Tales of the Pilgrimage

The first moment we met.

Ch.2 Wakka's POV

Lulu

The first time I met Lu was way back when. I was about eight, ya? And Chappu came over to me and said "hey, there's a pretty girl by the temple", so I went over to look, and saw her. I was like "she seems kind of evil, no?" and he said "ya."

So we went outside to talk to her, ya? And she gave us this evil glare. I said "hi" and she said "burn in the fires of Sin" and then cast some fire spell on us. It was some scary shit, ya? I was scared for my life, so I threw Chappu at her to save myself. She pitied him, though, and then threatened to burn off my balls if I ever tried anything like that again. Then she got some twisted idea that it'd be fun to torment me and make me her personal slave. She made me do some weird shit, ya? Like once she made me hang upside down from the temple door and say that I was a bat to people. She also used to make me crawl around on all fours like a dog, and she even had a leash on me. I'm always reminded of that because that leash is now a part of her dress, ya? Although now when she takes it out, it's not such a bad thing… but that's another story, ya? Anyway… she was one crazy little bitch. And she still is, ya?

Yuna

I first met Yuna when I was 15. It was right after Lord Braska had defeated Sin and she came to live at our temple, ya? She was seven or so. She was really quiet and kind of weird. She liked to talk to herself, ya? And she liked to braid things. Anything… she would always braid Lulu's hair, and her hair, and my hair… and then she'd braid the palm tree leaves, ya? And the dog's fur, too. And once, I fell asleep on the beach and when I woke up to practice blitz, she had braided my sleeves together, and my shoelaces and the frays on my ripped jeans… I couldn't move, you know? And then the tide came in and I couldn't swim so I had to float in the bay for three and a half hours before Lu found me and pulled me back in. It was strange. Ever since then, I made sure that the blitz uniforms weren't braid-able, ya? She sometimes lapsed back into the habit when she was really bored, ya? Those braids in Kimari's hair? She did them so tight (she was mad at me for eating her spicy Chocobo wings from T.Y.I.F((Thank Yevon It's Friday))) that he was forced to keep them for all eternity. She was liked that for five years.

Kimari

Kimari came with Yuna. She was all curled up in a little ball and sad because Lord Braska died, so he took her here. Everyone on Besaid was scared, but she wasn't, cuz she was weird like that, ya? Once he warmed up to us all, it wasn't so bad. He was a lot of fun to play with. He didn't speak our language well, so we had to teach it to him. It was funny, ya?  Well, I guess at this point, I realized we all had weird habits, and his was trying to do things that he couldn't do. Like… when we took trips to the mountains where it's cold, he'd try to climb up ice-coated hills and he'd slide back down. And then he'd climb up again. And slide down again. And climb and slide… it was like a never-ending cycle, ya? And whenever he got emotional, he'd start rolling. Ya, rolling. Like… throwing himself on the ground and rolling. He was really good at it, too. He could roll in, on, and around anything. He rolled up the steps to the temple once. Ya, rolled up the steps to the temple. I used to call him Rolling Ronso, ya? He didn't like that and then he'd get mad and… roll…

Tidus

Oh, Tidus. I was playing blitz with the guys, ya? And the one guy hit the ball really hard and it flew out to sea, ya? He pegged something in the head. We were like "whoa, did you see that, ya?" And then the one other guy said "Oh, what was that, eh?" and I said "I think it was a dolphin, you know?" and … the other one said "Noooo, since when have dolphins had blonde hair, eh?" so the first guy said "didn't Lulu tell you about the new ocean-charity hair barber guy, huh?" and I said "Ya, but I thought se was jokin', ya?" And we were all like "Oooooooooooooooooo." So anyway, the dolphin hit the ball back, and the second one other guy said "Hey, man, that's no dolphin, ya?" It was a kid! He swam over and we were like "whoa, that was cool, ya?" and we asked him to do it again, and he did. He was so happy to hit the ball around! It was so neat, ya? I wanted to keep him, so I took him back to town. He was telling me these stories about being from Zanarkand. I think it's a bit loopy, ya? But he's so cute. We went into the temple to for a bit and he ran into the trials. Lu wasn't to happy, but I begged her to let me keep him, ya?. Then he poked her in the chest. It was so cute, ya? I'm so happy! My very own little human kid, ya? He reminded me of Chappu when he was young and stupid. I like him.

~Wakka