Author's note: Hello again! Is this thing a day late or not? I don't remember. Christmas had rotted my mind away. Shopping, preparation and the lot. Drives me crazy sometimes. Oh! Good news though, After about a gooooood week and a half or so of slowly basting in my own mucus (Lovely mental image, no?) I am finally over my sickness. Sure the sniffles and stuffed up nose is still there but it's winter. They go hand in hand. Ah and thanks to Sniper Wulf and Chaosrayne for wishing me well, I actually didn't expect anyone to care, it was just another topic among my rants. Anyways thanks for caring you guys!

Ah and for that, anyone who reads this ASIDE from those two should go check out what they're writing. Final Fantasy: The Tale Untold by the Great Sniper Wulf and Final Fantasy Reality by my good rival Chaosrayne. Heh, giving plugs is fun. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

.....Anyways.....What's this next chapter about? Dunno but it looks good. *Wink wink* Ok, looks like I'm outta things to say. Enjoy the story!

OH! And Christmas is in three days!! Do you have all your shopping done? Well you better!! Anyways, I'm expecting to get a nice bundle of games so don't look for updates of ANY kind for....Uh.....A while. But they WILL happen!!! Maybe......

This is Blades. "Good reading equals good times." I'm out. **************************************************************************** ******

Nite sighed. His 'journey' was taking longer then he expected. It was already the middle of the day and all he saw were trees. An endless supply of trees. An endless supply of GREEN trees. Well, only the tops were green the base was brown and rough looking. Nite wondered why bark was so rough. He laughed in spite of himself. Bark and rough, Now he wondered if trees were somehow related to dogs. Just then his eyes widened. Oh man, he was loosing it. If Nite didn't say SOMETHING he would defiantly go insane.

"Ohhhh Vyse, when are we going to get there?" He asked, not hiding his annoyance.

"Well we should be there any minute now." Vyse answered.

*** Vyse stretched and yawned. He wasn't joking around about being there soon, he had traveled to the kingdom many times before and it usually didn't take this long...Maybe he was going too slow, or maybe it was because he was dragging this kid along. He looked over at said kid. He looked quite content with himself as he watched the tree go by. Was he counting them? Vyse didn't know.....Nor did he care at the time being.

Vyse rubbed his eyes to stop them from blurring. When he lowered his hands back down he saw the best sight imaginable. It was one of the towers that were connected to the castle in the kingdom of Lindinbum. Now it really would only take a couple minutes to get there.

"Hey Nite, there it is. The castle of Lindinbum." Vyse said to Nite. They were now close enough to see the entire castle.

"Wow it's so big." Nite said in awe. "I heard that it was the tallest castle in the world but I never expected this." He added, tilting his head back to see the whole thing.

Nite's mind switched to a more important matter. "How are we supposed to find Kage in a huge place like this?"

Vyse just waved his hand and said. "Don't worry about it. He's the one who's gonna find us, not the other way around."

Nite shrugged a shoulder, the started to gaze at the castle some more.

As they were riding, Vyse suddenly heard another chocobo running towards them. He couldn't see it but he could hear it coming closer. Soon enough he saw the yellow bird, with rider, approach them and stop in front of Nite. It was then when Vyse saw the rider.....It was Nite's sister. Vyse sighed at what might happen now.

"Hello brother," She said to Nite, "I have decided to join you on your journey. It was getting some what boring watching you from afar."

Nite smiled. "You know it's about time. I was wondering when you were going to join us." He said, crossing his arms.

Vyse's jaw dropped. "Great now she's on the team...Terrific." He thought to himself.

"Oh by the way," Nite started to say, "this is Vyse. Try to get to know him a little." He added.

Claire stared at Vyse and solemnly nodded.

Vyse thought of asking if Claire could fight but his memories of past experiences with her quickly changed his mind. After the introduction they headed for Lindinbum. This silence was eerie, just having Claire there made him a little more then nervous. But they finally got there and rode to the gate. When they got there they were stopped by a man at he edge of town.

"Sorry," The man said to them, "but no one is allowed in."

Vyse got off his chocobo and walked up to the man. "Why not?" He asked.

"Well the princess is missing and we are not letting any one in out until we find her."

Vyse's eyebrows shot up. "Miss Kathryn is missing?" Vyse asked, almost appalled that this kind of thing could happen.

The man nodded. "Yes, but do not worry she had only been gone for about a day. We should be able to find her in no time at all."

Next thing on Vyse's face to move was his mouth as it hit the ground.

"A day?! She has been missing for a day and you're standing there telling me this like it's the most normal thing in the world?! Why aren't YOU out there helping with the search?!" Vyse screamed in an outrage.

"Please sir, calm down." The man told Vyse, but this only upset him further.

"Calm down?! how do you expect me to calm down when Miss Kathryn is out there by herself?!"

"Sir really. It's ok. She could not have gotted far."

"No, it's not ok! How can you be so calm!!"

"Sir, plea-"

"No! Don't even speak! God!! Some people....."

The man opened his mouth to respond but only a sigh came out, luckily Nite spoke up for him.

"Hey Vyse settle down. Everybody has their job, his happens to be to tell people about the situation. Plus he said that they've got a handle on this so don't get so tense."

Nite's statement shut him up but didn't make him any happier.

"Now if you all would please follow me I will show you to the town where we are sending the others." The man said, directing them to a path on their left.

The three of them were put into a huge line of people that were also entering the town. Vyse sighed. This day was never going to end.

*** When the carriage reached Lindinbum it was already very dark. Ked and K.C. were both sleeping under some sheets that were lying around. To Tera and Bridget's surprise, their carriage was abruptly stopped.

"Sorry," a voice said to the driver, "no one is allowed in at this time."

Tera moved up to the front of the carriage. "Why are we not allowed in?"

The man looked at her and said something like 'not again' before speaking up.

"The princess is missing, but PLEASE don't worry she has not been gone long. We will find her shortly."

Tera was shocked by the news. Her uncle had a daughter? She knew she hadn't been in touch with him for quite a while but she should have heard that he had a daughter!

"If I may ask," Tera said in royal fashion, "what is her name?"

The man straightened up to say the name of her highness. "It is Kathryn Casin, daughter of Arthur Casin, King of Lindinbum."

"Hmmm, ok then. What does she look like? How old is she?"

"She has long, blonde, flowing hair. Crystal green eyes, and from what has been reported, she should be wearing a long yellow dress. She has been seven for approximately two months, five weeks and three days."

Tera nodded in somewhat of a daze from the drawn out answer. She scratched her head. That description almost matched K.C. but she was wearing some white clothed not a yellow dress. Plus she doubted they were one in the same anyways. She looked back at the man.

"Well if I see her I will send her back here right away."

The man smiled, said thank you, and sent them to the line of people waiting to get into the other town.