The wedding had gone off without a single problem. Shera Highwind thought as she danced with Cid during the reception. The entire team, and a bunch of their close friends, had been invited, but Vincent and Tifa never arrived. Ehh, who needs 'em. Cid's mind pronounced. The reception party had a DJ, balloons of every color, a top notch caterer serving the party, and most of all, Barret. He was the comedian, to the rest of the guests, and was actually somewhat good. "Hon?" Cid asked his new wife as the slow dance ended.

"Where do ya think Vince n' Teef are? They're beginning to worry me."

Shera replied calmly, "I'm not sure, sweetie. Perhaps we can look for them tomorrow."

Barret became frantic. Mainly because: One, he had ran out of jokes. Two, he couldn't find the chocobo haired swordsman. Damn it, Cloud, why ain't yo spikey ass here, damn it! And where the fuck are you? His thoughts were as though an explosion of anger had been set off in his head, and he couldn't even think straight enough to use logic. Is he doin' it wit' Tifa? I hope he ain't or I'm gonna fuckin' go ballistic on his ass, foo'! In his panic, he ran up to Yuffie and Nanaki. They were dancing together, which seemed awkward enough for the wolf, but he surprisingly acted as though he were human.

"Where's Cloud?" he asked the two frantically.

"Beats me," the tailed one replied, "He said something about finally being with his love."

"Yeah," Yuffie had become sharp as the Masamune blade in an instant. "in the context in which he used that, I think he's talking about Aerith." Yuffie and Nanaki then continued to look into eachother's eyes and dance together.

Barret stupidly shot up into the air in his panic, saying, "Where's Cloud? Where is he?" This created a panic among the partygoers, and a handful of them left.

Cid ran over to the gun armed man, saying, "What the fuck do you think yer doin? Yer fuckin' shootin' into the fuckin' sky in fuckin' scarin' off my fuckin' guests!" This long string of curses caused nearly everyone else to leave, except for the happily married and Barret.

"Shera, I'm so sorry that the reception was ruined." Cid ran back over to Shera, his white tuxedo messed up from the running and anger. He was visibly sweating, and nervous as all hell.

Shera smiled, still calm. "It's already a half past nine, Cid. Perhaps it's a bit late?"

Cid answered, "Yeah, I guess. Shall we?"

Cid picked up his bride in a happily married style and carried her to his house. Barret was left alone, once again. He thought randomly for a half hour before going home and falling asleep. But who exactly said that Cid slept? No one did, and neither did Shera...

The monster looked exactly like Gi Nittak, only it was HUGE. It was so large that it probably could've tossed Meteor at the world, from space. Cloud felt very confident that he would kill the monster, when he notcied something. His sword had disappeared!

'Aerith, you never told me that I wouldn't have my sword!' Cloud furiously thought. For the third time in his life, he had felt anger towards the former flower girl.

'I... forgot. You lose your weapon, but you keep the materia. I'm so sorry.' Aerith seemed to be almost crying now.

Cloud sighed. 'It's okay to make a mistake, Aerith. It's only human... err... Cetra... either one.' He mentally laughed at his own mistake.

It was merely a shortcoming. he thought as he saw the colossal creature. It probably didn't notice him, yet. He remembered, 'The Gi Nittak... it's weak to Holy damage, right?'

'Yes, and this one is at least 25 times as vulnerable. Except to...' Aerith was ignored by Cloud as he reached for an X-Potion from his bag. He threw it at the monster, and it had no effect. The creature turned around and saw the small speck of a human, but couldn't exactly identify it. The monster then turned back around, and Cloud asked mentally, 'what happened? That should've been an instant kill!'

'Like I was saying, before you chose to ignore me, the X Potion is a modern miracle, as is Elixir and Megalixir, but none of these is truly holy. X Potion worked on the first Gi Nittak because it had a different chemical structure than this one, this one is is pure evil.'

'But other potions still work, right?'

'Probably.'

Cloud then immediately grabbed all of the Mega Potions, Hi Potions, and regular Potions he carried, and, using his superhuman ability, threw it all at the monster. They hit dead on, making contact with the monster's head. This barrage of approximately 8,000 potions had nearly the power of Holy on the creature. It shrunk in size, down to a normal sized Gi Nittak. However, he noticed a Slot machine spinning, over and over yet again.

'What the hell? Aerith, can you please enlighten me on what in the seven hells of Dante that is?' Cloud was truly confused about it.

'I... I'm not sure.' Aerith flipped frantically through her spellbook, and noticed something. 'Cripes, it means I've casted the spell wrong. Anything could happen, Cloud. I'm sorry.'

'I'm pretty much boned, right?'

'Probably. Unless...' Aerith flipped through her book like mad again, and spoke again, 'If that slot machine ends up on a zero, or a cherry symbol, you immediately appear by my side. If it appears on a skull symbol, you have 30 seconds to live. I'm not sure about what anything else means...'

'Let's both pray that it ends up on a cherry or a zero sign.' Cloud went into a praying position. Cetra spells sure are weird.

Vincent walked downstairs, to the basement where the coffin was. He walked up to it and... What the hell? the timeless man thought as he walked up to the coffin. The coffin was on fire! Vincent panicked for a second,

"Tifa, Tifa? Where are you?" he shouted into the sky in a fit of rageBut then he saw something else, that the coffin was open. Vincent quickly searched the house for her, to no avail yet again. He pitifully fell to the ground, crying. He cried for 2 whole minutes, before the smoke made him fall unconscious. He fell into a dream...

"Vince, honey?" A female voice asked through a huge fog. Vincent immediately recognized the voice and answered back.

"Lucrecia? Is that you?"

The voice said back to him, "Yes, my love. I am Lucrecia. I see that you've found someone else to love."

"Well of course," Vincent shone the most emotion he had in years. "because you're dead. I'm not as idiotic as that Cloud... but where is she?"

Lucrecia's form walked forward from the smoke. "Please, come back, Vince." Vincent was socked at this, and then realized something. "You... you took her, didn't you? Tifa Lockheart, you've kidnapped her. Somehow you have."

Lucrecia's gentle smile turned into an angry frown. "If you won't come back to me, Vincent, then I'll deal with you my own way. Have fun dealing with Sephir-"

The crying man awoke from his unconsciousness. He remembered the dream and took it as an omen to look for the woman who he desired. He searched all over Nibelheim, after saving Tifa's omelette in the refridgerator, which worked, surprisingly enough. His search results came out to nothing. He wondered, In that dream, Lucrecia said that I would have to deal with Sephir- then I came back to reality. Perhaps Sephiroth kidnapped her? He casted Ice3 a couple times to put out the fire in the basement, which did nothing except char a couple of books and burn out the coffin. Vincent sought help, so he grabbed his stuff (which all fit into a knapsack) and rode on his personal Fenrir to Rocket Town. Perhaps Cid would help, unless he was off on another of thoe crappy get rich quick schemes. Phlogiston, like Barret said. What a load of garbage.

Vincent's journey took about 3 hours, only because his fenrir was rusty and old. He could barely average 30 miles per hour, let alone match Cloud's speeds. Speaking of, he didn't even awake me at all. the longhaired lover thought as his motorcycle turtled along.

It was 10:00 PM, judging once again by his electric watch, that he pulled up in front of Cid's home. The sky was dark as ever, the air bitter and cold. As he pulled in, a limousine pulled up to the street as well, when Cid walked out, carryingShera, marriage style, into his home. About 5 minutes later, Cid walked outside to greet his old friend.

"Hey, Vince! My idea worked, I can actually recreate your weapon, and all of our Ultimate Weapons, using phlogiston! Isn't it great?"

"Cid, I need you and the gang's help. Tifa's been kidnapped."

Cid was suddenly suspicious. "She was gone for a long time, Vince. Sleeping with you, a little birdy tells me."

Vincent immediately blushed, and replied, "That's not the point. I need to find her. And where's Cloud?"

Cid responded back, "I thought he was fightin' ya! Well, this whole helpin' you thing. I guess my company and I will help, under one condition. We start tomorrow, and after we save her, you two get married."

Vincent blushed even more. "I have wanted to ask her for a while now. May I sleep outside, here?"

"Sure."

Cid walked back inside, and Vincent fell asleep on top of his rusty fenrir. Another day, another life saved.

-o- Damn, my plan has been foiled, at least for now...-o-

A/N:Sorry it took so long to update, the comp fell and I needed to use the library computers. An hour is never enough time to write a chapter. R&R.

-Master Chief(tain)