A/N's Just an FYI, I think it was listed in Playstation Magazine that Square does NOT intend to continue the FFX series any further. I decided to work on this fan-fic cause I think there were a few extra things they could've added in the game that would've filled in the holes a little better. (Like Auron and Paine - hehe.)

And for GullWing Yunie and anyone else that wants to, Of course you can post a link, especially now that it's complete, thanks for asking!

Sorry it's taken me so long to update, but I planned on completing the rest, before posting it.

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Rikku ran ahead, hearing Yunie's name and battle in the same sentence, is cause for concern.

Paine watched as Rikku dashed off and decided to go ahead and talk to him, "Baralai, Why don't you go ahead."

"Sure." Baralai glanced at Gippal and then went ahead.

Gippal arched his eyebrow towards the female warrior standing next to him.

Paine took a moment to gather her thoughts, her eyebrows slightly twitching as Gippal watched her carefully, then she finally spoke.

"Gippal, you " her face looked worried, "you need to decide about Rikku. I don't want to see her hurt. If you do or don't want to be with her, you should tell her now."

Paine stared at Gippal and his face remained emotionless - Which irritated her - she glared at him "Well?"

Gippal smiled at her "Now there's the Paine I know. I'll tell her, but why are you so concerned?"

"Because every guy in Spira is going to be after her soon. You should've heard some of the things that I heard, when we walked through the Al Bhed camp. They all assumed I didn't know, since I'm not Al Bhed. If we hadn't been there to dig, I would've layed on some serious hurt." "At any rate, you should tell her, so she'll know whether or not to get another guy."

"I see, and what makes you think I care so much." He said calmly.

Paine slightly smiled and smirked, "Ouin hud yc rynt du nayt yc oui drehg."

{Your not as hard to read as you think.}

G: "Uilr." {Ouch.} Gippal moved in close to Paine, where her crimson eyes could glare at him only inches away from his face, "I cared for you too, you know." Gippal could feel her warm breath against his face as her words took a stab at him, "I've decided now," She reached up to and slightly pushed the man invading her space, making him sway back a little, "yht ed fych'd oui." {and it wasn't you.}

G: "Uilr ykyeh." {Ouch again.} He said as he regained his footing. "What's up with you and Baralai, Rikku called him your boyfriend."

P: "He is."

Paine began walking towards the area Rikku had ran off to. "If you hurt her - I'll hurt you."

Gippal stood there for a moment as Paine continued on.

Then sighed, "That's going to cost me." He followed after the group.

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Paine found the blonde headed gambler and Rikku kneeling in front of Yuna.

Rikku looked up at Paine and frowned, "She's not moving."

Leblanc: "She's out cold, but she is breathing."

Paine walked over and knelt down too, "Auron said something about a fight, maybe she's unconscious."

Leblanc: "We've been trying to get the girl to wake up, but it's just no use loves."

"Do you think she's injured?" Rikku pouted.

Nooj: "Could be. No sense in staying here though, I think we should leave, fiends will be on the way soon. Living things attract them."

Paine stood up and faced the mevyn: "Nooj, I know what you mean, but I said we wouldn't leave anyone behind again and I meant it. Tidus could still be here and I won't leave without him."

Nooj stared at Paine, her red eyes were fierce with determination. "You don't want a repeat of what happened to us? Is that it? It's dangerous here, we should move, we don't even know . . . "

P: "Nooj, I won't move until I know that both of them are safe. Before he was just a memory and I didn't want Yuna to get her hopes up when it was so un-clear, but now I've seen him, he's alive and I won't lose another friend to Shuyin."

"I see. Just as I thought. Alright, Gippal and I will watch the area, try to wake the girl, I don't want to stay here much longer."

"Thank you." she nodded at him.

Rikku watched in awe, Paine, the ever sarcastic one, standing her ground, for Him. Someone she barely knew, but was important to Yuna. Before Paine wouldn't have been so. . mm. . protective. Rikku smiled as Paine bent back down over Yuna's sleeping body. She caught Rikku's green eyes staring into her and snapped at her, "What Rikku?"

R: "Oh, Nothing."

Baralai walked over to the two girls standing over Yuna and placed a hand on Paine's shoulder, Paine felt herself relaxing as her senses felt his touch.

B: "Paine, I know you've been through a lot lately, learned a lot too, I'm here, ok."

The silver haired warrior nodded and turned her attention to Rikku.

P: "So, Rikku, any bright ideas?"

R: "Maybe we could sing to her and wake her up."

Paine almost chuckled at the thought, "I think people sing to someone when they want them to go to sleep, not wake up."

R: "Oh yeah, ahehehe."

Rikku thought for a few moments.

"Whistle."

Paine arched an eyebrow at the al bhed girl. "What would that do?"

R: "That's how Tidus gets her attention."

P: "I see, go ahead."

Rikku ducked her head down and pouted, "I don't know how."

Baralai: "There goes idea number two."

Rikku looked up through pouting green eyes, "Famm, oui ryjah'd paah silr ramb aedran, sayhea." {Well, you haven't been much help either, meanie.}

Paine: "Lusa uh Rikku, drehg uv cusadrehk amca." {Come on Rikku, think of something else.}

Baralai caught sight of Rikku pouting at him: "What did she say?"

Paine: "She called you a meanie."

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Gippal and Nooj started walking around the area, Gippal turned back to see Baralai affectionately place his hand on Paine. He studied the two for a moment, then sighed. They had fallen for each other. A stranger he could deal with, but a friend, he couldn't compete with.

"Hey Nooj."

N: "What is it Gippal."

G: "About that thing, well, hmm. let's just say I got two out of three."

N: "Oh, the Great leader of the Machine Faction, admitting defeat?"

G: "Well, let's just say the competition wasn't what I was expecting, besides, I have a thing for Rikku now."

N: "Oh, I see, so which other one was it?"

G: "We never said I had to tell that, I'm keeping it to myself."

N: "Oh really, you must've really pushed some buttons on that one."

"Pay up, all three."

G: "Come on, can't I just pay you for the one I didn't get."

Nooj: "The bet was that you would kiss all three Gullwing Girls, your cocky attitude thought you could seduce all three, not just two, now pay up."

Gippal sighed and handed over three thousand gil.

Nooj: "Next time you won't place a bet so high. This'll buy a nice dinner for LeBlanc."

Gippal turned to Nooj and raised his eye-brow in question.

Nooj just shrugged, "Come one, we need to keep an eye out for fiends."

G: "Right, Let's hunt some fiend."

Nooj rolled his eyes, "Your like a kid, this isn't a game you know."

G: "Oh come on, lighten up."

N: "Brat."

Omega Weapons and Malbaros were quickly approaching the group.

"Whatever," Gippal pulled out his gun and began firing.

Nooj did the same.

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Baralai heard the shots, "I'll go help the guys."

The guys were quickly finding themselves surrounded.

Gippal: "This could get ugly."

B: "Gippal, Rikku!" Gippal turned as a fiend had snuck past them was headed straight for Rikku, he fired at the fiends while running towards her.

Nooj was quickly being out numbered, but when he realized this he felt his weapon fall from his hand as an Omega Weapon prepared for the blow against him. Nooj watched as the fiend prepared and he closed his eyes as his final thoughts came to him, darkness at last, to be at peace with the earth, No one knew about how many times he would visit the Farplane, wanting to stay here, where there was peace, no more worries, only peace, finally he could join them, forever.

The fiend screeched loudly and in his darkness, he felt cool metal threatening against his neck, barely touching him, but definitely not killing him. Nooj sighed and opened his eyes to find Paine glaring at him and holding her sword to his throat, She just won't let go. Girls.

She had slain the Weapon and that was when it had screeched.

Nooj looked down at the sight of her sword and smiled mockingly at her, "You'd be doing me a favor."

Paine snapped back, "I thought you were over that."

Nooj: "You still owed me one, and you just took away your chance to pay up."

Paine raised the tip of her sword, as his face was forced up avoid being cut, then she lowered it, "Nooj, as long as I'm here - You can forget it."

Paine turned back to slash through a few more fiends, and then noticed one getting closer to Yuna and LeBlanc. "Where's Rikku." She scanned the area and found Rikku and Gippal slashing through fiends together, and they too were getting surrounded but they were closer to Yuna, "Rikku," she hollered, "Yuna's in trouble!"

Rikku heard Paine hollering and turned to see a malbaro towering over Yuna,

"Yunie!" she cried out, and started slashing through the fiends, in order to reach her cousin, but there were too many, she wasn't getting there fast enough. "Paine, I can't reach her."

Paine was having her own problems, even though Nooj was helping, "There's just too many."

Then a bright light consumed the area, blinding all of them, they covered their eyes, and when the light finally died away, the fiends were gone, and a little boy stood in front of Yuna. Paine let out a breath of relief.

Rikku quickly dashed over to Yuna, and the others followed.

R: "The Fayth!"

Fayth: "Don't worry Yuna will be just fine."

With that the boy merged with Yuna's sleeping form.