Me: Sorry for the long wait everyone! the reason I didn't update sooner was the computer was wiped out! so all my stories were delited which sucks big time, I have to redo all the chapters so far I did that. Anyways I do not own anything but I do own Kairi, Shion or any other OC's you might see. So Please enjoy this chapter it was the hardest chapter I ever done! specaily with the fighting scene you will see through out this chapter. Enjoy~

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Anise's Adventure: Chapter 2

Anise's POV

It took a while for Shion to completely calm down. When she did, I convinced her to go shopping with us, although Jade decided to stay behind and talk more with Emperor Peony.

I was with Alicia and Sync, watching as Shion and Kairi bought what they wanted, so I decided it was my chance to talk with Sync so I could get to know the guy more, for Kairi's sake. Although I would be lying if I said it wasn't weird that he looked so much like Ion.

"So, Sync," I tried, "How are you and Kairi?"

Sync looked at me with an eyebrow raised "We're...fine…? Why are you asking?"

"No reason…" I replied, nervous about the look he was giving me, "Just curious about how your relationship is going..."

"We're doing fine, so don't worry about it…" It was quiet and awkward for a few moments, "Why did you stop chasing after rich guys anyway?" he asked suddenly, his arms crossed against his chest. He was smirking at me.

"I-I don't know what your talking about Sync," I replied, but I knew I was blushing. I turned my head from him and folded my arms against my chest as well, "I have bigger things to worry about. Like my job as the Fon Master."

"Uh huh... Oh, before I forget, Peony wanted to speak with you before we left, so you better go now before we take off."

I looked at him with wide eyes, "Why didn't you say so before, you jerk!"

Sync shrugged, failing to conceal his smirk, "I guess I just remembered now."

I didn't have time to yell at him, I took off to Peony's palace immediately. I saw no sign of Jade so far, which was good. I went into the Throne Room to see Emperor Peony sitting in his Throne. He smiled when I entered, completely out of breath.

"I'm so sorry, Emperor Peony! Sync didn't tell me you wanted to speak with me."

He chuckled and waved his hand submissively, "It's quite alright, Anise. I just wanted say that I need your help with the 'thing' we can't tell Jade about."

"Oh! But you have to tell Jade! He deserves to know."

"I know, Anise," he sighed before leaning back on his throne, "I'm a little nervous about how he'll react to what I did."

I was about to respond, but a voice came from behind me. I turned pale when I realized whose voice it was.

"And what, if you would be so kind to tell me, have you done, Emperor Peony?"

I turned around and saw Jade, his glasses gleaming.

"C-Colonel!"

"Ah, hello, Jade! Back already? I thought you went to go find Shion."

I looked at Peony like he was crazy, acting like he didn't care if Jade heard us!

"So, what is it you two are keeping from me?" he looked at me with his red eyes, obviously trying to make me cave in and tell him.

"Now, now, Jade. Don't pressure Anise. By the way, shouldn't you be leaving, Anise?"

"Oh. Oh, yes! Bye Colonel, Emperor Peony!"

I ran out of the castle to find Kairi, Sync, and Alicia waiting for me. Kairi told me Shion went back into her room in the Castle with the promise of trying to spend less time in her room. Which was good, I didn't want to have to force her out of her room again, because the next time I would be using Tokunaga.

Everyone got on board the Albiore and I told Noelle our next destination was Chesedonia, since I had received a letter from Astor a while back saying he needed my help with something.

After a few hours we arrived, but before Sync, Kairi, and I could leave, Guy stopped us.

"Wait, Anise."

"Huh? Yes Guy?"

"I would like to go with you this time. I asked Astor to get something for me and I wanted to see if he got it yet."

"Sure. Alicia, you'll stay here with Noelle. Is that okay with you, Noelle?" she nodded her approval, "We'll be back, you two!"
We left the Albiore and entered Chesedonia, going immediately to Astor's place.

"You wanted to see me, Astor?"

I walked over with the others behind me as Astor noticed us. He stood up quickly, an urgent look on his face. Seeing him like that confused me.

He sighed, "Thank Yulia you're here, Anise! I'm almost over the edge here!"

"What's the problem Astor? You're not usually this way." I frowned, worried about what Astor could be so stressed about.

"People in the city have come to inform me about some strange sounds coming from the Zao Ruins. I've heard them myself, they sound like…roaring. It sounds like their could be a huge monster in there. If it isn't taken care of, it could attack the city! Could you please go and investigate?"

"Right!" I nodded before turning to Guy, "Guy, didn't you want to ask Astor something? Why don't you do that before we leave?"

Guy shook his head, "I think I should join you then I'll ask Astor after we figure out what's going on."

"Okay," I turned back to Astor, "Don't worry, Astor; Fon Master Anise Tatlin is on the job!"

We left Astor's mansion and stocked up on items in they city before we headed to the Zao Ruins.

We entered the Zao Ruins and then went deeper into the Sephiroth. When we reached the passage ring, we noticed a passage way we didn't remember seeing the last time we were there. We took the passage way and saw that it led to a huge room, decorated similarly to the passage ring. There were also torches lit in a circle around the room.

We walked inside and looked around, stopping close to the middle of the room.

"Wow, this room is huge!" I shouted, noticing my voice echo around the room, "I wonder what type of monster lives here."

"I don't know, Anise…" Guy muttered darkly, "But whatever it is, it's huge."

Kairi looked like she was trying hard to remember something.

"Kairi? Is something wrong?" I turned to look at her and saw Sync looking at her with a frown on his face.

She shook her head, "It's just...I've seen this place in a book before, but I just can't put my finger on it… But I get the feeling we're not alone here guys."

Everyone started to look around, drawing their weapons as they did so. Suddenly was a loud roar and the place shook for a while until we saw the monster.

I couldn't believe my eyes, it was a huge dragon! It had fire coming off it's head like it was its hair, and more flames lined it's spine and engulfed the end of its tail. It's body was covered in scales of bright red, and its wings were grey and tinged with a light purple.

The dragon roared again and a huge burst of flame came out of its mouth and directly like us, we all managed to dodge it somehow.

"Oh, man! We can't let this thing get into the city! Let's take it down!" I yelled, grabbing Tokunaga and enlarging him before clambering onto his back, ready to fight.

"You would dare to attack me, humans? How utterly foolish," Everyone froze, shocked that the dragon was able to speak the human language, "How dare you insult me by calling me a 'thing'. My name is Pyra, and I am the dragon of the First Fonon. You shall die right here for your foolishness! Nobody enters my lair and lives to tell the tale. Consider yourselves lucky you've lived long enough to know who's about to kill you. Now die!"

Pyra stood on her hind legs and slammed one of her clawed hands onto the ground and the floor began to shake and crack all around. She breathed fire again, but we all managed to avoid it.

"Why is she angry at us?" I yelled out to the others as I tried to hit her with a Limited, mentally cursing when it didn't do any damage.

"I don't know, Anise, but we have to take her down! She could escape from here and attack Chesedonia," Guy yelled back, jumping away from Pyra's fiery tail that she was swinging at him, but Guy was too fast.

Guy tried to attack her, but his sword just bounced off of her scales.

"Damn! My attacks don't damage her!"

Pyra narrowed her yellow eyes at Guy, "You are responsible for my child's death! Now, you and your friends will pay dearly for what you have done!"

"What?" I asked, turning to Guy, "What's she talking about?"

Guy looked just as confused as I was, "I don't know!"

"My child's home was inside the Mount Zaleho Volcano. He died when a group of imposters attacked him in his home."

Guy's eyes widened, "That dragon was your son?"

"Why would you kill that dragon?" Kairi asked, shock on her face.

"We had no choice!" Guy protested, "It was in our way. We had to kill it or we wouldn't get to Ion in time. But…"

Fresh sadness welled up inside me as I remembered that day. He didn't have to continue, I already knew they were too late to save Ion anyway.

"My child was only protecting his home, and you killed him. And now you've invaded my home as well, only this time you will be the ones who die. I will avenge my son."

"Tsk! she's one pissed off mommy," Sync said, dodging one of Pyra's claws as it went to slash at him.

I tried another spell on her, this time my Bloody Howling, but nothing happened to her!

"What the? My attack didn't work either?"

Kairi ran called over to me while she was dodging some of Pyra's attacks.

"Anise, it's a dragon remember? They have scales stronger then steel! Not even Artes can pierce it! We have to figure out what her weak spot is.

I nodded, "Right! Okay, let's find it!"

Everyone nodded and started attacking every part of her body, looking for a weakness, but no such luck. I desperately wished Jade was there, he would have been able to find it easily. When everyone was starting to get exhausted and I was about to give up, Guy suddenly shouted at everyone.

"The weak spot must be the fire on her back and tail! We need to use water based Artes!"

Everyone nodded and I immediately set to casting.

"C'mon water, take them down! Maelstrom!"

It washed the fire off her back, and everyone attacked the spots where the fire was, and she got angry. We had clearly succeeded in finding her weak spot.

She roared at us and spewed hot lava in our direction. Everyone tried to move away, but we were burned. Despite the burns, we kept going.

We couldn't even attack her for long before she ignited herself once again and attacked us. Everyone was breathing hard, trying to hang in there. It was especially hard since we didn't have any healers, in hindsight we should have found Tear or Natalia and asked them to come along.

She slashed at Guy, getting him across his chest. It looked painful, but Guy kept attacking alongside Sync while Kairi and I used every water based Arte in our arsenal. The only times Guy or Sync could do damage was when all the fire was off Pyra's back and tail. We kept with the same strategy, but it wasn't looking good at all. Guy was really hurt, and we had run out of Gels to keep him going.

"Oh man, if this keeps going on we'll most likely be dragon food."

"Be quiet. Anise! Some of us are trying to focus here!"

I huffed at Sync, knowing he was right and I really needed to focus on Pyra.

Guy and Sync went to distract Pyra once more while Kairi and I used Maelstrom and Aqua Spear, once again washing away the fire on her back.

"Insolent humans! I shall kill you like you killed my child!"

I gasped when she flew up to ceiling and slammed her tail as hard as she could into it, causing a big shake in the room.

Screams were in the air, clouds of dust blocked everyone's sight, and rocks were falling to the ground. Tokunaga was my shield, I had gotten off his back and hid underneath him, I still got hurt by some rocks since Tokunaga isn't exactly made of steel, but I made it out of the attack alive. Everything still hurt though.

I looked around for Guy, Sync, and Kairi when the rocks stopped falling and the room stopped shaking. I saw Kairi and Sync, but I didn't see any sign of Guy. Sync was protecting Kairi, who seemed to be out cold. She was bleeding from a couple different places and her clothes were a little ripped. Sync was bleeding a little as well, but he was still on his face, jumping away and making Pyra follow him.

I limped over to Kairi and gave her a lemon gel to restore some of her strength. She stood up, but it was clear she was still in pain.

"Aqua Edge!" Kairi cried out, her attack hitting Pyra so Sync could attack the dragon. So far so good

"Anise, where's Guy?" Kairi looked at me, concerned about Guy.

"I don't know! Huh?" I saw something underneath Pyra, "Wait, isn't that... Guy?"

"What?" Kairi looked under Pyra's belly, seeing Guy as well, "Guy! What is he thinking? Is he crazy?"

"He sure is acting like it; he's going to get himself killed!"

Before we could do anything, Guy weakly lifted himself so he was on one knee, I noticed that his chest was still bleeding, and his front was covered in his own blood. It was a wonder he was still conscious. In one swift motion, he thrusted his sword into Pyra's belly.

Kairi and I ran over and watched in amazement as Pyra roared out in pain and fell side ways.

Before she could recover, Guy slice two times into her belly, killing her instantly.

"Wow, Guy," I said in amazement as I walked over to him, still worried about his wound, "That was cool, how did you know her belly was soft enough to stab?"

"I found...out...when she flew...up…" Before he could finish his sentence, Guy fell to the ground, not moving as his blood formed a pool around him.

"Guy!"

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Me: cowers behind the chair from the items being thrown I'm sorry! It had to be done! I don't wanna die!

Kairi: Watchs from a safe spot behind another chair near me Wow, you really got a angry mob of Guy fangirls after your blood Angel!

Me: crying river of tears I had no choice! Before I die please review! I hope I'll survive this fight...and thanks to IHaveNoIdea8 she beta reads this story, she's awsome thankies~ oh and thanks to all the reviews I have already gotten and the people who faved this story so far too, so seeya on the next chapter! ciao!