Forbidden Love
The Story of Vincent Valentine Chapter 10
The Last of the Pieces
By Leok
Vincent's "life" was madness. He was a beast. He
stormed from the mansion in a rage. Without realizing it, he killed,
in cold blood, human life. He ate warm flesh, and drank spilled
blood. Confused, disoriented, and heartbroken, he returned to the
mansion. It was in shambles. It looked as though a bomb had been
set off. (Many bombs, actually.) "Did you have fun, my
pet?"
Vincent whirled around. Hojo!
"Did you enjoy your killing spree?"
Vincent opened his mouth- no, his maw, and moved his serpentine
tongue around his fanged teeth. "HRRRRROOOJJOOO!!" He
screamed.
The scientist's mouth opened. "H-he
remembers!"
Vincent swept a clawed hand out at the real monster, and lost
his balance, falling to the ground.
"Pathetic! We'll lock you up, where you can't hurt
me."
As it had happened years ago, when he was first captured by
the Shinra, the tranquilizer dart blacked Vincent out, and he remembered
no more.
***
Reality, Fate, Coincidence, Time. They mean, to different
people, different things. To Vincent, they were tools of his
torture. A sickness overtook him, a darkness, for he was all but
blind. He was weak, locked in this room, this catacomb. He believed
lies.
He "knew" that all three of the scientists had been experimenting
on humans. He "knew" that there had always been a rift between himself
and Lucrecia, because she was, in science, as cold as Hojo. Evil,
horrendous nightmares were his only life, asleep in a casket, robed in clothes
reminiscent of his old life, before Shinra. The truth, and "the truth"
became mangled even more so.
All he knew, was that his love for Lucrecia, his forbidden
love, was all he had left for good. And that Hojo's acts of cruelty
were his only fuel for evil. All the rest, was himself... And
the truth.
And so Vincent was left, in his own madness, for many a
year.
***
Vincent was not the only one who suffered. Gast returned
to Ifalna, and they had a child. He had run from Hojo for years, as
a result of their arguments over the fate of Lucrecia's child. He'd
hid from the world, before deciding to settle back at home, the last place
Hojo would expect him to be. Hojo finally found him, years later.
Gast died, and Ifalna was captured, along with her child, a little spark
of light in a dark world... Her name was Aeris.
***
Hojo was happy. He had Jenova. Lucrecia, was
not. Jenova had given her eternity, and Hojo had given her no one left
to spend it with. Hojo had told her all about the fire Vincent had
set in the mansion, upon coming to consciousness. She had helped Hojo
prepare the body, and they buried it in the Mansion's basement. Then
she'd left, and found a small cave, a place where she could mourn her lost
love, and her lost child, taken by the scientists. Her
Sephiroth.
And so the world turned, as more failures and successes filled
it. But never, ever, was there a sadness such as the Forbidden Love
of Vincent Valentine.
The End