A/N: Well, nobody reviewed…oh well. I guess I'll just hafta be patient. I noticed there's a lot less reviewers here than in the Harry Potter forums, which is where I usually read at. So I'll just wait. Not much longer than the prologue, but oh well. I'll try to make the next chapter longer, but no promises on how much longer. I guarantee it will be at least a little longer than this one. Hope you enjoy the second installment of:

Final Fantasy XIII: The Last War

Chapter 1: Ryder

"Uh…hi?" I manage nervously, grinning in a very stupid manor at who I can only assume is Ryder, son of Yuna and Tidus.

Holy macaroni. This cannot be happening. There must be some kind of mistake. I cannot be standing in front of the son of two characters in a video game.

"Who are you?" he asks me cautiously. He is pretty hot, I must admit. He looks mostly like Tidus, but he has his mother's eyes, ears, and nose. Wait - didn't I just reach the conclusion that this was not happening? Yes, I must say I did. So that means it is just a coincidence that he looks like those two messed up people in my house. And there must have been some freak accident or something that transported me here. Some science revelation or something. Yes, that must be it.

"I'm Magic," I answer, holding out my hand to him. Well, I better be courteous to this guy. Just a random guy, not Ryder, son of Yuna and Tidus. I better be, seeing I was the one who had just popped into his bedroom.

"You are magic?" he asks curiously and suspiciously, ignoring my hand. Jerk. I pull back my hand and roll my eyes.

"No, my name is Magic," I say exasperatedly, trying to sound like I know better than him and know what the hell I am doing. It is pretty hard, because I really have no clue what I am doing.

"Strange name," he says.

"Yeah, well your name is strange too," I shoot back.

"You do not know my name," he says, raising an eyebrow at me.

"Well, I'm sure whatever it is, it's incredibly stupid," I say. Humph. Probably is, the jerk-face. I am really not liking this guy. I can't wait till I can leave.

"Look," I begin. "Where am I, and where is a phone so I can call my house or something? I need to get home."

He looks at me weirdly. Hey, stop looking at me, stupid! It's not like I'm in a cage in a zoo or something! I don't see what is so weird about what I said.

"What's a…phone?" he asks. "Some kinda weird food that makes you talk really loud so you can call all the way to your house? Why would you want to call your house, anyway? It's not like it can talk."

"You don't know what a phone is?" I ask in surprise. Whoa, what kind of back-water place is this that this guy doesn't even know what a phone is? And excuse me, mister, don't you take that sarcastic tone on me.

"No," he answers. "Is it some kinda Al Bhed machina?"

Okay, I have concluded that this guy is officially insane. He now thinks that Final Fantasy X is real or something.

"Wait a sec," he says, as if just realising something. "How did you get here?"

He just realised I appeared out of thin air? A great mind, that one.

"I dunno," I say and shrug, sitting down on a chair against a wall. "So, what's your name?"

"Ryder. But how the hell can you have just appeared here? There has to be some reason," he says. Wait, hold the weird machina Al Bhed food. Ryder? No, it has to be a coincidence.

"I really have no clue how I came here," I answer truthfully. Well, kinda truthfully. I have an idea, but it's not an idea that I want to pursue. That couldn't have really been Yuna and Tidus, could it have?

"What was the last thing you did before coming here?" he asks me.

"Well, these two people came to my house, calling themselves Yuna and Tidus. Then they say that they have some son or something in another world besides Earth and that some evil witch separated them from their son. They said I was the only one who could being them back together and yadda yadda, sappy stuff really. So the one who claimed to be Yuna tells me to touch her staff and sat Ryder, son of Yuna and Tidus over and over again in my head. Stupid, I know, but it was the only way to make them leave. So I did, and then I ended up here, and I don't know how. Weird coincidence that your name is Ryder, huh?"

Ryder isn't listening anymore. His face has gone white and he looks all pasty-looking. Maybe he has a fever or something. Oooh, maybe it's life-threatening! I don't like this guy very much. It would be cool if he came down with something.

"Hey, Ryder-o!" I say, getting up and waving my hand in front of his face. "What's up?"

Still on response.

"You coming down with something?" I ask hopefully.

Slowly, I see a response. He shakes his head and looks down at me. "Y-Yuna and T-Tidus?"

"Yeah," I say slowly, nodding. Man, this guy is slow.

"They're - they're my parents," he says.

"Oh, come on, stop joshin' me!" I say, giving a little laugh. "That's not possible."

"You say you come from Earth?" he asks me. I nod my head. Duh. Where else would I come from? "And my parents came to you to tell you that you had to bring me and them together again?" I nod again. "Holy shit, Magic! This is amazing! You're not on Earth anymore, Magic! You're on Zaria! And you are going to bring me to Spira, somehow. You must. Let's go now to Leandrisa!"

I raise my eyebrows at his little outburst and he flushes, embarrassed. Ha.

Hmm…should I pretend I believe him, or not? Sure, whatever. Not that I really AM starting to believe him, or anything…

"Hold there, buster," I say. "We can't just go off and walk up to some crazy evil witch and say, 'Hey, Leandrisa, dearest, why don't you help us poor defenceless kids and reunite Ryder here with his parents? We'd be ever so grateful.' First of all, we'd be killed immediately. Second of all, I don't feel like going. Third of all, I hate walking. Fourth of all, I don't like you."

"Well, geez, you didn't have to be so blunt about it," he says, rolling his eyes.

"I wasn't being blunt," I say. He raises an eyebrow at me. "I was being soft."

I walk away. No way in hell am I going on some kind of messed-up journey with this guy. I hate him. He just gets on my nerves so much. Probably 'cause of him saying my name is weird. I instantly hate people who say my name is weird.

"Wait, Magic!" he yells after me, just before I walk out the door. Ryder runs up to me. "Please go with me. You're the only one who can help me. There's a reason why you're the one who was picked to help me out. You wanna find out why you were picked, right? If you come with me, you might be able to find out why you were chosen. And besides, we won't be defenceless. I happen to know how to use a sword, and we can choose some skilled warriors to come with us. What d'ya say, huh? If not for me, do it for Yuna and Tidus. Please?"

Hmm…this was tempting. Okay, I admit it, I think I believe this is really Zaria or whatever. And Yuna and Tidus are my favourite characters. I don't want to let them down, right?

"Fine," I say reluctantly. Oh, whatever. What else can I do?

"Yes!" Ryder exclaims enthusiastically, grinning broadly.

"This still doesn't mean I like you."

"Oh, but you will, Magic," he replies, his grin turning into a cheeky smile. "'Cause nobody can resist my charms. Not even someone with hot ass like yours."

Oh, he did not just talk about my ass! The stupid freak! That is it. There is only so much I can take form one person in a day.

"I suggest you run," I tell him.

He grins cheekily at me one last time before running off, laughing insanely the whole way, with me hot on his tail. He is so dead.