The Vampire and the Ninja part 8 (version 1, If you stay)

The Vampire and the Ninja part 8

By Yuffie Valentine

Yuffie opened her eyes when a bright light hit here them. She looked over at the bedside clock; it was 1:32 am. What was the sun doing out? She reached out and grabbed a bathrobe off the chair nest to the bed. She put it on and walked over to the window. Opening the thin curtain she looked up into the sky to see a vast sphere of fire.

"Oh my Gawd." Yuffie said. She dropped to her knees. He did it, he summoned it. The comet was coming, but it would never touch Earth, not if she could help it. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the white materia. Its glow had died down since last night.

Vincent awoke when he felt Yuffie was missing from his arms. He looked up from the pillow. Through the window, he could see the meteor. It's crimson flames burning the sky. He looked slightly down to see Yuffie on the floor, looking at the piece of Holy materia in her hands.

"Yuffie, what happen?" Vincent asked. He got out of the bed and walked over to where she sat. She had tears running down her face.

"I didn't work. I did it wrong, he still was able to summon it." Yuffie said. She held the materia to her chest. She preyed, preyed for a miracle to happen.

"You did it right, it just doesn't work till the comet get here." Vincent put his arm around Yuffie. She was so soft and weak at the moment, but she able to level a city. She was such a small build, but she was so formidable.

"We have to find Cloud, he can beat Sephiroth, the only one." Yuffie said.

"What? You seem stronger then Cloud." Vincent was shocked. Yuffie showed much more power then Cloud.

"It's not the power, it's the will. My heart has been turned, I will send another man to kill my father, but I can't do it myself. I have already killed so many, I can't take another life." Yuffie said. She put the materia down on the carpet. "And we have to give the materia to Aeris, it's safer that way."

"Well, I can see your point." Vincent said. She had a lot on her shoulders, killing her father shouldn't be added to the list.

"Vincent, one more thing. I have Jenova in me. If Sephiroth dies, he'll just transfer to my body. That's why he hasn't killed me, yet he needs my body. If he does get into my body, I want you to shoot me." Yuffie said. Her face was blank, no emotions showed.

"Yuffie................ I can't." Vincent said. He couldn't kill her, even if she begged him.

"Then I'll have Cloud do it, he seems to want it bad enough." Yuffie said. She got up from her place and walked into the bathroom. Vincent sat looking up at the comet. He thought of having to see Yuffie killed by Cloud. Knowing he couldn't kill Cloud cause she wanted it that way. He wouldn't let that happen, he needed to stop this. He walked over to the bathroom door and knocked.

"Yuffie? We need to talk." Vincent said. No answer came. He opened the door to see the room was empty. He also noticed that she had taken her clothes off the floor. Her conformer was missing too. He groaned. He didn't know if he would ever see her again. Why was it that she was missing or running off? Yet every time he could run after her.

Yuffie flew over the land in a daze she needed a place to hide away. To think. That's when she heard the voice, calling. 'Sephiroth.' She stopped in here path and looked around. No one. She flew closer to the ground. The calling got louder. She listened and followed the voice. She could make it out now. It was a female voice. Coming from behind a waterfall.

"What?" Yuffie said. She looked to see a small opening near the side. She walked through it. Leading her into a diminutive cave. She could see a bright light at the center. A figure was outlined. "Hello?"

"Sephiroth?" The woman looked up. She was in a ragged lab coat. Her brown hair falling from it's once neat pony tail.

"No, not him, but I know him." Yuffie said. She walked towards the lady.

"You know my son young lady?" Lucercia asked.

"Your son? He's your son?" Yuffie asked. This was her grandmother standing before her.

"Yes my son, you know my son?" Lucercia asked. Her eyes were hopeful.

"Well, to tell you the truth, Sephiroth is my father." Yuffie said.

Lucercia got a weird look on her face before she fainted. Yuffie looked down at the woman, they did sort of have the same eyes. She pulled out her cure materia and cast it. Lucercia stirred and sat up.

"Your his daughter. I thought he was dead." Lucercia said.

"Nope he's alive. Tell me, why does he have Jenova in him?" Yuffie asked.

"It's because he was a experiment. We didn't know Jenova was so dangerous. Hojo and I were fools. We should have listened to Vincent." Lucercia said. She looked down at the floor in disgrace.

"Vincent Valentine?" Yuffie asked.

"Yes. He and I were...lovers. But when I decided to have Hojo's baby, we stopped. He wanted the baby to be normal, but Gast and Hojo didn't listen." Lucercia said. Yuffie stood, eyes tearing up. Lucercia and Vincent?

"Well, Sephiroth just summoned one hell of a comet to destroy the Earth, so we'll all be dead and none of this will matter." Yuffie said. She turned to leave, but a cry stopped her.

"Wait, let me help." Lucercia called out.

Vincent looked around the small town that he just entered. He heard rumors that Cloud was here. It had been a week since Huffier left. He figured she might come seeking Cloud. The people in the village seem to look at him weird. But he gave no thought to it. He walked up to a man.

"Excuse me Sir. I am looking for a man who is dressed like a solider and his name is Cloud." Vincent asked. " Have you heard of him?"

"Sure have, he's up in the hospital up there." The man said. He pointed to a small hut on the outskirts of town. Vincent walked over to the hospital. He could hear the voices inside as he walked closer.

"It's really not looking that good Miss. Lockhart." The doctor said.

"Isn't there anything you can do?" Tifa asked.

"Nope, he is just going to be like this forever or time will heal him. The only time he looked like he might have made it out was when that girl came to visit him," The doctor said.

"What Girl?" Tifa asked. She didn't think Aeris cam by herself before they got here. It couldn't have been Aeris.

"I didn't get her name, but from the way she dressed and talked, I think she was from Wutai. When she visited him, she seemed very serious when talking to him. She wasn't very emotional. She did put a materia in his sword, told me to make sure he knows about it when he comes out." The doctor stated. He picked up Cloud's sword and pointed to a materia of the summon kind. On it the name read "Knights of the Round."

"It is a very powerful summon. I can feel it. Thank you Yuffie." Tifa said. She looked up at Cloud. He was a depressing sight almost. Her eyes moved to the corner. A dark red figure stood. She looked closer to see it was Vincent. "Hey Vincent."

"So Yuffie came here, she left a priceless materia to Cloud. Why?" Vincent asked. Why would Yuffie give up the one thing she needed to save her town to a man who tried to kill her?

"I don't know, her and Cloud are alike in the way they hunt Sephiroth. Yet he controls them both in a way. This isn't the first materia she has given away. When I was looking for Cloud, I went to her town, but he wasn't there. But Yuffie's materia collection was there. She gave it to the town. Also gave up a lot of her stuff to the town's people. I was reading a book on mental health that said when a person begins to give up their stuff, even their most prized objects, they think they will die soon or they are committing suicide." Tifa looked down. Yuffie saved Aeris, tried to kill Sephiroth, and had destroyed Shinra. She seemed like she would be on their side, but she was the daughter of their greatest enemy. Tifa was torn between emotions.

"She is planning to die, that's why she came to visit Cloud. She was going to ask him to do it after they killed Sephiroth. She doesn't want the chance of Sephiroth taking over he mind." Vincent said. He patted his gun. "She wanted me to do it, but I could never do that."

Footsteps were heard coming up the steps to the hospital. Cid, Barret, and Aeris came in. They had big grins on their faces.

"You should have came Tifa, it was amazing. After we saved North Corel, we were coming back when we saw them. The weapons. All of them, they were almost beautiful. They seemed to be going to the North. The flying one seemed to be missing though." Aeris said. She gave a big hug to Tifa. She looked down at Cloud and frowned. She couldn't wait for him to come back. The she saw Vincent in the corner. "Hello Vincent."

"Hey Vincent, what's up buddy?" Cid said.

"You said the flying weapon was missing?" Vincent asked. He seemed like a block of ice. He was hardly moving and giving of cold feelings.

"Yep, his little winged butt was no where to be found." Barret said.

"I wouldn't say that now Barret." Cid said shaking. "He just flew by the window."

"What?" Aeris said. She ran over to the window. Sure enough he was up in the sky. Flying over the town. At a closer look, she could see someone was on it's back.

"Holy *%$# that thing is *^%# big." Cid said.

"I know, what is it doing here and with its guest?" Barret asked. They all went outside as the monster. The person on it's back glided down. The individual was wearing a huge green cape. It pushed past the group without saying a word.

"Wait, who are you?" Aeris asked and ran after the person. But Vincent knew who it was. But why was she being so out of the ordinary. She was never rude enough to ignore him or Aeris. And why was she in the cape? He only could tell it was her because she rode on the beast.

The figure pushed her way into the hospital. The doctor didn't even attempt to stop her; enough weird people had come to see this Cloud fellow. The figure stopped in front of Cloud. She dropped her head in sadness. Pulling out a white materia with a jade glow to it. "CLEAR TRANQUILITY PLUS HOLY!" The figure shouted.

A blue bubble formed over Cloud and it filled with green light. When all cleared, Cloud has holding his head. He sat up. "What is going on?" he asked.

"CLOUD!" Tifa and Aeris cried out simultaneously. They ran and hugged him.

"I hate to break up this little get together but Cloud is needed else where." The individual in the cape said.

"Yuffie?" Aeris said. The figure removed the hood of the cloak to reveal Yuffie, but not the same Yuffie they knew. She looked about 22; her skin was a pale shade of green. Her eyes matched the color of Sephiroth's. Her hair went down to her shoulders. She let the rest of the cape fall to reveal her biggest change. Her multicolored wings. They were white with blue and green tips.

"Yuffie?" Vincent asked. She must have not seen him in the corner when she came in.

"Hello Vincent." She said in a low voice. She turned away ashamed.

"What happen?" Vincent asked. His arms went around Yuffie.

"Well, I went to think things out and I ran into Lucercia." Yuffie said.

"That's impossible, she died." Vincent said.

"No she didn't, she was hiding, she can't die of age or stuff like that, the Jenova keeps us alive. Anyways, I told her what happened and she said she wanted to help. She said the only way I could defeat Sephiroth is to become stronger then him. So we went back to the lab in the basement of the Shinra mansion. There was enough left there to inject in me. I felt fine till two days ago, my body changed. The wings grew back. I tried to have Lucercia help me, but she..." Yuffie said with a fresh series of tears coming down her face.

"She what, Yuffie?" Vincent asked.

"She was dead, they shot her for helping me." Yuffie cried out.

"What? Who shot her?" Aeris asked. Vincent held Yuffie tighter when he felt her start to tremble.

"The Shinra. They just didn't shot her; they over-killed her. There was so much blood, more then I have ever seen." Yuffie said. She cried into Vincent's chest. After a minute or two her body went limp. She was out cold. Vincent picked her up from her standing position and put her on one of the open beds.

"Poor thing, she's been through so much. And at a young age too." Aeris said.

"But look at her now. Her body is more tone. She looks at least 6 years older. She has her wings back. She must be stronger then Sephiroth by twice his amount." Tifa said.

"102.7% of Sephiroth's full power to be exact." A voice from behind them said. They turned around to see Elena.

"You Shinra scum, how dare you show your face around here after all you have done." Barret said.

"Hmm, still looking at only the cover of the book. I have come to help you and you turn away from it. The fact is, Shinra has never been scum; it's been Jenova running the show the whole time. Hojo was insane, he injected Jenova cells into President Shinra, Rufus, Reno, and Rude about a year ago. Since I just joined in recent months, he didn't have time to inject me. Then he let Jenova play puppeteer. She was the one who killed off one of her own toys Lucerica. She sent the rest of the Turks and Rufus to do it. Then she made them kill themselves. I had to watch this. I figured it out, she is controlling Sephiroth. Everyone points fingers at Sephiroth, but he is as much a toy as Yuffie or Cloud. But he is her favorite, so she let's him play more. Lucercia was a fool to put more Jenova in Yuffie, sure Yuffie is stronger then Sephiroth. But that only goes so far. Yuffie is weaker in the mind then Sephiroth. Yuffie can lose the battle right now by taking her own life on the command of Jenova. But Jenova wants to play first, she wants to watch her toys fight." Elena said. (I know that was a very long speech in the story, but its Elena we're talking about here, she never shuts up.)

"A toy?" Cloud said, "Only a toy?"

"It's okay Cloud, you have the best chance of beating Jenova and Sephiroth. You have enough of her cells to keep you strong, but enough of your own to keep you out of her grasp." Elena said.

"So what do we do?" Aeris asked.

"We fight. I have a plan. It might not work, but it's our last chance. Cloud, Yuffie, and Aeris. Those three are the world's last hope. The warrior, the angel, and the ancient. Cloud, you'll take them to fight Sephiroth in the Northern creator. If at anytime Yuffie might turn on you, have Aeris use holy to help clear Yuffie. When you get close enough to Jenova and Sephiroth, stop using Holy. Just put it on Yuffie. The power from it should give her enough power to fight them. The battle will be hard, but you can win." Elena said.

"What if Yuffie doesn't get controlled by the Holy by just putting it on her." Vincent asks.

"She will die; taking Sephiroth and Jenova with her. Holy is powered to use its maximum attack of destroying evil when it feels to many evil energies." Elena said. "It's a risk I am afraid Yuffie must take to help save the world."

"I am willing to take it." Yuffie said. She sat up on the bed.

"Yuffie. No you can't." Vincent said.

"Vincent, if I don't die, we all die. If I do die, you guys might have a better chance." Yuffie said.

"We leave tomorrow." Elena said.

Fin

I thought I was going to end on this chapter, but it would be way too long. So I am doing a Final chapter 9. I plan to have a multiple ending. There will be two versions. I had two ideas for the end. But I couldn't decide. So I am going to post both of them. REVIEW OR I'LL KILL YOU! Just kidding!