"The princess has awakened, Your Majesty!" said Zorn, running up to the Queen.
"Kidnapping the princess, they are, Your Majesty!" said Thorn, also running up to the Queen.
"......Have you extracted all the eidolons from her?" asked Brahne.
"We have, Your Majesty!" answered Zorn and Thorn together.
"Then, what are you waiting for? Take Garnet and throw her in prison!" commanded Brahne.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Said Zorn and Thorn together again.
"I won't allow that." said Beatrix.
"Oh? Are you defying me as well?" said Brahne.
"Your Majesty, it is my duty to protect the princess. I beg you, reconsider. Please do not harm the princess anymore. All of you, leave here at once!" said Beatrix.
"I'm staying! Zidane, go. Now!" shouted Freya.
"You two are joining forces? How amusing... Get rid of them." said Brahne.
"Mother!" cried Garnet. But Brahne ignored her and slowly walked out of the room.
"Freya! Be careful!" said Zidane.
"Don't worry." said Freya.
"Come on. Let's go." said Zidane.
"Wait!" cried Steiner.
Zorn and Thorn stepped away from each other, and a monstrous dog leaped in. "Bandersnatch, bite their heads off!" said Zorn and Thorn together. Freya and Beatrix quickly disposed of the beast.
"I want you to escort the princess out of Alexandria and take her to Doctor Tot. I'm sure Doctor Tot can come up with a plan to help us and our kingdom." said Steiner.
"Piece of cake. I'm an escape artist." said Zidane.
"Don't worry. We'll get here there." said Rai.
"Zidane, Master Vivi, and you gentlemen, I'm counting on you. Princess, I bid you farewell!" cried Steiner. Then he charged over to Freya and Beatrix as another of the huge dogs appeared. Then Zidane, Rai, Garnet, Vivi, Donald and Goofy, and Rayman's gang ran back down the secret passage.
As they were running, Garnet said out loud, "Steiner... Everybody is fighting for me..." she said.
"That's right. They're all fighting for you... and for Alexandria... They're moving forward, giving everything they've got! So we have to move on, just like they are. We can't stop now! Come on!" said Zidane.
They ran until they came upon the place where Zorn and Thorn had captured Steiner and company before. Suddenly, the gate in front of them sprang up, and then the one from behind. "What the hell!?" cried Rai.
"They fell for it again!" said Zorn.
"Really stupid, they are!" said Thorn.
"You pieces of...!" cried Zidane.
"Yes, we may be, but clever are we." said Thorn.
"Hee-hee-heee." chuckled Zorn.
Then Marcus came up to Thorn, and knocked him out cold. Then another person, who looked like he was probably in Tantalus too, came up and knocked Zorn out cold. "Zidane, are you alright!?" asked the newcomer.
"Blank!" said Zidane happily. Blank was the one that Marcus had gone to Evil Forest to rescue.
"We came here straight from Evil Forest." said Blank.
"Man, I love you guys!" said Zidane.
Marcus lowered the gate so they could leave. "Zidane, you can ride the gargant downstairs." he said.
"Blank... Marcus..."
"Get out of here! We'll take care of this! There's more bad guys coming!" said Blank.
"I owe you guys big-time! Let's get outta here!" said Zidane.
He and the group headed out, and jumped into the Gargant's basket. Then the Gargant scurried along. But suddenly, the Gargant started running out of control. Rai looked back to see a huge fanged worm chasing after them. "If we don't slow down, we'll miss Treno!" yelled Vivi. The Gargant started running even faster and faster, until everything was a blur. Then, a huge "CRASH!" was heard, and everything went black.

When Zidane finally woke up, he saw Vivi a little in the distance, blurred because of his vision at the moment. Then his sight cleared up, and he saw that it was not Vivi, but a black mage. Zidane nudged the others awake, and pointed out the mage. Then the mage saw them, and it quickly ran off. They followed, until it led them through many trees, and owls stopped being seen. Then the black mage opened a huge portal, and led them into his village. There were many black mages there, but the one they had seen outside started yelling "Humans! Humans! Run and hide!" and then he ran away himself.
"W-wait... did you see them!?" said Vivi excitedly.
"Y-yeah..." said Rai.
"They were talking! There are others like me!" said Vivi, then he ran off to find them.
"Why would anyone build their village in a dying forest?" said Rayman.
"Beats me." said Zidane.
"Come back, thief!" cried someone. Moments later, a black mage came by chasing... a girl and a miniature moogle? The girl was about as tall as Vivi, and couldn't be over six. She had shoulder length blue hair, with a big white bow at the top. She wore a orange shirt that covered her fingers, and yellow over-alls with a big hole in them (it was supposed to be there). She also had black and white shoes. She called her moogle, and it jumped inside her dress. Then Rai noticed, that she had a small horn on her head. She was running very fast, and was holding some food she had obviously stolen according to the black mage chasing after her. She was running so fast, she ran right into Zidane, knocking him over.
"Watch where you're standing!" she said angrily, standing up and then running out of the village.
"Dagger, you go find Vivi, and Rai, Donald, Goofy, Quina, and Rayman's gang, and I will follow her. We'll try and catch her before she gets too far so that you can catch up." said Zidane. Then he and the one's he mentioned ran after the girl. It didn't take long for them to catch up to her, and then Zidane stopped her. "Hey girl, why did you just steal that food?" asked Zidane.
"I was hungry." she replied.
"You sound like Quina." said Zidane to himself. Then, the moogle flew out of the girl's dress, and sniffed at Zidane. "Did that moogle just come out of your dress?" said Zidane.
"Yes. Me and Mog are always together." said the girl.
"Kupo!" cried Mog the moogle.
"What's your name?" asked Zidane.
"My name is Eiko Carol. I'm from Madain Sari." said the girl. "Do you want to come to my village? It's been so long since I've had visitors."
"Well, sure." said Zidane. "I'm Zidane, this is Rai, that's Quina, and Donald, and Goofy, and Rayman, Murfy, Globox..." Garnet and Vivi came running up, " and Dagger and Vivi."
"Wow. There sure are a lot of you." said Eiko.
"Yeah."
"Follow me!" said Eiko. She then led the group onwards, but Vivi stopped Zidane.
"Zidane, I wanna come back here okay?" said Vivi.
"Sure."
They followed Eiko for quite a while, until they all decided that they needed a rest. Then some nearby bushes started to shake, and out came Scroop and Myes. "I've been following you quite some time." said Scroop.
"Yea, this time, you're ours." said Myes.
But then, out of the sky came a ship. It landed a couple of yards away, and then Vincent stepped out. "Why hello, Mr. Scroop. I haven't seen you since the bounty on Seed McClair." said Vincent with a smirk.
"Shut it, metal boy. Don't get in my way, this bounty's mine." said Scroop menacingly.
"Yea! The boy is ours!" said Myes.
Vincent's cocky face instantly changed to that of pure hatred. "Your prey? Well, Spidy, this is my prey now. If you really want him, try and get past me." said Vincent, hand by his gun.
"Gladly. I've been itching to kill you for a long time." said Scroop. They both had their guns in their hands now.
"Zidane, let's get out of here now." whispered Garnet.
"No, I wanna see them duke it out." said Rai, who had heard her.
"Rai, I think she's right. The winner will still go after us. At least we can put some distance between us." said Donald.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." said Rai. Then they crept off.
Meanwhile, Scroop and Vincent prepared to fight, to the death. Myes sat down on a rock and leaned back against the cliff wall, confident that Scroop would win. But would he?