Hehehe, sorry for the lateness. School and projects and all. Not to mention a competition and track coming up soon. But don't worry, I'll try and update sooner. Please, read the chapter.

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Chapter 3

As Melody and Jeremy stepped outside the house, they found the surrounding area seemingly looking like a city covered in a thin purple gas.

"This is… miasma?" Melody murmured questioningly, mostly to herself. Jeremy tilted his head towards the girl.

"Huh? Did you say something?" He asked, and Melody just shook her head.

"No," She responded. "It's just that this place looks like the ancient city named after Yulia."Jeremy seemed to think for a moment, then nodded.

"You're right." He agreed. "But how did we get here then? If I remember correctly, Yulia City is underneath Auldrant- the outer lands." Melody glared at Jeremy.

"Well, maybe if somebody hadn't jumped so recklessly, maybe we would have landed on the outer lands!" She snapped, furious. Jeremy raised his hands in defense and backed away from the girl slowly.

"Calm down Melody, please," Jeremy said, wishing that Kanna was there right then. Kanna was always able to make Melody calm down easily. Melody snorted and rolled her eyes, but didn't do anything to Jeremy.

"Fine," She grumbled. "Let's just find a way to the outer lands. There should be some place called the 'Yulia Road' or something that leads up to the outer lands, we probably can use that." Not bothering to wait for Jeremy, Melody stalked off, headed in the direction where she thought was the way to the Yulia Road.

Jeremy followed soundlessly after her, afraid of being hurt, while pondering how Melody knew so much of this place.

He was definitely not on Melody's good side right now, so he wasn't going to ask.

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After Luke had fainted, they had gone immediately into the inn. Anise had talked Kanna into coming inside with them so that Tear or Natalia could heal her cut. ("I-it's nothing, really," Kanna had stammered, but Anise had insisted.)

"So, Kanna, I've been wondering," Natalia commented. "Why were you crossing the desert?" Kanna sighed. Time to weave her lie.

"Well, my family's a traveling caravan," Kanna responded, trying her hardest not to stutter. "I was heading to Akzeriuth to visit some of my friends." Akzeriuth was the town Luke and his friends were headed too, that's why Kanna decided on Akzeriuth. That way, she'd be able to stick with them.

"Really?" Anise butted into the conversation. "We're headed there too! Ironic, isn't it?" Kanna laughed, a bit nervous, and nodded. Jade gave her an unnoticed calculating look. There was something off about that girl… But what?

"Yeah, it is." She replied, messing with her hair a little bit.

"Hey, Jade do you think Kanna could come along with us?" Anise asked, voice pleading. Jade shrugged.

"As long as she can fight, I don't care." Jade replied. "But, then again, it all depends in what our Ambassador thinks of bringing Ms. Kanna along." Anise pouted.

"Knowing Luke he'll say no," Anise grumbled. However, she brightened up in an instant and grabbed Kanna's wrist.

"Well," She said happily. "Even if we can't get Luke to say yes, we can at least get you some weapons, that way you won't be defenseless when you leave for Akzeriuth." And before Kanna could say anything, Anise was already dragging her out the door.

And Jade just merely chuckled to himself.

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"Are you sure about this?" Kanna asked Anise what seemed to be the zillionth time as Anise searched a weapons stand for a weapon that would at least slightly suit Kanna.

"Yes!" Anise sighed, exasperated, lifting up what seemed to be a scythe, before promptly putting it back down from where she got it. Absolutely nothing seemed right for Kanna! The only thing that seemed slightly right for Kanna was a Katana, but even that didn't seem right!

Kanna had had said that she fought with butterfly daggers, but the only daggers that were at the stand were the normal daggers with one point. But, Anise didn't even know what butterfly daggers looked like. So, she just merely assumed they had more than one point.

Then, something caught her eye. They were something that seemed suited for Kanna at least until she got her own style of weapons. Besides, they were kind of like daggers, weren't they? They were almost short enough to be daggers, but still a little longer, like normal ones.

They were silver short swords, a pair, with a blue and gold hilt. They were about a quarter of a normal swords length, maybe a little longer. But, they did indeed seem perfect for Kanna. If she used daggers, that meant close combat, right? So, those swords were perfect for Kanna because they seemed to be the type of sword used for close combat. Bright logic, right?

As Kanna opened her mouth to object or say something or another, Anise cut her off.

"You don't need to worry about it. It's fine," Anise told her, not giving Kanna time to object, and went to pay for the swords.

Kanna sighed as Anise gave her the newly paid for swords and sheathes and followed Anise back to the hotel so she could say good bye to the group. Why Anise had to insist on buying them for her, she didn't know.

As she walked with Anise back to the hotel, there was a little nagging feeling in the back of her head that told her this job she had been forced to do wasn't going to be easy. But, she ignored the feeling and started wondering what Melody and Jeremy were doing. Knowing them, they'd probably be harassing mother for where she was.

If only Kanna knew how wrong she was.

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Asch's talent intrigued Jamie. She had watched as Dist, a sleazy looking God-General, had instructed a very irritated Asch on how to control someone's body. They referred to whoever they were controlling as 'replica' and Jamie was determined to find out who they were talking about.

She had already met all of the god generals.

There was Asch the Bloody, and Jamie thought- no, scratch that – she knew that he thought there was something up with her. And she didn't like that. Not a bit.

There was Sync the Tempest. A shrimp, but fast (probably because of his height, Jamie laughed in her head) and he liked chaos.

Largo the Black Lion(1) seemed like a formidable opponent. But, easy to take out if you got rid of his scythe, but that probably wouldn't be possible.

Dist was an idiot, to put it simply. Called Dist the Reaper, he demanded that he was Dist the Rose. Jamie laughed at that. She could beat him with one hand behind her back. Jamie smirked at this thought. Maybe she would challenge him to a battle like that. See what the outcome would be.

Legretta the Swift was the fifth. Jamie heard that she was nicknamed 'Regret' but she wasn't sure why. Nor did she care. She did know that Legretta fought with two guns and had deadly aim. She wouldn't want to get on her bad side, that's for sure.

Then the final one was Arietta the Wild. The face was extremely familiar, and if it weren't for the eyes Jamie would swear that she was someone she once knew. Arietta was able to communicate with animals and fought with fonic artes and a doll. Three more aspects that was extremely familiar to Jamie.

But, the fonic artes part could be mere coincidence. All the God-Generals were able to harness fonons for artes- well, she knew that was true for everybody but Dist. She didn't know if he could fight with fonons or not. All he fought with were fonbots.

Jamie didn't know anything about Van, the commandant, besides what daddy told her, him being a great swordsman and a great help in her mission. She didn't care. She was in this for herself, like she said before.

Jamie smirked as she swung her legs as she sat on the edge of her bed on the Tartarus.

She was going to have fun manipulating these people- humans -for sure.

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1- I do not remember what Largo was called and I don't have the game so I can't find out (my brother loaned it out to a friend) So, If you can help me, please do.

So, there's chapter 3. I hope you liked it. Not really much I can comment about, I think... other than wanting to know who Jamie was thinking of when she thought of Arietta.

Well, please Read and Review!

-Scarpaw Signing Out-