"Ok Cloud, where are we going" asked Yuffie walking in with Vincent, both looking equally annoyed.
"There." said Cloud pointing to Rocket Town.
'Good I need a new weapon, my Death Penalty is to big for me to handle now... And with Sephiroth after me...' thought Vincent.
"Good we can stay in a hotel for once." said Yuffie.
"Yeah I agree! It's been forever since we had a bath" said Tifa.
So finally they arrived at rocket town, Vincent walked off since this was such a small town, he wouldn't get lost especially since he knew where the hotel and Cid's house was. He walked into the town with out anyone to acompany him. He looked around he knew where everything wa it just seemed bigger and towering towards him. He wandered a bit till he got to the weapons shop, he walked in to see a variety of pistoles (A/N I can't spell so bare with me thanks!). He went to the counter and put exactly 2000 gil up there.
"I would like that gun over there." pointed Vincent.
"Huh! Kid your far to young you'd blow yer eye out" said the shop owner.
"No I wouldn't I'm perfectly good with a gun, I've had 25 years of practice." explained Vincent.
"Yeah in your dreams, your not even over the age of five." said the shop owner.
"No, I'm perfectly an adult I'm just..." said Vincent before he was cut off.
"Most kids your age say that, sorry son, I wasn't born yesterday." joked the owner. Vincent let out a sigh, then Cloud came in.
"Vincent what're you doing in here" asked Cloud picking up the small child.
"Was trying to get a weapon, you know who's after me." explained Vincent.
"Sorry sir, he's to young to carry a gun or a weapon for that matter." said the shop owner.
"How 'bout I buy that then? I'm not to young to carry one." said Cloud giveing off a smirk.
"Alright suit yer self." said the shop owner, Cloud with the weapon and 2000 gil gone left the store.
"Cloud you didn't have to do that." said Vincent holding the small gun in his hands.
"It's alright, not like there was a way you could get the weapon your self." said Cloud"Any way I don't care about about spending so little gil I have thousands." said Cloud.
"Yeah... Damn you Sephiroth..." muttered Vincent.
"... Vincent, we'll get you back to normal one way or another." said Cloud, he looked down at the small child he was carrying.
"Thanks, Cloud, that means a lot to me..." Vincent muttered. Cloud could tell Vincent was so sick of being such a small being.
"It's ok, now, let's get back to the hotel? Yuffie was kinda worrying that's why I came out to look for you." said Cloud.
"She... She was" asked Vincent. He looked up at Cloud,he was flustering again, his face was a crimson red, Cloud just smiled, Vincent looked a lot different without the bandana and collar of the cape to cover up his face.
"Yeah worried sick." said Cloud walking along with Vincent, he looked down and saw Vincent looking kind of worrily ahead of him. "What's wrong"
"Uhm... what if she spanks me" asked Vincent, he stared up at Cloud.
"Ah... Uh... Well... I'm sure she won't." said Cloud"But then you were gone for about an hour or two and we couldn't get ahold of you with the PHS." said Cloud.
"Mhph..." replied Vincent getting picked up by Cloud.
"Now how about we go in, I'll protect your butt from Yuffie." said Cloud smileing at Vincent.
"Ha...ha..ha... Very funny Cloud" said Vincent sarcastically. He frowned a little he didn't like those jokes, he thought that was embarrassing enough, about being spanked.
They entered, Yuffie nearly hyper ventalated looking for Vincent. "Vincent! There you are" she gasped running over and hugging the small child in her arms. Vincent nearly suffercated from the vice grip bear hug.
"Yu-Yuffie! Let go" said Vincent the best he could. He pulled away a bit, and then caught his breath, he looked at Yuffie and he started blushing.
"I was worried" said Yuffie.
"I'm sorry, it takes a while for me to find things when I'm this young, and small." said Vincent.
"From now on one of us will have to go with you." said Red sitting next to the shrunken Vincent.
"Yeah I agree with Red, you need to be careful, if Sephiroth is after you, he could just kill you in plain sight, without any hesitation." said Tifa.
"Well he does have a weapon now." said Cloud.
"Weapon or not a little child cannot fend off Sephiroth on his own." said Yuffie.
"I'm not that young" said Vincent, he was pulled towards Yuffie and was hugged once more.
"Yes you are, your not a child mentally, but your a child phsyically, and the physical is what matters." said Red.
"Yeah could be to damn dangerous for you, if that Sephiroth is runnin' around after you." said Barret.
"I agree with Barret, kid you gotta stick with one of us." said Cid.
"..." replied Vincent.
Later on, Vincent started to feal a little uneasy, unsafe, he snuggled up against Yuffie, and started to fall asleep, as he went into dream land he started haveing a nightmare.
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"...?... I'm an adult" asked Vincent, there was nothing but darkness surrounding him, then a blurry figure started to appear infront of him.
"Hello, Vincent..." said a chilling voice.
"Sep-Sephiroth" said Vincent backing away slowly.
"I'm surprised your still alive... I must not have taken all the strong ages out of you, I still feal young." said Sephiroth, Vincent backed away slowly, he looked back at himself he was a child once more in his dream, and getting younger. He was now but a mere infant in his dream, just probably learning how to walk, and he now couldn't talk.
"He he he ha ha ha ha" laughed Sephiroth, indeed he was strong than before, infact nearly normal. Vincent struggled to his feet to run but all he did was trip, Vincent sat up and looked back at Sephiroth. Sephiroth approached him slowly as to attack him, Vincent started to cry a little, he closed his eyes, and awaited the strike of death.
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"Vincent... Vincent wake up." said Yuffie lightly shakeing the child awake, his eyes opened widely and sweat poured off his face, he sat up and looked at Yuffie.
"Y-Y-Yuffie" asked Vincent weakly.
"Oh... You were haveing a nightmare" said Yuffie hugging Vincent"Shhh... It's alright now."
"No... No it's not... he's going to come after me again, and this time... I won't make it through." said Vincent.
"Who's comeing after you? Sephiroth" asked Yuffie. Vincent shuddered with fear, he burried his face in Yuffie's shoulder, and started crying again.
"What happened in your dream little one" asked Yuffie holding him close to her.
"It's Sephiroth, he... He's going to try and make me younger." said Vincent.
"What? Your already at the peak of getting out of toddler years, what more ages could he get out of you" asked Yuffie.
"I... I don't know, and after that he showed me, he was going to kill me." said Vincent.
"Well you'll just have to stay with me now won't you" asked Yuffie.
"...Mh-hm..." replied Vincent.
"Alright let's go back to bed." said Yuffie falling asleep with the small child in her arms.
'Please yuffie, I don't want you getting hurt because of me.' thought Vincent as he closed his eyes and fell asleep once more.
Chapter 11... End!
