The chirping morning birds where Wicked's alarm clock. She fought against getting up but in the end she opened her reluctant eyes. Wicked didn't know that Yazoo had taken her home so she gasped when she saw the silver glassed room again. Looking over she saw the leather jacket she had borrowed hanging up along with her shorts laying on the floor underneath. She jumped out of bed, grabbed her shorts to get back in her Yuffie outfit, and got dressed.
Yazoo was ordered to wait at the door when he got up to guard against her running away again. He had been up since eight that morning and now it was an hour later. He was contemplating the idea that he had though of last night of literally chaining her up and leaving her like that as he sat there leaning up against the doorpost with his gun out. After a moment of thinking about it Yazoo sighed, this wasn't the most exciting job of his life but he still had to do it.
"I wish that girl would get up soon." Right after he said that something that sounded like cloth bummed up against the door and he slowly stood up as he heard the doorknob move around and the door opened. Wicked jumped when she saw Yazoo there.
"Yazoo! What are you doing here?"
"Making sure you don't run away again." He said monotonously without turning around to look at her. He started walking down the stairs,
"Where are you going?"
"To the café, what's it matter to you?"
"Can I come along?" She asked cheerfully, Yazoo cringed but knew Kadaj would kill him if he said no.
"Sure. Why not." Wicked smiled, "You've ruined most of my life any way…who cares about anything else I do to be alone?" Yazoo thought as he sighed and walked to the door as Wicked shadowed close behind. When he stopped he bummed into him
"Could I have some space?" Yazoo asked feeling her heat on his back.
"Oh, sorry." Wicked blushed
Wicked could tell Yazoo didn't want her around.
"You know? Thinking about it I can just stay here. I don't have to come along." Yazoo looked back,
"No, it's okay if you come along." He said uncaringly.
"Well, I can tell you don't want me around so…I just thought I'd leave you alone. Bye." Wicked walked away smiling. She walked into the kitchen where, unfortunately, every one else was right just then. "Uh-ho! Bad timing! I will leave now." Wicked started trying to walk away before any one noticed her. Unfortunately she had no such luck in being unseen by every one.
"Wicked." Kadaj called out, she stopped and turned.
"Oh, hi guys! I was felt hungry but I suddenly found out I really wasn't, so now, I'm gonna go. Bye, bye!" She turned to leave again.
"Come back here!" Kadaj said playfully. "I know we made mistakes before so…lets start over?" She turned around, something about his smile made Wicked skin crawl. "I thought for sure that you'd be with Yazoo right now." He continued
"Huh? Oh, right. I could tell he wanted some time alone so I didn't go with him."
Yazoo, for some reason, wasn't enjoying his drink like he used to. There was something bitter about it that didn't used to be there but explained it away by saying it was a bad brew. He sat there looking out the window. His mind kept thinking about something but he just didn't know what.
"Something wrong Yazoo?" Hikaru asked breaking his train of thought, Yazoo looked back.
"I don't know. What makes you ask?"
"You're normally done with your drink about this time."
"Oh I'm sorry am I taking up room?"
"No, we're never really cramming for places to sit, I was just askin'." The black haired Advent walked away. Yazoo rested his elbows on the table and rubbed his forehead.
"That's a good question though. IS there something wrong?" All Yazoo could think about was how he had acted to Wicked and somewhat told her to go away by being nasty to her. He had been noticing lately, even though he had only known her for a few days, that she seemed to be leaving an effect on him. Normally, if she where Kadaj, or Loz, or some one else that he would have just said 'I want to be alone' to their face. Instead, he had been rude to her and still said she could come along! "I hate this planet! I want to blow it up!" He thought as he drank some more of his coffee. He had finished so he paid and left.
Walking out into the town he saw lovers walking around, some were holding hands, some were holding each other, and others were playing around with each other. Yazoo thought back about what Kadaj had said about his love for Esakatari, "You can't understand love as if it was a science Yazoo! It's just something you have to experience to know what it is." Yazoo looked around again; something was attractive about those people who loved each other that way. He shook his head and kept walking to the gun shop, the only one worth loving at all in his mind was Mother. When he got to the gun shop though he didn't want to go in. He didn't know what he wanted any more. He just kept walking on, passed the gun store, passed the streets, even passed the city limits. By the time he'd realized where he'd gone he didn't care to go back, he almost didn't care about anything any more. He walked on, like he was trying to get away from something that was back there, almost like it was something dark and demonic. As he looked to the horizon he tried to remember what it was that did this to him. Something came across his thoughts and for some reason it hurt him, "Wicked."
Kadaj started to wonder where his brother had gotten off to. He leaned back in the chair and put his hands behind his head
"Yazoo's been away a long time even for some alone time." Kadaj interjected, Loz and Sephiroth both nodded and looked back at the window waiting for him. Wicked over heard them say that and walked in.
"You guys have any guesses on where he went?" Kadaj shrugged, "What about the rest of you?" Loz shook his head and Sephiroth closed his eyes and looked away. Wicked Looked from one Advent to the next. "Okay, what do we do now?"
"Nothing." Kadaj said reaching for his book again.
Yazoo fell to the ground after tripping over a rock in his path. He must have been traveling for a mile by now. As he pushed him self up the pendent around his neck fell out from under his jacket collar. After he was on his feet and standing up strait he hid it under his coat again. Looking over the view of Midgar he started hearing voices in his head. Some one was pulling him to get away from the city and find her.
"Come to me." The voice kept saying as she reached into his thoughts for sympathy. Yazoo turned and went the direction the voice was pulling.
It was about two minutes after Kadaj had started reading that Wicked's instincts suddenly to control and she yelped. Kadaj and the others looked at her curiously as she fell to the floor grabbing her right arm. Wicked moaned like she was in pain and Kadaj got up quickly putting the book down and grabbed her shoulder.
"Wicked?" She kept moaning, "Wicked!" She almost didn't hear that one. Kadaj called out again but she was already too far gone to hear him, she couldn't even feel his hand on her shoulder any more! As she closed her eyes she let go of her self and let the monster inside her cells take hold. The creature claimed her body for battle and she no longer controlled her self. As she opened her eyes she saw Yazoo being pulled into darkness and she almost called out. Everything inside her screamed fight again like the night she fought against Kadaj only this time it was more vital to the point where she had to destroy what ever it was. If she didn't she'd die. As her instincts got more and more critical she felt her body go numb and cold like metal. The first body blade came out of her right elbow then another one on the left. Samurai sword-like spines came shooting out along her vertebrae as four sharp, metal claws shot out of her knuckles on each hand. She felt her eyes burning as they changed into red slits. Her teeth grew into fangs and midnight bat wings came out of her shoulder blades. A black tail with sword-like spines at the end finally completed the transformation and Wicked stood up six and a half feet tall. Kadaj, Loz, and Sephiroth where all to freaked out to think strait as she walked out the door. Getting down on all fours she bolted as fast as the speed of sound to get to Yazoo.
Yazoo was almost to the place where the voice stopped pulling to hard. As he walked to an abandon house his skin crawled. But there was still a voice in the back of his head pulling him on, it was the afternoon by now but the place looked like nighttime. As he reached for the door something inside stopped him. Shaking his head he reached again. No sooner had he reached again then a demon like thing who stood eight feet tall came out of the sky and blocked him, he growled low in his throat. The black bat wings, the sword-like claws and spines, the black tail and sinister red slit eyes all yelled out run. But he didn't move from his spot as he reached for his gun, taking it out he blasted the creature. But the beast only became enraged and started slashing at Yazoo with his big, powerful claws. After dogging a few Yazoo was finally hit and thrown to one side. He hissed in pain as his leg was stuck in between two rocks. The monster was coming back but Yazoo couldn't move. He squeezed his eyes shut as he saw the supernatural being lifted his claws to slash again. A thundering earthquake causing thing shook the grounds and Yazoo opened his eyes. Another beast had joined the fight and was biting at the first one to get it way from him. Yazoo tried to jump up and run away but his leg was still caught. He struggled as he watched the two creatures fight. The second one slashed at the first one and the first one howled, then the first one grabbed at the second one. On and on and on it went until the second one pulled water into it's claws and threw the ball into he other one's face. As the first one was distracted with the water the second one grabbed it's legs and threw him over the house and the fall of the first one smashed the dwelling place to the ground. The creature that saved Yazoo's life breathed hard and fell down on the ground; white light came and surrounded it. After a moment the creature turned into Wicked who stood up and walked over to Yazoo.
"It appears I'm not the only Death trooper who doesn't like you here Yazoo." She said helping him out.
"You mean THAT was another Death Trooper? I thought it was a life stream summoned thing at lest!"
"Well, you could say that we ARE life streamed summoned…by the life stream."
"Huh?"
"It's the life stream's job to command what we Death Troopers do. Like just now I was summoned to protect you by some one in the life stream. Most likely Jenova." Yazoo shrugged and stood up then dusted him self off.
"I thought you didn't WANT us around this planet." Yazoo said.
"I can't decide whom I protect Yazoo, my instincts rise up and I respond to what ever I'm told to do."
"Seems a little bit unstable to me." Yazoo partly glared at her.
"I think of it as something you can't understand by the human eye…or Jenova eye…which ever you prefer." Wicked said smiling. She turned and walked away and Yazoo looked puzzled as he thought about how she got here so fast.
"Hey Wicked? How in the world did you get here so fast? You had to have been going at the speed of light to get here that quickly."
"Speed of sound." Wicked corrected, "And yes, I was using the life stream to fill up with energy."
"Oh, so you weren't using normal power just now?"
"No. I couldn't have gotten here that quickly and still been using normal powers of my own." As they where walking back, Yazoo started to think about what she said about her instincts rising up to defend him and half smiled.
"You sure it was your instincts that raised up to defend me" he looked ay her as he said, "or are you just trying to cover up the fact that you did it because you liked my face?" He was teasing with her of course but she got offended at him.
"WHAT! Me? Defending you because of your FACE? I should slap it off your arrogant head for that!" She raised her hand to slap him but he quickly reached up and grabbed her wrist.
"Bad girl." He said as he pulled her hand back down, "You shouldn't be so ready to hurt people who didn't do anything wrong." She pulled her hand away from him then she planted it on the ground as she kicked at him. Yazoo dodged her foot and grabbed her ankle then pulled her so that she fell on the ground and held her there a while.
Wicked was furious with him. She jerked her foot out of Yazoo's grip and started to kick him again but he dodged that too yet on the other hand he failed to grab her again. Wicked back flipped and landed on a rock behind her. Planting her feet apart she jumped at Yazoo with all her might but ended up getting grabbed by her arm then thrown away like a slingshot. After she landed on the bolder again she thought fast as Yazoo ran after her. She jumped just as he passed her and she got on top of him then as he landed on top of him she jumped off his back. Yazoo groaned in pain as she back flipped again then landed. Yazoo stood up slowly as she darted at him again and turned around. Wicked didn't have enough power as she pushed off again so by the time she got to Yazoo she was almost going as fast as she would be walking. She was attempting to flip backwards again and kick him on her way but ended up being pulled around him in a circle. She closed her eyes and suddenly felt her self smash up against something somewhat soft and warm. She hadn't opened her eyes but she felt something wrap around her and hold her closer. Tired and feeble she relaxed.
Yazoo had pulled the wild girl into his chest to calm her down and to keep her from fighting any more. But when he looked down at her and saw she wasn't moving.
"Oh great." He picked her up in his arms and started walking home again. "If she doesn't stop attacking me…I'm going to change my mind, take a dog chain and shackle her to the floor or even to me! No wait…not me. She'll kill me." Wicked started moving around and when she saw Yazoo carrying her she jumped out of his arms.
"Don't do that! How dare you!" She demanded as she pulled her shirt down and walked away. Yazoo rolled his eyes, when was this girl going to calm down? She was continuously annoying! Yazoo was almost to the point of saying it wasn't worth the effort to get her on their side any more. She was reckless, aggressive, aggravating, rude, and he thought of her as the very devil. What am I saying she IS the devil! He was ready to snap her head off the next time she spoke to him. But he forced to restrain him self. But Yazoo now found the gut to infect her at last with the stigma. So he lead her to a small pool he knew about. But as he infected the water something inside called out to him.
"What are you doing? You can't do that!"
"I'm not listening!"
"Yazoo, stop!"
"I told you I'm not listening!"
"No Yazoo! Wait! Don't you know when your Mother's talking to you?" Yazoo stopped immediately as his pupils contracted.
"Mother!"
"Listen to me! The way you're doing this she'll know through the planet and she'll attack you again. Now. Get her to use the water BEFORE you put the stigma in there. THEN slowly infect the water." Yazoo got up. He saw Wicked coming down to the waters so he pulled the pendent out. Tying it around his neck he pulled some water out and starting to use it, most likely because she needed to practice. As Wicked pulled water from the pool Yazoo slowly infected the water and the stigma flowed over to her. Suddenly Wicked stopped what she was doing and fell over shacking. Yazoo ran over to her then unexpectedly felt guilty. As she shook violently small patches of her skin turned black along with her weird looking tattoo or her watermarks as they where called. Wicked was infected.
As she laid there Wicked felt her skin burning. The world all around her started to change. She remembered that Vincent told her not to do this and she also started to remember Yazoo planning to infect her and she felt foolish for not listening to the warning signs now. It was over, this terminal virus had polluted her and there was nothing any body could do about it. Not Vincent, not Cloud, not even Hojo, No one could save her now. As the sickness grew rapidly she felt a hand rest on her. It was Yazoo; she'd have to respect him now. Her whole world died and she was starting from the beginning all over again.
"No!" She screamed out in her head. "Why me? I didn't do anything to deserve this! Why me? Please let this be a nightmare! I will beg for death before any one tames me!" But the worst of it was. Wicked knew it wasn't a dream, it was really happening to her. She was infected with Geostigma and was on the path to becoming an Advent…just like her captors. The illness had reached it full growth for now and she could breath again. Now that the world was upside down she just wanted some one to understand her, some one she could run to. She opened her eyes again and saw Yazoo over her. As mad as she was at him she quickly sat up and wrapped her arms around his neck, crying. Yazoo was disgusted, and almost pulled her off but changed his mind about it.