I know I haven't been on the the site for a while. I've finally bought my first manga. I also discovered a website where I can read manga online. You guys are very patient so I would like to thank Lord Makura. I will have to check out some of your storiese sometime if I can ever pull myself away from my manga. I've just recently got ONE and now I have a freakin collection. Well anyway, enjoy.

Chapter 14

Vincent bashed the door down to his metallic prison. A guard stood outside waiting for him with his gun aimed. Hesitating, the guard unleashed a barrage of bullets at Vincent. Vincent put one of his enormous claws before his face, blocking the bullets. As soon as the guard stopped shooting, Vicent swung his claw over and smashed the Deepground soldier against the wall. The guard fell to the ground, laying motionless. Vincent continued down the hall in search of a way out when suddenly the entire seemed to jerk forward. Vicent tumbled over and quickly returned to his feet. His mobile prison must've stopped moving. Vincent continued down, still in his overdrive, when a sudden scent hit him in the nose. It smelled a lot like… "Chaos!" Vincent burst through another door to find himself greeted two more Deepground guards. Two balls of appeared in his hand which he quickly fired at the duo, killing them instantly.

The scent seemed to getting stronger as he also now able to hear the sounds of gunshots and men screaming. Chaos was definitely real. Vincent let out a cold growl and continued to make his way to the other end of the room. "And he said he would never bring himself to a place like this," Vincent said in a demonic voice. He stopped in front of the door where the scent seemed to be eroding from. Vincent punched his left claw into his right, in preparation to bash the door in and immediatley did so.

Cloud exited the Shinra Mansion with Tifa right by his side to find the city was under attack. People were running and screaming in terror. Cloud looked at Tifa who replied with the same look. Cloud pulled one the extnesions of his sword and the two made their way into the town. It looked like a reinactment of the incident with Zack and Sephiroth. Cloud eyes began to from the intense heat of the flames. He heard the sound of a woman's scream come from a nearby house. "Tifa," Cloud quickly said. "See if you can find any survivors I'm gonna see what's going on."

"Right," Tifa replied and she and Cloud went off in separate directions. Cloud burst the door down to a nearby house in search of the screaming woman. The house cracked. It sounded like it would collapse at any moment. The sound of the woman's scream burst through the air again.

Cloud called out to the woman, "Where are you?"

"Help," it sounded it was coming the upper story. Cloud carefully made his way up the stair, trying not to break them. Upon reaching the top, Cloud found a young girl, about twenty years of age, curled into a feeble position. Cloud swiped his sword at the nearby flames, extinguishing them. The girl removed his arms from her face and looked up at Cloud who had reached his hand out to help her. The girl hesitated for a moment before finally grabbing his hand.

Tifa inspected the door of a nearby house. It was blocked by the flames so she had no way of entering. Just then, a loud , monstrous roar blazed through the air. Tifa's heart came to a sudden stop as she felt her whole body grow weak. After regaining her composure, Tifa took a few steps back and leaped onto the top of the house. Upon reaching the roof, Tifa smashed a whole in it and went inside. It wasn't as bad as looked outside; the fire wasn't as intense and the just about all the furniture was still standing, undamaged. Tifa made her way about the house in search of any survivors. Just then, the same roar from before made its way into her ears. Tifa stopped and looked towards a nearby window. Something was coming, something BAD was coming. Just then, the nearby wall caved in, launching a huge dust cloud. Tifa immediately shielded her eyes and slowly began to back away. The roar had now morphed into a hiss. Tifa uncovered her eyes as the dust become thinner and thinner, revealing the cause of this entire predicament. Tifa balled a fist, for there, standing before her was a dragon. The beast reared its head, preparing to attack. Tifa's heart began to race as her fist caught ablaze. Tifa lunged forward. "FIRE," she yelled as her burning fist made contact with the dragon's face. The dragon slid back a few feet and shook its head. Tifa assumed a fighting position, prepared for battle.

Vincent came flying through a wall. He immediately recovered and got back to his feet. As his fiery breathe faded from out of his mouth, Vincent growled at his adversary. It appeared it the form of a dragon but it had Chaos' scent on it. Also, Viincent noticed a blood red aura eroding from its body, the same as Chaos had. "It must work for Chaos,"Vincent said in his mind. The beast let out an ear shattering roar and put one of its feet on a nearby corpse. Vincent replied with a roar of his own and launched a blast of fire from his hands. The dragon was knocked into a stack of crates. Without standing back up, the beast shot a blast of energy from its mouth. Vincentlifted one of his claws and easily swiped it away. Fire had no effect on him when he was transformed into the Galeon Beast. "Pathetic," Vincent said in his beastly tone. "You can do better than that. After all, you came from Chaos."

The dragon lunged forward, claws out. Viincent did the same, his claws were consumed by fire. The two came together in a erupting collision.

Tifa came up crashing down on top of the dragon's head, killing it. Cloud picked his sword out of its carcus and returned it to its holster. "What was that thing?" he asked.

"I don't kow. But look!"

Cloud and Tifa looked at the dragon's dead body as it slowly disappeared rom existanace. The body evaporated into a red mist that slowly faded into a crack in the ground.

The mist slowly slithered through the air, as if it were trying to escape. Vincent's claws burned with the intense heat. He was prepared for another assault. The red mist finally found it crack in a nearby door and vanished through it. Vincent let out a roar and toar the door, as well as the wall around it, down. The mist was gone. Vincent wrapped his arms around himself in an embrace and let out a sigh. Within seconds, Vincent returned to his original form. The was another dark prescence in the area. It was Hojo, he could feel it. No mistakes this time. Vincent Cerberus and slowly made his way toward the nearby door. He could hear faint sound of Nero's voice giving orders. Just then, an alarm rang. Vincent leaned against the door and pressed his ear against it. "I don't care what you do!" Hojo shouted using Nero's voice. " I want all those monsters destroyed."

The area jolted a bit like it was hit by something. Vincent pressed hard on Cerberus' trigger trying not to pull the trigger all the way. It was now or never. Without any second thought, Vincent threw the door open. Inside, he found Hojo and three Deepground soldiers. Vincent fired a round at one of the soldiers, instantly killing him. He then jumped over a nearby control panel and used it for cover as Hojo and the other two soldiers opened fire. Vincent noticed there was a wind shield before him. Through it, he could see there were dozens more those creatures like the one he fought before. Vincent took his focus away from that upon noticeing that Hojo and his followers had stopped shooting. Vincent jumped up from behind his shelter and aimed Cerberus before him. They were gone. The only thing he saw were a pair of machine guns laying on the floor. A chill ran down Vincent's back. He quickly spun around and found two pistols were aimed straight in his face. It was Hojo, who to his surprise, had Cerberus pointed his face as well. Vincent eyes faded into an unnoticeable glare.

"Well, well, well," Hojo said, his hologram appeared next to him. "How did you manage to escape from that little prison I set up for you?"

"Let's just say," Vincent began to reply. "That an unwelcomed guest helped me."

"I see." Hojo brought his gaze towards the wind sheild. "Those creatutes outside are born from the Lifestream. The corrupted half. No doubt created by Chaos."

Vincent's eyes shot wide open upon Chaos' name. That would explain why he could see the aura coming off the creature from before. Hojo noticed this split second of vulnerablility and attempted to fire a shot. Vincent moved to the side and fired a round towards the wind sheild, breaking it. Wind began to pour out of the cockpit, yanking Vincent and his adversary outside. Vincent clutched a fist, activating one of his Materia. A red glow could be seen through his arm. He was preoaring a summon. With in no time at all, Vincent was caught in midair by a tall pillar of ice. Standing next to Vincent was a woman with icy blue skin. The goddess of ice, Shiva. The Chaos spawn beasts flew around Hojo's mobile fortress. One of the beast looked as if it's attention was attracted by Vincent and darted over to him, preparing to attack. Viincent stood there, calm. With out even saying anything, Shiva gracefully leaped off the ice and smoothly flicked her wrist, causing a cold wind to encase the dragon in ice. The frozen dragon remained airborne for a moment and then fell a great disance before shattering on the ground.

Hojo stood upon his enormous fortress, glaring at the summoned being. He had no chance of winning this battle. That was for sure. In a last hope of vicentory, Hojo fired a round of bullets at Vincent. Vincent stood for a moment, admiring Shiva's beauty. The ice goddess looked back at him. Just then, a chill ran up and back down Vincent's spine. Within the blink of an eye, Shiva appeared next to Vincent, a barreir of ice materializing before. Vincent blinked in surprise as the bullets slammed into the barrier. The ice then melted and Vincent threw his gaze to over the fortess where Hojo stood. It was being swallowed up by a dark cloud, along with Hojo. "You may have this time Vincent Valentine," the evil scientist called to him. "But the power of corruption will be mine."

With that said, Hojo and his fortress disappeared. Vincent fell to his knees, exhausted. He had never fought such a battle on his own. The battle against Omega wasn't even this intense. Just then, Vincent's heart began to speed up. His eyesight began to fade into darkness once more. Truly, this was not his day.

To be continued….