It was the day of the plan. Isobelle got up refreshed and ready for anything.

'Isobelle! Today's the day you go to Alexandria Kupo!' the resident moogle of the inn said when he saw her rising from her covers. Isobelle looked over at him and laughed

'Today's the day my life is changed.' Isobelle replied, meaning, jokingly, that she would become a star, people would love her performance, and she'd never have to bask in someone else's money to get a roof over her head. She got up and went to her clothes, freshly washed and ironed from the maid. Pulling on her red skirt, she looked out the window and up at the castle. She could see the Theatre ship being prepared to take off and a thrill of excitement ran through her. She dressed quickly and stuffed all the things she would need for the short trip into a rucksack, making sure she added a potion, just in case they came across a flying monster and needed it. The mist was becoming worse now, she thought, or was it just that she was noticing it more now?

'Better hurry, kupo!' the moogle jolted her back to reality and she grabbed her rucksack in a hurry. 'I'll see you soon! Tell me about it! Kupo!' the moogle shouted after her as she ran down the stairs, smiled at the guy at the Inn counter who was letting her stay there on 'Tantalus Credit' and got onto the air cab that was just about to leave the station

'Theatre district please' she smiled, not remotely out of breath, ready for the day.

She got off the air cab and ran round to the hideout, where Blank and Zidane were waiting outside.

'Hey Isobelle' they both said and then Zidane added 'looking as sexy as ever I see.' And Isobelle laughed.

'Can't touch this!' she said sweetly to him and smiled as Blank, who smiled back at her. Zidane laughed at the witty reply and put his arm around her shoulders anyway.

'Come on you.' He said and guided her into the hideout, where Ruby was powdering her cheeks, much to everyone else's disgust. Zidane took his arm from her shoulders and waved his hands in the air, clearing the talcum power from his eyes.

'I guess that was why you were outside?' Isobelle laughed, got Talcum powder in her throat and started coughing. She ran outside again. 'I'll wait out here!' she shouted into the cloud, turned round and looked out over Lindblum from the balcony. Blank came over to join her and they indulged in idle small talk, of which they both laughed a lot about. Then they got onto the issue of the plan.

'I heard Princess Garnet was the prettiest girl in the whole of the Mist continent.' Isobelle breathed as she saw the spectacular view in front of her.

'I think you're far prettier.' Zidane came in from her side and Isobelle turned to look at him.

'Have you ever seen the Princess?' Isobelle turned to Zidane, annoyance in her voice. Zidane shook his head 'then don't compare me to her.' She finished and turned to look at the hideout, where people were battling through the cloud to the door. 'anyway, you'll see her, up close, today if you do your part right.' Isobelle picked at a bit of her skirt, getting tired of waiting.

'If! I tell you, I'm a trained actor, I'm more worried you'll screw up, with no lines and only a ten second appearance on stage. I'll get the Garnet, don't you doubt your gorgeous head about it.' Zidane replied, causing Blank to laugh quietly in the background.

'Well, I think its time to pick up our ship, don't you? Mwhahahaha' Baku said as everyone, including ruby, filed out of the hideout. Then they all rushed off like school kids at the end of school bell as Baku closed the door. Zidane, Blank and Isobelle all ran along together. Isobelle eager to see the ship and to feel the wind on her face and arms when they fly through the air. She had never been on an airship before.

She wasn't disappointed. She stood on the front of the ship and laughed as she was pushed back by the wind. Her red skirt whipping around her legs and her hair flying like she was in trance, she laughed and the wind took the sound and played with it. Skipping around the deck, she tired herself out and took to the side of the ship, looking over at the clouds clashing at the sides of the boat, splitting its white and leaving a trail of blue where the airship went.

'Enjoying yourself?' Zidane's voice hit her ear before the wind caught it and blew it away. Isobelle laughed and nodded her windswept head. 'I don't know if you know how to use them, but I got you these…' and he held out two daggers, like the ones he owned. Isobelle took them in both hands and laughed

'I know how to use them.' She said to Zidane when her laughter subsided 'I sold them when I needed the money, but it looks like you've got them back for me…' she carried on, then, unexpectedly, she fastened her arms around Zidane's neck and gave him a quick, tight hug, keeping the daggers away from him. 'Thank you!' she added and laughed. 'Thank you.' She said again and Zidane nodded his head as an acknowledgement and walked back into the ship again, where there was a ladder leading into the ship's hull again. Isobelle kept looking out at the clouds when she suddenly saw Alexandria come into view…

…Zidane climbed down the ladder and at the end walked down the hallway and opened a door into another room. He collected a few things and then lit a candle in the middle of the room. 'Who's there?' came a voice from the side door on the right…

Isobelle climbed down the ladder and looked in on the open doored room to see Zidane, Cinna, Blank and Marcus fighting someone. Zidane looked over to her and motioned for her to come in and join the action. Laughing, Isobelle took out her daggers and attacked the enemy. Marcus attacked him again and then, suddenly, the guy's mask broke and it was Baku! Isobelle laughed and high-fived Zidane's hand.

'Allrigh' everyone in there!' And so Baku recapped the plan once more…

The plan went pretty well. Isobelle didn't have to go on stage until the near end, where she was to offer a boat to Marcus and his lover, so she watched from the wings, smiling at the scenes, the special effects in the fighting and finally, telling 'good luck' to Zidane and Blank, who both replied that 'Luck had nothing to do with it, it's our expert skill.' But were thankful all the same. It was until Garnet and Zidane came up onto the stage just before Isobelle's part that she finally got to see the princess. She was the prettiest girl by far, and Isobelle had known some pretty spectacular looking girls. Garnet was the most beautifully Gorgeous girl Isobelle had seen, so much so that it took her breath away to be a stage's width away from her. Then the queen twigged who the girl on the stage was…

Isobelle was thrown onto the stage and she fell over next to Garnet, but before she could grab hold of something to stay in place, she was thrown back into Baku, who instinctively pushed her away so she fell near Blank. 'Gotcha' he said, his hand gripped tightly onto her arm. He pulled her up to the post he was holding onto, but didn't let go of her arm, although neither of them seemed to notice. 'Hang on tight' Blank said in her ear and Isobelle suddenly felt a bomb explode from her right. She closed her eyes and gripped even tighter onto the post. Then, she felt herself slipping as the ship racketeered and fell into the Evil Forest. She saw Zidane try frantically to catch Garnet as she slipped, along with a little black mage and the knight that had come up with Zidane and Garnet onto the stage, off the deck and fell into the forest whilst the ship still moved. Next thing, Zidane jumped off.

'ZIDANE!' Blank yelled just beside her ear, causing her ear to go deaf for a few moments. She heard Blank swear violently about his friend's behaviour, then seemed to realise what was happening. 'Hold on tight ok? Don't mind me…' he said as he pushed his body down onto hers, trying to keep her form harm but to also help himself from falling off the ship.

Isobelle was still thrown a few feet away when they crashed. Blank ended up in a tree…