Chapter 3
The Reception
"I wonder what we should do, " Dagger asks, looking at Zidane after they broke the kiss.
"I don't know, I guess fiddle around," Zidane says, picking her up and goes over to the stereo that was sitting on the shelf.
"I wonder when everyone is going to be here?" Dagger asks, getting back on her feet and sitting in a chair next to where Zidane was.
Suddenly something pops into Zidane's head, "Lets wrestle! We can do that until the others get here for the reception." Zidane broke out into a broad smile as he looks at Dagger, "but it probably would be wise if we changed though."
"No, we are susposed to stay in these outfits until tonight..." Dagger gave Zidane a big wink. He knew right then, what that meant, 'There will be some howling tonight,' he thought.
"Ok then, what do you suggest?" Zidane says, looking at Dagger again, putting on soft and slow music.
"I don't know, maybe some dancing?" Dagger suggested, going over to Zidane and grabbing his hand.
"That sounds good to me," Zidane said, putting his hands on her hips and starts to sway to the music.
"Good, I am glad that you like it," Dagger said, as she puts her arms around his neck and lays her head on his chest and sways to the music as well.
"I love you Dagger, and I do not reget doing this, I wanted to do this for a long time, but I didn't have the nerve to ask you."
Dagger looks up into his eyes, "Why not?"
"Because I was afraid that you would reject me and say no, but I was surprised when you said yes."
Dagger puts her head back on his chest, "I have a confession to make."
"What is it?" Zidane asks.
"I wanted to ask you, but I also afraid that you would say no."
"Are you guys doing things that you aren't susposed to do?" a voice asks.
Zidane turned toward where the voice came from, "What in the world....Boss!"
"Hey Zidane," Baku said, walking into Lindblum Castle's Guest Room, where the reception was going to be held.
"How, how did you know where we was going to have the reception?" Zidane asks Baku.
"Artania told me, Cinna and the rest of them would have been here, but yer know how he is," Baku said, going over to the cakes.
Zidane turns to Dagger, "I wonder who was behind this one?"
"I was!" another voice said.
Without turning around, Zidane said, "Marcus, you guys finally got here!"
"Yeah," Marcus said, who was followed by Freya, Vivi, Eiko, Steiner, Beatrix, and Amarant.
"How did you guys get here so fast?" Dagger asks.
"By jet plane, which was very fun!" Vivi said, going over to a chair and sitting down.
Steiner and Beatrix goes over to a chair, which Steiner sat down and Beatrix sat on his lap. They both sat there and made out right in front of everyone.
"They were doing that on the whole plane ride," Vivi said, pulling down his hat and shaking his head.
"Yeah, which, in some ways, made me even sicker than I already was..." Amarant said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Let them be, and lets have fun!" Zidane said, going back over to the stereo and he pushes a button and a huge bucket of water came down on Dagger. "Hmmm, that is a good look for you, Dagger."
"ZIDANE!!" Dagger screamed, "YOU ARE MINE NOW BUDDY!!"
"Zidane, yer better head for the hills!" Baku said, laughing.
Zidane laughs very hard, "If you think you can catch me, just bring it on!"
"OH! YOU ASKED FOR IT!" Dagger screamed, running toward Zidane, claws bearing.
"Uh oh, I better run!" Zidane said, running around a corner and turning back around to tackle Dagger, but only to get caught by Baku. "Let go of me!" Zidane shrieked.
"Here ya go," Baku said, handing Zidane back over to Dagger.
"Thanks Baku," Dagger said. She smiles evily at Zidane, "Now, you are mine!" Dagger ties his feet and hands together to a chair. "What should I do with you Zidane?" Dagger asks.
"I don't know, what should you do?"
Dagger turns to everyone else, "What should I do to Zidane?"
"Take off all of his clothes and hang him by his tail!" Blank yelled out.
"Throw him in a lake!" Marcus said.
"Beat him to a pulp!" Freya yelled out, nodding her head.
"Throw him out a car window as you are doing 70 mph!" Amarant yelled.
Dagger turns back to Zidane, " I think I liked Blank's answer and Marcus's answer. I might just do both!" Dagger looks at Amarant, "I would ever do that to him!" Dagger turns back to Zidane and smiles evily again.
"Marcus! Blank! Amarant!! If anything happens to me, you better leave the earth!" Zidane shouts.
"Zidane, you are such a weakling," Amarant said, shaking his head and leaning on the wall.
"Sure Zidane, but first you better get out of that first," Blank said, laughing, " I liked Freya's answer as well."
"Shut up Blank, before I beat you to a pulp!" Freya shouted.
Dagger then has an ideal. She walks over to Freya and whispers, "Lets do this....lets take him on a plane ride in the Hilda Garde 3 and let him hang by his tail, naked, and make him scream, 'I am sorry!'".
"No, here's a better one," Freya said, "just go dump some hot water on him and then using a rope, tie him together, hang him, and use him as a punching bag."
"That would be nice," Dagger said, "c'mon, you help me."
"Ok," Freya said, following Dagger.
"Oh, no!" Zidane shrieked, "not Freya! Boss!! You are going to get it!!! I would have been fine and not in the prediciment if you didn't catch me!!!"
"Zidane, take it like a man," Baku said, laughing, "ACHOO!!" Baku sneezed.
"Zidane, you are pathetic, how in the hell did I lose to you, two years ago?" Amarant asks, watching the show "Letting women beat up on you, you are truely pathetic."
Freya goes over to Amarant and clubs him upside his head, "How did that feel?!"
"It didn't hurt a bit," Amarant said, shaking his head.
"You will be asking for more, if you don't shut up!" Freya shouted, grabbing her spear.
"Freya, forget him, get over here," Dagger said.
"Ok," Freya said, as she grabs Zidane by his tail and Dagger tied him together. She also hung him by his tail.
"Ok, I want the first hit!" Dagger said, smiling evily.
"Here, use this!" Blank said, handing her a huge stick.
"Blank!!! I am going to kill you now!!!!" Zidane says, "WAIT UNTIL I GET DOWN FROM HERE, BUSTER, YOU ARE MINE!!!"
"Zidane, I am really scared," Blank said, acting like he was scared.
Dagger gets in a batter stance and uses the stick and smacks him in the butt, "Hahahahaha!!" Dagger laughs evily.
"My turn," Freya said, grabbing the stick and gettting ready to swing.
"Freya, don't, I still owe you for the upper cut!" Zidane yelled.
"Heh, fine."
Zidane finally works free and tackles Dagger, "Now, who's got who?"
"I guess you got me," Dagger replied, kissing Zidane on the lips.
"I think I going to be sick," Amarant said.
"Now," Zidane said, getting off of Dagger and heading toward Blank, "you are mine!"
"Hahaha, Zidane, I was kidding!" Blank shouted, running the other way.
Zidane trips Blank and beats the crap out of him, "HUH! WHAT WAS THAT!! YOU WASN'T SCARED!!! WHO IS BEATING UP WHO!!!" Zidane yelled.
"OK, OK, I AM SORRY!! Now, GET OFF OF ME!!!" Blank yelled.
Dagger grabs Zidane and puts a headlock on him, "Quit Zidane!"
"Ok, I give," Zidane said, trying to break loose.
Dagger releases the hold, "Here, I want to give you something to cool you off," with that, Dagger pushed a button on a remote control and stepped back, in time only for Zidane to get a bucket-full of cold water.
"AHHHH! THAT IS COLD!!" Zidane shouted.
"I told you I would get you back," Dagger said, going over to him and putting her arms around his neck.
"Yeah, you did," Zidane said, wrapping his arms around her back. He pulls out a remote and pulls down a disco ball and puts on some slow music, "Grab a partner and dance, I got mine," Zidane said, holding Dagger close.
"I am going to be sick," Amarant said, heading toward the table, Anyone up for a game of cards?"
Vivi bows to Eiko, "Care to dance?"
"Sure," Eiko said.
"Amarant, I will take you up on that," Freya said, going over to a table and clearing it off.
"Me too," Blank said, getting off the ground.
"I guess I will join as well," Marcus said, grabbing a deck of cards off the shelf nearby where he was standing.
"I will join yer guys as well," Baku said, pulling up a chair.
Amarant, Blank, Marcus, Freya and Baku sat down and played Spades while everyone else slow danced.
"Dagger, it looks like we are both wet," Zidane said, looking down at Dagger's brown eyes.
"Yes, it looks that way," she said, putting her head on his chest again, "but we both had fun, didn't we?"
"Yep! But Rusty and Beatrix is still making out!" Zidane said, pointing over to where Steiner and Beatrix sat.
"They'll probably be like that for a while," Dagger said.
"Yeah, I know, we won't have anyone guarding us, but who needs them when you got me," Zidane said, looking down at Dagger, swaying to the music.
"True," Dagger said, as a huge blast went off in the backround.
"What was that?!" Beatrix said, breaking the kiss from Steiner.
"I don't know! I must hurry to see what it was!" Steiner said, getting up and running outside to see what it was.
"Whoever it is, I will kill them for destroying my wedding!" Dagger shouted.
Zidane looks over at Baku, "Uh oh, woman on a rampage, watch out, when you ruin a woman's wedding, you might as well leave town."
"Tell me about it," Baku said, going outside also.
"Lets go Dagger!" Zidane shouted, going outside, holding Dagger by the hand.
--Outside of the Guest Room in Lindblum Grand Castle--
"Who is it...." Dagger stops short as a huge machine comes through Lindblum Castle.
"What in the hell?!" Zidane said, looking at the 50 ft. machine.
"Ah, Zidane, you should know me very well," a voice came from inside the machine.
"Oh no," Zidane said, "I thought he died!"
"Who is it?" Baku asks.
"Yeah, who?" Eiko said.
"My brother, Kuja...."
"KUJA!!" Dagger shouted, "I thought he died in the Iifa Tree."
"Well, I didn't," Kuja said, coming out of the machine, and landing next to Dagger, "Zidane, I am glad to see you finally got married to the canary."
"Damnit Kuja, you messed up now," Zidane said, pointing at Dagger, who was about ready to bust her top.
"Why is that, brother?" Kuja asks, looking at Dagger.
"Because you messed up, look at her, she is going to beat you up now," Zidane said, laughing a bit.
"KUJA!!!!" Dagger said, as she starts whacking on him.
"See what I mean," Zidane said, pulling off Dagger from Kuja.
"LET ME GO ZIDANE!!!" Dagger shouted, struggling with Zidane's grip.
"Calm down, Dagger!" Zidane yelled, as he puts her on the ground and holds her there.
"DAMNIT, LET ME GO NOW ZIDANE, I AM GOING TO KILL HIM!!!" she shouted, trying to get away from the grasp of Zidane.
"It wouldn't be the first time I faced death face-to-face," Kuja said.
"Let me give you a piece of advise, Kuja," Eiko started, "you already made Dagger mad, but if Zidane her loose, you asked for it."
"Let her go, Zidane," Kuja said.
"First," Steiner said, "get that machine out of the Airship Runway, because other airships got to get in."
"I will do that," Kuja said.
"Kuja?" Zidane asks.
"Yes?"
"Did you make that huge explosion?"
"No, I did not," Kuja said going back to his machine.
"I wonder who did," Zidane asks.
"ZIDANE, GET OFF OF ME!" Dagger shouted.
"Are you going to calm down enough, because it wasn't him that caused that explosion."
"He didn't cause it?" Dagger asks.
"No," Zidane said, getting off of Dagger and helping her up.
"But I wonder who did cause it?" Dagger said, brushing off her dress, and looking at her love.
"I don't know, but whoever it is, is going to pay, pay dearly," Zidane said, going to Regent Cid.
Zidane grabs Dagger's hand and goes up to the Regent chambers. Zidane looks at the Regent, who was looking through some papers, "Ah, Zidane, great timing!"
"What is it?" Zidane asks.
"Lets do this in the conference room," Cid said, going down below.
Zidane leads Dagger down to the conference room. They sit together, hand-in-hand. Freya goes with Amarant and sits on the other side. Beatrix and Steiner stand behind Zidane and Dagger, and Blank and Marcus in front of the table. "What happened?" Blank asked the Regent.
"The latest I have received from the Black Mage Village on the Outer Contient is that the Genomes has went wild, saying, 'He's back, he's back!!'."
"What does that mean?" Zidane asks.
"Yeah, who is 'he'?" Eiko asks.
"I wonder if any of the black mages were hurt?" Vivi asks.
"'He' is...." Cid looks down at the papers that he was holding in his hand, "was...Garland.."
"Garland?!" Zidane said.
"Why did he come back, I thought he died, like Kuja...." Dagger studdered.
"I guess there goes the honeymoon," Zidane said, standing up, "where is he located now?"
"He is somewhere on the Forgotten Contient," Cid said, "take the Hilda Garde 3 and they know where to go."
"Ok, c'mon, guys, lets change," Zidane said going back to the guest room, still holding Dagger's hand.
Dagger follows Zidane, where they get dressed. Dagger goes to her traditional clothes, orange ovealls, white blouse, red shoes, her red gloves on her hands, and her hair in a long, blue ponytail. Zidane also does the same, blue shirt, light blue pants, blue-and-white tennis shoes, his dagger holder, and his dagger belt, which carried his Ultima Weapon, and his gray gloves. They go out together, still holding hands. Zidane sees Blank, who was standing at the airship docks.
"Where is everyone?" Zidane asks.
When Zidane said that, he sees Beatrix and Steiner, holding hands as well, come out in their finest armor. "Everyone is in the airship," Blank said, going into the Hilda Garde 3.
"Well, Dagger, my love, I guess it is time..." Zidane started.
"...to defeat our enemy," Dagger finished.
"Lets go!" Zidane said, as Dagger, Steiner, and Beatrix followed him into the Hilda Garde 3.