It was in the dead of night, the sound of running could be heard through the entire forest. It was quite away from the city and anything that happen in here probably won't be heard from the city that was miles away.

"Hurry Hope we have to move quickly!" A voice said to a boy as running footsteps could be heard.

"I'm coming Lulu." the boy, named Hope replied back.

"We have to hurry or else they'll catch up to us." the girl, named Lulu said as the two continued running.

The two eventually made it out of the thick trees and into the path illuminated by the bright moonlight. Hope was obviously tired from all the running and knelt down to the ground to regain his breathe.

"What are you doing Hope? We're going to get caught!" Lulu yelled in a hush tone.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry but I need to catch my breath real quick. It'll just be a minute." He wheezed back.

Ahead of them more running footsteps could be heard and Lulu quickly reacted and braced herself.

"Who's there? Show yourself!" She yelled out as she held out her right hand and a large sized fireball appeared.

From within the shadows three figures stepped out, a little girl, a girl in revealing clothing with bunny ears and a fairly tall man. Lulu quickly gave a breath of relief and desummoned the fireball.

"Oh, it's only you guys." She said in relief.

"We're glad we found you guys." the little girl replied.

"It's okay Relm, you have me and Balthier." the girl in the bunny ears reassured.

"We have to keep moving forward. If we stay here any longer they'll catch up to us in no time." the man, named Balthier explained.

"I agree." Hope chimed in. "Let's go."

As the five of them began moving forward, the sound of walking footsteps could be heard behind them.

"Shit! They found us." Balthier cursed as he turned around.

Behind them stood a group of roughly 20 men each armed with claw shaped devices of their hands and in front of them stood five figures, a man with pink hair, a blonde haired girl with antennae like strands of hair sticking out of her head, a platinum blonde haired man, a man with blue hair and a gruffly looking man with brown hair.

"That's as far as you go." the blonde hair girl said to the group.

"Leave us alone!" Relm screamed out.

"Careful Relm..." the bunny eared girl said quietly.

"What do you want from all of us?" Balthier questioned the strange people.

"We have specific orders to bring all of you back for...special purposes." the platinum haired blonde hair said.

"Enough talk Vexen!" the blonde haired girl snapped.

"You keep you're mouth shut Larxene before I freeze it shut!" he retorted back.

The group of five took this time to turn around and ran deeper into the forest each splitting into the branching paths.

"Look what you did now you fools, they escaped!" the pink haired man scoleded.

"Sorry Marly." Larxene apologized.

"Our leader will not be pleased if we come back empty handed. All of us will take four of these boys here and we'll go and hunt them down. Do not return until you captured the targets. Do I make myself clear?" the man with with blue hair explained in an almost threatening tone.

"Yes!" The four others said together in unison. As the five of them each split up with four of the men and chased after the give fleeing fugitives.


Hope was running as fast as he could. He knew splitting up was a bad idea as they all could just pick them off one by one but they all agreed that if one of them could escape that person would seek help. He ran through large bushes and trees and eventually made it to a clearing near a riverbed that was illuminated by the moonlight.

He hunched back and started to catch his breath again and hoping that he had eluded his captures. However he was wrong.

"Hello there little boy." Larxene teased from behind him.

"W-what?!" Hope yelled out in fright as he jumped backwards.

"Come with me, I won't hurt you." Larxene said out smoothly.

"That's a lie!"

Larxene's tolerance at this point was reaching an all time low. "Listen here you little brat if you don't come with me I'll be forced to use some SERIOUS measures on you and you will not like that at all!" She roared.

Hope made his hands into fists and made a punching motion in front of him. From the tips of his fist a large gust of wind appeared and went straight for Larxene who quickly dodged it in a blink of an eye, making the gust of wind hit the men behind her, sending them into trees.

"Ah an Aerokinetic, our leader would be most please when he gets his hands on you." Larxene purred out.

Larxene held out her hands in a crossing formation and eight strange shaped knives appeared in her hands, four in each.

"Let's have some fun." She said with a devilish smirk on her face.

She quickly threw one of her knives at Hope who quickly raised his hands in front of him and a veil of wind repelled the knife back. Larxene quickly rushed forward at him with an intent of murder in her eyes. Hope continued to make punching motions in the air and launching more blasts of wind at Larxene but the girl moved out of the way like it was nothing. When she reached Hope she jumped and did a frontal kick right to his chest, sending back a few.

He gave out a moan of pain and staggered back. Hope raised his hand in front of him and made a vertical cutting motion in the air and a crescent shaped blade of wind came flying out. Larxene narrowly avoided the blade of wind, which missed and went straight into a tree and slicing it right in half.

She again rushed forward at the now running Hope. He tried to run as fast as he could but the blonde haired girl some how was just faster. When she tried to kick again this time from behind a large gust of wind knocked her back and sending her into the ground.

"Why you...!" She yelled out. She quickly jumped up on her feet and took her knives and aimed at his back, then quickly launched them off. But to no avail, they all were repelled back by a barrier of wind that formed behind the boys back.

He was standing in the river bed when he turned around to see Larxene only a few feet away from him. She had a evil smirk on her face.

"What are you smiling about?" He questioned.

"Look where you're standing." She replied back with a suggestive tone.

Hope glanced down at the ground confused. He didn't understand the significance of him standing in the river bed had to do with anything.

"The thing about water is..." She started, "It conducts electricity!" She yelled as she threw one of her knives into the water. The knife hit the water and released a loud hissing sound and bolts of electricity swarmed the water. Hope standing directly in the water suffered full blast from the strong shock and instantly fell over into the water. Larxene approached the unconscious boy and grabbed him by the collar and whispered. "There goes one."


Baltier and the bunny eared girl ran hand and hand quickly through the forest, trying to seek an escape. As they were running from behind them came a large boulder, which Balthier was quickly fast enough to grab the girl and quickly run out of the way.

"That's as far as you go." A thick gruff voice said.

Balthier and the bunny eared girl ignored the growling threat and continue running, only to be stopped by a large wall of rock to appear in front of them.

"W-whats this?" the girl asked.

"We're trapped that's what." Balthier replied grimly.

The pair turned around and there stood the two men they saw before and accompanied by a group of about eight men behind them.

"Looks like we have to fight our way through this now Fran." Balthier said gently to the girl, who only shook her head in agreement.

"Get them!" The taller brown haired man ordered and the group of men behind them came rushing forward, armed and ready to strike.

Balthier held out his palm in front of them and a bright ray of light came flashing out of his hand and right onto his assailants. They all gave out a cry of pain and then suddenly they instantly vaporized into dust.

Fran made a blowing like motion with her mouth and out came a cold gust of wind that trapped the remaining men in ice. With a snap of her fingers the ice shattered, instantly killing them all.

"We certainly have quite a powerful pair here Saix." The brown haired man gestured.

"Indeed we do Lexaeus, I'm sure our leader would love to have them." The man named Saix replied.

Lexaeus wasted no time and created a large boulder and sending flying at the pair. Balthier again used his palm and created a beam of bright light that disintegrated the large rock. When the rock was destroyed, Saix came flying from the ruins of the rock with his hands now a pair of sharp swords. He dived down straight at Balthier and would have struck him if not for Fran who quickly created a wall of ice that took the impact for him.

"Clever girl you are protecting him with a wall of ice. Next time you won't be so lucky." He threatened.

Lexaeus this time stomped on the ground and large spikes of rocks came levitating up. He made a hand gesture that sent the large spiked rocks flying at the two. This time Fran held out her hand and a large blast of ice came flying out. The ice overpowered the rocks and instantly destroyed them. She twirled one of her fingers around in a circle and a ring of blue light appeared around it, she aimed her finger at the ground where the two were standing and a bright blue ring of light appeared below their feet.

"Child's play." Saix commented as his feet began to get colder and colder. Ice started creeping from the blue circle and up their legs, slowly encasing them.

The two began making their escape and ran the opposite way. They didn't make it far as a loud rumbling sound could be heard from either side of them and then darkness...

Lexaeus clapped his hands together and from either side of the two fleeing mutants a dome of steel began coming out of the ground and eventually joining together and trapping the pair in a steel prison.

From the inside there were sounds of ice shattering and fizzing sounds, it was assumed that was the noise of Balthier and Fran trying to escape.

"There's no use." He told the two.

Saix gave Lexaeus a reassuring nod as he transformed his hand into a large hammer. He lunged forward at the large steel dome and then slammed his hammer hand into it. A loud sound came erupting through the forest. The dome continued rattling and gave off powerful vibrations. From the inside the sound of Fran and Balthier could be hear groaning in discomfort. After a while the groaning died down and a "thud" sound could be heard.

"Two more." Saix said to Lexaeus who snapped his fingers and the dome dispersed, revealing the unconscious duo.


Relm soared through the forest floor as if it were the skies itself. She was riding an ink drawing of a large bird. You see Relm has the ability to bring what she draws into life. The bird was gliding gracefully on the forest ground, carefully avoiding the thick trees.

As it was flying a large vine came flying out of nowhere and grabbed the bird by its leg and tugging it down to the ground. Relm came crashing down and landed in a puddle of ink. When she looked up she saw in front of her a man with long pink hair.

"Come with now little girl. I promise I won't hurt you." He cooed.

"Y-you're l-lying!" She stuttered out.

"You're a feisty little now aren't you. No matter I'll end this quickly." He said menacingly as he raised his hand, a multitude of vines erupted from the ground.

Relm took out her sketch book and quickly sketched a picture of a large tiger which soon enough came to life and lunged forward towards the pink haired man. The tiger was running fast and jumping left and right to carefully avoid the vines that were being sent towards it. As it made its finally leap towards the man, another sharp vine came out of nowhere and impaled the tiger and destroying it. Relm made a horrified expression.

She made a sketch of a rampaging rhino that rushed forward, attempting to maul Marluxia over, but this proved to be useless as he released a large thorn that pierced the rhino and reverting it back to ink. She tried to send a large elephant to stomp him down but it was also stopped by a vine that wrapped around its leg that tripped it and destroying it.

Relm was tired at this point. Using this much of her power in one day with such large creatures put such a strained on her stamina.

"Aww tired already? I thought you were a big girl." He teased.

"I am! And i'll show you!" She yelled back as she took her sketch book and drew a large snake. The snake came to life and flew at Marluxia. The snake carefully avoid all the vines and thorns that he tried throwing at it and made its way to the man's body. It quickly wrapped itself around him and started squeezing. He let a variety of curses and angry yells while trying to struggle out.

"Take that!" She cheered as the snake continued squeezing.

"ENOUGH!" He yelled out as large green thorns erupted from his body and piercing the snake. It collapsed and in its place was a large puddle of black ink.

"No...no!" Relm said with a defeated expression on her face.

Marluxia stretched his hand out and a vine appeared out of it. It flew straight at Relm and wrapped around her body. It started squeezing her tighter and tighter by the second. She let out loud screams of pain as it continued squeezing. When she finally reached her limit she slowly saw the forest get darker and darker and finally nothing at all.

Marluxia and his men turned around and the vine carrying Relm followed with.


"Hit me with your best shot." Vexen taunted.

"Don't toy with me!" Lulu roared as she summoned several blazing orbs of flames.

"Interesting. You can make fireballs, is that all you can do?" He taunted the girl once again.

She pointed her finger at Vexen and the orbs of fire came flying at him. He aimed his hand at the ground and propelled himself out of the way by using ice to push himself up. The men behind were not as lucky as the fireballs were heading their way.

They hand no defense against it and the fireballs entered their body. They gave out screams and steam could be seem emitting from their bodies. When the steamed cleared it revealed four mummified corpses that looked dry as if they had been preserved for centuries.

"That's an interesting power you got there. It seems you possess a high form of pyrokinesis and are able to conjure up orbs of fire. But these orbs aren't ordinary as they appear to boil all the liquids inside the body, rendering them to dry burnt corpses. Am I correct?" He deduced.

She didn't answer. Instead she summoned more large orbs of fire and sent them at the blonde haired man. He raised his hand up and a wall of ice appeared in front of him. The ice wall proved no use as the scorching balls of fire melted right through it. He retreated back again and this time created sharp disks made of ice and threw them Lulu's way. She used one of her fireballs to send it straight at the disk to melt them all.

"Enough is enough!" She yelled out in annoyance. Surrounding her were six large balls of fire, she waved her hand and the six joined together and formed into a much larger one. She snapped her fingers and the ball of fire exploded. Vexen having little time to react created a large dome of ice and encased himself in it.

The fireball created a large explosion, the blast was at least of a five mile radius and it burnt everything in its path down. The once green scenery were reduced to a few crumbling ashy sticks. The wall that Vexen created was stronger than the last but that wasn't saying much as all that was left of it was steam. When the steamed cleared out it revealed a steaming Vexen. He raised his hand in an attempt to strike back but crumbled down to the ground.

"Fire melts ice." she retorted as she turned around.

As she did she was taken back at what she saw. There stood the four people that were chasing them before as well as the man she just finish defeating.

"W-what? How is this possible? I just...I saw you collapse." she questioned panically.

"Ah yes" he started "you see I like to observe my opponents before diving straight into fights. What you just defeated was a mere ice clone of mines. Simple really."

Lulu raised her hands again and created more blazing fireballs. She sent them all at the group, in effort of defeating them.

The brown haired man simply stomped on the ground and a large wall of rock grew from the ground. The fireballs went straight into the rock wall and disintegrated.

When the wall crumbled down the group of five had vanished. Lulu took a step back in astonishment but was stopped when she bumped into something behind her. She quickly turned around and behind her stood the blonde hair man.

"Boo!" He cried out as he reached his hand out grabbed Lulu's wrist.

She felt an instant pain in her wrist and it started getting cold. Yet at the same time it was hot too. Within seconds she lost all movement in her right wrist.

"W-what did you do to me?!" She yelled out.

"I frozed it." He replied nonchalantly. "Just like what I am about to do to you."

With that remark he snapped his fingers and Lulu suddenly collapsed over. From behind the blonde haired man the other four stepped out.

"Nice going Vexen, you killed her. What's good will a dead body do?" Larxene snarked.

"Be quite Larxene. An imbecile such as you will not understand. It just so happens that I did not kill her. I put her in a state of frozen paralysis. She's alive and I can turn her back anytime I want to." He replied.

"Whatever." She scoffed as she gave him the finger.

"If you two lovebirds are done squabbling we all need to head back." Saix commanded.

He raised his hand and a portal of dark energy emerged. The five of them hauled the five unconscious mutants and went into the portal.

"Oh and another thing. Marluxia be a dear and restore the place back to it's original place. We wouldn't want anyone to be suspicious." Saix said as he stepped through the portal, followed by Larxene, then Vexen and then Lexaeus.

Marluxia was the last to enter and when he did he snapped his fingers and proceeded inside.

The burnt area gave off a bright green glow. The ground started turning a brown color and soon grass started sprouting out again. The once burnt trees vanished and in there places brand new trees emerged.

Yeah so not a real part, just an interlude really.