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Sweet Surrender	By : flamekaat Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 998 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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He had known that it would be difficult to slay Sephiroth, and his tryst with the mad general made it only more difficult. His fury made access to Chaos only more easy though and his limit broke with a cry of pain and rage that wasn�t intirely physical. He charged the god like form of the one he has shared passion with , showing no mercy. When he touched that pale skin he let his thoughts be known.

I am sorry my lover. Somewhere in you I am certain you know you cannot be allowed to continue this quest for divinity. However I will not let them finish you no matter how much Cloud and Tiffa want revenge for their little town. That was no more you then the thing that holds you now is I. Now come with me and let us scald the abyss with our warrior spirits.

He tore at the wings that held his foe become lover become foe aloft. At last the final pair failed and they fell plummeting into the lifestream. Fair well my friends. Stop meteor if you can. He thought to Cloud, whom he now knew would hear him. Vincent! Cloud�s thoughts cried back as he took his lover into the green tinged darkness.
Cloud and Tiffa hung on deperatedly as the crater tried to swallow the small ledge they were standing on. They both prayed after their fashion and soon their prayers were answered by the ladder of the highwind dropping down to them. Then came the Meteor blast as the giant rock impacted with Midgar. They all clung to the nearest solid thing as hard as they could and waited.

"We have to go back." Cloud insisted as he bought up as much healing and restorative items as he could, and he also looked in again on the Doctor who had helped him to recover from his mako poisoning. From him he recieved an antidote fo sorts that would lessen the effects of long mako submerison.

"But Cloud he took Sephiroth with him into the lifestream. It�s unlikely he is still alive after all that." Tiffa protested. Before he could even say anything Yuffie started screaming at Tiffa. "Gods how stupid can you be Tiffa! If he could make it through a twenty plus year coma in a freaking coffin then he can damn well do just like Cloud and survive being in the lifestream!" She continued berating Tiffa for her lack of faith for quite some time until Tiffa started to look angry.

Cloud decided that he needed to settle Tiffa and Yuffie down a bit. The best way he could do that was to tell them of what he knew. "Yuffie is right Teef. He�s alive. I can feel him in my Jenova cells. All us experiments are deeply connected and he is still alive down in that crater someplace. We will go back into that aweful hole and bring him out. That�s the end of the discussion." Barret looked over Tiffa�s head and smirked at him. The look in his eye was encouraging. No one was used to Cloud being dominating to Tiffa and all but she had to see it as an improvement.
Deep in the north crater Vincent opened his ruby hued eyes and looked blearily at his surroundings. He and a completely healed Sephiroth were nude and suspended in green glowing mako. This liquid bubbled and swished slightly as Vincent moved to touch the layer of crystal that surrounded them. Were they doomed to die in such a way, to become a fossilized curiosity for future generations, the men in the materia? No foolish one, the touch of one who cares deeply for you and feels pity for your lover will set you free from this crystal I have placed you in for safe keeping. Untill then I reccomend you rest and continue to recover your strength. He will still be too weak to fight when you are released and many beasts and even some men will seek your lives.

As if to prove the point of the voice of the planet that spoke to him, he could see the bleary shapes of some of the crater�s most dangerous beasts roaming out in front of his eyes. They were staring at the crystal that held them back from the men as if they could not quite reach a favorite treat. Vile things begone! He thought out to the monsters who surrounded them. He did not use his own tone but that of Chaos the greatest demon or beast any of this world would ever see. From that spiritual strength they fled, all but one tonnberry king who glared at them as if they were and inconvienient annoyance then wandered off.

Yuffie was struggling with her big pack already but then she saw something in a shop window she knew they would need once they rescued Vincent. It was a gleaming ruby cloak with Vincent practically written all over it. It was even bat tipped along the bottom so that it looked like the great resting wings of a vampire. She struggled some more to get through the door into the shop and bought the cloak and some nice dress pants and a shirt in Vinnie�s size before having the shopkeeper carefully wrap it and stuff it in on top of her heavy pack.

Cloud stared at her when she left the shop. "Gods sake Yuffie what else could you possibly need?" He asked incredulously. "Somethin." Yuffie answered. He hadn�t seen the cloak in the window and that had been the only one in Vinnie�s size. Used to her juvinile secret keeping and teasing responses Cloud just shrugged. Tiffa had seen the cloak though and she winked conspiritorially at Yuffie. Having decided to forgive her, Yuffie winked back. Easily the female comrades healed their rift. Then they took off in the highwind, and went to restore their lost member to the group.
Cid didn�t even scoff when Cloud had called him on the PHS and said that Vinnie was alive. He had known in his heart of hearts it was true. That tough ole vampy was to cold and stuffy to die. He always acted as if he had seen the other side already and had come back because whatever was over there was to boring for him. Cid was grinning around his cigar as he maneuvered them into position for the teams to scramble into the crater and search.

Barret went with Red and Tiffa to form one party. Cloud went with him and Yuffie and Cait-Sith trailed along behind them shouting suggestions through his megaphone. They went deeper and deeper into the dank monster infested pit, and Cid wasn�t liking much that they hadn�t found vampy boy yet. "Makes sense Cid. He fell when we were in the bottom of the crater. He wouldn�t be way up here even if the crater had a giant mako geyser afterwards." Yuffie supplied. She looked at Cloud, which after having asked a few hundred times if they were any CLOSER yet was all she had to do. He nodded and gestured for them to keep going down into the hole in the earth.

Vincent sensed the approach of a bearer of mako cells. In the world�s current state that could only be Cloud. He reached out to the spiky haired young man even though he was only strong enough to send feelings. Cloud responded gently. You alright Vince? He sent back the impression that he was. We are inbound. How far down are you? Can you tell? He sent back that he was near enough to the place where they had battled. Be there in a blink or two save your energy. Cloud replied.
Cloud told Yuffie and Cid what was happening when his eyes went �all goofy like that� as Yuffie had referred to it. Cait heard also and was jumping up and down enthusiastically. Soon they reached the rest point at the place where the two paths converged. The other group insisted that they rest first before pressing on into the depths. This irritated Cloud but he could see that Yuffie and Tiffa and even Red were looking exhausted. "Fine we rest. But only two hours and no more!" Even Barret looked relieved.Cloud sent word of the delay to Vincent, who replied that in his own way he was also resting, and as safe as could be for the moment. So they could take their time if they needed.

Yuffie lay down in the tent behind Cloud, but she knew she wouldn�t be able to sleep any. Even if she hadn�t been worried sick over Vinnie she would have been to restless over the sound. Cloud was using a wetstone to sharpen his blade, the metalic scrap scraping was grating on the nerves, and it also expresed perfectly Cloud�s impatience. She finally got up and borrowing the thing from an astonished Cloud she sharpened the edges on her conformer. Cid joined them and she handed him the stone. "Thanks kid." He remarked blandly. She stuck her tongue out at him. "Yer welcome old man!" she answered and they both laughed.

Yuffie led the way now. She could feel Vinnie now as good as Cloud. Not because of any JENOVA weird shit but because he was her friend and a Shinobi always kept track of all close friends and enemies. Her unerring radar dragged them down the left hand path towards the fountain of Mako energy where Cloud had gotten that odd Materia. Then There he was. "Vinnie!� She shouted and she dashed forward. The fountain chose then to subside and the crystal that he was locked inside settled into a nitch of hardened, dried, mako as if that nich had been made for it.

No one else was going any nearer so she accepted the responisbility of freeing their friend. Her father would have ben proud had he seen her accept such a grim task when no one else would take it. When she got close enough she saw why no one else had come near to try and help. Locked together in an embrace that appeared both tender and fierce were Vincent and Sephiroth! "I should have known you�d shag him Vinnie but ya never expect it of the quiet ones." She teased. Then his eyes snapped open. He had heard her!
Yuffie stepped up to the crystal that imprisoned her friend In this she would take a page out of Aeris�s book and ask the planet nicely to release her friend and his lover. There was not a shred of doubt in her mind that sometime before the final battle that was exactly what they had become to one another. So she placed her hand on the crystal�s surface and asked in her heart and her thoughts for their freedom. Do you love this one and feel sorrow for the fate of he whom he holds? The planet asked in her head. "Yes. Yes I do." She answered. She had never been this unrestrained and lacking in hesitation before, but in this she was certain. I will free them if you give your word to aid them in all the ways that you may. The planet replied. "You have my word as a Shinobi and as the future Lady Kisigari of Wutai" She answered it. Deal then, consider us having shaken on it! The planet said, almost as if it was teasing!
Vincent watched as the fluid began to drain away from him and Sephiroth. Once it was gone and he stood on the base of the crystal the sides slowly disolved away allowing him to step out of the circle that was all that remaind of the crystal and down the small steps formed by the dried mako. United you are by your love for him and hers for you and by her word. May you together find the peace none of you would find alone. The planet intoned. Three small crystals appeared each looking to be filled with the same type of mako that had suspended and healed him and Sephiroth. They floated before them and glimmered before sprouting delecate chains and settling around the heads of he Three.

Cloud was freaked. His revenge for the lives of Niebelheim had fallen away before his eyes. Then the planet spoke, not just to him or the three united ones before him, but to the whole group. It is my will that these three shall start afresh together, and I ask you to harm them not. Bear no grudges for the lives that were lost for she whom you have slain was the sole cause and all others merely tools. She creeped into the minds and hearts of all who came into her presence and tainted them with her evil. Hold guilt not over the silver haired one nor even his dead kinsman and kinswoman for none had a choice.

Cloud bowed his head and accepted. He knew that he would not leave here alive otherwise. The cold voice of the planet Aeris had loved more then her own life made sure to impress upon these children of it�s own blood that it would not tolerate any more crap. With the wound made by the seccond meteor digging into it with souch painful force he could well understand it�s lack of flexibility on the issue. That and if Sephiroth wasn�t responsible for Neibleheim then JENOVA was dead and his revenge was closed anyway. He held Tiffa back from jumping on the silver haired man as a naked Vincent supported him.

Yuffie looked at the accepting Cloud and mouthed �deal with it Tiffa� to the infuriated brunette he held in his arms. Cloud spoke into her ear and sudenly Tiffa yielded becoming almost boneless in her grief. "Cloud...or families, my friends." Cloud just shook his head. "We got JENOVA Teef, so it�s over now and they will rest easy and be reborn happy someplace else. They have returned to the planet and I seriously doubt they would be angry at us, unless of course we did kill the bringer of bad news as it were." At this comment Cloud gestured to the slumping form being supported by Vincent.
Yuffie dropped her pack and dug around in it for a moment. "Here�s some clothes for ya Vinnie, and since I got ya an extra pair of boxers Sephiroth can wear em." Yuffie suggested. She was looking only at his face, but her blush had suggested that she had peeked at them both if even by accident and had been disturbed by what had to be her first sight of a naked male who did not belong to her bloodline. Clothes and even a pair of glinting brass covered steel toed boots like those he always wore were presented and finally the black extra set of boxers. He helped Sephiroth to put them on. "One leg at a time my would be godling." He teased in a whisper. Sephiroth nearly choked.

Yuffie had one more surprise at hand. She produced the fine cloak like a side show magician revealing the rabbit out of his hat. "Tadaa!" It was even bat fringed along the bottoms. "Damn Vampy! She sure has your number doesn�t she!" Cid remarked snidely. Vincent glared at Cid for a moment. Then with a evil grin on his face, he flipped Cid off with his brass hued claw.

That broke the tension down a little as the party laughed, some more cheerfully then others. It would not be as it had been between them, but the comraderie was returning and it would soon be better then ever. He knew his certainty came from the planet and not his own heart. Even so that was fine by him. Even an ex-turk needed a leg up now and again.
The Highwind cut lose her mooring lines and turned away from the North crater. As she did so all aboard her prayed, each in their own way, that they should never have to return to the place.

Someplace on board someone had found some pants for Sephiroth and he sat there with the ex-turk on the bridge, bare footed and bare chested, leaning against Vincent. For his part the ex-turk had his arms around the waist of the once mad general and glared daggers at anyone besides Cid or Yuffie who came near to them. The shock came when Tiffa appeared on the bridge and stopped head drooping in front of the pair. "Here comes my least favorite meal. It�s time to eat Crow." She said.

"For the longest time I ignored all that was said and all that was done during our missions. The only thing in front of my eyes was the day you cut me open like a butcher would a pig. After a lot of thought, and none to few prayers to the planet I have come to understand that the man that nearly killed me that day was not the Legendary General Sephiroth. No that was just another unfortunate puppet of JENOVA. I�m truely sory that I held you responisble for all of that."

The brave fighter dropped back and was about to flee when Sephiroth caught her hand. "No miss Lockheart it is in many ways still my fault. Even though the planet itself has absolved me of all guilt I will not ever forgive myself. In my madness I took from you and from Cloud the one thing that matters most in this fragile existance. I took away your families. That is a debt that I will owe for always, and one for which I am deeply sorrowful."

Tiffa looked as if she was about five seconds from breaking down in tears, then she opened her arms to Sephiroth. The two embraced and Tiffa found herself tucked under the chin of the now sane general. "I am so sorry brave one." He apologized again. "Forgiven blood of my soulmate�s blood." She whispered in turn and then the general released her and allowed her to leave the bridge.
"Blood of my soulmate�s blood?" Vincent inquired. "Yea my Valentine. She meant Cloud because of the genes we now share and the JENOVA cells." Vincent nodded now understanding. "Come love, a memeber of our planetary trio is missing. Let�s go and make sure Yuffie hasn�t drowned in her own vomit." Sephiroth raised a platinum brow then noded as Vincent sent him an impression of Yuffie�s continual motion sickness while riding in the highwind or any other vessel. Unfortunate that. He thought back and Vincent nodded in agreement.

The two of them found her, but not in the place they expected. Aparently she had been given the ultimate cure for her illness in the planet�s crystal pendant. The heavy smacks sounded with the rattle of chains and Hi yah!�s meant that yuffie was in the excercise room. He heard the voice of Barret giving gruff incouragement. "Ya think yer going to have to fight Gordo again to get those two to be welcome in Wutai?" the gruf cyborg asked her. Yuffies voice was clear and enthused, hypd with endorphins from her training and recent participation in their rescue. "Nah Barret not gonna happen. If I fight Gordo again it will be to prove that I can do it and it wasn�t a fluke the first time!" Wam wam wam, more strikes on the punching bag.
"He gave m my freedom and my little house after I turned twelve and he couldn�t bare to remember my mother every time he looked at me." Both of them could easily detect sorrow in her voice at this. "I am fifteen now after all so It is really my business who I have live in my house and who I don�t. Truth be told he probably won�t know until we�ve all been there for a month. until some well meaning neighbor decides that he needs to be informed that his daughter has moved two men decades older then herself into her house!" Giggles followed that and Barret�s guffaws. "That�ll set his tail on fire hotter then Red�s!" The Avalanche leader agreed then they laughed together again.

Vincent nodded and they stepped into the training room. He cought the tough man�s eye and jerked his head subtly to indicate that the three needed some alone time. "Here come yer real trainin� partners. Them two can make you strong enough to whoop ole Gordo�s ass with one arm tied behind yer back!" barret said to the slender shinobi, then with a wave he left them alone.

"We do need to figure out where we will all live now. I think we should spend some time in the remains of midgar helping rebuild, and until that time out best bet for a base of operations would be the shinra mansion in Neibleheim." Sephiroth suggested. "Yeah Sephy Sama, but nether of you two guys need to be there for long. To many bad memories all around so I say that once we have helped lift up the unfortunate we go and live in my house in Wutai. We�d need to put a porch and another room on to it but it would be okay space wise after that." Yuffie added. "I indeed do not wish to spend to much time in the mansion if it can be avoided. However there is a rather valuable piece of my property that I do wish to recover from the mansion�s garage." Vincent informed them.
"So it�s charity work, grabbing the Valentine ride and heading out to the island nation then?� Sephiroth asked. The other two nodded. "Sounds like a plan then. Alright Yuffie let�s train!" Yuffie�s smirk of doom made her silver haired companion grin and Vincent nodded before stepping around the bag to go lift weights. The blam blam wham wham�s went on for several hours as they took turns beating the bag until the sweat glistened on their bodies and flattened their hair to their heads. Vincent even took his turns at beating out any lingering frustration. �careful their vampy I don�t want to have to duct tape my punchin� bag to fix the cuts from that claw!" came Cid�s voice from the doorway.

"Of course not Cid. Give me some credit will you? I have far more control over the talons given me by Hojo then that." Vincent said as he turned and took hold of the bag for Sephiroth. The sweaty general beat the crap out of it steadily, the muscles in his upper body rippling were the only sign that he was exerting himself at all. His breathing remained even and his strikes landed with the same force every time. " Glad to see the both of ya are in decent health then cause we are gonna have a lot of work to do helping to rebuild Midgar, especially since most of it�s a giant hole in the ground right about now."

}}A/N there it is folks chapter two of what was going to be a one shot fic...I warned ya only very long lived plot bunnies live inside my head. Oh well everyone review please I wanna know what ya think. Next chapter is the begining of crystal midgar and the forming of deeper bonds between the characters...none of which belong to me... though I do have Sephy locked in my closet! ~_^ Peace out till later my dears!{{ }}edit as of 12/2006 all server crash errors that mutated words and things are gone and chapter six is up!{{
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