Welcome to Gaia! ::

Shadow holds his position as both blades cling to eatch other by the strength of their wielders. "Years ago when I first realized my powers, I was caught up in a conflict with an experiment in a chemical plant caught fire. After I killed him, the whole place blew up and I thought I was a goner. But then I woke up outside and at the feet of a man standing in front of the place. He didnt say anything, but he left me this sword I'm wielding and disappeared", the boy explained. "When I met you that night, I almost felt as though I caught your scent somewhere before. But then I realized it could have been just a repressed memory from when the Old Man your fused with when I was his baby guinea pig", as he continued on with his story he spread out his hands across the blade's long handle. "But then I fought against one of Vertigo's freak shows, Ryu. And right before I shredded him into hamburger meet. The bandage of this sword ripped on and revealed the name of the man who saved me that night. And thats when it all made sense.", he said lifting and pushing the sword to angle revealing Vincent's name on Revear's handle. "This sword Reaver. This is your sword isnt it?!!!! Why?!", Shadow shouted at him.

Vincent looked at the blade and he sighed.

"When Prophecy made me he made me for only one purpose."he said looking at Shadow with a grin.

"I was made to counter the governments plans from the very get go. Do you really think this was all because I want power? I could obtain that and we both know I could squash everyone here."He said and he lifted his head toward the abandoned building below.

"I was made to endure more pain then any of you because I was the only one meant to know emotion. And rather you see the purpose in this or not." He said looking into his brothers eyes once again.

"All those years ago when I left Reaver with you. I gave you my trust to battle through the powers that Vertigo planted in you. That night I made a vow to myself. This cleansing isn't of the people Shadow. It's a cleansing of the madness within them. Maybe you haven't noticed but around us the world has folded inside of itself. All Vertigo wants..all Cael wants is POWER. I am the key to that power...and without me..they'll have nothing but you. Even then they cannot control you so they'll only have one more opportunity to gain the power they seek. To kill all of you...or to simply kill me here and now." Vincent said and he looked down below at the creatures. Frozen as well within the strength of this time lock.

" The News has already spread onto the televisions around this town and soon will across every country and then across each of our continents." Vincent said and grinned again.

"My purpose is not to kill you or Cross. Its to destroy the man who caused this all to fold down to this to begin with. Abyss knew that. Zero knows that. They still plotted there battle to fit Abyss's end to our plan. To give you and Cross one final push off the edge to meet me here and now."he said and put a hand on Reaver.


"This power surging through me is to pull the rats out of there little holes. You want the man who betrayed all of us?"Vincent asked lightly.

"Then you and I see no differently. I simply needed you and Cross to see things as we all have through out the years." He looked down below again and Shadow felt a pull of the dark matter. It pulled his head down to look through the hole in the abandoned home. The wolf next to Mirage looked up though she still lay there frozen in the time warp.

"Just as you and Cross want to make a future for Fate and Tori and your twins down there." He said softly.

"I want to make it safe for our kind to roam the streets again. For my daughter to roam the streets again like a normal human being!" Vincent hissed and this time he didn't look all so different in the face then Cross.

"The reason Cross learned so much fighting me is because he is the exit strategy that Prophecy planned for all of us. If he kills me then all my power will be released and ultimately vanish. If he does..the governments search for power is over. They'll have finally lost this long and anguishing battle between us." Vincent said and he sighed. His eyes wondered into the skies.

"Do you want to finally be free brother?" he asked.

"Because I do."

The wolfs head stopped and turned back to the girl in an instant. She wouldn't be able to hear Vincent above. Nor would she hear anything within the time warp. But it did..oh it did indeed.

"Your his daughter after all. Why wouldn't he?"it asked.

The wolf looked at her with what sounded like a chuckle.

"You are quite the strange one. No wonder he likes you so much."it teased.

"That brings me to another question for you little one."it said tilting its head.

"What brought you here?"

The wolf at first did nothing. But then it walked toward her and it lifted its mouth and matter poured onto her raven. First it fell almost as if it had died next to her. Then it began to grow. The building roof collapsed and the wolf jumped onto its back.

"Get on."it said lightly.

"Inless your curiosity is not as high as you say."It said.

"What woke up your powers was Vincent merging with his creator. Like a guitar being held by a amplifier."

The raven lifted the two up and they could easily see the figures below. The confrontation between Shadow and Vincent as plan as the eye could see.


"We are humans altered by Prophecy's experiments. We are like a evolution of human kind."he said lightly.

"So I suppose were on the top of the food chain."it said grinning.

The wolf lowered its head from the Ravens wings.

"The one you know as Vincent. He stands directly below you. Its a curious look he bears isn't it? A man who protects you so looks as if his the most dangerous thing on the planet."it chuckled.

"Simply because he is."it admitted.

The wolf looked at the girl with a narrowed eye.

"You must not understand what I am little one." It said lightly and it tilted its head as the ribbon was blown back up as it couldn't fall into the warp.

"Your father..is indeed who Vincent is. However Vincent is what you are to your raven. We are one in the same." it said with a sigh.

"And no he isn't cold. He simply must act as if he is."