~*~Please note that some spelling might be different for character's and possibly places as I am from Australia things may be spelled differently~*~
Chapter 2

"Uh…..were…am I?" Yuna looked around the dim room it had only a few foreign paintings on the walls. A cupboard in the corner the room looked, old and musty. Yuna's vision focused and she sat up on the ancient rort iron bed, which looked dirty and old, Yuna held her hand's to her head and looked down at the tattered brown sheet draped across her chest.
A shadowed figure entered the room and stood over Yuna. The bright light glairing from behind the hooded figure gave the impression of impending doom about to strike from the black abyess. Not a pleasant sight to awaken to. In stark contrast to the sight a voice as sweet as honey said, "Awake at last young lady". "Who are you?" Yuna asked as she squinted at the black figure. "The question is who you are?" Yuna stared at the woman "I am Yuna from the isle of Besaid, the slayer of Sin"
"What?"
"Where am I?"
"You are at Zanarkand." Yuna stared "Wha…what did you just say!?"
"I said you're in Zanarkand" Yuna laid back down the sound of blood rushing came to her ears and a humming in the background got louder and louder Yuna struggled for air, the coldness of the room was getting worse and the noises louder.

Yuna's eyes snapped open, 'were in Spira's name am I now...the river!' Yuna's eyes darted back and forth the water stung them, she kicked her legs only to find they were stuck in something she leaned down to try and see what caught her foot.
She pulled a gun out barley visible in the dark water; she aimed down at her foot. She shot at her foot the gun only let out muffled sounds. She kicked free and flung he arms furiously upward and her legs the same. She broke the water's skin and gasped horrid breaths of stale musty air.

A voice echoed in Rikku's ear the blond girl listened intently trying to catch the whispers, 'Rikku what are you doing?' 'Get up Rikku' the voices echoed louder and her mind raced 'Rikku, Yuna needs you'
'Yuna…needs me?'
'Yes Rikku get up'
'No I want to stay hear safe and warm'
'Rikku get up….'
'No…just no'
'Yuna's dieing Rikku'
'No she's not'
'She is dieing Rikku….she's dieing' the voice trailed off in to the depths of Rikku's mind.
Rikku awoke with a jump causing the fiery red Mumba that was helping her up to fall over behind her and Rikku fell on top.

"Sorry" Rikku got off the Mumba and ran to the edge of the grass cliff the smell was worse now and the water churned with excitement, and sure enough below the cliff was a fiend a huge fiend.
The body was big and serpent like with tentacles coming out of its sides, the mouth was sharp and angular and the teeth jagged and rough, the serpent had a hunched over appearance and its scales were as black as night. Its beady little eyes focused on something in front of it, its breath oozed out in long jagged breathes as if been injured.
"Yunie…were are you?" Rikku screamed at the top of her voice, she looked at the serpent and saw it flailing about blood covered its lower jaw. "Yunie hang on!"

Rikku ran backward and grabbed her red dagger blades off the side of her yellow belt, she ran for the edge of the cliff her blond plates and beads struck her face and she jumped off.
She fell twenty feet down on to the fiends head blades pointed downwards. Blood spurted out and made a trail up her face the fiend let out an in human scream one that you would only hear in you nightmares, it cocked its head to one side sending Rikku flying towards the water.

Yuna watched Rikku hit the water blood spoiled Yuna's white top and her skin; she shot from only the one gun as she left the other one on the ocean floor the fiend screamed in pain and threw Yuna against the cliff wall. Yuna let out a cry "Damn you let me go!" Yuna shot at the tentacle that constricted her the gun fire rang clear and echoed off the cliff wall the serpent recoiled and dropped Yuna, she filled her lungs and went under the water and swam to the rock ridden bottom she looked through the darkness for her gun. A cold rush of water shot passed her ear signalling that the fiend was not far behind her. Rikku swam up to her side, passed her the gun, Yuna pointed up, and they swam to the surface.

"Rikku see that orb in the middle of its chest?"
"Yep"
"Attack that" bits of rotting flesh surrounded a blood red orb.
Rikku swam up close and lashed out at the under belly of the fiend. It flailed wildly in protest, whipped them down into the water, and lifted them up and crushed there arms forcing them to drop there weapons. "Ahhhhhh!" Yuna screamed as she felt her bones collapse in on them selves sending pain wave's throughout her body everything around her exploded in to coloured lights, The air went bitter cold and ice formed around them Rikku was in agony as well, she protested deeply to such treatment and screamed curses in Al bhed and English.
Yuna's arms grew limp and numb and Rikku screaming stoped, Yuna felt an ice like substance flow through her veins. 'Poison' she thought.

The Mumba stood on the cliff edge and watched in horror as his newfound friends were dieing he could make out teeth like things on the tentacles stabbing into there flesh. With out another moment's hesitation the little Mumba shot off in the direction of Besaid.

His fur lashed out in the wind as he thundered through the narrow cliff path the sound echoed off the walls. He ran under a cliff ledge on to a narrow cliff path that had a tremendous drop to the sea he speed over a wooden bridge and skidded to a halt into a cloud of dust a water flan sat in his way.
It was little; fat with air bubbles in it, the flan eyed the odd animal and struck. It opened its mouth and the flat mouth turned into sharp rows of teeth, and the flat head went into a frenzy of spikes. The Mumba recoiled as it felt moister surround it, the ground went damp, a little pillar of water towered through the Mumba, and a sphere exploded out of the middle of the pillar, water fell to the ground and the Mumba toppled head over heel backwards.

It shook it wet main of now flat fur and lunged at the water flan the Mumbas paw slushed through the middle inflecting very little damage. The flan glared, its pupils shrunk, and its insides bubbles furiously the Mumba looked around and ran backward and skidded the flan was now visibly shaking. The Mumba ran at it and jumped into the air lightning formed and crackled through his wet fur sending sparks flying high into the air the Mumba curled its self into a ball and hit the flan thunder crashed over head and the air quivered lightning cascaded down from the heavens and struck the flan sending rocks and off shoots of lightning everywhere. The flans head tilted back reviling its teeth and it dissolved into pyreflies.
The Mumba shook its self dry sending water in every direction making him a ball of red and white fur and then he was off in a flash. The Mumba approached the stone statue he shot up the hill to where it stood and sat in its welcoming shade. He caught his breath and ran down a long winding path to Besaid.

The Mumba came to a stop at the entrance of Besaid a sea breeze brushed over his damp fur, he walked cautiously into the village children stoped and stared at this unknown dog like animal, the Mumba eyed them as it approached the centre of the tiny town.

Rikku struggled for air she felt dazed and sore, she looked over and saw Yuna was going pale and the blood stood out on her skin, Rikku felt a slimy thick green tentacle slide up her back and around her neck Rikku shook her head trying to get the tentacle off her neck the smell was bad enough to make her vomit, it slowly wrapped around her neck. 'Oh crap it's gonna choke me!' Rikku swallowed hard and the tentacle got tighter and tighter. Rikku was breathing fast shallow breaths visibly exhaling air, the cliff face was smothered in ice and the wind picked up, she knew something was going to happen something real big……

The world was rambling, spilling its most valuable secrets to Yuna but she could only pick out bits here and there it was faint very faint. It went on for what seemed like an eternity, whispering…calling, Yuna could only see black but sensed everything around her in intricate detail, the wet tentacle that crushed her arms the ice forming all around the open river, she could pick out Rikku's shallow gasps and the water freezing into shape around the light blue cliff walls the serpent howling with some foreign laughter.
Vivid images flashed violently through her mind.
Screaming, explosions, a huge grey stone pillar fell sending the rusting plate on top of the sector below.
The rain hit her hand and left little trace of water thunder crashed overhead, lightning filled the sky, a sword spun down from the clouds the silver blade caught the reflection of lightning it hit the ground with incredible force, a person with a black glove reached for it.
A girl awoke from a terrible dream and rubbed her eyes dry, she walked over to the window and pushed it open.
Images of her pilgramige flashed befor her the images were screaming past her then with out warning they stoped and there infront of her was a handsom young man with blond hair stood and reached out to her his lips spoke her name....

Rikku struggled and bit hard into the green tentacle the taste of bitter sea water and blood filled her mouth but she sunk her teeth in deeper and deeper blood filled her mouth and her teeth went red the tentacle recoiled and Rikku vomited. The vomit spilled down her bra and on her cuts she wanted to scream but all she thought of was the horrible taste lingering in her mouth.
The cold was getting to her she was raised by the fiend and she saw the river the blue was deep and huge icicles covered the top of the river and small ones were scattered Rikku felt her body fly through the air her blond hair whipped her face and was hard with blood, she slammed against the cliff face and slid down and smashed into a tall icicle.

The Mumba pounded the ground with some one behind him they ran and jumped off the ruin sticking out of a little cliff they ran to the edge and stoped the woman walked over and pulled out a large blade.
Rikku stared up at the woman and simply smiled and whispered "Paine."