire inside, one of these people being the mayor of the town. The mayor said that the vampire appeared to be a young man in his late twenties, which was very odd since there were very few people in their twenties at the time in the village (most of them had been drafted into the Shinra military to fight against Wutai). That initiated some people to search around the mansion, some of the braver people of the town; however, they never found any vampire, zombie, monster, or even a person within the mansion.
Cloud and Tifa decided not to tell the rest of the group about the ghost stories about the mansion, as to not frighten them away, however, some still decided to stay outside.
"Are we all goin' in?" Barret asked once they reached the gate around the mansion.
Cloud looked back and shrugged, "Sephiroth might be here, it'd probably be for the best."
"What 'bout them creepy dudes," Barret asked. "We oughta keep an eye on 'em."
Cloud folded his arms and looked down in thought. "You're right…" Cloud mumbled, then looked up. "How about only four of us go in and the rest of you stay out here. If we run into any trouble, we'll give you a call."
"Aight," Barret nodded. "Who's stayin' out?"
"I'm definitely going in!" Yuffie exclaimed. "There'll probably be a bunch of materia!"
"I… want to go in too," Tifa told him. "I want to know what happened here…"
"Alright…"Cloud nodded. "How about me and the girls go in and the rest of you stay out here."
"Sounds good," Barret nodded, taking one of the PHS from the leader.
"See ya in a bit," Aeris waved as they passed the gate and headed into the mansion.
As they went inside, Cloud wanted to instantly head down to the basement to find out if Sephiroth had beaten them here, and if he hadn't, then they could maybe read some of the books that Sephiroth had. Maybe they could read on some sort of weakness that Sephiroth had that was written inside one of the books in the basement. Tifa agreed, though hesitantly as she remembered that the vampire was supposed to live in the basement, and Aeris instantly agreed, though probably just because that's what Cloud wanted to do.
Yuffie, however, wanted to look around the mansion, so it was thanks to her that they were able to discover the note.
"Hey guys!" Yuffie exclaimed from the left of the entrance. The team all looked back at the ninja as she waved a single piece of paper in the air. "Check this out!"
The trio walked over and Cloud snagged the note the girl and glanced it over.
"What is it?" Aeris asked, looking over his broad shoulder to read the note. "It's saying that there's a key inside of a safe somewhere that opens a door where some guy is."
"You mean… someone was locked away?" Tifa asked.
Cloud seemed to scan over the paper once more. "Seems like it…" Cloud murmured. "But… this paper seems really old, so he'd probably be dead by now…"
"But what if he isn't, Cloud?" Aeris asked, putting her hands on her hips. "We need to help him!"
"Yeah!" Yuffie exclaimed. "He might have materia!"
Tifa walked over and looked at the paper. "It seems like we'll need to find the combination to the safe first…" the martial artist murmured. "Lets split up and look for them."
Cloud sighed. "Alright… I guess Sephiroth can wait…" Cloud grumbled, then looked at Aeris, which brightened the ex-SOLDIER's face.
His eyes snapped open.
He had heard people entering his mansion. This wasn't all that strange, every so often someone would come inside. Usually children on a dare and he would simply ignore it and go back to sleep but this… seemed different. He could hear a lot of rummaging, which meant that they may be fighting.
He knew that the mansion had some monstrosities running around, but it would rarely last this long. Perhaps… something different was happening.
The group, taking deep breaths to catch their breath, put their weapons away. Aeris took a deep breath as she healed the rest of the team's wounds. Yuffie had carelessly opened the safe, all of them completely unprepared for the monster that leapt out at them.
However, through some quick planning and strategy, they had managed to defeat the monster with few challenges. "How the hell did that huge monster fit in there?!" Yuffie huffed.
"I… have no idea…" Tifa muttered as she caught her breath. She then walked up to the safe and glanced inside. She reached in and found what she was looking for, as well as an orb she recognized to be materia. She pulled out the items, "Here's the key and… a materia."
Yuffie quickly snatched the materia out of the martial artist's hand, shouting "Mine!" and putting it onto her weapon.
Cloud walked up and took the key out of Tifa's other hand. He looked over it and then put it down into his pocket. "The room's in the basement, right?"
"Yeah," Aeris nodded.
"Let's go then," the leader ordered.
Now, with the key, they descended into the basement, all careful and frightened. Each of them brought with a candle, because at a first glance there didn't seem to be any lights down there. However, as the continued down the creaky, wooden stairwell, there was a very dim light coming from the opposite side of the hallway, and so they all headed there.
The hallway, much like in Cloud's memory, is perhaps the most frightening place Tifa had ever been. The walls, unlike the rest of the mansion, were dirt or some sort of clay, and they could constantly feel eyes watching them. The hallway almost seemed alive, and they could hear soft, frightening creaks across the hallway. It was like the entire hallway seemed to watch them with a stern, frightening eye.
Tifa and Aeris seemed frightened; they stayed on their guard with their weapons drawn, cautiously watching the hallway. Yuffie was easily the most perturbed and frightened by the hallway, she was constantly jumping around the hallway and crying for the group to continue. Cloud, like Aeris and Tifa, traveled cautiously across the hallway, however, he couldn't withhold himself from every so often asking the team to hurry on. It was curious, it was almost like someone was calling him, commanding him to continue to find the one who was using the light. This again made Tifa consider telling Cloud what she knew, but ultimately she decided against it once more.
"Sephiroth…" Cloud whispered, pausing the instant he saw the light. "We have to go down there…"
"Wait, Cloud!" Aeris cried in a hushed whisper. Cloud looked over at her and saw that her candle was up against a wall where a very old, almost ancient looking, door stood. Aeris was trying to turn the handle, however, it was locked. "The key… this is where it goes, this is where that person is!"
"Are you sure you want to go in there, Aeris?" Cloud asked with a look of worry for her. This made Tifa frown, she was becoming very well aware that Cloud and Aeris were in love with each other, and she wanted Cloud. Tifa and Aeris were good friends, they loved each other like sisters and, with Yuffie, and they had chats about the other boys in the group, Cloud usually being the center of attention. They were certainly close, but they were always in competition with Cloud… and the flower girl usually won. "Sephiroth may not wait too long, if he's here at all… Are you sure you wanna go in there first?"
"Yes," Aeris told him with certainty. "We have to save this person."
"All right," Cloud nodded, still looking slightly worried for Aeris. "Let's go in."
Cloud took the key out of his pocket, unlocked the door, and very slowly opened the door. The memories of the stories about the vampires and ghosts rushed into his head as he opened the door. He remembered the countless nights he couldn't sleep because he got frightened from the stories. He remembered how stricken with fear he was when the mayor, who was voted into office because of his honesty and being one of the most respectable people in the town, claimed he saw a vampire.
Once he opened the door he slowly walked into this frightening room. There were bookshelves around the room that were filled with books, as well as some books scattered across the ground. There were skeletons in the top right corner, that made Aeris cringe in fear behind Cloud, but he didn't seem to notice. There were also coffins scattered across the edge of the room, and another in the very center of the room. The entire room had the frightening atmosphere that matched that, if not intensified that, of the feeling you would get from a haunted room inside of a horror movie. The entire group was nearly paralyzed in fear, and none spoke, until, finally, Tifa broke the silence. "Cloud… let's leave," Tifa told him, remembering the frightening stories of the vampire.
"Maybe the coffins have treasures in them!" Yuffie exclaimed, surprising everyone by not being frightened, as she usually was the most frightened in the group, however, it seems her lust for treasure overwhelmed her fright.
"To wake me from a nightmare…" a voice emerged from the center coffin. Everyone, including Cloud, cringed back in fear, and Yuffie even dropped to the ground, brought her knees up to her chest, and wrapped her arms around her legs.
Suddenly, the cover of the coffin flipped open, and a man majestically flipped out of the coffin and stood on one of the sides.
This man had long, raven hair that was combed to his left that easily reached his shoulder, and had some bangs coming out from a red headband that almost looked like a bandage across his forehead. He was wearing a black shirt and pants, both are a little baggy, and with two silver belts across his hips. His shirt had four silver buttons that were clasped which allowed it to conceal his chest, and was long sleeved, however, it was rolled up for his left arm, which instead seemed to not be a hand but a metal bronze claw. The hand of the almost golden claw had five very sharp, appearing almost as sharp as knives, fingers, while his right hand was covered in a black, five-fingered glove. He also had a tattered crimson cape on his back that had clasps connected at his neck, covering up his chin, and two unclipped clasped hanging loosely in front of his very thin stomach. He was glaring at the team with his hauntingly crimson red eyes, which almost paralyzed the group.
This man, if a man at all, must have been the vampire that the mayor had seen so long ago, especially since the mayor said the vampire appeared to be in his late twenties, much like this… being in front of them. Tifa wanted to run, but her legs felt like jelly, and she actually seemed surprised that she was still standing. Yuffie's teeth began to silently chatter against one another and, despite the fact that this being may have materia, she wanted to run away. Aeris lowered her head behind Cloud's back, as if trying to hide from the being, and wrapped her arms around Cloud's waist. Cloud wanted to reach for his sword, but the crimson eyes seemed to completely paralyze him.
"Who is it!?" the vampiric man demanded.
"A vampire!" Yuffie cried, burying her face in her knees.
"…" the man looked over them, the blood red eyes seemed to slightly calm, however, they were still cunning and seemed like they were still glaring at the team. "I have never seen you before. You must leave from this place."
The team was surprised by this man's offer, especial Cloud and Tifa. They both, remembering the tales and assuming that this man was in fact the vampire, expected the man to jump at them, attack them, and suck their blood or whatever it is vampires do.
"Y-You were having a nightmare…" Tifa murmured, she was frightened to speak, but she felt like she had to say something. She didn't want there to be any silence to give the man a chance to take back his offer, and since none of the group, including herself, could muster up the courage to leave, she knew she would have to do something.
The frightening man glanced over at her for a second, without any emotion on his stern, pale features. He glanced amongst the group, pondering if he should share with them any more information.
"Hmph… a nightmare…?" the vampiric man harshly growled. "My long sleep has given me time to atone."
"Atone?" Cloud asked. He was also frightened, but as long as he couldn't reach for his sword and if this person were to decide to attack them, they wouldn't stand a chance. But then again, if his Aeris was in trouble, he might be inclined to not only slay this being, but give him a completely merciless death. What made Cloud most curious about the man was the fact that he was here, in the Shinra mansion, needing to atone. It seemed very likely that this man may know of, or have been involved with, Sephiroth. Then again, judging by the man's age, he couldn't have been here very long, but it was still worth asking. "What do you mean?"
"I have nothing more to say to strangers," the man told them, though oddly enough remained calm, it almost seemed like he had no emotion at all, as if they had died long ago. "Get out. This mansion is the beginning of your nightmare."
"You couldn't have said it any better than that," Cloud unhappily nodded, thinking about Sephiroth and what had happened in the village five years ago.
"Hmm?" the man asked, suddenly seeming curious by what Cloud had said. "Just what do you know?"
Cloud was silent for a moment, curious if he should tell this man anything or not, but then answered, "It's just like you said, this mansion is the beginning of a nightmare. No, it's not a dream, though, it's for real. Sephiroth has completely lost his mind. He found the secrets that were hidden in this mansion."
"Sephiroth!?" the man exclaimed, and this time, for half a second, he flashed a shocked expression, though it quickly faded. To Tifa, this man was beginning to seem less and less like a vampire, and more like an actual human, like Cloud and herself. The others seemed to feel this way as well, since Yuffie stood up, though still seemed very jumpy, and Aeris slowly rose her face over Cloud's shoulder and looked at the man, though still she was hiding behind Cloud.
"You know Sephiroth?!" Cloud exclaimed, amazed at this information, glad that he had decided to explain himself to the man if it would help him get any information on Sephiroth.
"…" the man seemed to ponder for a moment, then declared, "You start first."
"All right," Cloud nodded, knowing that he needed all the information he could get about Sephiroth, even if it meant sharing their information. "It all started five years ago…"
Cloud then told his and his teammates story. He explained what had happened in the village fie years earlier, how Sephiroth found out something and went insane. He then briefly explained their journey across the world in hunt of Sephiroth, and how they eventually showed up here, only to discover that it had been rebuilt.
"… And that's it," Cloud finished. Now that he was done, he felt foolish for telling the story. However, the man's stern crimson eyes seemed to demand the information from him, as though the eyes put him in a trance to explain everything.
"Hmm… interesting…" the man murmured. "So… Sephiroth knows of his birth… Shinra is still in power… and Hojo…" He then seemed to get lost in thought, and looked down at his coffin, and it seemed like he was recalling some ancient memory.
Cloud nodded, "Now it's your turn."
The man shook his head, looking back up at them, and said, "I apologize… however, I can not speak."
"You promised!" Yuffie cried.
The vampiric man seemed to ignore her and instead said, "Hearing your stories has added upon me yet another sin. More nightmares shall come to me now, more than I previously had. Now… please leave."
The man then, once again majestically, flipped into the coffin and the cover seemed to float in the air as if to cover the coffin, however Tifa, just as it covered the coffin, then blurted out, "Who are you?" She wanted to know more about this mysterious person. She wanted to know more about him because he knew about Sephiroth, which also means he may know about Jenova, and possible whatever it is that's happening to Cloud.
"… You're still here…" the man muttered, flipping out of the coffin once again. He looked over the team, taking a second glance at Tifa, and then asked, "Why are you still here?"
"We told you all those things," Tifa told him and shrugged, as she was beginning to feel somewhat more relaxed around this man, since he didn't appear to be an enemy. "You could at least tell us your name…"
The man looked among the group once again, halting at Tifa, as she was the one who seemed the most curious about him, and then said, "I was with… the Shinra Manufacturing Department in Administrative Research, otherwise known as the Turks… I was known as Vincent Valentine."
"The Turks?!" Aeris exclaimed, cowering slightly, while Cloud stood more defensively in front of her and felt for the hilt of his sword.
"Formerly of the Turks," Vincent repeated, making Aeris slightly less tense, though Cloud still seemed like he didn't trust the man. "I no longer have any affiliation with Shinra. Who would you all be?"
"I'm Tifa Lockheart, I was in AVALANCHE," Tifa told the man.
"I'm Yuffie!" she exclaimed, jumping in the air with enthusiasm, however, once his crimson eyes glanced at her, her enthusiasm lowered, but still some remained. "I'm… a materia hunter…"
"I'm Aeris…" Aeris murmured. "The ancient…"
"I'm Cloud Strife, formerly of SOLDIER," Cloud confidently told him.
"You were also with Shinra…?" Vincent asked with small hint of curiosity. "Do you… perhaps know Lucrecia?"
"Who?" Cloud asked, racking his brain to try and remember the name, though surprised himself by realizing that he barely remembered anything from his SOLDIER days.
"… … …" Vincent was silent for a moment, it seemed he was either allowing Cloud more time to think or questioning himself if he should continue. "Lucrecia. The woman who gave birth so Sephiroth."
"Birth?" Cloud asked, suddenly more astonished by this man. "I thought he was created by Jenova cells."
"That is simply a theory that isn't completely wrong…" Vincent murmured with four pairs of eyes watching him, almost seemed to beg for more information. "Sephiroth was actually birthed from a beautiful woman. That woman was Lucrecia. She was an assistant to the great Professor Gast of the Jenova Project… beautiful… Lucrecia…"
"She was a human experiment?" Aeris gasped.
"There was no way to cancel the experiment…" Vincent depressingly told them, looking down at his coffin. "I couldn't stop it… That was my sin. I allowed the one I loved, the one I respected most, to face the worst."
"You're sleeping in a coffin to atone for a sin?" Tifa asked him, with an odd look on her face. She has heard of people atoning in several different ways, but locking oneself up in a coffin has never been one of them.
Vincent didn't reply, deciding he didn't need to explain his reasons to anyone, and instead lied back in the coffin and closed the top. Silently from the coffin they could hear, "Please… let me sleep…"
"Poor guy…" Aeris muttered.
"He's a vampire!" Yuffie cried. "And he didn't even have any materia!"
"He seemed so depressed…" Tifa whispered, then looked up at Cloud. He lost the person he loved… she thought. What if I allow the same thing to happen with Cloud and me…?
"We have to keep going," Cloud told the rest of the group. "Clearly he doesn't want to help us."
"Do we really want help from a vampire anyway?" Yuffie obnoxiously asked, as though he never frightened her in the first place.
"Well… all right," Aeris silently replied and nodded. "We still have to find Sephiroth anyway."
"Yeah," Cloud nodded, and then started to walk back into the frightening hallway and headed towards the library.
Vincent listened to their brief conversation as they left the room. He was thinking deeply about the way everything was going.
Sephiroth… Vincent thought. Wrecking havoc onto the world… this is… my fault…
Vincent thought of Sephiroth. After being in the coffin for thirty years, he hadn't heard anything on Sephiroth. But now… it seems Hojo's experiment had worked. The insane scientist had successfully created the super soldier he had desired, one with the power of the Cetra.
Vincent felt guilty. It was his fault that Sephiroth was created in the first place and now he has become a pain on the world.
Perhaps… Vincent could help. It would be better to go out and stop Sephiroth with this group than to sit in the coffin for all of eternity.
But on the other hand… he could quite possibly only make things worse for the already unstable planet. Much worse.
Vincent took a deep breath, thinking deeply about what he should do.
The laboratory, like the hallway, was almost identical to how the ex-SOLDIER remembered it, there was that old lab table up against the right wall, and the walls of the rest of the place, including the floor, were covered in books. On the far wall stood three tall tubes, suspiciously tall enough to hold a large man of at least seven feet in height.
To the right of the entrance was a short hallway, lined with bookshelves which were completely filled with books. On the opposite side of this short hallway was a desk which was also filled with books and had several candles for lighting. Cloud began to head to where the desk was, the very desk where he saw Sephiroth reading these books all day and night five years ago, and there was Sephiroth with his back to the party. "Sephiroth!" Cloud exclaimed.
Sephiroth never turned to them, and instead seemed to look straight forward, as if he were staring intently at something there. "Being here brings back memories…" Sephiroth announced and turned to them. His fierce green eyes didn't seem to stare at any of them individually, but at all of them as a whole. However, he then seemed to stare down at Cloud, and asked, "Are you going to participate in the Reunion?"
"I don't even know what a reunion is!" Cloud shouted at him. "You destroyed all my family! My friends! I don't have anyone to go to a reunion for!"
"Jenova will be at the reunion," Sephiroth told them, completely ignoring everything that Cloud had said. "Jenova will join the reunion becoming a calamity from the skies."
"Jenova?" Cloud asked. "A calamity from the skies? You mean she wasn't an ancient?!"
"… I see…" Sephiroth murmured, his fierce green eyes glaring down at Cloud. "I don't think you have the right to participate. I will go north past Mt. Nibel. If you wish to find out… then follow…"
"Reunion? Calamity from the skies?" Cloud asked. "What are you talking about?"
"Follow me… and find out," Sephiroth told him, and started to leave.
"You aren't going anywhere!" Tifa cried, standing in a fighting stance.
"Yeah, that's right!" Cloud announced, drawing out his mighty blade. "You aren't going anywhere! I'm getting my revenge!"
"You won't be able to stop me!" Sephiroth bellowed, and began to float in front of them. Sephiroth then threw a green materia at Cloud, an impact that was so hard that Cloud fell backwards, and then Sephiroth quickly flew past them.
Yuffie quickly snatched the materia and put it into her weapon, when she realized she didn't have any slots left, so she handed it back to Cloud. "It's a destruct materia," Yuffie said.
"Damn!" Cloud exclaimed as he stood, completely ignoring the young ninja. "We have to follow him! We have to go past Mt. Nibel!"
"Of course," Aeris replied, resting her palm on his shoulder and smiling widely at him, another frown emerged from Tifa upon noticing this. "We have to find Sephiroth. We have to stop him from killing more people. And we have to avenge all the people who were killed by him all ready. We can't give up now."
"You're right, Aeris," Cloud said, looking back at her and lovingly smiling. He then announced to the rest of the group, "We have to keep going, we have to keep fighting, no matter how hard it might be, we have to keep trying. We have to save the world from Sephiroth."
"Yeah so let's get going!" Yuffie exclaimed. "This place is getting boring!"
"Or is it just because you're scared?" Aeris playfully smiled.
"Oh… shut up!" Yuffie exclaimed, giggling as she did, along with Aeris. Tifa showed a fake smile, but it was hard for her when she saw the strong love connection between Cloud and Aeris.
"Let's go," Tifa told them, desperately wanting to leave, and manage to get away from Aeris and Cloud. "We can't let him get too far ahead."
"Right," Cloud nodded, heading back into the dark hallway.
There, however, they all instantly stopped. In the very dim light, they could see a figure standing there, and they all felt the being's presence. Cloud drew his sword, Aeris took out her staff, Yuffie drew her ninja star, and Tifa cracked her metal knuckles onto her fingers.
"S-Sephiroth?" Cloud asked. He was worried because he was unprepared, but he would fight if he had to. He would fight for Aeris, and he was prepared to give his life against Sephiroth.
The being raised his hand, and the group tensed back, and fired a gun. Fired a gun? Cloud thought, almost too dumbstruck to know where the bullet hit. Sephiroth would never use a gun!
They then heard a screech behind them and they saw some sort of large monstrous bat fall to the ground. "Who's there?!" Tifa cried. She knew that there was no way that Sephiroth would use a gun, so she knew had no idea who the person could be.
"It is I," the being said in a calm deep voice. "Vincent Valentine."
"Oh… Vincent," Tifa relaxed a little, knowing that it wasn't Sephiroth, but also knowing that Vincent wasn't necessarily trustworthy either.
"What are you doing here?" Cloud asked, almost acting hostile.
"If I go with you, will I meet Hojo?" Vincent asked them.
"Well, eventually," Cloud shrugged, somewhat surprised by the question. During their conversation, he didn't seem particularly hostile about any person, so why would he suddenly bring up the old scientist? "We're going up against Shinra as well as Sephiroth. Eventually we'll probably have to fight him."
"Lucrecia…" Vincent muttered, though they barely heard him. "I shall go with you."
"Wh-what?!" Yuffie cried. She, like the rest of the group, was completely surprised by Vincent's announcement.
"Formerly being of the Turks, I may be of some assistance," Vincent told them calmly, as if they didn't seem shocked at all.
"B-But you're a vampire!" Yuffie cried.
"I am no vampire," Vincent announced to them in his usual tone.
"Then why were you in a coffin?!" Yuffie exclaimed. "Normal people don't sleep in coffins!"
"I'm… hardly normal…" Vincent told the group. "Either way, it is up to you if I go or not."
"I think he can come," Aeris told the group. "He hasn't done anything against the group…"
"Yeah, I guess," Cloud agreed, though probably simply because it was Aeris who had suggested it.
Tifa thought on this, he did seem very odd, sleeping in a coffin was certainly something most people wouldn't do, and he does seem very dark, but at the same time he had, as Aeris had said, done nothing against the group. Also, there was something about Tifa that made her want to bring Vincent along with the group as well, probably because what he had said, I allowed the one I loved, the one I respected most, to face the worst, was very much like how she feared it may be with Cloud. Though Cloud loved Aeris, and she didn't know if anything like that had happened with Vincent or not.
"I… think he can come with us…" Tifa nodded confidently. "Just like Aeris said, he didn't do anything against the group."
"Oh fine!" Yuffie exclaimed angrily. "Let's just get outta this place!"
"Getting scared, Yuffie?" Tifa playfully asked. Teasing Yuffie was so easy, she and Aeris did it very often. The girls, especially at night, were always very friendly with each other, and giggled as if schoolgirls.
"No!" Yuffie exclaimed.
"Now let's get out of here," Cloud announced, leading the group out of the basement, with Vincent silently traveling with them, between Cloud and the girls, all of whom were very careful, in case he might do something against the group.
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