Wow. Get along with this story, eh? Like I said I've been going through some writers block lately. I don't think I've been doing a good job. These last chapters have been top-A crap.
Chapter 29: What the hell just happened.
"To Traverse Town we go!" Hades laughed as they opened a gateway with their darkness. Hojo grinned and followed the lord of the dead.
"I couldn't have imagine this.." Ansem said softly as he threw his head back and laughed.
"Come." Hojo said as he turned his attention towards the town, which was currently being covered by darkness, "Our Prince awaits."
"No…" Complete utter shock. His body was numb, he could only watch in terror as Yuffie's body became one with Jenova's. Cid grabbed his arm and tried to pull him out the door, but Vincent stood frozen still.
"Damn it, Vince come on!" Cid cried out as the sounds awoke Leon, Sora, Donald, and Goofy.
"What the hell is happening?" Leon shouted as he stood at the door.
"Hell if I fucking know." Cid roared back and he pulled Vincent harder. Yuffie's short brown hair grew out into long silver strands. Her once bright innocent eyes had converted into glowing green mako eyes. Her outfit was now becoming darkness. Her chest was now covered with a heartless insignia. Black shorts formed around her waist as tentacles shot out from her back. Leering at Vincent Jenova cupped his cheek.
"Vincent." She whispered as Vincent allowed himself to lean forward.
"What the hell are you doing, Vince! We gotta get the fuck outta here!" A tentacle shot out and grabbed Cid around his waist. Howling in pain as an electric shock ran through his body, Jenova threw him into Leon and out of the room.
"Yuffie." He whimpered as Jenova smirked at him. Gently allowing his lips to pass over hers.
"She's gone, Valentine. Gone into Kingdom Hearts, with Sephiroth, Riku, Cloud." She pushed him back as he just stared at her with hollow eyes. He just couldn't accept it. This was Yuffie it had to be Yuffie, this had to be just a nightmare.
"Yuffie." He hissed again as he stepped forward. "You're Yuffie." He whispered again, as the tears finally reached his eyes. Slowly they ran down his pale face. Grief had mixed into his usually unemotional face. "You have to be Yuffie." Jenova smiled gently and cooed at him.
"Of course I'm not Vinnie." His face crumbled at the use of Yuffie's nickname for him. "The Great Ninja Yuffie is gone, forever, and it's all your fault! Chaos warned you. Soon the worlds will be in total darkness, and it's your entire fault! Yuffie's soul will fade away in Kingdom Hearts. It will be as though she never existed."
"Vincent!" He let his head hang low as Cid ushered him out of the room. "We need to find a safe place to go!" He screamed as darkness started to seep out of the room.
"The training place! Yuffie's and my old training place." Leon suggested as Cid nodded.
"We need to get some supplies from my shop though. Vincent go with Leon. I'll meet up with you two in a little while." Vincent didn't move.
"I'll go with you Cid." Sora cried out as Cid nodded and they headed out, with Donald and Goofy following.
"Come on." Leon said as he gave the dark man a shove towards the door. "Yuffie's gone and already you've given up?" Vincent didn't respond to the man, he just started towards the door silently. Turning his heads slightly at Leon he whispered out in a hollow voice, deprived of any emotion but pain.
"It's my fault she's gone." Leon didn't respond, he just followed the tormented man out of the house and into the streets of Traverse Town.
"Take that ya bloody bastards!" Cid yelled as he drove his spear through yet another heartless. He hadn't even made it to the first district yet, and had already encountered about a thousand of these little demons. "Where the fuck are all these things coming from!" Cid yelled in frustration as more appeared. "Damn it. Brat if I ever get my fucking hands on you I'll kill you!"
"Cid, Watch out!" a heartless lunged at Cid's exposed side. Sora threw the keyblade at it as it cut the heartless in half.
"Thunder!" Donald cried out, as he took out a bunch of heartless. Goofy threw his shield and knocked them out a path.
"We have to hurry." Cid nodded as they continued through the districts.
"Going somewhere? But the party's just about to begin." Cid stopped and pushed Sora behind him.
"Yea, now that our princess of light is with that Jenova girl. We can party all night long!" A light blue flame appeared out of the darkness, as Hades stepped out.
"Yes, now the heartless can fulfill their true purpose." Ansem stated as he looked up at the stars that were going out.
"It seems my research was correct." A man stepped out in a long white lab coat. He pushed his glasses up that slide down his nose.
"You won't get away with this!" Sora cried out ad Donald and Goofy nodded in agreement.
"Oh? How do you plan on stopping us, brat?" Hades laughed as he snapped his fingers. Hojo laughed as he walked up to them. Heartless appeared from all sides and quickly had them surrounded.
"This is just a sample of what we now can do. This is but a small number of heartless we can control!" He threw back his head and laughed.
"Small number! There's at least got to be 2000 of them!" Goofy cried out as Sora lunged at Hojo with the keyblade. Hojo's hand met the keyblade in mid-swing.
"Hm, so this is a keyblade. Maybe I should analyze its compounds." Hojo swung the end of the keyblade sharply trying to get Sora to let go.
"Hey you leave that alone you fucking Looney!" Cid threw his spear at Hojo, forcing him to let go of the end of the keyblade.
"Keyblade. What makes your heart different from Cid's, or Yuffie's. Could they not control the keyblade as well? A heart of pure light can control the keyblade, but what happens if your heart falls into darkness?" Goofy and Donald jump out in front of Sora.
"Stay back! Fire!" Hojo smirked as the surrounding heartless jumped in front of the flame, protecting the scientist.
"You want nothing more than revenge of Sephiroth for what he did to Riku. We could take you to Kingdom Hearts to see him, and then to the life stream to see Kairi."
"Kairi!" Hojo smirked and held out his hand towards Sora.
"All we ask is that you hand over the keyblade." Ansem shifted slightly looking completely bored as Hades laughed.
"Don't listen to this pansy kid! This is the same fuck that screwed around with Vincent! He's our enemy back in our world." Hojo smirked and shrugged.
"Speaking of Vincent where is he? He and I have a lot of catching up to do now that his lover is out of the way." Cid snarled as Sora got into a fighting stance.
"No way in hell are you getting near Vince, again. He's finally happy." Hojo laughed as he wiped a tear from his eye.
"Happy? Is that what you call it? I imagine now he's tearing himself up over what's happen to Yuffie."
"That ain't his fault!"
"Oh but it is."
"How in the fuck would you know!"
"I was watching."
"Damn you're one sick fuck!"
"Indeed. If he hadn't tried to make love to Yuffie, she would still be here, and you all wouldn't be in this mess. You heard them through the walls. If Vincent hadn't connected with Yuffie then the darkness would still be in him, but he couldn't keep it in his pants, so to speak. So now because of his actions the worlds are going into complete darkness, chaos, and destruction! Prepare yourselves you mortal fools, for this is the beginning of the end."
"Sora, listen to me." Cid hissed as the boy looked at him. "I need you to go to my shop and get those supplies. There's this bag of orbs, we call it materia, where I'm from. " Cid whispered as the heartless started towards them. "Go and bring them to me."
"Donald, Goofy, fight with Cid, get him back his spear!" Sora took off past Hojo and into the first district.
"Smart boy." Ansem said as he nodded at Hades. "Hojo you can take it from here I assume right? We'll be waiting for you with Jenova." They disappeared into another dark portal.
"Cid Highwind." Hojo stated staring at the man. Cid snarled as Donald used magic to retrieve Cid's spear. The heartless lunged, as Donald, Goofy, and Cid attacked.
"Not more of you!" Sora cried out as he had almost made it to Cid's shop. The heartless just kept coming. There was no way to stop them. One lunged and knocked the keyblade out of his hand. He cried out as another lunged for his heart. He closed his eyes expecting the pain to come.
Gunfire went off as the heartless dropped dead in front of him.
"Sora!" Leon yelled as he quickly leapt down with Vincent. Vincent's eyes were glowing an angry glow, Sora decided to tell them about Hojo later.
"Cid sent me to get some uh, Materia?" Leon looked confused as Vincent nodded and started towards the door.
"Look out!" Sora focused all his energy of regaining the keyblade; he did, and then quickly threw it at the heartless that were lunging at Vincent's exposed back. The gunslinger ignored any response and quickly went through the door. Leon quickly helped Sora on his feet and they followed him into the dark shop.
"He said a bag of it is somewhere."
"It might have holy in it." Leon raised an eyebrow shocked that Vincent would respond.
"Holy?"
"It's a very powerful light materia. We recovered it a long time ago. Yuffie did have it, but Cid took all the materia for safe keeping." Sora nodded as he noticed Vincent's jaw muscle twitched at the mention of Yuffie's name.
"So when did you decide to stop moping around?" Leon asked as his face met Vincent's fist.
"What the hell was that for?"
"Because I don't like you."
"Found it!" Sora shouted as he picked up a brown leather bag, and opened it. Vincent nodded and reloaded his gun, as Leon picked up his sword, while rubbing his jaw. It snapped back into place.
"Come on, Cid needs us." Leon nodded as they raced towards the door. While they were running Sora thought back on what Hojo had said.
"Uh, we ran into Hojo." Vincent stopped and turned to look at the boy. Sora gulped wishing he hadn't said anything about the matter at all.
"He was talking about taking me to Kingdom Hearts to see Riku, and then to the life stream to see Kairi. Isn't Kingdom Hearts Jenova sent Yuffie?" Vincent ignored the boy, but continued to stare. "All I had to do was hand over the keyblade. Also he sounded like he missed you." Sora closed his eyes expecting Vincent to nail him with his fist just as he had done Leon, but when he reopened them, Vincent wasn't looking at him. In fact the gunslinger's body was shaking, and Sora swore he saw something run down Vincent's cheek.
"Come on." Leon said quietly. "We need to get this to Cid."
"Ah fuck this!" Cid yelled as he was thrown against a wall. "Damn you to hell Hojo!" Hojo leered over the weaken pilot as Heartless held Cid down by his arms and legs. Gunfire destroyed the heartless as the used bullets lay on the ground.
"Highwind!" Hojo turned around sneering.
"ah, Vincent it's been far too long." Narrowing his glowing red eyes Vincent aimed at Hojo and fired off a round. All the heartless surrounding the insane scientist jumped up in front of him, blocking the bullets. Hojo started towards Vincent. Backing up, trying to keep distance between the two of them, Vincent fired again, only to have more heartless block his bullets.
"Damn." He hissed, as Hojo was just an arms length away from him.
"Didn't I tell you to stay away from Vince, ya fucking loony!" Cid roared as he took the bag from Sora. "Catch Vince!" Cid threw a glowing pink orb at Vincent's head. With cat-like reflexes Vincent catch the orb, and hastily stuck it into his materia slots in his gun.
"ODIN!" the sky grew lighter as a ray shown down from the endless sea of darkness. Hojo backed away as Sora looked up at the sky in awe. A man on a horse jumped on one of the nearby buildings, and held his sword out in front of him. Vincent's body had disappeared as the man on the horse lunged forward towards Hojo. Heartless packed together to act as a shield, but it didn't matter.
"Eat shit Hojo!" Cid yelled as he used his limit break. "Highwind!" Missiles came from out of nowhere destroying the wall of heartless, giving Vincent's summoning a full exposed Hojo.
"It seems I have miscalculated your resistance. I will join my son in Kingdom Hearts. Any words you would like to send to Yuffie, Valentine?" The summon hit Hojo as the heartless grasped the scientist heart, that was floating in the air. Vincent's form returned as he knelt down on one knee, breathing out in pants.
"Tell her I'm coming." He collapsed from exhaustion.
"Hojo's gone." Hades said as he sat down in one of the chairs. Jenova snorted as she gently padded over towards Ansem.
"Like father like son. I suppose." Smirking she twirled her finger around as more heartless appeared.
"It seems they are more determined that we thought. Especially Vincent." Jenova laughed.
"It won't take long."
"Why do you say that?" Ansem asked as she grabbed the ninja headband and put it on her forehead.
"I'll break Vincent Valentine if it isn't the last thing I do." Suddenly she reverted back to Yuffie, or at least on the outside she was, but inside there was all darkness, all chaos, and all destruction, and she had been released into the world.
I think this chapter was decent if you ask me. Too many line things, but they do their job and separate what's going on and such. Maybe I'll try and limit myself of them in the sequel who knows. DO one chapter about one character, or characters at a time ya know? Would make things less confusing.
Mage-Chan
