Authors Note: Ack, I'm trying to break down the Chapters but it's not working – I have 9 pages to this Chapter. Erm...well...try and read it all? Pwetty Pwease? ^^;;

Chapter 7: Luca

As we headed out of the temple, I noticed Tidus looked annoyed, so I went over to him.

"Are you okay?" I asked him.

"I don't know..." He replied, sighing.

"What do you want to do?" I said, smiling at him.

"Scream." He said. He opened his mouth and let out a scream. I laughed and carried on walking onto the narrow path. The clear water and beautiful scenery made me happy to be in these surroundings.

The path widened as I saw the exit, and took one last look at the lovely surroundings. Then, I walked out back into Kilika.

There was a new boat ready to take us to Luca, and it looked as good as the one before it.

Before leaving Kilika properly, I took one last look at it. After all, I probably wouldn't be coming back here for a long time. [I]I guess the same goes for anywhere else I go to.[/I]

I got on the boat, and waved to the people gathering to say goodbye. I got out my sphere diary, and turned it on with a click.

"Well, here I am, leaving Kilika. There are all the people who came to say goodbye, and here's Kilika!"

Suddenly, Tidus came into view.

"Hey Yuna. What are you doing?"

"Recording on my sphere diary. This is Tidus, the "newbie.""

I laughed as Tidus frowned.

"Only kidding. He could become my next guardian."

The boat rocked, and we were off. I turned off the diary and went to my cabin. Tidus followed, and so we both went in.

I got out my father's sphere diary, and turned it on at the point when they got to Kilika. I saw my father and Auron, so Jecht must have been filming.

"So. The second part of my pilgrimage awaits. Auron, Jecht, are you both ready?"

Tidus leaned forward, a look of complete surprise on his face.

"That man...Jecht...the name...you were right." Tidus frowned, and shook his head.

We carried on watching, but I watched with more interest.

Yeah, I'm ready." Jecht replied, nodding.

"Good. But before we go to the temple, I must get some rest."

"Yeah, and I need to rest my hands. Here ya are Auron."

"Will you two get some supplies?"

As Auron turned the screen to Jecht, Tidus stared. Now the man was in view, it was obvious he recognised him.

"WHAT! But, that's my old man!"

He tried to grab the sphere, but I held it back.

"What do you want with it?"

"I want to get rid of my old man. I HATE him!"

"Why? I would have thought you to look up to someone like your father!"

"No way! He was horrible to me. He called me a cry-baby!"

I looked up at him, surprised. Sighing, I switched off the diary, and watched as Tidus walked out.

I smiled and put away the diary. I lay down on the bed and heard the door shut.

I fell asleep, and dreamt.

[I]Hey, leave this to me!"

"But, Tidus, the Final Summoning is the only thing capable of defeating Sin! One guardian alone can't!"

"No problem! I won't let you die Yuna! I just won't!"

"But,"

"Hey, just leave it to me. The Final Aeon is a hoax! Even you know that."

"Yet you still try and make it seem like it is real."

"Sir Auron..."

"Let him try." [/I]

As soon as I woke up, that dream exited my head.

I couldn't seem to get back to sleep, so I decided to go outside, where I found a few members of the Luca Goers and Tidus arguing. One of them had just called him an idiot. I frowned.

"Don't call him that." I said.

"But he is an idiot." The team member called Bickson said. "They don't have what it takes to win the cup!"

"Now that I'm here they do." Tidus said, smiling. I nodded in agreement.

"They'll win. He's the star of the Zanarkand Abes!" I said happily.

"Hah, as if that's believable." The team member named Graav laughed. "I doubt anyone could live in those ruins."

"It's not ruins!" I said, annoyed. "There's a city, there really is!" Tidus looked like he was about to make his, "got to close to the toxin" excuse. "There is!"

"Right. What ever the Lady Summoner says." Bickson said mockingly.

"You seemed sorta mad." Tidus said as the other two walked away. I sighed.

"But they were being rude...and...well..." I turned to face him. "I really do believe your city exists! I want to see it!"

Tidus shrugged, and walked off. Still annoyed, I went back into my room, and fell asleep again for a little while.

A loud banging noise on the wall woke me up and I quickly went outside. There, I saw Tidus perform the legendary Jecht Shot. As he finished it, I waited as the Aurochs walked up to him in amazement.

A few minutes after, Tidus came over.

"That, was the Jecht Shot, wasn't it?"

"How, how did you know?"

"Sir Jecht showed it to me, and called it the "Sublimely Magnificent Jecht Shot Mark III."

"Yeah. But, there wasn't a mark I or II. Just three. My old man said that the crowd would come back to see marks II and I. And, they did."

Suddenly, the boat rocked heavily, and the huge form of Sin appeared next to the boat.

Its fin appeared beside the ship, and once again it rocked violently. Suddenly, harpoons flew into the air and hit the fin, causing strange shapes to fall off its huge body. It got angered, and tried to get it off by circling the boat once.

Tidus stepped up and held up the Brotherhood, an amazing sword. Water was contained inside it, but it never fell out, not a drip. A dragon's head was on the handle and the blade ended by curving up at the end. I looked at my rod. The only thing it was good for was summoning. It didn't have much physical power in it. But, now was not the time to worry about that. I stepped up to the closest you could get to Sin and waited. Kimahri pushed me lightly away.

"Yuna no get hurt. Kimahri take Yuna's place."

I watched as my brave guardian stepped up for battle, and then watched as Lulu stepped up too.

Pine like shapes flew through the air and landed on the boat, unfolding themselves. They were like ugly birds. Tattered wings and a strange head. Tidus ran forward and struck one to its death and I watched pyreflies fly through the air. Kimahri struck another one, and Lulu's magic got rid of the last one. But to our horror, three more flew through the air and unfolded purple flickering wings.

"Don't you see? We have to attack the fin, or else nothing will happen."

Tidus let Lulu know he understood by nodding, and let Wakka take his place. He threw his ball at the fin, and it made its mark. Some of the monsters flew off its body, but this gave us a bit of a disadvantage. Sin moved, causing the boat to do the same. The force was so violent that I had to hold onto the sides to keep my balance.

Wood fell off the boat each time Sin moved, so we had to be careful what we did. Lulu lifted her arm as Sin stopped, and released a thunder spell, followed closely by another bird monster being destroyed. I smiled as Kimahri stepped back, and walked over to him. I immediately stepped back as one of the monsters hit Tidus. He bent down, obviously in pain, so I rushed in and healed him. Kimahri went away. I knew now that I would be needed for only my healing powers. When I had my chance to do something again, there was no one to heal, so I tried taking up the defensive stance. Lulu touched my shoulder.

"Why don't you summon?"

I nodded and twirled my rod round. Flame appeared and shot down to the ground, causing a huge flame cross to appear. I bent down and the seal was broken, in a flash of light Ifrit appeared in a fireball locked between two piles of rocks, one of which I was on. The ball exploded and Ifrit flew into the air, as did I. Ifrit caught me and together we landed. I jumped down as the powerful fire elemental beast roared. It was ready for battle.

He was mainly brown, and had enormous blue claws. His horns were huge, and very shiny black. Around his neck he wore a necklace. I could only stand and stare as he unleashed a fire attack on Sin. I looked over at Tidus and Wakka. I wasn't surprised to see them with their eyes wide staring at the aeon. Especially Tidus.

My eyes darted back to Ifrit as he sent out a huge ball of flame, destroying some of the bird monsters. Then, he used another one and let it hit Sin.

Suddenly, Ifrit glowed orange for a second, and two huge fireballs came from his paws. They were unleashed and hit Sin. After, Ifrit sent out another fireball, this time from his mouth. Finally, he lifted up a huge bit of floor and flung it at Sin. Staring at this for a second, I then looked at the floor. It was still there.

This time, the harpoons came off Sin, and he swam away. The bird monsters exploded into pyreflies, and one more wave heavily rocked the boat.

I stood there, looking at Ifrit, astonished. I dismissed him with a wave of my rod, and felt a hand. Lulu's hand.

"Well done. You could be useful!"

I happily nodded, and saw land. Luca. We were almost there, and I would get to witness my first blitzball game for years! I stared out and thought about many things, too many for my own good! Soon, that became a bit boring, so I walked into my cabin. I was about to sit on my bed when I saw Tidus already on it.

"Oh, hey Yuna. What do you want?"

"To sit on my bed."

Tidus moved over and I sat next to him. He was staring at a blitzball he had found on the ship's deck and twirling it round. He looked funny, so I decided to talk to him.

"Are...are you okay?"

He let go of the ball and watched it roll across the floor.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just I miss Zanarkand. MY Zanarkand. They had lots of blitzball there as well."

"Your homesick?"

He nodded and went to get the ball. I stopped him, and looked hard at him.

"You're not going to be worried, not while I'm around! I, always want happiness on my journey."

Tidus looked at me and smiled.

"That's it! Smile and let your worries drift away."

"But, what about Sin? He just came, didn't he?"

"Yes, well. That...is something different. We got rid of him for a while, didn't we? That keeps me happy."

When he reached for the ball again, I stuck my rod in front of him and went to get it myself. I twirled it round in my hands and threw it up in the air. It flew over the bed, and Tidus jumped up in the air to catch it. I stared as he caught it and landed cat-like on the floor. He stood up and I clapped as he spun it round on his finger. He smiled at me, and then threw the ball back. I caught it and smiled back.

Suddenly the door flew open and a man came in. he was quite short and wore jeans and a shirt.

"The boat is almost ready to dock M'lady."

"Thank you."

I looked at Tidus, who was still twirling the ball in his hands. I wished I could know what was wrong with him.

I lay spread out on the bed and sighed.

"You know, this will be the first blitzball match I've seen for years. It'll be exiting to see one again, don't you think?"

"Yeah, except I'll be playing. I haven't played for ages, so I don't know how good I'll be."

He walked out leaving me alone. Tidus seemed so unhappy. [I]Then again, I bet that when he gets in the pool, he will forget all his troubles and enjoy himself. And so will I.[/I]

The boat stopped moving and I walked out of the cabin, where I saw the glorious stadium. It was made of white marble and on the top there was a huge bridge-type arc that spun when the sphere pool was being filled. It had rows upon rows of seats to fit the many fans of blitzball, but unfortunately not enough seats. Many fans had to watch in pubs, or watch from big screens that hung down from the ceilings all over Luca. As a summoner, I had already been given special seats.

Finally, we had properly docked, and I ran off the boat, closely followed by Tidus. I heard the famous commentators, Bobba and Jimma talking about all the different teams; at the moment they were going on about the Kilika Beasts.

"Well Bobba, here are the Kilika Beasts!"

"Yesiree Jimma, and I heard that their home recently got attacked by Sin!"

"I heard the same, and maybe they can make up for that by bringing the cup home! Do you think they can do it Bobba?"

I suddenly saw the Luca Goers step up.

"No, I don't Jimma, 'cause here come our very own Luca Goers! I can assure you that they will take the cup today!"

"Oh, look! Here are the Ronso Fangs!"

"Yeah! Will their ugliness scare off the other teams to win today? I think not!"

"And look there Bobba! The Besaid Aurochs! They're a living, breathing, statistical impossibility! I've never seen a team this bad!"

"That's right! In 23 years, they've never made it past the first round!"

I looked over to Tidus, who looked extremely annoyed. Wakka sighed.

"It's like this every year ya? Don't let it get to you."

Tidus grabbed a lone megaphone and jumped onto a wooden box. When he spoke, his voice was twice as loud.

"STOP RIGHT THERE GOERS! YOU GUYS ARE SMILING, BUT NOT FOR LONG! THIS YEAR, THE AUROCHS ARE TAKING THE CUP WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! HAH!"

"What do you think your doing?" Wakka asked, grabbing his arm and pulling him to the ground again.

"Wakka, we want to make ourselves known, don't we?"

"Yeah, but that's humiliating Tidus. Hey, don't take it personally. Like I said, it happens every year."

"Well, this time, we're going to win! What's our motto?"

All the Besaid Aurochs threw their arm into the air and spoke in unison.

"VICTORY!"

"That's right! And the motto is right. Always." Tidus smirked. I smiled and shook my head.

"Hey look Jimma, it's Maester Mika!"

"Maester Mika is here already? We must go see him!"

I started to walk to his boat, and then faster. I wanted to see him.

Soon, the boat was in view, and a huge crowd was already gathering. Strangely dressed drummers were next to the plank leading down, and soon Maester Mika himself came. I prayed to him, as did all the others, and then awaited his speech.

He must have been the oldest person in Spira. He had a long beard and his sleeves covered his hands, which were, at the time, behind his back. His eyes were only squints, and he wore a small hat. He prayed to us, and began his speech.

"My, so many of you here today. Children of Spira, I wish this to be a good tournament, and we have another special person. Son of Lord Jyscal, who has only recently become a Maester - Maester Seymour!"

Lord Mika stepped back to reveal the newest Maester, Seymour. He had blue, spiky hair and long, thin hands. After all, he was half Guado. He wore a robe that was blue as well, and it covered his feet. It didn't cover his chest, but that wasn't a bad thing.

"I am Seymour Guado, and I am honoured to receive the title of Maester. It was a cruel fate my father had to endure, but unfortunately he passed away, leaving me to take his place. As many of you know, he tried to bring human and Guado together, and I intend to carry that on. Thank you."

We all prayed again, and went off.

I followed the Aurochs to their locker room, but suddenly heard a conversation that could be very helpful to Tidus and to me.