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Chapter 8

The rain turned to snow as the group made their way down the path to Icile. Just as they thought they should turn back and come back with better supplies, they found the snow mysteriously stops. After that was nothing but tropical warmth and green grass. Eventually the group made it to Icile. The town was a tropical paradise bursting with tourists. Miki spoke up, "This place seems just fine, but its odd how just this area is so warm even though we are so far south." Her chocobo seemed to agree, "Kewh!" Larry spoke up, "I wonder how were supposed to find out how the crystal's power is being abused?" Donald responded, "I know, lets just ask the mayor, maybe he'll know something." With some general mingling, they found there the mayor of this village worked. But strangely, as they walked in, some guy burst past them. They walked up to what seemed to be the secretary. "Excuse us, but we'd like to talk to the mayor," Miki said, still on her chocobo. The secretary responded, "Sorry, the mayor has just been called into a meeting, so you'll have to wait over there, and loose the chocobo" With a displeased grunt, Miki maded her faithful summon vanish leaving nothing but sparkling dust. After about fifteen minutes they got to go into the mayor's office. However, the man that was so rude to them when they entered the building was standing next to the mayor. The mayor was a fat old man with a white, think mustache. He got out of his chair and played with his mustache as he spoke, "My securty spy told me you're going to stop use from using the crystal." Larry tried to speak up, "Sir, its important you stop it now, the crystal will only bring trouble when it births a fiend that take revenge on anyone in it can..." "LIES!" the mayor protested, "The crystals powers are a gift from the heros of light that took pity on us." The mayor continued, "Before the cyrstal, this place was a wasteland, we didn't want to leave our land, but we couldn't find a reason for people to come here." He push a button on his desk that opened a trap door. While the group fell the mayor yelled out, "We will never give up our livelihood, now enjoy the play date I've arranged for you!" When the group landed at the bottom, They found, a horned monster, with a lion's head and mane, breathing fire. This beast might have been a guarden of some sort, but now it was a vicious beast. Battle would be the only thing to cool its temper.