Chapter 2: Chineya
The Airship: Flying over Macalania, journeying to Zanarkand
It has been about three months since it happened and it has brought us all together once again.
Here we all are on the airship all on the same mission.
Our group consists of Yuna, Rikku, Paine, Wakka, Lulu, Brother, Buddy, Shinra and me, Tidus.
Lulu and Wakka had left their baby with Kimahri in Mt Gagazet 2 months ago…so it was safe.
We thought that it was all over with after Sin, but the destruction of Besaid proved that our world will never be free from sorrow, as the Lady Yunalesca so wisely told us, almost three years ago in Zanarkand.
We were now flying over Macalania on our way to Zanarkand.
Kimahri had told us that there would be answers there, which would help us with our mission.
Everyone sat around the airship quietly, not really speaking to each other.
Our journey so far had not been a pleasant one. Now that Besaid had been destroyed, everyone felt like his or her whole world was gone. Everyone on this ship had been connected to Besaid one way or another.
Yuna, Wakka and Lulu had lived there practically their whole lives. Rikku, Paine, Brother, Buddy and Shinra all felt the others pain.
And I Tidus had been saved by Wakka on the very shores of Besaid.
"Ur hu," yelled Brother, breaking Tidus' thoughts.
"What?" everyone yelled in unison, which also broke the deathly silence.
"He said 'oh no'…which can't be good," said Rikku, nervously.
"What's wrong," said Buddy, to Brother.
"Dra ahkeha ec vyemehk," yelled Brother, hysterically.
"Err…translation Rikku?" asked Tidus, seemingly calm.
"He said there's a problem with the engine. Famm, lyh oui veq ed?" asked Rikku frantically.
"No…uv luinca hud...Neggi," yelled Brother, angrily. "Fa haat du myht huf!"
"Um…I don't mean to pester you, Rikku, but…can we please have a translation over here, if it's not too much trouble," yelled Tidus, sarcastically.
"Oh…right…um, Brother said we have to land…and I don't think it'll be a smooth landing," said Rikku unusually calm.
Wakka and Lulu sat down and held onto something attached to the ground. Tidus held onto Yuna with one arm, whilst holding onto a railing with the other, Rikku and Paine followed Wakka and Lulu's strategy and the rest just held onto the nearest available secured object, except for Brother who was driving in a secured seat.
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It wasn't too long after that, they crashed rather forcefully and Rikku went flying across the airship and landed on Brother, who yelled, "Get off, Rikku. Uhmo Oihy ec famlusa du pa uh sa."
"What did he say?" asked Tidus, who was rubbing his head, his face full of pain.
"Err…nothing," said Rikku, looking at Brother with a disgusted look.
Yuna got up from where she had landed from the crash. She did a quick injury check to see who was injured and who wasn't.
Yuna looked around the airship's bridge. Wakka and Lulu's plan had clearly worked, as they were intact…as were Paine (and Rikku as we said before had landed safely on Brother…although he wasn't too pleased about it) and Tidus, as they appeared to be conscious at least. Shinra and Buddy were also fine, so Yuna sighed with relief.
"Okay…where are we?" asked Yuna.
"We're somewhere in Macalania Woods," said Buddy and although Yuna and Tidus were now together, they still gave each other a shy look remembering what they had shared in these very woods only a few years ago.
The group departed from the airship and looked for a place to stay the night.
A couple of hours later, all was quiet and dark, except for the campfire that was crackling in the centre of the group.
Paine suddenly spoke up, after hours of silence.
"Don't you think we should have encountered at least one fiend by now?" she said glancing around the forest surrounding them.
The others didn't speak; they were all lost deep in thought of the last time they had been here, which was when they were making their dangerous, yet hopeful journey to the Zanarkand Ruins.
Suddenly out of nowhere, an enormous fiend popped out from behind a tree disrupting everyone's thoughts. It would've been about double the size of Kimahri in height and fifty times as large in width. But what was most surprising was that no one had even heard it approaching, not even Paine who was keeping a lookout.
Before anyone could react, a woman jumped through the barrier of trees surrounding the group and slashed at the monsters back with her samurai sword. The fiend cowered in pain, but was not defeated yet. She stood up and went into her combat stance, where she held up her samurai sword level on the right side of her face, pointing it dangerously at the fiend.
"You smashed my airship…which I could've repaired…but no, you then had to smash up the engine. So now after hours of tracking, I'm gonna kick your ass," the girl said, with an unusual hint of humour in her voice.
The others looked at her with surprise because usually you don't converse with a fiend when you fight it.
The fiend then proceeded toward her; arms open ready to crush her. Instead, the girl jumped forward and flipped until the fiend and her were only an arms length apart. The girl then jumped up on top of the fiend and pushed her samurai sword through the back of its neck. It howled in pain, and then when it touched the ground, it disintegrated into millions of glowing pyreflies.
The girl looked up to see the group staring at her with wide eyes.
"Well, thanks for coming to see the show…I'm here all Thursday, see y'all!" she said as she slipped her sword expertly into her sheath resting on her back.
She began to walk away, only to hear Wakka call out, "Hey…who the hell are you, ya?"
The girl stopped and smiled, but did not turn around.
"Who wants to know?" asked the girl, in an unfriendly tone, which was different from her humouring tone from before.
There was no answer from any of the group, so she turned around.
"Right," she whispered when none of them answered. "Look, I have places to be, and you know…'stuff' to do. So…if you don't mind…" The girl pointed in the direction she was headed with both hands. "…I'm gonna go now."
"Wait!" called out Brother, the leader of the Gullwings. "Oui sahdeuhat dryd oui lyh veq ahkehac."
Just as Rikku was about to translate, the girl butted in by saying.
"Yeah…but I wasn't talking to you…was I?" asked the girl, rudely.
Everyone stared at her with surprise at her understanding of Al Bhed.
"Fa lnycrat yht fa haat uin ahkeha veqat," said Brother, hysterically as he waved his arms around.
"Great…not my problem," the girl whispered sarcastically and turned to leave again.
"Well…can't you just help us, we're trying to get to Zanarkand?" asked Rikku.
The girl stopped in her tracks, smiled evilly and turned to stare at Rikku…completely wiping her evil face away.
"Sure…now that you ask…but, you must do something for me in return," replied the girl, mischievously.
"Name your price," said Paine, bluntly, with no expression upon her face.
"Well, you said you were going to Zanarkand. It just so happens I have some business there. My only other condition, if you accept my offer, is that you don't ask questions as to what business I have there," explained the girl.
Yuna stepped forward and said "As long as you fix the airship…we'll accept your offer, as we too have our own private business in Zanarkand and prefer to keep it that way."
The others nodded in agreement.
The girl stared at them for a moment, searching the group's expressions to see if they were serious.
The girl then let a sly smile appear upon her face and said "Well…it's a deal then."
As the group relaxed and sat back down beside the fire, the girl said out of the blue "Chineya."
"What?" the group said in unison.
"Chineya. My name is Chineya, in reply to your funny looking red-headed friend's question," replied Chineya, trying to lift the mood of the uneasy silence that followed after their agreement.
"Hey," exclaimed Wakka, looking up. "I am not funny looking, ya?"
The rest of the group let out a laugh.
Meanwhile, the Zanarkand Ruins, a dark undiscovered cave
Meanwhile, in an undiscovered cave, a hooded figure sat, waiting for the arrival of the group of people he knew were coming for him…well, at least one person.
He felt a sudden pang of happiness flow inside of him. They're coming to me and soon I shall reign over all of Spira, as well as finally completing my life's purpose, thought the lonely figure.
He would wait until they arrived, then the fun would begin.
Translations: Just after they crashed:
"Get off, Rikku. Uhmo Oihy ec famlusa du pa uh sa" Only Yuna is welcome to be on me
"Wait!" called out Brother, the leader of the Gullwings. "Oui sahdeuhat dryd oui lyh veq ahkehac" You mentioned that you can fix engines
"Fa lnycrat yht fa haat uin ahkeha veqat," said Brother, hysterically as he waved his arms around We crashed and we need our engine fixed.
Pronunciation of Chineya Shin-ay-ah
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Yunie and Yuffie signing out!