Prepare for lots of confusion when Dynablade starts talking mmkay.

I should have an excuse for not posting this sooner, but...really I don't. This was finished like, in 2005/early 2006. But I was a lazy person and kept editing small parts here and there.

BUT NOW YOU GET TO READ IT!

It was a bright and sunny day!

Everyone was happy!

No one expected a thing!

Which made it a perfect time to attack!

And I can't seem to be able to use anything else other than exclamation points!

"What's going on!" Dragon yelled to Auburn over the hubbub of noise his army was making during its charge to Meltokio.

"The author was having trouble with punctuation, but I think it's fixed now!" Auburn screamed.

"Oh, okay, meow!"

"Is Dynablade alright, meow?"

"She's fine! She'll fly to the square once we've upset the city!"

"Right! Just checking!"

Sheena nearly flew through the streets, trying to beat the daily traffic along the walkways. She could deal with big monsters, the huge responsibility of being Mizuho chief, but the clogged Meltokio sidewalks were something nothing could deal with...sanely.

And carrying a bunch of groceries didn't help all that much, either, but she was determined to get back without spilling anything. Besides, her ice cream was in there! If that spilled...heads would roll! Funny, though, she never really had a taste for the stuff, but now she gobbled up whatever she could get her hands on.

Strange...the traffic wasn't supposed to be this bad this early...and everyone was panicking. That wasn't good.

But then again, Meltokio people would run for cover at the sight of a mouse.

"Hey!" Sheena grabbed the sleeve of one of the screaming people (who, come to think of it, was acting uncannily like a chicken with its head cut off) "What's going on?"

"Katz!" the guy shrieked, babbling. "They're attacking the city! They're blowing up buildings!"

Sheena didn't stay any longer to hear the rest, because she'd have to stash her stuff before kicking some tail. Funny, though, she hadn't heard of Katz acting warlike before. Oh well, she thought aimlessly, ducking into an alley.

There's a first time for everything, a voice entered her mind.

Sheena whirled, knowing that voice.

"Show yourself!"

The dog spirit existed in front of her, wagging his tail nervously.

"What do you want?" Sheena scowled, hugging her precious cargo to her chest.

"Well, here's the gist of it," Susa panted, "Y'know how Colette's gone? Well, the Katz took her, her soulsib...uhhh, Shadow, and my brother, and, and, they made this Weapon, and now they're attacking and stuff! So, like, I need a solid body to fight The Weapon, and well...you're capable, and I have a link with you, anyway."

Sheena stared at the little puppy for a beat, blinking.

"A link?"

"I drank a bit of your blood, yes. You weren't very tasty."

"Now that's just stupid."

"No, no! I'm serious!"

Suddenly, the building behind them was rooted from its spot and thrown aside. There was a gust of wind as it flew out of the way, temporarily blinding Sheena with her own hair. When she recovered, she spotted something Colette-like, but a lot bigger, a lot scarier, and a lot madder.

"Y'rrrou!" she growled, pointing to Sheena. "Kille y'rrrou!"

"Is that it?" Sheena squeaked, hiding her provisions in a corner.

"Yes!" Susa yipped, melting himself into his Crimson form, blocking Dynablade's passage.

"Sssuzza! Dnnn't ghet in mai wayh...move!" Dynablade snarled, grinding her?his? teeth. It was a terrible, screechy sound, one that tore eardrums. It flung a ball of energy, which Susa managed to dodge (although a bit of his fur got singed) but the alley wall wasn't as fortunate. Oh well. It was nice knowing you, wall. Have a nice time in heaven.

"What's it saying?" Sheena asked the giant gold-helmet wearing grey wolf, because she couldn't hear it properly.

"I...I don't know!" Susa grabbed Sheena by the collar, leaping over the alley in one leap.

"My ice cream!" Sheena whined helplessly, reaching.

"My guess, right now Sanguine's hunting you down 'cuz he knows about our link, but he has to push through two layers of souls, ya know?" Susa explained, ignoring Sheena's plea. "That's why he's having a hard time acting. That, and he might be...diluted, kinda? Did that make sense? 'Cuz he's buried under layers? Or maybe it has to do with the magic to put them together."

"Sure," Sheena pouted. What if that...thing...devoured, because that word fitted that monster, her ice cream! Oooh, she'd kick its ass, even if Colette was in there!

"Please fasten your seatbelts, ladies and ninjas, we're in for a landing," Susa lighted gently (coughIMKIDDINGcough) on the ground.

"Okay," Sheena cleared her throat, dusting herself. "What now?"

"It'll be a while 'til that thing gets close," Susa pondered. "In the meantime, I need your permission -"

"Yeah, yeah, that. Go ahead," Sheena waved a hand. "Get it over with."

Susa thought again for a bit, pointing suddenly, "Strawberry truffles!"

Strawberry truffles? Hot damn! Sheena turned, seeing nothing. "Wha...aoup!"

Something had forced itself into her mouth. The best way to describe it was a bullet - a very large one, but it sure was quick.

"Gwuh!"

All of a sudden she felt like vomiting, her body was freezing, she was shaking, blacking out, and besides! She'd like to see how a Meltokian would react when someone upchucked on their shoes.

Wait, no, that's just me. Oops. Won't happen again, folks.

How are you feeling? Susa poked her mind.

"Swell," Sheena supported herself by leaning on a lamppost, coughing.

Sorry about that, Susa adopted an apologetic tone, which seemed very 'sea green'. Don't ask how, watch...well, actually, no. It's like drinking that Sobe Berry Yogurt drink thing! It tastes purple, I swear! I swear on my love of Rikuu Maleur! And that's a big swear! It's just that I have to enter your body somehow and this is the most comfortable...est way. Last time I 'clasped' with you I didn't know how to use your fighting technique, so this time, I thought it would be better if I could just supply you with my powers.

"And let me do all the work?" Sheena wobbled away from the post, her legs feeling either like a bunch of jello or wet noodles. One or the other. Or, perhaps both!

You make me sound bad! And besides, I...egads, you've gained weight!

"Have not!" Sheena hacked, fighting to keep her breakfast down. "You're...just...imagining things!"

You should stop eating ice cream. Ninjas don't eat ice cream!

Interrupting their conversation was the sound of a building being picked up.

"Y'rrrou...dyyyih!" Dynablade/Sanguine roared, flinging its makeshift weapon at Sheena.

"Eeeei!" Sheena yelped, trying to run. No, she wouldn't make it, the building was too big!

Oh, make me save your sorry butt!

The next thing she knew she was in the air, an impressive and very dizzifying length away from the projectile apartment.

"What the crap?" she blurted, trying not to look down.

Well, since you didn't think of going upward, I had to take initiative.

"I can jump this high?" Sheena squeaked, flapping her arms around.

Uhhh...I can make you. But that's beside the point! Land!

Sheena flailed about, trying to flip herself into a good position, and ended up doing a nosedive into the dirt, buried to her elbows.

You're a shitty ninja, you know that?

Well, I'm not used to landing from a hundred feet in the air! Sorry!

Dynablade grabbed her by the feet, uprooting her from the ground. "H'vvve y'rrrou now!"

What now?

I dunno. We get beaten to a pulp, I guess.

Oh, joy.

"Wh...aht now, Sssuzza?" Sanguine sneered, choking Sheena. "Y'rrrourrr avatarrr...not cutting ieht?"

"Sanguine...stop this!" Susa said through Sheena, hacking.

"Why...should Ie?" Sanguine grinned. "This...is...! Ourrr purrrposss, Sssuzza! To kille!"

"Least you could do is speak properly before snuffing me out," Sheena coughed.

"Insolence!" Dynablade crushed Sheena against a wall, squeezing her like a jelly donut. Squishy squish! "How dare you speak to me like that!"

The thick soup of blood pooling into Sheena's mouth wasn't pleasant at all; it made her want to throw up again. But she decided not to puke on her captor, since it would anger it and probably bring a more painful death.

"(Sh...Sheena!)" Colette's voice mewed from the monster, loosening its hold. "(You're...you're...!)"

"I'm what?" Sheena worried, looking at Dynablade's face, who was ready to break into tears.

"(Stop me!)" Colette cried, interrupted by a "Prepare to die!" from Sanguine. Sheena braced herself for whatever would kill her, whether it be an energy ball or crush of her head...

It never came. Instead, there was an "Ow! The hell! Who shot that?"

Sheena opened her eyes, in time to see herself be flung aside by Dynablade, an arrow sticking out of one of its wings. Some distance away, a Penguiner notched another arrow to a bow.

"Cheeky, aren't'cha?" Sanguine sneered, leaping at her.

"My name is Myn!" the Penguiner dashed away, firing handfuls of arrows at a time. "Remember that!"

"What's going on?" Sheena asked no one, spitting.

To answer Sheena's, and, possibly, your question, here's what happened:

Some time after the Fifth Battalion was defeated, the Penguinists received a note:

Katz are attacking Meltokio - Watch out for dangerous Weapon - Bring 63 - Meet at the square

The note was brought by a little blue falcon.

"Sounds fishy," Raptor said around a bit of her lunch - funnily enough, a fish.

"Cree," the bird insisted.

"Well, what can we do, anyway?" Violet fussed with a flipper. "We don't have any elevator-tubes that go to Meltokio."

"Ah - you don't, but we do," the Head Penguiner waddled in.

"Well, great," Violet flapped about, "but we still don't know if we should go or not. Who knows if it's the truth?"

"Cree!" the falcon chirped, disrupted from her perch on a fish pot by a little head coming out of it.

"Bad news, mew!" Byruu squealed, her hair covering her eyes, "Meltokio's, like, dying!"

"Alright then, I'll go!" Myn waved her tie-dye hand...flipper in the air.

"Such a brave little girl," the Head Penguiner sniffed. "Makes a guy cry sometimes. So proud..."

"You're just going there because you heard of that new Drama CD that came out, right?" Byruu whispered.

"That's not the primary reason!" Myn shook the half-Katz.

"Hey, that's why I went there," the little one admitted, "but everyone was running and screaming and there was this big swarm of Katz so I thought I'd beat it, mew. Looked kinda funny. Someone should make it into a movie or something. Or at least a book."

"How 'bout a fanfiction?" Raptor suggested.

"That might work."

"Take a few Penguinists with you," the Head Penguinist called after the waddling away Myn.

"And get me a copy of that CD!" Byruu yelled.

"Where are you going?" Ruby watched as Myn slid by. (Penguins are so cute when they toboggan.)

"Oh yeah! You gotta come," Myn grabbed her via tail.

"I don't get it," Ruby yelped.

"Well, neither do I, but I guess we'll all find out soon enough," Lynn grabbed a spear, following Myn.

Sheena hobbled to her feet, helped by a hoodless brown Katz.

"I thought you were the bad guys," she coughed. "How come you're not with them?" she pointed to the army of Katz that were supporting Dynablade.

"Feh," Mr. Hoodless Katz fussed with his hair. "I'm not a Katz. But yes, they are the 'bad guys'."

"So you're a human in a cat suit?"

"...Close enough." He then proceeded to mumble, offended about something or something. Yes, I am totally aware that was unnecessarily repetitive. Shut up, man!

Lynn leaped over a few heads, whooping. Whenever she need a bit more altitude (it's really hard to jump over so many Katz in one leap, ya know) she'd use her spear to hop a bit by jamming it on an unfortunate's head. Not only did she go farther, hey, a Katz is down! If you did not understand that, please raise your hand.

Ruby clung to her head, whimpering. When you're being transported by this crazy chick who has a blindfold on and you've got no seat belt, I think you'd be scared too.

She landed neatly next to Sheena and Mr. Hoodless 'Katz', pausing.

"Do I know you?" she pointed to both of them.

"Not that I know of," the Hoodless 'Katz' shook his head, coughing.

"I got the kid, anyway," Lynn shook her head to get Ruby off.

"Land!" she cried, kissing the dirt.

"Perfect. We just need to wait."

"For what?"

"The last pieces," the young man in the suit answered, smiling.

"Come back here, you little runt! I'll make you into chicken soup!" Sanguine yowled, scrambling after Myn.

"Pity, I thought I'd get some exercise today," Myn leaped, dodging Dynablade's angry swipes. "But you're so slow, you know!"

Dynablade hissed, spreading its four wings, clearing the distance between them in one leap. "Feh! Now...I harrrvvve...you!"

"If you can't talk properly, you know, don't," a new voice sort-of-but-not-really sang, and a dragon, who came out of the Hoodless 'Katz's hand, punched Dynablade in the jaw.

"Wh...what!" it cried, flipping up. "Who...are you?"

"I would say 'your worst nightmare', but that's way to cliché," the dragon answered, joined by a young man with a fearsome-looking (how 'bout even 'demonic') right hand and the Hoodless 'Katz'.

"Get rid of all the others until they come," the 'Katz' told his party, bringing out a mace.

"Righto," the right-hand-man (I'm so funny) said, pulling out a sword. "This is so boring."

"We've got them!" a Desian called to Dynablade. "Let us take care of this!"

"Yeah," Sanguine sneered, leaping toward Sheena. "Why don't you come along with me, Susa? I'm having a lot more fun than you are."

"Stop, Sanguine!" Susa yelled, jumping out of the way, narrowly dodging Dynablade's fist.

"I'm enjoying myself," it cackled, lunging. "You would too!"

"What's going on?" Azure flailed about, afraid of heights.

"I don't have much of a good idea, but it's to help Colette!" Lloyd panted, flapping his wings a little harder. "We're almost there!"

"Be careful," Azure whined, trying not to look down, but for some reason, down was so fascinating. "The square's just ahead. ...What's left of it."

Lloyd landed (well enough) and looked about. "Sheena?" he blurted, the only thing he could recognize.

"Lloyd!" she gasped twice at the same time while kicking away a fallen Desian. It sounds weird, I know, but Susa's saying it too.

"What's going on?" Azure repeated.

"Better ask him," Sheena pointed to the 'Katz'-man.

"Ah! You're here!" the Hoodless One herded them to where Ruby was. "Now, I'm only going to say this once, so listen up.

"That thing that's destroying everything is Dynablade, a weapon made by putting together three things: A Summon Spirit, a Chimaeracore, and an angel. Each of you has ties to one. You, the Katzinist, you're the summoner of the Spirit, therefore he has to do what you say. The student, you're the owner of the Chimaeracore, so she'll respond to you. And you, Mr. Double Sword, you're the fiancée of the angel...so if she won't warm up to you...you should get another girl."

"She will!" Lloyd snapped, shaking. "What do we have to do?"

"We've gotten rid of a lot of the distractions," 'Auburn' waved to the Penguinists and Katz fighting. "You need to get Dynablade's attention and talk to your 'part'. That'll confuse 'im, and that'll stop 'im."

"Worth a shot," Azure chewed on a nail. "Ay!" she yelled, waving her hands about. "Bad kitty! Down!"

Dynablade whirled, distracted from a Penguinist it was beating up. "What?"

"Bad kitty!" Azure repeated. "Didn't I tell you not to kill things?"

"You said you'd play with me!" Ruby joined in.

Dynablade was afraid now, backing up. "S...stop!"

"Colette!" Lloyd cried, running up to Dynablade. "I know you're in there!"

"N...no!" Dynablade screamed, spreading her wings. "I'm...I'm not any of those things!"

"What?" Azure turned to Auburn (I'm tired of calling him the Hoodless 'Katz'), jabbing a finger to her. "That! What's going on? That was so not the voice she was talking in a few moments ago!"

"Impossible," Auburn breathed.

"Uh-oh," Lynn commented, kicking at a rock (but missing, I mean, the girl's got a blindfold, man). "Am I the only one who thinks that's a bad omen?"

"That's...shit!" Auburn kicked a rock (because unlike Lynn he can see) "That's...it wasn't! That's not supposed to happen!"

"What do we do...?" Lloyd turned back. Everyone had their eyes on the Katz, except for Dynablade, who clutched her head and whined softly.

"I...don't know," Auburn bit his lip, "Try again!"

"Shadow!" Azure shouted.

"Sanguine!" Susa cried.

"It's all right," Lloyd held Dynablade's hands, preventing them from clawing her head out.

"..."

"I'm here. I'm not going to leave you..."

Dynablade had her eyes glued to the ground.

"Those words...they sound so familiar..."

"You said them to me a long time ago. Do you remember...?"

Dynablade looked up, lost in her thoughts. "Kind of..."

"At the inn...? The tower? Do you remember our conversation?"

She paused, blinking a few times. "Yes, but...it's kind of fuzzy." Her ears flattened until they almost vanished in her hair.

"It's alright. We're going to get you back to normal."

"Normal..."

He held her hands, waiting for a response. After what seemed like an age, she leaned on his shoulder, startling him.

"(Lloyd...)"

"...Colette?"

"(I...I missed you, Lloyd...everything's going to be alright...right?)"

Lloyd was about to answer when he was interrupted by ominous, booming laugh.

"Ah ha ha haah! How touching! Yes, very so! But, I'm afraid I can't let you get away with my 'blade of blood' just yet, my darlings! Me-ow."

"Dragon!" Auburn brandished his mace, crackling with dark energy. "You know this is insane!"

"Oh my god, it's a crazy guy in a pink cat suit," Lynn gaped. "What...is the world coming to."

"Yes, of course I do, that's why I'm doing it, you fool!" Dragon lashed his tail. "Once I've gotten this city in ruins, I'll fuse with Dynablade and no one would dare get in my way!" then he laughed again, sounding insane, being insane.

"You know fusing with two gals would...technically cause some problems, right?" Azure held up a finger.

"Sanguine did it," Lynn said.

"But he's a spirit, they don't have genders," Azure pointed out. "Shut up, man, I took a whole semester on this."

"But before that, my sweet," Dragon sneered, shaking a little bell that matched Dynablade's collar, which made no sound. "Dynablade..."

Her ears snapped up and she gasped. "No, no!"

"Yes, yes!" Dragon smiled, chuckling darkly. "You recognize this bell, don't you?"

"Get it away, get it away!" Dynablade covered her ears and shielded herself with her wings.

The bell shook again, and her struggles stopped.

"Dynablade...kill them."

...

Uh. How come when Lloyd is with Dynablade, I imagine her smaller than he is (like Colette's regular size) but I said before she was 'larger than a regular human being'? So so. How big is she anyway? Does she shrink?

Oh wait. I'm the author. I should know about these things, haha.