Chapter 6

"You do know you have to go save them, Kaden. Release them from their curse. Or do you just not care about your 'former' friends?" Rhian said, attacking Kaden with her words. "Look, I need to go find someone who can help us get to other worlds. Come find me when you're ready to leave."

Kaden was about to yell at her, but instead he said, "Cid, in the first district, he knows a lot about gummi ships. They can probably get us to another world. He's usually in the Accessory shop."

"Thanks," said Rhian, and walked away.

Just after she left, various types of Heartless started rising from the ground, seeing their chance at a good meal. "Not you again," he said, a smirk on his face, and pulled out his sword. "At least I'll get a decent workout." But try as he might, he couldn't defeat the Heartless in that alley. For every one he defeated, it seemed that eight more popped up to take their place.

'I can't survive much longer,' he thought. Just then, the space beside him twisted, and shimmered with powerful magic, and Rhian appeared. "Gelu Incendia!" she yelled, causing them to freeze, then blue flames consumed them.

"I sensed you were in trouble," she said when he looked at her with a questioning gaze.

"What was THAT?" asked Kaden.

"It means 'cold fire'. I really didn't know what it was going to do, just that it would probably freeze them for a while. Here, let me help you," she said, and pulled out a small bottle with turquoise colored liquid in it. She took the stopper off and handed it to Kaden.

He sniffed it. "It smells vile," he commented.

"Never said it was going to taste like Prism Water," she said.

"What?" he asked, then at her smile he said, "Never mind," and downed it all in one gulp. The effects were instantaneous. "Wow, I feel better then I have in ages," he exclaimed, getting up. "Where'd you get that stuff?"

"It was a special potion the Nus made in Zeal." He again looked at her with confusion in his eyes. "You know, Nus?" He shook his head. Rhian sighed. "They're big blue creatures that are extremely strong and are practical jokers. They're very hard to trick out of anything, so when I got my necklace back from one of them, they gave me this too. You can't get it just anywhere. And now that Zeal is... gone, you can't get them anymore. They're said to give the drinker near-invincibility for a while."

"Wow... So, where'd you get your powers. I even believe that Maleficent's powers are little to yours. What'd you do? Save a hero whose destiny was to save the world?"

"Well, I did do that, but that isn't how I got my powers. It seems, in my world, that every era there is a savior that is born or given 'Dragon Powers', giving them powers of the dragon god. And it just seems that this person is me." Rhian laughed. "What a savior I am!"

"Heh."

"Well, I need to get back to Cid. I left him kinda hanging there." She disappeared once again. Kaden walked back into the third district to wait for Rhian in the small house that it seemed everyone lived in.

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"Okay, thanks Cid!" Rhian yelled back to Cid. When he was finally out of earshot, she said, "I had to give him every last piece of gold I had. And that was with the minor model. I just hope it was worth it." She walked back into the second district and sat on a bench to wait for Kaden. "Strange. It seems that ever since I entered this town, my powers have been getting stronger and stronger."

A whisp of wind whispered across her cheek, even though the entire second district was walled in, making it almost impossible for wind to come into it. She almost instantly sensed something... evil in the air. "Who's there?" she called out, and turned around quickly.

An eerie voice soon answered, "Missstake..." in a very snake-like way. "

"Eternus Ventus!" she yelled, the magic woven into the words hopefully blowing the enemy away. A dark shadow covered her, unaffected by the wind that was caused by the spell. For some reason, when Rhain blinked, and her eyes opened, they were a glowing sea-color instead of her normal magenta eyes.

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"Hey! Rhian! Where are you!" called out Kaden in the second district. The Heartless had left for some strange reason, but that was only strange, not unusual. When Sora held training here, the Heartless became as scarce as Rare Truffles. But Kaden was unnerved anyway.

"You are looking for someone, yes?" said a person Kaden could not see.

"I thought that would be evident due to my calling for someone," Kaden said sarcastically.

"I can help you... for a price. I know where the girl is, all I need is your sword..."

"My sword... why my sword?" asked Kaden.

The voice was silent.

"Fine," Kaden said, and held his sword out. It disappeared in a blast of darkness. "Now, where is Rhian?"

"I'm right here," said Rhian, walking out of the shadows, with Kaden's sword in hand. "I'm glad you decided to give the sword to me willingly, or I would have had to kill you to get it. I need this sword for my master."

"Your master?" asked Kaden, thinking, Maleficent, no doubt. I knew Rhian was no good from the start.

"Wequn. But now he desires your presence. Will you come?" asked Rhian with a smirk, holding out her hand.

"Wequn..."

"That's right, you remember his name, don't you? From long ago, before the Heartless overran your world and killed your friends," taunted Rhian.

"But your master... I thought they were... Maleficent..." protested Kaden.

"Maleficent? That little witch?" laughed Rhian. "She's a simple puppet used by the Heartless. I can't believe you thought I would serve a servant. No, I serve the top."

"What's happened to you? Just an hour ago, you were saving me from Heartless, now you're wanting to take me to the so-called 'Ruler of Darkness'."

"A simple ploy to gain your trust. Now are you coming, or not?" asked Rhian.

"Never," glared Kaden.

"Then you leave me no choice," whispered Rhian as she summoned a pitch black staff with a large sharp teal crystal on the tip and held it at ready.

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Author's notes: Finally, I finally wrote the sixth chapter of Fog of Fate. Well, hope you liked this. Review.