Night of the Festival
"Whaat? You can't be serious!" Zidane yelled.
"Don't yell at me, Kupo," said the little moogle, it's pom pom shaking under his anger. "I'm just the messenger. Don't keel the messenger, Kupo!" and it flew off in a flash, frightened by Zidane. Sora, who was in the next room, joined him and watched the moogle fly off, shaken.
"Why'd you scare the moogle off?" Sora asked.
"I didn't mean to, but it makes me so mad!"
"The moogle..?"
"No, you dolt! Argh!" Zidane smacked his head over and over. "Ruby, the girl who we had play as Princess Cornelia, has some type of virus. Blank said he had talked to her earlier and could barely understand her because her voice had gotten so raspy, and now, the moogle just sent a message saying that she's running a fever and would surely faint if she got on stage under all those bright lights."
"Well, don't be mad at Ruby."
"I'm not mad at Ruby, it's just the fact that I'm pissed off because it's finally the night of the show, and I wanted everything to go perfectly, and here, one of our main characters have gone sick!"
"Can't you use Eiko?"
"She's too young, too short. Besides, Garnet will get suspicious and wonder how the crap Eiko got up there."
"There's no other girl around?"
"No! We couldn't use one of our members to improvise because they all look too manly." Zidane leaned against the wall, blinked, then looked to Sora.
"What..?" Sora asked nervously.
"You! Your voice hasn't deepened yet and your figure isn't as manly!"
Sora held up his arms in defense. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! First of all, I'm a guy. Even if I could dress up as a girl and perform this play, there'll be too many lines to remember! The play shows in a couple of hours!"
"Even though Princess Cornelia is one of the main characters, she's knocked out for most of the play, so you won't have to worry about too many lines."
Sora sighed. "You're sure I can pull this off?"
"Positive. Besides, we have no one else. Blank is the closest person to a girl besides you that we have, and he would have to be completely concealed, and his voice would still change. Not to mention he can't see well enough as it is, and he'd be tripping over his robes."
Sora rolled his eyes. "Alright, but in exchange for this, you better show me to Terra and so much more."
Zidane grinned. "You got it."
"Beatrix, when is the play again?" Garnet asked for the fourth time.
"M'lady, I've already told you several times. The festival will be in two hours, and the play in three. Why must you fret so?"
"Because everyone will be coming back! It will be so good to see them again. Afterall, I've just been sitting around on this throne for who knows how long ever since.. that day."
"You don't expect.. him to come back, do you?"
She sighed. "I keep feeling this tugging in my heart. It's as though our hearts are connected, and I have this feeling he's still alive, but.."
"It's been a year, My Queen. You have to let it go."
"But since I've been queen for a year, does this mean..?"
"Yes, you'll have to soon marry."
Garnet lowered her gaze. "I see."
"I've heard a rumor.. that Sir Steiner will soon be joining us," Beatrix said. "He has been away for a while," she added quietly.
Garnet nodded. "Yes, Alberto Steiner has been out for Militian reasons and fighting elsewhere. Though I have given up hope on Zidane, he still believes him to be out there somewhere.."
Beatrix opened her mouth to say something, but decided not to, and turned away from the throne and entered again to Alexandria Castle.
"Ooh, just like last time. Everything's so big, but it's not as great as before," Vivi exclaimed. "Flags dangling everywhere for the big festival of the crowning Anniversary of the new Queen of Alexandria." He looked to the ground and twiddled his thumbs. "I wish Zidane could be here with us.."
"Finally, out into the sun once more as I step away from the dreary Bermecia," Freya said, stepping into the sunlight and away from the neverending city of darkness, despair, and thunderstorms. "Although I am with my Sir Fratley once more, he still remembers not of the past, but the past may be something we must all put behind us." She removed her hat from her gray head. "This is something Her Majesty of Alexandria must cope with at the lost of her love.."
"Ah, finally a safe return home to the palace of hope where I belong in the depths of Alexandria at the side of my Queen," Steiner said as he stepped from the train board to Alexandria. "Alas, I will also be at the side of another queen whom I wished I would return to," he said quietly.
(I know it's a little short, and I didn't include all of the characters, but I was getting the main points across.)