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Here is the next chapter. I hope you are enjoying the fic so far.

Chapter 5: Meeting

The next day Cid phoned the other members of AVALANCHE to tell them that they had another emergency.

"Look I'll explain when everyone gets here o.k.," Cid said in an annoyed voice to Cloud, who was the last person he needed to speak to, "I'll come and pick you up in the Highwind."

With that Cid placed the phone down with a sigh. He went into the lounge where Tifa sat on a couch watching T.V. Vincent was lying on the floor with a book in front of him struggling to turn the page with his paw.

"Tifa, I'm going to pick everyone up in the Highwind," Cid told her, his gaze on Vincent.

He tried desperately to stifle his laughter, but it was just so funny watching Vincent struggle with the pages of the book.

"If we can't change him back, Tifa, we could always enter him in a pet talent contest. I doubt there are many dogs who can read."

"Oh, you're evil Cid," Tifa replied reaching down with her hand and scratching Vincent behind his ear, causing Vincent to shake his head in annoyance.

Cid laughed then turned and left to pick everyone up. Tifa looked down at Vincent, who had gone back to reading the book in front of him. She had to admit that Vincent looked terribly cute as a puppy. She turned her attention back to the T.V. and sighed.

"Don't listen to Cid, Vincent. We'll change you back."

It had just gone half one when Cid arrived back. He entered the house followed by Yuffie, Red XIII, Cloud, Barret and Cait Sith. They entered the lounge and Yuffie immediately bounded over to Vincent, whilst everyone else found somewhere to sit.

"I didn't know you had a got a puppy, Cid. Oh, he is sooooo cute," Yuffie exclaimed rubbing Vincent's head, "And he's sooooo clever. Look he's actually reading a book."

Tifa and Cid couldn't help, but burst out laughing at Yuffie's comment, whilst Vincent shut the book with his nose.

"Yuffie, he's not mine," Cid said.

"Oh, so he's Tifa's then?" Yuffie asked, whilst picking Vincent up and resting him on her knees.

"No, he's not mine either," Tifa replied, smiling at Yuffie's confused look.

"Actually, he's why we called you here," Cid continued.

"What!" Barret snapped, "I thought you said it was an emergency."

"It is," Tifa sighed, looking down at Vincent, who was trying his best to get out of Yuffie's grasp, "Everyone can you see Vincent?"

"No," said Red looking around for their silent companion, "Where is he?"

"Your looking at him," Tifa replied.

"WHAT!" everyone yelled, staring at the puppy that was still squirming in Yuffie's arms.

"But how?" Cloud asked in disbelief.

Tifa explained about how she and Vincent had been captured, about Dr. Evorne, about Vincent being turned into a black Labrador and about how they had escaped and come here.

"We have to do something," Tifa said.

"Well, it seems like the most sensible course of action is to check out that lab," Red reasoned, "You said it was located inside the Nibelhiem mountains, right?"

"Yes, that's right," Tifa answered

"Then it's settled," Cloud announced, "First thing tomorrow we'll head out to the lab and check it out, but I think that Vincent should stay here."

Vincent finally got free of Yuffie's grasp and immediately started barking in protest.

"I think he wants to come too," Yuffie said, staring at Vincent, "He'll be alright seeing as we will all be going."

"Fine, he can come too," Cloud sighed.

Vincent immediately became silent again and lay down on the carpet resting his head on his paws, whilst everyone else chatted about what they had been doing since the defeat of Sephiroth.

AN - Well that's the end of chapter 5. Now all of AVALANCHE know what has happened to Vincent and are going to check out the lab where it happened. Is that a wise decision or not? You'll just have to read on to find out. Please review.