Zidane's POV

"If I could go back and fix that one mistake...everyone always thinks this at least once in their lifetime. Have I ever thought it? Yes I have quite a few times, but now that I think about it...I've realized that if it wasn't for those mistakes, I wouldn't be here right now," I tell Glinda.

"But what if you know that it was completely wrong?" she asks me.

"Well I still wouldn't change it. If I did would I be here with Kuja now or even have met you?" I ask.

"Most likely not, but don't you hate the feeling of the mistake nagging at you?" she asks.

"Yes absolutely but if we were not meant to have done it then we wouldn't have it is from the mistakes we make that helps us eventually become stronger." I reply.

"But wha..." She starts.

"No buts okay? Lets just drop this topic," I tell her. Then I got an idea - a very childish one at that.

"I know lets build sandcastles!" I say

"Why would we do that?" she asks.

"You ask lots of questions," I point out. "But if you must know...it's just seems like something fun to do."

"Oh," is all she says.

I get up and dust the sand of my butt, being careful around my tail, due to the fact that all genomes tails are very sensitive, and start walking towards the edge of the water. I carefully pick out a spot not too far nor too close to the water and start on my sandcastle. After a few hours pass I stand back to see my castle, but what I saw made me feel a little sad.

"Oh, wow that's a good castle Zidane, but why are there wings surrounding it? Wait, why are you crying?" Glinda asks me.

"Because it's a memory that caused both of us lots of pain," says a familiar sounding voice from behind us. I feel Kuja walk over and wrap his arms around me and vaguely hear him asking if I was alright. All I could manage to do was nod.

"What happened?" asks the one with green skin - Elphaba I think her name was.

Kuja looks down at me to make sure it was okay for him to tell them.

"Go ahead. If we are stuck here we might as well tell them," I say, my voice barely above a whisper.

"As you know, I'm Kuja and my love here is Zidane, and it's a miracle that we are together right now. A few days ago I was, as most of his friend would describe me, a narcissistic maniac, and my sole purpose was to destroy Gaia, the planet Zidane grew up on, after I destroyed Terra, the planet both of us were originally from, before any of that happened I had to do some less than pleasant things to innocent people. I was a complete monster back then, completely out of control, and well Zidane and I were not exactly on the greatest terms. In fact, we fought quite a bit and I always treated him terrible, thinking that if I was going to get anything done I'd have to push away, or even kill the one person whom have ever meant more to me than life, back then I felt love was weakness. And...and..." Kuja started but couldn't finish due to him breaking down

"I'll take it from there 'kay?" I tell him. He nods, signaling for me to indeed take over.

"While he was trying to do this, me and a group of seven more people were trying to stop him. He lusted for power and decided to try to do something that only the almost extinct race of summoners could do," I say. I was interrupted by Glinda asking more questions.

"What is a summoner and what do they do?" she asks.

"Well, summoners are a race of horned people that have special abilities. They can summon powerful monsters from special crystals. These monsters were used to battle spawn of the mist which existed solely to kill people like me - puppets to do as said but then to be tossed to the side when a better version came along," Kuja explains to them, seemingly over what had upset him.

After a while longer and several out breaks later, we finally explained what had happened to Alexandria castle that was so terrible. For a long time no one said a thing.