Rikkus second chance

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By shadows/of/flame

For an Al Bhed translator go to www.ffextreme dot com under FF10

Rikku, Tidus and Jecht took the newly fixed speedboat to Besaid.
"Fruu ruu!" (Whoo hoo) Rikku yelled.
Tidus grumbled something about the noise.

The boat sped up to the dock, and Jecht nearly ran the boat through it.
Rikku jumped off first and started to dance around the beach despite her wound.

"Vnaa! Vnaa!" (free free) Rikku sang just as it started to rain.
"Can you speak English?" Jecht groaned.

As Rikku danced she wondered why Tidus was in a bad mood.
Was he anxious to be in Yunas arms even though she was getting married in a few days?
Was he mad at her?
Did he just need anger management?

Whatever the case was, Rikku was glad to get back among friends and family. Not that Tidus and Jecht weren't good friends. She'd just had enough of their laziness over her stay with them. She was suprised they could even be considered human beings.

Jecht stretched rather loudly.
"Come on boy. We've gotta go and see your Yuna."
Tidus flinched at the mere mention of Yunas name.

"Lets go!" Rikku suggested.

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The three weary travellers slowly walked the long road up to the village of Besaid.
They found Yuna talking about her new fiance Alex, who was by her side, when half of the crowd turned around.

They had seen Jecht, Tidus and Rikku.

"Lady Yuna! Maester Alex! Sir Tidus, Sir Jecht and Lady Rikku have returned to Besaid!"
someone at the front of the crowd yelled.
Tidus froze as though someone had cast a blizzard spell on him.
'Whats Yuna and her fiance going to think of me pretty much returning from the dead?"

Yuna and Alex made their way through the crowds to where the three were standing wearily, pretty much oblivious to the attention they were getting.

"Tidus! Sir Jecht! Rikku. Its so good to see all of you! Are you going to be joining us for the engagement party tonight?"
Jechts mouth fell open but he tried to regain his composure.
"Probably once we've rested and dried off a bit." Jecht replied.
Rikku looked accusingly at Yuna.
"Alex is a Maester isn't he?"
Yuna nodded happily, as though maesters were the best things on Spira.
"The ONLY Maester left on Spira?"
Yuna nodded again.
Rikku gritted her teeth - in anger and sadness.
"Then he must've ordered the Yevon guards to blow up my salvage ship!"
The crowd gasped.

"Where are Buddy and Brother? Huh? They were on the salvage ship with me! And now they're probably dead!" Rikku wailed.
Tidus put a hand on Rikkus shoulder.
"I can't deny that I did. It is what is best for Spira... No Al Bhed to interfere with their lives." Alex replied evilly.
Rikku gasped in shock.
"How could you say that? The Al Bhed... have done more than the bloody Yevonites! Why do you want them all destroyed!? Lord Braska wanted all the races to work together! Why can't they?!"
Alex shook his head.
"Races are just that, 'races' apart. They cannot and will not work together!"
"You're wrong! WRONG!" Rikku sobbed.
Jecht stepped foward so he was facing the Maester.

"Yuna! You're half Al Bhed! You should understand! Your mother and father were of two different races - Al Bhed and Yevonite. Yet they sorted out their differences and had you. Can't you see, as the future Maestress of Yevon, that all Al Bhed want to be treated like everyone else?"
Yuna nodded in agreement.
"Rikku," Jecht continued, "has made the most social develpoment of her kind. She became the first Al Bhed guardian, and fought alongside Yevonites. She also stopped Vegnagun from destroying YEVONITES. Apart from Wakka, she didn't blast any of her fellow guardians for being a Yevonite. Can't everyone have that kind of freedom? To date whoever they want, to marry whoever they want? If the Yevonites can, so can the Al Bhed."
Tidus looked at his father, grinning.

"Cool speech dad."
Jecht grinned.
"Thanks."
Rikku stared Alex down defiantly. The maester was lost for words.
Yuna looked at her future fiance.
"W... what do you say sweetie?" she asked very un-Yuna like.
"I will make a public apology to the Al Bhed. I will also send out a search party to find the two Al Bhed called.
""Buddy" and "Brother"." Yuna hissed.
"...Buddy and Brother."
Rikku didn't look satisfied.
"What about my salvage ship? You have to replace that?!"
Alex sighed and turned to the fiesty Al Bhed.

"How about a house wherever you want?"
"A... alright" She replied hesitantly.
"As an apology from me." Yuna said, "Rikku, I would like you to be my maid of honour. Sir Jecht, the ringbearer if you would, and Tidus... our best man."
Tidus shuffled squirmishly from one foot to the other.
"Do you accept?"
"Yeah!"
"Yep."
"...Yes."

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"Whaddaya think of this party?" Jecht asked his blond son, who hadn't moved a muscle since the party had started.
Tidus shrugged.
"Come on boy! Theres Blitzball, Beer and Beautiful women. The 3 essential Bs at any party."
Tidus shrugged again.
"Go and enjoy your '3 Bs' by yourself then dad, coz I don't see any Beautiful women."
And then Rikku walked with a small group of Al Bhed girls fromt he direction of the beach.
Jecht caught the look on his sons face.
"You see some now?" Jecht joked and went off alone to enjoy his three Bs.
Tidus sighed dramatically. His father was practically predictable.

Rikku found Tidus almost straight away and broke away from the group to go over to him.
"Hey Ti. Whatcha up to?"
Tidus grinned.
"Looking for 2 of the 3 Bs."
Rikku looked puzzled.
"The three Bs? What are the 3 Bs?"
Tidus smiled.

Blitzball .Beer .Beautiful women

Rikku looked as puzzled as before, if not more.
"And which one have you found?"
"The beautiful woman."
"Whos that? Not Yunie surely?"
Tidus looked her in the eyes...

0-0 whats gonna happen? Is it still a Tikku? You decide.