Crossing Over

A/N: Sorry this took so long to post! I've been really busy lately. Sooooo...where did we leave off? Oh yea, Catarina! Let's get on with it! Again, thanks to alchemistobsessor and ShikonShardCollector for leaving me AWESOME reviews!!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of this...except Catarina

Chapter 3 – Goodbye

Indeed, Catarina, the one who this whole fight was about had arrived.

She wore a sky blue blouse, with the top button undone and the sleeves rolled back to her mid-forearm. She also sported a black pleated miniskirt that showed off her long thin legs, all the way down to her black boots that reached her mid-calf. Her long, lavender colored hair was tied up in a couple of pigtails by two fluffy hair scrunchies that matched her top. In one hand she held her weapon of choice: a tall golden staff with a sharp circular symbol on the end. The other sat on her hip, giving her a bad girl attitude.

Her eyes, however, were unusual, even for a sorceress. Her father, a wizard, had green eyes, and her mother, a sorceress, had blue eyes. Catarina was a sorceress like her mother, so she should've had blue eyes as well. However, for some odd reason, her left eye was blue, but her right eye was green. Two different eye colors were not at all common, even in the magical realm. This definitely made her stand out, but not in a bad way. In fact, Dark was very right about her being hot.

"How many times do I have to tell you…" she shot at him, "it's LADY Catarina!"

With that, she lunged towards him, staff raised. Dark was able to dodge her swing, but not the spell she cast. A bright light suddenly overcame him as he jumped backwards. It disappeared as quickly as it came, but left him feeling slightly weaker than before.

Meanwhile, Leon was watching them from across his yard, dumbfounded.

That's Amy's voice! It must be her! But…what did she call herself just now? And what did she just DO?!

Dark stood bent over, looking up at her while trying to catch his breath.

"You…"

She smiled at him.

"Using light to fight darkness…I think it's pretty smart, don't you?"

"Heh…"

He straightened up and brushed himself off, pulling out more feathers in the process.

"Fine…if it's a fight you want, I'm happy to oblige!"

He suddenly threw the feathers at her so fast that Leon could barely see them. But Catarina put up a shield to block them with the same speed.

From there the battle got even more intense. No matter how hard Dark tried to hit her, Catarina always put up her shield at just the right time. Even when feathers zoomed at her from behind, she still managed to somehow see them. On the other hand, Catarina's light spells kept draining more and more of Dark's strength until he was significantly weaker. Soon it seemed that the fight was just about over.

"Just face it, Dark," she told him as he panted heavily. "You can't even touch me."

"Oh…you don't think so? Just watch me."

He immediately crossed his arms over his chest and then spread them out on either side of him.

"Watch closely, Catarina," he grinned evilly as the wind picked up. "Not even you've seen this one before."

"Give it up, Dark," she said, disregarding the incredibly large amount of feathers now appearing before her eyes. "I'll just put up another shield again."

"Let's see you try," he smirked. "One thousand needles of death!"

At that moment, all of the feathers started zooming towards Catarina at top speed. Catarina, however, just rolled her eyes and put up another shield. Dark grinned to himself. Just as the feathers were about to hit her shield, they suddenly flew off course!

What??!!

Catarina's eyes, widened in shock, followed the feathers' new course.

Then she saw it: they were heading straight for Leon!

"NOOO!!!" she screamed, knowing it was too late for her to do anything to help him.

Before Leon knew what was happening, he found himself inches away from lethal, pointed feathers on all sides of him. It was like he was trapped in a basket speared by countless sabers.

Catarina breathed a sigh of relief as she let her shield down. He hadn't killed him…at least, not yet.

"See?" Dark asked her, lowering his arms. "I can be nice if I want to. But if you make even the slightest attempt to save him, he dies."

"Leave him out of this, Dark," she said, glaring at him. "This is between you and me."

"Fine," he answered slyly. "I'll leave him alone…if…"

"If what?" She was already dreading the answer.

"If you come back to live with me in my mansion."

Catarina's heart sank. She thought it would be something like that.

"That's not fair!" she retaliated.

"All's fair in love and war, babe. Now what's it gonna be?"

Catarina was silent for a while. Finally, she spoke.

"If I go back with you, will you promise to never hurt him again?"

"Yes. However, if I sense that you're holding back any of your love for me, you know I won't hesitate to come back and kill him."

Damn…he's thought of everything, she thought angrily. I have to act like I really love him, or Leon dies. Either way, I lose. But Leon's my best friend, and I can't let Dark kill him…

"Fine," she said quietly, giving in. "I'll go back with you."

"Wait just one minute," Dark stopped her. "Prove to me that you'll love me with all your heart for the rest of your life."

Catarina huffed angrily.

This guy makes me sick! But right now, he has the upper hand, so there's nothing I can do about it.

With that, she silently marched right up to Dark, threw her arms him, and kissed him passionately.

As he watched them from his cage of feathers, Leon's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

She's kissing that scumbag?! Just to save me?! Wait…what's this feeling?…

As much as the sight was nauseating him, for some reason he couldn't look away. Suddenly, as he watched Dark's tongue snake its way into Catarina's mouth, a wave of jealousy came over him. He wanted that jerk to die and burn in hell. He wanted to hurt him, to make him feel as much pain as he did. But all he could do was watch, speechless.

Finally, after a while, Catarina pulled away from Dark.

"Happy?" she asked. "Now release Leon."

A satisfied smile now on his smug face, Dark made the feathers dissipate into thin air with one wave of his hand. Leon immediately jumped to his feet, but remained where he was.

"Amy, wait!" he called, afraid to get too close to her. "I still don't understand any of this. You're not seriously gonna go with this guy, are you?"

"I'm sorry, Leon," Catarina answered sadly, "but this is the way it has to be. I have to go now, but don't worry about me. You've been such a good friend, and I promise I'll never ever forget you."

"No, wait!"

"Leon, I'll be ok!"

"Come on, let's go," said Dark, pulling a single feather. "You're lucky I even let you talk to this loser."

Grabbing her by the waist and pulling her extremely close to him, he held up the feather and started to chant a spell in the language of the Ancient Mystics.

"Leon!" called Catarina as a mysterious darkness started to envelop her and Dark. "Can you tell Jamie something for me?"

"Sure, but—

"Tell her not to worry, and that dawn will come tomorrow!"

Before Leon could ask her what it even meant, he was alone, with nothing left of his beloved friend but feelings and memories.

A/N: Oh no! What's Leon gonna do now?? And who's this Jamie? lol, anyways, all you have to do now is push that little purple button and send me a nice little review! Seriously people, I NEED to know if you like this!! If you do, you'll get to see your name in my author's note! Until next time, thanks for reading!

By the way, I know the characters (except my own, of course!) are a little OOC, but hey, it's my story! And if you have any questions you want answered, just ask! Ok, now I'm done!

-EmoDiva