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"He's here for 'moral support'. I think he just wanted to make a brief cameo. What do you say Dia--" Rikku's sentence was cut short by a sudden jerk of the 'ground' below her.

Stopping for a moment, she realised what the sudden jerk was. The boat was beginning to decend.

"Trigger! We're decending. What's going on?"

Running to the front of the boat, Rikku noticed a small floating island just below them. The island was quite a large one. Roughly the size of the state of Texas. It had every ecosystem imaginable and it looked like they were headed right for the rain forest.

Trigger stood there scowling at Diablo. He had heard the statement he had made while replaying what had happened while he was unconsious. He then blinked a few times and then glanced a Rikku, he then said after snapping his fingers, "Phase two! This te-" His sentence was then cut off by the boat's jerking stop at the hands of a swarm of plants stopping them.

After the boat's sudden jerk, Trigger fell face first and tumbled down along the deck only to get caught by a seemingly careless thrown blade cutting into his jacket. Trigger looked up at Diablo and yelled, "You stupid Elf! How dare you do that to my jack-" He then glanced down and then looked horrified at what could have happened if he had not been stopped.

Diablo merely shook his head after he composed himself. He glanced at the plants that had stopped them and said in mild bewilderment, "This is something seldom seen in these parts, a manipulator of the Earth. I've seen many Water and Lightning Manipulators in this land, this is just unusual." His eyes then turned to Rikku questioningly and he then asked, "Have you been aware of her powers?"

Trigger then piped up attempting to sound superior, "And here they say that "The Great Diablo Darkfire" knows all." His words came off thick with sarcasm, almost thick enough to actually be seen with the untrained eye.

"I'm fine..." She said with a smile as she hops from branch to branch that wrap around the boat to get more level with Rikku. Soon the boat is pretty much wrapped with plants for easy climbing and having a sturdy grip around the ship.

"Sorry about the sudden stop, but I kinda had to act quickly..." She then lets her gaze go downward, where she sees the front of the ship only a few feet from the ground. "I kinda cut it close...."

With a small sigh she sits herself on a branch beside Rikku's sword perch. After making sure she is secure, she looks over at Trigger who is hanging by his coat thanks to Diablo. "So, did we pass phase two Trigger?"

Rikku watched in amazement as Sulia made her way down to the same level. That was some trick. I've never seen anyone do that before... When the new recruit was face to face with Rikku, she made a brief apology for the rocky conclusion to the show. Rikku started laughing. "Don't worry about that. You had me worried for a moment, but jeez... What a rush."

All eyes were on Trigger after having been questioned about the second phase of the simulation. Rikku shook her head at his responce. "Alter the program? Taking the easy way out, eh? Where's the fun in that?"

A devious grin spread across Rikkus' face. Still grasping the hilt of her blade with her right hand. Shifting her body weight backwards, she allowed herself to slide off the perch that her weapon constructed. Both feet hit the boat floor as she decended. Now was the time to make her move.

Bending her knees slightly, Rikku was determined to make the most of this situation. The girl always was a sucker for action. Using both arms, she used all her strength to pull the blade from it's resting place in the boat's worn floor boards. Using the strength she had built up in her legs, in the same movement she lunged herself forward.

The girl moved to impress. Performing a backflip as she decended, she used her right arm to manipulate the swords movement, placing it against her back. As the weapon touched her back, a similar series of cubes quickly formed around the blade. The pixelites had created a sheath this time, allowing the weapon to rest gently on her back.

Falling roughly a hundred feet, her leg's had finally met with the giant stem of plant growth that now held the ship upright. The soles of her boots had the perfect amount of friction, as they allowed her to slide downwards, yet have complete control over the directions in which she decended.

Now manipulating her path by simply shifting her feet, she quite quickly made her way down. It was as if a board were present beneath her two feet. She moved as if she lived to do exactly this. Sliding another hundred yards, a stray root had barred her path. It caused her to loose her footing and fly foward, away from the large stem.

As she fell, a giant leaf popped out just in time to catch her. Landing on both feet in a slightly crouched position, she swiveled in her landing spot and motioned for the others to follow. Bright eyed, she yelled up to them, "Are you coming?

Trigger looked down over the edge of the boat nervously. Then upon hearing the girl's comment at him he shouted "I heard that! I do not deserver this disre-" He was cut off by Diablo slapping him on the back lightly, in order to calm him down, instead it made him lose his footing and topple over the edge. Trigger as he fell managed to grab one of the large stems and slide down, quite skillfully at that.

While sliding down, much like a surfer upon a surfboard going along a wave, he caught a small bud. The bud caused him to lose his footing and go tumbling down untill he hit the stem of a leaf comming from the main plant. "Omph!" was the only sound trigger made for a moment before staggering up. He then muttered, "Why must I have this role, I swear I am going to get myself killed..."

Diablo stood at the railing, for a moment he held a look of concern for Trigger. Sure he found Trigger to be annoying, but none the less he enjoyed his quirkiness just the same. He then looked down and then grinned a bit. They all had their ways of getting down, now it was his turn.

Diablo leaped up to the railing and stood balanced upon it. His hand moved out and pointed at the pace infront of the railing, and a dark substance began to emerge from nowhere. It swirled in place, and grew darker untill it was a pure black disk in the air. Diablo put a foot upon it, and then the other one and stood upon this blackness.

The disk then slowly began to decend towards the ground. He came level Rikku and said quietly to her, as to avoid the others heaving, "I am quite impressed with her so far. She has quite the potential for greatness."

(And yes, for those who are comic book nerds (and saw X-men 2...) I am kinda stealing Magneto's thing. Where he turned a metal ball into a flat disk and used it to fly across the gap of his plastic prison..... Speaking of which... Why didn't they give him metal boots so he could levitate about?)

Sulia watched as Rikku slid her way ahead of them, shaking her head slightly with a smile, seeing that she was very excited about all of this. But soon Rikku was out of sight, which concerned her slightly, quickening her pace so that she can at least see her.

When she finally catches sight of Rikku again, she sees her hopping from branch to branch to slow herself down, but watched in horror as Rikku misses a branch and begins to fall to the ground.

Without completely thinking it through she jumps off her stairway of plants and begins a sky dive after her. But as she falls, she sees that she is no where close to catching her in time. Thinking fast she grabs her fans and connects them once again, waiting until she has a straight path across at Rikku before waving them as hard as she can behind herself and shooting her forward.

Flying at this speed, she quickly closes the gap between the two of them and reaches her arm out to catch Rikku, grabbing her and pulling close before they continue to fly forward. This was pretty much as far as she had thought things out. Now she was really winging it.

After having grabbed Rikku, their momentum had slowed down and they soon began to fall downward again. Hoping her new plan worked, she held out her hand making it glow once again, and sending the light down ahead of them, hitting the ground and making the plants glow around them for a moment before vines shoot out of the trees and weave together to form a net, catching them like a safety net for trapeze artists. After she is sure that both of them wont fall to their death, she smiles over at Rikku, "I can't believe that actually worked!!"

[Frick have I been busy lately. Sorry about the delay. Here goes nothing.]

Was this the end? Was this going to be the last of her days? Rikku sure as heck prayed to differ. Besides, if this really was the end, why wasn't her life flashing before her eyes? Then she saw it. Something was blocking the light. The small, dimmed lights that broke through the small cracks in the trees were no longer visible. Something was heading towards her.

Everything happened so fast, she had no time to compute everything. It seemed like it happened in the blink of an eye. One moment, she was falling to her death. Blink. Suddenly, she was on the ground. Or, at the very least, something solid. Blinking several times, the poor girl was having trouble trying to figure out just what the heck had happened.

Looking down, she realised that a series of vines and tree roots where below her. She was hanging several feet above the ground. Only one person could be behind such a feat and she too was even shocked at how this event had turned out.

Rikku smiled, then laughed. Filled with excitment from all of this, she stood up and began jumping around. Diablo had made his appearance and was now consulting Sulia. All the while, Rikku was examining the net of vine and root very closely. "Say, just how do you get them to do that? Obviously refering to the plant life around her. It was something to control fire, like her brother. Even controlling the darkness was an amazing feet. But wind and earth manipulation. That was almost unheard of. Sulia must have been made of something special to do all that.

[Kind of lame, but it's past my bed time.]