(A/N) Man! Am I quick or what? It's barely a week since I put up the first chapter, and here I am, with a third one.....I'd like to thank all of you who's been taking your time to read an review! This chapter is kind of weird, maybe not as funny as the first two, but I promise I will have some fluffy scenes for all you Gippal-Rikku fans out there some time soon.....until then, read, review, and try to enjoy!

Disclimer: I don't own ANYTHING, well, except the main plot, but not the characters the places or anything that square Enix has copyright on....

Gippal POV

I had been with other girls after Rikku, but none of them were exactly a girlfriend. I don't really know what happened between us when we met again, after I left the Crimson squad I disappeared, well atleast for the Yevonites I did. That day when she and the other girls came for an interview I was shocked, but I kept a cool face and flirted with Yuna too see Rikkus reaction, and I was quite satisfied with the result; she didn't wanna show it in front of Yuna and Paine, but I could tell she was angry, but when I called her Cid's girl she went back to her old track.

Since she didn't seem to care about the fact that we weren't a couple anymore, I just let it drop. I can't believe I forgot about the locket, but then again so had she, so when I found it again, I wasn't sure if I should give it back to her, I know it belonged to her, but still….

Normal POV

Rikku woke up early; she stretched while still lying in bed smiling. She had been having a very nice dream; apparently Gippals drink was having some more effects than just a good night's sleep. Rikku jumped out of bed and got dressed quickly. She was even more hyper today than she used to be and she wanted to thank Gippal for making her sleep so peacefully. She ran out the room and greeted every single person she meet, and they all greeted her back since they were all happy to get back to work after a day off.

As she got to Gippals room she stopped outside smiling, she thought she might be able to have some fun if he was still asleep. She opened the door carefully, but the bed was empty.

"Now where has he gone to now?" Rikku wondered, but then she thought he must be in the mess hall for breakfast already. She skipped of to the lift and thought happily about the mess hall and the lift descended to the requested level. Rikku went through the double doors and noticed there were a lot more people here in the morning. She scanned the hall, but no Gippal. She noticed Wally at the counter scoping up food to the workers.

"Hey Wally!" Rikku yelled to him as he turned his head to her. "Have you seen Gippal?"

"No!" Wally replied. "Haven't seen him this morning!"

Rikku pouted and left the mess hall thinking.

"Maybe he's already started working?" She thought. She remembered that he had been working franticly with that fiend-spine yesterday. She took the lift to the bottom floor but instead of Gippal she found a young man wearing black leather pants and jacket of red leather to match it, he also wore a pair of black boots. Rikku could tell he was Al-bhed because he had blond hair. He was standing with his back to Rikku and seemed to be very busy with something.

"Fryd ec ed? (What is it?)" He asked, his back still facing Rikku.

"Uhm," Rikku began as she slowly moved towards him. "Do you know where Gippal is?"

The man turned around quickly. The first thing Rikku noticed about him was that his face was totally perfect; it was shaped just perfect, the nose was just perfect, and when he smiled at Rikku she noticed that every single tooth was pearl white.

"Aah, you must be Rikku!" He said and smiled even wider.

Rikku smiled shyly and said "Yes." He was really cute, she thought..

"I'm Narroj!" He said and held his hand out.

Rikku just smiled and shook his hand. "So, uhm…what are you doing?" She asked.

"Oh, I'm just analyzing this spine Gippal found in that cave." Narroj said.

"Gippal did that last night." Rikku stated.

"I know," Narroj said shrugging his shoulders turning back to his tools. "I just thought he might've missed something."

Rikku nodded, and she suddenly remembered he hadn't answered her question.

"So where's Gippal?"

"I don't know," Narroj said. "He's got this habit to disappear whenever you need him; some people say he's got this secret room somewhere."

"Secret room?" Rikku said questionably.

"You know," Narroj said and shrugged his shoulders. "Some place he goes to when he's feeling down, when he's tired, mad or whatever!"

"Okay, then I'll just go look for him!" Rikku said and walked back to the lift.

"Nice meeting you Rikku!" Narroj called after her.

"Yeah, you too!" Rikku yelled and smiled.

Rikku took the lift up to the base level and walked out into the main hall.

"Hmn, secret room…" She thought. She glanced over to the door leading into Gippals regular room and sniggered. Apart from spicy food and cheering people up, there was one thing in particular that Rikku loved, and that was to learn about peoples secrets, she didn't usually scrounge through their bedrooms though, but since this was Gippal she didn't really give a damn. She carefully looked around in the hall to make sure no one was watching her, and then she sneaked inside Gippals room.

Gippal woke up rather abruptly; it was nothing new that he hadn't gotten enough time to sleep, but last night was a little too eventful.

The clock showed 8.02, Gippal was a little surprised to find himself in the room he called

Dra Cyhldiyno (The Sanctuary), but then he remembered what had happened last night. He shivered as he remembered the look on Yunas face as she came rummaging inside the temple.

"She sure was pissed." Gippal thought.

He looked around the room he had spent so much time getting fit for habitation. He had found it when they first moved into the temple; it had looked like nobody had been there for over a hundred years. He never told anyone about it, instead he took all free time he could on making it good enough for him to live there. If there was anything he knew a lot about apart from machina and girls it was architecture. He had the room clear and finished after about a month or so, in it he had stored all his dearest belongings like; memories from the Crimson squad, souvenirs from his travels, things he had saved from Home, pictures, spheres, stuff like that.

"Might as well go get something to eat." Gippal thought when he heard his stomach grumble loudly.

He went down the staircase and pushed the rock on the wall to make the hidden door open.

Rikku closed the door behind her back and looked around Gippals untidy room. She noticed his clothes on the floor next to the bed, but something was missing.

"Hmn, where are his boots and pants?" She thought. Was Gippal running around working with a bare torso or what? Rikku giggled and started jumping around the room looking around at all the tools and machina parts, but weird enough she couldn't find any personal stuff.

"Dammit!" She cursed and stomped the floor. She started going through his drawers, but then she heard a weird sound behind her. She turned around and saw Gippal standing in front of a new opening in the wall, he was smirking.

"Well, well, well," He said crossing his arms. "If it isn't miss merry sunshine scrounging through my room!"

Rikku smiled sheepishly, but then she tried to peek around Gippal to see what was inside the new door behind him, but before she could get a good look at it, the walls moved together and the way was shut.

"Now," Gippal said holding a finger up and moving towards Rikku. "Why would Cid's girl be going through my stuff this early in the morning?"

Rikku just kept looking at him with that sheepish smile.

"Uhm, because she was looking for you?" She said.

"Oh, so you assumed I was hiding in the drawers?"

"Shit!" Rikku thought. "How am I supposed to wriggle myself out of this? Oh! I know! I'll use my puppy-dog eyes!" Rikku pouted and put on her best puppy-dog eyed face and said,

"I thought I might find any clues of where you'd gone to!"

"Don't give me those eyes!" Gippal warned and snatched up his shirt from the floor and pulled it on.

"Aaaaaw, come on Gippy!" Rikku pleaded. "Don't be mad at me!"

"I'm not mad." Gippal said and pulled on his shoulder-collar.

"Good!" Rikku said and skipped up in front of him. "Then you can tell me about that secret room of yours!"

"If I told you about it then it wouldn't be a secret anymore would it?" Gippal said. "And I told you STOP giving me those eyes!" He added as Rikku put on her pleading face again.

"Come on Gip, please!" Rikku whined.

"Let's go!" Gippal said and chuckled. "We got work to do!"

"Gippal!" Rikku whine and started jumping up and down. "Poopie!"

Rikku didn't ask about the room again because the next couple of days she and Gippal were working hard with putting together a bunch of machina guards. Since the League (a shorter word for the league of Spira) had placed an order on machina to guard certain areas of Spira, it meant a lot of work for the Machine faction.

Unlike Nooj and Baralai, Gippal had decided not to take a too important position in the League, sure the Machine faction was part of the League, but Gippal had so much work to cope with already. The political delegate for Djose was a woman named Erea from the faction, she was also the one in charge of the place when Gippal was of elsewhere, she and a man named Kairou. The Machine factions' main objective was to provide the League with defensive machina to protect the people from fiends, but of course, they didn't work for free.

"Gippal! Oui kad y jecedun! (Gippal! You got a visitor!)" Yelled one of the workers by the door.

"E's pico nekrd huf! (I'm busy right now!)" Gippal yelled, he and Rikku was currently working in one of the workshops. "Damm dras du lusa pylg mydan! (Tell them to come back later)"

"Yht secc ouin hanjuic pnaygtufh? E thud drehg cu!" Sounded a cold and sarcastic voice.

Gippal and Rikku both turned around to see Paine standing in the door smiling a rare smile.

"Paine!" Rikku got up and ran over to her with outstretched arms.

Paine held a hand in front of her and said "If you want a hug it'll cost you ten respect points."

"Deal!" Rikku said gleefully and threw herself at Paine.

"What's up Dr. P?" Gippal said and walked up to them.

"I'm here in business." Paine said firmly.

"Don't' worry," Gippal said holding a hand in front of him. "We'll have the rouge guards ready by the end of the week and-"

"It's not about the machina guards." Paine interrupted. "The League is going to create a salvage squad to check out certain 'unexplored' areas and ruins."

"What's that got to do with me?" Gippal asked.

"We're short on qualified people." Paine answered.

"Oh you want me to make a list on people fit for the work?" Gippal said.

"We actually came up with someone fit for the leader position," Paine continued. "We had a little trouble to decide at first, but then we figured that the Al-bhed are the most experienced salvagers in Spiras' history, and we thought that since we've known you for such a long time and know that you is actually reliable that you would be perfect for the leader position."

Silence followed these words, Gippal just stared at Paine.

"Sounds like fun!" Rikku suddenly said smiling.

"You gotta be kidding!" Gippal snapped back from his trance. "I've got enough work already!"

"We thought about that," Paine said. "And we figure it wouldn't be a problem since you got such reliable workers." Paine jerked her head towards Rikku. "And as for the payment, you get to keep anything you find of interest for the Machine faction as long as you catalogue all your findings."

Gippal started pacing around the room, thinking hard about it.

"What kind of people except me is in this 'squad'?" He asked.

"None," Paine said firmly. "You decide who to come with you on every salvage trip, take some of your workers if you want, the league can in case needed, provide with some soldiers."

"How often do I have to do these 'trips'?" Gippal asked.

"Whenever we need you," Paine said. "I doubt it will be too often, you can send a replacement if you think he's reliable."

"Ooooh, come on Gippal!" Rikku cheered. "It might be fun!"

Gippal sighed and looked from Rikku to Paine.

"We can keep anything we find?" Gippal asked.

"Yeah, unless it's something very important," Paine said. "Like a sphere with important info."

Gippal sighed again.

"Okay, I'll do it." He said.

"Good." Paine said and took out a sphere. "Here's your first assignment."

"Already?" Gippal said and took the sphere; he read the inscription on it. "The Emerald squad?"

"Yeah," Paine said. "Since you were so worked up about the Crimson squad we thought we'd give it a name like it."

"Whatever." Gippal moved past Paine and walked out in the corridor.

"Hey!" Rikku said and skipped after him. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to my room to check the mission objectives," Gippal said and turned to face her. "You stay here and finish as many machina as you can until I come back."

"Hey!" Rikku complained. "I wanna see the sphere too!"

"Too bad for you Cid's girl!" Gippal said and grinned as he left.

"Meanie…" Rikku stomped at the floor.

"So," Paine said as she strode up to Rikku. "How is it to work with Gippal?"

"Imagine yourself working with the most annoying person alive and you'll see." Rikku said and sighed.

Paine laughed and said "I worked with him in the Crimson squad for a long time, and he wasn't half as annoying as you was when we were Gullwings."

"Hey!" Rikku said angrily and walked up in front of Paine, but then she got an evil grin on her face. "So how is it to be in the same business as your boyfriend?" She asked.

"What?" Paine said in disbelief.

"Oh, come on Paine!" Rikku said and flung her arms in the air. "We both know you didn't move to Bevelle because of the view!"

"Minus fifteen respect points!" Paine said and walked away.

Rikku sighed and said "Well, it sure was worth it."

Gippal didn't come back to the workshop, so after four hours Rikku got tired of waiting; she strode of to tell Gippal she wouldn't take this bullshit about finishing the job alone. When she got to the main hall however, Gippal came out of his room with a determined expression on his face.

"Let's go!" He said as he saw Rikku.

"Go where?" Rikku asked, taken aback.

"Lake Macalania." Gippal said firmly adjusting the straps on his gloves.

"What's in Macalania?" Rikku asked suddenly curious.

"We're going to inspect the temple." Gippal said heavily.

"The temple!?" Rikku couldn't believe her ears, the temple was at the bottom of the lake, how in Spira were they supposed to get down there?

"Yup," Gippal said as he strode up the stairs to the Cloister of trials. "I should've seen this coming, figures they'd want us to check out the places where there's no such thing as machina."

"But, where are you going?" Rikku looked from Gippal to the exit before she followed him up the stairs. "The exit's over there!"

"What, you thought we'd walk there or something?" Gippal asked and grinned.

"Well, no," Rikku said. "I thought we were going by hover!"

"Hovers won't help us down the lake," Gippal stated as they stood on the lift. "Right now we'll need my masterpiece!"

The lift moved upwards.

"What's your 'masterpiece'?" Rikku asked as the lift stopped. They were now at the floor before the chamber of the faith. To the left was the stairs leading up to were the Machine faction used to keep their old experiment, and to the right was the place where all the old sphere stones used to be; only now they were all gone. Instead of the small circular space that used to be there it was a long rectangular tunnel, mechanical by the looks of it.

"You'll see." Gippal said and walked into the tunnel, Rikku followed him.

They walked through a door and the walls were now grey metallic and covered in red and purple flame paintings. There were light-pipes in the ceiling and along the floor sides.

"Wow, you sure made some remodeling of this part of the temple, huh?" Rikku said and looked around.

"Who says this is a part of the temple?" Gippal said and grinned.

"What do you mean?" Rikku asked.

Gippal just kept grinning.

They walked through several other doors before reaching a room full of control panels and a couple of people. Rikku notice a large cup-like window that looked just like the one in the Celsius, although it was bigger, much bigger.

"Welcome on board 'The Priceless'!" Gippal said proudly.

"This is an airship!" Rikku burst excitedly.

"Yup," Gippal said. "And boy have I spent some time fixing this baby up!"

He looked around proudly before turning to everyone on the bridge. "Okay everybody, let's get to work!"

"Hey, Rikku!" Sounded a familiar voice from behind Rikku.

Rikku turned around and blushed when she saw who it was.

"Hi Narroj!" She said smiling.

"So how's it going?" Narroj said smiling. "I heard Gippal's been driving you pretty hard with all the work."

"Oh, it's nothing!" Rikku said and looked down to hide herself blushing. "I'm used to it."

They were interrupted by a clanking sound as a hatch in the hangar roof above the airship opened. The airship shook before taking of.

The Priceless was even bigger than the Celsius; it was painted in light grey and gold colors. Gippal had found her in the desert at one of his own excavations, although it was in much better shape now than it was then.

"Okay everybody listen up!" Gippal yelled as he loaded his gun. "Since the League has been kind enough to give me and the faction this position," Everybody noticed the sarcasm in his voice, "We are going to check out the temple for spheres and stuff like that." He holstered his gun. "The team going into the temple will be me, Rikku, Narroj, and Bee! The ones staying onboard the Priceless has already been pointed out and are considered as team two! Team three will clear out the lake bottom and be checking the old ruins for anything useful! Watch out for fiends, if you meet any problem too big for you to solve, withdraw immediately!"

Rikku looked out the window and saw the lake, or at least what used to be a lake; it was more like a crater now, it stretched all the way from O'akas' travel agency to where the temple used to be. They descended down into the lake, it was impossible for anyone to climb down there since the mountain walls were all a 90 degrees ankle. It was still a little water down there, but it was nothing they couldn't handle. The lake floor was covered in ruins of a small, but old machina city.

The airship landed at the lake bottom next to the temple and teams one and two jumped of to get to their positions.

"Ooooh, it's freezing!" Rikku whined when she landed her feet in the cold water.

"Come on people!" Gippal said as he led the way into the temple. "Bee, make sure you catalogue everything we see in there okay?"

"Yeas sir!" Said Bee, a nervous but professional girl, barely older than Rikku.

The lower spiral of the temple where the chamber of the faith used to be was buried under bottom sand, but the entrance laid just perfect for people who'd like to go in and have a look around.

As they walked inside they noticed the place was quite untidy. The statues were all broken and the white lights that used to brighten things up were all out, the place would have been very dark if it wasn't for the Machine factions' flashlights. Suddenly they heard a deep voice speak.

"Who dares enter my domain?" The voice seemed to be coming from above them

"The Emerald squad!" Gippal said, trying to locate the source of the voice. "From the Machine faction in Djose!"

"Who sent you?" The voice asked.

"It was a request from Nooj and Baralai of the League of Spira that we'd come here and find anything of need for the ones that still follows the teachings of Yevon!" Gippal said in a bored tone. "Now that you know who we are, maybe you could tell us who you are?"

Suddenly a man came leaping down from the ceiling; he landed on top of Narroj and pushed him to the ground with a long spear.

"To tell the truth," The man said still holding the edge of his spear pressed against Narroj's throat. "I don't really know that myself."

The man had a young face, he was probably at the age of twenty, and he had long untidy black hair and a goat-beard. He was dressed in a ripped black trench-coat, the collar went all the way up to his ears, and he wore a black rag over his forehead like a bandana. His pants were of leather and so were his boots, the boots had some weird claw-like pikes in the front, he also wore arm-guards with spikes around them; these accessories probably explained how he could be climbing around in the ceiling.

"H-Hey!" Rikku yelled and pulled her daggers. "Get off him!"

"Easy Cid's girl." Gippal said calmly.

"Actually," The black-coated man stood up and slowly walked away from Narroj, his eyes at Rikku and Gippal. "I don't even know what you're rambling about."

There was silence following this comment.

"Huh?" Gippal said.

"I don't know what Yevon is," Said the man, "Nor do I know anything about the Machine faction or the Emerald squad, or the persons you refer to as Nooj and Baralai."

"You're kidding right?" Gippal said with a smirk.

The man silently shook his head. "All I know is that my name is Raze."

Narroj got to his feet and stepped away from Raze know that his attention was directed to the others. "Gippal! Drec kio ec pyt hafc! (This guy is bad news!)" He told Gippal as he walked over to him and Rikku. "Mad'c vehecr drec yht ku pylg du dra yencreb! (Let's finish this and go back to the airship!)

"Clynat? (Scared?)" Gippal asked in his casual voice.

"Ramm hu! (Hell no!)" Narroj shouted.

"Ahuikr ymnayto! (Enough already!)" Rikku yelled. "Mad'c zict gu kad druca cbranac yht mayja! (Let's just go get those spheres and leave)

"Ev oui'na muugehk vun cbranac drah oui'na yd dra fnuhk bmyla. (If you're looking for spheres then you're at the wrong place.)" Said Raze.

The other twisted around and looked at him.

"You speak Al-bhed?" Narroj asked suspiciously.

"Apparently I speak three different languages," Raze said. "Although I only know the name and origin of two of them."

"Regular Spiran and Al-bhed?" Gippal asked.

"Yes."

"So, you're saying," Bee said and pulled out a notebook and a pen. "That there are no spheres here?"

"That is correct."

Gippal sighed.

"Okay, people, we're withdrawing to check things outside!" He said.

"Wh-what!?" Rikku asked in disbelief. "You're just gonna leave this place without checking it out yourself?"

"I trust him." Gippal said and holstered his gun and looked around pointing his flashlight to the walls. Raze noticed this and said "My apologies, I should alight your presence!" He held his hand up and balls of light that looked pretty much like pyreflies started swirling about and soon covered certain parts of the ceiling, the floor, and the walls, just enough to bring an encouraging light. Gippal was quite impressed, although he didn't show it.

"So, uhm, 'Raze'," He said. "How'd you get here?"

"I've been here ever since the temple sank down into the lake." Raze answered.

"What!?" Narroj said. "You've been here for three years?" He laughed and said. "No way, no one could have survived three whole years down here!"

"It's not impossible!" Stated Bee. "Most of the fiends down here are edible."

Narroj was about to put in an argument, but was interrupted by a peeping sound on their communicators. Gippal put his finger to the communicator in his ear and said "Gippal here, what's your status?"

"Gippal!" Screamed a terrified voice. "Y fiend ec ydylgehk dra creb! Fa lyn'd dyga uvv! (A fiend is atacking the ship! We can't take off!)"

"Fryd!? (What!?)" Gippal said. "Fryd geht uv fiend? (What kind of fiend?)"

"Fa thud ghuf! (We don't know!)" Replied the voice.

"Kad so sundyn yht saad sa uidceta dra dasbma! (Get my mortar and meet me outside the temple!)"

"Cen! (Sir!)" There was a beeping sound and Gippal turned to the others.

They looked back at him, waiting for instructions; Gippal grinned and said "Let's kick some ass!" And with that he ran through the hall but stopped next to Raze and said "Wanna join the fun?"

"Raze looked at him with a Paine-like expression on his face and said "I could use the exercise."

As they all got outside, they saw what was attacking the ship; it looked like a spheremorph, but it was much larger than the ones Rikku had encountered before, and it had tentacles wrapped around the airship, it seemed to be connected to the water. Gippals workers were running around all over the place, some of them fighting the fiend, and some of them trying to run away in panic.

"Where is he!?" Gippal said irritably and looked around. "Fuck!" Gippal saw the lower hatch of the airship was being held by the fiends' tentacles, but maybe he could get in through the air lock. He took the chance and ran down to the airship as he yelled to the others at the temple entrance.

"You guys help the others; I'm gonna go get my mortar!"

"You got it!" Rikku said with her usual enthusiasm.

They all ran down to the site where the fiend was attacking the workers.

"We have to use magic against it!" Rikku yelled at the others. "It changes its element all the time, if you don't know any spells, try to attack the core!"

Suddenly one of the tentacles rose into the air, clutching a screaming woman worker. Raze immediately leapt into the air, he spun around, his spear slicing off the tentacle, and then he and the female worker landed a few feet away from the fiend. The woman showed her gratitude by giving him a swift kiss, although he didn't seem to take notice as he immediately jumped back into the air to chop of another tentacle.

Narroj was busy trying to shoot the core with a shotgun. The bullets got through the gel but there core dodged them pretty well.

Rikku used her spinning daggers to cut through, but no matter how many times they all did this, the gel-pieces attached themselves back onto the spheremorph.

"It's no use!" Bee yelled and pulled on a pair of special-made goggles allowing her to scan her opponent. "We have to use magic; it's weak against thunder now!"

"Everybody get back!" Raze yelled as he charged up a spell. "Thundaga!" He shouted and released the spell at the fiend who directly after the hurting impact changed its element.

"Now it's weak against fire!" Bee yelled.

"Don't steal all the fun!" They heard Gippal yell. He was standing on the deck of the airship with his mortar.

"Raze!" He yelled. "On the count of three!"

Raze nodded.

"One! Two! Three!" Gippal yelled as he released a round of core bombs at the spheremorph, and at the same time Raze unleashed a firaga spell at it.

The spheremorph shivered in spasms as the gel melted and it disappeared in a floating sea of pyreflies.

Rikku was bouncing around dancing her own little victory dance as Gippal climbed down the ship to meet them all.

"Everybody okay?" He asked. There was a few groans, four of the workers who were supposed to check the ruins were injured, not life threatening but they still seemed a little shocked.

"Ymnehkrd, ajanouha pylg uh dra creb! (Alright, everyone back on the ship!)" Gippal yelled.

The workers walked over to the hatch, but it didn't open.

"Talk to me Dara!" Gippal said in the communication device.

"The lower hatch was damaged," A female voice said. "You'll have to bring them in over the deck!"

"Great," Gippal said sarcastically and turned of the communicator. "Okay, everybody this way!" He said as a rope ladder was dropped down from the deck so they could climb back up.

Surprisingly they managed to get the injured ones up first; for some reason all the water still remaining in the lake had disappeared together with the fiend. There were only a couple of workers left when Gippal said.

"Okay, as soon as everyone's back onboard we leave!" He, Rikku and Narroj had remained to make sure no more fiend were gonna show up.

"So are you gonna come with us?" Gippal asked Raze.

Raze looked at him, then he gazed up at the temple. "I don't think I have any choice." He said.

"Huh?" Gippal said, but then the ground began to tremble.

"I believe that fiend had something to do with the water that was left in the lake," Raze said and watched as icy rocks started to fall from the walls. "And the water was probably the magic that was left to protect the temple from its fate."

"Shit!" Gippal hissed and turned on the communicator. "Everybody hurry onboard! Dara start up the engine we have to leave NOW!" He turned to Rikku and Narroj who were the only ones not climbing the ladder except him and Raze. "What in the Fareplane are you two looking at? Start climbing!" He shouted. "Raze come on!" He grabbed Raze's arm and pulled him over to the ladder as Rikku and Narroj had begun to climb.

The four of them were still clinging onto the ladder when the ship took off. Rocks were swooping through the air as the mountain walls around the temple started falling together. A big one hit them and made the ship shake, and the ladder was swinging dangerously but they all managed to hold on, but Rikku was eventually thrown off by the impacts of all the rocks. She shrieked as she fell but Gippal managed to swing the ladder enough for him to grab her, although he lost his grip on the ladder with his other hand and was now hanging upside down with his legs wrapped around the ladder tightly.

When they were out of danger the ship slowed down so that they could climb up on deck. As Gippal pulled Rikku up onto the deck she looked at him, Gippal made to walk after the others into the air lock but Rikku grabbed his wrist, he turned to face her.

"Thank you." Rikku said.

Gippal just grinned his cocky grin and said "Don't mention it Cid's girl, Yuna would beat the crap out of me if she found out anything happened to you, not to mention what your old man would do!"

Rikku let go of his hand and pouted, "Meanie!"

Gippal just laughed and followed the others through the air lock. Rikku stood there for a while before she sighed heavily and ran after him.

(A/N) Well, there you have it; the third chapter of my first fanfic.....

I know what you think! The first line Raze ever said, I took it from the movie 'The return of the king', I kinda liked that ghost king....

I know this chapter wasn't too good, but it was more like an introduction to Raze and Narroj, but I promise I'll try to make the next chapter different.....so please review?