Tessa woke up to see her dad smiling at her, "Is Vivi Okay?"

"He's fine."

"I'm right here Tess. Are you okay?"

"Yeah."

He looked down, "I'm sorry I let you down, Tess… I'm sorry you both got hurt because of me."

"You didn't let us down Vivi," Lailah assured him, "People get scared sometimes. So scared that they freeze up and can't move... Next time try to stand up for yourself by shouting at them. Then follow it up with either defending yourself or running away. Whichever is best for the situation," he said.

"Okay," Vivi said.

"You two need to believe in yourselves. You're both capable of doing wonderful and amazing things," Lailah said, "You're smart, brave, and inspiring, you just have to believe that yourself. Don't let fear control you and tell you, you're nothing. All of those negative things are lies that the enemy has made you believe, but that's just it, they're lies. They have nothing to do with you, and so the best thing is to get rid of them."

They were silent for a moment before Vivi said, "You're right...!"

"It's gonna be hard, but you both can do it!" Lailah said, "I believe in you, both!"

"Thank you, Lailah!" Vivi said. "Um..." He looked down nervously.

"You can have a hug too," Lailah smiled.

Vivi was surprised but hugged him back gratefully. "Thanks," Tessa said.

"You're welcome," he kissed the top of her head.

"Someone should make sure the ship doesn't leave," Meadow said worriedly.

"Yes, that's a good idea," Silver agreed.

"I will princess!" Steiner saluted.

"I will too," Meadow said. "I can sleep a bit on the ship."

The group rested until Meadow rushed back in, "We gotta get going! It's gonna take off soon."

They all rushed to the landing field. "Ooh!" Tessa awed in marvel.

"Huh?" Zidane asked.

"I really wanna see how this thing ticks! I love machines!"

Zidane smiled "I'm sure you'd love to see Lindblum."

"Maybe I can ask Uncle Cid if you can check out the airship docks," Silver said.

"Really!? I'd love that! I wanna be able to build something like this!" Tessa clapped gleefully.

"Kid," Lailah smiled and ruffled her hair.

"Hey!" She laughed.

"Check out your goggles."

"Huh?" Interesting!

Turn the knobs.

Hmm?

Try a middle knob first.

Kay. She fiddled with the middle knob on the right side and learned it could twist as well as slide down a notch. She turned the upper and lower knobs with no result. She slid the middle knob down again; Her lens was now blackish green with a compass 'N' was a little to the left, and there were several dots in four different colors red, green, yellow, and blue.

Red's enemies, green's allies, yellow's neutral, and blue's your party. He told her.

Nice! She twisted the upper knob forward and her screen slid to the right, she twisted the upper knob backward and it slid down. She smirked while sliding the middle knob down; The screen showed her party members faces and a list of what armor they were wearing as well as what was in their inventory. She twisted the upper and lower knobs inspecting the inventory, when the screen slid up she saw the combined inventory. "Very useful…" She muttered. She slid the middle knob down a notch; Her screen went to a dark green. It's just green.

Think about finding something.

Like?

Anything, animal, vegetable, mineral, machine, etc. He said.

Kay. How 'bout a… Steepled hat. On cue Vivi's head lit up with a red color, she zoomed in and saw the words; Name: Steepled hat, Owned by: Vivi Orunitia. Kailynn. The steepled hat went back to green as Kailynn lit up red. It read; Name: Kailynn Lykos, Alliance: Sisters- Meadow and Tessa, Allies- Tantalus, Angels, Steiner, Vivi, Garnet. Cool! Lailah grinned. She went to the next setting; Her lens cleared.

The middle one zooms in and out, the upper one has three settings; binocular, microscope, and telescope, and the bottom one has one; night vision.

Nice~~~~! She fiddled with them and found they were exactly as he said, then went to the next setting. The screen went blue, red silhouettes cropped up everywhere. She saw treasures and other items of value on every person or in the surroundings. She turned the middle knob forward and it zoomed in. She was zoomed in on Zidane's dagger, the red dispersed to just an outline of the object, things were written in the air pointing to it; Item Name: Mage Masher, Quality: Excellent, Weak area: (It showed where in purple), Durability: 96%, Sell price: 340, Buy price: 500, Made by: Orituru Galves. "Nice." Treasure hunter! Oh, Kailynn would love this one!

She can cast detect just like Zidane. This setting can also detect weak spots on objects and enemies.

Amazing! This is definitely cooler! So Target, Map, Inventory, Finding, Scopes, and Treasure hunter, She squealed with delight, while she tried to make sure to remember. Well. Unless you lost it or the enemy got it.

It won't work for anybody else but you, He thought.

That's good. Unless our allies needed to use it.

I can change the settings when and if they need to be changed.

Nice! She thought. She changed the setting.

Last setting. It pinpoints and interprets other people's body language. So it is an extremely useful lie detector.

Target, Map, Inventory, Finding, Scopes, Treasure hunter, and Lie detector! Awesome! Did you think of all of these by yourself?

Yeah. God helped me make it though. He told her.

You're awesome!

He laughed Thanks, kiddo.

"Hurry up you two! It's taking off!" Meadow shouted. They ran after her as Tessa changed the goggles to the scopes setting. Didn't think it would be, but it's quite easy to see.

Yep!

They got on the ship just as it started taking off. Tessa changed the setting to Find. Knowledge of how to build this sucker! Red lights glowed and she checked them out, studying the ship in full detail.

Kailynn sat on the floor of the cargo ship searching through her backpack. She saw several throwing knives and shurikens in a protective casing, a few lighters, matches, and flint, and tinder, a large case of makeup with a note on it that read 'Don't get too excited. It's for making a disguise. ~Nathanael', her cloak, a tablet with; a webcam, and several ports, a first aid kit, and a large book; she read the cover 'Book of Fire by Nathanael'. She laughed and opened it. It showed various spells, techniques, magic, manipulation, and other subjects about fire. I thought you were gonna teach me yourself?

You also need a study guide. He laughed.

And making disguises?

You're good at that.

What is that supposed to mean!? She thought offended.

Relax! I didn't mean it that way! I meant you can almost completely change how someone looks with your makeup and face painting skills!

Oh… Thanks!

You're welcome.

Meadow searched through her bags quickly and found; Flasks, a mortar and pestle, three books called 'Plants of Gaia an Extensive Guide' 'History of Gaia' and 'Alchemic Solutions' by Zachriel, a cook pot, a large spoon, other cooking utensils, spices, a camera, first aid kit, pens, pencils, paper, a poetry book, a tablet with webcam, and a large makeup case. Thanks for the stuff Zach! It's everything I love!

He smiled telepathically, You're welcome Meadow.

Tessa walked up to a mage and tugged his arm, "Hello! I know you can understand me, and I wanna help you! You don't deserve to be treated like this." He ignored her. "Dad?"

Lailah walked over "What's up?"

"I know he can understand me but he's ignoring me. I just wanna help. Can you help me?"

"How are you thinking I can help you?"

She glared at him "Do your space thing or something!"

"Be more specific." He smirked.

Use your angel powers and help him understand he can trust me! Something~~~~~!

He laughed Alright.

Thank you.

Lailah spoke to him softly, "You can trust us. We're trying to help."

The mage blinked, "Who are you? Who am I?" he looked around the room, "What is this place?"

"My name is Lailah, I'm an angel and this is Tessa, a human," he placed his hand on her head. "Your name is Keld, you're a human too."

"Human...?" he looked his hands over, "But we look different... And you look the same...?"

"You're soul is human. The thing that makes you, you. I'm an angel, we're heavenly beings that serve directly to the lord. I watch over Tessa," He pet her again. "I'm her guardian angel. Every being has one, but to most they're invisible."

"Including me?" The mage asked looking around.

Lailah nodded as a female angel appeared in front of them; she had long flowing golden hair, emerald green eyes, brilliant white wings and a long white robe. Her voice sounded smooth like honey, "I'm Elmariel. I'm your guardian angel, Keld."

"Whoa..." his spirit lit up with awe.

She nodded. "Keld. Lailah, his charge, and their friends want to help you and your friends escape the bonds of slavery. Will you help them?"

He nodded making his hat swing and almost hit Tessa, she giggled. "Of course. What can I do?" he asked.

Tessa looked at Lailah. "We all need to go to Lindblum. Another mage, a Black Waltz, is going to storm the ship trying to capture the princess. We need all of your help to send him away," Lailah told him.

"Alright, I'll tell them. Will the three of you come with me?"

"I'd be glad to!" Tessa smiled. The four went through the ship telling the mages the plan before they went to the deck, Elmariel talked to Keld "I have to go now Keld, but I'm always watching over you. Stay true to heart and don't let evil deceive you. I'm always listening so if you need my help just ask. The rest of you have your own angels as well and they will come when you call. Also please don't tell of this to anyone, Lailah and his charge need to keep their secret for a while longer," She told the mages, they nodded in agreement and she vanished. When they got to the deck the airship changed course, making Steiner argue with Zidane. Will this be enough? Tessa thought worriedly.

Don't worry kid.

She nodded Okay.

"What's going on?" Steiner asked as they all surrounded the cabin.

"Dunno, they wouldn't listen to us before," Zidane said.

"I'm sorry I will apprehend this criminal at once and redirect our course," Steiner said.

"No," Keld said. The four game characters stared in shock. "We can't go there. We'll help you all go to Lindblum. We'll be free there."

"Yeah!" Tessa shouted while fist pumping the air. "Woohoo! Anarchy!"

"Wh—what?" Steiner started "N-no, we can't!"

"Steiner, we are all going to Lindblum. I'm not going back, and they can't stay as slaves," Silver said.

"Oh really? Can you all be free there?" A voice cackled. They turned in surprise and went to battle positions.

"Silver take the wheel!" Tessa shouted pulling out her blades and positioning her goggles to setting 6; the item and weak spot detection setting. Silver ran behind the wheel and drove to South Gate. "You won't hurt my friends! Tell those psychotic clowns to back off!"

Steiner looked at her in surprise as Kailynn and Meadow screamed "Clowns!?"

"Meadow, Kailynn, relax! Everyone, he's weak against lightning!" Tessa said as they sprung into battle.

Immediately, Steiner cast thunder sword slicing through the fabric of the black waltzes arm.

As soon as Lailah saw what was happening he went to Tessa's side and pushed her into the cabin. "What are you doing?"

"You can't be out here. Support us from inside."

"Why?"

He shoved a mage hat onto her head after pulling it out of thin air. "I forgot to give this to you earlier."

"Uh, thanks?"

Lailah gave her a quick hug before rushing back out and into the battle. Tessa was confused but cast haste on Vivi and Steiner before he ran up to the mage and slashed into his torso.

They heard the black waltz cry out in anger and frustration sending a bolt of thunder in a seemingly random direction; hitting Kailynn in the gut and to the ground.

"Kailynn!" Meadow rushed to her side and checked her pulse.

"She's just unconscious," Lailah told her, "Knockout."

Meadow sighed in relief before uncorking a red bottle and pouring it into her sister's mouth. Kailynn coughed, blinking her eyes, she looked at Meadow, " Don't you ever do that to me again!" she hugged her fiercely.

"Can't -breathe!" Meadow lightly released her before giving her a potion.

Tessa wrung her hands, "I don't know any other spells besides haste yet!"

"Do what you can do," Silver assured her.

She swallowed and nodded before casting her spell on one of the mages, she assumed was Keld, they all looked the same from behind.

Tessa froze when the Waltz locked eyes on her, she backed up into the wall of the cabin as he sent a bolt of lightning through the glass and directly at her.

The force of the bolt knocked her into the wall, knocking the wind out of her.

In an instant, Lailah was by her side, "Annie! Talk to me Annie!" he pet her cheek with his hand as she wheezed in air. He lifted her up and placed his hand on her back. "You're gonna be okay." She managed to nod as a warm white light spread through her from his hand. He pet her hair "It's okay sweetheart."

"Thank you," she said relieved.

"Is he gone!?" a mage asked. Lailah looked over his shoulder seeing the mages gathered around the front of the ship with no Black Waltz in sight.

"Not yet," Meadow told them. "Focus all your spells, and knock him out of the air when he comes toward us."

"Are we gonna kill him?" Another mage asked.

"I'm sorry. He won't stop otherwise."

"It's alright," Keld said. "There are some bad humans too, and some things can't be done another way."

"Thanks."

She saw the waltz in the distance, "Here he comes!"

"We're about to hit the gate!" Zidane called "But we don't have a pass! They'll close it on us!"

Silver did her best to navigate through the mountains and the narrow passage of South Gate as it closed, while every magic user focused their spells. They made it into the first gate, when he got close enough they all sent lightning at him. They sent him out of the air, creating a massive explosion that rocked the ship, propelling them out the last gate. The wail of alarms drifted into the distance as they all took a breath of relief.

After everything settled down Keld stood dumbfounded, "Can you believe we are actually born for good reasons? That we have a life to live as much as the other humans?" The others nodded in a strange sync.

Kailynn walked over to the mages "I just wanted to warn you, never trust a man named Kuja. He'll lie to you," she said quietly. They nodded in understanding. "And tell all other mages you meet the same."

"Thank you. Can we call you friends?" a mage asked.

She grinned, "I would be proud!"

"What's the hat for?" Tessa asked.

"It's rubber," he smirked as he pat it, "I didn't want your body to take in the electricity."

She smiled, "Thanks."

"Tess! You've gotta see Lindblum from above!" Zidane called.

"Come on Tess!" Vivi shouted.

Lailah pulled her up and they walked to the edge. "Wow! So cool!" She said excitedly. "This is amazing!" she clapped.

"It is!" The others said in awe.

Even the mages loved the sight of Lindblum from above, "This place is huge!" One exclaimed.

"Lindblum Grand Castle," Zidane said watching the ships fly around the spires lazily. "The city itself is inside the castle."

"Amazing!" Vivi said. The Falcon's Eye looked even better in real life. The design was so intricate that it looked almost lifelike, Tessa jumped as the eye spiraled open in three separate rings. "Whoa~~!" She leaned over the edge further, catching her foot on the railing before she fell.