Disclaimer: I changed the Persian Prince's colors from yellow and orange, to yellow and brown. Sorry.

Sailor Moon: Fellowship of the Moon

Chapter 6: Get there In Time; a New friend is Made
Sunday

Masters' Residence

11:50 AM

Aaron's dad was off doing his job and his sister went to the movies with a friend she had described as a pretty tough boy and his twin brother. Aaron kind of sweatdropped at the idea of her hanging around with a couple of boys; already boys were going after her at her age. Ceros plopped on his shoulder and asked, "You seemed kind of miffed yesterday. Did something go wrong?" Aaron walked over to his bed and sat down while tying his shoes. "Oh, nothing much, except for yesterday Ami was crying due to the fact that some guy said something to her. And I don't even know what it was."

Though luckily he was able to call her last night to see if she still wanted to go. She sounded a little down, but he said she didn't have to go, but she wanted to so she said so. They both talked for what felt like an hour, and Ami felt like she was her old self again. They both hung up after she thanked him, but not before he said something that helped to cheer her up even further. She thanked him for it, and they both hung up and went to bed for the night.

Aaron had calmed down a bit as he walked down the stairs; with Ceros in his front jacket pocket. Aaron thought to himself, 'Today nothing is going to spoil a good friend's outing.' He got onto his bike, revved the engine and was out of there. He went on to the street and headed to where the IMAX Theater would be, and where Ami was waiting. But just as things would have it, fate has a way of changing things. Aaron had a first good look at that as Ceros popped up from Aaron's pocket and flew up to his shoulder.

He spoke out, "Aaron, I'm afraid the date's going to have to wait!" Aaron turned his head slightly and said, "What is it now? And it's not a date!" Ceros ignored the last part and explained, "I'm sensing another Heartless movement." Aaron groaned in frustration at this, but Ceros apologized, "I'm sorry Aaron, but you know that the Fellowship's duty is to fight all evil. Especially if it's the Heartless."

Aaron just groaned as he stopped the bike, "Can't I ever have a normal day at least once?" Ceros shrugged, "Hey, man, I said I was sorry." Aaron sighed and asked, "So where are they?" Ceros pointed behind them, "They're back in that direction, about three miles from us." He took a deep breath, and Aaron revved the engine and made a quick U-turn that nearly freaked out Ceros and sped off in that direction. Aaron silently whispered in his head, 'I hope Ami doesn't think I'm standing her up.'

IMAX Theater

12 AM

Ami was waiting near the entrance of the IMAX; she was waiting for Aaron to come. She was wearing an orange and yellow T-shirt with a gray shirt, and an orange hat to match with. She had a ticket all set up for herself, but she did want to see this with Aaron. She had thought back to what Aaron had said last night. She had felt like what Frey had said was true; she didn't even know why Aaron, a smart yet easy-going student, wanted to hang around a smart yet boring school girl like her. It was when he had called her last night and asked if she still wanted to go.

She shakily replied and he could tell she was upset. He said that if she didn't want to go then she didn't have to. She said she did want to go, but she asked if he wanted to. He simply replied yes but she asked him why her. The words he said next changed her mind about herself.

I guess because you're the first girl who's always stayed with me, and didn't want to gain anything from it.

She realized what he meant by that; he had a lot of girls that hung around him and wanted something in return. But she was the only one who treated him like a person, and not some sort of party favor. It made her happy to know she meant that much to him. It was strange to her that he could make her feel this special. Whenever she was around him she felt hazy and restless.

She looked around to see if Aaron was anywhere nearby, but he wasn't presently spotted. She thought to herself, 'I wonder what's taking him so long? It doesn't usually take this long; his house isn't that far from here.'

Other Side of Town

Aaron was speeding like nothing before, just to get to the destination that Ceros was leading them to. But first things first, he needed to get in gear, literally. He was looking for somewhere on the road a place to transform, and everywhere he looked there was nothing. Suddenly Ceros shouted, "Over there!" Aaron looked and saw an abandoned tunnel; construction was still building it so it would be obvious the other side wouldn't be completed.

So despite the blockade in the way, he sped on through it, breaking the hazard sign. In the darkness, still riding in it, he shouted, "PHOENIX BLADE ARMOR ACTIVATE!" And in the darkness of the tunnel, the flames of the Phoenix shined in for a moment, and then dimmed down. The end of the tunnel was supposed to be a bridge into the highway, but unfortunately there wasn't a connection to the other side. But that didn't seem to stop the Phoenix Blade as he sped out of the tunnel and jumped the chasm like it was a bike ramp. But it seemed that he didn't go through the transformation alone as his bike had gone through a significant change as well.

The bike had changed into something that only the Ghost Rider would have ridden on. Its shape had changed as well; the front light head had changed into a bird's front head with the eyes glowing yellow red flame. The handles were normal, but were morphed into a flaming wing design. Both the wheels were on fire but didn't burst or burn up. The tail of the bike had reformed into two bladed wings sticking out to the back. The engine was encased in a red ribbed cage protecting it from harm. The entire bike was colored red, orange and yellow, like flames in a roaring wildfire.

Ceros noticed the change while Aaron had paid no attention to it. Ceros knew the Phoenix was powerful but didn't know its power could go beyond this. But enough was enough on pondering this; he shouted to Aaron, "The Heartless aren't far from here!" Aaron nodded, and continued to speed on through.

Old District

Old District was the slums of Tokyo, Japan, and pretty far from the city. It was where some of the street gangs loved to hang around; Hishimanji, Yakuza thugs, even fighters for hire. It was mainly broken buildings and abandoned complexes; no one would ever miss it. And no one would come to hearing the screaming. A couple of Hishimanji guys were running away from what one of them described as shadow monsters.

One of them screamed as they saw them coming around the corner. As they turned to look in front of them, more of the creatures came out of the shadows. They swarmed over them, drowning out their screams, but on the rooftops on some of the abandoned buildings, Lust and Envy watched them with smiles on their faces. "I think this group could go well in the 'Viscous' department.", Envy said triumphantly. Lust nodded, "Now Lord Ansem will be most pleased with us…this time." Just then, their highly developed senses heard a motorbike in the area. Envy took a closer look at the target and recognized who it was, as he grimaced at the sight.

Lust asked, "What is it?" Envy replied annoyed, "Trouble, Lust. Trouble with a capital 'P'." Lust knew what that meant, a certain armored annoyance was here and about to do trouble for them. She looked down and noticed that the new Heartless were forming up nicely. She smirked as she turned to Envy, "I think we're done here; why don't we leave a few to entertain him?' Envy then got up an evil grin as he looked back towards Phoenix Blade, "Sounds good, but I'm leading the charge on this one." Lust shrugged as she opened a black flame gateway and went in it before it closed up.

Phoenix had rounded the corner from one of the buildings as he looked around. The whole place was deserted with not even a Shadow claw mark anywhere. Ceros popped up and looked around trying to find any trace of the Heartless. "Are you sure this is the right place, Ceros?", Phoenix asked as he rounded the corner. Ceros kept looking, "I'm sure of it; this is the spot where all the dark energy was being concentrated." "Well you had better be right about them being here because a certain little fuzz ball's gonna get it if he brought me here on a wild goose chase!", he threatened the little guardian. He didn't want to come all the way here to make Ami wait.

Just then, a black and purple clawed hand attached to a chain shot straight at him. He noticed it and dodged the chain claw in time as he ducked the blade and skidded to a halt. He spun in a 180 degree angle until he stopped and saw the Heartless that tried to attack him. Phoenix just stared in disbelief, "Uh, Ceros. What the heck are those things?" Ceros was just as clueless as he just said, " Hey, if I knew everything, kiddo, you'd think I'd be stuck like this? Sorry, but this is a new one on me." What they were looking at this moment, was a completely new kind of Heartless that wasn't even part of the invasion of the Silver Millennium.

They looked like bikers, these creatures, and vicious ones at that. Their bodies were slim but muscular as their forearms and hands were half the size a human would be, just like the Shadows. Their heads were black helmets with purple visors that had a zig-zag line going across it; making it look like a row of teeth. On the top of the helmet, two yellow eyes were staring them down. Their neck was a metal, spiked collar and they were wearing a biker leather jacket with the shoulders having metal plates on them with three spikes on them. Their cuffs were that of a purple cuff with spikes on them, connecting to their black hands with purple claws. At their waist was a metallic belt with spikes on them, but that was it. Their lower torso was that of a one wheeled Kawasaki racing bike all painted black and purple, with the headlights as Heartless eyes.

And in the middle of the passé, was Envy, on his own dark motorcycle. He smirked, "Well, Phoenix Blade, what do you think of our Dark Riders?" Phoenix looked around and quirked, "Dark Riders, huh? I hope you got copywriting for them 'cause I think Stan Lee might want to be sure you didn't copy the idea from Ghost Rider!" Envy didn't know what he was talking about but he just knew that was an insult. "I hope you're good at racing 'cause these guys are itching for a fight.", Envy said as he snapped his fingers. The Dark Riders immediately revved their engines a few times; enough times to make their point to Phoenix and Ceros. Phoenix revved his engine and sped off in the other direction.

Envy just smirked, "This is going to be fun." They all sped off in pursuit for Phoenix Blade and left behind the now ghost town. But before they could get out Phoenix and Ceros had to ditch two Dark Riders that were catching up to them. They kept dodging whenever they saw an opening, but the Heartless kept finding them and were catching up. Phoenix commented them, "They're fast, I'll give them that…." He then spotted a building that went up fifteen stories high, and Phoenix just kept going further. Ceros was sweating beads out at what was happening. The Heartless were closing in, unaware to where they were going. Suddenly, phoenix's golden wings shot out and with one flap, he was flipped up in a 90 degree angle and landed on the building. With that, he actually sped up the side of it, leaving a fire trail. The Heartless were unable to stop as they crashed into the building; Phoenix smirked at the result, "…but can they jump or stop at a dime? I don't think so."

And with that, he sped up the building and jumped on the other side to get the heck out of there.

Later on

Later on, the knight was going down an empty freeway that would lead them to the bridge that would go back to Tokyo. Ceros was against this, "Phoenix, are you out of your mind? You're leading them into town!" Phoenix explained, "The Freeway Bridge will be packed today, so it'll make things difficult for them to follow. That'll give us an advantage to fight back." He saw the turn that would enter into the freeway and took it. Ceros had his doubt, "How's this going to help us?" "Obviously you don't know the dangers of going into the freeway." Ceros was puzzled as they entered it, unaware that a figure dressed in yellow and orange was watching them from around the shadows. And then in a blur, vanished without a trace.

On the Freeway, traffic was moving pretty fast as Phoenix Blade rode out into it. Trucks and cars were moving around at alarming speeds; one wrong mistake on the road and you're street pizza. And that's what Phoenix was hoping would happen if the Dark Riders and Envy ever tried to chase them on it. And it seemed like his question would be answered as Envy and seven of his Dark Riders went after them. Two shot forward and were catching up to him at top speed. They brought up their right hands and shot them out like bullets, while they were attached by chains to their arms. Phoenix noticed this and brought out his arms, and the claws caught them. The Riders stopped to try and slow him down, while Envy smiled at this. Unfortunately, they didn't count on the fact that Phoenix used this to grab onto the chains, and spin the bike around with him still on it. This caused the Dark Riders to get pulled off their bikes and get spun around and then later on, thrown into moving traffic, getting run over and crushed.

Envy smirked as he sped on through, "This is getting more and more fun by the minute." He signaled three riders to go on in, while the remaining two went with him. The three bikers were catching up to Phoenix and he saw this; he turned a sharp corner to evade them and they were caught between a truck and a police car. The first Rider dismounted his bike, revealing they had long but strong spider like hind legs. It jumped off its bike and onto the police car. The second rider followed suit as the third passed the truck. The Riders threw out the cops, and took over the car, speeding through the traffic.

Phoenix noticed what was happening, but he didn't notice to where the third rider was until it was too late. The third rider did a jump and got off its vehicle, landing on Phoenix's bike, causing them to spin uncontrollably. He and the Rider were struggling to push the other off in an attempt to gain control of the bike. Ceros was screaming in panic due to his size in all of this, but Phoenix got an upper advantage to it as he grabbed the creature by it's collar, and gave him a massive head butt to it's helmet head. It was at this moment, he tossed the Heartless off, but it's chain hand shot out as well. As it fell, it headed towards a truck, and as soon as it was run over, the chain was caught in the axel of the truck. This caused the front wheels to stop turning and it flipped like a domino, and in dominoes all the pieces would fall as well.

The truck's crash causes a massive crash, nearly killing any people and causing explosions, including destroying the police car commandeered by the two Riders. But this did not stop the Heartless from getting to their destination. Envy and the other two were catching up to him; as Envy raced faster. As soon as he was close enough, he jumped off the bike and onto the roof of another car; in this he kept jumping on one car onto the other, reaching close to the one Knight. The other two riders were speeding up, and then suddenly time seemed to slow down on its own.

As a yellow blur passed them, undetected and went right in front of them. After that time suddenly went back to normal again. The Riders suddenly took notice that a strange figure was riding on one of their bikes, a figure clad in what appeared to be Arabic armor of some kind; possibly of bandit design. It was a leather based chest and stomach guard wrapped around him, colored yellow, with brown leather belts strapped on him. His arms were in yellow sleeves but his forearms were covered in armor. His left shoulder had a large shoulder guard and his left forearm had an arm guard made of brown leather belts with buckles on them and a sash to wrap around the stomach area. His right arm had a smaller shoulder guard and a brown metallic arm guard. But both hands had the same fingerless brown leather gloves, but they did have yellow fingers and thumbs on them. He wore three belts that connected together that held on a yellow leg guard. On the belts was a dagger holder that held a peculiar dagger that seemed to be made of metal and glass, and in the glass was sand. Along with the dagger, he also had a jagged gold chain wrapped in a loop and strapped to his belt. His Arabian pants were brown and baggy and on each leg were two leather straps that criss crossed each other like an X. His boots were brown but had on them ace shaped knee guards that were yellow with brown lining on them. He also had on them ankle and hinge guards that were yellow as well. And finally his face was covered in a shawl that covered his head and wrapped around his neck like a scarf. He also had a silver mouth guard on him, but you couldn't see his face, only his orange eyes glowing. He wore a pendant on the neck of the shawl, and inscribed on it was an hourglass of some design. On his back were strapped on two long yellow and brown scimitars with strange yellow glowing vine like designs on them.

He turned around and pulled out his scimitars, he then jumped off the bike and in a blinding speed, made a back flip with two huge slicing moves on both of them. Then suddenly, he shot out his jagged chain back at his bike and pulled himself back on it and resheathed his swords in no time flat. He then sped off after the other two that sped off, and as he left, the Riders top halves slid down and poofed into black mist, along with the lower halves and the bikes.

Phoenix and Envy were in a heavy chase after the latter. Envy muttered to himself, "How boring. What the hell, let's take this somewhere else." He jumped off his bike and landed on the Phoenix Blade's bike, "Let's take this somewhere with some leg room, shall we?" Before Phoenix Blade could object, Envy lifted him up and threw him up on a passing truck. He then jumped up to follow suit, and landed with ease as Phoenix was getting up from his crash landing. Ceros was left on the bike to the task to make sure it stayed in one piece, but proved difficult. "WHY AM I STUCK SMALL!", He yelled to himself as he did his best.

Phoenix got up and got out the Blade sword out, and stared down at his opponent who brought out his steel claws. Phoenix said, "Let's get this over with like I did with your Dark Riders." "Please. I'm not as easy as I look.", he then charged forward with his blades up front. Phoenix was able to block them, but Envy brought up his right claws at his side. Luckily he caught that easily as they continued to try and stab each other. Envy's Kung Fu moves made things a little difficult, but with one careless mistake of a spinning back kick, Phoenix caught it and threw him down to the side.

He walked up to Envy and brought up his mighty buster sword to finish him off. "Please, Phoenix. You wouldn't hurt me, would you?", that voice stopped him in his tracks. Envy had morphed into Sailor Mercury, the one person he couldn't bring to hurt ever, nor had the desire to do so. 'Mercury' got up and looked at him with a teary eyed look, and spoke in a shaky voice, "Am I...notthat special to you?" Phoenix couldn't help himself but lower his sword. The imposter walked up to him and leaned against him, "Don't worry, you won't have to fight again." She then stepped up on her toes to reach his eye level, but her face suddenly etched in pain as she staggered back from a claw slash wound.

She morphed back to Envy as she groaned, "I thought you couldn't attack her?" Phoenix nodded, "I can't hurt her, but then again, you're not her. You don't have her eyes." Envy looked dumbfounded; he was a master shape shifter. He could master any look from anyone, "What are you talking about? I got the look of her eyes panned down!" Phoenix took a moment as he picked up his sword, "There's a certain kindness you see when you look in her eyes. A kindness that shows itself to everyone that looks deep within them." He then pointed to him menacingly, "All I see in the eyes of the Mercury you pretend to be…is a lust for blood and battle that's as cold as ice!"

For a moment, Envy just stared in dumbfoundness, and then began to laugh. He laughed loudly as his side that was stabbed started to hurt. He then composed himself as he said, "Kindness? That's a load of Crap! In this life, kindness and love can only get you one place: Annihilation!" Suddenly, in the other lane of traffic, a gasoline truck sped off of the lane and into the one they were in. The truck ran into any vehicle that got in the trucks way. Phoenix took a closer look as he saw that a Shadow Heartless was driving the truck, and then he knew what was going to happen. The Heartless were going to ram the trucks together to make the mother of all explosions like in the action movies he was use to seeing.

But then suddenly a thought struck his head as he mentioned out loud, "You do realize you'll be killed in the blaze, right? Not to mention it won't kill me either, considering a Phoenix is born in flames?" Envy shrugged, "Answer 1: I'm different from the other Heartless, as are the others. We heal and recover pretty easily. Answer 2: I know, but I also know you'll be in too much pain to concentrate long enough for me to chop your head off!" Phoenix had to agree on that; it would hurt. He also noticed that there wasn't enough time to fly away and get far enough to do so.

The trucks were only ten seconds from colliding on each other, until suddenly everything stopped. He looked around and saw everything freeze up, like someone pressed pause off of a remote and paused everything. The vehicles had stopped, birds just stayed there in mid air, even Envy had stopped moving. Phoenix Blade sheathed his sword back in and scratched his head, "What the heck is going on?" "I've stopped time that's what.", a new voice came as Phoenix turned around. He saw a chain latch itself to the side of the truck and in an acrobatic style of flips, the yellow and brown clad stranger landed on the top with ease.

Phoenix looked at him confused and asked, "Just who the heck are you, the Prince of Persia?" The stranger chuckled as he scratched the back of his head, "Well, you got part of my name right." He then pointed at his pendant, "This is all you need to know that I'm one of you." Phoenix Blade looked at it and asked, "One of me?" It then suddenly dawned on him, "You're one of the knights of the Fellowship?" The stranger nodded and introduced himself with a bow, "You got it! I'm the Persian Prince; Constellation Knight of the Sands of Time, keeper of the Dagger of Time, and fifth member of the Fellowship of the Moon."

Phoenix wondered if Ceros had found any of the other knights and this confirmed him. The only thing he needed to know now was who was under the armor. But before he could answer that, the Persian Prince checked the Dagger he had on and noticed that the sand was slowly starting to stop spinning. He walked up to Phoenix and spoke out in a quick and worried tone, "Okay, time to get off this ride. The sands are already starting to slow down." But Phoenix didn't have time to ask as he was being pushed to the side. They both realized that everything was starting to speed up, so Phoenix opened up his wings, grabbed the Persian to take with him, and flew off towards his bike which was a pretty good nine yards from them. They landed on the bike with ease, Phoenix in the driver seat, and Persian landing on his toes and kneeling on. Phoenix took up Ceros, who looked like he was going to have a panic attack. And with that, they sped off quickly.

Then suddenly time went back to normal; Envy then noticed that Phoenix Blade was nowhere to be found. And not at a better time as the trucks collided, but not before he said, "Oh, shit." And just on collision, the trucks were crunched together, and suddenly the mother of all explosions was caused, engulfing Envy in the flame waves. The explosion was so powerful, it caused the cars that were driving by to get shoved back but luckily, no one was killed, just injured or knocked out. Phoenix Blade's bike had come out of the time pause moving that it was going pretty fast, so Phoenix had to be sure he didn't crash. Because coming into speed that fast and crashing into something can cause a nuclear explosion; hence Einstein's theory of Emc2.

Ceros, who was now perched on Persian's shoulder, screamed at the moment that he thought he was still on the bike driving. "A SHORT CRITTER LIKE ME IS NOT QUALIFIED TO BE A DRIVER!" He then suddenly realized that he was not driving the bike, but also perched on another person's shoulder. He smiled in relief, "Persian! You got here in the nick of time!" Phoenix took a look back from his shoulder, "Ceros, you've got some explaining to do!" Ceros cringed at the moment, but now, they had to get as far away from the freeway as soon as they can.

Meanwhile, back at the trucks, the fire was burning brightly as it kept burning. And out of the flames stepped out Envy, now a burnt up piece of Beef Jerky, with some bones sticking out. And quickly the burns were healing up, along with the skin and hair, and finally the clothes healed up as well. He suddenly realized what had happened, another knight had stepped up to the playing field. He sighed as the dark flame portal opened, "The boss is not going to like this. Now there are two of them." And with that, he went into the portal and it closed up.

At the end of the freeway, Phoenix Blade stopped and let Persian off mainly because the Arabian knight insisted he get off here. Phoenix insisted, "Why don't I give you a lift? This way we might at least get to know each other behind the masks. You know, as friends?" Persian nodded, "Don't worry Ceros already informed me about who you are, and you don't need to find out who I am. You already know who I am. Besides I've got to get somewhere I need to be. And don't you have anywhere you need to be right now?" Suddenly he remembered something important and checked the clock on the bike; it read 12:57 AM. He cursed himself as he realized the time, "I'm thirty minutes late." He turned to Persian, "You going to be okay on your own?" Persian nodded, "Don't worry, you need to go." He sped off into town as fast as he could, and suddenly the Persian Prince was gone in a puff of sand.

IMAX Theater

1:05 PM

Ami was kneeling down and leaning on her knees; she had expected him to be late but not this late. She was starting to wonder if he was standing her up. She shook her head as that thought popped in there, 'Don't think that way, Ami! Aaron isn't that kind of person; he wouldn't stand anyone, including you, up.' She looked around and saw couples and friends walking around in some areas. It was almost as if everyone was poking fun at her for trusting in someone that she met a few weeks ago. In that moment, she felt like crying, but she kept it in check, and accidentally let a tear out by mistake. She wouldn't give up; she was determined to wait for him at all times.

She wondered though, 'I never wait this long, not ever. Except once…when it was with…' she stopped herself as she didn't want to go further into it. She couldn't be…could she? Then suddenly, a shadow loomed over her, and she smiled, thinking it was Aaron. She looked up, "Aaron!" But was sourly disappointed, seeing that it wasn't Aaron, but Frey. Her face was written with disappointment as she realized he was the last person she wanted to see. Frey looked a little confused as to why she was here, but then it suddenly clicked. He smiled slyly, "Let me guess, you got stood up? Well who could blame him? I mean it's not like he'd see anything fun about you, or even anything worthwhile for girlfriend material." He then laughed a little at this, but for all the wrong reasons. Ami was shaking in anger and sadness, and she just couldn't take this any longer.

"SHUT UP!"

A few people, including Frey, were a little startled at Ami's outburst as she shouted. "Stop making fun of me! I know that you think Aaron is wasting his time by being with me, but he wants to hang around me; that's his choice if he chooses. And so what if I'm waiting, I want to wait! Even if it takes me all night I'll wait for him!", she screamed at the top of her lungs, flailing her arms up and down. Frey was nervous and embarrassed as people were staring at the commotion, thinking that the two were dating and having a quarrel. Everyone just shrugged it off and left the two alone, and it was not a better time as well.

Ami had never done anything like that at all in her life, but she didn't care at the moment. All the tension and frustration from all the waiting weighed on her now as she started to cry. Frey, being the gentleman, couldn't stand to see her like this. So he brought out a handkerchief that he kept with him for just such an emergency as this as he gave it to her. She was surprised and confused, but even more confused as he bowed an apologized. "Look, I'm really sorry for teasing you about waiting. And I'm sorry about yesterday as well."

Now Ami was even more confused than before, "I don't understand. Why the change of heart?" He stopped his bow and half smiled as he explained, "Well, it's kind of like this. I thought a lot about what Aaron said when we bumped into each other yesterday and realized that maybe you're not as boring or as dull as most of the girls I go out with say. And I guess I don't have say as to what person should hang out with who. But only if that other person's a player." Ami guessed she understood that but wondered about his ambition, "But what about your Playboy Mansion dream?" Frey looked up in thought and answered, "Well, I thought about that and kind of realized that dream wouldn't have panned out as well as I dreamt of." He then turned to Ami and kind of blushed in embarrassment as to what he had to say next, "Also, now that I think about it…it was kind of fun hanging around you guys." Ami stared for a moment to take all what he said in thought, and suddenly he seemed like a new person. She smiled knowing that he had a change of heart and that he was such a different person than before.

Suddenly, Aaron had finally shown up, and from what Ami and Frey saw, he was pretty beaten up and tired. He got off the bike and nearly fell over because of it, as he ran over to Ami, and Frey, surprising him. Ami asked out of concern for his state of being and a little angry, "Aaron, what happened?" Aaron bowed in apology and tried to explain, "I'm sorry. I was on my way here, but at the last second, something came up and…." Suddenly, Frey grabbed him by his collar and dragged him near the edge of the street. He then had Aaron leaned on his heels on the edge as traffic was coming in.

"APOLOGIZE!", he screamed out as Ami watched in surprise and now worried, "Making a woman wait for so long! You're a disgrace to men! You don't make a woman wait, even if you have an emergency!" He then got Aaron to lean in further, as Aaron started to panic, "W-what are you doing!" "Your death will be an apology to Ami!", he answered, "So die! Die and make amends!" Aaron yelled in fright as Frey leaned him in further into traffic. Ami then panicked and ran up to Frey, tugging at his shirt, "Ah! It's okay, Frey! I don't mind anymore!" He then pulled Aaron back and let him slump to the ground, still in shock at what had happened. Frey simply shrugged, "So she says." He then turned to Ami, smiled and gave her a wink. She then realized what he did, 'Oh, now I understand, he did that on purpose. He put on a big performance so that there wont be any ill feelings between us afterwards…but that was really dangerous.'

Aaron recovered from his little tussle with death with a quick shake from the head. He was going to kill Frey here and now, but then noticed something on Frey's right ring finger. He was wearing a golden ring, but had a brownish orange topaz gem embedded in it, and in the ring was inscribed in it an hourglass symbol with a ring of sand encircling it. Aaron remembered that Persian Prince had the exact insignia on a pendant buckle on his shawl. It was then Aaron realized, 'NO…FREAKIN'…WAY!' Meanwhile Ceros, who was in Aaron's back pocket was groaning, "Anytime you want to, you can get up."

Later On
After going to the movie at a different time, Ami, Aaron, and suddenly Frey were enjoying it. But Aaron had to use the restroom after the first thirty minutes of it, and Frey also had to 'go'. So they went to the men's room, closed the door behind them, looked around for anyone else there. When it was confirmed that they were alone, Aaron got straight down to business, "Okay, Ceros, you can come out now." Ceros got out of his front pocket, and flew up to eye level for the two boys. Frey, was completely unphazed by this, waved and said, "I see staying in his pockets hasn't been defective to your health, Ceros."

Then Aaron pointed his finger and shouted, "AAHAA! So you are the Persian Prince!" Aaron was then confused, "Wait a minute! How or when did this happen?" Ceros waved his hands to calm Aaron down and then explained, "Well, you see it's like this. When you and Frey met up, I was picking up some strange vibes from him. I thought he might be a Heartless in disguise, but then sometime around when he didn't notice, the constellation of the Sands of Tim popped up from his head. And I was guessing that his power had already awaken. So after yesterday, I met up with him, he panicked a bit…" Frey frowned in embarrassment and shame, "and explained everything: the knights, the Heartless, and even the princesses from the Silver Millennium."

It was then that Ceros explained about the Persian Prince, "you see Aaron, the Persian Prince, or Frey, has the power over the constellation, the Sands of Time. This power enables him to control the sands and wind, making him the swiftest of the knights. The Sands of Time are that of what they are and do; they give Frey here power over time." Aaron paled at that thought; Frey Asapin, the King of Perverts, and the ultimate in Pheromones, master of time? Ceros noted the look on his face and explained, "Don't worry about Frey messing up history; he can only go back and through time for only one day, and not Thirty years.." Aaron actually sighed in relief at this knowledge.

Ceros continued, "Instead he also speed up and slow down time for both offense and defense on the battlefield. Like when he or anyone else near him need to get clear of a certain area, he can stop time long enough and get out of there before time returns to normal." Aaron seemed to understand now, during the fight with Envy, time stopped just like that. Just then, Frey got close to Aaron, and rubbed against him like a cat, with a catlike grin on his face, "So am I your hero, now?" Aaron pushed him away, "Get away from me." Frey waved in apology, "heh heh, sorry. Just teasing there."

Aaron and Ceros smiled at this, not only did they gain a new ally and knight into the fold. But they had also gained a new friend, and so did Ami. Ceros, on the other hand frowned, as they numbers of the Fellowship had increased now, so will the Heartless as they will try to exterminate them. There was going to be a massive storm coming for them, so to speak, and they had better prepare for it.

Next Chapter: Interview with a Witch