A/N: Beware...Beware....FFX rules were practically screaming to be broken.....I thought I was Evil, But, But, that wasn't faaiir!! Stupid FFX2!! Let's say it didn't happen. Everybody will agree with that. This is LuluxSeymourXZanar, a girl I created. Triangles are so great.... Review already, Or I won't update! I mean it!!! (Zanar pronounced Zan-nar. Yes, like the city Zanarkand.) Don't own anything but Zanar. Shinshutsu!

Chapter 1: Hekrd Vymm

She couldn't do it. She just couldn't do it. He was not Chappu. He would never be. But that wasn't the reason. The reason was that she didn't feel that way about him. He was a friend. Even if she tried to stretch it, test it, try it, it wouldn't come. She had been cold for so long. Did it start when Chappu died? It must have, although it hadn't come suddenly- it had seemed as though that was the way she had always been.

The coming up again wasn't sudden either, it took a long time, with small drifting pieces of thoughts and emotions, before she could function and realize things herself, feel truly in control, no longer on automatic. The horrifying thing was that no one noticed the change. No one looked at her in any sort of compassionate way outside of a group decision. She felt like a pity case. Not one person had cast a stray glance her way, asked her how she was doing, if they could help.

She would have accepted their help.

It was the same all over. Then,why did she feel warmer in Guadosalam? It wasn't any different there. The feeling had faded again once they had come to the thubder plains. She still didn't show it. They still didn't notice. At all. She waited, but- She felt warmth again every time they ran into guados. She wasn't feared there. And, possibly, could have been accepted. Truly belonged in a place where no one feared her. She truly felt like part of a group. Or- and she felt guilt even more- when they saw Seymour. They were alike, somehow. Mind games. All her own mind doing this to her.

Lulu closed her eyes, leaning farther into the deep snow. The cold didn't bother her, and the softness-was like nothing she'd ever felt. Fragile, yet strong enough to hold her.Enveloping. Finer than silk by far. She would have to go back soon. Wakka had dissaproved of her going out in the snow to begin with. She liked the strange weather changes. Snow was comforting so close to Besaid. A stray fiend attempted to attack her as she rose. Mistake.

The pyreflies flitted up into the air.City of the Dead? If most people around the outer regions were dead, then....was it possible to be sent at all? Well, yes.Some people were gone for good. She began the trek back to Besaid. For awhile she walked in silence, until a strange hissing noise attracted her attention. She turned around slowly, to face a single red eye. Her heart skipped a beat. Anaconduars. In Besaid. The giant snake regarded her for a moment.

Lulu raised her arm to perform Firaga. The attack hit the ebony snake directly. It held it's head down, then rushed down the trail. It was running away? Fiends can't- She couldn't let it get to the villagers in Besaid! She hurried after it. The snake was much faster than her. By the time she reached the main part of the island it was nowhere to be found.

"Lu? Lulu?" She whirled around to face Wakka. He looked concerned. "What happened out there? You look terrified."

"An- Anaconduar." She managed to gasp out.

"What?" Wakka's tone was now urgent.

"Anaconduar, in the village somewhere!"

"How?!"

"I don't know- we have to find it!"

Wakka ran after her as they searched every house for signs. A strange noise, a sighting, broken house, anything. "I'll go tell the villagers! You keep searching!" Wakka shouted. They ran off in opposite directions.

Lulu immediately headed to the small bare ground areas. She stopped as it's silhoutte came into view under the moon. There were more of them. Two Anaconduars, three basilisks. The thought of running back to elicit Wakka's help began to yell in her mind, but she was terrified. In the middle of the fiends, a man emerged. He stepped forwards toward her. He wore a coat that greatly reminded her of Auron's, and Guado armor underneath the expansive coat. A braid ran down the right side of his blue-green hair hair. He moved toward her. She felt a sudden warmth in her chest. The man said nothing, but looked at her and back to the reptilian fiends. They did not advance.

"Who are you?" Lulu asked, barely managing to keep her voice at it's regular tone.

"Zanar." The reply was muffled, mainly due to the large collar of the coat hiding his mouth.

"And you are?" He asked lowly.

"Lulu. The black mage of Besaid."

He nodded. "My pets have troubled you."

"Pets? Those are fiends!"

"Captured, and trained." He gestured behind him with a wave, and an Anaconduar came rustling up.

Lulu stared into it's eye, red meeting red.

"You can pet her."

The comment was startling. Lulu blinked in suprise as the Anaconduar's head bowed low.

Lulu tenatively raised her hand.

The Anaconduar's skin was smooth and pleasantly cool.

It flicked out it's tongue a few times,but other than that made no movement.

"Lulu?" Wakka's voice shouted.

Zanar stepped back a pace.The Anaconduar's feathered arms moved lightly.

"It's okay, He's a friend." Lulu explained to Zanar.

Both the fiend and the trainer visibly relaxed.

"Lulu! Watch it!"
The ball came wizzing by her head so fast she barely noticed it. It's course took it directly to the middle of the Anaconduar's head-

Zanar moved with lightning speed in front of the fiend and caught the ball in one hand.

Wakka himself ran towards them now. "Don't just stand there, Lu! Do something!"

He cast drain from his decreasing distance.

The move failed. Lulu studied Zanar intently. He had cast protect on his fiend,and reflect on himself, most likely before she had even gotten there.

"Wakka! It's okay!" Lulu shouted as Wakka reached them.

"What? There are six fiends and a guy we dont know, and you tell me it's okay?"

Zanar laughed shortly.

"What's so funny, ya?" Wakka demanded.

"Can we go to an inn? I'll tell you there."
Lulu nodded. Wakka, seeing the mage's trust, reluctantly nodded.

Zanar pulled up a sleeve, and the fiends became pyreflies which floated into a shining gem on his wrist.

The three walked in silence, Wakka between Lulu and Zanar.

Once they reached the inn, Zanar removed his coat.

Zanar....was a girl.