Chapter 4: Tidus' Sphere
Eriks leadinglady- Hey thx for enthusiasm and I'm glad that I write battles so good for u and that's really good cuz I like to type battles, as if u couldn't tell. Yeah this chap is a bit late cuz work and school got in the way more than usual.
Spira'sSentry- Yo. Yeah about Shinra, if u didn't notice I took a few liberties with the story line like not having Tidus back yet and all but that doesn't matter cuz it's my fic and I can do just about what ever I want. But thx for pointing it out anyway.
The Celsius glided through the clear azure sky above the sparkling ocean to the west of Bevelle. It left small streaks of energy behind its massive engines over the radiant ocean. Seagulls flew in the calming easterly wind towards the capital of Bevelle. Their callings could be heard slightly over the incessant drone of the Celsius' engines hurtling it towards the isle of Besaid.
The Gullwings were going to see their friends on Besaid for the first time in five months. Wakka and Lulu's baby, Chappu, so named by Wakka after his late brother, was now about a year old and everyone wanted to see him again. Nothing else besides Wakka and Lulu's baby had changed much on the minute isle on the outskirts of civilization.
The Aurochs are back to playing blitzball in Luca and still hold the crystal cup. Wakka is back to playing with them in the tournaments and also on the beach. Keepa has become the impermeable goalie of blitzball over the years. Jassu is one of the best defenders there has ever been seen in the history of blitz. Bota is also one of the best defenders in the game. Letty has gotten a lot better with shooting and dribbling past the game hardened foes. Datto has also gotten a lot better with his shooting and passing and has made many a goal during the games. Wakka still leads the team with his splendid skills and with his leader qualities.
The Celsius approached the white beach of Besaid blowing the palm trees this way and that. It came to rest right above the beach and hovered there as the cargo door slid down and rested upon the warm white sand. The Aurochs were upon the beautiful white-sanded beach, practicing blitz. They turned to face the landing airship and they saw the forms of the Gullwings. They waved their hands high in the air to Yuna, Rikku and the rest. The Gullwings stepped off of the cargo platform onto the heated sand and ran off towards the Aurochs.
"Hey Yuna!" Jassu shouted as she approached.
The rest of the team encircled the Gullwings. They conversed with each other for a little while as they greeted each other. Then a familiar voice rang out over the beach. "Hey guys, shouldn't we be practicing, ya know?" Wakka began to chuckle in great surprise when the Aurochs revealed their guests. "Been a long time, ya?"
"Yeah, too long!" Rikku ran over to Wakka. "So how have you been, daddy?" She bounced in front of him.
Wakka scratched the back of his orange hair coated head. "Pretty good, ya know?" He smiled.
Yuna and the rest made their way to Wakka and Rikku before long and began to chat with them. "How has your son been Wakka?" Yuna queried.
"Well, he has been good. Right now Lu is watching him while I'm practicing with the boys. But then you guys showed up so I guess our practice will have to wait." Wakka tossed the blitzball he held over to the rest of the team. "Let's go back to the village, ya?"
The companions then continued to follow Wakka to the village over the old wooden bridge next to a glorious waterfall. When they reached the top of the hill that overlooked the village they stopped for a moment to gaze at the small village. There was nothing new about the village of Besaid except that there were a few more huts to house the new life on the isle. The companions could see people who looked to them as small specks of dirt running around the village. The palm tress that etched the outskirts of the small town waved in the cooling easterly breeze.
The companions then moved on down the side of the grassy hill to the diminutive village. Along the way they came upon a young man, no younger than Yuna, who was on his way to the beach for some blitz lessons from Wakka and the Aurochs. Wakka said that he regretted that he couldn't be there but the team was there and could teach him today. He thanked Wakka and ran on his way down to the gorgeous beach to learn how to blitz.
The friends moved onwards to the gate of the village. They entered the tranquil little town. Some of the villagers came around the group as they entered and bid them welcome. The crowd cleared around the group of friends and they continued on to Wakka and Lulu's hut. Wakka pulled back the blue door curtain and held it open for his friends to enter.
Lulu was on the couch cradling her baby boy in her arms. "Oh, hello." She said as the companions entered the hut.
"Hi Lulu. Long time no see!" Rikku bounced in and went up next to Lulu to see the one-year-old baby.
"Hello Lulu." Yuna said slowly as she walked into the clean hut.
Wakka then let the door curtain fall closed behind them. "Yeah, I was on my way to practice with the boys and these guys showed up." He began to chuckle.
"So how is he?" Paine questioned Lulu not really caring but wanted to get to the point of their arrival so they could get out of here as fast as they could because she didn't know any of them really.
Lulu gazed at Paine questioningly for a moment. "He's fine. Right now he's sleeping so let us try to be on the quiet side." She stated softly.
Rikku began to get bored since she couldn't get to play with the baby and began to pace the hut strangely. "How have you been Lulu?" Se asked out of boredom.
"I've been fine."
"Doesn't it ever get boring just staying around the house and taking care of the baby all day long and everyday?" Rikku queried.
Lulu glanced at Wakka and then at Rikku. "Well, that's what Wakka is here for." She smiled a faint smile that no one noticed except Wakka.
Rikku smiled. "I guess so. What else is he good for? I mean he just plays blitz with the boys all day right?" She placed her hands on the back of her head.
Everyone smiled except for Paine, and Wakka who was a little annoyed at that remark. "Hey! Hey! I'm trying to do the best I can, ya know? Give me a little break." His remark drew even more smiles from the group.
Yuna stepped forward. "Yeah, give him 'some' credit after all he is a friend." Yuna stated a bit sarcastically.
"All the more reason to pick on him." Paine jested from her dark corner.
"Right!" Rikku bounced up next to Wakka and put an arm around his shoulders. "We just happened to pick good old Wakka here to pick on." She released Wakka from her grasp.
Wakka was a tad annoyed that his friends were teasing him, but he had to smile. "Well, not to sound like I want to change the subject, ya know? But have you guys come across any good sphere finds lately?"
"Awwwww! Don't try to change the subject now Wakka." Rikku moaned every one let a smile creep upon his or her face.
"Yeah, we did have an interesting find outside of Zanarkand a few days ago. It contained footage of a battle in Zanarkand one thousand years ago against Bevelle. Yunalesca was in the battle and saved Zanarkand from destruction with her powers as a summoner. Then there was some more on the sphere after the battle. It was a conversation between the defeated summoner of Bevelle, which Yunalesca beat to save Zanarkand, and a soldier. It appeared that he was annoyed or even outraged that a summoner from Zanarkand could defeat him." Yuna reported their find near Zanarkand.
Wakka and Lulu had an amazed look upon their faces. "Wha…what? Yunalesca? Bevelle attacked Zanarkand?" Wakka stammered.
"So, what of the importance of this sphere? Did you find out anything about this summoner who was defeated?" Lulu asked.
Yuna looked at her friend. "No. We haven't even tried to find anything out because we got a distress signal from Tromell in Guadosalam as the sphere ended." She replied.
"I see. What was Tromell's distress?"
Rikku cut into the conversation. "Fiends were coming out of the farplane and damaging the town."
Wakka's eyes grew narrow in thought. "Just like a year ago with the temples, ya?" He glanced up at Yuna.
"Yeah."
"Then what happened?" Lulu asked as she rocked her son slowly in her arms.
"We went into the farplane and the pyreflies transformed into fiends and we fought at least a hundred. Then something else came." Yuna's voice lowered at the end of her statement.
"And what was that something else?"
"Yunie said it was an Aeon, Yojimbo, right?" Yuna nodded.
Wakka's eyebrows rose. "What? Again? How can this be happening?" He slunk down on the wall.
Paine spoke out of her corner. "It said it was summoned by its master to attack."
"Do you think this could have anything to do with this summoner you spoke of in that sphere Yuna?" Lulu queried.
"Hey! Maybe that's it!" Rikku's hyper attitude cut through the air. "Maybe the summoner is still in the farplane like Shuyin was a year ago!"
"Maybe…" Yuna paused. "Or maybe he was just acting on his own like a year ago when the fayth said 'we're no better than fiends' when they were dragged into darkness and we had to fight them on our way to fight Vegnagun." Yuna seamed depressed.
Rikku went over to her cousin. "Cheer up Yunie! It was probly just that summoner, Issark, pulling the strings. I don't think that the fayth would act like that again. Do you?"
"I…I don't know."
"Did you find anything else that you could use to try to figure out any of this?" Wakka asked in an attempt to cheer Yuna up.
"I don't think so!" Rikku stated. "Yunie?"
"Umm…I don't think so."
"We probly should get some rest and continue this tomorrow. It's getting late." Paine commented.
"Yea…yeah. I think we should get some sleep." Yuna agreed.
"I'm sorry, ya? But we don't have room for you three so you'll have to stay in the crusader's place." Wakka apologized.
"That's okay!" Rikku ran out of the hut. "Night!"
"Good night Lulu, Wakka." Yuna left the hut after her cousin. Paine followed the two cousins to the crusader's hut.
Yuna entered the small hut of the crusaders and meet with Rikku. She pointed out their three beds off in the back and ran off to her bed. Yuna followed suit to her own bed and lay down upon the comforting sheets. Paine entered soon after her friends and found her bed. The night air was calming with the sound of a light breeze rustling through the palm trees outside. Cricket chirping could be heard above the slight wind. Yuna's eyes began to grow heavy and closed the peaceful setting into her mind.
A thin film of purple fog rushed around Yuna's ankles. The purple fog was cool to the touch and made Yuna shiver. A small figure emerged from the shadowy depths of the fog. It was the fayth kid with the purple hood and the golden circle on the back of his clothes. He gazed at Yuna for a moment before speaking. "Hello Yuna." The fayth greeted her.
Yuna couldn't speak. Somehow she was unable to speak. Then words came out of her mouth. "What is going on? Where am I?"
The fayth smiled and came closer to her. "This is a dream." He stated softly. "I have come to warn you."
Yuna frowned and gazed at the fayth in wonder. "But what have you come to warn me about?" She queried as the fayth drew nearer.
The fayth spoke softly, "I am here to warn you about the evil rising up from the center of Spira." He gazed down at his feet and shook his head a bit. "An evil summoner is rising from the farplane and will attempt to destroy you."
Yuna was still in a daze from speaking with the fayth. "We…I know of this summoner…his name is Issark right? What dose he want with me?" Yuna stammered her questions to the fayth.
The fayth nodded. "Yes, Issark the summoner from Bevelle a thousand years ago. He has retaken form in the farplane and is planning his return to Spira. He has vast powers and cannot be taken lightly, he can summon every Aeon and traverse anywhere." He informed Yuna.
"But still, what dose he want with me? And why dose he want to return to Spira?" Yuna questioned the fayth.
The fayth smiled and began to fade. "All will be revealed when the time comes. For now protect yourself and your friends, you will need their support. Check the sphere Tromell Guado gave you." At this the fayth disappeared and the purple fog began to retract, leaving Yuna in a bitch black area.
"WAIT!" She hollered as the fayth disappeared, leaving her alone. A blinding light shot up enshrouding Yuan in a brilliant pallid light.
Yuna shot up in her bed, her eyes wide with terror and confusion. She wanted to scream but she couldn't she could only sit there and contemplate what her dream had revealed to her. The southing wind quieted and left the night air still and soundless. There were no more crickets chirping off in the distance and no noise from the village, just complete silence.
Yuna got out of her bed and went out side behind the hut to the wash tent. She splashed lucid water upon her warmed skin cooling her down out of her confusion. She sat down upon the small wooden bench made of driftwood in the tent and thought. She could not understand why a summoner from the past would want to kill her. She thought through all the possible explanations but none of them made any sense since she didn't know enough about this summoner. Then she remembered what the fayth had said about watching the sphere Tromell gave her. She whipped it out and gazed at it as it glowed in its vivid orange radiance.
The wavy blue lines covered the sphere but then slowly dissipated out of sight. The cascading waterfall in the farplane with the hundreds of pyreflies whizzing about it was the backdrop. A figure stood in the center of the sphere dressed in a yellow shirt with a white hood draped around its shoulders. Black shorts with different length legs and a jagged red-orange J imprinted on the right leg rested on the figure. Yuna's eyes shot open. "Tidus!" She thought aloud.
Tidus looked serious and spoke. "Yuna, if you are watching this then you have been called to Guadosalam to help against the fiend attack. Then you probably already know about the evil stirring up in here and will have to fight it. I want you to know that you are not alone in this fight. Just remember me and I will come running." Seeing Tidus again compelled Yuna to stare at the sphere.
'Well, it's a little late to know that.' She thought. 'But he did show up in time to save us from that Aeon!' Tidus' soft voice broke Yuna's thoughts.
"Yuna. I…I love you. And I want you to know that I will never stop trying to find a way to be together." Tears ran down his face as a massive shadow landed behind him and lashed out. A voice called to him. "C'mon cry baby!" Tidus turned to the sphere and reached an arm out to turn it off. "Goodbye, for now." He whispered then the sphere shut off.
A steady rain had started during the time Yuan was transfixed on the sphere. Tears streaked down her smooth face and off her chin. She held the sphere in a trembling hand as tears dripped onto it. She began to walk slowly through the pouring rain back to the crusader's hut. Memories of three years ago flashed through her mind one after another. The memory of Luca stuck into her mind and she let out a sharp whistle. She was disappointed that Tidus didn't come running to her but she knew that it wouldn't happen. She came back to the crusader's hut after strolling slowly through the torrential rain. She went back to her bed and lay down on the comforting sheets and closed her bi colored eyes, falling asleep.
Yuna awoke in a soggy mess of sheets. Her hair was stuck out this way and that. Her vision was foggy as she gazed around the room and saw that Rikku and Paine were gone. She sat up in the soggy sheets and then stood her knees buckled and she collapsed to the floor. Quickly she recovered to her feet and began to stride slowly to the entrance to the hut. A frantic voice shot into the hut. "Help! Someone help!"
Yuna rushed out of the hut to gaze upon a dragon like fiend with lighting bolts gushing from its mouth cornering a villager against the wall to the outside of the village. She hurried out of the hut and shook off her daze to help the villager. She slipped her two pistols out of their leather holsters and aimed them at the massive fiend. Shots rang off through the calm morning air as the two fire propelled bullets zipped along to their target. The fiend let out a slight howl of pain as the two blazing bullets struck its rough hide.
Rikku ran out of Wakka and Lulu's hut with Paine close behind towards Yuna. "Yunie! Yunie! What's happening?" She reached her cousin and drew her two yellow and orange daggers out at the sight of the massive dragon fiend. Paine followed suit bringing her skull sword to her side as she ran.
The dragon like fiend turned to its assailers leaving the villager to dash for cover. It let out a wave of thunder blots from its massive jaws at the three friends. They ducked under the thin wave of electricity and separated. When the wave of lighting ceased Rikku leapt into the azure sky and landed upon the fiend's back. She hastily gained a foothold before the fiend went onto its back legs in an attempt to knock off its attacker. Rikku then drove her daggers into the fiend's thick hide. The daggers flung back away from the fiend almost taking Rikku off the side of the dragon's back. The hide was way too sturdy for her to penetrate with her light daggers.
A blue and white blitzball soared through the sky smacking the fiend in the face. It roared in annoyance and unleashed a breath of lighting at the location where the blitzball came. The orange haired blitzer rolled to the side evading the fiend's deadly lightning breath catching his blitzball on its way back. The fiend charged Wakka as he ended his roll and stood. He rolled to the side again. The fiend halted and brought its colossal tail into the side of the evading blitzer. He was thrown through the air like a ball and collided with the wall of the temple. He slid down the side of the wall and came to a rest on the stairs up to the temple, collapsing upon them.
An enormous splash of clear blue water smashed upon the fiend's immense head. The fiend winced in pain from the massive blast of water and let out a deep bellow. Lulu came from around the wall and cast another of the destructive water spells. The dragon fiend was now upon the ground as if begging for mercy. Lulu cast another of her spells on the defeated fiend and it moved no more.
Lulu let a faint smile appear on her black lips and then let it fade just as quick. "I just thought you might have needed me." She strode past the defeated fiend in triumph.
As Lulu passed the last inch of the fiend's body its tail came and swept Lulu's legs out from under her. She plunged to the ground and was hastily overcome by the pressure of the fiend's right leg on her body. She gasped for air as the pressure grew more and more squeezing more and more air and life out of her. Wakka rose off of the temple stairs and hurried over to his wife. He tossed his blitzball into the air at the fiend's head. It bounced off and flew back to its master with no avail to helping Lulu. Yuna fired consecutive shots etched in balls of water at the fiend's leg. It let out a holler of pain and released some of its pressure on Lulu. She took in a deep and winded breath before the pressure overtook her again.
Paine ran to the bellowing fiend and attempted to bore her skull sword into its leg but it was in vain. The blade glanced off the rock hard hide of the dragon fiend and skidded into the dirt. She raised her blade out of the dirt and attempted to slide underneath of the fiend and find a weak spot on its stomach. The fiend began to stomp around furiously with its three free legs barring Paine's strategy. She leapt up onto the fiend's back and ran onto its enormous head. She drove her blade into one of the dragon's yellow glowering eyes.
The fiend let out a horrible cry of pain and terror as Paine's blade dug deeper into its eye. The fiend began to thrash about in inconceivable pain jostling Paine from its back. It recoiled back out the gate to the village and then collapsed on the hill. Wakka went over to Lulu and lifted her up onto his shoulders and carried her back to their hut. The three friends rushed over to the incapacitated fiend and finished it off. They then returned to Wakka and Lulu's hut to check on Lulu.
Rikku entered first and ran to Wakka's side in front of Lulu. "Will she be okay Wakka?" She gazed at him with her green swirl eyes.
"I…I don't know, ya know?"
Yuna and Paine entered a moment after Rikku had. They came to stand next to their two friends in silence. Yuna then pulled out a blue tinted vial from one of her pouches around her waist. She uncorked it and made Lulu drink the warming fluid. Lulu coughed and gasped for air then settled. Yuan nodded to her friends as Lulu's eyes opened and stayed open.
"Thank…you Yuna." Lulu managed to utter. Then she fell back into a quiet rest.
"I guess we are going to stay her till she gets better." Yuna stated out of concern for her friend that she considered to be like a sister to her.
"Right!" Rikku agreed.
"You guys will still have to stay in the crusader's place, ya know?" Wakka said.
Yuna smiled at the orange haired blitz player. "I know. There's no problem Wakka."
The rest of the day was spent off scattered around the island. Yuna was chatting with Buddy, Brother, and Shinra through the comsphere for some time. Brother was complaining because she wasn't there on the Celsius with them but she said that she had to stay with Wakka and Lulu for a while. Paine spent her day leaning up against the bluish wall of the temple gazing around the village at the different people and their activities. Rikku was down on the beach with the Aurochs trying to learn how to blitz (in chapter 5 when you go to Luca she says about always wanting to lean how to blitz, for those of you who don't know). The night set in and they all met back at the crusader's hut and went to sleep in the cooling night breeze.
Well, there's chapter four for you. Hope you liked it and if u have any complaints or suggestions please tell me. As always please R&R!