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Chapter 13
Last Waltz

"Why did you DO that?!" Vivi screamed at the Black Waltz, as Steiner and Zidane ran out on deck to help. "Weren't they your friends?!"

It shrugged, "Friends? They were nothing but dolls. Why should I care about them?"

Something around Vivi flashed, and then a bright light surrounded him. "Trance!" Zidane yelled, and ran into battle. Vivi was shooting streams of fire towards the Waltz, not giving Zidane or Steiner a chance to get in an attack very much. He was holding up on his own really well anyways.

"Vivi! You gonna do all the work here, or you gonna let us attack every now and then?" Zidane called, and dodged a lightning bolt the Waltz and sent at him. Vivi ignored him and kept sending fire at the Waltz. Finally, the Waltz gave them a look that said, "Screw this" and flew off.

Zidane and Steiner stopped to catch their breath while Vivi leaned over the guard rail to sulk. Steiner was about to walk over and cheer him up a little, but Zidane shook his head and whispered, "He needs a little alone time right now". They both went back to the cockpit to check on Dagger.

"HOLY SHIT!!!" Tori yelped, "Vivi just beat the crap outta that guy!!!"

"Duh" Aiko muttered, "Hey, where did that thing go anyways?"

Zidane shrugged, "Over the edge of the guard rail I guess." And then he turned to Dagger to say, "Hey!! Your doing a great job flying this!"

"You think so?" Dagger asked, blushing a little.

"PRINCESS!!!!" Steiner yelled, "It's the Black Waltz! He's chasing after us!"

Sure enough, outside, the Black Waltz was on a much smaller airship and was following very closely behind them.

"Do those things ever give up?" X asked.

"Obviously not!" Aiko said calmly, but was really holding back the urge to scream bloody murder, "We need to turn around or something!"

Zidane shook his head, "No can do. It'll be a bict tricky, but we'll hafta try and lose him at the Gates"

Dagger gave him a shocked look, "But...the Gates are closing!"

Zidane coughed, "That's...erm...the tricky part"

"O-okay..." Dagger said doubtfully and set the speed on the cargo ship to the max. AS they got closer to the Gate, they could see it was closing. Slowly, but enough that it might cause a problem.

"Did I ever tell you I'm afraid of closed spaces?" Zidane joked. He was rewarded with a punch from Tori.

The cargo ship was nearly through the gate, but it was closing in on them fast. The sides of the ship started scraping against the gate and...

...they made it out. Of course. Everyone let out a cheer. Or in Tori's case, started doing a weird victory dance.

"Hey look! There's Lindblum!" Aiko said, pointing outside. There was a huge castle, surrounded my thousands of homes, shops, and everything in between. But the sky was the most amazing part; airships of all sizes and shapes were flying slowly in and out of the city.

They made their way to the Castle and docked at the Falcons Gate. They walked off the cargo ship, still looking around with amazement. Two guards of the Lindblum Royal guard walked over to greet them and Tori's eyes widened with fear.

"AGH!!! Get them the HELL away from me!!!" she screamed.

Zidane sighed, "Not again...TORI!!! Cut it out!!!"

"I can't help it" She mumbled, now hiding behind Steiner.

Dagger went up to the guards and said, "I wish to see Regent Cid"

One of the guards laughed and nudged the others in the ribs, "hey, she thinks she's a princess or something."

"Yeah! Imagine that! Princess Garnet traveling on a cargo ship with a bunch of hobo's!" the other guard joked. Everyone gave him a death-glare.

"Oh?" Dagger asked innocently, and pulled out a necklace with a jewel on it, "I am Princess Garnet Til Alexandros."

"M-m-m-m-my apologies, ma'am!" the first guard stuttered, "I'll go get Artania"

"I don't look like a hobo!!!" Tori yelled as they ran off, "... ...do I?"

"No," X said grinning, "They were talking about Steiner"

"Why you..." Steiner started, his face going red.

A man in about his 40's walked into the docking area and said, "The Regent will see you now"

Dagger whirled around, and seeing who it was ran to him and gave him a hug yelling, "Uncle Artania!!!"

She let go, and Artania said, "Its wonderful to see you princess, but why are you here?"

"It's a LONG story" she laughed.

After being introduced to everyone, Artania walked them over to the elevator and explained, "Lindblum Castle has three levels, all connected by this lift. From the Base Level, which lies below the Mist, you can take a trolley to the harbor and the back gate. Ships hardly arrive at the harbor anymore since travel by air has become so popular. The Mist poses great danger, so we've sealed off everything. Just above the Base Level is the Mid Level. You can ride the air cab from the Mid Level to go to town. The Upper Level contains the royal chamber and conference room. Access to that level is restricted, because the regent himself resides there."

(A/n: gawd, that took FOREVER to write! XD)

Tori blinked, "Uhhh...can you repeat that? I wasn't listening. Everyone gave her a 'your hopless' look, so she decided to just shut up.

They walked into the throne room, but no one was there. They looked around, confused.

Finally, Dagger asked, "Is my uncle not here? Maybe he's out?"

"I'm right here Garnet!" She heard Cid say. She stopped and looked around frantically.

Steiner pointed at the throne and yelled furiously, "There's an oglop! What kind of insult is this?! Get that filthy bug off the throne and call the Regent here immediately!"

Artania sighed patiently, "That 'filthy bug' is the Regent"

Garnet squinted at the Oglop on the throne, "That mustache...it IS Cid! Uncle, I came here because..."

Cid cut her off by saying, "There'll be time for that later! You must be tired and hungry for your journey. We will have lunch served"

Nobody argued with that.

REDG: Okies! I'm done for now! The next chapter will mostly be about everyone exploring the city and enjoying their free-time! Later!