Krimson- Ladies and gentlemen. It's time for a special treat! This scene was the original idea for the Chapter 11 wake up scene. I had to change it because it was way too out of character. However, I didn't want to get rid of it. So an idea from Rashefein prompted me to make a secret 13th chapter for this story. Enjoy.

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Kuja was shaking Zidane, trying to get him to stir. After a few tries he shook his head and walked over to the girls, who were still waiting in the doorway.

"It's no good." he said. "We're going to need something to wake him up."

"Why don't I just jump on his stomach again?" Mikoto asked, perhaps a little too enthusiastically.

"That won't work."

"How can you tell?" asked Lani, who was now leaning against the wall next to the doorway the conversation was coming from.

"When Mikoto did that last time, it was only as a last resort. At the time, Zidane was well rested and sleeping in a pile of leaves. Now that he hasn't gotten a decent night's sleep in a month and is sleeping on a silk lined bed, combined with Zidane's odd sleeping patterns, he's two steps away from being classified as comatose."

"What do we do then?"

"We'll need to wake him up the same way I did when we were trapped in the Iifa Tree."

Mikoto's eyes shot open in shock. "Are you sure that's necessary? What if it traumatizes him?"

"Well, that's where he lucks out. Thanks to the Valia Pora, I don't think we'll be able to wake him up for a while."

"Why? Do you need a monster?"

"Yes, but I doubt that any are left in the entire palace."

"Then someone really hates Zidane." Lani said. "Look." She pointed down the hallway as a Grimlock hobbled over the remains of the Valia Pora towards them.

"Perfect." Kuja said with a smile.

The Grimlock, seeing the three of them, ran to attack, as it had been trained. Kuja thought that it was almost cute in how pathetic it looked.

"Mikoto, may I borrow your knife?"

"Uh, sure." she said with the knife already in hand. She handed it over and Kuja rushed at the oncoming monster. The Grimlock roared a tiny roar as it prepared to attack its prey, but Kuja, in surprising speed, managed to stab each of the Grimlock's three faces before it had a chance to do anything. It fell to the ground in a heap.

Kuja picked up one of the sections. "Can you two give me a hand with this?"

Lani and Mikoto gave each other a confused look and walked over to help Kuja. They both picked up their own sections of the segmented monster. They looked at Kuja, wondering what to do next. "Follow me." he said.

Kuja led them back into the guest room and up to Zidane's bed. He held up his section over Zidane and cut its underside with Mikoto's knife. The dead Grimlock's entrails spilled over Zidane.

Mikoto and Lani looked on in stupefied horror for a moment before Mikoto spoke up.

"Kuja! What the hell are you doing!?!"

"I never said it was pretty. Now hand me the next section."

"No! This is way too disgusting!"

"Do you want him to wake up sometime this week or not?"

Mikoto looked at Kuja with a repulsed expression, sighed, and gave Kuja her section of the monster. Kuja disemboweled the second section of the Grimlock, but to no avail. Lani gave her section to Kuja without any fuss. In a sick, twisted way, this was kind of entertaining. The innards of the third section poured over Zidane. The three party members looked on as Zidane kept sleeping. Mikoto and Lani looked disappointed.

"If that didn't wake him up then what the hell will?" Lani asked angrily.

"This." Kuja knelt down so that he was level with Zidane. He cleared his voice and said, "Oh my! Is that Queen Garnet taking all her clothes off?"

Zidane's eyes shot open.

"Where?" he said enthusiastically. He tried to get up, but noticed something heavy, squishy and sticky laying on him. He looked down and saw the mass of monster guts set upon his chest and stomach.

He screamed.

Zidane jumped out of bed, running around, screaming, trying to get the blood and gore off of himself. Mikoto looked on in horror and guilt. Her eye twitched uncontrollably.

"Kuja you horrible bastard!"

Kuja was gripping his sides in an attempt to stop himself from laughing too hard. He missed waking Zidane up like this.

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Krimson- I think it's obvious why I had to change this. Hehehe.

Rashnefein- Wait. If this was already written and ready to be published before chapter 12 was even done, then why did it take so long to be posted?

Krimson- I just wanted to screw with every-… I mean, I wanted to give everyone a Christmas present and this was the only way I could think of.

Damien- I think I see an angry mob growing outside your house.

Krimson- … Yeah, I'm gonna go hide in the basement now.

Rashnefein- Merry Christmas people!