Disclaimer: I don't own the Final Fantasy characters, I own baby Chappu and Paine, and any other character's I decide to add.

Pieces of Pain

Chapter 7

Yuna

It had been three days since the celebration for Paine. She had grown so fond of baby Paine that she spent almost every minute with her.

Her desire to make sure baby Paine knew everything about her namesake was driving Tidus crazy but he kept him mouth shut and let her grieve.

He hadn't known Paine very well so he couldn't understand the pain everyone was in very well. Yuna was holding the Paine when the baby suddenly started crying.

"Oh what's wrong baby?" Yuna asked holding the baby up and gazing into her eyes. Suddenly Yuna gasped, "Tidus!" she yelled.

Tidus ran into the room, "What's wrong?" he demanded.

"Her eyes! They changed, their red!" she said in a deathly still whisper. Tidus looked over Yuna's shoulder and into the baby's eyes. They were blood red.

Lulu held her baby close and gazed into her eyes. "My eyes aren't even that red."

Wakka gazed into her face and then into his daughter's, "Nope their sure not." Lulu glared at him.

"Paine's eyes were that color." Yuna whispered. The group looked up at her.

"What's happening to my baby?" Lulu asked the air as she watched her baby slip into sleep.

Paine

Paine's eyes wandered through the clouds as she resigned to her fate. She was never going to get out of here. She had blocked out all of those memories for a reason!

She didn't want to have to remember them.

"You have to if you want to return to your world." The voice said.

"Please isn't there another way?" she begged.

"No" the voice answered as it faded away.

She closed her eyes and prepared herself for her next memory.

Paine slipped into a sub-conscious state and began reliving her next memory.

She had washed up on Kilika Island after her boat was destroyed; she woke up in a bed with an elderly woman caring for her.

"Where am I?" Eleven-year-old Paine asked.

"You are in Kilika. You washed up three days ago. What happened dear?" the old woman asked.

"My boat, Sin, blood, screams, and black water." Paine said still dazed.

"Poor dear." The woman said, "What's your name?"

"Paine. I'm 11 years old." Paine answered looking around the little hut the woman inhabited.

"Where are your parents little one?" the woman asked as she moved about the hut.

"They died. In the Calm Lands." Paine answered. The woman's eyes saddened.

"You've survived much. You must lead a charmed life. Yevon smiles on you." The old woman said smiling sadly at the young girl.

"Yevon hates me." Paine replied angrily. The old woman gasped,

"Heavens child never say that! We are all the beloved children of Yevon." The woman chided.

Paine shook her head, "No if he loved me he wouldn't have killed my parents or Zeke!" Paine yelled jumping from the bed and running from the house.

Paine ran from the house and into Kilika Wood. She stopped short and looked around. She had no weapon, or experience on how to use it and no supplies, yet here she was in a fiend infested forest with no one to protect her the way her father had, or the way Zeke had tried too.

She shook her head; she would never rely on anyone else again, from this point on and for the rest of her life she would protect herself.

She walked boldly into the forest and kept going despite the growls and rustling that was coming from the forest around her she kept going when suddenly she heard voices.

She stopped and listened for it, the voice was getting closer when suddenly she heard a deep threatening growl from directly behind her.

She turned slowly and came face to face with a gecko. She gasped and fell over backwards. She screamed as the fiend launched itself at her.

She heard the clash of metal and the fiends scream, she opened her eyes and saw a long silver sword in front of her covered in blood from the monster. She looked up into the kind eyes of a young man, with green eyes and blond hair.

(long silver sword: her sword from the game, sorry for the lack of a description.)