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Divine Being: Divinity Neverending

Sometimes I think that I love her... Others I think that I could kill her.

You're jealous of Vincent. And of Kais.

I'm not listening to you, little weird-ass voice in my mind!

Do as you wish. I'm only speaking to you as you are speaking to yourself. Quit thinking so much and I would not have to respond.

OH! You're that little voice that Jenova made disappear, aren't you?

Yes.

Damn. I wish I knew how she did that... You're really annoying.

Chapter Three

Yuffie watched the three men eat their breakfast platters curiously. Vincent was well-mannered, as usual, and ate with a grace that no one else would ever be able to accomplish. Sephiroth ate as if he had not eaten in months. Kais picked at his food as if it did not suit his taste. Yuffie, however, had finished her pancakes and had finished her orange juice. She still ate quickly, albeit cleanly, like she had on their travelling. Had it truly only bee a week since their preparations to fight Sephiroth?

A random thought crossed her mind. More of a memory, really.

"If you truly love him, then he will come back," the gunman said softly, looking at the ground. She noticed something in his voice, a longing of sorts.

She lifted his chin up and looked into those infinitely red orbs. "What's wrong, Vinnie?" she asked.

He shook his head. "It is nothing, only a thought." He let a ghost of a smile appear as he looked into her own lilacs. "You were with him for three days, correct?" She nodded. "But a week has passed here... That is odd, is it not?"

She frowned. "That wasn't your thought, Vincent,"

He nodded. "But my thought had nothing to do with your predicament, so I-"

"Tell me, dammit!"

"I was wondering if you even love him at all. Or if this was a silly infatuation." His voice was cold and unfeeling, making her wish that she had never even asked.

She shook her head to clear the thought, but Vincent's red orbs caught her own lilac. He cast her a questioning look, one that she could not lie to. A small smile forced its way to her face, making him only more curious. Knowing that he would wait until they were alone to question it, she turned to look at Kais, sitting to her left.

"I've got a question Kais," she stated simply.

He looked up at her from studying the scrambled eggs on his plate. "Yes, Yuffie?"

"Why did you call Surka the Guardian of the Night or whatever?"

Kais smiled at her excellent memory. Anyone else would have forgotten about that. "Because I can summon her to guard, protect, or fight whenever I feel like. She gave me her soul to use as I wish, just as she gave Reina her body. I allowed her to go to the Life Stream, but can pull her from it whenever. I have a Guardian of the Dawn, as well. She, however, is a ghost and requires the use of a body. It is easier to call Surka, who will arrive with her body fully intact than it is for me to submit someone to a ghost residing in their body."

This definitely made Yuffie curious. "The Guardian of the Dawn... Is her name... Fox?"

Kais looked taken aback. "How did you know?"

Yuffie smiled softly. "She came to me last night. Said that you sent her." She flipped her bangs over her right eye in annoyance. "She said that she needed to use me as a vessel to help kill Reina. Did she lie to me?"

They were interrupted by a soft cough from behind them. The four turned around slowly, looking over their shoulders in unison. There stood a woman that was familiar to three of them. She stood at about five feet and seven inches wearing baggy black jeans, a black half-tank, and a white over jacket that was short in the front but ankle-length in the back. A cross choker was about her neck and crystal blue eyes looked at them with something between annoyance and joy.

"Surka!" Yuffie hollered after a few moments of awkward silence, in which everyone on the beach paused to look at the woman.

"Hey, Yuffie," she said with a sigh. She returned the hug that Yuffie had forced upon her, then looked at Kais with a hurt expression. "What do you need, Kais?"

He furrowed his brow. "I didn't call upon you, Surka. I have been with these three since earlier this morning and was up all last night searching fo-" He stopped mid-sentence. "Wait a minute... Fox!"

A soft, nervous giggle came from behind Surka, to which there was no body accompanying. "Hiya, Kais," the voice Yuffie had heard the night before said nervously. "It was an accident, you see. I couldn't think of anyone who could help the Guardian of the Dawn except the Guardian of the Night. So, I kinda called her... Accidentally, of course!"

Surka ran a hand through her long, shimmering black hair. "But I can't leave until what I was summoned for has ben accomplished. I can't leave until Reina has been defeated." She looked curiously at Sephiroth and Yuffie, who sat on either side of Kais. "You two... You-"

"Made it back fine and dandy," Yuffie said with a grin.

Surka nodded, an eyebrow raised before she turned to Vincent. "And you must be Vinnie, right? Yuffie described you to me."

He nodded silently, before looking over to Kais, who stood and was conversing in low tones with the disembodied voice. Yuffie distractedly - or distractingly to Sephiroth and Vincent - fixed her swim suit top while talking to Surka. Neither of the two men had realized that they were watching her until Kais tapped them on their shoulders. They snapped out of it and looked at the man.

"I understand that you're both close to Yuffie," he said softly so that Surka and Yuffie could not hear him. "But, please, let there not bea a love triangle going on whilst we search. She will accompany Surka and Fox, I will accompany the two of you. We're going to split up."

Sephiroth began to protest, but Yuffie had made her way over and grinned casually at Kais. "So, I'm goin' with Fox and Surka?" Vincent and Sephiroth glanced at each other before looking at her. "Fox told me," she said in response to their looks. "But... She can't fight unless she has a vessel, right?" Kais nodded. Licking her lips nervously, Yuffie cleared her throat. "I'll be her vessel, Kais."

"Yuffie-" both Sephiroth and Kais began, but she held up a hand to halt them. Vincent merely stared at her with worried red eyes.

"If you do this," he told her. "She will know your every thought and you will know her every thought. She can possess you at will until you figure out how to control it..."

She nodded. "I know. I just need to know how to get her out of me after we defeat Reina."

Kais inhaled deeply before meeting her lilac gaze with his own dark gaze. "I... Have a spell. It worked once, it should work again."

"Should?" Sephiroth sputtered. "What if it doesn't?"

Yuffie shook her head. "Sephiroth, please-"

He took her hands in his. "Yuffie, I don't want you to be stuck with some ghost in you, okay?"

Yuffie pulled him to a standing position. "We'll be right back," she told Fox, Surka, Vincent, and Kais. She led Sephiroth down the beach to a rocky area. The salty breeze whipped at their hair and left a taste in their mouths. "Sephiroth," she started, but he shook his head.

"I lost you once, Yuffie," he said slowly, eyes on the ground. "What if Fox completely takes over your body? What if she decides that she doesn't like not being in control?" He let out a breath. "I don't want to lose you, Yuffie. I don't know if I love you, but... I want you to be safe, okay?"

She tilted his face up so that their gazes met. Words died on her lips, thoughts all ceased. He bent low and kissed her softly on her lips. Her arms wrapped around his neck, fingers entwining in his silver locks. He pulled away, looking like a lost child, hazel eyes curious. She pulled him back down and kissed him, this time with more passion.

"I will be safe," she murmured after they separated. "You're with me. I'll be safe."

"But I won't be with you," he protested. "You're going to be with Surka. I'll be with Kais and Vincent."

She smiled up at him, lilac eyes shining with amusement. "I'll complain enough that we'll all have to regroup. I want to be with you, especially if I'm with you and Vincent."

The other man's name made Sephiroth heart jolt uncomfortably. "And what about Vincent?" he asked in a low voice. "Your feelings..."

She laughed softly, a laugh that meant that she could not believe that he had asked such a thing. "Vincent's is my older brother. Nothing more." She kissed him once again, a peck on the lips and nothing more, then took his ungloved hand and led him back toward the rstaraunt.

A brother? Sephiroth could not help but wonder. But he wants to be closer than that. A mental grin. But look who's got the girl!


Mayhem sang a happy little tune as she flitted from one shoulder to the next, finally deciding to ride upon Diablo's left shoulder for the rest of the journey. Destruction's shoulder tickled her, those flames lapping at her exposed skin. Reina was too grumpy for her liking. And poor, poor Oblivion was but a shadow amongst the afternoon shadows. She slinked along without saying anything. It made the pixie-demon sad that her friends were not as happy as they had once been.

"What are you thinking, Little One?" Diablo asked in his deep, demonic (Heh, go figure!) voice.

"Just that... Well, no one's smiling or having fun! Like we used to, y'know?" He child-like voice twinkled like the stars in a night sky. She was always so happy and optimistic, not unusual for a pixie, but highly unusual for a demon.

Diablo brought his right hand to his left shoulder and took Mayhem into his large hand. "Petite, we have faced long years on this mortal plane. Forgive us for not having fun." He looked at her with such a somber expression that it made even the pixie side of her sad, causing her to take on the shape of a full-grown woman. Diablo stood looking down into her fuschia eyes. "I apologize for saddening you, Love," he said solemnly. "But this is not the happiest time, as you well know. Just think about Oblivion, who has lost her own immortal body and has become scarcely alive. Her bitterness in and of itself has caused change in all of us."

He tilted the pixie creature's chin up so that she was looking into his black eyes. "Please, Little One, keep smiling. If not for yourself, then smile for me. We may have once drawn our happiness from torture, but we have all changed. Let us find my twin, along with the others, and celebrate that we are all united."

She folded her demon wings about her like a cloak, a sad smile on her face. "I will smile for you, Diablo."

Destruction smiled discreetly at the two. The half-pixie, half-demon was truly their brightness. She could make Diablo do anything, brighten even the shadow of Oblivion's day, and cause the fire elemental to smile. Upon this thought, Destruction decided it best to take a human form. She knew that there was a form from years past and concentrated her energy into that. Soon enough, she became a pretty woman with crimson hair streaked with copper and blonde. Reina took notice of this, but said nothing. They were heading toward Costa del Sol to destroy Vincent Valentine once and for all.

What none of the demons noticed was the pouch that Reina had at her belt, eight viles of a purple liquid within it. She would honor her vow... But no one said a thing about letting the eight live long enough for them to rejoice.

Oblivion slinked along in the shadows as they neared Corel. They needed a host more than anything at the moment. A host would ensure their safe passage to Costa del Sol. She kept her eyes open for such a person... And found a woman, about twenty or so, walking just ahead of them. She whispered in Diablo's ear and he nodded, pulling Mayhem off to the side with him. Destruction, too, heard Oblivion's propostition and agreed. Reina would lure the woman...

"Excuse me," the woman said to Reina. "Do you know how much a Gold Ticket is for the Gold Saucer?"

Reina looked as if she was contemplating for a moment, then shook her head. "I am sorry, but no I do not. My friend might have the travel brochure still." She smiled as un-evilly as possible. "I am Reina." She extended her hand.

"Tael," the other woman replied, shaking Reina's hand. A pain shot through Tael's body like someone had run a blade down her throat and through her veins. Her eyes closed and she passed out, convulsing upon the ground. Reina looked around to see the four demons gone. Smiling to herself, she picked up the taller woman and awaited her awakening.


Yuffie cuddled closer to Sephiroth as the three of them sat by the camp fire. Vincent, Surka, and Kais had gone to bed, leaving Fox, Yuffie, and Sephiroth. The ninja had not allowed Fox into her mind, as per Sephiroth's request, but was unsure whether she should have. Ignoring the thoughts that plagued her, she closed her eyes, taking in the sweet cologne that Sephiroth wore. She had decided that, even if they weren't sure if they loved each other or not, she was willing to admit that she had feelings for him too. Vincent was quieter than usual, but she blew it off as Vincent being Vincent.

"Well, if you two are going to start snogging," Fox said in a slightly whistful tone, "Then I'm outta here." The presence was gone, leaving the two alone.

"Snogging?" they asked in unison looking at each other in confusion. "What the Hells is that?"

End of Chapter 3

R:Sorry for the wait for last chapter!I will only upload a chapter when I've got the next TWO chapters fully written. Hope you enjoyed. So when you get this, I've gotten Chapter Five written and have probably started on Chapter Six. Uhm... Quick note: Tael is pronounced Tay-El, just for those who think it's like Tail. And about the random bit of fluff at the end? I dunno. Just appeared there.Anyway, review!