Only two more chapters after this one, la ta te de ta! YAH!! I am excited, if you couldn't tell... Hey, I was thinking... hmm... I had completely forgot about the little girl from chapter 6. But, in this chapter, she is here again, but she looks different, much different. Ok? Good, I cleared that up, so... Hwahahahaha, writing that last chapter was so much fun! *sigh* Especially the last part *grins evilly*. Well, this chapter is Georgia scolding Anthony, Anthony being scared, then Georgia and Anthony kissing again... But that's not all! *eyes widen* Wait... oh crap, I gave away some of the chapter's plot! Stupid, stupid me!!
Aretha: Wow, you finally agree that you're stupid. And I thought you actually had absolutely NO intelligence...
*scowls at conscience* You will suffer for making fun of PianZoe. SPEAK WEIRDETH!! *whops Aretha in the back of the head, knocking her down*
Aretha: You REALLY begin me to bother, you know that? And this that did me been done you, I seem as a baby!
*smirks* I don't understand a word you're saying, I'm so happy. Now read the disclaimer to them, Aretha!
Aretha: *The growl, the growl* the Refusal: PianZoe does not possess any Wild ARMS 3 or does not import what that must do with that. She possesses only the half the land, Anthony, Kenji, Aleksey, Oriole, and Aiko. CiaHotte possesses Georgia and Anastasia and the other half of the land. HAPPY NOW? *grumbles continuous* And do did not forget to send a magazine to CiaHottie, also, to DLRT1990@msn.com, because PianZoe is not the alone the one to write on this fan fic.
Hee, hee, hee, hee! I couldn't understand a single word you said! And I don't own half of land, how could I? I'm only 14! Plus, I do possess a Wild ARMs 3, I just don't own the company and such! *rolls eyes* And she means 'review,' not magazine... Anyway, last time:
""Aiko Eleniak was... um... well, uh... she was more than a friend... much more... and Anastasia... um, she... she is... my daughter..." he muttered, but both
Kaitlyn and Georgia heard him. Kaitlyn's jaw dropped, while Georgia stood away from the wall, her eyes wide, her mouth in a snarl, and her fists balled. Anthony
was in deep trouble... Georgia was shocked, sure, but even more than that, she was enraged.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT??!?!?!!""
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Anthony could tell by the way that Georgia had yelled, that saying anything about Aiko and Anastasia was a huge mistake. Georgia growled loudly, brought her hands up, and smashed her right fist into her left palm quickly, making Anthony jump, backing up against the back of the bed. 'She is going to kill me. She is going to kill me. Run... run... RUN!! Do something besides just sit here and shake like a baby, RUUUUUUUUUUNNNN!!' his mind yelled at him, but he just sat there staring at the infuriated Georgia, shaking. 'Pff, I guess Janice was right, I am still a chicken underneath... Afraid of the girl I love... Ha!'
"WHY DIDN'T YOU EVER TELL ME YOU WERE MARRIED!? UHH!! I WAS SO STUPID! AND GUESS WHAT?! YOU WERE RIGHT, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU LOVE ME!! YOU PROBABLY JUST WANTED ME TO BELIEVE YOU LOVED ME FOR PERVERTED REASONS, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?!" she screamed, stomping up to the bed, and leaning closer to him. He backed as close to the wall as possible, gripping the pillow he was sitting on. Georgia could see him shaking his head vigorously, and she just scoffed. "YEAH RIGHT, LIKE I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO BELIEVE THAT YOU DON'T!! TELL ME YOURSELF WHAT YOU PLANNED TO DO BY LYING TO ME, TELLING ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, RIGHT NOW!!" she demanded, slamming her fists down on the bed, a little too close to his legs for his liking, and he jumped.
He held his hands up in front of him, in defense. "Ok! Ok! Two years ago, I was feeling extra dejected about my past, and went to a bar to drink away my problems. So, I got drunk, and met Aiko. Well, she was intoxicated also. I don't remember much about this, because of the state I was in, but we were kind of attracted to each other, so, we... um... you know... well, the next morning, I didn't really know her, but she was calling me her husband, and that convinced me that we must have gotten married that night. After about two months, we found out she was pregnant, and then seven months after that, she had Anastasia, and I found out we never really got married, and had to leave, because I never really loved her, only thought that because we were 'married,' that I had to stay with her. She lied to me, so I was right!... Right?" he muttered the last part to himself, and as he did so, suddenly Georgia slapped him quite hard across the face. He put his hand to his face, and looked up at her, a confused look on his face.
"YOU IDIOT!!! YOU LEFT HER RIGHT AFTER SHE HAD THE BABY JUST BECAUSE SHE LIED TO YOU AND YOU DIDN'T LOVE HER?! WHAT IF SHE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT YOU GUYS GOT MARRIED, OR WAS STILL DRUNK WHEN SHE SAID THAT!? THAT'S NO REASON TO LEAVE SOMEONE ALONE WHEN THEY HAVE A BABY, YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST STAYED WITH HER A YEAR!!!" Georgia was furious. 'How can he be so STUPID?! Leaving the one that had his baby! She probably needed him! HE'S SO AGGRAVATING!!' she thought, reaching up to the collar of his shirt, and grabbing it. She then began to shake him, possible to knock some sense into his thick scull. (A/n: -_-)
Anthony bit his lip, but it was the wrong thing to do, when Georgia was shaking him, so he bit into it a little too far, making it bleed. When Georgia stopped shaking him, she looked down, and sighed, to perhaps calm herself. He looked down as well, and said, "I'm sorry... I know that it was wrong. You probably don't love me any more, right? I could understand perfectly if you hated my guts. I know I do. I'll just leave now... Arrivederci..." he got up off the bed, his head still down, grabbed his stuff, and walked out of the room. Georgia looked up, and around, to the door, then to Kaitlyn, who looked understanding.
"You were right, Georgia. He is an idiot, but think about it. He didn't love her, and they weren't married, and she lied, just to get him to stay with her. Who knows, maybe she was just one of those girls I heard about and told you about, the ones who go around using guys for... uh hum. I forgot, the doors open, Kenji and Aleksey might hear us." she explained, and Georgia bit her lip, then stood up, and ran out of the room in the direction Anthony left. Kaitlyn sighed, and walked out, towards Meira, shaking her head. "Those two are some of the most complicated people I know. Wouldn't you agree, Meira?" she asked, and Meira nodded her head, then looked towards Aleksey who was staring at her out of the corner of his eyes. She smiled at him, and waved slightly, making him yelp, jumping, and making the chair topple backwards, bringing him with it. Kaitlyn burst out laughing. "I think he has a crush on you, Meira. Aw, how cute!" she exclaimed, and looked to Meira, who was staring at Aleksey with wide eyes and red tinged cheeks. Kaitlyn gave Meira a look of amusement, then burst out laughing again. Meira noticed this, and her already red cheeks darkened.
Meanwhile, Georgia rushed to find Anthony. He couldn't leave, they were still in the air, but she couldn't find him. She began to fear the worst when she heard a sigh come from her right. She ran around the corner, to find Anthony sitting next to a door that she had never noticed before now. He had his head down still, and was obviously waiting for Lombardia to land so he could leave. "Anthony?" she walked up to him, and knelt down in front of him. He didn't look up, and didn't acknowledge her in any way. She then reached forward, grabbed him, and pulled him into her arms. "I'm sorry... I don't hate you, I still love you, I could never hate you... and don't hate yourself. I'm sure you had good reason to leave her. She probably was just using you or something... I'm so, so sorry. I was just angry... that happens a lot, I have a bizarre personality, one minute I can be calm, the next bouncing off the walls happy, and the next angry and about ready to kill something. Please don't leave. I believe you." she apologized, and soon felt Anthony's arms go around her, making her slightly smile.
"You don't need to be sorry, I needed to be scolded. I scolded myself, but it didn't work that well. And... what exactly do you mean, you believe me? You believe what I told you, or you believe that I... I love you? Because both are true..." he stated, pulling away from her, and looking into her wide emerald green eyes. He leaned closer, and his lips connected with her's, in their second kiss. She then leaned her upper body closer to him, and he pulled on her waist, bringing her onto his lap. They were lucky that they were in a more secret area, or else they would be disturbed once again.
* + * = **
She watched from the shadows as Janice stormed into the cave she had spent the last week or so in. Janice threw her bayonet to the side, flopped down in front of the circle of rocks she used for fires, and lit a fire in it. This was the perfect time to surprise Janice, but she did nothing. Janice began grumbling about how she couldn't seem to ever kill the correct person that she aimed for, but at least the Enduro girl was dead. The girl in the shadows decided this moment to make her appearance. She walked forward, an innocent look on her face. Janice heard her footsteps, and looked behind her, to see a girl that looked around 19 standing at about 5'5", with long silky deep purple hair, a red scarf, golden eyes, a tight black long sleeved sweater, a black mini skirt, and black boots that came about a centimeter below her knees. "Hello, Janice Cascade." she greeted in a monotone, a vicious smile forming on her lips. Janice blinked, then frowned, and reached for her bayonet, but then remembered that she had thrown it to the side, and cursed under her breath.
"Who are you? What do you want? Wait a minute... your voice sounds familiar. Do I know you?" Janice asked, staring at the girl as she slowly made her way forward. Janice narrowed her eyes, as the girl stopped, and narrowed her eyes, then widened then back to normal.
"Who am I? What do I want? I sound familiar? Do you know me? You might know me, I have visited you before. I want you to help me, and I will help you. And I am Giovanna. Just Giovanna. You are Janice Cascade, younger sister of Janus Cascade who was supposedly killed by Jet Enduro, Virginia Enduro (previously Virginia Maxwell), Clive Winslett, and Gallows Caradine. Daughter of Kylie and Emery Cascade. Am I correct?" Giovanna asked, and Janice frowned, nodding her head. Giovanna's smile turned to a triumphant smirk, as she reached down with one hand, grabbed the front of Janice's jacket, pulled her up to her feet, held her other hand out to the bayonet, and it came flying into her hand. Janice's eyes widened, and her jaw dropped, as she pointed at the bayonet, stuttering. "Yes, yes, your bayonet can fly, whatever, just take it, and get whatever else you'll need and come with me. Now." Giovanna shoved the bayonet into Janice's hands, and walked back into the shadows.
"What ARE you?!" Janice exclaimed, and heard nothing but a childish giggle (A/n: Hint, hint) come from the shadows. She grabbed her stuff, and followed Giovanna into the shadows, confused. "Where are we going? I can't see anything. Are you sure you aren't just leading me into a trap? Because if you are -"
"Speaking of traps, shut your's or I will be forced to do it for you. To answer your ever present questions, what I am is of no concern to you. Where we are going is to where I have been staying for the past week or so while you stayed in that cave. And if I lead you into a trap, I would lose my minion, so what good what that do me?" Giovanna answered, and Janice snapped, shooting her bayonet into the darkness in front of her.
"I am NO ONE'S minion!! If that's all you want me for, forget it, find yourself another servant!" she spat, and heard Giovanna's footsteps slow to a stop. She smirked in triumph, thinking she had shot Giovanna, but then she realized something. If she had really shot and at least hit Giovanna, she would have heard a reaction, but she heard absolutely nothing but silence. Suddenly, about three yards in front of her, a pair of enraged golden eyes appeared out of no where. Janice's eyes widened, and she heard her bayonet clatter to the ground. The golden eyes unexpectedly began to come towards her, at an amazing speed. In no time flat, the eyes were only a foot from Janice's face, and the air around them began to change, it felt as if they were in a cave of ice. Janice felt as if she were to be frozen alive, and found a thousand years later.
"Now listen here." Janice heard a voice quite similar to Giovanna's (A/n: No duh, it is Giovanna) hiss directly in front of her face, making her tense in fear. "I am not going to tolerate you attempting to shoot me - although I know you will never hit me, I will not permit my inferior assistant to even try it. We are on the same side, there is no need to shoot one another." the voice was ten times more poisonous than Janice's, and she didn't like that one single bit.
"O-o-ok..." Janice muttered, her voice only a mere whisper, and her eyes wider than her fists. The eyes seemed to dim a bit, and turned away from her, the air around Janice moderately warming up. Janice let her body relax a bit, and she sigh in relief. As soon as she did, though, an unexpected fire flickered to life, and she jumped about three inches off the ground. She examined the cave, noticing that the fire was in the middle of the room, and that Giovanna was on the right, floating in mid air, her eyes closed, her left arm stretched out with her left hand up with her palm facing the opposite wall, her right arm stretched out similarly with her right hand's palm up against the back of her left hand, and her legs curled up underneath her. Janice examined the rest of the cavern - above the fire a colorful dust zigged and zagged, almost in a dance; on the walls were shelves holding different spices, herbs, powders, liquids; on the ground were different colored rugs, all made of beautiful material of which Janice had never seen; and there were different colored roses scattered in different places, some even two-toned. Janice was completely astounded. "What ARE...? And... and what is all - whoa..." Janice found that she couldn't even finish a single sentence. Giovanna just giggled, and her eyes snapped open, looking towards Janice, her mouth curving upwards in a small smirk.
"Never seen Dream Demon possessions, correct? Just as I thought."
* + * = **
Georgia peaked around the corner of the wall, and then glanced back, motioning that the coast was clear. She then quickly snuck around the corner, towards her bedroom, Anthony close behind her. She immediately spotted Kaitlyn coming their way, and pushed Anthony behind a chair, ducking down after him. She placed a finger over her lips, and peaked out from behind the chair. Her eyebrows furrowed in thought. "Where did she go?" she whispered to herself, slightly miffed at hiding for nothing after all. But, suddenly, she heard someone clearing their throat, and she glanced to the right. There stood Kaitlyn, her arms crossed, smirking down at them. Georgia coughed, smiled embarrassedly, and looked back at Anthony. His face was a deep shade of vermilion, and he was just staring down at the floor. Georgia looked back up at Kaitlyn, then slowly stood and brushed her skirt off.
"Hmm, what do we have here? Georgia and Anthony... sneaking back to Georgia's room... I wonder why... hehehehe..." Kaitlyn giggled, and covered her mouth with her hand. Georgia frowned at her and placed her hands on her hips. (A/n: Oh great, I made Kaitlyn act like a pervert now! First she's an air-head, then she's a know-it-all that loves to tease people, and NOW she's perverted... *shakes head* Mix all those together and you got... WHAT!!! Gallows?! O.o OH NO, Kaitlyn is a female version of Gallows?! But... she's Clive's daughter!! Never mind me, I'm just having a random freak-out moment.)
"I just so happen to know what you're thinking - you have a perverted mind, Kaitlyn. That is not why we are heading back to my room; we wanted to talk in private." she stated, then grabbed Anthony's real arm, and pulled him up to his feet. "Isn't that right Anthony?" she didn't wait for an answer, and began dragging him towards her room.
"Suuuuuuure, you two just go 'talk privately.' I'll ask you about it later." Kaitlyn whispered the second part under her breath, and snickered as she saw Georgia and Anthony both turn crimson. She waved at them as they disappeared into Georgia's room, and as soon as she was sure they were at least four feet away from the door, she snuck over and pressed her ear up against the door.
The first thing Georgia did when they got into the room was let go of Anthony's arm. She then sat down on the bed, and smiled up at Anthony. "So, what was it you were wanting to say in private?" she asked, and she noticed Anthony nervously glance back at the door, then glare at it. She looked over, and seemed to realize what he was thinking - Kaitlyn was probably listening in to their conversation. 'Oh well,' Georgia thought, shrugging and looking back at Anthony, 'At least she won't think we're lying to her when she asks if we really were talking.' "It's alright Anthony, if she wants to listen in on our conversation, let her do it, so she'll know we weren't lying." she said out loud - loud enough for Kaitlyn to hear. Anthony sat down on a chair, looking straight at Georgia, and her doing likewise, her mouth curled upwards in a gentle smile. "So, what were you wanting to talk about?"
"Um... well, uh... I knew this would come in handy..." Anthony murmured under his breath, and reached into one of his pants pockets. Georgia's eyes widened, when she saw him bring out a little box - it couldn't be. She clenched her fists, and felt her heart jump into her throat, butterflies taking it's place. Anthony looked up at her, and she could tell he was nervous as well. Anthony gulped, and Georgia did likewise. It was too soon! They just admitted they loved each other, and he was already proposing? It was... unusual. Anthony scooted off the chair, and onto his knees. 'Was that right? Is it both knees - oh damn, this is really hard. How on Filgaia can people do this?! Course it's probably harder since we just admitted our feeling for each other... but still!' he thought, and straightened his back. He then adjusted his face so that he didn't look so squirmy, and sighed, opening up the box. He pulled out it's contents, grabbed Georgia's fist - which, when he did, she straightened her hand out so it was no longer a fist - and slid the ring he held onto her ring finger. "Uh, um... Will you please marry me? That didn't sound as romantic as I wanted it to, dammit." he cursed, snapping his fingers. After he had uttered the words 'marry me,' Georgia had felt herself get lightheaded, like she was going to faint. But before she could faint, or say yes, the two heard an excited shriek come from the other side of the door.
Kaitlyn jumped away from the door, squealing gleefully, clapping her hands. "I LOVE WEDDINGS, OH, OH, OH, ANTHONY AND GEORGIA, EEEEEEEE!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!" she glanced behind her, to see many surprised faces. She grinned, and exclaimed, "Anthony just proposed to Georgia!!!!" (A/n: Now she's the air-head again. Hmm.)
Inside the room, Anthony was fuming, and Georgia was still a little lightheaded. Anthony looked from the door up to Georgia's face, and his rage diminished. He gripped her hand more firmly, and looked directly into her eyes. She felt her wooziness leave her, and she grinned joyfully. "YES!! Yes, Anthony, of course!! Of course I will!" she answered, taking her hand out of his and wrapping her arms around him tightly. He did likewise, and then they heard some loud murmurings from the other room. They broke away from their embrace, and ran out of the room, to see the others staring at Kaitlyn, who was staring out one of the windows. Georgia glanced at Anthony, then ran up to Kaitlyn, and tapped her lightly on the shoulder. "Kaitlyn? Is something wrong?" she asked, and Kaitlyn just pressed her face up against the window.
"Does... doesn't that look... like... a type of sign?" she questioned, and Georgia glanced out of the window. She gasped when she saw a formation in the sand below them - it looked like the word 'Help,' and not too far away from it was what seemed to be a campsite. She shouted out for Lombardia to land almost immediately, and Kaitlyn backed slowly away from the window, blinking slowly. "I... wonder if... it might be... maybe..." she muttered slowly under her breath, her excitement building up. She felt the ends of her lips curling upwards, as she rubbed her left hand over her right hand knuckles. "I hope... I hope... I never saw it... before... maybe..." she turned around, to see that the only ones there were Meira, Aleksey, and Kenji, and in their hands they held their stuff. When she saw this, a part of her mind snapped back into place, and she ran to her room to gather her stuff.
As Lombardia landed, she shook so much that it knocked some of the people inside of her down. The eight people exited her, walking directly into the campsite which they had landed in.
Kaitlyn glanced around, and nervously walked a couple steps forward. "Hello? Is anyone here?" she called, and as she did, she heard a shuffling noise and a voice. "Who is there?" she inquired, taking a few more steps. Suddenly, a short little red-haired, blue-green eyed boy peeked his head out from under a blanket, startling her. "Wow, hey! Who are you?" Kaitlyn asked, squatting down in front of the toddler. He blinked up at her and giggled.
"Razi Caradine!" he exclaimed, and Kaitlyn fell back onto her posterior, her face twisting in confusion. Razi stumbled out from under the blanket, and ran to the right, shouting "Mommy, Daddy, Uncle, there are people here that fly in a big blue and grey bird!!" Kaitlyn turned back towards the others, and mouthed the words 'did he say his last name is Caradine?'
Suddenly, three people came back with Razi, and Kaitlyn's heart beat fast. Two looked familiar. One in particular, though. Greying green hair, blue eyes behind cracked glasses... she stood, and watched as the greying green haired man's eyes widened upon seeing her. "Kaitlyn?" he asked, fixing his glasses, as if what he was seeing couldn't possibly be true.
Kaitlyn felt tears spring to her eyes, and her mouth curled up into an extremely gleeful smile. "Yes, it's me, Daddy!" she began running in Clive's direction, and embraced him, more happy than she had been in what seemed like forever. He welcomed her embrace, and returned it. "I have missed you so much, Dad! I wish that stupid Kylie Cascade and her daughter Janice had never ever kidnaped you, or, whatever they did to you!"
"I wish they hadn't, too, Kaitlyn, but it cannot be changed. I missed you and your mother so much! How is she? Please tell me she is alright." he pulled away from her and looked into her eyes. Kaitlyn nodded, and as Clive was about to continue, they heard a noise that sounded like a voice. The voice was pushed to the back of their minds as they heard Razi call out.
"Who are you guys?" he asked the eight of whom he didn't know; as in, Virginia, Jet, Georgia, Anthony, Aleksey, Kenji, Kaitlyn, and Meira. They all looked at him, in confusion, then to the two adults beside him. "Mommy, Daddy, who ARE they?!" Razi exclaimed, tugging on the red haired woman beside him's extremely short shorts.
The woman bent over and picked him up, then looked around, smiling. "Well, ah know four of these people. Those two over there," she pointed towards Virginia and Jet, "were Uncle Clive and Daddy's teammates, Virginia and Jet, that," she pointed to Anthony, "is a guy ah met a few months ago, Anthony, and that," she pointed to Meira, "is... wait a minute, you met her before, remember? She's Meira, the girl you played with a few weeks ago!" the woman said, and Razi grinned from ear to ear.
"Aunt MEIRA!!" he jumped down from his mother's arms, and zipped over to Meira, knocking her to the ground. Aleksey glared at Razi - an extremely hard glared. If looks could kill, Aleksey would be arrested for murder. "YAYAYAY!!" Razi shouted, pulling on Meira's arms. "PLAY WITH ME, AUNTIE MEIRA!!!"
Virginia looked closer at the woman, then blinked, and asked, "Becky? From Claiborne? Is that you?"
Becky grinned, and nodded her head in agreement. "Yep, it's me!"
"But, why are you all the way out here?"
"Remember, Ah told you, Ah was going to become a Drifter? Well, Ah did, and then Ah found Gallows and Clive about three years ago, all alone out here. Ah joined up with them, and then after a while Gallows proposed to me, then a year later Ah had Razi."
"Well, congratulations!" Virginia exclaimed, grinning as well.
Suddenly, they heard the voice again, and Georgia looked towards the desert and saw a woman about 150 yards away, who seemed to be talking to herself. Georgia squinted, and suddenly recognized the woman. Her eyes narrowed, and a small growl escaped her lips. "Janice." she hissed. The others looked that way to see her also, and began to take out their ARMs. And Georgia called out, "Janice!" Janice's attention snapped to them. They began to run towards her, and she did likewise towards them.
She shot a few rounds at Anthony, as a bullet zipped by her ear, coming from one of Virginia's pistols. Anthony's arm began to form into a large shotgun, getting glances full of awe from the other team members. He shot a full round towards Janice, and the bullets dug into her skin. Jet grabbed the Airget-lamh B/V2 away from Kenji, handing him a style of ARM that none of them had seen before, then aimed it at Janice, hitting her chest, causing her to fall back onto her posterior. Georgia walked up and aimed her pistols at Janice's head.
"I guess the tables turned, huh, bitch?" Georgia snarled, shocking everyone - not including herself. "Should I kill you right now, or should we just put you in jail? I really feel in the mood to take your life at the moment, but I'll be generous." she spat, making Janice shrink back in fear. By now, Kaitlyn had fainted in shock that Georgia could be so... vicious. Virginia looked to Jet with a look that said, 'So, she DID get some of your attitude,' and he scowled.
All of a sudden, a diabolical laugh sounded above them, and they suddenly all felt as if they were being ripped apart from the inside out. Many of them screamed out in pain, and some just grimaced (Jet, Clive, and Anthony).
They all were then surrounded by black and white walls that showed their reflections. Virginia, Jet, Clive, and Gallows all recognized this, but they were too much in pain to really think about it.
Soon, they found themselves in a cave. The pain disappeared, and the examined the area. Janice recognized this place to be Giovanna's temporary 'home'. She gulped in horror, and began to slowly slink off towards the exit. But, before she could leave, she was caught by the wrist, and pulled back next to Georgia, who was giving her the most deadliest look she had ever seen - even worse than her own.
In the middle of the room, a ball of the black and white stuff from before appeared, then disappeared, and in it's place stood Giovanna. Virginia, Jet, Clive, and Gallows all seemed taken aback by what had just taken place. "B... Beatrice?" Virginia asked in a stuttered whisper. (A/n: Cue music that plays when Beatrice is there, except, edited and a bit more evil sounding)
Giovanna giggled, and floated upwards a bit, so her feet were about a foot and a half off the ground. She held out her hand, and in it materialized a candy that swirled upwards like a white stick, with brown spots all down each side, and chocolate in the middle. She smiled cynically, holding it out towards the group. "Pirouette?" she asked, and more of the pirouettes appeared in her hand, except they all were different colors - most were white and chocolate brown. Everyone declined, and Giovanna just shrugged, taking one and placing one of it's ends in her mouth. "I love these human candies, they are so... so much better than our candies, back at home." she nibbled it, and that end crumbled into her mouth. "Well, I better get down to business. First of all, no, I am not my mother, Beatrice." all in the room gasped in shock - well, except Janice. "And second of all, I should tell you, I was that child that you," she pointed towards Georgia, then Anthony, then Kaitlyn, "three thought had gotten eaten by that green Felinalk. Before you ask me all these pointless questions, I will tell you why I looked like a child then - it was because, I needed to look like an innocent child who had lost her family, so I had one of the elder Dream Demon make me into a child, temporarily. Third of all, my name is Giovanna."
"Giovanna, I no longer have anything to do with this, so I am just going to leave now. Fine 'ith you? Thanks!" Janice declared, then turned on her heel, and begin quickly stalking towards the exit. A blast of dark energy blasted at Janice and engulfed her, making her scream out in agony. Giovanna shouted angry words in an unknown language, tightening the darkness around her. Janice's blood began to flow as the dark blades cut through her skin, muscles, everything. The dark blades disappeared as Giovanna stopped her shouting, and Janice's dead body fell to the ground, in a mass of blood and other innards... it was a horrifying sight. Kaitlyn and Meira couldn't hold their lunch in at the sight, Georgia almost lost her's, Aleksey nearly fainted, Kenji hid his face, Anthony, Clive, and Jet just looked at it, Virginia and Becky fainted, and Gallows nearly gagged.
"Yes, Janice, you are quite right. You no longer have anything to do with this." Giovanna spoke in a tone of voice that sounded like a mix between amusement and malevolence. The nine turned back towards her, to see her facing towards the right. They turned in that direction, to see David materialize there - Kaitlyn screamed, and ran to him, embracing him, enraged at Giovanna for getting him involved. "Now that we are all here, I must tell you all, I am continuing what my Mother started. When you four Drifters thought my mother was dead, you were incorrect. Remember, she told you something along the lines that you wouldn't win? Well, that is because, she knew that she had been defeated, and she knew she would be after you guys fought her Filgaia, and won. She knew even before that, that is why in her spare time, she trained me. Told me what to do, how to do it, who to do it for - if she was defeated, take her place. She told me even to not be angry if she was defeated, because then, I could do it for her. She died after she told me everything that had happened, and I then began to work in her place. But, enough with the explanations, I need to get you out of my way. Prepare for your worst nightmare."
As she said this, darkness engulfed them all, then all was lit up again, by moonlight. The ten humans were now standing in a circle, Giovanna in the very middle. She looked extremely different. Her hair was now a honey-mustered yellow color, came only down an inch past her shoulders, some hung in her face, and it seemed to float as if their was no gravity. Her right eye glowed vermillion, and there was absolutely no pupil - only the iris and the white around it. Her left eye, was totally and completely red, no white even. Her skin was now emerald, with silvery color spots down her arms. She wore a beautiful silver dress that looked like a ball gown a princess would wear, with black roses around her waist, neckline, and the bottom edge of the skirt, it had navy blue chiffon for sleeves, and around her neck she wore a beautiful rose pendant, that changed colors, from white, to black, to blue, and finally to silver. On her legs she wore black hosiery, with sapphire colored sandals. And, she had, attached to her back, an odd thing similar to her mother's that came out in front of her as well.
They all drew their ARMs, or, whatever they had to defend themselves, and Giovanna outstretched her arms straight out from her sides. "Let the battle begin." Giovanna's voice echoed through the whole arena (couldn't call it a cave any more...), but not once did her mouth move. The sound of backwards sounding music played, and the whole arena shook, and as soon as it stopped, Meira, Aleksey, Kenji, David, and Becky all fell down to the floor, asleep. And with that, it began.