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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"Come on guys! Hurry up!" Kiako said happily waving to the others behind her.

"She seems awfully cheerful even after what's happened." Dart said as the headed to the Marshlands. A soldier had reported that the fortress there was being attacked and was barely holding out.

"We'll have to see how cheerful she is when we face the dragon, by the way, do you understand how to fight as a dragoon?" the lady who introduced herself as Rose asked. Dart nodded and remembered how he woke up to Shana trying to strangle Rose. She may have succeeded if Lavitz and Kel weren't there.

"Hey! I'm already far enough as it is! Hurry up!" Kiako called and turned to wait for them.

"If she tells us to hurry up one more time, I'm going to turn her into a big, fluffy hat." Rose said resting her hand on the handle of her rapier.

"There there, you can't really blame her for being this happy." Kyle said.

"We're about to face a 100 feet giant lizard! How on earth can she be happy?" Shana asked throwing her hands up into the air.

"Because... That giganto was Kiako's friend. She may seem cheerful, but she's not." Lavitz said watching Kiako attempt backflips, "That ribbon was her promise, she can't help but feel betrayed."

"Yeah, she tries to use a smile mask to hide it all," Kel said, "So give her a break ok?" The others looked at each other and nodded.

"Okay."

"OWW! Ooh... My back..." Kiako's whimper echoed ahead of them as she lay there on the ground twitching, "AHH! THE CROWS ARE STARTING TO PICK AT ME! WAHHHHH!"

"Arg, we better go save her..." Kyle muttered stalking towards Kiako swinging his lance around to ward off the birds.

"From the crows, or from herself?" Dart asked uncertainly looking at the others. They all shrugged and went to follow.

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"You know, it's not really smart to try to do backflips in the middle of a swamp." Lavitz said as he carried the half concious Kiako on his back, "Especially when the ground is slippery."

"Nyah... I know now..." she murmured gave his head a pat, "You can put me down now Lavitz nii-san, I can walk."

"OH MY GOD!" Dart's shout was heard from ahead of them. Everyone rushed in to see the knighthood slowly one by one being picked off and killed.

"Split up and get to the nearest knight in trouble, everyone grab their own opponent and fast!" Kel ordered and he used his lances to launch himself to the highest ground.

"Hey you! Are you knights from Basil?" A Sandora soldier demanded.

"Leave this guy to me, you guys go on!" Kyle said drawing his lance. Dart nodded and ran off with the others. Another soldier appeared before them.

"Hey you! I'll- ARK!" the soldier didn't even get to finish his line as Kiako dropped kicked him in the face.

"I get this one!" she said waving with a grin on her face.

"But- Eek!" Dart grabbed Shana by the back of her shirt and started to drag her away, "Dart!"

"She'll be fine." he said.

"With that kind of a drop kick I hope so." Rose said skeptically.

"My, you're a harsh woman." Lavitz said.

Kiako glanced over her shoulder to see that the others were at quite a distance away then turned to the soldier.

"Why you, I'll cut you up!" the soldier growled pointing his sword. Kiako grinned and put her fists up.

"Make my day!"

Kel took out an additional 3 rods and ejected them into spears. He crouched down and held two in each hand.

"Hands full? How can you move with such bulky equipment on you're back!" the soldier laughed. Kel stayed silent and in the blink of an eye had phased in and out from his spot up right in the soldier's face.

"Still think I'm slow?" Kel asked as the soldier stumbled backwards swinging his spear upwards wildly at the same. Kel used the two spears in his left hand to to cros into an X and blocked the attack as the spear wedged itself between the other two spears. Kel kicked the soldier over and used the spears in his right hand to pin the soldier down by his neck. He pulled the Patriot off his back and pointed the barrel at the soldier.

"N..No!" the soldier kicked around trying to dislodge the spears.

"This is the end for you..." Kel said darkly and with a swift rabbit punch, knocked the guard unconcious, "Wimp..."

Kyle skipped back a few steps and swung his lance downwards trying to knock the soldier in the face. The soldier jumped back throwing a Burn Out while Kyle used his lance like a bat and swatted it away. Man this guy was annoying! Throwing every single attack item he had... Kyle sighed inwardly. Looks like he had to end this fast.

Really fast.

Kyle crouched down and lauched himself at the soldier, who side stepped and tried to swing his sword down on Kyle, who stabbed his lance into the ground and used the momentum to swing around dodging the blade and kicking upwards into the soldiers chin with a scissor kick. The soldier staggered back a bit holding his face until everything went black for him as Kyle shoved his spear through him using Jump.

Kiako was having no luck at all! This guy threw attack items and moved surprisingly fast. Kiako had done nothing but dodge the whole time. She put her handsi nto a seal.

"Kage Bunshin no-" she stopped feeling a throb and clutched her head. The soldier took the chance to slash at her and she slammed into the wall with her forearms bleeding.

"What's wrong? Forgot how to dodge?" the soldier sneered and slashed down again. Kiako rolled to the side avoiding the blade and drew a quick transmutation circle with her blood onto the cuts on her arms. Then with a light slap the blood that dripped onto the ground and the blood from her arms gathered into one giant mass into her hand as a giant translucent shield. The soldier stepped back a bit in surprise but recovered and charged again slashing at the shield. It held and after warping it's shape a bit flew out and slammed the soldier into the dirt wall in the shape of a giant claw.

"Tch, stupid moron..." Kiako spat walking towards the soldier, "You're a Sandora soldier right?"

"What do I look like to you? Not one of those weak knights from Basil... AGAH!" the soldier cried as Kiako commenced with pinching his cheeks.

"Tell me where Kongol is! Or I'll pinch harder!" Kiako threatened.

"Kongol? You wanna know where THAT beast is? You've got issues if you're looking for that lummox." the soldier scoffed. The red claw disappeared and as soon as it did the soldier was grabbed by the neck and slammed violently into the wall.

"Bastard, how dare you say that..." Kiako growled, "Tell me where he is, or I'll break you're neck..." Her grip slowly tightened and the soldier let out a croak and started choking.

"Kiako stop, it's over!" Dart grabbed her shoulder but she shook it off and swung the soldier around into the floor.

"Tell me! Tell me where he is!" Kiako shrieked shaking the choking soldier, "TELL ME!"

The soldier dropped to the ground coughing and gasping for air. Kiako stood there dumbstuck holding the throbbing cheek that Kel had just punched.

"Kel...san..." she said quietly then her face suddenly turned into rage, "Kel-san!"

"That's enough Kiako, I know you've never killed anyone before. So please promise me," Kel fixed his cowboy hat to tilt over his dark eyes, "Don't start to stain your hands with blood. I don't want you to have any regrets." Kiako took a deep breath slowly simmering down.

"Ok."

"GWAAH!" Everyone turned to see Kyle yanking his spear out from the soldier's chest.

"Kyle! That was un-neccesary!" Lavitz shouted.

"No, it was. If he got away he'd pass the info we were here and this place would be swarming with knights, and you know after seeing that guy die that we have no more knights of our own to fight here." Kyle said and tucked his spear away, "Let's get going."

"DAMN YOU!" Kiako grabbed him by the collar of his shirt trying to yank him off his feet, "He could've told me where Kongol was! Then you just had to go and kill him!"

"Just what are you gonna do when you see him huh? I don't exactly remember him exactly being too friendly to you by embedding his axe into you." Kyle snapped back. Kiako dropped Kyle huffing from her anger.

"As soon as I see him, I'm giving back what belongs to him." she said holding up the ribbon with the bell clutched in her fist, "This is what I gave him when I met him in the forest and it's his whether he likes it or not. I'll find him, it's it's the last thing I do." she turned on her heel tucking he bell into her black turtleneck.

Rose shook her head, "She hasn't changed a bit." Lavitz cocked his eyebrow at her.

"Eh?"

"Nevermind, let's go." Rose said walking ahead. Dart came up beside Lavitz watching Rose and Shana walk away as Kiako tried her Happy Happy routine again by trying to super jump into a tree and see how long she could hang before her arms got tired.

"Man, we've got some of the weirdest girls on this trip..." Dart sighed.

"Hey at least one of them is a HOT weird girl." Kyle said watching Rose.

"..." Everyone stared at him in silence then seeing that the girls and even Kel were ahead of them, took off to try and catch up.

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Authors notes: Yup, a bit busy lately. That's why this chapter is so short. XD Man, the last reviewer kinda bugged me, I know I use tech's from Naruto, but that doesn't mean I'll use them the whole story! I've only used 2 techniques (Kage Bunshin no jutsu and Henge no jutsu...) and made up 3-4 (Wild Leaf Spin, Chakra Heal and some of the alchemy methods...) Oh well, I guess I can't let everything bug me (Even if the person who reviewed doesn't know how to use paragraphs or spaces very well...) Although I do appreciate the feeback.

Anywho, I can't type very often because it's a record high of 36 degrees celcius here and my room apparently can match 38... So yeah, not so often. Actually, I head in the US it's like, 60 or 90 degrees celcius or something, man I feel so bad for Kel-san! PLEASE HANG IN THERE NII-SAN! DON'T MELT!