The wind seemed to blow more harshly in this place, as if nature was punishing the skeletons of Midgar for causing the planet so much pain in the past.
The scent of the flowers was carried on the wind, covering up the smell of damp and decay as the city rotted into the ground.
This was where Avalanche was born, where Shinra had ruled the world. Mako reactors had encircled the city, draining the planet of its energy, causing the earth around Midgar to become black and stony, like dead skin covering a wound.
This was where the beast was, hiding within the shattered structures, the battleground, the war between the planet and a celestial body from space.
Vincent rested his hand on his gun. Cerberus was the most powerful handgun in the world to date. This gun would be the one to end that monstrous life. The abomination of nature.
He followed the signs. The stupid animal was too brain dead to cover her tracks. Pools of sewage from her paws led him in her direction. Claw marks in bricks, scratches on metal left a trail for him to follow. It was too easy.
He could see from the blood spattering the tracks that she would be too weak to fight him, she was probably curled up somewhere in hiding, waiting for her wounds to heal.
He was ignoring Rufus' order to bring her back alive. He had sent the Soldiers accompanying him on a wild goose chase to Kalm. He didn't answer to Shinra; he was a mercenary who worked for whoever paid him. Usually Reeve and the WRO.
Only this time, he wanted to destroy all Hojo's hard work. He couldn't believe that the scientist had once more come back from beyond the grave. He had thought that Shinra had erased any biometric data left on the computer systems, but no. Hojo had come back, this time in human form.
A low mournful yowl was borne to him on the wind, he looked up at the looming form of the Shinra tower and started to climb the steep slope of the fallen plate. Rubble and chunks of plate made a good stairway to the upper section of Midgar. He tried not to think about the bodies buried beneath him.