"Kuja..."

"what?" I heard myself irritably anwser. I was lying in the middle of nowhere, defeated. My last memory was me being impaled by the Iifa Trees renegade roots. I looked down, my body was intact. wow, I thought to myself, It looked like I needed more than a band aid to fix that..."who are you?" I asked of the abyss.

"that's not important..." the voice resonated

"uh... I think it is... how am I going to believe anything you say if I don't even know your name?" Kuja challenged reasonably. The voice seemed to think to its self.

"I am King Chocobo..." the voice answered after a long pause.

"whatever, but anyways, what do you want with me?" Kuja asked.

"I need you to go on a quest for me, seeing that you have nothing else better to do..."

Kuja looked at his nails, "how do you know I don't need a manicure?"

"ok, fine, I guess I ll let you sit here as I ask OTHER, more better villains for this quest..."

"NO!!!" Kuja said in spite of himself. He looked around, but heard a snicker and the word "sucker" said softly.

"I'm glad you accept, however, I need you to join forces with three others... I need you to go to Alexandria Castle for your first victim, then to a cave near Treno for your second, then to Lindblum for the third. But you need my pet, a Moogle, who will assist you in your journey."

"why me?" Kuja asked as the black around him began to dissipate, he looked around, he was just outside Alexandria. He looked up, the castle had been rebuilt to its former glamour. "I guess Garland was right..." he grumbled as something soft landed on his head. "WHAT THE HELL!?!" he screamed.

"Kupo! I am Stiltzkin! The traveling Moogle!" the strangely dressed Moogle responded. Kuja looked at it, "I remember you, why were you with the Chocobimbo?"

Stiltzkin looked down, "I kinda got into an accident, and I died, but the great Chocobo King gave me a second chance, as he did you, kupo!"

Kuja rolled his eyes, "who do we need to get for our quest?" Stiltzkin jumped up.

"kupopo! We need to find the General Beatrix!" Kuja rolled his eyes, "Just my luck, I need to recruit one of the very people that got in my way... just PEACHY!" he yelled at himself.

Stiltzkin looked at his companion, "are you done?"

Kuja sigh softly "bring it on..."