Me: (sigh) I can't believe my Marine Biology "final"(note the quotes folks!) involved birds. (sigh) Oh well, I guess there is a reason why I'm called the Bird Girl of Central Campus Marine Biology.

Lloyd: doesn't marine mean water?

Me: Yeah. Why?

Lloyd: If marine means water then why do you have birds?

Me: (sigh) we have some 70+ fish tanks and some 200 odd fish but we also have bearded dragons, anoles, geckos, parakeets, and millipedes.

Lloyd: But why?

Me: its so we have diversity of animals.

Lloyd: Ohhhh!

Me: (sigh) Let's get on with the story.

Lloyd: alright, Jen Rem doesn't own ToS or FF, only Tiamatt, the Oblivion Blade and Ash, Kayla's character.

"Cloud, isn't that Tiamatt?" Aeris asked, touching his arm to get his attention.

Cloud looked up at the TV screen that was located through out the Gold Saucer and his eyes widened. Tiamatt was indeed on the monitor, racing on a midnight blue chocobo in a class A race. The announcer of the race seemed to be in hysteria as the blue chocobo rushed through the ranks till it was neck to neck with a black chocobo who was a five-time class A winner.

"This is amazing!" the announcer screamed. "This chocobo has a 0-22 losing streaking for class C but is causing an upset for the Class A. What in the world is going on? Could it be that Luna's new rider is more experienced or is it something else?"

"I never knew she was a jockey." Cloud muttered as Luna pulled ahead of the black chocobo at the last second to win the race.

"Let's go congratulate her!" Aeris suggested, pulling Cloud along behind her

"Hey! What about me!" a toy cat on a moggle doll yelled, chasing after the two people.

"Sorry Cait." The Cetra said, stopping to let the newest member of the group catch up. "I wonder why she entered a race?"

"I don't know." Cloud replied, shaking his head.

"Then we'll just have to ask her!" Cait Sith cried and raced up the stairs to the chocobo arena only to run into the ex-Turk. "Sorry there miss."

"You!" Tiamatt hissed at the automatronic doll.

"Tiamatt, it looks like you've met Cait Sith." Aeris said as she reached the top of the stairs, still dragging Cloud behind her.

"Please don't tell them." Cait begged, jumping from his moggle to her shoulder to cling to Tiamatt's neck. Tiamatt just glared at the doll before sighing and setting him back on to the fake moggle.

"Warble!" Luna cried happily, nuzzling Tiamatt's shoulder with her feathered head.

"How did you get a chocobo?" Cloud asked as Tiamatt smiled softly and stroked the bird's head.

"I won her during the race." Tiamatt replied simply. "I couldn't let her previous owner continue to abuse her."

"That was nice of ya." Cait grinned, receiving another glare from Tiamatt.

"You're not taking the chocobo with you, are you?" Cloud asked.

"Of course. The Manager was nice enough to let me keep her here for tonight. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go stock up on greens." Tiamatt said and disappeared into the stable with Luna before heading for a small store that supplied chocobo gear.

"We better find the others." Cloud sighed.

"Ok." Aeris agreed and followed Cloud to the Battle Square where he remembered Barret said he would be at.

But they arrived to a horrendous sight. Bullet riddled bodies lay everywhere and in the middle.

"Stop! You're under arrest!" Cloud, Aeris, and Tifa turned around to see Shinra guards charging them.

"Quick this way!" Cait yelled, running into the main part of the arena. However, capture robots blocked their path.

"Get them!" someone, shouted but before Cloud could draw his sword, a shock for one from one of the robots knocked him unconscious.

Tiamatt heard the commotion and quickly hid, keeping out of sight of the guards till she could put on her old Turk uniform so the Shinra guards wouldn't question her. She was glad she had kept her uniform and the elctrorod that went with it as she left the safety of the stable and wandered in search of the rest of her group. Tiamatt knew she would need to find a man named Dio if she were going to find her group.

"You're Dio correct?" she asked, approaching the owner of the Gold Saucer.

"Yeah, and you're a Turk, right?" The man answered.

"My name is Tiamatt. I'm looking for the criminals who escaped from Midgar just recently. I've tracked their movements here and have heard that you have arrested some fugitives." Tiamatt explained.

"Yes we did. They're down in the desert prison." Dio nodded.

"I need to see them in order to determine if they are the felons from Midgar."

"No problem. I can take you down there tomorrow morning since it's getting late now." Dio sad. Tiamatt sighed but nodded.

"Thank you, sir." Tiamatt bowed her head slightly and walked away, planning to help her friends escape now that she knew their location.

The "Turk" turned, acting as though she was heading for the inn located inside the Gold Saucer but as she made her way through the crowds, she noticed something odd. Instantly, all thoughts of her friends disappeared from her mind as she raced after the black caped man.

"Sephiroth!" She called but he did not stop. Tiamatt kept her eyes on him as they weaved trough the crowds till a particularly large group of people blocked her path. When they had moved, Sephiroth had disappeared. "Dammit!"

Tiamatt sighed, saddened that she had lost track of the man she loved once again. Depressed, she wandered slowly back to the chocobo stable to check on Luna, her mind never once returning to the thought of her friends down below in the desert prison. Tiamatt sat down beside the blue chocobo and stroked her neck as Luna ate a few greens out of her hand, till she fell asleep, leaning against the chocobo.

"Noo!" Tiamatt screamed as she woke up, causing Yuffie to drop the bucket of water she was planning on pouring on Tiamatt. Red XIII yowled unhappily as the water hit him instead and promptly began to shake the water out of his fur, thus soaking everyone else.

"Tiamatt are you ok?" Tifa asked, looking at the sweat that was still dripping down the ex-Turks face.

"It was just a nightmare." Tiamatt replied. "Wait, how did you guys get out of the prison?"

"Spiky won a chocobo race." Barret replied, holding onto a locket.

"yeah I did but it was the only why to get Dio to believe us." Cloud said, shrugging.

"What do you have in your hand?" Tiamatt asked, intrigued by how Barret was holding the item.

"It's just somethin' to give to Marlene." He replied softly, finally putting it in his pocket.

"Well, now that we've gathered everyone, I guess it's time to leave." Tifa said.

"Oh yeah! Dio is letting us barrow a car for all the trouble he's caused." Aeris remembered.

"Alright let's get going." Cloud replied.

Me: Onward to Cosmos Canyon!

Lloyd: What are you talking about?

Me: You'll find out soon enough! Read and Review!