CHAPTER 2

''Great,'' said Tyjan aloud as he was surrounded by 2 Zu birds, ''they won't let me get outta this alive, huh?

Tyjan started charging up Excalibur and its mighty SoulShot Technique. He was going to have to take them. He wasn't going to be able to run from a Zu bird and live to tell it. He had even less of a chance going with a head on attack, so he formulated a quick plan.

The bird stared hungrily at Tyjan. Tyjan read those eyes. The Lynarii Desert hasn't had a caravanner in forever, they seemed to say. This would be precious meat.

The bird did a head on charge at Tyjan, and Tyjan ran towards Massive Bird #1, the other shooting gusts of wind at Tyjan to try to knock him off his feet. If the bird ahead of him decided to do anything else but attack straight on, the plan wouldn't work.

Fortunately, the bird didn't change its course of direction, and kept charging.

Tyjan was getting so close. All he had to do was reach the beak.

As the bird swooped down to get Tyjan, he quickly jumped on the bird's beak and did a quick front flip to get behind it. He quickly turned around and shot SoulShot at the unexpected bird.

The shot had enough power charged in it to send the bird flying, which in turn made it collide with Massive Bird #2. The impact wasn't enough to kill them, but Tyjan's Blizzaga spell quickly took care of that little detail.

Tyjan quickly picked up a Zu's beak and 200 gil, and went to get his drop of myrrh in the next area, when:

''Tyjan''

''Yeah?''

''Get outta there. I need to talk to you''

Tyjan scoffed. Come on, he was going to get this myrrh eventually. But when Drue needed to talk, most of the time it was important, so Tyjan exited Lynarii Desert, and waited (impatiently) for Drue to save the game and turn it off, sending Tyjan out of the TV.

Tyjan gave Drue an annoyed look and asked, ''What!''

''You know, the Zu was flying?''

''Come on, Drue, I'm not dumb! Just get to the point!''

''The point was that you could've used Gravity to kill the stupid birds instead of showing off acrobatics...''

Tyjan resorted to staring at Drue, then came up with a smart lie, ''I...uh...wanted to...uh...make the fight worth fighting! Yeah...that's it.''

''Liar''

''How do you know?''

''Because I made you, making me know these things. Oh, and you were scratching your head he entire time you said that, too. I thought it was kind of obvious.''

''Can't you be nice to me?''

''I know. I'm just picking. Here, I'll let you play Metroid.''

''Can I play NFS: Underground?''

''You know I have a sucky Memory Card!''

''On your file?''

Drue groaned, ''If you must...''

As Drue set up the game for Tyjan, he heard:

''DRUE!''

''What!''

''Time for dinner!'' His mom calling him to eat.

''Okay! Be down in a sec!''

Drue gave Tyjan the evil glare, then told him, ''Only Quick Races! I don't want Underground mode touched, gotcha?''

''Gotcha.''

''Good. See ya later, man.''

As Drue left the room, Tyjan gave a brief chuckle, then hit ''Underground mode''