The cave was dark, damp and damn cold. Rikku was shivering from both the cold and the fear of facing the same monster that would have killed her if it wasn't for Paine. She looked over at Paine and received a warm smile.

"Cold?" Paine whispered.

"Yea." Rikku answered. "But I'll live."

"Just think about going home and a hot shower." Paine said.

"There's not enough hot water on the ship to warm me up." Rikku said.

"What if I'm in the shower with you?" Paine asked.

"I think we'd need a cold shower then." Rikku smiled.

They continued walking deep into the cave until all light from the sun had faded and they were using a small sphere that glowed so they could see. As they walked they heard crunching under their feet.

"Oh please tell me these crunches are not what I think they are." Rikku wined.

"Just don't look down." Paine said as she saw the bones that they were standing on.

Swords littered the ground some with hands still gripping the handles. They could hear something moving from around the corner of the cave and they all stopped. Paine drew her sword, Yuna lifted her Braska .45 hand guns and Rikku grabbed a Dark Knight Dress Sphere and soon was standing next to Paine with a large sword in her hands. They looked at each other in silence and knew that they were all ready without saying a word. Yuna gave a nod and they slowly walked creped around the corner. They stood in horror at the sight that they saw. Ochu was nowhere to bee seen but through the pale light given off from the sphere the team saw several cages lining the back of the wall. Some cages had skeletal remains but some still had the captures in them. Yuna ran up to one of the cages and reached in and lifted the head of the captive to see if she was alive.

"Oh my God it's Elma." She said.

Elma looked at Yuna and gave a weak smile.

"Lady..Yun.." She said. "Help mmme."
"It's ok I'm here. Rikku, Paine look for other survivors." Yuna said. "This mission has changed from Sphere hunt to rescue mission."

Paine and Rikku started checking the cages and found several survivors. They broke off the locks and helped them out. Paine had 2 girls hanging on both of her arms and Rikku had 1. Yuna turned into a white mage and began casting heal spells. Elma was soon able to stand under her own power and picked up a sword. The group of women began walking back up to the surface as quickly as I could.

"So what's with Ochu?" Rikku asked. "Is it some kind of perverted fiend? I mean it only attacks women."

"No." Elma said. "He kidnaps women to draw in men. You see it only eats men."

"So women are the bate?" Rikku asked.

"Yes." Elma said. "He got me 3 days ago when I was on patrol with Captain Lucile when he attacked. The Captain got away but everyone else was killed. Ochu took me down to his layer and placed me in the cage. I hopped the Captain would come to save me but she never showed up."

"Well you're safe now." Yuna said.

"Not yet." Elma said. "We have to get out of here first. If we're lucky we'll get out of here without running into Ochu."

"No such luck." Paine said taking a step back.

Standing in the mouth of the cave was Ochu holding 2 sleeping women in its tentacles. It looked at the women inside the cave and slowly started moving towards them. The women that Paine and Rikku were helping shrank behind the group in fear as the others stepped forward.

"Watch for its sleep powder." Elma said.

"I'm fully resistant to sleep." Paine said.

"Same here." Rikku said.

"I have a ring that protects me against it." Yuna said.

"Ok then lets kill this thing before it hurts more people." Elma said. "EEEEEEYEEAAAAA"

Elma ran right at it with her sword shining in the sunlight. Rikku and Paine were right behind her and Yuna was laying down fire. Elma, Rikku and Paine crashed into Ochu and started hacking at the tentacles. Yuna and the other girls quickly ran up to Ochu while the others had it busy. Yuna's guns were blazing away and Rikku and Paine here still hacking at the tentacles as Elma staggered up the body of the beast and plunged her sword deep in to the body. Ochu's tentacles started waving in the air then fell to the ground.

"We got it." Rikku said jumping into the air.

"If only it was that easy." Elma said. "Lets hack it up so it can't regenerate."

Rikku and Paine tiredly raised their swords and continued slicing. Yuna changed into a warrior and started slashing but soon they were all to tired to swing any more.

"Let's get out of here." Elma said. "We couldn't finish it off."

"You get out of here we'll take care of it." A voice yelled.

Elma and the others looked up and saw Lucile rushing Ochu mounted on Chocobos.

"Knights attack." Lucile yelled.  

Suddenly several women riding Chocobos rushed out of the trees and went strait at Ochu just as it was starting to move.

"Elma run." Lucile yelled.

Elma did as she was ordered and ran away with Rikku, Paine, Yuna and the others behind her. It wasn't much of a fight seeing as how Ochu was mostly dead but it still took several minutes to completely destroy it.

"Sorry I took so long." Lucile said as she sheathed her sword.

"Oh Captain." Elma said as she ran to her friend and hugged her tightly.

"Hey now that's not the way a Chocabo Knight should act." Lucile said gently hugging her friend.

"What?" Elma asked.

"That's right." Lucile said. 'The Chocabo Knights ride again."

Lucile hopped back on her Chocabo and held out her hand. Elma reached out and took her friends hand and jumped up behind Lucile. The other girls were helped onto the back of the birds and they started walking away.

"Lady Yuna, Gullwings we appreciate your help." Lucile said as they rode away.

The group watched at the knights rode away then looked at each other.

"Well gull wings Mission complete." Yuna said. "Now back for that sphere."

"I got it." Rikku said as she picked up a sphere that was inside of Ochu.

"Let's get back to the Celsius and see what's on it." Yuna said.

"Brother this is Rikku we have the sphere and are ready to be picked up." Rikku said.

"On our way." Brother said.

Celsius bridge

Rikku and the others walked on the bridge and handed Shinra the sphere.

"Wow this one is old." Shinra said. "It will take all night to analyze it."

"Well get to work as soon as you can." Yuna said. "It's already dusk so I'm gonna get ready for dinner."

"I'm gonna take a shower." Paine said.

"Me too." Rikku said. "See you all in the cabin."

Rikku and Paine walked down the hall and into their rooms. Paine stripped down and hopped into the shower. She was washing her silver hair. Her eyes were closed and she was letting the water fall on her back. She opened her eyes and was met by a pare of green whirlpool eyes looking into hers. Paine smiled and leaned in and kissed the owner of the eyes.

"Remember you said you'd be in the shower with me." Rikku said.

"Didn't know you were still cold." Paine said.

"Actually I'm rather hot right now." Rikku said as she put her arms around her lover.

Paine reached out and turned off the hot water in the shower and suddenly they both were assaulted by the cold water.

"WHOA." Rikku yelled as she jumped out of the shower. "Why did you do that?"

"Let's have some fun." Paine said as she got out of the shower.

They both dried off and walked into the bedroom. Paine pulled the covers off of her bed and got in then patted next to her signaling for Rikku to follow. Rikku smiled and slid into the bed and pounced on Paine and claimed her lips. Paine pulled the covers over both of them and rolled on top of Rikku.

"I finally have you." She said as she rubbed her hands all over Rikku's body.

"Rikku, Paine dinner's ready." Yuna yelled as she pounded on the door.

"ARGG can't we get some privacy?" Paine asked.

Rikku sat up and smiled at Paine.

"To be continued." She said and Kissed Paine passionately.