A/N: Yeah, quick up-date! I know I normally do a basis of two reviews for a chapter, but oh well! Thanks to all my reviewers, and I don't just mean for the last chapter, but to every single person who's reviewed! This story wouldn't be here without you! A special thanks to anyone who has reviewed since chapter 1.

Also, I can't remember what attacks you begin with for each dress sphere, so don't worry if I'm wrong!

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy [sob].

This chapter is dedicated to Lillie and Martha, aka Unknown Reason and undiscovered-truth!

Big Fiend, Little Fiend, Cardboard box

The most annoying thing about fighting Kyjiva (that was the name of the fiend)? The fact it was immune to everything. Everything. It was even immune to Breaks, for crying out loud! It didn't help this was our first fight, so we didn't no many abilities in the way of dress spheres. We started that fight knowing roughly three abilities each. It took so long, by the end we were about half of the way to mastering the dress spheres we began in. Mind you, we were in the same dress spheres for the whole fight, minus a few trips to various others. Anyway, want to know what happened? Be my guest:

"Crap, it's immune to Power Break!" Lillie exclaimed, backing away from Kyjiva after trying, and failing, to lower it's strength.

"Scan did say it was immune to everything!"

"Hey, Lillie!" I yelled, ignoring the fact that I had just learnt Cripple (it would have been immune, anyway), and ordinarily attacking, "There's no point in you staying in Warrior! If it's immune to the Breaks and elemental attacks, that dress sphere's worthless!"

"Rogerrrrrr!" Lillie shouted, imitating Brother, and swapping dress sphere. She ended up as Samurai.

"Hey, take this!" Lillie screamed at Kyjiva, using Spare Change. It barely did anything. "Hmmm, little more gil next time."

"Let's see what you can do, Martha!" I said.

Martha began to power up for something. I realised it was Darkness and got out a hi-potion at the ready.

Martha ran forward, yelling, "It's Martha's time to shine!" Before the attack took place. I healed her as quick as I could, silencing her "Oh, shit, shit, shit."

For the next ten minutes, the fight continued in a pattern. We attacked, Kyjiva attacked, we healed, we attacked, Kyjiva attacked ... and so on. That was until something awful happened. It unleashed it's 'special' attack. Guess what it was called? Jeopardy. How true ...

The attack consisted of a Demi-like attack. It gave all of us Poison, Darkness, Confusion and Slow. Lillie was also petrified. Luckily, Martha was immune to all of those except Darkness and Slow, but the attack wasn't over yet. It carried on with a series of devastating flurry hits to all of us, leaving us with less than an eighth our original health.

"Give me just a second!" She yelled, while avoiding the budget grenade I had thrown at her from Confusion. Then she threw a Remedy at me and continued with readying another Remedy for Lillie, as I prepared the Mega-potion. Lillie recovered and gave Martha some Eye-drops.

A chucked the Mega-potion in the air and sighed with relief as it took its toll. The one problem remaining was Slow, which we all had. None of us knew Dispel and we didn't have anything with Haste either. We just had to hope for the best.

To me, the whole healing process took quite a long time. After all, we did have Slow on us. But what was strange was that Kyjiva had not attacked since Jeopardy. In fact, it hadn't even made a noise. I looked at it, and my eyes opened in surprise. It was standing in the middle of some kind of Aura. Pyreflies swarmed around it.

"Uh-oh ..." I heard Martha say.

"It's preparing for an attack. A deadly one, by the looks of it," Lillie said, backing even further away.

I yelled to them, "Set your dress sphere abilities so the next attack you learn is a deadly one! With any luck, we might learn something useful to finish it off! If you don't have anything, learn something protective!"

And that's what we did. I set it so I was going to learn Mad Rush, Lillie did the same with her's and Martha ditto. Then we launched an all out offensive with everything we knew that worked. The more damage, the better.

Five minutes (and a considerable amount of injury) later, everything went black. No, I hadn't blacked out. Kyjiva's attack was complete, and already in business. Appearance-wise, the attack was very impressive. We didn't know what was going on, but our faces fell when we saw Death appear in front of us. It was no doubt, this attack was Mega-death.

Death came closer and closer, until it was right in front of us. It stuck out its hand and reached forward ...

Then, in what was less than a second, a sound played. It was the sound when you heal, or cure a status, or when you ... learn an ability.

You know when time seems to stand almost still? A second can last forever? That's what happened as soon as we heard that sound. Me and Lillie looked over to Martha, who was still in her Dark Knight dress sphere, and realised something straight away. We were saved. How? Martha had learnt Deathproof.

Then things went black once more. This time, I'd been knocked out. I don't know how long me and Lillie were lying unconscious, but according to Martha she hadn't wasted a second retrieving a Mega-Pheonix Down.

Once we were all up and healed, we carried on attacking as if nothing had happened. Kyjiva returned to using it's standard attacks.

"Martha!" I asked, "How much health does this thing have? You were the one that Scanned it, right? I forgot to ask!"

"Umm ... I can't remember. I don't think I saw! Should I have a look?"

"Don't bother. Either way we have to kill it."

I attacked with Hurt, and as I did so the ability sound went off. I checked, and saw I had learnt Mad Rush.

"Woo-Hoo! Go, Amy!" Lillie said, punching the air and evading a Blizzaga spell at the same time.

In the time it too for Martha to power up another Darkness attack, I must have tried five times for Mad Rush to work. It kept failing. Lillie also learnt Fireworks before Martha used Darkness but instead of using it she waited with a hi-potion, allowing me to try Mad Rush again. It failed again. Martha's Darkness finally worked and Lillie healed her.

"Hey, let's attack at the same time!" Martha said, giggling. It was an obsession of hers, she loved making everyone attack at the exact same time on FFX2. It was actually how we beat the very first boss we did on the game (the Flame Dragon in chapter 1, DUH). She got fixated with it from then on.

Anyway, we waited a few seconds for Lillie to be able to attack again, before we all charged forward and brought out swords down on Kyjiva. Or in my case, claws.

As we stepped back, we were dumbstruck as thousands of pyreflies rose from Kyjiva's crumbling body. Thousands more kept coming out, until Kyjiva was nothing more than air around us.

"Nobody messes with us!" I grinned, doing my victory dance along side Martha and Lillie.

::Aftermath::

"That was a pretty hard fiend," I sighed, letting myself drop to the floor, with Otto my racoon running all over. They agreed and sat down besides me.

"None of it would have happened if you hadn't gone off searching for your precious treasure chests, Martha!" Lillie spoke up. "We would have gone down that new path and never have come across it!"

Martha protested and soon her and Lillie were arguing. I screamed at them to shut up before I keep on speaking. "Think about it! We got past that git. True, if Martha hadn't left it wouldn't have happened, but if it was for Martha we wouldn't be here! We only just scrapped past, but would you change things? We're still here, same as if we hadn't fought it, but now we've got pride of actually beating that thing."

"Wise words, Amy," Lillie joked, before apologising to Martha, who said sorry back.

We were silent for a moment. Martha wondered aloud, "Why would we have gone down the new path ...?" And I explained our whole theory about a hide-out or something being there. We decided to check it out.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Lillie said, putting her arms out on front of us and blocking our path back towards to entrance. "What if there's another fiend, a similar one? A stronger one?"

The three of us looked at each other. "Well, we've come this far," I said, "What's stopping us now, right?"

"Right!" They agreed.

A/N: Phew. Omigod, this is by far my longest ever chapter, it's four pages! Please review.