Author's Note: Aerena, your so sweet your my favorite author now :D

Disclaimer: I don't own LoD...I'm getting a little tired of writing that ya kno...

Chapter 6: The Voices in Her Head

(In the game, it's optional to fight the Sandorans in the Seventh Fort. But it gives you more experience and you finally get to use Whip-Smack [Rose/my first addition] for the first time!! Yes!! Anyways, instead of going straight towards the Dragon we made a detour right to help out our fellow knights. It was one battle after another -- a Basil soldier would be killed then we would battle the Sandoran who killed him after reciting corny lines.)

Sandoran Soldier: I will not let you pass!

Wesley *choose* Make my day! Or Shall we retreat?

(Of course, we defeated every single one of them with ease. Then you retrieve a couple of items or gold [Gs] and go inside the fort and mourn the green, dead bodies and retrieve a Stardust. Now off to defeat the Dragon!!)

Wesley: Wait a minute -- this isn't the Dragon's Nest.

Melvin: Yeah! This is the Volcano Villude...Brenden didn't say anything bout a Volcano Villude!

(Oops, did I forget to mention that you hafta go thru the Volcano Villude before you can get to the Dragon's Nest?)

All: Yes.

(My bad)

(Off in the distance, we see a huge flying creature with fire for feathers shrieking and flying towards us)

Me: Firebird.

Ania: What a boring name.

Me: And you coulda done better?!

Wesley: Are we gunna hafta fight that thing?!

Me: I dunno why you're so worried -- you are the Fire element, which means all fire magic attacks do less damage on you then a normal attack.

Wesley: Sweeet...

Melvin: Well, I'm still worried -- are we gunna hafta fight that thing?!

Me: Depends on him *points to Firebird*

Melvin: That's reassuring.

Firebird: *crys out and trys to dive-bomb us, turning the whole screen red*

Wesley: He spotted us!! Run!!

(And so we run. After a while, Firebird lost interest in us and we began to explore and find a way out of the Volcano Villude. Again we fought countless minor enemies, mostly of the fire element. Then came a...)

All: SAVE POINT!!

Wesley: Dammit, that means we hafta fight a boss next!!

Me: So you ARE catching on....

Wesley: I'm not as dense as you all think

All: Riiight....

(So after the Save Point, we came to a pool of magma with rocks protuding from it. We hopped from rock to rock, trying to avoid the fishes jumping from the fire lake. We finally came to the last rock and suddenly Ania felt funny...)

Wesley: What's wrong, Ania?

Ania: Somethings....calling me....I-I have to go...*runs off in the opposite direction*

Wesley: Ania wait!

Melvin: She's hearing voices?

(The rest of us follow her, with me in the rear, to a clearing where a white statue was lying motionless in the pool of magma. It didn't look like anything a Human could ever make, but the good thing is that it looked dead. At least for now)

Wesley: This is what was calling you?

Melvin: I knew it! I knew it from the beginning! You ARE crazy!!

Ania: I AM NOT CRAZY!! Would you stop it already, Melvin?!

Melvin: Well, look at that thing!! We don't even know what it is and its already talking to you, and no one else but you. See. That proves that you're crazy.

Ania: Melvin, if you don't shut up I swear --

Me: Good lord....it's a Virage....

Melvin: It's a WHAT?!

Me: Ania, you know about these?

Ania: And you do?!

Me: Yeah, it's a Virage.

Ania: That doesn't tell us a thing.

Me: Ugh...remember the Dragon Campaign? Well, after Humans started using Dragoons to fight, Winglies used these -- Virages -- to fight with them. They were the Winglies' trump card in the war. You can tell this one was a causalty of the Dragon Campaign and it looks to me like it's been sleeping for 11,000 years.

Ania: But it was talking to me...does that mean it's gunna wake up.

Me: Hopefully not, those things are vicious! Or, *cough* so I've heard.

Wesley: Tina, how do you know all this stuff?

Me: I'm just smart. :D

(Suddenly, the fingers of the Virage begin to move and the ground begins to shake)

Ania: *holds her head in her hands* It's -- it's waking up!! We gotta run!!

Wesley: I don't think we can!!

Ania: But-but it wants to kill us!!

Me: Then we'll just hafta kill it first...

(Screen dissolves and now me, Wesley, and Melvin are about to battle a Virage with no legs and one and one-half arms. *GAME TIP* You can either attack the Virage's head, arm, or body [you can't attack the legs even if it had any. These are the only Virage parts you can attack]. Don't bother with attacking the body then the arm then the head. If you kill the head, you kill the entire Virage. This works with all Virages you battle. So the battle goes as so)

Me: Whip Smack!!

Wesley: Volcano!!

Melvin: Spinning Cane!!

Virage: *funky magic attack* or *smacks one of us with his one hand*

(This is probably the easiest Virage, so we killed it fairly quickly.)

Wesley: *end of battle Dart move* TA! *Pushes Virage off the cliff and it drowns in the fire lake*

Melvin: O...k....why did that just happen?

Me: I dunno! I mean, all the Virages shoulda been dead for 11,000 years ago! I can't believe they're still alive!

Melvin: Can't you say the same for Dragoons?

Me: What?

Melvin: Hey, I didn't always not pay attention to Minister Vicente's history lessons.

Wesley: Well, it's still not normal -- Ania hearing voices and Virages waking up from the dead after 11,000 years.

Me: I can't explain Ania's insanity --

Ania: I'm not crazy.

Me: You keep telling yourself that. Maybe the Virage woke up because of their hatred towards Dragoons. Or it could be because of Ania.

All: *looks at Ania making her feel uncomfortable*

Ania: Can we just move on?

(And so we did but just as soon as we went the other way, we had to fight Firebird. His attacks look pretty cool and they weren't that damaging to us -- well, Wesley at least. But we still beat him -- and between the Virage and Firebird, our items were almost depleted. Good thing we heard someone scream -- )

???: HEEELLPP!!!

All: Who the censored?

???: Hey!! Yeah I see you!! You motha censored better get yo asses over here and help me before I let go of this censored cliff and die!!

(We ran over and helped the black person dangling off the cliff by her red shirt and baggy Hammer-like purple pants. Of course, this isn't the goofy Dabas of the video game -- it's our foul-mouth friend Brittany)

Ania: Brittany, wtf do you want?

Brittany: I was trying to get my hands on some rare fire gem here in this craphole but instead I slipped and almost fell to my death. WTF you doing here?

Wesley: We're gunna go and save the country from a Dragon attack!

Brittany: Was I asking you, boy?

Wesley: Uh...no...

Brittany: Then don't censored talk unless you're spoken to!

Me: hehehe...

Brittany: Tina! Wassup dawg *grabs my hand and does the one-handed ghetto hug*

Me: Wassup Brittany...hey, you got anything for us in that bag of yours?

Brittany: Well, I do have this sapphire earring....

Ania: Preeettyy....

Brittany: 1000 Gs!! I'm just playing it's free because you *cough* saved me...yeah that's it

*Acquired Sapphire Earring*

[It would be useful...if it didn't suck so much....]

Me: *sarcasm* Thanks Brittany.

Brittany: Hey can you loan me a dolla?

Me: We're gunna buy stuff from ya anyways, dontcha sell items?

Brittany: Oh, yeah, I knew that....can I still have a dolla?

Me: Brittany you know imma poor white girl

(But we still bought items from her anyways)

Brittany: Hey, when you get to Lohan come by my shop! I sell all this coo antique shit.

(Well, we'll get there eventually, but first we hafta go kick some Dragon butt!!)