I don't own FFX-2

I arrived at a small island near what the Yevonites believed what the Southern Pole of their world. The sea was very rough and my ship began to sink before I reached an actually landmass. Damn, I thought, noticing the bow of the boat go beneath the surface of the water, I guess I'm swimming. At that I jumped off the boat with only the stuff I needed and swam towards what looked like a dark green wave. Night lasted hours, and the heavy raining and cold water didn't make it go any faster.

I arrived at a small island shortly after morning; the beach was completely deserted, except for a girl sitting alone on a wooden dock, whistling. As I got closer I noticed the girl was crying, I wondered why, but as I got closer she noticed me. I washed up on the beach and waited for someone to find me. Within minutes the girl on the dock had worked her way over and was trying to flip me over, which I had to help with. After she "awoke me" I got a good look at her, about 17, one eye blue, one green, short brown hair, eyes somewhat red from crying. She was on her knees her head above mine, eyes awestruck, mouth opened slightly.

"Hello," I said, dazed, "where am I?"

She looked at me with a look of grievance in her eyes and said, "Your in Besaid Island, how did you get here?" she asked rubbing her eye.

"I don't remember," I lied, blatantly at that, "all I remember is the ocean, and… that's it."

"Are you alright," she asked, helping, or at least trying to help my up. She then escorted me to a small village at the other end of the island, where she brought me to a hut where she told me to get in bed, which I graciously accepted.

I lied in bed for an hour and a half before I emerged, and outside was a rather large audience. The girl I had seen before, a woman wearing black, with glowing red eyes, a man with orange hair, a younger looking girl with blonde hair, and swirled green eyes, and a very large blue lion looking man with a broken horn. "'Ey, bruddha," was how I was greeted by the man with orange hair, "you new 'round here?"

Trying not to be snide, but still aggravated by this man's stupidity I said, "It would appear so," good thing he didn't catch the sarcasm in my voice. Either no one did, or they didn't care, Good, I though, stupid people are more easily deceived.

"So I guess I should introduce you to everyone," the girl said, "I'm Yuna, and this," she said going down the row,"is Lulu, which she acknowledged with a slight head nod. "This is Wakka," she said slightly pointing her hand at him, "and this is Rikku," the girl looked innocently at me, and smiled lightly. "And this is Kimahri," which by process of elimination was the large blue lion; he looked up to meet his eyes to mine.

After the silent introduction I was invited to a party they were having tonight, which I graciously accepted. It was a little before noon and I was told to meet them at the villages center at night, so I figured I had about nine hours. Just enough time to devise a rudimentary plan, to gain control here. This girl Yuna seemed to be important, all the people greeted her as Lady Yuna, and I heard her being talked about around town. Nothing particular came up so I figured I should tail her.

The rest of the morning I spent eavesdropping on Yuna's conversations for a distance, close enough to easily hear, to far to be seen. The majority of her conversation with Rikku consisted of her trying to work up the confidence to ask Yuna something, and Yuna trying to nudge Rikku to ask. She never asked and they finally arrived back in town from a long walk through the jungle.

Afterwards I saw that Wakka and Lulu were talking, this conversation was more worthwhile. I heard something about him, how Yuna really missed him, maybe this would come in handy. I also hears something about Sin, and how Yuna was a hero, this to would be helpful, at least I hoped.

In the early evening Yuna finally was left alone, she traveled to the beach and sat on the sand. She was saying something, "I really miss you, why did you have to leave?" she asked rhetorically out to sea. She was crying lightly, she stood up, and walked barefooted into the ocean, stopping so the water was mid way up her calves, and just stood there, staring into the distance. She was a sad woman; I thought that she would be happy if she was a hero, but I know, heroism is not easily obtained, much is sacrificed to obtain the trust in people's hearts.

After a while I felt another presence, Kimahri had walked up and was now watching her. I wondered why but quickly dismissed the possibility of stalking when Yuna turned around and saw him, and turned back around. I waited for something exciting to happen but nothing did, she kept staring out at sea, and he kept watching her. It was kinda sad, I thought, she was so sad but I didn't know why, she just stared out into space, daydreaming about nothing, and everything.

I felt after a while this was to depressing, I snuck back to town and walked back to the beach. This time I let Kimahri know I was there, as I walked towards the beach he twitched slightly but then stopped. When I finally arrived at the clearing of the jungle to the beach, he let me know he was aware of my presence. He swung a lance at me aimed at my chest; instinctually I blocked it with my arm and took it away from him in a single move. Quickly rethinking that the vast majority of humans can't move this fast I pulled the shaft of the lance into my chest. This quickly brought Yuna out of her trance-like state, and made her come to my aid.

"What happened?" she demanded angrily at Kimahri expecting no answer.

"Kimahri thought he was fiend," he said honestly, "he moved to quietly for man."

Other than that the rest of the day was uneventful, now the sun was setting and I was leaving to go to the village.

"Wait!" I heard a voice rather far behind me, it was Yuna, I waited for her to catch up, but didn't know what to expect. "I didn't get your name," she said, partially winded.

"My name?" I asked, wondering the significance of it to her, "My name is Rhoadius, why does it matter?" Pondering what importance it could have to her I simply turned around and continued the walk with a straggler. She kept up to me, and I could sense that she wanted to kickstart a conversation but I didn't know what to say to help her.

The walk was quiet, except for the footsteps of the small girls who had joined us, barraging Yuna with questions. It was irritating, they were all trying to talk over each other, and none of them could, the louder they got the more drained out their voices were, but they were to young to understand that. Nobody understood that, everyone thought they were the most important, but no one, including these girls went out of their way to prove it. They thought they were important, but they weren't, very few people were, but nobody understood, importance isn't getting heard, it's being known.