Chapter 5

Zidane? Turned Evil?!

"Hahahaha, Zidane, now what?!" Garland hissed as they arrived in the desert palace on the Outer Continent.

"You-you bastard!! I will kill you!!" Zidane shouted, trying to break free.

"You are going to be my new Angel of Death, if you like it or not!" Garland hissed, knocking Zidane unconsious, "I need to clear his thoughts of everything that happened so I can turn him into my Angel of Death. Kuja didn't work, he turned too soft, but he can be turned back." Garland picked up the unconsious Zidane and throws him into a large chamber that is used to clear minds. "Now only thing I need to do is to wait until his mind is cleared." Garland said, nodding at the fact. "Then I will have my new Angel of Death! HAHAHA!!!"

--In Alexandria Castle--

"I wonder where he is at?" Dagger asks Freya. The two of them were in Dagger's room, because it was getting late. They searched all night and day for Zidane, but they couldn't find him, so they came back to Alexandria to rest.

"I don't know," Freya said, putting on her nightgown in the bathroom.

"I hope he is safe," Dagger said, resting her head on the pillows that she had on her lap which was bare, except for a t-shirt.

"Trust me, Zidane is one tough man," Freya said, going over to the edge of the bed and sitting down on the end of it.

"Yeah I know, but Garland....." Dagger's voice trails off.

"He will be fine," Beatrix said, walking into the room as well, in her nightgown.

"I have this bad feeling that is isn't," Dagger said, "I also have a feeling that he is going to fight me..."

"He wouldn't do that!" Beatrix retorted, leaning against the wall, "get some sleep, my queen, tomorrow, we are going to go out and look again."

"Yes, Beatrix, that would be a good ideal," Dagger said, getting under her covers, "I wanted Zidane to be here with me..."

"We will get him back, Freya said, "now get some sleep, c'mon Beatrix, you need to go back to Steiner."

"Ok," Beatrix said, going out after Freya and shutting the door behind her.

"I need to get some sleep..." Dagger whispered to herself, as she laid her head down and started to go into a wierd sensational dream. (the italics are the dream)

"Dagger!" Zidane yelled from a distance.

"Zidane! Where are you!" Dagger yelled.

Dagger sees Zidane running at her, with his Ultima Weapon drawn, "I will kill you for hurting my master!" Zidane said angrily, running faster and getting ready to slash at Dagger.

"NO! Don't hurt me! Remember that we are married!" Dagger yelled.

"Ha, why would I marry someone like you!" Zidane screamed, as he ran even closer to her.

"Because you said that you loved me!" Dagger yelled, crying out of love.

"Hahahahahaha! Now die!" with that, Zidane slashes Dagger, cutting her arm. She falls, crying, "WHY DID YOU DO THAT!" she screamed.

"Ha, what a weakling. I hate you. I hate you so much that I want you dead!" Zidane laughed evily, his laugh almost sounding possessed.

"Zidane, kill the person that imprisioned you form all of the things that you have now!" Garland's voice was heard.

"As you wish, master!" Zidane snickered and slashed at Dagger again, cutting some of her hair.

Dagger woke up, sitting straight up, yelling, "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" she cried heavily as she heard footsteps and a opening of her door. "What is it?" Vivi and Steiner came running in.

"Zidane..." the only thing that came out of Dagger's mouth, after that, a choked whisper.

"It was a bad dream," Vivi said, going over to Dagger, "How bad was it?" he asked.

"Zidane...tried to kill me...." Dagger whispered, between sobs, "he said that Garland was his master, and he said that I didn't marry him!" she cried again, this time heavier than the last one.

"It is alright, I sure that Zidane wouldn't do anything like that," Steiner said, "after all, he did marry you because you two are in love."

"That is another thing he said, he hated me......and didn't love me....." Dagger cried again.

"Let's call a meeting," Beatrix said from the doorway.

"Lets!" Vivi and Steiner said, as Dagger mummbled something that no one heard.

--Back where Zidane and Garland Are--

"Two more hours and he will be done," Garland said, laughing, "Zorn, Thorn, go to the lab and get the infuse machine that I built!"

"Yes sir," the jester twins said, going to where their master said. The jesters leave for a few minutes and return with a huge machine that has a laser point at the tip. Garland laughed very evily and points it at Zidane.

"Now my new Angel of Death," Garland starts, "do you have anything to say to your master before you become my slave?" There was a silence for about 2 minutes then Garland continues, "if you don't have any objections, lets continue." Garland pushes a red button on a remote and the laser tip heats up and shoots a beam into Zidane's head. The beam infuses bad thoughts that would make Zidane not good. Zidane wakes up and looks at Garland, "Master, what is your first mission?" Zidane said in a tone that sounded possessed.

"I want you to kill Queen Garnet," Garland said.

"As you wish master!" Zidane said, walking out and heading toward Alexandria Castle.

--Same time in Alexandria Castle--

It was five o'clock in the morning. The whole crew was sitting around a large dinner table, all yawning from a lack of sleep. Dagger, wide awake, stood up from the head of the table, "I just had a dream that Zidane was going to kill me..."

"So what?" Amarant said angrily.

Dagger shoots Amarant a glance that shuts him up, "I have a feeling that Garland has turned Zidaner evil, but I don't know where he will strike..."

"I know where," a fimiliar voice said.

Dagger spins around to face Kuja, "Kuja, it's you..."

"Don't kill me..." Kuja said jokingly, "but onto more serious matters. Garland has taken Zidane to the Outer Continent, at the Desert Palace to be exact."

"How do you know this?" Beatrix asked from her seat next to Dagger.

"I have my ways of seeing where he is, plus I went back to the palace only to see Garland planning," Kuja said, sighing, "imagine that I used to work for him..."

"But what is he going to do to Zidane?" Dagger asks.

"He is going to turn him into the new Angel of Death."

"Why him!? Why my love!?" Dagger screamed, teary-eyed.

"I don't know," Kuja said, "but I also have a feeling that Zidane will come and do some damage, since he is stronger than me. I found out when I was sitting in the Iifa Tree, on the brink of death, that love is the strongest bond between two people."

"Hmmm, imagine hearing that from him," Vivi muttered.

"Vivi, I have changed," Kuja replied.

"But how...." Freya was cut off by a loud explosion and Zidane appearing through a hole in the castle's wall.

"Zidane!!" Dagger ran after him, but only was stopped by Steiner.

"Don't go, your highness, Zidane isn't himself..." Steiner whispered to Dagger.

"Must kill the Queen..." muttered Zidane in monotone.

"Noooo!!!" Dagger wailed.

"You aren't the Zidane I knew," Kuja said, stepping up to his brother.

"Out of my way, Master Garland wants Queen Garnet dead..." Zidane muttered.

Kuja smacks Zidane across the face and in counter, Zidane slashed at Kuja, missing him by a mile, "Hmph. Get ready for a challenge."