I have decided that Vivi will be 11, and a little bigger but still small,
and Eiko will be about nine and the same size. Vivi was nine in the game
and Eiko was six. Enjoy the story!
..::Mina was holding on for dear life on the roof and suddenly she fell and was heading straight towards the stage. She waited for the impact but it never came, instead she landed in a pair of warm, strong arms. Zidane looked over to see that Mina had fell, but could not make it in time. He stared at her as someone ran out and caught her. It was the knight::..
"You better watch it, you could get hurt." The knight chuckled and Mina opened her eyes to look in his face. The only thing she could see that wasn't covered in metal was his eyes, which were a dark blue, almost black color. He smiled down at her as he gently set her on her feet. He was about an inch taller than she was.
"Thanks, I guess you just saved my life." She responded as she looked over at the battle that she longed to participate in, and she looked back at the knight. Blank, Vivi, Zidane, and strangely the princess were fighting "Rusty" and a huge red bomb with eyes that was getting bigger by the moment. The princess and Vivi both were holding staffs. Vivi was sending magic out at "Rusty" (AN: I just love writing that!!) and Garnet was healing the group. She smiled at him and was about to say something when she heard the words, "The bomb, its going to explode! Get cover!" She turned and was pulled into the knight's chest, and his strong arms held her close. The whole ship rocked with the explosion of the bomb. Mina was again thrown out of the ship, but this time she was accompanied by someone else. Zidane ran off the edge of the Prima Vista and looked over to see Mina and the knight fly into the darkness of the Evil Forest. Than he realized that they too were heading for the forest, but they were going to crash.
"Umm, what happened?" Mina said as she slowly opened an eye. She suddenly opened the other and noticed she was in a forest with very little light. She moaned and closed her eyes guessing it was only a dream.
"You're in the Evil Forest, no one has ever made it out alive." She opened her eyes again and sat up, every bone in her body ached in the process. She looked over to see the knight.
"Did we fall?" She asked him, and noticed he was leaning over a tree stump.
"Yes."
"How long was I out?"
"About a few minutes. You might want to drink from this." Her eyes finally focused and she looked at the huge, hollow tree stump. Its center had water and mushrooms, which glowed with an iridescent light. The water seeped out a little hole and drained into the soggy ground. She slowly got up and moved over next to him, giving him a look.
"Don't worry, I am not trying to kill you. This water will heal you." He said as he laughed for a moment.
"That still doesn't give me a reason to trust you." She said with a sigh and put her hands in the little stream that was going towards the ground. She drank and felt he whole body become cleansed and all her pain go away.
"Thanks, what is it, the third time you saved me?" She smiled and he just laughed and looked down at her.
"I think I am becoming connected to you, like a friend."
"Well for now lets just be friends," She paused and let out a laugh, "A knight and a thief in training friends, who knew."
"Deal." He said putting out his hand. She took it and noticed how, again, she could feel his body heat through the metal. She pulled back from his hand as she just realized something.
"Did you say no one has made it out of here alive." She whimpered as a response to his look. He just laughed aloud.
Zidane crawled out of the remains of the great Prima Vista and looked around. He looked around to see that Vivi, Steiner, Garnet, and Mina were missing. He knew that Mina was with the knight, and she did know how to fight if anything happened. He just worried about the other three. The Evil Forest wasn't named that just for fun. He suddenly saw movement behind a tree and looked to see a moogle. Moogles' were very wise creatures for how cute they look. They are about a foot and a half tall, all light pink, have small purple wings like a bat's, and have a little antenna that has a red puff ball on the tip. Moogles' love to send mail in the system called Mognet.
"Well hello passer by, I never thought I would see a human here. I am Mosco. If you want to buy anything just ask or you can rest in a tent, and even heal a party!" Mosco said with glee as his purple wings flapped joyously.
"No I was just gonna go into the woods. Let me buy armor." Zidane said as he bought armor and put it on. At least he would be safer if he ended up fighting anything. He set off into the swampy woods to find everyone. As he ran he heard a scream that he could easily guess was the princesses and ran into a small clearing. He saw a huge plant like monster with vines as a cage holding the princess hostage, and he ran over to Vivi.
"Help her Zidane." He said as he watched Steiner get ready for battle. Zidane ran up next to Steiner and suddenly got angry at the monster.
"You monster!" He yelled and suddenly his whole body lit up in a white light.
"What happened! Could it be.Trance!" Steiner yelled in amazement.
"I don't know. Something just snapped inside."
"Well use this to our advantage because that thing is sucking the princess's HP!" He yelled. They both attacked and Zidane noticed how his strength was bigger, and that he could cause more damage in Trance. They soon caused enough damage for the monster to run away, but it took the princess with it.
"I am so sorry, I couldn't help at all." Vivi said walking to where the monster was once standing.
"Look out." Steiner yelled as Vivi was picked up in the cage and the monster attacked again, Garnet was nowhere in site. Vivi sent out a wave of fire in the monster, and noticed how it was effecting it.
"Magic looks effective." He cheered as he sent more flames and Zidane stole from the monster. He pulled out a Broadsword and smiled. Steiner just kept on swiping at it. It soon let Vivi go, but sent out a poison gases, sending the heroes' into unconsciousness.
"Well were are all healed and made up, so now what!" Mina yelled after walking around in circles for five minutes. The knight looked at her amused before saying, "You aren't very patient are you? You act like a bunny rabbit."
"I beg your pardon! How dare you-you jerk!" She turned and started to walk over to a path. He jumped up and grabbed her wrist before she got to the path.
"It wouldn't be smart to go that way Rabbit." He said laughing as he pushed her back to the center of the clearing.
"Let go of me." She said pulling her wrist from his grip, "And don't call me that. My name is.I never told you my name did I? And you never told me yours." She sat down and a small root that was out of the ground.
"I think I like the name Rabbit, or maybe bunny." She smiled at her as she turned red with anger.
"Rabbit is fine, but my name is Mina and I insist you call me that."
"No!"
"What did you say?"
"No, Mina is a lovely name, but Rabbit suits me fine thank you." He looked down and her as she suddenly lunged at him. He turned out of the way and ran down a different path than the one Mina would have taken.
"Get back here!" Mina yelled chasing after him. He just laughed and started in a sprint, looking back every so often to see if she was still following. When he got into a straight path that was right by the exit, he stopped causing Mina to run into him and send them rolling down the semi- hill and out into the bright sunlight. When they stopped, he ended up on top of her. Her hair was spread all around her, she looked up at him into his eyes, and he looked down into hers. They were lost in the moment and he slowly inched down towards her lips. Right as he was millimeters away she realized what was happening and said, "Oh my god, we got out!" She rolled out from under him, causing him to fall flat on his face and she stood up with her arm spread wide welcoming the sunlight. He turned over to his back and watched her twirl and laugh.
'I was about to kiss her' He thought to himself.
'You wanted to though' A voice said from inside.
'Yes but she is only 16, and I am 18, why am I fighting with you?' He sighed inwardly. Mina had stopped moments before and was now watching him fight with himself. She just smiled and turned to the woods.
"Where is everyone?" She whispered as a worried look took over her smile.
Zidane stared at Baku for a moment before clearing his throat.
"What" He grumbled in response. He was looking over the damage reports and wasn't very happy with the results of the kidnapping.
"I would like to go look for the princess."
"No." He sighed and put the papers down, "You better not set one foot outside this ship, you got that!?" Zidane grunted a reply and turned to leave. He stepped outside of the room and the door slammed behind him, boy was Baku ticked. Zidane ran down a floor and almost slammed into Blank as he came out of Vivi's room.
"He is resting, but he said that he really wants to save the princess to make up for not fighting." Blank said as he passed by Zidane and headed for the stairs. Zidane leaned against the closed door and thought for a moment. He wanted to go find the princess, but the only way to do so is to quit Tantalus.
"I have no choice, I must quit." He mumbled to himself. He walked slowly to the meeting room, and found that Baku was waiting for him.
"I am going to find the princess, no matter what. You can't stop me because I have decided to quit." Zidane said staring down his boss.
"Fine." He responded.
"That's it!?"
"Well no, you first have to beat me in a one-on-one battle."
"I should have known." He sighed as he took out his daggers and lunged at Baku. Baku pulled out one of his two Longswords and blocked him. Zidane responded by pulling out his Iron sword and stealing it, and than jumped back a few feet. It went on with the two blocking and swinging, but Zidane finally hit Baku and finished the fight. Baku turned his back and mumbled, "It was nice having ya, you were one of the best. You are free to go."
Zidane opened the door to get metal in his face.
"Oh it is you." Steiner mumbled but still left the sword in its place.
"Will you join me in looking for the princess and getting out of here?" Zidane asked, eyeing the sword.
"Hmm.I can't trust you. Who else will go?"
"I am not part of Tantalus anymore. And I think Vivi wants to go."
"Fine." He responded albeit hesitantly. They both walked over to Vivi's room and entered, causing him to jump for his lying position to a sitting one.
"Vivi, we came to ask if you would come with us." Zidane asked the small mage.
"I want to but." Vivi mumbled as he slowly turned his head away.
"Ple-" Zidane was cut off.
"For the sake of Princess Garnet and all of Alexandria, I humbly ask for your assistance." Steiner said with a bow.
"Ok, I will do it." Vivi slipped of the bed and followed Zidane to the door.
"Master Vivi, a moment, I have an idea." Steiner said as he whispered his idea and Vivi nodded and they both raced after Zidane. They got off the crashed ship and as a going away present Blank gave Zidane a potion to save the princess with if she got the poison. They walked for a half-hour before they got to the springs that Mina and the knight were at earlier.
"Look a picture of Mina in the ground, it is of her drinking the water and being healthy. She must have been here and drank the water!" Zidane said as they drank the water and headed of into the woods again.
"Be careful, Kupo!" Monty the Moogle said to the three retreating figures.
"This must be it, are you ready?" Vivi asked as they got to a huge trunk that was hallow, and must have been 1000 meters high.
As they walked inside, they saw a huge tree thing that instead of leaves had a huge red flower. The princess was right in front of the monster, lying unconscious.
"We must fight the monster and save the princess!" Steiner as he and Vivi ran into battle. Blank ran into the place and smiled at the three.
"Came to help lets do this!" He yelled as Zidane and Blank ran next to the two fighters. Steiner nodded as Vivi raised his hands and summoned fire, and it incased Steiner's sword, and he attacked the monster, causing it to smother up and the woods to burst into life. Steiner picked up the princess, they ran for their life as all the monster of the forest, and even the trees attacked them. They got to a long wide pathway that led to the exit and Zidane started to fall behind with Blank. Right as he was about to be caught, Blank shoved him out of the way and got ensnared with the vines. Right before Zidane got out Blank threw a map and Zidane caught in, continuing out into the daylight. The vines closed the exit and the whole forest turned into stone including the people within it. Zidane and the rest watched in horror, and than he looked down at the map. Blank gave him the Continental Map.
"Oh my god! You guys got out alive! I am so happy." Zidane heard Mina yell right before she caught him in a bear hug.
"God, you act like they could have died." The knight sighed as he walked over towards the group, "Captain" He solutes him and smiled at Mina as she glared.
"What a jerk!" She sighed before turning away.
Well that's a rap for today! This one is so long, I wanted to get all of the Evil Forest in one chapter! Ok thanks for reading!!
..::Mina was holding on for dear life on the roof and suddenly she fell and was heading straight towards the stage. She waited for the impact but it never came, instead she landed in a pair of warm, strong arms. Zidane looked over to see that Mina had fell, but could not make it in time. He stared at her as someone ran out and caught her. It was the knight::..
"You better watch it, you could get hurt." The knight chuckled and Mina opened her eyes to look in his face. The only thing she could see that wasn't covered in metal was his eyes, which were a dark blue, almost black color. He smiled down at her as he gently set her on her feet. He was about an inch taller than she was.
"Thanks, I guess you just saved my life." She responded as she looked over at the battle that she longed to participate in, and she looked back at the knight. Blank, Vivi, Zidane, and strangely the princess were fighting "Rusty" and a huge red bomb with eyes that was getting bigger by the moment. The princess and Vivi both were holding staffs. Vivi was sending magic out at "Rusty" (AN: I just love writing that!!) and Garnet was healing the group. She smiled at him and was about to say something when she heard the words, "The bomb, its going to explode! Get cover!" She turned and was pulled into the knight's chest, and his strong arms held her close. The whole ship rocked with the explosion of the bomb. Mina was again thrown out of the ship, but this time she was accompanied by someone else. Zidane ran off the edge of the Prima Vista and looked over to see Mina and the knight fly into the darkness of the Evil Forest. Than he realized that they too were heading for the forest, but they were going to crash.
"Umm, what happened?" Mina said as she slowly opened an eye. She suddenly opened the other and noticed she was in a forest with very little light. She moaned and closed her eyes guessing it was only a dream.
"You're in the Evil Forest, no one has ever made it out alive." She opened her eyes again and sat up, every bone in her body ached in the process. She looked over to see the knight.
"Did we fall?" She asked him, and noticed he was leaning over a tree stump.
"Yes."
"How long was I out?"
"About a few minutes. You might want to drink from this." Her eyes finally focused and she looked at the huge, hollow tree stump. Its center had water and mushrooms, which glowed with an iridescent light. The water seeped out a little hole and drained into the soggy ground. She slowly got up and moved over next to him, giving him a look.
"Don't worry, I am not trying to kill you. This water will heal you." He said as he laughed for a moment.
"That still doesn't give me a reason to trust you." She said with a sigh and put her hands in the little stream that was going towards the ground. She drank and felt he whole body become cleansed and all her pain go away.
"Thanks, what is it, the third time you saved me?" She smiled and he just laughed and looked down at her.
"I think I am becoming connected to you, like a friend."
"Well for now lets just be friends," She paused and let out a laugh, "A knight and a thief in training friends, who knew."
"Deal." He said putting out his hand. She took it and noticed how, again, she could feel his body heat through the metal. She pulled back from his hand as she just realized something.
"Did you say no one has made it out of here alive." She whimpered as a response to his look. He just laughed aloud.
Zidane crawled out of the remains of the great Prima Vista and looked around. He looked around to see that Vivi, Steiner, Garnet, and Mina were missing. He knew that Mina was with the knight, and she did know how to fight if anything happened. He just worried about the other three. The Evil Forest wasn't named that just for fun. He suddenly saw movement behind a tree and looked to see a moogle. Moogles' were very wise creatures for how cute they look. They are about a foot and a half tall, all light pink, have small purple wings like a bat's, and have a little antenna that has a red puff ball on the tip. Moogles' love to send mail in the system called Mognet.
"Well hello passer by, I never thought I would see a human here. I am Mosco. If you want to buy anything just ask or you can rest in a tent, and even heal a party!" Mosco said with glee as his purple wings flapped joyously.
"No I was just gonna go into the woods. Let me buy armor." Zidane said as he bought armor and put it on. At least he would be safer if he ended up fighting anything. He set off into the swampy woods to find everyone. As he ran he heard a scream that he could easily guess was the princesses and ran into a small clearing. He saw a huge plant like monster with vines as a cage holding the princess hostage, and he ran over to Vivi.
"Help her Zidane." He said as he watched Steiner get ready for battle. Zidane ran up next to Steiner and suddenly got angry at the monster.
"You monster!" He yelled and suddenly his whole body lit up in a white light.
"What happened! Could it be.Trance!" Steiner yelled in amazement.
"I don't know. Something just snapped inside."
"Well use this to our advantage because that thing is sucking the princess's HP!" He yelled. They both attacked and Zidane noticed how his strength was bigger, and that he could cause more damage in Trance. They soon caused enough damage for the monster to run away, but it took the princess with it.
"I am so sorry, I couldn't help at all." Vivi said walking to where the monster was once standing.
"Look out." Steiner yelled as Vivi was picked up in the cage and the monster attacked again, Garnet was nowhere in site. Vivi sent out a wave of fire in the monster, and noticed how it was effecting it.
"Magic looks effective." He cheered as he sent more flames and Zidane stole from the monster. He pulled out a Broadsword and smiled. Steiner just kept on swiping at it. It soon let Vivi go, but sent out a poison gases, sending the heroes' into unconsciousness.
"Well were are all healed and made up, so now what!" Mina yelled after walking around in circles for five minutes. The knight looked at her amused before saying, "You aren't very patient are you? You act like a bunny rabbit."
"I beg your pardon! How dare you-you jerk!" She turned and started to walk over to a path. He jumped up and grabbed her wrist before she got to the path.
"It wouldn't be smart to go that way Rabbit." He said laughing as he pushed her back to the center of the clearing.
"Let go of me." She said pulling her wrist from his grip, "And don't call me that. My name is.I never told you my name did I? And you never told me yours." She sat down and a small root that was out of the ground.
"I think I like the name Rabbit, or maybe bunny." She smiled at her as she turned red with anger.
"Rabbit is fine, but my name is Mina and I insist you call me that."
"No!"
"What did you say?"
"No, Mina is a lovely name, but Rabbit suits me fine thank you." He looked down and her as she suddenly lunged at him. He turned out of the way and ran down a different path than the one Mina would have taken.
"Get back here!" Mina yelled chasing after him. He just laughed and started in a sprint, looking back every so often to see if she was still following. When he got into a straight path that was right by the exit, he stopped causing Mina to run into him and send them rolling down the semi- hill and out into the bright sunlight. When they stopped, he ended up on top of her. Her hair was spread all around her, she looked up at him into his eyes, and he looked down into hers. They were lost in the moment and he slowly inched down towards her lips. Right as he was millimeters away she realized what was happening and said, "Oh my god, we got out!" She rolled out from under him, causing him to fall flat on his face and she stood up with her arm spread wide welcoming the sunlight. He turned over to his back and watched her twirl and laugh.
'I was about to kiss her' He thought to himself.
'You wanted to though' A voice said from inside.
'Yes but she is only 16, and I am 18, why am I fighting with you?' He sighed inwardly. Mina had stopped moments before and was now watching him fight with himself. She just smiled and turned to the woods.
"Where is everyone?" She whispered as a worried look took over her smile.
Zidane stared at Baku for a moment before clearing his throat.
"What" He grumbled in response. He was looking over the damage reports and wasn't very happy with the results of the kidnapping.
"I would like to go look for the princess."
"No." He sighed and put the papers down, "You better not set one foot outside this ship, you got that!?" Zidane grunted a reply and turned to leave. He stepped outside of the room and the door slammed behind him, boy was Baku ticked. Zidane ran down a floor and almost slammed into Blank as he came out of Vivi's room.
"He is resting, but he said that he really wants to save the princess to make up for not fighting." Blank said as he passed by Zidane and headed for the stairs. Zidane leaned against the closed door and thought for a moment. He wanted to go find the princess, but the only way to do so is to quit Tantalus.
"I have no choice, I must quit." He mumbled to himself. He walked slowly to the meeting room, and found that Baku was waiting for him.
"I am going to find the princess, no matter what. You can't stop me because I have decided to quit." Zidane said staring down his boss.
"Fine." He responded.
"That's it!?"
"Well no, you first have to beat me in a one-on-one battle."
"I should have known." He sighed as he took out his daggers and lunged at Baku. Baku pulled out one of his two Longswords and blocked him. Zidane responded by pulling out his Iron sword and stealing it, and than jumped back a few feet. It went on with the two blocking and swinging, but Zidane finally hit Baku and finished the fight. Baku turned his back and mumbled, "It was nice having ya, you were one of the best. You are free to go."
Zidane opened the door to get metal in his face.
"Oh it is you." Steiner mumbled but still left the sword in its place.
"Will you join me in looking for the princess and getting out of here?" Zidane asked, eyeing the sword.
"Hmm.I can't trust you. Who else will go?"
"I am not part of Tantalus anymore. And I think Vivi wants to go."
"Fine." He responded albeit hesitantly. They both walked over to Vivi's room and entered, causing him to jump for his lying position to a sitting one.
"Vivi, we came to ask if you would come with us." Zidane asked the small mage.
"I want to but." Vivi mumbled as he slowly turned his head away.
"Ple-" Zidane was cut off.
"For the sake of Princess Garnet and all of Alexandria, I humbly ask for your assistance." Steiner said with a bow.
"Ok, I will do it." Vivi slipped of the bed and followed Zidane to the door.
"Master Vivi, a moment, I have an idea." Steiner said as he whispered his idea and Vivi nodded and they both raced after Zidane. They got off the crashed ship and as a going away present Blank gave Zidane a potion to save the princess with if she got the poison. They walked for a half-hour before they got to the springs that Mina and the knight were at earlier.
"Look a picture of Mina in the ground, it is of her drinking the water and being healthy. She must have been here and drank the water!" Zidane said as they drank the water and headed of into the woods again.
"Be careful, Kupo!" Monty the Moogle said to the three retreating figures.
"This must be it, are you ready?" Vivi asked as they got to a huge trunk that was hallow, and must have been 1000 meters high.
As they walked inside, they saw a huge tree thing that instead of leaves had a huge red flower. The princess was right in front of the monster, lying unconscious.
"We must fight the monster and save the princess!" Steiner as he and Vivi ran into battle. Blank ran into the place and smiled at the three.
"Came to help lets do this!" He yelled as Zidane and Blank ran next to the two fighters. Steiner nodded as Vivi raised his hands and summoned fire, and it incased Steiner's sword, and he attacked the monster, causing it to smother up and the woods to burst into life. Steiner picked up the princess, they ran for their life as all the monster of the forest, and even the trees attacked them. They got to a long wide pathway that led to the exit and Zidane started to fall behind with Blank. Right as he was about to be caught, Blank shoved him out of the way and got ensnared with the vines. Right before Zidane got out Blank threw a map and Zidane caught in, continuing out into the daylight. The vines closed the exit and the whole forest turned into stone including the people within it. Zidane and the rest watched in horror, and than he looked down at the map. Blank gave him the Continental Map.
"Oh my god! You guys got out alive! I am so happy." Zidane heard Mina yell right before she caught him in a bear hug.
"God, you act like they could have died." The knight sighed as he walked over towards the group, "Captain" He solutes him and smiled at Mina as she glared.
"What a jerk!" She sighed before turning away.
Well that's a rap for today! This one is so long, I wanted to get all of the Evil Forest in one chapter! Ok thanks for reading!!