A/n: Sorry if I don't have a lot of Yulina in here but then there will be now, I think. Okay then here you go guys... Oh and sorry if I have a lot of spelling errors, I'm dead at writing in the night...


Chapter twelve: Never


The air felt somewhat cooler on the other side of the portal. No one talked while they looked at their surroundings... but there was three of them that were terrified. Lenne and Yuna had almost started crying. Shuyin knew why but then Tidus remained clueless, he wanted to know. Tidus looked down at Brotherhood, he had gotten his sword back and the others got their weapons back, too, but not Gippal and Baralai for some reason they didn't know of. Linnea and Atrena didn't have any because they didn't have one in the first place so their husbands had to protect them, right? The thing was, the Vegnagun was right in front of them.

"Why does it have to be here?" Yuna asked herself angryly.

The others looked at her puzzled, well only some of them. "Yuna, what's wrong?" Linnea asked her also eyeing her guns that were strapped to her upper thighs.

She shook her head to show that she was okay and then said, "I'm fine. Don't worry about me, we just gotta figure out what we have to do." Her mother looked at her as if she didn't believe that she was fine. "I'm okay, really." Yuna added in before her mother could say anything else.

Finally, Linnea said, "Okay, Yuna, I believe you. Now what do we do?"

Lenne spoke up after choking back her tears, "Well that voice said that we have to be aware after we see ourselves getting shot, then the soldiers will see us, I think. But then I think that the voice meant only a certain some of us. He didn't explain it quite clearly but that's what I think. It happened to some of us here before but it doesn't have to be real, I mean by a dream. And I know who here knows."

Shuyin eyed her and knew what she was meaning to all of them. They had to leave after they see some of them get shot and he knew that he and Lenne were one of the couples. "I get it," he said having all eyes on him except for Rikku looking at the Vegnagun once again remembering her battle with it. "We have to go after you see Lenne and I get shot. This was in the past remember? So this meant that we two were in this. The other two are Yuna and Tidus. They were not in the past but then Yuna had gotten a dream of this."

"You got a dream of this?" Tidus asked her when Yuna was eyeing Shuyin at the corner of her eye while she was facing him. "How though?"

She turned her head away from Shuyin, this place was giving her a lot of memories. "I got a dream about getting shot because I was in my songstress dress sphere but then it was actually Lenne's. Wearing that gave me a glanced of what happened to her and Shuyin but then it was you and me in their place."

Tidus felt like he regretted to ask why so then he said, "Then let's try not to think about it and watch out when they're going to shoot." He lifted his sword and kept a look out. All the others who had their weapons did the same.

"I'd never thought that I'd see this place again," Paine said gripping her sword. Though emotions sped through her, she kept it in herself as if she was calm.

"Me too," Rikku said holding up her red knives that were from her Theif dress sphere. Though she had gotten them back, she was still wearing her sleeping clothes. The same was also for all the other people. "I don't want to be here."

"And what do you think about us?" Paine said. "We don't like being here and so do you, okay?"

Rikku squeaked, "Yes Paine."

"Good," she replied. They all became quiet and then waited for the soldiers to come. Finally after they guessed it was passed some thirty minutes, they saw the soldiers come and Lenne, Shuyin, Yuna and Tidus were there. Each couple holding onto each other. They were like replicas though, not the real ones but the whole group got ready to make a run for it.

"Why don't we just go now when they don't have their attention on us?" Gippal asked eyeing the great piece of machina that was in front of their eyes.

"I think that it's a good idea," Baralai said.

Auron held his sword up and looked at the replica couples that were about to get shot. "I think that too but then I have this feeling that something bad will happen if we go to early. I feel that we have to watch this first."

Jecht shifted in his position to see his son about to get shot. "Listen to the old guy, he knows what he's saying," Jecht said to the whole group.

They fell silent, again and then that was when the soldiers were going to shoot. The whole group got ready to make a run for it while they watched the seen. Each of the males looked at their female companion and then at the Bevelle soldiers. They then looked at the females once again and then they returnted a smile with one tear from each eye. The soldiers got ready to shoot and then they fired. At the same exact time, the two couples fell apart from each other and then fell to the ground a few meters away from each other. Yuna gripped her guns and then started to run instead of saying anything. The others followed.

"Where are we to go?" Baralai shouted as they ran through the tunnels with a green hue. They were underground, they had to go up.

"Out of here, of course!" Gippal screamed back.

"Hey, guys, I think that you two should keep it down a little, why are you screaming, you'll just catch- AHHH!"

"RIKKU!" Gippal screamed. A soldier had gotten Rikku and now was threatening to kill her. Gippal was freaking out and so was the others except they all looked calm, especially Yuna. "HOW CAN YOU NOT BE FREAKING OUT? SHE'S YOUR COUSIN!"

"It's okay," Yuna whispered. She took her gun out and did Trigger Happy. "Now get the Yevon out of there, Rikku!" The soldier fell down and then the Al Bhed teen went back to the group. They continued to run and Tidus almost didn't believe what he saw. His wife was actually shooting guns, something that he never thought that he would see but then he thought that it was good for her. She was actually forgeting about the thing about Yevon being fake.


Ring, Rring. "Yulina, get it ya, I've Vidina on my hands right now!"

"Yes, Wakka." Yulina ran over to the phone and then picked it up. "Hello? Yulina speaking."

"Oh, Yulina." His voice was familiar; it was Clyde. "Hey, do you think that I could go over to your house right now? My parents are in a fight again and I don't want to get hurt as well as hearing them." Yulina was quiet for a while beause she was thinking about how bad it was for Clyde to have parents like that. Since she wasn't saying anything, Clyde said, "That's okay then. I won't-"

"No, come! I was just feeling sorry for you. Come over."

"Thanks. Bye, I'll be right over."

"'Kay, bye." Hanging up, Yulina knew that it was okay. Before her mother had left, Yuna had told her that it was okay if he came over. She just have to avoid telling him about Spira and all that, the same was for Wakka. Sometimes he was a big-mouth when he would be over protective. Yulina went upstairs and then went into Lulu and Wakka's room. The father was on the bed changing Vidina's diaper. After that they left the baby alone and went downstairs to keep a look out for Clyde. "Clyde's coming over."

"Who's that, ya? Your boyfriend?"

"No!" Yulina blushed.

"What I mean was that he's your friend and he's a boy. Get it, ya?"

"Yes. But the reason why he's coming here is because there are family problems going on at his house. He doesn't like his father that much either. He said that he was always teasing him or something." They sat down and then Wakka looked into her blue eyes.

"You said that he doesn't like his old man a lot, ya?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Nothing."

"Come on, tell me!"

"Well... Your father was like that, ya. He never liked his father. He was like Clyde, with all the problems, ya."

The doorbell rang and Yulina looked at Wakka. She shook her head and went to get the door for Clyde.


The tunnels were still dark but then they all thought that they were almost out. All of them had a feeling that soldiers were following them. None of them wanted to admit it but then they were all scared. Even Paine. "Are we almost out?" Jecht asked between pants.

"I don't know," Yuna said. "I can't remember..." Then she felt a hand on her shoulder, she screamed.

"It's okay, it's me, Tidus."

"Don't do that to me. I could've shot you."

"Really?"

"Yes." She took a breath then let go.

"Then I think that it's best for us to not talk. It'll save our breaths." To him, Yuna was faster than two years ago. She was almost as fast as him. Whoa, talk about difference... They kept on running and then there was another soldier and another. They all surrounded them and Yuna was freaking out, as well as the others.

"You all will come with us and tell us why you are here. Which ones of you are from Zanarkand..." the soldier said and then he saw Shuyin and Lenne. Didn't the others kill you two back there?"

Lenne shook her head. "I don't know what you're talking about." Shuyin took her in his arms, he didn't want her to get hurt. Tidus did the same with Yuna, Gippal with Rikku and everyone except Lulu. She stayed strong and held her ground.

"How can you not know what I'm talking about!"

Yuna looked at the soldier and then at Tidus. She didn't want to loose Yulina or him. Never. Not now. Not ever.


A/n: I was going to put fluff but then I couldn't find where to put it. Oh, well it'll be in the next chapter. Bye now!

-Yuna-Blueo'Hara