Thank you two for all the reviews I glad that some of you REALLY LOVED the last chapter as I did. Well on with the story.

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Chapter 5

A shadowy figure watched as the two couples meet and talked.

"Jason, your clothes are torn!" Yuna exclaimed.

"We had a big fall."

Yuna sighed. Jason was always made things seem more insignificant then they really were.

"Oh. You came to join us?" Tidus asked.

"Yeah." Krystal started then noticed something. "Jason, your arm…"

She didn't have time to talk as the man walked away.

"I'll go get the blades. I mean the skates." he called over his shoulder.

"Okay." Tidus said.

He returned shortly with them. After he handed them out, they all began to glide across the ice. Yuna was still a little tired, but she was still able to keep her balance. Then she noticed a glowing red circle around her. The ice melted so she fell through.

She let out a scream as she plummeted into the water. Her friends saw it all take place. Tidus was frozen in shock and wasn't able to move and so was Krystal. Jason acted fast and raced down the ice. He saw her outline beneath the ice. He passed her quickly. Sliding to a stop Jason slammed his arm through the thick ice creating a hole. As he felt her hand come into contact with his, he pulled her up. She was out of breath and shivering all over. Tidus came running over.

"Are you okay?" he asked his voice laced with worry.

"Yes…I'll be fine. I just need to change my wet clothes." she joked.

Jason threw his large coat over her small frame.

"Tidus take her back to her room. I have to find the thing that did this."

He ran off towards the group of trees. When he reached them, he quickly grabbed the dark figure hiding in the shadows. Pulling it out he realized that it was Lulu. Something didn't seem right so he dragged her out into the light. He stared deep into her eyes.

"Jason what are you doing? That's Lulu." Krystal yelled at him from across the lake.

"This isn't the same Lulu you and I know."

"What do you mean? It has to be her. That is how she exactly looks like."

"Never judge a book by its cover." He coldly stated, as he tightened his grip around its throat.

Little lightning bolts started to form around her. He felt the shock and tried stopping it by smashing her through the trees. Which worked for most of the time until her skin began to peel off revealing a machina robot shaped as a human. It stood and began throwing him around. Jason pulled out a similar sword that he had used about 2 months ago, but this one was bigger than it. Then he ran towards the robot. Jumping up, he increased his altitude every second. Next he descended and slammed his sword into the ground causing a wave of ground to crush it.

-Meanwhile with Tidus and Yuna-

Yuna changed her clothes quickly and met Tidus outside her room.

"Let's go see if Jason was able to catch the one who did that to you."

"Okay, but thank you for what you did for me. You know, back at the lake. Oh, and thanks for teaching me to skate."

They hugged and embraced each other in a kiss. Soon she broke it and walked with him back to the lake.

Meanwhile Krystal stared at him in amazement as he came down with, the massive power of the sword, on the machina. It left a crater. He sheathed the mighty blade and walked calmly toward her when all of a sudden a horde of machina rampaged towards them. He put his arm around her and sprouted his wings again to take flight. By this time Tidus and Yuna had gotten to the site.

"Yuna take Krystal and get back to safety." Tidus instructed.

"No! I will stay by your side." Yuna firmly said.

"Me too." said Yuna's best friend.

"Don't bother arguing with them Tidus. Once they make up their minds, they stick to it." Jason informed.

Krystal hung onto to Jason's neck while he was in the air, and Tidus was on the ground with Yuna. The battle on one by the dropped, but when one fell two took its place. Finally they were able to decrease the number. Tidus had been holding back his overdrive for this moment. He nodded at Jason and he nodded back. Jason dropped Krystal near where Yuna was. Jason let out his 'Shadow blaze', and Tidus let loose his 'Energy Rain'. Shadow blaze broke apart the ice causing the machine to fall in. Energy Rain blew one of them up causing a chain reaction. Therefore all the machina in front of them exploded. Both boys heard a scream from Yuna come from behind them. They turned only to see her withdraw her magnums a blow the 'brains' out of a couple machina that had attempted to seize the girls.

"You two leave with Tidus!" Jason ordered.

"We won't leave you!" they called back.

"Go! I don't want to loose the two of you again."

A little puzzled they finally nodded and left the protection of Jason, and into the protection of Tidus. A cloud of smoke, created by the machina's guns hitting Jason's wings, gave the three enough cover to retreat without being noticed. All three adults ran back to the lodge and collapsed on the floor huffing and puffing. Yuna just laid there in the arms of Tidus. Krystal headed straight to her room.

"Excuse me Tidus. I have a friend in need of comfort." Yuna said leaving him and following her friend.

-In the Girls' Room-

"Krystal what is wrong?"

"What did he mean when he said that he didn't want to loose us again?"

"I really don't know."

They both heard a tapping at there mountain-view window. As they opened the curtain they saw Jason sitting there on the porch. He motioned for them to come out so the did.

"I bet you would like to hear why I said?" He said as they entered and sat down.

"How did you know that?"

"You two are easy to read." He said with a rare chuckle.

He handed them a cup of hot chocolate. They noticed a couple of thing his shredded shirt hid from their sight.

"What happened to you other than the obvious?"

"Well I got this scar from," He showed them the huge scar that covered his entire chest. "the time I saved you Krystal, from a mother Dual Horn fiend. The fiend had slashed me across the chest with one of her horns and then slashed me with her front paw, but I was able to give you enough time to get to safety."

"Oh." She gasped feeling guilty.

"Please, don't feel guilt. I learned soon after that you went to go get help, but you saw them, told them, and then you tripped and hit your head and lost your memory. We were thirteen when that happened."

"That's why Krystal head hurts when she tries to remember that day?"

"As for you Yuna, there are a lot of things that happened between us. Firstly this was caused by a blast in an old company building I use to work in." He revealed his left arm. It was a robotic arm, heavily armored practically made of 100 metal. "I used this arm to push you out of the way. Then it was repaired by the very same company the accident had occurred."

"What company?"

"The…" he was cut short because had been hit with a petrifaction attack. Bit by bit he began to turn to stone. "Krystal."

"Yes?"

"Take this quickly."

She took the box from his hand. Suddenly a ship came out of nowhere. She rapidly opened the box to expose a necklace with a dragon claw holding a black gem that had a something that looked like a live fire within the middle of the gem. Shaking her head she looked closer and realized that there was indeed a fire that seemed to move constantly.

"Take that with you…" were his last words before he was a statue before them.

Ropes descended from the hovercraft and attached to them were men. The girls' mouths were covered with a cloth and everything went black. The men climbed back up the ropes and left in a hurry. 2 minutes later the scar on his chest began to glow. Then golden lights climbed all around the statue and broke. There stood Jason trying to catch his breath. He acted quickly and ran throughout the lodge to find Tidus. Then he found him sitting near the fireplace in the lounge.

"Tidus we got a problem." Jason stated.

"What is it?"

"Someone took Yuna and Krystal."

"What…When…Where?"

"A few minutes ago…On the balcony…To the north. I'm sorry…I let down my guard for one second."

"Well let's go."

"What do you want to take for transportation?"

"I'm going by myself!"

"No you're not!"

"Why?"

"Because, we are dealing with an old foe."

They went outside and look to the north. There was the ship barely able to see on the horizon. Jason took flight with his wings while Tidus jumped onto a snowmobile. Jason told how to use the headphone from the air and shut off the communication link.

"Where are you going Jason?" Rikku asked pooping out the front door of the resort's lodge.

"I'm going to get your friends from someone I hated ever since I saw him, and you can't come Rikku."

"Why not? I have as much a reason to go as you do." she said with puppy-dog eyes.

"No it's my fault that this happened. Don't bother Rikku. That technique has never worked on me before, and it won't now."

"Oh, I see…please go get them and come back. I'll stall them for as long as I can."

"Thank you Rikku." He gave her a hug and lifted off once again.

Both boys picked up speed. Amazingly Jason was able to keep up Tidus.

"Do you see them on your radar?" the flying male inquired.

"Yes. We should reach them tonight at Midnight."

"Great."

"What?" Tidus tried to probe for the answer.

"Nothing. Focus…If you don't focus you will lose control."

They headed on for hours and finally arrived at their destination. Jason landed quietly and hid behind some boxes. Tidus soon followed suit.

"Take them inside!" said a rough voice.

"Jason, there are 50 guards."

"I'll take them while you go inside and get the girls."

"Roger!"

I hope those who read this like it. Thanks again for those who read this.