Okay everyone. I'm back! Sorry, but I had to update my other stories, people were starting to get angry lol. Luckily it didn't take as long as I thought it would. That's a good thing because I've been kind of anxious to get this chapter out, (Smiles) you'll learn why soon enough, heeheehee. Don't worry, it's nothing bad, well too bad. As a matter of fact, it's a pretty stupid reason. Something that's been plaguing my thoughts for awhile, I have no idea why. Well if you're still reading my useless chatter I'm surprised. As a gift, I give you the next chapter!
Disclaimer- Seriously, you should of seen their faces. It was great! Especially when she started biting their throats out. They ran out of that building like a.... pack of... chickens! Yea! Like a pack of chickens running for their lives from a hungry wolf! Then I went to the top floor of the Squaresoft building with my erm... hired negotiator heh heh heh. We had the guy cornered for a moment until something unexpected happened...
"Something unexpected indeed" -Voice
Chapter 42- Return Of The Gunslinger.
The beast roared throughout the night as it leaps off the cliff side towards the cornered ninja. The ninja brought up her strange weapon to defend against its upcoming attack. But what the ninja doesn't know is that she's not the beast's target. It lands in front of her and immediately slashes at the zombies with its deadly claws. The zombies drop from the attack as the beast continues its merciless attacks.
Yuffie opens one eyes and peeks out to see what's going on. She opens her other eye and turns around at the sound of ripping flesh. There in front of her, she sees none other then the great demon himself, Chaos. His bat-like wings folded behind his back as he stands on the ground. One of his mighty claws is currently lifting a zombie up off the ground by its head.
Chaos brought the zombie's face closer to his own, "Mox Lo Neglec" Chaos' wicked voice speaks to the zombie, sending a chill down the young ninja's spine. A moment later, Chaos closes its claw and the zombie's skull crushes, covering Chaos' claw with blood.
'OH GAWD! Grossness!' Yuffie thinks to herself as she fights the urge to vomit at the sight.
Chaos quickly vanquishes the remaining zombies with a mighty Satan Slam. The ground lifts up and forms the face of the Devil himself. Its eyes let out a bright shot of light, illuminating the night sky. The mouth opens and souls of the damned swarm around the zombies. The souls latch onto the zombies and drag them into the darkest reaches of hell.
Yuffie stands still, not wanting to draw attention to herself. Chaos IS dangerous. When Vincent first acquired the demon, it would force Vincent to transform. It would kill whatever monsters around and then it sometimes turned on the group. It took long torturous hours for Vincent to learn to hold the demon back. Yuffie gulps nervously, 'Ok Yuffie. Let's just move silently away from the psychopathic demon before he sees you.'
Yuffie takes a hesitant step back, successfully breaking a stick. 'Crap!' Yuffie thinks to herself. Chaos quickly turns around to see the familiar ninja. He narrows his demonic eyes and advances on her slowly. Yuffie scratches the back of her head giving a nervous laugh as she continues to step away from the deadly demon. Then a thought suddenly strikes her. 'The serum!' She suddenly remembers the serum that she had gotten from Hojo's traps back in Junon. She can get Vincent back to normal with it.
She stops suddenly confusing the demon for a moment. She quickly searches her pockets for the vile containing the serum. She pales when she realizes she doesn't have it on her. 'GAWD! I gave it to Rima!' Yuffie glances up at Chaos as he stands in front of her, only a foot away. Yuffie laughs nervously trying to think of something to do to get the demon away from her. Last time she saw Chaos, it was back in Midgar. However, that was different because Vincent was in control. So why isn't he now? 'Vincent most be losing himself in Chaos' Yuffie thinks to herself. 'Hojo wasn't lying after all.'
Chaos reaches out with his claw and grabs hold of the collar of Yuffie's shirt. He picks Yuffie up off the ground to raise her eye level with him. Yuffie lifts up her right hand and gives Chaos a wave, "Uh.. Hi there!' She greets cheerfully. Chaos let's out a threatening growl. Yuffie let's out a small short laugh, 'Riiiight.' Yuffie thinks to herself. "So.. how have you been Chaos? Kill any innocent animals, or people recently?" She asks trying to buy time. Why? She has no idea.
Chaos narrows his eyes and gives something close to a look of annoyance. "Munz zollec sin gona" The demon replies before tossing Yuffie to the ground.
Yuffie lets out a 'Ooph' As she hits the ground. She picks herself up off the ground, 'Great manners.' Yuffie thinks sarcastically as she glares at the demon. "You know... you really need to learn some manners. I bet Vinnie can teach ya. He has the best manners I've seen." Yuffie says scowling the demon.
Chaos turns its gaze back at Yuffie and gives a low threatening growl, telling her she's pushing her luck. 'Callos no polic' The demon speaks again.
Yuffie blinks in confusion, 'Am I actually having a conversation... with CHAOS?' She thinks in surprise. 'Too bad I don't understand whatever the hell he speaks.' Yuffie thinks.
Yuffie watches as Chaos closes its black demonic eyes. It lets out a low growl. A moment later its eyes open back up, this time they're crimson. The demon crosses its demonic arms, standing in a ,too Yuffie, a familiar posture. With the crimson eyes and its crossed arms it could only mean one thing. "VINNIE!" Yuffie yells happily, and without thinking she gives the man in the demon body a hug,
Vincent tries to shrug her off. Yuffie jumps back, grinning ear to ear. "You do understand what I'm saying right?" Yuffie asks. The head of the demon nods once. Yuffie nods in relief, "Good. I've got great news!" Yuffie exclaims jumping in excitement. Vincent merely stares at her waiting for her to continue.
Yuffie's grin never lets up, "I've got a cure to your problem!" She says happily. The arms of the demon fall to its side, as if Vincent was just suddenly surprised. Yuffie nods her head, "Yup! But we have to find a friend of- BANG!" Yuffie jumps back in surprise as a bullet hits the dirt between the two. Vincent looks up at the intruder, as does Yuffie. Vincent takes to the air, ready to defend his comrade. Yuffie eyes widen as she sees who's standing at the cliff. It's the person who holds Vincent's cure. "Rima!" Yuffie yells.
Series of shots ring throughout the night as Vincent spins and dodges out all the bullets' way, as he get closer to the person shutting at him. Rima narrows her eyes as she tries another shot only to have it dodged by the demon once again, 'This creature has intelligence.' Rima thinks to herself. She tries another shot only to realize she's out of ammo. Her eyes widen as she tries to quickly reload. Vincent sees the opportunity he's been waiting for and dives in.
'There!' Rima says as she finishes reloading. She sees the demon doing a dive at her, she quickly raises her gun to shoot at the demon again, but Vincent is too quick and knocks the rifle out of her hands. Vincent draws his right claw back and drives it forward at Rima. "STOOOOP!" Vincent stops mere inches away from Rima's throat. Rima blinks in surprise as her and Vincent look down at the ninja below.
Yuffie puts her fists on her hips and scowls at both of them, "Vinnie Valentine! Get down here RIGHT NOW!" She orders, "And bring Rima too!" Both sets of eyes blink in surprise before they turn to glance at each other in confusion.
After the two manage to get down Yuffie proceeded to introduce them to each other. "Rima.. This is Vincent Valentine." Yuffie pointing towards the demon. "He's the one we found the cure for."
Rima nods in understanding. "I apologize. I thought the demon was attacking you. I did not realize you knew it." She says.
Yuffie smiles, "That's alright. Now Vinnie. This is Rima Hikari. She's um... a new friend of mine." Yuffie says quickly. 'I'll fill him in the rest later.'
Rima raises a questioning eyebrow at Yuffie. Before glancing around the area, "Where's..."
"They're not with us anymore." Yuffie quickly cut in. Seeing the way Yuffie's face immediately dropped and the tears brimming her eyes Rima understands, she nods her head once.
Vincent on the other hand looks between the two in confusion. Something isn't right and Yuffie seems to want to hide it from him. What could it be that she wants to keep hidden from him.
Yuffie quickly pastes on a smile, "Why don't we get back before we inject the serum? We need to get a needle first anyway." She suggests. If Yuffie didn't know better she could of sworn that Vincent, even in the dark skinned demon, paled a bit at the mention of a needle. 'Vinnie afraid of a needle?' She thinks in disbelief. 'Nah... couldn't be true.' Yuffie thinks before the three begin their way back to Coasta Del Solo.
"Ok we got a problem." Yuffie immediately says as they stand outside of the inn. "We definitely can't bring Vinnie in there. The manager would probably freak out once he sees him." Yuffie says.
"Where do we go?" Rima asks crossing her arms in annoyance. Vincent stands off in the shadows keeping out of sight in case someone is to walk by. He doesn't want to start a panic at the sight of a hideous demon.
Yuffie thinks for a moment before she snaps her fingers as the answer comes to her, "My friends have a place here called, Final Paradise. It's a bar and they have plenty of spare rooms too. So we can go there for the night." Yuffie says before walking in the right direction with the two following her. Yuffie gives a sigh of relief, not only would the manager freak out once he saw Vincent, but she was afraid to find out whether or not Kao's body is still in the room they rented.
They stand outside of Final Paradise, starring at the boarded up doors. "Hmm..." Yuffie taps her chin in thought as she tries to think of a way to get inside of the place. Before she can think of a solution however, Vincent walks over to the boarded up door and with Chaos's powerful claws, rips the two by fours that are nailed to the door, off of it.
Vincent then opens up the door and waits for the two to go in. Rima brushes by not giving a thanks. Yuffie looks up at Vincent and smiles, "Thanks Vinnie." She says while rolling in laughter in the inside. Seeing a Chaos being a gentleman is a hilarious sight. Being controlled by Vincent or not, It's still funny. Vincent walks into the bar closing the door behind him.
Yuffie finds the light switch quickly and turns it on, illuminating the room. The place looks as it did the last time she was here, except for the dust that has settled on the surface of everything. Yuffie quickly walks behind the bar counter in search for a first aid kit or something that can help her.
Rima scans around the bar before spotting the stairs. She cautiously makes her way up the stairs to search the place. She wanted to get a feel of the place before having to settle in for the night.
Vincent remains still in the middle of room, watching Yuffie as she scrambles about the bar searching for the first aid kit that's plain in sight on the wall but the stairway. The sound of breaking glass comes from behind the counter of the bar. "GAWD! Where does Tifa keep it!" Yuffie says in annoyance as she looks behind glass mugs and bottles.
Vincent let's out what appears to be a sigh before walking across the room, trying not to knock anything over with his giant wings in the process. He grabs the kit off the wall and walks over to the counter and drops it on the surface. A loud thump is heard underneath the counter as Yuffie bangs her head against the top of the counter. She rubs her head as she looks out from underneath the counter to see the kit placed on the counter.
Yuffie gives an appreciative smile to Vincent, "Thanks Vinnie. Where did you find it?" She asks curiously. Vincent turns his head to the side. Yuffie follows his gaze seeing a two by two red square painted on the wall of the bar with the words First Aid written above it. Yuffie gives a cough as her cheeks turn pink in embarrassment, "Right. Anyways, let's see what we have."
Yuffie opens up the first aid kit and looks through the things in side of it to try and find a needle to inject the serum. Vincent's eye sight blurs for a moment as he waits. Chaos is beginning to get restless. The demon will soon try and regain control. "AH HA!" Yuffie exclaims, removing a needle from the kit.
Yuffie removes the vile from her pocket that she got back from Rima. She quickly got the serum in the needle. "Okay Vinnie. Let's get you back to normal!" She quickly ran around the counter with the needle in hand ready to inject it into Vincent. She stops in front of him and grins, "Hold out your arm please." Yuffie asks anxiously. Vincent raises a claw for her to inject the serum into.
Yuffie quickly jabs the needle into his arm and was about to inject the serum into his arm when a thought suddenly strikes her, causing her to pull the needle out. The demon's face contorts into a look of confusion not understanding why Yuffie stopped. Yuffie's face turns bright read in embarrassment as she keeps her eyes to the ground. "Um... Vinnie?"
Yuffie peeks up to see Vincent's crimson eyes, the demon nods its head once, beckoning her to continue. Yuffie let's out a embarrassed cough as she forces herself to continue. "Um.. you know how you transform and your cloak and everything get destroyed half the time. But it's ok since you have so many." She looks up and the demon's head slowly nods once, not understanding where she's going with this.
Yuffie brings her right hand up to cover her blushing face, "What are you going to wear once you're back to normal?" 'Oh GAWD!' Yuffie thinks to herself, 'If I injected Vincent with this serum when I was going to. He would of turned back and be...' Yuffie shivered before finishing the thought, but it didn't have anything to do with disgust.
Yuffie glances back up to see what his answer would be. Vincent just stood there as if not knowing what to think. Finally her glances down to see Yuffie starring at him expectantly. Vincent raises a claw and points up. Yuffie tilts her head to the side in confusion and looks up. "What? There's nothing on the ceiling." She comments. She looks back at Vincent to see him glaring at her. He points towards the stairs. Yuffie's eyes light up as she finally understands what he's trying to tell her, "Oh... in your room?" She asks to make sure. Vincent nods.
Rima continues to examine the pictures hanging in the hallways upstairs. Several of them seem to be group pictures as the group seems to celebrate something. Several of them have Yuffie in it and Cloud with a bunch of other people. Then there's a couple of individual shots of each person.
There's one of a blonde haired middle- aged man steering what appears to be an airship. A cigarette dangling from his mouth. An odd looking lance leaning against several instruments in the background.
There's one of a small black cat holding a megaphone, standing on top a giant pick animal. Behind him there's rather bright lights shinning from the wonder square of Gold Saucer.
There's one of a large black man with some sort of gun attached to one of his arms. He has his arms crossed and appears to be flicking off the camera for some unknown reason.
There's one of a young woman, with long brown hair, and bright brown eyes. She's sitting on the bar counter of Final Paradise. A sign is above her reading Grand Opening.
There's a picture of some sort of red lion. The creature has battle scars all over it. At the tip of his tail is a small flame that burns brightly. His maze being not fully grown shows that the beast is still young. However, it's left eye, shows a great deal of wisdom behind it.
Then there's the last one at the far end of the hall. The picture seemed to be taken while moving at a fast rate. The background is blurred landscape as the ship they were on moves at a fast rate. The picture is of a man in a red cloak, someone who's only in a few other pictures. Most of his features are hidden underneath the cloak. His long straight ebony hair flowing with the direction of the ship. Something like a golden claw clutches the railing to remain balance.
Rima squints at the picture seeing something familiar about it. It's the man's eyes. They're crimson, the same freakish color as hers when she becomes a vampire. His are a bit different though. His aren't filled with hatred and hunger, like hers are when her cravens become too much for her to handle. His seemed to be filled with and untold sorrow of sorts as he gazes off in the distance.
Rima shakes her head turns around and looks at another picture. It's one of Yuffie. Not one of her most graceful times she guesses. But knowing Yuffie for the short time that she has, she can guess that Yuffie is not one of the most graceful person around. The picture was taken from inside of the ship she has seen in the other pictures. Why someone would want a picture of Yuffie throwing up on the deck is beyond her.
Rima turns her head as she hears someone walking up the stairs. She waits until she sees Yuffie being closely followed by the demon. Yuffie's face is still a little red, she sees Rima and grins, "Hey Rima! Whatcha doing?"
Rima crosses her arms, "Nothing." She says simply.
Yuffie shrugs and opens up one of the doors in the hallways. She steps into the room and the demon follows. "Okay Vinnie. Where do you keep them?" Yuffie asks looking around the room that Cloud and Tifa gave Vincent to use while this whole started. Vincent points to the closet and Yuffie quickly walks over to it and opens it up. She rolls her eyes, "So, what do you want to wear?" She asks sarcastically as she looks at all the same clothing. Crimson cloak, leather banks, and boots.
Yuffie takes out a set of clothing for Vincent and turns around him, "You know Vinnie." She starts, "Your fashion sense is really... dull." She say as she places the clothing on the bed. Vincent just stands in the middle of the room waiting. Yuffie takes a nervous breath, "Ok Vinnie. Let's get this over with." Yuffie says as she takes out the needle.
Rima stands in the doorway watching curiously. Vincent holds out an arm and Yuffie jams the needle through the demon's tough skin. Without a second thought, Yuffie injects the serum into Vincent's body. For a moment everyone stands still waiting for something to happen. Then like a time bomb everything just happened. Vincent clutched at his head with his claws and made noises filled with pain. "Vincent!?" Yuffei shouted in concern as she tries to grab hold of him. He spins around and knocks Yuffie down with a monstrous wing.
Rima rushes into the room and grabs Yuffie's arm. She begins to drag Yuffie out of the room, away form the demon, "What are you doing?" Yuffie demands as Rima shuts the door.
Rima turns back around to face her, "There's nothing else you can do for him." She said walking away from the door, "All you can do is wait." She says as she leans her back against a wall, as she listens to the sounds of things breaking inside of the room.
Yuffie walks over to the door. "I'd like to make sure he's ok though." Yuffie said as she puts her hand on the doorknob, only to find out it's locked. Yuffie kicks the door once, 'Great!' She thinks frustratingly. She walks to the other side of the hall and slide down onto the floor leaning against the wall. She keeps her eyes trained on the door. 'Come on Vinnie. You can do this.'
Vincent thrashed at things all about the room and continued making grunts of pain. He ran about the room clutches his temples. It feels like all four demons are trying to take control at once, forcing their way into his mind, trying to transform. Vincent has never felt so much pain before. The pain is throughout his whole body but the sharpest of all the pain is in his head.
Vincent staggers backwards in the dark, he already knocked the lamp over and broke it. The bat-like wings of Chaos began to retract back into his back, as he falls onto the bed. The sheets and the mattress of the bed begin to rip at the sharpness of Vincent's nails on his demonic feet as he kicks and shakes on the bed.
Rima glances back over at the young ninja. Her head hanged down and her steady breathing a clear sign that she has fallen asleep. The room had long since gone quiet signaling that the man inside has stopped tearing the room apart. Now all they have to do is wait for the man to come out of the room.
The silence of the hall is broken by the sounds of locks being undone. Yuffie slowly opens her eyes as the door in front of her slowly opens, making a long creaking noise on the hinges of the door. Yuffie looks into the doorway to see a pair of crimson eyes starring at her in the dark room. Yuffie gulps, what if it didn't work? What will happen if Vincent is stuck in Chaos's body forever?
Vincent stepped out of his room. Yuffie's eyes lit up immediately in happiness. Vincent stands there in his formal attire. The crimson cloak, black pants, black boots, his golden claw is back. His crimson headband keeping some of his ebony hair out of his crimson eyes. It's now official to Yuffie. The gunslinger has returned.
"VINNIE!" Yuffie shouts happily as she leaps off the floor, ignoring the pains of shout of her stiff back as she wraps her arms around the man's torso. Vincent just stood there not knowing how to respond to such contact as Rima checked out this new person.
Rima immediately recognizes him from one of the pictures. 'So this one's Vincent Valentine.' She thinks to herself.
Vincent sniffs the air, his acute sense of smell due to the experiments on him from Hojo picking something up. "Yuffie?" Vincent pushes her away to look at her. Yuffie gives him a confused look. Vincent smells it again and looks over at Rima, then back at Yuffie. "Forgive me for sounding rude. But." Vincent pauses trying to find the right words. "When was the last time you two bathed?" He asks hesitantly. Rima shakes her head and pushes herself off the wall and walks away.
Yuffie face goes bright red from embarrassment and anger. Her mouth hangs open in disbelief. "Vinnie Valentine.." Yuffie starts. "You're an ass!" She turns around and stomps off the bathroom to take a shower.
Well that's that. LOL. That last part is the only reason why I wanted to get this chapter out. LOL I found it quick amusing to write. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I did. Hmm... now I just need a game plan for the next chapter... any suggestions? I could sure use them right about now. Well I better get going now. It's four in the morning and I still need to get on the internet to post this up. Review everyone! TTNC!