Artek arrived with Sephiroth from the great hall at Bahamut's palace
to the room next to where Articia waited. She lingered there
slightly not knowing what to expect this time.
"How will I know if she's ready?" The creator asked his lover. The
tall silver haired man beside him looked deep into his eyes.
"Don't worry..." he said, gently kissing Artek's cheeks, "she'll be
ready and she'll let you know." Sephiroth smiles and Artek hugged
him tightly.
"Oh Sephiroth..." Artek gasped, "you know exactly what to say!" and
he smiled back. "Just one minute though..." Artek said with one
finger raised at the taller man's lips, while the other hand was
positioned at the decorative mirror on the dresser table near the
door. The vision in the mirror shimmered slightly and became cloudy
with the outline of Artek's eyes remaining. His eyes flared in the
mirror and be came bright and grew until the image in the eyes
consumed the whole mirror and Articia stood looking at it.
"Please be ready..." Artek whispered softly to the new vision in the
mirror. Her figure stirred and look directly at the mirror still
holding the note that Artek had written to her previously.
Another face was suddenly near the mirror and Sephiroth looked
puzzled.
"Artek what is it?" he asked his love.
"She's ready now, I don't believe it, she can actually see me, or
sense me. Her power is slightly embedded in mine, this was what I
was waiting for and now she's ready." The smaller man flicked his
hair back and looked at Sephiroth.
"Time to go back before she actually sees Me." he smiled and took
his lovers hand and they faded out of the room and to the cave where
Tuatara, Shiva, Jadis and the Snow Queen were.


Articia looked at the mirror again and then at the note squinting
her eyes partly sensing Artek there. She looked at it closer on the
dresser and threw the note on the table and touched the mirror, her
vision getting blurry and her whole body becoming a mist and in that
moment the mist she had become, drove itself into the mirror and she
was at once in the room where Artek and Sephiroth had been. The mist
came out of the mirror in the other room and hardened to form the
likeness of the young girl and she gasped in amazement. She looked
at the mirror and the room and saw her reflection,
"Wha-what the?" she said to herself. The room was colder after she
got in there but as always that was her temperature and so she went
to the open door and looked out into Artek's palace to where she saw
in the hall, a portal to another place and so she walked out of the
room and jumped off of the banister assuming the mist form again and
becoming her other form, an albino peacock, a pure white rare bird,
this one with blue eyes and a blue tinge to its feathers. She flew
straight into the portal just in time to see Elura vanishing to
chase up with Artek. She landed and assumed her form again looking
round at all who were there.



Artek appeared at the cave where the other ice powered women were
when he notices another presence following him and put his hand out
in the caves opening direction and commanded,
"Stop Elura! Why do you follow me?"
"I bring news Artek of your daughter Nikki who is on her way here to
see you as she has left Apollo and needs your guidance and what to
do next."
Artek looked at the sorceress and looked then at Sephiroth.
"My love I must go and tend to her." He kisses the taller man gently
on the cheek and vanished in a wave of light blue electricity. Elura
looked at the others and shrugged as she also vanished and followed
her master back to Bahamut's palace. As he returned Articia had sat
in one of the seats and had been thinking and talking to Diamond.
"Everyone," Artek called to them all as they could now all see
him, "my daughter Nikki is coming back from Olympus and I need you
all back at my mansion, Elura nodded at this as they all did, and
Artek gave the whole room a wave and transported them all to the
hall of Artek's mansion. The creator sat in the throne below the
double arched stairway and the others were places in the hall in
front of him.
Articia went up to the throne and whispered in her master's
ear and he smiled as she stood up straight and stepped forward as
Artek also stood and outstretched his hand and said to the rest of
them,
"This is Lady Articia Icrone, a new member of our team and she is to
be treated with respect." The young lady bowed and the others
inclined her head. Next Nex stood forward,
"Sire, what are we to do about your daughter? The dragon tournaments
are coming up and this year it's the finals and they need your
presence." The man commented.
"Good point Nex, good point." Artek replied as he tapped his chin
thoughtfully, "I know why doesn't Diamond stay behind and keep my
daughter company?" At this Diamond pleaded with him,
"I'm sorry, but I can't Artek, dragons, I have to be there please…!"
she pleaded with him. He looked at her and then at Elura,
"Sire, she has to come anyway, we've entered his in the finals
anyway, I know it's weird being entered but someone pulled out and
I'm friends with the manager of the dragon commission who runs the
tournament and I coaxed them into giving the place to her under some
strange rule they have."
"Ahh," Artek said, oh well then, I guess Articia will have to stay.
He looked at her with a smile and touched her cheek as she turned
around to face him. The young girl nodded and smiled looking at the
man in front of her,
"Yes my lord." She accepted as she bowed.


Nikki sneaked out of her room and wore a long black cloak and looked
back at her bed where her husband lay, the god who raced the chariot
round the sun and she smiled shedding a single tear and she fled
from Olympus up into the sky into space to go to the planet where
she grew up, Ultisphere…


As they all reached the finals Artek took his place in the centre of
the stadium assuming a dragon form, a large white dragon majestic,
and proud.
"Greetings dragons, beings and battlers alike." The king called to
the crowd, "First we have Arion Mayner of the Cleops region of the
planet Seifren in the prism galaxy." The being appeared cloaked and
jewelled burning with a white intensity…he bowed to Artek and then
to the crowd and picked his 1st dragon out of the 5 he had with him.
Artek raised his head and called again to the crowd,
"And now because of the rules of this tournament, we have
substituted the opponent that was originally scheduled. In her place
we have called in Diamond Lockheart or Ultisphere instead an
untrained Dragon sorceress." At that comment the crowd "aaahed"
and "ooohed" as Diamond appeared and raised her arm and bowed to
Artek and bowed to the crowd, and now ready to fight.


As Nikki appeared at her father's mansion she went up to the front
door and looked at the large globe and waved her hand over the image
of it above the door and it shone and the door opened. She walked
inside her dark hair flowing and her eyes clocking who was inside.
The Ice blue figure walked to the door with a smirk on her face,
"Hello…Nikki." She said icily.