Seras015 - I await the fan art! I've been writing for a couple of years, so I got all kinds of help from other authors (Usually SOOOO much better than me) and flames that, in a way, helped. Your fic's great, though! I mean, once you fixed what I demanded of you to fix (lol!) it turned out coolio. -Hands you Yuffie, Sephy, and Vinnie plushies- Thanks for reviewin'!
Gining - Now, if I told you, you'd get upset 'cause I spoiled it for ya! Read, darling, and find out!
DemonSurfer - I thought so too. I was like, "Bleh, that was shitty... Oh, well! I'm too lazy to rewrite it all!" Lol. Vinnie? Oh, you'll see...
Depressed Mizuki - Tripled? o.O Yuphy's are cute! Vapiegurl's an insane Yuriku and Clouffie fanatic, so she's excused. Lol. Your reviews are alway so hillarious! I pronounced it Yuh-ffie until KH, then U-ffie, 'cause my friend kept correcting me all the damn time. So, uh, either way, I guess. I wasn't much help was I? Normall, I say U-ffie, 'cause it's what I hear most often.
DarkSpades - I'll explain after the last chapter.
ShadowCelest117 - Oh... Meh, it'll all come together (I hope!). I'm one of those people who tries to make everyone happy, but instead of keeping my reviewers happy with this story, like I usually try so hard to do, I said "Screw it all!" and made the ending how I wanted it.
EyesoftheTigerKissoftheDragon - Uh... That was weird... Iwas getting ready to post this when I got an e-mail alert saying "Review Alert Story: DivineBeing" I was like, "A'right! I'll respond, THEN post!" So, yeah.. That was kinda creepy... -Hands out the standard issue Yuffie, Vinnie, & (Dun tell no one I gave you this) Sephy plushies with magentic lips so you can create your own love triangle that everyone thought would appear in this story but thus far has not- whew! Read on!
A/N: THIS IS IMPORTANTE! There's only one chapter left of this fic... ONTO DA STORY!
Divine Being
I am tired...
Sleep, then, Valentine.
We will wake you if she returns.
Are you sure?
Positive. Rest, else you will be of no use to the ninja.
Her name is Yuffie...
Pardon... Now, rest...
Chapter Five
Vincent allowed himself to sleep, the demons ever alert. He dreamed of having Yuffie back and watching her grow, get married, and watching her children as if they were family to him. He wanted his little sister to return soon... She needed to be back soon.
"Wake up," he commanded. She opened one eye to see that she had fallen asleep sometime during their strategizing.
"Where are we?" she asked, realizing that it was much colder than it should have been in Mideel.
Sephiroth's gloved hand was clenched and she took notice of it immediately. "We are near Icicle Town... We need to go to the North Crater."
He walked out of the room and she sighed. Somehow, she had known they would end up there. And it hurt to know that she would have to leave without the one-winged angel... He had actually shown her emotions other than hatred... And that made her feel like there was a chance for him at a normal life. As much as she hated to leave him alone, she wanted oh-so desperately to return to Vincent's gentle words that lulled her to sleep. She needed normalcy...
"Get up. Follow him. I will make sure the two of you are unharmed."
She looked around with wide lilac eyes. "Kais?" she asked, her voice barely aboce a faint whisper.
"Hush. Just go, before Reina kicks me out again. You will find Surka frozen within ice at the bottom of the crater... Save her and leap into the Life Stream. Once there, your fates shall be decided."
The prescence that she had felt was gone and she shivered once again. Kais, at least, would be watching out for her... Fate shall be decided? What about Sephiroth? Maybe the Life Stream would decide he was safer in the alternate dimension... What would happen then?
"Are you up yet?" he called gruffly from outside her door.
"Yeah," she said too softly for him to hear. She walked out humming some cheesy hip-hop song that Tifa and Aeris had once listened to. Sephiroth wanted to question it, but remained silent. Something was happening to him and he did not want it to happen. He was falling for that pesky ninja girl.
Yuffie shivered for the millionth time in twenty seconds and Sephiroth sighed. She was wearing baggy shorts and a tank top, definitely not good clothing for the North Crater. If he had thought about it beforehand, or if she had mentioned it, they would have stopped at the store in Icicle Town and gotten clothes. As it was, he was the only one wearing a jacket, with a muscle shirt and jeans. She sneezed and he cursed himself while taking his jacket off and handing it to her. She looked at him in confusion, but took the article of clothing anyway.
The jacket was ridiculously huge on her small frame but kept her warm none-the-less. The duo coninue their trek in silence, both too cold to really say anything.
They crossed the snow fields, then the Great Glacier, and finally met the dismal North Crater. Yuffie felt sick to her stomach, afraid of what the end might hold for them both. What if Planet decided she was just as bad as Jenova and condemned her to stay in the alternate dimension by herself. She would most-likely go insane! What if more time had passed in her world that here? Would Vincent and the others have given up on her? Was there anyone there to watch her comatose body?
Sephiroth sensed her doubts and fears, but did nothing to comfort her. He would not comfort her. He had to cure himself of this ridiculous idea in his mind. But... The images just would not stop! He could practically feel the warmth of having her there in his arms. The taste, pure and blissful, lingering on his lips.
"Well," said the shivering ninja, "Let's get goin'!"
He nodded and they began walking toward the bottom of the crater... He swore that this was the last time he would purposefully make this trip. Next time, he was going to go to Mideel, where it was hot, to make evil plans to corrupt the world! (A/N: MWAHAHAHAHA!) At least he could strip down to his pants - which he swore would not be leather - and go shirtless. Maybe he would be able to go back to the world with Yuffie... He could go back and taste her lips once again. No, he would not. He refused to be lowred to those standards of mortal men.
"Oh, shit!"
He started to comment on her foul language, but looked up to see that they were face-to-face with a red dragon. He withdrew his Mesamune and Yuffie readied herself. The ninja could have just sat back down. One swipe from Sephiroth was all that it took. The dragon fell in a bloody mess. Yuffies stared at her comrade, but merely followed him when he motioned for her to do so. She had to get it in her head that he was still the enemy!
Reina grinned as she stood over the body of the peaceful ninja girl. A simple Sleepel spell had rid her of Valentine and his demons. Her hands were over the girl's body and she closed her eyes. "Let the seas and winds continue to flow, let the ends of Planet be in tow, Our bodies shall be combined, Body of physical and body of-"
A demon slapped her hard enough to send the divine being reeling. She looked up at him, the magic still at hr finger tips. "You will not touch her," the demon growled.
She looked over to where Vincent had been... No one. "Chaos," she hissed. "And I had thought that Hojo would have killed you off!"
The demon laughed. "You wish, Reina." Their battle began.
Reina fired off spells from the old days before materia. They were weaker than most level one spells and Chaos took them as if they were sweat bees stinging him. He made a fist and punched her in the jaw, sending her toppling out the second story window. He leapt down after her, wings spread. The few people who were in the streets at such an early hour screamed and ran from their lives. Chaos pinned the woman to the ground, but she kicked him off with an unatural strength that sent him thirty feet into the air. He hovered there, his red eyes meeting her aqua.
"Die, bitch," he snarled at her, diving once again.
They leapt from one rock to the next, nearly to the bottom. She heard a high-pitched singing and paused to listen. "The song of the materia," she said softly. "It's always so pure an bright. I love it."
Sephiroth looked back at her. She stood three rocks behind him, face tilted up, eyes closed. She looked like an angel awaiting her kiss from a god. A god, he thought. I could be a god... I could be the god whose kiss she awaits...
The serene moment was broken by a cry for help. The two looked at each other, then hurried to the bottom, where Surka was nearly frozen in a wall of ice. Only her head and neck were out of the ice, but it was slowly creeping up to encase her. "Get me out of here!" she called to them helplessly.
Yuffie spotted the woman's daggers on the ground and grabbed two of them. She started hacking away at the ice, having no materia in her weapons to cast fire on the wall of frozen liquid. She achieved freedom of Surka's right arm, but was tired. Surka took a dagger in her right hand and began to help. Sephiroth, meanwhile, had disappeared.
"Remind me to cuss him out when we find him," Yuffie hissed through clenched teeth as the two worked at the ice. Within an hour, Surka's top half was uncovered, but she still could not use her legs. Yuffie panted, but continued to help her comrade. It took nearly another hour to free the warrior woman. The two collapsed on the ground, tired and breathing heavily. Sephiroth chose then to reappear. Yuffie was not in a good mood.
Chaos picked up the woman and flew over the ocean. She scratched and clawed like a cat. When he dropped her, she tried to cling to him, but failed. The waters parted to let her hit the bottom and Chaos grinned maliciously. "I was hoping Kais still lived there..."
The demon returned to the room to see Yuffie still sleeping. He nodded at her in acknowledgement before allowing Vincent to take back control.
"Where did you go, you silver-haired freaky-ass jerk? It took us hours to get her out and would have taken less if you'd helped!"
Sephiroth look at her non-chalantly. "Are you finished with your tyrade yet? If you are, then I can show you where we need to go."
Surka and Yuffie looked at each, then followed the man. Granted, Yuffie mumbled and grumbled the entire time, but Surka remained silent, anxiously awaiting her trip to see her husband and maybe her son. He hoped that Planet would send her to Scott and Michael. She missed them so much!
After an hour's walk, they came upon a pool of green liquid. Yuffie looked at her companions. Would they all get what they wanted contrary to what they deserved?
"I'll go first," Surka volunteered. She cast a gentle smile at the two. "It was a pleasure," she told them, then walked straight into the pool, her body sinking and vanishing from view.
Yuffie and Sephiroth's eyes met. "I'm scared," Yuffie whispered so softly that it was nearly lost to the materia's song.
Sephiroth nodded. "So am I."
End of Chapter Five
R: Guess he was still a bit OOC, huh? Welp, leave feedback, please.. That way I know how much ya hate me. Flames are always welcome, for I need to have light to my grave. -.-;