I do not own Legend of Dragoon. I also don't own Kyle Malcallum or Kelvis Draken or my friends. They own themselves. I own Kiako Ornitier.

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Please enjoy and thanks for reading!

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Traveling from the Limstone cave to Bale wasn't hard, just...

Well, the way Kyle would put it is that it's, "Annoying as F---."

Even the far grassy plains couldn't help the travels outrun the monsters.

"Arg, are we there yet...?" Kiako groaned, "I mean, how long have we been traveling?"

"For almost a day and a half." Kel replied to her and glanced over his shoulder seeing she was almost half a mile behind them. Kyle also noticed this.

"You're so slow, C'mon! Move those stubby short legs of yours!" he shouted in some sort of blunt encouragement. Even from the distance he was from her he could still see Kiako's cheeks inflate with annoyance. She quickly jogged to get up to them and sighed.

"How much time has passed in the real world, I wonder?" Kiako said softly keeping her eyes to the ground.

"Hopefully, not much." Kyle said.

"Kyle, Kiako, I was wondering." Lavitz said slowing down to walk with Kyle and Kiako, "Where are you both from anyways?" Kiako sudden felt her own face drain and started to think of where. She knew she couldn't say they were from somewhere that wasn't even part of this world, was there even a Canada in this place? She couldn't tell the truth but her upbringing ensured that she'd never tell a lie. Lavitz waited patiently for an answer as Kiako was starting to sweat bullets and stutter while trying her best to tell the truth but to lie at the same time.

"We're from Hoax." Kyle said, "So it's close to here right?"

Lavitz nodded and heaved a sighed, "Although it might not be there any longer."

"Eh? Why?" Kiako asked running in front of him and walking backwards.

"Because of the war." Lavitz explained that Serdio was divided in two when Emperor Doel, the King's uncle, broke the truce and attack Seles. Shana and Dart's home village.

"War is a terrible thing. My friend Kuro told me how it worked. One army attacks, the other retaliates, and it's a never ending cycle." Kiako said thinking back on the memory.

"Your friend Kuro is right." Lavitz said. Kyle, Kel and Kiako all nodded in unison. From their experiences, Kuro was a genius. "Kel, where are you from?"

"I'm just a traveler, I don't really have a home here." Kel replied.

Kiako jumped up for a moment, "Hey, is that the town?"

Lavitz smiled proudly, "Yes. That is Bale, the Royal Capital of Serdio."

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When they entered the city Kiako was already darting from place to place.

"Wow, this place is huge!" she said and went down a pair of steps the lead to under the fountain, "What's down here?"

"Um, Kiako I suggest you don't go there..." Lavitz started.

"HEEEY KITTTTTY! YOU'RE A FLUFFY KITTTTTY! PREEETY KITTTTY..."

Kiako screamed and ran to hide behind Kel as the drunk from under the fountain gurgled nonsense and after some shooing from Lavitz, went back down into the fountain.

"Heh heh, He's always been like that." Lavitz said with a sheepish grin. Kiako chuckled with him and sniffed the air. She then went from behind Kel and into a nearby house. When she saw all the paints she grinned and jumped onto a stool watching the girl paint. The girl heard the noise and when she spotted Kiako, gave a small squeak of surprise.

"Oh my gosh! A cat that's shaped like a human!" she pointed.

"I can talk too if that'll put your curiousity at rest." Kiako chimed, "Meow."

"Oh my gosh don't move! This'll be very quick!" the girl said grabbing her paint tray and mixing paints to make different colors. She then looked back at Kiako and began to paint. Kiako waited patiently tilting her head side to side and occasionally lifting her foot to scratch at her ear. As soon as she put her foot down the itch returned and Kiako had to lift her foot again to scratch at her ear. Dart and company walked in and some of them sighed.

"Didn't anyone tell you curiosity killed the cat?" Dart said walking to Kiako's perch on the stool, "We thought you'd been kidnapped by the drunk!"

"Sorry, I like to paint." Kiako said while scratching her ear, "Rats, stupid itch won't leave me alone..."

"Kiako! Stop scratching! You're making ME itchy!" Kel cried scratching under his hat. Even Shana, Dart and Lavitz were starting to scratch at their heads. Kyle wasn't paying any attention to the trio and also watched the girl paint.

"Whoa, Kiako she's like, better then you are!" he said with a hint of teasing. Kiako just stuck her tongue out at him.

"Hear you go! Finished!" the girl said merrily handing Kiako the painting. It was a picture of Kiako scratching at her ear with her foot.

Kiako gave a wide grin, "Thanks! Wow, you're really good! Like my best friend Kuro. She's one of the best artists I know!" the girl smiled and saw Lavitz.

"Oh my gosh! Sir Lavitz! Can I paint a portrait of you?" she asked eagerly. Lavitz rubbed behind his head with an embarrased face and nodded, "Great! Don't move!"

About 15 minutes passed and the girl handed Lavitz the portrait. Everyone crowded around to look at it. It almost did look like Lavitz, maybe be a resemblance to his father or something.

"Isn't that a little too handsome?" Dart said.

"Yeah I know, it looks too good to be Lavitz." Kyle snickered. Lavitz ignored the comments and smiled at the girl.

"Thank you, I'll treasure this."

"Yay!"

"Well, now that that is done, I have to go report to King Albert." Lavitz said, "Come, let us go."

"U, Um..." the girl walked up to Kiako, "Could I keep that painting? Just to remember?" Kiako glanced at it and nodded handing it back to the girl.

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Kiako hated stairs. This castle had plenty of 'em. She ran up the stairs and had practically collapsed at the top. The others? They were on still at the bottom of the stairs.

"Jee Kiako, you didn't have to run up them." Kel said helping Kiako to her feet. Kiako just nodded still trying to catch her breath. Kel sighed and dragged her inside with him. As they passed some guards they gave many greetings to Lavitz and company.

"Wow, you're pretty well known." Kiako said slowly going up the steps that lead to the 2nd floor.

"Yes well, my father was also a famous knight." Lavitz said and peered around the floor for a moment, "I'll go see if King Albert is busy, then I'll ask you all to come in." he walked up another flight of stairs and out of sight. Kyle already started to walk off.

"Eh? Kyle? Nii-san!" Kiako shouted.

"We're suppose to wait for Lavitz to come back." Shana said. Kyle gave a lazy wave.

"I'll be back soon."

Kiako sighed, "I'll go get him." She followed him into a giant room. A room filled with books.

'This must be some kinda library." she thought as the walked past the giant shelves. After almost 20 minutes of searching, Kiako groaned in exasperation. She turned the corner and bumped into something. She fell over along with a man with long blonde hair who was slowly getting to his feet and dusting dirt off the book he was reading. Kiako had a mental image of him having some sort of reading glasses. She quickly jumped to her feet and helped the man up.

"I'm sorry! I'm kinda in a hurry." she apologized, "Did I hurt you?"

'Oh my god, This guy looks... Pretty! ARG! I'M GONNA GET SKINNED!' were Kiako's racing thoughts inside her head. Outside, she was calm and trying to help the man.

"It is all right, are you ok?" the man looked up at her and seemed taken aback at her appearance. Who sees an orange half cat half human everyday anyway? "S,So... What is the rush?"

"I'm looking for someone, have you seen a boy about this tall and carries a spear and wears glasses?" Kiako asked demonstating Kyle's height with her hand, which hovered about 2 inched above her head, "I'd really appreciate it if you told me, he likes to run off and he's alot faster then I am."

"I believe I saw him go to that end of the library. Of course, I could be mistaken. He was wearing strange clothing."

"That's fine! Thanks!" Kiako said with a kind smile and bowed down politely, "Nice to have met you, thanks again! Oh, and I'm sorry!" she ran off just as another man came beside the blonde man and told news to the blonde man that made him smile.

Kiako rounded a corner seeing Kyle looking through a book. Kiako frowned. First time she's ever seen him with a book... Kiako stood on tip toes hovering behind Kyle and intentionally started to breathe heavily in a creepy, horror movie way. A fist suddenly smacked into her nose and she yelped backing away holding her nose.

"That's kinda annoying, don't do that." Kyle said nonchalantly, "And be quiet, we're in a LIBRARY after all Kiako."

"You're the one who punched my nose!" Kiako cried.

"Oh right, my bad." Kyle held up the book he was reading, "Check out what I found. It's a picture book of the castle." Kiako peered at it making sure not to get too close to Kyle and looked at the picture.

"I think I've seen it before."

Kyle flipped a few pages and pointed at another picture.

"Reconize that?" When Kiako didn't reply he sighed, "It's the room! The room with the fireplace in chapter one! During our field trip!"

"So... That means we were having a field trip in the old Indel's castle?" Kiako's cat eyes dialated, "That's like, twisted." Kyle nodded and stared at the picture.

"So if we were in Indels castle during our time, does that mean we traveled to the past with the fireplace?"

There was a light knock and Lavitz was leaning against a book case.

"There you are. I've been wonder where you both went." he said, "Come on, King Albert is ready."

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They went into the chamber and knelt down in front of a giant kind of low balcony.

"Lavitz, I'm glad you're back safe. I was worried when I heard that you're Knighthood was wiped out." a calm, smooth voice said. Kiako stole a glance upwards and jumped. It was the same man from the library, only he was wearing a green cape!

Lavitz sheepishly grinned, "There was no need for you to worry about me Your Majesty."

"Nonsense, you are my oldest friend, even before I became king." King Albert said.

"He's right, King Albert was so worried he wouldn't focus on other matters!" a man said.

"Minister Noish, there is no need to tease me." King Albert said, "So, I see you've brought new friends."

"Yes, this is Dart, Shana, Kyle, Kel and Kiako. They helped me escape Hellena prison." King Albert was shocked at the thought of one of his best knights in Hellena. Lavitz of all people, in Hellena?

"I see..."

"Minister Noish, Lavitz told me that you know most of the legends and myths in Serdio. Do you know anything about the Black Monster?" Dart asked. Kyled rolled his eyes. Jeez not this business again... Kiako noticed his eye roll and mouthed back at him.

(His parents were killed and he wants revenge, you can't blame him can you?)

Kyle mouthed back, (Revenge doesn't solve much, you know that.)

Now it was Kiako's turn to roll her eyes, (Yeah, still it's revenge. If I killed all of your friends and family would you come kill me?)

Kyle replied with a swift, punch in head. Kiako took it as a very blunt yes.

"I need somewhere to think..." Shana said.

"There's a room next door with a beautiful view of the city." King Albert said gesturing. Shana gave her thanks, kneeled again and went into the room. Dart sighed uttering an apology to the King and followed Shana.

"So, you two are from Hoax?" King Albert asked. Kyle and Kiako both nodded.

"There's going to be an attack on it, although what I hear from Lavitz you are both exceptionally good fighters." King Albert said, "Unfortunatly, the Sandora army are rumoured to have a dragon."

"A Dragon? You're kidding me!" Kiako cried.

"I'm afraid not."

"Arrg...Aie ya..." Kiako groaned while softly swearing in chinese and japanese.

Kyle, having known Kiako for quite some time ignored her and quit his feeble, futile attempts to try and undestand her.

"So they're planning on attacking Hoax and then targeting Bale right after huh?" Kel said. King Albert nodded. Everyone was silent for a moment.

"Well, then we better go and prevent that from happening huh?" Kiako said with a smile, "Come on guys! Let's go defend Hoax!"

"Yeah! Right on!" Kel grinned punching his fist into the air.

"You three aren't obliged to fight, you're all still young and have your lives ahead of you." King Albert said.

"But we wanna help, and as King you HAVE granted your people freedom of choice and opinion right?" Kyle asked, it being more of a challange than a question. Lavitz grinned.

"Great! Oh, can you three ask Shana and Dart? They are also not obliged to come, but it couldn't hurt to ask."

"Ok. Sure."

When they had left Lavitz turned to the King.

"So Lavitz, why are you traveling with so many young children?" Albert asked, "And, the furry one..."

"Right well, as I said before Shana and Dart both helped me out. Kyle and Kiako were also at Hellena. Kelvis we met in the Limestone cave." Lavitz said.

"Interesting, and those three young ones, they fair well in battle?"

Lavitz nodded, "Yes. Kyle specializes in using spears and lances as I do and can also result to hand to hand combat if necessary." He thought back to all the times Kyle had either kicked or punched Kiako over the head. "Kelvis uses a bow gun that is called the Patriot. It can fire small iron arrow darts, at a alarmingly fast rate I may add, iron pellet called bullets and to his description lightning magic."

Albert had his chin tucked in his hand in thought. These two would be a cutting edge advantage for the war, of course they weren't obliged as he said, but still. An advantage no less.

"And the cat? Kiako was it?"

"Oh yes her. She's an odd one. She utilizes magic that she calls Ninjutsu and calls herself a Ninja. She also uses that magic as a healing power that she used to help heal me when I was injured." Lavitz said, "Also, she can use Alchemy. She calls it equivilent exchange and by drawing something she calls a transmutation circle on the ground or on an object she can create something new. Last I remember she turned Hellena's walls into a stone cage with the clap of her hands. She uses no weapons except her fists and occasionally that strange shaped knife that can't cut that she carries around."

Albert seemed interested. A magic user! Excellent! Albert smiled.

"Lavitz, I was worried when you were gone, you were announced dead." he said.

"Oh no worries Your Majesty, Albert, don't worry." Lavitz turned as he saw Dart and the others coming back into the room. He gave a reassuring grin, "I won't die that easily."

Authors notes: Well, yes. XD I managed to add in descriptions of the characters fighting styles! Yay! Well, I gotta sign off here, got places to go, things to see, like Lindsay Lohan suffering in "Just my luck" XD Har har! Thanks for reading, bye!