Alice was standing in the bridge. Completely obvious to the world around her; she replayed every thing that happened to her earlier.

Alice awoke to burning grass and pain lots and lots of pain coursing up and down her body. Valo was laying next to her she sat up and moaned as Fai looked at her with fear and rage.

"What happened?" Lilia moaned as Fai screamed at her and pointed to Alice.

"WHAT HAPPENED? SHE'S WHAT HAPPENED!" Fai screamed turned and run away from them. Valo got up and moaned. He was probably the worst off out of them all… Alice noticed the Chocobo got away with out any scratches and handed Valo the mission info.

"Valo take the Chocobo and meet our employer, we'll come after I beat the Nu mou and drag him back ok?" Alice asked as Valo nodded furiously. He knew not to mess with Alice when she was this mad…

"I'll look for some help!" Lilia yelled as she got up on a rock and tumbled down she tried again and managed to stay up as she looked around. Alice moaned and started to walk towards the way Fai had gone. She stopped as she noticed a slight change in her surroundings… There were no animals…

"FAI!" Alice yelled as the silence claimed the area. She looked around and moaned. Fai was so not going to make this easy on himself now was he?

"Moonlight, stars bright, night dreams and memories, My King, dreaming, Land of hope, within a note, I wait, eternally, Fate, and destiny, hoping for you…" A voice sang out, like a great beast was looking down on her. Alice looked up to find a large Ice drake coiled around the trees. It seemed to be watching her every move with interest. It was small tiny for a drake only a child… "Dreams of three, all fighting, waiting, for the beginning, hoping, praying, dreaming of a better place, a better dream, a better hope, a better fantasy…" It sang with a childish voice.

"Ok… Now I going to kill you so please stay still…" Alice said calmly as a staff bonked her.

"IDIOT!" Fai yelled as the drake slithered off. "Don't kill the younglings!"

"WHY NOT?" Alice screamed.

"Because you'll anger the queen!" Fai replied as a roar sounded over the forest causing him to jump in fright. Alice had simply stared in the direction it came from and yelled back.

"Alice!" Lilia screamed as Fai turned away. Behind her were Jin, and another boy. Alice now knew he was Vann the sky pirate. Jin and Vann apparently knew each other before, Jin ran up to Alice. He then hugged her close and smiled.

"Alice, I woke up and was told you all left I thought everyone was going to leave me again…" Jin whispered then, as he grabbed Alice and quickly kissed her on the lips. Alice froze unsure of what just happened, and then she pushed him away.

"What the heck was that?" Alice screamed as Jin smiled playfully, a first in Alice's opinion and looked to Fai.

"So who are you again?" Jin asked now back to his stupid idiot mode.

"FAI! YOUR EMPLOYER'S ASSISTANT!" Fai screamed enraged by the sheer uselessness called Jin. Alice moaned as Fai started to swear a bit in in something like Russian… apparently languages don't change much no matter what world your from…

"Fai, Please clam down. We are going to your employer right now." Vann said calmly as he led them to his airship. It was very strange with wing like sails and light silvery blue color.

"That is way cooler then a hot air balloon…" Alice said as they all climbed aboard. Alice was then lead around a bit by a girl her age, the famous headhunter Adelle the cat.

A few hours later… and one picking up of the crazies as Penelo called them…

Alice looked around the bridge and found Jin and Vann talking happily. Jin looked over at her and smiled again. Alice blushed, Jin smiling was so new and strange to her; it was like Jin wasn't Jin anymore but someone else entirely. Alice liked this new person. He smiled and seem sweet, kind, and maybe, just maybe a bit cool…

"Alice can I talk to you?" Jin asked as he leaned in close and grabbed some of Alice's hair. He kissed it and smiled, Alice blushed and nodded her head as Jin personally took her to the very front of the bridge. It was beautiful orange and pink stained clouds below them and the rising sun. It was breath taking…

"Beautiful…" Alice whispered as Jin smiled. He pointed ahead to a mountain bathed in gold.

"That is Ambervale… the place that the royal family goes to crown the next ruler of the land and when your father disappeared years ago." Jin explained then pointed west to a large lake with a little spot of land. "Bervenia Palace, the capital and the royal palace that he lived in…"

"Interesting…" Alice replied as she stared at the mountain… It seem to call her…

Meanwhile Iden was dealing with new issues…

"Ok an unknown bog, in a supposedly desolate place…" Iden moaned as he tried to move through the crowd of people. "Right… and I'm a F***ing bunny…"

Toxica, a Viera, the witch of poison, a being with the power to curse all with death and heal any illness… at least that's what the legends described her as. In reality she was about twenty-two, long bright red hair and fierce golden green eyes. She wore a sleeveless red mage robe over a red dress. The dress had a large vertical and horizontal strip on it that made a cross. The sleeves on her extremely loose red arm warmers were trimmed with snow-white fur and so was the hood of her coat. She had a hip bag filled with potions and vials of stuff.

"GET YOUR LOVE POTIONS HERE FOLKS! ONLY 1000 Gil!" She yelled and held up vials of a pink liquid that smelled familiar to Iden. He sniffed the air and signed unsure of where…

"Excuse me?" Iden yelled as he dismounted the Chocobo. He left Rito on and kept them close.

"YES!" Toxica yelled and ran over she seemed to be a perky childish woman…

'Great a Viera version of Nora coming through…' Iden thought as Toxica pulled out a whole bunch of vials.

"So what do you need? Love potions, eye drops, or the hot spring retreat? Or are you here for the lover couples tour of the bog?" She asked as Iden nearly gaged.

"NO!" Iden screamed as the crowd moved away. Toxica looked at Him then to the figure on the Chocobo she had thought was his girlfriend at first. She never really paid attention to the races or that Moogles and Humes don't seem to be compatible partners because she had seen a whole bunch of odd couples… but instead of the girl she had thought was there she found a smaller Hume boy seriously ill…

"Ahhh… a curse removal…" Toxica muttered as she looked at the crowd. "Pam, please lead the other visitors out because this is a top priority illness…" She hissed as a red panther stepped out of the shadows and growled; the crowd was gone in a heartbeat.

"Thank you…" Iden moaned as Toxica lead him into her wood hut. Iden looked around he saw all sort of strange things then turned his attention to the worktable next to the single bed. It was covered in his mother's favorite perfume! Moogle Min Madness, was a cheap brand that his mother adored… "Love potions huh?"

"Umm… yea we were running low on Gil to pay the expenses around here… do you know how much potions, food and oil bills cost?" Toxica asked as Iden shock his head no. "A lot!"

"I see…" Iden replied as Toxica smiled and pulled the blankets off the bed. Iden pulled the Chocobo in and helped her transfer Rito into the bed slowly and gently.

"Ok now most of my treatments are 10." Toxica said as Iden pulled out his wallet. She was the real deal witch but only 10 Gil was a bit cheap…Iden handed her 10 Gil as her Panther purred. "Ummm… I think you have the wrong 10…"

"How so?" Iden asked as The Panther snorted and pawed it's eyes.

"I meant 10 with a whole hell lot of zeros at the end, usually seven or more." Toxica explained as Iden nodded.

"Oh…" Iden moaned as he fainted.

Notes: Ok this was the first time I made a chapter that goes back in time then switches to the present again. So tell me what you think also this story will continue after it is marked done later on. The next story has already been planned out slightly but I still need characters. I have also forgotten to thank lyokolife6 for letting me use Lilia. She is a great character and I've really grown to love the sweet and simple adorable her. She is a perfect friend for Alice in this story and I plan to use her in the next. This week and next I will be extremely busy with an end of the year art show at my school. My final grades are coming up soon, because I go to a specialty art school this is a big deal. I hope to continue this until the end and thanks for all the help from every one.

I'm sorry, I sound like I'm giving a final fare well don't I? Well I will try to post the next chapter sometime in the next two weeks and all. Please review and tell me what you think so far! Thanks!

The poem was also my own creation and it took a whole day to think it out. It was not complete spoken by the Drake and hold a secret meaning much like Iden's song and Jin's past…

List of all the places in FF Tactics Advance:

Cyril: Busy town. The monster bank is on its outskirts.

Sphrom: Bangaa mountain town. Home to the prison.

Bervenia Palace: Capital of Ivalice.

Muscadet: Mainly Viera town hidden deep in the woods.

Cadoan: Nu mou town. The seat of knowledge and alchemy.

Baguba Port: Moogle town with a large mercantile airship port.

Nubswood: Deep, dark forest. Popular hideout for thieves.

Giza Plains: Rolling grassy plains. Muscmaloi grows here.

Kudik Peaks: Towering peaks. Home to an endangered tiger.

Uladon Bog: Depp and dangerous bogland dotted with islands.

Jeraw Sands: Hot sands blow in this largest desert in Ivalce

Lutia Pass: Much-traveled pass, with the occasional roadshop.

Koringwood: Refreshing wood filled with ambient pure magic.

Ulei River: Largest River in Ivalice. Winds through swamplands.

Aisenfield: Plains where the thirteen knights of legend fought.

Roda Volcano: Volcano asleep for 300 years. Recently active.

Eluut Sands: Dangerous desert home to many fiends and treasure.

Nargal Cave: A cool wind blows from inside this cave. An ancient city is said to sleep in its depths.

Salikawood: The chirping of birds can always be heard here. An abandoned keep stands in the middle of the wood.

Delia Dunes: Desert area famous for its barking sands. Said to be formed from a celestial beast's bones.

Gotor Sands: Desert famous for its mirages and red Chocobos.

Ozmonfield: Gently rolling plains with occasional insect plagues.

Deti Plains: Flatlands of yellow sand and red earth. Amber can often be found here among the rocks.

Siena Gorge: Deep valley. A source of amber, like Deti Plains.

Materiwood: Lush green forest famous for its materite ore.

Tubola Cave: These caves were once mined for their mythril.

Jagd Dorsa: Lawless jagd. A deserted town.

Jagd Helje: Lawless jagd where ghostly voices are heard.

Jagd Ahli: Lawless jagd destroyed by its own wild magic.

Ambervale: Beautiful valley where rocks glow amber. The kings of Ivalice had a summer palace here.