Disclaimer: I do not own FFVII in any way shape or form, but I do own the created characters in this story.
Prelude
From Vincent Valentine's view
The cries of a new experiment ran from the library of the Shinra mansion. The cloned evil scientist was at it again. Creating the undead ones out of those who stood in his way. This time it was a girl. I could tell by the cries that filled my ears. Even through the thick wood that was the top of my coffin. When the cries ceased I knew the subject had passed into a state of unconsciousness. I knew that because if she hadn't she would still be emitting those cries of pain. I lay there listening to the silence wondering whom Hojo had changed this time into the undead. The first female to become that close to becoming undead had died. I wonder if this girl had died too. I soon heard the library door slam open and I slowly opened my coffin. Hojo stalked past the room I slept in muttering something. I made my way to the door and cracked it. It seemed he had done well from his mumbling, but it had been one of his most trusted and hardest working lab assistants. She had found out what he was up to and decided to confront him. Just as I had done so long ago about Lucrecia. He soon was gone leaving me with the deathly silence I so loved. I shut the door and began to clear a coffin. I would move the new undead here, where Hojo couldn't do her any more harm. I began to ponder about what this new one was called. If she hadn't lost her memory. I had heard many names called. One was Lulu, another Bella, a third Anne, and the last Lu. They called the last one Lu. I had now cleared the coffin and I walked towards the library. I then realized that I couldn't carry the new one here as my claw would tear the skin on her. I pushed open the door and peered inside at the dark haired one on the table. She was covered with a sheet up to just above her chest leaving her shoulders exposed. Her arms were covered. And I felt like an intruder coming into a girl's bedroom while she slept. A few tools were laying nearby on a little tray table that Hojo used when experimenting. It looked as if he wasn't finished. The girl twitched slightly and I tried to keep the sheet from falling off of her, but I was too late and it fell to the floor. I looked away quickly not giving myself enough time to see whether or not she was wearing anything. I heard her sit up and I picked up the sheet from the floor and handed it to her with my good hand. I noticed a hesitation before the sheet was snatched. There was a reason for it. I gave her a moment to wrap herself before I looked up into a pair of red eyes like my own. They were partially hidden by strands of hair dark as a raven's feathers. She was wearing a pair of pants and she had pulled on a shirt over bandages that wrapped around her chest area. The sheet however covered her right arm from my view. I saw her shaking in fear, but she had no way of knowing that she looked almost just like me.
"Are you alright?" my voice said in its deep and cold manner. I saw her stop shaking. She blinked at me.
"Why is there so much pain…" she could hardly speak. Her voice ran in my ears in an almost inaudible way. I heard metal grating as I scratched my head.
"I don't know what Hojo has done to you on the inside, but you'd best see your outer appearance miss… what is your name?"
She blinked before speaking, "They call me Lu…" she rubbed her head with her left hand.
"I am called Vincent." I put out my right hand and stood there. She blinked and almost reached out her right, but recoiled and put her left hand in mine. I led her to the back where Hojo had his office. I removed a mirror from the drawer and passed it to her. She took it and looked at her self. The red eyes or black hair didn't bother her at all. She placed the mirror back into the desk and moved towards the table. She sat down on it and looked at me.
"What are you doing?"
"Hojo isn't finished with me… if he doesn't I will die." I nodded.
"Come to the room with the coffins once he is finished." She nodded and I left. I was going to get some rest before this weekend when Cloud was coming by.