At First Glance

Okay, so today I had a bad day, well not actually, but really close. Before I go on let me introduce myself.

Hello! My name's Rikku!

I'm fifteen years old and guess what! I'm an Al Bhed! Complete with swirly- green eyes and goggles. And I'm proud to be one! Yup-yup! I don't care what those stinky, mean Yevonites say! We Al Bhed are million-kazillion times better than them!

Well, moving on...

I met this guy a couple of hours ago, or has it been a day? I can't remember. Aaanyways, this guy I met had blonde, spiky hair and blue eyes. We found him at Baaj Temple, a pretty strange place to be if you ask me, with the fact that it's ruined and all. Spira knows how he got there in the first place!

I came with a group of Al Bhed, we had a mission to recover some lost, ancient machina. The name of the mission was 'Operation: Find Ancient Machina'. Very creative, huh? Guess who named it... my brother. He's not exactly the smartest person. Actually, he ISN'T a smart person.

We stopped by Baaj Temple to see if we could get any forgotten treasure, but instead we found the spiky haired dude.

It was a good thing we found him! If we didn't, he would've been made lunch by the fiend he was fighting.

So I came in and helped him beat the fiend, and I sure did kick-ass! Woohoo! Go Rikku! Go Rikku! It's your birthday! It's your birthday!

Ahem...anyway...

We brought him aboard our ship, but I had to knock him out first, since the guys thought he was a fiend. But maybe I shouldn't have hit him too hard coz he started to say weird things like, 'I'm from Zanarkend!' and 'I'm star player of the Zanarkend Abes!'

Of course, when he started to say this I thought he was some kinda psycho. My first thought of action was to push the wacko of the ship and leave him to drown. It was a good thing he mentioned getting close to Sin, or he would have been fish-food. He was also kinda starting to grow on me, you know, like a troublesome pet. After all, he did help us with, 'Operation: Find Ancient Machina'. And who knows? Maybe he had just drunk too much seawater while he was swimming.

So, we agreed to bring him to Luca, since that was where the center of blitzball was, someone might recognize him or he might remember something. And I also wanted to cheer the Al Bhed Psyches on for the tournament.

Unfortunately, we ran into Sin along the way. The guy fell off the ship, and Sin also DESTROYED our ship. Damn. But I'm sure the others and the blonde guy are okay, I mean, look at me! I woke up beside Macalania Lake. Was I okay? Hell no! I was shivering and I was aching all over! And I even had this big, fat bruise on my- on second thought; I don't even want to mention that. But I was still alive!

Someone up there- and I'm sure it's not Yu Yevon- loves me! And if he loves me, I'm sure he loves them! And if he doesn't, too bad for their sorry asses!

So basically, it wasn't a bad day. IT WAS A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NASTY DAY.

And now I'm sitting on a rock, beside Macalania Lake, with no idea what to do, and my whole body is freaking sore!

Man...

As I think hard on what to do, I hear some footsteps behind me. I stand up slowly and turn around to face the stupid fiend; I even have my claws ready!

But the thing behind me wasn't a fiend; it was a human with a fiend BEHIND him. A very BIG fiend.

I raise my index finger swiftly and point to the fiend behind him and cry, "Behind you!"

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