Authors note: Guess what everybody…I'M IN SPIRA!…OK, so I'm not actually in Spira and it's only the 7th chap of my story, but…we can all dream (starts to act dream like at the thought of actually going to Spira and seeing… 'Him' n.n just check my 'O.O.T.G.' story) Yeah, well, ON WITH THE STORY! Also, I thank all of the people and great authors who have been reviewing my story, I never thought anyone would like it…it makes me want to cry with joy…well, almost…I'm not the soppy type really. Thank you for the spelling correction of O'aka, Auron's Fan. Also, Sarah still has my copy of FFX, so bits might be missing or said differently (but I have found a website with the script on it)and…SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING SOON!
Disclaimer: I DON'T own the FF characters, Squaresoft/Enix, or the license of any game, T.V. program or anything like that. Do not sue me, I'm a GOOD girl. I only own myself in the story. Oh, and my friends that talk to me on the mobile phone own themselves.
Chapter 7: Sleepy Eyes to Burning Eyes, Also the SHOES OF DOOM!
I woke up the next morning after hardly sleeping that night, having nightmares of ghost like people breaking into my room and trying to make me one of them. I was still feeling sleepy as I walked down the stairs to meet up with Tidus, before leaving to go look for Wakka to then meet up with Yuna and the other two guardians in the forest.
Tidus had turned round when he heard me come down the stairs, but as he saw me, he started to try to prevent himself from laughing. I sleepily asked him "What?" Tidus could then no longer hold off his laughter and fell to the floor laughing his ass off.
"You're…you're still wearing your pyjamas!" I looked down at myself to see that he was correct; I was still wearing my light pink pyjamas, with a sheep on the top. This made me properly wake up from my sleepy state.
"AAAHH!" I screamed, before running back upstairs to hide in embarrassment and get changed.
After brushing my hair (Which was a TOTAL mess!), brushed my teeth, found a legendary weapon (Well, what looked like one at first until I noticed that it was actually just a figment of my imagination) and got changed into 3 quarter length black trousers, the usual trainers and a white sleeveless top, with a dragon on it. But, there was something odd when I looked in the mirror; I seemed to look different, I was slightly taller, the odd couple of spots were gone and looked as if I had lost a little bit of weight. 'What the hell! Did battling fiends do this to me! Well, whatever, I'm not complaining.'
I ran back down the inn's stairs to find that Tidus had already left. I walked out of the door to find that he was talking to Wakka, who seemed to be laughing at whatever Tidus was telling him. "Hi guys! What's so funny Wakka? Did Tidus tell a good joke or something?" They turned round instantly, Tidus grinning like a maniac, whilst Wakka laughed behind his hand.
"No, just telling Wakka about how you came down in your PJs." Tidus answered, his grin becoming eviler.
I didn't really understand what he said, I felt really drowsy again, wanting to just fall and go to sleep on the pier/walkway. Wakka had then laughed his head off again and my brain only just figured out what Tidus had said, "What? You didn't! Cause, if you did, prepare for the SHOES OF DOOM!" A pair of black, normal smart looking shoes appeared on my feet.
Tidus just carried on grinning, "Ha! What're you going to do with them? Tap dance!" he exclaimed, before laughing and pointing at the seemingly normal shoes.
I raised an eyebrow, before grinning evilly and stomped one of my feet. This revealed the DOOM part of the shoes; a sharp, shiny blade was now sticking out of the end of the shoe, giving off a menacing glare at Tidus. "Do you remember my threat from earlier on? Well, one more false move and I will initiate that threat!" Tidus seemed to get the point (NO PUN INTENDED!); he flinched, looking absolutely frightened from both the look of the blade and the reminder of the threat.
"N-n-now there's n-no need t-to do anything l-like that. We're all f-friends here, r-right! We can k-keep a secret! R-right!" Tidus stuttered, giving a cheesy frightened grin, with his hands shaking in front of him. He then nervously winked at Wakka, to try and make him agree to keep the secret, but, this was Wakka we're talking about.
Wakka just stared blankly at the frightened form of Tidus, "Why did you just wink at me ya? Did something just get into ya eye?" Tidus sighed, not believing that Wakka was this stupid, but then again, the Besaid aurochs hadn't won a game since Wakka became captain.
"Hey, don't worry! I'm only kidding! I wouldn't really do that to my friends!" (Although I would hit them with my axe ruler if they were being mean to me about someone, as in 'him') I grinned back at Tidus and Wakka, holding my hand out to Tidus for a high five. He then immediately looked relieved and went to high five me, but…I moved my hand out of the way to make him miss, "Too slow! Also, seriously could you not tell anyone about the whole PJ thing?"
Tidus frowned, but then grinned and nodded his head. Wakka agreed to keeping it a secret as well, "Anything for the master guardian and my friend, ya!" We all then went on our way to the forest, but not before Tidus rescued a girl from a crumbling building. 'All this death and destruction…all caused by Sin…I have to keep my promise for the people of Spira! I…I don't want to see anymore lives being lost to Yu Yevon…'
I only came back to my senses when we had reached the edge of the forest; birds and…monkeys (?) could be heard even from the outskirts. It reminded me of what a rainforest was like rather than a normal forest. There were all sorts of brightly coloured flowers around on the ground, but I then noticed some fiends lurking about, making the forest seem less pleasant.
Around the next corner, Yuna, Lulu and Kimahri were waiting for us, yet Yuna looked as if something was on her mind. "What's up?" Wakka asked, seeing her expression.
Lulu spoke up, "Yuna says she wants you with us." looking over to Tidus.
Tidus frowned, until Yuna spoke up, "I want to ask you to be my guardian." She sounded slightly nervous though 'Does she really start to fancy him at this point? Ah, whatever.'
Wakka looked absolutely shocked, "Yuna! What? This is no time for jokes, ya! He may be a blitzball whiz kid, but up against fiends, he's a newbie." Tidus looked slightly offended at Wakka's remark.
"Not a guardian, then…I just want him nearby." She looked down at her feet, looking slightly embarrassed 'Yeah, like you got away with that! Only Tidus and Wakka wouldn't understand what you mean by 'want him nearby'!'
"What? What do you mean?" Tidus asked, interested in finding out why she suddenly asked a total stranger like himself, to be a guardian.
Yuna kept looking down at the floor, "It's just that, well…" she paused for a moment.
I rolled my eyes and beat Lulu to saying "Can't this wait till later! We need to get to the temple before the fiends or heat gets to us." The others nodded in agreement, although Yuna looked disappointed that she couldn't have Tidus as a guardian yet and Tidus still looked slightly confused at what just happened, but eventually followed the rest of us along the path.
Yuna had started to apologize to Tidus, who just said that it was fine and he was still clueless about his current situation.
It was all very nice until the saluting crusaders appeared (out of nowhere! Like, just jumping out of the trees or something…), "Be careful. Lord Ochu of the wood resides in this forest and is blocking the only path to the temple. We, the CRUSADERS (When he said crusaders, he was tried to sound manly…but failed miserably, only making himself sound weird.), have tried many times to defeat this beast, but…failed each time." He sighed, dropping his shoulders in defeat.
"Well maybe you should leave this to the professionals." I was so confident, that I even tried to crack my knuckles…even though I couldn't properly do that. I ran ahead to where the big fly trap fiend was, with most of the others sighing and running to catch up. Although Yuna quickly did a Yevon pray to the crusaders.
When we reached the fiend (which was like only a few meters away but, whatever!), we all immediately covered our noses, "EEWWW! What is that smell!" There was a strange, plants decomposing smell, with a touch of spice in the air.
Lulu coughed before answering, "The Ochu seems to be creating it. It might be poisonous or cause drowsiness, so keep on guard." After she said that, we snuck round to cover different sides of the Ochu, but making sure not to breathe in too much of…Ochu gas.
We all then attacked from our different sides, I decided that from now on, I wasn't going to bother changing into my samurai gear unless it was a boss battle, so I just put my shiny claws on. Slicing and dicing came from me, Tidus and Kimahri, Wakka pounding it with his blitzball and Lulu, frying it with fire.
I was getting a bit jealous of Lulu's black magic skills, 'I wish I could do more than physical attacks.' I then noticed something; my claws had started to glow a burning red colour and then they actually burst into flames. I then, without realising it, ran up to the Ochu and shouted "Flametongue!" Scorch marks were left as a scar on the Ochu's body from where I had attacked it.
'Where the heck did that come from!' I could not believe I had just done a FFX-2 warrior move, plus not actually consciously wanting to do that move.
A move that I learned a thousand years ago…
This new mysterious voice surprised me, 'What! What do you mean 'you' learned it a thousand years ago if I'm the one who used it!' I didn't get a reply from this mysterious new voice, but for some reason I could sense that I already knew the answer…somehow.
Because I was concentrating on this voice, I didn't notice the Ochu was ready to swing its…tentacle arms at me, until Wakka shouted "Master guardian! Watch out!" I turned round to see the tentacle, before it knocked me off of my feet.
"OW! Did that thing just slap me! I am SO going to get my reveng…OOWWW!" I felt a sudden pain in my stomach, which made me lose some of my health; it felt like a small explosion. I then had the urge to throw up.
Yuna had walked over to me by that time, "Taelea, your poisoned! Here, use this antidote." Handing me a sickly green coloured liquid in a bottle. But before she left to cure some of the others, she cast a cure on me, healing me up a bit.
I opened the bottle and downed the strange liquid in several gulps, 'Yum! Tastes like sour apple…UGH! Now it tastes like cough medicine, plaugh!' The bottle then just disappeared in my hands. 'Ok, strange.'
Back to the battle. The Ochu had almost been defeated, but it was still putting up a fight. Tidus had been poisoned twice, Wakka had fallen to sleep (From an attack, duh!), Yuna couldn't really do anything but heal, Kimahri had already used his jump overdrive and Lulu was running low on MP.
Eventually, Tidus was the one the finish off the horrid plant with a spiral cut, slicing it into two before dissolving into pryeflies. Everyone did there victory dance; with Yuna staring at Tidus, probably amazed at the way he caught his sword with out getting killed.
A/N: I just though of something. There needs to be a warning for his victory dance: WARNING! Do NOT perform this, because you will probably cut your hand off, or the sword will land in your head. Just a thought…
"Well, good riddance to the nuisance! Now, if you don't mind…" straight away after saying this, I collapsed.
Everyone was shocked, "Taelea! Are you Ok!" Yuna cried out.
"The Ochu must have put her to sleep." Lulu guessed, seeing as the Ochu did have a sleep attack.
The next moment, a loud snore escaped from my mouth and everyone sighed in embarrassment, "Um, I think she's just still tired." Tidus replied, explaining that I was very sleepy that morning. Kimahri shook his head and picked me up, deciding that it would be better to carry me rather than wake me up.
The crusaders were watching this battle and also when I fell asleep, "Professionals, huh?" Luzzu said to Gatta, in a sarcastic tone.
As Kimahri carried me through the forest, I opened my eye a little as I heard a rustle come from above the trees. I looked up, but only saw something move away, seeing a flash of red. 'Ok, I definitely feel as if I'm being stalked now.' But I decided to go back to sleep…this was until we got to the stairs, where I was woken up on the count of Wakka talking on and on about the 'Oh so great' stairs.
"Yep, Lord Ohalland (not sure if it's spelt right, like I said, I haven't got my FFX game back yet) trained here at his peak." Wakka finished off explaining, although the only person who was probably listening was Tidus.
The other Besaid Aurochs players were here, stretching and chuckling at Tidus, "A race, huh? Think you can beat me?" Tidus, Wakka and the other blitzers got ready, standing in a line with each other. I decided that it would be fun to join in with the race and stood in the line. Yuna walked over to the side, holding her arm up, "Ready?" she called to us, I knew what she was going to do so I left just as she began to run, leaving the blitzers, Wakka and Tidus standing there confused.
They eventually realised what had happened and tried to catch up, but before any of us could finish, people had begun to run in the opposite direction, shouting "SIN SPAWN!" The others had caught up at this point, as me and Yuna stood at the top of the stairs, staring at the strange shell sin spawn.
"Not another fiend ya!" Wakka exclaimed, still looking a bit tired out from the last battle.
None the less, we got ready to battle again. Lulu had just finished a spell, but the fiends tentacles had now come out from the ground, to absorb the spell. Tidus had now started to attack the left tentacle, with Wakka following his lead. Me and Kimahri had then started to attack the right tentacle, until it withered away like the tentacle that Tidus and Wakka had been attacking.
We then turned back to face the main body of the fiend, ready to pummel at its shell. The shell had only decided to open up at the same time as Lulu had run out of MP.
A noxious gas escaped from the inside of the shell, travelling towards us like a thick green mist. The mist had hit us, causing most of us to succumb to the poison effect. Only Yuna was not affected, seeing as she was standing a bit on the sidelines. After she had seen the attack, she then came in to help us. She quickly threw an antidote to all of us before facing the creature.
She spread her arms to her sides and began to summon Valefore. The giant bird like aeon swiftly flew down from the sky, landing next to Yuna, getting the usual stroke on the head. As Valefore hovered in the air, Yuna called to it "Help us, please!" before commanding the aeon to continually attack the fiend with its sonic wing attack.
The fiend tried to attack Valefore but ended up missing it half the time, yet the aeon had become low on HP. The fiend was also low on HP, but still continued to attack furiously. Yuna called to her aeon, commanding it to put the last of its strength into a fire spell (seriously can't remember what the fiend is weak against) and burnt the last of the Sin spawns HP. Although it did a high pitch screech, which could shatter glass, causing us to deafen for a moment.
As it vanished into pryeflies, we all did our victory poses and cheered Yuna for defeating it with her aeon Valefore. "That was awesome Yuna!" Tidus exclaimed, with Yuna smiling and then turning away as she had started to blush slightly. The others then noticed this and Wakka glared at him, suspiciously, as if to warn Tidus.
But Wakka then seemed to calm down though when he saw Tidus's expression change, as he was now smiling, "Hey, you handled yourself pretty well. You got talent."
I secretly mumbled under my breathe "What? Getting knocked out whenever that creature 'sighed' was talent?" Luckily, no one had heard this and I just laughed to my self.
Tidus just waved his hand aimlessly in front of him, "Nah. So, what are these 'Sin spawn' any way?"
Lulu had started yet another one of her explanations, "Fiends. They fall from Sin's body, and are left behind in its wake."
Wakka then stepped forward, "Leave'em alone, and Sin comes back for'em. You gotta be quick!" before walking towards the last few steps.
Tidus seemed to just faze out at that point, probably thinking about considering being a guardian. This just shows how he can be serious at times in the game, but does not fully stop him from being blond at other points in it.
Wakka had then stopped in his tracks, folding his arms before turning back round to Tidus, "So, uh…they got fiends in Zanarkand, too?"
"Just a few. It's a big deal when one shows up, though." Tidus then also stopped walking and looked at Wakka curiously, "Hey! Since when have you believed me about Zanarkand, any way?"
Wakka had then looked a bit more serious at this question, "I been thinking. Maybe people Sin gets to don't die. Maybe Sin carries'em through time. Like a thousand years through time. And then, one day, maybe they just pop back, see?"
Tidus had been listening into Wakka's theory quite interested, I on the other hand had already heard this, not really listening. Lulu had then started to argue or really, just shouting at him for believing this, thinking his theory ridiculous and how no one can be replaced.
Wakka was now looking annoyed, probably at himself, punching the ground, "I…I could never be what Chappu was," he had then stood up, looking a bit more calmed down now, "Well, stuff happens. Best not to worry." Walking away to catch up with Yuna, Lulu and Kimahri.
I sighed, before interrupting Tidus's own theories about Wakka, Lulu and Chappu "What do you think of Wakka's theory?" Tidus had made a confused 'huh?' noise at this question, seeing as he was busy in thought, "Oh, well I sorta do believe it. I mean, you must do as well seeing as you travelled from Zanarkand through time too. I just don't know why that Lulu won't even give the theory a chance!"
"Well, probably every theory at first is thought as crazy and in ways it is good to have your own theory, but…I know that his is not true. Well, not exactly." I had then begun to walk away, adding on "Just don't say anything to Wakka or think about it too much, ok Tidus?"
Tidus just blinked blankly, not very sure about what I just said, "Uh, ok."
We had at last walked up the last flight of stairs, 'Finally! No more stairs to climb!' thinking to myself before seeing the Luca goers 'cough losers cough!' coming out of the main part of the temple, "You here to pray for victory, too?" Wakka had asked politely, even if it was the Luca losers, the enemies of the Besaid Aurochs and every other blitzball team out there.
"Us? Pray? Who needs to pray? The Luca Goers always win!" The captain of the Luca Goers, Bickson, boasted.
Wakka had then asked "Oh, yeah? Then why are you here?"
"We've been praying for better competition this year!" Bickson had spoken again, sounding as if it was the most obvious reason for his team to be there.
Another one of the Luca 'Losers' had decided to help his captain by taunting Wakka and his team "So what's your goal this time? You gonna 'do your best' again? Ha! It's too bad your best isn't good enough! Why even bother showing up?" the other Luca team mate, who had stayed silent, had decided to laugh at the Aurochs at this point.
Tidus had at last lost his nerve with these 3 people, "This time, we play to win!" which didn't seem to make the 'losers' flinch at all, "Oooh! Play away! Just remember even kids can play, boys." The Bickson had mocked them, going to leave…
"Oh! So that means your kids then if you're able to play blitzball and act so cocky about it!" I had called, making the 3 of them halt in anger.
The captain had then spun round and glared at me, "What did you say? Cause it sounds like your heading for a fight!" he had then punched one hand into his other hand, trying to look intimidating.
I had then decided to pretend to stretch my arms, "I wouldn't mind a fight right about now!" he had then sneered at me, "Well, would you look at this! Some wimpy Auroch fan wants to fight and lose!" he had then begun to laugh, tilting his head backwards, "Just who do you think you are!"
I had then swiftly moved my arm so that my hand was a mere cm away from his throat, but I had also quickly put my metal claws on. He gulped in fright, not expecting this from a 'wimpy' girl, "Well, maybe I should tell you who I am. But, I'm sure you've probably already figured that out, unless you really are as thick as you are cocky!"
He had then started to shake, "The…ma-master, gu-guardian?" he had whispered extremely quietly. I nodded my head slowly, before he had unfrozen and ran around our group, almost sliding down the stairs. His other 2 team mates had then followed him after looking wide eyed in shock at me.
Yuna had then walked up to me, "Was that really necessary? I know they were rude but, almost getting into a fight with them, is that what a master guardian should do?" sounding a little bit annoyed at the way that I reacted.
"Don't worry Yuna. I wouldn't really waste my time fighting them. I only fight fiends and those who stand in the way of defeating Sin," but Yuna still looked uncertain about this, "Look, if I did fight them, I would have to try to even the match, but really that would be impossible with them being so weak." She then seemed to lighten up.
"Anyway, we'll beat them. We have to!" Tidus had exclaimed.
Yuna looked interested at what Tidus had just said, "So, you know that team?" Tidus replied to her question, but didn't actually answer it, "Putting people down…they're as bad as my old man!" he said, with a bitter tone in his voice.
Yuna had then looked shocked at what he had just said, "But, Sir Jecht was a kind and gentle man!" she argued, but Tidus didn't believe in it, "Well, not my Jecht."
Yuna just sighed, disappointed that he spoke so rudely about Sir Jecht, who was even his own father. She walked off towards the temple, with everyone following right behind her.
We had entered the temple, the hymn playing again, seeming to calm everyone down a little. Wakka had walked over to Ohalland's statue, praying that he would 'guide their feet'. Tidus had then joined in, having nothing better to do.
Doors were then heard, slamming shut as someone seemed to come out of somewhere. I had only just turned around, forgetting about whom it would be at this moment in the game and got a nasty shock when I saw who it was, covering my eyes "AAAHHHH! My eyes! They burn!" I had just seen Dona, the summoner who won first place prize for least amount of clothes for a summoner outfit.
Dona had scowled when she had heard this, but just walked past, with the over muscled Bartello, to go to Yuna, "A summoner, are you?" she asked, deciding to let it slide, although a anger vein was still showing on her forehead.
"My name is Yuna, from the isle of Besaid." She then Yevon prayed to Dona, who just replied, "Dona."
She then looked back at me, giving me a cold stare, "Is this one of your guardians, daughter of High summoner Braska?"
Yuna had nodded her head, "Yes. She is actually the master guardian and I am honoured to have her as my guardian." But Dona just looked at me with a cold glare, not really believing that I could possibly be the master guardian.
"Are you sure it isn't just some impostor? I wouldn't be surprised, seeing as you are the daughter of Lord Braska and people would do anything to be around the daughter of a high summoner," she then slightly sneered at noticing all the other guardians, "My, my, my," I groaned as I heard this common Dona quote, 'Oh, would she shut up with that my, my, my business! I hate it!' she then continued "All these are your guardians? What a rabble! I believe in quality over quantity, my dear. And with believing this nobody was the great master guardian! What were you thinking? I have only the need of one guardian. Right, Barthello?"
Mr over-powered-muscled-I-lift-weights-everyday walked forward, having his usual strange dull face, but I also noticed that you could barely tell whether he had his eyes open or not. Kimahri had thought this was a threat against Yuna, so stepped forward to protect her.
Yuna looked at Dona, looking slightly annoyed at her, but did not want to show it, "I only have as many guardians as there are people I can trust. You may not believe she is the master guardian who swore to defeat Sin, but I do, because I trust Taelea and all of my other guardians with my life!" At this point I was thinking 'WHOOT! Go Yuna! Beat that slut Dona to a pulp…with words!' Yuna didn't back down there, "To have so many guardians is a joy, and an honour! Even more so than being my father's daughter. Of course, I would never think of questioning your ways, either. So, Lady Dona, I ask of you: please leave us in peace."
Walking back to Yuna and the others, I smirked slightly at Dona. Dona looked as if she was going to slap Yuna for saying all of that to her, but just scowled "You do what you want and believe what you want. Barthello, we're leaving!" They had then run off, exiting the temple in sheer humiliation.
I sighed, 'Thank God Yuna scared that…mega bitch, Dona, away! I could not stand the sight of that woman a second longer, talking as if she owned the place!' then noticing the others heading for the lift into the cloister, 'Why do I get left behind when I think!' running up the stairs and into the lift room.
I had just walked in when Yuna exclaimed "Strength everyone!" which as usual, Tidus had tried to follow them down the elevator, but was shoved off, almost falling flat on his face but recovered his balance just in time.
"Hey, what gives!" Tidus asked, as if shocked and angry about not being able to come. He even waved his arm a little whilst complaining.
Lulu rolled her eyes at his stupidity, "You're not a guardian yet." but Yuna felt that Lulu had sad this a bit harshly, "We'll be back as soon as we can, okay?" she had then noticed me walk into the room, "Taelea, could you look after Tidus so he doesn't get into any trouble?" Tidus looked nearly appalled at what Yuna had just asked, "Wat!"
I shrugged my shoulders, "okay, but I might be seeing you soon," Yuna gave me a confused look, I answering it with "I'll need to see the fayth as well, remember." She realized what I meant now, smiling and nodding her head, before the lift thing had slowly began to descend and disappear down to the cloister of trials.
Tidus now had his arms crossed and had an annoyed look on his face, "Great! I'm left out again and a 14-15 year old is looking after me! And oh, sure! Soon like 'tomorrow' soon, I bet!" he then carried on grumbling under his breath.
I was going to try and cheer him up a bit (so that he wouldn't annoy me) but Dona and yeti man (new name for Barthello n.n) walked in, "Where's Yuna?" Both of us pointed towards the lift platform thing, "Then why are you here?" she then looked over to me, "Did she find out that you were a fake!" she than laughed sort of evilly for several seconds.
"Well, I'm not a guardian yet and she has to…" he then mumbled quietly "look after me." He felt embarrassed that someone younger than him was charged as a babysitter for him.
"Oh, so she still believes in the master thing, I pity her when she finds out...So, you say you're not a guardian?" she then looked over to 'Yeti man' who nodded back, before grabbing hold of Tidus and placing him on the platform. Dona had then smirked at me when I tried to get him off the lift, but was too late; the platform had descended downwards.
I then growled at her for doing that, "Oui pedlr!" before jumping down the hole. I was hoping that I would be able to land safely, being this master guardian/samurai trained person, but as fate would have it, no such luck could ever be mine. I had to fall, stumble and roll unprofessionally.
Tidus then grinned and laughed at my misfortune, "You sure that you really aren't some poser as the master what's-its-name?" I groaned, before just walking away from him, "Hey! You know I can't go in there!" he called, but I just carried on, not even turning to look at him, "So, either wait a thousand years for the lift to come back down, or follow and undoubtedly get in trouble, what a choice!" he moaned sarcastically, jogging up behind me to catch up.
Play Cloister of Trials, FFX
We entered the cloister, which was filled with yet again more fiery objects, but as spheres. I had gone over to start solving the puzzle, not thinking if it really was fire that was emitted from the spheres, "Ok…YEEOOWCH! HOT, HOT, HOT!" I had then started to juggle the sphere in my hands, burning them both as it hit them.
Tidus had then grabbed it, but had repeated the same juggling process, before actually placing it in the slot that it was meant to go into. This was repeated every time we had to move one of those deadly spheres and our hands were almost completely burnt at the end of the trials.
We were blowing on our hands to try and cool them down as we entered, but stopped as we heard "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Wakka cried out, displeased that Tidus was down here when he shouldn't have been.
Tidus looked a bit worried, "It was Dona and that big musclehead man!" shaking his hands in front of him to try to stop them from thinking that he came down here on purpose.
Lulu looked very displeased with me, "You of all people should know that Yuna will now suffer the consequences!"
I flinched a little at her shouting at me, "Well I tried to stop them but the lift had already moved downwards, so…yeah." I replied, finishing it off quite lamely and laughing slightly nervously.
Tidus just frowned, "What consequences?" Wakka had then exclaimed, "She could be excommunicated!" and Tidus had literally gulped at hearing this, although he didn't quite know what Wakka meant, but knew it was something bad…REALLY bad!
It was now time to just wait for Yuna to immerge from the chamber, which was actually boring, so me and Tidus began to play I-spy, "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with…R." Tidus scratched his chin and raised his hand when he thought he had a good guess, "Oh! I know! Um…rock!" I slapped my forehead at this ridiculous guess, "Tidus, do you really think someone like me would really choose something quite obvious like that! And, it was actually ronso." Tidus swung his arms down by his sides, "Ooohh! And I was gonna say that next too!"
"SSHHH! Just wait…QUIETLY!" Wakka bellowed at us, silencing me, but not the always curious Tidus, "So, what's in there anyway?" he asked.
"The fayth, remember?" Wakka replied.
"Oh yeah, that thing. Right." Tidus said, still sounding unsure about the fayth.
Lulu had then walked up to us, "The fayth are people who gave their lives to battle Sin. Yevon took their souls, willingly given from their still-living bodies." But for some odd reason, I had a strong urge to say "No." which I did say…a little too loudly.
"Excuse me, but why did you just say no to that, unless you are saying that the teachings of Yevon are untrue?" Lulu enquired, looking suspiciously at me.
I shook my head to clear my thoughts, "I, don't really know why. It just sorta…came out." I looked at the floor 'Superb! Now they think I'm totally mad/bonkers/nuts/crazy etc.! But, why did I say that?' I had also just saw an image of my father and mother, my real ones…in what seemed like pain, but in 2 different places 'Ok? Freaky!"
Lulu slowly looked back to Tidus and carried on explaining about the fayth. I had basically blanked out from all other sounds, only thinking about those 2 images…they had really scared me, even make me shiver. I had come out of this fright when the chamber door opened, to yet again reveal a tired Yuna, who had actually fallen to her knees. Wakka and Lulu had run to her side, to help her up. Tidus was in yet another long pause of thought from these new events. I had just decided to slide past them, Kimahri watching me as I entered the chamber myself.
The usual change in light happened, with the fayth of Ifrit appearing above his statue, "Welcome. It is nice to see you have returned and have not given up to rest at the Farplane." I had just smiled back, unsure how to reply seeing as it was a different me that had previously seen him years ago.
The fayth had then made a sphere appear in his hand, "Here is the third sphere to recover your memory with." He then handed over the sky blue coloured sphere, which lit up as I touched it.
Yet another image appeared in my head; it was the same hometown from a thousand years ago. There still wasn't any real sign of any war was about to begin, but there seemed to be soldiers training in the background, just for practice.
The spherecorder then turned round to show my mother, "Mum, where is dad? I thought you said he went to pick up something, yet he hasn't returned yet." It was me who was talking, using the spherecorder again.
"Well why don't you check the garden area. I'm sure you'll find him there." She had replied, smiling sweetly yet also looked as if she was hiding some sort of secret.
The visual part of the spherecorder was then turned off after running a little while towards this 'garden' place. The image was still black, but the voice of myself from that time had spoken out, "Dad, are you serious!" the image then came back, to show a small, grassy field full of wild flowers.
My supposedly real father was standing there, a medium sized dog at his side, "Yes, Happy birthday Lea." he then let go of the lead on the dog and it ran straight for me, jumping up at me.
My past self had started to giggle slightly, with a hint of nervousness, "Whoa! Um, please calm down…" she moved the spherecorder at the man, "What is his or her name, dad?"
The man had then laughed slightly, "Me and your mother thought that you could be the one to name him, seeing as it is your dog now." He then bent down to kneel, patting his knees to make the dog sprint off to him, getting a pet from my father.
"Hmmm, how about, Dia…" but was interrupted when another girl had called out "Wow! Is that your dog!" the voice sounded quite familiar. I had wanted to find out who it was but the sphere recording had then just ended.
I frowned, "W-what just happened?" I asked, confused by the sudden halt in the recording. I needed to know who that person was that had called out at the end of it.
The fayth of Ifrit just smiled slightly, "You will just have to wait and see. Be patient and the time will come. Now, you have gained my guardian power, the power of fire. Unlike the air power, it may be used as what you would call an overdrive from your Earthen home."
I was getting a little annoyed at being told to be patient by the fayths. "So, you mean the air power isn't used in battle? So, what's it for then?" Ifrit's fayth had shook his head in silence; it would seem that I had to be patient yet again.
I had thought that he was now finished with me and I could go, "Wait! There is one more matter that I must tell you," He called. I turned round to see what he wanted before I leave, "I am happy to tell you that you are a year older now, making you 15. This has happened because here on Spira, your Earthen birthday is actually today. You will age quicker now that you have returned, but only when you see two of the next four spheres. Now, go and carry on your journey. I am looking forward to some rest from all this dreaming. Farewell." He had then disappeared back to his imprisonment within his statue.
I had then left the fayth's chamber, itching to know who had spoken at the end of the sphere; it sounded so familiar. It was on the tip of my tongue, but I forgot it when I remembered something, "Wait, did he just say that I'm 15 now?" I then noticed that I had grown in height a little itty bit. 'I guess that there's not gonna be any presents or cake.' But I thought that it could have been worse; I might not actually be in Spira.
I left the temple to find the others just ahead, about to walk down the steps, "Yo, guys! Wait up!" I called over to them.
They turned round to see me run up beside them, "So, did the fayth give you back some more of your memory?" Yuna had asked, hopeful sounding.
"Well, I don't exactly remember anything, but I know that I had a dog and it's my birthday today." I said plainly, slowly walking down the stairs.
"Really? Hey, happy birthday then!" Wakka exclaimed, giving a sort of cheesy grin.
"So how old are you, if you don't mind me asking?" Yuna enquired politely.
I was going to answer when Lulu interrupted us "Is this really important to know now? Because you should remember that we have a ship to catch to get to Luca on."
Yuna bowed apologetically, "Oh, sorry Lulu. I did not mean…" but Lulu had interrupted it again, sighing, "Its ok. I understand you didn't mean to, but you must focus on the pilgrimage. Now let's go."
We had all started to follow Lulu as she led the way down the stairs, but Tidus had not moved, "Are…are you Ok?" Yuna asked, looking a bit worried about his sudden stop.
"I…I don't know." But Yuna had decided to ask another question, "What do you want to do?"
"To scream real loud." Tidus put very bluntly and not enthusiastically.
Yuna had giggled at Tidus's weird answer. I had then decided to say something "Well, just lose it!" Tidus had agreed and screamed as loud as he could, making everyone around him think he was an escaped maniac.
After finally recovering from my fit of laughter, we had finally gotten past the forest and what was left of the port, reaching the S.S. Winno to take us to Luca.
"Off to Luca at last! The matches start as we get there, so rest up on the way, ya?" Wakka bellowed in some sort of pre-blitzball excitement. Tidusand Yuna also seemed to be excited about the blitzball and going to Luca.I was just looking forward to a nice, cool room, where I can take a nap.
Well, yet again SORRY! For not updating for a while (yeah, about 2 months n.n') but just busy (Scool work)and writers block, plus working on other story 'O.O.T.G.'
Also, in the next chap, one of my friends will be coming to Spira as well, which may complicate things and I will have to rethink some of my ideas for future chaps. Well, hope none of you are too peeved off at me, so please...REVIEW! And maybe even read my other stories n.n just a thought.
