Forbidden Love
The Story of Vincent Valentine Chapter 9
Swiftly Dying Reality
By Leok
Gast had Ifalna. No one was stupid enough to break into
a house and rape a woman with a mad scientist, an evil scientist, and a psycho
with a gun also occupying it. That psycho knew, deep in his
heart, that the child wasn't his. This left only one
man.
Vincent had been angry. Enraged. He'd broken Lucrecia
to tears in his shock. Gast had ran after her, desperately trying to
comfort her. Vincent had tried to be calm, but couldn't. That
bastard! He was a man possessed. He raced up the stairs, into
the lab.
"Hojo! You bastard! What did you do to
Lucrecia!"
The scientist turned from his work with an enormous smile on
her face. "Oh. You found out."
"How could you?"
"How could I what? If you'd just be patient, Valentine,
I'll explain."
"I don't need explanations! You drugged Lucrecia, and
raped her! How could you?"
"I hardly raped her, for one thing. She was more than
willing." He laughed, making Vincent's blood boil. "And it isn't
her child. It's Jenova's."
"What?"
"Jenova is in Lucrecia, you see. She took the girl
over. Lucrecia will have child, and that child will be a vessel for
Jenova. All will be well."
"You aren't making sense!"
"No, you aren't listening. Oh well, I have work to do.
Go away now."
Vincent's eyes blazed. He ripped his gun from it's
holster. "YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT TO DO!?"
Hojo grinned. "Yes."
The shot fired. A blaze of light leapt from the gun's
barrel. As though moving at a snail's pace, Vincent heard and felt
every part of the shot. The magazine unloading the bullet, the hammer
striking the shot, the recoil of the gun, moving deliciously in degrees upward,
more and more every instant.
The bullet stopped in midair, just in front of Hojo's
glasses. With a small breath, Hojo "blew" the bullet to the
ground.
"How? What?" Vincent stuttered.
"Blessed be Jenova, who cares for her own." Hojo
sniggered. "Since you can't kill me, I'll... Just have
to kill you!" Hojo produced a handgun. Vincent took off like
a shot. He ran not through the mansion, Hojo in close pursuit.
Vincent had no doubt that Hojo was a good shot.
He remembered, one night, a loud, heavy sound from his room.
He could of sworn that he'd seen motion against one wall of the room.
He'd found the entrance, and Gast downstairs. He'd told Gast the chamber
was his, no sneaking around was necessary, as long as Gast didn't mind having
another occupant in the room. Gast had agreed. Vincent prayed
that he'd be safe. He leapt through the door frame, and slid the passage
open the slightest crack, which he slid through. He closed the door,
and leapt down the space between the stairs, rather than risking a creaky
board alerting Hojo to his presence. He entered the library, and sighed
with relief. He was safe.
That's when he saw the table, covered with medical equipment
that hadn't been there before. That's when he saw Hojo, his handgun
pointed dead at Vincent's chest.
"You lose, Turk." Hojo sneered.
"How?"
"Jenova does amazing things, Vincent. You'll see that
for yourself. You're next."
The shot fired. Vincent blacked out.
***
"NO! I won't do it!"
"You must. Without you, he will die."
"But..."
"He tried to kill himself, Lucrecia. Thank god, somehow,
he's still alive- though barely."
"Vincent wouldn't..."
"Vincent did! If you want him to live, help
me!"
"Okay... "I will."
***
"My god! Look what it did!"
"Damnit! That was the wrong sample! That is pure
Jenova! His hand is all but ripped clean off!"
"We'll need to transplant."
"No. Biological material will be eaten away. He'll
need a mechanical graft."
***
When Vincent awoke, he wasn't the same. He had gone through
a delirium. He was no longer sure of the facts, the happenings, of
the blame.
His anger manifested. He changed. His inner demons
were exorcised... By becoming his reality. "This body...
It is my punishment... I wasn't able to stop them... Professor
Hojo and Gast... And... Lucrecia... I could only watch...
This... Is my sin.
* Guess what? I watched the "Vincent Flashback" In FF-VII
just before the end of this chapter, and I realized that I've totally screwed
up parts of the story line. I've already made some mistakes, but I
think I'll leave them there. Hell, in "The Story of Magus" By
ZealProphet, Flea is a girl, not a guy. The story is still great.
Can you forgive my mistakes? Or rather... my sins? Hope
so. Bye.
** By the way, "The Story of Magus" Was, in my opinion, one of the
best fanfics ever, so don't think I'm trashing you, Zeal. Bye again!