CO-AUTHOR NOTE: Hey all Kage Onizuka here! This is my first chapter of this story, I am working with Fallen-Angel2881 on this and she's done an excellent job with chapter one LET'S KEEP IT UP! Here's my first part! Enjoy! Kansha no kotoba. Check out our other stories. KAGE ONIZUKA OUTTIE!
FLASHBACK
An unearthly light filled the cave, a lone figure stood in the middle of the circular cavern. His dark raven hair covering his face, hiding the tears. He rose a gloved hand the his face in hope of stopping the waves of tears. He other hand, baring the scars of his punishment, gloved in leather and brass claws rose to move the hair from his face.
This is my sin. I could have done more and I didn't.
"This was my error and I rightly bare the blame." the tormented warrior said raising his clawed hand to eye level. The light in the room reflecting off the claws, illuminating the gunners face. His beautiful countenance cursed with the constant pain of his lose. His eyes are red with the blood of the damned. Long raven hair waved down below his waist, lying still in the breezeless cavern.
The gunner turned around sharply, whipping the tears from his face. The waters of the waterfall concealing the cave parted. A shivering woman walked into the cave. Her tight leather outfit covered in water. Vincent watched as the woman looked around the cave and started towards the end of the cavern. Vincent hid in the shadows, behind a stalagmite as he surveyed the woman and her intentions.
"Don't trust her." Chaos said in Vincent's mind.
I'll do as I wish.
Vincent watched as the woman reached inside a small bag at her waist and withdrew a small flask filled with a red liquid. She uncorked the glass container and downed the contents in one gulp before wiping her mouth and hissing.
"You can come out know…I have no intentions of fighting you." her voice was demanding, arrogant. Vincent walked out from the shadows and underneath his cloak rested his hand on the grip of the Cerberus. He clicked the safety of the tri-barreled weapon to fire.
"who are you and why have you come here?" he said looking at the woman who sat in the corner shivering. Vincent's cloak flew from his shoulders and wrapped around her in an attempt to keep her warm. The woman looked at him with a confused look on her face. She starred at the cloak and Vincent's clawed glove.
"What are you?" she asked puling the blood red cloak tighter around her tone body.
"Answer my question first and then we shall talk." Vincent loosened his grip on the Cerberus.
"My name is Paine. I came here to get away…is there anything wrong with that Mr.…uh."
"Valentine, Vincent Valentine. To get away from what?"
"That's none of your concern. Now if you don't mind I'll just rest here for the night and then be on my way. I won't bother you." She curled up inside Vincent's cloak and fell asleep. Vincent looked back to the end of the cave and starred at where the beam of light coming from the outside world met the cold, stone floor of the cave.
"I'm sorry Lucrecia." Vincent said placing his clawed hand into the light. The light reflected off the polished metal and scattered throughout the cavern. A lone beam landed on Paine's face causing her to stir in her uneasy sleep.
Whys he so sad. Paine thought as she shielded her eyes from the light
"Would you mind pointing that somewhere else I am trying to sleep." Paine smirked to show what she had said was all in good humor and not to be mean.
"I apologize, yet another sin I must atone for." he said removing his arm from the light.
"Sins? What are you talking about?" Paine said getting up. She pulled Vincent's cloak around her as she walked to his side and stared at the light.
"I…failed in saving the one I loved. Lots of people got killed because of me…the world was almost destroyed…all because of me." Vincent bowed his head.
"I'm sorry to hear that. I've got my own sins…I just wish I could help you." Paine looked up at where the light entered the cavern.
He has to be my biggest sin. She thought to herself.
"I'm sorry I dragged you into this." Vincent said turning away form Paine.
"Don't be…I want to help you. I've got a feeling if I solve your problem it'll help me with mine. What do you have to do?"
"Kill HIM." Vincent said coldly. His eyes ablaze with rage. "The one caused so much pain."
"I can give you the power to do that." Paine said slowly, biting down on her lower lip. I don't want to do this but if he needs this power, I will give it to him.
"Anything." Vincent said looking into Paine's eyes.
"Then kneel before me." Vincent did as he was instructed. A hiss escaped her lips as fangs appeared from under her lips. She sank the fangs into Vincent's neck, sucking in the warm liquid that escaped form the wound. Vincent flinched as the fangs withdrew from his neck.The gunner closed his eyes and collapsed into Paine's arms unconscious.
Pain. Burning. Throbbing. Vincent's eyes slowly opened and scanned his surroundings. The light from the hole in the roof of the cavern had disappeared…it was night. Paine entered through the hole in the ceiling. Her descent slowed as she opened her arms, she landed without making a sound. She now wore Vincent's cloak around her in the same fashion as him.
"So you're awake huh?" She threw a dying Shinra soldier at his feet. "Drink this."
"What! What did you do to me?" he shot up from the ground before falling to one knee clutching his chest.
"I gave you the power you needed. Now feed up, you've been out for sometime. Your body needs sustenance. Just do what I did to you." Paine grabbed Vincent's head and shoved it towards the neck of the dying soldier. Vincent's fangs grew as his mouth got closer to the human's neck. He bit down and warm plasma filled his mouth. Euphoria filled his undead heart as his body was revitalized from the energy in the fallen soldier's blood. "Good. I'm not carrying around some half dead vampire."
"Yes Master." Vincent said bowing his head.
"Master…what!" Paine said shocked.
"I pledge myself to you, my master." Vincent rose from the floor, a small amount of blood trickled down his mouth. "I'll do whatever it is you require of me."
"Okay, as long as you help me with Sephiroth." she said shrugging her shoulders.
"Sephiroth!" Vincent seemed stunned by simply hearing the name. "How do you know Sephiroth."
"He…used to be my master. He turned me and tried to make me his bride. One day he forced me to become his bride. He…nearly killed me when I tried to refuse. That night he raped me, he scared me by saying that I was having his child so that I would stay. I knew better but he made me believe it. One day I became so fed up with it that I escaped and came here." Paine lowered her head and rested her hand on her sword. "So how do you know him?"
"Before he was a vampire…Sephiroth was a member of an elite group of warriors known as SOLDIER. I fought along side him once, when I was a Turk. He was amazing, like a ray of hope. He used to be such a kind, caring person. Until one day he found his mother and learned the truth. He destroyed his squad save for two, he burned the town. After a while he tried to destroy the planet. I was part of the group that stopped him then. Now…after all these years…he's returned. He's my sin…I should have ended it when I found out about him in the first place…but I failed." he looked down at his scarred body. "I have paid greatly for that sin."
"So we're both after him huh? Well we'd better be moving, I don't want him to find me." Paine said undoing the clasps on Vincent's cloak and handing it to him. "Thanks."
"Anytime, my master." Vincent's cloak flew towards him and attached the clasps on it's own. "Do you have anywhere in mind?"
"No, to tell you the truth I haven't put much thought into it." Paine said tapping her foot.
"I know of a place. There are so many spirits there it will be impossible even for Sephiroth to find us there." Vincent's cloak wrapped around them as their bodies were broke down to their simplest components.
Paine fell to the ground as her body reformed.
"What the hell did you just do!" she managed to say between coughs. "Where the hell are we?"
"This is my home. It was a mansion used by he Shin-Ra. It was here where I was made…Sephiroth used to come here at times. I'd follow him without his knowing. He would read books…searching for anything about JENOVA." Vincent ran his fingers over some of the very book which Sephiroth had read all those years ago.
"So, this is your place…cozy." Paine said plopping down in a revolving office chair next to a desk full of random papers and books, all of them seemingly about JENOVA and Mako. She ran her fingers through the piles of papers until Vincent's name came up.
Subject: Valentine, Vincent Age: 23 Blood type: No longer known Procedure: Enhancements to regenerative drive allowing for regeneration of large wounds. Flight. Polymorphic. Other unknown side effects.
The papers described the surgeries the Vincent under took, Paine cringed at the very thought of the monstrous experiments he must have to go through.
"I'm sorry." she said placing the papers down on the desk.
"Don't be it's not your fault. You'll be safe here for n now. There is something I must attend to…I shall return, my master." Vincent said as he warped out of the basement.
Paine waited for him for the next three weeks before she set out looking for him. She never saw him again.
END FLASHBACK
Vincent looked around the mansion. The ghosts of past workers and monsters wandered around the building freely. Vincent used to fit in with them just fine, but now he was one of them, a monster, a child of the night.
"You know you haven't seen her in years. You've spent the time grieving. Maybe it's time you paid the boss a visit." Galian Beast said to Vincent in a sincere tone.
Yes…perhaps it is time. Vincent said to one of his many symbionts. Vincent grabbed the Cerberus off of the cluttered, cobweb infested desk and headed towards the exit. He stopped in front of the door and looked back at a metal table resting in the middle of the room. He starred down at his hand and then back at the dried blood on the floor surrounding the table.
"Too many bad memories." he said before opening the door an slipping out, his cloak wrapping around him as he ascended the long staircase to the ground floor. Vincent made his way to the large front doors of the mansion. He turned briefly to relay instructions to one of the spirits. "Tell Missing Number to watch over the place while I am gone." the spirit simply nodded and floated off to relay the message.
Vincent's normal hand reached form the door knob and pushed the door open. The sudden blast of light caused Vincent's cloak to cover his eyes for him. He cloak wrapped around his body, he felt his body being torn apart, bit by bit, and shooting through the planet towards his destination. He reformed on the top of an airship. The deck was highly decorated with Al-Bhed designs. He walked as quietly as he could to the door near the back of the deck, his metal boots clanking on the ship's metal deck. Vincent turned the knob slowly trying to be as quiet as possible.
Paine shot up, getting up from her chair. Yuna and Rikku looked at their sire wondering what was happening.
"Paine what is it?" Rikku asked sliding off the barstool.
"Someone's here, heading this way." she grabbed her sword and walked towards the door to the bar. The faint sound of metal scrapping against the floor could be heard down the hallway. "Who's there?" she screamed demanding an answer. Rikku twirled her daggers, itching for a fight. Yuna saw the figure and trained her guns on the figure.
Paine jumped forward slashing at the unknown figure. Her sword stopped an inch from the figures body, a cloak wrapped around the blade and pulled it from Paine's hands. The figure walked into the light revealing his face.
"I should hurt you." Paine said punching the figure in the back of the head.
"Paine do you know this guy?" Yuna said lowering her guns.
"This guys was my first. He's the one I told you about." Paine said wrapping her arm around the figures neck.
"Your…first…like as in your boyfriend?" Rikku said elbowing Paine in the sides.
"No!" Paine screamed her face turning several different shades of red. "This is the first person I turned." she said elbowing Vincent in the stomach "Anyways…where the hell were you for the last few decades."
"Fighting." he said coldly, his face remaining emotionless.
"Uh huh sure." Rikku sad teasing Vincent. "Just who was it you were fighting?" Vincent stared at Paine for a moment then at the other girls.
"No one who concerns you." Vincent said stepping away from the group and disappearing into the bar.
"Yeesh, What's his problem?" Rikku asked looking over at her sire.
"You don't know Vincent, he's been through a lot. More then you guys can ever begin to imagine." Paine hung her head and followed Vincent into the bar.
"Erm…what just happened Rikku?" Yuna said holstering her guns.
"I think Paine's getting emotional…not jealous are you Yunie." Rikku said giggling.
"What…me…jealous…no way. I'm just worried for Paine is all." Yuna said blushing.
"Yunie's jealous…Yunie's jealous." Rikku sang as she bounced back to the bar. "I'm gonna go see how those two are making out…hmm, not that's gotta make you jealous Yunie."
"Shut up Rikku!" Yuna screamed. "I'm not jealous!" Yuna chased Rikku into the bar. They stopped when they saw the look on Paine and Vincent's faces.
"What's going on?" Rikku asked stepping away from Yuna.
"Nothing…nothing at all…why do you ask?" Paine said changing her expression.
"You look like you've just seen an army of ghosts is all." Yuna said walking over to her sire, she placed a hand on Paine's shoulder and gave her a faint smile. "You can tell us anything, what's wrong?"
"Nothing…I…Uhh…just found out something about Vincent is all." she said looking away from Yuna.
"OHH…a dark secret…has Vinnie been a bad boy?" Rikku said walking up behind Vincent and placing a hand on each of his shoulders.
"You have no idea what I have done in the past." he said looking at his brass claw. "You don't want to know."
