Chapter 2
Rikku and Garin ran up to the elevator. When they arrived on the bridge Yuna was waiting for them.
"Gullwings, there's a group of fiends on the deck and they're attacking the ship!" Buddy said to the girls and Garin.
"Gotcha." Yuna said as she and Rikku headed up.
Yuna turned and said to Garin,
"Wait here for us."
Garin sighed and stood against a wall.
Yuna and Rikku ran up to the deck where a large group of elementals, drakes, reptiles, and machine where attacking the engines. All of the fiends were the same blood red.
"Hey, get away from there, you big meanies!" Rikku yelled at them.
The fiends then noticed Yuna and Rikku had arrived and attacked them.
"Uh oh, Rikku." Yuna said as the fiends encircled them.
Rikku and Yuna began shooting and slicing the fiends but there seemed to be no end to them. Once, Rikku had been too preoccupied taking out some machine to notice that an elemental was about to blast her, when Yuna shot it. Finally, Yuna ran out of bullets. Yuna was about to be killed, when Rikku killed some fiends, but then they started to attack Rikku. A reptile was about to slice Rikku's head off when out of nowhere, all the fiends around Rikku were suddenly in half. Rikku opened her eyes, expecting to be dead, and Garin stood in front of her, gripping a large katana that seemed to shine.
"Gari? What happened?" Rikku asked confused.
Garin turned to face her and she saw that he was wearing glowing armor over some long white robes.
"What is that?" Rikku asked, staring at his armor.
"My Shadow slayer dressphere." He answered smiling confidently.
He gave Rikku his hand and helped her stand up. The remaining fiends lunged at them. He began glowing as he charged a spell. Garin pointed his sword at them and Rikku noticed the sword seemed to pulse as the remaining fiends were slice by an invisible blade. Rikku blew a surprised whistle.
"Wow" Rikku said staring.
Yuna walked over, having seen the whole thing, with her mouth open.
"Okay, from now on you're fighting with us." Yuna said.
Rikku smiled at Garin, Garin was beaming. Garin's Shadow Slayer outfit shined and his regular red jacket over a blue tee shirt.
"Good job Gullwings and here we are, Macalania Woods." Buddy said when they arrived downstairs.
They each went up to the teleport point and were beamed down to the woods. They finally went over to the place Yuna and Tidus had kissed two years earlier. When Yuna walked over the frozen lake, she found a small opening in the water; she could see a sphere lodged inside of it. It took both Yuna and Rikku's strength, and Garin's sword to dislodge the sphere.
"Hey, my first treasure sphere!" Garin said as he looked happily at the sphere.
"Play it Yunie!" Rikku said to Yuna.
(all dark, unable to see anything)
Been a while since we last saw each other, Yuna.
Even though I think of you all the time.
So, I want to see your face, just one more time.
And I hopefully will. -
Garin looked at the sphere confused. Rikku and Yuna were staring at the sphere and breathing hard.
"Yunie, that was…" Rikku said quietly.
"Tidus." Yuna said, still staring at the sphere.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a claw pierced Yuna's arm. The three turned suddenly to see a girl in a Berserker dressphere. She looked about 15 and an Al-Bhed, like Rikku and Garin.
"Ruf tyna oui!" Rikku shouted at the girl.
"Fru yna oui!" Garin yelled.
The girl went for the sphere again but this time, Rikku and Garin were prepared. The girl swiped at Rikku, letting Garin use his sword's magic to paralyze her arms and legs. She fell right in front of Rikku. Garin held his sword over her then but it back in its sheath.
"Gari, what are you doing?" Rikku said.
"The girl is not a fiend, and she is not evil. My sword will not spill innocent blood." He said to Rikku.
"Who are you?" He asked the girl.
"My name is Kino Takei, sphere hunter." She said angrily.
"Why did you attack us?" He continued.
"You took the sphere I had been looking for for three days straight." She answered.
"We're sphere hunters too! The Gullwings." Rikku said to her.
"Wait you mean the Gullwings? The Gullwings that beat Vegnagun? Is that High Summoner Yuna I attacked? Oh crap, I'm dead." Kino said quickly.
"Yes, yes, yes, and no." Garin said to her.
"We won't tell Spira what you did on one condition." He said to Kino.
"What?" She asked him, fearing the worst.
"You join the Gullwings." He said to her.
"Huh?" She asked confused.
"Huh?" Rikku asked confused.
"Owww." Yuna said in pain.
"Really? You mean I could join the Gullwings?" She said happily.
"Yep" Garin said giving her his hand.
Suddenly all the feeling in Kino's body returned. She grabbed Garin's hand and stood up. She ran over to Yuna and gave her an antidote. "Sorry, it was an Envenom attack." She said to Yuna sorrily.
"Hey, now that we're partners can you help me figure this sphere out?" She asked them once Yuna was better.
She held out a sphere and turned it on.
Sorry, that's all you get. For now…