Well.. I'm lazy today.. so I'll just say this: Don't own shit ['cept Ryuu]


Ryuu:
If every deed we has done is forgotten, do we cease to exist? If everyone you ever loved, hate, bullied, cried for just plainly forgot you… What would YOU do?
They say that to be forgotten is worse than death… Is it really? Well I guess it is. As long as we are alive we shouldn't be troubled by death. And when we're dead it has already happened to us.



Chapter Three The Power of Jidai No Tama

"Stop it!" The annoyed goat came running into the arena. "You do NOT take this tournament into your own hands. Now get off this area so we can clean this up. OKAY?!"

Ryuu looked over at the half-goat half-man guy and tilted her head somewhat and then walked off the arena to sit by the stands again. She wanted to leave… but really didn't have any choice. She had to watch that stupid brat.

"Who is that?" Squall asked turning his head to Cloud.

"You mean Ryuu? I thought you'd remember her…" Cloud knitted his eyebrows as he watched Squall.

"Remember? What do you mean?"

Why wouldn't Squall remember Ryuu? How could he forget someone that had turned everything upside-down in Balamb Garden [A fiction not yet written…] Wait… wasn't it something she had said when he first had met her with Hades?


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She was sitting alone at a cliff and gazed out on the open landscape. Cloud recognized her and started to walk up to her.

"Ryuu… I never expected to see you here…"

She turned her face towards the man and looked oddly at him.

"You remember me?" She asked with confused voice.

"Of course… Why shouldn't I?" He asked somewhat confused.

"But the stone…" She started but soon she understood what had happened. "So you joined Hades huh?"

"How did you know that?" He asked after staying silent a while.

"Cause that's kind of the only way for a human to retrieve a memory that the stone of time has erased. No one you know will ever remember me in the way you do." She said calmly.
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Yeah that's right… the pendant she always wore was the stone of time.

"Uhm… Nothing." Cloud said turning his eyes towards Ryuu.

"We still need to know who she is…" Yuffie stated revealing herself from having eavesdropping at the two.

"I don't think she'll bother you." Cloud said looking at Yuffie.

"She already has." She said and Cloud knitted his brows. "Well not us personally… But she did interfere with Sora's mission."

"She kidnapped Riku… What harm is it in that?" Cloud found himself defending her.

"Cloud… What's wrong?" Yuffie asked, concerned about her friend.

"Too many things have happened… Too many souls have been lost… She probably only did what she thought was her only solution." He looked at Yuffie and Squall and his eyes slowly met with Sora's as he was about to start his fight with the new Behemoth. "She won't hurt the boys… She wont."

"Hades…" The voice of Ryuu echoed as a melody in the God's head.

"What?" he glared at her. Sensing something he didn't approve with was coming up.

"I'm going off to take care of some business. I won't be too long…"

"Ryuu…" A warning voice echoed inside her head.

"Hades…" She replied and smirked. "Quote: 'I will watch the boy when that kind of action is needed.' Study my contract if You like… But you have a really good view of the guy here… So I don't need to be here since you must stay here anyway." She glanced over at Sora and then watched the god again. "See you later."

And a radiation from the blue pendant surrounded her and she dissolved into it. And with that, she had disappeared. And you could se something of an explosion from one of the corners and hear a lot of curses echo out.

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In the same room that the last battle between Sora and Riku took place a cloud of light blue dust shone. It floated around as if looking for a good place to be.

"What the?" The young boy, Riku, exclaimed as he saw this phenomenon.

He circled the cloud for a while and curiously watched the particles that moved in perfect variables. He tried to investigate it, to understand it movements. And what it really was. And suddenly the dust took form. At first he could only see a feature of a human, but suddenly it sprouted out colors and justified the features of the demon.

"Why… Hello Riku." She said smiling somewhat askew towards the boy.

"You again?" He exclaimed and backed off. "Who are you? … What are you?" He asked while he looked at her in disgust.

"You worry of things you do not need to know… Tell me boy… Aren't you the true Keyblade master?" She asked slowly sitting down on one of the rails.

"Hmpft… What do you know about the Keyblade?" He spat out and crossed his arms.

"Hmm… You're right. I don't know much about it. Come to think of it I don't need to know anything. You don't get it, do you? What the Keyblade has the power to do."

"What are you talking about?" he asked crossing his arms and leaning over at the statue.

"Ah, it's all Bullshit anyway. Powerful weapons… faithful hearts… Love and friendship… What do you need it for?" She said and shrugged.

"You talk in tongues." The boy stated and was starting to get bored.

"I do, don't I…" She smiled vaguely.

"What is it that you want with me anyway?"

"Nothing more then what has already been asked of you."

"What is it with you... You don't -want- to be understood?"

"Riku, if I say I can give you the power to achive your goals... What would you give to me in exchange?" She asked with a luring voice and leaned somewhat closer to him.

"What power?" He a suspicious of her plans.

And she smiled at him realizing that this kid wasn't just a kid. He talked to her as if she was just another human. And he met her eyes with dare.

"What would you like?" She asked smiling.

He thought for a while and watch her very closly. But her face remained as it was before. Not even blink did she.

"The power to control time."

"Hmm.. A wanted power indeed. But I tell you it gives you more trouble then asset." And she leaned back at the pole. "But very well. I shall let you taste the power of Time Manipulation." She said smiling a most mysterious smile.

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