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Ch. 1 Appearances

She was nothing, floating in an abyss of torn memories and dreams, tossed by the visions she used to have, and throttled by the hearts that she had shattered. She felt nothing, but saw everything. She was floating in a vortex of what she had caused.

She, all the sudden, was.

It was a typical day for the Gullwings. Shira was typing on his computer, Paine was leaning against a wall, and Rikku was chatting with Buddy.

Yuna was on the deck, near the edge, looking down at the passing clouds, each forming their own shape. She sighed, laying back and looking at the sky, the wind ruffling her short brown hair, her eyes content and endangering.

Suddenly, a blast of suddenly strong wind pushed her over the edge of the airship, and with nothing to hold on to, she screamed as she fell through the layers of clouds towards who knows where….

She was alive, lying down in a bed of vines with a fur blanket covering her body. She still had her clothes on, thankfully. She sat up, brushing a strand of grey-black hair behind her curved ear, recognizing this place all too well.

This was Herile, Place of the Forgotten, Silent Guardian of the Foretold, and Home of the Unwelcome. She was forgotten and unwelcome in many ways, so she belonged here.

Her name was Riyu.

She had star-white hair with two grey-black streaks in the front. Her hair was about waist-length, but up in a style similar to Rikku's, only her headband was pure black. Her face was like Paine's, only with black eyes. She had the shirt of Yuna's in gunner mode, and the skirt of Paine in trainer mode, only all black. Her overall skin tone was of Paine's.

She bore an amazing resemblance to Paine all the way.

Riyu walked out of the nurse room she was kept in, and looked up in the sky, looking at the familiar grey clouds of her home. Yes, she was born here. Herile was her home; she was one of the Four Guardians of the Realm of Shattered Hopes. She let out a small gasp as a girl with short brown hair, a shirt similar to her's, and a half of a skirt that was white and blue. ((A/N Yuna.)) She ran forward to catch the girl, successfully doing so.

Yuna groaned as she opened her eyes, looking at the face of some one she did not know. Riyu smiled an unwelcoming smile of a devilish mastermind with no good intentions back at Yuna, and then Yuna sort of rolled out of Riyu's arms and on to the ground where she got up, looking at Riyu awkwardly.

"Umm…thanks, I guess…"

Yuna said, smiling a little at Riyu. Riyu nodded a 'no problem', and then leaned against the vine-entwined wall of her home, waiting for the awkward silence to end.

Brother could here Yuna's scream from a mile away, so he instantly followed the scream, wanting to save Yuna. They finally approached Herila, the Isle in the Sky, then Buddy spotted Yuna.