Chapter 4

Just keep Swimming

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Ezra's P.O.V

I wake up, vision blurred. My head both flooding and yet empty of thoughts. I struggle to remember what's happened.

I hear someone speak, "Rikku, E tuh'd ihtancdyht fro oui lyna fryd rybbahc du dras pid, ev oui fyhd dras du cdyo drao sicd fung." (Rikku, I don't understand why you care what happens to them but, if you want them to stay they must work.)

"Let me go!" I hear Tidus say, which was all I needed to hear. I hop to my feet, I see one man grabbing his hair and another with the Bayonet of his gun facing Tidus' way. I grab for my gun blade, it however, isn't there. "Ezra." Tidus smiles at me but gets mad when I get the same treatment they've so far given him.

"Mad dras ku, E'mm bid dras du fung, tuh'd funno." (Let them go, I'll put them to work, don't worry.) The girl who knocked us out says, she walks over to me, "They said you can stay as long as you make yourself useful."

"You speak English?" I say. I look at the girl who smiles at me and Ti.

"Well yeah, just cause I'm an Al-Bhed that doesn't mean I can't learn how to speak normal." She smirks, her response merely confuses me, Al-Bhed? What does that mean? Is that a race of person that just haven't been to Zanarkand before?

"Well, what do they want us to do?" Tidus asks.

"The three of us are going to go down there," she nods to the murky water below, "there's something down there we want." She says, looking at me and then Tidus. "Got it?"

"Yeah, hey uh, what is it you want down there?" I ask.

"That's um," she looks over to another Al-Bhed, "they don't want me to tell you, sorry." She frowns, she quickly perks up quickly however. Her shoes click along the steel floor as she walks to the edge. She shouts something in Al-Bhed to a brown haired man, he runs into the ship. "My name is Rikku by the way." We shake hands.

The man returns with our weapons, Tidus grabs his and I grab mine, noticing that the clip is gone, "Oh come on, I'm not going to shoot you!" I say, aggravated.

"To be fair you did threaten to earlier." Rikku states.

"Yeah well, to be fair you came out of nowhere with a freaking grenade, carrying guns, and you grabbed my brother. What was I supposed to do."

Rikku sighs, "Fair enough." She looks at the man, "Keja res dra lmeb" (Give him the clip) He pulls the clip out of his pocket. I eyeball him and take it from him, I thank him, slightly annoyed but I quickly get over it.

The three of us jump into the water and begin to swim down. I see what looks like the ruins of an airship, "Holy crap" I think to myself. We swim down into the wreckage. I look around and see a panel it is slightly lit up, Tidus swims over to it and looks at the door it seemingly controls. Tidus begins to hit the panel. "That's not going to work." I say, shaking my head. He hits it more and the door opens. "See Ti, told you, wait, w-what the hell! Are you supposed to understand how any technology works anymore?" We swim down, another panel that, like the other one probably defies all logic, is in the center of the room. Tidus hits this one and it causes the entire ship to light up. I nearly let my breath out by going to say "whoa"

Before we can even turn around a huge fiend comes out of nowhere. I glance at Tidus and Rikku and draw my blade, they follow suit. The monster swims towards us and I slash it. It doesn't slow at all and Rikku pulls out a grenade. "We're under water, no way that's going to work." I think to myself. It blows up in the creatures face, making it back up. "How in the actual hell is this crap working!"

The monster backs up and I swim behind it without it knowing, Tidus slashes it and Rikku hits it with her bladed knuckles, it cry's out and slaps her and Tidus against a wall. I think to myself "if all this other crap is working under water then this should to!" I flip my sword into gun position and shoot it's back in multiple areas. It screeches and as its mouth is open Rikku shoves a grenade down it's throat, blowing it to bits. We smile at each other and swim out of the ruins, we gaze at the ship, it is now all lit up, I gaze at it in amazement before swimming up back to the ship. Rikku walks into the bridge of the ship as me and Tidus sit on deck, catching our breath.

"The stars are pretty," Ti says. We gaze at the sky that looks as though it's had glitter sprinkled across it.

"Yeah, it really is." I look into the stars, almost hypnotized. "Do you think we'll be able to find a way back home soon?"

"These guys have a ship, if we continue helping them, they might sail us back home." Tidus says.

Rikku walks back onto the deck of the ship and tosses two trays of food in front of us, my mouth waters, I don't know how long it's been since I've eaten. "Thanks." I smile, Tidus just immediately starts digging in, almost choking.

"You eat too fast." Rikku says, gazing at Tidus gasping for breath.

"Heh, sorry, it's been awhile since I've eaten." He smirks.

"Where are you guys from?" Rikku asks.

"Zanarkand" Tidus says.

"Yeah, Tidus here is the star player of the Zanarkand Abes, I'm his younger brother, Ezra.

"But Zanarkand was destroyed a thousand years ago, that's not possible." Rikku states.

My eyes go wide. "W-What?"

*Authors note* I am going camping with some friends on Sunday and won't be back until Friday so the next chapter won't come until after then. Thx again for my two new favorites! Seeya next Chap

P.S. Several days after posting this chap I have made a new story on Wattpad, it is 100% original and I hope you guys check it out. Link in Desc.