Very Superly Duper Special Thanks To: Firagamaster, Yunastrife, Elric the White wolf, Kuro Suzaku, Shine Avalon and my teddy bear Shoken. So I named my teddy bear Shoken, get off my back!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the titled games and characters in this fic. You steal any of the main characters in this fic and I'll eat you! I don't own any of Firamasters stuff either. I don't own this fic, I'm just helping.

Italics mean it's a journal entry from me!

Chapter 4: Meeting friends and foes

Narrator: Kiako

Journal entry #39, Zanakard Ruins 3 something in the evening, or morning... Hey it's always dark here how'm I suppose to know!

Well, this is kinda awkward. I'd never actually think I'd be in Zanarkand ruins writing this journal! In the exact spot that Yuna and her pilgrimage sat near the fire that seemed to burn for two years. I bet you're jealous! Hey I checked and that flame has most likely been going for two years! It was still burning in FF X-2. I peered side to side at my new friends. Sure some of them were a bit evil a bit like Kuro but hey what can I say? They're still my friends. Even in my wildest dreams, seeing these people here and them being my friends feels great. Plus I wouldn't mind being in this world for a while. If these guys are who I'm going to be staying with for this time, I'll make sure nothing ever happens to them, and damn the expense! It's so weird that all of this is happening, I just hope we get out of here in one piece! If not, then my PS2 goes to my other friend, and I hope my dog gets walked everyday. I better close up this journal, Fira and Raithu are calling for us to get moving.

Until next time

Kiako Ornitier

I yawned and stretched back in my computer chair and looked amongst the papers, pens, folders and drawings. Hey it is an office. For the past couple hours I had been watching Naruto and Fushigi Yuugi episodes and answering DeviantArt messages. I reached down and pet my dogs head rubbing behind her ears

"Well, this is boring ne? I've even ran out of ideas for my fanfics" I said to Kei Kei, she just looked up and me and walked away

"Fine! Leave me alone in my boredom!" I shouted after her and looked at the MSN screen. And closed my eyes and they ached seeing dots swirl around and probably a moogle flying past. I heard a small jingle and opened my eyes looking at the screen

"YOU HAVE MAIL DUMBASS" the computer shouted in a computerized tone making me jump.

"Sheez I'll never get used to that thing!" I shouted in frustration throwing my fists around. My friends installed that for me saying it was for my own good. Hey I should listen to her, she and my other friend are both smarter than me! Not to mention older too... And taller... I picked up my journal and a pencil writing to remind myself to try and find something to uninstall the program and say a virus got it.

"YOU HAVE MAIL DUMBASS" the computer said again, I ignored it and wrote more about taking one of my friends text book and burning it than running away like hell and to load up on more Coffee crisp. Gotta get my coffee some how, my friends made the coffee machine hate me somehow... I swear! It sprays coffee at me ever since they used it!

"MAIL DUMBASS" the computer said again

SHUT UP! I groaned, stuffed everything I need and could need in my backpack that was lying on the couch beside me and clicked on the e-mail.

"Come on come on..." I said waiting for it to load "Damn this computers slowness!" When it FINALLY opened after what felt like a bajillion years it was filled with nothing but numbers and lines. I stared trying to make out a picture the numbers but gave up when my eyes began to go out of focus.

"Jeez, who would send an e-mail with nothing but numbers?" I asked myself and slapped the monitor "Come on! Jeez!" Suddenly, the screen went blank. I fell right out of my chair screaming. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO MY CRAPPY LIFE! There was a jingle and I looked up at the screen seeing a Tonberry. At first I was overjoyed but then saw it hold up a funny looking gold card and vanish leaving the card spinning in place with gold sparkles swirling around it. I sat back in my chair and touched the screen. The seven hearts that were on the card swirled out and circled the room

"HolyMother!" I cried dodging one and getting hit by another one and absent mindedly grabbed my backpack and trying to swat the hearts of doom. The hearts flew to the comp screen and began to swirl in a circle creating a cyclone sucking me in.

"NYAAH!" I screamed and got sucked into the screen. I saw for a split second my dog look at me, tilt her head to the side and bolt away.

Many many colors swirled pass me and I thought my brain was going to explode! Hey this is flashier than when the time I made an animation of flashy colors.

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I stirred and rubbed my head

"Last time I go on the Gravitron..." I muttered and my hand bumped into something soft "Huh?" I felt farther and discovered I had a pair of pointed cat ears on my head and red and blue stripped bangs that went everywhere. I looked to see a nearby puddle and peered inside of it

"HOLY CAMOLY!" I shouted and tugged my the new orange fur that covered my body, I remember drawing someone with this kind of resemblance At least I still had my clothes which consisted of an orange tank top, baggy white pants, a pink silk kimono that was over my tank top and reached about the middle of my calfs and a bell collar. I saw my glasses and picked them up. Shattered.

"Aww man! This bites!" I cried but tucked them in my pocket anyway. I looked around myself and saw all of the stuff that was near the computer monitor had come with me, including my cup of grape juice! I sighed and picked up all the useful things (Which was pretty much everything) and shoved it into my bag

Hey! Even now I'm still carrying all that junk!

I looked at my surroundings and saw I was in a lit up town kinda place. There were benches along walls and there was a water fountain with a kinda mural on it. I scratched my head and saw a giant tower

"Wow" I gapped "Tall" There was a snap and I whipped around seeing a little black kinda thing with gibbled feet and crooked antenaes. Its yellow eyes peering at me, to tell you the truth it looked kinda cute. I remember it from Kingdom Hearts, I still have yet to beat that game! But at least I've done some reasearch on Heartless species. I tilted my head to the side and took a step towards it and got dogpiled by black blankets

"GAAH!" I thrashed and threw my arms around trying to escape the black mass on top of me and stared into glowing yellow eyes.

"You!" I hissed and tried to flip onto my stomache but it seemed like I was being pinned down. A creature with a sallet and yellow eyes stood over me with a clawed hand in the air. It glanced at me hungrily and plunged its hand into my chest. I screamed, Loud. Watching the claw recoil it pulled out something glowing goldish and as it was pulled out I felt like I was plunging into deep cold black water. My limbs grew heavy and my lungs felt like they were collapsing into themselves.

There was a flash of metal and the helmet head disappeared into an explosion of clear bubbles. Three shurikens flew over my head taking out most of the black gibbled things. I felt something lift me up

"Yuffie get rid of those Heartless viruses!" a voice said

"Just got three more!" I blinked and saw a blurry picture of a man with long brown hair then, I just fainted.

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Slowly my head stopped spinning and I sat up.

"You should rest, getting your heart nearly stolen can really put a strain on you" a gentle voice said. I looked at the stranger and nearly had a heart attack

"A-Aeris?" I gasped and toppled off the bed I was laying on.

"Didn't I say to hold still?" she said

"How's she doing Aerith?" a young girl asked walking inside the little tiny room. I nearly died.

"She seems to be ok Yuffie" Aerith said "Where's Leon?"

"Going to get Cid" Yuffie replied putting her hands behind her head.

"I-I-I-I-" I stuttered and rubbed my head "I...I...Muffin...I... The Royal Proclamation was in 1763...Uhhhh"

"Is she still blathering?" the man with brown hair said walking in followed by a blond with goggles. Now I was about to have an overkill attack put on me.

"Leon, by nice" Aerith said

"Yeah, Squall!" Yuffie teased

"Hmpf..." Squall looked away "The name is Leon"

"Looks like she's up and runnin'" Cid said "Funny how she looks like a cat" I felt the new tail I had flicking back and forth

"Hello, nyah" I said waving cheerfully "I'm Kiako Ornitier!"

"I'm Aerith, this is Yuffie, Leon and Cid" Aerith said and looked around "Where's Auron?"

"Off training again" Yuffie said rolling her eyes "One of these days he's going to regret going out alone"

"Well, gotta be off" Cid said opening the door as Leon, Yuffie and Aerith left. Cid was about to leave when he stopped and walked over to me.

"Here." he handed me a deck of cards "You're gonna need these"

"Huh? Wha? Huh?" I looked from the cards, to Cid departing, to the cards, to Cid, Cards, Cid, Cid, cards, My brain hurts...

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I stared at the cards after I left the little house, room thinger.

"How do I use these?" I said flipping through the cards, some were green, some were red and some were blue. I though back to all the anime shows I've watched that involved cards.

"Blue card! Destroy the bench!" I called out holding up a card and a nearby bench caught fire "AHHH!" I looked for a way to extinguish the flames running in circles. The bench slowly cooked into a pile of ash. I rubbed my head and thought of how else to use the cards

"I call on-" I paused and stopped to think. I didn't really want to set another bench on fire or do anyhting else stupid, so I just sat on a bench far FAR away from the one I burnt and looked through my cards.

"Green, Green, Red, Red, Red, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue..." I said reading my cards out "Red, Red, Reee- Hey wait a sec!" I held up a black card, it was blank and had a red outline.

"I hope this card doesn't bring the whole universe to an end..." I said and began to lift it up into the air.

"That would not be wise"

"AHHHH!" I screamed and ducked under the bench seeing a tall, black, long coated man. His hood was hiding his face casting a dark shadow

"You can not use the cards without a weapon either" he said.

"Ok slow down and freeze!" I exclaimed holding up my hands "I don't even know you, who are you?" Ignoring my question, the hooded man seemed to recite

"Blue cards cast magic, a dangerous power"

"I can see that" I said looking at the smouldering remains of the bench.

"Red increase your physical power to attack and defend" he continued "Green will summon creatures to aid you"

"Cool!" I was hopping from foot to foot eager to hear more about the strange cards

"But beware the dark card, use it if you are certain you will succeed in your battle because it unleashes the darkness inside your heart" he warned "Once you use it, your entire deck becomes useless" I nodded in understanding.

"Hey! Kid!" I turned around and saw Leon "What're you doing out here? It's not safe."

"I was talking to-" I turned around but saw the hodded person was gone "Ano?"

"Hurry up and get up here!" Leon shouted and I obeyed running for the nearest stairway and meeting him.

"Now come with me" Leon turned and walked towards a pair of green doors "This is a hotel" I looked up and saw a neon sign reading 'hotel'

"Ok."

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We went inside the hotel to a long hall with three different doors

"Um," I looked side to side "Which door?"

"Behind you!" I whipped around swining my arm back and slapping a nearby Opera "AIIE!" Leon strod past me and slashed at it with his blade and it disappeared

"This way" Leon said opening a red door and leading me inside. There was a girl with a giant hat in a black mage outfit and and evil glare. Kind of looks familiar.

"Oh, hi baka" the girl said standing up and peering at me. I grinned

"SEPHIROTH!" I sang the one phrase of the One Winged Angel song pointing at my friend and running behind Leon.

"That's not funny!" she growled cracking her knuckles but she grinned.

"Kid, this is Kuro" Leon said and pointed to the corner "And that's Auron"

"Where?" I ran to the corner and reached out to prod it but then a gloved hand snapped over my finger "AHHH!"

"Don't touch me..." Auron said turning around and I saw that his red coat had blended right into the wall

"Heh heh, sorry" I said and backed away to where Kuro was standing.

"So what're you doing here Kiako?" Kuro asked

"KURO!" I threw my arms around her in a hug and got thrown to the other side of the room.

"Dont'...Touch me..." Kuro growled

"So I take it you two know each other?" Auron asked

"Yes, unfortunatly" Kuro said "We're both from the same world"

"And we live nearly on the same street!" I piped feeling my tail wag.

"So, your name's Kiako? Nice name." Aerith said walking in. I rubbed behind my head

"Thank you" I said quietly fidgetting with my fur. Oh man I'm starting to shead!

"Well, we have a bit of a problem in the second district" Auron said walking towards us

"More heartless?" Aerith asked

"Worse. We got the lead of the pack here now, if it got to the first district things could get pretty bad" Auron said.

"It's a reverse armour heartless" Kuro said "All we need to do is keep hitting it till it dies"

"We also have to avoid the laser cannon majigger" I said "And the other heartless"

"True, you're smarter then I remember Kiako" Kuro grinned swatting my head.

"Jee thanks! Wait, WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN!"

"Nothing!" Kuro grinned

"Nyah!" I gave my head a bang on the wall and grinned back at her "Ikoze!" It means 'Let's go!'

"Hai baka!" 'Yes idiot!'

"I'm not that stupid..." I whimpered.

"This coming from a girl who took three weeks to find Aeris's house?" Kuro grinned as we walked out of the hotel

"Hey I got lost ok?" I rubbed my head.

"There could be hundreds of neon signs pointing towards it and you still wouldn't find it!" Kuro snickered. I was glad I had at least ONE person I actually knew, but meeting the FF characters was so awesome! Especially Cid, damn he's so cool even though he seems like an ass...

"Well, you can't get lost in Traverse town" Kuro said making a sharp turn and leading me down a set of stairs "Oh, and I hope you know how to use the cards"

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" I glanced at my deck then back at Kuro smiling weakly. Kuro groaned and slapped her forehead

"I should murder you..." she said

"Well I did set a bench on fire" I said quickly. Trust me, don't make Kuro angry! You'll regret it...

"That's a start, but what the hell do you use for a weapon?" Kuro asked.

"Hey kid!" Kuro and I turned around seeing Cid

"Which one me or her?" I asked pointing at Kuro who slapped my hand away.

"Leon told me ya fight with your hands, so here" Cid said and tossed something black and silver and shiny... SHINY! I ran forward and caught the object seeing they were combat gloves! Oh yeah! Upgrade! I play too many video games...

"They'll protect your hands from being shreaded" Cid said "If they get busted or anything, just come back and I'll fix em for ya" I grinned

"Arigatou!" I said bowing down hastily.

"Well what're you waiting for? Put em on and go protect the second district!" Cid barked

"Yessir!" I said grinning and slipping he gloves on and fastening them with the velcro straps "Awesome" Then they kinda became see through.

"Good luck you two!" Yuffie called from behind Cid and jumped away.

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Something tapped my back and I whipped around seeing another heartless

"AIE!" I threw my fist at it but it just went right through "HUH?" it slashed down my arm making blood blossom out.

"Firaga!" Kuro shouted and the heartless was set on fire

"Whoa!" I grinned completely forgeting my arm.

"Do I have to look after you all the time?" Kuro said and placing a blue card on my arm and it healed

"I guess so" I smiled

"Do you even know how to use the cards?" Kuro asked putting her hands on her hips. I shook my head vigoriously

"Ugh, just as I thought..." Kuro said and grabbed one of my cards "Blue are magic, Red are attack, Green are summon and that's it. You slap them on your weapon and your good to go"

"Oooh! Just like Lost Kingdoms!" I chittered

"Uh, yeah. Whatever that is... It's more like KH CoM" Kuro stood up "Just don't use the black card unless your ABSOLUTLY SURE you'll win!"

"Okie doke!" I saluted

"Now, let's get down those stairs, I think I see something sparkling" Kuro said.

"YIPPEE!" I ran down the stairs and jumped te last four steps

"Baka! WATCH OUT!" Kuro grabbed my collar and flung me back. I recovered quick enough to see Kuro being dragged into a pool of heartless and disappear as her out stretched hand sunk into the blackness.

"No..." I stood up and slapped three red cards on my gloves and they glowed with a cool blue aura "NO! KURO!" I ran forward punching and flinging my arms like crazy trying to take out as many heartless as possible. When I ran out of those three red cards I slapped a combo of a red card and a blue card with a fireball on it. My fists caught fire and whenever I touched a heartless it burned. I felt hundreds of hands grab at me and another claw plunge into my chest again. I grabbed a random card and saw it was the black card. Ah hell with it, if I' gona die might as well take some of these bastards with me! I slapped the black card on my gloves and felt a strange energy flow into my body then nothing. I opened my eyes seeing the pool of heartless from above and a black light emiting from the center.

"RAAR!" a cat girl that looked exactly like me burst from the pile but instead of having orange fur and golden eyes, her eyes were red and her fur was black. I watched and thought some things out. That was me! I felt fear grab hold of me as I watched myself shread the heartless mercilessly snarling and biting them all as they fled. Now I for one,disaprove of killing but watching myself do it mercilessly... I felt like crying and as the last remaining heartless tried to run away, my dark double ran towards it and started to shread it with my teeth. I wanted to stop myself and flew down grabbing at my own arm

"STOP IT!" I cried "STOP!" My double did stop and then turned back to me grinning malevolently.

"Not everyone has a pure heart, you for one don't have one" she said simply and flew into me merging back with my body.

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I fell on my knees panting and clutching where my heart was staring at the black card before me. It was laying on the ground but now had a picture of an evil shadow with the same glowing eyes as my dark half. I shuttered and began to cry feeling a hand on my shoulder

"Hey that was sugoi! You can do something useful after all!" Kuro said happily then stopped "Kiako? What's wrong?" I swallowed the lump in my throat

"I... slaughtered them..." I stuttered hugging myself shaking uncontrolably. I felt really shook up. I can't believe I killed them all!

"Hey it's a good thing!" Kuro said "Really it is" she picked up the card and handed it to me. I took it like it was some sort of evil toxic waste.

"I'm never, ever ging to use this card again..." I vowed and tucked it in the very back of my deck so it was the last card "Never ever ever ever..."

"Calm down, we still have another fight to win" Kuro said standing up and using another blue card healed me. I felt new energy inside of me but still, my heart hurt for some reason...