Two Worlds: Chapter 1
A/N: I'm going to update once a week, please review.
Disclaimer: Don't own FFX, or it's characters, just my storyline and ideas.
Sara's POV
I hear a voice calling, yelling at me to wake up as I slowly open my eyes and see myself floating next to Tidus.
Fear and anger surge through me as I look around, I don't know where I am, fear of the unknown. The anger radiating from one man...
Auron.
The man, who unknowingly got me trapped in this situation, he will pay for dragging me into this.... Place.
Wherever this place is.
I feel myself being pulled down, seeing the surprise on Tidus's face as the same thing happens to him. Seeing a man, the one who called to us, standing there, just watching us.
Suddenly, the man changed, and in his place was a young girl. Her long brown hair braided back.
I blinked in surprise, seeing something familiar within that image as another dizzy spell hits me as I feel myself being pulled once again...
This time into the world of darkness.
I don't know how long I stayed in that world.
Images, thoughts, feelings....
They all flash by me, not enough time for me to look at them, not enough time to remember them.
It would be enough to make someone mad.
It makes me feel just frustrated, and scared.
Not knowing the unknown, the biggest fear in life to a person with no memories of her past.
The images fly by one more time, and I feel myself starting to awaken.
The images fading, disappearing even as I try to hold onto them, to try to remember them.
Trying so hard to remember a past I have so long forgotten.
I feel the hardness of whatever I'm lying on,
and the harshness of reality.
Tears of frustration and sadness well up in my eyes.
I was so...
Close, so close to finding out my past...
And I may never have that chance again.
I slowly open my eyes, only to see a hazy darkness, as I slowly look around, fear and panic starting to take over as I realize I am once again in the unknown.
I see Tidus next to me, slowly coming to also, as I yell for anyone that might hear.
Only to be met with silence.
I slowly take deep breaths, calming myself as I reach the realization that Tidus and I are once again alone.
"There's no one here." Tidus says, with despair as he realizes the same thing I do.
Startled, a bird that was perched in front of us takes flight.
I shrug, probably has never heard voices before, not a good sign when you're in a place you have no clue where you are...
And how to get out or even how you got there.
The bird flies towards a ruin that looks like it has been abandoned years ago.
"Do you think that there's someone there?" Tidus asks, a hopeful note in his voice.
I just snort, yeah, just keep on hoping, I think. Then, getting off the rock, I swim towards the ruins, Tidus quickly following.
I reach out, seeing a piece of wood that is just within my reach...
And snap it off, having a crude weapon,
But it's better than nothing.
Climbing out of the water at the stairs, I slowly walk up them, heading towards the ruin.
I slowly walk on the walkway, Tidus at my heels as I slowly, warily look around for any signs of danger around us.
Little did I know...
Some dangers can be right below you without you knowing.
A shadow goes whizzing across the water, hitting the wall hard as I feel the walkway under us shake as I realize there is nothing under Tidus and me.
I gasp in surprise and fear as we fall...
And land in the depths of the water, the coolness surrounding us as we swim back to the surface.
We break through to the surface, feeling the sweet air hit me, as I look around for whatever hit the wall. "Did you see that?" I ask Tidus.
He shakes his head, looking confused. "See what?"
"I thought I saw something hit the wall," I shrug, starting to swim towards the entrance of a door. "Must've been nothing."
As soon as the words are out of my mouth, three green long fishes with long fins and big teeth surround Tidus and me, jumping over us and biting our arms and legs as we dive underwater to fight them.
Tidus draws his sword, my piece of wood already out and we float there, watching the fish in a standoff for the battle to begin.
One of the fish swims up first, reaching Tidus and biting his face as I wince in sympathy and he jerks his head back in pain.
The second one swims in close, and I feel pain as it's teeth bite into my skin, leaving behind teeth marks as blood from both me and Tidus mixes with the water.
The third one is crazy now, with the scent of blood in the water, he charges at Tidus eagerly, and he just manages to barely swim out of the way, slashing the monster as it starts to swim back.
In a flurry of lights, it's gone.
One down, two to go.... I think grimly, swimming in for own attack, as the monsters get ready for another attack, slashing it with my piece of wood, and am rewarded with the monster disappearing with another flash of tiny lights.
Tidus starts to swim towards the last monster...
When a sudden roar stops him dead in his tracks.
A huge green fish, with a gaping mouth and a solid-looking ribcage comes swimming out from under the ruins as it charges towards the helpless fish. It grabs it and bites down hard.
Only to see us.
It lets go of the prey it has in its mouth, seeing even bigger prey in front of it...
Us.
The blood from the fish mixing with ours as the huge monster charges at us, as we go tumbling back from the force, ready to fight.
The monster swims quickly towards us, hitting Tidus hard in the face with its fin, as he winces, reeling from the attack.
Man! That sucker's fast! I thought, swimming in to attack, only to have my only weapon snap in half.
I look at Tidus and shake my head helplessly, knowing I can't help in the fight, angered and frustrated as he charges in, cutting the monster with his sword to do minimal damage. This isn't good, I thought worriedly.
The monster comes in, hitting me hard enough to have me reeling from the attack from it's fin as Tidus swims in quickly for an attack, and slashing it hard, only to make it mad.
Great... I think as the monster roars and charges towards us, making me hit the panic button as Tidus and I swim away, trying to escape it's gaping mouth.
We rapidly swim as if our lives depended on it to the other side of the ruins, going up only for air.
"There!!" I yell, pointing to a door as the charging monster comes closer.
We both dive down underwater again, swimming for our lives as the monsters mouth closes around us...
Only to get stuck, it roaring with rage as a vortex of water causes both Tidus and I to tumble out of control through the water.
And to crash into a pillar at the other end.
Breathing hard, I try to get myself together, shivering and dazed.
We're going to die here, I thought, despair filling me.
We slowly get up, checking to see if we're okay.
Other than a few scratches and bruises, we're fine, and slowly walk to the door and push aside debris to reach this huge room.
"Must've been a main hall or something," I comment, shivering. This place is colder than the other room, I thought, still shivering.
Tidus nods, "Whatever it is...... It's cold here, we need a fire or something before we freeze to death."
I nod, "okay, I'll go look for tinder, you look for something to light it with." I gesture to the pile of logs in the middle of the floor; "we can start a fire there."
Tidus nods and we split ways as I slowly wander around, soon finding another door and opening it hoping for more wood.
Seeing stairs, I sigh. Well... I think, at least I'll warm up. I slowly go up the stairs, finding some brush sticking out a vase thing that seems like a wall decoration and I take it.
I slowly start to walk back, only to have a large loose piece of a metal pole catch my eye, and I pick it up.
"Might come in handy," I mutter to myself, "But man...... I need to find a sword!"
I walk back to Tidus, who's holding flint in his hands. "So.... Now we're all set?" I ask, handing over the brush.
Tidus nods, and puts the brush in the wood, hitting the flint together as sparks fly and catches on the brush.
Soon, we have a little fire blazing.
I smile in happiness, sitting down and relaxing, only to have my stomach growl.
Man......... When was the last time I ate?
Tidus, as if reading my mind, whines lying down. "I'm hungry!!!" Then falls asleep.
I shake my head at him in disgust even as I start to nod off myself, going into a dreamless sleep even before I realize it, exhaustion finally settling in.
I jolt awake to a screech, a large insect robot-looking monster jumping down just where Tidus was as he jumps out of the way and I crawl rapidly away as it stands on it's hind legs and screeches again, waving it's claws as I scramble to my feet.
"Give me a break!" Tidus yells, taking my sentiments exactly as frustration of fighting so many monsters so quickly wells inside me.
Even though I do feel a little better since that nap.
The monster screeches in response, jumping and slashing Tidus's chest as he cries out in pain.
I look at him worriedly, "Are you okay?!" I say, attacking the monster with the metal pole, happy that it didn't break when it came in contact with it.
Tidus nods, slashing the monster himself as it jumps towards me, and I grunt in pain as the nails slice deeply into my chest.
Tidus runs in, quickly attacking the monster before it can react, and I recover quickly, slashing it myself.
The monster attacks, furious as Tidus jumps out of the way quickly to avoid it. Me jumping in right in front of Tidus as soon as it misses and attacking with the metal pole, a horizontal swing as it screeches in fury, then go back next to Tidus, who's ready to attack.
Tidus is about to attack when....
There's an explosion, the doors that seemed locked blown to pieces as I throw my arm up to protect myself from the debris.
Strange-looking people come running in, holding guns that they aim at us.
Relief fills me; we're finally going to get out of here.
Then, eyeing the guns, I have second thoughts about that, maybe not.
The youngest of the group, a girl and apparently the leader, steps forward and gestures to the monster as it to say: 'Bring it on!'
"You're on our side?! Cool!!!" Tidus shouts enthusiastically, and I wince at his naivete.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch, kid.
She pulls out a grenade, and in a big explosion, the monster is destroyed.
I sigh, relaxing a little. Maybe they are on our side after all. "Thanks," I say politely, smiling at the girl who helped us.
Suddenly, I feel my arms grabbed onto and held by one of the men, as he pulls my arms behind me as I struggle and drop my metal pole in surprise. "HEY!" I shout in protest and fear as Tidus has his hair grabbed so he's pulled up.
"Let us go!" Tidus shouts in protest, struggling against the hold they have on them.
Guns surround us, and Tidus and me stop struggling instantly.
I knew that we shouldn't have trusted them.
"What is this?" One of the men says in a language I can't understand.
"Two fiends! In human disguises!!!" Another one yells, in the same language as the first one.
"Yes! It is so!!!" Shouted another one, yet in the same language, and I was starting to worry that wherever we were, we wouldn't be able to understand a word they're saying.
I see two pull out curved blades, one pressing a blade against my throat as I tense, and another one to Tidus's throat as he holds deathly still.
"We kill them?" The second one shouts, still in this odd language as he presses the blade harder against Tidus's throat.
Now I was starting to worry about our lives.
"WAIT!!!" The girl shouts in their language, running up in what I hope is in our defense. "What if they're human?!"
The one pressing the knife against Tidus's throat, sounding mad, points the blade to the girl and says something in the same language: "It is the same in death."
I am starting to not like whatever language they were speaking,
A lot.
"I forbid it! We bring them with us!!! Let go of the boy!!! The girl will need to be held onto." She says calmly in this strange language, they let go of Tidus at those words, and he stumbles forward, surprised and confused.
"Um... I might be careful if I were-"I never got to finish it as the knife was pressed threateningly closer to my neck.
The girl leans in close to Tidus, whispering something as I hear a large thud, as Tidus falls forward, clutching his stomach before falling limply to the ground.
"TIDUS!!!!" I shout, struggling even as the grip tightens on my arms, and the knife is pulled away, panic taking me over as I realize too late what's going on as the girl walks up to me.
I take deep breaths, tensing my muscles and trying to get ready for the blow I know is going to come.
"Sorry," she whispers to me apologetically, still in that strange language I don't understand.
Then she punches me hard in the stomach.
I double over, pain tearing through my stomach and chest, even after bracing myself, fighting darkness...
I look up at her, just managing to stay awake...
Only to feel the butt of a rifle hit the back of my head.
And I slump into darkness, not even realizing that these strange men drag me away...
Into the unknown.
TBC...
A/N: There's not going to be many changes in the next few chapters other than the game. But there will be changes later on. Also, I don't have a translator handy for the Al Bhed language, so that's why it's written in English. Please review.