Chapter VII: A Fateful Encounter
"Life is SUPPOSED to be confusing. You just have to except your fate and try to live with it. Even if it means everything around you is destroyed, or everyONE around you. Even... Zoid Eve..."
Yiss... I changed the chapter name... Again... Yiss... I like to say "yiss" instead of "yes"... Yisss. It DOES sound better... Yiss, I got a Gundam Sandrock Custom model... Yiss, is my first Gundam.... Yiss, I lost the yellow V piece that goes on its forehead... Yiss, I have eight Zoid models... Yiss, over the weekend my brother got Kingdom Hearts and it's incredibly kawaii and fun to play... Yiss, is by Squaresoft and Disney Interactive... yiss, I played it for four hours so far... Yiss, I learned to sing in Japanese if I have the lyrics (in letters, not character thingy's)and music... And Yiss. The internet is still here. It's not Oct. 3 yet. Yiss!!!
***
Dive into the heart...
A floppy disk materialized in front of Akira as Kokoro sat sobbing on the floor. She grabbed it before it could fall to the ground. "It took you long enough," muttered the Zoidian as she left the room, the door sliding shut behind her.
"Robert... it's all my fault, and now I've lost you as well as Zi," cried Kokoro softly.. "I don't know what's on that disk but I do know that I shouldn't have given it to her... I don't even know how I gave it to her! What's wrong with me?!!"
The only thing Kokoro could remember was that Storm Sworder... perhaps, after Robert had fixed it up, she should have tried to pilot it. Doing that could have helped her lean more about herself. But she would probably learn too much for her own good.
***
Dive into the mind...
"Boring..." Ayumi yawned and Hitoshi handed her the pair of binoculars. "Can't we afford two pairs of these things?"
"To tell the truth, no," answered Neos from over by his Orudios.
On the other side of the huge gorge the fight ensued. The Gul Tiger was taking on Robert's Spino Snapper, while the black Geno Saurer was fighting all of the other Zoids in Shadow mode.
Neos laughed. "Can't they realize that every time they use the transformation it effects Zi?"
Ayumi shrugged. "I guess not."
"So says the girl who attempted to kill Jack Sisco, Dr. Steve Toros, Dr. Layon, and Oscar Hemeros..."
"I would have gone after Altiel, but he's family, and I guess having one family member dead is enough for him."
"Stop playing around with me!" shouted Bit as Liger tried to use Strike Laser Claw on Cid's Zoid. The mercenary simply laughed at him and dodged the attack. The Geno Saurer flipped around, whacking Liger with its tail.
"Leena!" yelled Bit.
"Right," said his co-pilot, " Liger Zero X Atta activated!" Liger separated into two identical black Ligers and both roared. They ran in to attack Cid from either side.
"That little trick isn't going to work again," muttered Cid beneath his breath as the Geno Saurer shot at Leena's Liger. Taking advantage of his distraction, Bit's locked its jaws onto the Geno Saurer's right arm and shook it.
Ayumi shook her head and grinned. "Very interesting," she said to herself. "Resorting to only physical attacks instead of using weapons.... I'll have to try that."
Unfortunately for Cid, LZX was unexpectedly strong even when separated using the Atta (two, if you didn't know) armor. It was at least strong enough to savagely rip off his Zoid's arm, which is what it did. Just after Bit had done so Leena used Strike Laser Claw on Cid's Geno Saurer. Cid smartly disabled the transformation as it went down, allowing the Zoid to have a normal Command System Freeze instead of turning into a Shadow...
"Tch, I could've done a much better job," commented Ayumi.
"Shut up already. The Ultimate X is stronger than any of us ever expected. If it IS the Ultimate X." The silver-eyed Zoidian could barely keep himself from shoving her into the gorge.
***
The modified Dark Horn slowly turned around and ran, following a green Whale King that flew overhead. That's a Backdraft transport! Harry thought to himself. Where are they going?
Aboard the large Zoid, Commander Altiel stood looking out the window of his observatory, as usual. He paid no heed to the following Dark Horn and focused on keeping track of a Dibison up ahead. Unlike usual, Commander Altiel was doing something directly against the Count's wishes. He was going after Nanase. The Count was such a coward! Leaving their most valuable asset for the Zoid Battle Commission to find and use?
He walked out of his room and into his hall, towards the hangar. When Craig had mentioned this to the Count his superior had simply shook his head in despair. Obviously he did not feel that Commander Altiel needed to do so.
"In those five years that Nanase was with us, I never laid a hand on her. She is free to do as she pleases. After all Nanase does have a family, even if it's Bit Cloud. We can't force her to do anything for us," the Count had said.
"It," corrected Commander Altiel. "It. Not she. Organoids are not living creatures, and she is not naturally alive anyways." Can't force her to do anything? They had forced her to live, so why not?
The Count had grumbled something in response, clearly annoyed. "If you dare to touch even a hair on her head I'll make sure you regret it. These are my orders and you will obey them no matter what."
Thinking back to the day before, the Commander smiled. He was finally doing what he'd always longed to do. Craig had never liked taking orders from the Count or the Committee of Seven. Ha, so he was brave enough to defy them! He would show the Count! Compared to Altiel the Count was nothing but a weak fool!
"Where are they-?" Harry started to ask himself. He looked ahead and saw Nanase's Dibison, Nanase still standing next to it. So, was she part of the Backdraft? If she was, then it would be Harry's duty to arrest her, even if he liked her the slightest bit. Anyways, he still hadn't completed his mission, and that meant he couldn't completely graduate. This meant a lot to him, and he was willing to do a lot to graduate.
***
Dive into the core of Zi itself...Zoid... Eve...
"It seems as though I've found you before either the Backdraft, the Zoidian Guild, or the Kaiser found you, eh?"
The Deathstinger's (yes... I've started doing it as one word, it looks better) tail was stationed on top of the wrecked Whale King, It awkwardly twitched a little bit as a red organoid walked up to it and stared, a gleam in his eye.
"Ambient..." Organoids always go back to Zoid Eve. So do Zoidians, but they can choose to come back or just die like a normal human being. Ambient was an organoid and he had never really died. He had just gone back...He glowed for a single moment and fused with the Deathstinger's tail.
Slowly, yet surely, the ancient Zoid was beginning to grow back the rest of its body. many legs and two pinchers extended, snapping at the Whale King. Someone laughed as Ambient cam out of the Deathstinger and the Zoid screeched. .Yes, the Deathstinger was back. And this time nothing could stop it.
***
"Wha-?!!!" Akira abruptly faltered in her walk through the underground caves. Something was practically pulling at her, telling her she had to stop. It felt as if her head was about to explode as the image of an everlasting red and blue crustacean : ) flashed in her mind. It was back, and this time Van Flyheight wasn't here to stop it...
***
"...Akira?" asked Neos, turning to look where her Zoid had landed earlier that day.
"She went to do something for the old man, remember?" mumbled Ayumi, trying to get the single pair of binoculars out of Hitoshi's grip.
"You never cared about her when we released you..." put in the other Zoidian as he childishly yanked the binoculars away from Ayumi, who glared and stuck her tongue out.
Neos didn't reply, looking over to his Orudios. "Did she take Trinity?"
"Rrrr..." The silvery-white organoid popped out of nowhere.
"Would you stop doing that?!!" shouted Neos, jumping away quickly. The organoid cocked its head and seemed to laugh as Neos sweat-dropped and looked at her (oh yeah... her! Before I've called it a he, well, I was wrong! This one is a her, so there!!!) wearily. "By the way, Ayumi," said Neos, trying to ignore Trinity, "How can you be sure that our Kaiser IS an old man? He- well, it- could be anything. Even an artificial intelligence system, if you think about it. No one has ever seen hi- it, except for Hitoshi, and he won't tell."
"You mean you've been Kage's aide for years now and you still haven't even SEEN him?!!" yelled Ayumi.
"No."
"Then why do you even listen to that geezer?!!"
"Watch your tongue or it could be cut off. Because if I defy him, he obviously wouldn't think twice about killing me, and I don't want to be dead. Who knows who and what he really is! I mean, it is!"
A very pale-faced Hitoshi stood up. "Believe me, you don't want to know. Neos is right, he doesn't hesitate to kill. Not for a second. Not even a millisecond. I've seen him in action, and it's not very pretty... If you're smart, you'll forget we ever had this conversation."
Of course, Ayumi would forget eventually because of Hitoshi's kinetic abilities (like Ryss, an I already explained this anyways).
*"Faye?" asked Hitoshi, looking around (why do they always look around?!!! WHY?!!!) the forest. "Where are you?" Darn, he thought. The newly released "Kaiser Kage" had threatened that if Hitoshi became too attached to someone, the relationship couldn't last very long. Their work was swift and painful to all, not just the citizens of whatever town Kaiser randomly selected to "train" his new assistants in the art of destruction. (EVIL!!!!!)
"Oof!" His one and only friend plopped down from the treetops above (Strange, isn't it?) and looked up at him, smiling. "Hiya! What's going on?" Always so cheerful...
Hitoshi didn't look very pleased as he said, "And just WHAT were you doing up there?"
"Goodness, you sound like my mother."
"You don't HAVE a mother."
"Neither do you." With that the pair laughed a little and looked up through the spaces in the trees to see pinkish clouds covering up the moons (not the pluralness I need to stop these evil comments...). "What did you want?"*
***
"What's with HIM all of the sudden?" Ayumi whispered to Neos, who stared blankly at the fight nearby.
"Don't ask...Unfortunately, I don't need to be a witness to understand what happened.... Even though I was, again unfortunately, a witness. You probably wouldn't understand, seeing as normally I can't stand the sight of humans."
"Okay, Gul Tiger, now it's our turn!" shouted Sephiroth as the Gul Tiger ran forward to fight the Spino Snapper. "This shouldn't take long." Adrian backed his Zoid up against the large boulder he had fallen off of earlier, and Robert moved in for the take (can't remember the correct saying, will fix later). When the Spino Snapper brought its chainsaws down at the Gul Tiger the Zoid jumped away, and the blades were stuck in the rock.
Turning around to face the Spino Snapper again, the cannon on the Tiger's back started to gather charged particles!
"That thing has a charged particle cannon?" Leena asked Bit. He shook his head. "No, I don' think so. It looks like a miniature one."
Note: Yiss, the Gul Tiger DOES have a miniature CPC. It does on the model, so this is my quick way to end the battles, and as you can remember, I don't like writing the battles 'cause they're hard to write. For me, anyways.
In about ten seconds the miniature CPC fired at Robert's Zoid, which broke free from the rock and tried to move out of the way. It didn't get very far and the beam of light hit its leg, crippling the Spinosaurus-type Zoid.
Bit grinned to himself. "Hahaha, another battle one for the Blitz team!"
"And us!" shouted Vivian and Sephiroth.
"Why couldn't I have flown out in the Raynos?" Jamie asked himself, whining a little.
"Because you have bigger fish to fry," answered Spring, trying to make him feel better.
"You mean like a couple War Sharks?"
"Hey! Did I miss all of the action?" yelled a voice : ) as a familiar Rev Raptor ran towards the group of Zoids.
"Who..." asked Vivian, seeing the expression on Sephiroth's face through her comlink. It was, of course, blank as usual, but his eyes were... different... she couldn't tell. He looked a little... happy. Happy, relieved, and yet a little... scared. Of what she wasn't sure. With Sephiroth it was so hard to tell.
***
Was going to be longer but.... now that I've finished the chapter, this is my last day with the internet at home. We go to the library every two weeks and went last Saturday, so it'll be a while before I can get on the internet again. Anyways, I don' t think I can upload stuff there. The evilness....
Look at Bit's face... and look at Van's. They look alike, their faces, that is. Another reason of why-Bit-is-Van's-descendant. Anyways, I thought this chapter was long enough and want to upload it, knowing that the date the internet goes goodbye draws ever-nearer... Oops, I forgot to put the dream I was going to put in it in it in the first place... Which is why I changed the chapter name, anyways.
Okay, next time, if there IS a next time, is Chapter VIII: Yume no Sukohi Ato. Which is "A Little After the Dream" in Japanese. I know it was supposed to be Nights into Dreams as I said... but I don't really care. You know me, always changing my mind at the last moment. Or maybe you don't. Besides, only about two people read this story (currently, as of September 2002). Watch for evil spoilers, because if there aren't any I'll be amazed art myself. Evil spoilers as to the last four episodes of Chaotic Century and what, where, why, how, and maybe even who (wasn't supposed to say that) Zoid Eve really is Make sure you listen to the Ending Theme (or Yuna's theme) from Final Fantasy X while reading it.... Bwahaha. Evil me. Must go watch the music video to Yuna's theme again... Soooo pretty.... ARGH!!! MAKE THE VOICES STOP!!! (this must be what scares away any other potential readers and reviewers. Go download the video. NOW. Because I say so. Thorin the Clefairy says so, too, so unless you want to be hit by Bubblebeam, MegaPunch, or Metronome...)
"Just follow what your heart tells you to do..."
"But I don't have a heart..."
"Life is SUPPOSED to be confusing. You just have to except your fate and try to live with it. Even if it means everything around you is destroyed, or everyONE around you. Even... Zoid Eve..."
Yiss... I changed the chapter name... Again... Yiss... I like to say "yiss" instead of "yes"... Yisss. It DOES sound better... Yiss, I got a Gundam Sandrock Custom model... Yiss, is my first Gundam.... Yiss, I lost the yellow V piece that goes on its forehead... Yiss, I have eight Zoid models... Yiss, over the weekend my brother got Kingdom Hearts and it's incredibly kawaii and fun to play... Yiss, is by Squaresoft and Disney Interactive... yiss, I played it for four hours so far... Yiss, I learned to sing in Japanese if I have the lyrics (in letters, not character thingy's)and music... And Yiss. The internet is still here. It's not Oct. 3 yet. Yiss!!!
***
Dive into the heart...
A floppy disk materialized in front of Akira as Kokoro sat sobbing on the floor. She grabbed it before it could fall to the ground. "It took you long enough," muttered the Zoidian as she left the room, the door sliding shut behind her.
"Robert... it's all my fault, and now I've lost you as well as Zi," cried Kokoro softly.. "I don't know what's on that disk but I do know that I shouldn't have given it to her... I don't even know how I gave it to her! What's wrong with me?!!"
The only thing Kokoro could remember was that Storm Sworder... perhaps, after Robert had fixed it up, she should have tried to pilot it. Doing that could have helped her lean more about herself. But she would probably learn too much for her own good.
***
Dive into the mind...
"Boring..." Ayumi yawned and Hitoshi handed her the pair of binoculars. "Can't we afford two pairs of these things?"
"To tell the truth, no," answered Neos from over by his Orudios.
On the other side of the huge gorge the fight ensued. The Gul Tiger was taking on Robert's Spino Snapper, while the black Geno Saurer was fighting all of the other Zoids in Shadow mode.
Neos laughed. "Can't they realize that every time they use the transformation it effects Zi?"
Ayumi shrugged. "I guess not."
"So says the girl who attempted to kill Jack Sisco, Dr. Steve Toros, Dr. Layon, and Oscar Hemeros..."
"I would have gone after Altiel, but he's family, and I guess having one family member dead is enough for him."
"Stop playing around with me!" shouted Bit as Liger tried to use Strike Laser Claw on Cid's Zoid. The mercenary simply laughed at him and dodged the attack. The Geno Saurer flipped around, whacking Liger with its tail.
"Leena!" yelled Bit.
"Right," said his co-pilot, " Liger Zero X Atta activated!" Liger separated into two identical black Ligers and both roared. They ran in to attack Cid from either side.
"That little trick isn't going to work again," muttered Cid beneath his breath as the Geno Saurer shot at Leena's Liger. Taking advantage of his distraction, Bit's locked its jaws onto the Geno Saurer's right arm and shook it.
Ayumi shook her head and grinned. "Very interesting," she said to herself. "Resorting to only physical attacks instead of using weapons.... I'll have to try that."
Unfortunately for Cid, LZX was unexpectedly strong even when separated using the Atta (two, if you didn't know) armor. It was at least strong enough to savagely rip off his Zoid's arm, which is what it did. Just after Bit had done so Leena used Strike Laser Claw on Cid's Geno Saurer. Cid smartly disabled the transformation as it went down, allowing the Zoid to have a normal Command System Freeze instead of turning into a Shadow...
"Tch, I could've done a much better job," commented Ayumi.
"Shut up already. The Ultimate X is stronger than any of us ever expected. If it IS the Ultimate X." The silver-eyed Zoidian could barely keep himself from shoving her into the gorge.
***
The modified Dark Horn slowly turned around and ran, following a green Whale King that flew overhead. That's a Backdraft transport! Harry thought to himself. Where are they going?
Aboard the large Zoid, Commander Altiel stood looking out the window of his observatory, as usual. He paid no heed to the following Dark Horn and focused on keeping track of a Dibison up ahead. Unlike usual, Commander Altiel was doing something directly against the Count's wishes. He was going after Nanase. The Count was such a coward! Leaving their most valuable asset for the Zoid Battle Commission to find and use?
He walked out of his room and into his hall, towards the hangar. When Craig had mentioned this to the Count his superior had simply shook his head in despair. Obviously he did not feel that Commander Altiel needed to do so.
"In those five years that Nanase was with us, I never laid a hand on her. She is free to do as she pleases. After all Nanase does have a family, even if it's Bit Cloud. We can't force her to do anything for us," the Count had said.
"It," corrected Commander Altiel. "It. Not she. Organoids are not living creatures, and she is not naturally alive anyways." Can't force her to do anything? They had forced her to live, so why not?
The Count had grumbled something in response, clearly annoyed. "If you dare to touch even a hair on her head I'll make sure you regret it. These are my orders and you will obey them no matter what."
Thinking back to the day before, the Commander smiled. He was finally doing what he'd always longed to do. Craig had never liked taking orders from the Count or the Committee of Seven. Ha, so he was brave enough to defy them! He would show the Count! Compared to Altiel the Count was nothing but a weak fool!
"Where are they-?" Harry started to ask himself. He looked ahead and saw Nanase's Dibison, Nanase still standing next to it. So, was she part of the Backdraft? If she was, then it would be Harry's duty to arrest her, even if he liked her the slightest bit. Anyways, he still hadn't completed his mission, and that meant he couldn't completely graduate. This meant a lot to him, and he was willing to do a lot to graduate.
***
Dive into the core of Zi itself...Zoid... Eve...
"It seems as though I've found you before either the Backdraft, the Zoidian Guild, or the Kaiser found you, eh?"
The Deathstinger's (yes... I've started doing it as one word, it looks better) tail was stationed on top of the wrecked Whale King, It awkwardly twitched a little bit as a red organoid walked up to it and stared, a gleam in his eye.
"Ambient..." Organoids always go back to Zoid Eve. So do Zoidians, but they can choose to come back or just die like a normal human being. Ambient was an organoid and he had never really died. He had just gone back...He glowed for a single moment and fused with the Deathstinger's tail.
Slowly, yet surely, the ancient Zoid was beginning to grow back the rest of its body. many legs and two pinchers extended, snapping at the Whale King. Someone laughed as Ambient cam out of the Deathstinger and the Zoid screeched. .Yes, the Deathstinger was back. And this time nothing could stop it.
***
"Wha-?!!!" Akira abruptly faltered in her walk through the underground caves. Something was practically pulling at her, telling her she had to stop. It felt as if her head was about to explode as the image of an everlasting red and blue crustacean : ) flashed in her mind. It was back, and this time Van Flyheight wasn't here to stop it...
***
"...Akira?" asked Neos, turning to look where her Zoid had landed earlier that day.
"She went to do something for the old man, remember?" mumbled Ayumi, trying to get the single pair of binoculars out of Hitoshi's grip.
"You never cared about her when we released you..." put in the other Zoidian as he childishly yanked the binoculars away from Ayumi, who glared and stuck her tongue out.
Neos didn't reply, looking over to his Orudios. "Did she take Trinity?"
"Rrrr..." The silvery-white organoid popped out of nowhere.
"Would you stop doing that?!!" shouted Neos, jumping away quickly. The organoid cocked its head and seemed to laugh as Neos sweat-dropped and looked at her (oh yeah... her! Before I've called it a he, well, I was wrong! This one is a her, so there!!!) wearily. "By the way, Ayumi," said Neos, trying to ignore Trinity, "How can you be sure that our Kaiser IS an old man? He- well, it- could be anything. Even an artificial intelligence system, if you think about it. No one has ever seen hi- it, except for Hitoshi, and he won't tell."
"You mean you've been Kage's aide for years now and you still haven't even SEEN him?!!" yelled Ayumi.
"No."
"Then why do you even listen to that geezer?!!"
"Watch your tongue or it could be cut off. Because if I defy him, he obviously wouldn't think twice about killing me, and I don't want to be dead. Who knows who and what he really is! I mean, it is!"
A very pale-faced Hitoshi stood up. "Believe me, you don't want to know. Neos is right, he doesn't hesitate to kill. Not for a second. Not even a millisecond. I've seen him in action, and it's not very pretty... If you're smart, you'll forget we ever had this conversation."
Of course, Ayumi would forget eventually because of Hitoshi's kinetic abilities (like Ryss, an I already explained this anyways).
*"Faye?" asked Hitoshi, looking around (why do they always look around?!!! WHY?!!!) the forest. "Where are you?" Darn, he thought. The newly released "Kaiser Kage" had threatened that if Hitoshi became too attached to someone, the relationship couldn't last very long. Their work was swift and painful to all, not just the citizens of whatever town Kaiser randomly selected to "train" his new assistants in the art of destruction. (EVIL!!!!!)
"Oof!" His one and only friend plopped down from the treetops above (Strange, isn't it?) and looked up at him, smiling. "Hiya! What's going on?" Always so cheerful...
Hitoshi didn't look very pleased as he said, "And just WHAT were you doing up there?"
"Goodness, you sound like my mother."
"You don't HAVE a mother."
"Neither do you." With that the pair laughed a little and looked up through the spaces in the trees to see pinkish clouds covering up the moons (not the pluralness I need to stop these evil comments...). "What did you want?"*
***
"What's with HIM all of the sudden?" Ayumi whispered to Neos, who stared blankly at the fight nearby.
"Don't ask...Unfortunately, I don't need to be a witness to understand what happened.... Even though I was, again unfortunately, a witness. You probably wouldn't understand, seeing as normally I can't stand the sight of humans."
"Okay, Gul Tiger, now it's our turn!" shouted Sephiroth as the Gul Tiger ran forward to fight the Spino Snapper. "This shouldn't take long." Adrian backed his Zoid up against the large boulder he had fallen off of earlier, and Robert moved in for the take (can't remember the correct saying, will fix later). When the Spino Snapper brought its chainsaws down at the Gul Tiger the Zoid jumped away, and the blades were stuck in the rock.
Turning around to face the Spino Snapper again, the cannon on the Tiger's back started to gather charged particles!
"That thing has a charged particle cannon?" Leena asked Bit. He shook his head. "No, I don' think so. It looks like a miniature one."
Note: Yiss, the Gul Tiger DOES have a miniature CPC. It does on the model, so this is my quick way to end the battles, and as you can remember, I don't like writing the battles 'cause they're hard to write. For me, anyways.
In about ten seconds the miniature CPC fired at Robert's Zoid, which broke free from the rock and tried to move out of the way. It didn't get very far and the beam of light hit its leg, crippling the Spinosaurus-type Zoid.
Bit grinned to himself. "Hahaha, another battle one for the Blitz team!"
"And us!" shouted Vivian and Sephiroth.
"Why couldn't I have flown out in the Raynos?" Jamie asked himself, whining a little.
"Because you have bigger fish to fry," answered Spring, trying to make him feel better.
"You mean like a couple War Sharks?"
"Hey! Did I miss all of the action?" yelled a voice : ) as a familiar Rev Raptor ran towards the group of Zoids.
"Who..." asked Vivian, seeing the expression on Sephiroth's face through her comlink. It was, of course, blank as usual, but his eyes were... different... she couldn't tell. He looked a little... happy. Happy, relieved, and yet a little... scared. Of what she wasn't sure. With Sephiroth it was so hard to tell.
***
Was going to be longer but.... now that I've finished the chapter, this is my last day with the internet at home. We go to the library every two weeks and went last Saturday, so it'll be a while before I can get on the internet again. Anyways, I don' t think I can upload stuff there. The evilness....
Look at Bit's face... and look at Van's. They look alike, their faces, that is. Another reason of why-Bit-is-Van's-descendant. Anyways, I thought this chapter was long enough and want to upload it, knowing that the date the internet goes goodbye draws ever-nearer... Oops, I forgot to put the dream I was going to put in it in it in the first place... Which is why I changed the chapter name, anyways.
Okay, next time, if there IS a next time, is Chapter VIII: Yume no Sukohi Ato. Which is "A Little After the Dream" in Japanese. I know it was supposed to be Nights into Dreams as I said... but I don't really care. You know me, always changing my mind at the last moment. Or maybe you don't. Besides, only about two people read this story (currently, as of September 2002). Watch for evil spoilers, because if there aren't any I'll be amazed art myself. Evil spoilers as to the last four episodes of Chaotic Century and what, where, why, how, and maybe even who (wasn't supposed to say that) Zoid Eve really is Make sure you listen to the Ending Theme (or Yuna's theme) from Final Fantasy X while reading it.... Bwahaha. Evil me. Must go watch the music video to Yuna's theme again... Soooo pretty.... ARGH!!! MAKE THE VOICES STOP!!! (this must be what scares away any other potential readers and reviewers. Go download the video. NOW. Because I say so. Thorin the Clefairy says so, too, so unless you want to be hit by Bubblebeam, MegaPunch, or Metronome...)
"Just follow what your heart tells you to do..."
"But I don't have a heart..."
