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Chapter 3: Training continues
Amanda walked back to her room in silence holding the blade in her hand. She sat on her bed and just stared into the reflective metal blade. She stared into her face, her shiny hair, her Ice Blue eyes… She was lost in the reflection. It had been a week since she had come into this new and strange world. She could not believe her progress with magic, her sudden ability with the scythe, her sudden belief that this world… Gaia… was real. She thought of all this just staring into the, beautiful, shiny, curved blade.
"The weapon of the Reaper… Death's Blade." She whispered to herself.
"You seemed pretty amused by that blade." I voice told her.
Amanda looked up to find Kuja leaning against the doorframe of her bedroom door. Through this past week he was deeply amused in every move she made. She wouldn't have been surprised if he watched her while she slept. She merely glanced at him with no sign of "giving a damn" as usual and set the blade on the ground. She kicked her feet out and lay on her bed, ignoring him completely. He just smirked and glided his way over to her. He sat down on the very edge of the bed and brushed his hand through her hair. She scowled at him and rolled on her side. He merely chuckled.
"You are very beautiful, you know that?" Kuja smiled.
"I am not! Now leave me be!" Amanda told him and curled up a bit.
"How about… no." He smirked, continuing to stroke her long hair.
Amanda sat up and looked at him, "Why do you insist on doing this?"
"Doing what?" he asked, acting innocent.
"This! Hugging me, kissing me, stroking my hair! Who do you think you are!?"
"Someone who has fallen for an angel."
She turned away from him, "I am not what you think."
He just smiled and placed a hand on hers, "Exactly… you're more."
Amanda turned around and looked into his eyes. Kuja gave her a seductive smile as he began to lean closer to her face. She tried to back away but she was too lost in his cold, glittering sapphire eyes. His mouth was so close to hers that she could feel his warm breath brushing against her lips. She could have sworn there was an icy chill to each exhale. It sent an eerie shock up her spine. His eyes were set on her soft, full lips. He leaned in the rest of the way, caressing her lips with his. She closed her eyes without a second thought and returned it. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he placed his hands in her hair. He pushed down on her mouth with the need of more. As he did this, Amanda tightened her grip around his neck. He slowly parted her lips with his moist tongue, and he pressed his tongue against hers. Their tongues wrestled in each other's mouths. Kuja rolled his tongue in her mouth, which made her fill with excitement letting out a soft moan. Suddenly, she came back to reality and guilt drifted over her head. She pushed him away immediately and turned away from him.
"What the hell am I doing?!" Amanda asked herself, shocked at what had just happened.
"Doing what was in your heart." Kuja told her.
She hunched over and held her head, griping it tight, she began to freak out. "No, no… NO! That wasn't in my heart! I left my heart with someone else! I can't let him know… THIS CAN'T BE REAL!!!"
"This IS real, Amanda. You need to accept it. WE are real. You have a place for me in your heart…"
"No…"
He placed a hand on her cheek, turning her face towards him. He carefully caressed her lips with his mouth. She fell frozen she could not move. Suddenly, she heard footsteps echoing in the distance.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!?!?" Bellowed a voice.
Kuja quickly let go and turned to the door. Amanda snapped to it and looked to the doorway. There, stood Garland with a furious look on his face.
"Get away from her!!!!" He bellowed.
Amanda got up and walked away from Kuja.
"Not you dear, HIM!!!" Garland glared at Kuja.
Kuja stood up, "Why such a soar face, Garland?"
"I asked you specifically to stay away from her!!!" Garland shouted.
"And I decided not to." Kuja grabbed Amanda and pulled her close.
"Oh no you don't!" Garland grabbed her free arm and began to pull her away from Kuja.
Kuja grabbed her other arm and began to pull as well. They pulled her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Amanda began to get annoyed.
"STOP IT! YOU'RE GOING TO TEAR ME IN HALF!!!!!!" She shouted.
Surprised at this they both let go immediately and Amanda fell to the ground. Garland walked over to her and helped her to her feet.
"Now look what you've done!!" Garland glared at Kuja.
"Garland, what's wrong with you?! What's going on between you two!?" Amanda shouted.
"I specifically asked him to keep his hands off you! He can't be trusted when it comes to love! You mustn't fall for him!" Garland told her.
"Fall for him!?" Amanda said shocked.
"Don't tell her to deny the feelings in her heart! She can still be Queen of the damned and have love like the rest of us!" Kuja protested approaching Garland.
"She doesn't need the likes of you is all I'm saying! All you're thinking about is yourself!!" Garland argued.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!" Amanda shouted.
Both of them paused. They stared at her angered face. Her fists were gripped tight and her eyebrows were lowered. She stepped in between them and slapped them both across the face with each of her hands. They held their soar faces and continued to stare blankly at her.
"Ok!" she said finally calming down, "Number one! Garland, I will not be told whether or whether not to have feelings for other people! Number two! I do not love Kuja! He started it. NUMBER THREE! Kuja, I am NOT comfortable with you kissing me!! NOW CAN YOU BOTH PLEASE LEAVE ME BE!?!?!?!"
"…But I have come to take you to training." Garland spoke up.
"FINE THEN LEAD THAT WAY!!!!!!!!" She shouted.
Amanda followed him out of the room, leaving Kuja there to wallow in anger.
Moments later, Amanda stood in the middle of the magic training room. Garland placed 5 large cages around, each holding a deadly monster inside. Garland opened the first. A Bandersnatch leap from the cage on to the black marble floor. Amanda smiled at the creature as it slowly advanced on her. She held out her hand as it quickly surrounded in a blue aura. Garland smirked as she stood there biding her time. The Bandersnatch just stood there, teasing her to "bring it on". Amanda snapped her hand out chanted the first spell that came to mind…
"Thudaga!!!" She shouted as the spell surrounded the beast.
It died instantly… She had killed her first monster. She gazed upon the corpse with a smile, crushing its face under her foot. She could hear bones snapped under her boot. Garland let out another beast out of its cage. The beast charged out with its grotesque figure. A Chimera. It four hideous head snarled. At first sight of the young girl, it let out a poisonous gas. She could hardly breathe, let alone move, or at least, that was what Garland thought. She just merely smiled and her hands continued to circle in the blue aura.
"…Esuna…" she said in a raspy whisper.
Her body glowed in the blue aura and she was healed from the poison. Amanda then held out her hand toward the Chimera encircled in the blue aura.
"FLARE!!!" She shouted as the Chimera was consumed in the non-elemental attack.
Its innards flew to different ends of the room, painted the floor where it stood blood red. Garland could not believe it; she resisted the paralyzing gases mixed with the poison. She was certainly an unnatural rarity. She could be this fabled Queen of the Damned. Garland opened two other cages. Each cage was filled with ten Tonberry, which meant twenty Tonberry in total! Each Tonberry took one step forward. Amanda just laughed at them.
"You call this a challenge Garland? Do you? By the time they reach stabbing range they'll all be dead!" Amanda cackled.
Amanda began to focus. The Tonberry took another step forward, forming a large circle around her. One more large step, and they would stabbed her from every direction. Amanda just stood there, focusing. Garland didn't understand. If she chose to focus one more time without attacking, she would be killed!
"Amanda! Attack them! Don't just stand there!!! You'll be killed!!!" Garland scolded.
"…No…" She smiled, she chose to continue focusing.
The Tonberry drew their Chef's Knives. The Tonberry drew them back, then lunged them forward. Before the knives could even touch her, Amanda did a back flip high into the air. Once in mid air (and upside down), she looked up at the many Tonberry bellow her and held her hands out in their direction.
"METEOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She shouted as thousands of hit the Tonberry causes major damage.
Amanda landed gracefully as each Tonberry fell to the ground KO'd. She brushed her hair back and smirked widely at Garland. Although he was impressed, his face showed no amusement and anger.
"What is wrong with you!? You could have got yourself killed!!!!" Garland scolded.
"But I killed them didn't I? I'm brave enough to do whatever it takes to get the job done." Amanda told him.
"More like stubborn enough! You're just like Kuja!"
"Do not compare me to that… that… insensitive waste of a soul!"
"But it is true. You just acted like him when I compare him to Zidane to his face. It seems that this is infectious in all my experiments."
"Hey! I am not your experiment! I am not just some lab rat that you have test on and use any way you please! And I will not allow it!" Amanda snarled.
"Hmm…"
"Quite a soap opera you have going here, Garland. You should know better than to treat her this way." Kuja's voice echoed into the room.
Garland turned to the doorway were Kuja stood, "Be gone, Kuja. She still has one more monster to take care of."
"Oh? This one is a bit advanced for is it not?" Kuja asked.
"What are you two talking about? I killed twenty Tonberry in a single Meteor spell, I think I can handle this one, whatever it is." Amanda told them.
"Yes, but you might need some help with this one. Come with me." Kuja told her, leading her out of the room.
"Kuja!" Garland snarled, but both him and the girl were out of the room.
Kuja led her into what seemed to be a church kind of room. It had the decorations of that of a Roman Catholic Church. The light shinning down from the painted glass windows bathed her skin with its warmth. It had been days since she felt this warmth. On a table lay several jewels, orbs and stones. Kuja gestured his arm to the table.
"If you are truly Queen of the damned, you can easily summon eidolons, no?" Kuja smiled.
"S-Summon?" Amanda asked.
"I see this is new to you as well. Summoning is a rare power only held by Summoners and only a powerful few. Each of these stones, jewels and orbs is a summon ready to be released by its new master." Kuja told her.
"I see. I remember, Garnet and Eiko were able to summon because they both had summoner's blood in them. But as I also recall… you gave Garnet's extracted Summons to Queen Brahne and were never able to extract Eiko's." Amanda thought aloud.
"That is true, but, Brahne did not keep all the summons with her all the time. I was able to get a select few, excluding Bahamut. And was able to snag a piece of Eiko's 'Ribbon' in Memoria." Kuja explained to her.
"And you believe with these things I can summon eidolons?"
"Of course."
"I think you're crazy!"
"How so?"
"Hell, you didn't even get the WHOLE ribbon!"
"Touchy, touchy…"
"Sorry, I'm still stressed out from training…"
"I understand, love."
"Don't call me that!"
Kuja just laughed. Amanda glared at him and walked up to the table. On the table there was an Opal, a Topaz, a Dark Matter, a Peridot, an Amethyst, a piece of a Ribbon and other stones.
"Chose only three. And choose well." Kuja told her.
"Why do you present me with such gifts yet not take them as your own?" Amanda asked.
"I want only the best for you." Kuja smiled devilishly.
"Does that mean you'll stay away from me?" She smirked.
"No." Kuja responded with a sly smile.
Amanda looked back to the table and inspected the stones carefully. She looked back at Kuja and pointed out the ones she chose.
"I choose, The Opal: Shiva the Queen of Ice, The Ribbon: Madeen the Protector and The Dark Matter: Odin the Holy Warrior." Amanda told him.
"An Ice Queen, a Protector and a Holy Warrior? I am disappointed." Kuja frowned.
"Why? I have only picked them not for their titles, dear Kuja, but for the Power." She smirked, "Why have weaklings when you can have the utmost quality?"
Kuja smiled, "You naughty girl."
Amanda laughed, "Now why don't we test these things out, shall we?"
Kuja held out his arm and Amanda linked her arm through his and walked back to the Training room.
Back in the training room, Garland was teasing the last monster with a raw steak. He stopped when he heard Kuja and Amanda's footsteps enter the room.
"Where have you been?" Garland bellowed.
"Equipping." Amanda replied as she was wrapping the ribbon around her wrist and placed the two stones in her black trench coat pocket.
Kuja looked at Garland and gestured him to open the cage. Garland nodded and opened the cage. Out of the Cage burst the Fiery tempered, Marilith! Marilith waved her many swords in the air and let out a hiss. Amanda just smiled at the Fire shrine beast. She held out her hands, closed her eyes and concentrated in Marilith's direction. Marilith let out another menacing hiss waving her swords, slicing the air. The vile creature was about to attack, but, suddenly, Amanda opened her eyes. Her Icy blue eyes gave off an eerie glow that would send shivers down the spine of any living creature.
"I summon thee, Shiva: Queen of Ice!!!" Amanda chanted.
The room fell quiet. …Nothing? Kuja and Garland stood there, watching in the suspenseful moment. Marilith just stared, swaying her snake tail from side to side. Suddenly a small patch of floor began to turn blue… and was soon covered in a light frost, then snow, then… ice. Out of the ice patch on the floor burst the mighty Summon, Shiva: Queen of the Icy Depths! The Summon turned to the young woman who summoned her and gave a graceful bow, as if to say, "Salutations, Master." Amanda smiled at the power radiating from the mighty Eidolon. She nodded to Shiva with great respect. Shiva arose from the bow and then turned to the almost forgotten enemy. Shiva echoed the words: "Diamond Dust" spun around in an icy dance and launched a barrage of icicles at the surprised enemy trapping it in ice. Shiva smiled at her work then turned her back. At that precise moment, the cage of ice exploded into millions of little shards that tumbled to the ground, leaving Marilith KO'd on the cold floor. Shiva then disappeared into the icy patch on the ground and the patch disappeared with her. Garland stared with his jaw wide open almost touching the ground. Kuja smiled in satisfaction of the spectacle.
"I-I can not believe it! One hit!? Just like the twenty Tonberry… dead…" Garland stuttered wildly.
"So, Garland, do you think she is ready?" Kuja smiled placing his pointer finger by his chin as if to be in mid thought.
"Think? I believe she is far than ready!" Garland chuckled then turn to the young woman, "Amanda! Come hither."
Amanda did so, "What is it, Garland?"
"You're first mission starts tomorrow. By the time we are through, our enemies will be vanquished and Kuja and I shall reign supreme. And you, dear child, you shall rise as Queen of the Damned!"
Amanda smiled devilishly, "Excellent…"
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Chapter 3: Training continues
Amanda walked back to her room in silence holding the blade in her hand. She sat on her bed and just stared into the reflective metal blade. She stared into her face, her shiny hair, her Ice Blue eyes… She was lost in the reflection. It had been a week since she had come into this new and strange world. She could not believe her progress with magic, her sudden ability with the scythe, her sudden belief that this world… Gaia… was real. She thought of all this just staring into the, beautiful, shiny, curved blade.
"The weapon of the Reaper… Death's Blade." She whispered to herself.
"You seemed pretty amused by that blade." I voice told her.
Amanda looked up to find Kuja leaning against the doorframe of her bedroom door. Through this past week he was deeply amused in every move she made. She wouldn't have been surprised if he watched her while she slept. She merely glanced at him with no sign of "giving a damn" as usual and set the blade on the ground. She kicked her feet out and lay on her bed, ignoring him completely. He just smirked and glided his way over to her. He sat down on the very edge of the bed and brushed his hand through her hair. She scowled at him and rolled on her side. He merely chuckled.
"You are very beautiful, you know that?" Kuja smiled.
"I am not! Now leave me be!" Amanda told him and curled up a bit.
"How about… no." He smirked, continuing to stroke her long hair.
Amanda sat up and looked at him, "Why do you insist on doing this?"
"Doing what?" he asked, acting innocent.
"This! Hugging me, kissing me, stroking my hair! Who do you think you are!?"
"Someone who has fallen for an angel."
She turned away from him, "I am not what you think."
He just smiled and placed a hand on hers, "Exactly… you're more."
Amanda turned around and looked into his eyes. Kuja gave her a seductive smile as he began to lean closer to her face. She tried to back away but she was too lost in his cold, glittering sapphire eyes. His mouth was so close to hers that she could feel his warm breath brushing against her lips. She could have sworn there was an icy chill to each exhale. It sent an eerie shock up her spine. His eyes were set on her soft, full lips. He leaned in the rest of the way, caressing her lips with his. She closed her eyes without a second thought and returned it. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he placed his hands in her hair. He pushed down on her mouth with the need of more. As he did this, Amanda tightened her grip around his neck. He slowly parted her lips with his moist tongue, and he pressed his tongue against hers. Their tongues wrestled in each other's mouths. Kuja rolled his tongue in her mouth, which made her fill with excitement letting out a soft moan. Suddenly, she came back to reality and guilt drifted over her head. She pushed him away immediately and turned away from him.
"What the hell am I doing?!" Amanda asked herself, shocked at what had just happened.
"Doing what was in your heart." Kuja told her.
She hunched over and held her head, griping it tight, she began to freak out. "No, no… NO! That wasn't in my heart! I left my heart with someone else! I can't let him know… THIS CAN'T BE REAL!!!"
"This IS real, Amanda. You need to accept it. WE are real. You have a place for me in your heart…"
"No…"
He placed a hand on her cheek, turning her face towards him. He carefully caressed her lips with his mouth. She fell frozen she could not move. Suddenly, she heard footsteps echoing in the distance.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!?!?" Bellowed a voice.
Kuja quickly let go and turned to the door. Amanda snapped to it and looked to the doorway. There, stood Garland with a furious look on his face.
"Get away from her!!!!" He bellowed.
Amanda got up and walked away from Kuja.
"Not you dear, HIM!!!" Garland glared at Kuja.
Kuja stood up, "Why such a soar face, Garland?"
"I asked you specifically to stay away from her!!!" Garland shouted.
"And I decided not to." Kuja grabbed Amanda and pulled her close.
"Oh no you don't!" Garland grabbed her free arm and began to pull her away from Kuja.
Kuja grabbed her other arm and began to pull as well. They pulled her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Amanda began to get annoyed.
"STOP IT! YOU'RE GOING TO TEAR ME IN HALF!!!!!!" She shouted.
Surprised at this they both let go immediately and Amanda fell to the ground. Garland walked over to her and helped her to her feet.
"Now look what you've done!!" Garland glared at Kuja.
"Garland, what's wrong with you?! What's going on between you two!?" Amanda shouted.
"I specifically asked him to keep his hands off you! He can't be trusted when it comes to love! You mustn't fall for him!" Garland told her.
"Fall for him!?" Amanda said shocked.
"Don't tell her to deny the feelings in her heart! She can still be Queen of the damned and have love like the rest of us!" Kuja protested approaching Garland.
"She doesn't need the likes of you is all I'm saying! All you're thinking about is yourself!!" Garland argued.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!" Amanda shouted.
Both of them paused. They stared at her angered face. Her fists were gripped tight and her eyebrows were lowered. She stepped in between them and slapped them both across the face with each of her hands. They held their soar faces and continued to stare blankly at her.
"Ok!" she said finally calming down, "Number one! Garland, I will not be told whether or whether not to have feelings for other people! Number two! I do not love Kuja! He started it. NUMBER THREE! Kuja, I am NOT comfortable with you kissing me!! NOW CAN YOU BOTH PLEASE LEAVE ME BE!?!?!?!"
"…But I have come to take you to training." Garland spoke up.
"FINE THEN LEAD THAT WAY!!!!!!!!" She shouted.
Amanda followed him out of the room, leaving Kuja there to wallow in anger.
Moments later, Amanda stood in the middle of the magic training room. Garland placed 5 large cages around, each holding a deadly monster inside. Garland opened the first. A Bandersnatch leap from the cage on to the black marble floor. Amanda smiled at the creature as it slowly advanced on her. She held out her hand as it quickly surrounded in a blue aura. Garland smirked as she stood there biding her time. The Bandersnatch just stood there, teasing her to "bring it on". Amanda snapped her hand out chanted the first spell that came to mind…
"Thudaga!!!" She shouted as the spell surrounded the beast.
It died instantly… She had killed her first monster. She gazed upon the corpse with a smile, crushing its face under her foot. She could hear bones snapped under her boot. Garland let out another beast out of its cage. The beast charged out with its grotesque figure. A Chimera. It four hideous head snarled. At first sight of the young girl, it let out a poisonous gas. She could hardly breathe, let alone move, or at least, that was what Garland thought. She just merely smiled and her hands continued to circle in the blue aura.
"…Esuna…" she said in a raspy whisper.
Her body glowed in the blue aura and she was healed from the poison. Amanda then held out her hand toward the Chimera encircled in the blue aura.
"FLARE!!!" She shouted as the Chimera was consumed in the non-elemental attack.
Its innards flew to different ends of the room, painted the floor where it stood blood red. Garland could not believe it; she resisted the paralyzing gases mixed with the poison. She was certainly an unnatural rarity. She could be this fabled Queen of the Damned. Garland opened two other cages. Each cage was filled with ten Tonberry, which meant twenty Tonberry in total! Each Tonberry took one step forward. Amanda just laughed at them.
"You call this a challenge Garland? Do you? By the time they reach stabbing range they'll all be dead!" Amanda cackled.
Amanda began to focus. The Tonberry took another step forward, forming a large circle around her. One more large step, and they would stabbed her from every direction. Amanda just stood there, focusing. Garland didn't understand. If she chose to focus one more time without attacking, she would be killed!
"Amanda! Attack them! Don't just stand there!!! You'll be killed!!!" Garland scolded.
"…No…" She smiled, she chose to continue focusing.
The Tonberry drew their Chef's Knives. The Tonberry drew them back, then lunged them forward. Before the knives could even touch her, Amanda did a back flip high into the air. Once in mid air (and upside down), she looked up at the many Tonberry bellow her and held her hands out in their direction.
"METEOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She shouted as thousands of hit the Tonberry causes major damage.
Amanda landed gracefully as each Tonberry fell to the ground KO'd. She brushed her hair back and smirked widely at Garland. Although he was impressed, his face showed no amusement and anger.
"What is wrong with you!? You could have got yourself killed!!!!" Garland scolded.
"But I killed them didn't I? I'm brave enough to do whatever it takes to get the job done." Amanda told him.
"More like stubborn enough! You're just like Kuja!"
"Do not compare me to that… that… insensitive waste of a soul!"
"But it is true. You just acted like him when I compare him to Zidane to his face. It seems that this is infectious in all my experiments."
"Hey! I am not your experiment! I am not just some lab rat that you have test on and use any way you please! And I will not allow it!" Amanda snarled.
"Hmm…"
"Quite a soap opera you have going here, Garland. You should know better than to treat her this way." Kuja's voice echoed into the room.
Garland turned to the doorway were Kuja stood, "Be gone, Kuja. She still has one more monster to take care of."
"Oh? This one is a bit advanced for is it not?" Kuja asked.
"What are you two talking about? I killed twenty Tonberry in a single Meteor spell, I think I can handle this one, whatever it is." Amanda told them.
"Yes, but you might need some help with this one. Come with me." Kuja told her, leading her out of the room.
"Kuja!" Garland snarled, but both him and the girl were out of the room.
Kuja led her into what seemed to be a church kind of room. It had the decorations of that of a Roman Catholic Church. The light shinning down from the painted glass windows bathed her skin with its warmth. It had been days since she felt this warmth. On a table lay several jewels, orbs and stones. Kuja gestured his arm to the table.
"If you are truly Queen of the damned, you can easily summon eidolons, no?" Kuja smiled.
"S-Summon?" Amanda asked.
"I see this is new to you as well. Summoning is a rare power only held by Summoners and only a powerful few. Each of these stones, jewels and orbs is a summon ready to be released by its new master." Kuja told her.
"I see. I remember, Garnet and Eiko were able to summon because they both had summoner's blood in them. But as I also recall… you gave Garnet's extracted Summons to Queen Brahne and were never able to extract Eiko's." Amanda thought aloud.
"That is true, but, Brahne did not keep all the summons with her all the time. I was able to get a select few, excluding Bahamut. And was able to snag a piece of Eiko's 'Ribbon' in Memoria." Kuja explained to her.
"And you believe with these things I can summon eidolons?"
"Of course."
"I think you're crazy!"
"How so?"
"Hell, you didn't even get the WHOLE ribbon!"
"Touchy, touchy…"
"Sorry, I'm still stressed out from training…"
"I understand, love."
"Don't call me that!"
Kuja just laughed. Amanda glared at him and walked up to the table. On the table there was an Opal, a Topaz, a Dark Matter, a Peridot, an Amethyst, a piece of a Ribbon and other stones.
"Chose only three. And choose well." Kuja told her.
"Why do you present me with such gifts yet not take them as your own?" Amanda asked.
"I want only the best for you." Kuja smiled devilishly.
"Does that mean you'll stay away from me?" She smirked.
"No." Kuja responded with a sly smile.
Amanda looked back to the table and inspected the stones carefully. She looked back at Kuja and pointed out the ones she chose.
"I choose, The Opal: Shiva the Queen of Ice, The Ribbon: Madeen the Protector and The Dark Matter: Odin the Holy Warrior." Amanda told him.
"An Ice Queen, a Protector and a Holy Warrior? I am disappointed." Kuja frowned.
"Why? I have only picked them not for their titles, dear Kuja, but for the Power." She smirked, "Why have weaklings when you can have the utmost quality?"
Kuja smiled, "You naughty girl."
Amanda laughed, "Now why don't we test these things out, shall we?"
Kuja held out his arm and Amanda linked her arm through his and walked back to the Training room.
Back in the training room, Garland was teasing the last monster with a raw steak. He stopped when he heard Kuja and Amanda's footsteps enter the room.
"Where have you been?" Garland bellowed.
"Equipping." Amanda replied as she was wrapping the ribbon around her wrist and placed the two stones in her black trench coat pocket.
Kuja looked at Garland and gestured him to open the cage. Garland nodded and opened the cage. Out of the Cage burst the Fiery tempered, Marilith! Marilith waved her many swords in the air and let out a hiss. Amanda just smiled at the Fire shrine beast. She held out her hands, closed her eyes and concentrated in Marilith's direction. Marilith let out another menacing hiss waving her swords, slicing the air. The vile creature was about to attack, but, suddenly, Amanda opened her eyes. Her Icy blue eyes gave off an eerie glow that would send shivers down the spine of any living creature.
"I summon thee, Shiva: Queen of Ice!!!" Amanda chanted.
The room fell quiet. …Nothing? Kuja and Garland stood there, watching in the suspenseful moment. Marilith just stared, swaying her snake tail from side to side. Suddenly a small patch of floor began to turn blue… and was soon covered in a light frost, then snow, then… ice. Out of the ice patch on the floor burst the mighty Summon, Shiva: Queen of the Icy Depths! The Summon turned to the young woman who summoned her and gave a graceful bow, as if to say, "Salutations, Master." Amanda smiled at the power radiating from the mighty Eidolon. She nodded to Shiva with great respect. Shiva arose from the bow and then turned to the almost forgotten enemy. Shiva echoed the words: "Diamond Dust" spun around in an icy dance and launched a barrage of icicles at the surprised enemy trapping it in ice. Shiva smiled at her work then turned her back. At that precise moment, the cage of ice exploded into millions of little shards that tumbled to the ground, leaving Marilith KO'd on the cold floor. Shiva then disappeared into the icy patch on the ground and the patch disappeared with her. Garland stared with his jaw wide open almost touching the ground. Kuja smiled in satisfaction of the spectacle.
"I-I can not believe it! One hit!? Just like the twenty Tonberry… dead…" Garland stuttered wildly.
"So, Garland, do you think she is ready?" Kuja smiled placing his pointer finger by his chin as if to be in mid thought.
"Think? I believe she is far than ready!" Garland chuckled then turn to the young woman, "Amanda! Come hither."
Amanda did so, "What is it, Garland?"
"You're first mission starts tomorrow. By the time we are through, our enemies will be vanquished and Kuja and I shall reign supreme. And you, dear child, you shall rise as Queen of the Damned!"
Amanda smiled devilishly, "Excellent…"
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