Fan Fiction ❯ The Goddess Sagas ❯ Femmes Fatales ( Chapter 21 )

Chapter 21: Femmes Fatales

"Lena, Karl, you fail again?" Taromecika's voice boomed, causing the kneeling pair to tremble in fright.

" We are sorry master, we promise we will bring something back this time!"

"You had better, because your chances are running out! Hikari, come my dear and show us the next target."

The demoness bowed her head walked from out of the shadows into the middle of the room as she repeated the progress she

did twice before, opening her eyes she spoke the name of the next victim. The next innocent they would try to kill, her name

was Lam Heartily.

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The walk to Feecania lasted almost forever. Hamstine was to weak to drive them, and to upset over the film that got destroyed

in the fire. Needless to say, they did not get any money either. They were all starving and weak by the time they reached the

entrance, immediately two females halted their path into town.

"Halt! No males may enter Feecania!"

"What!?" The males in the group gasped, while the females just blinked confused.

" The girls in your group may enter, but the boys stay hear!" The other girl snapped. "This is a Amazon village! No boys

allowed!"

Genki turned to the group with a frown. " It'll take us five days to go around this town to reach our next destination. Damn, if

we could have went threw hear then it would only have taken us two days...."

"I'm not about to be pushed out by some WEAK onnas! " Alex growled approaching the two guards.

ONE MINUET LATER.

Alex was hanging on a tree pitifully, beaten and bruised.

Lemon chuckled. " That what happens when your sexist and your to dumb to know that amazons are female warriors."

" Well..." Ryan sighed. "You girls go in and take a break for a while, the rest of us will go around, no need for us all to suffer.

Lemon leaned over next to Squall, whispering. " You and the others stay hear, we'll get you in tonight."

"What? How are you suppose to get---" Squall didn't finish his sentence as Lemon backed away with a smile.

"Bye, bye guys! See ya!!"

The group growled at Lemon as he along with the girls in their group entered the village.

"....Are you SURE he's not really a girl?" Genki asked.

Squall sighed. " If he's not, then he must really want to be one..."

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Lemon's eyes were shining, face flushed as he watched girls run around partly naked in the Amazon village, his female friends gave him a

disgusted look.

"Lemon! Stop drooling!" Carrie frowned.

"Lima's getting disgusted with you!" The elf whacked him upside the head.

"Lemon, I thought you weren't interested in girls." Mimi reminded, shyly.

"........I'm not, but..."

"But?" The trio asked.

The vampire winked, a grin spreading on his face, almost teasingly." I still find them candy for the eyes."

" Well, keep staring and they'll rot your eyes out!" The three females shouted, pushing him to the ground.

".....Note to self....keep mouth....shut....Uhhhhh...." Lemon moaned dizzily from where stars circled around his head as he laid

dazed on the dirt.

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"Damn, there are so many girls hear, how are we suppose to find this Lam?" Lena cursed from her hiding place. " Do you see

her, Karl?"

No reply.

"Karl?" She looked over at her companion who was staring at a passing girl's almost bare chest dreamily, drool running down

his chin.

"PERVERT!!!!!" Lena hissed smacking him over the head with a clenched fist.

"Ow......" The boy moaned as he twitched painfully on the muddy ground.

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The boys sat outside of the village, the big doors were shut, and locked. No guards were around, but there was no way they

could climb that gate. Even if they could, all the Amazon's in the village would beat the living daylights out of them.

"Are you sure Lemon said to meet them hear?"

"...Yes, Genki, for the millionth time, yes he did." Squall replied irritably.

" I wonder what's keeping them?" Ryan thought out loud. "I hope they did not get in trouble or anything."

"SORRY WE'RE LATE!!" Lima shouted waving to them as Lemon flew her over the fence, wheezing as he tried to keep her

up in the air. Mimi flew up holding Carrie who was carrying a plastic bag in her hands.

"...Hn? Uhh, Lemon, what happened to your eye?" Squall asked, seeing that the boy had a swollen black eye, and a frazzled expression on his youthful face and messy hair.

" He had a little to much * eye candy* " The girls responded showing the girly-boy their fists again.

"....I wont ask." Genki said nervously.

"What's in the bag?" Ryan questioned curiously.

The girls, including Lemon smiled evilly as they opened the bag, pulling out some of the contents.

"Something to get you into town."

" They look just like bottles with pink fruit juice in it..." Genki frowned, picking one of the bottles up, blinking at it confused.

The girls handed each of the boys one of the contents, while Lemon held one of his own in his hands.

"Drink it!" Lima giggled.

The boys hunched their shoulders, looking confused as they opened the lids of the drinks.

" Cheers!" Lemon smiled toasting with the other boys before they drowned their drinks. After they swallowed, they all felt a

little strange and looked down at themselves. Only one word echoed throughout the area.

"INNNNNNNJUUUUUUUSSSSSSSTTTTICCEEE!!!!!"

This scream was accompanied by a few gun shots and finally Alex falling to his knees in shock and horror before he and the

others except for Lemon fainted.

Ryan woke up to see Lima kneeling over him with a tube of lipstick in her dainty hand, giggling. He shot up standing to his feet

quickly and looking down at himself, it wasn't a nightmare. The drink that had been so innocently handed to them had transformed them...into girls!!

All around him his once male friends were getting up and he could not help but stare at them all in bewilderment and horror.

Genki, or at least who he thought was Genki was staring at himself in shock, dressed in a short pink mini skirt and a yellow tank

top with cute little white boots, his hair was let loose and it feel in brown waves down his back. Pink makeup was dabbed on

his now femmine round face and long nails. He had dropped an whole head in height too, he still had his muscles, but they were a lot

smaller now.

"....What happened?" He squeaked trembling, voice still high pitched...there really wasen't that much diffrence to it, actully.

"........." Ryan looked at Squall who was speechless. The only thing that informed Ryan that it was Squall was infact the scar on

his now pretty little face. He was small and curvy, long lashed and cute. Well, cute was an under statement, he was adorable!!

He had been dressed in a sailor outfit and a little sailor hat. His hair had grown longer and was tied up in a loose French braid. However the scowl and pissed off expression made him look scary instead of cute.

"Injustice....Injustice.....Injustice...."

Ryan looked at Alex who was setting huddled into a small ball, his hair tied up in bouncy pigtails, he was wearing a leather

black skirt and an white blouse. He had a great figure, large breasts, slim waist, actually Ryan couldn't be sure he would be able

to stand up with breasts that large and a body that small, but he still looked like a sweet girl, if it wasn't for the blood thirsty,

almost insane look in his eyes.

He looked over at Lemon who was giggling, he still looked the same, only with light red makeup on, an even sweeter looking

face, and the outline of breasts underneath his robe.

"WHAT YOU DO TO US!!?!?!?" Ryan screamed in a squeaky voice, dashing at him or rather her. In defence Lemon held up a mirror causing the demon-half to freeze.

In the mirror he found himself looking at a innocently childishly cute looking girl with long blonde hair, blue eyes, fangs and

pointy ears. He looked down again, seeing he was wearing a long sleeved green shirt, white frills at the neck, and shiny golden

buttons, along with a mini brown skirt and high brown boots. He was curvy, but very small breasted and short, instantly he fell

to his knees whimpering.

"Oh god..."

Lemon frowned for a moment studying him more closely. " You look just like her..."

"What?"

"Nothing!" Lemon dismissed it, forcing a cheerful smile.

The other boys...err...girls were beginning to come to their senses.

" Can you all please explain..." Genki breathed heavily in a shrill voice.

" We are so sorry." Mimi apologized guilty.

" We knew you guys had to get in, in the town we heard rumour of two strange people in the village, we knew that if it were

Taromecika's followers, we would need help right away, so we found this potion in town that Amazon's uses on each other for

punishment. This potion temporally changes peoples genders. Being an Amazon man is a great disgrace in Amazon tribes."

Carrie explained.

"Temporally? How long is Temporally?" Squall gulped, his voice low, but angelic like.

"3 weeks?" Lima squeaked hiding behind her comrades at the blood thirsty looks she got.

"....IN....JUST...TICE!!!!!" Alex swore, he had a girls voice but it was still monotone.

Lemon along with the original girls backed up frightened encase Alex decided to draw his gun again.

Ryan sighed, running her hand threw her hair, still feeling kind of funny in her new body.

" I guess we should try and make the best of this."

Genki looked at her threw wide eyes filled with disbelief.

"Make the best of it? We're women!!! I mean...." Genki put his hand's on his...err...her chest. " How am I suppose to fight with

these 'things' in my way!?"

The real girls gave him bitter looks. " Things?"

"Eppp...."

"It's only for three weeks." Ryan reminded. " Anyway, now we can go threw the town, and if those two 'Strange people' that

Carrie mentioned is Taromecika's followers we may be able to stop them from destroying this village."

Alex began to pull himself to his feet, as he grunted out words with a hint of strain.

" Why...should...we care about...a village full of ...weak...Onnas-whoa!!"

The group stared at Alex blinking as the boy fell over, the weight of her chest being to heavy for her small little body.

Grinning, Genki knelt beside him. " If they can stand up with things like that, they can't be all that weak, eh?"

"Excuse us?"

Genki turned blue in the face as he turned around to see the real girls glaring at him, pissed.

"....Opps...."

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A girl with long red hair and black eyes leaned up against a tree in an beautiful garden, her white and gold Amazon armour

glittering in the moonlight. She sighs, picking an romance novel off of the grass, opening it up to a page, a blush creeping onto

her pale cheeks as she read.

"Lam!"

The girl's eyes widened, as the novel was snatched from her hand.

"Oh Shampoo!"

"Princess Lam, what do you think your doing!?" A girl with long blue hair tied up into buns on either side of her head scowled.

"...Nothing!!" Lam protested, trying to grab for her book but Shampoo pulled it away, flipping threw it, a bitter look crossing her face.

Ripping the pages out as she spoke she turned to Lam with a deadly scowl. " What kind of Amazon spends her time drooling over corny romance novels!"

"I..."

"Don't tell me you dream of romance!" Shampoo laughed meanly. " Amazon's don't need any icky weak men! Men only good

for giving child to Amazon woman, nothing more.

"But... I, I want to get married...."

Shampoo's face soured as Lam received a slap across her face.

"Amazons dream of no such foolishness! Keep this idiotic behaviour up and I'll see you exiled princess! Now, it's time to train."

Lam sighed. "Ok...."

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"OW!!" Karl swore from behind the bushes.

"Hold still!" Lena hissed.

"But your sticking me with your nails!"

"Oh stop your whining!"

"Ekk! The oranges busted!"

"Oh, damn, then I'll use apples! Now, for the final touch."

"....!! AHHHHH!!!! GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!! NOOOOOOO!!!!"

Lena sighed putting her hands on her hips as she shook her head back and forth looking at a ridiculous Karl wearing a curly red

wig and a dress, makeup spread across his face like a clown would wear paint, and tons of apples and busted oranges down

the front of the dress.

"Ah well, it's a good enough disguise I guess...let's start looking for this Lam."

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Carrie, Lima and Mimi sighed as the 'boys' in the group kept their eyes glued on the females running around the area.

" This place is so...huge!" Genki exclaimed looking around herself in wonder.

"....Hn." Squall hunched her shoulders and she put her hands over her chest, a strange look appeared on his face and her

quickly uncrossed his arms staring down at his breasts with a deep sigh.

"....I just can't get use to it...."

"....Your lucky, you can stand up with yours without your back breaking...." Alex whimpered in a still monotone voice as he

walked slightly bent over.

" Why did you have to by us skirts? I can't set down without someone telling me to close my legs." Ryan frowned, pulling at the skirt almost in disgust.

"....Looks more girl-like?" Mimi tried.

"....Hn?"

"What Squall?" Lemon asked, blinking confused.

"......Hnnnnn..... " the man...woman-beast yawned tired.

" Lima tiered also, can we get some sleep?" The elf asked rubbing her eyes.

"Yeah, I guess. I think after this....change...we need some sleep." Ryan agreed as they walked off to find an inn.

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Lam walked back into her room, bleeding and bruised from the days training. Sighing she pulled an romance novel from out

from under her bed, sitting on her window cell she began to flip threw the book, but finally after she reread the same sentence

over and over she put the book down, knowing her mind was far from reading. Turning her head towards the moon she sighed

again, a tear trickling down her cheek.

"Everyday I'm told,

be strong, grow up,

stop your silly day dreaming,

And forget about ever finding love,

Told that I'm suppose to be a warrior,

That I do not need love,

Only battles...

It's love I need,

Fighting wont stop the wars,

Love is true, it shines in the stars.

No need to battle to solve things...

Blood kills the enemy, but

Love wins the war...

Why, can't my prince come,

And take me away, on a white horse,

Riding me towards the stars and the moon?

Why can't I be held,

And told I'm loved?

Why is romance not meant for me?

Why is it the path of a fighter that is my resigned faith?

It's love I need,

Fighting wont stop the wars,

Love is true, it shines in the stars.

No need to battle to solve things...

Blood kills the enemy, but

Love wins the war...

The path of love, shines so bright,

I'm drawn to it, I want to embrace it,

But no matter how far I run...

It stays just out of my reach....

OH! It's love I need,

Fighting wont stop the wars,

Love is true, it shines in the stars.

No need to battle to solve things...

Blood kills the enemy, but

Love wins the war...

Why is it, they can't understand?

I was not meant to be like them,

Not strong enough to be a warrior,

I want to be the protected, not,

The famed protector...

Will my love ever come,

Will he ever show?

Or will he too...

Remain forever out of my reach,

Just like the light of romance..."

Lam looked down at her romance books, picking it up with tears in her eyes.

"...I'm tired of dreaming...If I wait hear for my prince to come, then I might never meet him. A girl does not have to wait for

their prince to come and carry them away on a white horse, sometimes the girl should just go out on her own white horse and

find her prince instead!"

The book fell from her hands, falling from the window. And as it hit the ground, she knew that it was time to stop dreaming and

time to make her dreams become real.

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Alex whimpered in his sleep as images ripped apart his mind, images from a past he would rather forget.

ALEX'S DREAM

"Alex..." A sweet young girl with long brown hair and eyes cried, reaching out towards him as he was carried away.

"Samantha!"

"ALEX!!"

Turning his head towards the new voice her saw a young boy with cold gold eyes and sliver hair.

"Koh!"

" You meanie! Bring Alex back!" Samantha whimpered falling to her knees.

He reached out towards her, shouting, as he held back the tears that burned in his eyes.

"I promise I'll come back someday, I'll come back to protect You Samantha, you to Koh!"

END DREAM

Alex woke with a start springing from her bed, beads of sweat dripping from her face. Looking around herself at the pretty little Inn room she sighed in both relief and dismay. It had only be a dream.

"Hey, Alex, what's wrong?" Ryan asked as she rolled over to face her, watching her with sleeply eyes.

Alex rewarded her with a grunt as she settled back down on the bed. "Nothing."

The demon-half hunched her shoulders before falling back asleep.

She was the only one of them that could get back to sleep.

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The sun rose early, and soon the sky was bathed in blood red and orange hues.

Squall opened her eyes with a yawn and to her surprise found Lemon and Lima curled up to her on each side.

The vampire and elf yawned opening their eyes, spotting each other they shirked.

"Hey! Lemon, Squall is Lima's love interest!"

"....?" The Dampier blinked. " I thought Squall was gay?"

"Yeah, so? So what he's happy, that does not mean he can't like Lima!"

Lemon began to chuckle. " Poor, Lima...."

"Lima wants to know what's so funny!"

"Squall Likes other me-Mphhh!!!"

Squall sighed irritably, clamping Lemon's mouth shut.

"Squall likes neither one of you." The man beast half snapped half mocked.

Genki yawned, looking over at the noisy trio sleeply. "Shut up, I'm trying to sleep." Before settled back down, she tossed a pillow knocking Lima right in the head, causing the elf to pass out.

"...Squally, you didn't mean that, did you?" Lemon asked sweetly, batting his shiny eyes at him.

".....Yes, I did."

"Heh-heh! You say that but I know better...." Lemon smiled, teasingly. His voice trailing off slyly, as if in the matter he said, 'I

know something, you don't know.'

".....Hn...."

"....If what you said was threw, you would not of cared so much to vist me at the hospital."

".......Hn!! Fine, I like you, but no like THAT."

Lemon laughed giddily. "Your blushing, Squally."

".......Hn.....and stop calling me Squally."

"Kay, Squally-Wally!"

"....Ugh..."

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Lena and Karl slept peaceful behind a garbage bin, noses twitching at the fowl stench.

"What are you two doing here!?"

The two of them jump, awoken looking around themselves in panic but spotted only one Amazon warrior guard standing in

front of them, a spear in her hands.

"Um...well, um....eh..." The two of them babbled, trying to find an excuse.

"I know!"

The two of them froze and the guard narrowed her eyes at them but suddenly smiled. "You must be hear for Princess Lam's

birthday! Say, you'll be battling in the competition? We get many female travelers around hear to battle in the competition held

on the princesses birthday. The prize money is 36,000 gold this year!"

"...Princess Lam?" Lena gasped.

"Yeah. It's hear 18th birthday. Hope to see you there!"

Taromecika's two servants waited until she left before turning to each other.

"This is perfect!" Lima commented. " If we can get the princess alone, we can steal her soul, and get a clear get away. I didn't

even notice Ryan and his friends in this village. Not that HE could get in hear."

"Yeah. We'll kidnap the princess and leave. To bad though, I wanted to win that prize money."

Lena frowned, whacking the boy over the head with her fist.

"OW!!!"

"Don't be so foolish...."

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The girls were all waking up, and well, waiting for Ryan to get out of the bathroom.

"Hey! Come on, we know it's a difference, but don't spend so long looking at yourself!" Genki exclaimed, hitting the door with her fist.

"Go to hell! That is NOT what I'm doing!"

"....Oh...." Alex muttered. The rest of the 'boys' looked at him confused but then realisation flashed on their faces.

"...OH!!"

Ryan's face blushed red "I'M NOT DOING THAT EITHER!!"

"Then what is taking you so long?!" the hyper-girl, whined.

"Um....."

Ryan looked down at herself and then back at the toilet.

"Trying to figure out, how to pee?"

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The group was finally ready to leave when a Amazon popped her head into the room.

"Ladies. Since you had traveled hear, I was wondering if your hear to fight in the tournament that will be held at Princess

Lam's birthday. The prize money is 36,000 gold. If you are, we need you to sign up."

"OK!" Genki exclaimed.

The group gave her a glare but she shrugged her shoulders. "Hey, we need the money!Anyway, it'll give us a chance to test our new---"

The group gave her the evil eye to make her shut up.

"...Um, ok, I guess we do need the money."

"Alright, up to three people in your team can fight."

The three real girls shook their heads. "We don't feel like it, you guys decide."

Lemon hunched her shoulders. "I don't feel like it either, I just want to relax."

"....I don't fight in tournaments. It's useless violence." Squall replied.

"Ok, then it's us?" Ryan asked the two remaining team members who nodded back at him.

"Your names?"

"Ryan."

The demon-half blinked as he received an odd look from the Amazon, then remembered, Ryan was a *Boys* name."

"Um...Rya." He covered up.

"Full name?"

"Rya....Trail." Saying the words pained him, as it reminded him so much of Mara but it was the only think he could think of.

The woman turned her gaze on Genki and Alex.

"Names?"

"Genkai Brief!" Genki smiled, he was lucky his name, just pronounced slightly different was a girls name.

"Alexandra Emilo."

"Alright. See you later tonight. Good luck." The woman left, shutting the door behind her.

"...You three aren't going to make this a competition among yourselves, right?" Mimi asked worriedly.

Eyeing each other challengingly, they smirked. " Of course not."

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Night came quickly and Lam, was dressed in her Amazon warrior costume. A golden two piece armor, with a ruby crystal

in the centre of the top, with to smaller rubies on the part of her suit, replacing the nipples.

" Princess, you ready?" Shampoo asked, walking into her chambers.

"....Yes."

"If you loose in the tournament, you disgrace our whole village." Shampoo smiled meanly. "Good luck."

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Ryan brushed her hair back with her fingers. There was twelve opponents beside himself and his two friends. The rest of the

group were in the crowd watching, he had no idea whom they would cheer for when he and one of the other members of the group fought each other.

"Hey, Ryan. You're the first one up. Your fighting against some girl named Kamisa." Genki informed.

"...If your beaten by that onna, you should be ashamed."

"....Thanks for the nice words of encouragment Alex." Ryan rolled her eyes.

"Welcome to the battles! In this turnament the rules are as fallows, you must get your opponent out of the ring, or beat them until

they can't fight back.Weapons are allowed. Please try and refrain from killing you opponent. The winner at the end will have the great honour of

battling Princess Lam. If they win, the prize money is theirs!" An announcer exclaimed.

"Good luck." Genki smiled.

"Thanks."

"Our first battle will be Kamisa Highwind against Rya Trail!"

Ryan swallowed down hard before walking out onto the ring, she could hear is friends shout 'good lucks' to her, and she just prayed she would not be the first one defeated.

Her opponent was a tall girl, orange hair, yellow eyes and the same kind of revealing clothes all the Amazon warriors present at

the match wore. She was armed with shield and spear, the spear almost as sharp as her glare.

"FIGHT!!" The announcer exclaimed, and that's all it took for both parties to draw their weapons and charge at each other.

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Lena choked, falling back in shock.

"What is it?" Karl questioned confused.

"That sword that girl is using, it's Ryan's!"

"Huh? It is! But...that fighter is a girl, no doubt about it. It's not just Ryan dressed in a skirt, she is far to shapely and small to be a man dressed in drag. Perhaps she stole it from him."

"No...I don't think so...the name Rya Trail...ring a bell?"

"....Rya...his nick-name....Trail was the last name of his girlfriend right?"

"If you mean Mara they were never dating, but yes. I think that IS Ryan..."

Karl's eyes widened and he looked at Lena who blushed. " Sex change?"

"....I sure hope as hell not!"

".....?? Oh, yeah, that's right Lena, you had a crush on Ryan didn't you?"

The 'Great L' growled, looking at the ground, angry.

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The girl was a wild target, she had to admit. She only missed being impaled by the spear by inches each time it stuck.

"Stop dodging, sissy!" The girl snapped, striking at her again.

"Fine, if you want it like that, I'll be happy to oblige!" Ryan yelled as she tried to avoid the attacks, drawing her sword out, she

dashed forward, striking the girl in the stomach. Kamisa screeched as she fell to the floor. Ryan dropped to her knees next to

the girl who breathed painfully, putting her hand to her wound.

" You win, I admit defeat."

"Kamisa is unable to fight! Rya Trail is the winner! "

The crowd cheered, his friends louder then everyone else. Ryan smiled, putting her fist into the air in her victory stance. Medic

people came, carrying Kamisa away, as they began to heal and patch up her non-life threatening wound.

Two more battles took place, before it was Genki's turn. He would be fighting against a girl named Maria Hofengale. A strong

looking girl, with black hair and black eyes. A fighter just like her. This would be an interesting battle.

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"Oh, I hope Genki does not get to hurt..." Mimi mumbled worriedly.

" Ah! Don't worry, Lima's sure he'll be fine!"

" Yes, Mimi, he is very strong, he'll win." Carrie reassured.

"I don't care if he wins, I just don't want him to get hurt.

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"For our next match we have Genkai Brief against Onia Mericard! Both our fighters who uses their whole bodies as weapons!

This will be one HOT fight! 1, 2, 3!!!! FIGHT!!!!!!!!"

Both fighters leapt at each other, giving and receiving punches and kicks rabidly. They were moving so fast it was hard to see

what exactly was happening.

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"...!! Hey, I know those moves, and that name! Genki!?" Karl gaped, blinking confused.

"....God, don't tell me EVERYONE in Ryan's group got a sex change...Ohhh boy, your last monster must have hit them in the heads a little to hard..."

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"Wow, Genki's a good fighter, isn't he?" Ryan said amazed at the boys speed, he had inproved much since Ryan had battled him in training at Marlo magic school. The boy did indeed push himself to become as strong as he could...just like Keith.

".......Whatever." Alex responded with an hunch of his shoulders.

"....Are you always so boring?"

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"Wow, Genki's a great fighter eh?" Carrie asked, wide eyed as she watched Genki's kick send Onia flying against the other

side of the ring.

"....Yes....but....."

"But?"

".....I hate such violence...."

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Genki had Onia on the ropes, she was almost down and out, she send another powerful punch to her jaw, causing her to fall to

the ground. Genki was about to send another blow to the girl when he looked and saw the pitiful state she was in, bleeding and

bruised. Genki sighed lowering her defences and cancelling her attack. He couldn't fight someone, in such a weak state.

"FOOL!"

Genki's eyes widened as suddenly her felt a pair of legs wrapped around her neck and toss her to the ground. She gazed at Onia

threw confused eyes.

"Never let you guard down, even when you think your opponents defeated!"

"....Some thanks I get for not finishing you off..." Genki choked, struggled to get free from the strong grip of the girls legs around her neck, but she couldn't get lose and she passed out from the lack of air.

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".....To bad." Lima frowned as she watched Genki be carried off of the ring.

"......Hmmmm....." The fairy-half frowned.

"....He'll be alright, he wasn't hurt that bad. Look at it this way, at least you don't have to worry about him getting hurt in his next battle." Carrie reasoned.

"...Yeah." Mimi smiled. "But it was really kind of him not to attack that girl when she was down...he is gental afterall. To bad that girl did not appericate his kindness."

"I wonder whose next! I'm having so much fun!" Lemon exclaimed, smiling.

"....Can you get off my lap?" Squall hissed at the Dampier who was comfortably resting on her lap.

"Awww...how come? I like it on your knees."

"....You look stupid. Little kids sets on people's knees NOT thousand year old vampires who look like thirteen year olds."

"Little kids...eh?" Lemon smirked.

POOF

"....!!" Squall stared down at the five year old Lemon who sat on her lap in shock.

"See, now is this ok? I'm a little kid." Lemon giggled in a squeaky little voice.

"....Hnnnnnnnnn...."

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They watched a couple more battles before it came to Alex, who walked dully out on the arena, weapon-less. Her opponent

was a girl dressed in a red cat-suit, with golden blonde hair and emerald eyes.

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"Hey...where is his weapon?" Lemon asked, confused.

"Guess they didn't allow guns." Carrie answered simply.

"...How's he suppose to fight?" Lima blinked.

"I don't know..." Carrie shook her head. "Maybe he knows some martial arts."

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"Our next battle is Alexandra Emilo VS Jetta Vein! Let the fight BEGIN!!!"

"Come get it, you weak onna!!"

"Oh, your going to get it!" Jetta growled dashing at her with twin swords. Alex did not even move as she approach him. The crowd held their breaths as the blades were inches away from her person and she still did not move. Then in the matter of

seconds his griped Jetta's hands. She cried out in pain as he squeezed her wrists hard, until she dropped her swords.

"...You paused in your attack, you were too soft, exactly like the weak onna you are."

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" The girl screamed in intense agony as Alex broke her wrists with another hard squeeze. She

fell to her knees cradling her broken wrists to her chest.

The group stared in shock as Alex delivered the girl a blow to the neck, snapping the weak bone in an instant.

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"OH, WHOA !!This is one blood thirsty appointment people, so far, Alexandra Emilo has injured every one of her opponents terribly, and

now she has shown us just how ruthlessness she is by killing one! This is one strong fighter, and now with the finals up next, who will be the next victim!? Or maybe, she will be the victim?" The announcer gasped in awe.

Alex smirked. "Not likely."

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"....Ekk...Lets go...We can get the princess next time..." Lena said, sounding sick.

" What? Sick?" Karl asked, not really caring.

".....Hmmmm...."

"Excuse me, but...."

The two of them turned around to see a red headed girl dressed in a cloak.

"Yes?" Karl asked coldly.

"I ever heard you, looking for the princess, well, I'm right hear, I'll give you anything, just please, kidnap me?"

"Huh!?"

"Take me out into the woods, pretend I'm with you or something, I want to get far away from hear as possible!"

The two soul snatchers turn towards each other, and grinned evilly. Their victim was falling right into their hands.

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"OK, the winner of this battle will be able to have the honour to fight our Princess Lam! On the left we have Rya Trail, and on

the left we have Alexandra Emilo. Both showed a lot of skill in winning all of their battles. Let's have it for these two young, and strong women!"

The crowd went wild as the two girls walked into the ring, faces froze in solid determination.

"....Wow, they look serious." Genki whispered, from where she now stood with her friends in the crowd.

"Oh...don't tell me they are going at it for real." Mimi whimpered.

" This will be a match, who you betting on?" Lemon asked, now back to her usual age.

"...Hm, I'm not going to bet on anyone, when the two people fighting are my friends." Carrie replied sourly.

"Lima either!"

"Squall?"

"......Hn, I don't know."

"Well, I guess we'll see, hopefully Alex wont repeat on Ryan what he did with all his other victims. But there is one thing I

wonder...."

"Hn?"

"...How could Alex be so strong, I mean, to break someone's neck with a single kick is amazing, it's inhuman!"

'Hmmmm....' Squall thought. 'Lemon has a point...perhaps there is more to Alex, then what meets the eye...'

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"Hey, Alex, you look like your going at this for real." Ryan laughed nervously drawing her sword.

"No, I have no reason to fight..."

"Running away? Never turn down an battle.'

Alex suddenly grinned, shifting her body into a fighting position.

"Yes...Your right, I'm serious, every fight I face is serious."

"Ok, then. Show me what you've got!"

Ryan did not have time to blink before Alex ram into her, the solider was amazingly strong and she was sent flying back from

the force. She crashed into the crowd, blood flying from her mouth as Alex rammed into her breaking form once again, pinning her to the ground.

".....God..." Ryan wheezed, pulling herself off of the floor, but was knocked back down by another forceful blow.

"Ryan!" several members of his group cried out, as her body crashed into the side of the ring, a large pool of blood gushing from her mouth, staining her rose shaped lips, making them seem like a crimson flower.

"....You are serious aren't you?" Ryan chuckled painfully, as she forced herself to her feet.

Alex gazed back at her angrily. "COME ON! ATTACK ME!!"

"If you insist!" Ryan exclaimed, drawing his sword, dashing towards Alex, full pace.

She was sure that by the time she got close enough to strike Alex would have dodged, but closer and closer she came, and Alex

only watched her not even blinking. Right now, she was only inches away from the soldiers person, one trust and the solider

would be impaled...dead and she did not even try to move. It suddenly all dawned down on Ryan and she froze in mid-motion,

the point of the blade only an hair away from piecing Alex's heart. Everything about Alex's actions was explained in one

sentence that ran threw her head. One simple five word sentence, that ended in a form of a question, but it was not really a

question at all, because she knew it was the 100% truth, and it was not a kind truth at that.

' You want to die, Alex?'

Not only the group but the whole crowd watched in confusion as Ryan dropped his sword, letting in clatter loudly on the floor.

"....I give up."

"What?" Alex hissed sharply, eyes wide in surprise.

"I give up, you win, Alex." Ryan smiled at him weakly. "You'll probably say I'm weak, but I'm sorry."

"Sorry?"

"I could not grant your wish, I could not kill you. I think I know the real reason your fighting Saiyoua now."

Alex only watched silently as Ryan left the ring.

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"Thank you for taking me this far." Lam bowed her head in thanks. "Is there anything I can give you in return?"

"Well." Karl smirked.

"There is one thing." Lena finished with the same evil smile on her face.

"What is it?" Lam asked nervously.

" Your soul!"

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lam screamed, as Lena snatched the soul crystal from her body which fell pale and limp to the ground.

Lena scowled, looking down at the crystal in her hands. "Dammit, another dud! Oh well, lets take it back anyway..."

"NOT SO FAST!"

"Huh?" The two soul snatchers turned around to Kim and Amy standing behind them.

"Not you two bitches again! Grrrr....."

"Give that soul crystal back!" Amy exclaimed angrily.

"Or else." Kim snarled, getting her attack ready.

"Karl, what are you waiting for get out of that dress and attack them!" Lena ordered the boy who blushed, before ripping the

dress off, and revealed his normal clothes once again.

"Ok, girls! Show me what ya got!"

"FAITH'S ARROW!!"

"DESTINY'S FORCE!!"

Karl fell to the ground burnt, and coughing.

"Ohhh....what kind of stupid idiot are you?" Lena sighed.

"....look at all the pretty stars....uhhh..."

"Useless...." Lena sighed tearfully.

"Lena, give us the soul crystal!" Kim ordered, her voice demanding.

"We can beat you know that, give us the crystal or die right now." Amy threatened.

"....If....If I can't have the crystal, then...THEN NO ONE CAN!!"

The holders of faith and destiny gasped in horror, as Lena smashed the soul crystal into splinters, the broken pieces falling to the ground in dull fragments.

"...She destroyed that girls soul...." Amy muttered in shock, falling to her knees.

" You.....YOU BITCH!!! DESTINY'S RAGE!!!!!!!!!!" Kim screamed, power pulsing from her body in a golden glow.

"What...Oh Noooooooooo!!!!!!" Lena screamed, shielding her face with her hands, as the attack hit.

Kim panted tiredly , weakened drastically from her attack. Smoke drifted from the ground, blanketing the area in a dirty cloud

of sand. When the fog cleared, Kim's legs turned to Jell-O and she fell the ground, shock frozen on her face. Both Lena and Karl had disappeared. They had escaped.

"GOD DAMMIT ALL!!" The holder of destiny shrieked, tears running down her face, this was the fist time she failed to protect an innocent, and she never wanted it to happen again.

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Almost the whole town ran towards the woods, after they heard the screams and the light from Kim's attack. They all froze in shock at what they saw.

"Princess..." Shampoo mumbled almost in a daze.

"Saiyoua's servants, they stole and destroyed her soul....We tried to get it back, but we failed...We're sorry." Kim apologized, getting to her feet.

" Ryan." Amy turned towards him, for some reason still recognizing him in his female form.

"We don't want to see anymore innocents sacrificed like this...but many more like her will die if we do not get the goddess stone, please understand. We only wish to prevent more lost of life like this one."

Kim and Amy began to walk away, Kim's voice drifting back to them.

" Do what you need to do, and we will do what we have to do. Until we meet again."

Shampoo fell on her knees next to Lam's body, her eyes sparkling with tears.

"You were always filled with so many dreams, to bad you'll never dream again. " Shampoo's strong composer broke and she

broke down weeping. " Sister, I'm so sorry for everything I've ever said to you, please forgive me!"

Ryan stared at the sean, his mind drifting off into thought, as his eyes watered at the sorrow before him.

'How does someone's soul die? How can somebody's soul be destroyed?'

"Everything can be destroyed, nothing, not even the soul lasts forever."

' Ruto, Is that you?'

'No, I'm Key.'

'But Key is Ruto.'

'Key is Marie-Maya.'

' But Marie-Maya is Ruto.'

'Ruto is Ruto.'

'But Ruto is Marie-Maya.'

'Marie-Maya is Ruto. Ruto is not Marie-Maya.'

' I don't understand....How can Marie-Maya be Ruto, but Ruto not be Marie-Maya?'

' Is Ryan, Ryan?'

'.....What? Who are you? Saiyoua?'

' Are you Ryan or are you someone else...is Ryan real...is Ryan alive, does Ryan feel, can Ryan cry?'

' I'm real....aren't I? I think, I feel, I have to be real?'

' But what about the other you, isn't that the true you? '

' The other me?'

' The one who attacked your friends, what if that is the real you? What if the you, you are now is not the real you?'

' SHUT UP!!'

' Afraid to admit your not who you think you are? How sad, then tell me Ryan, who are you?'

' I....I don't know....'

"Hey, RYAN!!" Genki screamed in his ear awakening him from his train of thought. The demon-half looked around startled. The clearing was empty now, and the group seemed to be getting ready to leave.

"Oh sorry, I must have spaced out..."

"Ryan...." Alex began. " About our battle."

".........." He blinked confused seeing a strange expression on the soilder's face...it was hard to tell just what it was.

"You were not nearly as weak as I thought you'd be."

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"Lena, Karl! You fail me yet again!? I'm disappointed in you! You only have three chances remaining!" Taromecika growled,

his eyes darting towards Lena. " Destroying the soul crystal just so our enemies could not get it back was one of the most cowardly actions I've ever witnessed. "

"I'm sorry master."

"Leave my sight."

Lena began to walk down the black halls but was stopped by Keith who walked in front of her.

"Did you see Ryan?"

"...uhhh...Master Keith...I'm pretty sure it was him...except..."

"Except?"

"Well....." Lena frowned unsure of how to say this.

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"AHH!?!?"

"Lord Keith!?"

"Master Keith!?"

The twins exclaimed as they ran up to their 'god' worriedly when they heard his shocked scream.

"....What is it!?"

"Are you ok!?"

"......Ryan....Genki...and their friends.....has...finally....lost it.....' The son of the darkness murmured shaking his head, still numb with shock.

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The group were staying at an inn they found a few miles away from the village, inside the girls were laughing at the boys about their strange predicament as they all sat around the table.

"Well..." Alex came into the room, a tray in her hands, which had three tea cups on it. " You tricked us, so have some tea and

relax."

Everyone in the room blinked at her shocked.

"Come on, let the girls be alone to drink their tea." Alex forced a emotionless smile on her face as she pushed the boys out of the room with a death glare and put the tray on the table.

"Enjoy." Alex smiled before backing out of the room, closing the door.

"What was that about?" Carrie blinked confused. " Think he poisoned it?"

"The tea really looks good though." Lima smiled.

"I bet he just had a change of heart, maybe now that he felt what it's like to be a woman he feels bad for calling us weak onnas,

and wants to make it up to us." Mimi smiled.

"Then lets have some tea." Lima smiled, as the girls lifted their cups to their mouths and drank.

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"I wonder what got into Alex..." Genki trailed off.

"I have no idea..." Ryan shook his head, glancing at the solider who stood, with something almost like a smile on his face.

"...Alex never behaved like this before...." Lemon trailed off. "But that smile...I've saw it before....once....I think it was when he got revenge on someone...."

"Revenge? But how could tea lead to revenge?" Genki asked, confused.

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"

".....What the hell?" Squall blinked, startled.

"The girls!" Ryan exclaimed, throwing the door open. Everyone paused in shock, except for a satisfied looking Alex, at what they saw.

A little boy with blue hair in mushroom cut, A tall elf man with short, limp blonde hair, and a very short, but cute fairy-boy

with short pink hair and large pink eyes.

" The girl at the potion shop, was so nice in giving me three copies of the potion you used on us, in exchange for some of the prize money."

"YOU!!!!!! DIE!!!!" The 'boys' chased after her, murderous looks in their eyes.

Meanwhile the rest of the group was still frozen in surprise.

".....You know...." Lemon begun.

"Yeah?" Ryan squeaked ot, still stareing.

"....This WAS suppose to be a serious chapter..."