A/N: Oh my goodness. I really wasn't kidding when I said that I wouldn't be updating this for a month or longer. ;; Well, the story wasn't as much as a hit a I wanted it to be..I mean I got a very decent amount of reviews but..mentally I felt like it was a horrible story that was held together by some crappy glue. (like...Elmer's Glue : P) So, I didn't really bother updating or even taking a look at it. I was even considering taking the story off the website.

But then...just when all hope seemed lost... Someone Reviewed :holy music plays: It wasn't 10 people...It was one...one from this person who I thought was very nice to read a forgotten, badly written story such as mine. Thank you so much for reviewing Rose Mage! You have no idea how much it meant to me! I seriously wouldn't have written this at all if not for your review. This is for you.

Disclaimer: I absolutely and negatively do not own the plot and/or characters or anything of Ff9

Claimer: However, I do own the actual video game, believe it or not.

♣A New View♣

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The door opened loudly waking Garnet up from a miserable slumber.

"How are you feeling princess?" A voice said. She was guessing it was that monster from earlier. She didn't bother to reply or even move.

"Oh ok, sorry." He said and closed the door slowly.

She was tired, cold and hungry. The bed which they gave her to sleep in was absolutely the worse bed she had ever slept in. Her bedroom floor was more comfortable. She'd rather sleep on the streets than this so called "bed." The room seemed to be painted in lint and other ancient things (such as chests, boots, and other things that Garnet thought were worthless and had no point in keeping).

When was she going to leave this god forsaken place..?

What had she done to deserve this? What was it that makes God punish beautiful princesses? She was a good princess. She had done everything she could for her country and family. She was kind...kind enough to people she didn't even have to talk to.

She rolled over onto her back and stared up at the ceiling. Thoughts of her mother and the castle stirred in her mind. She wondered if her mother had even made a single effort to find her. If she did, she's probably send the Pluto Knights to try and find her. They couldn't have been that far from Alexandria...it couldn't have taken her mother this long to find her... Tiny tears beaded at the corners of her eyes. She kept mumbling, "I hate this place...I hate this place...I hate this place.." over and over until she got tired of saying it. But then she would just repeat it over in her mind...

There was something really uncomfortable under her thigh. She reached her hand under her leg and revealed a ragged doll. She had brown yarned hair with a ugly cloth wrapped around the waist for a dress. The face of the doll was inexcusably horrifying. A stitched smile, two button hole eyes and a bunch of dirt stains on its face. She continued to observe the doll until something written on its chest caught her eye. "Ga...rnet Alexandros..?" She sat up to get a better look at the doll until she could see in plain sight that the doll was suppose to be her. She squinted her eyes and threw the doll out the closest window to her.

'Is that really what I look like...?' She thought almost laughing at the thieves arts and crafts project, which she had just disposed out the window. She chuckled. Then she felt the need to chuckle again. It just made her feel so better for some reason. Suddenly she was giggling like crazy until she heard foot steps coming in front of her door. She clamped up and turned over onto her side, pulling the blanket back over her body.

She heard the person set something down on that old wooden table that was next to the door. Then the person walked over to her bed and she could feel the persons breathing over her. She tried her hardiest not to make any movement. Her nose begin to tickle though. She wanted to scratch it so badly...matter a fact, she had never wanted to scratch something so badly in her life. She felt a warm hand touch her cheek. She felt heat run up her back into her head and ears. She had never felt so hot before. Her mind had so many thoughts squeezed into her head that she thought her head would just pop any second. Then another thought was born. What if it was that fat rabbit leader of theirs? What if he told everyone to go off and get more equipment, so that he could have a little fun? Sweat began to run down her face. She felt like screaming. Then out of the creaking and squeaking of the room a familiar voice said...

"I'm sorry princess...I promise I'll get you back home somehow. But, not now. Things are too difficult to even go past the border. I hope you can hold on a little longer." His hand froze on her cheek for a few more seconds until he pulled away and she heard him open the door again. She immediately opened her eyes when she heard the door close again. She sat up and wiped the sweat from her face,

"Heh, I still got it" She smiled and hopped outta bed.

A pink shaped thing was sitting on the table...She cocked an eyebrow. She never expected to see pink among thieves.

She stared down at the master piece. It was a cake. A cake with a message written in white frosting that read:

Happy 16th Birthday Princess!

From: Everyone

She traced the words with her pointer finger, then she pushed her finger down a little bit and the pink frosting off her finger. Hmm, not bad.

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"Hey Princess we're almost there!" Zidane shouted from below the balcony. Garnet looked down and could see a short boy with blonde hair yelling up at her. She had no idea what he was talking about. She nodded and shouted ok.

"Three whole days..." She said counting over her fingers. She had been away from home for that long. How was she ever suppose to get used to all this..? They would probably kill her at the end of the journey or something. They were thieves after all. And you could never trust the words of a thief.

Garnet felt the airship begin to slow down at bit. She looked under her and could see the city of Lindbulm.

"Lindbulm...?" Suddenly hope bolted across her face. "Lindbulm! I'm saved!" How foolish these thieves were. She would tell her uncle Cid (who was the regent of Lindbulm) how these horrible thieves abducted her from Alexandria. Her uncle would surely have each and everyone of their heads chopped off. She went downstairs into the engine room where a bunch of black mages were working. She walked over to one of them who was driving the airship and gave him a little push with her hip.

"Here, I'll drive." She smiled.

The black mage stared for a while at her questioningly, but then silently nodded and went to do something else. Garnet wasn't an expert at driving a airship, but she did take a few lessons from her tutor, Doctor Tot, who lived in Treno.

"You!" She called out to a mage standing behind her. "Adjust the steam engine over there a bit." She pointed to it with her chin. The mage nodded and went over to the rusty machine and turned the wheel on it.

Zidane and the others were on the balcony chatting when the ship rumbled.

"Whoa!" Zidane said almost falling down.

"Someone must of put more fuel in this old contraption. It's goin' much faster than before."

Cinna stood on his tippy toes to try to get a glimpse of who was driving the ship. He was too short to see a thing.

"I'll go check it out and see what those mages are up to."

Zidane put his hand in front of him. "Nah, don't worry about it. I'll do it."

"Ok." He said and went off to do something else.

Zidane took hold of the ladder and climbed it until he was at a good angle to jump back onto the ship, where the engine room was.

"Princess?" He blurted out cocking a brow.

Garnet immediately recognized the voice from when she was "sleeping" before.

"Oh, um hello." She replied.

"Hi. Um, why are you steering the ship?" He looked around to see what the mages were doing.

Garnet put her eyes back on the wheel and thought a good excuse.

"Well you see...the ship was so slow on fuel that I had to speed it up a little. And I..."

Zidane slapped his forehead and chuckled.

"Whoa, calm down. I wasn't suspicious or anything. It just never dawned on me that a princess like you would be able to drive an airship. Especially one as old as this." He walked behind her and studied the way she handled the wheel.

"Wow, where'd you learn to stir like that?" He asked taking a step next to her and "observed her." (A/N: Lol, yea, observed her)

Garnet blushed.

"Well uh, my tutor. Doctor Tot. When I was little, he'd teach me all sorts of things." She mumbled but then cleared her voice, and spoke in her royal tone again. "He took me on this airship and teach me how to work it."

"Well, I'm impressed" He said softly into her hear...causing a blushing reaction from Garnet. Garnet took her eyes off him and tried to focus back on steering.

Suddenly...a loud crash hit the ship, causing most of the mages to fall. Alarmed, Zidane took out his dagger and looked around. Garnet wanted to look around too, but couldn't afford to be distracted at the time. There was a huge cliff just ahead of them and then they would be at Lindbulm's gate. When Garnet turned her face a black wizard had it's large hand in her face.

"Princess I have found you. Your mother is waiting for you at the castle, come with me."

Garnet kept steering the ship. She didn't know what to do. She was too terrified to do anything else. Its bright yellow eyes pierced her and she felt the need to take his hand. She slowly lifted her hand off the wheel.

Zidane stepped in front of her, causing her hand to snap back on the wheel. Was she just in a trance or something?

"Thanks a lot, but Tantalus will take her back to the castle. So you can just fly on back from where you came from."

"You've got to be kidding me! Don't tell me there's a 3rd wizard! I thought the other 2 we fought were the last!"

This wizard looked like the other two that they had beaten before. Except it was bigger. It was much stronger than the other two. Zidane could just tell by being this close to him.

"Resistance is futile. Hand the princess over." He must have been annoyed by now, because he threatened to use his magic. Zidane took a step back afraid that the lightning coming from his hand would catch on him.

"Garnet..." He whispered without turning his face back to look at her.

"Hmm?" She whispered back, still trying to concentrate on the wheel of the ship.

The wizard looked at the two suspiciously and fire flared wildly in his hand.

Garnet gasped and fell backwards onto the ground.

"Garnet!" He shouted as the wizard got closer to her. She timidly looked up at him.

He helped her up and put her hands back on the wheel.

"You keep steering the ship. We'll take care of the wizard." He had his hand on top of hers and had a serious look in his eye. But Garnet trusted that he knew what he was doing. She nodded, with tears clinging to her eyes.

"Alright you scumbag! You want the princess, you're gonna have to go through me first."

The wizard laughed hysterically.

"Bwahahahaha! A mere human? Bwahahahaha!"

Zidane clenched his teeth together. He didn't like to be laughed at, at all. Especially by something as ugly as this.

The wizard realized that the human was serious and he stopped laughing.

"Have it your way. No one will get in my way of my mission."

"We'll see about that..." Zidane said taking a step closer.

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A/N: Finally! Geez, I didn't like that chapter all too much. It was really hard making the scene without Steiner and Vivi. Man, if I were some other game company, my game would definitely suck compared to Ff9. But don't worry about it. Vivi and Steiner will be apart of the story. The gang will just meet them...differently...at different places in the story. I dunno. Something weird like that. Well, I'd be surprised if you enjoyed it at all. I'd be flattered to know that there's someone out there who would actually enjoy what I just wrote. So um...review and lemme know whatcha thought! If I get...say 4 reviews for this chappy, I'll update as soon as I can. If I don't get any reviews, I'll know that it's time for me to get rid of the story lol.

Well, I hope you are all healthy and having a great summer so far! I'm in summer school -.-; I can't stand math! I want to burn it until there's nothing but addition left!

Heh ;; Have a lovely day

-Samy-chan