First off

First off, I would just like to say that I do NOT own any of the characters in FFIX. (c)2000 Squaresoft Co., Ltd. All Squaresoft logos are trademarks of Square Co., Ltd. However, I -do- own the copyright to this story. Please do not take or edit in any way, shape, or form without permission of author; Freekin Creekin@aol.com. Thank you. R+R! 3

I should explain the situation first:


Zidane, Amarant: On Journey to find Garnet

Garnet, Vivi, Quina, Freija: On Journet to find Zidane, Amarant


Steiner/Beatrix: Same.. guardians of castle


Eiko: Lives in Castle


Inside Garnet's Bookbag:
Eidolon Necklace

Tiger Rod

Picture of Zidane

Picture of all her friends

Eidolon Gems

Mage Staff

Holy Lance

Fork

Ifrit suddenly disappeared out of no where and the four land near the gates of Alexandria. They enter to see if Zidane is there yet. Unfortunatly.. they are stopped by the angry Beatrix and Steiner. "What is going ON?!" Beatrix hissed at Garnet. The four looked at eachother and ran past them. They flew into the alley and down into Ruby's theatre. Skillfully outrunning the two generals, they fall down the stairs and lay panting on the floor. Ruby came up to them. "My my, darlin's. What cattle were chasin' ya'll?" They got up and looked around. There was Tantalus.. Blank, Marcus, everyone! "Tantalus.." Garnet whispered. "What brings you're purdy face to the Alexandrian slums, doll? I mean I know you're the queen of this downright sodden city, but I'm hankerin' to know why Zidane has been lookin' for ya'll and why you ain't in your castle!" Garnet explained her story to a confused Tantalus. "My~! Ya'll sure have been through plenny of adventures in the world. I awtta tell ya'll that Zidane was down here yesterday askin' for ya. He told me to tell ya'll he'll be a-waitin' in Treno with this here Amarant, and he took Cinna with 'um." Ruby sighed. "G'luck!"

Vivi and the troop started out of the theatre. "W-where will we find an airship?" he sighed. They walked around aimlessly to the gates of Alexandria. "I-ifrit disappeared, n-now what?" They all sighed and sat down outside of Alexandria. Garnet rested her head on the gate and rolled her eyes up. Suddenly she bolted up. "Look!" She pointed to a place only a few feet away. "The Red Rose! We can take that!" They bolted for the ship before anyone could find them. Freija immediately took control. They lifted off and sailed through the air.

Everyone cheered for their good luck and prepared for Treno. They docked the ship on the mountain edge and ran for Treno. Unfortunately.. Treno was GONE. "What.." Garnet started. There was a war there between Treno and Lindblum just the night before. "Oh no.." Freija sighed. There were still battleships around, so they went back to the ship. "Maybe Lindblum have answer!" Quina said suddenly. "After all, they start war. Let's see!" "Not a bad idea, Quina." Freija said. "Let us fly to Lindblum." Garnet sighed to herself, hoping Lindblum wasn't destroyed, too.

They didn't even get a chance to land when they saw Lindblum in ruins. "No..!" Garnet screamed. Not Lindblum... everyone stared in awe as the big city was blasted with bombs. Even though Cid was already dead.. what happened to Hilda? The airship slowly drifted to the grass below and stopped. Garnet cried in the corner while Freija leaned on the bow and shook her head sadly. Quina was poking Vivi, who was meditating something. His eyes were grey as he said, "Message for Vivi from 288. Come to Black Mage Village right away." He turned normal again. "Vivi?" Quina said, in pure confusion. "G-guys.." Vivi said in a low voice. Everyone turned to look at him. "I-i just got an odd message from the mages at the village. They want us there.. n-now." he stumbled. "I guess we should go.." a mixed up Garnet said. She was so distraught over all these events happening. Freija piloted the airship to the village.

As they ran in, it was deserted! Another note was pinned to a statue. "Friends, please come to Oeilvert as soon as you can. Trouble ahead! -Mages" Garnet picked herself up and stated, "All this traveling.. let us go, I guess." Without words, the foursome went back to the ship and sailed it to the city of Oeilvert.

"Here we are.." Freija sighed. It was covered in twine from the Iifa Tree. Suddenly, everyone blacked out and woke up in little cubicles. A familiar cackle echoed the place. "Hahaha! I, Kuja, am back. I have captured your little mage friends and YOU! Also here are Zidane and Amarant, my new slaves. Hahahaha!" "ZIDANE!" Garnet screamed. "Well well." Kuja huffed. "So you want little Zidane? I'll give him to you, I suppose.. as long as you complete a task." "ANYTHING!" Garnet cried. "So desperate. Hehehe! I suppose I'll make it hard. Go to Desert Palace and get me the Silvarian Candelabra. Then I'll give you Zidane. If you really want Amarant, get me the Goldarian Candelabra, too. For these stupid little black mages, I'll take.. I guess the Bronzarian Candelabra. Bring me all three to get all of these meddling fools. Princess, my dear.. you may take 3 friends with you! Well, you only have 3 now, so.."

The next thing they knew, Garnet, Quina, Vivi and Freija were at the entrance of Desert Palace, Kuja's old home. They started up the stairs. "Good munchies in here?" Quina asked. Garnet just sighed and shook her head. "Well now," came a voice from nowhere. "I see you are all here in one piece." Freija yelled, "Where are Amarant and the others?!" Kuja just cackled. "You'll get them if you get my my prize. Heheheh. For those of you who were with Eiko when she lit the candelabras.." Vivi gulped. "G-go on.." he stuttered. Kuja continued, "I want you to get those items that you got from the candelabras. They will, when put all together, form the Bronzarian. For the Silvarian, you must summon an Eidolon!" Seeming to have forgotten Garnet could do that, he said, "And none of you can! AHAHA! Anyway. To get the Goldarian, you must put the two Bronzarian and Silvarian together! Hahahahaha!" His voice faded away. Vivi looked around and said, "L-lets go upstairs, I remember the Anklet was up t-there." The others nodded and followed him up there.

After extracting the Anklet from the Guardarian Candelabra, they traveled up a steep staircase. "Look!" Freija shouted, "A Guardarian Candelabra!" They ran to it and extracted the Shield Armor. "T-the library had s-some Guardarian Candelabras.." Vivi started. But he didn't get to finish because they ran into the room of books and into a Candelabra. Quina extracted the N-Kai Armlet from the bloodstone. "Remember the moogle?" Garnet asked. Since Quina and Freija weren't there with Eiko and the other two, they just listened. Vivi nodded and they went into the left room. They followed another long staircase to a Guadarian Candelabra, extracting the Black Hood from it. The one next to it was extracted also, getting them the Venetia Shield.

All of the items started glowing and exploded into the glowing Bronzarian Candelabra. "I'm glad you chose this one!" cackled the horrifying voice. The next thing they knew they were i in front of Kuja in a slightly large airship. They dropped the Candelabra next to him. "SHIVA!" Garnet yelled, and the Candelabra spun around in a cloud of icy dust as the Silvarian Candelabra appeared. And because they were next to each other, the Goldarian Candelabra appeared! "NOOOOOOOOOOO~!!" Kuja yelled as he saw all three Candelabras. The place exploded, sending them flying into all different places.

Garnet woke up groggily inside of Mount Gulug. She rubbed her head. "Where am I..?" she looked around. Freija, Vivi and Quina were around her, all waking up at the same time. "Zidane.." Garnet mumbled. "Amarant.." Freija added. "MAGES!" Vivi yelled. Garnet got up. "No.." she found another coin on the floor. This time she could read all of it: "My beautiful Garnet, I wrote on this coin as I was held captive by Kuja. I put it in your pocket when I walked past you in your cubicle. Kuja said I may only look at you.. but here is the coin. I knew you were" Garnet turned the coin over. "going to get all 3 Candelabras, and I knew the place would explode. The places we go are the same places we went in our adventure.. so it seemed safe you'd land in Mt. Gulug. I'll be waiting in Daguerreo.. -Zidane PS: The mages and Amarant are with me."

Garnet showed everyone the coin. Luckily, they were blasted at the entrance of Mount Gulug, so they exited. "How will we get to Daguerreo?" Freija inquired. "We at city of magic!" Quina said happily. "Maybe they find way for us get there!" The foursome agreed and traveled inward towards the shop. They were stopped by a Bishop. "Princess Garnet.." the bishop said, "I recognized you the second I saw you! You look like you're in need of something.. what may I be of service to?" Garnet smiled and bowed to him. "We need to get to Daguerreo." Vivi and the others nodded. "Well then!" The bishop laughed, "That's as easy as said to be done!" He had them stand at the alter. As soon as they were at the icy village, they were at Daguerreo.

"W-wow.." Vivi said dramatically. They entered the citadel of the water god in awe. As soon as they got in there, they heard screaming. They rushed in to see a Cleyran flower girl screaming at an odd young man. In the back, they saw Zidane and Amarant tied up! "HAHAHA!" the man yelled. "I let the stupid mages go, but these two jerks will DIE!" Garnet screamed. "STAY BACK!" Zidane yelled, "I don't want you hurt!" Amarant said to Freija, "My love.. you all stay back!" The man cackled again. He fired beams at them. Garnet summoned Shiva. "We can work together!" She shouted, "LEND ME YOUR MAGIC!" Vivi made all of his magic skills go into one spell, Freija gave Garnet her spear, and Quina gave Garnet her fork. Everything combined into one thing.. a weapon looking like a large spear with fork points was put in front of them. They all grabbed on and fired the spell from inside it at the man.

"What..? NO! THIS CANNOT BE!!!!!!" the man screamed as he exploded into thin air. It was actually Kuja that did all this.. now he was finally dead. The magic was so strong it sent everyone flying through the air, out of Daguerreo and into the world of Gaia.

DISC 4 COMING NEXT!! LAST CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!