The first of Chaos
"Are you sure?" Rufus Shin-ra asked sitting behind his desk.
"Positive sir, she is a Cetra." Reno said.
"We can't be sure if she is a pureblooded Cetra or not with her running around like this. Bring her in."
"Yes sir." Reno and Rude said as they turned to leave.
Back with Kat
Kat was playing with Marlene up stairs when the sound of many people walking into the bar came. Kat recognized Reno's voice but that was the only voice she recognized.
"Where is the Cetra girl?" Kat her someone ask.
Cloud walked past Marlene's room where they were playing up stairs. He looked into the room and made a motion for Kat to stay there. Then he walked down stairs.
"What's going on?" Cloud asked.
"Cloud where is the Cetra girl?" Reno asked.
"She's not here anymore she left." Tifa said.
"Where did she go?" the strange voice asked.
"She said she was going to the northern cave. She said she wanted to see that place. She didn't believe it was real."
"Then you don't mind us having a look up stairs then do you?" A woman's voice said.
"Actually- Hey don't go up there!" Tifa yelled . Marlene pulled Kat up and into the bathroom closing the door and locking it. Kat could hear the people that were looking for her shuffling around through everything. A knock on the door came and the same strange voice said.
"Open up."
"I'm in here! You cant come in!" Marlene yelled out. Kat could tell that the man was a little taken back to find a child in the bathroom but he said in the same cool tone." Apologies miss." Kat could see the mans shadow that blocked some of the light coming from under the door move. Marlene smiled at Kat not saying a word. They waited it out until they herd talking from down stairs again.
"We have children up there you probably scared them! That's why I didn't want you up there." Tifa said. The bathroom was a lot closer to the stairs than Marlene's room.
"Please leave." Cloud said.
"We know you are hiding the Cetra girl. Its only a matter of time before we find her again." Reno said. A while later Cloud knocked on the bathroom door and said.
"They are gone, you can come out now." Marlene opened the door with joy to be out of the small bathroom.
"Cloud, didn't they see my stuff? They know that I am here."
"Your stuff was in the corner and they didn't even bother to look at it. Reno was the one that checked your room. He lets a lot of thing pass his mind with out thought but next time they come I suggest that we hind your stuff."
"ok" Kats phone began to ring. When she answered it was Vincent.
"Kat are you alright? I just saw the turks leaving the Seventh Heaven."
"I'm ok Vincent, they didn't see me. Here lets talk at the bar." Kat said hanging up. Vincent seemed really worried that the Turks had found her. Kat walked down stairs and a little while later Cid walked in along with Vincent.
"Vincent here has been scared as shit that they found you." Cid said sitting down at the bar while Tifa got him his usual. Kat was sitting at a bar stool with a juice.
"Were you really that scared that they would find me Vincent?" Kat asked looking at him as he took a seat at the bar.
"I was worried that they had found you, we cant let Shin-ra get you Kat. They will just use you for experiments and other things."
"I know, they put Chaos inside of you. It gives you a second personality." Kat said. They all looked a little shocked that she knew so much.
"You guys are like shin-ra in my world everyone knows who you are, and they know everything about you."
"Damn so we are known world wide in your world?" Cid asked still looking a bit shocked.
"Ya, there really isn't a person in my world that doesn't know at least one of you."
"Oh, ya that." Cloud said remembering the yaoi site.
Vincent looked sick as he remembered the site as well.
"Hey what's wrong with you two?" Tifa asked.
"Its nothing Tifa just a bad memory from Kats world."
"Oh, what about?"
Cloud and Vincent looked at her like she was crazy to ask that question. Kat broke out laughing.
"What?" Tifa asked. Kat had tear in her eyes from laughing so hard. And was able to say.
"Yaoi that's what the memory was."
"What is that?" Tifa asked. Cloud and Vincent looked like they might vomit.
Kat whispered the definition of yaoi into Tifa's ear. She looked wide eyed and shrieked.
"That's disgusting!"
"What is?" Asked Cid who wasn't paying attention.
Kat broke out laughing again this time almost falling off her stool if Vincent hadn't held onto her shoulder to keep her from falling.
"Subtext!" Kat said still laughing.
"Subtext?" Cid asked confused.
"You don't need to know, refill?" Tifa said. Cloud didn't know why Kat was laughing so much but he thought that the look on everyone's face might be why she was laughing so much.
That's the weirdest Cetra I have ever seen, I cant believe you. Kissing her. Chaos said within Vincent. Vincent ignored the comment.
"Cloud, Kat isn't safe here anymore, we need to get her somewhere that she can be protected. Know of anyplace that Shin-ra doesn't know exists? Or at least they don't think its there anymore."
"We could take her to Aerith's church, they thing everything in that area is rubble."
"Kat is that ok with you?" Ya its fine, I just don't want to get caught by Shin-ra, that's all."
"Lets get your things ill take you there." Cloud said. Kat got up leaving her drink and walked up stairs and got her things.
"Your coming back right?" Marlene asked with sad eyes.
"Yes I am coming back, don't worry I'll still be around."
"Ok!" Marlene said with cheer. Kat gathered her things quickly. And went back down stairs.
"Ok I'm ready."
"Cloud is waiting outside Kat." Tifa said noticing that Vincent was watching her. Kat got on the back of Clouds bike and took off. Soon they were at the church. It was rundown but someone could live there.
"Cloud, can I see you left arm?"
"Um…sure." Kat pushed up Clouds sleeve and saw that his arm was the same smooth skin color except for on spot on his upper arm. It was a dark color almost black.
"Cloud you are going to leave Tifa, Marlene and the others soon. Because you have Geostigma. Look." Kat pointed at the dark spot.
"How did you know?" Kat could tell that he knew that he was getting the stigma.
"Because in Advent Children you leave because of the stigma. But it is a lot worse. You entire arm will be covered with it."
"You said that your summoning us to your world, and bringing us back with you coming along changed the events in our world."
"I did say that and it has, but that doesn't stop the stigma from spreading or from you being sick."
"Then I'm just going to die like everyone else with the stigma?"
"I have said to much already. Thanks." Kat set her stuff down and said.
"Can we go back to the Seventh Heaven?"
"Ya come on." They went back to the Seventh Heaven. When they walked in Reno, Rude, Tseng, and Elane turned to look at them.
Reno and rude pulled out their electric rods and turned them on. Cloud pulled out his buster sword and Tifa has her leather gloves on. Cid was standing ready with his spear. Vincent had Cerberus pointed at Tseng's head.
"We will get her eventually." Tseng said walking to the door. Kat hid behind Cloud who was still ready to fight. Reno, Rude, and Elane followed Tseng. Suddenly Tseng pushed Cloud out of the way and into a fight with Reno. Kat bolted away from Tseng and over to Tifa who was fighting Rude. Elane was heading for Kat. Marlene yelled over to Kat from the stair. Kat followed Marlene's voice and they locked themselves in the bathroom again. This time they were as far from the door as they could get. Kat was pressed up against the window.
"Open this door or I will shoot it opened!" Elane yelled at them.
"Marlene help me with the window." They pulled open the window that had been closed for a year or so. Just as they got it opened Elane shot the door knob twice and yelled down.
"She's getting away!" Kat climbed on the windowsill an jumped as Elane kicked the door open. Kat grabbed the storm drain of the building next to the Seventh Heaven and tried to pull herself up.
"Stop right there!" Elane yelled at Kat. Who let go of the storm drain and fell into a pile of garbage that had been stacked there. Kat looked back up to see Marlene yell.
"They're coming down run Kat!" Kat rolled to get off the pile of garbage bags. A piece of broken glass broke through the bags and embedded itself into Kat's arm. Kat let out a wail of pain and quickly pulled the glass from her arm and ran out of the ally. On the main road now. Kat had planned to run past the Seventh Heaven and get to Aerith's church. The Turks ran out of the bar and after Kat. Kat ran father into town and through as many crowds as she could trying to lose the Turks. Kat stopped in an alleyway breathing hard. Her arm was covered with blood. Kat looked back at the main road and saw Tseng run past the alley entrance. Elane was looking at the other end of the square and Reno and Rude were looking through the area not far from where Kat was hidden. Kat walked farther down the alley and his behind a pile of garbage bags hoping they weren't searching the alleys well. Reno and Rude walked past the alley Kat was in not looking in it. Kat got up from her hiding spot and went over to the chain link fence and started to climb it. Kat her Tseng tell Reno and Rude to search every alley way. Kat was at the top of the fence when Reno and Rude looked in the alley and yelled.
"She's over here!" Kat pushed off of the top of the fence landing on her feet and running. Reno had jumped over the fence already and was right behind her. Kat turned sharply and lifted her leg in a kick to Reno's head. He went backwards a few feet wiping some blood from his face cursing all the while. Kat took the chance to run. The alley way came out the other side of the block and a good ways away from the town square. Reno was following her but not a close this time a little dizzy from her kick. At the exit of the alley Kat made it just as Rude came to the entrance. He paused and a little confused then Reno ran past him after Kat. Kat turned a corner and was running past an alley way when someone grabbed her and pulled her into the alley and behind some trash and through a door in the side of the building.
"Let me go!" Kat yelled as she fought to get free from her captors hands.
"Clam down they will hear you." Kat looked at the person that had grabbed her, it was Yuffie.
"Thank god its you." Kat said still breathing hard.
"Lets get your arm bandaged up." Yuffie said grabbing a first aid kit and wrapped some bandages around Kats cut.
"Thanks." Kat said.
"Where they start chasing you?"
"At the Seventh Heaven bar." Kat panted.
"That far! Your on the other side of town."
" Really didn't notice." Kat said sarcastically. Kat's cell phone rang.
"Kat here."
"Kat where are you? We lost you at the Town Square." Cloud said.
"Its ok I'm with Yuffie."
"Give Yuffie the phone." Cloud said.
"Cloud wants to talk to you." Kat said handing over the phone.
"Ya? I'm at the Materia shop where else would I be? Ya she's fine, her arm was cut but she bandaged up now. Ok see you soon." Yuffie flipped the phone closed and handed it to Kat.
"Your making a real good rep with everyone. You jumped out of the second story window. Running half way across town…"
"Yuffie I get it." Kat said a little annoyed that out of all people Cloud and Vincent couldn't find her. Soon Cloud walked into the store. Kat had spent the time that she had at the store to look around at the different kinds of Materia there were. Everything was displaying in a glass case and had little lights placed everywhere to make them seem to glow brighter. Cloud walked in and walked over to Kat looking alarmed by how bloody the bandages had gotten.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Stabbed by some glass in the garbage heap I fell in when I jumped. Where is everyone else?"
"Tifa is at the Bar with Cid and Vincent."
"Thank you Yuffie, we thought that we might actually lose her."
"Ya owe me!" She said with a smile.
"What one?" Cloud asked knowing he would have to buy her a Materia orb to make up the debt. Yuffie giggled and said.
"Gil Plus." She said walking over to a case and pointing down at Purple Materia orb.
"Fine. Sir can I buy the Gil Plus." Cloud said pulling out his Gil pouch. Once Yuffie had her Materia Cloud took Kat back to the Seventh Heaven. They went in through the back and Cloud walked to the front first to make sure that Reno and the others hadn't come back. Kat came out when he gave her the all clear. Vincent practically fell off his stool when he saw the bandages on Kats arm.
"Ya ran across the town kid, if you had been going much faster you could had been out in the desert and hidden before they even got to the end of town." Cid greeted her.
"Hi, Cid." Kat said flopping into one of the chairs at a table. The bar only had Vincent, Cid, Cloud, Tifa, and Marlene in it.
"Kat!" Marlene said running down stairs and over to her.
"Your ok!" Marlene said with joy not even noticing her arm.
"Ya I'm fine." Kat said tired.
"Kat come over here we should change your bandages." Tifa said.
"Ok" Kat said walking to the back with Tifa. She got out some bandages and hydrogen peroxide.
"Come sit over here by the sink." Tifa said. Kat sat down and Tifa poured the peroxide on the cut.
"OWWW! SH-Nizets!" Kat screamed as the peroxide cleaned the cut.
Vincent looked at the back room confused. Kat soon came out with her arm bandaged up again and Tifa with the peroxide.
"It wasn't that bad."
"I wasn't expecting it to hurt." Kat grumbled and sat down. Marlene giggled and said.
"You have never used that stuff before have you?"
"I never needed to." Kat said her arm still stung a little.
"Kat I don't think you should be alone tonight. Turks don't give up that easily. They are going to be looking for you for the entire night."
"Ok, so I am staying here?"
"No they will probably come here again just because they found you here and you were walking in with Cloud."
"How should stay with the kid then?" Cid asked.
"I'll go." Vincent said.
"Ok, are you ok with the Kat?" Tifa asked.
"Ya its ok."
Tifa sent Kat and Vincent out once it got dark. They walked to the Church and got there without running into any Turks or Shin-ra employees.
Kat sat next to the area with no floor boards but flowers Kat asked.
"Vincent, why are the Turks trying to capture me? I mean I know they want me because I'm a Cetra but there is more to it and I know you know."
" They were ordered to find you at take you back to the Shin-ra labs, they know that if they fail then they will be punished. But its more than that. If they capture you, you will be used for experimentations, It could be more studies on the effect of Jenova cells on a superior being or they could test with Chaos. Who knows they might have something new they want to try."
"But why me? They could use anyone."
"Because the effects of the tests are different with each race, they could be making a new race and they want to use you."
Kat shivered at the thought of being used to make a new race of people. They stayed there for as long time both of them silent until Kat said.
"You know, I can see how you look at me. I could tell how worried you were when I ran and you guys lost me in the crowds." Vincent walked over to Kat and sat next to her and said.
"Then you also understand that I care for you. And that I would do anything to keep you from harm." Vincent's red eyes were starring strait into Kat's. Kat smiled and hugged Vincent he hugged her back. Vincent kissed Kat, and she kissed back. At that time Kat was so happy to just stay with Vincent and never having day again, but at the same time her fear of being caught by Shin-ra and being taken from Vincent even more frightening. The warm embrace of Vincent's hug came again this time sleep overwhelmed Kats will to stay awake. Vincent held Kat as she slept, he made sure not to wake her.
Your really outgoing all of the sudden. Chaos said within him.
I love her, have a problem with that? Vincent said to Chaos.
Nope, just saying that your different since you came back from that world. Is it really because of her? Chaos said.
Yes it is because of her, you don't understand how I feel. Vincent said as he brushed some hair from Kats face.
No I don't understand how you feel right now but I do understand how you felt when you lost Lucrecia. Chaos commented. Vincent didn't reply to his other self.
Next day
Kat woke to the sound of a gun shot. She sat up quickly with alarm. Vincent was standing holding the Cerberus up pointed at the double doors of the Church.
Kat noticed the hole in the door from where the shot hit. Tseng pushed open one of the doors and opened fire on Vincent. Kat darted over to one of the pillars that were at the sides of the building. Vincent had dodged the bullets and opened fire on Tseng, the fight to capture Kat had spilled into the church and there was nothing Kat could do. The pillar that Kat was hiding behind had been worn down by age and the splits between each stone block had formed curves making risky hand holds but hand holds none the less. Kat started to climb the pillar her grip poor but working to get her up higher. Kat herd the scream of someone getting hit by a bullet. Kat kept climbing, if Vincent had been hit then the fast she climbed the harder it would be for the Turks to get her.
"Tseng!" Kat herd Elane yell.
"Get the girl." Tseng said. His voice sounded as if he were pulling a spear out of himself. Reno soon found where Kat was climbing. He was to late to pull her down she had reached the top and had jumped over to the area where the wall had broken down. Kat bent down to keep herself steady on the foot wide wall. Kat herd more gunshots fire off. Kat ran over to an area on the wall where she could see what was happening. Vincent was in his Chaos form and attacking Tseng and Elane. Tseng had a wound in his side, Kat guessed that Vincent had shot him. Reno Was now climbing the pillar up to Kat. When he got close to the area Kat was standing on she stuck her foot out and kicked Reno trying to get him to fall down. He fell, but not before he grabbed onto Kats ankle and dragged her down with him. Kat yelped as she fell, skidding her arms against the stone she grabbed the edge of the area she was standing on. Her fingers slowly slipping. She looked down, it was more than a ten foot drop, Reno had somehow landed with ease and was waiting for Kat to fall. Kat tried to pull herself up and with out succeeding and only making her grip loosen even more.
"Vincent!" Kat called out still slipping. Reno looked over to see Chaos swiftly coming to Kats aid. Reno looked shocked at see the beast heading for Kat. Just as Kat lost her hold on the side of the building she was grabbed around the middle by Chaos. Spreading his wings Chaos took Kat from the Church and high up into the sky. (using the Chaos pic from DOC pic provided by http://en. )
Chaos flew with Kat for a long time, Kat being scared of high places had her face to Chaos's shirt.
"Vincent?" Kat asked.
"Chaos, Vincent isn't here, not right now."
"oh…where are you taking me?" Kat asked hoping that Chaos's answer wasn't Shin-ra.
"Vincent wanted me to keep you safe and out of harm. I am taking you to Vincent's home." Chaos set Kat down on a stone path leading up to a house that was in a part of Midgar that was abandon. Chaos landed and walked to Kat. Chaos was considerably taller than Kat. Vincent's red cape had formed into Chaos's wings while the part that covered the lower half of his face had become a sort of hat for Chaos, The golden claws were sill on the same hand as they were with Vincent. Chaos's skin was a pale grey color with the same crimson eyes. Chaos brushed Kats hair back and gave her a kiss. Kat pulled back from Chaos shocked that he had just kissed her.
"Can't let Valentine have all of the fun." Chaos said as he turned back into Vincent.
"Vincent!" Kat said hugging him.
"I'm sorry Chaos did that." He said holding her tightly.
Back at the Church
Tseng had been taken for aid by Rude and Reno and Elane stayed to search through Kats things.
"This kid has some weird things." Reno said looking at the wood from the forgotten city.
"She has a Shin-ra poster." Elane said holding the poster unrolled.
"This kid is weird carrying around a block." Reno said as he pulled the stone block from Kats bag.
"No there must be something in it, why else would she carry it around?" Elane said. Setting the box down and shooting it 3 times before the top of it cracked open. Inside they pulled the gun out and set it aside, they found the hair cut from Jenova's head.
"How did that kid get this?" Elane said holding up the hair that was tied together with a rubber band. (note the boxes are still at the Seventh Heaven.) Reno and Elane quickly went through the rest of Kats things only seeing clothing so they left taking their information to Rufus Shin-ra.
At Seventh Heaven
The phone rang and Tifa picked it up and repeated the same thing that she always did when the phone rang.
"Strife delivery serves, you name it we can deliver it."
Sephiroth on the other end said.
"Put Cloud on,"
Authors note: Please review, I really like to hear what you think. Chaos appeared for the first time and he plans to be around more often. Why is Sephiroth calling? Hmm wait and see in the next chapter.
