Blargh... I've been busy lately... lots of things on my hands... but anyway, I finally wrote out this chapter. Hope you like it.

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I stared into the room. It was quite empty just like I remembered it. I took two steps in before realizing that I never was good at puzzles.

"Damn it." I thought.

So I looked around again. I knew how to do the first part, that was easy. Touch the glyph riiight... here! Now go touch the glyph that appeared! I walked down the stairs and took the glyph sphere from the slot. Then I walked down the other set of stairs to the door

and put the sphere there. I then decided to take the sphere along... just in case.

"Why couldn't Tidus do this?" I wondered as I slid the sphere into my pocket.

About halfway down the hall, I noticed something I had never seen before. A sphere slot in the wall. Seeing no other spheres around, I went ahead and put my glyph sphere in. The wall rumbled and shook, before opening into a small chamber. Upon entering, I

recognized a destruction sphere. I never had figured out what these were supposed to do, but I took it anyway, sliding it into my pocket. I walked the rest of the way down the hallway and made a right, walked to the end and made another right to come to a blank

wall.

"Odd." I thought.

I went back and noticed a pedestal on a wall. I put the destruction sphere in by the wild chance that it might do something. Nothing happened. Groaning, I took it out and turned around to go see if I missed something and finally noticed the letters on the wall.

"Stupid stupid stupid... how could I miss that?" I thought.

I walked over and touched the letters. They dissolved and revealed another glyph. I touched that also. The wall raised, revealing a room filled with lines of light. I walked in and followed the lines to a single point, the Besaid sphere. I took that and went back out into

the hall. Upon putting the besaid sphere into the pedestal, the wall began glowing and disappeared, revealing yet another room. It looked like the end of the trials to me, but I still had that one sphere, the destruction sphere. I decided to find out what it did.

"Where is a place it might go?" I thought. After a minute, realization struck me, and I turned around to the besaid sphere room. The lines of light were gone now, but the sphere holder was still there. I walked over and put the destruction sphere in, half expecting it to

do nothing, when a single light line lit up and I heard an explosion. Running out of the room, everything still seemed to be fine. Ignoring the end of the trial for now, I re-examined the whole downstairs area until I came back to the blank wall, except it wasn't

blank anymore, or rather, a hole had been blown in it, revealing a treasure chest. Excited, I walked over and opened it slowly and found the rod of wisdom. I backtracked and went back to the pedestal and heard the sound of a door opening. Quickly, I pushed

the pedestal into the room until it sank into the floor. The wall re-appeared behind me, and the ground changed to look like a rug. All of a sudden, the ground lurched and I was thrown off balance.

"Oh yeah... the elevator..." I thought.

I rode it down into the room below. Upon reaching the bottom, I stuck my back to the wall, sidled over to the doorway, and peeked in. I recognized Lulu and Kimahri standing just outside the door to the chamber. I slipped silently into the area and hid behind a statue,

waiting for Wakka and Tidus. I was amazed at how quiet it was in here. So quiet, in fact, that I didn't realize that Tidus and Wakka had shown up until I heard them talking with Lulu.

"I wonder where that kid went." I heard Wakka say.

"Kid? what kid?" Lulu asked.

"That guy I picked up a few days ago. He got angry and rushed in here." explained Wakka

"You mean like him?" Lulu whispered, pointing to an oblivious Tidus.

"Umm... yeah." Wakka said.

I peeked around the statue, and immediately hid again. They were not but two feet away!!!

All of a sudden, a loud THUNK! issued from the door, before it slid upwards, revealing Yuna in all her splendor. She took one step, two, before falling. Tidus made a move to catch her, but Kimahri was faster and immediately did so, setting her back on her feet.

"I've done it! I've become a summoner!" Yuna exclaimed after regaining her composure.

After a minute or so, the whole group just up and left. Walked to the elevator and went out. After I guessed it had gone up, I made my way over to it, and seeing it down again, went up myself.

One boring walk out of the Cloister of Trials later...

I peeked out the door. Nobody was there, so I went out. I walked casually over to the circle of people surrounding Yuna. I couldn't really see much, all things considered, but I did see Valefor come flying out of the sky, and felt the ground shake a little from it's landing.

After Yuna dismissed the Aeon, the crowd began to disperse a little bit. I decided to go on a little fiend hunting expedition by myself to help ease my boredom.

Not five seconds after I exited the village, One Dingo, and one Condor attacked me. I ran over and punched the dingo in the face, before pulling out my knife and cutting it across the top of it's head, just barely missing the stab. The crazy condor snuck up on me,

pecking me on the head, and while I was distracted, the dingo came up and bit down on my arm. After punching it in the face again, I kicked it in the ribs, forcing it back, before JUST barely dodging another pecking assault from the condor. They both retreated a bit,

and I threw one of the grenades I had stolen from a piranha, injuring both of them badly. Before they could recover, I slashed the condor's neck, and it exploded into pyreflies. The dingo attempted to bite me again, but I punched it in the face a third time, which proved

to be just too much for it to handle. It burst into pyreflies as well. I drank a quick potion, and watched my wounds heal themselves.

It was dark now, so I headed back to the village. Walking over to Wakka, he said,

"Where were you?"

"What? You didn't see me? I was right behind you the whole time!" I responded.

"You little sneak!" he laughed. "Anyway, you look beat."

"Yeah." I said.

"Going to bed?" he asked.

"Yeah." I said.

"You can sleep in the crusader's lodge just over there." He said.

"Yeah." I said.

"Okay then... See you tomorrow." He said.

"Yeah." I said.

I headed over to the crusader's lodge and laid down in one of the many beds there. Within a few seconds I was asleep.

TIMESKIP...

"I HATE YOU!" came a loud outburst.

Startled, I woke up. Still groggy, I looked over to see Tidus sitting up in bed, glaring at nothing. It was still dark outside. I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. I succeeded, and didn't wake up again.

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