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Lulu sighed in relief as the gang all rested after climbing the rocky wall of the Calm Lands Canyon. She looked down at her tethered dress and sighed, she knew this dress was ever meant to last. She decided to rip the dress right above her knees, so she was no longer limited to jogging after the guys as they dashed here there and everywhere. Once she was done that, she stood up and dusted herself off, and just to see what it might've looked like as a by-stander watching four random people climbing up the side of the Calm Lands. She looked over and probably would've never believed someone was able to climb that, but since she just did, she believed it. She turned around to Buddy, Wakka and Goofy who were all panting on the ground.
"Tired already boys?" Lulu teased them as she walked swiftly past them towards the center of the Calm Lands where they might just be able to rent a chocobo and get new clothes. By the look of it, they all needed clothes badly.
"Nah, just gotta rest, ya?" Wakka replied, using his arms to prop himself up.
"Yeah," Buddy agreed, "I dunno about you guys, but I can't remember when the last time I was out of the Celsius was…"
"We'll I'm all ready!" Goofy said, shooting up, "Me, Donald and Sora do stuff like this all the time!"
"Well, I need some new clothes, catch up with us later." Lulu said to Buddy and Wakka, and started of towards the center where the humongus tent was set up.
Lulu and Goofy walked into the newly build tent to see dozens of weapons and supplies. Lulu walked around the potions aisle while Goofy took a look down the shields and mage staffs.
After grabbing a few Hi-Potions and Mega-Potions, Lulu walked up to the counter to ask if they had any clothes. She saw Rin, the gillionaire, Why didn't I realize Rin was the only one rich enough to have all this supplies and weapons- and this tent? She asked herself as she walked up to the counter. Rin spun around and grinned at Lulu recognizing her from two years ago when the Al Bhed's Home blew up and all the Al Bhed escaped on the airship Rikku's father Cid had hidden.
"Welcome Lulu!" He greeted her with a warn smile, "What can I do for you here at Rin's Market?"
"I'm looking for clothes." Lulu replied, then lifted her tethered skirt to show Rin the reason, "My skirt got a little rip…"
"I can see…" Rin said, "One moment…"
Five minutes later Rin reappeared from the backroom with 10 different clothing articles drapped on his arm, "These haven't been put on the market yet, but since your one of my favorite customers, you can have first pick. There-" Rin pointed to the armory section,-" In there somewhere is a fitting room. Please feel free to try on as many as you like!"
"Thank you." Lulu replied sincerely and, taking the clothes from Rin, started off into the armory section.
"Dammit Brother! Answer me!" Rikku shouted into the intercom for the hundredth time. Still all she got was the static fuzz that hurt her ear. Getting frustrated she yanked the ear piece out of her ear, threw it onto the ground and crushed it out of frustration and anger.
"He doesn't want to answer me fine!" Rikku said, taking her place on her rock, "He can contact me the old fashioned way, BY GETTING THE HELL OUT OF THE CELSIUS AND ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR ME! Oui cdibet vilgehk ycc ruma." (You stupid fucking ass hole)
She sat on her rock for fifteen more minutes, when Rikku saw the guards that kicked her out rush out and into Macalania. Rikku watched curiously as they ran up the roots to what looked like a gigantic scorch mark. After fifteen more minutes, the guards started their way back, and as they passed her, the guard who let her out, stopped in front of her.
"What, is this your rock too?" Rikku asked, not in the mood for this guards shit.
"No, that's not why I'm here." He replied coolly, although by the looks if his face, he was ready to kill the Al Bhed girl, "I'm giving you a friendly warning."
"About…"
"About a large fiend of fire and darkness that has been terrorizing this area for a while. It just struck recently, killing what looks like two Al Bhed. I advise you to head for the Calm Lands, Miss, unless you have a death wish."
"I can handle myself!" She said in reply.
"Just warning you." The guard shrugged and walked off. Once Rikku was sure they were out of hearing range, Rikku shot up and jogged over to the place they were previously at. As she inspected the scorch marks, she felt like she recognized them some how.
But how can I recognize scorch marks? She asked herself, This is just to freaky.
As Rikku made her way over to the two bodies, she heard a twig snap. She whirled around, daggers out towards the thing behind her.
"Who ever you think you are buddy, you better show yourself!" She shouted. And then it emerged from the trees.
"Where do we look first?" Yuna asked Sora as they got the battle plan ready.
"We look in every page of this book." He replied, "They're gotta be a base, hideout or something- I mean, what else could they do?"
'Good point, buddy boy!" Tigger bounced up and down in agreement.
"But where?" Yuna asked.
"Well, we'll search the book!" Sora declared.
"Which will take how long?" Yuna asked skeptically, though trying not to totally crash his idea. It didn't work very well for her either. Sora hung his head in shame and sighed, "Good point…" He muttered gloomily.
"I didn't mean to offend you!" Yuna said, but Sora didn't respond, "Maybe this was a bad idea…" Yuna muttered aloud.
"Hold up there!" Tigger said, jumping up excitedly onto the rock that the group had been using for a table, therefore causing all the papers and maps to fly off. Tigger stood on the rock triumphantly and cleared his throat, getting everyone's attention.
"Uh-oh." Eeyore mumbled in his usual gloomy tone, "Tigger got an idea."
"First of all, we all gotta cheer up, right buddy boy?" Tigger turned towards Sora and punched him playfully on the arm. He then turned to Yuna, "Second a' all, you can't give up just cuz we haven't gots a plan yet! We've got…wait…you…me…buddy boy… piglet…Eeyore…. And Rabbit!... That makes…. Six! Six minds ready for workin'!"
"B-b-but…" Piglet started to stammer, but Yuna looked up at Tigger with a look of admiration. Then suddenly, she shot up from the rock she had seated herself on, scaring all of them, though mostly Piglet and Sora.
"Wha-?" Sora looked up and immediately covered himself with his arms.
"He's right!" Yuna said, looking around at the group with a fierce look in her eyes. She'd had the same look when fighting Seymour, two years past, and helping Shuyin and Lenne unite once again. She's been a heroine to all the people in Spira, so why should she stop now? She had her nine months rest; during those nine long lonely months in Luca changed her. She'd secretly never given up hope of seeing Tidus once last time, and she did! She saw him! Now not only was she fighting for Piglet and his friends, for the citizens of both Spira, and this universe, and fighting against Seymour, she was fighting for Tidus. To see him again. Her time with him was too short, and she barely even looked at him. She felt herself will up with a hatred so intense, that driven by it- a single man could kill off the Imperial Army. It's all HIS fault! She thought bitterly, All Seymour's fault! Well, 'MAESTER' Seymour is in for a hell of a ride when I get my hands on HIM.
Yuna awoke from her thoughts to see everyone staring at her, waiting for the rest of her speech.
"Oh! Uh… right!" Yuna said, resuming her fierce, determined stance, "We can't give up! We've all made it this far! We can't let your friends down! Do you really want to live with the feeling of regret and misery knowing that you left your friends for dead in the hands of a mad Heartless? No! You don't! Not get yourselves ready!" Yuna snapped suddenly into Drill Sergeant mode, "We'll divide up into teams! We'll cover more ground that way."
"Y-yes ma'am!" All of Sora's friends stammered, and scurried off into a secluded section of the cavern.
"Dang Yuna…" Sora said, approaching her, "What hap-" But he stopped as he watched Yuna's eyes turn cold. It scared him. Yeah he'd seen Yuna pissed off, but she always had a calm, sweet disposition. Now he stared at her, not caring if it were rude, due to the look in her eyes.
"I will kill you." She muttered to herself, causing Sora to leap backwards five feet. He almost drew out the Keyblade, he would've too, if it hadn't been for her adding, "I swear I WILL kill him."
"Seifer's the best, ya know?" The kid named Rai said. Paine clawed at her head, wondering of she could judt manage to dig in to rip her brain stem out, just enough to kill her.
It wasn't the fact that all three kids who'd saved their asses we're snobs, or the fact they we're so head strong. It was the 'ya know?' 'ya know?' that was spoken after every sentence belonging to Rai.
"We KNOW!" Tidus shouted in frustration, and tried to bash his skull against the tree trunk he was leaning against. Mickey paced around in circles, apparently not bothered by the constant, 'ya know?' kid. Lucky him. Paine thought to herself, then finally stopped trying to claw her way into her skull, Damn! And I though Wakka was bad? What the hell was I thinking! As soon as we get the hell out of here and find the others I'm going to apologize to Wakka for all the things I said about him.
"You don't have to jump down my thoat, ya know?" Rai replied to Tidus' remark. Tidus groaned and added an additional five bangs to the trunk.
I'd love to slit it though… Paine thought viciously to herself, and then found peace within her thoughts of murdering Rai.
Tidus was now suffering for a massive pounding headache. Not only was this hell on land, this was just plain torture. He would've preferred to be ripped apart by Valefor then have to sit though this and endure the 'ya know?'s' Which drew his mind into a spiral of worry. Thousands of questions flew through his mind.
Why is this happening?
How is this happening?
Is this Seymour's game?
How did the Fayth become a Heartless?
What will happen to them now?
What happened to Yuna?
No matter what he couldn't tear his mind off of Yuna. He tried to picture her facing the Aeons in a battle, once again. She's already had to do it one, just to defeat Sin. Yuna barely got through it, but she did. Now, almost three years later, she would have to do the same, only to protect innocent people, just like before. Only THEY we're the major bad guy, not Sin. He tried to picture her fighting once more, but found himself seeing her crying or fleeing for her life.
He sighed and leaned his head against the tree trunk. Maybe he could fall asleep into a nice dream...
"WHAAAAAK!" Shouted the fiend as it tackled Rikku to the ground.
"AH!" She shouted, trying to kick it off, "GET OFF! GET OFF! GET OFF!"
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!" It shouted again, but only differently, it sounded terrified. You should be! Rikku thought to herself, No one ambushes Rikku and gets away with it!
She wrestled it onto it's back and held the daggers up to it's throat. Then she recognized the face.
"Hey! Aren't you that duck that pals around with that Sora kid?" She asked, still on top of Donald and still threatening to slit his throat, though she didn't realize it.
"Yeah!" Donald replied, "Now get off of ME!"
"Sorry!" Rikku shot up and let him settle. She plopped down and surveying the area, asked, "What happened here?"
"Well, the ship crashed!" Donald said, "Me, the blondie named Brother, and the whiz kid got separated froom Goofy and the other three."
"You OKAY?" She asked, "How about the others?"
"W-well… we WERE…."
"What does that mean?" Rikku demanded suddenly.
"Well, the Shinra kid was trying to contact the others, when something attacked us…"
"How is Brother? And Shinra?" Rikku demanded again in a panicky voice.
"It was a bloodthirsty beast… with flames erupting from it's body…"
"Oh no!" Rikku shot up and to the scene where she'd seen the black ash. Donald walked after her as she saw the two bodies on the ground and collapsed on her knees, sobbing uncontrollably.
"You ass hole!" Rikuk screamed as she pounded on her brother's lifeless corpse, "I KNEW YOU WERE GOOD FOR NOTHING! HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME TOO? WHY? I HATE YOU!"
"I-I'm sorry." Donald said, walking up next to Rikku, who broke out crying again.
After fifteen minutes of deadly silence, Rikku and Donald heard someone approaching them.
"Aye. I see yer point. But my lad, I am- Rikku?" The man said, turning the corner and recognizing his long time friend.
"O-O'aka?" She choked.
"Aye, and Wantz!" Wantz said turninf the corner, "Is everything alright Miss Rikku?"
Rikku broke out sobbing again, and O'aka and Wantz ran over to help. Rikku was miserable, she just lost her brother. Unfortunately, all three guys had no clue how to help…
"Very stylish Lulu." Rin said as Lulu walked out in a purple tube-top that had a very sexy look to it. It matched perfectly with the black jeans that hugged her legs tightly and the black high heel boots that just made it look awesome. Lulu had tied her black braids into a bun on the back of her head, which made her look great.
"I like this." Lulu said, walking up to the register and starting for her wallet to pay Rin the gil, when a hand stopped her. Lulu looked up to see Rin looking at her sincerely.
"Lulu. Don't you dare pay me one gil! You are the former guardian of Lady Yuna, a Savior of Spira. I will not charge you."
"Thanks." Lulu said, then whinced at the sound of tumbling armor.
"Sorry!" Goofy shouted from underneath a pile of shields, chest guards, and chain mail vests.
Done! Finito! Sorry it took so long to update I was busy! I'm back though! Sorry ! More soon! Review!