-1The beast within

Kat cringed at the pain from the transformation. To her it felt like her body was being crushed and reshaped to resemble Chaos. Kat could feel herself slipping away from reality as Chaos took over her body. Soon the transformation was complete and Kat was watching what was happening through Chaos's eyes. Chaos smirked at everyone in the room and said.

"She wasn't lying, but rather told the truth with more pain than she needed to." Chaos leaned back in the chair. He had now only noticed that he was in Kat's clothing that was unbelievably tight and with every movement the leather threatened to snap and come undone.

"Chaos why did you do that? You knew that she was only getting accustomed to have Rage within her and now you just force your way out!" Vincent yelled at his other half noticing the pleased look on his face.

"Valentine, can't you say anything nicer to me? This is the first time we have been talking face to face." Chaos said in a calm tone that pissed off Vincent even more. Everyone in the room but Vincent looked confused. Who was this Rage they were talking about?

"Chaos why have you...erm… forced your way out to speak with us." Tifa asked.

"Well if you really want to know the real reason I have surfaced its because. I have never been in this situation. It used to only be me and Vincent here that were like this. But now that Rage has been born there was a little mix up on our way through the portal."

"If you knew that then why did you just go back through the portal and then come back one at a time?" Barret asked.

"Well, by the time that Kat even asked how this predicament could be fixed we were already on the airship. No point in turning around now is there?"

"If it meant that you and…Rage could be with the right person then yes there was a point in going back." Tifa practically yelled at Chaos getting pissed by his calm exasperation that he had the entire time since he surfaced.

"Well what if I don't want to be reunited with Valentine here?" Chaos said shifting with the tight leather complaining to the strain.

"Its not up to you to decide." Vincent said.

Am I really that bad to be around? he thought as he looked at Chaos.

Not really but this is really weird and I just want to get this fixed. Rage said to Vincent who wasn't expecting a reply to his thought.

The next few hours were spent trying to convince Chaos to go back with Vincent. The entire time Kat watched on as it behind a glass wall. Where everyone on the other side couldn't hear her and couldn't see her.

"Fine I guess that I can go back with Vincent. I can't stand these clothes anymore." Chaos said as he let Kat surface again. Once Kat was on the surface fully she turned pale like she was going the faint and then said in a soft voice.

"This is to weird, can we please get back to the portal like now." Kat said standing up and went to the airship with Tifa's aid to stay balanced. On the trip back to the portal Chaos had described things that she never knew about Vincent. Kat feared that Rage was doing the same. Vincent had asked if she ever shut up so did that mean that she knew and was sharing Kats past and her feelings that she had kept hidden from everyone for so long? When the got to the portal Kat and Vincent went through as soon as they got there. When they appeared on the other side in Mt. Fuji Kat was glad to have Chaos out of her and soon hoped for Rage to join her again. Being half man and half woman was way to weird for Kat.

"Here you can go back first." Kat said gesturing to the spot where the portal was.

"Alright but you come through right after me ok?" Vincent asked, when Kat nodded he walked through and disappeared. Kat counted to ten in her mind, here back in Japan the feeling of being torn in two was clear and urging Kat to go through the portal before she had finished counting. Once she hit ten she went through as fast as she could hating the emptiness she felt when she was in Japan. As Kat existed the portal she saw Vincent waiting for her with Yuffie and Cid. Cid took them all back to Midgar and said.

"You two are a real pain in the ass ya know."

Thank god I'm not inside Vincent anymore, he has this paranoid thought that you are going to leave him like that other girl did. Men are weird and I never want something like that to happen ever again! Rage said to Kat, with a smile Kat replied.

You have no idea what it was like having Chaos inside of your body. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I mean I learned more about Vincent than I would reading his profile on the Square Enix web site 100 times over.

Oh ya? Like what? Kat told Rage some of the things she learned like Vincent hardly ever spent his time at his home since the first time Sephiroth was defeated.

"So how are you two feeling now?" Cid asked with a wary glance at Yuffie who looked sick now. Kat looked at Yuffie and said.

"Yuffie are you ok?" Yuffie didn't say anything just shook her head.

"Kat she has motion sickness remember." Vincent said standing in the corner looking out the window.

"Oh, I forgot." Kat said feeling herself blush with embarrassment, Kat wondered why she was acting so stupid, she knew everything about the characters from the Final Fantasy games. Kat figured that now she was part of the games she needed to relearn what she already knew about everyone. Something was also bothering Kat, she could tell that Vincent was deep in thought and it seemed as if he was mad at himself for something.

Hey Rage, do you have any idea why Vincent looks so pissed?

I don't know maybe because of what Chaos did, they are one person again so Vincent might feel that it was his fault you went through that much pain. Rage's answer only made Kat wonder more, but she didn't say anything knowing that it would be a wise idea to interrupt Vincent's thoughts. When they got back to the Seventh Heaven Vincent seemed even more spaced out than he was on the airship. Cloud was in the bar along with Tifa and Barret.

"Kat are you ok?" Cloud asked a clear worried tone in his voice.

Tifa must have told him.

"I'm fine…" Kat said not wanting to get into it, knowing they would want to know who Rage was and why she hadn't told them about her other half before.

"Are you sure?"

"I said I'm fine!" Kat snapped at Cloud. This act even caught Vincent's attention pulling him from his thoughts. Kat felt like if they asked more questions she would burst into tears.

"Kat, we were worried about you, that's all."

"Don't worry about me, please just don't." Kat had tears rolling down her checks now, everyone had noticed and thought something bad had happened when they went to the Northern Crater.

"Kat, what's the matter?" Barret asked. Cid had stayed with the airship saying he had to go, and Yuffie was starring at the seen blankly. Kat so wanted to run and be left alone, the image of people standing around laughing at a small girl who had bits of glass in her blood covered arm. Kat blinked still imagining the terrible memory and turned and pushed the door open and ran. Everyone followed Kat trying to catch her before something really bad happened. Kat bolted down the street took a sharp turn into an alleyway and ran though the other end. Kat had made it to the safety of another dark ally way before she saw that she wasn't being followed, or they had lost her. Kat continued to run determined to not be found until she wanted to be. That evening Kat found herself in the ruins in front of Vincent's home. The door was closed but not locked . Kat opened the door to see the dark blood stain from when Vincent got shot. Kat got a bucket of water and a sponge and began to clean the hard wood floors with tears streaming down her face.

Once the floor was clear of the dried blood Kat went up the stairs and to her room. Things were scattered around but the item check in the room showed that nothing had been taken. She continued to the bathroom and saw the heap of towels that she had planned to use as a sort of rope to get out. The door to the bathroom was broken, while the window was fine and everything else seemed fine. Kat picked up the sweatshirt she had tossed aside when she was running and turned out the pockets. The gun and the Materia her parents had left her were gone. Kat threw down the sweatshirt and screamed. The only thing that her parents left her that meant anything had been taken. Kat felt the same feeling of her bones compressing and being reshaped like she did when she turned into Chaos, but this time it didn't hurt at all.

Vincent had been walking through the ruins searching for Kat when he hear the scream, he had made it to his home and up the stairs when he herd someone say.

"I'll kill them all!" Vincent walked to the bathroom to see Rage. She had bluish green cat like eyes, silver hair, black inky wings, and the pale skin that Chaos had. Rage threw herself out the open window spreading her wings and being carried upwards. Vincent ran to the window and watched Rage for a moment then transformed into Chaos to follow her and stop her from doing something she would regret.

"Valentine, this just keeps getting better and better." Chaos diving out to window in pursuit of Rage. Chaos soon caught up to Rage who was heading strait for the Shin-ra buildings. Rage twisted around fast claws swiping inches from Chaos's face. He laughed and said.

"That's not very nice."

Chaos said grabbing Rage's arm as she went to slash at him again.

"Let me go!" Rage screamed at him bringing her knee up into Chaos's gut quickly then jerking away from him. Chaos glared at Rage and kicked her in the side crushing her wing at the recoil to keep her in the air. Chaos had kicked to hard sending Rage towards the ground, and with a useless wing. Rage was slammed against the ground knocking the air out of her. Her head whipped back hitting the hard earth under her. Chaos landed near her and watched as she transformed back into Kat.

"Heh, so what do I do with you now?" Chaos said to Kat who was knocked out. Chaos transformed back into Vincent, how watched Kat for a long time.

About 30 minutes later

Kat opened her eyes with a confused look. She sat up and saw Vincent sitting next to her looking relived that she was awake.

"Kat, how are you feeling?" Vincent asked, Kat looked at him for a long time confused and said.

"Who are you?"

Authors note: Yes I know this chapter was very, very short but I couldn't think of much else to type and I have a decent cliff-hanger. So please review and wait till the next chapter is out.