" Storm?" he asked slightly annoyed, I guess he was trying to sleep.
" Where are you at Vince?" I asked quietly as I continued to watched the figures about a hundred yards away.
" At my house in the Forgotten City? Why?" Vincent asked as his brain started working and he caught this wasn't a friendly call.
" About twenty figures headed your way. No Idea what they are but I followed them here from 7th heaven. I don't know why they're going to the city, but I don't think I want to find out." I replied. I could hear Vincent moving around.
" I see them. Where are you?" Vincent asked.
" About a hundred yards behind them to the right, next to the giant boulder and the fallen tree." I replied as I looked around and saw Vincent crouched high up in a tree.
" Let's wait and see what there up to." Vincent replied as I nodded and we both hung up. I had crept about twenty feet closer when I heard a sound behind me. I spun around to face five figures. They're cloaks sorta resembled remnants.
" Well, now we got two birds with one stone." one replied as they lunged. I pulled out a gun I had and fired a shot strait up, it was a code we had established and it meant ambush. I knew Vincent would know what it meant, and it also told him to look out, they could have heard the conversation and know where he was. I leapt back out of their reach after I fired the gun and threw it to the ground, it only held one bullet anyways as I drew my sword. One lunged and I swung cutting the figure into two halves at the cloak exploded into shreds startling me giving the other an opening as one fired a shot that grazed my shoulder. I lunged at the one who shot and cut it down as well. Shades, that's what I'll call them. Three remained. They all stepped closer together and they melded into one. The thing shook and rumbled then the cape exploded into a million pieces realigning the ugliest thing I think I have ever seen. It looked like a raptor like dinosaur. It's teeth were a horrid yellow color and it breathe was foul so much so I almost hurled. It's body had gaping holes in it that showed the creature was dead an decomposing. It had two great bat like wings coming out of its back. Down the creatures spine it had spikes. I had bright red eyes and it's mouth dripped a green substance, and black stuff oozed form its gaping flesh. It was revolting. It let out and ear splitting screech as it lunges for me opening it's arms with its claws. I leapt out of the way. I lunged and swung my sword as it spun around smacking me with it's tail sending me flying into a near by tree so hard the tree buckled and collapsed. I barely managed to dodge it when it tried to take a bite out of me. I rolled to the side and swung my sword grazing it's side. It screamed and spun on my biting and clawing furiously. I was doing fine till I tripped over root and crashed into the ground. The creature leapt at me, and I pulled my sword up as it impaled itself on my sword. Then the thing busted into black flames and was gone. I would have stayed there and chilled for a few moments had I not been hearing gunshots from the Cerberus. I leapt to my feet and headed for the clearing. It was full of the dinosaur things. Vincent was doing good shooting them and dodging. Note to self , Dino freaks easier killed by long range combatants.
Then as if killing the freak-a-saurs wasn't bad enough one let out a screech and they all lunged at each other. The instant they slammed into each other there was a terrible ripping sounds, and the crunching of bones, and weird glompy sounds. Again I almost vomited. Then we were facing a new foe. It looked like a giant guard hound just a lot uglier with rotting flesh and saber fangs. The things mouth oozed the same green stuff and it's missing fleshy spot still oozed the black crap. But the creature had a bright red tentacle like mane. When the creature roared it's tentacle mane shot out a tentacle right as me faster that I can blink. Somehow I blocked it with my sword and the force of the blow knocked me back threw the air and into another tree, this time it hurt a hell of a lot worse though. It already had another tentacle shooting out at me. I sliced the tentacle into it just split in half. A tentacle swung around and wrapped around my arm. It grip was so tight I heard my arm snap with a sickening crunch as I dropped my sword and yelped it pain. It pulled it's tentacle back but I wasn't going. I drug my feet into the ground. I grabbed my sword with my left hand.
" Sorry Fido." I snapped as I sliced the tentacle so it would release my arm. The part that was around my arm let out a screech and tightened its grip around my arm, the rest just went to attack me again. I ducked under a rushed the beat. It launched all the tentacles it could spare that it wasn't bombarding Vincent with. I swung my sword again and again fighting the things away. Finally it saw me as the greater threat and sent all of it's tentacles after me. I got with in striking distance I was over whelmed. But I didn't stop swinging at the tentacles even as they wrapped around my arms legs, chest and neck. I swung as long as I could before it's grip constricted so tight I couldn't move, the instant it went to snap my neck a single shot rang out and the creature screamed and exploded covering me in the icky black goo. I shuddered as I tried to get as much of the stuff off as I could.
" Eww. Eww. Eww." I complained as I knocked the goo off. Oddly enough it was sticky and came off in clumps leaving me goo free. I finally relaxed after the last of the goo was off.
" Any idea what they were?" Vincent asked.
" No, but I know someone who can tell us." I replied, referring to Eric and Vincent nodded. We didn't get very far before we were over taken again and again. After the fourth time I was exhausted.
" I can't keep on like this." I replied.
" I wish I hadn't given Yuffie my materia now." Vincent replied.
" Same." I replied exhausted.
" We have to keep moving." Vincent replied and I reluctantly followed. After two more ambushed I was barely able to stand even Vincent was panting for breath. We hadn't even made it out of the forest yet. And to top it off I only had one arm. And it wasn't my good arm.
" Well have to run for it, we can't survive anymore fights." Vincent replied. I shook my head.
" I don't have the strength left." I replied.
" You survived the fight with Sephiroth you can survive this." he replied. I gave him a bitter laugh.
" I'd rather fight Sephiroth solo than this." I replied. Vincent smirked.
" So would I." he added as he grabbed my good arm and pulled me forward. We didn't know everyone at 7th Heaven was being ambushed the same style we were wave after wave, but everyone else was at the bar and they were faring better and had materia. I lost track of how long or how far we had run. The instant Vincent stopped I collapsed to the ground trying to catch my breath.