Chapter Eleven

As I fell in agonizingly slow motion, couldn't help but notice the ten other people tumbling toward the water. I lurched forward, and I could've sworn there was a splat when I hit the ground. Then I started sliding. I don't know what Yuna was screaming about; she was holding onto the harpoon shooter.

In an act of quick thinking, I grabbed one of my claws and stuck it in the floor, and then I held onto it for dear life. A high-pitched scream sounded from below. At least I was safe.

Botta came running up two seconds later. "FIEND!! FIEND!!"

"NO FRICKIN' DUH SHERLOCK!!" I shouted.

"Sin!" Someone shouted behind me.

"What are you people deaf and blind!?" I turned around. Bad idea. That thing looks big in good graphics on a tv, but when you are actually there, watching it shoot up out of the water like a rocket....

Yeah.

I screamed.

So did Botta.

Only he was screaming at me to shut up.

Keepa ran to the edge, watching Sin. Yeah, brilliant. There's a big huge monster right there, I think I'll go play with it.

Then the other moron ran over to the harpoon and prepared to fire.

Rule number one. If there's a big ugly monster right there that wants to kill you, DON'T PROVOKE IT!!

Khimari was there, helping Yuna stand. Because she didn't have her own two legs AND a harpoon to lean on.

Meanwhile, I barely managed to get up with the boat rocking back and forth so much.

"What do you think you're doing!? Stick a harpoon in him and we'll all get dragged under!" Wakka shouted at him. I wanted to smack the guy with the harpoon upside the head. But I couldn't. The ship was shaking so bad I could barely stand, let alone maim someone. Wait... how did Wakka know Sin was a 'him'?

Never mind.

I knew what was coming. I also knew there was only one way out of it.

Run. For. Your. Life.

Now.

Two guesses to what I did.

Someone grabbed my shirt. "Oh, no you don't." That someone was going to die. "You're not going to back out now!"

Three words ran through my mind. Must. Kill. Wakka!

I struggled and screamed, but nooo. Not like he would want me to live.

"If I die I am SO going to kill you!" I shouted at him. It made no sense, but your mind fails to do that when in major panic.

He dragged my sorry screaming butt all the way to the front of the boat, just as several sinscales flew off of Sin and slammed into the ground. If you've never seen one up close, let me tell you. They are THREE TIMES the size of the ones in the game. Not only that, but they are fifteen times more terrifying. I stared at them. We had about fifteen seconds before they started firing little spiney spits at us.

Now my mind chose to react.

"You with the sword! Get those sinscales! Wakka, Lulu, use your magic and blitzball to get Sin. Come on!" I shouted, pulling out my bow and loading up an arrow.

Lulu cast multiple fire spells, while Wakka tossed his boomerang-like blitzball that somehow managed to get all of the way back to him even though we were still on a moving boat. Don't ask me how it does that, because I have NO clue.

Then, Yuna, no telling how she learned that trick so early, cast a haste spell on me. Either that or someone slowed time waaaay down. Everyone was so slow.... I picked up my bow, aimed, and fired. Wakka slowly pulled back his arm. Tidus stayed in midleap for several seconds with his sword raised. Suddenly, he started moving fast too. He slashed through a sinscaled and darted for the next one.

Sin didn't have time to replentish the sinscales before Lulu and Wakka joined Tidus and I in the mad haste-spell frenzy. We were practically unstoppable. Sin realized how close we were to killing it, and it mave one last move; dislodging the harpoon shooter from the boat in a show of slow-motion array of splinters and a loud boom. My haste spell wore off.

I knew someone was missing. Tidus. Of course.

"Hey, Wakka, um... Where's Tidus?" I asked innocently, edging toward the edge of the boat.

Wakka looked around. "Huh?"

"Oh, no! He's down there!" I cried, tossing my bow and arrows behind and diving in. Maybe there was a chance I could save him without having to put up with the Sinspawn...

I grabbed his arm and swam for the surface. Incoming, I could feel the water moving. Two fish darted past us. I gasped, looking down.

Nope, of course not.

'Cuz there it was, big and ugly as ever.

A/n: YIPPE!! NOTHER CHAPTER UP!! YAY FOR ME!!

Temporary hiatus up, sorry... But I will post chapters when I can. No promises. :\

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