Yay! Chappy 3. I wrote this at one o'clock in the mornin'...so be warned. (It seems like the best time to write is late night/early morning....)

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own FFX, but this story is MY idea and no one else's....*growls*

~*Chapter 3: Alive*~


Rikku stood there, looking absently at her bike. She really didn't know what to do now. He wasn't there. Why wasn't he there?

She was shaken out of her thoughts when a loud buzzing came from her bike. She walked to the machina nonchalantly. She pressed the a little red button, causing a screen to rise out of the top of the handle bars.

"Rikku!?" It was her father. "Frana dra ramm ryja oui paar, E'ja paan muugerk vun oui ajanofrana!!" He yelled through.

"Dunno..." she almost whispered. "I've been busy..."

Suddenly her father's place on the screen was taken by a very distressed Yuna.
"Rikku, is that you!?" She was almost in tears.

"Yeah, what's wrong Yunie?" she said, sitting on the bike now.

Yuna breathed out an obvious sigh of relief, "Rikku, I was so worried, we didn't know where you were and--"

"Yuna?" Rikku said, using her real name to stress her point. "What's going on?"

"Senators are being abducted!!" She said bluntly. "I was worried that's what happened to you!!"

Rikku look at the screen strangely. "Wait a second, abducted?!"

"Are you Senator Cyndrac?" came a deep voice from behind her.

Rikku turned around and glared sharply at the man who had spoken to her. He was wearing a leathery looking mask and a long dark green robe with gold trim. He was accompanied by another person, whom she assumed to be male by the height, but they were wearing the same thing as the man who spoke, therefore she could not tell.

"Rikku? Who's that?" Yuna said warily

"I gotta go, Yunie, I'm outside Guadosalam..."

"Rikku, wait, no... Rikku don't--" Rikku pressed the "disconnect" button and turned back to the men.

"Yeah , I'm senator Cyndrac..." She said, grabbing her "God Hand' out of a pouch connect to the back of her bike.

"We're gonna need you to come with us..." He took a step towards her.

"I thought so..." she answered, clicking her glove into place on her right arm.

"Good, then you won't make this harder than this really needs to be," he said.
She couldn't see his face, but she could see him smirking at her. Damn cocky bastards.
"Now, I never said that..." she smirked back at him.

The shorter man looked up at the taller man and nodded. The taller man then reached inside of his robe and pulled out a small hand gun.

Rikku laughed. "I've been up lots worse than that, I mean, I fought Sin." She put her hands on her hips. "Surely you don't think that I'm intimidated by a little gun?" she mused.

Before Rikku could react, the man raised it into the air and squeezed the trigger.
She braced herself for impact but she didn't feel anything. "Ha! You missed!!"

The men just stood there. She looked around and suddenly felt a stinging sensation in her neck . She reached up and felt the area. She stopped. A small dart was protruding out of her neck. She grasped the end of it and yanked it out. Looking at the small dart carefully.

"What the hell was that suppose to--" suddenly the world began to spin and she knew what it was. Her knees felt weak and she felt her eyes beginning to close.

The last thing she remembered was someone calling her name before she hit the ground hard.

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Auron's lungs burned. He felt heavy, and it was hard to move. He soon realized that he couldn't breathe. He was in the water. He shot out of the cool water, the world now coming into view. He coughed up some water and a few random Mewes of plants. He opened his eyes and looked around him. He was in the Moon Flow. The Moon Flow must be another link to the Farplane, imagine that...

Standing there in the cool water he felt strange. His whole perspective was different. He looked into the water and gasped. He had two eyes. The scar was still there but his eye was open, and working. He rubbed it making sure it was really there and he wasn't hallucinating from the lack of oxygen.

That though stopped him also. Lack of oxygen? Supposedly he was dead, he didn't need to breathe...

He only had one explanation: he was alive, really alive. He stood there a few more seconds just staring at himself in the water, still slightly shocked at his discovery. Someone yelled at him from the shore.

"Hey there, are you all right out there!?" they yelled from then shore.

Auron yelled back at the person gleefully, "Perfect!" He began the short trek to the shore. When he got there, he looked around. He was on the side closer to Guadosalam. Good, I can see if there's anyone I can question there... he thought. He started off towards the "root" city.

As he walked, everything was different somehow. He really wasn't surprised, considering that it had been 3 years since he had been in Spira, but amazingly there were no fiends, and also not many people on the path either.

He was getting close, as he could tell by the thickening of the roots. Suddenly he heard voices. He stepped into an area dense with trees close to the opening by the gate. He didn't really know why he decided to hide from the people, but he did.

It was then that he saw her. The girl, now a woman, who had plagued his thoughts for the past three years. She was beautiful. More than he ever dreamed that she would be.

Her blonde hair was now at least waist length, but it was tied up into a very high pony tail on top of her head with many small braids surrounding the center, and many more falling against her shoulders and down her back. The blue head band that she had tied around her head brought out the emerald of her eyes.

Her child's body had transformed into a woman, and boy did she seem to like to flaunt it. She was wearing less than she had been three years ago. An orange bikini top and a very short skirt that was low enough on her hips that showed the matching orange thong. Around her hips was the same utility belt that she had worn in the last journey. (a/n: Yes, I know, that's exactly what she looks like in FFX-2)

He looked at the two men who were there with her. All he could see were their robed backs. He didn't like the situation at all. He could barely hear what they were saying, but he could tell that they wanted Rikku to come with them.
Obviously she didn't like the situation either, because she decided that it was necessary to put her glove on.

Being her, she wouldn't go down without a fight. He smirked. He decided not to intervene quite yet. She was strong, she could take them.

He saw the taller of the two men reach inside of his robe, pulling out some kind of small shooting weapon, and pointed it at Rikku, shooting her in the neck.
It seemed that she didn't feel it, because she was still spouting off at the mouth. He decided it was then time to intervene. "Rikku!!" he called, running from the bushes.

"What the hell!?" The shorter man turned aroun,d only to be meet with a leather clad fist, contacting with his jaw, and sending him flying into a near by tree. The taller man moved to attack, but the shorter man stopped him.

"No, don't!" He called standing up from the ground dusting himself off. "You wont get very far with him. That's Sir Auron..." he said matter of factly.

The taller man looked from Auron to the shorter man, then back to Auron. Then he finally spoke. "I though he was dead..."

"So did I..." he growled, wiping the blood that was not trickling from his mouth.

"C'mon, we can get the girl later."

"Not if I can help it," he replied darkly.

"Grrr..." The shorter man ran off into Guadosalam, the taller man on his heels.

Auron walked over to Rikku and picked her up off the ground, looking tentatively at her face. It's good to be back... He sighed inwardly to himself.

He heard a low humming coming from the distance. It was coming toward them. Great, what now? He turned around, looking into the air. He saw an airship speeding through the air from the south. What timing. The ship stopped directly overhead. Yuna ran out onto the deck and looked down at him shocked.

"SIR AURON!?!?" She yelled over the engines.

"I think so!" He yelled back. He decided to stop her from asking further questions. "She was drugged!" He yelled.

"There's no place to land! We'll have to send down a rope!"
Auron shook his head. "There's no way it will work! Meet me back out by the Moon Flow!"

"Okay, I'll tell Cid!" And with that, she was gone back inside the ship. Shortly afterward, it sped off back the way it came.

Auron looked at the bike and smiled. It was the quickest way. He slipped onto it holding the unconscious Rikku in front if him.

He looked down at the controls and frowned. This might not be so easy after all. He pressed a few buttons here and there. Nothing worked. It was then he saw a key. He turned it, and the engine revved to life. The rest was easy, just like piloting the snow machina.. Kinda....
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HeeHee, So Sir Auron is alive!!! Sorry bout all the typos and spelling errors (if there are any, I'm sure my octopusinc will find them....*growls*). I'm going to SanFran next week so I might mot post anymore for a while. I'll try to get another chappy out this week, but I highly doubt it....*sweatdrop*