HAHAHAHA! Chapter 8! I'm on a roll! Crisis shows everyone her powers that she kept hidden from the Avalanche XD... and she FINALLY tells Vincent the truth! Ok! Enough talking! Time to let the readers read!

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Chapter 8 Love, Truth, and Redemption

Cloud and others gathered around in the lobby of the hotel in Gold Saucer. Vincent sat in a chair with his head in his hands and Crisis stood next to him... with a hand on his shoulder. "All this time that the monsters attack was to distract us long enough for someone to take Vincent's daughter... who the hell would do such a thing?!" Barret demanded.

Vincent raised his head "Hojo..." he answered and Crisis shuddered and slid her hand into his. Everyone stared "Hojo?! We killed him!" Cid exclaimed "He's a mad man... do you think that he was dumb enough to let US kill him THAT easily?" Crisis asked them all "It's true that he might HAVE made a copy of himself when we went to stop the sister ray..." Red replied.

"So the bastard is still alive...?" Sephiroth asked narrowing his eyes. "Most likely..." Yuffie said "AND he took Nozomi..." Aeris replied healing the still unconscious Akuma "But... why?" Tifa wondered. "We will soon find out when we find Hojo and get Nozomi back!" Cloud said "Ok, brave leader... but WHERE are we GOING to FIND him?" Zax asked and Cloud thought about it "... I don't know..." he muttered.

"He could have gone back to that under water lab." Aeris suggested and Crisis shook her head "I doubt it... if I was mad Scientist and I kidnapped a kid... I wouldn't go back to the lab that the people I hated found her in the first place..." she said. "Well, he could go to the lab in Midgar... it's destroyed." Barret said "And he can't go to the one in the mansion... it belongs to us." Cid added "Maybe.... Maybe Hojo has ANOTHER lab that we don't know about." Yuffie said mostly to herself. Everyone stared at her "What?" she asked confused "Yuffie... I promise as LONG as I live... I'll never doubt your intelligence again..." Cloud told her "... and that's coming from a dumb blonde..." she muttered to herself.

"How are we going to FIND this lab?" Aeris asked "I know!" Xellis exclaimed and took out her PHS.

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At the ShinRa Headquarters... Rufus was... in the middle of something... "Ah... yes... yes! Reno! Oh god! YES!" Rufus cried "You like that? Hehe... I have MORE to show you." Reno grinned and licked his lips. Rufus' phone rings, he growled and answers it "What the HELL do you want?!" he demanded.

"Hey Ruffy! Did I catch you at a bad time?" Xellis' cheerfulness perked up "You can say that..." Rufus muttered "What cha dooooing?" she asked "None of YOUR concern!" he blushed "Are you done yet Ruffy?" Reno asked lonely. "What do you want Xellis?" "Oh I just want to know if Hojo had another lab that you happen to know..." "Why?" "He took Vincent's daughter and we're going to go save her." "... I believe that there's one somewhere way UP North..." "Do you know WHERE up North?" "No, sorry, and if you will excuse me... I'll be getting back to WHAT I was doing..." he hunged and turned to Reno "Where were we?" he asked "We were about to stick this pin into the Scarlet voodoo doll's other boob." Reno answered "Ah yes... proceed."

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Once Xellis put her PHS away she reported what Rufus told her "He said that he thinks that Hojo has a lab UP North!" "Did he say WHERE up North?" "Nope." "Great! We now KNOW where Hojo's lab might be... BUT we don't know where! We would be looking all over the place and by the time we find the stupid lab, it would be too late for Nozomi!" Cid exclaimed.

"There has to be a way..." Aeris said quietly "... there is..." Crisis replied quietly and everyone turned to her "What way?" Red asked "... get one of the monster's to point out the lab... Hojo most likely created them in the lab, and one of the monsters might remember it well enough to point out the way..." she explained to them and they still stared.

"What a plan! Let's go and ask the monsters about it! Oh! One problem. THEY'RE DEAD! THERE IS NOWAY TO GET THEM TO TALK IF THEY ARE BLOODY DEAD!" Cid exclaimed. She glared at him "Well... it so HAPPENS that I can do so... I can bring a monster back from the dead... I'm... a necromancer..." the last part she whispered.

Everyone, minus Xellis and Michael gawked at her. "A what?" Barret asked confused "I'm a necromancer... I have the ability to raise the dead... that's why I'm more into the undead and..." she blushed and muttered "and WHY I'm attracted to Vincent... even BEFORE he became a vampire..." "So you can ACUTUALLY bring the dead to life?" Tifa asked "Yes, come along and I'll show you."

They went to one of the Square and stared at the dead monsters. "What a mess." Cid muttered, lighting a cigarette. "Perfect!" Crisis exclaimed clasping her hands together "Plenty of monsters to revive." "Well, then show us you so called ability to revive the dead." Crisis started taking off her coat while humming Vincent's theme.

She held her coat out and everyone gawked again at WHAT they saw in her coat. Dolls of all of them, jars, test tubes, huge spools of black treads, and a dagger were held in pockets within her coat. She smooth the coat out, took her gloves, spiked knuckle and rings, and leather armband off. She rolled her leather armband out and they saw there were needles of many size and length in it. Crisis pulled on some surgical gloves, choose one of the needles, took out one of the spools, and the dagger.

She stared at them "What?" she asked "What is ALL that for?" Cloud asked pointing at the stuff in her hands and the stuff in her coat. She looked at them and shrugged "Where else was I going to put my dolls...? It's not like I'm going to pull them out of my ass..." she replied. She went over to the first monster and checked it over. "I guess I don't need the needle and tread." She said pressing two of her fingers to her forehead and she set the spool and needle down.

She took off her right surgical glove. "What are you going to do?" Tifa asked and Crisis said nothing, she held the dagger to her wrist and slit it. "What the hell are you doing?!" Cid demanded, Crisis dropped the dagger, it clangs loudly on the floor and whirled around, and then blood trickled down Crisis's arm and dripped in little droplets upon the floor. "Ok... I think Crisis has gone insane..." Zax muttered "When is she NOT insane?" Sephiroth asked.

Crisis held her arm out, pressing the wound open, she walked around the monster. Then she walked back to the others "Crisis... here, let me heal your wound..." Aeris offered holding a cure materia, and Crisis pulled away from her "I still need my blood..." she told her and then turned towards the monster.

Crisis held her hands together in a Japanese way of summoning (like in Naruto) she started muttering some words. The circle of blood started glowing and as everyone watched, the monster started rising. Everyone gasped and Cid's cigarette fell out of his mouth.

The monster stood to its fullest height and Crisis walked towards it "What is she up to now?"
Crisis held out her wounded hand "I offer you my blood and with it, I shall control you." She told it, and it just stood there. After a few second of silence, Crisis waved her hands in front of it, and then she walked behind it and stared at the blood stain floor with the monster's brains in the pool. She stared at the back of its head and the huge hole in it "No wonder... its brains were blown out..." she sighed "Ok, go back to being dead." She snapped her fingers and the monster fell back to the ground "Next!"

On the second try, the monster tried to kill Crisis because she got distracted, she had to kill it. The third time was a success, the monster rose and Crisis offered her blood to it "I offer you my blood and with it, I shall control you." She repeated. The monster grabbed her arm, pressed its horrible lips to her wrist and sucked her blood. After a minute, Crisis pulled her arm away from the monster. She cradled her arm and stared at the monster "Ok monster, you drank my blood and I have control over you. Can you hear me? Nod if you do." The monster nodded. Crisis smirked "Good, now monster, do you know a man named Hojo?" again it nodded "Did he create you in a lab?" Cloud asked and the monster did not reply.

"Why isn't it answering?" Cloud asked Crisis "It can only answer to me, my blood my control on it." Crisis explained "Then ask it." She repeated the question and it nods "Can you remember where it is?" nods "Can you take us to it?" nods. Aeris got Crisis to let her heal her wrist and Akuma woke up and growled at the undead monster. He lunged at it and Crisis grabbed him "Hold on fox, this monster is going to show us where they took your owner." She told him and he still growled at the monster.

Once Crisis put her stuff back on, everyone left Gold Saucer and boarded the Highwind and headed towards the North. Vincent was a top, he looked out as wind played with his hair, he sighed and slammed his fist against the rail "I shouldn't have left Nozomi alone... it's my fault that Hojo has her..." he said to no one "No it's not..." someone said and he turned around to see Crisis walking towards him "What are you doing up here?" he asked her "Cid wouldn't let me keep the monster down below... afraid it might attack... and it's starting to rot..." she explained and leaned against the railing and pointing at the zombie monster.

After a minute of silence, Vincent broke it "Why did you say it wasn't my fault that Nozomi was taken by that madman...? I left her alone... I should have KNOWN that HE was there... I should have protected her... I'm her father and I didn't protect her..." he said and Crisis shook her head "How were you suppose to know that Hojo would do such a thing? None of us predicted that Hojo wanted Nozomi... it's not your fault Vincent... you cared about her AND us... you left her alone in safety to help Yuffie and Aeris... if you didn't go to help them, they might have died, because there were too many monsters for them to handle, EVEN when Michael was there... you can't be at two places at once." She told him, facing him.

"It's my fault..." he whispered "Dammit Vincent! Stop saying that! It's NOT your FAULT! It's Hojo's fault! He planned all this because he hates you and he wants to make you suffer! He always wanted you to suffer!" she yelled at him, and he glared at her "What do you know? An all powerful being and you don't EVEN tell me that you're a necromancer?! How about me?! Do YOU care about me?! Or is that so called 'weakness around men' the thing keeping you away from me? Aren't YOU making me suffer enough?" he demanded and she shook her head "Dammit Vincent... why are you saying things like that to me...? I love you... and I'm sorry that I didn't tell you that I wa a necromancer... if I told anyone about it like president Shinra... he might have made me do something I'd regret... I... I didn't want to make an undead army that could crush Shinra's enemies and have the blood of the innocent spilt on my hands... I'm so sorry... and I really do LOVE you... and I am TRULY sorry that my trust around men is bad... I had a bad experience with an old boyfriend that betrayed my trust..." she explained with tears glittering in her eyes.

Vincent stared at Crisis, her shoulders hunched and she started to cry "Oh Vincent... you have to believe me... when Hojo lied about you being dead, I was so sad that I couldn't stop crying... you were the only person I love and I could NEVER replace you after your 'death'... before a monster killed me... the only thought that went through my mind was 'I will be Vincent real soon... I'll be happy with him once again.'" She told him then looked at him with more tears in her eyes "But when my guardian came to have me reborn, I refused I wanted to be with you, but there was nothing I could do to stop him... when I was reborn again, I never forgot about you... I rejoined SOLDIER so I could kill Hojo and avenge you... but when I join Cloud-boy to stop your son... and when we went into Nibelhiem... I never wanted to go into the mansion... to much painful memories... and when I say you come out with Cloud-boy and the others, I was so happy, I thought I wouldn't be able to breath and my heart leapt..."

Crisis wiped her tears away "I'm sorry for being a bitch... but that was a useful weapon to keep men away from me... and I used it SO much that I forgot who I was being a bitch to... and... I guess you should have been better off with Lucrecia... she was your first love after all... I'm a lousy girlfriend... when we get Nozomi... you would have to worry about me... I'll..." she never finished, Vincent grabbed her and kissed her on the lips.

Crisis' eyes widen in surprise and Vincent pulled away. Crisis put her fingers to her lips and stared at him "I'm sorry that I got mad at you Crisis..." Vincent told her "I was so angry at Hojo for taking Nozomi, that I had to take my anger out on someone... and you were the only one here... I'm glad that you're my girlfriend and I'm happy that you told me the truth about you... it makes it easier to know who you are..." he replied. Crisis embraced him and whispered "I love you Vincent..." he held her close "I love you too Crisis..." and they kissed.

"How precious!" someone said and Vincent and Crisis turned their attention to an audience! They pulled away blushing and embarrass. Aeris wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, "Crisis declared her love to Vincent! I knew she would someday... despite her being a bitch." Yuffie said "Two Chaos' together? I think that's a bad thing." Cid murmured. "Well, it LOOKS like Crisis' gonna be your step mom Sephy, good luck surviving HER torment." Zax said grinning and patting Sephiroth on the shoulder, Sephiroth just stared, Cloud gawked, Tifa sniffled, Xellis grinned, Red XIII sighed, Michael said and pointing at nothing "Oooh, look! An orange!" and Barret smiled and shook his head "I knew those two would show their feeling to each other someday."

"When's the wedding?" Yuffie asked and Crisis turned to Vincent "Shall we show them what happens WHEN they piss off two Chaos'?" she asked him. He smiled and wrapped his arms around her "Maybe later... I'm caught in moment." He kissed her, she blushed again and replied "Me too..." and they kissed again, not caring about what the others say about them, to Vincent and Crisis, no one is there watching them kiss.

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*sniffle* beautiful.... Absolutely beautiful! Oh god! I'm becoming a romantic! @_@ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Next chapter! Avalanche makes it to the North, find the base, and attempt to rescue Nozomi... but Hojo was ready for them. What surprises does he have waiting for them? I'm not telling! You have to wait for the next chapter to find out! ^^
Until then!