Howdy everyone! Wow I must say I'm quite happy! I got five more reviews since my last chapter. Maybe I am on to something good. Let's see... last chapter we learned what happened in Wutai, bizarre creatures searching for some Wutianease song. Godo and the other great warriors were taken away.. But what happened to Reeve? He's been missing for two days! And Vincent ? What happened to him? Maybe you'll learn what happened to one of them in this chapter. Well anyway I do not own Final Fantasy 7.. That would take too much time and money to make and well let's just say I not have the money to make a game.
Chapter 3- What happened to Vincent?
Barret scratched the back of his head with his real hand, "So what now?" He asked breaking the uncomfortable silence that settled upon the room. Cid slammed his fist on the table angrily, "Shit! We already had to fight the bastard Sephiroth! We're suppose to live peacefully" Cid said a bit loudly. Cid calmed down and slumped into his seat mumbling to himself. Reno held up his hand and called out, "Another round here!" He motioned at the table him and his fellow Turks were sitting at. "Reno! How can you act so calm after all that's happened." Elena smacked his shoulder. Reno gave a husky grin at her, "Easy, I'll tell you a secret" Reno leaned towards her and whispered, "Drink more" He laugh a bit. Elena groaned and Rude shook his head at Reno"
"I think the first thing we should do is send a group to the Shin-Ra mansion in Nibelheim." Red XII said. Barret gave him a confused look, "Eh? Nibelheim? Why go there?" Red XII's brilliant golden eye glanced up towards Barret, "Cloud said he couldn't reach him. He may be in the coffin again. We'll need all the help we can get." Cloud nodded his head, "I agree with Red XII, so myself and two other people will go to Nibelheim." Yuffie bounced up as she quickly rose her hand, "I'll go" She exclaimed excitedly. The group gave her a weird look. Yuffie's face dropped, "What?"
Cid cracked a teasing smile showing his nicotine stained teeth, "Why you so jumpy to go? What to see the vampire that badly?" 'Yes' Yuffie thought. She put her hands on her hips and glared down at Cid, "I'm worried OK. I would be for anyone of our group." Barret gave an amusing look, "What about Reeve? He's been missing for two days. I don't see you jumping around wanting to find him." Yuffie thought for amount and then gave him a knowing smile, "True.. but WE don't even know where to began looking for him" Yuffie gave a triumphant look as the two shut up.
Cloud scratched his head, "Okaaaayyyy. Now who else will go?" Red XII stood up, "I'll accompany you also." Tifa hopped off the bar counter and dusted herself off, she put her right hand on her hip and sent a questioning look Clouds way, "What about the rest of us?" Reno jumped off his stool and pulled his jacket on, "The Turks work alone. We'll continue looking for Reeve in Midgar." Cloud shrugged his shoulders, "Fine by me. I was going to send people down there anyway" Reno snorted in response as the Turks exited the bar into the rainy night.
Cloud turned to Cid who seemed totally enthralled with the cigarette he was smoking, "Cid you think you, Barret, and Tifa can check out Wutai?" Cid jumped out of his stool in surprise, "And run into those F%&*$#@% creatures!" He said angrily. Cloud shrugged, "It's a chance I need to take." "Why do you want us to go to Wutai?" Tifa asked. "I want you to search for clues on these creatures and whatever it is they want" He explained. "Shouldn't Yuffie go. It's her home you know" Barret suggested.
Cloud turned to Yuffie, she had her head hung low concealing her face. Cloud shook his head, "I think it's best Yuffie stays away from Wutai. Those creatures were trying to capture her before. They may try again" They nodded her head. Cloud turned and looked at the clock that hung behind the bar counter. "We'll leave tomorrow morning. We'll get some sleep first."
Tifa stepped forward, "There's enough spare rooms for everyone upstairs. I'll show you them." So the group called it a night and followed Tifa to get their rooms. Cloud stretched and yawned as he watched the group walk up the stairs. Having nothing better to do he walked up stairs, grabbed a towel, and headed towards the bathroom for a shower. Tifa walked past the bathroom door hearing Cloud in the shower, she rolled her eyes in aggravation, 'That man takes a longer shower then I do! He doesn't even have the decency to leave any hot water.'
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Cloud walked out of the bathroom while drying his hair. He threw the towel over his shoulders and started down the hallway to his room. His eyes are half closed from lack of sleep, and his shoulders slouched. He kept his head hung to the floor tiredly as he passed everyone's door. He stopped when out of the corner of his eye he caught a light from a cracked open door. Wondering who was still up, he slowly pushed open the door so it wouldn't creek.
His eyes settled on Yuffie's form nuzzled up at the window. She watched the rainfall in the endless blackness of outside. Cloud leaned against the doorframe and crossed his arms and watched her. She seemed to be in deep thought that he didn't want to disturb her. Cloud let out a breath, "Yuffie, What are you doing still up?" Yuffie jumped a bit startled to hear someone else in the room. She quickly turned around to see Cloud against the doorframe.
Yuffie shook her head," I'm....I'm not tired" Cloud knew she was lying, he could tell from her weary voice and the half moons forming under her eyes. "Yuffie you'll need your energy when we go to the Shin-Ra mansion" Yuffie's head dropped a bit, "I hope Vincent is alright" She said a bit worried. Cloud walked towards the room with a bit of puzzled look on his face. He stopped in front of Yuffie and put his hands on her shoulders, "Why wouldn't he be alright? No one would go in that mansion" Cloud stepped back a bit when he heard Yuffie sniffle. "Yuffie, what's wrong?" He asked a bit confused as he saw a couple of tears drop.
Cloud was a bit startled when Yuffie quickly wrapped her arms around him and sobbed into his shirt, "Vincent may be dead because of me!" She said as she cried. Cloud took in a deep breath and then let it out. He unwrapped Yuffie's arms from around him and led her to the bed. He sat her down. Yuffie's head remained downcast, Cloud lifted her head to look into her eyes, "What didn't you tell us." Yuffie sniffed getting back her composer, "When I crossed the Ocean I thought I lost those monstrous creatures. I was wrong, they were still coming after me." Cloud knelt down in front of her, "What happened?" Yuffie took a couple of deep steady breaths to calm her nerves.
~Mt. Nibel Three
Yuffie hopped of the golden chocobo when she reached the entrance of Mt.Nibel. "Want to rest a bit before climbing?" The chococbo cowed softly and sat down. Yuffie patted it on the head, "I owe you my life you know. If it wasn't for you I'd be dead" Yuffie held back the tears as she thought about all the people in Wutai that are now dead. "What were those things.?" Yuffie sprawled herself out on the grass and looked to the clouded skies. She sniffed the air, "It's going to rain soon" The sent of oncoming rain was in the air.
'What am I going to do now? What were those things after?' Yuffie thought to herself. Yuffie's eye's slowly dropped as she began drifting off to sleep, after all it was about three in the morning and she hadn't been able to sleep when crossing the ocean. When Yuffie finally did fall asleep she immediately jumped up as she heard the chocobo start to wark. She looked towards the chocobo it has risen to it's feet and continued to wark in the darkness uneasily. Yuffie quickly walked towards it and petted it's head, "Shh... What's wrong?" Yuffie asked trying to calm it down while petting it. 'WARK! WARK!' It started to pull away.
"SsssoNggg" Yuffie quickly spun around in the direction she thought the moan came from. Her eyes widened a bit surprised as she saw a single pair of red eyes. "How did it get here so fast?" Yuffie wasted no time jumping on the gold chocobo and speeding off across the peaks of Mt. Nibel. The Chocobo sensing the danger pushed itself as hard as it could to get away from the creature as Yuffie clung onto the reins with all her might. The mountains in Mt. Nibel were steep ones, there always is a thick blanket of fog covering the peaks of the mountains. The chocobo climbed the mountains as faced as it could. "Woo.. slow down Choco!" Yuffie yelled to the bird. The chocobo ignored her and continued to race through the mountains.
The Chocobo made a sudden left turn when it came across the path of a green dragon. In the process of turning he flung Yuffie off of him. She landed a few yards away from the dragon. 'Stupid bird' Yuffie slowly picked herself up of the ground. She looked towards the dragon when it roared. It stood up on it's hind legs as it bared it's razor sharp fangs, as if warning her that he would attack. Yuffie wanting to get as far away from the red- eyed creature took the dragon's warning and took off down the mountains.
Rain started to come down heavy as Yuffie made it to the bottom of the mountains. Yuffie stopped at the entrance of Mt. Nibel and Nibelheim to catch her breath. 'Where can I go now?" Yuffie asked out loud. Yuffie glanced over to her right at the old Shin-Ra Mansion. Her face lit up as a thought hit her, 'Vinnie! He might be there! I could stay there for a while to get out of this rain' Yuffie thought as she ran towards the mansion.
Yuffie looked at the large rotten old wooden door. Yuffie didn't even bother to knock as she pushed open the door. Yuffie closed the door behind her as she glanced around the old mansion. If Vincent wasn't living there someone had to be. The once dust and cobweb infested mansion had been cleaned and new furniture had been brought in. The furniture although new looked the same as the old furniture as the person tried to keep the original look. The place was still dark though, only a few candles are lit.
Yuffie walked towards the middle of the room, there was a sudden creek in the floorboard up the stairs. Before Yuffie could even look she heard a sudden movement and she got a glance of crimson is the air as the person front flipped behind you. Yuffie quickly turned around and stared down the barrel of Vincent's Death Penalty. "Who are you? And why are you here?" The monotone voice of Vincent came behind the crimson cloak. Yuffie gulped, "Vinnie! It's me! Point that big gun of yours somewhere else!"
Yuffie watched Vincent's confused look in his glowing red eyes as she spoke to him. He didn't seem to recognized her. Vincent lowered his gun a little bit, "Yuffie?" He said questioningly and a bit confused. Yuffie grinned and nodded her head. Vincent rested his Death Penalty on his right shoulder, "Forgive me I didn't recognize you" He said as he looked her over and took in her changes that happened over the passed two years. Yuffie waved him off, "That's okay Vinnie I forgive ya!" "What happened to you?" Vincent asked as he seemed to notice Yuffie's injury. He poked Yuffie's bruised right cheek with his golden claw. Yuffie winced in pain a bit and touched her cheek, "I look that bad huh?" "You seemed to received the kiss of the battle" Vincent commented. Yuffie looked totally lost, "Huh?" Vincent shook his head, "Nevermind" Yuffie just shook her head confused.
"So what happened?" Vincent asked again. Yuffie bit her bottom lip, "Umm... could we sit down first? My feet hurt from all the running around I've been doing." Vincent nodded and motioned over to the next room. They entered the room and Yuffie quickly sat down on the couch feeling better to get of her feet. Vincent stood in front of her expectantly. Yuffie glanced up at him, "Oh Right you wanted to know what happened to me" Vincent nodded not saying anything. Yuffie hung her head, "Wutai was attacked" She said quietly. Vincent didn't say anything for a few moments before he spoke, "What happened?"
Yuffie told him the whole story of what happened to Wutai, about everyone being killed and Godo and the Great Warriors were missing. When she finished Vincent stood quiet as he was lost in thought, thinking about the creatures. "Vincent, Have you ever heard of the creatures before?" Yuffie asked hoping her old comrade would know something. Vincent remained silent for a minute or two, "I can't say that I do" Yuffie hung her shoulders.
Vincent knelt down in front of her, "We may be able to find something downstairs in the old library" Yuffie nodded her head and stood up. Vincent led her down to the basement into the libratory. Yuffie looked around, "This place looks the same" She commented. Vincent didn't say anything he just began looking at the old books on the shelves. Yuffie sighed and decided to began looking.
For two hours the two searched through the endless amount of books , the books contained history, scientific research, diaries of some scientists, equations to some unknown formulas, and the data from experiments. Yuffie let out a frustrated and tired breath as she shoved another book back onto the shelf. Vincent glanced towards her direction, "Get some sleep" Vicent advised. Yuffie slowly nodded her heads. "East Wing, end of hall, door on left" Vincent gave her directions. Yuffie said 'thanks' and walked out of the lab.
Yuffie reached the top of the spiral stair case and began to go to the beds. Yuffie looked at the few portraits that hung on the wall as she made her way to the East Wing. She had to squint in the darkness to make out some of the pictures. Yuffie suddenly froze as a realization hit her, 'Darkness? Where are the candles that were lit?' She asked herself suddenly frightened of the dark.
Yuffie heard the laugh of the wicked. She paled and turned to the railing and looked down the stairs to the first floor. She could see four sets of red eyes at the bottom slowly making there way up. Yuffie screamed in fear and ran to the end of the halls. The creatures followed her. Yuffie went into the room Vincent told her to go and locked the door. She put her ear to the door and listened. She could here the creatures moaning song over and over as if they were zombies. Yuffie was suddenly struck away from the door as the creatures began coming through the door. Yuffie backed into a corner and crouched down holding her head, "GO AWAY" She yelled frighteningly. One of the creatures slowly advanced towards her, "SssoNgg" It said hungrily.
Yuffie began to cry as it got closer. As the creature reached out for her the door was suddenly busted down. All four creatures turned towards Vincent, his eyes were blazing red in anger almost matching the same redness of the creatures. Vincent aimed his Death Penalty as the creature nearest to Yuffie. The creatures confused at the appearance of this stranger with similar eyes backed away a bit. "Yuffie get up" Vincent ordered. "Vincent!?" Yuffie's head snapped up.
She bounced to her feet and ran towards Vincent, the creatures stood still. Yuffie began tugging at Vincent's sleeve, "Vincent let's get out of here!" Vincent didn't move, "Go.." "What?" Yuffie stopped tugging. "Go" Vincent repeated. Yuffie shook her head, "I'm not leaving you alone, These things can't be killed" Yuffie screamed nearly in hysterics. "GO YUFFIE! Go to Coast Del Solo and get help" Yuffie backed away a bit frightened more at Vincent then she was at the creatures at the moment. She never heard Vincent raise his voice to anyone before. What scared her the most was his eyes, they are darker then normal. They looked like Chaos' eyes.
Yuffie ran down the stairs and out the mansion into the pouring rain. As she ran towards the entrance she began hearing shots from the Death Penalty being heard. She never looked back, she wanted to get as far away as possible.
~Back to Present~
"So you see Vincent may be dead because of me" Yuffie lightly sobbed. Cloud stayed silent for a while, "Yuffie, Vincent made a choice. It was probably for best, if you stayed you could of been hurt even more." "Vincent didn't have to stay there and fight!" Yuffie said croakily from all the crying she was doing. Cloud quickly hugged her trying to comfort her, he ran his fingers from his right hand through her hair, "Yuffie, There was nothing you can do. Vincent is a stubborn guy, but he is also stronger then all of us so don't worry about him." Yuffie sniffled.
Cloud leaned back a bit, "Feel better?" Yuffie nodded into his chest. "You should get some sleep." Yuffie just nodded and drew out of Cloud's arms. Cloud stood up and reached for the lamp. "Leave the light on" Yuffie quickly said. Cloud froze then nodded his head. He walked away to the doorway, "My room is just a door down from yours. If you need anything just ask me" Yuffie nodded, "Thank-you, Cloud" Cloud gave a goofy little grin, "Hey what are friends for, Good night Yuffie" Cloud left the room hearing a faint 'goodnight' from Yuffie as he left.
Well people that's the end of this chapter! Now you know what happened in the Shin-Ra Mansion. Well next chapter Yuffie, Cloud, and Red XII Go to the mansion. Hmm.. Will they find Vincent there? Or will they find the creatures there? OH And everyone the Voting ends now! The results are in and this story will be a Yuffie and...... (Hehehehe I SO Mean!)