Chapter 2: Besaid what?
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Written by: mumakilbrows
Edited by: shroomipoo
James, Sirius, and Lily opened their eyes. They saw a clear blue sky. Groaning, they sat up and looked around. They were lying on a deserted beach. They spotted Remus who was sitting up and rubbing his head. Peter was lying face down, although he was slowly getting up and spitting out bits of sand. Severus shook his head vigorously, although he didn't need to (sand doesn't stick to oil). Sirius voiced the question in everyone's mind, "Where are we?"
BAM!
"OW!!!!!"
A blue and white striped ball had hit Lily in the head.
"JAMES! WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!?!"
"What? ME? I DIDN'T DO THAT! WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS BLAMING ME?"
"BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS YOUR FAULT!"
"She's right you know."
"SHUT UP PETER!"
"Oooh... I'm sorry. You all right, ya?"
A man with a very unusual hairdo had come running up to Lily. She stared at him, as did everyone else. The first thing they saw was bright orange hair brought up into a point sticking up in the air.
"Wonder how much time he spends gelling his hair," whispered Sirius, and he and James sniggered.
The next thing they saw was his muscular chest, which was slightly covered by a strange yellow half-overall.
"Wonder if Peter's mom gave him those clothes," whispered James, and he and Sirius almost doubled up in laughter.
"You all right?" the stranger asked again.
"Yeah..." she said breathlessly, staring at the strange specimen in front of her. "Who are you?"
"Me? I'm Wakka, captain of the Besaid Aurochs!" He beamed proudly.
"Besaid what?"
James had suddenly walked forward, sizing himself up against this man who was talking to Lily Evans. However, Wakka didn't seem to want to fight. In fact, he was looking extremely crestfallen.
"You... you haven't heard of us?"Wakka was close to tears.
"Er... no. Are we supposed to?"
"Well, I thought... ah well. You can't expect people to know the worst team, ya?"
Wakka sighed and took a closer look at these new teenagers. His face showed a bit of suspicion as he looked their robes up and down.
"Why are you wearing those clothes? You must be hot, ya?"
"Well, now that you mention it, we are getting a little oppressed by the heat."
James, Sirius, Lily, and Wakka's heads turned to look at Remus joining the conversation. Peter followed Remus, and Severus sulked behind, slowly walking up to the odd group.
"Mmm... you guys from around here?" Wakka asked.
"Er... no... what is this place anyways?"
Wakka looked at them strangely, "This is Besaid! Surely you must know if you're here, ya?"
The Marauders and Lily and Severus looked at each other.
Sirius spoke, "Actually, we've no idea why we're here, let alone how we got here."
"Hmm...," Wakka scratched his chin. "Do you remember anything strange happening before you came?"
"Well, the only thing I remember is a yellow light and-"
"And that we were sucked into the sky," interrupted Severus bitterly.
"Yeah, by a big...thing," added Lily.
Wakka stared. "Sucked into the sky... Hmm... we might have another case of it," he muttered to himself.
"Excuse me, case of what?" asked Sirius a little indignantly.
"Oh. You must have been intoxicated by Sin."
The wizards blinked. "Sin? What's that?"
"You don't know what- oh... Yes, you must have met it. Well, come with me. You can talk to another one, ya?"
"Another what?"
Wakka ignored James's question, picked up the ball, and walked off. They followed.
A blonde boy sat on a rock, looking like he was pondering something.
"Hey! Over here!"
The boy looked up to see who yelled, waved, and walked towards Wakka.
"Hey, I found some new people on the beach!"
"Really?" the boy asked and looked at the wizards who were hiding behind Wakka.
"Who are they?"
"They're... well, I never asked their names."
Wakka turned to the confused (and sweltering) teens.
"You guys, this is Tidus. Introduce yourselves, ya?"
They looked suspiciously at Tidus. Remus stopped fanning himself with his hand. Here was a boy who looked around eighteen, only three years older than them, wearing clothes stranger than Wakka. He, too, seemed to have gelled his dirty blonde hair and dressed similarly to Wakka. His chest was also bared, and he wore black pants with suspenders. A tiny open yellow shirt was beneath the suspenders. One pant leg had a cage-like thing covering it; the other showed what looked like blue boxers.
James and Sirius looked at each other, and this time, they couldn't help themselves. They burst out laughing.
Lily gave them a sharp glance, although she, too, had to suppress her laughter. But she managed a shaky smile.
"I'm Lily," she said, holding out her hand.
"Tidus," he replied, shaking her hand.
James abruptly stopped laughing and gave him a threatening look.
"I'm James," he grunted in a disgruntled way.
The names went around. "Sirius- Remus- Peter"
Everyone looked at Severus.
Severus frowned and muttered, "Sev-."
"He's Snivelly," interrupted James and Sirius in unison.
Severus turned around and whipped out his wand. James and Sirius did the same.
"Furnun-"
"EXPELLIARMUS!"
A jet of green light came from nowhere, and the three wands jumped out of the surprised boys' hands and into Lily's.
"WE ARE STUCK TOGETHER IN THIS PLACE AND THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS GET ALONG!"
Sirius nudged the dumbstruck James, who then replied, "YEAH? WELL THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS NOT INTERFERE!"
"Could you guys not argue?"
"SHUT UP PETER!" yelled James, Lily, Sirius, and Severus together.
"Um... actually, guys, that was me, "said Remus.
"Oh... sorry Peter," apologized James and Lily.
"It- It's fine," mumbled Peter, still recoiling from the shock of having four people yell at him at once.
"What was that?"
The wizards whipped around to look at the speaker. Tidus was staring at them confusedly, and Wakka looked a little frightened.
"What was that- that thing that came out of that stick?"
They looked at Lily's wand.
"Oh, that was magic," she replied.
"Magic?!? You call that magic?" Wakka stuttered.
"Um... yeah. In our world, at least."
Wakka ran his hand over his long hairdo. "Magic... Are you sure? That doesn't look like the magic we do, ya?"
"You know magic?" Lily and Sirius asked, surprised.
"Yeah... But we don't use sticks and there's no light... not usually anyways. You guys must be mages, ya?"
"No, we're huma-"
"We're wizards," interrupted Lily, shooting a sharp glance at James.
"Wizards, huh? That's interesting," Wakka said, scratching his chin.
"So... What did you mean 'we're another one'?" the practical Remus asked.
"Huh? Oh, that. Well, Tidus here seems to have been affected by Sin, too. He claims to be from a city that was destroyed a thousand years ago."
Sirius whistled. "A thousand years?"
"Yeah. Sounds funny, doesn't it?"
"It's not THAT funny," shot Tidus.
He went on, "Wakka, before you went to retrieve the blitzball-" Sirius and James exchanged confused glances "-you told me you were going to bring me to Lulu and Yuna."
"What? Oh yeah. My memory's slipping, ya? Hey, do you mind if they-" he jerked his thumb at the wizards "-come with us?"
"Nope."
"Okay then. How's about a little journey, ya?" he asked them.
They looked at each other. Remus shrugged.
Sirius said, "Well, an adventure wouldn't hurt."
"Sure, we'll come," James told Wakka.
"Hold on," said Severus, the heads all turned to him, "who said anything about 'we'?"
"Well, we all understand," James said slowly. "We all respect your cowardice, Snive-"
"Fine! I'm coming! I was just asking, you know!"
James smiled. Stupid taunts always worked on Severus. Well, they always worked on him, too, but that didn't matter. He turned to Sirius, who had an evil grin on his face. They were going to have a lot of fun.
"I suppose I'll come, too," said Lily, and James proudly held his arrogant face up high. She quickly added, "Just so you idiots don't end up killing each other." James's grin dropped into a frown.
Wakka stared at the two. "All right then," he started out slowly, "since we're all going, let's start quickly, ya?"
Everyone nodded and followed him off the beach.