: Hey everyone! I'm back, and I seem to be getting back to normal again. I was even able to take a little run for the first time yesterday since the beginning of August :) But alas, all is not well in paradise. Been having relationship troubles and class troubles and car troubles and... well you get the idea. Sigh, idk. I am going to be very busy this month and it doesn't look too promising on any front. My 1 year anniversary is coming up and I'm almost dreading it because I'm terrified something bad is going to happen. Bleh, stress, can't seem to escape it -.-
Anyway, enough about me, on to you guys!
dreamer-girl-reana: I completely understand about the whole internet being stupid and school getting in the way :) After all it will be getting in the way of this fic too O.o Oh well -.- Lol thanks for reviewing!
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Reno: Awwww...
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Once again, Thanks to all of my readers and reviewers, you guys are great motivators. I was seriously considering dropping this fic due to all of the crap I'm going through and the serious lack of free time i now have, but I looked at your reviews and knew that i couldn't leave you guys hanging. I will do my best to make each chapter as good if not better then the last. I have in mind how I'm going to end this now too, and let me tell you, its quite the doozy XD Stay tuned!
Note: I tried to break up the individual sections in this chapter, given enough motivation I may go back and do the others. BWBWBWBWBWBW is gonna be the bad attempt at creating breaks in the chapter O.o
Chapter 37
Vincent thrashed against his restraints, trying again to bite Reixez. He was so close… so very close… And that damnable mouth of his. Vincent was losing his mind listening to the sickening words dripping like venom from Reixez's tongue. The dark haired man smiled and leaned in close, speaking slowly, savoring every ounce of pain and anger that flew through Vincent.
The demi-demon was frantic and experiencing an overload of emotions and desires. Reixez was feeding off of the reactions to his words. He kept coming up with more and more fanciful things to tell him. Well… they weren't really fancy. He had done everything he was telling him, just not all of it to Mae, and not all of it at once. But oh… he was growing hard at the pain flashing in the bound man's eyes and the blood falling from the small cuts Reixez was giving him. One for every tale he told.
"Do you know what its like to rip a woman apart Vincent?" He said the name like it was a forbidden curse, an unspoken taboo. His voice dripped with lust and glee and his eyes frosted over as he remembered the kill. It had been a small red head with big green eyes, walking home humming a sweet country song and dancing under the noon sun. The scent of her blood had been spicy and warm, and her smile had caught Reixez's eye.
Later he saw fit to deliver her pretty lips to her mother in a box. He kept her teeth for himself.
Vincent received another cut across his chest and Reixez danced away gleefully. Vincent fell limp in his restraints once again, pausing to catch his breath, his wounds healing very slowly. He looked at Reixez with a pained looked.
"Why? Why do you do this to people? Why Mae? Why did you have to kill her?" He knew he was showing his weakness, and he knew he would hate himself for it later, but he had to know. Chaos growled in his mind, angry at Vincent, angry at Reixez, and angry that he couldn't force the transformation so he would tear the blue eyed bastards into little bloody shreds. He took his anger out on Vincent, thrashing around in his mind and giving him a splitting head ache.
"Why did I kill her? Why did I kill her?" Reixez laughed, low at first, then gaining speed and a hysterical note. "I didn't kill her! You did!"
"Me…?" Vincent's voice was little and lost. "No," he said, a dark fear growing in his heart. "I did not kill her, you did!"
Reixez twirled his knife and threw it at a wooden board hung on the wall. He sauntered over and pulled it out, his laughter abated and his face blank. He studied the rust covered knife in his hands, turning it over and over and running his fingers over the bumpy surface of the blade.
"I may have physically taken her life, but you are the one who gave me the reason to take it," he said, his voice a quiet deadpan. Vincent wasn't quite sure what to make of his words, but though his anger had numbed some, a creeping fear had wound its way around his heart. His mind was running in circles trying to figure out what the sadistic half-demon was hinting at.
Suddenly it stopped. "No…"
Reixez turned towards him suddenly, his eyes lit with fury, lips pulled back in a soundless snarl, body tense and burning with hatred.
"When you fucked her and took her for your own you sealed her fate! She knew… KNEW that I would kill her the moment she opened her whorish legs for someone else… Mine! She was MINE!" Reixez's body pulsed and his form wavered, shifting between human and monster. The blue in his eyes had expanded to cover the whites and his pupils were little slits, a chasm in the ocean of ice.
Vincent felt that ice steal all the warmth in his body. He has seen them. He had been there that night when they…
Reixez let out a howl of rage and wrapped his left hand around Vincent's throat squeezing the breath out of his lungs. His other hand closed itself around the trapped demi-demon's private area. At first he applied no pressure, but then slowly he released the pressure he was applying around Vincent's neck and transferring it to the sensitive pieces parts he was holding in his other hand.
Vincent choked and gasped for air and pulled at the chains around his wrists. Reixez's eyes widened and he moaned in pleasure at Vincent's cries of pain as he slowly added more and more pressure to his grip.
"Wanna fuck her now you weak cocksucker," he hissed in his ear and rubbed suggestively against the other man. "I'll rip your goddamn balls off and make you eat them!"
Vincent's head was swimming and he was in agony, his whole body felt like it was on fire and he knew that he was only seconds from vomiting all over Reixez. Reixez was still screaming at him, punctuating each of his points with a squeeze and making Vincent's world tilt and disappear for a few seconds. He had lost all sense of reality and was halfway gone when Chaos had finally had enough. He launched to the forefront of Vincent's mind and forced his body to lurch forward and bite the blurry figure in front of them.
Reixez barely even felt it when Vincent's teeth sank into him. He was still rubbing up against the demi-demon and squeezing his testicles. Vincent's muted cries of pain had driven him to the edge and it was all he could do to stop himself from draining the man dry of all his blood. He would have to find some little cunt afterwards and sate himself with her body. He was hard as a rock. Ah, but when Vincent bit him, it sent him over the edge, the pain made him lose his mind for a few moments and he lost time.
Chaos sensed the change in Reixez immediately and ripped open the man's throat, drinking all he could, relishing in the burst of strength, even though the taste of the man's blood was horrific. He began to transform, sighing in relief when the pain in his groin and stomach disappeared. The chains around his ankles and wrists snapped. The one around his neck expanded as he grew with him. Before Chaos could tear it off of him, Reixez slammed into him, his skin bright red and his hair falling out all over him as he began to transform.
Drool and blood dripped from the madman's extending jaw, his bones cracking and growing and pulling at his skin grotesquely. Scraps of clothing flew everywhere as his body became too big to stay trapped in the thin material. Chaos backhanded Reixez sending him through the wall and knocking out the supports for the ceiling. He growled as the ceiling in the small cell began to collapse and decided to break through the door and the wall holding it there. He didn't have a lot of time before he would be trapped in his human host's mind, and that angered him. He wanted to kill Reixez, tear him to shreds then burn his remains so he would never rise again.
But he couldn't. Vincent was already stirring.
A scream of rage broke through the rubble and Chaos quickly launched into the air and flew over the remaining ground to the ocean. As soon as he reached the water he dove under it and swam towards the rock where he'd last seen Mae.
Her whole body was on fire. Was she burning? She couldn't see flames, but then again she couldn't see much of anything. All around the edge of her vision it was dark, and the rest was blurry and out of focus. It felt like someone was stepping on her head and there was cotton in her ears. There was a warm body above her and it was making noises at her, but she couldn't figure out what it was saying.
She saw another shadow move above her and saw it get bigger. Was it getting closer? She didn't know. It was getting colder though, and the darkness at the corner of her vision was getting larger. She tried to move but found that the burning only increased when she did that. The other shadow was making noises too, but these noises were deeper sounding and rumbled.
The most delicious thing she'd ever smelled wafted through the air and she swallowed reflexively, wincing as the fire tore up her throat. She tried to whimper, maybe one of the shadows would take pity on her and share some of that delicious… whatever it was and relieve her pain, but the only thing that came out of her was a low groan. It sounded loud to her and she winced.
It was almost as if liquid ice was suddenly being poured down her throat, and oh… how it felt, so good. Mae swallowed but didn't move towards the delicious life water, afraid to scar it away. Her whole body still burned, even more if that was possible, but she stayed still, locking her body and refusing to move, terrified that the water would go away, and it felt oh so good now as it settled in her chest. The flow seemed to slow now, just as the burning was beginning to move away and she wanted to cry, though she dared not move to grab at the source, or open her tightly closed eyes. She clenched her burning hands at her side and felt the liquid ice slowly spread over her body. It barely eased the burning, but she felt a bit more herself now.
There was more mumbling, one of the voices sounded angry and Mae flinched as something flew past her face. Her whole body jerked and she fought not to move. She felt a little further from the black void then she had been, but she knew that moving around and chasing those delicious smells had brought her much closer much faster, and since the water had come to her when she hadn't been moving, it seemed prudent to stay put.
Once more a drop of liquid ice fell at her lips and she opened them instinctively. More came this time, and even stayed there a little longer then before. It too went away and Mae swished a little of the last bit around in her mouth, savoring the cool flavor of it. It seemed warmer then it had before and the fire in her was dulling, not enough for it to be comfortable, it still hurt, but it was bearable. She felt the blackness move again, and more of her memories started to come back. Her name… Mae… ah yes, that was it. She pushed away other memories and pictures because they made the burning worse and just relaxed against the cool ground beneath her.
Her chest moved slowly, up and down, up and down, and she waited patiently for more of that soothing elixir of life. It was long in coming this time and more angry voices were permeating the barrier she'd put up around her mind. She felt her brow wrinkle in frustration. The voices were angry, surely they couldn't be the source of the elixir could they? Hmm… Mae grew more and more curious as the minutes ticked by and she began to get angry as well. If the angry voices didn't give her more of the elixir soon she would have to go and chase the food sources around herself and waste precious energy.
Oh well, if it was necessary. Mae opened her eyes and the voices grew louder. She sat up, unawares of her speed and found herself looking into very familiar eyes.
"Mae… stay calm, fight the blood lust." The big shadow put its hands on her shoulders and clamped down tightly. Mae frowned and barely resisted the urge to bare her teeth at the man. He too frowned at this.
"You should have had enough blood to bring you back…" Mae smiled at this, her pride growing when many of the people around them stepped back.
"Back," she said hoarsely. "Yes, I am back…" She felt a cool presence slither around in her mind and suddenly a hoard of pictures were slammed into her vision. She reeled from the onslaught, catching herself on the big man's cloak. Her mind felt like it was going to explode due to the excess of information being shoved back into it, but the pain quickly died off leaving a vague sense of vertigo in its wake. Mae watched as the ground slowly moved back and forth and up and down. Her body felt as if it were constantly falling and her arms flailed wildly looking for a solid, stable something to grab onto. Nausea and huger warred with each other in her cramping stomach and she felt her body slowly hit the ground and watched the world go dark again.
"Quick! Kill her while she's too weak to fight back!" The cry was joined by many of the other angry and affronted members of the small town of Wutai who now gathered in a small circle around the dark haired girl held protectively in her father's arms.
Yuffie sat on the ground nursing her wrist, her mind and heart in turmoil. She did not know whether to take the side of her people, or of the woman she had come to in some ways hate and in others respect. For most it would have been a simple choice, but Yuffie's heart was still filled with guilt at what she had inadvertently done to her. It was her hand that almost took her life and started the flight that lead her into the situation she was now, and even though she had been under a spell, she refused to use that as an excuse.
Ah, but the wayward girl had also stolen her love and broken her heart. Yuffie had never thought herself to be a jealous person, but the dark and hateful emotions that had entered her heart at seeing her Vincent with Mae… well…
Even now it still hurt, the wounds it had left. That part, at least, was not a product of the spell. Yuffie almost wished it was, because then she could throw them away and be done with them, but no, every night they came back and haunted her, even if she had done all she could during the day to distract herself and put on a smile hoping her inner feelings would change into the ones she had been showing everyone.
Admittedly, it hadn't been all that long since she'd gotten home, it had only been a few days, but to her, each minute felt like a life time. She was in a battle with her heart and her mind, both of which seemed to always want to dwell on the pain in the other.
Yuffie bit her lip and curled her legs up into her chest. Her wrist was still throbbing gently where she'd cut it. She didn't know what had possessed her to volunteer her blood for the dark haired woman laying at her feet. Maybe it was because she had been hoping for some type of release, from her heart, from her mind, from some of the pain or guilt… But there was nothing. The aching in her heart easily drown out the aching on her wrist and it was all she could do not to curl up on the ground and cry her heart out. She didn't care about Mae, not at this point. She just wanted the woman to go away. Go away and take Vincent with her because she couldn't stand to see either of them again, especially not the hate or anger or maybe even pity that would be in Vincent's eyes if he ever looked at her again.
The big man named Timothy was speaking again, talking over the crowd, being heard by every one of them even though he wasn't shouting. Different… He was different too, just like Mae, just like Vincent… God… They were all different, freaks, running around destroying lives and causing chaos.
Yuffie felt something new slithering around her chest and grabbed onto it. Anything was better then the pain. Ah… it was warm… She felt the heartache fade a little, and a raging fire replaced it. She was surprised at the quick change, but even that was taken over by the raging wild fire in her heart and she forgot it. A silver blade caught the light and she ran her hands lovingly along her treasured weapon, her shuriken, the permanent extension to her soul. The fire grew.
: Me: This isn't a super bad place to stop this chapter...
Reno: *playing video-games* DIE! Eat bullets you evil zombie! Bwaaaaaaaaaa! NOOOOO! Don't eat meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Arggg! GODDAMIT! *throws the controller*
Me: wtf...
Vincent: *flicks the switch and the TV and video-game console turns off*
Reno: *grabs hair and screams while falling to the floor* Noooo! Why! Why would you do that to me! *attacks Vincent*
Me: O.O uh... *sneaks out of the house* Ahem... well... uh...
*house blows up*
Me: my... house... *makes grabby hands at the shutters as they fall to the ground and turn into black sooty dust*
Reno: *stumbles away from the house completely black with half of his clothes burned off*
Vincent: *walks away from the house in much the same state*
Reno: *coughs out a cloud of smoke*
Me: *anger* Look what you did to my house!
*They look at the house and then back to me, shrug*
Me: I here by sentence you to 5 days at the mercy of the giant hoard of Fangirls that go on !
Vincent/Reno: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!