When I woke up the next morning there was talking in the living room. I rose up and changed then walked to where the talking was coming from but I only saw a note. I shook my head and grabbed the note.
Wakka, Lulu, and I have gone to the beach for something. Come on down if you want to. –Tidus.
I laid the note back down and walked outside. Kids ran around. Young Parents lingered around the temple and elders sat outside their huts. I decided to head to the beach to see what they were doing. As I walked outside of the village I was bombarded with fiends. I had to kill maybe 20 wolves before I reached the first out of two bridges. After fighting off 20 some more fiends I finally reached the beach.
"Hello!" I chimed as I skipped to where I saw my three friends.
Wakka waved, Lulu smiled, and Tidus looked… nervous.
"What's going on?" I asked. I stopped in front of Tidus. Lulu's smile got a little wider.
"Go on bra." Wakka said pushing Tidus forward.
"H-Hey…" He said. His tan cheeks were a bright red. I glanced at Lu, who nodded, and Wakka who looked like he was about to laugh.
"Again, what's going on?" I asked.
"Rikku, I know it hasn't been that long since Yuna and I broke up-"Wakka interrupted Tidus.
"You sound like you're in 9th grade!" Lulu hit her immature husband then urged Tidus to continue.
I could feel my face getting hot "What's he doing?" I thought then listened to Tidus.
"Ya know what? I'll just say it." He took a deep breath "Will you marry me?" He asked so fast I could barely understand what he said.
"Y-Yes."I managed to get out. I was so stunned and happy.
Tidus looked relieved and hugged me. I hugged him back and he planted a kiss on my forehead.
"YAHA!" Wakka yelled. Lulu clapped.
When Tidus released me I turned to Lulu "Lu, you knew about this yesterday?"
"Half the village knew." Wakka said.
I giggled and Tidus took my hand in his. "What now?" He asked.
"What now?" Wakka said surprised.
"Planning." Lulu answered simply.
"Planning? For what the Wedding?" Tidus said.
"Are you THAT stupid? Ya bra." Wakka said tossing a Blitzball at his face. Tidus knocked it way and it landed in the sand.
"You have a lot to do. Like where you're going to have it, when, and who is invited." Lulu explained to Tidus.
"You didn't know how difficult it is?" I asked elbowing Tidus in the ribs playfully.
"N-No not really." He said.
"Let's get to it." Wakka said sitting on a large blanket on the sand and stretching out. Lulu sat beside him holding a pen and some paper. I flopped down and Tidus sat beside me and we began the painstaking work of planning.
"First, Where you gonna have it?" Wakka asked.
"Here, on the beach. I guess." I said Tidus nodded in agreement. I had butterflies in my stomach and I was nervous. It felt weird to sit down and plan my own wedding. Mine.
"Who is invited?" Lulu asked calmly.
"Any close friends and family." Tidus thought up.
"Yuna, Paine, Gippal, Nooj, Brother, Buddy, Shinra, Cid." I stopped there; I could have gone on and on.
Lulu giggled and wrote down all the names onto the paper. Wakka asked Tidus and he said he didn't have many friends.
"I haven't been back long. And I never made many to begin with…" Tidus's voice fell silent. I knew who he was thinking of.
"Its okay, Bra." Wakka said. Even his voice wasn't very cheerful. Tidus was thinking of him. Him, the man who brought him 1,000 years into the future, to Besaid, to Spira.
"Auron." He said slamming his fist onto the blanket. Some sand flew up.
"Tidus…." I mumbled. Everyone missed Auron. Tidus lived but Auron… was gone.
"Think about your happy day." Lulu tried to comfort. I glanced at Tidus, he looked like he wanted to scream or punch something.
I sighed then punched him He gasped un-expectantly.
"Ow what was that for?" He asked rubbing his side.
"Think of something happy! Auron wouldn't want you to sulk!" I cleared my throat and did an Auron impression. "Smile, Boy. " Lulu, Wakka, and I laughed. After a second, Tidus joined in.
After a few minutes of laughing we got back to work. Walking around and marking the beach where things could go. I didn't want it to be big. Wakka and I argued, He wanted flashy and I wanted simple, I had to remind Wakka that he wasn't even involved with this wedding. Lulu sent Wakka to the village to pick up Vidina from their part time baby sitter.
I looked around the beach "So when is it going to happen?"
"Maybe next week." Lulu said sketching something out onto a sheet of paper. What could it have been?
"Tidus?" I asked looking up at his cheerful face.
"Next Wednesday."
"Why not Sunday?" Lulu asked closing her tiny notebook.
"On a Wednesday, is when Rikku and I met back up, the day Yuna asked her to be her guardian?"
I smiled and grabbed his hand "Sounds good!" I said dropping it and skipping off.
"Rikku!" Lulu called after me.
"Yea Lu?" I asked from a few feet away.
"You need to get in touch with Brother, Paine, and the others." She stated walking passed me. Tidus walked up to me. I pulled the walkie-talkie mike out from my skirt pouch and buzzed in.
"Brother! I need to tell you something!" I yelled into it. But he didn't pick up.
"Brother? Buddy? "I asked again. Then finally someone picked up.
"You need the airship?" Buddy asked.
"Yea, kinda, and where's brother?" I buzzed back.
"Busy." Buddy said, turning off his end, I knew that because a loud fuzzy sound came through the mike.
I turned to where Lulu had walked. "Both of you go. I have work to do." Lulu said "I don't want either of you here."
I smiled and looked over at the Besaid Ocean. A large flying object was coming at Tidus and I. The Celsius.
When we walked into the main control area, we saw total chaos. Paine stood behind Shinra, they stared at a computer. Buddy was typing to search for something and Brother was putting the airship into high gear. I saw Yuna beside Paine. I didn't think she would be here. The automatic door opened behind me, Gippal, Nooj, and Baralai came running out of it. Gippal grinned at me and ran to Buddy.
"What's going on?" Tidus asked me.
"Like I know…" I said walking to Shinra's station.
"Rikku Look." Paine said pointing to the screen.
"You find a sphere?" I asked, I was dumbfounded. I had no Idea what was going on…
"Lenne, and Shuyin…" Yuna whispered.
"I found it in the desert. Buddy is analyzing where it could have came from now." Shinra stated.
"What- Hold on." Tidus said.
"What?" Paine asked, already annoyed.
"Who are Lenne and Shuyin?"
"We never told him." Yuna said looking back at the screen, in the corner it played the sphere. I watched with the others, stunned by what was seen……Must have been taken 1,000 years ago… I saw it. The beginning of what was Vegnagun……
Shuyin stood in a hallway, must have been under Bevelle, and started running. He ran and Ran until he came to this black room. I noticed a…. hand in his hand…?
I pressed stop on the keyboard.
"Look. That has to be Lenne's hand. I remember seeing something like this when Yuna sang in the ThunderPlains…"
"You're right." Shinra said, making that part of the sphere for further investigation. Then pressing play….
Shuyin stopped and turned to someone, Lenne. She looked sad and scared. Shuyin looked ready to give his life for her.
This time, Yuna stopped the sphere.
"I had a dream like this… back when the Gullwings first formed. But only of Tidus and me…" Her words trailed off and she pressed play.
The sphere went to a fuzzy screen then jumped to something.
A beach. A bright beach with the sun setting and two people sitting there.
"I have to go." A female's voice said.
"I will save you." A male's voice argued.
"No, you'll only die. You'll only cause it to be harder for me. I am a summoner and I have to. It's my duty." Lenne said to Shuyin and stood up.
"You're also a songstress." Shuyin yelled at the girl with long brown hair who was walking away.
"I will save you from death. I will let you live a happy, normal life." She said. Lenne's face looked strained. Tears poured from her eyes. The quality of the sphere wasn't good but you could see that.
"No, No, No, No, No, No!!!" Shuyin yelled running after Lenne. He grabbed her and pulled her to him, then the sphere cut off…
"Their time together…" Yuna said.
"You must have had the same dream, but the people switched, because of the dressphere, Lenne's dressphere."
"But I thought you made them." I complained.
"I'm just a kid. All I did was enhance them. " Shinra said turning back to the sphere.
Yuna walked away, only to be greeted by Baralai. I looked at Paine.
"So what does this mean?" I asked her. I was confused, and Tidus was to.
"Investigation."
"Huh!?" I asked her. She's so not helping.
"To see why this sphere surfaced now. Why now? Why not years later from now or a few years earlier? Al Bhed had been digging for years. Yea, there are millions of spheres, but why this one? Why the one that we have ties to?"
"Paine, you're making no sense." I said shaking my head.
"You'll understand eventually." She said laughing and walking over to Buddy.
"Aww, But I want to know now!" I complained to her, I even jumped up and down.
Someone walked up behind me "Confused?" His voice asked.
"Yea." I said. Gippal should be to.
"Ha, Well, Everyone here is." Gippal said.
" But I wanna know!" I said. Then looked around. The place had settled down. Tidus looked confused over by Paine and Buddy. Baralai, Nooj, and Yuna talked in a corner, and Shinra was hard at work uncovering the secrets of that sphere.
"We all do." Gippal said looking straight. I turned and Tidus was walking to me.
"Rikku, remember?" He called grinning.
I stuck my tongue out at him and looked at Gippal.
"Remember what?" He asked me.
"Tidus and I are-" Gippal interrupted me.
"Oh my god! Rikku! How could you!?"
"Huh?" I asked, what was he talking about?
"You're pregnant." He guessed.
"Huh!? No!!" I said. Not now, not for a few years.
"Then what is it?"
"We are getting…. Getting….Married." I choked out. It was news to me. We had been planning it all day, but I still can't see myself getting married. I'm 17, only 17. But I would never turn Tidus down. Never.
"What? That's….worse." Gippal mumbled.
"What? Why is it worse? Don't you want me to be happy….?" I was starting to break, again. Gippal, my old friend, Gippal was breaking because of me. The guilt ran through me. I knew I couldn't break, I couldn't fall, at least, not here. Not in front of everyone.
"I do want you to be happy… just… I just… don't think you'll achieve that with him."
"But he makes me happy. " I explained to Gippal.
"Okay. Whatever Shorty, just don't do anything stupid." He turned and headed for the elevator.
Someone patted my back. I turned to see my cousin, Yuna.
"Forget him. He's just jealous that you're too good for him." She said.
"But Yunie…" I said… "Wait. Did you hear all of it?"
"Congrats." She said with a smile. But the smile was fake. I could tell. I didn't say anything though. I knew she still loved Tidus. And was still heartbroken by his decisions.
"Thanks. " I said walking over to the steps. I sat down and the computer started beeping.
"False alarm." Buddy called shutting it off. "It will take weeks, possibly months to figure out where this sphere originated from."
"And a few days to get this sphere uncovered." Shinra said.
"Hey! Aren't you suppose to be smart or something?" I asked Shinra.
He shrugged and said his 'catch phrase' "I'm just a kid." And turned around and sat down.
Everyone was quiet and I knew this would be the chance to tell everyone. I didn't want to, Nuh-huh, no way. But I had to. "Everyone." I said standing up. Tidus watched from behind Buddy.
"Tidus and I are getting married." A few cheered, a few scowled. Isn't this Tidus's job? I wasn't suppose to do this. The guy was suppose to announce it… right?
Paine and Nooj walked up to me and said Congrats. Buddy and Brother stayed put. Shinra said congrats from his seat. Yuna and Baralai stood in a corner smiling. And Gippal wasn't there.
Tidus and I sat together on the steps. Our job was done. We told them all when it was.
"So soon!?" Yuna said.
"His idea." I said elbowing Tidus, again, in the ribs.
"Lulu's doing the planning." He said.
"We aren't allowed back until next Tuesday… " I said.
"Then let's go have some fun." Paine said. She had been leaning up against a wall.
"Yea." Yuna said. " I'm getting rusty!"
"I haven't fought much." Paine said.
"I haven't either." I said hopping up.
"Wait. Fighting?" Tidus questioned.
"Uh Yea. We fought to save you. And the world. We can fight a few fiends. " I said.
"Well I'm coming to. I haven't fought in a while either. " He said. Mr. Protective.
"Fine." Paine said "Just don't get in the way."
"Yeowch Paine, little mean? " I teased.
"52." She simply said.
"52?" Tidus and Yuna said together.
"Rikku's friend points. She only has 52 left."
"Aww. Paine!" I said.
"Don't Aww Paine me. 51." She said and left.
"Harsh!" I called after her, I chased her, Tidus and Yuna behind me. Baralai called after Yuna to be careful and Buddy said he would let us off on the Mushroomrock Road.
Time for some fun!
