Normal POV

The soldiers were chattering away as sand continue to leak through the door...

"Cant believe it? That Dame...The Star Goddess...doesn't even look like a woman." One of the soldiers joked and all the others just laughed, oblivious to the sand that was shifting in the room as a body flowed from the sand.

Brianna laughed out loud, getting the soldiers' attention, "By the way...know where she is?"

"Well...well...well...aren't you just the hottest thing in the desert." One of the Soldiers stood up and winked.

Brianna held her hand up in his face, "Don't think so, now...You boys wanna tell me what I wanna know, or... "

"Or...you'll flash us...because baby..." One of the other soldier cupped his hands in front of his chest, blowing Brianna a kiss and winked at her.

"Obviously you boys need a lesson in manners."

"You gonna teach us, Sweet Thing."

"Ok. Ready?" Brianna popped her knuckles as five tick marks appeared. As one of the Soldiers came towards her, she simply punched him in the nose, sending him flying into a wall, "You need to answer a lady when she asks you a question."

The second man laughed but he turned to get a knee in the face, "It's Mam, not baby." She grabbed him by the arms and sent him flying into the others. Brianna spin kicked one soldier in the stomach, and trip kicked him to the ground. When one soldier was about to run out of there, she swung her fan at him, shooting out the spikes and stopping him in his tracks.

"Where do you think you're going?"

The soldier pulled out his gun, "Die! BITCH!"

"Seriously, you really wanna use that on me. Well, aren't you just the smartest," Brianna crossed her arms. The Soldier started shooting, but the bullets went right through her, and hit the men behind her, "Genius, you're just a friggin' genius." She stretched out her hand, her arm turned sand as she flung him across the room. She dodged a soldier and jabbed him several times in the stomach, grabbed him by the head and smacked him into the table. Her body turned into a sand like figure as move bullets were fired at her. He looked a little pale as he quickly put his communicator away.

"Really?" Brianna

She snatched a key from his belt, "Oh...for me, you shouldn't have." She let him fall on the floor. She walked towards the door and unlocked it, Blitz was leaning against the wall, smoking.

"Damn you could at least go easy on them." He pushed one of the men, but he was knocked out.

"I was going easy, it's not my fought if I was pissed..."Brianna sighed, when the soldier she flung across the floor woke up, he screamed and tried to get up and run but Brianna spotted him, "GET BACK HERE!" She kicked him square in the butt, he was back on the floor, and Brianna was putting her shoe on his butt and was stepping on him, "Have you learned your lesson yet? Or would you like me to teach you another lesson?"

She sat on his back and pulled him in a choke hold.

"Ok...Ok...I'll talk! I'll talk!" The soldier was coughing and pleading.

Blitz was just looking at her.

"What?"

"I've been so bad...where's my lesson?"

"What the hell!"

"I'm just saying...you haven't taught me a lesson in a long long time. I've been bad, please teach me a lesson." Blitz had hearts in his eyes, "Oh Dusk, you're so hot." Blitz just hugs her but Brianna just pushed him back.

"When the Hell does that serum wear off?" Brianna growled, she was still trying to push him away, as she was yelling at the soldier, "Where the hell is the Goddess?"


Butch's POV

I hung up the communicator, and I sighed again. I never felt so nervous like this...I nearly caused several whirlwinds trying to keep myself calm. I didn't like feeling like this...I was normally calm, reserved...and kept my emotions under control...but now...

I sat down but only to stand up again...We had to move, into the one place that was safe for sure...Uncle Iroh's old castle...It was an stone castle but it was the safest place in the whole Kingdom of Cynder...It was literally protected from any kind of evil because it was once a church and on hallow ground. And it had been abandoned for years but it wasn't raided or nothing...just webs. Sam was sleeping on one of the beds. Fang was clawing at the doors and windows, meowing and staring at me...

"Don't worry Fuzz Ball, they'll find her." I said to him but I was really saying that to myself. This was big, the loyal Desert Knights, Brick's Cynderian Rebel soldiers, and even...even town folks from other villages were starting to gather. It seem that the rumors of the Prince of Cynder and the Star Goddess spread...and from what it seem...it was spread from Sunset Valley.

"What the hell is wrong with me? I took a deep breath as wind was starting to blow...inside the room...when...

Scholar Utonium came rushing in, out of breath, "Prince Xaldin...it's Prince Laxus!"


Buttercup's POV

"C'mon, you honestly don't believe I'll fall for the oldest trick in the book?"

"Yes, dumbass."

I really had to sell it, I was fidgeting and rocking back and forth, "No, please...stop being a prick! I have to go you ASS!" I screamed and for a moment, I think I convinced him, I wriggled a little more, "Please...I'm dying here...you don't want Lord Vulcan's Bride to smell like piss."

"Please such language, you make a point." He turned around and came back to me, and placed a bucket in front of me, "Here you go? Chop chop, you're dying here right?"

I sighed, and stood in front of it, pretending to loosening up my shorts and just as I thought, he was sweating...

"Wait you can't!"

"I have to go! What's the Problem!"

"You...You're...why I never met such an indecent lady before." He turned around...and there was my opening. I swung my foot far back and just kicked him as hard as I could, right between the legs...Man...he just froze... He couldn't even scream as he just fell over.

"Didn't expect that huh? Old trick, new twist." I stuck my tongue out at him, but suddenly, something...the ground was shaking and...General Yang was trying to laugh.

"I believe I forgot to tell ya...this building as a habit of turning."

I didn't understand what he said as he was trying to hold his goods...I stood out on the window exit...I was shocked to see how deep...it was over a cliff...there was no sand...nothing to cushion me but my necklace was tugging me...glowing brighter green...I see...

General Yang was breathing heavily, "You think I didn't think of everything...expect that kick of yours. You...you will marry the dark Lord-"

"Jump."

I...heard that voice again...I heard it...I was sure of it. I slowly back towards the the edge and I could see the terror in General Yang's eyes.

"There's no way in hell that I would have anything to do with that monster." I don't know why, but I was fine...I knew that if I did this...that I would be ok...I couldn't explain that feeling but...but...I wasn't going to let Vulcan ever touch me again.

I felt as gravity took its force, and was pulling me down, I can't transform...but I was ok...I...I couldn't...Mark, Muriel, The King...King Roland, That Castor guy, Blossom's family...Bella...if I let Vulcan touch me...all of their deaths...those sacrifices...would be meaningless if I help him destroy this world.

"Believe in yourself, do this and no matter where you are, you'll have nothing to fear."

"You're the daughter i always dreamed I would have. My Shining Star." Remembering the look on Mark's face as he releases me.

I felt so warm all of a sudden, as this light glowed red...and glowed brighter and brighter when I saw...this boy...we just passed each other...he was watching as I was falling...wearing a bandanna

"Wasn't that the boy I saw at the end?"

"Buttercup!"

Blitz's POV

"Damn it!" I shouted, we're not gonna make it, she was falling to fast and we were too far away. She was glowing bright red, like she was about burst into flames.

"I have an idea." Brianna stopped and I looked back at her. She took a deep breath, and held some sand in her hand and kissed her hand, "Sand's Grasp"

The sand blew my her hand and sheheld her hand up, the sand came out from the ground and was stretching and grabbing the red light that was Buttercup.

Brianna's hand started to sizzle, actually sizzle..."Ouch...damn it. Owwww...I can't hold on for too long..."

"Just hang on! Hang on!" I was running over towards the cliff.

"BLITZ!" Brianna was screaming and the giant sand hand...was turning into glass...Brianna was screaming in pain as the now glass hand shattered but I was able to catch Buttercup, who was unconscious. Even though my hand was sizzling from the mere touch, I could handle the heat. Brianna stood right behind me, wincing in pain as she held her arm and turned around with her back to me as Buttercup woke up.

"Dusk?"

"I'm fine-"

"Dusk?"

Brianna just walked on ahead, "We should get back to Ashelia."

"Actually...they're now at my father's castle."

I haven't been there in maybe two or three years since Dad disowned me. Buttercup was burning up and my strange and beloved Brianna what just happened to her.

(sorry guys, I was stuck in this for a while, so sorry if it seemed a little yucky, I was about to give up on this whole thing. So please, read and review and I promise next chapter will be better)