**Woohoo! 5 reviews (I'm so happy!)! And another chapter for y'all...all four of you...::grins:: Lesse...I forgot to mention the whole who owns this stuff deal in all the other chapters, so here goes:

I don't own FFX, or Sin, or anything related to FFX that's from the game. That belongs to Squaresoft.

The characters belong to me and, in all technicality, the people they are based on (you know who you are. ^_^)

Also, spoilers abound in this chapter, so if you haven't gotten a decent way through the game (I mean like Yunalesca far for one part), and you don't like spoilers, then don't read it! ^_^ Hope you enjoy this, and email me at ara-lai@excite.com if you have suggestions, for my plot, extra chars, or otherwise. No flames, please. Constructive criticism only. Thankees, and heeeere is the next chapter!**

Katie was laying on her bed, reading the latest Love Hina manga. Keitaro was taking another test and failing miserably.

"Oh, poor Urashima..." She flipped the page lazily. "You always get into trouble, no matter what you do."

Her room glowed a bright blue for a split second with a gale force wind to accompany it.

"Oof!"

"Ow!"

Two flying blurs bounced off her bed and onto the floor with a thud. Katie jumped back to the top of her bed as one of the blurs popped up, her golden hair frizzled and red-lensed goggles atop her head. The girl's glasses sat titled on her nose.

Katie recognized her. She hesitated. "Sara-chan?"

She stood up and pulled up another girl next to her. "Yeah. And this is UA."

The other girl smiled and waved. "Call me Paula. Although, you could ALSO call me Yueh. It sounds more...black mage-ish." She nodded to herself. "Yeah. Yueh!"

Katie's eyes crossed. "What is she talking about?"

Sara coughed. "To put it plainly--hey!" She looked down at herself. "My clothes are different, too!" Her pants were now a dress, with a handkerchief in the left belt loop and a loose belt in the right-front and right-back loops, from which was hanging the moon-shaped charm. Sara twirled around once and the skirt floated gently in the air. "A skirt?" She lifted it up a few inches and looked at her feet. Sandals now encased them.

Katie blinked. "What's going on? And how the heck did you get here?"

Sara was too busy examining her new attire, so Paula (or Yueh, rather) began to explain.

"Oui caa, I was walking around one day when I found this stone." She went to take out her dolphin gem again, but once more she found two rather than one. The second was shaped like a star. "What--" She shrugged, shaking her head. "Guess this is for you." She tossed it to Katie, who barely caught it and began examining it closely. "Anyway...I found this cool blue stone, and when I was pretending I was casting Waterga to water the plants, it really worked!"

Katie looked up. "What?"

Sara finally quit looking at her skirt and took up the explanation. "Yeah, she can cast magic, like in Final Fantasy!" She began jumping. "And we got here by a save sphere! Look!" She tried to pick up the glowing orb to show her friend, but instead brought up the menu again. "Oh. Well, see? We teleported here, just like they can in FFX!"

Katie's eyelids fluttered. "They can?"

Yueh's head cocked to one side. "Yeah. The airship, remember?"

Sara waved a hand dismissively. "She hasn't gotten that far. She keeps dying on the way to beat the Chocobo Eater."

"Oh."

Katie was still staring at the star gem. "So what? I can't run away from battles!"

Sara blanched. "Katie-chan..." She shook her head and sighed. "Never mind. Anyway, Paula--erm, Yueh here accidentally unleashed Sin upon our Earth--"

"WHAT?" Katie jumped from her bed and grabbed Sara's shoulders, shaking her friend (who was rather unfazed by this). "She did what?"

"I know, I know, so we have to defeat it!" Sara again thrust a fist into the air.

Katie's grip loosened. She paused, staring. "You're kidding me."

Yueh giggled nervously, putting a hand behind her head. "Unfortunately, she's not. Maybe we ought to go back to my house, it'll be easier to show you." She grabbed one of Sara's hands and touched "Teleport Home" on the open menu. "Here we go!"

"Wait, where are we--"

The warmth came again, and the disappeared in the black cloud of smoke.

*-*-*-*-*

Paula's brother was sitting on his sister's bed, rocking back and forth.

"She can cast magic. She can disappear. I'm just imagining things, I'm only imagining it, its just my imagination."

Right then, three "imaginated" people fell from the ceiling and onto Paula's bed, one landing on his lap.

He blinked as the blond haired girl looked up at him, her glasses askew on her nose. "Hehe. Gomen!" She hopped up and began helping the others off of the bed.

Yueh chuckled when she stood up. "Sorry, Marv. Didn't mean to, ah, drop in on you." He simply stood up and staggered out of the room, mumbling unintelligibly and shutting the door behind him. Paula sighed. "I think he needs a psychiatrist..."

"Katie, how on this green earth did you get stuck on the bed!?" Sara grumbled, trying to pull Katie up.

Katie felt a tugging on her left thigh every time she was pulled up. Looking, she saw the handle of a rapier sticking out of a sheath that wasn't there before. The blade went straight from the bottom of the open sheath into the mattress beneath her. She pulled it out of the sheath and held it awkwardly. "I think this is to blame, Sara-chan." She handed Sara the sword and stood herself up. She looked to Paula. "Sorry about piercing your bed."

"Its okay. I think we have other problems," Yueh said, shaking her head.

"Awesome!" Sara swished the sword around a bit, grinning wildly. "A rapier! I love these things!" She pouted as she handed the sword back to Katie. "Lucky you."

Katie shrugged as she put the sword back in its place and tightened the sheath on her leg. "I don't think it quite matters." She looked over her outfit. She wore khaki-colored bellbottoms with colored, loosely stitched cuffs, the aforementioned sheath on her left leg, two overlapping, one strapped tank tops (the shorter, white one on top), a thick bracelet with her star charm on it, a matching one on her left, sans charm, and a shorter version of Yuna's mid-sleeves. "At least the save sphere has fashion sense."

"Great. I have to fight Sin in a skirt!" Sara whined. "Wonderful!" She flopped on the bed. "Yueh's a black mage, Katie's a fighter, so what does that make me?" Thinking a moment, she suddenly gasped and sat back up. "No, I can't be!" Sara looked at Yueh and Katie in turn. "I'm not!?!"

Yueh nodded. "I think you're our summoner, Sara."

"NO! I can't be! I mean, I just CAN'T! Because, summoners...they, they--!" Sara's shoulders sunk. "They die."

Yueh remained silent, and Katie blinked. "They do?"

Sara gave Katie a small scowl. "You know, I really wish you had gotten farther in FFX."

Yueh stepped in. "In summoning the final aeon, they sacrifice themselves and another person--one of their guardians, who becomes the final aeon. Then Sin dies, but is reborn as a manifestation of the final aeon that defeated it," she explained. "That's how they always did it."

Katie paused. "So how are we going to defeat Sin, then?" She glanced at Sara. "Because I'm quite sure you don't want to die, right?"

"Why do you think I don't wanna be the summoner!?!" she screamed back. Katie and Yueh jumped. Sara put her head in her hands. "I'm not going to die, right? We'll find another way."

Katie and Yueh sat next to her. "Of course we will," Katie reassured, patting Sara on the back.

Sara suddenly jumped back up. "So, we might as well make this more fun on the way, right?" She was now smiling.

"Talk about a mood swing," Yueh said quietly. Katie nodded slightly.

"We need new names for our new mission! Like code names!" She turned her back on the other two. "Hm. Paula is Yueh...I'll be..." She twirled around again, and held one arm out with her hand in a peace sign position. "Arashi! Hai yo!" She grinned so wide her eyes shut themselves. She seemed the very essence of a spunky shoujo manga heroine.

Katie and Yueh blinked in tandem. "Ookaay." Yueh nodded slowly. "So Sara is Arashi." Arashi bowed quickly in acknowledgement. Yueh looked back at Katie. "And you?"

Katie's mouth contorted. "I'm not sure." She looked up at Arashi. "Do I have to?"

Arashi nodded violently. "Of course! We look like Spirans, now we gotta sound like 'em!"

"Does that require an odd island accent?" Katie asked. She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, I can't think of anything at the moment."

"It really doesn't matter, I have to show you guys the hurric--well, Sin! Let's go to the living room." Yueh opened her door and exited the room.

Arashi stuttered. "B-but we need names! We have them, now Katie needs one! Wait!" She jogged after Yueh. "Wait a minute!"

Katie hopped up. "I know! I'll be Niet! Like that character from my manga I was telling you about--" She looked around the room and hit herself on the forehead. "Duh, they left! Sa--Arashi! Yueh!" She ran after the two, shutting the room's door behind her.