Chapter 1: A Large Coke With That?

Before I start this chapter some things I'd like to say...

When I said I was probably going to delete 'Abyss of Calamity', I didn't mean it. I was just moody. And before I continue, I'm kinda moody right know too (darn PMS), so don't blame me for anything offensive. The story will stay until the end of the week (actually maybe on Sat), just so everyone gets the message.

I have changed the story line a little (ok, maybe a lot), just so it makes a little more sense to myself and to everyone who reads this. And to the appearance too. I've changed that too.

I won't change anything. Not even the way the people speaks. Of course, I'll take sentences that don't make sense and stuff, but I'm not going to modify it to the way you want it. It's something that I had to tell myself. I'm being less lenient, and more annoying. And mean. Criticism will be considered, but won't be that much of a thing to make me change my mind... unless it doesn't make sense, or I'm going out of control. But then, chances of that happening is quite low. And sorry if someone is offended at this next line, but if you want this fic dramatically changed, well, I'M NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT. IT'S MY SAD LIFE, NOT YOURS. Just don't read it if you don't like it, simple. No one forcing you to read it, well, not me at least.

Please, please, do watch the anime before you start to get all angry at me for not going with the game. I've changed my mind about going with the flow of the same, so this is a hybrid fic. If I get something saying that I'm not following the game, I will not reply. I just want to make this warning nice and clear.

And one more thing... I know I'm an asshole, so enjoy something I've written in my week of stupidity.

Disclaimer: I don't own ToA, HP or Aliens.

I walked. My schoolbag weighing me down, I walked. I hummed to my iPod cheerfully as I watched the children playing catch on the other side of the road. It was just past two, on the last day of school, basically the early leave.

I was happy since it was the holidays. Sleeping in, typing stupid things, finishing work (the only negative side to things), and all of those things, all awaiting me as I walked home.

Since it was hot, I felt like undoing the tie that almost choked the hell out of me. Curse the boiling summers in Australia. Going to a private school was kinda... hell, especially for me, someone who absolutely hated ties, had mental problems, and usually rubbed people the wrong way.

I suffered 'Harry Potter Syndrome'. Something I had made up by myself. The problem? Believing you were going to die any moment, with many side effects... which are socially bad. Not really the 'heroic' part.

I stopped walking as I dropped my far too heavy bag on the concrete pavement, opening it to put my tie in. At that moment, I noticed something. A path that didn't exist before. I looked to my left, and saw the average suburban house towards that direction. I would've normally not notice it, but I saw something else that attracted my attention.

A large can of coke.

Now, THAT was something I had to stop for. It was just darn boiling, I swear, you could cook an egg on the pavement. I turned my direction to the front, where I saw my house just a few metres ahead. I turned back towards the path.

Curiosity killed the cat as I walked towards the large can of coke, my stupidity believing it was true.

How wrong was I going to be?

As I walked, I noticed the surroundings change. It was like some really horrible special effects were added to the place. It changed from a suburban house, to a business office, to a supermarket, to a place I didn't know... at first.

And then I felt something punch me in the gut. I coughed up my lunch from just an hour ago. I could hear a cackle from in front of me. I tried to look up, but my glasses were knocked off. Everything was blurry to me. I could just make out black, before it got darker, and darker.

Darker and darker.

Darker and darker.

"Are you alright?"

I groaned at the voice. The first thing I felt, was the pain in my stomach. I didn't even need to open my eyes to feel that. The next thing that was 'painful' was the stench of the darn place. It smelt like someone had left many pigs to die overnight, or something like that.

I opened my eyes to find myself in a dark place. Well, that was just exaggeration. It was just brighter than a pitch dark room, like someone light a torch in a room. The walls were metal, the pipes slightly rusted, and dripping of something.

"Huh?" I said, as I looked to my right. There, I saw a red headed boy looking at me. He had long hair, which got brighter at the tips. I gave him a confused look. This wasn't where I last was...

The last place I was, was the...

Oh shit.

"-are you alright?" I snapped myself out of my thoughts, the million possibilities running through my mind. The person I was talking to looked a little worried.

"Luke! Why have we stopped?" I heard a woman say from a distance. Luke? Luke... Luke... The name was really, really familiar. The woman, who had shouted, stopped when she saw me. Her eyes went wide, as she turned around.

"There seems to be a little girl here." She said. Little? Since when the hell was I little? I'm a thirteen year old girl! I wasn't THAT small. My parents didn't say that I was small, no one did. I gave her a confused look, before taking a quick look at my surroundings. The smell of a sewerage farm, and burning oil came into mind immediately. How did I know that? The stupid garbage factory that I used to live near told me everything.

"Oh? A little girl?" I looked up to see a man. He had long brown hair, and red eyes. He also wore glasses. Now, that was the thing that told me something. I felt my face go red with shock, not embarrassment or anything else. What the hell?

WHY THE FUCKING HELL AM I IN TALES OF THE ABYSS?

"So, you are kind enough to stop for an innocent girl." I heard an icy voice. I looked behind Luke, who was kneeling. The gracefulness of Tear Grants stood there, examining me with vigor. I gave her a confused look. I flashed a quick look to Luke, who flinched slightly, before covering it up with a glare. But an icy cold stare would beat that any day, apparently.

"Uhh... sorry to interrupt, but... w-where am I?" I asked, finally finding my voice, and the will to speak. Everyone was huddled around me, studying me. No one responded. They were too busy staring at me.

"Ummm... w-where am I?" I asked again, but just a little louder. Curse the nervousness of myself to stammer twice in a row at the same sentence. Finally, someone came along to answer my question. I looked up to see the last person, a blonde haired man, walk up behind none other than Jade Curtiss.

"You're in the Abandoned Factory at Baticul," He started. I gave him a confused look, with a slightly gaping mouth. "But, how did you get here?" He asked me. Good question. If I answered that, then I would probably be exterminated by the bastards who put me here in the darn first place. I had to guess something quickly.

"W-well, I don't k-know! First t-thing I know I-I was at E-Engeve, the next m-minute I f-find m-myself here!" I squealed out. This was the dubbed 'Harry Potter Syndrome' at work. When you feel like you're going to die and act nervous about it. I just stammered the first town that came into mind from the game I so loved before.

"You come from Engeve?" I hastily nodded. I made this a good opportunity to take a good look at myself. I no longer found myself staring at my school uniform. I found myself in a long sleeved dress, in a pale blue, the hem and the cuffs of the dress in black. I also found myself wearing knee high boots, in the same pattern as my dress. And I felt my hair was tied, in a ponytail. "You don't look like anyone I've seen from Engeve." I gulped. Jade was a little too observant for my current likings.

"I-I don't c-come from E-Engeve! I'm a m-merchant's daughter!" I shouted. He gave me a confused look, before a skeptical one. ...Well, curse my stupid brain for saying I was a merchant's daughter. If memory serves me right, that means they're on their way to Chesedonia... oh shit. Shit, shit, shit. What a great mouth I have. One that blurts out random comments when NOT NECESSARY.

"A merchant's daughter? That might explain the choice of clothing." I inwardly sighed as I pushed myself off the grimy wall. My position, which I had just realised, was a slumped one, my head just making contact with the grime on the wall. I dusted my dress as I looked up to the orange-ish yellowish haired woman. I couldn't tell, since it was dark, but I knew who she was. As I stood up, I saw her put a hand to her mouth. I was just as tall as Anise, maybe a little shorter. She didn't apologize to me, but did indirectly do so, by giving me a face, that I only just caught.

"Well, what do we do with her?" Luke asked the group. Everyone shrugged. They didn't know.

"Come on! What do we do with her? Jade, make the decision for me!" He ordered. The man, who was standing next to Guy, the blocked between Guy and Anise, sighed.

"My, my, such anger... Well, you did say you were the ambassador. Why don't you make the decision?" He clearly stated, with a hint of annoyance in his voice, pushing his glasses up. Luke groaned loudly. His face clearly said that he really hated this. I just watched them as they argued, as if I wasn't there.

"...umm... where are you guys heading off to?" I asked, giving a hopeful look to everyone there. Let's see... there was Luke, Tear, Anise, Jade, Guy and Mieu, the latter floating next to Tear.

"Where off to save-!" Anise started her explanation, but was immediately cut off by Jade, who I saw give her a wicked smile.

"Never mind where we're off to. We were just trying to get out of Baticul, but couldn't because of the security measures taken by the capital." He lied. He then turned around and started to whisper to the group, everyone but Luke and Natalia nodding. Natalia had her hands folded, and Luke wasn't even listening. A pretty good one too, but that couldn't fool me, as I had played the game before. I gave him a questioning look though.

"So, you plan to do where from onwards?" I asked, the fear suddenly rushing back into my system again. The group gave me curious looks. I inwardly slapped my own face in stupidity. Out of all the freaking questions I had to ask, it had to be that one.

"Oh, and why would a girl like you be so curious in our villainous plans?" Jade asked sarcastically. I could see Tear groan, and make a slight face that she was annoyed, only bested by Anise, who rolled her eyes, and gave a frown that lasted.

"..." I didn't speak. Not because I faked it, no, it was because they were STILL STARING AT MY FUCKING BODY! I felt quite squirmy under their glances.

"Ummm..." I still couldn't bring out words. That was one thing I hated about being in these stupid situations, not to say that I've experienced this before. You can't bring out darn words when under pressure.

"Yes?" Jade taunted me. I knew it, he would taunt me.

"Colonel, I don't think it's appropriate to taunt a girl we found in the Abandoned Factory. She needs some medical attention." Tear curtly said. I gave her a questioning look, before looking down to my stomach. Although you couldn't see it that well, there were spots of blood all over the dress I was wearing. Darn it, my mum will DEFINITELY KILL ME FOR LOSING MY SCHOOL UNIFORM! I prayed to god she wasn't going to 'First Aid' me on the spot.

I mean, I'm not from this darn planet! I'm not made up of the stupid-ish fonons of this planet!

"O healing power..." Shit. She was doing it. She stood there, her palm aimed at my stomach. I heard the rest in a mumble as I felt a cooling sensation in my stomach. Almost like the saying 'butterflies in my stomach.'

"T-Thank... you..." I stammered, and then mumbled out. I didn't know what to do. Mind block, as I could probably describe it at best.

"Well, goodbye then!" I heard Luke shout as he ventured forth. Natalia turned around and gave him a glare, something he was ignorant to. Or just immune to by now.

"Luke! Come back!" She screeched. I immediately put my hands to my ears in pain. She screeches loud! BLOODY LOUD! And the fact that we were all in an empty factory didn't help, as the echo came back. I cringed by the time the echo 'washed' through my body.

"Ow, ow, ow... you know, that hurts!" He exclaimed, not making things any better. I inwardly sighed, pleading to god that this stupid argument would finish. Or, now, Lorelei, or Yulia. Either one.

"Uhhh... well, I was hoping to go to Chesedonia..." I mumbled as I immediately pushed myself, inwardly. Chesedonia, why Chesedonia? Not the desert, not the desert. And they had to hear me mumble it… well, I couldn't blame them… it was quiet, except for the drips of the oil.

"We're on our way there. You can come along." Natalia said. I gave her a questioning look. "Well, since you're a merchant's daughter, chances are you must have travelling experience. Am I wrong?" She asked, trying to support her ludicrous statement.

"I think we should take her, only for the fact that we'll get in trouble if we go back to Baticul." Anise quickly said, just wanting to get out of there. "And to get to Ion quickly." She quickly added to the sentence. She was kinda desperate to get out of there. Tear, after she had broken her... formal look, had a glint of fear in her eyes.

"Well... alright. But, the moment we get to Chesedonia, you're out of here." Luke growled. I nodded vigorously. Why? Because... well, I actually don't know the reason myself.

"Of course, sir!" I chanted out. He gave me a questioning look.

"Sir? I think 'Luke' is enough." He grumbled out, as he blushed slightly. How could I see it? My eyes were slowly adjusting to the dark.

"So, you're name is Luke?" I asked, most definitely lying. He turned around for like the fourth time in anger.

"Yes, I'm Luke fon Fabre, Duke Fabre's only son." He stated before venturing forth. Natalia didn't stop him this time as she bowed at me before following along.

And then the rest started to go. I felt Anise tug my arm, before pulling me further in to the dark abyss of nothingness. Or something along the lines of that. It sounded a lot better out loud.

"What's your name?" I heard Anise ask me all of the sudden. We'd only moved about ten steps, and only remembered to ask for my name now? I gave her a questioning look, before thinking.

"I'm..." Had to make up a name. My real name equals too dangerous. Anything from the reality of reality equals too dangerous. She was giving me curious looks the longer I took to give my answer. "Amanda." I randomly said, thinking of my best friend. Well, she'll take credit for the name, of course. I don't.

"Hi Amanda, I'm Anise!" She shouted. "And we're going to be friends!" ...Oh god, please, get me away from this psychopath! And this is the reason why I really hated her in the games. Psycho and nuts were on two completely different levels in Anise's case.

And then I stopped listening, when she started to describe and introduce everyone to me...

Well, apart from one.

"And that's Colonel Jade Curtiss from the Malkuth Imperial Forces." She pointed at the blue clad uniform man with brown hair. As a gag, I gave her a confusing look. Well, I just felt like it. Something, specifically a little cymbal playing monkey, with a scholar's hat and a calculator on its foot, riding on a unicycle told me to do so... or that's what was in my brain, at least.

"THE Necromancer?" I gasped out, in a fake tone. No, I didn't go to acting school, but then having to practice lying to my little brother, helped a hell lot.

"You know Jade the Necromancer?" She asked, hushing her voice a little. But an inkling feeling told me that he was already listening in to the conversation. Make up an excuse, make up an excuse.

"You see, the merchants like to spread stories around..." I vaguely said, hoping that that almost pea sized brain of hers would understand what I was saying. Well, it didn't, as I could hint from the look she was giving me. I sighed.

"Well, they like to spread stories they've heard from various places of the world. This was just one of them, one I've heard since I was young." True, I've heard about him since... I was like nine, but then, you could still count that was 'young', can't you? She gave me a curious look, before laughing a little.

"Did you know I'm a Fon Master Guardian?" She asked, trying to relieve the tension between us a little bit. I gave her a confused look, before looking around me.

"Where's Fon Master Ion?" I randomly asked. Yes, I had kinda made her mad, but then, she too had made me mad before. So, it didn't make too much of a difference... It was all fair... in a way.

"...well, he got kidnapped by some circus people... the Dark Wings, I think they call themselves." Well, her attitude got a little gloomier at one mention of Ion and his disappearance. I inwardly sighed before speaking.

"Those pesky Dark Wings..." I knew I had almost no right to curse them. Yes, they were doing the wrong thing, and still are, but only do it for the sake of their survival. Is that not wrong?

"Sir."

"Yes, Guy?" Jade responded as his glasses went a little on the shady side. We had only went a few minutes... or maybe a little shorter than that on silence. It was all Natalia's fault that it never lasted.

"I was wondering... how does that weapon of yours work?" They had all stopped walking. Apart from Natalia that is. It was mainly because everyone was interested in what he was going to say as his reply. I mean, I didn't want to hear it, since I heard the explanation in the anime, but still... it's gotta be interesting in the English Voice Actor, instead of his Seiyuu.

"Well, this uses the contamination effect."

"Contami-what?" Luke asked, every confused. I would've laughed. He gave the exact same reaction as I remembered. As much as being educational, this 'skit' gave the most humor in the first few episodes of the anime.

"It's a fusion technique that allows the item to be broken up into fonons and elements." Guy explained, to make it a little bit easier for the seven year old to understand. I stood there, just 'absorbing' the information.

"Come on! Hurry up! We need to get out of here as much as possible!" Natalia shouted as she moved ahead. We all sighed simultaneously. Except the fact that Anise ran to Luke, hugging him. She then gave a look to the whole group.

"Who thinks I should rip a hole in daddy's little girl?" Now, that was a line to live up to. Ironic that my favorite lines come from my least favorite characters. And that line kinda came out all of the sudden. Anise had let go of Luke the moment Natalia turned around, and we all, apart from Jade, started to shuffle a little faster.

"Well, hurry up!" She exclaimed, infuriated. But apparently faster wasn't enough. We all, yet again, sighed as we followed her every action. I didn't think that was right. And…

"Princess Natalia." She stopped walking, and turned around, giving me a glare. …Well, my mouth spoke first. You know the saying think before you speak? …Follow it. It's pure knowledge.

"I don't think… this is my concern, but… well, I know how badly you want to get out of here…" She intensified her glare a little. I gulped, as we kept walking. Also, do you know the saying; if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it? Follow that too. It's just as pure as the last one.

"But, I don't think you have much authority to give people orders." I said, forcefully. Yet again, blame my blabbering mouth, and my brain's hatred for her. She turned around, and gasped.

"Excuse me?" She screeched, more infuriated. Everyone had stopped walking, and I saw Jade take the initiative.

"Well, you did say you'd throw away your title as 'Princess' earlier. So, by doing that, you also threw out the right to order us around." Jade explained. Natalia's face was priceless. It was a mix between a shocked, an angered face and a surprised one. The last one probably from someone who actually argued against her.

"Well, that is certainly true…" She mused. We were at the place before the exit. You know, where we fight… it. Or, where you would normally fight, it. She stood there, musing on her thoughts, and her mistakes also. She was just too arrogant. I felt a slight tug to my naval, another symptom of my 'Harry Potter Syndrome'. Something along the lines of a warning, and an Apparation.

I heard something.

The splosh of something hitting the ground.

Everyone was alert. Apart from Natalia, who stood there, still bemused at her musings of Jade's words. I looked above Natalia, a large crooked ledge was there, covered in some sort of sludge, the same that was on the ground right below it.

I could start to see eyes. Just the eyes, as more sludge started to fall. I couldn't believe Natalia was that thick headed. I didn't play any attention to the group anymore, as I kept myself focused on that almost to the point of collapsing ledge.

I stared at it.

Stared at it longer.

And then it fell. Not the ledge that managed to stay upright, after all of the pressure on it. It fell, meaning that IT fell.

"Natalia, look out!" Cue miraculous Tear jumping, or leaping towards Natalia, pushing her out of the trajectory of the fall of the…

ABADDON!

That thing looked horrid. It was like a huge Tarantula, which was basically a normal one, like the ones we see majority of the time, magnified about one thousand times. Let me put that into perspective. It was almost twice as tall as me, and I was 5'1''. Shocking, isn't it? The whole thing was covered in sludge, about a several inches thick. If you put your hand in it, I'd think you'd lose your hand…think. And worst of all… it had more than fifty eyes. Now, that was one thing you would see in horror movies.

I flashed a quick look to Natalia and Tear's situation. Natalia laid on the ground, her new clothes covered in horrific grime. A few feet away was Tear, who was standing up, just trying to regain the balance she had lost. Now, that was one courageous move. I then felt something tug me instantly. I turned around and saw it was Anise, who gave me a slightly creepy smile, before running ahead and fighting.

"Steel!"

"Grant my enemies a final rest…"

"Crescent Strike!"

"Feel the hammer of light…"

Due to the fact that Tear had rescued Natalia, basically, both healers were gone. Though, they seemed to do well without them. Luke had 'Steel'ed' himself, before charging at the huge spider and slicing, his sword only able to make contact with the sludge. Magic seemed to be the way to go in this battle. Sadly, it seemed that this group was organized to be balanced, to make sure that they weren't weak against anything.

Well, magic seemed to do better, since… well, physical did nothing, and magic hadn't even started doing its thing yet.

"Flame Burst!"

"Limited!"

I heard two shouts within minutes of each other. From Jade, approximately three 'arrows' or balls of flame came towards the Abaddon, all combining into one flame, before exploding. From Anise, a pillar of light came immediately after a glyph, which was hidden, appeared from above him to strike him.

On the other hand, Natalia was still down, and looked a little too nervous to get up. Tear had successfully recovered, and was on her way to start healing. Luke had got hit with a few slashes of the claws of the spider, through all of that sludge. He had green bubbles… actually no. Here, a status condition would be easily told by its symptoms shown.

A prime example was when Luke started to vomit after the slash.

"Hey you!" He shouted, looking at me. I stared at him for a little bit. He seemed in a lot of pain, the exact same pain he should be feeling, with that shit attitude and all. I sighed as I walked to the dropped, unknown and forgotten item bag, where I had found Mieu sleeping in one compartment. I searched through the whole thing, trying to look for something that would tell me it was a Poison Bottle.

He was going to pay by calling me 'you'. I HAVE A NAME, YOU KNOW.

If I didn't get it right… it would be humiliating to my 'merchant' status. And a little bit of my already small self-confidence. I sighed as I found what I was looking for. Something that already looked like that antidote in the game… which I had forgotten. On the front it had a skull and bone picture, with a red cross on it. It was in a plastic bottle, about the size of a regular drink bottle (600mL, 20oz). It was like it was packaged in the drink bottle.

"Luke!" I shouted as I threw the bottle towards him. He seemed to be in a duel with the monster, so, as Guy heard my voice, he rushed forward to fight him, as Luke turned around, caught the bottle (almost smacked him right in the face, funny sight…), and ingested its contents. Thank Lorelei that those darn antidotes have labels. Thank Lorelei.

"O healing power…" Tear started, as she got right into action. Unlike the game, and more like the anime, the people fought in more than groups of four. It was just Natalia was a little nervous, and in an awkward position. She seemed, at that time, to find it more appropriate to act like a princess, when she really need to act like a soldier. Or anything like that.

"First Aid!" Luke had these green threads shoot into his body. The expression on his face now showed a more calming, but slightly angered look. But then, that was better than an angered look. He started to fight a little more fluidly, and actually get the sludge off the darn bugger. And all I could do was watch as they did the carnage.

Damn. I wanted to kill that thing for giving me such a hard time with the stupid Acid Rain, which he had done to them at least five times. Tear had such a hard time healing and throwing items to others. She had even purposefully taken the bag off me. And by summoning all of those bats… well, that's what I think I remembered. It had been a while since I played the game; so basically, the whole thing was almost history to me. Education was put first… and modernized games next. I knew more about Tales of Vesperia than this.

Anyways, Jade seemed to be going the most work, with his attacks actually working. Luke and Guy were just chipping away at his sludge, only to have him create more. That darn monster mutant.

I saw Tear, throughout the whole battle, kept giving out the Orange Gels, and slowly seep into the Pineapple Gel collection really quickly. It seemed that the whole group was put in the Attack strategy, or whatever it's called. The one where one hundred percent was put into attacking. Anise, despite only having one spell to use, actually did better than I thought.

She also did go offensive for a while, but I guess that was for regaining TP, when she didn't really need the Orange Gel. I mean, some of the physics from both the game and the anime were enforced, so yeah, the attack and get hit bonus of one TP worked still.

"Fang Blade!" Strangely, as the sludge began to disappear… somehow, both Luke and Guy became more useful. Their attacks were hitting more, and were on the mark. It was just ironic after all those attacks, Luke's basic arte destroyed the mutated beast.

Out of everyone who ran out of TP, the main one was Tear. She tried to hide her fatigue, but dramatically failed, as Abaddon fell. Natalia got up and started to heal the remaining troops, without apologizing, or thanking Tear yet. I just took the item bag off Tear, which was seemed to be one of the things hindering her movement.

What the hell did I get myself into….

"Tear?" Natalia finally asked, a little nervous. The lady herself responded, giving the princess a small smile, through her tiredness. She fought it back. Well, she showed she could fight it back, but those half-lidded eyes were telling me something else.

"Thank you." Natalia said simply, before going back to heal the other troops. Tear just stood there, looking down at me in a little pity that I had to see that grueling image. It was like I mind-read her. Well, I had seen operations before on human bodies, but this was like… second worse to seeing a cancer. Actually… cross the cancer off. Now I think about it… that was horrid. The purple blood oozing out of its body, the millions of eyes rolling on the floor and the hairy legs just… falling off. It was horrid.

"W-Was that t-t-thing e-even a-a spider?" I stammered out in pure fear. I mean, you don't see that in real life. Or maybe you do, but then, this thing could've eaten me in one go, if I wasn't careful.

"Well, it certainly didn't look like all of the spiders in this area." Jade mentioned, as he turned around after being treated by Natalia, who was getting a little tired. Well, it cost a lot of TP healing a character. Twenty, I think… Well, he really does love to state the obvious all the time.

"O-Of course i-it's not a n-normal s-spider! T-That's a mutant!" I shouted. No, I don't have a fear of spiders. I have a fear of surreal or just outrageously strange things… and boats. I didn't feel the need to listen to Jade's sarcasm. Bloody hell, that's freaky!

"That's one thing you could call that thing." Luke puffed out, somewhat indirectly referring to Mieu. Though, everyone, apart from Natalia got the joke. Or the insult, in this case. I shrugged it off… just a little bit, before hearing Jade's explanation on the Abaddon.

"This could be mutation from feeding off on the oil in this area. Theoretically, it's possible, due to the fact it would be one of the only and the main food source in this area." Most nodded in understanding and the possible practicality of the theory. And then Guy, who had recovered from his slight fatigue, by just catching his breath, continued to ask his question.

"Sir, where do you hide the spear?" He asked. Jade looked at him with a smile, before lifting out his right arm. He pointed to the glove, and started to explain.

"There is a layer on my arm which I hide the fonons of the spear. The glove I wear is there to protect my arm from attacks that may cause faults in the system. You see, it's incredibly thought out by myself." Did I forget to mention this Jade was a slight egotist? He loved to praise himself in sarcasm, as everyone did an almost sweat drop moment, without the sweat drop itself actually being there.

"Oh." Guy said, after the moment of confusion… or just weirdness. Natalia stood there, after healing all of the units she could heal, until her TP was almost drained. She seemed to make sure that she didn't run out of TP, since she didn't heal herself all that much.

We all walked past the monster, Luke and Natalia especially wary of the purple blood still oozing out of the freak. Even though it looked freaky, the rest of us… apart from me, ignored the fact it existed, and didn't mind getting it on their clothes. I, on the other hand, was in between. I was wary it was around me, and grossed out at the fact that that was a mutant's blood, but I made it look like I didn't care about it.

Eventually, we found ourselves at the emergency exit. No one had spoken ever since that weird conversation. No one bothered to speak. It was just too weird. Well, that's how I thought of it. Weird.

"This seems to be a dead end." Natalia said, once we had reached that area. Well, dummy, if you had eyes, you'd be able to see the ELEVATOR ON THE WALL. Or lift… whichever way you'd like to call it.

"Actually, Princ- Natalia, there's the emergency exit I've been talking about right there," Guy pointed to the most obvious looking exit in the whole place. He still had trouble saying Natalia, which I don't blame him for. "It leads to the desert, where we can start our search for the Fon Master." Well, he stuffed up Jade's plan, with Jade's own gag. You know, the 'Guy, explain' gag? Yeah, that.

"Fon Master Ion?" I asked, acting confused. Jade looked like he could slap his forehead really hard, or just hit his head on the closest brick wall.

"I told you before, Amanda. The Dark Wings kidnapped him." Anise said simply before walking closer to the emergency exit thing. The group turned around to Anise, and gave her a small glare… presumably, and then flashed a look to me, saying confusion.

"Uhhh…. Is she always like this?" I asked, hoping to relieve the tension. The whole group sighed as they had another quick look at her, before nodding simultaneously. Even Luke and Natalia… ok, Natalia wasn't a surprising reaction, nodded.

"She's gone a little crazy since the Fon Master was captured." Guy explained as we walked closer to Anise, to investigate the emergency exit.

As we got there, I could see Natalia scrunch her nose in disgust, before… well, her old personality came back.

"Guy, why don't you go down there first." Words like a question, spoke like an order. Everyone sighed, before Guy's maid/servant instincts kicked in and he went down there first.

Then everyone else got down there, Natalia going last, since her stupid Princess bratty self was still there.

When we all got down there, it was just a really, really mucky path with a maroon door near the end. Ok, that doesn't sound scary, does it? Well, I probably forgot to add the small detail that there were eggs on the sides.

Sounds familiar?

Well, apart from that stupid Aliens reference, it was just like a normal abandoned factory emergency exit. Jade immediately summoned his spear and just went ballistic. …Or was it just me? He went to each egg, which was the size of a football (rugby), and sharply tapped the shell.

"Problem solved?" I couldn't help but blurt that out. Jade turned around at me and gave me an evil smile. His spear was just… covered in… egg. I couldn't tell what it was since I could only just see the room itself, and since the eggshells were white, only barely illuminated.

"Well, I'll just open the door then…" Natalia mumbled out in slight shock, slight disgust as she walked through the gunk, trying not to complain, and turned the door. Luckily, or unluckily, whatever you think about what was going to happen next, the door opened, a breeze of fresh air hitting us. And also a little bit of rain did too. I didn't realize that the stench had screwed up my smelling skills soo badly, since I could ACTUALLY SMELL THE RAIN.

"Ahh… fresh air, finally! Now, let's get outta here!"

As we walked out, little did we, or just they, know that someone, or something was waiting for them outside.

PS: Anise is supposed to be OOC.

Bye! I hope I didn't cause anyone trouble (actually, I think I did... sorry 'bout that then!).