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Encounters With Angels

Yuna hit the ocean surface with a hard slap, which both really hurt from belly flopping and completely forced all the air out of her. She was forced deeply underwater from the height of her fall and, for a moment she was completely shocked.

Then her senses kicked in and she snapped out of her shock and frantically tried reaching the surface, but it was no good, she couldn't swim and she desperately reached out to grab onto something, anything – but there was nothing. Her fingers slipped through the crystal clear water like... well water. Struggling for breath she felt herself hopelessly begin to sink, picking up speed as she went. The light, serene surface disappeared bit by bit, clouded by darker ocean. She was in pain from holding in her breath and reluctantly let it go, disturbing the water around as the perfect spheres drifted upwards - towards her freedom. She felt herself hit the ocean floor, which was an eerie moonlight colour and sandy smooth. All around her was dark, yet clear water. Yuna lay for what seemed an eternity on the ocean floor. Wishing for death to give her a painless, quick end. But she gave up hope, her body ached from lack of oxygen and her heart heaved.

The suddenly she saw something, a glimmer of gold. Gold? It was coming closer. It was coming closer at an amazing speed. Her vision was beginning to blur, she was fading from consciousness but she could see that the gold was actually a person; they were so close, but not close enough. Her eyes clouded over and she shut them in defeat.

Then suddenly, she felt arms grasping her with a strong grip around her waist. Then with an almighty powerful push off the ocean floor, she could feel herself rising up to the surface. She felt protected; like the arms were cradling her and wouldn't let go... maybe she was dead...no, it seemed so real. Yuna wanted to see the light blue sky so badly but her body refused to let her, and she slowly fell into unconscious.

Yuna felt calm. Something warm was on her lips. Smooth and soft and she wanted more. Then she was snapped out of this calmness as she felt two sharp thumps on her left ribcage. 'Owww, what was that, where has the softness from my lips gone?' she thought, but before she could complain she heard someone talk.

"Dude, you can stop the CPR, I think she's coming to, ya" She heard in the distance and was just about to think 'CPR, who needs CPR' when she suddenly needed to cough - badly. Salty water clogged up her throat and she instantly snapped awake automatically turned to her side to cough and splutter the disgusting taste out. She lay back down and slowly opened her bleary eyes.

What she saw both shocked and calmed her at the same time.

"An Angel!" She gasped aloud as she gazed up at the figure above her.

He had the most beautiful golden, sun-kissed hair she had ever seen. It had a messy, boyish flaxen appearance and a stand of luxurious hair was caught in his unique eyes, which he quickly carefully brushed aside. His eyes were the colour of the rare deep ocean that she had only seen a few minutes ago – although they did hold a mixture of curious bewilderment in them. He was gave her a small and gentle smile, which revealed pearly white teeth and made Yuna feel tingly all over. He had an olive tan and was shirtless with some baggy jeans. Some droplets of water rolled lazily over his finely toned chest and Yuna found herself thinking 'Since when did angels wear jeans?'

Then she felt herself blush with mad embarrassment at the fact she had just thought she was dead, called someone an angel aloud and basically just made a complete fool of herself in front of this gorgeous guy and who ever else was there. At least she now understood the feelings in his eyes.

She finally managed to tear her eyes away from his to look around herself, and luckily there was only one other person, who definitely snapped her out of her state when she saw his hair. It was like a demented, bright orange tidal wave. He had a friendly, kind smile though that made you do the same.

"You ok, ya. You had us worried for a minute that you weren't gonna wake up!" He said to her.

"N-No, I'm ok... just a little shocked." Replied Yuna nervously, refusing to look back up at the angel in case she got caught staring again.

"We could hear the airship all the way from this beach when we were practicing blitz and the we saw you fall from it." Said the angel who had decided to speak at last, causing Yuna to reluctantly switch her gaze from the golden sands to his beautiful face. 'What did he say, I can't think straight when he looks at me like that... something about an airship... airship... AIRSHIP!!!'

"OH MY YEVON, THE AIRSHIP!" Yuna suddenly yelled making the orange haired dude jump back from his crouching position besides Yuna.

"Oh crap, where is it- did either of you see what happened to it?" Yuna asked frantically, desperately searching only the angel's eyes for answers since she could not pull away.

"I didn't get to see it, I was busy searching for you underwater." He replied honestly, then switched his mesmerising gaze to the orange haired guy and asked him the question for Yuna instead.

"I dunno, I was busy watchin Tidus here, see if he was gonna pop up to the surface for air after speed he took off like that? But I think it-" He didn't get to finish his sentence though, when suddenly a high pitched screaming voice called out.

"YUNIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, OH MY YEVON YOUR ALIVE!!!" Rikku came bounding at her from far down the beach with such an alarming speed that Yuna's relieved thoughts of seeing her again were replaced with thoughts of whether she was going to be able to stop at the speed she was frantically running towards her. She made it to Yuna in record time and immediately gave her a deathly squeezing hug that winded her - again. Never underestimate Rikku – for such a small person she had the strength of a Zu and the stamina of an annoying woodpecker.

"Oh Yunie, we were so worried about you. When I saw you fall I thought- I thought... oh I didn't want to think what could have happened. I'm so sorry, this is my entire fault, you didn't want to go outside and I should have accepted that. Oh I'm so sorry, so sorry..." Rikku muttered angrily whist sobbing into Yuna's already drenched t-shirt.

"It was mostly Brother's fault too, just grabbing hold of the controls like that. The stupid shoopuf brain forgot we were out of the deck even though you'd think he would use his initiative that we weren't in the Cabin or the Bridge?!" Rikku said, suddenly getting angry.

"What?! Brother happy we nearly there. Yuna, you ok? I am so sorry." Said a sullen Brother, who had appeared behind Rikku's bouncy braided head, with Cid too.

"You need a get-better-hug?" He asked hopefully.

"NO! She does not need a get-better-hug OK!" Rikku spat angrily at him, suddenly jumping up off Yuna and stalking over to him. They started yelling frantically in the background and Cid just rolled his eyes.

"Glad your okay kiddo. We were so worried, don't know what we'd do without you – I'd probably go insane from being around them two all the time for one!" Cid joked, making a good situation out of a bad one.

Yuna glanced over at the angel who she had found out was called Tidus and the orange haired guy, who had both stepped back a bit from all the commotion to let them reunite and argue.

"Thank you so very much for helping me." Said Yuna, her eyes glancing from the orange hair dude to Tidus. She remember it was he who had been the gold person swimming towards her, holding her, rescuing her...the one whose lips she felt...

"No prob, we should get goin ya." Said the orange haired guy, snapping her out of her daydream.

"Yes... Yes and thank you, again and ummm... I'm sorry, but what are your names?" Yuna asked sincerely.

"Oh, I'm Wakka and he's Tidus." Said Wakka. Yuna looked back over at Tidus who was picking up his dry t-shirt of the sand. He was undeniably beautiful, but he seemed the quiet type, not one to flaunt what he had or use it to go out with a new girl each week – like some of the jocks back at her Zanarkand school.

Wakka seemed friendly, a bit of a joker and the sort of person you can instantly trust. Tidus... something felt different about him, like he was hiding something. His aura was confused about something; he had a mysterious shadow over him. It was like he was hiding a dark secret that he had kept for concealed for most of his life and carefully practiced hiding it so no one would notice. Yuna had spent most her life studying people; she was the quiet girl who not many would notice but she would see your true emotions when you thought you thought you were safe. But even Yuna found trouble trying to decipher his feelings and emotions. He was now staring over at Rikku and Brother, (who had both apologised and were now chatting with Cid), with an almost sad expression in those luring, deep ocean blue eyes of his. He felt her eyes on him and immediately snapped his eyes down to the sandy beech before looking over at her.

"We hope you're ok, maybe we'll see you around?" He said lightly – his previous emotions disintegrated before her as he snapped back to reality.

"Ya, we better be goin bro," Wakka said looking at his watch.

"Oh wait a sec, I wanna say thanks and goodbye too!" Rikku said, catching the whiff of the conversation and walking over. Up till then she hadn't looked at Tidus, but suddenly she spotted him and she gave a little blush and started frantically twirling a braid around her fingers and sending him cute smiles.

"They're Wakka and Tidus, but they've gotta get going." Yuna said quickly, before Rikku could start flirting with Tidus and make Yuna both annoyed and jealous.

"Yep, gotta go, see you later." Said Tidus and he a Wakka finally managed to depart, taking off hurriedly up the beach.

Yuna watched them leave, well, maybe she watched Tidus leave.

Then they started walking back themselves, Cid told Yuna they managed to crash land in another bay further up the shore. There was little body damage but the engines had taken a lot of battering and will need a lot of extensive work on them. Apart from that, all's good and their new house isn't far from here.

'I wonder what he meant by see you later? Did he mean see you later as in see you later or see you later as in just see you later?' Yuna found herself thinking as they made their way to their new house by foot. She knew she was thinking too hard about such a little phrase, but there was something about Tidus that just drew her to him, like some invisible force that wanted her to... be with him?!

'No that's impossible, I've only just met the guy!' She tried to convince herself, but her thoughts continued to remind her of him, the angel.

(A/N: Okay, wad'ya think? Hope it's understandable but feel free to point out any mistakes I make in reviews! Now I gotta get started on the next chapter, c ya!)