Ok, time for the long long long long (hours later) long long long long Mi'ihen Road. This chapter is basicly small snipits of their traveling on the road of hell, so there's gonna be a lot of scene transitions.

Zysos: Yay! I got a review from the first person to appear on my favorite list! Oh and sorry for mistaking your gender, and thanks for letting me use some jokes (I also stole the Dona and Blitzball joke).

Discalmer: Look, as much as I want to, I can't think of good witty comments on how I don't own things. So flat out, I don't own the scene dialog for the scenes with Calli, "Don't say it's not worth it", the Al Bhed shop, Gazzu n' Luzzu, the Chocobo Knights, and Seymor's appearance scenes (I took that from AquaFlameElementalist's "Our Final Fantasy", I seriously owe a huge thank you to him), Khaiza and Bob, Star Wars (wait, this isn't copyrighted! W00t!), and I don't own FFX. Or a pile of C4. Wait, erm… ZOMYGODLOOKBEHINDYOU (runs away)

I accidentally used that name for a bit for this story in the first three or so chapters .' I changed it to Our Story so I wouldn't get it confused.


Chapter 11: BIRDY!
Jack's POV

"Can we rent some chocobos?"

"Sorry sir, there is a fiend attacking our chocobos, so we can't have any chocobos out to ride."Damn, I knew I forgot something. I also think I forgot something important about this place…

"Well, sorry for troubling you" I said, sighing. This was gonna be a long, painful ride

Oh fryd.


"Are we there yet?" Mike asked "No..." One minute later… "Are we there now?" "No…" Another minute later "NOW are we there yet?" Lulu freaking snapped at this point.

"FOR THE LAST TIME, NO! I am SICK of you asking this FIFTY FIVE TIMES!" "Fifty nine actually" Auron said, not caring to round up. "WHATEVER THE NUMBER! I am going to KILL you if I hear you ask that stupid question even just ONE. Stupid. TIME! UNDERSTAND!" Mike just slowly nodded his head up and down.

For the next few minutes, it was fine, the only talking was between Yuna and Lin. Then…

"Are we there yet?" Lulu lost it, and for the next ten minutes, we either were laughing, helping Mike, or helping Lulu.

"Calm down Lulu, Mike didn't even ask that!" Auron said, while holding one hand down with his right hand, me pinning her left. "Oh come on! Of course he did! Now let me go so I can at least cast ONE fira!" Mike, hearing this, ran faster, and even resorted to using Yuna who has been standing on the sidelines (laughing like crazy with Tidus and Lin) as a human shield. Lulu somehow broke free of my grasp, and miraculously, actually hit Auron hard enough to get him to let go. Lulu ran toward Mike and Yuna (aka his shield) and readied a spell. She raised her hand and Wakka tackled her, just as a blaze of fire missed Yuna by an inch.

"Woah! Lu calm down! So what if Mike said that, is it worth frying Yuna to get revenge, ya?" "Yeah! And if you just listened to who said it, it obviously was a GIRL!" That got Lulu to stop her stuggling, then a minute passed. Wakka finally got off of her from the tackle, and she walked up to Lin. "Ok, I want a straight answer, did you or did you not say that."

"Um, I-" "ANSWER NOW!" As she raised her hand. Yuna quickly got infront of her and yelled "Stop! I did!" This caught Lulu by surprise, and yet again a fire blast went a few inches away from Yuna. "Yuna, you did it?" "Yes, sorry… it just… I…" "Thought it would be fun, ya?" "Yes…"

Silence… Then, Tidus started to laugh, Wakka not far behind it. Soon we all started laughing, then after that, Lulu had us move on. I don't think Lin or Yuna knew I heard this, but I heard Lin whisper to her "Thanks for taking the heat for me".

And in this whole thing, Maechen was watching us, and by the time we finished, already left.


"Sooooo… Why are we going down this evil road again?" Lin asked "I think it's to make everyone go crazy" "Are you just asking to be incinerated Mike?" "See what I mean?" Mike then ran ahead to avoid Lulu killing him. He ran ahead, looking back a few times. The third time… WHAM! He ran into the statue. Sadly, Maechen was at this statue. I surmised that even if we go on a team kill spree, go partially insane, die ten times, encounter an evil boss, or anything happens infront, to, at, or anything else related to him… He will still be here to torture us with his teachings. After a long evil lecture ("If this road was dedicated to high summoner Mi'ihen, I think the world would have been better if sin stayed for a while longer." Mike said part way through to us) he finally left!

Now, I hated his lecture, but… there was one good thing about this. I looked to my right after he finally finished, sighing. There, in that spot, was a…

"Oh my god… a chocobo!" I shouldn't have said anything. "Chocobo?" "I call it!" "What the heck's a choco- BIRDY!" "As the summoner of us, I get to ride it!"

A/N: If anyone's wondering who said what, the order was Jack Mike Tidus Lin Yuna. BIRDY!

"NO WAI I GOT IT!" "I SAW IT FIRST!" "COME ON! I WANT TO RIDE ONE! AT LEAST LET ME TOUCH IT!" "I WANT TO RIDE THE BIRDY!" "LET ME GO BEFORE I HAVE VALEFOR FORCE YOU TO LET ME RIDE!" This fighting continued for a few minutes (Lulu made the others stay back so she could watch Mike fight in this.) until the chocobo, finally waking up from the sleep from the boring speech, got up to see us fighting. We kept fighting, not knowing it was silently leaving, until Lulu and Wakka started bursting out in laughter. We stoped to see why they were laughing, looked for the chocobo and…

"ARGH! IT'S GONE!" "NO WAY! I WANTED TO RIDE IT!" "AW COME ON!" "BIRDY!" "AAAAHHH!"

(A/N: They said this same order as in the first A/N'd secton. Yeah, Lin just calls it birdy. Curse you Mi'ihen road! You've driven another person insane!)

Then all of us yelled out "NOOOOO!" and collapsed on the ground. We finally got up, saddened by the loss of a means of easy transportation, and started to continue on. Lin rose up last from us.

"…birdy…"


We fiddled around with our sphere grids after the loss of the "Birdy". I finally got to the "Normal AP" thing, and I got a white mage spell, float, with it. As soon as we looked up, right on cue, was Belgemine.

"Hey, they put Princess Leia as a cameo in this!" "Can the dumb jokes Mike." Lin said, even is she was smiling from this, while I was outright bursting in laughter.

Blah blah blah, they get into a fight, Ifrit vs Ifrit (I did this, I got my ass kicked sadly, but hey, I can change somethings can't I?) and, like I remembered, Yuna's Ifrit was losing. A stray bomb floated near Belgemine's aeon, and he simply homerun hit it away. This gave me an idea.

"Hey Yuna!" I said, then I whispered my evil plan to Yuna. She walked up to Ifrit and whispered something into his ear, and he got into a defencive position. From this, Ifrit 2 started throwing fireballs like no tomorrow, and then a second bomb floated by Yuna. Ifrit quickly grabbed this, and threw it at Belgemine Ifrit's fireball, causing a huge explosion to occur, easly beating her Ifrit.

A/N: I got this idea from my first play through. Immediately after fighting Ifrit (and dieing) I encountered some bombs. I thought "oh, NOW you show up!" then I got this evil idea. Too bad you can't throw them at enemies, that would rock. And be quite fun!

Belgemine eyed me, then turned back to Yuna, congratulating her on her win, and giving her some things, and stuff. Then she walked off, which I think she wasn't pleased at me because I might have helped Yuna "cheat". Oh well, she doesn't let us have the Magus Sisters immediately, her punishment.


"Sixty four bottles of ale on the wall, sixty four bottles of ale! Take one down, pass it around, Sixty three bottles of ale on the wall!" Practicly everyone joined in, excluding Auron (he's Auron, of course he won't lose sanity!), Kimari (dot dot dot. Yeah, talkative much.) and me, which I was quite surprised by being sane. Everyone else, including goth girl Lulu (who was singing this next to Mike!) even was included. It's official. This road IS for making you go insane. At fifty five bottles we got to Rin's Travel Agency. Everyone (excluding Kim and Aur, but me included) all cheered as we got into a sprint, and neared the travel agency. A lady noticed us, "My lady summoner!" she exclaimed. The girl saw us and walked towards Yuna. "You're a summoner?" she asked. Yuna knelt down. "Yes. My name is Yuna." "I'm Calli." the girl said, introducing herself. "Nice to meet you, Calli." Yuna said. "Lady Yuna, are you going to bring us the Calm?" "Yes, very soon." Yuna replied, causing the girl to jump up and down. "Yay!" "We're looking forward to another Calm, my Lady Summoner." Her mother said. "I'll do my best." Yuna said as the woman saw us. "And good luck to your guardians as well." She motioned for Calli to follow her as she left.

"What's the Calm?" Tidus asked as soon as they were out of earshot. "The Calm is a time of peace. It comes after a summoner defeats Sin, and lasts until Sin reappears."Lulu explained."Sin dies and is reborn." Yuna added. "I get it! I thought it was weird. Yuna's dad defeated Sin ten years ago, right? But Sin's still here! Didn't make much sense until now." Tidus said, finally figuring it out. Mike inturupted and stole Tidus's line, "Wait...if it just comes back..." "Don't say it isn't worth it...because it is." Yuna said, cutting him off. Tidus seemed more surprised than Mike was, which was expected.

"We rest here." Auron stated, and guess who cut in? "But this is an Al Bhed shop!" Wakka said. "Is that a problem?" "They don't believe in Yevon, and in Luca they...they kidnapped Yuna!" Wakka said. "Where were her guardians?" Auron said. "He's got you there." Lin pointed out."Sir Auron's just concerned about your health." Yuna said. "I'm not tired one bit!" Wakka said. "I am." Auron said, going in the shop. I snuck up behind him, and gave Wakka a slight nudge, he stumbled and fell over. "And I'd say you lied about your tiredness." I said, and I watched the little scene with Yuna's recording. I snuck a bit closer, and I heard just what I wanted to hear. Her thoughts on us.

"Mike, your funny and kind. I have to say, it was fun watching you and Lulu fight, and I'm sorry, because if you wanted whoever framed you to get punished, I covered up Lin. Lin, your nice and friendly, or atleast most of the time, and I'm going to miss having someone to talk to. Jack, your smart, and like the others, nice. You also seem to know a lot more than the others… I kind of would want to know why. I also have to say… Thanks. We only met that day, and you three joined us with barely knowing me. Along with, the last person. I guess he's the only one left… The star player of the Zaniarkand Abes…" I knew the rest of it, and I decided to hightail it away to not look too suspicious. I passed Tidus on my way back.

"Whatcha doin'?"


The three of us decided to turn in. Mike started a run toward the door, only to be met by a

WHAM!

"Ow?" he said, falling onto the ground.

"Pygy" (Baka) Rin muttered as he emerged from the door after it stopped on the human brake.

(A/N:Baka practically, if not literally means Idiot in Japanese, wow, Rin insulted in Japanese Al Bhed, double translation)

"Come again?"

"Oh, erm, I ment Pardon me." Rin said, then he quickly ran off to the chocobo coral.

I helped Mike up, saying "You do know he insulted you in Al Bhed" quietly.

"Tim Allen's bed?" "Al bhed you mor- you know what forget it, lets go inside." I said


I couldn't sleep good that night either. Being on a long road lets your mind wander, and I remembered shattered fragments of memories. Putting the pieces of them together, I remembered… I remembered Bevelle in depth… The Guados… The Ronzos and their sacrifice… and the biggest one of them…

…Operation Mi'ihen. The evil operation, a setup and a way to be rid of many sin spawns. A lie… A manslaughter. What was the purpose of this, if some people thought that Yevon was wrong, what's the problem. Why would they want to kill them… That's when I remembered. Seymor. Him and the other human Maesters, their darkness, and uncaring.

"Lets let them dream for a little while longer."

I would have wanted to be there… to stop them from dieing…

…Perhaps tomorrow I will get that chance. And at that, I fell asleep.


I woke up to our personal alarm clock.

"KHAZIABOBHASWAFFLETREES!"

"Miiiiiiiikkkee….."

"EEP!"

Lucky for Mike, Lin was way to tired to kill him. She just got up, and she just forgot all about him and his "waffle trees"

A/N: Hehehe, I love making random phrases!

After we got up, I told them the whole "Chocobo eater incident" would happen. Perhaps not the best idea...

"OMG! THE BIRDIES!" And Lin darted out.

We just simply walked out and waited there for the evil fiend. ("Jack, is your plan to any trap to just camp a spot?" "…Um, yes?")

(A/N: My friend asked me this during a video game fight. I answered the same way, and in his laughing fit I scored a free shot .)

Not long after, the chocobo eater emerged, and I greeted it with a special surprise…

"FIRAGA!" A huge explosion send it rolling back to the cliff edge, an added bonus of alerting everyone. Mike and Lin held it off from advancing any more until the rest of us showed up. "Hey Lulu, this thing burns like a candle, why not show us some fireworks?" "Gladly." She raised her arm, and then brang it down in a quick sweep, making the monster trip off the end and into it's doom.

"Well… that was anti climatic."


(A/N: Before I continue, I realized a problem with making my chars go loopy by the time they get to the travel agency. Yuna and the crew should have met Gazza and the Chocobo Knights, and I wanted to have them keep some sanity for these. For this reason, they will end up meeting them after, and my only excuse is that the road goes on longer than it shows. IT'S EVIL-um-ER!)

"Hey guys! Rin's letting us rent a chocobo for free!" Wakka said at the back of the corals. "HOORAY!" "SWEET!" "YAY!" "BIRDIES!" "Um, guys? He said A chocobo…" We suddenly wend dead silent. Auron came up to us on a chocobo, not bothering to grab anything with his arms because he still did not like them. "Actually, Rin gave us five, enough to ward of any fiends that are close by. However, since you all were so slow, we all took one." It was true, Auron, Lulu, Kimari, and now Wakka were on a chocobo. We all looked at eachother.

"…" "…" "…" "…" "…" . . . "MINE!" And yet again, we fought over the last chocobo. Then, finally, when Tidus started to run ahead to the chocobo, Auron then clunked down a heavy backpack on it. "Huh?" "You honestly didn't think me or Kimari would be carrying this while we had a ride, did you?"

"…" "…" "…" "…" "…" "AAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!"


So on we went, at least not encountering enemies, but Tidus was now ticked off, Mike bummed, Yuna looking depressed, and Lin seeming to be on the verge of tears ("Birdy… why?")

After a long time of walking, and Lin finally looked up for a second, then perked up and, while running top speed, yelling "BIRDY!" at the top of her lungs, then ending in a diving hug onto Clasko's Chocobo

Lucil looks at Lin, and her large smile while hugging his chocobo. "Looks like you have a rival in fandom Clasko." She looked up ahead to see Yuna and the others. "Lady Summoner, I presume?" "Yes. I am Yuna." Yuna replied. "I am Lucil, captain of the Djose Chocobo Knights." she said. The other girl said, "And I'm Elma. We've been charged to guard the Highroad." "There have been reports of a large fiend appearing in this area, with a taste for chocobos. Do take care, Summoner Yun-" Lucil said. "There is no need, we beat it already." Yuna replied. "Oh, well then… um, we should get back to our rounds. Farewell!" "Our prayers are with you." Elma said. They left off quite fast ("HEY! I STILL WANT TO HUG THE CHOCOBO!")

"Heh, she sure got surprised that we did her job for her" "Yeah, not like this is new for you huh Jack?" "Point taken"


Soon, we saw Gatta and Luzzu. They congratuated us on the game and Lucil chewed them out because they weren't paying any attention to some kind of mission. A little while later, we saw two people. One of them was male, and looked like he was a soldier, and the other one was female, and wearing green robes. "We'll defeat Sin any way we can!" the man snapped at her. "But Yevon's teachings say..." "Enough!" He exclaimed, leaving. "I-I only meant to..." She said aswe approached her. "Are you all right?" Yuna asked her, suprising her. "Lady Summoner...?" She asked, doing the prayer after a moment. "Yes, I am Yuna." Yuna replied. The girl smiled. "It is an honor, my lady. My name is Shelinda. I am a disciple of Yevon." She said.

"What was that all about? The Crusaders' operation?" Wakka asked. "The one Gatta and Luzzu were talking about...that one?" I asked. "I heard they were to use forbidden machina! I had to stop them." She replied, her fists shaking. "Huh? Why?" "The use of machina is strictly forbidden by the Yevon priesthood." Lulu explained. "That's bad, ya?" Wakka added. "Let them use whatever they want. They still won't defeat Sin." Auron simply stated. "But, it's not about defeating Sin! The teachings of Yevon must be upheld!" Shelinda exclaimed. "Yeah! Right!" Wakka added. "But you don't understand!" she continued. "The Crusaders won't listen to me. And it's all because I'm just a lowly acolyte." "Don't say that." Yuna says. "Well, I haven't been a summoner for very long myself, you see. Still, I can't put myself down every time I fail. People are depending on me. They're depending on both of us!" She said, trying to cheer her up, which she did. "Yes! Yes, you're right, my lady. Absolutely right! Thank you so much, Lady Yuna! Now, I feel I have the courage to finish my training." She said, doing the prayer one more time before leaving. I rolled my eyes.


"Finally! The gate!" I said. The sinspawns were still in their cages, waiting to be shipped. We saw Gazza and Luzzu again, talking with yuna and the others before heading in with their spawn. Mike started to talk to one of the guards there, "So… what's this Operation thing about?" "Well, the Al Bhed and Crusaders are going to team up. We're bringing sin spawn from all over to here. Sin comes for the Sin Spawn, and falls right into a trap! You see, Al Bhed hate Sin as much as we do. They've managed to salvage ancient machina. They say they're as powerful as the mighty aeons." he said, causing Yuna to gasp, coming over after their chat with the two. "Well, you know machina are forbidden by Yevon. Ah...on second thought, let's not go there. Better for you not to know." He said nervously." " However the Crusaders in Operation Mi'ihen have all been excommunicated. My own family won't even speak to me now. We have to beat Sin today. Otherwise, there's nowhere for us to go." The guard continued. Mike and Lin frowned. "Well, what if… what if some tragic event happened, and you survived, would they still refuse you?" I asked. "Perhaps, perhaps not, only time will tell us, but we can't think about that now. We must defeat sin, even if it takes our very lives! Even if it means using forbidden machina!" he finished, and then we walked away. We talked about this situation. "We talked to Luzzu and Gazza. They said that no one, not even summoners are allowed to go there!" "Well, we may as well go back, if we can't go through here." Tidus said. "Or find another way out" Lin said. We nodded and turned to leave, excluding me. "Ok, you guys do that, come get me if you find a way through!" They nodded, and left. I waited until they were out of ear shot.

"Yeah. Forbidden machina my foot, the temple in Bevelle probably has more. Damn liars of Yevon." "And you would know how?" I looked up to find Auron. It looks like out of earshot was farther than I expected. I decided, that this being Auron, that I would be safe to reveal what happens.

So I told him. I told him about Bevelle. I told him about the corridors and paths. I told him this, and I told him the most important thing now. "Operation Mi'ihen, its just a tool… they know the outcome, its just…" "Just to kill those who don't support Yevon." "You know?" "It's not hard to see through the fakeness." "Yet you'll-" "Play along, yes I will. And you?" "I intend on playing it too, for the most part." "And what would change?" "I don't know… I want to make people not go, but that would…" "Completely defeat any chance of helping ever." "Exactly." "Then the answer is don't. I learned this the hard way. Yet I still have one more chance." "Yeah… as an unsent…" "So don't make a move. Not unless you are sure of it. Or if it is truly needed." "That was exactly what I was thinking." "And remember, even if one fails, there still may be another chance to right things."

(A/N: Yay! Another Jack/Auron talk! And man am I bored. Time to finish this chapter!)

We heard footsteps, so we cut this conversation short. "Find anything?" I asked. "Nope, no way over to Djose, ya." "So now what do we do?" "You could ask a maester." "What maest- Seymor!" Yuna said, surprised to see him.


It's time… almost time… almost time for sin's slaughtering.
Yay! So ends another chapter. And wow, these skits were longer than I expected! Anyway, it's onto Mushroom Rock, and a 3rd encounter with Sin. Jack has wished he could change the tide in this fight since he saw this, and stop the death, but am I gonna let him. Of course I am, what kind of Author would I be if I didn't?

Just so you know, I planned some of this story out, but I only planned the highlights of it, and just so you know, this is one of them, so hopefully I can make a great quality chapter!

Along with planning highlights, I actually planned some highlights if I was to do a sequal to this O.o' The fact that Lin loves chocobos is actually part of i- ERM I mean… LOOK A WAFFLE TREE! (runs away)

Sorry for the fact that this got worse and worse, and having such a bad ending, it's now 1:45 AM and I started to type this at 11:00 PM. I seriously should do this earlier -.-' Chocobo Knights were almost completely borrowed and Gaz, Luz, and Shelinda's section was 100 copied.

Please review! And now, my final words of this chapter…

YAY, BIRDY!