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Rock da boat…. Rock da boat, work it in da…. AL BHED??!!??

I have just regained composure, and Tidus was lying next to me, still out cold.  I noticed my surroundings.  Night.  Steel flooring.  Sea. 

"Hmm.  This must be their boat."

I looked at the yellow-headed boy.

"Tidus.  Tidus wake up.  I could really use you on this one"

I had just cooked up an idea.  Little did I know that this was going to get me in to serious, shit loads worth of trouble.  And a whole world of hurt.  Badly.  But hey, I didn't know then what I know now.  I pray that I did.

Here's what happened.

On a Video game back home.  I thought of Final Fantasy 7.  Reason being is because at one point in the game, they were on a boat too.  I just used the information from that to here.  FF10.  My plan (still in theory) is to capture one of them and bargain to get us a safe deal.  Mainly food.  Cause then?  I was starving.  Practically thinking of nothing else but stuffing my face with food.  That, and I have a huge craving for popcorn right now…. ** Ahem. ** So we tried that method.  I got Tidus awake and explained to him what my Lil' notion was.  We thought about it, shared Ideas and tortured our brains to make our stomachs stop growling.  And we got our 'a' in to 'g', and tried their patience.  Tidus motioned for one of them to come over to us.  I was on the ground twisting and turning, faking that I was sick or something.  The eldest one bought it.  The others, however, needed a little convincing.  Especially when in comes to potions and shit.  They make their own potency mixtures.  They are quite the alchemists.  So it seems that the one they call 'brother' came over to us.  Tidus pointed to me, and faked a dramatic scene.

Brother kneeled down and warned Tidus that he had better not be wasting his time.  As soon as Brother came close to me, I jumped up and 'decked' this guy within a heartbeat.  I mean come on.  He was soo close, I could taste the guy's breath.  Nasty!  Tidus pulled Brother close to him and put him in a headlock, brother wasn't knocked out. Well, not just yet, for that matter.  And I threatened the rest of their crew to get us out of this jam.
The second eldest one laughed.  He walsed up to me, arms crossed and a smirk on his face.  He told me that I had spunk for a woman.  (Hey?  What does he mean by that huh?)  I raised an eyebrow.

"Woman huh?"

Tidus was still struggling to hold on to Brother, he had just regained his consciousness,

"Could we hurry this up Lah?"

I nodded.  I didn't want anything go any further than it already has, I only concocted this weird idea, simply to get their attentions.  Obviously, you could put a humungous tick against our primary objective.  The second objective?  Still, work in progress.

The second eldest, told me to let him go.  'Him' being brother.  I spoke back to him, with out caring whether he could hear me or not.  I told him, if I did; he's gonna have an end of the bargain too.  This is not no free for all.  For some reason our proposition was not fore looked over, it seemed our deal was much needed.  He agreed to our terms.

I asked him they had to feed us, and that Tidus gets his sword back.  Also, that we were aloud to be set free on our on accord.  Reluctantly, he agreed to all of those charges.  I nodded to Tidus, who let Brother go.  Wobbly, he traipsed back to his side of their ship.  Remarkably how all my plans turn out fine, and then some other 'mishap' should come out to play.

The second eldest came at us; he said that before he let us go.  We had to do something for him.  Tidus couldn't understand a word that guy was saying.  That's when the little of the crew confronted Tidus,

"He said, you have to helps us."

The girl told him.  He was rapped that the girl could understand, however, Tidus wouldn't have a word of it.  He was still strong on the belief that the al bhed would hold their word.  I should have known that wouldn't have kept it anyhow.  They surrounded T and kept hitting him, severely, just to make him change his mind.  I'm talking heavy blows.  One, after another, but his eyes gave me the reassurance that it was all right for T.  I just let it happen.  But then it came to the time, where enough was enough so…

"ALRIGHT!"

I told them.  I held my stance strong.  Pulled my open hand in to a fist.

"ENOUGH"

I ran to T.  Who, poor boy, was holding his torso, coughing.  I fought most of them off, more like fended them off.  I thought that this was typically unfair.  How come he was getting all the pain and not me.  I mean.  It was my idea.  I didn't like the sight of T getting knocked down because of me.  Guilty, totally GUILTY,

"But.."

Throwing my fist in the air….

"You keep doing that to him."  I pointed to what carnage they did to him,  "And you have no deal.  GOT IT?"

Oh great Lah, NOW grow a conscience!

They looked at T, and then backed off.  They told me that they would not hit a woman; the pain of a man is taking every thing, even pain, on behalf of a female.  MALES?  Derr….

I thought that was a whole heap of bullshit.   Since when were the al bhed in to that?  They laughed and helped T, who flinched and still kept his guard.  He fought them off, still injured.  He kept falling over himself.  I looked to him in sympathy.  I was impressed, how he could take so much heat.  And not even cry or nothing.  I don't even care if he's a cry baby.  Cause Dayum! 

The whole 7 of them disappeared in to their office and left us out on the deck.  I picked T up and leaned him up by the crane.

"Whoa, you sure know how to get people's attentions Tidus"

He smiled.

"I should say the same to you."

His stomach ached.  And it was where he was hit.  I frowned.  He needs some food.  Or something.  I reached in to his pockets.  Searched everywhere.

"Here, have a potion."

He was put off by the smell.  Don't blame him.  He kept knocking it away.

"Look you and I know that you have to drink this monstrosity, so stop being a cry baby.  And drink the damn thing."

I put it in his hand and let him do it.  I mean can't make horse drink water if it doesn't want to.  He looked at it.  NO label once again.  He gulped and skulled the thing backs.  He felt better.  But not a hell of a lot.  I thought this was my entire fault.  Well duh, it is.  Running I banged on the door, of which they disappeared into.  It opened.  And the youngest came out.  I bumped in to her and all the food, which she was holding in trays, fell over not only me, but also her and the door itself.  I sighed and went to clean it up.

"I can see you really care for him huh?"

I looked at her and scrunched up my face.  Just what is she really implying?  I looked at T who was groaning and twisting like I was before this shirade happened.  Then back at her.  I stood up and dusted myself off.  Holding out my hand I smiled and apologised to her for the mess I have caused.  I introduced myself.  She did the same.

"My name is Rikku"

She accepted my hand and walked over to T with two more trays.  Pulling up T she feed him some sort of tonic from out of her water canister.  I came over to help her nurse him to his full strength.

"I'm sorry about what happened back there.  The al bhed are taught to show no mercy.  They are just a pack of idiots.  You must for give them.  This is a tough time here in spira."

We listened what she had to say.  While Tidus stuffed his face with food to the point of choking.  I was kind of jealous.  He stole my idea of eating.  I'm famished.   So I copied.

"You look a lot older than what he is.  Are you his girlfriend?  Or older sister"

I choked.  And coughed.  Disgusted at what she said.  What is it with these people? ~_^.

"None!"

She was stunned. 

"Really?  Wow, so you two have only just met?"

I nodded. Swallowing hard and racing T to a challenge of who could eat faster.  He faster so did I.  He's the challenging type.  I like that about him.  Because I am also. He looked at me staring while he shovelled food in to his mouth by the hand scoop fulls.    Her mouth dropped.

"Boy!  You really were hungry huh?"

I thought.  Were did she get that from?  Swallowing I asked her a question.

"So where are we?"

"Spira of coarse.  Silly.  Oh, you didn't know that?"

"No."

She looked confused.  Looked around to see if anyone else heard what I just said.  She looked back at us.  In confusion.

"Where are you from?"

"I'm from… Tidus?  Where are we from?"

He looked at Rikku and me and spoke with a full mouth.

"Zanarkand, I'm…mmmm, from … ahh the Zanarkand Abes."  Gurgling his food in his mouth.  I rolled my eyes.  "Star player, team captain."

"Did you hit your head or something?  Zanarkand, hasn't existed for over a 1000 years.  Are you sure that's where you are from?"

He nodded.  Shocked.

"Uh-huh, Zanarkand.  I'm from there all right.  That's impossible.  That means I'm 1017 years old."

"Or maybe older."  I chuckled.

She looked at me.

"You too?"

"Yeah.  I'm in the …."  I looked at T.   Slyly smirking. "I'm his rival.  I'm captain and star player of the Zanarkand Aces."  Well I just pulled that out of my ass.

Smiling, we challenged to see who would blink.  I can see that I was screwing things up with Tidus and his love interest Yuna.  That's when I decided to back off…

We both high fived.  And then, back to eating.  Shovel by the shovels full.

Then the rest of their ductile forces joined us.  The Al bhed brigade.

Before she went to see them, the boy scouts from hell, she turned to us.

"Hey.  About Zanarkand?  Don't go saying you are from that place.  It's really sacred, and you may offend some people.  Okay?"  She waved and pulled thumbs up.  "Just a little hint."  Winking at us, she turned and replied on a decision she had made with us, and the task at hand, she proposed for us.

Oh I can't wait.  Not.

Now we are heading in to the dead zone?

Who's first?