Disclaimer: I don't own FFIX. How many times must it be said? …Oh, you still don't understand? Then how's this…? I don't own FFIX, I don't own FFIX, I don't own FFIX, I don't own FFIX, I don't own FFIX, I don't own FFIX!!! ...Get it now?

A/N: Yaay! I wracked my brain all day when I was supposed to be studying (oops) but I FINALLY came up with another chapter! Woo-hoo! The reviews are working! My brain lives on and creates new chapters!

…Don't mind me^_^"

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"Where is he!?"

Miyoko stood screaming at the entrance to Pandemonium when Garland appeared before her.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," he soothed.

"Garland! I have little time or patience for your games! Tell me, what did you do to Zidane!?"

"Why does a soul seek the accompaniment of another being? And why Miyoko do you insist on defying me?"

Miyo stood facing him trying to come up with something, anything to say.

"Just tell me where he is!" She could feel her face turning red with anger and held Garland's gaze challengingly.

Garland turned his back on her, "I believe you already know the answer to that question."

(Gaia…)

The thought pressed itself against her mind and seemed to taunt her at every turn.

Miyo held it all in. She had known, so why did she even bother asking? Garland wouldn't even give her a straight answer…the true confirmation she needed.

"I knew this would happen," Garland continued, "I thought I forbade you to speak with him. Now what am I going to do?" A menacing smirk appeared on the old man's face. "Perhaps I should do away with the memory that so plagues you…"

Miyoko would not let it happen and took up a fighting stance.

Garland laughed at the sight before him. "So you will fight me then? How pathetic…I knew your will would be too strong…just like Kuja's. Miyoko, you too are nothing more than a defect that should have been done away with long before now. If you wish to fight me, so be it. I can end this all right now."

Before she could even think, Miyo was on the ground, rolling in the pain that tore at her from all sides. She recognized the attack immediately, it was ancient Terran black magic, and she also knew there was no way to stop it.

And then, it all went black. Nothing, no one, nowhere, just black. All her thoughts, memories and emotions, just lost in this black… there was nothing.

She couldn't think. Words spilled out of her mouth, though she didn't even know what the words meant.

"Where am I? What is this? Why is it so cold…?"

The questions kept coming…it was endless, just like the eternal darkness before her.

"What about…Zidane…….?"

She repeated the name over and over…she knew that name.

(Zidane…)

She let it run through her mind, just playing back the only thing she could understand. The only thing that made sense. She was in that room again. The room covered in the beautiful orange light…but, she was alone….