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(Author's note: All of the Al Bhed lines in this chapter or an any of the following chapters I had to translate from English, using my own memory. So please forgive me if a few letters here and there aren't the correct Al Bhed letters.)
Chapter 26: Unexpected Stop (Sanubia Desert- Bikanel Island)
Tidus awoke to a painful nose full of water, as he came around to conciousness, bringing himself out of the drowned man's position. That seemed a bit fimilar to him.
When he looked around he saw nothing but endless desert around the little oasis where he had awoke at. He glanced behind him to see open ocean through a gap in the rocks.
"I'll forgive you for this, this time, if you'll try to be good for awhile, okay?" Tidus said to the open ocean where he knew Sin had left from.
He got out of the water and started on his way toward the desert, looking to see if Sin had dropped the others off here too.
Just as he set foot on the sands, he got attacked by one of the local feinds. A large black bird, that looked very hungry.
He tried to fight it, but it was way stronger than him. He was nearly killed with suddenly...
"Tidus looks like he in trouble, Kimahri help!"
Kimahri rushed into the battle, and gave Tidus a potion. They managed to weaken the enemy, just before Lulu came and blasted it away with her magic.
"Are you two alright?" She asked approaching them. Tidus and Kimahri nodded, signalling to Tidus that they were fine. Lulu nodded, showing to them that she was glad to hear that.
Tidus was glad to see Lulu and Kimahri both. But just them alone wasn't going to make him feel very much relieved. When Yuna was found, he'd feel much better.
"You find any of the others?" He asked, hoping that they had.
But unfourtunatly the response to this question wasn't what Tidus had hoped for. "No. We've been searching for hours. No one's turned up. Not Wakka, not Rikku, not Sir Auron, not Yuna, no one..just you." Lulu said shaking her head sadly.
The three of them proceeded though the desert, searching for any sign of the others. Eventually, they came up across Wakka, who was leaning against a broken machina. He was beaten up, and looking terrible, and grumpy. Lulu let out an audiable sigh of relief when she saw her husband.
She rushed over to him pulled out a potion, and forced it down his throat. "You're alright...I'm so glad. I was worried you had gotten killed!" She said in one breath, as she smiled at her husband.
"Ah, It'd take more than Sin, and a machina ambush, to kill me!" Wakka said bravely. Lulu gave her husband a strange look. She knew he was just showing off.
"I'm gonna guess that you don't have a clue where Yuna is either do you Wakka?" Tidus asked. Wakka nodded and then looked down at the sand dissapointed.
"Kimahri hope we find Yuna. Kimahri hope that Yuna will forgive Kimahri for not being very good guardian." Kimahri said shaking his head and looking very dissapointed at the sand beneth his feet.
Tidus looked over at Kimahri. "It's not your fault Kimahri. We're going to find her." he said to the Ronso, as he reached up and put his hand on Kimahri's shoulder.
"We should go look for the others. It's probably a good idea to try to find them before nightfall. Who knows what type of feinds, or machina come out then." Wakka said getting to his feet. He helped Lulu to her feet, and then glanced around at Tidus and Kimahri.
Kimahri was squinting through the heat of the desert, off into the distance. Lulu, Wakka, and Tidus noticed that Kimahri was doing this. They all started looking off into the direction that Kimahri was staring in.
"Someone's over there...coming toward us!" Lulu said in suprise when the person that Kimahri had been trying to identify, was only a few yards away from them.
"Who is that?" Wakka asked trying to make his eyes focus on the person. But with the heat coming up from the ground that was hard to do. The person just remained blurry looking to him.
"It's Auron!" Tidus said at last when he reconized the red-coat the person was wearing.
Sure enough, when the person came up to them, it was none other than Auron. He was looking grumpy, like normal. When he joined up with the other four, he gave a glance around to all of them. But he said nothing.
"Auron, You haven't found Yuna, by any chance have you?" Wakka asked looking at the teenager. His face showed eagerness for good news.
Auron glanced at Wakka, and noticed the look his eyes. He shook his head. "No, can't say I've seen Yuna. But I did pass by Rikku awhile ago.." He said. He glanced over his shoulder back in the direction that he had come from.
"You left Rikku alone out in the desert!" Lulu said in shock. Auron gave a breif laugh.
" Not exactly. I told her to wait there, in case Yuna showed up between the time that I left to look for you guys and came back." He said shrugging a bit. He was smirking, as if he found it amuzing.
"Besides, Rikku can take care of herself." He added.
"Are you sure? I mean the feinds here are a bit difficult for Kimahri to handle, and Kimahri is a lot more stronger than Rikku. What if Rikku gets attacked?"Lulu asked looking a bit worried. Tidus found Lulu acting worried, abit strange. The desert heat must have really been getting to Lulu. Auron nodded in response to Lulu question.
"Eh! Who cares..if Rikku dies..that'll be one less Al Bhed the world will have to deal with." Wakka said crossing his arms, and glaring at the sand. Not noticing Auron, and even Tidus's clenched fists.
They didn't say much else before heading off into the desert once more. After about what seemed to be an hour of walking, they came across Rikku, sitting in the sand, looking really bored.
When she saw them she lept to her feet. "Hey, guys! I've got something to tell you all! I know where we are! But...I bet Auron's already told you all. He knows where we are too." She said cheerfully as she ran up to Tidus, Lulu, and Kimahri, giving them each a smile. She gave a quick glare to Wakka, just returning the glare he was giving her.
"No, Auron never tells us anything, remember?"Tidus said glancing over at Auron, and then to Rikku, with a smirk on his face.
"Anyways. I'll tell you all, but first things first...you have to promise not to tell anyone, anything that I tell you." Rikku said looking around threateningly to everyone except Auron.
She looked at Wakka's glaring face. She gave him a look that made Wakka stop glaring, he just gave an angry grunt.
"We're on Bikanel Island. In the Sanubia Desert, just to be specific. That's like thousands of miles from Macalania. So Sin carried us pretty far. Lucky for us, there is a place near by that should be able to help us. The Al Bhed call the place Home, It's not too far from here." Rikku said cheerfully looking around and the others.
She then looked over at Auron. "You remember right?" She asked. Auron nodded at the same time that Rikku nodded. Rikku then went on talking.
"There is always a possibility that Yuna might have been rescued by some of the other Al Bhed on the island, so we might find her there..and if not they might be able to help us search." Rikku said looking thoughtfully at the sky.
Wakka didn't like the idea that Yuna might have been rescused by the Al Bhed. "Don't you mean kidnapped?" He shouted angerily at Rikku. Rikku bit her lip and looked down at the sand.
"It doesn't matter if she was rescused or kidnapped, as long as she's safe." Tidus said turning and looking at Wakka.
Wakka shook his head. "Yuna ain't safe. Not in the hands of the Al Bhed!" He said crossing his arms and glaring once more. Tidus hoped that Wakka would stop acting like such a jerk. It was really annoying him.
"The Al Bhed wouldn't harm Yuna. The Al Bhed wouldn't hurt anyone for that matter, unless they absolutly had to.." Auron said not looking at Wakka or Tidus. He shook his head, as if he were thinking to himself abit.
"Excuse me! I was just saying that I was going to take you all there! If you don't tell anyone..especially Yevonites." Rikku said putting her hands on her hips and jummping into the conversation, that was starting.
"You accusing Yevon of something, again, this time?" Wakka said glaring at Rikku with an angry look on his face. Also with the slight hint of degust.
Rikku looked down at the sand, and kicked it a bit. If she told them, Tidus guessed, she'd have to be forced to recall a really terrible memory.
"Yevon did something really horrible to us Al Bhed. A long time ago." Rikku said quietly and softly.
"What...happen. what did Yevon do?" Lulu asked looking concerned at the Al Bhed girl in front of her.
Rikku shook her head. "I'd...rather not say. I don't want to remember it." she said. Lulu nodded, understandalbly.
"Well...what ever Yevon did. You Al Bhed must have deserved it." Wakka said harshly, staring at the top of Rikku's head.
"Wakka." Auron said calmly, getting Wakka's attention. Wakka turned around to see what Auron had to say to him.
Almost the instant he turned around, he found himself on the ground. His jaw hurting. Standing above him was Auron, breathing heavily, his fist outstretched. He didn't look to happy with Wakka at all.
Wakka rubbed his jaw. "Hey! What was that for?"He asked looking shocked.
"Wow...that was a pretty good hit. Didn't expect it to knock Wakka off his feet like that." Tidus said crossing his arms and looking at Wakka. He then glanced over at Auron. He had never seen Auron lose his temper in front of a bunch of people. He had never seen Auron hit anybody before.
Wakka must have done enough to push Auron to the breaking point.
Auron glanced over at Lulu. "Sorry about that." He said calmly, bringing the hand he had used to hit Wakka with, back to his side, and ran it through his black hair. He looked over at Wakka, who was getting back to his feet. He shook his head.
"I'm sorry. I got sick of you acting like a jerk, just because you found out that Rikku was Al Bhed. If you haven't realized it, Rikku and the Al Bhed are as human as anyone else, they deserve to be treated, and talked to in the same way. Also in case you haven't realized. Rikku does have feelings...that can be hurt. Besides, It's about time you realized that Rikku is the same person that you met while at the Moonflow, and got along fine with all the way to Macalania. You suddenly finding out she's Al Bhed, still makes her the same person. " Auron said turning away from Wakka and looking out into the desert as he spoke.
"Is..he defending me?" Rikku asked out of the corner of her mouth to Tidus. She was looking confused.
"I think he is. That's weird."Tidus replied back, out of the corner of his mouth.
"Is he feeling well?" Rikku asked looking over at Tidus.
Tidus shrugged. "Maybe the heat's getting to him, making him do strange things that he wouldn't normally do, like hit somebody, and be nice to someone." He said.
"Well, I hope he recovers...It's really kinda creeping me out." Rikku stated.
Auron glanced over his shoulder. "Rikku. Are you going to lead the way, or am I going to have to?" He asked.
Rikku ran ahead. "I'll do it. You'll get us lost." She said teasingly, as she took off through the desert, everyone else following close behind her.
After what seemed like hours, Tidus had begun to wonder if Rikku really did know the way she was heading. Rikku's glances back to Auron, and her nervous laughs really didn't reassure Tidus any.
He hoped that Rikku would either find the way, or ask Auron to take over the lead. Tidus trusted Auron more with the task of leading everyone in the right direction, more than he was trusting Rikku right now. He hoped Rikku would do something or another before they all burnt up out there.
Thankfully it wasn't too much longer before Rikku took off up a sand dune. She reached the top and then turned back to them. "It's over here!" She shouted waving for them to follow her.
When they got up there, they saw Rikku staring in horror. They could hear gunfire going off in the distance. When they looked down from the sand dune they saw where the gunfire was coming from.
Feinds were flying around a large machina building. Everyonce in awhile, part of the building would emit an explosion, and crumble to the ground. People were fighting down there as well.
"Aurrie, come on! We've got to go help them!" Rikku said pulling at Auron's arm to get him to follow her. Auron nodded and the two off then took off toward the building, that Tidus and the others guessed was the Al Bhed's Home.
"Don't tell me Yuna's there!" Wakka groaned as he followed Auron and Rikku toward the building.
The other three followed behind wordlessly. Just as they got to the building, they witnessed a man get violently attacked. The feind was destroyed when the man shot at the feind, the same time it attacked him.
Rikku gasped, recongnizing who it was who had just gotten hurt. "Keyakku!" She cried as she ran up to the man. Auron walked up to Keyakku, and knelt down beside him.
Keyakku looked painfully up at the both of them. He began to speak. "R-Rikku? Auron?" He asked as if he couldn't believe who he was talking to. Rikku nodded.
"Who's attacking Home, Keyakku?" Rikku asked, with tears slipping from her eyes.
It was very weak when Keyakku's reply came, but he managed to say. "Y-Yev..on...G-Gua..do.." to them, before coughing up a lot of blood.
Rikku gasped. "Rikku...E's kmyt dryd E, luimt caa oui, yht Auron, uha mycd desa. (Rikku..I'm glad I that I could see you, and Auron, one last time.)" Keyakku whispered to Rikku in pain.
Rikku shook her head. and fummbled in her pocket for a potion. "Hu, Keyakku, tuh'd cyo 'mycd' oui'na kuhhy meja..yht frah drec ec ujan...frah Home ec cyva...(No, Keyakku, don't say 'last' you're gonna live...and when this is is over...when Home is safe..)" She began.
Keyakku gave a weak smile. "Luimth'd cdyo yfyo luimt oui? E ghaf oui't lusa pylg..Auron. (Couldn't stay away could you? I knew you'd come back Auron.) " He said looking up at Auron.
Auron smirked a bit. But it was a forced smirk. Everyone could tell. "E kiacc cu. (I guess so.)" He said looking at Keyakku.
Keyakku gave very weak laugh. "Ha..ha...ec dryd ymm oui lyh cyo? Muugc mega oui dinhat uid du pa 'luum' yvdanymm...zicd yc E aqbaldat. (.Ha...ha..Is that all you can say? Looks like you turned out to be 'cool' after all...just as I expected.)" he said
Rikku frowned. Keyakku coughed up more blood. "Bmayca...Ramb dra udranc...(Please..Help..the others...)" He said quietly. He then took in a deep breath. He closed his eyes. In a light sighing noise, Keyakku exhaled the last of his life and drifted off into death.
"Keyakku? Keyakku! No, don't die!" Rikku cried. She pulled a phoenix down out of her pocket. She used it on Keyakku.
But it didn't work. "Keyakku! Damn it!" Rikku screamed through tears as she beat Keyakku's dead body with her fist. Tears poured down her eyes. Auron closed his eyes and hung his head once pyreflies started coming from Keyakku's body.
"Was he saying that Yevon raged war on the Al Bhed?" Lulu asked in question as she looked around.
"Fnuhk! Guado ku vun dra Summoner! (Wrong! Guado go for the Summoner!)" A voice said coming toward them.
Rikku got to her feet. "Vydran..Keyakku..Keyakku..ec tayt. (Father..Keyakku...Keyakku is dead.)" She said talking to a bald headed man who was approaching them .
The man nodded but did not look like he would cry. "So you guys are the guardians that I've been told that Rikku made friends with? You here for your summoner?" He asked. They all nodded in response to both his questions.
"Well, then don't just stand there...come help kick those damn Guado out of here!" He said.
He turned and looked around at each of them. His eyes fell upon Auron last. A look of semi-shock spread over the bald man's face. He crossed his arms and shook his head. "E cruimt'ja ghufh...(I should've known..)" He muttered before turning around and heading into Home to help the others.
The others took off after him. Tidus, Auron and Rikku stayed behind. "Who was that?" Tidus asked looking at Rikku who was looking down at the ground.
"Cid. Leader of the Al Bhed." Auron said crossing his arms.
"My father." Rikku added.
Tidus looked over. "Come on guys" He said starting to run foreward.
Rikku looked upset. "Right. We have to save Yunie." She said.
Auron glanced over at her. "Not just Yuna, right?" He asked. Rikku nodded then took off at a run into Home.
The inside of Home was worse in condition than the outside. More than a dozen feinds ran and flew around in here. Pieces of the walls were semolished, and the ground was littered with the bodies of countless Al Bhed, and Guado.
The awful stench of human-beings burning in the fires, reached their noses the minute they set foot inside, making them want to throw up. But throwing up would mean you would have to look down. Looking down ment you'd see the pools of blood that ran past their feet in little currents like crimson streams.
"This is...terrible!" Rikku said, glancing around. She then glanced to Auron, to see if he had anything to say. But he didn't. He couldn't think of the words. All he could do was look on at the scene, wordlessly.
"What in Yevon's name are those blasted Guado thinkin?" Wakka asked glancing around at the disaster.
"Ahh.. Drec pedac! (Ahh..This bites!)" They heard Cid shout through the intercom system thing.
"Vydran? Fryd? (Father? What?)" Rikku asked loudly, so that Cid could hear her.
"Rikku! Fryd dra ramm yna oui cdemm tuehk ib drana! Kad ouin pidd tufh du dra Summoner's Sanctum! Dra nacd uv ic yna tufh drana ymnayto...Fa'na kuehk du majam Home..dygehk dra feinds fedr ed! (Rikku! What the hell are you still doing up there! Get your butt down to the Summoner's sanctum! The rest of us are down there already..we're going to level Home..taking the feinds with it!)" Cid shouted back in shock.
Rikku gasped. "What did he say!" Wakka asked seeing that Cid had obviously said something shocking, or terrifying.
"We have to hurry.. to the Summoner's Sanctum!" Rikku said taking off at a run down one of the halls.
"Why?" Tidus asked glancing over at Auron.
"They're going to blow this place up. That's why." Auron replied, walking past Tidus. They all continued along the hallway until they caught up with Rikku.
"Rikku, the Summoner's Sanctum?" Lulu began to ask, but she cut off. RIkku was on her knees. sobbing at the ruins of the building, and the charred, and bloody object in her hands.
"This place..It's done for." Wakka pointed out. He crossed his arms, and looked down on Rikku crying.
"You're right Wakka...you were always right." Rikku said getting to her feet, and clutching the object she had been holding to her chest.
"We..Al Bhed.deserved what happend to us..and we deserved thid didn't we?" She asked, staring at Wakka through tears.
"No. They didn't deserve any of it. They didn't deserve what happend to them in the past..and they don't deserve any of this now."Auron said crossing is arms and staring semi-coldly at Rikku.
"What exactly happened..back then?" Lulu asked curiously. She figured that Rikku would be more willing to talk about it.
"Sin showed up on the island where we all used to live. It destroyed our village. No one was killed, amazingly, until Sin started leaving. I don't know what happened...but I remember seeing something in the sky. A bright..white light came from it, and smashed into the island..destroying it literally. There was nothing left. I remeber just floating out in the ocean for days, before going unconcious." She began, looking at the ground. They could see memories of that day passing by her eyes.
" When I woke up...I was here. My father had tracked down me and all the Al Bhed who had lived. Once everyone had recovered we started to plan to build this place. It was only the matter of months before we got it built." Rikku said looking around at the building that was going to ruin around her.
"We spent every day, for years, since we got it built making sure that Home was protected, and that our new home wouldn't get destroyed, or even touched by Yevon. But now..all our efforts..." Rikku began. She shook her head. She started to cry. She leaned up against Wakka and buried her face in his chest.
"Why did things have to turn out like this?" she cried.
They were all silent for awhile. Rikku backed away from Wakka.
"We should continue. Dad is waiting.." she said, taking off down the stairs.
"Wait! Rikku! The Summoner's Sanctum? What is it?" Tidus asked suddenly, stopping Rikku in mid-step.
Rikku looked down. "We bring Summoner's to the Summoner's Sanctum, and keep them safe. I know it's against the teachings but.." She then turned and looked directly at the others.
"I get why you did it." was the reply from Wakka.
"You kiddnapped Summoners, with good reason. But why now? Summoners have been around for as long as the Al Bhed, why are you now doing this?" Lulu asked
"Because of Yuna." Auron said, answering Lulu's question.
Rikku nodded. "Dad found out about Yunie's relations to Braska..and said that Braska's daughter..' shouldn't be putting her self in danger like her fool of a father did.' his words not mine. So he decided to kidnap Yuna, when he got the chance. But, he started to think..no Summoner needed to put themselves through danger, so he decided to kidnap them all, and bring them here to keep them safe." She explained to Tidus, who was still looking at her in confusion.
There was a silence among them for a few seconds.
"But that's what guardians are for, to protect the summoner from danger. If the guardians do their jobs the summoner will be safe."Tidus began.
He glanced around at the faces otehr the other guardians. He noticed that none of them were making eyecontact . "Right?" he asked.
No answer came from any of them. Something that Tidus needed to know, wasn't being said. He could just tell it, by the way the otehr guardians were acting. "Right!" He asked again sounding more angry than questioned.
Still no answer. They stayed in sclience for a few minutes until Kimahri looked around. "It's quiet." He said crossing his arms. He then turned and looked down the stairs leading to the Summoner's Sanctum. "Kimahri, leaves now."
He took off down the steps. Wakka followed, then Lulu, the two of them were followed by Auron. Rikku stayed behind
She stared at Tidus with a sad expression on her face for a minute. She then turned and quickly ran down the stairs.
" 'bout time you guys got here..I was about to level Home with you guys inside." Cid said greeting all of them. He glanced over at Auron, and looked displeased to see the teenager, then he turned and quickly changed his expression as he talked to the others.
"Where's Yuna?" Wakka asked almost immediately when he got in the room.
"Not here, as you can see."
Dona approached them from behind Cid, not looking very happy, like normal
"They took her from the desert. One of the Guado troops that attacked us found her." Cid said crossing his arms and looking directly at Tidus and the others.
"Sir, If it is alright, We..Lady Dona and I, would like to perform the sending for the fallen Al Bhed." Isaaru said coming up behind Cid beside Dona.
Cid turned and raised an eyebrow. "it's the least we can fo for those who died protecting us." Isaaru said explaining what he was saying, to Cid.
Cid crossed his arms, he nodded and then quickly marched out of the room and into another one.
Tidus and the other stood in a little group and watched as Dona, and Isaaru performed the sending.
During this, Pacce, one of Isaaru's guardians, ran up to Tidus. He had a questioned look on his face. "The Al Bhed said the summoner's were being sacrificed...umm..what's sacrificed mean? The Al Bhed said it and said Summoners have to go on pilgrimages." He said/asked,
Tidus crossed his arms. "Why couldn't they trust guardians? Why are they trying to stop the summoner's pilgrimages?" He asked himself aloud.
"The pilgrimages have to stop!" Rikku shouted, attracting Tidus's attention to her.
"If Yunie gets to Zanarkand, she'll get the Final Aeon, and defeat Sin..."Rikku began, she was staring tearfully toward Tidus.
Tidus didn't understand. If Yuna got to Zanarkand, then she would get the Final Aeon, and defeat Sin. That would be good...wouldn't it?"
"..But after she beats Sin. Yunie could...she's going to..." Rikku cried. She couldn't get the last words out of her mouth.
"She'll die. The Final Aeon will not only kill Sin, but will kill Yuna not soon after." Auron stated with no emotion, as he watched Tidus's eyes widen and Rikku and everyone hang their heads.
Tidus's stomach gave an awful lurch. His mind began to spin around, and started going over events where this had been hinted at.
Yuna's started laughing in his ears,as his mind was brought back to the Moonflow. "I've got an idea! Let's-" Tidus's voice echoed in his head.
"We're not waiting until nightfall." Auron's voice said, cutting Tidus off.
"Then let's come back when we defeat Sin!" Tidus said, coming up with a new briliant idea.
But no response seemed to come from the others. Tidus rememered the looks on their faces. Now, he knew what those looks were for. They knew that them all coming back to the Moonflow, wouldn't be possible. Yuna would be dead, Yuna wouldn't get to see the Moonflow at night.
"How come I was the only one who didn't know?" Why were you hiding it?" Tidus asked falling to his knees.
Kimahri crossed his arms. "Not hiding it." he said. he glanced over to Lulu. She had her arms crossed too.
"It was just too hard to say." She said.
Tidus glanced around at the sad looking faces of his friends.
Tidus started to pound the ground with his fists screaming in frustration.
"Lulu! How could you let her do this? Isn't she like a sister to you? I thought that you, her and Wakka, treated each other like family!" He shouted looking up at Lulu.
He immediately turned to Wakka. "Why didn't you try to stop her?" he shouted.
Lulu put her hands on her hips. "You don't think we tried?" She asked. Tidus was still looking angry. "You can't make someone change their mind, when they follow their heart." She added shaking her head.
"Kimahri! I thought you of all people, would try!" Tidus shouted but Kimahri gave no answer.
Tidus turned, to Auron. They could tell that Tidus had a lot to say to the teenager, staring back at him coldly.
He seized Auron's collar, and began to shout. "What the hell is wrong with you, damnit! You don't care that Yuna's gonna die? How many people are you going to lead to their deaths, before you start caring?" He asked. His sapphire-blue eyes glaring back at Auron's deep brown eye. In the light casted by the fires and the pyreflies, Auron's eye..didn't look brown, rather more like a garnet color.
"You didn't even try to stop Yuna's father did you? You didn't care if Yuna's father died or not, just as long as he faced Sin..didn't you? Now, you're just gonna let Yuna get to Zanarkand and die? How can you act like you don't care? You heartless..son-of-a-" Tidus began to say. But he was so angry at Auron, that he just let go of the teenager. He just stared at Auron, with clenched fists, at a total loss for words.
"Braska knew that one day, Yuna's fate was going to make her become a summoner. He knew, that Yuna knew, what a summoner had to do. When Yuna chose to become a summoner, she knew what she was doing." Auron said after a few minutes, looking away from Tidus and everyone.
"But..Summoners are human as well. They shouldn't have to..die, so that everyone else can be happy!" Rikku said.
Tidus looked around at the other guardians. The darkness of the room, and the shadows casted on them by the pyreflies and the fires gave then eerie looks. They were all lost in a blurr of tears, in his eyes.
"But to let Yevon's children live in a world with out Sin, to be able to bring such peace, is the dream of all the summoners. With our hopes and determination, we are given power, and with that power..we can create reality out of the dream..and to bring our dream into reality, we would gladly give our lvies." Isaaru said approaching them.
Tidus leanded up against a part of the ruined wall behind him.
"I've been telling Yuna, things like 'let's go get Sin!' and 'Let's go to Zanarkand together!' and I didn't know. But Yuna. She'd...she'd just smile, and laugh, as if nothing was wrong. Tidus said sadly running his fingers through his hair.
"You sound upset..do you wanna scream?" Yuna's voice rang in Tidus's ears. At the time it was the only thing he could hear.
"I want to but...I don't think it's gonna help me much this time." He said to his memory of Yuna.
"You know..I've learned to smile and laugh when I'm feeling down.." Yuna's voice said cheerfully in Tidus's head.
"Is that so? Were you feeling down when I said all that stuff? Is that why you just smiled and laughed?" Tidus asked. He knew the only way he was going to get that answer was if he asked Yuna himself, not ask the flashback Yuna.
Tidus came out of the flashback. An angry determined look on his face. He clenched his fist again.
"I'm not gonna let her die.." He growled through his clenched teeth.
"Well then follow me!" Rikku said taking off in a run toward the room where Cid had run off into with the other Al Bhed earlier.
Everyone followed her. They followed her into the darkened hall of some giant machina vehicle, or something.
"Fryd ypuit, Rikku..ynt ran veneahtc? (What about Rikku and her friends?)" Rikku's brother's voice could be heard asking before tehy reached teh brige.
"Sicd'ja lynat cusilr ypuid Home, dryd drao cdyoat paraht du tea fedr ed...tysh vuum. (Must've cared so much about Home that they stayed behind to die with it..damn fool.)" Was Cid's reply.
At that they heard a loud whail from Rikku's brother. Which made them cover their ears in pain.
Before they entered the Bridge, the vehicle gave a terrible shake, and then started vibrating violently as it took off.
"Nice to see they wouldn't have waited for me." Rikku muttered putting her hands on her hips. She listened in on the conversation on the bridge.
So far it seemed that her brother was not only sad that he believed his sister had not gotten on the 'airship',which is what Rikku understood him to say, but he was suprised that the airship even moved.
Suddenly the whole airship moved. Causing everyone to fall backward, losing balance.
Rikku could hear the suprised, and amazed sounds of her brother and father, that the ship was even flying.
"I suspect Brother is flying. No other Al Bhed flies so badly." Rikku said pulling herself off the ground.
Suddenly a loud noise of missle being prepared to fire echoed through the hallway, and the Hymn of the Fayth could be heard sung off key, by Cid and Brother.
Rikku bowed her head. The sound of the missiles being fired echoed through the halls two seconds later. A loud explosion went off in the distance, signalling the missiles had made a direct hit, and the Al Bhed Home, was no more.
"It's gone...It's really gone. All of the memories from my past..are gone, now." She whispered to herself trying to hold back tears.
Another loud whail came from the bridge. "Come on Rikku, It's like happy festival fireworks, you know you can't let it get you down!" Wakka said trying to cheer Rikku up. Another loud whail came from the bridge.
Rikku glared. "I don't think those were the right words Wakka." Lulu said out of the corner of her mouth to her husband as Rikku went back into her sulky mood.
"Yeah, I think I've realized that." Wakka said scratching his head.
" Your life isn't over. There are still tons of memories that can be made..some proably better than the ones you had back there! Besides, you haven't really lost those memories...you've still got them...inside you." Auron said. glancing over at Lulu, who agreeded with him.
Rikku stratched her chin. "Auron's trying to cheer me up. I must look really depressed. That or he's gone crazy. It isn't like Auron to act sensitive toward people..." She thought looking down at the ground. She shook her head.
"Come on Rikku, Auron's right. You'll make new memories. Probably better memories. Besides you've still got your old memories too. Just because the place that you made your memories is gone, it doesn't mean that the memory is gone. It still lives on in you." Lulu said, attempting to help Auron's attempt at cheering Rikku up.
Rikku looked up and smiled. "You're right Lulu! I'll make new memories! Better memories!" She said. She smiled at Lulu and then walked past her.
"Hey..wait. You're going to give Lulu all the credit for cheering you up? What about me? I helped too you know!" Auron called after Rikkusounding abit cheerful as she headed toward the bridge.
Tidus laughed. Auron was starting to sound more like a teenager now. Maybe Auron'll start acting like that more often. He seemed to be a bit more light-hearted when he acted his age. It was a nice change, but also a bit creepy. Maybe it would be better for Auron to act his age, everyonce in while, instead of all the time..Tidus didn't know.
They all walked onto the bridge behind Rikku.
"Oh, please, pull yourself together. You're pathetic!" Rikku said the moment she walked into the bridge to see her brother crying.
At this Brother gasped. "Rikku!" he said cheerfully. He nearly got out of the seat to go hug his sister, but Rikku glared.
"Hands on the stearing controls! You're gonna kill us all!" She said pointing at her brother.
"Rikku! Damn girl..don't you ever pull an ignorant stunt like that again! Tell us when your still with us or not! We thought you were still back at Home!" Cid said, sounding harsh as he approached his daughter.
Rikku put her hands on her hips. "Famm, E caa ouit'ja mavd fedr uid ic, yht pmufhib Home, dedr ic cdemm ehceta! (Well I see you'dve left with out us ,and blown up Home, with us still inside!)"Rikku said angerily pointing at her fatehr.
Cid began laughing at this. Rikku gave an annoyed sigh and crossed her arsm. Her father was crazy.
(Finally done with this chapter! That was a nice long chapter wasn't it...that took me like four or five hours to type up. But it's done now. Sorry for writing so much. But I didn't feel it all too appropriate to divide them arriving in the desert and leaving the desert, when home got blown up into seperate chapters. Maybe that wasn't such a bad idea after all. Oh well too late for that now it's done. Anyways I hope that you liked the chapter and I can't wait to hear what you thought!)