Chaotic Damnation
By Pegasia Silverfeather
"Reunion and Separation"
The room was painstakingly silent. Inner turmoil filled her mind.
'What am I going to do?'
'TELL HIM'
'Oh yeah! And what would I say? Oh, I forgot to tell you that the aunt you never knew is still alive and I know that cause she trained me!'
'SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN.'
'Shut up Damnation. You're making my head hurt.' She sighed and opened her eyes.
Vincent sat writing in the dark area. Why did he always do that?
"Hey uh, Vince. Um.... What if I were to tell you something." She said biting her thumbnail nervously.
He looked up. "Say what, might I ask?"
She sat down beside him and sighed. "I just realized that when I was telling you about your aunt I forgot to mention that she's still... alive."
His eyes widened a brief moment with what looked like hope. "Alive?"
"And kicking some serious butt." She said shaking her head.
"She's got to be old. I'm sure the sight of me would by a little..." Vincent whispered.
"She turns 71 this weekend and she's spent her life looking for you! I don't recall her making any preferences in your looks."
'Though nothing's wrong with the ones you have.'
'BUSTED!'
'Oh shut up!'
Yuffie quarreled.
"But still... She couldn't possibly want to see me after all this time." He said opening his book again.
"Vincent Victor Valentine! She told me that she would always keep her nephew close to her heart. That's why she gave me this!" She said pointing to a locket around her neck. "Wait...no way." She said taking the locket off.
Holding the little silver book in her hands she held it out towards Vincent
"I have something to show you..." Yuffie carefully opened the locket and pointed to one half of the locket. "This is the last picture that your mom and aunt had together, this is her niece and.... this has to be you!" She said pointing to the tiny baby in the woman's arms.
Vincent cast his crimson eyes down at the picture.
"To think... All this time, years of time, I've had your picture in this locket as a reminder from your aunt that there is always hope and it was you! It was you all along!" Yuffie said smiling widely.
A hard expression crossed his face, "How long have you had that locket?"
Yuffie sighed and turned the thick silver pages on it was a picture of a small woman holding a little girl about 5 years old.
"That long ago. She gave me this shortly after my mother died." Yuffie said and closed it.
"Sorry." He said.
"Would you like to meet the battle ax?" Yuffie said with a smile.
"Battle ax?"
Yuffie giggled and pointed to a faint scar under her chin. "See this? She hit me with a teacup! That was about a year ago. Does that sound feeble? Senile maybe, but not feeble."
"Are you sure she'd want to see me?" He asked.
"Oh yeah!"
Vincent sat up and held out his hand. "I'll go."
Yuffie and Vincent wandered into the busy town of Wutai. Looking at Yuffie all you could see was a happy face, but she wasn't happy. She was scared to death.
"Her house is right over here." Yuffie said and pointed to a small house. They made their way and Yuffie knocked softly on the door. "Neuaba-sama?"
"Come in Yuffie." A soft whispery voice called from inside.
"You wait here. I love an entrance!" Yuffie whispered as she opened the door and stepped back twenty paces and flipped forward into the house.
"HIIIIIYYYYYYYAAA!" Loud crashes were heard and Vincent raised a brow.
"Owww. My buuuutttt!" Yuffie's woeful call came from within. Vincent let an almost invisible grin hitch in the corner of his lips.
Yuffie rubbed her poor posterior. "You always do that!"
An elderly lady knodded. "Yep. And don't expect me to stop any time soon."
"Hi!" Yuffie said standing up and walking into a ready hug. "I brought you a surprise. One I know you've wanted since you were little."
"Oh... and that would be?"
Yuffie bent low to the woman's ears and whispered softly. "Your nephew."
Yuhadi's eyes widened and she pulled the girl away. "Where?"
"Before I tell you that I have to let you know that some really weird things happened to him and he doesn't look.... Old. And don't be suprised at his arm."
Yuhadi knodded.
"He's outside. Only guy in a cape." Yuffie said with a chuckle as she watched the woman race out the door.
Vincent looked at the bird above him trying very hard not to be nervous. Something jumped him from behind and knocked him to the ground.
"Nephew?" Asked a small woman above him.
Looking up with amazement "Yes."
She reached down and helped him up and gave him a tight hug. "Vincent?"
"How did you know?" He asked.
"When you were six that's what they called you. I still have your pictures!" She said with a smile.
Vincent stared wide-eyed at the woman as he passed Yuffie.
"She tackled me!"
"Did I say she wouldn't?" Yuffie asked.
"Do I sense a lovers quarrel?" Yuhadi asked as she poured tea.
"NO!" both replied.
Yuhadi raised a brow. "SSSSSUUUUUUUUREEEE!" she said sarcastically.
"I see you two are a lot alike." Vincent said raising a brow.
"Why do you think we get along so well? We bean each other in the head with anything we get our hands on and the pillow-fights! Oh the pillow-fights!" Yuhadi said as she raised her cup.
"Pillow-fights?" Vincent asked looking at the corner of his eye. "So it was you who attacked me while I was sleeping that night!"
Yuffie's grin became a wide nervous smile. "Uh...I have no idea what you are talking about.... Hehe"
"So, Yuffie how long have you known Vincent?"
"Ten years. I just didn't know he was your nephew." Yuffie said sipping some tea.
"Ten years!"
Vincent knodded and Yuffie bit on her lower lip. She knew the look in Yuhadi's eyes and didn't like it!
"Moi ta na chi mi!" Yuhadi exclaimed at Yuffie who abruptly fell out of her chair. Vincent was so startled by her fall he stood up and the chair fell back leaving them both looking sheepishly at the other.
Yuhadi just laughed away and Yuffie jumped up, turned red and dashed out of the room screaming 'Oh gawd!' over and over again.
Vincent looked at Yuhadi out of the corner of his eye. "Either you just asked how her fish is doing or that's not Wutainesse. What was it, and what did you say to Yuffie to get such a reaction?" Vincent asked.
"Very good! It's a code language we use. And you'll just have to ask her later now won't you?" She said with a rhy smile. "But about that reaction, my, my, my. I think Yuffie's got quite a case." She said shaking her head.
"Of what?" Vincent asked.
"You know, I could tell you... but I think I'll mess around with my apprentice's head a while. Such fun reactions! Of course she'll get me back but hey, it'll be worth it." She said leaning with an eloquent elbow on the table and one hand holding a fine china dish in the direct of Yuffie's Exodus.
Vincent looked at his aunt with suprise. She was nothing like what she thought her to be. The woman was wiser then loose lipped Yuffie!
"Oh don't look at me like that young man! Just because I'm 71 doesn't mean I'm ready to turn into a geezer. 'Sides, your mom would be doing so much more! Oi I'm tame in comparison!" She said with wildly wide eyes.
"Oh my. My mother and aunt are lunatics.... Seems appropriate." He said with a smirk.
"Oh! That reminds me! I have something to give to you. Follow me." She said and stood up from the table and waved for him to follow. Leaving the chair and wincing when he heard another 'Oh gawd!' coming from the streets. He could just bet she was making a scene. Looking up he saw Yuhadi stifle a chuckle.
'Oh Gawd!' Yuffie screamed as she ran up and down the mainstreet like a mad woman.
'Oh gawd!'
'EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SAY THAT. WHY ARE YOU UPSET? WHAT DID SHE SAY?'
'Oh gawd! She asked if ...oh gawd!'
'JUDGING YOUR REACTION I'D SAY IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH VINCENT.'
'Ohhhh yeah. She asked if we were sleeping together! Of course it was just sarcastic and embarrassing but....'
'WISHES CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.'
'Shut up.'
'NO'
'Oh Gawd!'
Shaking his head he got up and followed behind her. She led him to a small room and sat down in front of a miniature tower of drawers. Opening one she pulled out two silver rings.
"These were yours and your sister's. The orphanage wouldn't let you have them." She said putting them in his hand. "Your mother made them. Put them on silver chains till you would be big enough to wear them on your fingers."
Vincent opened his hand and saw two intricate, silver rings with pale blue sapphire stones set in them. "She made these?" He asked, suprised.
"Of course! She was the finest silversmith in her time." She said with a smile and closed his hand. "She's want you to keep them. Oh look at the time! I need to take my nap, would you do me a couple of favors?" She asked settling down in the bed.
"Yes." He said stepping forward.
She smiled. "Kiss my cheek. Turn around walk out the door and don't turn back. Watch over Yuffie and follow your heart?" She asked smiling.
"Don't turn back?" He asked.
"I'm dying." She said simply. "From an infection in an old battle-wound. Today was the day; I could feel it. But you showed up and now I can rest in peace. Don't blame yourself understand. Now do as your told." She said wagging her finger.
Vincent's face paled with grief but he tucked her in warmly and kissed her soft cheek. Looking back he turned and said softly "I love you." And walked out the door closing it behind him and walking into the streets.
As soon as Yuffie saw his face her eyes watered. "I thought you should meet her before it was too late. So today was the day huh?" Yuffie said looking up at the sky. "Sure was a nice day to go." Yuffie said and walked shakily towards Vincent. "She'd told me the last time I visited about the infection in her lungs. All she wanted before she died was to see any of her family... She's dying happy now." She said with tears falling out of the corner of her eye.
Yuffie got close and hugged him tightly. Vincent's arms circled her waist and he buried his head in her shoulder. Both cried and Yuffie didn't know it till she felt warm wetness on her sleeves. Hugging him tighter she heard him let out an almost un-audible choking sound of a stifled sob.
'Oh Vincent.'
'YOU BOTH HURT.'
'Yes, but he hurts more, this was his aunt. How can he think he's a monster when he can cry for a woman he just met?'
'HE THINKS THAT WHAT HE LOVES WILL ALSO PERISH FROM HIS TOUCH.'
'What?'
Damnation never repeated herself and the two stood holding each other for minuets and finally went to the inn and waited for Yuhadi's death ceremony to begin.
It felt like hours to Yuffie while they waited. Not only did she suffer for the loss of her mentor but felt the pain of her friend. Vincent sat in the corner and she watched as he took a small silver chain from around his neck and placed something on it and tied it back, stuffing the chain under his shirt and out of sight.
His right hand lingered over the bump at his chest. These rings were his only connection to his past everything was tied to his neck.
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Ok peoples. Sorry it took so long. I actually fell asleep and DREAMED half of this chapter! Tell me what you think.
Oh and sorry Sorceress Fujin. Kinda lost track of time and conked out while talking...uh sorry.
~Pegasia Silverfeather~
By Pegasia Silverfeather
"Reunion and Separation"
The room was painstakingly silent. Inner turmoil filled her mind.
'What am I going to do?'
'TELL HIM'
'Oh yeah! And what would I say? Oh, I forgot to tell you that the aunt you never knew is still alive and I know that cause she trained me!'
'SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN.'
'Shut up Damnation. You're making my head hurt.' She sighed and opened her eyes.
Vincent sat writing in the dark area. Why did he always do that?
"Hey uh, Vince. Um.... What if I were to tell you something." She said biting her thumbnail nervously.
He looked up. "Say what, might I ask?"
She sat down beside him and sighed. "I just realized that when I was telling you about your aunt I forgot to mention that she's still... alive."
His eyes widened a brief moment with what looked like hope. "Alive?"
"And kicking some serious butt." She said shaking her head.
"She's got to be old. I'm sure the sight of me would by a little..." Vincent whispered.
"She turns 71 this weekend and she's spent her life looking for you! I don't recall her making any preferences in your looks."
'Though nothing's wrong with the ones you have.'
'BUSTED!'
'Oh shut up!'
Yuffie quarreled.
"But still... She couldn't possibly want to see me after all this time." He said opening his book again.
"Vincent Victor Valentine! She told me that she would always keep her nephew close to her heart. That's why she gave me this!" She said pointing to a locket around her neck. "Wait...no way." She said taking the locket off.
Holding the little silver book in her hands she held it out towards Vincent
"I have something to show you..." Yuffie carefully opened the locket and pointed to one half of the locket. "This is the last picture that your mom and aunt had together, this is her niece and.... this has to be you!" She said pointing to the tiny baby in the woman's arms.
Vincent cast his crimson eyes down at the picture.
"To think... All this time, years of time, I've had your picture in this locket as a reminder from your aunt that there is always hope and it was you! It was you all along!" Yuffie said smiling widely.
A hard expression crossed his face, "How long have you had that locket?"
Yuffie sighed and turned the thick silver pages on it was a picture of a small woman holding a little girl about 5 years old.
"That long ago. She gave me this shortly after my mother died." Yuffie said and closed it.
"Sorry." He said.
"Would you like to meet the battle ax?" Yuffie said with a smile.
"Battle ax?"
Yuffie giggled and pointed to a faint scar under her chin. "See this? She hit me with a teacup! That was about a year ago. Does that sound feeble? Senile maybe, but not feeble."
"Are you sure she'd want to see me?" He asked.
"Oh yeah!"
Vincent sat up and held out his hand. "I'll go."
Yuffie and Vincent wandered into the busy town of Wutai. Looking at Yuffie all you could see was a happy face, but she wasn't happy. She was scared to death.
"Her house is right over here." Yuffie said and pointed to a small house. They made their way and Yuffie knocked softly on the door. "Neuaba-sama?"
"Come in Yuffie." A soft whispery voice called from inside.
"You wait here. I love an entrance!" Yuffie whispered as she opened the door and stepped back twenty paces and flipped forward into the house.
"HIIIIIYYYYYYYAAA!" Loud crashes were heard and Vincent raised a brow.
"Owww. My buuuutttt!" Yuffie's woeful call came from within. Vincent let an almost invisible grin hitch in the corner of his lips.
Yuffie rubbed her poor posterior. "You always do that!"
An elderly lady knodded. "Yep. And don't expect me to stop any time soon."
"Hi!" Yuffie said standing up and walking into a ready hug. "I brought you a surprise. One I know you've wanted since you were little."
"Oh... and that would be?"
Yuffie bent low to the woman's ears and whispered softly. "Your nephew."
Yuhadi's eyes widened and she pulled the girl away. "Where?"
"Before I tell you that I have to let you know that some really weird things happened to him and he doesn't look.... Old. And don't be suprised at his arm."
Yuhadi knodded.
"He's outside. Only guy in a cape." Yuffie said with a chuckle as she watched the woman race out the door.
Vincent looked at the bird above him trying very hard not to be nervous. Something jumped him from behind and knocked him to the ground.
"Nephew?" Asked a small woman above him.
Looking up with amazement "Yes."
She reached down and helped him up and gave him a tight hug. "Vincent?"
"How did you know?" He asked.
"When you were six that's what they called you. I still have your pictures!" She said with a smile.
Vincent stared wide-eyed at the woman as he passed Yuffie.
"She tackled me!"
"Did I say she wouldn't?" Yuffie asked.
"Do I sense a lovers quarrel?" Yuhadi asked as she poured tea.
"NO!" both replied.
Yuhadi raised a brow. "SSSSSUUUUUUUUREEEE!" she said sarcastically.
"I see you two are a lot alike." Vincent said raising a brow.
"Why do you think we get along so well? We bean each other in the head with anything we get our hands on and the pillow-fights! Oh the pillow-fights!" Yuhadi said as she raised her cup.
"Pillow-fights?" Vincent asked looking at the corner of his eye. "So it was you who attacked me while I was sleeping that night!"
Yuffie's grin became a wide nervous smile. "Uh...I have no idea what you are talking about.... Hehe"
"So, Yuffie how long have you known Vincent?"
"Ten years. I just didn't know he was your nephew." Yuffie said sipping some tea.
"Ten years!"
Vincent knodded and Yuffie bit on her lower lip. She knew the look in Yuhadi's eyes and didn't like it!
"Moi ta na chi mi!" Yuhadi exclaimed at Yuffie who abruptly fell out of her chair. Vincent was so startled by her fall he stood up and the chair fell back leaving them both looking sheepishly at the other.
Yuhadi just laughed away and Yuffie jumped up, turned red and dashed out of the room screaming 'Oh gawd!' over and over again.
Vincent looked at Yuhadi out of the corner of his eye. "Either you just asked how her fish is doing or that's not Wutainesse. What was it, and what did you say to Yuffie to get such a reaction?" Vincent asked.
"Very good! It's a code language we use. And you'll just have to ask her later now won't you?" She said with a rhy smile. "But about that reaction, my, my, my. I think Yuffie's got quite a case." She said shaking her head.
"Of what?" Vincent asked.
"You know, I could tell you... but I think I'll mess around with my apprentice's head a while. Such fun reactions! Of course she'll get me back but hey, it'll be worth it." She said leaning with an eloquent elbow on the table and one hand holding a fine china dish in the direct of Yuffie's Exodus.
Vincent looked at his aunt with suprise. She was nothing like what she thought her to be. The woman was wiser then loose lipped Yuffie!
"Oh don't look at me like that young man! Just because I'm 71 doesn't mean I'm ready to turn into a geezer. 'Sides, your mom would be doing so much more! Oi I'm tame in comparison!" She said with wildly wide eyes.
"Oh my. My mother and aunt are lunatics.... Seems appropriate." He said with a smirk.
"Oh! That reminds me! I have something to give to you. Follow me." She said and stood up from the table and waved for him to follow. Leaving the chair and wincing when he heard another 'Oh gawd!' coming from the streets. He could just bet she was making a scene. Looking up he saw Yuhadi stifle a chuckle.
'Oh Gawd!' Yuffie screamed as she ran up and down the mainstreet like a mad woman.
'Oh gawd!'
'EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SAY THAT. WHY ARE YOU UPSET? WHAT DID SHE SAY?'
'Oh gawd! She asked if ...oh gawd!'
'JUDGING YOUR REACTION I'D SAY IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH VINCENT.'
'Ohhhh yeah. She asked if we were sleeping together! Of course it was just sarcastic and embarrassing but....'
'WISHES CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.'
'Shut up.'
'NO'
'Oh Gawd!'
Shaking his head he got up and followed behind her. She led him to a small room and sat down in front of a miniature tower of drawers. Opening one she pulled out two silver rings.
"These were yours and your sister's. The orphanage wouldn't let you have them." She said putting them in his hand. "Your mother made them. Put them on silver chains till you would be big enough to wear them on your fingers."
Vincent opened his hand and saw two intricate, silver rings with pale blue sapphire stones set in them. "She made these?" He asked, suprised.
"Of course! She was the finest silversmith in her time." She said with a smile and closed his hand. "She's want you to keep them. Oh look at the time! I need to take my nap, would you do me a couple of favors?" She asked settling down in the bed.
"Yes." He said stepping forward.
She smiled. "Kiss my cheek. Turn around walk out the door and don't turn back. Watch over Yuffie and follow your heart?" She asked smiling.
"Don't turn back?" He asked.
"I'm dying." She said simply. "From an infection in an old battle-wound. Today was the day; I could feel it. But you showed up and now I can rest in peace. Don't blame yourself understand. Now do as your told." She said wagging her finger.
Vincent's face paled with grief but he tucked her in warmly and kissed her soft cheek. Looking back he turned and said softly "I love you." And walked out the door closing it behind him and walking into the streets.
As soon as Yuffie saw his face her eyes watered. "I thought you should meet her before it was too late. So today was the day huh?" Yuffie said looking up at the sky. "Sure was a nice day to go." Yuffie said and walked shakily towards Vincent. "She'd told me the last time I visited about the infection in her lungs. All she wanted before she died was to see any of her family... She's dying happy now." She said with tears falling out of the corner of her eye.
Yuffie got close and hugged him tightly. Vincent's arms circled her waist and he buried his head in her shoulder. Both cried and Yuffie didn't know it till she felt warm wetness on her sleeves. Hugging him tighter she heard him let out an almost un-audible choking sound of a stifled sob.
'Oh Vincent.'
'YOU BOTH HURT.'
'Yes, but he hurts more, this was his aunt. How can he think he's a monster when he can cry for a woman he just met?'
'HE THINKS THAT WHAT HE LOVES WILL ALSO PERISH FROM HIS TOUCH.'
'What?'
Damnation never repeated herself and the two stood holding each other for minuets and finally went to the inn and waited for Yuhadi's death ceremony to begin.
It felt like hours to Yuffie while they waited. Not only did she suffer for the loss of her mentor but felt the pain of her friend. Vincent sat in the corner and she watched as he took a small silver chain from around his neck and placed something on it and tied it back, stuffing the chain under his shirt and out of sight.
His right hand lingered over the bump at his chest. These rings were his only connection to his past everything was tied to his neck.
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Ok peoples. Sorry it took so long. I actually fell asleep and DREAMED half of this chapter! Tell me what you think.
Oh and sorry Sorceress Fujin. Kinda lost track of time and conked out while talking...uh sorry.
~Pegasia Silverfeather~
