Wow, this chapter is dark. It kinda hurts. Maybe not for you but me….

Anyways, before starting, I'd like to give a HBDAY shout out to my cousin. He does read this, he's just not this far. I may owe him an apology. Yes I know it's a month late but I was going to update it at midnight of November but I blacked out.

Let's jump right to it humans! (Or whatever you classify yourself as)

Disclaimer: It is not mine! The OCs are mine only. Everything else belongs to SQEX and Reki Kawahara. (Except the extra floors, that belongs to the community)

Chapter 24: Avenger

9:00am

Location: Deibon

{Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children: Beyond the Wasteland}

Yami returned to the Deibon. It took her a while as she wasn't in any mood to hurry. All the tags in the wolf's den were destroyed so she walked back slowly.

If one looked at her, one would think her eyes were blank and void of emotion. But secretly, they burned with rage and hatred. She didn't want to leak out killing intent. She was saving it all for Tsugasa. The man who took her friends.

She restocked her curatives and bought 3 extra Elixirs. Reason: she wanted Tsugasa to suffer. She would beat him, cut him, tear him to shreds and heal him before he could die so she can continue. Yami exited the city and headed west. The location of the dead tree.

Location: The Dead Tree

It was raining. Strong showers like that day on floor 5. Nowadays, rain signals a great tragedy. Just like that day, the lives of many where lost, today, the lives of those precious were lost.

The dead tree was a giant oak hidden in a clearing of a forest. One could stand on the 'small' branches of the tree and it is said the tree would cause a quake if it fell to the earth. At the base of the tree, Tsugasa waited.

The man behind the deaths kept his gaze in front of him. The rain didn't allow much vision, but Tsugasa could manage. He smirked and started to say something. Nobody came from in front of him. Though someone was watching from the northwest.

"The heaven's cry tears of sorrow

As three souls depart to Etro's realm,

One soul remains seeking justice

Vengeance by steel's swift descent"

Tsugasa slowly drew his katana. Yami appeared from the sky and clashed swords with Tsugasa. "Hehehe, so you came Vixen," Tsugasa chuckled parrying her away. Yami landed without any trouble.

Yami wasted no time and attacked again. "Not one for a 'hello' I see," Tsugasa taunted blocking Yami's every attack. When Tsugasa attempted to counter attack by swiping his sword horizontally, Yami ducked and swept at his feet. Tsugasa leapt into one of the tree branches.

{End of Soundtrack}

"Sinner," Yami said in a cold, low and empty voice. Tsugasa was a little shocked at her one worded sentence. "Tsugasa. Theft, manipulation, assault and murder. I shall hand down judgement for your crimes…" Yami glared with a stare filled with hatred.

"YOU WILL ATONE THROUGH DEATH!"

{Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children: Jenova}

Tsugasa was shaking. Not by fear. By madness. He started laughing. His laugh was fill with insanity. The laugh of a man who had lost his mind. "Wonderful! That's the same face you wore that day. That day you slashed my eye." Tsugasa put on a serious glare. He pointed his sword to her. "Don't disappoint me, Vixen."

The two charged at each other. Steel of two katanas clashed in the rain. Each blow was to find an opening for each other. Currently, Yami blocked the vertical strike Tsugasa had planned. She threw the sword off and used blitz. Tsugasa saw threw her plan and jumped back.

Or at least he thought he did.

A wave from the katana slash hit Tsugasa head on. She used Lion's Roar not blitz. Yami launched herself raising her sword. The sword glowed a purple colour. Tsugasa dodged as she used [Heaven's Charge]. The ground cracked upon impact. "What a shame. I missed," Yami said.

She attempted to remove her sword but Tsugasa kept slashing rendering her unarmed. Yami dodged strike after strike. Tsugasa stabbed Yami in the shoulder. He twisted his sword to further the damage. Yami was unfazed. Like she had lost her soul. Yami walked further into the blade and stabbed Tsugasa in the stomach with a dagger.

"Suffer." A pillar of lightning crashed down from above. Tsugasa screamed as the lightning harmed him badly. He looked down to realise the glowing tag. It read Thundaga. It showed that Yami put lots of effort in those spells for revenge.

Yami kicked Tsugasa faraway removing the sword in the process. 'This is my chance.' She ran up, grabbing her sword. Her sword glowed as she took one step. She appeared behind Tsugasa as she her katana disappeared. The tree behind Tsugasa fell down slowly. "Hehehe. Amazing Vixen."

Clutched in Yami's right hand was an arm. She showed it to Tsugasa and gripped it shattering it in the process. "Tsugasa. You told me not to disappoint you. You have it backwards. If this is all the strength you have, consider me disappointed," Yami said coldly to the man.

"Is that so?" Tsugasa asked. Yami's left hand was gone. She knew Tsugasa positioned his katana to tear Yami's left hand off when she severed his arm off. Yami called her blade again. "That hand was burnt from the lightning anyway. It became a useless limb."

{Switch: Final Fantasy XIV - Heavensward: Melt}

"Next, I'll take your right arm. Your eye, your pride and finally your life. But before that," Yami said pointing her sword to Tsugasa, "I'll hack that grin off your face." Yami charged again starting the duel with each fighter having one hand. The two swords clashed at a great speed.

Tsugasa swung downwards again. Yami dodged by leaping into the air and axe kicked his head. She cleaved his right arm off coming up and shattering it. Tsugasa screamed in pain and fear but was quickly silenced by Yami grabbing his mouth. "Pathetic," she whispered as she threw him to the dead tree. She kicked up his katana and roundhouse kicked it to stab his stomach.

Tsugasa was on the verge of death. He was suddenly healed as Yami threw an Elixir at him. "Why?" he asked.

"So you can know they pain and despair they felt," Yami said equipping a crossbow. She shot it at Tsugasa impaling him with arrows everywhere. "That's for Setsuna and so is this." Tsugasa looked up as Yami fired another arrow. It pierced his right eye. Tsugasa screamed in pain again. Yami threw another Elixir. "P-please…no more."

Yami started to throw knives that would cut or stab Tsugasa. He started to cry and beg for forgiveness but Yami's eyes here blank and his pleas fell on deaf ears. "That's for Ren and so is this." She threw the dagger again but this time it had a Blizzaga tag. Tsugasa froze up again as part of him broke off. Yami threw the final Elixir.

This time, she equipped a glove. After the immense cold faded, she started to beat Tsugasa over and over and over again. She left multiple red marks on Tsugasa's torso and his cheek. "Kill me," Tsugasa muttered.

"That was for Rin and so is this," Yami said. She punched Tsugasa in the chest, hard enough to break the bones. That's if they were real. "Tell me. How could you do this? What were you thinking when you did this? HOW COULD YOU KILL PEOPLE LIKE THERE LIVES MEAN NOTHING?! ANSWER ME!" Yami yelled with tears running down her face by those tears were hidden by the rain.

"Kill…me…"

{End of Soundtrack}

"Fine. I've had enough of you anyway," Yami said drawing her sword. She raised her katana high in the air. Tsugasa looked up to see the sword trembling. He looked into her eyes to see hatred, anger and despair. But what he saw in her eyes…was fear. He closed his eyes and lowered his head.

"You truly are a kind soul, Vixen." Yami gripped her sword tighter after hearing his words. She stopped trembling.

"Save it."

Yami struck down severing Tsugasa's head from his body. The man shattered into crystal particles. Yami dropped the katana as it faded away to the crystal dimension. The rain got harder and harder as a distant thunderclap sounded. "Time to head back."

10:30am

Location: Deibon

{Final Fantasy XIII: Lost Hope}

Yami did it. She had slain Tsugasa and avenged her friends. Although now, she felt tainted. She looked at the hand that was still intact. Now when she did, she saw blood. She shook the image out of her head as she sauntered to the teleport gate.

It was as if her anger was a trance. She snapped out of it and realized what she did. Now she was thrown into another trance. One of regret and sorrow.

"Teleport: Stonewall."

A bright light engulfed her as she was warped to the city on floor 14. Yami walked through the town looking dead. She felt dead. This whole ordeal was a huge mess stained with blood and tears. She made it to the inn everyone was staying in. Yami hesitated before opening the door slowly.

"Yami, you're ba-" Lumino stopped his sentence seeing the state she was in. Wet from the rain, covered in cuts, a stab wound on her shoulder and a missing left hand.

"Are you okay? What happened?" Lily asked staring at her missing hand.

"Guys, Yami must be tired. She should rest for now and tell us later," Tsukino said. Yami looked up the other seven party members with blank, empty eyes.

"Tired…yeah…you're right…I'm just tired. I just need to rest," Yami muttered heading another room. She entered the room and sat on the bed. She looked at her hand with looked as if coated with blood again.

"You truly are a kind soul, Vixen."

"You're wrong. No light reaches my soul. It's just a merciless void. A void that attracts the hand of death."

{End of Soundtrack}

11:00am

"I wonder what's up with Yamiyami recently," Scarlet muttered. She couldn't eat the meal Tsukino made them. Everyone seemed down lately.

"Yeah. She came in injured, missing an arm and she looked dead," Raiden said. He looked down at his food. He looked at his own reflection on the plate. It shifted to another one but he shook the image out of his head.

"Yeah, like somebody ripped the soul out of her," Tsukino said. She looked to the meal she made for Yami on the counter. "Looks like she's not coming out to eat. I'm going to give her her meal."

"Don't worry. I'll do it," Ronen volunteered.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah." Ronen put his plate on the counter and grabbed Yami's. He left to the room and knocked on the door. As expected, there was no answer. Ronen opened the door anyway.

{Lightning Returns - Final Fantasy XIII: A Distant Glimmer}

His breath was suddenly stopped as she saw him. She was staring at her hands with the same empty look. She sat so still, one would think she is a corpse. Ronen swallowed what anxiety he had and went to her. He put the food on the lampstand and got a hi-elixir. He put it in Yami's hand and closed it allowing the curative to heal her injuries.

"Normally it would take a day for a severed hand to heal properly." Ronen got a super restorative and poured it on her red stub. "Here, this should speed up the process. Your hand will be back in about 5 hours."

Ronen looked up to see the ravenette staring at him. He got a closer look at her. Her eyes were blank but they were filled with regret and sorrow while the bags under her eyes indicated that she didn't sleep. Sleep wouldn't affect someone in FFO but if one stayed up for more than 3 days, they would sleep on the spot. "You should eat and get some sleep. I can see you've had a rough day."

Ronen was pulled back by Yami. "Please…don't go," Yami requested. Ronen nodded and took a seat on the floor next to the bed.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Ronen asked. Yami hesitated and shook her head.

"Is it that bad?" he asked. Yami nodded. Ronen sighed and sent a message to Lumino saying that he would be staying with her for a while.

"If you need to talk don't hesitate to. If you need anything, I'm right here."

"T-thank you."

"You should eat. Food can't rot in this game but you can't really waste it either." Yami nodded with a blank stare. She looked at the meal. Bread Cutlet with Tomato.

"I don't know what you went through but listen. You're strong, you'll be able to get through this. It's one of your best qualities." Yami nodded as she started crying. Tears fell to the ground next to Ronen. She tried desperately to stop her tears. "You shouldn't hide them. Crying isn't a sign. It just shows how human you really are."

'Not like I can bear to see you cry either.'

Yami stared at the brunette with wide eyes as tears felt out. She cried into her hands silently. Ronen moved to the bed next to her and hugged her. "Don't worry. You're not alone in this. No matter what, we'll help you until the very end."

"…Right…"

{End of Soundtrack}

I have got to stop kicking my heart into the dirt! That last scene kinda broke me. Maybe because I know the whole story and I get attached to characters.

By the way, I forgot to mention. Wattpad readers, I'm getting a graphic tablet for Christmas so I'm going to draw the OC's; places and scenes to help you imagine better. Fanfiction Readers: Sorry but the best I can do is to put a pic of the party as the story picture. Unless someone decides to get the people on this site to get a picture setting!

Until next time readers!