Kasey woke up from her long sleep in a bed with a pounding head ache. Looking around she found no one in sight. "Hmm, where am I?" The girl got up and walked over to a sign:

Welcome to the Dasha Vew Suite. We will make your day as pleasant as we can. Thank you.

"Well, that answers one question. Now, to work on 'how did I get here'?" Kasey walked over to the door, but before she could open it, it flung open to show Dark and a try full of Breakfast.

"Oh, you're up, feeling better?" He placed the food on the table and leaned back in a chair.

"I don't know. My head kind of hurts."

"Yeah... sorry 'bout that. Last night I kind of bumped it on the door." The thief made an innocent smile.

"What happened?

"Before you got knocked out?

"Yeah."

"Well, remember that strong wind?"

"Um… yeah. That demon boy blew us all off the cliff. What happen to the others?"

Dark rolled his eyes, getting a little defensive, "Well I only have two hands, and it's not like my wings…" The thief paused as he noticed the blank expression on Kasey's face. He rubbed his chin and then asked, "You hungry? I know a great place that's right across the street,"

"Oh…yeah. Sure." She gave a shrug and got up to follow Dark.

Across the street was a fancy seafood restaurant. Amazingly, it was right next to the perfect view of the ocean near by. Inside there were beautifully carved tables and the chairs where made out of bamboo. The waitress and waiters commonly wore flower clothing.

The hostess smiled widely as Dark and Kasey entered the restaurant, "Good day, seating for two?"

"Yeah," Lowering his voice, Dark whisper to the hostess, "The special reservation for two."

He gave her a little wink, and the girl blushed, "Oh! Right this way, Mr. Dark." Smiling the young hostess lead the couple upstairs to a private balcony over the ocean.

Kasey awed the sight and gave Dark a cooked smile, "Special Reservation?"

He gave a smile back, "Nothing but the best for the most beautiful angel on this dreadful planet." He pulled her seat out and gestured Kasey to sit, but the girl's attention quickly turned to an aquarium full of lobsters.

With a gasp, she ran to look at them, "Aww, they're so cute! I'm naming this one pinchie- oh, and he's going to be shelly, and--"

"Would the young lady like to pick out a lobster?" A chief cut her off as he suddenly showed up at her side. "Now, this guy is a biggy. If you want great taste, he's the way to go."

"Yeah, we'll take two of the finest lobsters." Dark came up behind Kasey and put his arms around her.

"Okay, I'll boil them up."

Shocked hit the girls face, "You're going to kill them!?"

"You don't… want to eat them…?"

Kasey's voice went into a high pitch, "But they're so cute, how could you eat them-- don't kill them!"

Dark gave a sigh, "Um… you know, I'll buy the whole tank." He looked down at Kasey, "We'll have them transported to our room alive." The girl put on a gleeful grin. "Come on, let's have some sushi."

Halfway through their meal, Dark ordered a dessert to share and asked Kasey an unusual question, "Dolphins. Have you ever seen or received a message from the pure ocean written by the second most intelligent creatures?"

"Heehee…what?" She giggles at the thought, "No."

All Dark did was point out the window. Following the direction of his finger, Kasey looked out of the fancy over-look of the ocean. Out of the water, a line of dolphins popped up to spell:

'U R BEAUTIFUL'

Kasey smiled, but as she glanced back at Dark he pointed out the window again. The dolphins changed their formation and spelt another message:

'KISS ME?'

The next time Kasey looked back at Dark, she gladly answered his request with a 'yes'.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group were climbing themselves out of the valley with mush struggle.

"Ah, Zidaney, my arms hurt. Can we stop? Oh, carry me!"

"Oh come on Garnet- toughen up." Zidane continued to swing from tree branch to tree branch like the monkey he is while Tidus, Garnet, and Yuna rock climb the bolders and rocks.

Tidus kept gripping the loose stones that always result him sliding down two feet. "Arg, that's easy for you to say. You don't have to worry of having random pebbles rolling down and hitting you in the face."

"You know, if you were a man-- which you're not-- you wouldn't be whining like a mule and learn to ignore such little pain." That was the 16th insult Shannon made about the Blitz ball player as the group made their way up the cliff like hill. The girls' way of climbing was for once, not having someone carry her like she would prefer. Taking two short blades, she used them to grip the tree as she traveled up. Kuja followed closely behind to catch his girl, just in case she'd slip. "See the trick is to get to the top. The sooner you get there, the faster you can stop climbing… and you're whining." The blond proved her point by doing a couple more flips, a swing on the branch, to land perfectly on her feet at the edge of the mountain. After she did a cute little victory pose, she yawned, stepped back and disappeared from sight with a high scream.

" Shannon !?" Panicky, Kuja jumped to the cliff followed by Zidane and the rest. On the top of the cliff there was a steep drop, covered in tall leafy trees and weedy looking plants, on the other side.

"Whoa! This valley is like a giant bowl in a mountain!" Tidus had his eyes wide in amazement because… apparently he was amazed.

"Wow, great observation there, Blondie. I think Garnet's smarts are rubbing off on ya."

"Yay!" Missing the whole point or any idea of Zidane's insult towards Tidus, Garnet cheered at the fact that Zidane said her name.

Lifting an eyebrow to the Princess' weird action, Kuja directed his comment to Zidane, "Ya know… I thought a girl had to be completely mentally ill to be attracted to you, or even want you. Honestly, it scares me that she even exists."

The blond Genome gave a snarl, "Well at least I'm not married to a compulsive, self-centered, narcissistic brat. Hmm… kid of a lot like you."

Zidane's brother gave a shrug, "Eh, perfect match. But at least my woman is conscience when I have her in bed."

Garnet turned to look up at Zidane, "Hey…what does that mean?"

"I told you that in confidential privacy!" Zidane lunged for his brother's throat. The two wrestle until Kuja slipped, and they both tumbled down the grassy hill.

As soon as they rolled out of sight—hidden by the trees—Tidus gave a deep sigh. "Wow, for a moment there I thought he was talking about me."

"How would Kuja know—wait, what do you mean you thought he was talking about you?!"

Putting on a shy smile, Tidus changed the subject, "Oh look- a cliff. Hope I don't fall—oh no," with that the blond jumped down to join the genomes.

"Hmm, maybe it's like sledding." Excited, Garnet took hold of Yuna's arm and, she too, jumped down—taking Yuna with her.

Plowing fast to the bottom, the two girls stopped when they hit something small and soft. "Oww, that's the fourth time. You guys have to watch were you're going." Recognizing the accent, Yuna and Garnet looked up and saw Mary and Pippin smoking pipes. "Gees, people these days."

The two girls got up, brushed themselves off to sit with the rest of the group. Now that everyone has taken the trip down the mountain, Tidus started questioning the hobbits, "We're have you two been?"

"Yeah, drinking's no fun since they expired your tab."

"Well, after we've stumbled into this forest with delicious mushrooms, we couldn't leave."

"Wait—mushrooms?" It took a while for everyone to notice that they were sitting around a group of blue glowing mushrooms with eyes, and were singing a soft tune in beautiful harmony.

"Oi! Look, Kuja—mushrooms, glowing mushrooms—That sing!!!" Shannons excitement of seeing the mushrooms creep everyone out. She smiled and adored the little fungi.

Flattered, one of the little mushrooms stopped and spoke up to the blond, "Well, if you like me now, toots, wait till you give me a taste." Kuja just rolled his eyes, like the shroom had a chance with his wife. "Come on—eat me."

"Okay"

Startled by Shannon's reply, Kuja quickly tried to stop her, "Wait, Shannon don't-"

But he failed as Shannon already gulped the mushroom down. "mMmm, delicious. Kuja you have to try them."

"Shannon! You had no idea is those things are poisonous. Never listen to your food."

"Pssh, it's perfectly safe—look at Mary and Pippin." Glancing over to the two hobbits that were staring off into the distance with a scary glaze, foaming from the mouth, and random weak laughs, Kuja sighed.

"I swear Shannon; gullible is written on the ceiling."

Yuna quickly looked up from Kuja's comment, "Where!?"

Garnet gave a blank stare of confusion. "That's silly, who would take the time to write 'gullible' on the ceiling? It's more noticeable if you had it on the wall."

The silver-haired genome shook his head at the curse of traveling with dumb companions.

"Ahh, Kuja-babe, lighten up. Here try one." The girl grabbed a pile of mushrooms and shoved them up to Kuja.

There blinky, beebe eyes just looked up at him, "Ah, get those things out of my face!"

"Aww, you'll hurt their feelings." She turned her attention to the fungi. "Aww, you're so adorable. I could just eat you all up." As she snuggles her face into her armful of glowing mushrooms, she started chowing them down.

"Dear? Okay darling… I think that's enough mushrooms for you." Kuja reached out to get her attention, but the blonde backed away with a snarl.

"No, Mine!"

"Okay… Put the mushrooms down…"

"Never! They're all mine—MINE!" With that, Shannon got up and ran off deeper into the woods with the mushrooms. Kuja was left with a worried look on his face.

Zidane cracked a laugh as he pat Kuja on the back, "Dude, your woman's addicted to fungus… That explains why she married you."

"Shut your damn mouth." With a sigh, Kuja go up to go retrieve his girl and hopefully cure her newest addiction before it ends up like her Diet Pepsi one. Zidane gave a shrug and went with him, followed by the others. Honestly, they had nothing better to do. Mary and Pippin seemed brain dead, and the mushrooms creep them out.

As they walked in the forest in search for Shannon, the trees became denser and the woods became darker. Soon they were walking in a dream where glowing mushrooms lightened the paths, the leaves glittered and the trees had a luminous dark blue glow. Once in a while there would be a dark purple-red sparkling flower along the way that Garnet had to pick.

That's basically the scenery for the longest time until the group saw something that glowed bluer and took up a bigger area. Garnet became all excited when her eyes caught a gimps of it, everyone else just didn't care. "Ooo, sugar pie-bumpkin, let's go look at it!" Grabbing Zidane by the arm, she ran through the trees to what turned out to be a large pond. The princess quickly knelt down to see if she could see the bottom.

Zidane rolled his eyes, but then the pond gave him a familiar, but eerie though, 'When the light turns red, then we'll be happy.' The blond genome stood there in a deep trance.

"When the light turns red, when the light turns red… Red light."

A certain pain struck Zidane, "Shut up, shut up!" The genome closed his eyes, put his hands on his ears, and fell to his knees, "Shut Up!"

Kuja snickered at his younger brother's reaction. Evil was in his eyes as he gave a laugh. With a little illusion he made the pond blood red. To get Zidane to look, the sorcerer put him on the back, "Relax, it's only a pool of beer."

"Beer?" The word broke the trance, but the red light broke Zidane's sanity when he opened his eyes, "Noooooo!!!" and he took off running with Garnet following close behind.

"Zidane, come back!"

"Whahahahahah!!!!" Kuja backed to lean up on a tree as he bacame weaker of laughing out of joy and pleasure.

Yuna could only scowl in discuss, "How could you be so cruel? You're such a bastrt!" She shook her head and stormed off.

"Hmph." Kuja's eyes glared back at her. He turned his gaze to Tidus, "What about you?"

"The blond cheaply smiled and backed away slightly; the sorcerer seemed a bit intimidating to the blitz ball player. "Ha…ha… well, um… you know…uh …" As soon as Kuja raised an eyebrow—hoping it'd make the blond speak—Tidus jumped, and fled.

The poor genome was left to himself grumbling, "Pssh, Shannon would think it was funny… …" He gave a sigh and went off on is own.

Finally, he found his love taking gibberish in a high voice underneath a tree. She was smiling and giggling. Feeling a little irritated that he may became replaced by creepy little fungi. Kuja kicked the ground in the front of Shannon, the glowing mushrooms either flew a few feet in the air, or crushed under the genome's foot.

Gasping in shock, Shannon seemed as if she would choke on air, "Kuja! What the bloody hell!!" The girl's mood rapidly changed from anger to pathetic sympathy for the mushrooms, "Oh my poor babies. My crushed little darlings, aww…" The girls picked up the pieces and paused knowing she couldn't put then back together.

Filled with a little guilt, Kuja tried to convince himself it was for the girl's own good. "Darling, Shannon… There only creepy, intoxicated mushrooms."

Her only answer was a sniff. She looked up at her husband with eyes of a kicked puppy. Before she was about to say something, a cute newly mushroom popped out of the decaying fungus, "Hellow!"

Shannon's spirits was shot up again, "Oi, it's a mushroom." With a big smile, the blonde picked it up to eat it.

"Wait!" The mushroom squeal stopped Shannon that instant, "First you must worship the Shroom King."

"Huh?" The girl looked up and saw a giant mushroom-- a glowing, sparkling, giant mushroom. "Mushroom." Shannon got up, ran a few feet, stopped and awed it. She slowly owed to the ground and chanted, "Giant Shroom King."

Kuja clasped his hand against his head. "Wow… never thought I'd live to see the day."