Cruel World
Walking down the street is something everyone does, with friends, family, or even by themselves. Not me I love to walk in the road and disturb the order and I didn't really care about anything. No one will miss me if I'm gone anyways, y'know. I live by myself and that's all I've known is being by myself never having friends, or anyone to care for me. After a while I got used to it.
Well enough about me, and more of what year it is. It's the year 2002 and a lot of new games have come out and people are going nuts. The games are all from the Square Enix Company. I was guessing it was because it was after the 9/11 incident.
The most popular game out now is the Final Fantasy series. I've played all of them thanks to my dad before he died. He was so into the game series he almost named me Yunalesca. I cried the day I found him. He had hung himself two years prior of the game for Final Fantasy X. I knew it was because of my mom. She never had a fancy for games and was always to serous. She would only watch movies about blood, guts, and anything having to do with zombies. After he died my mother just stopped doing everything she loved and didn't have her energy anymore. I had to go and work to provide for us and that wasn't even enough. The lady that lived next door told me about the love birds and that when one died the other would just stop as well. I think I knew I would lose my mother too that day.
But, enough about family, and depressing thoughts, today the new games come out. There's one game in particular that I want to get and nothing is going to stop me. Not even an aeon will stop the might Yuki from getting it. If you guessed it's one of the Final Fantasy's games. Yes it's, wait for it . . . its Final Fantasy X! It was my father's dream to play this one game only because of the son of Jecht. Tidus, Tidus is the one the story rivals around that and the spiral of death.
Now the street I was talking about has a game store and that is the one and only store in this small crap town, where everyone knows everything. It sucks. The people of this town thing they're the shit, because of this world contest we won, and it was someone from the town that competed. I was so sick of the event that I literally tried to kill the man that entered the damn contest.
I was standing by the door of the gaming store and noticed a man in a hooded coat his hood had the Jecht sign and everything. I was so jelly of him. I went to the counter and saw Lila at the counter. She's been my friend since, forever.
"Hey Yuki, how are you today?" Her loud voice carried from the counter to me in just seconds. I knew I had better answer her or else pay the serious consequence of not being able to play the new game.
"Lila, what's up? I thought you were off today." I made slight conversation since it would be simple to just go with it. "I was, but you know how Castiell is, slave driver." I was about to agree with her when the man came out. "Slave driver huh," She paled and turned so fast I thought her body would break apart. "Uh, no I was talking about um uh," Her stuttering was getting on his nerves; he just turned and walked out. I laughed at her and the way they acted. "So Yuki are you here for the new game that came out today?" I looked over at her and saw she had this smirk on her face that said 'I know what you want' I knew that if I didn't take her offer that I still would not have the game. "What do you want in return of the game, Lila?" She smiled and nodded her head and turned and grabbed the game. She looked over her shoulder and smiled again. "Castiell wants you to work with us, I told him I'd ask, but. . ." She trailed off and looked over at the guy standing there acting as if he was looking at the game in his hand and trying to decide if he wanted it. "He also wants you to fill out the application." I took a sideways glance at her my glasses decided they wanted to slide down my face as I did so showing my amethyst eyes. I know they were intimidating because everyone avoided me saying that 'Those are contacts' but when I stick my finger in my eyes and show them the fingerless contact they run away screaming. I knew it didn't affect her. I started to nod to agree, she has been trying to get me to work here since she met me. I wouldn't agree because then a lot of people would come and I mean a lot. "You've been trying to get me to work here since my mom died, and I always had the same answer," I paused and looked at the man she was studying. "But I think that this time, I will take the offer." She looked at me shocked like I had just slapped her in the face. Slowly the smirk appeared on mine and her face. We held up our hands in the fashion of a heart. "Hope we give them hell." We yelled/sang. The man stopped and looked over at us.
"Keep it down you two we need all the customers we have as it is." I heard Castiell say. I looked over at the man again and then laughed. Lila handed me the game and the application form. "By the way all you have to do is fill out the times you want to come and work, since we know who you are and everything about you." She then turned and looked over her shoulder. "You're hired already, but don't take it personal if Castiell yells at you, he's nice when you get to know him." She then walked in the back with him.
I looked down at the cover of the game and saw a boy holding a blue sword and had red loop around the handle. I quickly filled out the application and left I looked at the man in the store again and then walked home.
Time Skip *%$#
Finally after what felt like a billion years I was home. "Woof." I looked down to see Buddha. He was holding his bowl in his mouth and then he was out the. It was like he was saying, "There better be food in that damned bowl when I get back." I watched the door for a while and then sighed. "This dog controls my life." I thought as I filled his bowl up.
I went to make something to eat and remembered I had to go shopping for that stuff to stay alive. I sighed again and just pulled out what I could make.
Time Skip *&%#$
I looked down at the game in my hand and then at the play station 2. This went on for a whole minute till Buddha finally barked. He liked it when I got new games and would sometimes sit and watch it with me. He was an awkward dog. Really different from the other dogs, he was almost not a dog to me. I had to remove the plastic covering from the game and then opened it to see the cover of the disk.
It felt different in the room after I touched the disk. Almost like someone was watching me.
Popping in the disk was and turning the game on was one of those irritating waiting moments where you just want everything to hurry it up. The game started with the Square Enix logo and then turned black showing names and other things. Then it came to a group of people sitting around a fire and looking depressed. This was irritating so I just started to push buttons and then as if by a miracle, the start button was my best friend. The game came to the start screen not really giving you much of any options, start game or load game. Well since I never really played the game and didn't have it saved on the memory card it would be pointless to start try it. Pushing the X button was fun. It then started playing the sad piano music again and I then saw the same scene. I was about to just give up on this damn game. I pushed the start button and the only thing that happened was the words PAUSE came up. I was so pissed. So instead of playing I watched a guy in red a girl in short ass shorts, a blue animal looking thing that I was guessing was a Ronso in a lining clothe, a lady that was in black and had a puppet, a man with gravity defying red hair, a young girl in a kimono it looked like, and a guy that needed to fix his pants.
I just left the room and waited for a bit, I walked back in and saw the guy that needed to fix his pants still on the screen I was about to leave again when his words caught my attention.
Listen to my story. . . This maybe . . . Our last chance." That was interesting I ran to sit on the couch. I was now excited maybe they would get crushed or something. Nothing happened, damn it.
I heard the upbeat music and the people giggling and talking to one another. It was when a man came and started moving did everyone run and go. The screen switched to the guy with crooked pants and then he ran to the people. A girl and her friend, we won't say they looked like hookers that would be real rude. Well anyways he walked up to them and started talking.
"Can we have you autograph?" OMG her voice is annoying, please go die. "Sure." The screen then popped to a naming screen. I looked over at Buddha and he had the same face I had. They already had a name in it. Why would you put a name screen up if you already named the character? I just left the name and clicked the okay button. The other girl handed the ball to him and he signed it. She started talking and I zoned out I didn't care. He then went to some kids.
"Can you sign this?" "Yeah," "PLEASE!" "Alrighty," "ME TOO." "Take it easy." Well at least he's good with kids. I thought I was about to go talk to a librarian looking girl when the screen change and then had them all gather around him. "Well gotta go cheer for me." He turned around and was about to leave when the kids started chanting. "Teach us how to blitz." They demanded I was getting bored probably like you guys are reading this. "Hey I gotta game to play." He said the kids looked disappointed. Then one of the kids cheered up. "Then teach us after." It was like the kids liked his company. "Maybe tonight . . . hmm well." Then another kid interrupted him. "You can't tonight." He looked over and didn't argue. "I mean tomorrow." It was then the kids' hopes were set. "Promise?" They asked it was scary almost like they were triplets. "Promise." With that the screen changed. A man started talking.
I was in a coffee shop late one night when I heard the news, our hero Jecht gone vanished into thin air. I was sad that day, heck we all were. I remembered that my dad was his biggest fan. "Zanari" I said to myself what are you thinking. I stayed up all night talking with my dad. . ."
The guy stopped talking when I got to the other side of the bridge. The screen turned black. I waited, and waited, and waited. Finally I was like screw this. I was going to turn it off when I then blacked out. "Well crap." I my last thoughts were, I heard Buddha barking and then he just stopped.
Time Skip *&%# $
I woke and slowly opened my eyes. Well fuck that hurt, I thought. I moved my arms first and then as if I gained five million pounds groaned. I heard a yelp and then claws in my back.
"Buddha, get off." There was a crowd around us. "Oh my, she looks adorable," "Wow what a cute dog I wonder if it's hers." I looked around and saw so many people I was going to have a panic attack. I felt my face heat up. Buddha must have felt my almost nervous breakdown, because he decided that he was going to lick my face. The crowd then awed and I felt like an idiot. I sweat dropped when they did the, "aw" thing. It wasn't till I heard a "Make way, make way" and then it stopped right in front of me I was now shaking. It was like he read my mind that I was lost and nervous. "Ah, there you are I thought I told you to wait for me." He then picked me up. I was shocked no one has ever picked me up before. And I was not about to let it . . . oh okay maybe I will let it happen. He was still walking away when we got to where he needed to be. We sat in this side small water thing. The water was comfortable; it was like one of those adjusting temperature things. He just sat there, I was nervous I had never been alone with a guy in my whole seventeen years of living. "Thanks," I said, I felt my glasses sink and I pushed them up, he looked at me and then closed his eyes. "I like your eyes. Why do you wear glasses?" I was about to answer when the lights came on and then music I was in shock. Buddha jumped and started barking, but then the guy introduced himself.
"I'm Tidus by the way." With that he stepped on the platform and a gust of water and wind splashed and everything got wet. The crowd cheered and yelled.
Couple hours into the game and I was cheering and yelling for him too. He got tackled and I gasped. He got the guy off him and threw another guy out of the sphere of water. A girl from the other team caught the ball and twirled it was beautiful it looked as if she were dancing. She threw the call but the other team invaded it. The girl from the yellow team kicked it up and then Tidus chased after it. He then was out the sphere of water and then he was about to kick it when he looked surprised. Then there was some screams I looked around and saw that the place was falling apart. I felt myself falling. I looked at Buddha and he started barking. I grabbed him and then gravity took its toll. I let out a scream and then as if on cue I felt arms wrap around me. I saw Tidus and he looked determined. He had me on front of him and his back towards the ground. "No were falling and we are high up. If you fall on your back it could injure you please let go." I was trying to struggle, key word trying. This guy had some serious muscle work.
We hit the ground and he groaned. "BAKA I told you to let go." I looked at him and sighed and helped him. He held his head; I moved his hands and slowly examined it making sure it was okay. He grunted and grabbed my hand. We started running until we got to the bottom of the small hill. He saw a guy in red. "Auron!" He seemed surprised, "What are you doing here?" He stopped and waited; the guy looked at me and said, "You must be Yuki, the faythe told me about you, and to answer your question waiting for the both of you." I stifled my laugh and watched him walk away; I guess he was expecting us to follow him.
"What are you talking about?" Tidus asked I couldn't hold my laughter, "Come on lets follow him." I grabbed his hand and we went off.