"Ha! I'm watchin', Chappu. Now you watch the ball, ya!?"
"Huh? OOOF!!" Chappu stumbled and fell as the ball struck him in the back of his head. I laughed, knowing he was alright, as I walked over to help him up. "Thanks, Dad."
I smiled, patting him on the shoulder. "Not a problem, kiddo. Now come on, ya? Your mother will yell at us if we're late for dinner again."
"Wakka! Hey, Wakka! That's my star player you're taking there!"
"What are you talkin' about, Tidus? This little shrimp, star playa? Nah!"
Tidus laughed. I still didn't know how he'd come back after all the Fayth had awoken, but here he was. "Now come on, Wakka. He's the son of the Besaid Aurochs' best Captain ever!"
"Well, dat's true. But Rikku will still have our heads if we ain't home in time for dinner, ya know?"
"I know." We both laughed, and Tidus hauled Chappu up so that he could sit on my shoulders. "Hey, you an' Yuna are invited to eat with us again tonight. Rikku helped out on the boats yesterday so she got her pick of the fish before they got sent to the market."
It's weird, watching Chappu sometimes. He looks almost
exactly like his uncle. Lulu thinks so too. Rikku says she's glad that our son
is growing up in a world without Sin.
We're all glad he's
growing up in a world without Sin.
Spira's changed a lot
in these past years. The Al Bhed don't use their machina as much, and the rest
of Spira, they use machina more often. Most of the small machina are used for
things like powering boats or lifts onto Shoopufs, but the big machina, most of
them salvaged by the Al Bhed or made with help from what Tidus remembers of
them, are used for one purpose: rebuilding Zanarkand. Chappu wears the uniform
of the Besaid Aurochs, but Rikku and I both know that Tidus wants him to join
the Zanarkand Abes once the city is complete.
Yeah, Rikku
and I are married. There are people who still don't like the Al Bhed, but for
the most part, the only difference between the Al Bhed and other humans now is
what language they speak. What Ronzo were left after Seymour's attack on them on
Mount Gagazet have kids now, but it will be decades, maybe even centuries before
there are as many as there once were. And as for the Guado... Well, I'm one of
many who believe that Yuna is singlehandedly responsible for keeping the humans
from full-out slaughtering the Guado. When word got around of what Seymour had
done, there was a lot of anti-Guado feelings, but Yuna was somehow able to stop
things before even half a dozen Guado had been killed.
"You're late."
"Hey, blame
Tidus. He's the one who tried to keep Chappu at practice, ya know?"
Rikku laughed as Tidus feigned horror at the accusation.
"I've noticed a disturbing pattern. Every time you're late for dinner, you
somehow manage to pin the blame on Tidus and Chappu. If they're not practicing
blitzball, they're out hunting fiends."
"Exactly! And
that's why it's never my fault!"
Tidus and Chappu
both managed to hit me in the head with their blitzballs before I could duck.
At least I avoided the melon Rikku threw at me.
