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Dream A Little Dream
Chapter 5: It's all in the Game of Love
Tra la la la la. Hello, back again I see? Heh, you just can't get enough of me can you? Nothing much happened. Well aside from the fact that I found out I was a dream, like Tidus was before he was given life as a reward.
Erm I guess....being a dream is my reward........?
Even though it feels nothing like one. But what can you do?
Pop told me once, when I had broken one of the machina I was so excited in building, he told me "Rikku, you, can go ahead and cry, go ahead and scream and rant, and whatever the hell you want to do to vent your anger. But that won't change the fact that it's broke. You wanna do somethin' about it, find out why it broke, find out how to fix it. It's a hell of a lot better way to spend your time then screamin your lungs out. Besides it'll keep you quiet."
Yep. That's Pop's all right. Never one to sugarcoat anything. Even to his precious little sunshine. Heh, it's probably one of the only good pieces of advice Pop's ever gave me.
The others were all like "Don't ask me about your womanly things. Do I look like a damn woman to you?"
Pop's, heh heh, gotta love him.
I was leaning on a boulder, we were still in Mushroom Rock Road. It'll take us about, ummm.....maybe two hours to get to D'jose? Probably.
Gippal is talking on a commsphere right now. I don't know who he's talking to, and I didn't even know he had one on him.
I really didn't care who he was talking to, until I heard one particular voice.
"Gippal, this is Brother, can you hear me? Gippal. Gippal!"
Oh dear Spira.
"You're a little to loud Brother." Gippal said.
Before you knew it, one of my shoes was off and I was holding it near my head, ready to throw at any given moment at Gippal.
I heard some scuffling noise in the Commsphere and I heard a very familiar lukewarm female voice.
"Get out of the way Brother, before I have to hurt you." Paine. uh-oh.
"Heh heh heh, checking up on me again Paine, Shucks, I didn't know you cared." Gippal said, with a charming grin. Idiot.
"I don't. I just wanna know why you bailed on the Tri-counsel."
"Uh alternate plans" Good, I might not have to hurt him.
"Where are you?"
"I'm here in Mushroom Rock Road, with Ri--ow!" oops, I spoke to soon. Now I was one shoe less then I had started out with.
"Re-ow? What?"
I glared at him from where I was, second shoe in my hand, ready to be fired.
"Uhhh, It's nothin', A cat that's all."
"Who's with you?" Paine asked suspiciously. I glared at Gippal.
Go ahead, hotshot, just try and tell them who you're with.
He glanced at me, and grinned. "No one's with me Paine, you're just jealous that you don't have my freedom."
"Whatever. See how you act when Nooj hears about this, loser."
"Ooooh, I might just have to tell Baralai that you're being mean to me" Gippal smirked, a wicked gleam in his eye.
Paine and Baralai?
Ha ha! I knew there was something between them! Victory dance for little old me. Gippal's talking again.
Erm....tell me why I'm waiting for him to finish again?
Right, so I can lose him in D'jose. right.
You wanna know something funny. After I found out I was a dream, it kind of put me in a brooding mood. I kept thinking, if I disappear like Tidus did (assuming I do disappear,) how will everyone take it?
I guess since no one loves me like Yuna loved Tidus, then it probably won't be so bad. Right? Right?
I started walking forward to retrieve my shoe ( didn't wanna be shoeless) after Gippal was done talking.
We hadn't really been talking. I had other things to worry about at the moment. And so did Gippal as it seems. Since I'm a total snob and listened in, I found out that a faction in Bevelle still had a thing of hate for the Al Bhed. Not the Faction that Baralai runs, of course. But another faction. Seems that they broke off from Bevelle and demanded that the Al Bhed shouldn't be aloud in any of the temples, much less take over one (D'jose). Gippal wanted to make sure that they reserved their rights to the temple.
"We have better use for it then those damn Yevonites!" I heard him practically spit when he was talking to Nooj.
Wow, I always thought that Gippal was such an easy going (idiot of a) person. Now I found out that he has a dark side too? Ooooh, I am learning new things.
"Hey, little girly, something steal your tongue, you haven't been speaking to me lately." Speak of the Sin re-incarnate.
"I just don't wanna waste my melodious voice talking to you, that's all" I said cheerily.
I heard him hold back a snicker. "Who says it's melodious?"
I wanted to beat him with a stick. And unfortunately, since there were no stick handy at the moment, I settled for sticking my tongue out at him.
He glanced at my tongue and then stared at me for a moment with a odd look on his face (odder then usual). Then glanced away.
Woah. what was up with him? Oh well. Not my problem if he decided to suddenly become constipated.
Determined to ignore him, I began to walk towards D'jose temple.
On our way there, he and I began to argue about different things again. I don't really remember, what it was about, (we argue about everything) but I heard an elderly woman chuckle behind us.
We both turned around and we see this grandmotherly woman standing there smiling, with a man behind her that I presumed her husband.
"Forgive me, I couldn't help but notice your bickering. You remind me of me and my hubby when we were your age"
Erm..... "Oh no no no no no. we were just.....um..." Damn. I really should think before I say anything.
The woman laughed, it sounded like it was forced and turned to Gippal "Your wife is charming." she smiled.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Back up. Wife?! Of Gippal? You have got to be kidding me!
No No No! Old woman! You've gone senile!!
Just as I was going to vehemently deny anything between the idiot and me, Gippal grinned.
A huge "aw-shucks" grin that always seems to knock out the steadiness in lesser woman's knees. Pathetic woman. Falling for heathens like Gippal.
Predictably, the old woman nearly swooned. I would have smacked him if she did, because she probably wouldn't be able to get up.
He smiled and said "We're on our way to our honeymoon." He put his arms around me. Protectively. Possessively.
Note to self: Change D'jose plan. Do not cleverly try to ditch Gippal. Just beat him into unconsciousness with the nearest Machina available and leave him there. Preferably near death.
The old woman laughed, it sounded so I don't know fake?. "Ah to be young, and in love....." She glanced at her husband and they both grinned knowing glanced at the both of us. "And to have a nearly insatiable sex drive....."
May I just say that whenever I'm with Gippal the world suddenly seems to turn on it's ass?
I was mortified and I wondered if it would horrify the old woman if I decided to murder my "husband" in front of her.
I glanced at her. She was smiling.
Yes, she would be horrified and probably scared to death.
Sigh, and yet another one of my life long dreams dies.
Gippal laughed. He winked at the old woman and quite publicly(perhaps to prove the old lady right)proceeded to grope my butt.
Hmm. Is being eaten alive by Lupines painful? It is? Oh hooray.
I moved closer to him and hissed. "Get your hand off my ass right now, unless you want to lose a very important part of your anatomy."
He smiled at the old woman and leaned closer to my ear, and said very quietly and, in a very serious tone that was so unlike Gippal "They're from Bevelle."
I froze. What?
I took a closer look at the old woman and her husband. Her eyes were a little to friendly, and perceptive. Every once and a while she'd straighten her back, as if to stretch, like it was paining her to hunch the way she did. He husband did this too. The wrinkles on her face were a little to healthy looking for someone as old as she was. And then I saw it. The tiny Bevellian crest on necklace she was wearing. There was a Snake winding around the emblem. That was new. The Bevellian crest doesn't have a snake.
Then it clicked. They were from the new faction of Bevelle. And Gippal had said that they didn't allow any old people to join, as it would hinder the possible take back of D'jose.
Great, absolutely Disasteriffic.
I glanced back at Gippal, he was talking conversationally with the woman, all smiles and charm.
His muscles (as he was still holding me) were tense. I'd known him long enough to know that he wanted to get out of there.
He was so gonna owe me after this was over.
He glanced at me as I took hold of his hand and squeezed. I looked back to the old woman, who was watching us closely and smiled.
"I'm very sorry that we have to leave. But we have to get to the Moonflow before dark so we can get to the other side. We're already two days behind since the boat from Kilika got delayed." I was a practiced liar. Lying to Pops about me not fixing things for him helped. (wanting to do stuff and doesn't have a clue what he's doing....that's my daddy.)
"Besides" I dropped the tone of my voice, and looked up at Gippal, "we don't want to be behind our honeymoon, anymore then we already are.......as it is, we have a lot of catching up to make up for the two days we lost...." I fought down a blush.
Gippal kept smiling, but I heard his heartbeat quicken. He was shocked, heh heh heh.
I guess I was too. I didn't recognize my own voice.
It sounded seductive......sexy.
I was loving the reaction I got from Gippal. Ha! You're not the only one who can melt knees, buddy!
I felt so feminine at the way he was staring at me. It almost made me want to kiss him senseless.
And then I mentally slapped myself and got over that carnal urge.
"Alright, sweetheart. Say goodbye to the nice old couple." Gippal said.
"Goodbye, nice old couple." I said obediently.
They laughed. For the first time, it sounded genuine.
And we left again. And thank Shiva, they didn't follow us.
After we were out of hearing range Gippal sighed with relief. "Damn, I didn't think they'd send people there so quickly....."
He glanced over at me and his dark, beautiful green eye darkened some more.
"Nice going back there, by the way" He said, eyes dropping to my mouth before they flickered back up to meet my eyes.
It started to rain all of a sudden, and we blindly went and found a cave near the walls of Mushroom Rock Road (there were a lot of unexplored caves here) to get out of the rain.
Once we were inside I glared at him. And turned up my nose.
"You so owe me"
The next thing I know I'm slammed up against the cave wall, lifted up, his hands under my butt my legs automatically going around his waist with him staring down at me.
"Let me demonstrate my gratitude"
Oh no, he wasn't doing this again. I looked up at him staring at his face to tell him to take his gratitude and shove it up his ass, then I looked into his eyes.
They didn't look like Gippal, they looked hungry, and wild, and dark, like he was trying to restrain some monster dying to get out.
Weakly I said to him. "Gippal.....put me down...please?"
Instantly, as if a gallon of cold water was splashed on to him, he let go and backed away. Rather painfully I might add, having nothing to hold on to, and my legs still around his waist, we fell.
And landed in a very....erm...awkward position. Me straddling him.
My faced must have look like an overripe tomato. Why, why do these things happen to me? Why?
Gippal stared at me, his eyes darkening again. and laughed wickedly. "I didn't know you liked being on top. I would've accommodated you earlier if I knew"
That, that, that-jerk!!
I should just kill Gippal and leave his body in this cave, no one will know.
No Rikku, no, wait until D'jose.
But I don't wanna!
Great, now I'm talking to myself. How could this day get any worse?
I whacked Gippal's head. And was very satisfied to her him say "Ow!"
I got off him and huffed. "I'm not talking to you."
"Awwwww......C'mon....don't be like that Cid's Girl" Gippal said.
"What part of , 'My name is Rikku' don't you understand?"
He grinned.
It was almost physically painful, to actually not hit him. Deep breaths Rikku.
Breathe in, breath out. Inhale, exhale.
I realized just then.
We wouldn't make it to D'jose without me killing him.
Oh dear.
The real question is.........Will anyone find out if I do kill him?
What? Do you expect me to feel regret for a guy who teases me to no end? I don't think so.
So oh well to him.
hmph.
TBC
Blurred fate here people. Hello. How are you? Um...I know that I might have made Gippal seem like a jerk. But I promise you, He'll be a lot nicer in the Next chapter. Until then read and review.
