The Ring
By Charles Xavier
"Morning!"
Yuffie quietly entered the dark room…and gracious was it a mess. Much of the furniture had been kicked or moved from their places, a few of the light bulbs on the walls were shattered with the glass shards scattered on the floor, and most peculiar, the only light emitting inside the room was the TV, which for some strange reason was left on. But in the opposite corner of the room where Yuffie stood, there lied an undisturbed body…its head covered in a thin black sheet. It was obvious for the ninja to recognize who it was. For there was only man she knew who'd be slouching around like this.
"Oh, gawd! Dad, you always drink too much sake!" Yuffie shook her head in disgust and walked across the pig sty area in order to switch off the TV.
It looks as if there'd been a fight or something in here…and I'm the one who always to clean up the place…sheesh…
"C'mon, dad! Yoo-who!" She clapped her hands at Godo, bending down at him with a smiley grin. "Rise and shine, pops! It's a nice day today!...Hey, wake up, lazy bones!" Godo wasn't moving at all, even when Yuffie gave his father a serious kick in the part between the legs.
Wow…he's good…he almost looks dead…
Yuffie always heard her father snore whenever he was asleep, yet now nothing was coming out from the silent man. This was probably the first time he'd ever slept peacefully.
"OOOH!!!! You're so difficult sometimes!" Yuffie snorted and turned around. "Why…I'd say you're worse than Vinnie! In fact, you're the most helpless man when it comes to cleaning up the house!"
Godo gave no answer.
"Hmph! Guess I'll have to open the curtains for you, then!" She did so…and the brightness of the morning sun shone through the windows. Godo was still not awake…and this made his daughter get very hot-headed. "GET UP NOW BEFORE I DRAG YOU HERE AND TOSS YOU OUT THE WINDOW!"
Silence.
Say…what's that sheet doing on his head? Never seen that thing lying around my dad's house.
She approached her father again and knelt down. Touching him by the shoulder, Yuffie felt it ice cold. This made her shiver a little. But even worse, when she undid the top part of his kimono to see if her father was feeling well, she found his skin pale blue.
Oh my gawd…what happened to you?
He was cold all over…she felt it when she touched her hard and frozen skin. His blood had stopped running through his body and Yuffie could feel no heartbeat when she placed her ear onto his chest. At that second Yuffie began to feel a strange sickness inside her stomach…it wasn't the usual sickness she had from having the baby…no…but it was something else…fear. Something was definitely not right about Godo…and Yuffie almost had a clear idea what it was…
Oh…no…dad?
Tears ran down her cheeks as she reached her shaking hand for the sheet covering her father's head. Something was telling her not to unveil the mystery behind the sheet…but Yuffie was determined to see her father's face…alive or dead.
Dad?
Gripping the end of the sheet tightly, she pulled it down to reveal the grim face of Lord Godo…
Vincent heard a scream from next door. It was scream that made him sense that something was wrong.
Yuffie!
He quickly slipped on a pair of black pants and scrambled out from his bathroom and out of the house bare feet. He rushed into Godo's house, running through the corridors and shouting out her wife's name over and over again.
"Yuffie! Where are you?!" Vincent tried to detect where Yuffie's constant screaming was coming from. She sounded like as if she was already going into labor…but his belief was soon going to prove wrong… "Yuffie!"
Vincent found her crying and screaming outside Godo's open room, all crouched up with her face buried between her legs.
"What happened?" Vincent took her by the arms firmly. Yuffie pointed her finger into Godo's room.
"He's…he's…daddy is…" Yuffie wasn't able to speak clearly because her dry throat after all the sobbing and shrieking she had made. "Vinnie…he's…"
Vincent looked at the open door and walked inside to find Godo sitting in the corner…his head raised high, his skin drained from its color, his jaw gaping wide open and his eyes staring up into emptiness…it was a disturbing site…and it made Vincent cover his mouth and look away from the poor man…
Who did this to him?
He felt like throwing up. He turned his face round to the blank TV screen to see only his own reflection…and a white dressed woman standing right behind him, looking down at his masculine body.
Lucrecia?!
Vincent spun round to face only Godo's dead body once again. He heard Yuffie crying even louder as Gorki, Checkov, Shake and Staniv came into the house to find her in her horrible state of discomfort.
"Miss Yuffie, what's wrong?" They all asked.
