I had the coolest nightmare last night. It was horrific! I loved it. Every time I woke up I went straight back to sleep, and it started right back where I left off. That's never happened to me before. Heeheehee. It was pretty damn cool. Anyways... The point of all that... well, actually. There really wasn't a point. I just felt like telling y'all. Anyways! I think it's time for me to update this here fic. So here ya go!

Disclaimer- Malice- (Looking over to Zack) So do I come back into the story soon? When do I get to kill someone?

(Rubs his chin) Hmm... I don't know! I haven't decided yet!

Malice- (Sigh) So where'd you hide Vincent?

(Blinks in confusion) I was suppose to hide Vincent?

Malice (Smacks his forehead, shaking his head) Is there anything you don't forget to do?

(Thinks) Umm... Yeah! Like, this disclaimer!

Malice- You mean the one where you tell everyone you don't own Final Fantasy VII?

(Smirks) Hey thanks! Now I don't even have to do that (Walks away whistling)

Malice (Stands there dumbfounded) What just happened?

Wutai's Darkest Secret

Death Gigas and Hellmasker glanced over at Galion Beast as it stood back up on shaky legs. Taking a moment to figure out what just happened, the two look back to the cell where Chaos slowly immerges, cackling at the injured demon. Standing fully out of the cell, Chaos flags his demonic wings, lifting off the ground to stare down at the three demons.

Death Gigas gave a mournful moan before beating its chest, electricity coursing through its body. Chaos dives to the side, spiraling through the air to get out of Death Gigas' Livewire. Touching ground, Chaos immediately charges glides forward, his claws drawn back ready to strike. Hellmasker laughs like a maniac as he charges forward, waving his rusty chainsaw about. Chaos strikes first, knocking the chainsaw out of Hellmasker's hands. Being momentarily stunned, Hellmasker gives Chaos the opportunity he needs to reach out and wraps his claws around Hellmasker's neck, raising him off the ground.

Hellmasker tries to pry the other demon's claws off of his neck. Seeing that Chaos's strength surpasses his own, Hellmasker raises both its legs and slams his feet into the demon's chest, successfully breaking free.

Chaos stumbles back a few feet. He merely shakes the pain away before cackling. Chaos hears something like the beating of a drum, followed closely by a demonic roar. Quickly glancing from side to side, Chaos finds himself between Galion Beast and Death Gigas as they begin attacking him with a Beast Flare and Livewire.

Chaos's large wings wrap around him as he crosses his claws out in front of his face. He growls in pain as the electricity from Death Gigas strikes him, not a second later he's struck with a Beast Flare, the two enormous attacks explode all around him. The three demons circling Chaos watch and wait for the dust to settle. They stand there, each giving off their own victorious cackle as they see the King Of Demons sprawled out on the ground unmoving.

Hellmasker is the first to move, puling on the cord of his chainsaw he starts it up before walking towards Chaos. Stopping at the demon's side, Hellmasker lowers his chainsaw down at Chaos's neck, his eyes insanely wide as he savors the moment of killing.

Dregon slammed his fist on the steel hatch, his anger nearing it's limit, "Damn them! They manage to get out!" Grinding his teeth he heads towards Hojo, "Hojo! Do you have it yet? It's now or never!"

Hojo pushes his glances further up on his nose, a smirk forming on his lips. The sounds of shouts and screams of their men can be heard outside their door as AVALANCHE makes its way towards the lab. "See for yourself." Hojo comments before turning away from the monitor. He begins heading towards the stairwell.

"Where are you going Hojo?" Dregon demands, "We're not done yet!"

"Ah.. but we are. Tee hee hee!" Hojo waves his hand over his shoulder, "I've done my job. I have to go check on my guinea pig. She's a rather tempered one. Have to make sure she doesn't do anything too stupid. I'll be at the bottom lab if you need me." With that said, Hojo begins heading further down the stairwell.

Dregon grinds his teeth. Turning away from where Hojo disappeared to, his gaze lands on the bound up ninja behind the wall of glass, "Damnit!" He slams his fist on the monitor. Taking a deep breath, Dregon calms himself down and glances down at the monitor, "Let's see what the Professor was rambling about." He says to himself.

Yuffie tiptoed across the hard mountain path as she heads towards the top of Wutai's glorious mountains. Faintly she could hear her mother signing near the top of the mountain. Yuffie couldn't help but get lost in the melody of it. Reaching the top of the mountain she hides behind one of the large fingers from the hand that's carved into the mountain. From her hiding spot, Yuffie peeks out and stares at her mother starring off into the sunset, singing softly to herself.

Yuffie chews her nail in thought as she stares at her mother, listening to the mystical song. Yuffie can't recognize it, she's never heard it before. The little girl's brows furrow in thought as she stares down at the ground around her mother's feet, surprised to find it glowing a faint green color. Just as soon as she noticed the light, it was gone, "Yuffie, I know you're there."

Yuffie gives a short gasp of surprise at the sound of her mother's voice. Biting her bottom lip, Yuffie shuffles out of her hiding spot, keeping her head hung low like an ashamed child. Chancing a glance up at her mother, Yuffie's faintly surprised to find her smiling at her, causing Yuffie to give a small uncertain smile of her own, "That was a very pretty song, momma." Yuffie comments.

Her mother's smile falters for a brief moment before she replies, "Would you like to know what it was?" Her mother asks. Being the curious child as she is, Yuffie vigorously nods her head, excited about learning something new from her mother. The Lady of Wutai sits down on the gravel, patting the spot next to her, "Come sit down Yuffie." Yuffie quickly does as she's told. "Now... What I tell you now you mustn't repeat to anyone, understand? A secret between us."

"Um... okay. I can keep a secret. I promise." Yuffie smiles up at her mother.

For a moment, her mother gives a doubtful look, but it disappears quick enough, "What I was singing a few moments ago was something my mother taught me, and her mother taught her and so on. It's one of two ancients chants passed down for generations."

"So it's really old?" Yuffie asks innocently, "So many people don't remember them?"

Yuffie's mother shakes her head, "No one knows of them because they're forbidden chants. Both chants can be used in different ways. That's why it's dangerous to let others know about them."

Yuffie slowly nods her head in understanding, "So what are they?"

Yuffie's mother smiles in spite of herself, "You could say they're both Wutai's little dark secrets. One chant has the power to bring life to the dead."

"Really?" Yuffie asks excitedly, "So if someone dies we can bring them back?"

Yuffie mother's gives a small smile, "Not necessarily. The chant itself isn't enough. There's a special materia out there somewhere that's required. Even with it, the people you bring back will most likely not be the same."

"How come?"

"The chant brings the body to life, however it doesn't bring the person's soul back. So all you'd have is an empty shell of what that person used to be. I guess you could say they're just undead... zombies."

"Why would someone want to bring back zombies?"

"If the person who they were trying to bring back had a strong sense of the planet's spirit, they're soul will return to their body. So there's always a chance to bring that person back."

"Oh..." Yuffie trails off, not fully understanding.

"However, the drawback of it is that the body would still be that of an undead. The person won't age, so they won't die by the passing of time. Some think it's the glorious power to have. The truth is, is that it's a curse. To live on while those you love die around you. You'll end up living a sad lonely life full of grief, soon you'd be asking for death yourself. They called this chant, Le Cas Fo Gollos, The Rise of The Dead."

"Creepy." Yuffie comments.

Her mother laughs a little, "Yes it is, I guess. That's just the first chant however. The second one has a lot of conditions in order to work properly. This one however, can be used in two ways. For life, or for death. Two sides of a coin you might say."

"So what does it do?" Yuffie asks nervously, not sure she wants to know after hearing what the first chant does.

Her mother let's out a tired breath, "Well, first off. One way to use it is to restore something back to what it was. It's power is limited by the user however, considering it drains your life force to get something back. You could use this to bring someone back to life fully without causing the person to be an undead. However, the price for that would cost your life. To bring one's spirit back you would have to give up your own. Depending on how strong you are, you could very well restore part of the planet.

"That doesn't sound so bad."

"It's not as good as it seems. I can't explain it fully since I've never actually used it really. But your body undergoes an immense amount of stress, your muscles constrict around your bones. It feels like each and every single bone in your body is breaking. All you know while it's happening is pain."

Yuffie shudders at the description. "Then there's the other way it can be used."

"Another way?" Yuffie asks questioningly.

Her mother nods. "This way can only be used by one who is undead. It calls upon a power from the darkest reaches in the planet that makes the planet tremble from the power. It'll destroy everything in its path. The one to call upon this power is believed to have control of it, but it could very well backfire on them since it has a free will and will decide whether it wishes to be controlled or not." Her mother leans back on her arms and looks up to the stars that had snuck into the sky while she was telling Yuffie about the chants, "They call this chant, Le Foe Gladios."

"Le...Foe Gladios?"

Yuffie's mother nods her head, "Yuffie, I'm going to pass these two chants to you. I'm going to teach them to you, even though they are dangerous, they are part of Wutai's history and should not be totally forgotten."

Yuffie gulps and nods her head, "Okay.."

Yuffie's mother smiles, "No repeat after me..."

Galion Beast and Death Gigas both let out surprised roars as Hellmasker drops his chainsaw to the ground. The demon's arms fall to his sides as Chaos stands up, raising his arm up, lifting Hellmasker's body up as well. Coming out of Hellmasker's back is Chaos's blood dripping claw that he impales through Hellmasker's chest. Chaos cackles before tossing Hellmasker's body off to the side.

Galion Beast leaps forth, charging at Chaos with his horns lowered. Chaos bares his fangs as he reaches out, grabbing hold of the other demon's horns before they could impale him. Galion Beast growls as he digs his hind feet into the ground, trying to drive Chaos back. Chaos's leathery skin tightens around his muscles as he supplies presses to the two horns, trying to push them together. The werewolf-like demon howls in pain as his two horns shatter apart.

Chaos reaches out, grabbing hold of the other demon's throat and literally tearing it out. Galion Beast gaze one last gurgled howl before dropping dead at Chaos's feet. The demon is knocked off his feet by one of Death Gigas's mighty fists. Fury builds up in the King of Demons. Spinning up into the air, Chaos's eyes glow a bright crimson.

All around Death Gigas the floor begins to shake. The demons finds himself being elevated by the ground below. Under his feet, Chaos face shapes into the ground. Opening up his mouth, souls begin to fly out, circling around Death Gigas, seemingly harmless at first. Suddenly, one of the souls flies into Death Gigas's body. A second later the soul leaves the demon's body, dragging out a transparent form of Death Gigas, the demon's soul. The soul drags Death Gigas's back down into hell with it before everything around the demon is turned back to normal.

Chaos smirks to himself as he watches Death Gigas's pale yellow eyes roll into the back of his head before dropping to the ground. Chaos glances around, admiring his handiwork before giving a howl of pain as Vincent takes over again.

The gunslinger drops to his hands and knees as he gasps for breath. His whole body was sore, usually he wouldn't feel so sore after transforming. Granted, he'd be exhausted, but not in pain. Something suddenly gives a jolt of pain at his side, causing the gunslinger to fall to the ground. Taking off the tattered remains of his cloak, Vincent looks down at his left side, watching as something suddenly bulged in his body before residing back inside. 'Something's wrong.' Vincent thinks to himself.

'You have nothing to worry about.' Chaos's voice snakes into Vincent's mind.

Vincent's brows furrow in confusion, 'Chaos... what is happening to me?'

'Nothing is happening to you, it's me.' Vincent's confusion is easily read from the demon, when questioned about what the demon means, Chaos doesn't reply, he slides back out of Vincent's mind, with his disappearance goes the pain in Vincent's body as well.

Vincent takes a moment to breath before standing back up, grabbing his tattered crimson cloak of the ground as well. 'Chaos... What are you doing?' Vincent thinks to himself. The demon however, doesn't give any further information.

"Jesus! How many of these bastards does this guy have working for him?" Reno grumbles as he shots another electrical blast from his Mag Rod, stunning a few soldiers in the process.

"Their numbers are dwindling. If there's so many here, that means we must be close." Cloud shouts over all the loud fighting, "My bet is that it's the door at the end of the hallway."

Tifa growls in frustration as the soldiers kept coming. Having had enough, she jumps back away from the fighting, pulling out a red orb from her glove, "We need to get through, and we need to get through now! Bahamut!"

Upon hearing Tifa's summoning, Reno, Cloud, Red XIII, and Sephiroth quickly made their way out of the fighting just as the dragon appeared in the hole. The soldiers began fleeing, but weren't quick enough to get out of Bahamut's blasting zone. A series of screams fill the hall as the soldiers are blown away from Bahamut's Flare.

When Bahamut disappears, the three men and beast turn to look at Tifa questioningly. Tifa shrugs her shoulders, "What?"

Reno scuffs, "Now why didn't I think of that before?"

Cloud shakes his head, "Well it's clear now, let's go!"

Vincent staggered down the hall, keeping himself supported by the wall as he continued on his way. His whole body had begun to ache again. His vision becoming fuzzy, Vincent blinks, trying to clear it. Something inside of him is changing, and he's afraid that he doesn't know what it is. One moment he would feel fine, the next, it'd feel like something is eating his insides. Countless times he's called for the demon, demanding to know what is going on.

The gunslinger can't think of any reason why this is happening to him. Something wet drips down the side of his neck. Raising his organic hand to his neck, he wipes it, and brings it back to his face to examine what it is. 'Blood...' Vincent blinks at the sight of it. Vincent recognizes the area at his neck where the bite marks are that Rima gaze him.

Suddenly, a new thought flashes through Vincent's mind, 'Am I... turning into a vampire?' It could explain his sudden pain. 'It can't be... Chaos said he could stop it.' Feeling the lack of energy, Vincent leans against the wall to take a moment to gather his bearings, 'He also said that this is his doing.'

Vincent had never thought that the demon could actually be inside of his body. He always assumed just the spirit of the demons lurked in his mind, at most their blood running through his veins. But from all the pain he's in, it feels like claws are trying to dig out of him, trying to break out of him. Everything is just so confusing to Vincent now. He doesn't know what to think.

'I have to keep moving.' Vincent tells himself. Pushing himself off the wall, he takes a step forward, and immediately regrets it. His foot causes a part of the flooring to sink. Before Vincent can react, the floor underneath him gives out, causing him to fall downward.

Rima followed Hojo with her eyes as he paced around the lab, outside of her capsule. She had long since given up on trying to break through her containment after finding out that it's really quite solid. Even in her vampire form she wasn't able to cause it to crack. So now she just waits. Waits to find out what Hojo is preparing to do. All he's been doing for the passed five minutes is walk from monitor to monitor studying the screens, as if he were analyzing something. Every now and then the professor would start chuckling to himself. Something that Rima finds quite annoying, making her want to rip his throat out even more.

"I have a special surprise for you." Hojo finally speaks, as he types away on one of the panels, "I plan on finishing what I started with you all the years ago."

"And what would that be? You already made me into this." Rima replies disgustedly. She can't think of anything else the professor could have in mind.

Hojo turns away from the monitor and smiles knowingly at the woman, "Ah.. but the experiment is not over. See, right now, you're able to control your blood, allowing you to shift between forms."

Rima's brows furrow in question, "So?"

Hojo begins laughing, "I plan on changing that. I'm going to completely change you!" The excitement in his voice is elevated with his laughter.

Oh how Rima wishes she isn't confined so that she may gorge out his eyes with a pair of freshly sharpened daggers, "You come near me, and I'll kill you." Rima threatens.

Hojo covers his smile with a hand, "Hee! Hee! Hee! Really now? Hmm... I really don't like leaving something unfinished." He lowers his hand, letting Rima see the smirk across his, "Luckily, I've been preparing for this ever since I've found you again. With a simple push of a button, the process will begin!" Hojo raises his hand up and lets it hover above the panel.

Rima jumps to her feet, placing her hands on the sides of her containment as she glares at Hojo, "If you push that button, I'll swear I'll make you regret it."

Hojo's smile only widened from the threat, "A life without regrets is a life not worthy of living." Hojo pushes the button.

Rima's eyes widen in fear. She takes a few steps back until she's standing in the middle of her chamber. Red mist begins filling her small dwelling. Rima takes a deep breath and holds it, not wanting to breath it in. Hojo laughs at her, "You can't hold your breath forever." He says, "And you'll just end up breathing it in once you black out. Either way you can't resist!"

Rima doesn't care, she'll try and resist as long as she can, anything to prevent from giving in. She'd rather die them be subjected to more of Hojo's experiments. The red mist finishes filling the capsule, everything around her is surrounded in the red mist. She begins to get lightheaded, her eyes begins to water, her chest burns as it begs for oxygen. Unable to hold her breath anymore, Rima exhales and begins breathing it in, much to Hojo's satisfaction.

For a moment, Rima thinks that it just might not be doing anything. That maybe, just maybe, Hojo's experiment is a failure. Rima collapses to her knees, letting out a painful scream as her muscles feel as if they're ripping and tearing. Hojo watches intently, his eyes unblinking. Rima stumbles back to her feet, her hands covering her face, her lungs feel like they're on fire.

Hojo brows raise in surprise as the hatch at the top of Rima's capsule slides open and in falls another body falling on top of Rima. Hojo curses silently before stopping the process. Vents open up in the capsule to clear out the red mist within, making visibility clearer.

Rima groans painfully from the weight on top of her. Pushing herself into a sitting position she blinks in surprise at the sight of a familiar crimson cloaked gunslinger, "Vincent?" She calls out in confusion. She pushes him off of herself and onto his back. A layer of sweat is formed on his face, his eyes are squeezed shut as his face is contorted in pain.

"Oh... Now how did he get in there." Hojo asks to no one in particular before laughing quietly. He examines Vincent from the other side of the capsule, "It seems he's in a great deal of pain. Tee! Hee! Hee! Was my little gift for him a little to much?"

Rima sets her eyes on Hojo to glare at him, cradling Vincent's head in her lap, "What the hell did you do to him?" She demands.

"I simply reunited him with his other selves."

"What?" Rima replies in confusion, not understanding what Hojo is saying.

Hojo scratches his chin, "Hmm... Oh that right. You did not know that he had three other demons within him did you? How could you, I took them before you met him. Hee! Hee! Hee! So I reunited them!"

Vincent groans as he slowly opens his crimson eyes, his gaze landing on Rima above him, "Rima?..." He calls out questioningly. Hearing her name being called, Rima glances back down at Vincent. For a split second, Vincent's eyes widen before they narrow in anger, "What did Hojo do to you?"

Confusion flows through Rima's mind, "What do you mean, what did he do to me? What did he do to you?"

Vincent lifts up his organic hand pokes her lips with a single finger, the tip of his finger immediately drawing blood from the fang protruding from Rima's mouth. Rima takes a quick intake of air as she jumps to her feet, letting Vincent's head hit the floor in the process. Lifting her hands up to her mouth, she feels her teeth, figuring out that one of her fangs were longer the other. Her gaze lands on a few strands of her hair, she grabs a fistful of it and brings it up to her face, seeing that there's black streaks in her normally crimson hair. Rima's brows furrow in anger as she turns to the chuckling scientist, "What the hell did you-" Rima stops as she stares at her own reflection in the glass, her gaze focused mainly on her own eyes. Two different colored eyes, crimson and amber.

A smirk appears on Hojo's lips, "Well, we're halfway done."

Cloud and the rest of the group burst through the upper lab doors, their gaze immediately landing on Dregon. The man turns away from the monitor, quietly at first he begins to laugh, it grows louder and louder as he laughs uncontrollably.

"Well he's in a good mood." Reno mutters to the group.

Cloud makes a swiping motion with his massive sword, "Dregon it's over! Where's Yuffie?"

"Oh how wrong you are!" Dregon announces, "You're too late! I have what I needed! You can't stop me now!"

"What?" Cloud replies surprised. , taking a few uncertain steps back.

"Cloud, look." Red XIII points with his nose through the large window.

Cloud glances from Red XIII to the window his eyes widening in surprise, and relief, "Yuffie!"

(Yawns) Oh man... what a hard and tiring day. Well, this is it y'all! The ending is drawing closer and closer. I miscalculated. I reckon there's three to five chapters left to this thing. Then I'll finally be done and over with this huge ass thing. (Wipes the sweat off his forehead) Man this story sure is a workout. My goal is to finish this fic in two to three months. So thank you everyone who's kept with me through this thing. TTNC