Roxy: Hey everyone the sequel is up sooner than we expected. I'm already working on the title page follow the link here, http:// black-dragon14.deviantart. com without the spaces …
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Fleeting Faith
Chapter 1
"Happy birthday Roxy!"
"If you guys start breaking out in song I will go vampire on your asses."
Carmen rolled her eyes and patted Roxy in the back. It was her birthday specifically February 3rd and they were celebrating the occasion. The brown haired/red streaks/blonde streaks/black streaks girl sat comfortably in the lap of the ebony haired gunslinger, Vincent Valentine and frowned like no tomorrow.
"You still have yet to open my gift."
Vincent whispered in Roxy's ear, she smiled lightly and picked up the gift he was holding in his golden gauntlet. She daintily opened the gift taking her time and Vincent's eye sparkled when she saw what it was. A ruby shaped diamond connected to a white gold chain was glittering beautifully in the black box. With gentle care, Vincent picked up the necklace and clipped it together as the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it!"
Yuffie exclaimed and jumped up. Yazoo sighed and chucked his gift at Roxy who caught it with ease while Yuffie let the guests in.
"Happy Birth-!"
"Don't say it!"
Roxy yelled cutting Lisa off. Carmen snickered and motioned for Loz and Lisa to sit beside her and Kadaj, Cloud and Tifa walked in and handed Roxy a gift then took a seat.
"Man we have to get ready soon."
"Why? For what?"
"Didn't Denzel tell you?"
"Oh ya! No."
Roxy said sarcastically, Carmen shook her head and caught Denzel and Marlene by the collar of their shirts. She brought them to her face and spoke in a scarily calm voice.
"One of you picked up the phone I know it."
"N-N-N-No we didn't C-C-Carmen."
Denzel spoke shakily Cloud and Barret stood up and escorted the children out of the room to give them a long boring talk about lying.
"Carmen why didn't you just call my cell?"
"…Well…You see…"
"Carmen…"
Roxy whispered in a demanding tone. Yuffie shot up with the black cell phone in her hands and scampered over to Carmen handing her the respected item.
"Yuffie had it for the day."
Carmen spoke quickly and Roxy sighed running a hand through her hair. It had been two months since they were transported to the Oni Lair and defeated the Leader. Everyone decided to stay in this realm since they no longer had to worry about leaving and had a few travels. Since Cait Sith could create a portal to Gaia, Barret went back to bring Marlene and Denzel to live with them.
Reeve and Shalua even decided to come. Shalua was apparently a scientist at WRO who was searching for her meaning in life. It seemed Reeve had a certain… fondness of her so Roxy didn't have anything against them. Though they had to sleep in the spare room downstairs.
"So…What is it I'm exactly missing…?"
"We're going to a club in 2 hours."
Tifa answered and everyone nodded. Roxy was quiet and seemed to be in thought.
"Who's going to baby sit the kids?"
There was a silence throughout the living room until Cid coughed.
"Barret and I are taking care of the damn kids. Reeve and Shalua are too I think…Hell all of the adults are staying behind!"
Yuffie grinned and bounced up to the blonde pilot.
"Hah you admit you are old!"
Cid scowled and left the room, and Red XII purred under Tifa's touch. Carmen picked up a bag and got off Kadaj and pulled Roxy upstairs.
"We're going to have to get ready. We're taking your Aston Martin."
"If it's out of gas you're paying the bill that car is freaken expensive. So is Vincent coming?"
"Why don't you ask him? Of course Red isn't, he's a wolf thingy…"
Roxy sighed… If they were taking her cars that would mean there would be about…9 people…And the Turks too.
"Are the Turks coming?"
"Well just Reno. Elena and Tseng wanted a quiet night and Rufus wanted to try the hot tub out and I believe Rude was assisting in taking care of the brats."
So 10 people which meant 2 cars. Recently Roxy's Fiat Barchetta broke down and she still had yet to fix it. Roxy shook her head in defeat and grabbed her car keys on the way to her room. They were taking her onyx black Aston Martin V12 Vanquish and her blood red BMW M3.
"Why are we getting ready 2 hours before necessary?"
"It's your birthday and you're asking all these questions."
Carmen mumbled and finally stopped dragging Roxy she immediately headed to her closet and rummaged through it muttering angrily under her breath at how messy it was. She stopped and pulled out a red halter top and a pair of black khaki shorts.
"Here put these on."
"…I'll look like a total slut in that. If I wanted to be one I would go to Kaitlin!"
"Vincent won't think your one, these are his colors."
Roxy grumbled something under her breath with a red tint on her face as she grabbed the clothing from Carmen's hand. Carmen laughed and pulled out a white tank top and a black pair of pants, she slipped on some black gloves and a few arm bands then zipped up her Slayer coat (which looked like Kadaj's leather coat, except it was white and had the slayer's Logo on it, a S that looked like a serpent, with a blood red star around it). Roxy came out and pulled out a fish net shirt and grabbed her hoodie.
"I thought you said you didn't want to look like a whore."
"I don't. I'm just trying to impress Vincent so shut the hell up."
"Hm I suppose."
Roxy applied red lipstick on and flopped onto her bed as Yuffie jumped into the room with Tifa following behind.
"Where's Lisa?"
"She told me that she had gotten ready already so now we're waiting for you guys."
Tifa replied and Roxy reluctantly got up.
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Carmen sighed as she quickly put a clip in her hair, making her look even more like a librarian, she quickly tied her Soul's Bane to her belt, before bolting out the door, Roxy throwing the keys to her as Roxy herself got into her Aston Martin. Carmen quickly caught the keys as Reno, Loz, Lisa and Kadaj loaded into the car. Carmen turned to Kadaj, who was at shotgun.
"Hang on for a second, Kadaj-Kun."
Carmen quickly threw a wad of paper to Roxy, before shouting.
"Here's the address. Don't get lost or an Oni would attack you"
"I can handle myself!...And don't throw stuff at me!"
"Ok, Ok…crybaby…"
Carmen muttered the last part before entering the car.
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Loud music was blaring in the club and Roxy covered her ears. The bouncer nodded at Carmen and they sat at a table. Roxy sighed grumpily and leaned on Vincent's chest. Lisa and Loz were dancing together to the beat a little to close in public but hey Roxy wasn't going to say anything.
"If you don't cheer up right now I'll seriously consider spiking your drink Roxy."
"Carmen I'm fine okay. Just bored I'm not much of a night club kind of person."
Vincent rose from his seat and offered his hand. Kadaj snickered at the chivalry while Carmen elbowed him abruptly in the stomach.
"May I have this dance?"
Roxy took his hand and they strode off into the dance floor. Yuffie followed them with her ninja sense obviously looking for some black mail material. Yazoo crossed him arms and stared out into space until Carmen turned to him.
"What's with the face?"
Yazoo snorted as he watched Cloud talk animatedly to Tifa at the bar. He could feel the smoldering gaze Carmen was giving him but ignored her until Kadaj kicked him in the shin.
"Ow what the hell brother!"
"Answer her."
"I feel like I should keep this face on so no women will approach me."
"Aa I see. You still have an infatuation with her."
"Wha? Who?"
"Roxy. Though it's hard to tell, you give it away when you call her by her full name."
"I'm just showing complete respect when I address her as Roxanne."
Yazoo answered a bit miffed at the conversation at hand. Carmen shrugged and left Yazoo to his mopey self. Carmen looked towards Kadaj, before pecking him on the lips slightly, smiling
"What was that for?"
"No reason, just felt like it."
In truth, Carmen wasn't that much of a romantic, normally, she would punch Kadaj if he did something wrong, so it was quite a shock that Carmen just did that. Kadaj shrugged the thought off before hugging Carmen, smiling as well, before whispering in her ear
"Love you."
Carmen smiled before kissing him as her response.
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Carmen: Yayz, we have the next story up, oh yea, the disclaimer
WE OWN NOTHING, EXCEPT THE ONI, THE SLAYERS AND OURSELVES
Roxy: Hn…