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Thoughts began to consume his mind, when the breeze took on an undertone scent of blood. Vincent's eyes widened slightly as one thought pushed out all the rest….Cloud! Dashing out the window and allowing his cape to become wings for his ascent, Vincent took to the sky in hopes of finding the boy before it was too late. After all, the boy ran off before he could tell him that Shinra had a base in Junon.

Vincent

Vincent was quick to locate the scene of the blood bath. Dropping down, he took count of the situation. There lay ten bodies strewn about the street, all human. The only clear signs of Cloud's involvement were his scent and partial handprints near a brick wall. With no clear sight of where Cloud disappeared to, Vincent's worry skyrocketed. It did not help that there was another vampire's scent subtly hidden in with the scent of blood.

…Click…

Vincent turned his head to the side and caught sight of a young red head holding a fully extended elctro-mag rod. The hair mixed with the scent told Vincent that this vampire was in fact a stage two: mix breed vampire. The stranger's outfit told Vincent that this vampire was a Turk for Shinra.

"…What do you want, Turk?" Disdain clear in Vincent's voice.

The stranger smirked back. "Well, ain't you Mr. Sunshine. You know why I'm here, yo."

"…"

"Will you becoming willingly or are we gonna dance, yo?"

Vincent swiftly analyzed his options. He could try to make a run for it or he could fight. Escaping would give him more chance to regroup and search for Cloud, but it came with a chance of getting caught by any backup the Turk had managed to call before his arrival. Meanwhile, fighting would allow Vincent to take out a threat and forcibly obtain Cloud's location, but it could lead to unwanted attention directed towards the fact that he was alive. Milliseconds ticked by as Vincent made his choice.

Carefully regarding Vincent, the stranger charged full speed at Vincent; arm arched in a low swing ready to stun his opponent into compliance. Obviously interpreting Vincent's silence to mean a fight. As his rod came within a centimeter or touching Vincent. The silent figure redirected the rod over his shoulder and delivered a solid hit to the stranger's abdomen, sending the teen flying onto his back in the middle of the street. In the second it took for the teen to get up, Vincent pulled his guns.

The teen raised his hands. "Whoa…Whoa… No need to pull out those bad boys. Besides it's a little late for them, don'tcha think, yo?"

That's when Vincent graceful sidestepped a blow aimed at the back of his head, and moved one gun to aim at another Turk. This one was an older looking male with a darker complexion. He chose to pair tinted sunglasses with his ironed-suit. From the tensing and flash of worry over the red head, it was clear that these were partners in more than one way. Vincent could use this.

"…Where is Cloud?" Vincent directed his question towards the talkative red head.

"…Who's Cloud, yo?"

Vincent didn't like the response, and he shot the glasses off of the second Turk, leaving the man to have blood drip down his face from the graze.

"S*#!" The talkative one breathed.

"Cloud…"

The red head looked to his partner in a silent exchange.

Sigh. "He's the petite blonde, right?"

"…"

"Right. Well, he may have found himself on the fast track to Hojo's lab."

Vincent did not like that answer, and his eye shimmered with discontent. Seeing this, the others swallowed, thinking they would need to rush the man for any chance of survival.

Before either Turk could make a move, Vincent took flight and was on his way back to the hotel where he could plan his next move.

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Cloud

Cloud woke up in a daze. He was in a small bright room, trapped with no windows or doors. Looking down, Cloud noticed that he no longer had on his normal clothes, but had on a strange hospital gown.

Suddenly Cloud heard a loud voice sound. "Welcome to Shinra, test subject 59687. We have a lot of work ahead of us."

Part of the wall detached itself and flew open and before Cloud could move in protest, two hulking men took hold of his arms and dragged him into the new passage.

What was going on? Wasn't he supposed to train with Vincent? How was he captured so quickly?

They passed other corridors as the men continued to drag a terrified Cloud. Getting over his shock, Cloud began to jerk around and attempt to flee. It was futile, and he eventually found himself strapped to a steel slab.

Cloud watched as the men retreated back into the corridor, leaving him alone in his dimly lit surroundings. He did not have to wait too long before another person joined him. This man was dressed in a white coat, wore glasses and had his long greasy black hair pulled back into a pony tail.

The man ignored Cloud in favor of reviewing a chart and making notes. After what felt to be an eternity of silence, the man looked at Cloud. The man's hawkish eyes were predatory in their scan of his body, making Cloud feel overly conscious of his situation. From what he had gathered, this man had to be Hojo, and if that was the case, Cloud knew he was in trouble. Had Cloud been paying closer attention he would have seen the slight gleam in Hojo's eyes which told of a painful future. Hojo looked away from his pet project in favor of barking out orders to staff in the corridor.

"I want this room set up with everything on this chart in the next thirty minutes, or I swear I will fire every single one of you. Do you hear me?"

"Yes, sir."

"Good, get to work."

It wasn't long before a bright light shown in Cloud's face and an IV containing glowing green liquid was hooked up to his arm. Once set up had been complete, Cloud was left alone to the merciless Hojo. Professor Hojo grinned down at Cloud in sheer malice as he picked up a scalpel.

"Let's have some fun, shall we?"

Hours afterward, one could still hear the screams emanating from that room.

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