Mistakes FFVII Style
Disclaimer: do I need to say anything more about this?
Author's note: this battle took forever, about fifteen minuets I think in reality, and I was literally yelling at Galian for being such an annoying idiot. He would have been put on a leash with me and taught to behave…though I'm sure some very strange AerithxVincent fics have already done something similar. Anyway enjoy this rather mad chapter.
How to annoy your team mates:
Galian Beast vs a dragon
Vincent had proved to be a rather interesting character, with his long dark hair, red cloak and rather depressing nature but the others had to admit that they weren't the soundest people on the planet either. Plus he was against the Shinra and appeared to hold a grudge against Hojo for doing something to Lucrecia, Sephiroth's mother. So he had joined the ranks and proved to be useful with his hand held gun. Yuffie had taken an immediate interest in him and Cloud couldn't quite work out if the gunslinger was happy about that fact or was planning to kill the hyperactive ninja in her sleep. He would put money on the latter of those two.
Still they had to find Sephiroth and since the insane general had said he was going up to Mt. Neilbe they had decided to split into groups and go search for him. Yuffie, Barrett, Nanaki and Caith Sith would head back to the buggy and try for the mountains on the opposite side whilst himself, Aerith and Vincent would head to the old reactor. There had been something strange about being in the library, even worse was the fact Aerith had strayed close to a pair of large glass containers to study them intently.
Vincent had lingered by the door; clearly displeased to be anywhere near this room but Cloud guessed that whatever had caused him to be locked away in a coffin had probably happened in here. Plus he didn't want to even begin thinking about what Hojo meant by 'scientifically modified' in the letter. This information had not been relayed to Vincent, on the simple pretence that it may severely piss off the gunslinger.
Sighing, Cloud placed his hand on her shoulder, "Aerith we should get going"
She didn't reply for a few seconds, "There were humans here once" she muttered barely audibly and then continued, "Look, someone's scratched messages on the glass. 'We have to get out of here' and 'Feeding time; that's when we'll do it'. What do you think…"
Aerith turned to look at Cloud and saw something in his eyes. There was only the smallest hint of worry there but a whole lot of pain. It was gone within a second and the cetra had to frown, "Cloud?"
"Let's go" said the swordsman, turning to leave.
Vincent's red eyes followed him, before returning lightly to Aerith's when she joined him by his side, "This place holds many ghosts. Maybe for Cloud their personal ones"
With a swish of his cloak, Vincent set off down the corridor and Aerith had to turn back one last time to look before hurrying to catch up with the others. They had left the rebuilt Neilbehiem behind and charged around the rough stones of the mountains. Reaching the reactor proved to be a hell of a lot harder than it had been described by Cloud a little over several weeks ago and quickly they slipped down a large greasy pipe to reach the lower areas.
"That was gross" complained Aerith, turning to glare at the two men who tumbled out after her.
Before another playful argument could ensure, there was a roar behind them and Vincent shot forward to pull Aerith out of range of a swiping claw from a dragon. Now of all the things that they expected to find in mountain, one of them was not a green dragon at all. Still they began battling with everything they could; there was no way that an overgrown lizard was going to take them down.
Dodging swiftly out of an attack, Cloud threw his hand forward and a plume of fire struck the creature. Only it had the opposite effect, the wounds he had inflicted with his sword healed!
"No" he barrelled quickly into Aerith to stop her summoning whilst Vincent got munched on for protecting the girl, "Don't summon Iferit! Fire heals them"
"OH" said Aerith, pushing the swordsman away and summoning Shiva instead, "This is going to get interesting then!"
Cloud nodded and glanced around briefly, "Hey…where's Vincent?" he asked.
There appeared to be no sign of the gunslinger anywhere, just a human side purple beast that could have been mistaken for some kind of dog if not for the horns on it's head. "What the?" Aerith let out a yelp and nearly attacked it when she spotted the red eyes.
"Vincent?" she asked, completely stunned.
The beast turned its head, appeared to nod and then charged at the dragon in a series of what could only be described as berserk movements. The other two exchanged glanced but then continued on the battle as best as they could. About three minuets later, something happened. The beast that was apparently Vincent let out a mighty howl and suddenly flares of fire were all around the dragon. Cloud realised to his horror that whilst this would normally be a very good attack against most things, it was acting as a healing agent.
"Vincent!" he yelled, slashing to try and get rid of the healing that had been done, "Don't use that attack on these things! It heals them!"
Aerith danced around and smacked the dragon again, "Please don't. It'll take longer that way"
Neither could tell if the creature could understand them or not and the battle continued with the purple beast slamming into the dragon a couple of more times. Then they got the message that whatever Vincent was currently, he most certainly didn't understand a word they were saying. Once again the beast sent forth its flaming attack.
Roughly five minuets later, with several fire attacks involved, the dragon finally succumbed and dropped down dead. Cloud and Aerith fell to the floor, breathing heavily and thankful to still be alive whilst the beast wandered around for a few minuets and then with a growl reverted back into the recognisable form of Vincent. Aerith was the first one up and rather uncharacteristically she smacked the gunslinger over the head with her staff.
Vincent let out a grunt of pain and confusion before turning to look at the healer with a frown, "What did I do to deserve that?" he asked in his baritone voice.
"Used fire attacks when we told you not to! You kept on healing that dragon on purpose didn't you" she virtually shrieked at him whilst Cloud shook his head in the background.
For a few long moments Vincent was silent, appearing to have an inner dialogue with himself. Then a nod of understanding, "I am sorry for the inconvenience. I am afraid that Galian Beast does not like to take orders from anyone"
"Who?" asked both the swordsman and flower girl in unison.
Vincent sighed, he had hoped he wouldn't have to explain things this early but it was pretty inevitable apparently.
Lesson learned: when in area where monsters use fire, don't use Galian Beast as Vincent's overdrive (even when it is the only option)
Authors end note: That's your lot for the moment, have to wait until I screw up again for the next one but it shouldn't be to long.