This is my first ficlet and if I mess this up please tell me. Anyways this is a lil story 'bout my old poor deleted Maiva in Lakshmi. It's so sad how that happened sigh I miss my buds I made in Lakshmi. Fun times we had tears

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Characters that will be mentioned except Maive (Mai), Durell, Takarou (Taka), XiaoXiao, Trebount, Xiaquin, and some others I can't think of at the moment. (I'll add it when it comes up in mind)

Prologue

The sky was painted orange, purple, and pink candy colors in Sarutabaruta. The sight was so overwhelmingly beautiful and serene. Too bad I couldn't stop and enjoy it, this meddling bird man thing wouldn't leave me alone. Yagudo's I think that's what they're properly named.

"Hey Uncle Fran?" I called out in my linkshell. "I got a question for you."

"And what does my little Mai want to know?" A gruff yet kind voice replied.

"When're we going to get our Samurai jobs?"

"Beats me. It really depends if your friend James Bong is up to it by tomorrow or later on this week or the next."

I quickly slashed the Yagudo as it started to cast another spell. It fell forward as death took it slowly. Before I could rejoice and return on my trek to Windurst I caught sight of yet another Yagudo. Before he could get any closer I casted a quick stone spell, I watched on as good sized boulders conjured around the Yagudo and hurled themselves at it. Stopping in its tracks, I brought my scythe around to slice at right arm to render it useless. Then butting the end of my scythe against his head, before moving off to the side to dodge his left claw.

"Mai? You still there?" Franchise called out.

I had stopped in mid swing, remembering that Franchise was still there. "Uh, yeah hold on…"

"But Mai…" I tuned him out, rolling my eyes in agitation. Between our short talk, the Yagudo had taken this time to regain itself and swept my legs from under me. The breath was taken away from me abruptly as I fell hard on my back. Rolling to my left quickly, a claw had crashed down where my head had been laying. I picked myself up and looked at the approaching evil birdman. My scythe lay behind the Yagudo, beyond my reach. "Now this isn't good..."

I took up a fighting stance I've seen the monk's take up so many times. Moving my weight back and forth from my left foot then to the right to have some kind of difference in my speed. The Yagudo's eyes looked on mockingly at me. The piercing stare sending shudders down my spine. It quickly shot out it's left claw at me. Quickly as I can, I evaded to the right and trapped his arm in my grasp. Twisting around so that my back faced him, shifting my weight forward. I hurled the yagudo over my shoulder and onto its back. Whileit was down, I made my way back to my scythe. Before the Yagudo could regain its composure I had already come up to it and brought down the scythe, bringing upon another death.

"There we go." Wiping the sweat from my brow I turned my attention back to Franchise. "Ok, now what were you saying Uncle Fran?"

"I was saying that whenever your Samurai Friend feels like taking us is fine with me."

"Oh ok then. James said he was free for the next three days, we can start tomorrow!" Mai walked on her merry way towards Windurst. "Where're we all gonna meet?"

"Where are you currently at?"

"Heading back to Windy, you?"

"Near Bastok."

"I think we'll all have to meet up at Jeuno. Since we do have to head to Norg... Hey can you tell the others what the plan is, I'll inform James 'bout it."

"Sure thing, anything for my lil Mai."

"Thanks Uncle Fran." I had a silly smile on my face, Uncle Fran is the best! Yay! I can see the gate, finally! I trudged on to my mog house. Tomorrow's gonna be filled with lots of traveling... so was the two other days following it.