God dammit! I hate my life I have to do a project for my Spanish class
and a research paper for my English class! *sighs* I'll be glad when school
ends for the summer ^^ a month away! XD time to concentrate! Concentrate!
Concentrate! Concen-Vincent's theme! NO! Concentrate! Concentrate!
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Chapter 6 Horror at Gold Saucer
It had been five days since the monster attacked Nozomi, and Vincent was worried that she wouldn't recover from it, but after two days she was cheerful and happy again. Xellis did the most stupid thing on the entire planet; she gave Nozomi a sling shot. Nozomi stared at it "What is it?" she asked her "It's a sling shot!" she answered proudly. Nozomi pulled on the rubber band and released it "What is it for?" "Hitting things. After the monster attack, wished I was there, I figured that you needed something to protect yourself from the monsters." "What does it do?" "It's almost like a gun, but it doesn't kill!" Michael walks by "Most things." "Most things?" "You can kill birds with it." Nozomi plucked the rubber band again "How does it work?" "Sephiroth will teach you!" she answered, dragging Sephiroth in "Why me?" Sephiroth asked her "Because I said so!" Xellis told him and left.
They stared after her, and then Sephiroth sighed, and scratched the back of his head. Nozomi stared up at him confused "I'm not good at being a big brother..." he said sheepishly. "Well, the first thing you should do first is not use that in the mansion, Crisis is nice... psychotically nice, but if you use a sling shot and break a window or something... she'll kill you." He told her and Nozomi nodded "Ok. Take this pebble." Sephiroth handed her a pebble "Put it in the sling, Draw the rubber band back. As far as you can." Nozomi did so and her fox watched from under the well. "Now release the sling and NOT the stick... it would hurt if you did." She released the sling, but the pebble didn't get too far.
Sephiroth sighed again "I'll show you how to use it." She gave him the sling shot; he took a pebble, loaded it, pulled back on the sling, and released the pebble into the sky "That's how it works. You try it again." He handed it back to her. She did the same, only instead of letting it go in the sky; it hit Cid on the head "DAMMIT! WHAT THE HELL HIT ME?!" Cid demanded clutching the side of his head "Not bad. A few more practice and you'd be as good as dad." Sephiroth told her.
Later, Nozomi walked into the kitchen, she stopped and watched as Crisis poured milk into a bowl "What are you doing Miss. Crisis?" she asked her and Crisis turned into her direction "I didn't know you were there. Someone ate all the cookies and I'm making more. Want to help?" "Sure!"
After Nozomi put on an apron, she helps mix the ingredients. Crisis noticed the fox's three tails "I didn't notice that you fox is an Akuma Kitsune." Nozomi turned to Crisis "A what?" "An akuma kitsune. It's Japanese for demon fox. By how many tails he has... I say that he's three years old." "Wow. I think I'll name him Akuma Kitsune." She said. After putting the batter in the refrigerator to chill, they sat down and waited "Can I ask you a question Miss. Crisis?" "Sure." "Do you like my daddy?" she asked, Crisis stare at her, and then turned away blushing "Yeah... I like your dad..." she said softly.
"Oh, good. I was afraid that you didn't." "Oh no! I love him! Even after I thought he was dead, I never forgot about him." "How did you two meet?" "It was before Sephiroth was born. Two scientists went to this same mansion and five TURKS were to accompany them." "Who were the five TURKS?" "Leno, Crude, Rena, Tsung and your dad." "What did you do?" "I was a SOLDIER." "What happened?" "Well, the president sent three SOLDIERS along with the TURKS to make sure nothing bad happen. The three SOLDIERS were Xellis, Michael, and me. When the TURKS went to meet us, I really didn't like TURKS at that time, but when I first lay eyes on your dad... well, it was love at first frickin sight." Crisis sighed.
Nozomi giggled "How nice." "Yeah... I also had this... weakness... but it's more like a phobia with men and I would mostly beat them up to keep them away from me or threaten them. But your dad helped me get over it... kind of." "What did you mean 'even after I thought he was dead'?" Nozomi asked "Well, after an 'accident' the main scientist, Hojo, managed to get Xellis, Michael, and me back to HQ, this was after Sephiroth was born too. When they came back Hojo said that the TURKS died. I was sad and after a while, I ended up crying over the loss of Vincent. I was so depress over his 'death' that I didn't care if a monster killed me." She finished and Nozomi hugged her "I'm so sorry Miss. Crisis." She said "So am I." someone said and all three turned to the door and saw Cid standing there "I thought you didn't have the ability to cry." He said shaking his head and a knife hit the wall "You have four seconds to get out before I throw another knife at you again." Crisis growled holding a knife up.
After the batter chilled, they rolled it out and cut shapes out if it "Miss. Crisis?" "Hmm?" "If my daddy didn't die... what happen to him?" "What do you mean?" "I don't know... but whenever I'm near him, I feel some great power within him, a power that feels almost... evil." "That might be 'Chaos' residing in him... I swear two Chaos...and as for him dying, he didn't die... but the crazy scientist, Hojo killed Leno, Rena, Crude, and Tsung, shot your poor daddy and experimented on him." "Experimented... how?" Crisis shook her head "We don't even know. All Vincent told us was that Hojo just injected something into him. After Hojo did what he did, you daddy slept in a coffin, 'atoning for the sins he caused'... and the others consider him a vampire..." "This Hojo... does he have a big forehead, have long hair tied in a ponytail, wears glasses, and hunches over a lot?" Nozomi asked looking down. "Yes... how did you know?"
Nozomi shook her head "I don't know really... I see him in... my nightmares laughing sometimes..." she said quietly.
"Do you have special powers Miss. Crisis?" Nozomi later asked "What?" Crisis asked confused "I can sense some power in you... all of you, but mostly just you, daddy, big brother Sephy, Mr. Michael, and Miss. Xellis... also Miss. Aeris and Mr. Cloud." "Cloud... that's a tough one to come up with an answer, Aeris is a Cetra, you know what your dad is, you big brother Sephy is 'The One Winged Angel', Michael is the demonic angel... he WAS the Archangel, but something happened to him... Xellis is Satan; the ruler of hell and stuff, and I am Chaos also known as Chaos-sama: bringer of mayhem, chaos, and destruction wherever I go... and if I feel like it." "Is that all?" Nozomi asked.
Crisis stared down at her and sighed "Can you keep a secret?" she asked her and Nozomi nodded "I'm not just Chaos... I'm also a necromancer." "A what?" "A necromancer. It's the ability to raise the dead to life." She explained and Nozomi's eyes widen "That is also why I can socialize with the undead... another reason why I like you dad... don't tell anyone that. And I use voodoo magic." "What's that?" "Voodoo magic is the ability to curse, torture, and it's like necromancy." "Can you teach me?" "I don't think so because you'd hate it a lot..."
Two days later Xellis had a brilliant idea "GOLD SAUCER!!" "Oh boy." "I've been meaning to raise Voodoo up." "Voodoo? Ya named yer chocobo Voodoo?" "Yeah... so? I named his father Magic." "What's Gold Saucer?" Nozomi asked "It's a fun place kid. You'll like it." "Hey Crisis, if you're going to race, mind if I bet on you?" "Of coarse not! Bet all you want Cloud-boy."
At the Gold Saucer entrance, Nozomi marveled at its wonders "Wow! It's so big!" she exclaimed and Akuma mewed in agreement. Xellis squealed in delight, grabbed Sephiroth, and made her way to the Round Square. Crisis, Cloud, Zax and Cid made their way to the Chocobo Square, Barret, Tifa, and Red went to Battle Square, Michael and Yuffie went off to the Wonder Square, Vincent stared down at his daughter, "Where do you want to go to first?" "I don't know." "Well... I can't take you to Battle Square, too dangerous, the Chocobo Square is for gambling idiots, Event Square is not suitable for children, and Round Square is being occupied... by Xellis and your big brother... and you DO NOT need to know WHAT they might be doing in there." Vincent told her "I think so too..." Aeris replied and Nozomi and Akuma just looked confused "I guess we can go to the Speed Square." Aeris suggested, so they went there.
Nozomi squealed in excitement "This is fun!" she exclaimed as they did a loop. When the ride was over, Vincent checked his score "That was fun! I love this place!" Nozomi told Aeris. Aeris just smiled.
Xellis had found a way to make the Gongaga stop and stranding herself and Sephiroth in the middle of the ride.
In the Chocobo Square, Crisis had won twice, helping Cloud and Cid win "Keep it up Crisis!" Cid told her "Two more times and Voodoo will be an S class Chocobo... my baby is going to be the best Chocobo..." she said all dazed and happily. Cloud, Zax, and Cid just stared at her, "She's gone insane again." Cid said.
Vincent, Nozomi, and Aeris went to Wonder Square to let Nozomi play some games. They met up with Yuffie and Michael. Nozomi stared at the snowboarding game "What's this daddy?" she asked pointing at it "It's a snowboarding game." "Snowboarding game?" she wondered confused "Show her Vinny!" Yuffie said and Vincent turned to her direction "What?" "Show us your skill at snowboarding! Let's see how good you are!" "Fine..." he said.
"Left Vinny! Go left!" Yuffie ordered "Oh! Watch out for that moggle Vincent!" Aeris exclaimed "Go daddy!" Nozomi cheered. When Vincent got to the finish line, everyone checked his time, "Dude! You suck Vinny!" Yuffie said thwacking him on the head. "FLY FATASS, FLY!" Michael had yelled from the moogle game. Vincent growled as he rubbed his head (not that head! The one on his shoulders!) "I don't care if daddy got a bad time, it was fun watching him snowboard and teaching me how to." Nozomi said hugging him around the waist.
Aeris started to cry "That is so precious... I want to be a mother now!" she exclaimed.
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In the Battle Square, Barret, Tifa, and Red were fighting against some monsters. "Nothing beats anything, then fighting against these monsters!" Tifa said pumping her arm in the air after leaving the arena.
As all three of them rest, they noticed something strange "Hey, since when did Dio let the monsters out?" Tifa asked pointing as the monsters left the arena. The lady screamed as one of the monsters jumped onto the counter. Some monsters jumped onto people and bit them as their prey started to scream. The other people ran screaming from the arena and Tifa, Barret, and Red ran towards the monsters.
"This is odd!" Tifa commented as she high kicked a monster "I agree!" Red replied biting another "What is?!" Barret demanded as he shot a group of them "These are not the monsters from the arena! I never saw them before!" Tifa told him and landed a punch at a monster's snout. "They are wild." Red agreed casting fire on one. Barret noticed a monster behind Tifa and it sprang at her with its claws extended "TIFA! BEHIND YOU!" Barret shouted, bringing his gun arm toward the monster, as Tifa turned towards it surprised!
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Crisis patted her anxious gold chocobo, and muttering soothing words to him, she gripped the reins tightly and grinned. She loved the long races, she knew she would win, and this would be the last race, Voodoo would be an S class chocobo and all her hard work would pay off.
The buzzer went off and so did the racers. Crisis pulled ahead of the racers, but she slowed Voodoo down, because she wanted to be fair and save Voodoo's stamina and not tire him out so easily. She was half way through with the race, still in the lead; she saw a winged monster swoop at her! "What the?!" she exclaimed, pulling on the reins, and Voodoo jumped over it with a wark.
Once Voodoo landed, Crisis heard screaming and the Chocobos warking in terror. She looked over her shoulder and saw as the racers and Chocobos were being attacked by monsters "What the hell is going on?!" Crisis demanded then growled "Can't just stay here and let them kill those racers..." she took out her hooked sword and turned Voodoo around. "Go Voodoo! Let's be heroes! Screw the race! Let's save lives!" she urged on and he warked in agreement.
As a monster tried to maul a racer, Crisis slowly stood on the saddle with her weapon gripped in her hands as Voodoo ran towards the onslaught. The monster turned its head towards Crisis and she swung her sword, beheading the monster! "Yes!" she cried as the monster's lifeless body fell to the floor with a THUNK and it's head bounced twice and rest to the side.
Crisis slashed at the monsters and turned to the racers that weren't injured or lost their Chocobos "GO! Get the injured to the finish line and get out of here! I'll take care of them to buy you some time!" she told them, they nodded, gathered the injured and headed for the finish line. "Limit break 1: Slice 'n Dice!" Crisis exclaimed and sliced a monster into pieces.
She grinned at the mass destruction she has caused and a wolf monster jumped at her, knocking her off of Voodoo, and pinning her to the ground. "Kuso!" Crisis muttered the wolf snapped at her and she grabbed its jaws to keep it from biting her. She stared at its drooling teeth and looked around, she found her sword off to the side and she reached for it. But the wolf was close to her face that she had to push its mouth back with both hands again and her sword was too far for her to reach "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit..." she muttered to herself as sweat slowly trickled from her brow.
"Wark!" she heard and her Chocobo delivered a kick to the wolf's face. It howled and Crisis rolled away from it. It lunged at Voodoo, but Crisis slit it in half. The tow pieces fell to the floor with a heavy THUD, spraying Voodoo with its blood. Crisis stared down at the wolf with its intestines hanging out, blood trickling out of its ears, mouth, and nose, and its blood pooling around. "No one goes after my Chocobo... ANY of my Chocobos and live to see light again..." she growled.
She walked towards Voodoo "Are you alright?" she asked him "Whoo-hee- woo!" he answered "Good." She said and got onto the saddle. "Let's go Voodoo... when we got out of here... I'm giving you a bath... blood does not go great with your golden feathers." She told him and he warked in agreement.
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When the race began, Cloud cheered Crisis on. "Yeah! Go Crisis go!" "Hehehe! We're gonna be rich!" Cid said grinning "Hey. What's that?" Zax asked squinting and pointing at something on the screen. They watched as a winged monster swooped at her "HOLY FUCK!!" Cid exclaimed "Oh my god!" Cloud said. They watched as Crisis killed the monsters and then get knocked to the ground by a wolf. "Oh no!" Cloud exclaimed in horror "You can say that again! I just lost all my cash!" Cid exclaimed, tossing his pack of cigarettes to the floor and stomping on it.
"Shouldn't we... go and save her?" Zax asked and Cid and Cloud stared at him "No. She can take care of herself, remember Zax? She's a complete psycho." Cloud told him. They watched as she killed the thing "At least she didn't die yet."
Later when Crisis finished the race... dead last, she ran up to them out of breath "God... that was... fun! Give me more monsters to kill! I'm ready for more!" she exclaimed and laughed insanely. All three of the men took a step back "She's scaring me..." Cloud muttered and the other two nodded.
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Nozomi watched as Aeris played a game. Akuma sniffed the air, his ears flatten against his skull, he started to growl, and trash around in Nozomi's arms. Nozomi tried to calm him down "What's wrong Aku?" she asked him worried "What's the matter?" Aeris asked her "Akuma is acting weird..." "Maybe he has to do some business." Yuffie said "He acted like this when that monster attacked in Midgar..." Vincent explained "Are you saying that there might be a monster lurking around?" Aeris asked "Come on! There are monsters lurking around in Battle Square! Maybe he's sniffing them out." "No. he didn't do that when we were at the entrance. he'd have a good sense on them than, but he hasn't been doing so until now." Vincent explained again.
Michael in the mean time was playing the battle game and his next opponent was a monster! "Man! You're ugly!" he told the monster and it roared in response. Vincent, Aeris, Yuffie, and Nozomi turned to the monster and Michael beated the thing up. "Not again." Nozomi whispered as Vincent, Aeris, and Yuffie took out their ultimate weapons "Whoa! You were right! I should have never doubted the fox!" Yuffie said as more monsters surrounded them.
Michael THEN started playing the snowboarding game... and a monster went on the other one... Yuffie threw a ninja star at him "Michael! This isn't the time to be playing games!" she yelled.
Nozomi held onto Vincent's waist tightly and started whimpering "I'm scared daddy..." she told him as she buried her face into his arm. "I think Nozomi should be kept somewhere safe." Aeris said as she cast ice on a monster "Where?" Vincent asked as he shot a monster that lunged at them. "I think these monsters are infested everywhere!" Yuffie exclaimed as she threw her Conformer at a row of monsters.
Michael went to the slam dunking game, threw the ball at the hoop, it bounced off the rim and knocked a monster in the face. Then he moved to the arm wrestling game, arm wrestled with it and knocked the whole game onto the same monster. "They have a serious PEST problem..." he commented and ran to the others "Hey guys! Do you know that there are monsters running around?!" he asked and they stared at him like he was a complete moron "What?" he asked again.
"We kinda noticed that already Michael..." Yuffie told him while using Grease Lighting on a monster. "How about the Ghost Square! I don't think that there are any monsters there! I think they are only after us!" Aeris exclaimed snapping her fingers "Good idea! Vincent can take his kid there for safety! AND LEAVE US TO DIE!" "Would you rather have Nozomi dead?" Aeris asked and Yuffie thought about "No... I'll admit that I took a liking to Vinny's kid...."
"We'll cover you Vincent; take Nozomi to the Ghost Square." Aeris told him, Vincent stared at her "But..." "Don't worry about us! We're PMSing bitches and these monsters will feel our wrath!" Yuffie said and used death blow on a monster. "Go Vincent!" Aeris commanded. He nodded, put up his gun, and picked up Nozomi.
"Hold on." He told her and she wrapped one arm around his neck tightly and held onto Akuma.
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Xellis and Sephiroth were... having a great time, until they had an unwanted visitor, a winged monster landed on the Gongaga. "What the hell?" Xellis wonder aloud and looked out, the monster looked over and they met face to face. "..." Xellis said and monster screamed at her and its saliva splattered her in the face. She wiped her face and punched the thing back in return.
As it fell, Sephiroth asked "What was it?" "A monster..." she answered "Odd... what would a monster be doing outside the Battle Square?" "I don't know, but we might as well find out.... AND join the fun!" she grinned and started the ride again.
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Aeris and Yuffie had succeeded in drawing the monsters attention to them... Yuffie threw Michael at some of them and taunted them, but there were more monsters out side the arcade. Vincent glared at them with cold blood red eyes and Nozomi watched them growl at them and advance towards them "Daddy..." Nozomi said looking up at him. He said nothing, but plow through them! Nozomi shut her eyes tight and screamed. A monster tried to scratch them, but Vincent leapt over it and onto the other side of the room. Then he leapt into the hole that will take them to the Ghost Square.
Once in the hotel, Vincent set Nozomi down "Are you alright? Did you get hurt?" he asked her concern kneeling before her "I'm fine daddy... how about you? Are you hurt?" she asked back "I'm fine..." he said getting up and looking at the door "What's wrong?" "I feel... guilty for leaving Aeris and Yuffie behind..." he said "Oh." He turned to her knelt down again "Nozomi... I'm sorry, but I'm going to leave you here and help the others with the monster problem... I'm sorry..." "Its ok daddy... you care about them and so do I." she told him. He smiled, she was a good girl, "I'll be back when we take care of the monsters... and Nozomi, wait here and don't talk to strangers, ok?" "Ok daddy." She said and he kissed her on the forehead and left.
Nozomi stared at the door and sighed; Akuma jumped out of her arms and started growling at something. Nozomi heard the stairs creak and someone spoke "Well, well, it looks like Mr. Valentine had named his child..." Nozomi slowly turned towards the stairs with wide scared eyes and watched as the man that haunted her in her nightmares slowly descend down the stairs and towards her.
She backed up against the door, Akuma started barking at Hojo and he just stared at the fox, and then kicked him against the wall. Akuma yelped and landed on the floor unconscious "Akuma!" Nozomi cried out as she watched her three tailed fox landed on the floor. "Now girl... come over here..." Hojo said beaconing; she watched him in fear and shook her head slowly, hoping that her daddy would come for her or anyone else.
"Get over here!" Hojo roared and Nozomi shook her head violently "NEVER!" she exclaimed, turned around and opened the door. Then she felt a slight pain in her back, everything started getting blurry and her legs started getting heavy. She fell slowly to the ground; Hojo came up to her, smiling as he held a tranquilizer gun and the dark took hold over her.
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Everyone was busy fighting the monsters and trying to get the people out, when the monsters retreated. "That was odd." Tifa said as she, Barret, and Red watched them leave, and they agreed.
"Ah man! I wanted more fun!" Crisis whined as her dolls tackled and beat the monster to a pulp. "They left so suddenly... I wonder why..." Cloud muttered.
Sephiroth stabbed a retreating monster with his masamune and Xellis slashed another one. "That ended too quickly!" she said.
"Yeah! That's Right! Run away! That'll teach you on not to take us so seriously!" Yuffie called after them. "Thank goodness that ended..." Aeris sighed. One of their PHS rang and Aeris answered it "Hello?" "Aeris? Are you alright? Who's with you right now?" Cloud asked "I'm alright. Vincent, Yuffie, and Michael are with me." She answered "Good. I called the others; we're going too met at the lobby to discuss this." Cloud told her, after hanging up, Aeris told the others and they headed for the lobby.
Once everyone was there they started talking "It was odd! All of a sudden, monsters started streaming out of the Battle Square!" Tifa told everyone "Monsters attacked the Chocobo racers and I ended up losing to save them." Crisis replied "You cost me all my cash!" Cid exclaimed. "It seems they that they came and then left." Aeris said "Like it was meant to distract us and once whoever sent them, got what he or she came for, ordered the monsters to retreat and you know." Zax said "But what or who could it be?" Red wondered.
Realization crossed Vincent's face and his blood red eyes widen. He headed for the Ghost Square "Vincent!" Crisis exclaimed and ran after him "What the hell is the matter with him?!" Cid demanded and the others ran after them.
When Vincent got to the hotel, he stopped and stared at the open door "NOZOMI!!" he called and ran inside. He looked around the lobby and saw Akuma lying on the ground unconscious, he stared at the little fox. "NOZOMI!!" Vincent called again he checked everywhere for Nozomi, but she was no where. Once back in the lobby, where everyone stood watching him. He fell to the floor, pounded the ground with his claw hand and screamed "NOZOOOOMIIIIIIIIIII!!"
Aeris picked up Akuma and started crying, Cid cursed, Barret slammed his gun arm against the wall, Red bowed his head, Yuffie looked away not wanting anyone to see her crying, Cloud, Xellis and Tifa growled, Zax was shocked, Sephiroth was in disbelief that his little sister was gone, Michael had nothing to say, and Crisis just started at Vincent sadly.
They heard the sound of cloth tearing and black demon wings burst from Vincent's shoulder blades, his ears started getting pointy, as he growled, his teeth started getting sharp and pointy, and his eyes started turning completely red. "Holy shit!" Cid exclaimed "He's.... he's turning into Chaos..." Cloud said "Hey Vincent man! Calm down!" Zax told Vincent "I don't think he can control it!" Tifa replied.
Crisis walked up to him, knelt down, and threw her arms around him "It's ok Vincent... it's not your fault... it'll be alright... we'll save her... don't worry... I'm here for you... don't lose control over your limit break... don't give in to Chaos... Nozomi does too... she believes in you... don't do anything stupid... we'll go save her... I swear... I love you Vincent..." she told him reassuring as she cried. Slowly, Vincent stopped growling and he returned to normal. He wrapped his arms around Crisis "Crisis..." he began, but she hushed him and started rocking him in her arms "Shhhhh Vincent... it's ok... everything will be ok... we'll rescue her... I promise... I'm here for you..." she told.
As Crisis hugged Vincent with tears streaming down her face, and for the first time over 31 years, Vincent felt as tears slid down his face and he cried over the lost of his missing daughter.
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Chapter 6 Horror at Gold Saucer
It had been five days since the monster attacked Nozomi, and Vincent was worried that she wouldn't recover from it, but after two days she was cheerful and happy again. Xellis did the most stupid thing on the entire planet; she gave Nozomi a sling shot. Nozomi stared at it "What is it?" she asked her "It's a sling shot!" she answered proudly. Nozomi pulled on the rubber band and released it "What is it for?" "Hitting things. After the monster attack, wished I was there, I figured that you needed something to protect yourself from the monsters." "What does it do?" "It's almost like a gun, but it doesn't kill!" Michael walks by "Most things." "Most things?" "You can kill birds with it." Nozomi plucked the rubber band again "How does it work?" "Sephiroth will teach you!" she answered, dragging Sephiroth in "Why me?" Sephiroth asked her "Because I said so!" Xellis told him and left.
They stared after her, and then Sephiroth sighed, and scratched the back of his head. Nozomi stared up at him confused "I'm not good at being a big brother..." he said sheepishly. "Well, the first thing you should do first is not use that in the mansion, Crisis is nice... psychotically nice, but if you use a sling shot and break a window or something... she'll kill you." He told her and Nozomi nodded "Ok. Take this pebble." Sephiroth handed her a pebble "Put it in the sling, Draw the rubber band back. As far as you can." Nozomi did so and her fox watched from under the well. "Now release the sling and NOT the stick... it would hurt if you did." She released the sling, but the pebble didn't get too far.
Sephiroth sighed again "I'll show you how to use it." She gave him the sling shot; he took a pebble, loaded it, pulled back on the sling, and released the pebble into the sky "That's how it works. You try it again." He handed it back to her. She did the same, only instead of letting it go in the sky; it hit Cid on the head "DAMMIT! WHAT THE HELL HIT ME?!" Cid demanded clutching the side of his head "Not bad. A few more practice and you'd be as good as dad." Sephiroth told her.
Later, Nozomi walked into the kitchen, she stopped and watched as Crisis poured milk into a bowl "What are you doing Miss. Crisis?" she asked her and Crisis turned into her direction "I didn't know you were there. Someone ate all the cookies and I'm making more. Want to help?" "Sure!"
After Nozomi put on an apron, she helps mix the ingredients. Crisis noticed the fox's three tails "I didn't notice that you fox is an Akuma Kitsune." Nozomi turned to Crisis "A what?" "An akuma kitsune. It's Japanese for demon fox. By how many tails he has... I say that he's three years old." "Wow. I think I'll name him Akuma Kitsune." She said. After putting the batter in the refrigerator to chill, they sat down and waited "Can I ask you a question Miss. Crisis?" "Sure." "Do you like my daddy?" she asked, Crisis stare at her, and then turned away blushing "Yeah... I like your dad..." she said softly.
"Oh, good. I was afraid that you didn't." "Oh no! I love him! Even after I thought he was dead, I never forgot about him." "How did you two meet?" "It was before Sephiroth was born. Two scientists went to this same mansion and five TURKS were to accompany them." "Who were the five TURKS?" "Leno, Crude, Rena, Tsung and your dad." "What did you do?" "I was a SOLDIER." "What happened?" "Well, the president sent three SOLDIERS along with the TURKS to make sure nothing bad happen. The three SOLDIERS were Xellis, Michael, and me. When the TURKS went to meet us, I really didn't like TURKS at that time, but when I first lay eyes on your dad... well, it was love at first frickin sight." Crisis sighed.
Nozomi giggled "How nice." "Yeah... I also had this... weakness... but it's more like a phobia with men and I would mostly beat them up to keep them away from me or threaten them. But your dad helped me get over it... kind of." "What did you mean 'even after I thought he was dead'?" Nozomi asked "Well, after an 'accident' the main scientist, Hojo, managed to get Xellis, Michael, and me back to HQ, this was after Sephiroth was born too. When they came back Hojo said that the TURKS died. I was sad and after a while, I ended up crying over the loss of Vincent. I was so depress over his 'death' that I didn't care if a monster killed me." She finished and Nozomi hugged her "I'm so sorry Miss. Crisis." She said "So am I." someone said and all three turned to the door and saw Cid standing there "I thought you didn't have the ability to cry." He said shaking his head and a knife hit the wall "You have four seconds to get out before I throw another knife at you again." Crisis growled holding a knife up.
After the batter chilled, they rolled it out and cut shapes out if it "Miss. Crisis?" "Hmm?" "If my daddy didn't die... what happen to him?" "What do you mean?" "I don't know... but whenever I'm near him, I feel some great power within him, a power that feels almost... evil." "That might be 'Chaos' residing in him... I swear two Chaos...and as for him dying, he didn't die... but the crazy scientist, Hojo killed Leno, Rena, Crude, and Tsung, shot your poor daddy and experimented on him." "Experimented... how?" Crisis shook her head "We don't even know. All Vincent told us was that Hojo just injected something into him. After Hojo did what he did, you daddy slept in a coffin, 'atoning for the sins he caused'... and the others consider him a vampire..." "This Hojo... does he have a big forehead, have long hair tied in a ponytail, wears glasses, and hunches over a lot?" Nozomi asked looking down. "Yes... how did you know?"
Nozomi shook her head "I don't know really... I see him in... my nightmares laughing sometimes..." she said quietly.
"Do you have special powers Miss. Crisis?" Nozomi later asked "What?" Crisis asked confused "I can sense some power in you... all of you, but mostly just you, daddy, big brother Sephy, Mr. Michael, and Miss. Xellis... also Miss. Aeris and Mr. Cloud." "Cloud... that's a tough one to come up with an answer, Aeris is a Cetra, you know what your dad is, you big brother Sephy is 'The One Winged Angel', Michael is the demonic angel... he WAS the Archangel, but something happened to him... Xellis is Satan; the ruler of hell and stuff, and I am Chaos also known as Chaos-sama: bringer of mayhem, chaos, and destruction wherever I go... and if I feel like it." "Is that all?" Nozomi asked.
Crisis stared down at her and sighed "Can you keep a secret?" she asked her and Nozomi nodded "I'm not just Chaos... I'm also a necromancer." "A what?" "A necromancer. It's the ability to raise the dead to life." She explained and Nozomi's eyes widen "That is also why I can socialize with the undead... another reason why I like you dad... don't tell anyone that. And I use voodoo magic." "What's that?" "Voodoo magic is the ability to curse, torture, and it's like necromancy." "Can you teach me?" "I don't think so because you'd hate it a lot..."
Two days later Xellis had a brilliant idea "GOLD SAUCER!!" "Oh boy." "I've been meaning to raise Voodoo up." "Voodoo? Ya named yer chocobo Voodoo?" "Yeah... so? I named his father Magic." "What's Gold Saucer?" Nozomi asked "It's a fun place kid. You'll like it." "Hey Crisis, if you're going to race, mind if I bet on you?" "Of coarse not! Bet all you want Cloud-boy."
At the Gold Saucer entrance, Nozomi marveled at its wonders "Wow! It's so big!" she exclaimed and Akuma mewed in agreement. Xellis squealed in delight, grabbed Sephiroth, and made her way to the Round Square. Crisis, Cloud, Zax and Cid made their way to the Chocobo Square, Barret, Tifa, and Red went to Battle Square, Michael and Yuffie went off to the Wonder Square, Vincent stared down at his daughter, "Where do you want to go to first?" "I don't know." "Well... I can't take you to Battle Square, too dangerous, the Chocobo Square is for gambling idiots, Event Square is not suitable for children, and Round Square is being occupied... by Xellis and your big brother... and you DO NOT need to know WHAT they might be doing in there." Vincent told her "I think so too..." Aeris replied and Nozomi and Akuma just looked confused "I guess we can go to the Speed Square." Aeris suggested, so they went there.
Nozomi squealed in excitement "This is fun!" she exclaimed as they did a loop. When the ride was over, Vincent checked his score "That was fun! I love this place!" Nozomi told Aeris. Aeris just smiled.
Xellis had found a way to make the Gongaga stop and stranding herself and Sephiroth in the middle of the ride.
In the Chocobo Square, Crisis had won twice, helping Cloud and Cid win "Keep it up Crisis!" Cid told her "Two more times and Voodoo will be an S class Chocobo... my baby is going to be the best Chocobo..." she said all dazed and happily. Cloud, Zax, and Cid just stared at her, "She's gone insane again." Cid said.
Vincent, Nozomi, and Aeris went to Wonder Square to let Nozomi play some games. They met up with Yuffie and Michael. Nozomi stared at the snowboarding game "What's this daddy?" she asked pointing at it "It's a snowboarding game." "Snowboarding game?" she wondered confused "Show her Vinny!" Yuffie said and Vincent turned to her direction "What?" "Show us your skill at snowboarding! Let's see how good you are!" "Fine..." he said.
"Left Vinny! Go left!" Yuffie ordered "Oh! Watch out for that moggle Vincent!" Aeris exclaimed "Go daddy!" Nozomi cheered. When Vincent got to the finish line, everyone checked his time, "Dude! You suck Vinny!" Yuffie said thwacking him on the head. "FLY FATASS, FLY!" Michael had yelled from the moogle game. Vincent growled as he rubbed his head (not that head! The one on his shoulders!) "I don't care if daddy got a bad time, it was fun watching him snowboard and teaching me how to." Nozomi said hugging him around the waist.
Aeris started to cry "That is so precious... I want to be a mother now!" she exclaimed.
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In the Battle Square, Barret, Tifa, and Red were fighting against some monsters. "Nothing beats anything, then fighting against these monsters!" Tifa said pumping her arm in the air after leaving the arena.
As all three of them rest, they noticed something strange "Hey, since when did Dio let the monsters out?" Tifa asked pointing as the monsters left the arena. The lady screamed as one of the monsters jumped onto the counter. Some monsters jumped onto people and bit them as their prey started to scream. The other people ran screaming from the arena and Tifa, Barret, and Red ran towards the monsters.
"This is odd!" Tifa commented as she high kicked a monster "I agree!" Red replied biting another "What is?!" Barret demanded as he shot a group of them "These are not the monsters from the arena! I never saw them before!" Tifa told him and landed a punch at a monster's snout. "They are wild." Red agreed casting fire on one. Barret noticed a monster behind Tifa and it sprang at her with its claws extended "TIFA! BEHIND YOU!" Barret shouted, bringing his gun arm toward the monster, as Tifa turned towards it surprised!
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Crisis patted her anxious gold chocobo, and muttering soothing words to him, she gripped the reins tightly and grinned. She loved the long races, she knew she would win, and this would be the last race, Voodoo would be an S class chocobo and all her hard work would pay off.
The buzzer went off and so did the racers. Crisis pulled ahead of the racers, but she slowed Voodoo down, because she wanted to be fair and save Voodoo's stamina and not tire him out so easily. She was half way through with the race, still in the lead; she saw a winged monster swoop at her! "What the?!" she exclaimed, pulling on the reins, and Voodoo jumped over it with a wark.
Once Voodoo landed, Crisis heard screaming and the Chocobos warking in terror. She looked over her shoulder and saw as the racers and Chocobos were being attacked by monsters "What the hell is going on?!" Crisis demanded then growled "Can't just stay here and let them kill those racers..." she took out her hooked sword and turned Voodoo around. "Go Voodoo! Let's be heroes! Screw the race! Let's save lives!" she urged on and he warked in agreement.
As a monster tried to maul a racer, Crisis slowly stood on the saddle with her weapon gripped in her hands as Voodoo ran towards the onslaught. The monster turned its head towards Crisis and she swung her sword, beheading the monster! "Yes!" she cried as the monster's lifeless body fell to the floor with a THUNK and it's head bounced twice and rest to the side.
Crisis slashed at the monsters and turned to the racers that weren't injured or lost their Chocobos "GO! Get the injured to the finish line and get out of here! I'll take care of them to buy you some time!" she told them, they nodded, gathered the injured and headed for the finish line. "Limit break 1: Slice 'n Dice!" Crisis exclaimed and sliced a monster into pieces.
She grinned at the mass destruction she has caused and a wolf monster jumped at her, knocking her off of Voodoo, and pinning her to the ground. "Kuso!" Crisis muttered the wolf snapped at her and she grabbed its jaws to keep it from biting her. She stared at its drooling teeth and looked around, she found her sword off to the side and she reached for it. But the wolf was close to her face that she had to push its mouth back with both hands again and her sword was too far for her to reach "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit..." she muttered to herself as sweat slowly trickled from her brow.
"Wark!" she heard and her Chocobo delivered a kick to the wolf's face. It howled and Crisis rolled away from it. It lunged at Voodoo, but Crisis slit it in half. The tow pieces fell to the floor with a heavy THUD, spraying Voodoo with its blood. Crisis stared down at the wolf with its intestines hanging out, blood trickling out of its ears, mouth, and nose, and its blood pooling around. "No one goes after my Chocobo... ANY of my Chocobos and live to see light again..." she growled.
She walked towards Voodoo "Are you alright?" she asked him "Whoo-hee- woo!" he answered "Good." She said and got onto the saddle. "Let's go Voodoo... when we got out of here... I'm giving you a bath... blood does not go great with your golden feathers." She told him and he warked in agreement.
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When the race began, Cloud cheered Crisis on. "Yeah! Go Crisis go!" "Hehehe! We're gonna be rich!" Cid said grinning "Hey. What's that?" Zax asked squinting and pointing at something on the screen. They watched as a winged monster swooped at her "HOLY FUCK!!" Cid exclaimed "Oh my god!" Cloud said. They watched as Crisis killed the monsters and then get knocked to the ground by a wolf. "Oh no!" Cloud exclaimed in horror "You can say that again! I just lost all my cash!" Cid exclaimed, tossing his pack of cigarettes to the floor and stomping on it.
"Shouldn't we... go and save her?" Zax asked and Cid and Cloud stared at him "No. She can take care of herself, remember Zax? She's a complete psycho." Cloud told him. They watched as she killed the thing "At least she didn't die yet."
Later when Crisis finished the race... dead last, she ran up to them out of breath "God... that was... fun! Give me more monsters to kill! I'm ready for more!" she exclaimed and laughed insanely. All three of the men took a step back "She's scaring me..." Cloud muttered and the other two nodded.
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Nozomi watched as Aeris played a game. Akuma sniffed the air, his ears flatten against his skull, he started to growl, and trash around in Nozomi's arms. Nozomi tried to calm him down "What's wrong Aku?" she asked him worried "What's the matter?" Aeris asked her "Akuma is acting weird..." "Maybe he has to do some business." Yuffie said "He acted like this when that monster attacked in Midgar..." Vincent explained "Are you saying that there might be a monster lurking around?" Aeris asked "Come on! There are monsters lurking around in Battle Square! Maybe he's sniffing them out." "No. he didn't do that when we were at the entrance. he'd have a good sense on them than, but he hasn't been doing so until now." Vincent explained again.
Michael in the mean time was playing the battle game and his next opponent was a monster! "Man! You're ugly!" he told the monster and it roared in response. Vincent, Aeris, Yuffie, and Nozomi turned to the monster and Michael beated the thing up. "Not again." Nozomi whispered as Vincent, Aeris, and Yuffie took out their ultimate weapons "Whoa! You were right! I should have never doubted the fox!" Yuffie said as more monsters surrounded them.
Michael THEN started playing the snowboarding game... and a monster went on the other one... Yuffie threw a ninja star at him "Michael! This isn't the time to be playing games!" she yelled.
Nozomi held onto Vincent's waist tightly and started whimpering "I'm scared daddy..." she told him as she buried her face into his arm. "I think Nozomi should be kept somewhere safe." Aeris said as she cast ice on a monster "Where?" Vincent asked as he shot a monster that lunged at them. "I think these monsters are infested everywhere!" Yuffie exclaimed as she threw her Conformer at a row of monsters.
Michael went to the slam dunking game, threw the ball at the hoop, it bounced off the rim and knocked a monster in the face. Then he moved to the arm wrestling game, arm wrestled with it and knocked the whole game onto the same monster. "They have a serious PEST problem..." he commented and ran to the others "Hey guys! Do you know that there are monsters running around?!" he asked and they stared at him like he was a complete moron "What?" he asked again.
"We kinda noticed that already Michael..." Yuffie told him while using Grease Lighting on a monster. "How about the Ghost Square! I don't think that there are any monsters there! I think they are only after us!" Aeris exclaimed snapping her fingers "Good idea! Vincent can take his kid there for safety! AND LEAVE US TO DIE!" "Would you rather have Nozomi dead?" Aeris asked and Yuffie thought about "No... I'll admit that I took a liking to Vinny's kid...."
"We'll cover you Vincent; take Nozomi to the Ghost Square." Aeris told him, Vincent stared at her "But..." "Don't worry about us! We're PMSing bitches and these monsters will feel our wrath!" Yuffie said and used death blow on a monster. "Go Vincent!" Aeris commanded. He nodded, put up his gun, and picked up Nozomi.
"Hold on." He told her and she wrapped one arm around his neck tightly and held onto Akuma.
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Xellis and Sephiroth were... having a great time, until they had an unwanted visitor, a winged monster landed on the Gongaga. "What the hell?" Xellis wonder aloud and looked out, the monster looked over and they met face to face. "..." Xellis said and monster screamed at her and its saliva splattered her in the face. She wiped her face and punched the thing back in return.
As it fell, Sephiroth asked "What was it?" "A monster..." she answered "Odd... what would a monster be doing outside the Battle Square?" "I don't know, but we might as well find out.... AND join the fun!" she grinned and started the ride again.
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Aeris and Yuffie had succeeded in drawing the monsters attention to them... Yuffie threw Michael at some of them and taunted them, but there were more monsters out side the arcade. Vincent glared at them with cold blood red eyes and Nozomi watched them growl at them and advance towards them "Daddy..." Nozomi said looking up at him. He said nothing, but plow through them! Nozomi shut her eyes tight and screamed. A monster tried to scratch them, but Vincent leapt over it and onto the other side of the room. Then he leapt into the hole that will take them to the Ghost Square.
Once in the hotel, Vincent set Nozomi down "Are you alright? Did you get hurt?" he asked her concern kneeling before her "I'm fine daddy... how about you? Are you hurt?" she asked back "I'm fine..." he said getting up and looking at the door "What's wrong?" "I feel... guilty for leaving Aeris and Yuffie behind..." he said "Oh." He turned to her knelt down again "Nozomi... I'm sorry, but I'm going to leave you here and help the others with the monster problem... I'm sorry..." "Its ok daddy... you care about them and so do I." she told him. He smiled, she was a good girl, "I'll be back when we take care of the monsters... and Nozomi, wait here and don't talk to strangers, ok?" "Ok daddy." She said and he kissed her on the forehead and left.
Nozomi stared at the door and sighed; Akuma jumped out of her arms and started growling at something. Nozomi heard the stairs creak and someone spoke "Well, well, it looks like Mr. Valentine had named his child..." Nozomi slowly turned towards the stairs with wide scared eyes and watched as the man that haunted her in her nightmares slowly descend down the stairs and towards her.
She backed up against the door, Akuma started barking at Hojo and he just stared at the fox, and then kicked him against the wall. Akuma yelped and landed on the floor unconscious "Akuma!" Nozomi cried out as she watched her three tailed fox landed on the floor. "Now girl... come over here..." Hojo said beaconing; she watched him in fear and shook her head slowly, hoping that her daddy would come for her or anyone else.
"Get over here!" Hojo roared and Nozomi shook her head violently "NEVER!" she exclaimed, turned around and opened the door. Then she felt a slight pain in her back, everything started getting blurry and her legs started getting heavy. She fell slowly to the ground; Hojo came up to her, smiling as he held a tranquilizer gun and the dark took hold over her.
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Everyone was busy fighting the monsters and trying to get the people out, when the monsters retreated. "That was odd." Tifa said as she, Barret, and Red watched them leave, and they agreed.
"Ah man! I wanted more fun!" Crisis whined as her dolls tackled and beat the monster to a pulp. "They left so suddenly... I wonder why..." Cloud muttered.
Sephiroth stabbed a retreating monster with his masamune and Xellis slashed another one. "That ended too quickly!" she said.
"Yeah! That's Right! Run away! That'll teach you on not to take us so seriously!" Yuffie called after them. "Thank goodness that ended..." Aeris sighed. One of their PHS rang and Aeris answered it "Hello?" "Aeris? Are you alright? Who's with you right now?" Cloud asked "I'm alright. Vincent, Yuffie, and Michael are with me." She answered "Good. I called the others; we're going too met at the lobby to discuss this." Cloud told her, after hanging up, Aeris told the others and they headed for the lobby.
Once everyone was there they started talking "It was odd! All of a sudden, monsters started streaming out of the Battle Square!" Tifa told everyone "Monsters attacked the Chocobo racers and I ended up losing to save them." Crisis replied "You cost me all my cash!" Cid exclaimed. "It seems they that they came and then left." Aeris said "Like it was meant to distract us and once whoever sent them, got what he or she came for, ordered the monsters to retreat and you know." Zax said "But what or who could it be?" Red wondered.
Realization crossed Vincent's face and his blood red eyes widen. He headed for the Ghost Square "Vincent!" Crisis exclaimed and ran after him "What the hell is the matter with him?!" Cid demanded and the others ran after them.
When Vincent got to the hotel, he stopped and stared at the open door "NOZOMI!!" he called and ran inside. He looked around the lobby and saw Akuma lying on the ground unconscious, he stared at the little fox. "NOZOMI!!" Vincent called again he checked everywhere for Nozomi, but she was no where. Once back in the lobby, where everyone stood watching him. He fell to the floor, pounded the ground with his claw hand and screamed "NOZOOOOMIIIIIIIIIII!!"
Aeris picked up Akuma and started crying, Cid cursed, Barret slammed his gun arm against the wall, Red bowed his head, Yuffie looked away not wanting anyone to see her crying, Cloud, Xellis and Tifa growled, Zax was shocked, Sephiroth was in disbelief that his little sister was gone, Michael had nothing to say, and Crisis just started at Vincent sadly.
They heard the sound of cloth tearing and black demon wings burst from Vincent's shoulder blades, his ears started getting pointy, as he growled, his teeth started getting sharp and pointy, and his eyes started turning completely red. "Holy shit!" Cid exclaimed "He's.... he's turning into Chaos..." Cloud said "Hey Vincent man! Calm down!" Zax told Vincent "I don't think he can control it!" Tifa replied.
Crisis walked up to him, knelt down, and threw her arms around him "It's ok Vincent... it's not your fault... it'll be alright... we'll save her... don't worry... I'm here for you... don't lose control over your limit break... don't give in to Chaos... Nozomi does too... she believes in you... don't do anything stupid... we'll go save her... I swear... I love you Vincent..." she told him reassuring as she cried. Slowly, Vincent stopped growling and he returned to normal. He wrapped his arms around Crisis "Crisis..." he began, but she hushed him and started rocking him in her arms "Shhhhh Vincent... it's ok... everything will be ok... we'll rescue her... I promise... I'm here for you..." she told.
As Crisis hugged Vincent with tears streaming down her face, and for the first time over 31 years, Vincent felt as tears slid down his face and he cried over the lost of his missing daughter.