Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Legend of the Dual Etude ❯ Lisa ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own Final Fantasy: Unlimited, or anything regarding or relating to it. I don't own very much really. Anything mentioned in this fan fiction is the property of their respective owners (like Slim Fast).

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Chapter 2

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[[As much as I hate Lisa, she's a key character in Final Fantasy: Unlimited, and can't be ignored. Unfortunately, I have to give her a slightly important part, rather than leaving her out. So if you hate Lisa as well, please bear with me. And I'm sorry if just random bits of my hatred for her just pop up. Thanks!]]

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[[I'm also sorry for mixing Ai and Yuu up last time. I have it cleared up now. Ai is the girl and Yuu is the boy, correct?]]

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Lisa was waking up around then, and got out of bed to stretch. She headed downstairs to her kitchen and poured herself a glass of Slim Fast (well duh, that's the only reason she can keep her thin figure).

"I kinda miss Ai and Yuu..."

She walked to her window and pushed aside the curtain to get a good look at the sky. Lisa sighed and just gave up. She slowly drank her Slim Fast while reading the newspaper. Lisa almost gasped when she saw the front-page article.

A mysterious man (who never ran out of bullets) began firing upon an innocent passerby at Central Square

This man, with deep red hair and cold blue eyes, attacked a man walking on the steps of Central Square yesterday afternoon. The man who was attacked, had red hair as well, but was much brighter like fire. He fired with a small pistol, then pulled out a humongous golden gun, seen to have been attached to his right arm. The victim barely escaped with minor bruises and scrapes.

Lisa almost dropped her glass of Slim Fast. She ran upstairs to her room and changed from a pair of pajamas to her usual attire (you know the one she's ALWAYS wearing, the orange outfit). Lisa finished her drink/breakfast, and dashed out the door.

"Kaze..."

She dashed to Central Square hoping to find information regarding Kaze and the incident that happened there. Lisa, finally arriving at Central Square, began to search around for any remnants of the fight, or any leads on where he went.

"Excuse me sir, were you here at Central Square yesterday?"

"Why yes, I was."

"Did you happen to witness the fight that occurred here?"

"Indeed. It was quite surprising that the man suddenly pulled a gun to that guy."

"Did you see where the attacker went?"

"I'm sorry, no I didn't."

"Oh. Well, thank you anyway."

Lisa continued searching until she came across a trail of bullets. It seems that Kaze had been moving in a certain direction while he was firing. Maybe she should follow it; he could have exited the scene that way.

"Kaze...where could you be...?"

She followed the trail to an alley, but then it stopped at a dead-end. Lisa thought for a second. With Kaze's speed and ability he would be able to scale this wall, no problem. But if she tried, she doubted that she would be able to make it halfway.

"Maybe there's a way around to it..."

Lisa left the alleyway, and was back on the main street. She ran around the corner and down that street, looking for another alley entrance. Not finding one, she ran around another corner and down that street, and with luck, found another alleyway.

"All right. Now let's see if I can find another bullet trail, or the same one that I was following before."

She ran down the alleyway, and found the wall where the bullet trail stopped. Lisa looked around and found the trail of bullets once again. She continued to follow it and was seriously lost in the maze of side alleys.

"Oh my...I think I may be lost now..."

Lisa continued to follow it and it eventually led her to a fire escape. She stopped to rest and placed her hands on her knees for support. Lisa got a strange, determined look on her face and jumped up to the ladder of the fire escape.

"But this fire escape leads to an apartment room. I don't know about this..."

She climbed to the first floor, but seeing a scrap of cloth hanging off the end of the seventh floor, decided to check it out. Lisa peeked into a second floor window and found nothing. She climbed even higher and peeked into a third floor window.

"Nothing here either..."

Lisa climbed up to the fourth floor and peeked in, only to fling her head out again. There were people in there, but she wouldn't want to meddle in their affairs. She got even higher, to the fifth floor, and decided not to look inside, but just to get to that scrap of cloth.

"This building is only seven floors high, so he has to be up there."

She used the rest of her strength, and finally reached the seventh floor. She had also reached the scrap of cloth dangling from the rail. Lisa inspected it closely, and inferred it to be from Kaze's cloak. It was the same color and texture since the last time she'd felt it.

"Kaze must be here!"

Lisa took a deep breath and closed her eyes. The window was a bit fogged up, so she wiped away the fog with her hand to try and get a good look inside. It suddenly opened up and a thug-like man stepped out and grabbed her by the wrists (because she's so weak).

"Well well, what do we gots here?"

"Let go of me!"

The thug was about to knock her unconscious with a blow to the back of her neck, when a mysterious figure appeared. He had come from the roof, and jumped to the fire escape. The mysterious figure pulled out a gun and held it to the thug's neck.

"Release her..."