Divine Beings: Divinity Neverending
I sing because I don't know what else to do anymore.
You sing to be heard.
You!
No, I'm the other you, remember?
Gawd, I've got to stop talking to myself!
You think too much.
Well, at least I think!
A step up on a few, hm?
Hee hee. My point exactly! G'night!
Yes, yes...
Chapter Two
Yuffie awoke at nearly five-thirty to an odd sensation. Like when the hair on the back of one's neck stands up from being watched. She opened her lilac eyes to see nothing, but she heard a voice coming from Sephiroth's bed. Sitting up, afraid that tifa had gone insane and had come to kill the man in his sleep, she looked over, Conformer in her shaking hands.
"He's quite handsome," the voice said. "Not very strong, however. Even you, Ninja, may be able to beat him in a fair battle."
"Who's there?" Yuffie demanded, standing slowly. "Show yourself."
Oddly enough, Sephiroth and Vincent slept through her rather loud talking. Had she checked their status ailments, she would have discovered a sleepel spell upon both of them.
"I am known as Fox, Ninja. I am, I suppose you could say, a ghost. And I need your help."
Yuffie snorted. "Fox the Ghost?" she asked incredulously. "I'm not an idiot."
"Good, then you know that I merely want to use you as a vessel to help Kais find and destroy Reina."
Yuffie stared at the blank air where she thought Fox stood. Someone else wanted to kill Reina? That was great! But... A vessel? I don't really want her staying in my mind like one of Vinnie's demons. That's just plain creepy. Then again, if Kais sent her... "How do I know that Kais sent you?" she asked.
"You don't," was the disembodied response. "You merely have to trust me."
Yuffie shook her head. "I don't trust anyone I don't know or can't see."
Fox laughed. "Doesn't that suck for you?" With that, the tension in the air left and Yuffie knew that Fox had gone. But... What if Kais had sent her?
"He'll just have to show up himself," she mumbled and went to check her male comrades. Deciding against smacking them to wake them from their spell, she smiled and went back to sleep upon her own bed. A few extra hours of sleep couldn't hurt, right?
"Rise and shine!"
Sephiroth opened one hazel eye to see what looked like a demon leaning over him. Upon further inspection, he found that it was just Yuffie wearing some sort of red head band that matched her top... Whoah, wait a minute... She's wearing a rather revealing bikini top, he thought, mentally drooling. Luckily, she had gone over to Vincent to awake the usually light sleeper. Sephiroth stared at her for a moment before catching himself and grabbing some clothes from the bag beside his bed. He mumbled something about changing in the bathroom, but Yuffie was too busy sitting at the foot of Vincent's bed chatting with the half-awake man.
When the man returned to the room the three of them were sharing, Yuffie was nowhere in sight and Vincent wore a pair of jeans and was in the process of pulling a black tee-shirt over his head. "What's up with her?" Sephiroth grumbled. "She acts like she likes mornings."
Vincent smirked. "You should see her when she has to sleep on the hard ground for less than five hours, then get up before the sun rises."
Sephiroth tried to picture her with her hair a mess and wearing an over-sized tee shirt of Cloud's or Vincent's. That just resulted in other images forming and he quickly adverted from that train of thought, a faint blush over his cheeks. Vincent raised an eyebrow, but Sephiroth changed the subject.
"So, where's the ninja at, aynway?"
Vincent inclined his head toward the door leading from their room. "She went out to find a nice restaraunt that Tifa and Cloud won't go to. Seeing as Tifa normally cooks, it should not be too hard."
As if on cue, Yuffie bounded into the room, a hyper bounce to her step. "Okies! We're going to a new place down on the beach. They serve breakfast until noon, then they have burgers and fries and stuff like that."
"A nice restaraunt?" Sephiroth asked Vincent, who merely let a ghost of a smile slide across his pale face.
The trio left the inn, all dressed to kill. Sephiroth had decided that he liked the baggy jeans, but chose a tight fitting white muscle shirt that form fit and showed off his firm abdominal muscles. Yuffie, who was still slightly awkward toward the older man, had a horrible time trying not to stare. Then again, her red string bikini top did not help the fact that he was drawn to her. She had more curves than he had realized.
Vincent followed the petite ninja toward the restaraunt, but halted when an odd sensation fell over him. It was as if someone was watching him. Yuffie noticed that both of her companions had stopped and turned around to see why.
"Kais!"
The divine being grinned roguishly as Yuffie bounded over and hugged him. Sephiroth felt the raw pain of jealousy rip through him. Vincent remained strategically unaffected. Yuffie smiled up at the man, stepping back from his warm embrace.
"Whatcha doin' here?" she asked, her amethyst eyes lit with her usual joy.
Kaisinistics rubbed the back of his head with the knuckles of his right hand in an awkward fashion. "Well... I need your help, Yuffie." He looked at Sephiroth with dark eyes that seemed to plead for help. "And yours as well, Sephiroth."
The man nodded, then glanced at Vincent. "Our friend, Vincent-"
Kais nodded eagerly. "Of course! Having the host of Chaos, Gallion Beast, Hellmasker, and Death Gigas would be excellent. Especially since those four, in particular, hated Reina when they first came to Planet. I only wish we could frind the other four demons..."
Yuffie raised a slim eyebrow. "There are more of them?"
Kais laughed his laughter that seemed to make the ninja's cheeks become a pretty shade of pink. "Of course! There were eight originally. Let's see... Chaos, Gigas, Masker, and Gallion, of course... I think the she-demons were Mistress Mayhem, Lady Destruction, Pain, and Oblivion..." He looked to Vincent. "Is that right?"
Vincent remained silent for a moment befre shaking his head slowly. "Not Pain... It was Diablo. Three she-demons and five demons."
Both Sephiroth and Yuffie looked at the dark-haired Vincent incredulously.
Inhale...
Exhale...
Inhale...
Exhale...
"Judgement has not been passed upon your tortured soul," the female's voice echoed around the hidden chamber behind the waterfall. "You may as well leave, Reinaistics... We will not help you if there is nothing to gain for us."
The woman in question shook her head slowly. "Oh, but there is, Mistress Destruction. You will find those four demons whom you have lost. You will find your Gigas and your Masker. Your Gallion, even."
"And what of Chaos?" the male voice asked eagerly. "What of him?"
"Yes," a child-like voice asked with much anticipation. "Is Chaos still alive? Is he even on Planet?"
Reina smirked wickedly. "Yes, my friends, he is alive. They are all alive... Kill the host and free them!" She stood from her kneeling position in front of the alter and slashed through the air with her hand in emphasis. "Please, my loyal guardians, listen to me. I need your help this time. I swear to you that you shall get your friends back!"
A woman with short, spiky pink hair stepped from the shadows, her lime green eyes glowing with intense hatred toward the woman. "And why should we believe you? You who made me become nothing more than a mere shadow, who makes me possess the dead to live." She turned to face the alter, where her three comrades were hiding themselves. "Why should we trust her?"
A pixie-sized demon flitted over to land on Reina's shoulder, long golden hair matching her eyes, her skin a pale color, fangs and talons proving how lethal she could be. "Oh, please," the child-like voice came from the pixie known as Mayhem said. "Please, Oblivion! Think of it! Chaos! And Gallion! Oh, it's been centuries, Oblivion! I've missed them much!"
Diablo, a demon that looked identical to his twin, Chaos, save for being red in color, stepped from thin air to look at his pink-haired shadowy friend. "She speaks what we want, Oblivion. Are we to deny her wishes when she used to be spoiled? She used to massacre those who irritated her, Oblivion. How long has it been since the gods and demons came to Planet as mortals? How long have we all been separated?"
Oblivion shook her head. "I will not help you, Reina. You, who destroyed my body. You, who has imprisoned me within mortals and shadows, denying my thirst. No, my friends, I will not help Reina. I would rather find my former comrades myself."
Destruction made her entrance by way of a fire blast. The Fire Elemental took the shape of a woman, though flames encased the female body. She walked toward Oblivion, Diablo, and Mayhem leaving flames where she stepped that quickly vanished. "Oblivion, I agree with your thoughts upon the Reina we once knew. I shall make her make an unbreakable pact, if you wish."
Oblivion seemed to think this over, slipping from the dead mortal body into the shadows. The body fell with a thump and immediately became ashes, blowing away in a non-existant breeze. "Si," she said softly. "If she'll make the pact."
Destruction held out a fiery hand, which Reina took as non-chalantly as possible as the flesh was seared from the bone, dripping grotesquely. "Swear upon thine tortured soul that, should the four of us help you, you will return Chaos, Gallion Beast, Death Gigas, and Hellmasker to us."
"I swear," came Reina's pained gasp. Destruction released her hand, upon which flesh was remade, leaving a flame-shaped scar in remembrance of their pact. "I will honor it," she told the quartet.
"You'd better," came Oblivion's withering whisper. "For we do not take such matters lightly... And we can rip you apart, let you heal, then rip you apart again... Do not think that I would hesitate."
Mayhem giggled impishly. "She's such a wonderful thinker! She always comes up with the best ways to torture people!"
End of Chapter Two
R: Errr... Hope you enjoyed and all that shtuff... The beginning was just a random thing, so don't think that it'll have anything to do with the rest of this fic. -wink-
Gambit: C'mon, cheire. We gotta go.
R: -grins wickedly- I'm outta here! -gets carried away by Remy Le'Beau- Whoo Hoo!
