Understanding what you are; Vincent's choice
You'd think since Sora looked up and cared for cloud, as well for Tifa. He'd never fight them…Well if you thought that you are completely mistaken especially if darkness has something to do with it…the reason for the darkness…to understand that. You'd have to go back to the last day they clashed, to the last day Sora and Riku clashed…when Sora lost his heart…in truth that blade opened his heart…but it opened up something that never should've been opened at all.
Darkness, in truth Sora and darkness would never and could never be so close to each other without one repelling the other but because of that blade things changed. The soul eater…the fact that Kairi lost her heart made things that much more desperate for the key barer he removed his heart for her and in the process let something inside his heart…something that should've been sealed forever.
Cloud attacked the teen first, which Sora jumped over easily; the wide swing was easy to doge. Sora landed behind him and attacked, quickly bringing out another keyblade and slicing at his blonde role model. Much to his dismay he missed, but that wasn't going to get him to give up he threw his blades towards the blonde, he guarded the first blade as he had anticipated it and jumped before the second blade came flying towards the buster swordsman.
"If you refuse to live in the present…then you can die with your regrets!"
"You two stop it what about Denzel and Marlene!" Tifa shouted her voice held stress sleep depravation and sadness.
Sora landed in front of the blonde but turned away from him just the same he didn't even give a word he just rushed off towards the place he heard was the area they would be in along the way. He could feel it, he could feel his body change, and something told him if he kept fighting, he would have died. Not from Cloud mind you…but the light within him would've, and if he lost his slowly diminishing life where would that leave him…better yet where would that leave Yuffie.
He felt the light within him falter only for it to get brighter ten fold at the thought of the hyperactive ninja.
"For her, I'll carry on…for her I'll make it trough this…for her I'll go through anything to see her…just once more"
Sora finally made it to the forest, ahead of Cloud - not at all, the blonde rushed passed him when Sora got to an open area. Cloud he was already fighting a losing battle even though Sora was utterly against it. He jumped into the fray; he sliced away Yazoo's bullets as he defended against Loz's decisive punches all the same it wasn't an even battle. It was more of a stand still, no one losing no one winning although it was completely in their favor they had the upper hand it was three on two, they seemed to realize it when they all came rushing in. Sora jumped over head and brought down lightning strikes most of which came close to hitting their mark but still fell short Cloud was stuck like a tank in a ditch defending every attack that came at him. What other choice could he even have at that moment? Sora had an inner battle with himself as if to help him or not, but it was answered for him when Vincent's cape came out of literally nowhere and started shooting blindly. To get the three remnants to disperse luckily they did when they did, Cloud was fatigued and with Marlene there it wouldn't have gone so well, the three of them conversed for a few minutes before they decided it be for the best to leave and regroup although, that wasn't what Sora had in mind.
"Sora lets go" Cloud didn't so much as say it but demanded it
"No, I'm not leaving him." His eyes flashed the color he knew they did
"You can't take the three of them alone and you know damn well Tifa will be worried about you!" Cloud was losing rational thought especially due to the argument earlier.
"And you won't? tell me Cloud am I just a burden…is Tifa…is Denzel, just as well as A-" Another hit this time it was Vincent he was quickly lifted into the air Vincent got a clear look and winced slightly
Hair started to blacken ever so slightly eyes golden his face was knotted into a permanent scowl of which held anger hatred something the boy would normally never hold.
"It seems the blade I gave him…other than open up the ability to use chaos cells opened up something else…that or maybe…"
Vincent couldn't complete his thought Sora released his limit, buster form and rushed the remnants again this time the oblivion and dirge of chaos in his hands he slammed his blades down hard on Kadaj. Then quickly amped his power ten fold with the gloves his strength was enough to send him into the water almost permanently. This victory, short-lived Loz's fist was an inch away from hitting him, which was enough to daze him for a split second, which was all Yazoo, needed to implant a bullet in Sora's shoulder hip and chest, albeit he fought through the pain giving the gunman a destructive blow to the ribcage. but even that wasn't enough when it came to him getting so wrapped up in just one target that he forgot the others existed. Loz pounded on the key barer until the adrenaline died not even a minute after the pain set in and before he could even scream Vincent grabbed the teen and rushed off towards the seventh heaven.
"No matter how I look at it…you give them strength and if it continues you'll only force yourself away from the one person you care about most, and before that happens…"
"Why are you acting out!" Tifa shouted with a stressed filled voice
"Hormones?" Reno suggested
"I doubt it has anything to do with that" Rude snuck in
"Well any kid who takes of those silver haired bastards must have a death wish or is just brain dead" Reno retorted to which a keyblade was at his throat the next instant
"If saving a child – children makes me brain dead, I'd rather be brain dead than a coward you lazy sack of maggot filth. The only thing I've seen you do since I got here is try and fight me, even when I was faced with them before all you did was stand there! You can berate me all you want, but at least I know I'm doing something that matters, you worthless bastard!" Sora walked off into the room he'd been using he wanted to leave to fight them to save Denzel…but that wouldn't and couldn't happen yet.
"I have something I must inform you of" Vincent spoke
"If it's any more news about hormone boy I'll gladly decline" Reno's hand twitched as he came close to his baton
"Unfortunately it is, that blade I gave him, its causing a mutation within him," Vincent said without a hint of emotion
"A mutation of what kind?" Tifa asked now intrigued
"Not so much as it's causing these changes, so much as it's allowed them to happen it opened the dark part of his heart, the part that's been sealed away. A blade before mine must've opened up the darkness while the chaos cells gave birth to the ability to access the darkness. Whenever he became angry or frustrated, the blade I gave him just allowed the darkness to come to fruition but in a faster and uncontrolled state but it'd only last for a set period and it would disperse it wouldn't allow the owner to be taken over unless he had darkness in his heart. Whatever blade had the ability to open his heart to darkness caused this and I can tell by the end of this week he may change completely…and if that happens."
"Vincent, no!" Tifa pleaded
"We can't have another Sephiroth running around!" Reno shouted
"He's nothing like Sephiroth!" Tifa exclaimed her voice cracking under shedding tears
"I understand" Cloud broke the tension
"What do you mean you understand this is Sora we're talking about do you know what that would do to the kids, what that would do to his friends what that would do to Yuffie!"
"If he becomes a monster, he'll just become another burden a burden that I'll have to take on…a burden that a part of me wouldn't have remorse in killing"
"H…How can you even say that he's looked up to you he's tried so hard to get you to notice that and yet all you've done so far is leave, he looked for you, not just for himself but for the kids….for me"
"How do we know everything he said when the darkness took over isn't what he really thinks…how do we know he cares as much as he says he does"
"We'd only know that with one person," Vincent said breaking the already strange situation
"Yuffie" He said with finality