Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 7 or any of its characters. I do, however, own Lyn, and Reneey belongs to Reneey Umbra.
A/N: Okay so I haven't updated this or anything else in a while… but it's seriously not my fault. I have no home internet anymore. -sweatdrop- This is what I get for living out in the boondocks where there is no wireless. -sigh- But yeah. I'll try to post up what I can from school, but I don't know how that's going to work out just yet.
If you can't tell, I really loved writing this chapter. XD And not just because of who shows up in it. Though that does play a part. -shifty eyes-
SilverDeathAngel – Yes, Reneey is a real person; and no, she isn't stupid. She's random and she doesn't consider consequences sometimes before acting. That doesn't make her an idiot, just extremely awesome.
And on a related note…
Reneey: Hello, peoples! So I have this idea for a little contest for all of you readers. So the contest is this: Who can draw the best scene from any of mine and Lyn's fanfics? In case you don't know them all, here they are:
We're Not In A Fanfic (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
TV's Are Starting to Revolt (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Eating Food From Bleach (Bleach, obviously)
The Dark Shards (Inuyasha)
Is Blood Thicker Than Water? (Vampire Knight)
Shinigami, Fangirls, Detectives, Killers, Oh My! (Death Note)
Wristbands (Naruto)
Hellions Break Loose (Supernatural)
and A World Apart (Final Fantasy 7) -- on Lyn's fanfiction account, if you haven't read it
What I mean by scenes is that you can draw Lyn getting mad at Reneey for cursing out Seto in We're Not in a Fanfic!, Hiei kidnapping Reneey and Lyn from TVs Are Starting to Revolt, or any other scene from any of our fanfics listed above.
Here's how you must enter: You send me a PM or an email (you can find it on my profile) with the LINK of your picture. It can be photobucket, deviantArt, whatever. AS LONG AS IT'S A LINK AND NOT A FILE!
Use this form:
Username:
What story did you pick?:
What characters are in it?:
What's happening in the picture?:
The deadline is May 30th; the winner will be announced on June 10th.
AND THE PRIZE! (Insert flashing lights and all that pretty shiny stuff here)
The winner will get a sneak peek into our upcoming Elfen Lied, Code Geass, Full Metal Alchemist, and Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfics as well as a special treat from each of us. I will do a dedicated AMV, and Lyn is too indecisive to decide on one thing so she's said she'll do a sketch, edit it with Paint Shop Pro if you want, random abstract on PSP, do a new humor avatar, make an AMV, write a oneshot -- basically it's your call. Yes that's right, folks! Six prizes for one little fanart! Think you're up to it!?
Second place will get to pick a prize from either me or Lyn and choose two of those four sneak peeks, so basically you get half the first place prize. And for third there will be an award of one sneak peek. And if you respond to our sneak peeks with comments, you'll get mentioned and/or quoted in the author's note of the first chapter of that fic when it's posted!!!
Oh and you might want to check out our deviantArt to see our stuff before you decide what you want for a prize -- Lyn's is LadyOfRandomness(dot)deviantart(dot)com and mine's ReneeyUmbra(dot)deviantart(dot)com so check us out!
Chapter Three – Vampires! (No, Not the MySpace Game)
It was a little while before Lyn was able to convince Reneey to be slightly less random and insane and they finally moved on with the trek to Nibelheim. So why were Lyn and Reneey with them? Well, simple: because they were walking in the same direction. And that's really all there was to it, as far as Cloud was concerned.
In Reneey's opinion? She was going wherever the heck Lyn was going. Why? Because she had no idea what the crap was going on. Now she knew how Lyn felt when Reneey had forced her to join Naruto RPG boards and stuff Lyn knew nothing about…
As for Lyn, she was already dead-set on going with the others. After all, how much fun would it be to get left out of a battle for the world? Not to mention the awesome characters, the fighting, the magic, the explosions… and the awesome characters. But that's a story for another day.
Actually, as it turned out, it was a story for this day after all. Upon finding Nibelheim restored, Tifa and Cloud went through the shock phase that Lyn, at least, had seen a hundred times. Really, this was why people didn't get sucked into video games more often, she decided: hearing the same lines over and over was bound to drive you crazy eventually.
On the plus side, being in Nibelheim meant the Shinra mansion was right here and –
"That place gives me the willies," Barrett said, frowning at the building Lyn had just been thinking of.
"It's the Shinra mansion," Cloud explained. "People from Shinra lived there long ago, so the villagers gave it that name."
"It looks kind of like the type of place Dracula would live," Reneey said, looking at it in awe. There was a moment's pause, then: "Let's go!"
"What?" Cloud asked, staring at her. "You can't go in there – it was dangerous enough years ago. God only knows what's in there now!"
"Ooh, maybe there are vampires!" Reneey squealed, her brown eyes going wide as saucers before she turned them on Lyn. "Lynni, are there vampires in there!?"
"Of course there aren't vampires in there," Lyn said in her trademark this-is-obvious voice. "Does this look like Transylvania or Italy or Forks or something?"
"Well, I wanna go anyway," Reneey declared, crossing her arms and looking like she was ready to pout until she got her way.
"I didn't say I don't wanna go," Lyn corrected. "I said there are no vampires."
"You'll get yourself killed if you go in there!" Cloud repeated emphatically, glaring at them both.
"Why is that, because we're girls?" Lyn growled, standing up to her full height, which happened to be about two inches greater than his (minus the spiky hair), and glaring right back.
"No, because you have no weapons!"
"Right," Lyn said, pretending to look at a loss. "I've only been getting in fights since I was five, taken kickboxing, isshinryu karate, elements of jiu-jitsu – you're completely right, I have absolutely no way of defending myself whatsoever. I totally need a sword that's as freaking tall as I am in order to walk into an abandoned building."
There was a ringing silence during which Lyn and Cloud glared daggers at each other; then Reneey and Barrett simultaneously burst out laughing.
"The girl's got you there," Barrett choked out. "Man, ain't seen anything that funny since your spiky butt's been around."
Lyn smirked and grabbed Reneey's arm and started to drag her toward the Shinra mansion. "Whatever. Reneey and I are gonna go explore and see if we can find out if there's any truth in the rumors that there's somebody in the basement, see y'all people later."
Cloud froze. "… Somebody like who…?"
At just that moment, a guy in a black cloak fell over somewhere nearby. I mean, come on, dude can only stand there so long before he dies whether you talk to him or not – seriously!
"Urgh… the great… Sephi…roth…"
"Yes, I have heard he's there," Lyn agreed without stopping.
Cloud looked at the man in black. Then he looked at Lyn. Then he looked at the others, who were watching him expectantly. Then he growled and started after her.
"But I'm not going just to keep you two safe!"
"Ooh, nice cast-iron gates and barred windows and cobwebs and everything!" Reneey said happily as they walked inside. "… You sure there are no vampires?"
Lyn sighed heavily. "For the last time, yes, I'm sure! … Now, c'mon, we need to go open a safe."
Cloud stared. "What?"
"Uhh… there's a materia in it!"
"MATERIA!?" Yuffie shrieked. "Cloud, we have to go!"
"What? Why do we need more materia?"
"Because you can always use more materia!" Yuffie cried. Then she looked at Lyn and asked in a half breathless voice, "What kind of materia is it!?"
"A summon materia!" Lyn announced, and then Yuffie promptly grabbed Cloud's and Aeris's arms and started dragging them forward.
"We're coming!"
"Upstairs!" Lyn ordered, following suit and dragging Reneey, who promptly kicked Lyn in the shins and made her let go.
"You know where it is?" Tifa asked, blinking. "Have you been here before?"
"Oh, I've heard," Lyn said lightly as they came into the safe room. "All right!"
"But how are you going to open it?" Yuffie asked slowly. "I don't know how to pick something like that."
"I can shoot it open!" Barrett volunteered.
"Or I can put in the combination," Lyn said with a what-the-heck-is-with-you-people look.
"You know the combination?" Cloud repeated skeptically.
"Yep! Right 36, left 10, right 59, right 97!" Lyn quoted from memory.
"… How do you know all this?"
"Oh, I know this guy who's a treasure hunter," Lyn said with a smirk, secretly referencing Locke from the previous Final Fantasy game.
"Something feels funny about this," Red XIII said slowly, but Lyn was already halfway through the combination. And then the second she finished it and the door swung open, out popped a tremendous boss that roared and cast a fire spell toward Cloud.
"What the heck is that thing!?" Barrett yelled as he opened fire.
"Lost Number," Lyn informed him. "Okay, here's the deal! Aeris, Seal Evil! Everybody else, magic on the purple side and direct attacks on the red side, all right?"
"How do you –"
"I just freaking do, deal with it!"
When Lost Number was finally defeated, Cloud growled in anger and glared at Lyn. "What is wrong with you!? You didn't see fit to mention that there's a thirty-foot monster who comes out of that thing!?"
"Well, no," Lyn said, blinking. "I mean, it's not like you wouldn't have found out the hard way once Yuffie decided to open it, anyway."
"… That's not the freaking point!"
"Anyway, who cares?" Lyn asked, picking up the basement key. "This is what's important!"
"Not as important as the materia!" Yuffie declared, picking it up.
"What's this?" Red XIII mumbled, nudging the instructions for Cosmo Memory.
"You'll get it later," Lyn said, shrugging. "Anyway! To the basement!"
Barrett stared as she dragged Reneey out of the room again. "… Is there something wrong with that girl?"
"Where would he be…?" Cloud murmured as they descended the staircase. "Last time he was…"
Lyn grabbed his arm to keep him from walking on to the library. "Hey look a locked door!" she said pointedly. "And we got a key in the safe! Which means we need to open it!"
"And get attacked by another thirty-foot monster? No thanks!"
"There aren't any monsters in here!" Lyn said, rolling her eyes. "Come on, I swear, nothing dangerous!"
"Then why do you want to go in?" Cloud asked suspiciously.
"Because I do dadburn it!"
"… Dadburn?" Cloud repeated, blinking.
Lyn sighed, unlocked the door, and shoved it open. "Oh look it's open there you go Cloud!" And so she promptly shoved him inside where he lost his balance, tripped, and knocked the lid off of one of the coffins.
Vincent sat up, scowling, and growled, "Who –"
And then he was promptly interrupted by Reneey screaming, "VAMPIRES!"