So sorry it took so long to put this chapter out. I've just been busy. Anyway, I would like to say that 'An Very Unusual Day' written by spider-man is a good story and I suggest ya'll check it out. Well, that's all. Oh! And the next chapter may take a while to come out. I've just been quite busy...

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Disclaimer: I only own the stuff that I created. Nothing else.

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Chapter Eleven

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"Here we are!" Sophia looked around Cactuar Island.

"So, how big is this thing?" Rinoa asked, also looking around.

Sophia turned back around to look at the young woman. She smirked. "Pretty big, why? You scared?"

Rinoa shook her head. "Of course not!"

"How big is that thing, Hell Cat?" Seifer asked the cat GF.

Pretty big. A whole lot bigger than Velox.

Sophia patted Seifer on the back. "How you and Hell Cat doin'?"

"Fine." He looked over his shoulder at her. "You'd better hurry and summon the temple."

She nodded and ran ahead of everyone. "Come on! When I jump, you climb down instead, okay?"

"What do you mean 'jump'?" Seifer quirked up an eyebrow.

"You'll see."

Do you remember what you have to do? Velox asked her.

"Unfortunately, yes. How come he's the only one outta the bunch that has to be summoned differently?" Sophia silently asked him.

He only changed the way that he was summoned because a couple days ago, he had heard about the Sorceress being out, so he was mainly just being safe. So to summon him, you must fight him, and for you to gain his trust and join you, you must defeat him a second time.

"I can handle Draconis."

Are you positive Velox seemed......worried.

"Hell yeah! If I can handle Seifer and that cat, I can handle Draconis!" She seemed pretty confident.

She began to pick up speed. 'I hafta remind myself to ask Draconis to change his way of being summoned......' She thought to herself as she continued to pick up speed. 'This isn't fair.' The only way to summon Draconis, the mighty Dragon, was to.........fight a him in a battle. 'I hafta complain to him. Why can't he just be summoned like every other GF?' She growled. 'I'm not really in the mood to prove myself to him. That's Rinoa's job. NOT MINE.'

I'm sorry to disturb you, Sophia, but I have to butt into your conversation with yourself. Came Velox's voice.

Sophia growled once more. You see, the 'Liberi de Praeses' allowed the Humans that they stayed with to have their own, private thoughts that the GF's had to have permission to butt into.

He only changed the way that he was summoned because a couple days ago, he had heard about the Sorceress being out, so he was mainly just being safe. So to summon him, you must fight him, and for you to gain his trust and join you, you must defeat him a second time. Velox reminded her again for the second time.

"I know, I know, but STILL-......oh never-mind. I'll fight the beast." She hissed. She could now see a cliff. 'Here's where I get off.' She jumped.

"SOPHIA!!" Seifer watched her jump right off of the cliff.

Leave her be. Hell Cat told him.

"Why'd she jump?" Quistis asked as she looked down the cliff.

"Let's just follow her." Seifer began to climb down.

Sophia had just now remembered how far down the ground was.

You do remember how to land, right? Because if you don't, your legs will shatter.

"Yes. I remember, Velox. Stop worrying." She knew the correct way to land alright. She took a deep breath as she began to fall faster. She hadn't used it in a long while.

Please, be careful, Sophia. Velox tried to cover the worry in his voice. He also knew that it had been several, several years since she had used it and he was afraid that there was going to be consequences.

Sophia closed her eyes and concentrated. When she reopened them, they were completely white. She spread out her arms as she came closer to the ground. A hundred yards away. Ninety. Fifty. Thirty. Just feet away now. Just as the ground was only one foot away, she landed softly on her feet. Her eyes went back to the normal forest green color.

She sighed. "Maybe I should just climb down next time......" She straightened her hair.

Are you okay? Velox asked.

"Yes. I'm just fine. I feel much better now that I've finally had a chance to use it again." She smiled. "It had been a long time since I used Hyne's gift to me." She quickly turned around as she heard something running; its huge, heavy feet stomped on the ground, making it shake. A lot like a T-Rexaur would do, but this beast was much, much bigger.

A huge, huge, huge red Dragon was chasing after a small, green Cactuar. The Cactuar was fast, but the Dragon was faster. As the Dragon's teeth dug into the Cactuar, the Dragon shook his head violently.

"Draconis." Sophia smirked at the Dragon. "Eating those helpless Cactuar again?"

The Dragon froze; his head cocked to the side to look at Sophia.

The Dragon had blood red scales with black diamonds on his cheeks, around the neck, one giant one on his chest, one on each foot, and some strange black symbols, also with diamonds around the symbols, on his hips. His long, long tail twitched back and forth. His giant wings flapped. Two black horns poked out of the top of his head, and there was defiantly something that made him completely different from any regular Dragon. His third eye in the middle of his forehead. His total height was probably about three times Hell Cat's size. His length was defiantly about three times longer than a T-Rexaur.

"Sophia. It has been a while since I last saw you, and yes, I am eating these helpless Cactuar again." Draconis was pretty calm for a Dragon. "How is Ifrit, and the others?"

"Oh, they are just fine." Sophia decided to change the subject. "I think you know why I've come here, correct?"

"Correct; but, I ask, who is the person that I am to become one with?" Draconis looked at Sophia, black eyes staring into green ones.

"Her name is Rinoa Heartilly, but first," Sophia drew her gunblade. "let's fight."

Draconis bowed his head, but quickly raised it. The fight had begun.

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Sophia lunged at the Dragon; feet kicking up dirt as she ran. The Dragon simply flapped his wings and flew into the air; making Sophia miss her target.

Sophia growled. 'This Dragon is trying to make me use my special power. I just know it. Well, if it's a fight that he wants, then it's a fight he's gonna get.' She crouched, then kicked off of the ground. She flew upwards like a rocket; her gunblade held tightly in her right hand. Her eyes had went the strange white color.

"So you decided to use your gift? This will be an interesting battle then." Draconis' fierce, strong voice rang through the air.

"An interesting fight indeed." Sophia began to spin counter-clockwise when she was getting closer to the red Dragon.

Draconis just flew higher into the air. Sophia followed, still spinning, except this time she slowly began to catch on fire. She raised her left arm slowly and raised her hand so her palm would face the Dragon.

"I don't think you're goin' anywhere, Dragon." Sophia's eyes stayed white. "Draconis scutum!" A baseball-sized green sphere formed just centimeters away from her palm. The sphere shot through Draconis, and reappeared in front of the Dragon. Before the Dragon could react, a wall formed around him and Sophia. The wall soon formed a roof, and a bottom; trapping Draconis and Sophia in together.

"Now, you can't fly away." Sophia smirked.

Draconis turned around to face her. "You will not win this fight so easily, child. I am much stronger than you think."

"And I am much stronger than you think, Dragon." She had finally stopped spinning, but yet she was still on fire. Like a meteor frozen in time while it was on fire from coming through Earth's atmosphere. "Ignis globus!" She put her hands together, and as she slowly moved them apart, a reddish-orange sphere began to form in between her hands and grew as her hands separated. She hurled the sphere at the Dragon. Yes, her attack was a fire attack and Draconis was indeed a fire element, but her magic was specially designed so it could do extra-damage even to a creature of the same element as the magic attack.

The sphere hit Draconis and exploded. The fire around Sophia was like a shield, and it protected her from the explosion. Draconis, on the other hand, didn't have time to react and received a serious amount of damage.

Sophia aimed her gunblade right at Draconis. "Flamma ictus!" A reddish-orange sphere, known as a fireball, appeared at the tip of the gunblade's blade. One after another, fireballs shot at the Dragon each time Sophia pulled the trigger on her gunblade. After ten small fireballs, a much larger one, the size of a lion's head, appeared at the tip of the blade, and shot at Draconis once Sophia pulled the trigger.

Draconis began breathing heavily. "You are indeed stronger than I thought." He bowed his head. "You have won this fight. Would you be kind enough to heal me for the next battle?"

See, the GF's Velox, Eabewolon, Draconis, and Hell Cat may be able to heal, but when they are hit by Sophia's magic, they are unable to heal the wounds. Only Sophia's healing magic can heal them properly.

"Sure." Sophia concentrated hard. "Sanatio potio." She raised her right hand up into the air as a white sphere formed in her hand. She hurled it at Draconis. He closed his eyes as the sphere hit him. The wounds that her magic had caused healed completely.

"Thank you. Now, please, I'd like to fight Rinoa Heartilly, now that you have officially summoned me." Draconis landed. Sophia soon landed after him.

Her eyes went back to the original color. "Sure. They should be comin' right...about......now..." Once she said 'now', the whole group climbed down from the side of the rocky wall one after the other. "Rinoa, come meet Draconis."

Everyone stared at the GF.

"Whoa......" Rinoa had her pinwheel weapon equipped. "Well, let's fight."

Draconis seemed to be examining Rinoa. "Alright. I do hope you know what you're getting yourself into." He flapped his huge wings and hovered above the ground. The group, excluding Rinoa, stepped back. The fight began once Draconis flew right at Rinoa.

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Rinoa Heartilly jumped out of the way and fired her pinwheel at Draconis. Draconis dodged it easily and swooped down at her. Rinoa ducked and managed to dodge the beast and get her pinwheel back, but Draconis took her by surprise when he turned around and hurled a fireball at her.

She was hit with the full blast, but managed to stay standing. She ducked once more as Draconis flew above her. She quickly made a run for it when fireballs came firing down at her. She hid behind a rock and tried to catch her breath. She took a deep breath and jumped out from behind the wall and fired her pinwheel. She had taken Draconis by surprised and her weapon cut off the tip of his tail.

Draconis let out a terrible cry when the tip of his tail was cut off. He landed, and as he charged at Rinoa with his full speed, the tip of his tail grew back. He snapped at Rinoa, but she jumped out of the way. She ducked as his tail swung above her head. She fired her pinwheel again. This time, it got stuck in Draconis' right shoulder. He turned and snapped at her.

She jumped to the right and threw a magic attack at him. "Thundaga!"

The thunder magic hit Draconis and he fell to the ground. He slowly stood back up and ran after Rinoa; he was limping a bit as he ran after her.

She jumped to the left as the Dragon ran by her. She threw another 'Thundaga' spell at him. She continued throwing the 'Thundaga' spells at him until she ran out. The Dragon had healed the damage that the spells had caused, but the only thing he couldn't seem to heal, was his right shoulder; but that was only because the pinwheel weapon was still stuck in him.

Rinoa had a plan to win. She slid on the ground beneath the Dragon as he ran towards her. She grabbed his tail, swung herself onto it, and ran up the back of the beast. As she came to his right shoulder, she pulled her pinwheel out, and jumped off. As she landed, she fired the pinwheel and it got stuck in his throat. The Dragon reared back and roared. When he landed back on his front legs, he tried to snap at Rinoa, but instead, he ended up coughing.

"Okay...okay. You...win. Just get this...thing...out of my...throat!" Draconis crouched down a bit so Rinoa could pull out her weapon. In a flash of red light, Draconis disappeared after the weapon was out.

"Well, now we can head back to Balamb Garden and wait." Sophia looked up. "Once we get outta here."

"Once we get to Balamb Garden, you have a lot to explain." Seifer eyed Sophia.

"What do I hafta explain?"

"How you got down here without killin' yourself."

"Oh..." Sophia rubbed the back of her neck. "Yeah. I'll explain that once we get to Garden."