Honest to God, I meant to write this on Saturday. But then I had a softball game and then my friend wanted me to go to the movies with her and then she wanted me to go over to her house and then she wanted me to go swimming with her and her neighbor. I started this as soon as I got back. Then sunday I was out all day. Let's see, the start time for this chapter is... 9:59 PM (EST) on Saturday June 6th. The end time... 7:41 PM (EST) on Sunday June 7th. And I put a little Tikku in this... just a little (even though it made Tidus kind of OC)... I promise there'll be a bunch towards the end. This chapter was really on the spot and it wasn't planned at all, so it's really not that good. It's mostly a filler... I hate writing with a deadline, so no more promises on when the next chapter is...

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I take back what I said earlier about the travel agency being the best thing I'd ever seen. The best thing was by far was emerging into the Macalania Woods.

It was only once we were farther into the woods that we returned to hell.

The place was a huge freaking MAZE!!! Anytime we got in a battle with a fiend we would accidentally turn around and start backtracking (Happens to me all the time, I hate that place XD) Even when we were going forward, the path just twisted and turned forever.

Plus Rikki decided she wanted to be depressed.

"Tidus, can't we just... stop?' She suggested for the hundredth time. She'd changed suddenly. She'd been all jumpy since we'd started out and now she was acting like she did at Home.

What was wrong with her?! Why did she want to stop? I wasn't sure what was going on, but I knew that I had to find Rikku. It was killing me to be away from her before.

I don't think I've ever mentioned how badly I needed (that's a fun word to type XD) to find Rikku... It was like... I'd hardly known her for two months but I felt like I'd known her forever... To just lose her like that... It was the worst...

Out of my embarrassing confessions and back to the real world now, people.

I would need about twenty hands to count on my fingers how many times we got lost. It was just a giant, shining blue fortress of doom.

I also don't think I've ever explained my horrendous sense of direction. Another reason I was so glad Rikki had tagged along. She knew her way around. How? I have no idea.

We ended up at the entrance at least eight times. After about five hours we just decided to spend the night in a little clearing we found.

Stupid us had no idea that was right next to the exit...

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We trekked out again in the morning. It actually didn't take us too long to get to the exit.

Except it wasn't the exit we wanted. This exit took us to some city. When I asked a passerby where we were, he told us "Bevelle". It really didn't take too long to realize that this was a dead end and we had to go back to the woods from hell.

Where we got lost again. Typical.

"Uh, Rikki? A little help here..." I nudged her as we walked down a path I think we'd been on a hundred times. She just mumbled something and continued to walk along, staring at her feet. "What's wrong with you?!" I finally blurted out. She looked at me and shrugged.

To tell the truth I was getting a little worried about her. She had told me that the only reason she was like this at Home was because the Al Bhed made her nervous. But, as far as I could tell, there were no Al Bhed here...

But I planned to act on Rikki's problems after we found Rikku.

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Hmmm... sorry for another crappy, extremely short chapter. I can only drawl on about getting lost in the woods for so long people. But I have good news: School's out in two weeks!!!! After that you can expect updates at the rate they were coming in April (meaning about one chapter a day). Hang with me people, I'm almost there!!!! The story picks up after the calm lands!!!