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Yuna stood up and tightened the grip on her rod, wondering what was next. As she stood holding her rod, light began to filter into the room. The light became too bright and had too close her eyes. Her body began to feel weak and unstable. Pain began to swell up inside her. The pain was too unbearable. Her legs were about to buckle. As weak as was and as much pain she felt, she kept standing and kept hold of rod. She would not show any weakness in front of Yevon.

The pain began to fade slowly and the weakness reduced. She hoped it was over. Slowly she opened her eyes. The room was completely white and the brightness made her eyes water. The voices in her head began again, but this time it was in a different language. She couldn't understand anything. " I don't understand! What are trying to tell me! Please let me understand you!" Yuna tried to understand the voices but was in vain. The pain and weakness she had felt before began to swell up again. This time it was three times worse. She began to choke as the pain blurred her vision, and in one clean sweep, she fell to ground in complete unconsciousness.

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Tidus's eyes slowly began to open. He was laying on a piece of concrete, floating on water. He had no idea where he was. Pieces of rubble and junk were lying in the water around and mist hung deep in the air. He crawled off the bit of concrete and slid into the water.

He swum for ages before he reached a stairway leading up to a temple. Am I dead? Is this the farplanes? Everything was confusing him.

Inside of the temple was a large room that smelt like water and mould. To the right were two large double doors. Not to mention it was freezing cold. He had come out of the frying pan, and into the freezer.

In the middle of the room were the remains of a fire. Enough wood left to make another.

After searching the temple he managed to find some old dried out flowers and a flint. He used the flint on the dried on flowers, and made fire to place onto the wood.

Tidus sat next to fire. The next thing he needed, was food. "I need food!" He said as if yelling out to Yevon.

After sitting around the fire daydreaming for a while, he eventually fell asleep.

When he awoke, the room was dim and the fire was down to only a few tiny flames. He jolted forward and tried to keep his fire going. "No wait! Don't go out on me! Wait just a sec...I'll get more wood!" Tidus couldn't bear to have his fire go out. He would freeze. He searched around franticly, looking for more wood. As he searched, he heard noises coming from around the room. He knew he wasn't alone. He walked back to the fire and looked around. Nothing. He turned away from the fire for a moment to look behind him. As he looked, he heard something thump behind him. When he turned around, he saw a lizard like creature standing where his fire once was. It screeched at Tidus and leaped up thrashing its claws around wildly. Tidus grabbed out his sword and slashed at the lizard. In roared in pain and reared up. Again Tidus slashed it violently again and again. The lizard flew up and pounded Tidus to the ground. Tidus grabbed his arm as it shook it pain. Before the lizard could finish him off, the double doors behind him blew up and six people wearing masks and full body suits come bursting. The leader, Tidus thought, was a lady, also wearing a mask; walked up to him and the lizard and got out two blades that attached to her hands. "Hey you're on my side? Cool!" Tidus said to the stranger. The lady flung forward and sliced the lizard in the throat. It immediately fell down dead. "Hey thanks" Exclaimed Tidus, smiling at the visitors. One of them grabbed him by the shirt and held a knife up to his throat. The lady took off her mask to reveal her eyes."Ned fah shcan sigmig!" The man holding him said. "Feid" said the lady as she stopped the man. He put away the knife and let Tidus down. The lady walked up to him and whispered in his ear. "Cunno" As soon as she had said it, something pieced him in the stomach and he fell to ground in blackness.

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Yuna awoke to the cold feeling of air blowing against her sweat-covered face. She was still in the temple of trials. Her rod was lying beside her. She also noticed that the pain had gone. She steadily got to her feet and picked up her rod. Beneath her was the circle of light. She turned around to look behind her. The door that led back to the main chamber where Lulu, Wakka and Kimahri waited for her. She guessed she had only been in here for a few hours. If she wanted she could walk through the door to her trainers. There she would be safe. But she knew that if she did that, she would be backing out on the trials, and never become, a summoner.

She turned back around and sat down in the circle and began to prey, as she had done earlier.

She had been preying for almost half an hour before the room began to light up as it had done before. She opened her eyes and took hold of her rod. The weakness filtered into her body again and she felt the pain returning. "No..." She choked out. Why does this keep happening to me? I thought this was a test! It was then that she realised that all the pain and weakness was part of the test. Yevon obviously wanted to find out how strong she was and how she could deal with things under pressure. She would prove herself worthy.

Yuna walked forward slightly to get her balance and then began to spin her rod around her head, to her side and then around in a circle at her feet. The patterns on the ground lit up making the ground glow with colour. Yuna continued to spin her rod whilst standing perfectly in the centre of the circle. The patterns glowed more than ever and then spirals of energy began to sweep around the floor, encircling Yuna. She lifted her rod high above her head, then dropped it down to her feet. The whole room went blank. The pain and weakness evaporated from her body. Light began to filter back into the room slowly, turning it back to its original state. She sat down in the circle and placed her rod on her lap. Instead of preying, she looked up at the glass paintings on the roof. She then realised that they were paintings of summoners. She noticed the most recent. Lord Braska. Her father. The painting made him look so young and brave, a true warrior. It was one of the best paintings of him. She wondered if her painting would one day be up there next to her father.

She smiled to herself. Thinking about her father always made her happy. One day she would be as well known and as powerful as he was.

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Tidus jolted awake from a hard bash to his ribs. He groaned in pain and looked up the person that had just hit him in the ribs. It was the same man that had put a knife to his throat before the strange lady had pieced him in the stomach, causing him to black out. The man picked Tidus up by the collar and held him up so he could stand. He was on a boat. It was a large steel boat. Tidus was on the deck with three other masked strangers. The lady walked onto the deck. The man holding Tidus pointed to him and started talking to her. "Canhad fiend! Sed bud tokupo!" He said. "Fed, Cantab mon sed" She replied. The man put Tidus down and started talking to him. " Hud Bigdam foota meesi booru ta". Tidus didn't have a clue what he was saying. "Listen I don't I understand what your saying." Tidus received a punch in the shoulder for speaking. "Cod sim ta bondie!" The man said. "Yeah, whatever" Again Tidus received a punch. "He said you can stay if you make yourself useful" The voice belonged to the lady. "What, you understand me!" The man punched him again. " Ok, I'll work!"

After a while Tidus was left on the deck with the lady. She finally introduced herself. "I'm Rikku," She said. " I'm sorry about the bad entrance and all, it's just that we thought you were a fiend". "Nah I guess its ok..." Tidus shuffled his feet as he spoke. " So where do you come from, who are you?" she continued. " Well my names Tidus, I'm a player for the Zanarkand Abes blitzball team, star player!" He said to Rikku, while he pretended to kick a blitzball.

" Um, did you hit your head or something?" Rikku said. " You guys hit me, remember?" Tidus said accusingly. " Oh right, do you remember anything before that?" She said as looked at him with concern. Tidus told Rikku all there was to tell, about Zanarkand, Sins attack and waking up in that strange place.

After a while Rikku finally spoke. " I guess you got to close to Sin, they say your head gets funny when you go to close to Sin" Tidus just looked out at the ocean. His stomach rumbled, it had been a while since he last ate." I guess your pretty hungry, I'll get you something" Rikku walked off the deck and into the cabin. Tidus sat on the ground and waited. When Rikku got back, she had a tray full of red noodles and some water. Tidus hastily ate it. His throat began to burn and took the water from Rikku and drank it down quickly. She giggles at him. " Its cos you eat to fast," She said whilst still giggling. "So are you ready to work yet?" She said after a while. "Sure, so what do we do?" He replied. Rikku began explaining the plan. " We found some ancient ruins right beneath us. We need to go down and turn on the main power sorce, then, we can get the big salvage!" Tidus walked to side of the boat. " Sounds good to me then" With that, they both jumped off the boat.

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"Not everybody can get off on there own you know?" That doesn't matter now, I'm always on my own, I have to get used to it, what else can do? " You don't know what It's like Dantree, I am alone, and I will always be alone. Can't you see that? Father is gone! I don't have a mother to look after me! Maybe if i follow him, I'll find people who care..." "Please Yuna don't do this, don't leave! What if your father didn't want you to follow him in his footsteps! What if he didn't approve of you becoming a Summoner! Did you think of that Yuna?" "Dantree, don't tell me what you think, my father is gone, whatever he wanted me to become died with him, there's nothing I or you can do about that! This is what I want to do!" "Yuna you are only seven years old, your not ready to live alone, please listen to me..." I'm sorry Dantree, you can't change my mind"

Yuna woke up on the floor of the Temple of Trials. She had been dreaming. "Dantree, I'm so sorry..." She whispered, remembering the painful memories. " I hope you have forgiven me, maybe my father didn't want me to be a summoner...but I'll never know...It's too late"

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The ocean seemed the same no matter which way you swam. Tidus managed to find that out fast. Rikku motioned with her hands to follow the rope that anchored the ship. Tidus nodded and grabbed hold of the rope, lowering himself further into the ocean. When finally finding the ship, Rikku entered the ship letting Tidus follow. They entered the main cabin of the ship and found the power source. Rikku swam underneath the power generator and began to fiddle with the wires. Come on Rikku hurry up. This place is freaky. Rikku made a joiceful motion with her hand and swam around happily. The generator turned blue and powered up. Making the whole room glow. Tidus looked around the room, glad to be leaving soon, and watched Rikku dig her fists into the water happily, doing her own victory dance. Rikku pointed towards the exit door. Relieved, Tidus obeyed, and swam towards it, Rikku followed.

A few small irritating fish followed, receiving a very slow death.

Finally after getting out of the cabin, Tidus thought that he would soon be heading into a battle free zone. He thought wrong. An octopus lurked behind them, watching their every move. It waited until they were away from eachother, before attacking Rikku. Tidus swam over to her. He dug his sword deep into the octopus's flesh. It screeched in pain and leapt onto Tidus. Rikku growled in anger yelping out things like 'Meani!' and ' Over grown crustacean!'

She ripped the octopus off Tidus and cast an ultima spell on it. It evaporated into a few thousand pieces and fell to the ocean floor. "Phew...thanks.." Tidus said.

They swam back up to the boat. "Thankyou for helping me...now we can have a closer look at the ruins!" Tidus nodded and sat down under the railing. He kicked the side grumbling. As if triggered, the whole boat swayed and large waves came up the sides. "Sin!" Someone yelled. Tidus looked up and saw a giant wave. The whole boat swayed again and Tidus fell off.

The wave was the last he remembered.

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Yuna stood up and looked in front of her where the creature had been. It seemed like she had only been in here for a few hours. She looked around. Everything seemed different.

She was breathing hard and felt small streams of sweat drip down her face. She leaned on her rod for support. " It's over isn't it?" She whispered. "I've done it"