Okay, Fallen-Angel17987! I get the point! I'm updating, see? I tried to review your story, but the damn server wouldn't let me do it! I know my chapters are too short, peeps, but I'm trying. I just have a thing about length.
Chapter 7:
Preparations
Rikku stood at the door to her Kilika home, paying her last respects to her living room before leaving it for another twenty or so years. Hell, as far as she knew she may never be back. Looking around one last time, she turned to leave, then turned abruptly back. Taking steady strides, she walked to her bedroom and flung open the closet, pulling out a long box.
The box was black, painted with the symbol of a griffin. Rikku's hands fumbled at the clasps as she pulled the case open. Inside laid a great sword: the Masamune. Rikku ran her fingers over the flat of the blade and gently traced the etchings. This…this saved my life more than once. It kept me alive along our journey. I won't see it again for a while… She closed the box hastily and hefted it up, dragging it out to the shoopuf that waited to take her to the meeting place. Maybe it will keep him safe for me…
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Lulu stood on the bridge, watching Rikku's shoopuf approach. She looked down at her little daughter, merely an infant, and wrapped a necklace around the child's neck. The silver symbol of the Zanarkand Abes fell easily to the end of the child's blanket. Tidus had so deeply cherished his blitz ball team. Looking up at her husband, Lulu immediately spotted the young blonde's earring in Wakka's ear. Before Tidus had left, he had given Wakka the two pieces of jewelry and told him to keep them, and always remember that the Abes were the best. The pendant would protect Alana, whether Tidus had intended it for Wakka's child or not.
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Yuna looked out over the sea. After a long moment she whistled loudly. The crashing of the waves was her answering reply. Tidus…Where did you go? Did you know you would leave me? Did you know you would hurt me so? If you had, would you have loved me like you did? Would you have promised me so many things?
"Well would you?" she screamed to the ocean, falling to her knees in the surf. She sobbed heavily for what seemed like hours. A sharp tap on her shoulder made her look up. A small child in a purple helmet stood before her. She recognized him. The child of the fayth.
"His help is needed again," the child said. "We will bring him to you." And he was gone. In a split second, Yuna realized she must be hallucinating from the stress, but a long, loud whistle dismissed her feelings. Turning into the breakers, Yuna saw the blonde head bobbing over the water as he swam to the shore. She dove into the water and embraced him, placing soft kisses on his cheeks as he picked her up and spun her around.
"Tidus!" Yuna squealed when they had finally calmed down. Her world was complete, even if it wouldn't last forever.
Well, I had to have Tidus come back. Battles just wouldn't be right without him. Besides, Yuna was too depressed without him.