Advent Children

Chapter 3

Bahamut Sin rose up into the air and released a blast down onto the monument of those who died during the Jenova Wars. Everyone that was still around it was thrown to the ground. Denzel opened his eyes and saw Tifa lying on the ground next to him. When he shook her arm, she didn't get up.

Denzel got up and turned to the dragon, "You son of a bitch!" He started running at it but a hand grabbed his shoulder.

Barret stepped in front of him and changed his robotic hand to a machine gun and opened fire on Bahamut Sin. "I'll take care of this! Marlene has better be okay!"

Behind them, Tifa got up. "Denzel!"

A four point shuriken was thrown at one of the hell hounds. Yuffie then made a grand entrance dropping from the sky via parachute. Denzel though it was rather impressive until she almost threw up. "All right, who's been messing with my material?!"

"The bad guys, naturally," Tifa said with a smile. As she ran forward, several hell hounds surrounded the two.

Cid dropped on one, impaling it on his spear. He then swung it around and knocked aside the rest of them. "She's a beauty," he said, pointing up at his new airship. "The Shera. I'll give you the grand tour later."

They heard a chocobo wark behind them. Vincent got off Zen'Nathas and pats him hard on the rump, sending him back to the stables. "Where can I get a phone?" he asked as he walked by them.

"Who's that?" Denzel asked.

"They're our friends." Denzel looked up at Tifa as if to say 'you have some weird friends'. They heard a bike next.

Cloud was behind them, putting his swords into his sheath. "Marlene is fine; I left her at the diner. I think I lost some weight. Must have been all that silly sally and dilly dally."

"Denzel, go back to Seventh Heaven," Tifa told him.

"Alright. Cloud, you're coming back, right?"

Cloud nodded. "Tifa, let's go!"

Vincent was jumping from spire to spire, firing the Cerberus. In the back of his mind, he kept a check of where everyone was. When his chance came, he jumped and landed right on Bahamut Sin's right shoulder. Firing at its face, he kept it from thinking about the others. Switching sides, he jumped off again. But he didn't jump fast enough. A claw came up behind him and knocked him down to the buildings.

Digging his claw into the metal, he righted himself and activated the green materia inside the Cerberus, casting haste on the group.

"We're not getting through the scales!" Barret called, charging up for another blast of his main canon.

Vincent holstered the Cerberus for a moment and grabbed the Death Penalty. He aimed for his chest and fired several times. The scales cracked and fell away and he holstering it again.

Barret was about to get hit but Cloud got there and saved him. "Where the hell have you been!?"

Determined to keep its attention on them, him, Yuffie, and Barret aimed for the break on the chest. Bahamut Sin turned to them and brought a claw down on Vincent. Unable to move in time, he could only absorb the blow.

"Vinnie!" Yuffie screamed when the claw hit the beam and bent it. But then the claw was forced up a bit and Yuffie let out a sigh of relief.

Vincent, though glad the claw didn't crush him, wasn't relieved. His claw was now stuck in one of the bones the made up the giant hand.

Cloud landed on its head and started slashing at its eyes. Bahamut Sin raised a hand to swat at the bothersome human, dragging Vincent along with it.

With nothing else to do, Vincent aimed the Cerberus at the claw and activated the Master Magic. Fire engulfed the claw, and Vincent, and seared away everything that wasn't fire proof. Vincent started falling, with some burns on his face but none the worse for wear.

As he landed on another beam, Bahamut decided enough was enough and took flight. Cloud jumped after him, reaching it with the help of Barret. But it knocked him back down to the surface. Cid spun his spear, using the momentum to send him back up. In turn, each of them gave a hand to Cloud, sending him farther than he would have alone. As Cloud was swallowed by the Giga Flare of the dragon, Vincent thought he saw a woman reach a hand out to him, a woman wearing a pink dress with long, brunette hair.

"She was always the one to help him the most wasn't she?" Vincent mused as he watched the Giga Flare dissipate and Cloud land on the dragon and used climb hazard on it, dealing the fatal strike.

Yuffie gave a cheer but cut it short when an explosion destroyed the top of a building. Oddly enough, Cloud was already on the Fenrir driving towards it. "How did he get on it so fast?"

Vincent shook his head, almost as dumbfounded as she was.

"Alright, everyone on board the Shera! And don't even think about puking on it, BRAT!" Cid yelled around the cigarette in his mouth.

"Shut up and start flying the THING!" Yuffie replied as she boarded the Airship.

When they finally caught up with Cloud, him and Kadaj fighting. "Cloud, I brought you materia. Whoa, hey watch it!" Yuffie said that last to Cid.

"Yo Cid, park this turkey!" Barret called to him.

"Shut up! You want off, jump! Get off my back!" Cid replied.

"He can handle this alone," Vincent said his arms crossed over his chest.

"Huh?" asked Yuffie.

"Kadaj is a remnant of Sephiroth. Think of him as a sort of larval form." Vincent stated.

"Larval, you mean, he's an insect?!" Yuffie asked, as a joke.

"Lassy, shut you trap," Cait Sith said from atop of Red XIII.

"So the punk's going to become Sephiroth," Cid said.

"Vincent, does Cloud know, about Kadaj?" asked Tifa.

"One would think," he replied.

"Then you're right. It's his fight now," Tifa said, turning back to the fight below.

"What, I don't get it, why can't we help out?" Yuffie asked.

"This is man talk." Cid said, just to agitate her.

"Sexist, Sexist!"

"Criky lass, shut you mouth!" Cait Sith said, getting agitated himself.

"Men don't get it either," Barret said, a little confused by it all.

"Two years ago. Think all the strength we had when we fought that last battle. It's only been a couple years but already that feeling is gone. But Cloud, I think he's found it again." Tifa said, explaining to those who didn't get it.

"Pht, he's got ten minutes," Barret said dismissively.

"That Cloud is a royal pain in the ass, like always," Yuffie said to Tifa.

"Cloud is Cloud," Tifa said in agreement. Vincent turned around and left the cockpit. "But I doubt that he is as big a pain in your neck as 'Vinnie'."

Yuffie glared at her for a moment and then sighed. "You have no idea."

Vincent went to the engine room and waited. Win or lose, he was no longer involved, it was Cloud's fight. With nothing else to do, he took out the Cerberus and started cleaning the barrels.

Hello, Gaia to Vincent, come in Vincent! What in the name of the Nine Hells are you doing?!

You are never going to give up, are you?

No, now let's review, shall we? First, you love Yuffie, you have a gift for Yuffie, and you are only fifty feet from Yuffie. But you don't want to be with her why?

Do you really have to ask that, you, the cause of why? I am no longer human.

And the fun of being human is? Even if you're not human, you can still be with her. I swear, if you don't go talk to her, I will make you!

No. Vincent closed off the area of his mind that the demons had taken up residence and went about cleaning his gun.

Stubborn ass came from within his mind and he knew it wasn't from Chaos.

Just like Vincent predicted, Kadaj changed into Sephiroth. And Cloud was able to handle him. Seeing Sephiroth again didn't hurt him this time. The son of Lucrecia Crescent had already died, this was just another monster.

Yuffie was standing at by the door to the church thinking about all that had happened this time they had gotten together. And yet Vincent had barely said a word to her. She could tell he wanted to say something but something else was holding him back.

Wait, why am I just waiting here when I should go get him and force him to talk?! She turned outside and went searching for him.

Author notes: Ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to inform you that 1sniperwolf is in severe condition due to the attack from Chaos. (Yuffie sticks her tongue out at Vinnie who sends the message on to the demon) And he apologizes for the delay in getting this fanfic back running.

1sniperwolfdoes not own any of the Final Fantasy 7. Sad but true.