"He's all yours." Sephiroth told Tifa with disgust as he looked upon the sleeping Reno, disappointed once again at yet another failure in his quest.
Tifa approached the young botanist, noticing that he looked rather handsome. One point in his favor, but too soon to tell if he would be the right one to break the curse. She knelt beside him and put her hand on his head.
"Hello." Tifa said to Reno as she approached him.
"H…he..hello." Reno stuttered and stammered, trying to look away as his innate shyness caused him to blush. He tried to avoid women unless his plant studies were involved, unsure how to act around them. He was surprised to find himself in a posh bedroom with the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and she was naked! Reno's eyes were drawn back to her, and he couldn't stop staring, even though he felt it must be a sin, unless… "Are we married?" he blurted out, blushing even harder at his forwardness.
Tifa let out a delightful peal of laughter. "Not yet. I'm about to find out if you're worthy of being my husband though." She pushed Reno down onto the soft bed.
"I'm…I'm not worthy…and I can't be doing this, I'm saving myself until marriage, not before!" Reno protested and tried to get off the bed, but Tifa was already mounting him, and he found himself transfixed by how her body moved, from her round big breasts to the firm muscles of her stomach, and what he could see of her plush bottom almost jiggling.
"Quiet." Tifa ordered him as she ripped his clothes off, then smothered his mouth with hers. Reno's resistance started to fade as her naked body covered his own.
Outside the dream in the real world, Tifa was doing much the same to Reno's sleeping body, only she had just torn off his tunic and started drawing the necessary runes onto his chest with her claw-like nails. She had completed the first rune and was about to start on the second when she heard a noise. Looking up and around, she saw a light bobbing up and down in the distance, which must be a lantern. It came closer, and Reno woke up when the bedroom and the woman vanished, to find his brothers standing over him. "Where'd she go?" he asked them.
"Where'd who go?" Cloud asked him.
"The woman…why'd you make her leave?" Reno demanded of them.
"There's no one here now." Rufus replied, with a hint of amusement in his voice that his brother might have the personality to meet a woman on the sly out in the woods. "Let's get you home, big brother."
Tifa watched them leave, then crawled back to the sanctuary of the cave.
"That was quick…why are you crawling?" Sephiroth asked her.
"I was interrupted…please help me, Master!" Tifa pleaded, feeling so weak.
"Who interrupted you?" he demanded to know.
"These two." Tifa flashed a dream into the satyr's mind of the scene she witnessed.
"That's him!" Sephiroth shot out of his rock throne. "That's the man I need!"
"Do you want me to go fetch him, Master?" Rude asked Sephiroth. "I should be able to catch them before they leave the woods."
"No…" Sephiroth calmed down and resumed his seat with a smile on his face. "I think he'll be coming back quite soon."
A pounding on his door roused Vincent from troubling dreams, and looking out his window, he realized it was just before dawn.
"Father Vincent! Father Vincent! We need your help!" Sister Shelke called out through the heavy wooden door.
Vincent hurriedly dressed in the dark before opening the door. "What is it, Sister?"
"It's young Reno! His brothers found him in the woods and they think he's possessed!" she blurted out as she quickly walked to the guest bedroom where Rufus and Cloud had put him at her command.
Vincent took one look at the bloody marks on Reno's chest and dismissed the others. "Leave us!" he ordered them, locking the door behind them and taking the lone chair in the room and putting it next to the bed, sitting in it and grabbing hold of Reno's hand. The young man was hot to the touch and mumbling words that an uneducated person would assume was speaking in tongues, but Vincent recognized them as the Latin names of rare plants. The marks on his chest however, those had to be from a succubus and were quite serious. "Reno, I need you to tell me what happened to you."
"The woman! I need to see the woman!" Reno ranted, starting to thrash around in his fevered delirium.
"Where did you see the woman?" Vincent asked him.
"A bedroom…she was so beautiful…where did she go?" Reno wanted to know.
"What happened before you saw the woman?" Vincent continued his questioning. "Did you see a man with silver hair?"
"Silver hair…not human!" Reno muttered before suddenly lapsing into a comatose state, the blood in the wounds on his chest glistening an unhealthy color with each labored breath he took.
Vincent left Reno there and sought out his brothers, who were sitting next to each other in a pew, praying for Reno. "I need to know exactly where you found him." Vincent told the two young men.
"It was a by a pond." Cloud answered first, feeling the knot in his stomach grow tighter. "Father, is he…" He couldn't bring himself to say it.
"It's not possession as you know it. There is a possible cure, but you must tell me where you found him." Vincent explained.
"Come to our cottage this afternoon and I'll give you a map, Father." Rufus said. "Come on Cloud, there's nothing more we can do for Reno now, and we've got chores to finish." Rufus left the church, Cloud reluctantly following him.
Vincent went about his duties with a heavy heart, and after lunch he went to the brothers' cottage, where Cloud gave him a crude map that was somewhat hard to understand, and asked Vincent for more reassurance that Reno was going to be alright. Vincent pasted a smile on his face and assured him that he was in good hands and Cloud needn't worry, only keep praying.
Tseng was puzzled when he saw Father Vincent unlock the gate blocking the path to the now forbidden woods. A piece of paper dropped from him, but he didn't seem to notice as he hurried along the path. Tseng strode to the gate and picked it up. It was a map of some sort…he had heard of young Reno's troubles, was Father Vincent trying to save him on his own? That was unthinkable…he couldn't bear to lose his lover, he'd have to do something.
Vincent had bemoaned the loss of the map at first, but as it turned out, he didn't need it. The three brothers left an easy trail to follow, and he could feel he was getting closer to his quarry. The pond was rather pretty, but Vincent barely glanced at it as he stormed into the cave. "Leave this place at once!" he snapped at Sephiroth, who merely smiled.
"Hello to you too, brother." he told Vincent.