Treno was a place where Isobelle felt comfortable and completely on edge at the exact same moment. She wandered round the place in a daze, her skirt catching on the floor now and again but never tearing. She watched as the little kids ran around being knights and nobles, stood outside the auction house whilst the nobles themselves came out with their newly acquired items that they just HAD to get, swapped tails with the moogle outside the weapon shop, battled the monster inside the weapon shop and watched people come out glowing or crying from the card stadium.

'Hey.' A voice came from behind her as she was marvelling at the stadium. She turned round to see Marcus standing there. He stood next to her and looked at where she had been looking. She turned round and joined in with looking at the building. 'so… You came with me to save Blank…' he said, trying to asses the situation

'Yeah, he owes me a free meal and I want to make sure he gets me it.' She said non-committal. She didn't know if Marcus understood, didn't care all that much either. Why would she want to tell him what she felt like before she had even told herself?

'We'd better go meet up with Baku…' Marcus said after a bit more. He could tell that Isobelle wasn't going to talk to him straight out. He was quite surprised actually, because all his experience of girls had been them gushing their hearts out before they had even thought things through. Isobelle was different, like Blank had confided on the ship just before they had gone onto the show. Don't get Marcus' thought wrong. Isobelle wasn't unexpectedly pulling his heart, making love appear in his mind about her. There was just something about her…

Baku, Marcus, Garnet and Steiner looked disconsolately into the river as they carried along. Isobelle thought things in her head, playing out a daydream that she would be the one to save Blank, that he would be extremely happy she was there…

They crept around the room, trying to find the supersoft. But instead, they found Dr. Tot. Marcus and Isobelle looked at each other with their eyebrows raised as Garnet and Steiner explained their need for the item to Garnet's ex-teacher. Same as they followed dubiously as Steiner and Garnet naively walked with purpose to the teacher's house. Expecting anything, Isobelle kept her hands near her daggers, As Marcus, she noticed, kept his hand un-subtly near his sword handle.

Then, they were toppled into the trust, or rather, the decisive hands of the Dr.Tot because he saw then, handed them, the supersoft and gave them a getaway. As they climbed down the ladder into the Gargan Roo, Marcus and Isobelle were still wary and as soon as they were out of earshot, having volunteered to go switch a few switches to get the Gargan's attention, they voiced their opinions

'I do not like this.' Isobelle said quietly.

'Me either. He could give us in like that.' Marcus replied, snapping his fingers.

'What shall we do?' She said

'What can we do?'

'I could call Choco…'

'He would only carry one of us, two if we're lucky. There are four of us… '

'Ok… so we stick with it, but as soon as we can, we get away from the princess and the knight.' Isobelle said after a few moments of them both thinking, as they pressed the buttons and flicked the switches needed, Marcus agree with her unhappily

'Now, let's go tell then we're done.' He said and they ran back to their group.

They got on the Gargan and Isobelle, tensely, sat down on the back of the carriage.

'Dr. Tot is still the nice caring gentleman I see.' Steiner swiped at Marcus and Isobelle, who knew he was referring to them, Zidane and the rest of the group. As he sat in front of Isobelle, Isobelle kicked him in the head, for what was where her foot was level with.

'Sorry, foot slipped.' She said, avoiding Marcus' eye because she would burst out laughing…

'You go fight it, I need to calm the Poor thing.' Isobelle shouted at Marcus who was waiting for her to jump down. The 'poor thing' was the Gargan they were riding and the 'it' was Ralvurahua. Isobelle stroked the Gargan's back and head softly, whispering in a calming voice to the thing as she watched the battle. She felt sorry for the snake thing, this was its home and they were invading it. Dr. Tot had said these tunnels hadn't been used to years, plenty of time for this thing to grow. Why did they have to kill it? She went back to the Gargan, turning her back on the fight…

They got off at Alexandria and walked onto the platform. Isobelle walked on with the others, and kept going a bit faster than them, wanting to get out of the place quickly, hoping the rest of the group would get the hint and walk faster. She was about to put her foot over a gap in the floor when she felt a rumble underneath it and she brought her foot back quickly as a iron gate came up inches from her face. 'wooow…' she thought. Then she heard a shout behind her

'This is another of your tricks isn't it!' Steiner shouted at Marcus who started shouting back.

'Stoppit! Come on!' Isobelle shouted at both of them and started running back the way she came, but an iron gate came up that side too. 'You idiots, we could've got back then!' she shouted and Garnet scolded with the same words at the same time

'Look what we have caught!'

'Caught look what we have!' a air of jesters called from above. Isobelle looked up and growled at them as Steiner and Garnet tried to explain that they were coming back, Steiner then adding 'and I brought back two of the kidnappers to be beheaded.' Isobelle stopped growling at the jesters and ran at Steiner

'Why YOU…!' she shouted at him and pushed him to the floor. Hitting him hard, and then raising her arm again, she was pulled off

'Angered that one is.'

'That one is angered.'

'Understandably so…'

'…being cooped up with such a traitor as he.' Zorn and Thorn chuckled and called some knights down to help them…

Isobelle cried on the floor of their cage. She was to be beheaded because she had been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

'Isobelle…' Marcus said pitying at her. 'We'll get out of here Isobelle…' he confided in her 'We've just got to work together' he growled at the knight who looked rejected.

'I don't understand…traitor…' he was confiding to himself…

'Swing, swing, SWING!' Marcus commanded as they finally hit the side of the room. Isobelle climbed out, grabbing her daggers as her hands went past her waist. Marcus came behind her and then Steiner, each holding their weapon, ready to attack. She hit the first knight and came back to Marcus and Steiner quickly. Fighting my way out…she thought …Way to go Isobelle. She smiled to herself, attacking again…

Somehow, they got to a safe level in the castle and as they ran up the past of a flight of stairs, Zidane, Vivi and a Dragon knight materialized. Marcus and Isobelle smiled as Steiner and the other swapped complementories.

'We'd better go to our Bro.' Marcus said when they finished and tugged on Isobelle's upper arm once, turning away from the new group and running. Isobelle smiled at Vivi and Zidane

'Have fun finding the Princess or whatever.' She laughed and ran after Marcus 'BYE!' she shouted as she ran…

Author's Note:

Hey, Sorry this chapter went on for so long, I was meaning to get to Blank in this chapter but it went on for too long :( Anyway, Hope you're enjoying this story, although I have only had two reviews…R&R people…R&R… hehe

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