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Fayt, the greenish blue haired boy (I can only assume that his hair is blue green cuz that's usually the color it seems to be, if you're attentive), lay back on his bed staring at the ceiling, his sword leaning against the nearby wall. He had been bored for quite a while, but the fact that there was someone new onboard promised at least a temporary break from the monotony. With a sigh of resignation, since he had an odd feeling about the new guy, he strapped on his sword before he went to look for him, remembering that he was supposed to be giving him a tour of the Diplo anyway. When he asked one of the crew members about him, she pointed him towards the training room, and he was surprised to see that just about everyone was just inside the door watching. "What's going on?" he asked Albel, who looked extremely bored, but was still paying marginal attention to what was inside.

"The new maggot's inside, worm," he answered with a snide smile before leaving losing interest.

"O...k..." Fayt muttered, not completely sure what had just happened. "So, what's going on Kara?" he wondered aloud directing his question to the catgirl.

"It appears that Trace's melee combat trainer teleported on board to give Trace a quick exam to see how he's faring," she replied, keeping her eyes inside. "She looks kind of familiar..." she added as an after thought.

Fayt peered in over Cliff's shoulder, (not an easy thing when the person's taller then you by a good 1.5-2 feet!) to see Trace and his trainer. His trainer looked really beautiful, with long blond hair to about her elbows, tied into a pony tail on each side. She wearing a white cloak about her shoulders, and her weapon looked somewhat like a scythe. It had a black head and tip, and the shaft was a gray color, but the blade was pure yellow, and it had an odd look about it, like it wasn't there, yet it was. Her dress was black, and had an official look about them.

"Trace, you sure have slipped since we last met," The girl said, blocking an overhead smash, then twisting her scythe around hard launching the wand hard to the side, not paying attention to where it landed and swung with her scythe, stopping it inches from Trace's neck. "Your good with your spells, but you've lost your touch in hand to hand. Or is there something on your mind?" She asked but stopped when she heard a groan turning to look at the audience they had. When she had tossed it, Trace's wand had smacked tip first right into the catgirl's forehead hard drawing blood.

"Are you ok?" Fate asked, running to her while Sophia cast Healing.

"I'll be fine, it didn't hurt that badly!" she insisted with a smile picking up the wand, handing it over to Trace as he walked over, kneeling next to her.

"You really need to learn how to fight Trace," Cliff Maria and Nel commented in unison, though Nel said 'Boy' instead of 'Trace'.

"Like I need you to tell me that," Trace returned indifferently, his gaze on the cat girl, before Fate's cough snapped him out of it. "Ah yes, allow me to introduce ourselves," Trace started clearing his throat. "My name is Trace Kudou Takamichi. This here is my teacher and my guardian's subordinate, Fate Testarossa Harlaown."

"It's nice to meet you," she added, bowing along with Trace.

"Kara Zastel."

"I'm Sophia Esteed."

"Maria Traydor, but you can call me Maria."

"The name's Cliff Fittir, and the dude with the blond and black hair is Albel Nox," he added pointing behind him.

"Mirage Koas, pleasure to meet you both."

"I'm Nel Zelpher."

Trace and Fate spun around at the same time weapons at the ready sensing a presence behind them, stunned to see a shirtless old man with grey hair looking back at them.

"The name's Adray Lasbard miss, and you are the most beautiful girl i've ever seen!" The old man said flexing his muscles, simultaneously horrifying and inspiring Fate and Trace. "Will you be my wife?"

"NO!" Fate shouted before Adray could finish his question, the glare she gave him clamping his big mouth shut.

"Fayt."

"Yes?" Fate asked turning to look at the boy curiously.

"N-N-No, that's my name, Fayt Leingod," he stuttered redfaced. The girl blinked curiously wondering why he was red but didn't ask. "I'll be happy to show you around, if you don't mind Miss Harlaown!" Fayt led her away talking about whatever came to mind.

"You need a tour Trace?" Maria and Kara asked at the same time, one looking a little annoyed, the other looking extremely irritated.

"Nah, I already know my way around," Trace commented, walking past, not missing the faces they had. "I'll be fine on my own, thanks." The others dispersed off to their own duties, or to just laze around until something interesting happened again.

--

"So, you live here Fayt?" Fate asked curiously sipping a milkshake in the cafeteria. Other then that pair though, there wasn't anyone else in the cafeteria beyond the crew member that had been assigned to janitor duty.

"Yeah, though it gets kind of old after a while," Fayt replied leaning back comfortably. "What do you do for a living Fate?"

"I work in a security force, based on the neutral planet Midchilda." Fayt looked up something piqueing his interest. Before he could say anything though, Maria's voice blared out on the intercom.

"Trace Takamichi, Fate Harlaown, Fayt Leingod, and Kara Zastel, you're wanted on the bridge to assist in a mission."

When Fayt and Fate got up on the bridge, they saw Trace leaning against a wall, his head bowed as if he was asleep, while Kara was trying to tame the wild fur on her tail with a brush.

"What's up? You got any idea what this mission we're going on is?" Fate asked Trace while Fayt directed the same question to Kara.

"You're gonna participate Fate?" Trace and Kara couldn't help but ask eyes slightly wide.

"Well, I'm on vacation right now, and it's not like i have anything else to do anyway. Besides, I want to make sure you don't get killed Trace. With the performance I saw earlier..."

"I was just distracted that time! I won't lose to you next time Fate!" Trace growled angrily.

"Bring it on Trace!" both Fates challenged at the same time.

"...This is gonna get confusing..." Trace and Kara muttered in unison as Maria walked up.

"The queen of Aquaria has requested our assistance. It seems that some machines are after the Holy Sphere in the Shrine of Kaddan. Their forces can hold for now, but you four are to go and assist in securing it. Understand?" She looked at the them before noticing someone was missing. "Where'd Trace go?"

"He left in the middle of your explanation to catch some sleep and prepare his stuff before we reach our destination," Fate said with a yawn stretching lazily.

"Fine, we'll be orbiting Elicoor II in about two hours, so get some rest until then," Maria ordered as Fate and the rest moved to follow Trace's example.

--Approximately 30 minutes from Elicoor II--

"What are those things you're messing with Trace?" Kara wondered staring at the small round cases that Trace slipped one by one into his weapons core.

"Those are cartridges, Kara," Fate supplied, putting similar cartridges in a pouch strapped to her shoulder belt.

"What kind of technology is this?" Fayt wondered, holding up one of the cartridges. It was hollow and small, and it didn't feel like there was anything contained in it at all. Trace snatched it back slipping it into the core before he closed the opening in his wand putting it away.

"It's the Velkian cartridge system. It stores magic for us to use later if we need it," he explained before leaving for the teleporters.

Once they neared Elicoor Fayt and the others got in the transporter beside Trace, Maria getting on as well at the last moment as the teleported in front of the royal palace in Aquios.

"Now, how do we get to the Shrine of Kaddan?" Trace wondered staring at Kara incredulously as she bit at and tried to catch a fairy. Fortunately, the fairy was floating just beyond her reach.

"We need to go through the royal palace to get there, uh..." Fayt muttered staring at Kara as well.

"Should we wait behind for you and Kara Trace, or just go on ahead?" Fate asked, all business.

"Eh, you go ahead, Kara and I'll catch up," Trace replied, apparently entranced by Kara's constant jumping and bouncing. The Fates looked at him knowingly before running off for the Palace and the Shrine of Kaddan, while Maria stayed behind to lead them there.

"Are you sure that he'll be fine?" Fayt couldn't help but ask, glancing over to Fate. "He doesn't look like a very capable fighter!"

"Don't worry about him! He'll be fine!" Fate replied honestly, giving a reassuring smile.

--

"I can't believe you can spend 4 hours trying to catch a fairy! Leingod and Harlaown have probably secured the sphere by now!" Trace shouted crossly, glaring at Kara.

"I couldn't help myself! It just reminded me of a butterfly!"

"Save your chatter for later!" Maria shouted back to them crossly, leading them under the levitating stone blocks before they could get crushed. "Now's not the time for that!!" She yelped dodging an axe crash, Trace and Kara getting thrown from their feet by the vibrations. The mechanized monster readied itself for another strike, but Maria's quick shot blew its wrists off. Kara finished the job with a stab of her spear to the robot's chest, the impact resounding throughout the entire complex like a dull thunderclap.

--

"What the hell are these things?!" Fayt shouted, whipping his sword around to fend off the attack of the mechanized monsters that were attacking. They were shaped innocently like super large spheres with a cluster of five circles for the 'face'; each circle though had a tentacle inside, and Fayt was having a hard time fending off twenty tentacles striking and lashing from all sides. Fate was similarly pressed, having to use her scythe to block and deflect oncoming attacks.

Fayt managed to find enough of an opening to jump back from the press, chanting to use a 'Stone Rain' attack, but nothing happened when he unleashed it. "What the-!?" he somehow shouted before he got a tentacle slap hard across his chest blasting him aside. Fortunately, Fate was there to cover him before the thing could follow through with its attack, slicing her scythe through its body lengthwise, splittingit in half evenly before it exploded. Unfortunately, she also took more then a few hits for her daring rescue.

"Don't use magic! These things have an AMF! Focus on physical attacks Fayt," Fate commanded with authority, striking down a few more, their dying explosions causing a chain reaction that took down more then a few of the enemies. Fate still had to wonder if she and Fayt would get out of it ok, or even alive, when she risked a glance behind her, the corridor filling fast with the spheres and floating capsule like machines as well.

"I don't think we can survive," Fayt muttered, standing back to back with Fate, who was thinking similar thoughts.

"Then we'll just have to take down as many of them as we can before we fall then!" Fate said determined not to fall until she had made their foes regret their choice for targets. She and Fayt waited for several minutes for the spheres to start their attack, but they just surrounded them, staying a respectful distance away.

Before either Fayt could question it, they heard a loud commotion from behind both enemy lines and several shouts: "Cut through! We've gotta get through to the others!" Fayt thought he recognized the voice, but didn't pay it much mind him and Fate launching into action with a burst. Unfortunately, the pair almost immediately got into a deadlock, though neither shouted for assitance; they couldn't find the time to shape the words.

After several minutes of hard fighting, Fayt and Fate both noticed that the press lightened unexpectedly, giving the pair time to jump back setting their backs firmly against each other.

"What's going on!?" Fayt shouted before several shouts from past the lines answered that question.

"Flying Guillotine!"

"Dust to dust!"

"Slice through, Blaze Strike!"

"Strike true, Heaven Fang!"

Fate watched in shock watching a pair of thrown blades cutting through the monsters with impunity before returning to the hands of Nel Zelpher.

Unfortunately, Fayt had to block and parry blows as lasers, blasts of light, and blades of flame struck around him, beating down several enemies. The last group, unfortunately managed to slip past Nel Zelpher and the defenders, roaring down the halls towards the sacred orb, as though mocking their attempts. Fate Nel and the others raced on after them, but Fayt couldn't help but stare at his unlikely rescuers.

--

"When did you get here?" Fate asked after that last battle with the mecha. She rested the large blade of her Bardiche Zanber on her shoulder as Clair downed the last one with a well placed katana thrust.

"As soon as I got word of course. Above all else, my mission is to protect Aquaria and its Sacred Orb. These trespassers didn't have a chance."

Fate looked around the battlefield, at the torn and blasted bodies of human and machine alike, and had to question whether anything was worth more then so many lives, but didn't speak a word of it.

She turned with a smile as she faced Fayt Maria Kara and Trace. "Glad to see you caught up!" Fate started to say something more, but an earthquake knocked the words out of her mouth, dropping her and everyone that was standing to the floor. Nel sat up a feeling of dread falling over every fiber of her being.

"They couldn't have-!!" she shouted running for the sacred chamber.

The others tried to keep pace, but Nel outdistanced them by far. When they finally reached that room, they were stunned by what they saw; a huge hole in the ceiling, and in the watery pedestal where it had once sat, there was nothing but an empty distraught mummer.

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Fayt, the greenish blue haired boy (I can only assume that his hair is blue green cuz that's usually the color it seems to be, if you're attentive), lay back on his bed staring at the ceiling, his sword leaning against the nearby wall. He had been bored for quite a while, but the fact that there was someone new onboard promised at least a temporary break from the monotony. With a sigh of resignation, since he had an odd feeling about the new guy, he strapped on his sword before he went to look for him, remembering that he was supposed to be giving him a tour of the Diplo anyway. When he asked one of the crew members about him, she pointed him towards the training room, and he was surprised to see that just about everyone was just inside the door watching. "What's going on?" he asked Albel, who looked extremely bored, but was still paying marginal attention to what was inside.

"The new maggot's inside, worm," he answered with a snide smile before leaving losing interest.

"O...k..." Fayt muttered, not completely sure what had just happened. "So, what's going on Kara?" he wondered aloud directing his question to the catgirl.

"It appears that Trace's melee combat trainer teleported on board to give Trace a quick exam to see how he's faring," she replied, keeping her eyes inside. "She looks kind of familiar..." she added as an after thought.

Fayt peered in over Cliff's shoulder, (not an easy thing when the person's taller then you by a good 1.5-2 feet!) to see Trace and his trainer. His trainer looked really beautiful, with long blond hair to about her elbows, tied into a pony tail on each side. She wearing a white cloak about her shoulders, and her weapon looked somewhat like a scythe. It had a black head and tip, and the shaft was a gray color, but the blade was pure yellow, and it had an odd look about it, like it wasn't there, yet it was. Her dress was black, and had an official look about them.

"Trace, you sure have slipped since we last met," The girl said, blocking an overhead smash, then twisting her scythe around hard launching the wand hard to the side, not paying attention to where it landed and swung with her scythe, stopping it inches from Trace's neck. "Your good with your spells, but you've lost your touch in hand to hand. Or is there something on your mind?" She asked but stopped when she heard a groan turning to look at the audience they had. When she had tossed it, Trace's wand had smacked tip first right into the catgirl's forehead hard drawing blood.

"Are you ok?" Fate asked, running to her while Sophia cast Healing.

"I'll be fine, it didn't hurt that badly!" she insisted with a smile picking up the wand, handing it over to Trace as he walked over, kneeling next to her.

"You really need to learn how to fight Trace," Cliff Maria and Nel commented in unison, though Nel said 'Boy' instead of 'Trace'.

"Like I need you to tell me that," Trace returned indifferently, his gaze on the cat girl, before Fate's cough snapped him out of it. "Ah yes, allow me to introduce ourselves," Trace started clearing his throat. "My name is Trace Kudou Takamichi. This here is my teacher and my guardian's subordinate, Fate Testarossa Harlaown."

"It's nice to meet you," she added, bowing along with Trace.

"Kara Zastel."

"I'm Sophia Esteed."

"Maria Traydor, but you can call me Maria."

"The name's Cliff Fittir, and the dude with the blond and black hair is Albel Nox," he added pointing behind him.

"Mirage Koas, pleasure to meet you both."

"I'm Nel Zelpher."

Trace and Fate spun around at the same time weapons at the ready sensing a presence behind them, stunned to see a shirtless old man with grey hair looking back at them.

"The name's Adray Lasbard miss, and you are the most beautiful girl i've ever seen!" The old man said flexing his muscles, simultaneously horrifying and inspiring Fate and Trace. "Will you be my wife?"

"NO!" Fate shouted before Adray could finish his question, the glare she gave him clamping his big mouth shut.

"Fayt."

"Yes?" Fate asked turning to look at the boy curiously.

"N-N-No, that's my name, Fayt Leingod," he stuttered redfaced. The girl blinked curiously wondering why he was red but didn't ask. "I'll be happy to show you around, if you don't mind Miss Harlaown!" Fayt led her away talking about whatever came to mind.

"You need a tour Trace?" Maria and Kara asked at the same time, one looking a little annoyed, the other looking extremely irritated.

"Nah, I already know my way around," Trace commented, walking past, not missing the faces they had. "I'll be fine on my own, thanks." The others dispersed off to their own duties, or to just laze around until something interesting happened again.

--

"So, you live here Fayt?" Fate asked curiously sipping a milkshake in the cafeteria. Other then that pair though, there wasn't anyone else in the cafeteria beyond the crew member that had been assigned to janitor duty.

"Yeah, though it gets kind of old after a while," Fayt replied leaning back comfortably. "What do you do for a living Fate?"

"I work in a security force, based on the neutral planet Midchilda." Fayt looked up something piqueing his interest. Before he could say anything though, Maria's voice blared out on the intercom.

"Trace Takamichi, Fate Harlaown, Fayt Leingod, and Kara Zastel, you're wanted on the bridge to assist in a mission."

When Fayt and Fate got up on the bridge, they saw Trace leaning against a wall, his head bowed as if he was asleep, while Kara was trying to tame the wild fur on her tail with a brush.

"What's up? You got any idea what this mission we're going on is?" Fate asked Trace while Fayt directed the same question to Kara.

"You're gonna participate Fate?" Trace and Kara couldn't help but ask eyes slightly wide.

"Well, I'm on vacation right now, and it's not like i have anything else to do anyway. Besides, I want to make sure you don't get killed Trace. With the performance I saw earlier..."

"I was just distracted that time! I won't lose to you next time Fate!" Trace growled angrily.

"Bring it on Trace!" both Fates challenged at the same time.

"...This is gonna get confusing..." Trace and Kara muttered in unison as Maria walked up.

"The queen of Aquaria has requested our assistance. It seems that some machines are after the Holy Sphere in the Shrine of Kaddan. Their forces can hold for now, but you four are to go and assist in securing it. Understand?" She looked at the them before noticing someone was missing. "Where'd Trace go?"

"He left in the middle of your explanation to catch some sleep and prepare his stuff before we reach our destination," Fate said with a yawn stretching lazily.

"Fine, we'll be orbiting Elicoor II in about two hours, so get some rest until then," Maria ordered as Fate and the rest moved to follow Trace's example.

--Approximately 30 minutes from Elicoor II--

"What are those things you're messing with Trace?" Kara wondered staring at the small round cases that Trace slipped one by one into his weapons core.

"Those are cartridges, Kara," Fate supplied, putting similar cartridges in a pouch strapped to her shoulder belt.

"What kind of technology is this?" Fayt wondered, holding up one of the cartridges. It was hollow and small, and it didn't feel like there was anything contained in it at all. Trace snatched it back slipping it into the core before he closed the opening in his wand putting it away.

"It's the Velkian cartridge system. It stores magic for us to use later if we need it," he explained before leaving for the teleporters.

Once they neared Elicoor Fayt and the others got in the transporter beside Trace, Maria getting on as well at the last moment as the teleported in front of the royal palace in Aquios.

"Now, how do we get to the Shrine of Kaddan?" Trace wondered staring at Kara incredulously as she bit at and tried to catch a fairy. Fortunately, the fairy was floating just beyond her reach.

"We need to go through the royal palace to get there, uh..." Fayt muttered staring at Kara as well.

"Should we wait behind for you and Kara Trace, or just go on ahead?" Fate asked, all business.

"Eh, you go ahead, Kara and I'll catch up," Trace replied, apparently entranced by Kara's constant jumping and bouncing. The Fates looked at him knowingly before running off for the Palace and the Shrine of Kaddan, while Maria stayed behind to lead them there.

"Are you sure that he'll be fine?" Fayt couldn't help but ask, glancing over to Fate. "He doesn't look like a very capable fighter!"

"Don't worry about him! He'll be fine!" Fate replied honestly, giving a reassuring smile.

--

"I can't believe you can spend 4 hours trying to catch a fairy! Leingod and Harlaown have probably secured the sphere by now!" Trace shouted crossly, glaring at Kara.

"I couldn't help myself! It just reminded me of a butterfly!"

"Save your chatter for later!" Maria shouted back to them crossly, leading them under the levitating stone blocks before they could get crushed. "Now's not the time for that!!" She yelped dodging an axe crash, Trace and Kara getting thrown from their feet by the vibrations. The mechanized monster readied itself for another strike, but Maria's quick shot blew its wrists off. Kara finished the job with a stab of her spear to the robot's chest, the impact resounding throughout the entire complex like a dull thunderclap.

--

"What the hell are these things?!" Fayt shouted, whipping his sword around to fend off the attack of the mechanized monsters that were attacking. They were shaped innocently like super large spheres with a cluster of five circles for the 'face'; each circle though had a tentacle inside, and Fayt was having a hard time fending off twenty tentacles striking and lashing from all sides. Fate was similarly pressed, having to use her scythe to block and deflect oncoming attacks.

Fayt managed to find enough of an opening to jump back from the press, chanting to use a 'Stone Rain' attack, but nothing happened when he unleashed it. "What the-!?" he somehow shouted before he got a tentacle slap hard across his chest blasting him aside. Fortunately, Fate was there to cover him before the thing could follow through with its attack, slicing her scythe through its body lengthwise, splittingit in half evenly before it exploded. Unfortunately, she also took more then a few hits for her daring rescue.

"Don't use magic! These things have an AMF! Focus on physical attacks Fayt," Fate commanded with authority, striking down a few more, their dying explosions causing a chain reaction that took down more then a few of the enemies. Fate still had to wonder if she and Fayt would get out of it ok, or even alive, when she risked a glance behind her, the corridor filling fast with the spheres and floating capsule like machines as well.

"I don't think we can survive," Fayt muttered, standing back to back with Fate, who was thinking similar thoughts.

"Then we'll just have to take down as many of them as we can before we fall then!" Fate said determined not to fall until she had made their foes regret their choice for targets. She and Fayt waited for several minutes for the spheres to start their attack, but they just surrounded them, staying a respectful distance away.

Before either Fayt could question it, they heard a loud commotion from behind both enemy lines and several shouts: "Cut through! We've gotta get through to the others!" Fayt thought he recognized the voice, but didn't pay it much mind him and Fate launching into action with a burst. Unfortunately, the pair almost immediately got into a deadlock, though neither shouted for assitance; they couldn't find the time to shape the words.

After several minutes of hard fighting, Fayt and Fate both noticed that the press lightened unexpectedly, giving the pair time to jump back setting their backs firmly against each other.

"What's going on!?" Fayt shouted before several shouts from past the lines answered that question.

"Flying Guillotine!"

"Dust to dust!"

"Slice through, Blaze Strike!"

"Strike true, Heaven Fang!"

Fate watched in shock watching a pair of thrown blades cutting through the monsters with impunity before returning to the hands of Nel Zelpher.

Unfortunately, Fayt had to block and parry blows as lasers, blasts of light, and blades of flame struck around him, beating down several enemies. The last group, unfortunately managed to slip past Nel Zelpher and the defenders, roaring down the halls towards the sacred orb, as though mocking their attempts. Fate Nel and the others raced on after them, but Fayt couldn't help but stare at his unlikely rescuers.

--

"When did you get here?" Fate asked after that last battle with the mecha. She rested the large blade of her Bardiche Zanber on her shoulder as Clair downed the last one with a well placed katana thrust.

"As soon as I got word of course. Above all else, my mission is to protect Aquaria and its Sacred Orb. These trespassers didn't have a chance."

Fate looked around the battlefield, at the torn and blasted bodies of human and machine alike, and had to question whether anything was worth more then so many lives, but didn't speak a word of it.

She turned with a smile as she faced Fayt Maria Kara and Trace. "Glad to see you caught up!" Fate started to say something more, but an earthquake knocked the words out of her mouth, dropping her and everyone that was standing to the floor. Nel sat up a feeling of dread falling over every fiber of her being.

"They couldn't have-!!" she shouted running for the sacred chamber.

The others tried to keep pace, but Nel outdistanced them by far. When they finally reached that room, they were stunned by what they saw; a huge hole in the ceiling, and in the watery pedestal where it had once sat, there was nothing but an empty distraught mummer.