Yay! I finsihed this chapter at last! Okay, well I hope you guys enjoy it! I'll upate probably sometime next week because I am going on vacation for a week-but don't worry! I will have a nice long chapter for you all, either that, serveral little chapters liek these. If youw ant them longer, just tell me! This chappie is for Vincent fans! He is an offical main character now!

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII-VIII-is thsi required? I'm sueing cause this is wasting my precious relaxing time! Oh well...

Chapter Three

Vincent stood on a grassy plain, his red eyes flashing with anger. His red, ripped cape swirled with the wind as he walked across the plain. He knew what had happened to him was no mistake. Vincent wasn't sure how, but he knew that he was meant to be here. One moment, he had been walking through the Edge, heading towards Seventh Heaven to speak with Cloud, the next, he found himself walking on a grassy plain.

Vincent spotted a town, or what looked like one, not far off. He didn't really want to go there, but he knew he had too. Vincent could sense that he was no where near Midgar, the Edge, or any other place. He walked towards it, his senses alert for monsters or other dangers. His gun was in his right arm. His left arm was a made of metal. It had been cut off by Hojo and then replaced by this metal one. Vincent hated the memory. He hated it just as much as he hated Hojo, who was dead.

Vincent had been one of Hojo's 'experiments'. Hojo had done something to him that made him ageless and now he was stuck at age twenty-seven. He had been shot in the heart by Hojo and had lived. Vincent couldn't really die either. His fingers clenched his gun tighter at the memory as he neared the strange town.

He saw a sign that read 'Balamb Garden'. Vincent blinked, he's never heard of it before, but he shrugged it off and walked in. There were a lot of things he'd never heard of. He saw many young people around the ages of fifteen and nineteen walking around and chatting. They all looked so happy and peaceful. At least they were happy and not in the least confused or lost, or angry…or demon possessed. That was how Vincent referred to himself.

He looked around, passing a gate. The man gave him a puzzled look and was about to speak, when Vincent's red eyes flashed again and he raised his gun, pointing it at the man. "Where am I?" he demanded.

"B-Balamb Garden. Please don't shoot me!" the man gasped, holding up his ands in defense.

Vincent lowered his gun, speaking in a harsh, "I'm not going to shoot you, but tell me, where the hell is Balamb Garden? In what country?"

"The country of Balamb sir!" the man quickly replied!

Vincent shook his head, answers only led to questions so he just walked past the man without another word, his cape flowing behind him. He walked up towards a large building. All at once, he heard a loud voice calling his name, "Vincent!"

Vincent whirled around to see a familiar face rushing towards him. The girl wrapped her arms around him, a joyful look on her face. "Marlene? What are doing here?" Vincent asked the brown haired girl.

Marlene looked up at him and her joyful expression vanished as she backed away from Vincent, "Looking for Tifa…I can't find her anywhere. Have you seen them?" Hope rose within the girl's voice and Vincent wished that he could have said 'yes' to Marlene, but up until then, he didn't even know Tifa was around this place.

"Sorry, but no, Marlene. I haven't seen anyone I know around here. How long have you been on your own?"

"Um…I don't know, I don't have a watch." Marlene admitted.

Vincent nodded and pushed back part of his red cape. He was going to get his phone he had just bought and when he reached into his pocket, he swore loudly. "Damn! Sorry, Marlene, I think I lost my phone somewhere…Well, I guess we'll just have to hunt Tifa down on our own."

Vincent looked around him, observing everyone. A lot of people gave him strange looks and eyed his metal arm. Vincent noticed this and hid it within his red cape, searching the crowd for Tifa. She wasn't there. He nodded and then looked at Marlene, "Here, follow me, we'll find her."

He entered the building and saw a familiar looking cat walking into an elevator with a familiar person and a strange. "Okay, Marlene, I didn't find Tifa, but I think I found Cloud and Red. Come on."

Vincent walked swiftly towards the elevator, putting his gun into its holster. He waited for the elevator to come back down, and when it did, he stepped inside.

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"Squall! You know animals are not permitted into the Garden!" Quists snapped as she noticed the red cat-like lion walking into the room.

"Huh? What? You think this is my cat? No! This is Cloud's cat!" Squall objected.

"I am not something to be owned!" Red snapped, glancing at everyone in the classroom. They were staring at Squall, Cloud and him. A few whispering to each other. He rolled his red eyes as he walked further into the classroom.

"It talks!" Quists gasped.

"Um…Red is a guy." Cloud responded dully, blinking. This was like a school?

"Okay! Back to the reason why we came in here! Have any of you seen a little girl that is way too young to be here, browned hair, her name is Marlene?" Squall asked, looking at everyone. No one responded at first, but then, gradually, every single person shook their heads 'no'.

Cloud sighed and was about to walk out when he heard a loud voice, "Cloud!" Cloud spun around to see Marlene running at him. He noticed a man standing in the doorway, a red cape flowing behind him. His hair was black and his piercing red eyes bore down on Cloud.

"Marlene! Vincent, what are you doing here?" Cloud asked, confusion showing in his voice.

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Sephiroth blinked from where he was sitting. Why the hell he was in a clinic office, he didn't know. He stood up, his silver hair falling in front of his face as he looked around. This place was too…calm. Maybe…Maybe I should cause some trouble…give them something to fear. Sephiroth grinned at the idea. He liked to cause trouble and he loved to kill!

His hand rested on his Masamune's hilt. He drew it just as a young woman came over to him, "Sir, do you have an appointment?"

Sephiroth smirked at her and with ease, he drew his blade and sliced it through the woman's body. She gave him a look of terror as she was cut in half, and killed instantly. The people around Sephiroth gave him looks of pure horror and rushed towards the door. One man, however, bravely took out a gun and aimed it at Sephiroth's chest. He couldn't help but stab the man in the chest and making him die a slow and painful death. How pathetically easy these humans were to kill! What joy he found when their faces paled with horror and pain slid through their features as he killed them.

He walked out of the office and into the street, sheathing his silver sword. He knew, somehow, that Cloud, the failed Jenova experiment was near by, and one day, Sephiroth would kill Cloud…one day…

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Vincent crossed his arms, his metal arm's claws drumming his other arm's muscle. His red eyes flashed at all the looks he was receiving. He did not like people to look at his metal arm, for he knew, that they must think of him as some…abomination. He tried his best to ignore the whispers he could hear, and focused only on Cloud, Marlene, and the brown-haired kid. Red, who was off to the side, was now sitting down, looking relieved. Vincent knew that they had been searching for Marlene, no doubt.

"I don't know what I am doing here. I was going to ask you the same question. And who, Cloud, is this?" Vincent asked, pointing one gloved finger at Squall.

Squall looked at Vincent's red eyes and shuttered, looking away. Vincent showed no emotion to Squall's fear as Cloud responded, "This is Squall. He helped me when I was sick."

"You still are sick; you shouldn't be out here." Red pointed out as a woman came forward. She bore a very stern expression on her face and his eyes were like blue fire.

"Squall, I do not know why you have chosen this time to interrupt my class, but get out at once. Else I will have to tell Headmaster Cid about this!" Quists snapped.

Squall blinked and nodded. Vincent just turned around, his red cape flowing behind him as he left the classroom. He was relieved to be away from all the stares he had received. Vincent leaned against one of the steel walls inside the Garden, waiting for Cloud. When they came out, he stood up straight and the confronted Squall, "Who are you, and where are we? And you'd better not respond 'Balamb Garden' or 'the country of Balamb'!"

Squall opened his mouth to reply and took a step back from Vincent. Cloud quickly intervened with Vincent, "Calm down, Vincent. This is Squall, he was helping me look for Marlene, but none of us know why wee are here. We do know, however, that we are not on our own planet."

Vincent blinked, "So we're nowhere near home? I guessed that much. Okay then, if no one has answers for that, then tell me, Squall, what the hell is this place? A school?"

Squall spoke, "You mean you don't know what a Garden is? Well…this isn't a school really, it's for people who want to become SeeDs. A SeeD is a special service person who travels all around the world. Well I just became a SeeD a few days ago and I haven't gone very many places yet. But this place basically teaches you how to fight and stuff like that."

Vincent didn't understand everything, but he didn't ask anything else, instead he turned to face Cloud, "Where's Tifa? Who else is here?" He always liked to be up-to-date with things.

"Tifa is with Rinoa, and Barret is here too. If there is anyone else, I haven't happened across them yet." Cloud responded.

Vincent nodded and turned around and was walking towards the elevator when a dark-tanned man and a girl with silver hair came rushing by. They skidded to a stop beside Squall and the man asked, "Yo Squall! Have you seen Seifer anywhere, man? We can't find him anywhere!"

Well, I hope I got things right woth Vincent! I dunno if you gusy know yet, but I've never played Final Fantasy VII (sniffles) but I want too. And I'm only on disc 2 of Final Fantasy VIII...