Well sorry for the long wait but I kept forgetting to bring the Disk that the story was on to my computor oh well please read and do review I would like have more than one review… oh and if you can suggest any situations that I can put people through I might use it. (Good or bad or both work just fine)

It was a bright morning when out of nowhere Riko flew through the air.

"What the hell did I do?"

"Insolent little brat!"

"Huh...What?"

Apparently Riko was accused of stealing a valuable gem from one of the stores in the Market Place. The owner was not yet used to Riko, so he instantly accused her. Artros' Minions were everywhere and looked just like humans, but nobody could say otherwise unless they looked on the bare skin right below the scrotum. Of course, this caused a problem for the female disguises.

"Why are you blaming ME?" Riko screamed.

"Of course you're one of them!" the storeowner yelled back.

"One of WHAT?" Riko retorted.

"Artros' Minions, you bitch!" the storeowner responded.

"Why you little-" Riko started.

"ENOUGH!"

Out of the darkness of the morning a man appeared. The store owner and Riko instantly shut their mouths. The store owner started to sweat under the collar.

"What the fuck are you doing screaming at each other at 5 o'clock in the damn morning!" the man questioned in rage. He looked at the pair and his eyes widened so slightly that Riko only barely caught it when he looked at her.

"Sawn, uh…I...uh...think I...saw...this...uh, bitch..." the store owner started.

"I told you not to call me a bitch you asshole!"

"Enough. Please finish," Sawn said in irritation.

"I...saw this...woman...steal from...my...uh...shop."

"Can you prove this?"

"Not really."

"Okay then. Shut up!"

The store owner trembled, then took off in the opposite direction. Riko looks somewhat confused, but pleased at what was going on.

"Uh, thanks," she said.

"Think nothing of it," Sawn responded.

"I think I've seen you before somewhere."

"Yes, you have." Sawn kissed Riko deeply for a moment, then released her. Suddenly the memories of when she was 'Kairi' in Hollow Bastion came back. That boy she saved. He had silver hair and a bow, just like this guy five years later. Then she was 15 and he was-or looked-16. Now she was 20 and he looked 21. Was this...? Could it be...?

"You're..."

"Yes, I am," Sawn responded.

Riko backed against a wall, stunned.

"...Sawn?"

"Mm, hm. It's nice to see you to Kairi. Or Riko, is it now?"

"Who cares? Just do it again." She reached up and kissed him , but after a second she realized the meaning of what it was she was doing and pulled back. She already loved a man-she had lost Sawn a long time ago...

"Right. Well, I must be going. I have things that must be done immediately," Sawn said, looking at her strangely. Riko looked down and nodded.

"Yeah. I have things to do as well. Such as running away from Vezerini so that I can have somewhat of a social life in my captivity."

"Here, Kairi. Get yourself a nice dress so that something like this doesn't happen again. I won't always be there to save you, and your clothing does make you look suspicious. Not to mention your wings." Sawn gave Riko a small pouch of coins. Then he smiled. "You haven't really changed since the last time we met, have you? Ah, well. I'll see you another time. Good luck, Kairi. And stay out of trouble." He turned and walked away, and Riko watched with a broken heart. It felt like she was loosing him again...

She blinked , and a tear slid down her cheek. When Sawn was out of sight she collapsed to her knees and cried silently for a while. Then she stood and walked in the opposite direction. All she wanted right now was to be alone. Like she had been since Vezerini had captured her. Like she had been for five years.

Riko woke about three hours later to the babble of people talking and laughing in the market place. She opened her eyes and sat up, looking around and blinking. She smiled slightly and stood, stretching. Recalling what Sawn had told her before he left, she pulled her wings back into her back, biting her lip so as not to scream from the pain. Then she took a deep breath and walked out of the alley she had been in and into the warm sunlight. She drew the coin pouch out of her bosom and looked around at the many shops and stalls around. She spotted a small store set between two large buildings and walked inside.

The shop was draped in many different colored bolts of cloth and scraps of partly finished dresses for customers that had come in just long enough to get their measurements taken and left the seamstress to do the rest. Riko looked around the shop, still walking up to the counter, when she bumped into a lady and spun around quickly.

"Oh, I'm so sorry! I wasn't paying attention. It's just that it's been so long since I've been in a shop like this-" She started, but the lady shushed her with a kind smile.

"It's quite alright, dear. I wasn't hurt, and neither was anyone else. Now how can I help you?"

"Erm...Could you make me some dresses?" Riko asked uncertainly, handing her the small coin pouch. The lady took it and nodded.

"My name is Ariana, by the way. What colors would you like your dresses to be?"

"Well...I don't really know. You see, I usually don't wear dresses, so I don't know what colors look best on me," Riko said. Ariana nodded and beckoned her to one of the walls. She took down two bolts of cloth-one dark blue and the other white-and held them together against Riko's bosom with her lips pursed. She nodded and handed them to Riko, then she pulled down three more bolts-one a grayish color, one a blood red with a scarlet design at the bottom, and one a deep pink that was almost red. She held these against Riko as well, then nodded again and beckoned to Riko to follow her into the back. Ariana pulled a drape across the doorway and lit lamps throughout the room. She took the bolts of cloth and set them on a stool.

"Strip," she said. Riko paused.

"What?"

"I have to get exact measurements, and if you're already dressed the measurements will be off. Now strip." Riko did as she was told quickly. "That's better. Now what did I do with my...? Ah! Here it is!" Ariana pulled out a measuring tape and shook it out to full length. "Put out your arms." Riko did, and she walked over and made some measurements, marking them down on a piece of paper-kind of like Hime in Amestris...

"Well, this shouldn't take long. See, now you were made to bear children, but your bust is full. What we're going to do is draw attention from your hips and to your bust." Ariana held up a bolt of the blood red cloth and kind of wrapped it loosely around Riko's waist. She made some marks, then barked at Riko for looking down to see what she was doing. Riko snapped back up like a statue and sighed.

Three hours later Ariana handed Riko a fan and told her to step over to the full length mirror at the back of the room and look at her dress. When Riko looked at herself she gasped.

"It's so beautiful!"

The dress itself was the blood red cloth, but a gray sort of corset was wrapped around her torso, stopping just at the bosom and lacined up the front. the sleeves were short and sort of pooffed. the front was extremely low cut, and it stopped in a V at the base of her bosom and the top of her corset. A small line of lace fringed up the front, and there was a matching choker around her neck. The grayish corset had an interesting and detailed design on it, as well as the bottom of the dress. the pink cloth was draped around the other part of the dress and brought together in the front by a brass band. Gloves the same color gray as the corset went up past her elbows, and red earrings were in her ears. A large red rose in bloom was in her hair, and all in all she looked stunning.

"Well, it's my job to make beautiful clothes. I will tell you this for the next time you want a dress: when choosing colors, pick more than one, but make them dark-and close to the same color. You look good in darker colors, like this red and the blue I picked out for you. Anyways, now I have your measurements, so come back tomorrow for the blue one."

"Okay, thanks. How much do I owe you?"

"Oh, don't worry about this. I'm pretty sure that I can get help from you any time I need it as a friend, right?"

"Of course! This is beautiful! Thank you so much!" Riko hugged Ariana warmly.

"Okay, well, why don't you go strut your stuff now? You'll probably get a few proposals as soon as you walk out the door." Riko laughed and waved, exiting the shop.

Riko walked into the sunlight again and took a deep breath, tucking the coin pouch into her bosom. She was still wearing her polished, black leather boots, and they clicked on the pavement as she walked. Most of the people in her vacinity paused to look at her, and she cleared her throat nervously, holding her head high and proud. She walked through the crowd like a hot knife cutting butter, and silence followed her path. She looked around nervously, then turned behind her. Suddenly the crowd erupted into babble as the people resumed what they were doing.

After a few minutes of walking Riko felt a slight tug on her dress. She looked down in surprise and found herself staring down at a little boy with short black hair. He smiled up at her and handed her a just blooming red rose. Riko smiled and took it, kneeling down so that she was at his eye level.

"Why, thank you very much," she said to him warmly.

"You're pretty, and I wanted to give you a rose first. Did someone already give you that?" the little boy looked at the rose in her hair and Riko laughed lightly.

"Nope, this is my first rose. Thank you so much, it's beautiful." The boy smiled at her again and ran off, disappearing into the crowd. Riko straightened and looked at the rose in her hand. Wow, just like in the movies. Maybe I should do this more often, she thought, walking forward again. She laughed at her own thought. Riko never wore dresses, why would she start wearing them constantly now?

Riko looked around herself again and spotted a sword stall. her eyes lit up and she walked toward it. She picked up some of the daggers and other exotic weapons on the counter, examining each for quality and flaws.

"You do not look like the kind that would be interested in daggers and swords, My Lady," the owner of the stall said, coming over to her. Riko looked up at him and hesitated.

"Oh, I was just looking at these ones, over here. They look kinda wicked. Stab someone with one of these and they'll be feelin' it until they die three seconds later," she said, holding up a multiple spiked and hooked spearhead.

"Indeed, but I couldn't picture you with that, My Lady. Perhaps something like this..." The shopkeeper held up a small dagger that was inlaid with gold and gems, but Riko shook her head.

"No, it's useless. It's a pretty little thing, don't get me wrong, but for all the frippery the blade isn't set straight. That's visible. plus , I highly doubt that this is balanced from the base of the hilt. Anything can be made to look pretty, but it's only worth while if it will do the job right."

The stallkeeper laughed heartily. "Well, miss. You're pretty experienced in knives and swords, for how rich you dress. Tell me, what blade would you pick of these?" Riko looked at the counter and picked up a few blades of different kinds, handling them carefully, then replacing them with a tight, thoughtful frown. Finally she pointed at four foot sword with writing in a strange language. It was two sided, and the hilt looked brass. All in all it was pretty plain compared to the other blades on sale.

"That one."

The shopkeeper followed the path of her finger and picked it up off the table. "Why do you choose such a poor blade when rich ones are surrounding it?"

"Because this sword was built with care, for a purpose. It is sturdy and looks like it can withstand much before repair or replacement if used by a good warrior. So It may be plain. In the right hands, it could be powerful. May I?" Riko held out a hand and the owner handed her the blade. She put it on her finger at the base of the blade in front of the hilt. it balanced perfectly. "Also, the creator put much attention into proportioning the blade and hilt weight. All in all, it's a nice sword."

"Is that all? No stories or legends draw you to this sword's build?"

"Should they? Stories like what?" Riko made to hand back the blade, but the shop keeper shook his head.

"My Lady, you know knives as good as me and better than most men I know. Consider it a thank-you gift for restoring my faith in the world."

"Well, let me pay you for it-"

"No, My Lady. It's a gift. Take this, as well." He handed her a hard, black leather scabbard on a thin belt of soft, also black leather. "Such a fine built sword for such a fine lady should be carried in a fine way."

Riko thanked him repeatedly as she walked away from the stall, then she put on the belt, sliding the sword into the sheath and hiding it all beneath the pink cloth.

She continued on down the street to a restaurant. When she got on in she was waited on like a princess.

"What would you like on this wonderful morning, mademoiselle?" The male waiter asked her.

"Uh, how about just a Coke." Riko said nervously.

"Ok, I'll be right back with your drink" The male waiter said while looking at her bust.

"Perv, but wow, She must be really good to actually do what she says that she could do. Man, I feel like royalty. Ha ha ha ha" Riko said with a smile.

2 minutes later, the waiter came back with her drink.

"Would you like anything else?"

"No thanks" Riko said simply.

"Alright I'll be back later," The waiter said.

After a while and a couple of refills, the last person that Riko would have expected to enter the restaurant was none other than Sawn himself. He looked around for a seat and caught sight of Riko and walked over to her.

"Man you really to clean up nicely. You look like a princess, wow." Sawn said in awe.

"When you are done staring you can talk to my face any time." Riko said sarcastically.

"Sorry, but you really look good. So, how do like Serenity when you don't dress like a slut?" Sawn asked her with a smile on his face.

"To tell you the truth, I love it. I was given a rose from a kid because he wanted to be the first one to give me a rose. It's very cute as well," Riko said, "Vezerini actually has done really well on making this Dimension prosper. I never knew he was such a good guy, Do you know what he was like before you came to Serenity?"

"Uh, I think I'd better not answer that question. Just for my sake of living." Sawn said.

"Well, then let's talk about something else then"

"Alright then" Riko and Sawn talked for hours on end.

Well that is the End I'll try to see if I can get the story before I did this one but since it was done by one of my friends I'll have to talk to her about it. Well don't expect the next chapter to be up soon since it's not yet done. But I'll try to get it done soon. Oh and for those who like the Game Tales of Symphonia here is a good fanfic about it title Tales of Symphonia: A New Threat To A New World by Vyser, Adept of Dragons. (Tell me if I got it right or not Vyser) Well R&R and enjoy the other fanfic. (There I Payed you back Vyser)