PART 7: The Other World
Tidus slowly explored the world. Everything was in totally different colors. It reminded him of the last few seconds before they fought Sin, his dad. "Sure is pretty, like…that place…Macalania Lake!" Tidus had jumped immediately into the dimension when he spotted it. He had to find Yuna. He opened up a sort of watch-type gadget on his arm. "Hopefully this machina that Shuyin made works," he said. It beeped and displayed his location. "Location unknown! Piece of crap Machina! Find Yuna, dammit!" he said. It finally came up with coordinates, and his location, and how to reach the coordinates. "Haha, this should be a cinch!" He walked for a half and hour looking for the coordinates located on the watch, and finally he found them, and something else. A huge tower loomed in the distance. It was at least ten stories tall. "Is Yuna up there? YUNA! I'm coming!" He ran a good few feet, but suddenly Tidus' face smashed up against something hard. "Oww…Dammit! What the hell?" He ran his hand up and down it, trying to get in. "An invisible shield? This isn't happening? NO! What do I have to do to get in?"
Meanwhile, Paine had landed on a totally different side of the other world, and it wasn't as pleasant as Tidus's landing. Fiends were everywhere. She fought off fiends for a couple of minutes, strong fiends, until they stopped coming. "What a disappointing welcome," she said. She reached in her pocket to grab a potion, but instead pulled out the Crystal. "Oh no, I must have put this in there, when we left Mt. Gagazet." She put it back into her pocket, and slowly walked around the other world. This portion was gloomy, and depressing, and there wasn't much light. She walked until she reached the invisible field. "Pleasant. This could be a problem." She put her hand to it, feeling it, as if it was fragile. Suddenly, footsteps were heard behind her. She turned around, face-to-face with Shuyin. "It's you. See if you can find a way past this." Shuyin laughed, "The Crystal" She turned around again, "What?" "The Crystal," Shuyin repeated, "Use it." She slowly reached her hand down to her pocket, and pulled out the Crystal. Paine placed it up to the force field, and slowly it began to dissolve. She looked in shock, that she actually dropped her sword. She bent down to pick it up, but Shuyin had beaten her to it, "Hand over the Crystal, Paine. Or I will take it from you." He stared at her intently, as she placed the Crystal back in her pocket. "No," she replied, "I'll keep it." Before she could even turn around, he caught her in the stomach. She attempted to wrestle the sword away from him, but he pushed her off him, and clutched her by the throat. "The Crystal. Now."