Well, I'm gonna try and tone Jason down, really, but since I'm kind of basing him on me, that's gonna be hard. I have a major issue with modesty. By the way, in the last chapter I made the other psyker appear to be a guy... but it's a girl. Anyway, here's chapter three.

The psyker who dropped in on Jason's home didn't have a real name; at least, not one that she could remember. Her parents had passed away long, long ago, and she couldn't remember what they had called her. So she just called herself Meg, which was short for Mega, in reference to her own opinion of her powers. People usually just called her Megan, though.

Megan knocked on the door once, twice, thrice, and would have continued, but she felt Jason's mother approaching. When the door opened it revealed a forlorn face that was soaked with worry. It had been a long time since Jason disappeared, but not long enough to send his mother into hysterics. Not yet, anyway. Megan wasn't big on sympathies, so she cut right to the chase.

"Jason's not here, is he?" she asked. Jason's mother shook her head, then looked at Meg suspiciously. She saw a fourteen-year-old girl who appeared to be middle-eastern, Turkish perhaps. Her hair was black and down to her shoulders, and her eyes were a little distant. She was fairly tall at a height of 5'7", and had a somewhat stringy build.

"Who're you? I don't remember him telling me anything about a face like yours," she questioned.

"Well, I know him from a class at school," Megan lied. "And since Jason is never late, I found it odd that he didn't come to school this morning. So I came over here as soon as school got out. Where is he?" she asked. Jason's mother held back tears and sighed.

"I... I don't know. He just disappeared last night. This isn't unlike him, because he often does this to go out for intense training, but he usually gives at least some warning or leaves a note. I just know that something has happened to him," she gushed, not entirely sure why she was saying this to such a complete stranger.

"Do you know where he was last seen?" Meg asked. Jason's mother scoffed.

"Why are you so interested? From what Jason tells me, no one at his school cared about him enough to find out this much."

"Um... well..." Meg stammered for a while. This was going nowhere.

"Okay ma'am. I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. I, like Jason, am a psyker." She paused there to wait for the response. It was surprisingly, and almost annoyingly neutral. However, Meg could hear Jason's mom think that it was so strange that Jason hadn't mentioned this. Surely he would have known?

"Anyway, I've been paying attention to Jason for quite a while. You see; he's one of the most powerful psykers on the planet. Then, he just disappeared. I may be able to figure out what happened to him, and how to bring him back."

There was a flicker of joy on Jason's mother's face, but it didn't last for long.

"Now, don't get the wrong idea. I'm not going to do this for you or anyone else. It's just that I have my own agenda of knowledge quenching to fulfill, and figuring out what happened to your son is part of it. And, if something is really wrong, I may be able to offer my services to you. For a price, of course," Meg concluded, smirking. Mother was appalled.

"A person as heartless as you has no place in my home," she announced. Megan just continued to chuckle.

"Look, I don't think you understand. You're going to let me have a look around your house," she proclaimed, staring into the mother's eyes. That was all it took for her to move aside and let Meg in. She chuckled to herself a bit as she looked around, then saw Jason's little brother. She grabbed him by the shoulder and looked him in the eye. Before he could even get a question out, she knew what she needed to. She released him in what was almost a push, then headed to the TV room.

Ah, here it was. The last place that Jason had been spotted. She looked around, saw and felt nothing, then sat to meditate on it. Surely she could sense something if she focused hard enough. Garry came in promptly, and being the simple-minded guy that he was, he just ignored Meg and switched on the Playstation. He was just now exploring the Village of Dali, and looking into the Black Mage assembly line. Meg suddenly decided to pay attention. She found it to be much more interesting than she would have suspected.

"Giant beast of ice, Sealion, come to me!" shouted the Waltz. Zidane and Jason both received a shock as the giant creature sprang up from the ice, and roared at them.

"AH! What IS that thing?" Zidane shouted. Jason had already begun his scanning, but he found that it was not nearly as effective as it had been before. Perhaps this creature - a boss, maybe - was resistant to his ability. But he did get an accurate judgement of both creatures' HP. Seeing as how the Waltz had summoned the Sealion, he decided that it was the greater threat, and used his psychic attack on it. To his dismay, though, it did almost no damage. The thing must be mechanical! Zidane rushed up to it and started stealing some things, while Jason found himself taking the hits from the two bosses.

Of course he wasn't happy about this, so Jason quickly used a Plant Spider form technique, and started hammering on the Waltz with thunder magic. Then the Sealion smashed it with a massive fin, and another one of Jason's creatures fell. Zidane stole everything he needed to from the Waltz, though, and quickly finished it with his Mage Masher.

"Ugh... Sealion, kill them for me," were its last words. That never came to pass, though. As Zidane stole, Jason kept using his psychic attack to hammer on the beast, using a potion to heal himself or Zidane whenever it was necessary. When all was said and done, Zidane had a new dagger, and the battle was done. The blizzard subsided, and things started to warm up a little. Then, they heard a pair of eerie voices.

"You may have beaten No. 1, but No. 2 and No. 3 will destroy you!"

Jason instantly knew who they were: Zorn and Thorn. They disappeared before he could figure out what they were talking about, though.

"No. 2 and 3? Whatever," Zidane mumbled. Jason considered telling the others what he knew, but decided against it. He didn't want to distort the reality of this new world too badly,

"Hey, you did pretty good back there, Jason," Zidane said in congratulations. Jason nodded in response. "You did too. Whoever would have thought that a dagger would be hiding in the scales of a beast like that?"

Zidane shrugged. "I don't know, but I'm glad I checked! Come on, let's go wake up the others."

***

"YOU! You touched the Princess, didn't you!" accused Steiner.

"Woh! Calm down, Rusty!" Zidane said. Garnet calmed Steiner down.

"I'm fine, Steiner. Is everyone else okay?" she asked, looking around. Vivi made himself visible, though his face was completely white.

"I'm r-r-really c-cold, you g-guys," he said. Zidane snickered a bit, and it was all Jason could do to keep from laughing himself. Dagger quickly cleared his face off, and then Steiner posed more questions.

"Well then, what did happen, scoundrel?" he demanded.

"Nothing happened. It's all cool, Rusty."

"STOP CALLING ME RUSTY!" he shouted, jumping up and down like an agitated frog. Everyone laughed a bit, and Steiner grew red in the face as he tried to regain his composure.

"Very well. What about you, Jason? Did you see anything that happened?" he asked. While Zidane looked worried, Jason just shook his head.

"I don't know if you heard Zidane, but nothing happened. Do you still have snow in your ear? You did fall head first into the snow bank..."

Once again, there was a round of laughter, but this time Steiner just grew angry.

"I will not be made a mockery of! I know not from where you come, Jason, but I will make sure that you never see it again!" he shouted, trying to assert authority. Once again, Garnet calmed him down, and Jason just thought to himself of how futile Steiner's attempts would be. He wasn't going home anyway, in all likelihood.

"Okay everyone, I think that we're all cold and wet, and we should get going," Garnet said, her sensibility reigning for the moment. Everyone agreed, and the group headed out of the cavern.

"And that's called a Black Mage, huh?" Meg asked Garry. He just nodded and kept playing, trying to forget the fact that his brother had disappeared.

"And that stuff's called Mist?" she questioned.

"Yup."

"They're making Black Mages from mist... who's making them?" she asked.

"Well, we don't know yet, but it seems as though this place called Alexandria Castle is... weird..."

"Yes indeed. Seems like they'd make a powerful army..."

"Probably."

"Hmm...."

Well, that's chapter three. You like? Hate? I wanna KNOW!!!