I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic.

I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade master Fira

Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself

I own Kiako (That's ME!) When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.

Other voice and memories: Italic

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"I think we're-"

"No we're not."

"But-"

"Don't say it!"

"But I'm sure we-"

"DAMMIT Heihachi! STOP SAYING THAT!" I shouted.

Kel sighed, "We're lost, aren't we?"

"Thanks to our fearless summoner." Zero said sarcastically, "We still haven't even left Besaid! It's already been 4 hours since we parted with Kariudo and Kuro, and we're still stuck in the jungle!"

"Shut up! I can't read this stupid map!" I cried holding it out to him, "I admit, It DID take me 3 weeks to find Aeris's house, and 5 weeks to find Dr. Leingod's lab in Star Ocean 3, and I DON'T have any sense of direction, but I CAN find my way around places I've been!"

"Then how come we're lost now?"

"I'VE NEVER BEEN TO BESAID!"

"Calm down everyone, I'm sure we can find our way out, maybe we can ask directions." Heihachi said, "Hey look, a beach!"

"AH-HA! I knew we were going the right way!" I said pointing

"Kiako, you ran in 10 full circles on the same spot." Zero said shaking his head.

"Maybe we could tattoo a map to her arm next time." Kakashi suggested as we trudged through the sand

"Trust me, knowing Kiako she'd probably lose her arm along with the map and get lost again."

"That wouldn't be good no da." Chichiri said

"Why're you all picking on me?" I murmured dragging my feet while following the others. I think I've got sand stuck in between my toes now... We all made a mad dash onto the boat just as it was leaving the dock.

"Whew! We made it!" Heihachi panted sitting on the floor and wiping sweat from his face

"That was only a 10 meter run, why're you so tired and sweaty?" Kel asked

"Hey leave him alone, I'm tired too..." I sighed wiping my own forehead, "Damn sun..."

"Maybe it's cause he wears so many layers of clothing no na da." Chichiri said pointing at Heihachi's turtle neck. We all looked at him for a moment. White turtle neck, sandy biege long sleeved sweater over that with a dark brown vest over all of that. His sandy pants and extra cloth that was over his left leg kinda looked like it weighed him down immensely, not to mention the brown boots and sword with the pilot hat and goggles with work gloves.

"I'm not a display..." Heihachi said with his squinty eyes narrowing more then they usually did.

"Sorry, we were just examining what made you so immensely tired," Kakashi said cooly making his way to the deck, "Maybe you should take one of your shirts off, maybe that hot turtle neck, or your vest with the infinite pockets."

"I am perfectly fine with what I'm wearing." Heihachi said almost in a pouty way and smiled, "At least the ocean breeze is nice, right Kiako-chan?"

"Eh? Y-Yeah." I agreed slowly. I'm not used to being called, so I'm a bit slow with reactions...

"Eh? Vale you're awfully quiet, finally giving chasing Kiako up?" Zero asked

"On the contrary my dear friend, I am waiting for the most oppertune moment to take Kiako for myself." Vale said using his hand to comb back his long purple hair.

"You do know she doesn't think of you that way, right?"

"Of course, but soon she shall see we are meant to be and fly into my waiting arms." Vale replied in a dreamy way, "The harder she plays to stay away the more glorious it will be when she marries me!"

"You know I can hear you guys right?" I said glaring at the boys.

"Oh I forgot, you're massive cat ears can hear anything." Zero retorted

"DAMN YOU!" I shouted drawing my fist back to punch his nose but he dodged and flipped to the upper deck, "DAMN YOU GET BACK DOWN HERE!"

"You're gonna have to catch me first! Try not to get lost on the ship." Zero winked and walked away. I growled and sat on a crate.

"Well, at least everything is pretty smooth sailing, not like in FF X with the Sin spawn." I said outloud

"You said it, so it'll take about a day to get to Kilika." Kel said sitting beside me. I looked out at the blue sea and peered into the water.

"You know, I wonder if there're any fish in there ya know?" I asked

"Probably, but they'd by those man eatting fish."

"Oh. Paranahs, forgot about those..." I jumped off the crate and joined Kakashi and Heihachi at the bow of the ship.

"Oh hello," Kakashi said looking up at me, "Have you seen Chichiri anywhere?"

"Come to think of it, no..." I said rubbing my chin, then is dawned on me.

"Kiako? Is something wrong? You're eyes just dialated." Heihachi asked in a worried tone jumping to his feet.

"KEL-SAN! WE HAVE TO GET TO THE ENGINE ROOM!" I shouted taking off towards the cabins in the lower deck. As soon as I reached the stairs and wretched open the door, I was knocked down by something big and yellow.

"Kweh!" I sat up slightly rubbing my head.

"B-Big bird? I thought you were just a myth!" I gasped trying to sit up.

"Please help! The Chocobo's escaped!" A girl cried running me over. I slowly picked myself up seeing the shoe mark of the girl and a large talon foot print on my chest.

"Owwww..." I groaned falling over again. A blue haired chibi monk leaned over me with a frown.

"Kiako-chan, are you ok no da?" Chichiri asked

"Tell me you didn't set free the chocobos that power the ship..." I asked

"Oh? Those giant birds were powering the ship no da?" he looked behind him and I looked too seeing everyone either running from the giant birds or trying to restrain them. "Opps..."

"We better round them up then..." I groaned standing up and dusting the foot prints off of my clothes then put my hands together into a hand seal (Or hand sign, whatever the people who dubbed Naruto call it now...), "Let's see if I remember my ninja lessons, Kage Bunshin no jutu! (Shadow clone no jutsu!)" four replicas of me popped up from nowhere and all looked at the chocobos.

"Ooh! Real chocobo's!" one squealed happily

"Oh my god, they're SO cute!" another joined in.

"Guys! Come on! We gotta catch them or this boat's gonna just float here and we'll never get to dry land ever!" I shouted. All my clones kinda muttered and went to catch a chocobo each. I jumped to the side as a chocobo almost ran me over a second time and watched Heihachi dash past me.

"GIMME BACK MY HAT!" Heihachi shouted jumping on the chocobo's back.

"Good Birdie... Good- AHHH!" I watched one of my clones get picked up from her shirt and the chocobo carried her down into the cabins.

"Well, not exactly a great way of doing it but, one chocobo down four more to go." Kel said, "So far I've caught two, how many have you caught?"

"Uh, one." I said thinking of my clone while hearing her screams from down below.

"DAMN YOU!"

"Uh-huh... We better go help the others." Kel said and ran on deck, "Kakashi you're not suppose to catch it by hurling shurikens at it!" I slowly walked up to a chocobo and grabbed it around the neck.

"I got one!" I called until I was thrown off and crashed into a bunch of crates. I heard the chocobo squawking and it almost sounded like a mocking laugh. I sat up spitting out the greens from my mouth. What on earth would eat such things!

I paused and picked up the greens then looked at the chocobo's playing rodeo with the others.

Oh, those things.

I grabbed a handful and started making a small trail towards the cabins.

"What the hell're you doing?" Zero asked sitting on a chocobo and trying to steer it by pulling on it's feathers.

"I do this with my dog, so maybe it'll work with giant birds." I replied and ran to get more greens, "Bombs away!" I threw all the greens at the chocobo's and they seemed to absorb them in no time. They all looked at me and I just pointed to the trail of greens.

"AAH!" Heihachi yelped as he was dumped off the chocobo's back along with his hat. We all looked at Chichiri and he smiled weakly.

"Sorry? No da?" he laughed nervously.

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"Well whaddaya know, so this is Kilika." Kel said looked around.

"DONNNNNNNAAAAAAA!" a weird buff guy screamed charging towards us.

"Whoa!" Kakashi yanked me to the side of the dock as the man ran past us and up some steps to a hut.

"How rude, what's wrong with that guy?" Heihachi asked squinting after the man.

Kakashi gave my back a pat smoothing out the wrinkles he made when he grabbed me, "Careful, you'll get run over." he said while his eyes made happy anime archs.

"With Kiako's height, I wouldn't be surprised." Zero chortled,

"What? I'm not that short!" I protested feeling my fur bristle.

"Uh, yes you are." Zero said, "Look straight and see who you're face to face with." I looked at everyone in our group and noticed that I had to tilt my head upwards slightly to look directly in their face.

"Ok, so I admit I am the shortest person in our group, but that doesn't mean I'm the shortest in all of Spira!" I pouted, I hate it when people make fun of my height!

"Actually, out of all of our friends you're the shortest out of all of them, except for Vivi but he's younger then you." Kel said walking toward the jungle, "Come on, we gotta send that Aeon."

"Unless Kuro beat us to it because we got lost in Besaid, were delayed by power problems," Everyone seemed to glanced or glare at Chichiri, who went into Chibi form and hid behind my leg, "And we were comparing height differences."

"Well we better hurry then." I said.

"DOOOOONNNNNNNNAAAAA!"

"KYAA!" Heihachi stumbled backwards into an empty boat as the man ran past us again, "We better hurry before any of us turn into flat rice cakes..."

"Arg, you and your rice obsession..."

"What? I haven't eatten rice in weeks!" We made our way past the village and through the jungle avoiding many giant spiders.

"EEEEEK!"

"Fear not my love! I shall protect you from these arachnids!" Vale said heroicaly jumping in front of me.

"I wasn't the one who screamed." I said and we all looked at Kel. Everyone rose an eyebrow at him in question or in amusment.

Honestly, mine was of question... I thought Kel was only afraid of ghosts!

"Here we thought only Kiako was scared of spiders!" Zero laughed

"Shut up! I hate them too, kinda..." Kel said defensively. Then came the great stone steps. Of wisdom and time and blah blah blah...

I HATE THESE STAIRS!

"Oh my god... Not these stupid steps..." I groaned dragging my feet and stumbling about.

"I know... I hate them too..." Kel moaned beside me

"Oh come on you two, keep complaining like that and you might trip and fall to the bottom no da." Chichiri said

"Easy for you! You've got a staff to use!" Kel said.

"If I recall, so do you Kel-san no da." Chichiri smiled.

"Oh, right!"

"Damn... There's like, 56 steps..." I said when we reached the second landing with the giant statue, "And we might have 56 more to go..."

"You were counting?" Heihachi asked

"I have nothing better to do while climbing stairs."

BLAM!

"Did you hear that?" Kakashi said taking a kunai out

"Sounded like gun-fire." Heihachi said, "Coming from up there."

"Uh-oh!" we all rushed up the stairs, I just hope something bad didn't happen...

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"Train! Calm down!"

When we got to the scene we saw Train with his Hades decorated gun pointed at a man with short silver hair holding a...

Sword handle with no sword attached to it?

"Ah Train, you're eyes are a fierce as they always were." the silver haired man said almost swooning, "It's been so long since I've seen you." Train said nothing gritting his teeth.

"Kuro, what's going on?" I asked going to her side.

"That man with the silver hair is named Creed." she replied ejecting her double scythe end of her staff, "Apparently a few years ago Creed killed a girl named Saya that was Train's friend. Train wants revenge and wants to kill Creed. The End."

"You make it sound like a fairy tale..." Sven Volfied murmured, "Well, as a Sweeper and a gentleman, I can't let Train handle this alone like the idiot he is!"

"Hey that IDIOT is one of my strongest guardians! So shut up you old man!" Kuro snapped

"I"M NOT AN OLD MAN!" Sven roared back.

"Sven is sensitive about his age." Eve said calmly.

"I can see that..." Kel said drawing his extendo pole

"Yeah, note to self: Don't call green haired man in white suit Old Man." Zero said. A man with purple bandages covering his face and long blue-ish silver hair spouting from it like a plant stepped up facing a man with a tall black top hat and sunglasses with blonde hair and a girl in a school uniform that seemed to be on Kuro's side.

"Charden, Kyouko, why did you leave and betray the Apostle of the Stars?" he asked.

"Kyouko didn't want to fight Kuro-sama!" the girl in the school uniform said cheerfully.

"I did not want to become a pawn in you're so called Revolution." the top hat man said.

"Kuro-sama?" I glanced at Kuro black mage and she shrugged.

"It's a long story." One of Kuro's guardians, the one with the purple short hair, drew his sword pointing it to the sky.

"GRAVE!" he shouted. Stone spikes shot out from the ground almost stabbing the members of Creeds group. It did manage to scratch and harm some of them though.

"Leon!"

"GO! We'll hold them off here, just hurry and get the job done!" Leon called

"Hurry!" Eve said and charged at the Apostles of the Stars along with Leon and Sven.

"We'll help out here too then." Kakashi said and Zero nodded drawing his giant shuriken.

"Alright, careful guys." I said and ran into the temple, "Come on Kuro, we better wrap this up quick!"

"Right behind you!"

"Heihachi! Kel! Guard Kiako properly without screwing up!" Zero called

"Just don't die ok?" Kel called back.

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We ran into the temple and saw all the flames were blue.

"Oh cool! Blue fire like in Legend of Zelda!" I said pointing

"Yeah yeah very pretty. MOVE." Kuro barked grabbing the back of my shirt and dragging me in. Everything was aflame and burning when we arrived inside the Cloister of Trails.

"Well, think on the bright side, at least we don't have to run around with Kilika spheres and burn our hands." I said shrugging. Something dropped from the ceiling and blue flames encases the room.

"Da!" Chichiri cried gripping his arm and patting the flames off his sleeve.

"Chichiri-san!" Heihachi quickly took out some bandages and wrapped Chichiri's arm, "We'll keep it like that until we can get it properly treated."

"Divas? Man I hate these things..." I whined and balled my hands into fists.

"You sure you're gonna be able to fight this thing? It spits fire remember." Kel said. I looked at my hands for a moment and dropped into a fighting stance.

"I can handle it." Kel grinned

"Sure." The Diva seemed to smirk more then it usually did and I watched as energy sparkled above it's head.

"It's casting Haste!" I called out reconizing it's movement, "RUN!"

"Huh? Run?" The Diva then started to wave it's hand in the air.

"Now it's casting another spell! Offensive!" I shouted

"Will you stop doing a commentary and DO SOMETHING?" Kuro said.

"Allow me then!" Vale smiled stepping forward and pulled out a purple rose.

"Oh man, what're you gonna do? Propose to Kiako until the fiend dies of digust?" Kel said, "Zero would've said it but he's not here at the moment. So I said it for him." An angry temple throbbing anime mark pulsed over Vale's head until he glanced at me and smiled. I kinda smiled back and inwardly sighed, why won't he ever leave me alone...?

"Violet Storm!" Vale shouted and the rose started to glow. Suddenly the petals flew from the rose and shot through the Diva swarming it.

"It's making cries of pain!"

"Ya, I think we can all hear it Kiako..." Kuro growled covering her ears, "Why am I always surrounded by such idiots?"

"Ahem... Well sorry for only having an I.Q of 115..." I murmured

"Can we discuss Kiako's intellect later?" Heihachi said smiling weakly. He always seems to smile in the worst situations... Meh, I guess it's better then screaming his head off.

"You purple man! Stay behind and take care of this thing while we go ahead! The sooner we get this stupid temple done, the sooner we can leave!" Kuro said.

"I don't take orders from-" Vale started to protest until Kuro gave him her signature, GLARE O' DOOM! Vale shut his mouth and nodded.

"WHOA! Look at her battle aura spark!" Kel cried pointing

"Wow! Sugoi! (Awesome!)" Heihachi joined in. When Kuro glared at them they both quickly hid behind me.

"You guys make great guardians." I said and waved at Vale, "Take care! We'll be done soon!"

"And I shall be waiting for you my love!" Vale called back

"I'll stay with Vale no da, in case he needs some help." Chichiri said and gripped his staff. We nodded and headed into the next room, which had the giant firewall...

"You've gotta be kidding me!" I yelled seeing 3 more Diva's drop from the ceiling. All three started a cast spells when a giant red arm slapped them into the wall.

"I'll take care of these nuisances, just hurry and finish so we can move on." Hao said smiling happily while watching his Spirit Of Fire beat on the Diva's.

"Arigatou-gozaimasu Hao-sama..." Kuro said bowing slightly and ran ahead, "Hurry up fools! I can dose the fire but you gotta stay close to me!"

"Ok!" Kel was practically hugging Kuro's back...

"Not that close!"

We all panted on the ground just outside of the Chamber of the Fayth.

"So how many of us are left?" Heihachi asked.

"Looks like only four of us wood chuck." Kuro said

"I sure hope everyone outside are ok." I said rubbing my knuckles. We DID have to get through a few fiends, and my hands were killing me! Note to self, get new punching gloves or get a sword!
Kelvis stood up and placed his hand on the door

"Well, we better hurry up and beat this thing huh?" he grinned.

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Walking into the chamber we all peered around through the darkness.

"I can't see anything..." I muttered

"It's hear, I can sense it." Kuro said. There was a low rumble and we all seemed to flinch.

"I can hear it growling!" Kel hissed.

"Sorry, that was my stomach." Heihachi grinned sheepishly rubbing behind his head.

"Ehh..." we all kinda groaned. My ears perked up when I heard a loud roar.

"HIT THE DECK, er, FLOOR!" Kel was already on the ground while I had to grab Kuro and Heihachi by the collar of their shirts and yank them down. A large fireball zoomed over our heads and the demonic Ifrit roared.

"Next time don't shove me into the ground like that!" Kuro growled punching me in the head.

"OW! Don't do that now! I need all the HP I have!" I cried, "With that punch I think I already lost half of it!"

Kel took out a blue colored disk and attached it to his extendo pole. It started to glow and frost began to form around it.

"I've been meaning to test this out, seems safe enough." Kel said and a sharp blade ejected from his pole making it into a lance.

"Ok, why does everyone have pointy sharp objects attached to their weapons?" I said looking at hands.

"We can't trust you with any sharp objects remember?" Kuro said, "You got cut by a potato peeler."

Kel rose his eyebrow at me, "And, when was this?"

"Eh... I'll explain later..."

Ifrit roared and bounded towards us baring his teeth. Kel used his extendo lance to pole vault over Ifrit and slash at his shoulder. Instantly Ifritgrowled as it's shoulder wound was coated with ice.

"So it DOES work! Alright!" Kel smirked. Kuro was starting a spell and glanced at me,

"Distract it guys, I need a bit of time for this spell." she ordered. I saluted quickly and charged at Ifrit. He snapped his jaws at me and I rolled out of the way and punched it in the eye. Ifrit growled and slashed at my pant leg ripping the bottom of it while I flipped backwards landing on my feet. Hm, being a half demon DOES have it's advantages.

"Kiako, are you ok?" Heihachi asked, "You're leg's bleeding!"

"I'm fine."

"KIAKO!" Kuro was yelling, "Start doing something constructive!"

"Yeah, a little help would be greatly appreciated!" Kel said while he was hugging Ifrit's mouth shut. Heihachi and I charged at Ifrit and I jumped up doing a drop kick over Ifrit's head.

"Everyone out of the way!" Kuro barked then began to chant:

I stand where the light of heaven shines
You stand where the gate to the underworld opens
Come forth, lightning of the gods
INDIGNATION!

Orbs of light surrounded Ifrit and giant bolts of lightning shot out from them almost consuming all of Ifrit making him roar.

"Whoooaa..." Kel and I marveled, "So flashy..."

Kel flipped back from Ifrit and slid beside me

"I've got an idea!" he said and he was obviously excited, "Kiako, I need you to get in Ifrit's mouth."

"HOUWHA!" I choked, I swear I think I almost choked on my own spit!"I've been used as bait before, but not a chew toy!"

"Yeah, Kiako's a girl, not a piece of meat!" Heihachi said

"Yeah yeah what Hei-san said!"

"I dunno, with your brain power you could be considered a piece of meat, and you ARE made of meat." Kuro piped in.

"No no! I don't want Ifrit to eat her!" Kel groaned, "I just need her to hold his mouth open!" I glanced at Ifrit casting Fire on itself to heal it's wounds caused by Kuro's Indignation spell.

"And, you want me to hold open a giant dog's mouth with a gazillion sharp saber like teeth with me bare hands...?" I asked trying to get a little more info before getting my head bitten off.

"In normal speech, yes." Kel said and held up more of hisblueBlizzard disks, "I've got a little surprise for it's stomach."

"Interesting method, course we could let him eat Kiako and hopefully he'll choke on her fur." Kuro snickered, "Of course I'm only kidding." Yeah, she adds that AFTER she see's my shocked face... I sighed rolling up my sleeves a bit.

"You guys really owe me for this one..." Dashing to Ifrit I darted to the side and sat on his head. I gripped his horns for dear life as he started bucking around shaking his head. Grabbing the top of his mouth I pulled up his lip and the rest of his jaw came up with it.

"Put your foot in it's mouth or something, you gotta get his mouth open!" Kel called

"DON'T YOU THINK I'M TRYING?" I shouted doing what I was instructed, why do I have to be so darn obedient all the time?

"Kuro, as soon as I throw in my disks get ready to cast a blizzara spell!"

"You think my magic level is that low? I can do better then that!" Kuro grinned.

"JUST DO SOMETHING BEFORE I LOSE MY FOOT!" I had finally managed to open Ifrit's mouth and Kel shoved the ice disks in it's mouth.

"Move it cat girl!" Kel said dragging me off and diving behind Kuro.

"Blizzaga!" Kuro shouted and the surrounding area around Ifrit turned into a glacier of ice. The fire aeon slumped on the ground and pyraflies began floating from it's body. I suddenly felt sorry for it and sighed.

"Kiako-chan?" Heihachi walked beside me as I approached the aeon and placed my hand on it's head.

"You didn't want to die did you?" I smiled at it. Ifirt growled loudly and Heihachi yanked me back and drew his sword again.

"Jeez it's not like Ifrit's going to eat her, she's summoned him plenty of times before." Kuro said, "So, how should we send him?"

"Anyone know the prayer?" Kel said shrugging.

I softly began to sing.

"Ieyui..."

"Nobomeno..." Kuro joined in.

"Renmiri, Yojuyogo." I continued and more pyraflies flew from Ifrit's body almost making him transparent.

"Hasatekanae-"

"Kutamae."

"Rest in peace Ifrit." Kuro said closing her eyes and bowing. I did the same thing and watched Ifrit disappear.

"Well," I turned and smiled at the others, "Shall we go see what damage there is outside?" Kuro laughed

"We better, knowing your guardians they probably made a mess of everything."

"Hey, we're standing here too ya know?" Kel said.

Authors Notes: Chapter 2 up! Man, I kinda wish this fic had a bit mroe reviews (Or maybe I should just become a better writer X3 ) I think my LA teacher's right, I do add too many scenes... But that didn't stop SquareEnix! Well,anywho, hope you liked this chapter!

BTW, to Silver Paws (If you still read this) The fic that came before this one is actually on my page, it's just... Not as well written XD