Hey everyone! Here's the long awaited new chapter!
Sorry my chapters for my stories haven't been coming out sooner, I've been really busy lately and I'm also currently sick, so it might be a while before the next chapter for a couple of my stories is out, but I am trying!
Also, I rewrote a few things in the last two chapters of this story, so you might want to go check it out!
Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter!
~Snow.
I do not own DGM or FF VII.
Komui sighed as he was shaken awake by a certain concerned 'rabbit'. "What is it..?" He mumbled sleepily, burying his head further into his arms, having fallen asleep the night before at a desk in one of the empty rooms in the large mansion, and was rather content in his position, planning on sending the red-haired Exorcist away to catch up on more sleep.
"I heard water running!" Lavi responded quickly, "From the bathroom in Allen's room."
That made Komui sit up, his glasses nearly slipping off the edge of his nose as he looked at the red-haired teen.
"Allen's awake?" Komui asked in surprise, pushing himself away from the desk, nearly jumping up out of the chair as Lavi nodded.
"Pretty certain." The one-eyed Exorcist told Komui as the scientist moved over towards a hook where his lab coat was hanging. Komui pulled his lab coat off of the hook as he stated, "I'm going to go check on him."
Komui hurried past Lavi, who looked torn between following him or going and telling the others, though Komui was pretty certain that Bookman and Kanda really wouldn't care about Allen's current state… Well, Bookman might be interested while Kanda would probably threaten the red-haired teen with his normal "I'm going to gut you." Threat.
Komui looked around the mansion curiously while he walked. He'd been there for about a week now, having been called to the mansion a week and a half ago when a panicked Lavi had called, telling him that an Akuma had attacked Allen and that the boy was surrounded by a strange looking cloud.
He had explored the mansion rather happily, and was shocked to find a rather advanced lab down past the cells in the basement. The lab looked even more advanced than the Black Order's own ones!
He couldn't understand a thing that was written though, when he had turned on the computers and dug through the files. They were all in a language even Bookman, who knew practically every language, even the dead ones, did not know.
Bookman seemed only half as interested in the lab, but more interested in the library leading to the lab, although the books too, were in a different language.
Sighing quietly to himself, Komui found that he was standing outside the bedroom door to Allen's temporary room, taking a deep breath, he reached for the handle, opened the door and froze. If he had been holding something, it would've dropped.
There, sitting on the bed, wasn't the usual white-haired silver-eyed, short, teenaged Exorcist with a scar on his cheek and above his eye that he knew.
No.
There was an older teenager sitting there, short night-black hair and crimson eyes that seemed to glow. This teen was taller, and there wasn't a scar on his cheek or above his eye.
He took a shaky breath and took in more of the teen.
He was wearing a black, long sleeved button up shirt, leather looking pants with quite a few belts, a red cloak-cape looking thing. A red sash was tied around the teen's neck.
Komui watched as the person moved slightly to look at him, the clock moving t-
HOLY SHIT, was that a GUN in a GUN holster on the teen's leg?!
"Komui…" The person greeted him quietly, making Komui's gaze snap away from the gun holster and onto the man sitting there. "What… Happened to me..?" Komui took note of the confused and clearly panicked look on… On Allen's face.
Vincent looked at Komui in well practiced confusion and panic, silently thanking Minevra for his Turk training.
"I don't know Allen…" Komui said slowly, walking fully into the room and shut the door behind himself, moving to grab a nearby chair and pulled it to in front of the teen before he sat down.
"Do remember what happened?" Komui asked eagerly, curiosity burning in the scientist's eyes.
"No… I don't know what happened exactly…" Vincent lied, faking a confused frown. "One minute I was looking around the mansion for the Innocence, or whatever it was that the Akuma and Noah's wanted, the next thing I knew I was holding this sphere thing and an Akuma was attacking me… I blanked again and when I woke up I was in this room wearing clothes too small for me and that I looked different…" Vincent trailed off.
"What did you do after you awoke?" Komui asked curiously.
"I got up and made my way to the bathroom, I took a shower after looking over my new body… Then I cut my hair, it was longer than Kanda's." Vincent pretended to grimace, "I found some clothes that fit me in here, along with this cape, which I thought I'd wear since my Exorcist cloak won't fit me, plus it's cold and I'll still stand out wearing this… Thing."
Komui nodded slowly, the cape… Thing… Would easily stand out in a crowd.
"You can wear it then until we get back to the Order and get you proper clothes and a new coat." Komui decided.
Vincent nodded silently before faking hesitation and asked quietly, "What are we going to tell the others? About my new looks..?"
Komui paused and frowned for a moment, thinking quickly before sighing. "The truth. That you changed appearances and have no idea what had happened to cause so…"
Vincent nodded slowly. "Will I be allowed to leave this room soon?"
"You can leave anytime you like Allen." Komui responded, smiling at the teenager. "It's best we… We break it to the others soon."
Vincent nodded again, flashing Komui a nervous smile as the man left the room.
Waiting until he heard Komui's footsteps fade away Vincent sighed and fell back onto the bed, running his fingers through his short hair, thinking. How in Shiva's name was he going to keep his past life a secret? Sure, he had been a Turk, but he'd been different in this life and the last one.
This life he was Allen Walker, Exorcist of the Black Order and a friend to all, willing and helpful, yet, a pawn, and a fighter.
In his past life he had been Vincent Valentine, member of the Turks and later on AVALANCHE. He had been secret and quiet, passionate in his past life too, and he had trust issues.
To have his lives merge it was… It was overwhelming.
Rubbing his eyes he couldn't help but groan and roll onto his stomach. Vincent couldn't, didn't want to deal with all this right now, and he was tired. More so than he had ever felt in either of his lives.
Grimacing at a few sore muscles he slid under the covers of the bed, deciding to deal with everything after getting a few hours at least, of sleep.
It wasn't long before Vincent had fallen into a deep sleep.
Komui sighed quietly to himself as he made his way down the hallway of the mansion.
Just what had Allen gotten himself into?
Deciding to avoid the others for now, other than telling them that Allen had woken up and seemed alright, Komui made his way away from Allen's bedroom and towards the stairs, which would lead him downstairs and to the kitchen where he was certain everyone was currently.
A few minutes later Komui proved to be correct, walking into the kitchen he saw Bookman looking over a book that he had pulled from the library with interest, while Kanda was eating.
Looking around he spotted Lavi in the corner in a chair, who had been looking over a book as well, but when he had entered the room Lavi looked up and over at him, snapping the book shut.
"How's Moyashi?" Lavi called from his corner, getting Kanda and Bookman's attention, which they turned to Komui as he moved to sit down at the table.
"Allen's fine but… But changed."
"Changed how?" Kanda raised an eyebrow.
"His looks… His voice… His personality seems normal, and he doesn't remember fully what had happened that day…" Komui frowned slightly, running his fingers through his hair. "Allen should be down soon."
Lavi seemed to relax at hearing this, nodding he opened the book again and once again turned his attention to it.
"Why are you so interested in that book?" Kanda rolled his eyes at Lavi, "It's not like you can read it, stupid rabbit."
Lavi merely shrugged and ignored Kanda, favoring the book while Bookman frowned too.
Vincent groaned as he unwillingly opened his eyes, rolling onto his back he glanced at the clock. It was close to six. He raised his eyebrows in slight shock. He'd been asleep for hours, rather than days he hoped.
Getting up he grimaced at his sore muscles again, though they did feel better than what they had felt just a bit earlier.
Vincent made his way over to the bathroom, brushing his hair and his teeth before fixing his clothing, making himself look proper before he left the bathroom, straightening his cloak he made his way out of the bedroom door and down the familiar hallways and stairs and to the kitchen.
Silently he walked in, burying his face into the familiar smell of his cloak, hiding his mouth and part of his nose.
The sound of footsteps alerted everyone in the room, Kanda had been eating his dinner, Soba Noodles again, when he heard the footsteps and looked up, his eyes widening and he dropped his chopsticks in surprise.
Bookman looked from the book he'd been attempting to translate, but with little luck, and stared at Vincent, taking in his new look and nodded slightly.
Lavi on the other hand, dropped his book in shock and his jaw dropped. "Moyashi?!" Lavi choked, eyeing Vincent in shock when he had gathered himself slightly.
"It's V-Allen, Lavi." Vincent quickly covered his slip up, glaring at Lavi.
"I know Komui aid you changed, b-but holy shit!" Lavi's eye was practically popping out of his eye socket, as he looked over his best friend several times.
Vincent shifted uncomfortably and silently made his way over to the cupboard, looking inside he asked quietly. "Is there anything to eat?"
Snapping out of his moment of shock Kanda gave a snort. "We had to buy supplies, stupid Moyashi, this place has been abandoned for years."
Vincent shrugged slightly, eyeing the odd,(well, odd to people of that age), food inside of it.
Sighing Vincent closed the doors, closing his eyes as he remembered that he didn't exactly really need food in this body. Not only did Mako take care of that, but so did a few experiments that Hojo had done on him, as well as Chaos' own ways.
"When are we leaving here?" Vincent asked, turning away from the cupboard to face the others in the kitchen, Bookman was reading again, while Kanda had silently finished his dinner, and Lavi had picked the book up and was currently looking for the page he had been on before Vincent had walked in. "Did Komui say?"
Lavi shook his head, smiling slightly as finding his page and went back to looking at the book. "Nah. I suppose it'll be soon though, seeing as you're awake and walking again."
"I suppose…" Vincent agreed quietly, glancing around the kitchen, a look of longing in his eyes. What he would give to be done already with saving the world so he could just retire to this mansion again.
Sure, he had those moments where he hated the mansion with a passion, it had been his prison while Lucretia and Hojo had done their experiments on him, but it also held fond memories of AVALANCHE and of Cloud.
"I think…" Vincent voiced quietly, "I think I'm going out for a while…" He murmured, silently stalking across the floor and out of the kitchen before anyone could say anything.
Silently Vincent walked, glancing around the familiar mansion as he did so, a slight smile hidden behind his cloak as he made his way to the tallest room of ShinraMansion.
Slipping out of the window, Vincent carefully climbed to the top of the mansion, ignoring the snow as he walked across the roof and over to his favorite spot to sit on nights like this. Glancing up at the cloudless sky, Vincent looked out at the stars.
Closing his eyes Vincent sighed quietly, sitting down he opened his eyes again and looked out at the snow covered town. Relaxing against the roof, Vincent's crimson eyes looked out in the dark, smiling at seeing the way the snow glittered as the lights from the windows of the houses shown from the windows, and inhaling he took in the scent of the pine trees nearby.
While he couldn't retire just yet, Vincent was going to make sure that the small amount of time that he was going to spend here was going to be relaxing.
Letting go of his fears and concerns for the night, Vincent merely allowed himself to enjoy being alive again, just for the time being. He could deal with everything later…
Right?
And that's the chapter!
I hope you guys all liked it, and also, can anyone guess who else is going to be a reincarnation of someone from FF VII?
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~Snow.