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Chapter 7

Evil Forest

Tori woke up, and saw that she was in some kind of forest. She got up slowly, feeling sore everywhere.

"'Morning sleepy-head!" the blonde guy said, swishing his tail happily.

Tori groaned, "Where the hell am I?"

The guy ignored her, "Hey! You're kinda cute! My name's Zidane!"

"Good for you." She muttered, "I'm Tori"

"Stop flirting with her and go look for the black mage and the princess!" someone yelled.

"Aww! Shut up, Blank!" Zidane yelled back, and turned to Tori, "Can you still fight?"

"Fight? Sure I can!" She said, cracking her knuckles, "why wouldn't I be able to?"

Zidane gave her an odd look, "You pick a fight with a knight, have a Bomb explode in your face, and you fell off an airship, while it was about to crash. Normal people aren't alright after stuff like that"

"Oh, that? Ain't nuthin' but a few bruises!" she said, "So, who d'ya have to look for?"

"The princess Garnet and some black mage" Zidane answered, already leaving to go look for them, "C'mon! we gotta get goin'!"

"Alright, alright! Don't get you tail inna twist"

"Huh?"

"Nevermind" she muttered, the screamed, "AIKO-CHAN!!! Where is she?!"

"Uh...over there, I think." Zidane said, pointing to a girl lying a few feet away.

Tori ran over to Aiko and started shaking her until she opened her eyes.

"WHAT?! I was finally getting some sleep!"

"Sorry!"

"Yeah, I know you are!" she muttered and then started staring at Zidane.

"What now?"

"Kawaii!" Aiko yelled and hugged Zidane.

Tori rolled her eyes and pried Aiko off Zidane. The monkey-boy looked a little disappointed. They all headed out towards the thick forest to look for the missing princess and mage.

"So, what made you two run on stage?" Zidane asked, "It was kinda weird"

"well, ya see...I have this fear of guards and-"

Tori was cut off when they heard someone screaming. They immediately started running until they came to a clearing where the knight, the mage, and some plant-like creature was. The mage, was lying on the forest floor. Probly just a few bruises.

"What the hell is that thing?!" Zidane yelled.

The knight ignored Zidane and yelled at the plant-thing, "Release the princess!!!!"

"Who says 'release' anymore?" Tori muttered, "freak..."

Aiko pointed at the plant and screamed, "Garnet's stuck in that thing!!!"

They were all running towards the plant to fight, when Zidane stopped. There was this weird light around him that kept getting brighter until his whole body was glowing.

"Lookit all the pretty colours!" Aiko said.

"Wh-what?!" Zidane said looking at his glowing arms"

The knight stared and said slowly, "Is that really trance? I've heard its induced by a surge of emotion..."

Tori blinked, "Trance...? Induced...? Surge...? SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!!!!"

Aiko knocked the knight's and Zidane's heads together and yelled, "We need to fight that thing before the princess dies, stupid!"

"Right!"

Zidane let loose a blast of energy that looked like fire towards the plant and said, "I think I like this trance thing!"

"Don't just stand there grinning! Fight!!!" the knight yelled and slashed at the plant.

"yeah, yeah yeah...Rusty" Zidane muttered.

The knight glared at him and yelled, "I am captain Steiner of the Pluto Knights and-"

"Knights?! Where?!" Tori yelled back after kicking the plan a few times.

"Nevermind..." Steiner said, "Someone heal the Princess!"

"Righty!" Aiko said.

After that, the fight was pretty much over, and the light around Zidane faded away.

"yeah! Take that!!!" Zidane yelled, slashing at the plant one last time. He turned away with a proud look, as the plant got up, and took off, with the princess still inside it.

"Idiot..." Aiko and Tori muttered.

"PRINCESS!!!!!!!!!" Steiner yelled.

The mage got up slowly and said quietly, "She's gone... ...I was too scared to cast any spells... tha-th-THAT MONSTER'S GONNA EAT HER!!!!!!!"

"Its ok kid, we'll find her!" Tori said.

The mage looked up at her and said, "You're the one who knocked me over in Alexandria!!!"

"Ummm...about that kid..."

"My names not kid!" he said TT "Its Vivi..."

"Oops"

Aiko rolled her eyes, and pointed to herself, "Aiko, that's Zidane, and that..." she pointed at Steiner, "Is a maniac. Can you say that? May-nee-ac!"

"And that" Zidane said pointing to another plant-monster, "Is trouble"

This time, Vivi had gotten caught in the plant-monster, and everyone had to fight it again, but with the help of fire magic from the mage. After they had finally killed it, they pulled Vivi out from inside of it, and stood there catching their breath.

"Phew! ...thanks..." Vivi mumbled.

"You ok?" they all asked (except Steiner, who was still yelling "PRINCESS!!!")

Vivi nodded and said, "...wh-whats that noise?"

They all turned around to see a thick green cloud being sprayed at them, hitting Steiner, Vivi and Tori.
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