Haunted

It was late in the night when we arrived inside the Shinra Manor. Reeve advised us to go through the sewer system from the old Reactor. They were empty so we had managed to slip into the basement of the manor easily. I hoped that all Deepground in the area were not in the basement, or even better outside.

We entered the basement library and labs. I could vaguely remember seeing Gast, Hojo, Lucrecia and Fina use this passage before. I never knew where it led until now.

We had split up and I found Fina's old journal. The one I found and left here three years ago. The more I read it the more it made sense to me... just not enough. It said nothing about Lucrecia's experiments apart from the Jenova Project and my Mother's discovery of it and when she fell out with Fina over it. I had found an old satchel that was under Fina's desk. It was strange, I hadn't noticed it before but I did recongise the satchel as the one she carried with her whenever she went on business trips. I checked around Fina's desk for anything else but there was nothing.

"Vincent, have you found anything?" I asked as I walked back to him. He turned to me, looking as though he had seen a ghost. I slowed my walked and stared at him with concern. "... Vincent?" He was holding a disc and he looked down at it. Away from me.

"Lucrecia left a message for me..." He mumbled. "About Chaos and Omega... she said the rest of her data was in her lab..." Her lab? ... The basement lab. The one she locked herself in after... "Angevale?" I looked at him, feeling my hands trembling from the memories flooding in.

"I hear voices over there!" I grabbed the disc from Vincent's hand an put it in the satchel. I took the Velvet Nightmare into my hand and stalked to the door.

The door kicked open and I shot the three Deepground soldiers that ran in. Both of us got out of the library and walked down the corridor. I heard more footsteps and pulled Vincent into the side room, shutting the door quietly and keeping silent.

I heard Vincent's gun cock and I turned around to tell him to be quiet. However... I froze when I saw what he was pointing his gun at.

A huge, mutated sort of monster. Two heads, two torsos, two arms and two legs... it's grinning faces and body were covered with burn scars... it look right at me... oh fuck. Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck! That monster... that thing... when Vincent died... it's that thing that attacked me the day Hojo...

"Angevale, get behind me," Vincent told me. I couldn't move. The thing seemed to be getting closer to me. Vincent moved to stand in front of me and pushed me back gently, gripping my wrist with his clawed hand to comfort me.

The monster grumbled and growled as it got closer and Vincent started shooting at it as I curled up and whimpered. After all this time it was still alive? I squeezed my eyes shut as I kept hearing shots and then a thump onto the ground. I looked up to see the monster on the ground. I grabbed my sword and started to stab the monster continuously in overkill until Vincent took my by the arms and pulled me away as I began to hyperventilate.

"It's dead... it's dead... it's dead..." I whimpered, doing my best to convince myself of that fact. I thought it was gone... I thought it was dead. Vincent rubbed my arms and tried to comfort me as I calmed down slowly. I nodded and pulled myself away from him, opening the door and checking both ways. "... Let's go..."


There seemed to be very scarce, we had rid of them all before we even reached the main part of the mansion. It was unnerving... I thought there would be more. Something wasn't right.

I walked towards the greenhouse and lifted up a herb in a pot. Underneath was a key to Lucrecia's lab that I hid here when I was younger. I also cut a piece of the herb off and placed it in my pocket. The herb was a relaxant... at least that's what Fina said. I thought that maybe... I could use it later.

"The entrance is on the ground floor. In the piano room," I said, walking down the stairs slowly incase there was an ambush. There was none. Slowly we made our way to the piano room and I unlocked the door that led to Lucrecia's lab. "Vincent... what did the message say?" I was afraid it would... she would say something I wouldn't like.

"I told you, it was about Omega and Chaos," He replied. "She left them for me... and she said she was sorry." She should be. It's not like an apology would save her anyway.

Quietly I pushed the door open and we walked down the corridor down to Lucrecia's lab. When we got in I eyed the tube that was so familiar to me. I hated this room so much. I walked over to the computers, seeing several discs in a neat pile. I took the discs and shoved them into the satchel. When I turned around Vincent had fallen to his knees. I ran to him and crouched down beside him.

"Vincent, are you okay?" He shook his head in response. I held his arm gently, barely touching him.

"Well, well, what have we here?" That voice... I stood up and narrowed my eyes at Rosso. "No need to be hostile, darling. I only came to see you both. I have missed you." Vincent stood up and I clenched my fists.

"What do Deepground want with Omega?" He asked.

"I don't know," Rosso shrugged indifferently. "To be honest I don't care in the slightest," She... doesn't care? "I can tell you are both surprised. It is all Weiss desires. And if Weiss desires the awaken Omega, then all of Deepground desires the same," She laughed and threw her head back. "We could care less about what happens to be Planet. It is not everyday you get the chance to terminate all life from the world," She crossed her arms, a smirk of malice crossing her face. "You should both give in. We are all identical. In Deepground we are born and bred to kill. You have both been trained in the very same way. How do you think we escaped from the underground? I bathed in the blood of a thousand soldiers. I enjoyed it. Reveled in it. Once I had stood out of the abyss I craved for more... you understand, don't you?" Vincent's gun was soon pointed to Rosso.

"I don't think so," Vincent's hand tightened around his gun. It wasn't like him to be so... so tense.

"How can you not think that, sweetheart? We are one and the same," Vincent fired at her and she ran off. I took my gun out and ran after her.


We ran back into the foyer with no sign of Rosso anywhere. I kept on my guard and looked everywhere, staying by Vincent in case she attacked from behind. I felt really scared. The situation was going out of control...

The next thing I felt my body being thrown and crashing into the wall. When I opened my eyes they widened and I felt my throat go dry. My blood boiled and ran like ice all at once.

Rosso had torn the Protomateria from Vincent's chest. Why... why didn't I tell him I knew?

"So this is the Protomateria?" Rosso sneered at Vincent as he fell to the ground, his body convulsing and shaking as Chaos tried to break free. "Oh, so it allows you to control that beast? I think I'll kill you and take your precious little Angevale."

I felt my six wings spread and my body burn as I leapt at Rosso. I punched her and burned her body with red flames as I screamed in anger. In my rage she threw me off her and I snarled, standing in front of Vincent's body to protect him.

"Oh so this is the power of Angevale? A Fallen Angel?" Rosso smirked and was prepared to fire at me when a large shuriken appeared from no where and emitted a bright white light.

"C'mon let's go!" I heard Yuffie's voice through the light and I picked up Vincent's body, slinging him over my back, and running out of the manor with the Wutai princess, getting into a WRO van as it drove off.