Thanks so much for the reviews ^-^ You guys have no idea how much they mean to me. I just have to say this: starry34 and VVolf, you guys made my day with those reviews on chapters 7, 8, & 9. Thanks ^-^ Anyway, this chapter's taken long enough. Read on!!

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Guadosalam. Home of- you guessed it- the guado. What's a guado? I can't rightly say I know. But someone did.

Yes, I'm talking about Rikki. How did she know so much about Spira? She said she'd grown up in that lab, and I'd bet anything they weren't too worried about her education.

No matter where she learned it, she was a genius when it came to guado history.

Not that I cared all that much. I mean, I don't give a crap about some Jyscal guy doing something amazing. If it had something to do with Yevon then I was against it.

Guadosalam was a really small place but somehow I managed to get lost in it.

"Tidus." Rikki whined. "How could you get lost? We were in a freaking cave for crying out loud!"

"Yeah, a freaking cave with freaking pieces of freaking rock suspended on the freaking walls." I replied. The word 'freaking' was starting to sound a little weird. Rikki just rolled her eyes.

"Begone, heathen!" One of the guado suddenly bellowed at her. "Such filth must not walk in the home of Maester Jyscal!" I thought Rikki said that guy was dead. But at that moment, that was least of my concerns, seeing as Rikki had to keep a strong grip on my arms to keep me from knocking the guy out.

Filth! He called the Al Bhed filth! Who did he think he was?!

He was gonna' be dead soon. Now, I'm not usually a killer. Not even blood-thirsty. But I'd had it with Spira's prejudice against the Al Bhed.

Rikki saved that guy's life.

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After my little outburst, Rikki tried to get me to leave that place. I would have gladly done so, except for one problem.

The guard at the exit wouldn't let us through. He said there was a huge storm on the Thunder Plains and it was too dangerous to cross them.

That was a really bad thing for him to say, seeing as I was already pissed as hell and stuffed with adrenaline from the last guado.

Too bad Rikki wasn't fast enough the second time around.

I don't know if he was dead or just unconscious. I can't really say I cared either.

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To leave out all of my screaming, swearing, and rude name-calling, this whole episode didn't go over too well with the guado. Unfortunately, they weren't gonna' let that one slide. One of them was ordered to fetch "Maester Seymour".

Why did that name sound familiar?

As soon as I saw him it was obvious.

It was that blue haired freak from Operation Mi'ihen! [Thanks for the spelling, by the way. Continue]

"Ah." He smiled evilly when he saw it was me. "We meet again." I decided I didn't like him. Or his smell. The overwhelming aroma of hairgel was making me nauseas. I was busy trying not to barf my guts up, so my brain didn't even acknowledge that hairgel-man was talking.

You know what? He didn't strike me as a Seymour. So I'm calling him Hairgel from here on out. If you don't like it then too bad.

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"Two outbursts." Hiargel shook his head with a sigh. He'd dragged us (well, technically his minions had) to his home, which was about the size of the rest of Guadosalam. "We must take serious action. You have inflicted dire injury upon a guado. Have you not pondered Yevon's consequence?" He drawled. I hated his voice. He sounded like he'd been dropped on his head by his mother one too many times.

"I don't care about Yevon." I snapped in response. He looked only mildly surprised at this.

"It is not necessary to do everything the Al Bhed say." He countered lamely. No way was he turning me into a Yevonite.

Never.

"Well, it looks to me like they've got the right idea here." I snarled. "They're trying to make life easier. Why do you Yevon freaks have to keep cutting that down?!"

"If machina is used then Sin will never be defeated." He said simply. The way he stayed calm was getting to me, but know way was I gonna' let him know it.

It took me a while to realize the whole thing was a waste of time. We were supposed to be headed for Zanarkand! Why were we sitting in this dude's house?!

I motioned to Rikki to run on my signal. She gave me a barely perceptible nod. As Hairgel dove into another lecture, I quickly snapped my wrist towards the door. Rikki and I shot out of our seats and out the door in a single movement.

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My writing style was a little different in this chapter, and I used "freaking" as lot. I've been reading too much Maximum Ride lately. Anyway, I had not idea how long this would be when I typed it up. It was about 6 pages when I wrote it in my illegible cursive. Anyway, I'm still going with this. Just very… very… slowly…