Ariana jerked awake to a feeling of intense cold. More snow had fallen, and it had covered almost her entire body. She shakily stood and shook the loose snow off of her and peered around at her sleeping friends. Tuggle was buried under the snow, and only his tail was sticking up, enabling her to find him. "Oh, you poor thing!"she exclaimed, digging him out, and wrapping her arms around the shivering Mu. It burrowed into her, trying to get warm.

She didn't want to disturb the Princess or Vivi, and she certainly didn't want to listen to Steiner's mumbo-jumbo, but she also didn't want to be awake by herself. She looked down at Zidane who was snoring rather loudly, and she kicked his boots.

"Eh??" he said confused, sitting up. "What happened?"

"I don't know, we all just fell asleep," Ariana said, offering him her hand to pull him up. Suddenly, she the heard the sound of a bell ringing close by. "Did you hear that?" she whispered.

"Yeah, it's coming from over there. Come on!" He beckoned for her to follow him, and she tiptoed behind him as he lead her into an adjoining cavern.

As soon as they entered, they heard a sinister voice say, "Why didn't you fall asleep? You should be dead by now..."

Ariana looked everywhere, but couldn't find the speaker. "Where the hell are you?" she shouted.

"Are you the one causing this blizzard?" Zidane asked.

Suddenly a huge black mage, five times the size of Vivi, jumped and landed directly in front of them. Tuggle shrieked and crawled under Ariana's jacket, hiding itself.

"Yes..hee hee!" The mage replied. It then moved into it's battle stance, and waited for them to make a move.

"Oh great," Ariana sighed, "Another battle." She drew out her rusted blade, thinking how badly she needed a new weapon, and helped Zidane slash at the mage. The mage called some sort of weird monster out of nowhere. It was called a sealion by it's master. After they defeated the evil black waltz and it's familiar, they heard another hidden voice.

"You've defeated number one, but number two and number three will reclaim the princess!"

"W-Who's there? Oh, whatever...I've gotta go back and check on everyone. Come on, Ariana." Zidane said.

They ran back to the other cavern, to see that everyone was waking up. Steiner was moving his arms about in some retarded way, and when he saw Zidane he yelled, "What happened?!"

"Nothing, don't worry about it," Zidane said.

"You didn't touch the princess did you?" Steiner blurted out.

"Just what are you accusing him of!?" Ariana yelled at Steiner. "He said nothing happened, so shut up!"

Garnet looked at the angry knight and to calm him she said, "Steiner, why are you being so rude?"

Steiner just looked at her and said, "I only have your best interests at heart, Princess."

"Well," Garnet said, looking around, "seems to me everyone is okay. Shall we move on?"

"Yeah," Ariana replied.

They walked on, and finally reached the exit to the Ice Cavern. In the distance, Ariana could see a small village.

"Hey, I think I've been there before," Zidane said.

"Sounds like you've been everywhere," said Princess Garnet. "Only places I've been, I've read about in books. Come on, let's go." She started to walk down the mountainous path, but Zidane told her to wait.

"Maybe we should give you a new name, a disguise, so that no one will know you're the Princess."

"How about Cornelia?" Ariana said, suggestively.

The princess shook her head, and pull something out of Zidane's pants. "What is this called?" she asked.

"Be careful Princess! That is a weapon!" Steiner said to her.

"It's called a dagger. All blades this short are called that. The longer ones like Rusty's are called broadswords, and...." Zidane rambled.

"Oh, okay, I understand. Well, from now on I want to be called Dagger," the princess said. "Is that okay with you, Zidane?"

He looked at her, smiled, and said, "Yes."

Ariana having witnessed this, sneered in disgust. "Oh God, now I have to deal with those two lovey doveys. And what the hell kind of name is Dagger, anyways?" she thought to herself.

"Great, Dagger," Zidane was telling her, "now, let's work on your speech. Try to sound more casual. Like me."

She looked at him as though she didn't understand and said, "I shall try."

"No, no, no. Just say, 'alrighty'," he corrected her.

"A-Alrighty."

"Good," he nodded. "Well, let's go."

"Finally!" Ariana muttered.