AN:...emotions all over the place...

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Vincent's heavy eyelids closed shut...thinking of the lovely assistant...now together...He held her close underneath the serene ocean of bed sheets...all was calm, but surreal...quiet and peaceful...Vincent felt something, like spiders, creeping up and down on his left arm. He lifted his arm; his eyes were looking curiously...nothing was there.

Suddenly, a long deep cut being formed slowly down his forearm. The sound of chimes faded away gradually by the sounds of voices...the daemons were back whispering to his ears...The black haze revisited his vision...shadowing his sanctuary with darkness... The ventilation of whispers continued...the quarrelsome chanting echoed through his mind...He felt himself suffocating...He was unsure...was he drowning underwater or drowning in his own remorse?...His vision was starting to return, but everything was still a blur...he looked around...he was underwater...his pale body was still unclothed...he place a hand forward...the feel of smooth glass...the memories were back...he found himself back inside the same compact glass tank...trapped...like a lab experiment...the threatening voices conversed louder...

He peered through the translucent barrier...there was a man with long dark stringy hair, tied back in a pony tail standing in front of the tank... He was wearing spectacles; scribbling something down on a notebook...Lucrecia was standing behind him; a doleful look was on her face. Her stomach was fruitful; carrying a burden inside the womb. The voices grew violent when he took sight of the woman.

"uoy evol t'nseod esh"

"daed uoy detnaw esh"

"flesruoy gniyned"

"sdnah s'enoyreve ot tnemirepxe na"

"tnemirepxe sih won esh...

sdnah sih htiw"

Vincent couldn't ignore the caustic voices any longer. A face startled him; the stringy haired man inspected him closer; looking through the glass...an evil smirk was on his face.

"ojoH"

"Hojo"

Vincent's eyes were flickering sporadically crimson to amber. He felt his body being engulfed, not by darkness, but by Chaos. He tried to hold back. The battle with himself was intense...the mad scientist backed away...he was speechless...Lucrecia was afraid to move; she wanted to be there for Vincent. Cracks were growing on the glass shell. Vincent was trying to maintain his self-control.

"...ot uoy detnaw ehs"

"BURN IN YOUR OWN HELL!"

Vincent yelled in pain as Chaos roared with anger. Suddenly the glass shattered into pieces. Massive droplets of water were bursting out along with the fragments of glass. Vincent lifted his head up slowly. His long black hair was covering some of his face. He walked towards Hojo. His eyes were now fierce amber. Vincent twitched murderously, trying to overcome the devil inside. Hojo reached inside the pocket on the side of his lab coat. He pulled out a gun; aiming it at Vincent. He fired the weapon. The bullet was traveling straight to the middle of his amber eyes, with great speed. The bullet came close to his face...but the boltlike pellet made a complete halt...frozen in midair...The bullet fell to the tiled floor. Hojo was alarmed by this. He looked at his gun, then back at Vincent repeatedly. He shot at Vincent several times more, but all the results turned out the same. Vincent was coming closer to the man who cursed him.

Hojo's was out of ammo, but he was already face to face with his experiment. Vincent stared at him with his deadly eyes. He clenched a fist...without any hesitation; he struck the insane scientist with a fatal blow to the head, knocking him senseless to the ground. Vincent turned his head to Lucrecia, who trembled with horror. Her wide eyes were fixed on Hojo's lifeless body.

She backed away from Vincent, who walked closer to her. She felt her back touch the wall...there was no way to escape. She placed her hand on her blossoming stomach; protecting the cushioned enigmatic offspring. Vincent wrapped his hand around her slender neck, pressing down on her throat. Lucrecia choked under the agonizing pressure.

"M-mon-ster..." she attempted to say, "This...this isn't...you..."

Letting out her last breath of life, Lucrecia surrendered under Vincent's firm grip. She closed her eyes softly...Vincent released his hand...Lucrecia collapsed to the floor. The rage inside him was now dampened. His amber eyes reverted to blood crimson. His head ached.

"Where am-" Something disturbed Vincent's contemplations. His eyes came across the woman he loved, whose life was now in eternal rest. The mournful visage of her body lying dead on the ground bestowed upon Vincent with crestfallen spirits. The imprints around her neck marked his cruelty. He knelt down beside her. His rouge eyes were drenched in woe. He stroked her face timidly.

"Lu...crecia?" He said, "Lucrecia?" There was no response...nothing but grief-stricken silence. Vincent's troubled hands were shaking.

"Lucre-cia...Lucrecia!" He cried with vehement passion.

He was now awake...

His sanguine eyes opened with shock. He sat up quickly from the ground...awaken from his quietus...His heart throbbed against his chest...He looked around with vigilant eyes...discovering he was still inside the dusky wet cave with the mako crystal casting a fluorescent teal light. The events that appeared in his head were only lost dreams and recurring nightmares sewn together with one needle and two distant threads. He walked towards his love, who was preserved inside the glowing crystal.

"I'm...I'm sorry..." he apologized. He placed his hand on the crystal. "You don't have to forgive me...I understand..." Vincent closed his eyes; keeping his rubescent pools from flooding. "I don't know what came over me but I-" He opened his eyes, facing the place where he was standing. He found Lucrecia resting in his arms. The two of them were enshrined inside the beaming lucid crystal...cocooned from the world...

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AN: Yes, it was all dreams and nightmares except the ending...about the crystal...I'll leave that for your minds...Thank you for reading...this was fun...I was sick when I started this, later on, it took me awhile because I was so busy...I'm sorry if it wasn't good...