I HAVEN'T REPLAYED FFX IN A WHILE, SO IF I GET STUFF WRONG, SUE ME!

BTW, I also own Square! Yea, go ahead and sue me for lying. … I don't own Square. Chances are, some rich billionaire in Japan with a vivid imagination owns Square. I'm not a billionaire, I live in America, my imagination sucks, and I'm definitely not a guy… umm, on with the story!

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"Yuna, have you made your decision?" Auron asked after they slowly walked out of the Travel Agency. Yuna smiled, and nodded.

"Yes… yes, I'm going to marry him…" Yuna said. Tidus contorted his face with anger.

"What? You can't! You don't even love Seymour!" Tidus screamed. Yuna kept on smiling, and shook her head. Rikku wondered if she was just pretending to smile whenever she did.

"It's her decision, let her be," Lulu said coldly. Tidus opened his mouth, staring at Lulu in disbelief, but nothing came out. Rikku walked next to Tidus.

"I agree with him. I mean…" Rikku faltered at their cold gazes. Even though she didn't want Yuna to get near Tidus, she definitely didn't want Yuna to marry Seymour. She definitely didn't want any child of Seymour's to be related to her.

"Uhh... look, Seymour—" Rikku began.

"Yuna makes her own decisions," Auron said, resting his Blurry Moon on top of his right shoulder. Rikku glared at Auron with disdain. Did Auron want her to marry Seymour?

"Do you love him, Yuna?" Tidus screamed. Yuna kept on smiling, but didn't answer. Rikku rolled her eyes.

"What's the point of marriage when you don't love the person?"

"Look, it's her own life! She does whatever she damn pleases!" Wakka shouted. After a short period of silence, Auron started walking on the snow- covered road.

"C'mon…" Auron growled. Suddenly, Tromwell came running toward them, his cat-like hands rotating around his waist.

"Lady Yuna!" he said in a raspy voice, grinning broadly. Yuna still remained grinning, and hugged the Guado. "Have you made your decision?" she nodded, and did the prayer as Tromwell did the same.

"Let's go to the temple, where we can arrange your marriage, then, m'lady," Tromwell bowed. He held out his gnarly fingers, and Yuna clutched them tightly.

"We shall go, Lady Yuna, Spira will be so happy once you proclaim this…" Tromwell said, smiling smugly. After watching the two leave, a familiar voice rang out in the air.

"E summoner!" Aniki (A/N: Japanese name for 'Brother,' I believe) screamed as he zoomed past the group of guardians in an 'illegal' machina, ambushing the two Yevonites.

"Let's go," Auron said, a bit of panic tainted in his cold voice. Thus, the guardians followed Auron to stop the Al Bhed – her own people.

'Would I… really fight my friends?' Rikku thought, looking into the marble- like eyes of Eligaar (*shrug* an Al Bhed Psyches Blitzer). She stole a glance at Tidus, who was clutching his Brotherhood, facing Berrik ('nother Blitzer) with a look of enmity on his face. This forced her to stare threateningly at Eligaar.

"Pnabyna du kad ouin ycc fruubat, vneaht," Rikku said, unsure of herself. Eligaar looked at her in disbelief, and then walked onto a mound along with Keyakku (that Al Bhed Rikku witnesses dying at Home) and Berrik. Aniki showed up, a smirk drawn on his face.

"Ouin bnaleuic magic yht Aeons fuh'd ramb oui eh drec esbahtehk pyddma, Rikku..." Aniki sneered, as he snapped his fingers. A familiar machina called Crawler, and another small machina, Negator, appeared, shooting small bullets threateningly at the party as they tried to parry the small missiles. Auron used his Blurry Moon to cut into the metal of the Crawler, but it just created a small dent. As soon as Yuna and Lulu realized they were pretty much useless, Lulu switched with Tidus and Yuna switched with—Rikku. Rikku first hesitated; she really didn't want to fight Aniki and the others…

"Yah!" Rikku squeaked as she threw a grenade toward the Crawler and Negator. Smoke flew over their surroundings as the two machina took damage, which gave both Auron and Tidus time to damage the Crawler. After using this strategy several times, Negator was destroyed. They still continued the strategy, which nearly killed them all. Auron was the only one who wasn't severely damaged by the Mana Beam, and Rikku was weak, huddling down without the energy to stand up. Auron threw a potion at her, as she used a Phoenix Down to revive Tidus. Her speed over the enemy and her allies gave her an extra turn for her to switch with Yuna, for her to summon her Aeons to finish the machina off. Waving her staff around, she summoned the king of fire, Ifrit. The huge beast roared out, sparks of fire flying from its mouth.

"Prepare to be defeated," Ifrit roared inaudibly by the huge machina getting ready for another Mana Beam. "HELLFIRE!" Ifrit roared as he hit his overdrive gauge, throwing two molten rocks at the machina to start his inferno attack. Rikku grinned as she saw the Aeon applying its strength to defeat the machina. She felt a strong bond between the Aeon and herself (A/N: isn't upgrading the Godhand = to Ifrit hitting over 9999 damage? Even if it isn't, let's assume so.), and watching the machina at the brink of being destroyed somewhat… made her proud. Having to recover from his intense attack, Ifrit quickly shielded as the machina unleashed its Mana Beam, almost dismissing the Aeon. Ifrit roared with pain as its two claw- like hands glowed, forming two meteors.

"Meteor Strike," a deep, masculine voice, now audible roared as the two meteors finished off the machina. Aniki cussed in rage as the machina was cut asunder.

"Rikku, fryd tu oui drehg oui'na tuehk??!" Aniki roared in disbelief. Rikku forced herself to smile.

"E's Yunie's guardian! E's ymcu bnajahdehk ran vnus gemmehk rancamv, oui ghuf, kaddehk dra Final Aeon?" Rikku replied. Aniki nodded, and walked away. Rikku was surprised by how cool Aniki took the situation.

"Wait a minute, were you speaking in Al Bhed?" Wakka asked, his brow furrowed. Rikku looked at Tidus for support as Ifrit nuzzled at Rikku's neck in affection. He nodded.

"Uh, yea… that guy with the Mohawk is my brother…" Rikku said, petting the top of Ifrit's head. Ifrit made a purring sound at the end of its throat as it flied into the air, disappearing.

"What? I've been traveling with an Al Bhed all this time?" Wakka said in disbelief, staring at Rikku with a look of enmity in his brown eyes. Rikku sighed.

"And what's wrong with that?"

"You guys go against Yevon's teachings!"

"So?"

"That's why Sin is here! That's why we're even gathered here!"

"Just because Yevon says that, you believe him?"

"Then why don't you, Miss Smarty Pants Al Bhed, tell me how Sin got here?"

"Uhhh…"

"See? You don't know, and Yevon's teachings are the only accurate theory!"

"People should think for themselves instead of listening to an old geezer—"

"Rikku, can you work this thing?" Auron suddenly said, huddling next to a snow mobile the Al Bhed were riding. Rikku nodded gratefully as she headed toward Auron to help him fix all the mobiles. After all of them were set up, Tidus sat on the first one, but before she could sit next to him, Lulu took her seat. Rikku looked at Lulu in disbelief as her crimson eyes bored into hers, as if daring her to ask Lulu for her seat back. Rikku walked past the second mobile, seating Auron and Wakka, who stuck his tongue out at her. She ignored the blitzball captain, and sat in front of Kimahri, who was having difficulty placing his tail at a safe spot. Tidus, Auron, and Rikku activated the machina, traveling to the temple, barely visible in the distance.

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Me-ish trying to build a plot… as much as I hate writing about battles, that is exactly what I'll be having to do R&R, please… I appreciate all the reviews you've given me for my first chapter :) Also, I know Wakka says something about Rikku being Al Bhed last chapter… there's just no other place I can do this unless I go earlier in the plot… those damned boss battles in FFX Also, if any of you have advice to beat Yunalesca, I'd appreciate it.