Fire Fox-Oh, hello Ravin. *sigh*

Ravin- I am not going to even going to ask.

Fire Fox- Aren't you the least bit curious as to why I am soooooo sad?

Ravin- NO!

Fire Fox- Since you asked….

Ravin- I didn't ask!

Fire Fox- Factoid said all Japan'amaition was stupid!

Ravin- So?

Fire Fox- -_-' So she said that YOU were stupid! And Hiltz and all the other cool evil villains are stupid.

Ravin- I will kill Va..I mean Factoid.

Fire Fox- *sweat drops* I see someone as a one has a one track mind.

Ravin- What did you say?! Grr…

Fire Fox- *sweat drops* That might be kinda hard since she is a goddess, you know the killing her part. Since, goddesses are immortal and all…

Ravin- How is she goddess?

Fire Fox- *proudly* I made her a goddess to help with my plans for world domination.

Ravin- *gives Fire Fox a cross b/n you-are-stupid and what-the-bloody-hell look*

Fire Fox- What?! Didn't you know that I am the Goddess Xofe-rif?

Disclaimer: "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."

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NOW

THE FIRE FOX DIVINELY PRESENTS:

THE PROPHECY OF THE ZOIDS

Chapter Seven: Shadows of the Heart

Shadow limped back to the camp, hoping against hope that Ravin wouldn't be awake to notice his less than grand return. Deep gouges, bite, and scratch marks flaked with gold paint decorated the organoid's body frame.

"Rggrrga." (Grumble, grumble, grumble)

"Rrrrajfaf." (I was just going to make a quick, friendly call to see how she was doing, but noooooo I ended up almost getting my head bit off, literally.)

"Shadow."

The organoid instantly stood up straight and still. Hoping his master would just let the thing slide. However tonight wasn't the organoid's night as indicated by his many tattoos all over his body.

"What the hell happened to you?"

"rooaarrr?" (I was flying with scissors? Playing with sharp and pointy rocks? Or I was flying with scissors and crashed into sharp and pointy rocks?)

"Whatever, just don't wake Ryss or Specula up with your lumbering," his master said with love and concern in his monotone voice. (a/n- I couldn't resist)

"Rooarrggg!!" (Oh yes, I, your faithful organoid, am fine. Never mind that I barely was able to hobble back to camp, never mind about the series of new designs all over me, and never mind that I nearly had my head bit off as long as I don't wake Ryss or Specula!!!)

Ravin turned around to face his organoid. Usually Shadow didn't smart off to him, in fact Ravin could only recall one other period of time that Shadow hadn't obeyed him completely. But now since the whole Zoids Eve incident, Shadow had gotten something almost a kin to an attitude.

But the only other time Shadow had acted like this was when…Ravin pushed those thoughts back. He hadn't heard her name in years. In fact, the last time he saw her had been five years ago when…

People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.

Suddenly, the pain of suppressed and forgotten memories rushed through Ravin. He dropped down to his knees from the downpour of pain. Shadow came and stood by his master.

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A pale moon hung high in the night sky. A boy sat dejectedly by a campfire staring deeply into its golden blood flames. He seemed to be searching the blazes for answers to the endless questions. A cold wind blew tossing the embers about with their hissings.

People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.

"Bye Ravin, Specula and me will be back in about a hour. Save us some dinner."

A blue haired girl and an azure organoid walked away from a boy and his sleeping shadow. A pair of jade eyes stared at the boy sitting by the camp. It had taken almost two weeks to track him down, but soon it would be worth the effort. A deadly smile slithered up the girl's mouth. So HE is Ravin, he will pay the girl thought in deadly anticipation. Ravin is the one who had put her friend in the comma, and he will pay.

Ravin, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? the girl silently laughed as she fingered the silver dagger in her belt.

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He stared into the fire, searching for answers he could not find elsewhere. I have looked everywhere else, believe me. He reached in his pocket and felt the blood red jewel. He had told no one about the jewel, only Shadow knew of its existence save him of course.

He kept looking into the fire hoping to find the answers. A sigh escaped Ravin. It was useless; the fire wasn't speaking tonight. The wind was talkative but not with the words Ravin wanted to hear.

People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.

He ran the poem through his mind. Other questions flooded his mind at the throb of rhythm of the poem. She had asked him what revenge would leave him, and he hadn't answered thinking to best her. But it had been the answer. He had given up the idea of killing Van and was now traveling with Ryss, but that had brought him no closer to answering the questions of his soul.

Then the golden dragon organoid, Free Fall as Shadow had named her, had given him the ruby. But Free Fall had deemed him weak, weak in what? Ravin felt like screaming under the torture of the plague of questions.

He pulled out the solferino gem from his pocket and stared into its lacuna depths. All he saw was disfigured specters of him. It is something to think about Free Fall had said. But that encounter had just added another sore to his disease of questions. The gem had the power to do anything its master wanted, but to invoke came with a great price. It would be so easy…all he had to do was ask.

"Rooaarrrr." (Do you forget the price that must be paid? Perhaps once you know the answer, you would never be able to obtain it. Every reckless action has its price.) The ebony organoid picked at his master's thoughts.

Sigh, she said it wouldn't be easy. But he felt so alone.

People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.

A stray memory blew through Ravin's mind, I promised you once that as long as I am you will never be alone.

"It would all be so much easier if I knew…if I only knew what," Ravin said to the almost empty night sky.

"Roaarrr." (He thinks of her words, her gifts, and her organoid; all but her.) The sable organoid said to himself.

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She had waited all day, finally the strange blue haired girl and the blue organoid left the dark haired boy, Ravin. She hoarsened the raw anger that had been building in her for weeks. Her muscles tensed for action, her knife gleamed for blood, and her body screamed for revenge.

"RRRROOOooaaaarrrr."

The obsidian organoid had sensed a dangerous power in the bushes. The power wanted revenge. The black organoid knew revenge when he sensed it; after all it had lived with revenge for most of his life.

However, Shadow would protect his master no matter what. It charged at the thing within the bush.

A bolt of electricity erupted at Shadow, short-circuiting him. The black organoid fell with a thud to the ground, motionless. Steam arose off of Shadow from the sheer power of the attack.

Ravin jumped up as soon as he heard Shadow fall to the ground. Rage ran through Ravin's heart at seeing his hurt Shadow. At the same time a flicker of fright flashed through his heart as the stygian creature did not get back up.

Ravin turned his head to the bushes. He saw a creature rise from the shade. All he could see was an outline of the attacker against the setting sun.

The assassin was obviously female, and a well-built one at that Ravin could not help but think.

A sneer crossed the pretty young face.

"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light, Ravin?" she said as the sun completely disappeared, leaving only the full moons of Zi for light.

She tossed her long dark green hair over her shoulders, and powered up her long sword for another lightening attack.

She jumped, her sword slicing through the air. She aimed her attack at Ravin.

Ravin sidestepped the powerful attack, and managed to kick the girl in the stomach.

The force of his kick threw the girl back. She hadn't expected to miss her target. She landed on her feet and swung the sword, swiftly at his head.

Ravin easily dodged and threw an upper cut to her chin. The girl was able to sense his punch in time to evade it. She dropped to her knee and kicked Ravin's feet out from under him.

Ravin fell to the ground with a thud. He saw her stand above him with her sword swaying above his heart. He readied himself to roll away and spring another series of attacks on the girl, but her eyes grew dull and she fainted. Well, Ravin still had to roll some to avoid the sword, but didn't have to hurt the girl.

Ravin got off the ground and picked up the girl's sword and studied it. It was an ordinary sword, except it had strange markings and pictures on the hilt. He then turned his attention to the torpid girl.

Her long hair fell over her beautiful face. She reminded of a fine porcelain doll.

"Roaarrrgggg." (Like a doll that wants your blood to drench the desert sands and wants to rip your head off for some reason or another) Shadow roarg'ed groggily.

He kicked the girl to make sure she was really unconscious, when he heard the whining of another creature.

"Rooaarr, arrghh." (Free Fall go do this, Free Fall go do that. Never mind that you faithfully stayed by my bedside all those long weeks…no months that I was in a coma. But get to work. Never mind that I should be resting! NO! First you must go get that red organoid, it is only a couple of thousands miles away! Oh, and on the way, you should probably stop Ravin and Janine from killing each other.) Free Fall complained in a high-pitched voice. (Well, like I really care if a deranged psycho mauls Mistress's lover boy and pet. No, Janine couldn't just stay put, but just HAD to go off and get revenge! Grrr)

The golden dragon stopped short of the girl once it realized that Ravin and Shadow were staring strangely at her.

"…Rffff…" (Umm….Hello, Ravin…Shadow fancy meeting you two here in a completely random part of the desert. My, my isn't it a small Zi after all?)

Shadow did his best not to laugh at Free Fall, while Ravin gave the gold one an it-is-a-good-thing-your-parents-had-more-than-one-organoid look.

"What are you doing here? And who is that girl?"

Free Fall quickly stepped over the girl and fused with her.

"Rgggg?" Free Fall said hurriedly. (What girl are you talking about? I see no girl. I think that Ryss's cooking must not be agreeing with you! Yeah…that's it. My, my look at the time! It is midnight! Well, it has been great seeing you again, Shadow. But I am a busy little organoid, and have…business to attend to, bubye.)

With that, Free Fall zoomed off before Ravin could get anything else out of her.

"Rooaaarrr." (Ravin, this might not be the best time to mention this..)

"What?"

"Rooaar." (First you almost got your ass kicked by a girl, and then you get had by an organoid.)

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Two girls sat in a dinner.

"Andrea, are you sure that you are okay? I mean we could rest some more?" a girl with long green hair asked with concern for her friend.

"Well, I am not the one who tried to kill the one of the persons who can end this stupid game. The person I worked so hard to keep alive and make him understand the beauty of all life," said Andrea. "Well at least I finally got him to stop killing everything he sees and what do you do? You try to off him!"

"Shut your mouth, before you exhaust yourself."

The waiter looked at the girls. The two girls didn't look like the toughest jerky strips in the jerky package. And he didn't want to see the pretty green haired one get hurt.

"Yall garls 'ad better steer clear of the northern pass. Isa heard that Ravin was last se'n traveling that ways."

"Ravin?" the red headed girl perked up at the mention of the name.

"Yeah-up, lately he has been destroyin' anythin' and everthin' in his there path. We had thought that Zi 'as seen the last of that son of a bitch. But suddenly he 'as been a killin' ever-thing he see'd."

Thud, thud, thud.

"Okay, thanks for the information. It really helped us out," said Janine.

"No pro'lem."

Thud, thud, thud.

"Um....Andrea?" Janine asked with a smile, "Do you think that you should be banging your head on the wall like that, especially since you have only been out of the comma for a month?"

Thud, thud, thud.

"Shut up."

Thud, thud, thud.

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Fire Fox- All done! Yey!

Ravin- *comes in exhausted* Man, you were right. There is no killing a goddess.

Fire Fox- *proudly* Told ya. You can't kill my partner in world domination. By the way I got some pictures off of some Japan site AND I never knew that you were so in touch with your feminine side! Hehehe....

Ravin- Shut up.

Fire Fox- Okay, whatever, Reivun.

Ravin- You are just sick. Besides, I wasn't the one who got caught at Hanky Panky College. com, now was I?

Fire Fox- *gasps* How did you know?! I didn't mean to go there, the stupid computer just redirected me!

Ravin- Sure you were probably looking for some porn...of me!

Fire Fox- Like hell I was! *lunges at Ravin*

Ravin- Whee!!!!

Factoid- Please review! And wow, Fire Fox is actually on two people's favorites list. Thanks Hell Fire (when are you going to post the next chapter?) and EdfanMH (I am not to sure who you are, but thanks!)

And thanks to all those who review! And Biowolf for her love of Hiltz which gave me the idea of how to end this fic.