Epitaph_Dragoness: Hello every budy! welcome to the fic! now, Ill just

get cracking cuz I don't really have anything to say...* frowns* yes...sad isn't it?

Kuja: Epitaph Dragoness doesn't own FFIX or any of its charas...thank

Ramuh..

Epitaph_Dragoness: * glares*

Kuja: eh.....but she dose own Drev! enjoy!

Epitaph_dragoness: ^_^ please don't be too harsh..it's my first FFIX fic..

Kuja: * sighs * I hate my life...

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CRASH!

" oops..." a teenage boy with white hair and a tail muttered.

He grinned. Garland had really liked whatever that weird glass thing

was that he had just 'accidentally' smashed. He heard an angered yell

coming from another room in the Pandemonium. Kuja winced. " time to go.

."so saying he ran through the portal and out of the Pandemonium.

He could still hear Garlands enraged shrieks. Kuja chuckled. he had

always loved torturing his..'creator', in return for the torture he

received himself. He hated Garland, and his only joy in life was the

torment he rained upon him....As Kuja walked down the paths of

BrownBoo, he didn't even bother to glance at the other tailed people.

He had long since learned he was different from them, and conversation

was useless." look..." said a voice. Kuja blinked and looked in the

direction it came from. Two Genomes were standing by the bridge area,

looking down at the water. " what a strange vessel"said the other

Genome. " what the hell?" Kuja said, furrowing his brows, and walking

over. The Genomes didn't look at him as he pushed past them to look at

the water. Kuja gasped.

A body was hunched up on a rock. With a jump, he landed on one of the

many rocks near the body. He leaned forward and looked closer at it.

It twitched and coughed. Kuja jumped back with a yelp of suprise.

" Its alive.." he heard one of the Genomes that had spotted the body

say. His eyes widened, and he looked up at the two fellow Genomes

" Get Garland! Quick!" he sputtered. It had been the first thought

that had

came to his mind. The Genomes stared at him. One of them turned around

and walked away. Kuja growled. He DID NOT like the idea of 'calling for

help', especially to....Garland. Another cough. He looked down at the

body again. It spit out some water. Kuja twitched. What was he suppose

to do? Nervously, and partially on an instinct of some sort, he reached

out his silver-grey tail and prodded the body. It coughed again. Kuja

pulled his tail back quickly." WOAH!" he said, stumbling and almost

falling backwards into the river as a tall black form appeared infront

of him. Garland. Kuja growled " Don't scare me like that!" was it his

imagination, or did Garland look amused? "..." Garland didn't say

anything, and looked down at the body as it coughed again.

" Did you do anything to it?" he asked, kneeling down next to it.

" wha...no!" said Kuja breathlessly..." What are you going to do?"

he asked curiously, still scolding himself mentally for calling for

Garland. Garland didn't answer his question. Instead, he picked up the

body in his arms, and whirled around, his black cape swishing " come,

Kuja" he said sternly, walking across the water and up onto the shore,

over the bridge. Kuja hesitated,knowing that to be the direction of

the Pandemonium, but then he stubbornly followed.

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Kuja sighed impatiently.

When they had reached the Pandemonium, Garland had told him to wait

here, and they he and the mysterious body had went into his lab. He

really hoped Garland wasn't doing anything weird to it...he didn't know

why, maybe because he had found it before Garland. He twitched his

tail. It itched. he reached down and scratched it, but now well enough.

he scratched it again. Nope. Kuja growled and grabbed his tail, and

began chewing at the itchy part of it.

He hated his tail..

" Trying to get rid of your tail again?" asked a voice. he jumped,

and looked up to see the face of Garland. Kuja glared, dropping his

tail. Garland always liked to make a grand entrance around him,

usually popping up and scaring him half to death, or just making

an annoying remark.

" no. what have you done?" he asked, standing up. Garland smirked.

" come, Kuja." he turned around

with a whirl of that annoying black cape and walked towards the lab.

" come Kuja." Kuja muttered

under his breath in a high pitched voice, scrunching up his face

mockingly before running after

Garland into the lab.

Kuja winced at the bright lights that were in the lab. well,

truthfully, they weren't really ' bright',

or lights, they were the glowing of various Genome tanks. But they

always hurt Kuja's eyes, much

like the light in Brownboo that the other soulless genomes stared at

all day. Garland stopped suddenly, almost causing Kuja to bump into him.

" wha-" Kuja started to say,but stopped as he saw the body.

It was lying down on a table,face up,and he could now see it clearly.

It appeared to be a girl of about his age. She was extremely pale,

or maybe it just seemed that way because Kuja's eyes were still blurry

and funny because of the Genome tank light. She had a small petite form,

with long lanky legs. She had short,white hair that ended at her

chin, and was spiky and unkempt looking. Her eyes were closed, and

she had a small button nose and peach colored lips. She had a black

ribbon around her neck, and wore a strange spaggetti strap white dress,

that seemed to be cut at the ends ( think Vash from Triguns red coat),

revealing tight black knee length pants under neath it. brown boots

that looked scratched in the light covered her feet. Kuja gaped

" it's...it's a Genome!" he said, but immediately regretted it when he

noticed she had no tail. " no" said Garland. Oh great...now he felt

stupid. Kuja grumbled, but then stared at the girls hands.

They seemed normal, but her nail were very long, and were a strange

navy blue. He walked forward, trying to get a better look. Kuja had

expected her to twitch or cough, but she didn't. he felt a swell of

strangeness in his stomach. Worry? " is she...alive?"

he asked curiously, not looking at Garland. " she is, and she will be

all right" he added on to the answer, as though reading Kuja's mind

" I believe she is from Terra, but Im not positive."

Kuja stared at her in awe. It seemed Garland was telling the truth

because her chest was moving up and down in slow, steady breaths.

He couldn't help but gape. He had never seen anything else in his

whole life besides other Genomes,Garland, and the monsters outside

BrownBoo. " What are you going to do to her?" he asked, looking at

Garland curiously. A twitch of amusement went into Garlands face,

only to be quickly replaced by a sternness " what else? destroy her.

" Kuja gaped. If he hadn't been so angry and worried he probably would

have gasped " what?! why?!" he said to Garland, clenching

his fists tightly, as though longing to punch Garland. Garland smirked,

and didn't answer.

Kuja growled angrily, looking over at the girl one last time before

storming out of the lab, making sure to knock something over by

'accident' with his tail before

slamming the door shut.

Garland looked at the door for a minute, his smirk disappearing." Kuja

needs to learn to control his temper.."He glanced at the girl,

and she twitched, coughing. His frown disappeared, leaving his face

hard and expressionless." maybe I wont destroy you after all.."

he spoke aloud, seemingly to the girl " She could be useful..."

He smirked, and chuckled darkly.

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Epitaph D: WOOSH! yay!

Kuja: * sobs* I hate you so much...

Epitaph D: * ignores* Well? what did you think? Please R/R, and don't worry! Updates will come soon!

Kuja: * looks at teenage self* woo..I was sexah!

Epitaph D: * grins * oh really? and you aren't now?

Kuja: * backs away * O_O