Disclaimer: I don't own any FF9 characters or locations, just Ariana.

Author's Note: Thank you so much for the good reviews :) Glad to know someone's reading my story!

Blank walked in after Steiner, still dressed in Pluto Knight's armor, and Steiner looked at him confused, noticing that it wasn't one of his knights. "How dare you!" He exclaimed.

They got into a battle, Steiner trying to slash Zidane and Blank with his broadsword. Ariana, hid once again, not having a weapon to defend herself with. She was beginning to become embarrassed because of this.

After the battle, Blank let loose his bag of oglops, and everyone start running around screaming. Ariana jumped out of her hiding spot, and Zidane yelled "Come on! Here's our chance!" The Princess followed right behind, and soon they found theirselves on the stage.

"Oh God" Ariana thought.

Zidane whispered to her and Garnet, "Improvise!!"

Ariana watched as the Princess pretended to be Cornelia, Marcus's lover. "Wow, " she thought, "Garnet's not too bad of an actress."

Suddenly, Steiner ran out onto the stage, also.

Baku, as King Leo, asked him, "Prince Schneider, dost thou not want to marry Princess Cornelia?"

Steiner looked around confused, "Me?!?! Marry the princess?!"

In the play, Cornelia is accidentally stabbed, and as Marcus's mourns for her, a little pointy-hat kid ran on stage chased by two guards. Steiner started acting all retarded, because he thought the Princess was actually dead, so Ariana kicked him in the knees, which only ended up in her hurting her own foot due to his metal armor. She started hopping around on one foot, when she realized that the Princess's hoodie caught on fire because the little pointy-hat kid did a fire spell at the guards who were chasing him.

"Hot! Hot! Hot!" The Princess stood up and accidentally revealed herself.

Baku yelled to Zidane, "Come on! It's time!"

Zidane grabbed the Princess's arm and said "Let's ditch Sir Rust-a-lot, and get outta here!"

Ariana limped toward the exit, and helped the little pointy-hat kid up. "You okay?"

"Y-y-yeah, I just tripped." He stammered out.

"Well, you don't wanna hang out around here anymore, so come on." She grabbed his arm, and they jumped onto the theatre ship. They started to run, but she ran smack into the back of Zidane, who just got done attacking Steiner. A huge fire ball, was growing bigger and bigger behind Steiner's head.

"Hey dumbass! Look behind you!" Ariana yelled at him.

Steiner said, "What kind of fool do you think I am?" And slashed at Vivi with his sword.

Vivi, in rebuttal, cast Fire on him, and the battle ended. Steiner finally turned around, and saw the Fire bomb. Steiner jumped out of the path of the bomb, which hit the ship causing it to explode.
Author's 2nd Note: Okay, this chapter's kinda slow, and stupid...but next chapter it will start getting good...sorry, I just didn't have enough time to write this chap today!