Chapter XXX: The Sacrifice.
Vincent walked silently away from the rest. Yuffie followed him with her fiendish grin on her face. She tried to lie in the shadows like he did, but found it was easier to let Vincent do the skulking around.
"Hya Vinnie!" She said cheerfully.
Yuffie's cheerfulness at this point was beginning to baffle Vincent.
"How can you be so cheerful? We're about to start fighting!" He hissed.
Yuffie merely shrugged.
"Oh, that? We're AVALANCHE, Vinnie. Nothing can stop US!"
"Yes, and my name is Aeris." Vincent said mockingly.
Yuffie looked at Vincent suspiciously.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Vincent put on his gloomy smile.
"We stand a very good chance of LOSING down here, and if worst comes to worst, I wanna take as many of the buggers as I can."
Yuffie smiled playfully at him.
"Oh, if we go down, then I want to have some fun, eh?" Yuffie smirked.
Vincent raised an eyebrow.
"What are you talking about?"
Yuffie took on her patented innocent look.
"Nothing."
Vincent felt the sudden urge to edge away from Yuffie, and he was about to do so when he stopped himself. He was going to TRY to see this through. Vincent looked at Yuffie suspiciously.
"What are you planning?"
Yuffie edged closer.
"Nothing." She said, the innocence continuing to stand out.
Suddenly she lunged.
Vincent was taken by surprise and fell down. Yuffie, who had wrapped her arms around him, fell with him.
Yuffie giggled.
"Don't get any funny ideas." She said between giggles.
Vincent was actually struggling to get out from beneath her. What if one of the others came, what would they think? Vincent blushed deeply.
"Get off!" He hissed.
This only caused Yuffie to giggle more. She held her hands to her mouth and laughed. Vincent took advantage of this and pushed her off him.
"Heeheehee, your SO funny, Vinnie." She grinned.
Vincent fought the urge to laugh along with her.
"I try not to be." He held a hand for her to pull herself up with. She grabbed it. Instead of merely letting go when she was up, she pulled Vincent to her.
Their lips met, and they embraced. Vincent's arms flailed around for a moment before he realized what was happening, then he wrapped them around her. For the first time in only-god-knows-how-long, Vincent realized that he had fallen in love.
Then the kiss ended. Yuffie pulled away, and grinned at Vincent.
"Now I can die happy!" She smiled.
"I don't plan on dying anymore." Vincent said.
Then they heard the harsh yells of pain mixed with the sound gunfire.
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Cloud pulled his sword from its sheath and swung it the first thing he saw, which happened to be a black monster that seemed to writhe through shadows. He missed, but hit a metal soldier that was conveniently placed nearby. The beast slipped through Clouds flailing sword blows, always with a toothy smile on its face. The it grabbed Clouds hand, stopping a swipe that would have decapitated it. The beast's clawed hand stabbed in, and Cloud barely sidestepped the blow. A steel soldier clubbed him over the head, and felt himself fall into darkness. He leaned down on his blade, but eventually he couldn't support himself, and he was lost to unconsciousness.
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Tifa found that using Materia was easier than trying to break her hand over the metal warriors skulls. She cast several spells, but the onslaught of enemies kept coming. Where they killed one, two sprang to take its place. There was just no end to them! She pulled out a red Materia.
"LORDS OF THE ROUND!" She yelled.
The room darkened, and all activity ceased as the ancient summon took effect.
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Mech-Head heard the words being shout out, and pulled Malice away from the fray occurring before them.
"We must get out of here before that spell starts!" Mech-Head hissed as he removed himself from the summons range. Malice reluctantly followed.
"STUPID HUMANS!" Malice said, "WHERE HAVE THEY ACQUIRED SUCH MAGIC?!"
"Who care? When the summon is over we can attack again, and then their ALL ours!" Mech-Head laughed.
"YES."
They both watched as knight after knight was summoned, decimating their force of soldiers. Only a crater where the force had been remained of them.
As the defenders were beginning to relax, Mech-Head and Malice resumed their attack, causing havoc upon the defenders.
BANG!
Mech-Head flung back as the bullet impacted his forehead. In the background he could hear Malice hissing in pain.
Mech-Head pushed himself up to face the shooter.
Vincent Valentine stood before him, waiting for their battle to start.
"Malice!" Mech-Head snarled.
"YES?" The demon asked, working himself into a rage.
"Kill him!"
"YES!"
Vincent barely managed to duck the flying demon as it lunged for him. His eyes flashed as his demons took over.
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Yuffie watched in horrified fascination as the two demons hacked and slashed at each other. Malice sliced down with his claws, but met only air. Hate tried stabbing his own claws into Malice's stomach, but the demon was too quick. Malice drove an elbow down into Hate's back. The demon howled in pain, his eyes exploding into a fiery red. To her horror she watched as Hates body began transforming itself. A long, tick tail sprouted from the demon, and horns grew from the back of its skull. Muscles swelled, teeth grew, and his feet grew talons. Hate attacked again with renewed fury, putting all his limbs to use.
Malice began a retreat as the barrage of deadly blows continued. He couldn't defend against the tail and claws at the same time.
While the two combatants fought, their attention was away from Mech-Head, who had planned for this exact moment.
He had seen Vincent's reaction when he threatened the girl. He went berserk. Now he looked at him now. Slowly the connections made themselves in his head. He grew off hate! A plan formulated in Mech-Heads evil mind.
He snuck away from his position, looking for the girl. She was standing away from the rest, Mech-Head noted with great relief. He would have had a hard time if she had been with the rest. He snuck up behind her, and slid his steel claws across her throat.
"Move and your dead." He hissed into the girl's ear.
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Vincent was overcome with hateful rage. He was oblivious to all around him. At least, nearly everything.
"Vinnie!" Yuffie screamed.
Vincent backhanded his opponent with all his strength, and watched with satisfaction as his enemy crumbled to the ground.
Then he turned to see something that made all his hate float away. Yuffie stood with Mech-Head's claws against her throat.
"Help!" She screamed again
His body returned to normal.
"Yuffie!" He yelled, running to her aid.
"It worked!" Mech-Head snarled and threw Yuffie to the ground.
Vincent wasn't exactly aware of the fact that he had changed back to his normal form, and he expected Mech-Head to run away. But Mech-Head did nothing of the sort.
As Vincent approached, Mech-Head drove his claws deep into Vincent's chest. The tips of the claws went right through Vincent and poked through the other side.
Mech-Head let Vincent's still corpse fall off his claws, and let his cruel laughter ring throughout the basement of the Shin Ra headquarters.
"I WIN!" He howled.
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"Vinnie!" Yuffie screamed again, horrified at what she saw.
Vincent tried to push himself up, but only managed to raise his head. Blood streaked down from his mouth as he closed his ruby eyes for the last time.
"I'm sorry. . ." He gasped, and fell again.
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Ok, This is NOT the end of Vincent, so don't hurt me *Pulls up hands protectively*
The other thing is this:
Should I split the next part into another story, or just put it into this one? I can't really make up my mind so I'll ask you guys.
In the next chapter I'll tell you what I've decided.
Anyvays, err, . . . err.
Yeah again.
Vincent walked silently away from the rest. Yuffie followed him with her fiendish grin on her face. She tried to lie in the shadows like he did, but found it was easier to let Vincent do the skulking around.
"Hya Vinnie!" She said cheerfully.
Yuffie's cheerfulness at this point was beginning to baffle Vincent.
"How can you be so cheerful? We're about to start fighting!" He hissed.
Yuffie merely shrugged.
"Oh, that? We're AVALANCHE, Vinnie. Nothing can stop US!"
"Yes, and my name is Aeris." Vincent said mockingly.
Yuffie looked at Vincent suspiciously.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Vincent put on his gloomy smile.
"We stand a very good chance of LOSING down here, and if worst comes to worst, I wanna take as many of the buggers as I can."
Yuffie smiled playfully at him.
"Oh, if we go down, then I want to have some fun, eh?" Yuffie smirked.
Vincent raised an eyebrow.
"What are you talking about?"
Yuffie took on her patented innocent look.
"Nothing."
Vincent felt the sudden urge to edge away from Yuffie, and he was about to do so when he stopped himself. He was going to TRY to see this through. Vincent looked at Yuffie suspiciously.
"What are you planning?"
Yuffie edged closer.
"Nothing." She said, the innocence continuing to stand out.
Suddenly she lunged.
Vincent was taken by surprise and fell down. Yuffie, who had wrapped her arms around him, fell with him.
Yuffie giggled.
"Don't get any funny ideas." She said between giggles.
Vincent was actually struggling to get out from beneath her. What if one of the others came, what would they think? Vincent blushed deeply.
"Get off!" He hissed.
This only caused Yuffie to giggle more. She held her hands to her mouth and laughed. Vincent took advantage of this and pushed her off him.
"Heeheehee, your SO funny, Vinnie." She grinned.
Vincent fought the urge to laugh along with her.
"I try not to be." He held a hand for her to pull herself up with. She grabbed it. Instead of merely letting go when she was up, she pulled Vincent to her.
Their lips met, and they embraced. Vincent's arms flailed around for a moment before he realized what was happening, then he wrapped them around her. For the first time in only-god-knows-how-long, Vincent realized that he had fallen in love.
Then the kiss ended. Yuffie pulled away, and grinned at Vincent.
"Now I can die happy!" She smiled.
"I don't plan on dying anymore." Vincent said.
Then they heard the harsh yells of pain mixed with the sound gunfire.
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Cloud pulled his sword from its sheath and swung it the first thing he saw, which happened to be a black monster that seemed to writhe through shadows. He missed, but hit a metal soldier that was conveniently placed nearby. The beast slipped through Clouds flailing sword blows, always with a toothy smile on its face. The it grabbed Clouds hand, stopping a swipe that would have decapitated it. The beast's clawed hand stabbed in, and Cloud barely sidestepped the blow. A steel soldier clubbed him over the head, and felt himself fall into darkness. He leaned down on his blade, but eventually he couldn't support himself, and he was lost to unconsciousness.
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Tifa found that using Materia was easier than trying to break her hand over the metal warriors skulls. She cast several spells, but the onslaught of enemies kept coming. Where they killed one, two sprang to take its place. There was just no end to them! She pulled out a red Materia.
"LORDS OF THE ROUND!" She yelled.
The room darkened, and all activity ceased as the ancient summon took effect.
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Mech-Head heard the words being shout out, and pulled Malice away from the fray occurring before them.
"We must get out of here before that spell starts!" Mech-Head hissed as he removed himself from the summons range. Malice reluctantly followed.
"STUPID HUMANS!" Malice said, "WHERE HAVE THEY ACQUIRED SUCH MAGIC?!"
"Who care? When the summon is over we can attack again, and then their ALL ours!" Mech-Head laughed.
"YES."
They both watched as knight after knight was summoned, decimating their force of soldiers. Only a crater where the force had been remained of them.
As the defenders were beginning to relax, Mech-Head and Malice resumed their attack, causing havoc upon the defenders.
BANG!
Mech-Head flung back as the bullet impacted his forehead. In the background he could hear Malice hissing in pain.
Mech-Head pushed himself up to face the shooter.
Vincent Valentine stood before him, waiting for their battle to start.
"Malice!" Mech-Head snarled.
"YES?" The demon asked, working himself into a rage.
"Kill him!"
"YES!"
Vincent barely managed to duck the flying demon as it lunged for him. His eyes flashed as his demons took over.
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Yuffie watched in horrified fascination as the two demons hacked and slashed at each other. Malice sliced down with his claws, but met only air. Hate tried stabbing his own claws into Malice's stomach, but the demon was too quick. Malice drove an elbow down into Hate's back. The demon howled in pain, his eyes exploding into a fiery red. To her horror she watched as Hates body began transforming itself. A long, tick tail sprouted from the demon, and horns grew from the back of its skull. Muscles swelled, teeth grew, and his feet grew talons. Hate attacked again with renewed fury, putting all his limbs to use.
Malice began a retreat as the barrage of deadly blows continued. He couldn't defend against the tail and claws at the same time.
While the two combatants fought, their attention was away from Mech-Head, who had planned for this exact moment.
He had seen Vincent's reaction when he threatened the girl. He went berserk. Now he looked at him now. Slowly the connections made themselves in his head. He grew off hate! A plan formulated in Mech-Heads evil mind.
He snuck away from his position, looking for the girl. She was standing away from the rest, Mech-Head noted with great relief. He would have had a hard time if she had been with the rest. He snuck up behind her, and slid his steel claws across her throat.
"Move and your dead." He hissed into the girl's ear.
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Vincent was overcome with hateful rage. He was oblivious to all around him. At least, nearly everything.
"Vinnie!" Yuffie screamed.
Vincent backhanded his opponent with all his strength, and watched with satisfaction as his enemy crumbled to the ground.
Then he turned to see something that made all his hate float away. Yuffie stood with Mech-Head's claws against her throat.
"Help!" She screamed again
His body returned to normal.
"Yuffie!" He yelled, running to her aid.
"It worked!" Mech-Head snarled and threw Yuffie to the ground.
Vincent wasn't exactly aware of the fact that he had changed back to his normal form, and he expected Mech-Head to run away. But Mech-Head did nothing of the sort.
As Vincent approached, Mech-Head drove his claws deep into Vincent's chest. The tips of the claws went right through Vincent and poked through the other side.
Mech-Head let Vincent's still corpse fall off his claws, and let his cruel laughter ring throughout the basement of the Shin Ra headquarters.
"I WIN!" He howled.
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"Vinnie!" Yuffie screamed again, horrified at what she saw.
Vincent tried to push himself up, but only managed to raise his head. Blood streaked down from his mouth as he closed his ruby eyes for the last time.
"I'm sorry. . ." He gasped, and fell again.
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Ok, This is NOT the end of Vincent, so don't hurt me *Pulls up hands protectively*
The other thing is this:
Should I split the next part into another story, or just put it into this one? I can't really make up my mind so I'll ask you guys.
In the next chapter I'll tell you what I've decided.
Anyvays, err, . . . err.
Yeah again.