It's taken me longer with this chapter than the others. School's really starting to get me busy :P I'm shooting for a chapter every two weeks from now on, but that may or may not happen sometimes.

Anything I made up is mine. Everything else belongs to Square. Does anyone ever get sued for these things, anyway? What's the point of those two sentences besides wasting space in this file?

Responding to the person who emailed me: This isn't based anything on FFX- 2. This is something that takes place four years later, instead of two, for one thing. And Another Story never happened, not in this fic at least..

On w/ the story!!!

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"Lambda," Tidus said to himself. "Nice to meet you, Lambda."

Lambda just smiled, not sure what to say. She had never actually met a new person before.

"Uh. Well. Come here." She ran to the door of the small cavern, and stopped, turning around. Tidus walked up to her, a questioning look on his face.

"Where are we going?"

Lambda shrugged. "You do want to know where you are, don't you?"

"Sure."

"Then come on, it's so dark in here, anyway. I want to know what you look like." And she walked out the cavern, with Tidus following behind her.

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"It's a. what is it?" Yuna asked.

"I'm not quite sure, but I think it's some kind of sphere. Looks weird, though." Rikku looked at the object in her hands, a small transparent green liquid filled cube that jiggled. "And it bounces, too, see?" Rikku tossed the cube down, and it bounced back up to meet her waiting hands.

"But are sphere reader broke, thanks to someone," Cid said, looking at Rikku.

"Oops... Sorry about that," Rikku said sheepishly. "Anyway, Yuna, do you have one we can use?"

Yuna smiled. "Come to the village with me."

They walked down the road to Besaid, light on their feet, even though there had been fewer fiends lately. Not as many people were dieing.

When they got to the village, they went to the hut that Yuna lived in, just two steps away from Wakka and Lulu's hut. Wakka was sitting outside his hut, and saw them coming.

"Yo! How's it going, Cid. Weather's nice, ya?"

Cid smiled and said, "Get Lulu and come with us. We have something to show you."

Yuna, Cid, and Rikku walked into Yuna's hut. The hut was mostly bare, with a bed one side, and a small table on the other side that seemed to function as a desk from all the papers that were on it. Ever since the Eternal Calm started, Yuna had taken to eating with Wakka and Lulu. Cid and Rikku stood to the side while Yuna looked around the hut for her sphere reader. By the time Wakka and Lulu and come inside, Yuna had found it, and they were trying the find a way to get the reader to read the cubed-shaped sphere. Rikku was the only one who was facing the opening of the small hut, and thus the first to be able to great them, but before she did the sphere had started.

There was a room, a small cavern-like room, but the actual arrangement could not be discerned. The foremost thing that the sphere showed was a young woman with long blond hair and long earrings made of colorful feathers. She had green eyes, adorned with swirls. She was an Al Bhed.

"E ys ypuid du mayja so rusa eh rubac uv piemtehk y meva fedr y Oajuheda. Sudran, Vydran, E ruba dryd oui tuh'd ryda sa palyica uv ed, pid E vaam dryd E sicd. Oui caa dra dnidr ec dryd E ys ymnayto kuehk du keja pendr. E tuh'd ghuf frah, pid E ghuf ed femm pa cuuh. E femm nadinh rusa yc cuuh yc E vaam dryd oui hu muhkan ryda sa. So lremt femm ghuf fru cra rec, yht frana cra lysa vnus." Cra byicat, yht yttat, "Yht bmayca damm Cid hud du funno. E ghuf dryd rec synneyka femm fung yc famm."

"Eh. what was that?" Wakka asked, not understanding. "Rikku, what did she say?"

"She said -" Rikku started.

"That was.my mother. She told her parents that she was going to marry my father."

"Yep. That's pretty much it," Rikku said, glancing sideways at her father.

"We are rebuilding home in her honor. Her name was Cydn, Al Bhed for star. So we're rebuilding Home on a small island that I called the Stargate," Cid told her.

"So, Yunie, you think you want to help?" Rikku asked.

"I have to think about it," she answered.

"Well, either way, we're leaving in the morning," Cid said, and walked out of the hut, leaving Yuna, Lulu, Rikku, and Wakka in the hut.

"Please, Yuna. Please help us. We're building it for your mother, you know?" Rikku pleaded.

"Why my mother, why not yours, Rikku?"

Rikku didn't say anything, but just sat down on Yuna's bed. "My parents. weren't very close. There was something my dad didn't even tell me. Brother did, and only when I paid him to."

Yuna nodded. "You don't have to say any more than that. I'm leaving with you tomorrow morning.