Disclaimer- I do NOT own any of the following, ffx, any of it's characters,
my friends Chris and Bruce, my dads kukri or myself for that matter (I am
being controlled by evil talking Prince Charles' puppets)
Authors note- Thanx 2 all those who reviewed! And to make it easy for everyone, all Al Bhed spoken will be translated! Oh yeah, I might let Necrosia of the moon and night be in this story, sometime.
Chapter 2 The Beginning
I was ten years old; it was about seven thirty in the morning. I was on my way to my grandma's house. I had my school uniform on, a red jumper and grey trousers. I had come across a busy road. I knew that there was a pelican crossing further down the road, but that was way out of my way. I was usually very sensible while crossing, but a sign on a shop on the other side distracted me. I started to cross, not even looking both ways. I heard the screech of tyres on tarmac. I looked to my right and saw the dark green Vauxhall vectra zooming towards me. I opened my mouth in horror. "AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!" I screamed. I looked up. I was in the large hall in what I have figured out to be Baaj temple. "Whoa! You okay?" asked the all too familiar voice. I looked around and very nearly blacked out again. It was Tidus, looking at me with a mixture of anxiety and puzzlement. "Holy shit." I said. In my mind were two theories, either I was transported into ffx for some strange, freaky and possibly a very corny reason, or this was a dream. The latter seemed most probable, so I pinched myself. I didn't wake up, but it sure made my arm sore. "Who are you?" he asked. "Err. my name's Neil," I replied, "What the hell happened!?" "There was this flash of light from the ceiling, and you just sorta fell down, and this fell down with ya," he said, holding up my dad's kukri, "Anyway, my name's." "Tidus." "What the. How did you know?" "Long story," of course, I wasn't concentrating on the conversation, I was looking at the campfire, and it had almost gone out. I knew what came next. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning. I looked at the wall and saw it, the thing that was watching us all the time. The Klikk then zoomed around the circular wall. I grabbed the kukri and jumped out of the way as the klikk landed right on top of the fire, smashing it to bits. "Gimme a break!" exclaimed Tidus as he lunged at it with the longsword. I was frozen stiff; I had no idea what to do. "Don't just stand there, HELP ME!" he shouted. "Err, okay," I replied, nervously, this was my first taste of battle. I drew my blade out of its sheath, goddamn it was blunt. I aimed for the legs; I actually managed to get a hit in, slicing one of his back limbs off. It was pissed; it retaliated giving me a large slash down my left arm. I staggered backwards, not quite believing what just happened. Suddenly, the door behind me exploded, and in rushed the Al Bhed. Four of them stood in a row, pointing a gun at Tidus, the fiend and me. Then the girl just one year older than me stepped up and helped us in our battle. Instantaneously she took out a grenade and tossed it at the klikk, and it seemed to have been quite powerful. Tidus, noticing my injury, threw me a small glass phial. Instinctively I drained it of its contents. The potion tasted like, well, it had no taste. I started to feel the pain lessen and the wound starting to clot. The new addition finished the fiend off for us by chucking a bombardment of grenades at it. Afterwards, the Al bhed grabbed us by the hair and pointed their weapons at us. "Fryd ec drec?(What is this?)" "Dfu fiends, eh risyh teckieca! (Two fiends, in human disguise!)" "Fa gemm dras? (We kill them?)" "Fyed! (Halt!)" Shouted the girl, whom we all know is Rikku, "Fryd ev drao yna risyh? (What if they are human?)" "Drao yna dra cysa eh naydr! (They are the same in death!)" "E vunpet ed, fa dyga dras fedr ic! (I forbid it, we take them with us!)" Rikku walked up to me and Tidus, "Cunno. (Sorry.)" I never knew that anyone's punch to the stomach could knock you out, but it did. Tidus and me keeled over. I thought of the words Déjà vu as the vision in my eyes started to go black. I woke up on the cold steel floor of the cargo ship. I just lay there, thinking about that dream I had in Baaj temple. It was one of my most painful memories. I felt the scar on the back of my head, a remnant form that disaster four years ago. I have never seen the scar myself, but my friends say it's in the shape of a T. Then I thought about how the hell I got into Spira. But what bugged me most was that I knew everything that is going to happen, I even understand most of the Al bhed. I'm that sad, I studied the language so I could insult my mates without them even knowing. On my left arm I saw the biggest scab that I ever seen. I flexed it and I felt no pain whatsoever. Suddenly, I was shaken. "Hey! You awake?" "Huh?" I looked around, it was Tidus. The Abs (al bhed), including Rikku and brother, were scattered around the deck. I walked to the save sphere near the back of the ship. Once I touched it, the scab on my arm disappeared at once, leaving a patch of fresh skin. Tidus and Rikku were talking at the other end of the ship, so I went over to another Ab. He said, "Ev oui'na hayn taydr, naymmo hayn taydr, ica drec! (If you're near death, really near death, use this!)" He shoved three potions into my hand. Something was bugging me, everybody was looking at me. "Frydc ib? Cusadrehk uh so vyle? (See bottom)" I said, a bit annoyed. "Whoa! You can speak that language?!" asked Tidus. "Just a little." "Anyway," continued Rikku, "we found some ancient ruins right beneath us. It's not active now, but there should still be some power left. We're gonna go down there and activate it. and then we should be able to salvage the big prize! Okay, let's get to work!" "Roger!" Tidus gave us the thumbs up and dived into the sea. I just had a terrible thought. "Uh, hey! I can't hold my breath for more than twenty seconds!" "Sure you can!" Rikku grabbed me by the arm. "Hey! Wait!" "What?" "My weapon! Where is it? "Oh yeah!" She handed me the kukri, which I hastily fastened to my belt. Suddenly she pulled me into the ocean. It was absolutely f*cking freezing. Rikku pushed my head under the surface of the water. I panicked. Minutes went by with me struggling and flailing until I realised that I wasn't drowning. It was weird, I didn't get that feeling that I was going to burst if I didn't inhale more oxygen. Tidus signalled for us to follow him down the chain. No sooner that I started to swim, a group of piranhas attacked us. I had got my weapon out, but I was slashing at the little buggers in vain. They dodged every slash. Then one of them came up and bit my free hand. It was painful, very painful indeed. In anger I made sure it floated to the surface in two pieces. It didn't, it erupted into pyreflies straight afterwards. Tidus and Rikku took care of the rest of the little pests. I looked at my very painful hand; it was surrounded with a red cloud of blood, which was growing steadily. I had to do something. I was losing too much blood. My whole body seemed to suddenly feel warm. There was a shining light on my hand and it was instantly healed! I looked at Tidus and Rikku, expecting one of them to have a potion bottle in their hand, but they just looked at me in disbelief with their mouths agape. We all surfaced. "What the hell did you do?" asked Tidus. "I don't know. I just feel a little tired." I said "That must have been white magic!" said Rikku "Magic?" Tidus had a puzzled expression. "White magic heals you." "Yes, I know what white magic does." That was mainly because I had almost every ff that came out on psx and ps2! "Anyway, let's just go and get the ruins powered up!" I said. They both agreed. We swum down alongside the anchor chain without great incident, just a few of those little buggers here and there. I practised with my white magic and could practically heal myself and others at will, although it left me feeling more and more drained every time I did it. We got into the entrance room and Tidus started banging on the monitor. I however touched the sphere and instantly felt refreshed. Tidus managed to open the door and we swum through to the power room. Even before I got into the room I had my kukri drawn out of the sheath. When I got in I instantly swung round and sliced one of the piranhas' heads off. There was an explosion on my back, Rikku didn't miss any piranhas, this one was on my back! Rikku, instead of attacking it threw a grenade at it leaving me seriously injured as well! I had to use a potion; I needed my energy for later. Tidus swam up to the power core, banging on it like the monitor. The core started to glow bright and the whole place shook. We headed back out, kukri out of sheath again; ready to face my next challenge. As I swam out into the main room we were confronted with the Tros. At home I laughed about this thing, it looks like a cross between an octopus and a goat. I swam my fastest to charge at it and even managed to hit the damn thing, without getting hit back. Then I knew why. Tidus was getting most of the damage from the Tros. He had gouges and slashes all over his body. I focused on his injuries, thought in my mind what I wanted done. I started to feel the warmth again. Just as Tidus was about to draw his last breath, he glowed a brilliant white and was almost completely restored. Tros retreated around the pole; we could not do anything to it. We just floated there waiting for the inevitable. It swam around, and charged us down. We all suffered major injuries, I was able to heal Tidus, and myself but Rikku had to use those three potions I was given. I decided, I needed more MP. While we were busy healing, it had swum around again, waiting to use the nautilus charge. Tidus gave us the signal I waited for, to use the pincer attack formation. It was trapped, steadily growing more pissed by the second. We managed to dispose of it without great injury. As we swam out of the ruins I noticed that it wasn't such a struggle to swim anymore, I was swimming quite fast compared to earlier. I must have been developing my attributes. The lights from the ruins scared away all of the piranhas, so the kukri was put back in the sheath, ready for use tomorrow. I swam down towards the airship, it was huge. The Abs were swimming everywhere. I had seen this too many times, so I returned to the ship. All that magic had made me very tired; I sat against the cargo boxes and dozed off. I was kicked awake, it was Rikku. "God!, Can't anyone get a good nights sleep 'round here?" "You were asleep for five hours!" "What?" "Never mind," said Rikku, exasperatedly, "here's your food." "Oh!" I had just realised, I hadn't eaten since when I was at school, which was two days before! Rikku gave Tidus his food, I didn't warn him not to wolf his food down because I thought it would be quite funny. I just sat there eating sensibly when Tidus started choking. He started to panic and grabbed the bottle of water off Rikku. "Hey!" Tidus gulped down the water while I was there in stitches. "It's 'cause you eat too fast." Tidus got up and stretched with a little chuckle. "Hey!" Tidus turned round. "Hello there, what is your." "Her name is Rikku," I blurted that out before he could finish his question. "Huh?" "How the f*ck do you do that?" asked Tidus "Do what?" Rikku was a little confused by what just happened. "He knew my name before I told it to him as well!" " I know your future, your past and well, I know more about you than you do yourself." "Where you from?" asked Rikku. "Now, that isn't relevant, but you will find out in time. I will not say any more otherwise the future of Spira might be corrupted." That was true, I decided that I was going to follow Tidus, to make sure that his 'story' goes the way it is planned. Tidus and Rikku gave up trying to get information from me after a while. They started to talk about the Al Bhed and Zanarkand, but I wasn't listening. Even when Tidus got the news that Zanarkand was destroyed 1000 years ago. "I guess you'll be coming home with us, then." Rikku said to me, I didn't know they got that far into the conversation. "No," I replied. "What do you mean?" "I'll be going with Tidus." "You should be coming with us, you are Al Bhed, after all!" "WHAT!!!" "You're-Al-Bhed, did Sin's toxin get to you too?" "No!" I went to the crane controls where there was a small metal plaque. In it I saw my face. But my already green eyes had the Al Bhed swirl in them. "HOLY SHIT!!!" Later, Tidus and me were sitting down, thinking about what we both just found out. Tidus got up and shouted, "No way!" he then kicked a cargo box and the ship lurched. Tidus tumbled backwards while I hung on to a pole. Sin had come, at last. The Abs came rushing onto the deck, shouting things like, "Sin!" "Sin ec lusa! (Sin is come!)" "Ihtan ic! Ihtan ic! (Under us! Under us!)" Just then Tidus was washed overboard. I ran over to the spot where he fell. I looked back to Rikku, "See ya later!" I said as I jumped in, following Tidus.
Told ya it was longer! Anyways, in the story, I said something in Al Bhed, but I didn't give you the translation. If you review and put in the translation, the next chapter will be different. The more the translations, the more stuff will happen! I will do a 'Neil's Al Bhed saying every week and give ya three days to get as many right answers as you can! Here is the Al Bhed-English translator for you! Ab-English A-e N-r B-p O-y C-s P-b D-t Q-x E-i R-h F-w S-m G-k T-d H-n U-o I-u V-f J-v W-z K-g X-q L-c Y-a M-l Z-j
Today is 15th October so you have until 18th to vote! See ya later!
Authors note- Thanx 2 all those who reviewed! And to make it easy for everyone, all Al Bhed spoken will be translated! Oh yeah, I might let Necrosia of the moon and night be in this story, sometime.
Chapter 2 The Beginning
I was ten years old; it was about seven thirty in the morning. I was on my way to my grandma's house. I had my school uniform on, a red jumper and grey trousers. I had come across a busy road. I knew that there was a pelican crossing further down the road, but that was way out of my way. I was usually very sensible while crossing, but a sign on a shop on the other side distracted me. I started to cross, not even looking both ways. I heard the screech of tyres on tarmac. I looked to my right and saw the dark green Vauxhall vectra zooming towards me. I opened my mouth in horror. "AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!" I screamed. I looked up. I was in the large hall in what I have figured out to be Baaj temple. "Whoa! You okay?" asked the all too familiar voice. I looked around and very nearly blacked out again. It was Tidus, looking at me with a mixture of anxiety and puzzlement. "Holy shit." I said. In my mind were two theories, either I was transported into ffx for some strange, freaky and possibly a very corny reason, or this was a dream. The latter seemed most probable, so I pinched myself. I didn't wake up, but it sure made my arm sore. "Who are you?" he asked. "Err. my name's Neil," I replied, "What the hell happened!?" "There was this flash of light from the ceiling, and you just sorta fell down, and this fell down with ya," he said, holding up my dad's kukri, "Anyway, my name's." "Tidus." "What the. How did you know?" "Long story," of course, I wasn't concentrating on the conversation, I was looking at the campfire, and it had almost gone out. I knew what came next. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning. I looked at the wall and saw it, the thing that was watching us all the time. The Klikk then zoomed around the circular wall. I grabbed the kukri and jumped out of the way as the klikk landed right on top of the fire, smashing it to bits. "Gimme a break!" exclaimed Tidus as he lunged at it with the longsword. I was frozen stiff; I had no idea what to do. "Don't just stand there, HELP ME!" he shouted. "Err, okay," I replied, nervously, this was my first taste of battle. I drew my blade out of its sheath, goddamn it was blunt. I aimed for the legs; I actually managed to get a hit in, slicing one of his back limbs off. It was pissed; it retaliated giving me a large slash down my left arm. I staggered backwards, not quite believing what just happened. Suddenly, the door behind me exploded, and in rushed the Al Bhed. Four of them stood in a row, pointing a gun at Tidus, the fiend and me. Then the girl just one year older than me stepped up and helped us in our battle. Instantaneously she took out a grenade and tossed it at the klikk, and it seemed to have been quite powerful. Tidus, noticing my injury, threw me a small glass phial. Instinctively I drained it of its contents. The potion tasted like, well, it had no taste. I started to feel the pain lessen and the wound starting to clot. The new addition finished the fiend off for us by chucking a bombardment of grenades at it. Afterwards, the Al bhed grabbed us by the hair and pointed their weapons at us. "Fryd ec drec?(What is this?)" "Dfu fiends, eh risyh teckieca! (Two fiends, in human disguise!)" "Fa gemm dras? (We kill them?)" "Fyed! (Halt!)" Shouted the girl, whom we all know is Rikku, "Fryd ev drao yna risyh? (What if they are human?)" "Drao yna dra cysa eh naydr! (They are the same in death!)" "E vunpet ed, fa dyga dras fedr ic! (I forbid it, we take them with us!)" Rikku walked up to me and Tidus, "Cunno. (Sorry.)" I never knew that anyone's punch to the stomach could knock you out, but it did. Tidus and me keeled over. I thought of the words Déjà vu as the vision in my eyes started to go black. I woke up on the cold steel floor of the cargo ship. I just lay there, thinking about that dream I had in Baaj temple. It was one of my most painful memories. I felt the scar on the back of my head, a remnant form that disaster four years ago. I have never seen the scar myself, but my friends say it's in the shape of a T. Then I thought about how the hell I got into Spira. But what bugged me most was that I knew everything that is going to happen, I even understand most of the Al bhed. I'm that sad, I studied the language so I could insult my mates without them even knowing. On my left arm I saw the biggest scab that I ever seen. I flexed it and I felt no pain whatsoever. Suddenly, I was shaken. "Hey! You awake?" "Huh?" I looked around, it was Tidus. The Abs (al bhed), including Rikku and brother, were scattered around the deck. I walked to the save sphere near the back of the ship. Once I touched it, the scab on my arm disappeared at once, leaving a patch of fresh skin. Tidus and Rikku were talking at the other end of the ship, so I went over to another Ab. He said, "Ev oui'na hayn taydr, naymmo hayn taydr, ica drec! (If you're near death, really near death, use this!)" He shoved three potions into my hand. Something was bugging me, everybody was looking at me. "Frydc ib? Cusadrehk uh so vyle? (See bottom)" I said, a bit annoyed. "Whoa! You can speak that language?!" asked Tidus. "Just a little." "Anyway," continued Rikku, "we found some ancient ruins right beneath us. It's not active now, but there should still be some power left. We're gonna go down there and activate it. and then we should be able to salvage the big prize! Okay, let's get to work!" "Roger!" Tidus gave us the thumbs up and dived into the sea. I just had a terrible thought. "Uh, hey! I can't hold my breath for more than twenty seconds!" "Sure you can!" Rikku grabbed me by the arm. "Hey! Wait!" "What?" "My weapon! Where is it? "Oh yeah!" She handed me the kukri, which I hastily fastened to my belt. Suddenly she pulled me into the ocean. It was absolutely f*cking freezing. Rikku pushed my head under the surface of the water. I panicked. Minutes went by with me struggling and flailing until I realised that I wasn't drowning. It was weird, I didn't get that feeling that I was going to burst if I didn't inhale more oxygen. Tidus signalled for us to follow him down the chain. No sooner that I started to swim, a group of piranhas attacked us. I had got my weapon out, but I was slashing at the little buggers in vain. They dodged every slash. Then one of them came up and bit my free hand. It was painful, very painful indeed. In anger I made sure it floated to the surface in two pieces. It didn't, it erupted into pyreflies straight afterwards. Tidus and Rikku took care of the rest of the little pests. I looked at my very painful hand; it was surrounded with a red cloud of blood, which was growing steadily. I had to do something. I was losing too much blood. My whole body seemed to suddenly feel warm. There was a shining light on my hand and it was instantly healed! I looked at Tidus and Rikku, expecting one of them to have a potion bottle in their hand, but they just looked at me in disbelief with their mouths agape. We all surfaced. "What the hell did you do?" asked Tidus. "I don't know. I just feel a little tired." I said "That must have been white magic!" said Rikku "Magic?" Tidus had a puzzled expression. "White magic heals you." "Yes, I know what white magic does." That was mainly because I had almost every ff that came out on psx and ps2! "Anyway, let's just go and get the ruins powered up!" I said. They both agreed. We swum down alongside the anchor chain without great incident, just a few of those little buggers here and there. I practised with my white magic and could practically heal myself and others at will, although it left me feeling more and more drained every time I did it. We got into the entrance room and Tidus started banging on the monitor. I however touched the sphere and instantly felt refreshed. Tidus managed to open the door and we swum through to the power room. Even before I got into the room I had my kukri drawn out of the sheath. When I got in I instantly swung round and sliced one of the piranhas' heads off. There was an explosion on my back, Rikku didn't miss any piranhas, this one was on my back! Rikku, instead of attacking it threw a grenade at it leaving me seriously injured as well! I had to use a potion; I needed my energy for later. Tidus swam up to the power core, banging on it like the monitor. The core started to glow bright and the whole place shook. We headed back out, kukri out of sheath again; ready to face my next challenge. As I swam out into the main room we were confronted with the Tros. At home I laughed about this thing, it looks like a cross between an octopus and a goat. I swam my fastest to charge at it and even managed to hit the damn thing, without getting hit back. Then I knew why. Tidus was getting most of the damage from the Tros. He had gouges and slashes all over his body. I focused on his injuries, thought in my mind what I wanted done. I started to feel the warmth again. Just as Tidus was about to draw his last breath, he glowed a brilliant white and was almost completely restored. Tros retreated around the pole; we could not do anything to it. We just floated there waiting for the inevitable. It swam around, and charged us down. We all suffered major injuries, I was able to heal Tidus, and myself but Rikku had to use those three potions I was given. I decided, I needed more MP. While we were busy healing, it had swum around again, waiting to use the nautilus charge. Tidus gave us the signal I waited for, to use the pincer attack formation. It was trapped, steadily growing more pissed by the second. We managed to dispose of it without great injury. As we swam out of the ruins I noticed that it wasn't such a struggle to swim anymore, I was swimming quite fast compared to earlier. I must have been developing my attributes. The lights from the ruins scared away all of the piranhas, so the kukri was put back in the sheath, ready for use tomorrow. I swam down towards the airship, it was huge. The Abs were swimming everywhere. I had seen this too many times, so I returned to the ship. All that magic had made me very tired; I sat against the cargo boxes and dozed off. I was kicked awake, it was Rikku. "God!, Can't anyone get a good nights sleep 'round here?" "You were asleep for five hours!" "What?" "Never mind," said Rikku, exasperatedly, "here's your food." "Oh!" I had just realised, I hadn't eaten since when I was at school, which was two days before! Rikku gave Tidus his food, I didn't warn him not to wolf his food down because I thought it would be quite funny. I just sat there eating sensibly when Tidus started choking. He started to panic and grabbed the bottle of water off Rikku. "Hey!" Tidus gulped down the water while I was there in stitches. "It's 'cause you eat too fast." Tidus got up and stretched with a little chuckle. "Hey!" Tidus turned round. "Hello there, what is your." "Her name is Rikku," I blurted that out before he could finish his question. "Huh?" "How the f*ck do you do that?" asked Tidus "Do what?" Rikku was a little confused by what just happened. "He knew my name before I told it to him as well!" " I know your future, your past and well, I know more about you than you do yourself." "Where you from?" asked Rikku. "Now, that isn't relevant, but you will find out in time. I will not say any more otherwise the future of Spira might be corrupted." That was true, I decided that I was going to follow Tidus, to make sure that his 'story' goes the way it is planned. Tidus and Rikku gave up trying to get information from me after a while. They started to talk about the Al Bhed and Zanarkand, but I wasn't listening. Even when Tidus got the news that Zanarkand was destroyed 1000 years ago. "I guess you'll be coming home with us, then." Rikku said to me, I didn't know they got that far into the conversation. "No," I replied. "What do you mean?" "I'll be going with Tidus." "You should be coming with us, you are Al Bhed, after all!" "WHAT!!!" "You're-Al-Bhed, did Sin's toxin get to you too?" "No!" I went to the crane controls where there was a small metal plaque. In it I saw my face. But my already green eyes had the Al Bhed swirl in them. "HOLY SHIT!!!" Later, Tidus and me were sitting down, thinking about what we both just found out. Tidus got up and shouted, "No way!" he then kicked a cargo box and the ship lurched. Tidus tumbled backwards while I hung on to a pole. Sin had come, at last. The Abs came rushing onto the deck, shouting things like, "Sin!" "Sin ec lusa! (Sin is come!)" "Ihtan ic! Ihtan ic! (Under us! Under us!)" Just then Tidus was washed overboard. I ran over to the spot where he fell. I looked back to Rikku, "See ya later!" I said as I jumped in, following Tidus.
Told ya it was longer! Anyways, in the story, I said something in Al Bhed, but I didn't give you the translation. If you review and put in the translation, the next chapter will be different. The more the translations, the more stuff will happen! I will do a 'Neil's Al Bhed saying every week and give ya three days to get as many right answers as you can! Here is the Al Bhed-English translator for you! Ab-English A-e N-r B-p O-y C-s P-b D-t Q-x E-i R-h F-w S-m G-k T-d H-n U-o I-u V-f J-v W-z K-g X-q L-c Y-a M-l Z-j
Today is 15th October so you have until 18th to vote! See ya later!