End Game - Part 1: The Beginning

A/N: I own none of the squaresoft characters. Any additional characters created by me are mine ^^' .If you haven't played al of ff9 yet (and you should!) it may contain some spoilers. The warning has been given. And as usual read and review ^_^

Chapter 3: Nightfall

Everything was perfect. Happy smiling couples and old friends mingled amongst each other while snaking on the buffet provided and dancing to the melodies of love playing delicately on the romantic air of the ball room.

Pastel shade decorations hung pleasantly adding a very special effect to the mood of the room. Bows covered the edges of tables, pale pink heart- shaped balloons hung off chairs and wrists of some of the party guests. Trailers and long lengths of ribbon, in all sorts of colours, encircling the walls in various patterns, such as hearts and flowers, trailing, almost seamlessly as one. The decorator had gone all out to achieve such an atmosphere for the queen's guests and was still admiring his work at the back of the room with his wife. A loving smile of perfection imprinted in her face with a sparkle in her eyes filed with love.

Of course one of the guests that had been invited wasn't really interested about what day it was or the music but concentrated on something else. It wasn't the single men with in the room, or the decorations but food. The Qu stood next to the banquet trying every delicacy it could fit into its mouth.

'Yum.pumpkin bomb.Oooo.hedgehog pie.' (This not being a cooked monster but a pie filled with raspberries and strawberries that when made looked the exact shade of rosy pink the real monsters skin was!) The Qu continued to eat while the guests danced.

Every one invite turned up to the valentine's party, even Vivi and his six children who Zidane had met up with previously. Other gests include all of Zidane's friends from Tantalus, Steiner and Beatrix, Garnet's close friends Dr Tot just to name a few. Even Amarant surprised Zidane and his friends by turning up.

'Amarant!!' Garnet said walking quickly up to him, 'wow!! This is a surprise!! Look at you!'

'Just don't hug me.I'm still in shock from Eiko trying to murder.'

'Awww poor Amarant afraid of having a hug from Eiko,' smirked Zidane soon catching up to Garnet. 'Nice get up!' He continued, inspecting Amarant's choice of clothing. Pulling at his green creaseless shirt.

'Leave the shirt alone.' Amarant said knocking Zidane back lightly while almost over balancing him.

'Oooo! I'm so scared.' laughed Zidane trying his best to annoy his guest, continuing with pulling at Amarant's shirt.

'Amarant!!' Squealed a voice from behind the tailed king. 'I've been looking all over for you!! Come on give me a hug!!' The stranger jumped up at Amarant and embraced him with a big hug, soon followed by a kiss planted on his left cheek.

The room went quiet, no music, no sound, not even a whisper could be heard from the guests staring at Amarant and his companion. Even Steiner was lost for words for a change.

'Oh! I missed you fuzzy bunny!!' Squealed the girl. 'I can't believe my airship was late of all times!!!'

All of a sudden the silence was broken by a certain genome falling on the floor laughing so much his sides ached all over.'fuzzy bunny!!!' was all he could gasp between laughing and breathing.

Garnet trying not to smile lightly kicked Zidane to bring him back to his senses and politely began to introduce her self to the woman.

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'So...' Zidane said, still chuckling to himself. 'How long have you two been married??'

'.'

All of the party room had been segregated into two huge groups at opposite ends of the room. The girls stayed with in the ballroom will the men decided to head for the patio round the back of the castle and ballroom.

'She's pretty cute for a married woman,' Smirked Blank.

'Don't even think about touching Lani,' growled Amarant.

'Geez bro, who would have thought that that girl was Lani?' Marcus commented glancing back at Lani who was busy entertaining while apologising for trying to kill Garnet at the same time.

'Yeah with the long hair,' Replied Cinna, while shaking his hammer to indicate Lani's length of hair, that reached almost to her knees.

'And her clean face,' continued Blank.

'And a nice clean dress' added Marcus

'No axe in sight' chuckled Baku scratching his head.

'And that figure of hers.' chuckled Zidane.

'Carry on!' Amarant said rising quickly to his feet, indicating the men should stop their game.

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