Disclaimer: Me no own nothing. And if you flame me about hating Edward Cullen, you obviously have never read a halfway decent vampire fight scene.

A/N: I'M UPDATING! YAY!

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I yawned sitting on my chocobo buried under a hooded cloak and gloves, the sun was high up in the sky, "so are we ready to move out?" Sephiroth asked the group.

"Yeah…" I muttered sleepily.

We rode off into the mountains following a trail up through the mountains, however intuition told me where this trail led, my blue hackles went up, "wait."

Ariella stepped back, her nose in the air. A moment later she leaped into the air, hair burning a bright red as Adarna took her place. She let loose a torrent of fire, the monster in question, simply shook it off. My mind raced through the game enemies to which one we now faced, we reached one of the ones I always struggled to fight. I stood up, leaping off of my chocobo onto the back of the Materia Keeper. "Everyone be careful this thing absorbs magic and it's resistant to attacks until we can break the armor."

Kamui smirked, "well then that armor is going away." She summoned her Keyblades, leaped up into the air and spun around, "Arcana Breaker!" She slammed into the monster with a glowing attack, it staggered for a moment, a layer of shell breaking off.

I leaped back as the stinger attacked the silver haired girl. The stinger slammed into the armor breaking off another chunk. Melinda whipped out a pair of daggers throwing them at the opening in the armor. The beast glared at her for a moment then charged over towards her. She rolled out of the way of the pincers to hide behind a boulder. "Angeal can you get me up there?" She shouted.

He nodded, "Adarna can you hold back that stinger?"

"No sweat," she smirked looping her chains around the tail, "oy fang face can you disable this thing?"

I nodded, "yeah but don't call me fang face!" I leaped off of my perch on an outcrop of rock onto the pinned down stinger. I landed on the armored tail at a blank on how to take it off without hurting myself. "Knife? Knife? I need a knife!" I glanced at the long set of claws on my hands, "okay that works too!" I stabbed into the joint between plates, slashing through, sending the large barb falling to the ground in a pool of acidic goo.

"Vincent!" I heard Kamui scream.

A moment later I felt a convulsion rock the large beast underneath me, over in the right claw I saw Galian Beast breaking loose. Adarna smirked as she continued her hold on the stinger. "Okay fang face! Get over there and get Seph and Angeal out of the way. And make sure that Zacky gets out of the way too."

I sighed, "I thought I told you not to call me fang face!"

"Just do it," she sighed exasperated.

Sephiroth had started to disassemble the left claw in sprays of the acidic blood. Nearby, Zack and Bjanik sat under the protection of Angeal's claymore while tending their wounds. A howl caught my attention overhead, my legs propelled me out of the way of Galian Beast as he dove into the monster's back, between the plates. I dodged out of the way of large bits of who-knows-what and ended up by my friends. "Is everyone okay here?"

"We're just fine," Angeal nodded.

"Where's Melinda?" I asked gazing around the battleground.

All three of them shook their heads, I ran over to the pale, mortified Kamui, "where's Melinda?" The silver haired Turk didn't reply, I rolled my eyes and slapped her. "I asked you a question!"

"I'm right here," she emerged from behind a boulder with a cut over her eye.

"You're okay," I smiled at her quietly.

"Yeah, how are you?" She asked.

I studied my hand with mild interest, "I would seem to have gained a surprising amount of strength."

She giggled, "you could give Edward Cullen a run for his money."

"Feh, I could kick Edward's scrawny ass in my sleep with my hands tied behind my back while wearing a straight jacket."

"Of course," she agreed calmly.

A bizarre rumble came from the hulking mass of the Materia Keeper. Galian Beast's horned head emerged from the corpse, covered in goo. He pulled himself out of the corpse and shook off the goo. Once clean, he reverted to Vincent, muttering something about how nasty the taste in his mouth was. Kamui sprinted up the corpse and over to the gunman. She hugged him tightly before smacking his head, "you dumbass don't you ever do something so stupid again!"

We both laughed as Kamui scolded Vincent, as we started to raided the corpse, I recovered the Counter Attack Materia from under one of the claws. "Alright then guys let's get across these mountains."

"We should take a moment to recover and check out our inventory," Sephiroth cautioned.

"If we do that then we're not gonna cross these mountains before nightfall." I complained.

Angeal walked up putting a hand on my shoulder, "we should take his advice and check inventory first."

Zack smiled, "no worries Koinu, you've got some time to kill!"

"Aww come on!" I shouted confused as to why they were making fun of me for this.

Well after inventory check the rest of the team pitched camp, since it was nighttime I was a lot more awake now. Everyone else fell asleep, I stayed up to study the moon and stars. I knew the names of a few of the recognizable constellations, finally the sun loomed over the horizon. The group broke camp and we set off to Nibelheim. The city, or what remained of it, loomed in the afternoon haze. I gazed out over the city, a large tower stood over the place where Shin-Ra manor once stood, through the streets of the town monsters swarmed around. All of them had yellow bug eyes, glasses shaped marks, black manes that resembled ponytails, and white coats that gave them the appearance of wearing lab coats over their undulating slimy, green skin.

"Ew, they look like mini-Hojos." Zack stuck out his tongue.

"Well Zack what did you expect?" Angeal asked smiling at his friend.

"You know we really should keep some of these, good way to relieve stress, killing Hojo over and over." Sephiroth nodded wisely.

Bjanik nodded, "damn I wish I had some ice cream."

Vincent smirked, "Lucrecia… at last revenge…"

"Amen to that, besides who wouldn't wanna kick the shit outta a buncha Hojos!" Kamui laughed.

Melinda smiled, "are you ready?"

"You know it." I agreed cheerily.