Evil Pii's brow furrowed a bit, as he began the Pii's flight to the AFC Kingdom. Because of the amount of supplies in Caroki, she was a little harder to start up and get going then usual. Not that he or his beautiful wife minded. News of Sasami's birthday party reached Pentinon, and the Pii's, grateful for all Sasami had done for them in their time of need decided it best not to pass up an opportunity to say hello and give their thanks. As a present, they decided that because of the recent overabundant harvest due to some new technologies from the Science Academy on Pentinon, to provide the food for the gallant affair. And even though they needed to be at the kingdom early so the food could be prepared, the Pii's didn't really care since it was always nice to spend time with the Princesses. Evil Pii sat back in his chair and reclined, Having just set the auto-pilot, and smiled at Nerti, just as she started to say, "I'm glad we're finally getting away, and seeing them all again."

"Yes, it will be nice to see them without a certain someone breathing down our backs again." Evil Pii included. Their daughter, Angelica, cooed from Nerti's arms as if to agree with them. They both laughed.

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Keiichi breathed heavily as the Pii's arrived in the Kingdom. He was extremely worried about what would happen since the Princess had sent Spike to invite everyone, which was inadvisably in his opinion, some of whom might possibly work for who ever started whatever that pulled everyone away from the kingdom. He just felt genuinely lucky that they had so many knights and hero's around while the festivities were going on. He decided that for the moment, he should just sit back and relax, at least until the majority of the outsiders started to arrive.

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After many of the knights and heroes of the kingdom helped unload Caroki and bring the food supplies to the enormous kitchen, Nerti, Kiyone and Nekobus all took their positions in the kitchen. It should be noted that the kitchen was now under Nekobus' care ever since Crikit (along with Kale and PA) had been "sentenced" to finding the kings of the other kingdoms and forced to leave. But that's not important right now. Well, within minutes of firing the stove, grill and oven, dishes were being prepared by the trio, at an electrifying pace. Nerti was in front of the stove with 12 pans of various dishes in front of her. Nekobus, poised in front of the grill, was making all the 'traditional' party dishes, whatever those might be. Kiyone, for her part, was busy mixing and throwing together the dry ingredients for the gigantic cake, as well as several pies and smaller cakes that she was baking in the oven. They weren't without help however. They convinced Jinnai and Magicite to help them cut and measureall the ingredients so that they didn't have to concentrate so much on that as they normally would. Or course they were "working" by casting spells on the utensils and having them do all the work, but hey, whatever gets the job done right? (^_^;;;; <--author)

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No more than two days later, the festivities began with a bang, literally. Ayeka pulled out all the stops, had Chan-Makibi and the Phantom Stranger shoot over a ton of fireworks off, ending with a gigantic one that made the face of Sasami in the sky. The next days were filled with Dancing, Music (of course NOT by the Backstreet boys or any group of evil music like that), drinking, eating, toasts, etc. the likes which hadn't been seen in a very VERY long time around the AFC kingdom. Finally, after three days of celebration, people started to clear out of the kingdom. Keiichi noted that it was thankfully without incident. And also that they hadn't completely depleted the food supplies, so that they would actually have some sustenance for awhile this time. In his blissful thinking, he failed to see an incoming force of airships coming towards the kingdom.

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Thankfully, Caroki did. And even more thankfully, Evil Pii was still in the kingdom and can "talk" to Caroki. Evil Pii dropped a large crate of Jellybeans very much to every one else's shock, and sprinted away from the kitchen, where they were storing the excess. Quickly realizing that the hanger was much closer than security, he started Caroki up by voice commands and quickly jumped into it and immediately flew out of the hanger bay. Sephiroth Strife, who was cleaning the complement of ships that the AFC had gotten, felt that something was wrong and instantly called Keiichi.

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Keiichi, for his part, was understandably a wreck. He completely missed the large armada, and now, a single ship, one not formally part of the kingdom, was out there, fighting the armada off. He quickly got on the PA (Not to be confused with PA the diplomat) system, and shouted, "HEY EVERYONE!! THERE'S TROUBLE, GO FIX IT!!!!" All the knights and heroes instantly jumped into the air or into whatever vehicles and gun armaments that surrounded the kingdom as all those who couldn't defend themselves ran into the Kingdom inner most sanctum.

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Just as they got close enough to start to engage the enemy, they all saw a ship in ruins on the ground, and one man flying around attacking the armada, valiantly, but doing not enough damage to destroy enough ships and starting to tire and being very lucky for he was making mistakes and not getting nailed. They quickly upped their speeds and in a matter of hours, had completely wiped out the armada. And while they had managed to get more food supplies (which they thought rather odd...you'll see why in a second) they're were no life forms found, dead or alive. On the outside, it seemed as if robots had controlled the ship, but that didn't seem right. Even the most advanced societies generally had some carbon or silicon based life form aboard the ship, incase the robots went haywire or were in need of repair. They all were in silent agreement as the carried the food stuffs as well as Caroki back to the kingdom that something was very wrong...

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Ayeka, dressed more regally that she usually was (alright folks, you know the absolutely stunning outfit she wore in "A Startica Song" By Lita and Seion, THAT's what she's wearing right now!), stood at the head of a long walkway. Everyone still in the kingdom put on their "Sunday best" and was lining the long walkway. Jaf and Jared flanked the Princess, each wearing a tux that consisted of black pants and amethyst Jackets that matched the Princess' hair perfectly as well as white gloves. Jaf was holding a large box in his gloved hands. Jared turned to the sound system and started to play a victory march. Cued by the music, Evil Pii, in his armor, appeared and started to walk up the aisle. Following him was his wife in a very elegant ball gown holding Angelica, who was robed in white, in her arms. As they reached the front, the entire assembly all simultaneously turned from looking at the aisle to looking forward towards the Princess. Evil Pii bowed as Ayeka turned to Jaf, who opened up the box for her. Ayeka took the gold and Amethyst colored metal in her hands, also covered with gloves, but these were amethyst colored, velvet gloves and placed it around his neck. She nodded for him to rise and as he did he turned towards the audience. They all cheered as loudly as they could. And with that not so simple, but elegant, gesture, the Pii's were admitted into the kingdom for as long as they wished.