REDG: I'm back again!!! Lol anyways, RefugeofSouls, Kuja didn't remember yet. He just remembered Tori's name from when he met up with her at the play in Alexandria. Oh, and Lady Yunalesca88, later on I'll explain why he doesn't remember. Much later.

And thanks Yukina-chan for the idea!

Well, on with the fic!

Chapter 16

Festival of the Hunt

"You leaving already?" Tori asked, "That sucks! I only got to see ya for like 30 minutes!"

Kuja pointed up at a silver dragon that was hovering high up in the sky, and said, "I'm being called back to Alexandria."

"Aww! But I wanted you to meet up with my friends! Like Dagger, and Aiko, and Zidane and...hey, whats with that look?"

He was smiling thoughtfully. He said after a while, "Zidane? I already know him, but I highly doubt he even knows who I am."

"Huh?" Tori asked, confused, "How's that work out?"

"Nevermind." He said, turning to leave, "I'll see you again"

"Promise?" Tori called.

He smiled and nodded, "Promise. I'll ... ...show you around Alexandria" and turned to leave.

Tori, satisfied with that, headed back towards Lindblum Castle to find someone else to talk to now; probably Zidane.

Lindblum Castle

Zidane walked into the castle, feeling sort of depressed. He had gone into the Theatre District to check on the Tantalus hideout, but no one was there. He had made his way back to the castle, signed Vivi and himself up for the Festival of the Hunt, and went looking for something to do. As he walked in, he heard someone singing quietly, and decided to find out where it was coming from.

He walked up to a guard at the elevator with a smirk on his face, "I wanna go up to the top level"

The guard looked down at him and sneered, "You are not permitted to."

"Damn" he thought, and turned to leave, until got an idea, "Hey, did you just see that?"

The guard blinked and looked around the room and shook his head.

"There was a suspicious- looking person that ran into the guest bedrooms" Zidane lied, pointing to a set of stairs. The guard pushed past Zidane and ran up the stairs, while Zidane hopped on the elevator.

He got off the elevator and found it led to the top of some tower, and the singing was louder now. He ran up a set of stairs, scattering a bunch of doves and saw Dagger. She stopped singing, looking embarrassed.

"Hey, you didn't hafta stop! I thought it was nice" Zidane said.

She blushed a little.

Zidane grinned, 'So, when are we going on that airship cruise?"

Dagger blinked, and then said angrily, "I think you asked the wrong person!"

"Shit! That's right, I asked the girl in the bar!" he thought, and said hurriedly, "Hehe...no! Its not like that! Hey, if I win the Festival of the Hunt, will you go out with me?"

Dagger sighed, "Alright I guess...but no more flirting with other girls so much"

Next Day- the Festival of the Hunt

The next morning, everyone was gathered in one of the castle's rooms, waiting for the Festival of the Hunt to Start.

Zidane grinned, "Alright, lets beat the crap outta some monsters"

A guy handed everyone a piece of paper and said, "These are the rules"

Vivi looked at his confused, "I didn't sign up for this"

"I know, so I did for you!" Zidane said, grinning stupidly, and whispered, "Shhh! I'll set you up on a date with Dagger if you win!"

Dagger smiled at them, "What did you say to him, Zidane?"

"N-nothing!" both of them stuttered at the same time.

The man that had handed out the papers cleared his throat and said, "just to make sure, the prizes are as follows:

Zidane: 5000 Gil

Freya; Coral Ring

Vivi; a Theatre Ship Card

X; a new sword

Tori; ... ... a free chocolate icecream..."

"Figures" X said, looking at Tori.

"Aww...be nice!" Aiko said. She looked up at X, blushed, and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, "Good luck!"

Zidane grinned at Dagger, "Do I get a good luck kiss?"

She frowned at him, and he took that as a no. He sighed, and ran to catch up with everyone else, who had started to leave already. As soon as he had gotten outside, he ran off looking for monsters to kill.

He spotted a wolf-like monster and chased after it through the Theatre District, trying to catch up with it.

"Dammit! Slow down! I'm not gonna hurt'cha!" he lied.

Just as he was about to attack it, a fireball came out of nowhere and burnt the monster to a crisp. Zidane stood there, looking stupid. He looked up in time to see Vivi skipping away, chasing after a bird-like monster.

"That was MINE!" Zidane yelled, but Vivi didn't seem to hear him. He stalked off to find some other monster.

"Freya is now in the lead!" a voice announce from one of the towers, "With Zidane in last place!"

Zidane went red in the face and charged after random mosters.

"Zidane has made the lead!" the voice announced several minutes later, "Wait! No, he's tied for points with Freya! They will both take on the "boss" monster!"

Zidane ran around the streets looking for this "boss" that the announcer was talking about, and found it; it was a giant bull.

Freya was lying on the ground not too far away, looking a bit worse far wear.

Zidane darted towards the monster and easily killed it. He heard Freya mutter, "Show off"

He grinned, "yeah, but at least I won!"

She got up and tackled him, "No one likes bragger. Congratulations anyways. Have fun with you date with the Princess" she said, and walked off.

"weird" he muttered, and walked towards the castle.

"Man! I coulda won too!" he heard Tori whined, "I almost beat that boss!"

X laughed, "That wasn't the boss, that was one of the easy creatures"

"Oh..."

Back at the castle, everyone was waiting, including the Regent Cid.

"You did it!" Dagger said happily.

"So...are we still going on a date?"

"Was it hard, fighting that one monster?" Dagger asked, changing the subject, "It looked tough!"

"Naw...and...about that date..."

"Yes...I bet that monster was tough!" Dagger said enthusiastically, and walked off to congratulate the others who didn't win.

There was a rasping noise behind them, and they stopped celebrating to see a Burmecian soldier limping into the room. He collapsed on the floor, and everyone could see he was drenched in blood.

"Burmecia...is under attack!" He coughed, "We need help from the Lindblum Army!"

Cid walked over to him and said reassuringly, "I'll send troops in right away.

REDG: okay, I think I'll leave off right here. The next chapter'll mainly be Dagger running off with Steiner (...that sounded wrong, didn't it?) and the rest of the group heading out to Burmecia. Alrighty, thanks for the reviews so far!
Red-chan