Okay chapter 4 is done. I won't lie, I was being lazy when I wrote the beginning. But I believe I made up for it in the end. I just can't stand the battle at Gable Castle so I made it short. I'll probably revise this latter on down the road. Enjoy and thanks for the reveiws!
Disclaimer: Still own nothing.

Chapter 4: Rescue

The next morning, Gable Castle was awoken to sadness. Commander Greil had died in the middle of the night. Ike had said that some person called the Black Knight had murdered him. So they buried him not far from the castle. Lloyd and Presea had offered to make a marker and Ike accepted the offer. So after they had said a prayer for Greil; Lloyd, Colette, and Presea returned to the castle to make the marker while the others stayed behind.

It didn't take long for Presea to cut down a tree and drag it back. As she was cutting the length, Lloyd and Colette sat on the stairs watching her. It was all quiet save for chopping but Lloyd spoke up, "Hey Colette. Those guys…they don't know that you're the Chosen, do they?" Presea stopped her work to hear.

Colette shook her head, "I've never told them, they even asked if I was a Priestess."

"That's probably a good thing. This is a strange place we're at. Species we've never seen, country's we've never heard of, and that Rhys said something about a goddess Ashera." Presea told them.

"What are you saying Presea?" Lloyd asked.

"I think that that bright light did more than just combine the two worlds. I believe it sent us to another world," She answered.

They were all quiet for a minute, and then Lloyd spoke up again, "I think that we should just keep quiet about this until we have more answers. So Colette, don't use your angel powers unless it's necessary."

"Okay Lloyd."

"So what's the next step?" Presea asked.

"I think we should just wait until the laguz call us to meet with their king. Maybe we can get some answers from him," He answered.

Not long after, the mercenaries came back except for Ike and Mist. They walked into the castle silently but not without a surprise look at seeing Presea wielding an axe twice her size. When Lloyd and Presea began to design the marker, they heard shouts from inside. It lasted for a short while and then Shinon stormed out of there, followed shortly by Gatrie.

Boyd was at the entrance now and shouted at them: "So that's it, just like that you two are leaving the company!" Everyone was outside now watching this scene.

Shinon turned around and spat angrily: "That was the last straw! I don't need this damn company anymore!" He threw his arms up and began to march away.

"Gatrie, you too?" Titania asked him with sadness in her voice.

He refused to meet anyone's gaze, "I think…I can make a better living elsewhere." Very reluctantly, he turned around and followed suit with grief written on his face. Lloyd felt he should say something but really, what can one say to someone whom you just meet when people who were close to them couldn't reach them.

"Oscar, Boyd. Will you two go after them; they may just need to let off a little steam," Titania asked the brothers.

"Yeah, sure thing Titania." Oscar and Boyd then went off to follow them. Titania, Rhys, Mia, and Soren went back inside. Rolf stayed by the door way.

"What happened?" Lloyd asked the young boy.

"Titania told us that Ike was going to be the leader, now that…the Commander is…" He stopped as he tryed to hold back his tears.

Colette got up and hugged the young boy. "There, there." She cooed while stroking through his light green hair. "It's all right to be sad." Upon hearing that, Rolf started balling.

When the sun set, Ike and Mist finally returned. Rolf, Colette, and Rhys went to take care of Mist while Lloyd and Presea put the finishing touches on the marker. When it was compete they went to the meeting room were the rest of the group was only to walk in on an awkward situation.

"I can't believe those two, after all the crap we've been through they just left!" Boyd ranted on.

"We all knew that Ike would inherit command someday. It just happened sooner than we wanted," Soren added.

Titania saw that they were at the door way and spoke up: "Oh…uh, Lloyd, Presea. Anything we can help you with?" Everyone stayed quite. So they weren't able to convince those two to stay. Lloyd thought sadly.

"No, uh…we just wanted you all to know that we finished the marker. You can…place it on the grave in the morning," Lloyd stuttered.

No one really said anything; it just reminded them that their commander was died. "When we get to a town we can make a better one. We didn't have the proper tools so-" Presea spoke up but Ike interrupted her. "No, it's…it's great. Thank you for doing this."

"Well now back to business, we're two people short, but that can be easily corrected by adding new members," Soren announced trying to get back on the matter at hand.

"Soren! How can you be talking about something like that now of all times?" Oscar asked sounding shocked.

"I'm sorry Ike. I wasn't able to stop any of this…" Titania told him while Soren and the two brothers argued.

"It's not your fault, Titania," He reassured her. "They did what they had to do. They didn't want to lose their lives to an inexperienced commander. But…with that said, I have no intention of giving up command of this company. So I will assume command as my father wished, if that's all right with all of you."

"Ike, do you really have to ask? We're still here, so we're going to follow you," Titania told him and the rest nodded in approval.

"And hey, if you need more fighting strength Presea and I would be more than happy to fill in," Lloyd added.

"I don't have a problem with you joining, but I can let Presea fight; she's still just a child."

"That's right…I'm still…just a child," She thought aloud as she pressed her hand on her Key Crest.

Lloyd put his hand on her shoulder. "She's just as strong as any of us. Once she even knocked a golem off a cliff," He defended, but realized that they had no idea what he was talking about.

Just then they heard someone running franticly down the halls. Within seconds Colette came bursting in, only to trip when she got there. Rhys was right behind her and was now at the door way with a worried look for Colette. Everyone gasped but quickly relaxed when they saw she was getting up. "Are you okay?" Lloyd asked as he helped her up.

"Yes. Thank you." She then looked at Ike and said, "I think we're in trouble."

"Huh, what makes you say that?" Ike asked with a confused look along with everyone else.

"Because, I hear foot steps outside and they don't belong to laguz," She answered.

Soren ran to the window, "She's right. We're surrounded by the Daein form the looks of things," he reported calmly.

Everyone ran to a window and looked for themselves. "Damn, I can't believe they're here of all times!" Ike ran his fingers through his hair, and then looked at everyone. "All right; everyone suit up, we're going to stand our ground!"

Everyone nodded and ran out of the room expect Lloyd, Colette, and Presea. "So, what about you guys?" Ike asked them, "Well you fight with us?"

"Of course we'll help. Just tell us what to do commander," Lloyd smirked.

They were all outside (except for Mist and Rolf who were hiding) and were ready for the fight for their lives. Lloyd, Colette, and Presea knew that it was going to be tough especially since they couldn't use many of their arts. After two days they still weren't back to full strength.

One of the Daein spotted Presea and nudged his buddy next to him. "Look, those mercenaries are so desperate their making a kid fight!" They began to laugh.

Now Presea's not the type to get angry over things like that, but she just wanted to inform them not to underestimate her. So she quickly jumped into the air toward the laughing Daein. She slammed her axe into ground in front of them and yelled, "Destruction!" Rocks flew up and knocked out about four of the Daeins that were laughing. The rest went quiet and just stared at Presea; even the mercenaries.

Ike looked at Lloyd, pointed at Presea, and asked "How?"

Lloyd just grinned, "It's a long story. I'll tell you when we get out of this mess," he then charged at an enemy; slicing him down. This began the battle as Daein soldiers started to charge at them.

The battle raged on as everyone was defending the entrance. At one point Lloyd and Colette ended up on the west side. As Colette threw her chakram at an archer who was about to shoot Lloyd, she noticed that that a frail looking girl just keeled over. Colette immediately ran over to her, "Are you all right? Are you hurt?" she asked as she kneeled down beside her.

"Colette, watch out!" Lloyd shouted when he saw a swordsman ran toward her ready to attack. He quickly ran in front of her. He brought his swords up and then slamming them into the swordsmen, making him crumble on the ground.

"Lloyd, this girl, she doesn't look to good," Colette told him with worry in her voice.

He got down on his knees beside Colette and said, "Don't worry; it doesn't look like she's badly wounded."

Suddenly the girl started to move and was muttering, "So hungry."

"Food? Is that what you need?" Colette asked while Lloyd helped her to setting position.

Soren saw them helping the girl. "Don't help the enemy!" he shouted looking really pissed.

Ike then ran over to them and looked at the girl, "Who are you? You don't look like a soldier," he asked her.

The girl shook her head, "My name is Ilyana and I was with a traveling merchant caravan, but we got separated when Daein attacked Crimea. The Daein found me and forced me to fight for them because I can use tomes."

"Wait, do you mean Muston's caravan?" Ilyana nodded to his question. "Well they hired us to protect them you can join them if you like. Colette, will you take her inside with them?"

"Um…sure," Colette said looking a little confused.

"Wait, Ike, when did a caravan get here?" Lloyd asked.

"What do you mean, they were here before we were," Ike answered.

Lloyd looked at Colette then at Ike and said, "They were?"

The battle raged on for several more hours. Luckily no one was severely wounded but everyone was wiped out. Suddenly Mist came running out and grabbed her brother's arm.

"Mist?" Ike grabbed her by her shoulder and said, "You're not supposed to be out here! I told you to stay-"

"I don't care!" She shouted at him. "We're not going to make, are we?"

"Don't be foolish! No matter what happens, I'm making sure you and Rolf get out of here alive!" He reassured her.

Mist shock her head madly, "No! I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying here with you and everyone else! As long as I'm with you, I'm not afraid to die. We'll see Mother and Father again. So I'm not going to leave any of you again. All right?"

"Fine but don't leave my side," Ike told her.

Lloyd looked at them and said, "Sorry to disappoint you two, but I'm not going to let anyone die; not while I'm around."

Just then, the leader of the Daein in a heavy suit of armor walked up to them. "A small band of mercenaries against and army of Daein; I must say you have fought bravely. But it's time to end this." The knight raised his lance at Ike when they heard a terrible cry of pain from the soldiers. "What was that?"

Then two laguz came running while taking out the rest of the Daein on their way. One was a giant blue tiger and the other was a small orange cat.

"Two laguz were able to take out that many people at once?" Lloyd thought out loud.

"These laguz are truly powerful," Presea said in amazement.

The knight looked at the two beasts and shouted, "Cursed Gallian beasts…There are only two of them! How could they have brought my army to its knees?"

He changed his target from Ike to the orange cat. He attempted to jab his lance the laguz's head but the cat backflip on the stone wall. She then jumped forward and leaped on him, biting his throat in the process. The knight fell to the ground hard and did not get back up.

The two laguz then morphed into their humanoid form. The tiger turned into a bulking man with blue hair. The cat turned into a small girl with orange hair. All of the mercenaries were just staring at their rescuers, not sure what to say.

Ike was the first one to say something when they returned to the castle, "So, uh…Are you two from the palace? Did the king of Gallia send you?"

The big guy nodded at him. "I am Mordecai, warrior of Gallia, and this is Lethe," He introduced. "Your hair is blue. You are Ike. Is this correct?"

"That's right, I'm Ike. Thanks for saving use."

"Then the one in red is Lloyd," Mordecai said as he looked at Lloyd.

"Is 'in red' my only distinguishable characteristic," Lloyd said a little annoyed.

"Ranulf told me you two are not bad strangers. We'll become good friends," He laughed.

Colette smiled and said, "I really hope that happens!"

"How are we to trust your words?" Lethe yelled then looked at Mordecai and told him, "They're all beorc. You know all humans have two faces."

"Yes some humans are like, but…some are kind. And Colette is definitely one you can trust in," Presea explained.

"Most beorc call us by hated names; look at us with eyes filled with scorn. Sub-human?" She hissed. "Is that how beorc treat their friends? Is that how beorc treat their allies?"

"You're right…Some of us use that name far too readily, but we didn't really know any other name for you all. I'm sorry," Ike apologize.

"You knew no other name for us? Are we really so little to you, human? You, who forced us into slavery? How easily you forget. But we remember how we have suffered at your hands. I will not trust you no matter what the king says. I warn you now…never speak to me in such a way!" Lethe continued to hiss at them.

Suddenly Soren stepped into the conversation, "What's your point? Did you come all this way to complain to us?" He began to laugh a little. "Typical sub-humans." The way Soren said that and the way he looked at the laguz it reminded Lloyd of the way his friend Genis would look at humans.

"Lloyd…I feel like I'm starting to hate humans more and more." Genis once told him.

This caused both of the laguz to hiss and growl at Soren. He didn't back down, he simply spat, "You nothing but filthy, hairy sub-humans!"

Mordecai let out a bloody roar then turned back into a tiger. "Kill him!" Lethe ordered.

Mordecai began to charge at Soren. "Hold up!" Lloyd shouted but no one was paying attention.

Just then Ike ran in-between Mordecai and Soren, taking the full blow. He fell to the ground clutching his side. Everyone gasped but Mordecai just jumped over him, still just as determined to take out Soren. So he wiped out his tome and began to cast a wind spell.

Lloyd intended to end this, so he ran toward them. He drew one of his sword with his right hand to stop Mordecai's claws and he used his left arm to knock Soren's tome out of his hands. "Both of you cool it! We're on the same side," Lloyd shouted. After he said that, his exsphere began to glow and Mordecai changed back. Lloyd sheathed his sword and picked up Soren's tome.

"Why did you stop me? You saw what that beast did," Soren asked Lloyd.

"I did, but none of this would have happened if you didn't provoke him," he answered.

Mordecai was sitting on the ground rubbing his head and Colette walked over to see if he was all right. "Ugh, what did I do?" He asked, and then saw that Ike was injured. Rhys was already healing the gash in his side. "Ike! I…I don't know what came over me. I'm so sorry Ike; I didn't mean to hurt you,"

"No, I'm the one who should apologize. Mordecai, please forgive Soren," Ike asked him.

"Ike forgave Mordecai. So now I forgive Soren. No one need be angry."

After a shaky state, the next morning Lethe and Mordecai guided them to the palace to met with their king. Imminently, a laguz took Ike, Titania, and Soren to the king while the rest were brought to a large room with a balcony overlooking Gallia.

Presea was looking over the balcony when she thought out loud, "This place reminds me of Ozette."

"Yeah, it does look like Ozette. Of course Gallia has laguz not humans…and of course no castles either," Lloyd said after hearing her.

"What's Ozette?" Rolf asked who was standing beside her.

"It…It was my home town," Presea put her head down remembering Judgment that was brought down on Ozette.

"Wait, you mean you lived in a thick forest like this one?" Boyd asked. Presea nodded, still not meeting anyone's gaze.

Then Mia stood up from her chair and asked, "What do you mean 'was' you home town?"

"It was…destroyed…not too long ago," She answered.

"Oh…I'm sorry Presea," Mia walked over to her.

"I've never heard of Ozette, have you Oscar?" Rhys asked the green haired paladin.

Oscar just shook his head, "I didn't even know there was another forest like Gallia on Tellius."

Just then a couple of laguz came in with Ike, Titania, Soren, and even princess Elincia. Then they said, "Lloyd, Presea, and Colette. You three are to meet with king Caineghis now."

Lloyd looked confused and asked, "Why does he want to see us?"

"Yeah, if Caineghis wanted to talk to them, why didn't they come with us in the beginning?" Ike also asked the two laguz.

"He wanted to speak with them privately I would imagine," One of them answered.

"Well I guess it couldn't hurt to see what he wants," Lloyd turned to everyone else and said, "See you all after this is over." The three waved and followed the laguz to the audience chambers.

As they entered they saw Caineghis. He is a big guy with wild, long, red hair. Ranulf was also there along with another guy with dark hair, both standing beside Caineghis.

When the three entered they kneeled in front of the king of Gallia. Upon seeing this, Caineghis said, "Rise. There is no need for such formalities, there is much to discus."

"What is it your Highness?" Colette asked.

"It's really about whom you three are and those gems you have,"

"You mean our Exspheres?" Lloyd asked showing him his blue Exsphere.

The Lion King nodded, and then gestured toward Ranulf who came forward. "Form what we could gather," Ranulf began, "those 'Exsheres' of yours cause us laguz to lose our sanity."

Lloyd looked confused, so he continued, "Remember that tiger that attacked the first time we met? Well I talk to him after we took you to the castle; I asked what was going through his head. He didn't remember what he even did. And let's not forget that when that 'Exshere' glowed he was forced to change back to his humanoid form."

"Lloyd! Something similar happened to Mordecai when he attacked Soren," Colette exclaimed.

"Wait, are you guys saying that because of our Exsheres, you're going crazy or something?" Lloyd asked.

"At this moment I do feel strange energy coming you. But I am not having any trouble in keeping my sanity," Caineghis explained.

"Could it be…" Presea started, "that when a laguz becomes angry and they're around an Exshere, could that cause them to go crazy like that?" Presea speculated.

"That seems to be the case," Caineghis said. "So, where did you all come from and where did you get those?"

Lloyd looked at the girls and Colette whispered, "I think we should tell them the truth, I believe we can trust them." Presea agreed with her.

"Alright," So the three of them began to tell the laguz that they were from a different world. They told them about the Desians, how Exsheres are made, Colette even told them about her journey of World Regeneration and turning into an angel. At first they didn't believe them, but as soon a Colette wiped out her wing they began to. Runalf nearly fell over when he saw Colette's wings; the two lions just went wide eyed.

After the laguz calmed down the king spoke up, "This does change things. I can't exactly let you three wonder around, so I ask you three if you'll help Ike and the rest guard princess Elincia safely Begnion."

Lloyd said, "In all honesty, your majesty, I would like to go and look for our friends. But we don't know this land very well, so we might be better off going with them. What do you two think?" He asked Colette and Presea.

"It's not a bad deal," Prease said.

"I agree. We owe a lot to the mercenaries and who knows we may even run into them on our way," Colette told him.

"Okay, but your highness, can I ask a favors?" Lloyd asked. The king nodded, "If you find anybody with Exsheres, will help them?"

"Yes, I shall keep my nose and eyes open."

Canteus Castle

In the deepest part of the dungeon, two people are being held captive. At first it was for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. But now it was because of the strange magic that they performed four days ago. Genis Sage and Zelos Wilder have been questioned during their stay. Surprisingly, they haven't been tortured yet; although Genis would argue that being stuck in a room with Zelos for four day was painful enough. If had any information, he would spill.

The only thing was that they were telling them what they wanted; the soldiers just didn't believe them when they said that they were arts. So here they were, both of them tied to chairs in a windowless room. Right now they were alone because all guards were called to their stations due to suspicious activity.

Zelos let out a defeated sigh, "This just sucks," he threw his head back.

"How long are they planning on keeping us captive here?" Genis shouted struggling in his chair. "I mean we've told them what they wanted and they even said we weren't citizens of Crimea. What's the deal here?"

Just then there came a lot of shouting followed by a huge explosion. "What was that?" Genis cried.

Zelos stayed quiet for a little bit then said, "Genis, cast Fireball on me."

"What? Have you gone crazy?"

"The ropes! We're going to get out of here with all that confusion upstairs," Genis nodded and they began to scoot their chairs to get back to back (although it was hard on Genis because his legs didn't reach the floor). When they were back to back, Genis began to cast a small fireball next to Zelos' tied hands. The fire quickly burnt through the ropes and Zelos immediately untied his feet, and then untied Genis.

Zelos walked up to the locked iron door and said, "Stand back kid, it's my turn. Besides the only way you can fight is with your magic, but with no mana left in you you'll be useless," He smirked at the last sentence. Genis gave him an icy cold look.

"Alright, here goes! Wind Blade!" Zelos shouted as wind began to cut through the door. He then kicked the door down and ran out followed by Genis. Zelos then found a chest and started rummaging through it.

He startled Genis when he threw his kendama at him (he nearly dropped it). Zelos tired his sword to his belt and they began to run up the steps. When they reached the top they found a battle field in this new dungeon.

"What is this, some kind of mutiny or something?" Genis thought out loud.

Zelos shrugged, "Who care we can use this to get out of here."

He began to walk away but Genis grabbed his long vest and said, "What about the other prisoners?"

"Who cares, they don't concern us." Zelos tried to walk away but Genis wouldn't let go. Finally, he sighed, "Okay, but only the ones on the way to the exit." But just then a fire spell hit the ceiling above them causing it to cave in.

Genis quickly rolled away. Once the ceiling fell he shouted for Zelos, not seeing him anywhere. He must be on the other side of this rubble. There's no way that idiot would die so easily.

"I had hoped that would finish you both off," A man dressed in black and red sorcerer's robes said walking toward him. "Well at least I get to prove to people that my magic far surpasses your strange and unusual spells," He said with an insidious smile. He opened his tome and cast another fire spell at Genis. He quickly dodged it and ran into a large room with prison cells and pillars in it; this was where most of the fight was taking place.

The mage caste a wind spell this time, it flung Genis into a nearby pillar. He fell hard to the ground and began coughing up blood. He quickly got back on his feet and ran again.

"Why are you running? Fight back already!" The mage shouted.

I would if I had enough mana here! Genis thought angrily. He had only regained about half of his mana since coming here. He was only going to cast a spell when he saw a way to finish him off.

Another wind spell came so Genis dived behind a pillar but not before the wind cut through his shoulder. He clutched his shoulder when the mage began to bombard the pillar with fire. "Come on out you coward!" He shouted.

He knows I'm here, why doesn't he just cast a spell from under me or above? Unless… he thought about the spells the mage used; wind and fire, all attacks head on. He can't and he believes I can't either.

So Genis jumped up from his hiding place and quickly cast a spell. "STONE BLAST!" He shouted as he raised his kendama to the air. Dozens of rocks flew up from under the mages feet.

He fell to the ground and moaned, "How…how can I be defeated by a child."

"Because you underestimated me and because I'm a better strategist then you, you only relied on brute force to defeat me." Genis said as he walked over to him. He then used the ball on top of his kendama to knock the man out.

"Now time to find Zelos and get out of here." Genis turned around to see that a large knight was about to fall on top of him. Genis let out a cry and began to stumble backwards until he fell to the ground. The knight landed a few inches away from Genis' foot. He looked up to see a familiar pink head.

He turned instant red. "P-P-P-P-P-Presea!" he stuttered.

She turn and looked at him and asked, "Genis, what are you doing here?"

"I-I should be the one asking that!" He got back on his feet.

"Your bleeding, Genis," She said so calmly.

"Oh this," he said rubbing his bloody shoulder, "it's nothing." He then shot his fist into the air, but quickly put it down and turned around. He didn't want her to his tears of pain.

Out of nowhere, a blond suddenly ran up to him and hugged him. "Genis! I'm so happy you're all right!" Colette cried. Genis then saw Lloyd running toward them.

"Lloyd, what are you guys doing here?" Genis asked.

"What's it look like, we're freeing all the prisoners," Lloyd answered.

Genis looked around and asked, "Is Raine with you?"

"No, it's just the three of us," Lloyd said sadly.

Colette grabbed Genis' hand and told him, "Come on, we have to get you to Rhys so he can heal you."

"Hold on, we have to find Zelos!" Genis told them.

"What, Zelos is here?" Lloyd asked him.

"Yeah, but we just got separated. Come we have to hurry," he explained.

So they all followed Genis to look for their friend.

Zelos Wilder was running through a hallway trying to locate the small half-elf when he stumbled across a giant blue cat. It was badly wounded and was struggling to even breathe.

"Well I guess I better put this beast out of its misery." He drew his sword, but as he got closer the cat began to growl madly at him.

"Hold it!" Someone shouted at him. It was a guy who was younger than he was and had blue hair. Blue head looked at the cat then back at Zelos and said, "Did you do that to him?"

"No, but I was just about to put it out of is misery," he answered. Blue head began to clench his fists. Zelos saw this and said, "What's the big deal? You could probably find more of these out in some forest."

"How could you say something like that?" He drew his sword out.

Zelos gave him a cold look and said, "Why don't you put that away before you hurt yourself." Zelos put his sword in front of himself. He knew this guy wanted to fight him.

So they both charged at each other, sword flying madly at each other. When they locked swords Zelos couldn't help but smile. This kid isn't half bad, but I'm faster. It'll be over quick, he thought.

Zelos jumped back and shouted, "Not bad, not bad. But let's see how you block this!" Zelos charged and shouted "SONIC THRUST!" The blue swordsmen moved at the last second but Zelos still grazed him badly. The blue swordsmen rested against the wall, clutching his side.

Zelos was about to finish him when he heard someone call his name. It sounded like…"Lloyd?" He soon saw four very familiar faces run toward him.

"Zelos! Ike's not our enemy!" Lloyd exclaimed as he waved his arms.

Zelos blinked. He looked from the guy called Ike back to Lloyd. Before he could say anything Colette ran over to the cat, "Oh no, Runalf. Zelos you have to heal him and Ike quick!" She pleaded.

Zelos rubbed the back of his head, then sighed, "Man, how I'm I to say no to that." He saw that Genis was bleeding and said, "Hey Genis, you better get over here too, you look like crap."

Genis gave Zelos the usual death glare but didn't say anything and walk toward the other injured people. Zelos cast Healing Wind and everyone was soon healed. But then the cat suddenly transformed into a man-like being. Zelos fell backwards and Genis jumped a little too.

"How are you feeling Ranulf?" Colette asked the cat man. Ranulf nodded and thanked her.

Zelos looked at Lloyd and whispered, "What the hell is that thing?"

"We'll explain after we get out of here. But don't call them anything other than laguz, they don't like it when you call them anything else," Lloyd whispered back.

"Trust me, I'm not going to piss them off on purpose," He said out loud while standing up.

"So Lloyd…these two your friends?" Ike finally asked.

"Yep, we're his buds. Oh and no hard feelings about kicking you butt, right?" Zelos smirked.

Ike gave Zelos a confused look and said, "Ah…sure. I guess I was the one that started it. You've probably never seen a laguz."

"There, see. We'll get along just fine. I'll introduce myself once we get out of here. So come on." Zelos began to walk away.

Ranulf looked at Lloyd and asked, "Is he always like this?"

"He can be serious. They're only rare moments," he answered.

They had all reached the exit; the only thing was that it was blocked by a knight and two of his soldiers.

Lloyd stepped forward and announced, "Ike, leave this to us, we can handle them." Ike nodded and the rest stepped back to watch.

The knight started laughing and said, "You five against us highly trained Daien soldiers? HA!"

"What's the plan, Genis?" The burnet asked his friend.

"Colette, Presea, take out the two soldiers; Lloyd, Zelos, finish off the knight after my spell." Everyone nodded and went with the plan.

Colette threw her chakrams at one and shouted, "Triple Ray Satellite!"

Presea took out the other with axe using, "Resolute Infliction!"

They both fell hard to the ground.

Genis finished his chant and cast, "Stalagmite!" underneath the knight. He went flying into the air.

Lloyd and Zelos began running up the stalagmite on opposite sides. When they reached the knight they both jumped and shouted "Cross Thrust!" both slashing through him.

The mercenaries and the prisoners had looks of amazement on their faces. "That…that was amazing!" Titania finally managed to say.

"Yes, but now they've blocked the exit," Soren pointed out rudely.

"A problem that can easily be fixed," Zelos told them. He walked over the stalagmite, brought his sword around and shouted "Demon Fang!" There was now a pathway to the door but Zelos collapsed apparently had used too many arts in a very short about of time.

When they reached to safety they found out that there were only four prisoners pulse Genis and Zelos being held there. People were slowly being transferred to a deferent prison. Everyone introduced themselves to each other.

Even though Genis was happy to find Lloyd he was still worried about his sister. Zelos on the other hand was enjoying himself with all the women in the group. Genis could till this was going to be an interesting journey.

Yes that last part was an Unison Attack. I'm not sure if I like the reason Zelos and Ike fight, oh well they're guys so I guess it works. I might change it, I might not. I just wanted to get this done. Now the next story I post will not be the next chapter of this. It will be a very short fanfic. Then I'll return to this story.
Still taking ideas for Z-skits. I have three in my head now and I'll be making a Z-skit chapter 2 or 3 away.