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/Random/Limit Break Fira Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Ian Valentine is owned by Who's Asking.

I own Kiako (That's ME!), Mana, Malice and Miu. 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.
Mana and memories: Italic
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"There's is it!" Lavi called over the wind. Currently we were flying over the Bikanel Desert on Lavi's magical size shifting hammer. I eyed the wreckage that was the Shera and saw clouds of sand being blown up.

"Looks like a battle," Kuro said, "My wings are dry, I'll meet you guys there ok?"

"Ok." I nodded. Kuro let go of the hammer and her red shaded wings bloomed from her back. With a flap she was already soaring towards the Shera.

"Man she's fast." Lavi said, "By the looks of those explosions I'd think that our side is having a bit of trouble."

"Can't you make this thing go faster?" I asked. Lavi rubbed his chin then swung himself up onto the handle and pulled me up behind him. I felt like I was riding a broomstick...

"Better hold on!" Lavi said and leaned forward. I grabbed him around the waist as we suddenly zoomed forward towards the battlefield.

BAM!!

I flew off of Lavi's hammer and rolled in the sand on my face. Sitting up and shaking the sand off, I moaned while Lavi was laughing.

I.

HATE.

SAND.

"How the HELL did you steer us into the ground!" I growled.

"Sorry! The brakes on this thing don't work too well." Lavi said as his hammer shrunk back to normal. He stood up brushing sand off and helped me up to my feet, "Now, let's go see what we can do to help!" I changed into my White mage dress sphere and looked around seeing some WRO members being pinned behind a pile of carnage. I cast a Reflect spell and the members looked at me.

"Hurry and get to safety!" I ordered, "Find survivors, tend to the wounded." the WRO members saluted and ran off dodging sand. I turned back to the attackers and squinted through the sand. Who the hell was attacking...?

I sheilded my head and as the sand cleared, I squinted and bent down.

"What is it? What'd you find?" Lavi asked.

"It's..." I picked up a dry stick and poked at the thing, "A tomato."

"HUH?" Lavi knelt down beside me and used the other end of his hammer and poked at it too, "What do you know, it is a tomato." The tomato grabbed Lavi's hammer end and started to try to tug and pull it out of his hands.

"It's, kinda cute." I said tilting my head at it. The tomato tilted it's head the same way.

Then it spat a giant stream of fire in my face!!

"WHOA!!" Lavi jumped back and grabbed the back of my robes, "Let's RUN!!!" He dragged me across the sand and ducked when another fire blast almost scorched him.

"In here!!" I turned a bit to see a WRO member beckoning us into the ripped hull of the Shera. Lavi nodded enlarging his hammer and slammed it onto the ground which rose up a giant cloud of sand. We dove in and panted as the WRO member handed us bottles of water.

"Glad you guys made it." he said, "Everyone else is farther in, come on."

"Wait, what about Kuro?" I asked. The member looked back at us.

"She has yet to be found." he said and continued walking. We arrived in a small camp filled with WRO members and I sighed sitting down on a crate.

Man, Kariudo and her gang are gone, I'm missing all my guardians, and who knows, Kuro might've gotten swallowed by another worm!! I heaved another sigh and Lavi sat beside me.

"So, Kiako, how old are you?" Lavi asked. I looked up at him and let out a small sigh.

"15, I think now, if it's past October 8, then I'm 15. I haven't been keeping up with date since I left my world."

"15 huh? Well, either way I'm older, 18." Lavi grinned and leaned back, "So, what do you mean 'Your world'?"

"Well, you see... A spell or something affected my fireplace back where I lived, then when I got near it, it sucked me into this world. Kuro and the others came to rescue me and well, we're in this mess now." I explained, "Then again, it's affects a bit of time too, last time I left I was gone for only a few months, but a whole year passed in my world."

"I see..." Lavi scratched behind his head, "So, how's it like to be a summoner?"

Horrible, I thought bitterly. No matter how hard I try to help everyone I somehow make things worse, not to mention I can't even summon my complete summon. All 13 knights of the round table? I've only summoned two of them at the same time, I can't summon any more. Then there's the safety of my guardians... I can't even look after them properly. Nor can I preform a sending without going all depressed...

"It's... complicated." I replied.

"Looks more then complicated by the serious look on your face." Lavi said and after a moment, he pat my head, "Listen, how about I be your big bro for this all? A kid like you shouldn't have to face this alone."

"I don't actually. Kuro and Kariudo are summoners too."

"Well, then I'll be their big brother too then!" Lavi smiled and ruffled my hair. I smiled back, something I hadn't done in a while.

"Ok, Lavi nii-san."

"That's the spirit!!" Lavi said happily. He stopped and peered behind him as a few WRO members came up behind us.

"Sir! We are about to conduct a search to find the other summoners and the captain." one member said walking closer, "We are also going to--" The member staggered back when Lavi pointed his hammer at him.

"Lavi nii-san? What're you-" I felt my eyes widen and I cupped my hand over my mouth. The WRO member had suddenly sprouted a gun from his mouth and chest.

He growled, "EXORCIST."

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I covered my head as Lavi stabbed the pointed cross on top of his hammer into the members head and grabbed my collar.

"We gotta go! Otherwise we'll be fighting like crazy!" he said pulling me outside into the hot sand.

"But!"

"I'd rather take my chances with a tomato then a horde of Akuma!"

"But what about the other members?" I asked stumblin behind him.

"They're probably Akuma too, we can't stay and fight because you don't have an Innocence weapon," Lavi stabbed his hammer into the ground again, "Size shifting hammer, EXTEND!!" We shot up into the air again and I climbed up behind him. Peering down, I saw all the WRO members pouring out of the hull. I held onto Lavi and buried my face into his back.

"You all better be ok..." I muttered. Kuro probably might've gotten here before we did, I just hope everyone isn't...

"Don't worry, I didn't see the clothes of your friends anywhere. The akuma didn't get them." Lavi said, "An akuma's bullets destroy human flesh, leaving the clothes and whatever they had on them intact. I memorized the clothing they were all wearing, so they're ok."

I nodded, "Okay." Suddenly a bullet whized past us and Lavi grabbed hold of my arm and recalled his hammer leaving us in a free fall. More bullets shot up at us and Lavi twirled his staff to swat them away. Instead, the bullets started to glow fusia and zoomed around Lavi, at me!!

I felt a sudden tug to the side and Lavi screamed. Blood splashed into the air and we started to plunge.

"Ugh..." Lavi's eye was drifting shut and his arm and leg were bleeding. The ground sped up towards us and I put Lavi over my shoulders. If I can cushion the fall, or at least land on my feet to absorb the shock, maybe we won't die!! Sand doesn't really hurt as much as concrete, so...

I coughed rubbing sand out of my eyes and looked around seeing we were in the middle of a giant crater. I saw Mana sitting beside me panting and trying to control a nosebleed he was having.

"I'm sorry Kiako, I tried to stop the fall using some of my barriers and my magic." he said and coughed, "Are you both ok? I didn't manage to put the barrier oer Lavi in time, but you should be fine."

"Y-Yeah..." I replied with a nod, "Thanks. Are you ok?"

"Yes, just a bit too much effort I put into making the barrier," Mana said as his blood dripped freely, "I just hope those Akuma don't come towards us." There was a small squeak and we both looked up seeing...

"The tomato?" I pointed. It squeaked again and the rim around the crator started to turn red, "Uh-oh..."

"I think you mean tomato in plural." Mana said standing up then stumbled, "Cursed sand! I can't move properly in it..." The tomatoes all squeaked and fire blasts rained down on us. Mana threw a barrier up and sank to his knees as his blood dripped onto the sand.

"Mana! Stop, you're going to hurt yourself!!" I crawled to where he was and grabbed him from behind, "Please, come back in, I don't want you to get hurt..."

Mana panted and with a grunt of effort, shoved his barrier out and blew back some of the tomatoes. He slumped onto the sand.

"I'm sorry..." he slowly faded and swirled back into my body. I cringed and gripped my legs. Looks like the impact hurt me too... It felt like my legs had snapped in half. I looked down at Lavi and after crawling back to him, cast Cura. He stirred and winced at the shots in his arms and legs.

Squeaking rang above us and I looked up seeing the tomatoes regrouping.

Jeez, how pathetic... My last stand is against a vegetable. That spits fire!! I concentrated more of my chakra to healing Lavi and saw the small flames start to form around the tomatoes.

I... I can't be fried here! I still have to help everyone! I still have to finish sending the dark aeons!

The flame surged towards us and I covered Lavi.

I don't want to die yet!!

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"O violent torrent..." a voice said above us, "Splash!!" Water poured in above us drenching us and the fire.

"Huh?!" Lavi shot up sputtering and winced, "OW!!"

"That wasn't a Final Fantasy spell..." I looked up seeing a man with long hair, a blue uniform and glasses. Kuro was flapping above us carrying the man.

"Jeez, your final stand is against tomatoes? That's pathetic!" Kuro said as she landed beside us.

"Weirdly enough, I was thinking that too..." I replied and groaned, "I think I broke my legs..."

"My, that IS terrible." the man said, smiling. I mean he was SMILING! At the thought of my legs being broken!!!, "Well no worries, if you're body ceases to function I'll use you for medicinal tests. Although I do prefer live subjects."

"WAAAH!" I hid behind Kuro's foot, "Don't let the scary man near me!!"

The man smiled again, "Scary man? I see no scary men. You must be talking about your red headed friend over there." he turned to the tomatoes, "Now, to get rid of these little pests, interesting how monsters like this sprout from average rotten fruit. Oh, look. They're running towards us."

"I thought the tomato was a veggie?" I said raising my eyebrow. The man bent down and shoved some kind of... thing in my mouth...

"Chew and swallow." he said, "There, doesn't that make your legs feel better?" I swallowed the sweet thing and after a moment, staggered up to my feet.

"Yeah, what is that thing?" I asked. Kuro popped an orange one in her mouth.

"Apple Gel." she replied chewing and grinned almost wickedly, "So Jade, how about a an FOF?" This Jade man smiled and I almost thought I was seeing double. Both Kuro and this smile the same maniacal way...

"Indeed." he said raising his hand in front of him. A glowing circle formed around him and Kuro started to cast another spell at the same time, the same kind of circle around her, "O roar of the earth, bring forth the fangs of the mighty dragon. Ground Dasher!"

Spikes of rocked shot up from the sand throwing some of the tomatoes into the air, squeaking. A glowing yellow circle rotated on the ground and Kuro's spell kicked in.

"FOF link! Frigid Coffin!!" she shouted. A blue circle overlapped the yellow and an icy mist burst out. I watched the tomatoes that were thrown into the air by the Ground dasher attack land with THUNKS on the sand, completely frozen solid.

"Whoa... I wanna learn how to do that!" Lavi said and winced again, "Ouch..."

"Well, now that those are taken care of, shall we return to camp before it get's dark?" Jade said adjusting his glasses. I slowly nodded.

"I'm not carrying them all by myself!!" Kuro protested, "They're heavy!" I rose my eyebrow.

"Think you can lend me some MP so I can heal Lavi so he and I can just follow you by hammer?" I suggested. Kuro seemed insulted for a moment.

"As if I'd share my intelligence with you..." she said then grinned, "I'm kidding. Thing is I don't have the ability to do that."

Jade rummaged in his pocket for a moment and pulled out a small green looking... thing...

"Here, eat it." he said holding it out to Lavi. We both stared at it for a moment.

It was... a snot green color...

"What the hell is that thing...?" Lavi said slowly backing away.

"It looks like a booger..." I whispered hiding behind him.

"A Lemon Gel." Jade replied, "Or if it makes you feel better, think of it as a cough drop."

"Why the hell is it that color...?" Lavi asked pointed at it, a blue kind of shade slowly creeping onto his face.

"Oh, you mean the green color?? It's because it came from my nose!!" Jade said cheerufully. Lavi, Kuro and I all backed away from him as far as we could!! Jade sighed, "It's so difficult when people take me seriously... I'm joking. It's perfectly safe." He popped it into his mouth, chewed, swallowed and handed us another one from his pocket.

Lavi and I both slowly took it from him, and ate the Gel. I blinked feeling completely refreshed.

"This stuff is good... Can I have another one?" I asked.

"I'm afraid not. You see this is medicine...used to heal wounds... It's not--" Jade paused every few words to pop a Lemon Gel into his mouth, one after another. "As I was saying, it's not candy that your can eat for pure enjoyment." He popped another into his mouth.

"YOUR EATTING THEM AS YOUR SPEAKING!!" Lavi and I accused, pointing.

"Hm, these really are delicious." Jade commented while eatting some more of them. He was moving onto the red gel thingies...

"You're doing that on purpose aren't you...?" I whimpered watching him hum a tune as he chewed.

"Jade deny's everything." Kuro said, "But Jade, you really are eatting them like candy." Jade popped one more into his mouth and dusted his hands off.

"Hey, a man of my age needs his daily vitamins." he said with a smile and tucked his hands into his pockets, "Now, shall we get going?"

"Yeah, I'm sick of sand." Lavi said.

"Me too..." Kuro agreed and they began to climb out. I sighed looking at the tomatoes and started to climb up as well. There was a light tap on my shoulder and I a small bag was pushed into my hands.

"Have fun." Jade smiled walking past me, "Enjoy them, they're expensive this time around." I slowly opened the bag and saw four Lemon Gels, sixteen of those red things, Apple Gels I think and a few orange ones. I looked up smiling and Jade glanced behind him.

"Hurry and come, the tomatoes will eventually defrost." he said. I tucked the Gels into my backpack and ran up after him.

Maybe this Jade guy isn't so bad after all.

"Um, why do you have one of the tomatoes under your arm?" Lavi asked pointing.

"Oh nothing, just I plan to disect it." Jade replied. We all were silent as a few bits of tumble weeds drifted by.

I take it back...

Authors notes: Been busy with school, and playing Tales of the Abyss like crazy XD It's addicting. Had a fun holiday, hope you all did too!