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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Kingdom Hearts II/Sailor Moon

"Dance of the Sovereign Calamity"

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Chapter 5

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"A room that knows no darkness?" Vincent repeated in a soft voice as he looked up from the sketch Cloud had handed him. Cloud nodded, making Vincent look at the picture again. "And you're saying it's in Crystal Tokyo?"

"As far as we know." Cloud answered with a nod.

"Hmm." Vincent closed his eyes in thought. "It's possibly in the Crystal Place, or beneath it. The Palace serves as the core of their shields. This being of light, this generator isn't so much as a prisoner in they are a battery. Without this being, the shields wouldn't work."

"You mean they wouldn't repel." Cloud earned a slow head shake.

"No, I mean the shields wouldn't work at all." The red cloaked man corrected, handing the sketch back. "The shields were meant to work off a single person, the Queen but she wouldn't be able to move or leave the generator core. That would mean she'd have to leave the kingdom, the city to her husband, who she has begun to distrust because he has become more practical over the years."

Cloud folded the sketch and tucked it away. "The only people she can trust are those 6 women on her council and the King's brother. And she can't just sit to power the shields when she can rule a city and be thought of as a goddess or an angel from God."

"The Queen is getting paranoid and too used to being in power." Vincent told the blond swordsman. "Take that battery away and the 'Great City' will be defenseless. Heaven forbid that they'll have to actually fight for their city's protection again."

Cloud wouldn't normally approve of Vincent's dark view on such a haven but Cloud remembed what Cid had said about the Senshi. However, the way the Senshi had been in the past. Even the Partners of Time and Silence had withdrawn, sick of the decadent life styles in the Palace.

"And no—there's no way to contact them." Vincent said, looking at Cloud over his shoulder.

"What?" Cloud asked distractedly.

"The 2 AWOL Senshi, Saturn and Pluto—you were thinking about contacting them but the only way would be through the King and they stopped taking his communications years ago, just before the shields went up permenantly." The red cloaked man answered, turning to face him. "Reeves used to receive genetic scans of an unusual genetic sequence that Saturn requested deciphered for her. He only mapped 200 DNA strands but barely .0005 percent of the entire sequence."

"Where did she get it?" The blond asked, utterly surprised.

"The genetic archives on her home world. It was a sample taken from a powerful warrior at birth and she was curious if that is what led to the warrior's success." Vincent replied. "He sent her back the data he had but he has yet to hear from her. It's been at the very least 12 years."

"This isn't good." Cloud muttered. "We would need Saturn to help us with the Fracks and Pluto would be needed for the restoration of Hollow Bastion. Maybe the King would allow us to use his frequency to contact them, or maybe Reeves."

"It's possible Uranus and Neptune have turned on them." Vincent pointed out, getting the blond swordsman to look at the cloaked gunman. "They have been silent for far too long. And though Saturn works better when she's unnoticed, there hasn't been even an interstellar transmission from space. It's possible that they've been imprisoned."

Cloud raked a hand through his hair. "This isn't good. We're going to get decimated before we can get enough people to fight back. And with those new Keychains Sora got and that creature that won't leave Riku's side--"

"What 'creature'?" Vincent cut off.

"This black cat with 4 small bat wings and 2 long cat tails." Cloud answered, unsure why it caught Vincent's attention. "According to Sephiroth, it follows Riku wherever he goes. It even waits outside the bathroom for him. Hell, it sleeps on his chest at night."

"And what of the Keychains? What do they look like?"

Cloud was now confused. "What's with the sudden interest? Why does it matter what the Keychains look like?"

"Because they could hold information inside them." The man said, surprising the blond. "Take me to Sora and get Sephiroth. We need to see what those Keychains can do before they're tested against the Fracks."

Yay! Vincent makes his grand debute! And i promise he has a bigger role later!

Oh, WARNING: Next chappie's gonna be looooooong.

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