The Twelve Stars
---There's more than that.
Chapter 1: It Begins...
---Yeah........so......
Vincent stood in the arena, ready to face his opponent. The cage at
the other end opened to reveal his opponent, a shadowy figure that
seemed darkly familiar.
---It was the evil Barney.
The two opponents went to their opposite
sides. The bell rang,
---Ok, break it up. Recess is over.
and Vincent rushed at his opponent, his claw
gleaming.
---And his teeth were freshly brushed to match it.
To his surprise, he went right through his advesary, only to
be caught and stabbed from behind.
"What the hell..." thought Vincent
---Hmmm... I have just been stabbed through the back and all I'll do is wonder what happened.
as he slowly got up, only to be knocked back down. He looked up to see
his opponent,
---but he wasn't there.
whose face was still obscured by the shadows.
---Darn backlighting.
"Who
areyou?"
---Idon'tknow.
he asked, reaching for his gun. "I can't tell you" hissed his
opponent,who then laughed and said
---"boy, I'm a real kidder, aren't I?"
"Looking for this?" and showed
Vincent that he had his gun. Finally, the shadowy assailant put the gun
to Vincent's head.
---Now which way does this go again...
"No..." said Vincent, his voice shaking with fear.
His opponent began to squeeze the trigger.
---*pop*
"NO!" screamed Vincent
"DON'T DO IT!!!"
---Drugs are bad, man...
A blinding flash of light then filled Vincent's eyes as
the gun went off...
---THE END.
Vincent awoke screaming as sweat poured down his face.
---So all the sweat went in his mouth. yuk!
He then lay
quiet, hearing only the rhythmic patter of rain against the windows and
his frightened heart echoing in his ears.
---...the little bones in his ears....yeah.....
He finally heard someone down
the hall say "We'd better check on Vincent. I think he's having that
weird nightmare again..."
---I just heard some monster shoot him, must just be another of his dreams again.
The door then creaked open to reveal three
familiar faces.
---CURLY, LARRY and MOE!!!
Reno,Elena, and Aerith stepped in and walked over to
Vincent's bedside.
---"Wow, what cute pyjamas."
Vincent slowly began remembering how Aerith had been
brought back..
---It involved a box of matches, rubber boots, a llama, and a half-eaten bagel. You don't want to hear about it.
Aerith had been revived after Sephiroth's defeat. Everyone had
sacrificed one piece of Materia each.
---And all of them gave up an HP/MP switch.
The eight pieces had then fused
into a ball and flown upwards.
---That makes a lot of sense.
Finally, Aerith had appeared in a shower
---"Hey, could you revive me in a half hour or so. I'm almost done in here."
of light, alive and well. Since Cloud and Tifa were already engaged at
the time, Aerith had chosen Vincent to become her fiancee.
---Just spontaniously. "Hey Vincent, I just rose from the dead, do you wanna get hitched?"
After moving
back into the Nibelheim mansion with Aerith, Vincent had started
becoming more human...
---Like you're going to just "become" human. oy....
"Vincent, are you okay?"
---"Well, I'm feeling very HUMAN today! How are you dear?"
Aerith's soothing voice brought him back to reality. Vincent turned
towards Aerith, who was now looking at him with much concern. She
quietly began to smooth back his hair. "Relax.
---and take a DEEEEEEEP breath.
It was only a dream" she
whispered. Vincent began to calm down. After a few moments of
silence, Elena said "We should check his temperature. It's probably a
fever dream"
---I dream of fevers allll the time.
and Reno went to fetch a thermometer. She
then walked over to Aerith and asked
---Well, who's going to take his temperature? Not me. I ain't putting that thing nowhere.
"Are you sure he's okay yet?"
"Why do you ask?" replied Aerith.
---In order to find out.
"He's shaking pretty badly. I think he's still frightened"
---Ohh.... the poor baby.....
Aerith looked at Vincent and pulled the blankets he had thrown off
back over him,
---"I don't want to look at this guy anymore than I have to."
tucking him in securly as Reno returned. "Here's the
thermometer you wanted" said Reno hastily. "Sorry I can't be with you
right now, but the the Million GP Movie is coming back on and I don't
want to miss it. Bye!"
---1MILLION gp to enter? Oh... must be Titanic.
He then ran back down the hall. Aerith then took
Vincent's temperature.
---With, surprise surprise, the thermometer.
She sighed upon seeing that his temperature had
gone up a few degrees and was almost 107. Aerith then gave him some
medicine and reassured him that he would be okay.
---"You'll probably only get brain damage dear. Nothing to worry about."
Finally,she turned
off the light and left with Elena. Vincent was alone once again. He
pulled the blankets around himself, snuggling into the warm bed.
---Vincent is not the character you'd expect to "snuggle".
He
then looked at calendar across the room. It was the first of December.
---"maybe I should just roll around in the snow to lower my fever..."
It had been five months since Sephiroth's defeat and one month since he
had passed out in Rocket Town and had awoken in the bed he was laying
in,
---and 6 months since his last dental check up.
feeling like he had been spun around 100 times. Vincent finally
closed his eyes, falling into a comfortable, dreamless sleep...
Cid silently wandered through one of Hojo's old laboratories,
---"Hey look! Einstien's Autograph!"
which had fallen into disrepair since the collapse of Shinra. Cid was
hoping he could salvage a few machine parts or find out something about
Shinra that he didn't know about. So far, he had found nothing.
---The whole place was empty
He was
about to give up and go home when he heard what sounded like a
frightened whimper.
---Someone was playing an Alanis CD.
He shone his flashlight in the direction of the
noise, but noticed nothing unusual, at first. Upon taking a closer look,
he saw something moving about in the shadows.
---Darn mice.
Stepping over broken tubes
and puddles of foul-smelling liquid to get a closer look, he saw it
again. It looked like a winged human in the dim light given off by an
almost burnt-out lightbulb.
---The flashlight?
Using his flashlight, Cid got an even better
look at the creature. It was in pretty bad shape. Grime, dried blood,
---Jell-o,
and various wounds covered its body. Its knee-length hair was matted,
dirty, and tangled.
---He used Alberto!
Cid followed the creature as it ran into the
darkness.
---And a low pipe.
Finally, the chase led to a dead end, an empty room.
---And a dead end.
Cid knew
he was close now.
---Close to what?
He could hear panting coming from one of the corners.
Cid pointed his flashlight at creature and walked towards it. The
creature was huddled up in the corner, frightened, trying to hide itself
in its broken wings.
---And due to Cid's incredible lack of observance skills, it worked.
Cid kneeled, bringing himself face-to-face with it.
The creature looked back at Cid, fear in its eyes. It then buried its
face in its hands and wept. "D-Don't hurt me..." it sobbed "I-I've
suffered...enough" It then collapsed from exhaustion.
---Talking sure takes it out of him, don't it.
Cid couldn't
help but feel sorry for it. He then picked it up quietly and carried it
back to Rocket Town...
---And put it on a rocket.
Rufus floated through the night sky.
---Even though he was dead.
He was now an ethereal being.
---He redeemed all his ethereal card points to get that way.
His physical body had been destroyed in the explosion, but his soul
hadn't. He was now free. Free to go wherever he wanted. Free to
explore everywhere unhindered.
---Free to do NOTHING!!! YAY!!!
But something out there still bothered
him.
---It was this short little ethereal guy that kept calling him Frank.
He needed to find out what it was. Rufus sped towards Nibelheim,
knowing he'd find part of the answer there...
Meanwhile, at the center of the Promised Land, someone contemplated
revenge.
---Just some Joe Shmoe. No one that had any importance to the game.
"You will pay for this dearly, Avalanche!" he growled, shaking
an angry fist
---But the rest of him wasn't angry.
"I shall have my vengeance! I'll make you suffer for what
you did!"
---All your saving the world and stuff.
He then laughed manically, knowing payback time would soon
come...
---I'll launch this fanfic at them!!!
---Well, the plot is either moving faster that I can keep up, or it isn't moving at all. I'm still trying to figure which it is.
---Check out part 2!
