Chapter 6

"GARIN?" Rikku asked, eyes bulging.

The teenage Garin merely moved his bangs away from his eyes and smirked.

"I think I'm beginning to like Zanarkand." Garin said to himself.

"Ok, lets spherechange, we may only get one choice." Yuna said to them.

"SPHERECHANGE!" The five said as their outfits became their dresspheres.

"Gunner." Yuna said.

"Thief." Rikku said.

"Warrior." Paine said.

"Berserker." Kino said.

"Machina Master." Garin said, having everyone look at him.

"I have a garment grid with more then one sphere too. Actually one from Gippal, Nooj, Baralai, and…" Garin said sporting machina armor.

"Me." Paine finished.

"You?" Tidus asked.

"Back when we were training for the Crimson Squad, Gippal took us to his place in Home and we met Garin. He was only ten and he already had some skills, so we gave him the Crimson Grid and I gave him the Shadowslayer." Paine explained.

"Well, we need to tail Shuyin." Yuna said to them all.

They agreed and they snuck out of the penthouse quietly. But the group did not notice another door shut.

The group was having a hard time keeping up with Shuyin, because he was running. Shuyin finally reached a patch of grass a few miles outside of the city and grabbed a chain. When he pulled, a trapdoor opened. He climbed down some stairs and the door shut behind him. Tidus carefully opened it, as not to have Shuyin notice them and motioned for them to follow. After Rikku went in, Tidus shut the door. They were in a large tunnel with different branches going everywhere. But they finally reached a three way split, and had lost Shuyin.

"Okay, Garin and Rikku, take the left way. Paine and Kino, the right, Yuna and I'll take the straight path." Tidus commanded.

Nobody had objections so they traveled down the path assigned. After walking in silence for a few minutes, they saw a shadowy person. Just a few seconds after finding them Rikku had to sneeze, REALLY bad.

"Ah, ah, Ach-.." Rikku began when Garin grabbed her nose.

"Ahhhh" Rikku said relaxing.

"ACHOO!" Garin sneezed.

The person turned to let them see it was a guard, a BEVELLE guard. He looked shocked but called for reinforcements and attacked them. Garin pulled out a machina sword and shield and struck the guard. Both Rikku and Garin fled over him and began running quickly. Then a group of guards with weapons began chasing them. Garin threw some marbles at the guards, and the marbles became Machina sentries who attacked the guards.

Meanwhile, a shadowy figure was opening the trapdoor…

Yuna and Tidus were walking down the path, holding hands when a group of pyreflies swirled in front of them. Then, Auron, Jecht, and Braska stood in front of them. Yuna ran to her father and hugged him tightly. Jecht ran to Tidus and noogied him, while Auron just smiled as he watched the display.

"Hey guys!" Tidus said happily.

Then suddenly, Tidus noticed Auron picking up his sword. He swung it towards Yuna who was too busy hugging Braska. Tidus shoved off Jecht to parry Auron's strike.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Auron!" Tidus asked furiously.

Auron's face contorted into a face of deep evil and cruelty. Then Jecht, whose face was alike Auron's, grabbed Tidus's arms to bind him.

"DAMMIT!" Tidus yelled.

Yuna looked up at her father's evil face and turned to Auron and Jecht.

"Sir Auron, Sir Jecht, father… why?" Yuna asked scared.

Then Braska grabbed Yuna like Jecht had Tidus and turned her to face Auron, who held his sword ready.

"DIE, YUNA!" Auron yelled maliciously as his sword went toward her heart.

"YUNA!" Tidus yelled.

"AAAAH!" Yuna screamed.

With Paine and Kino, both were feeling kind of awkward and walked in silence. After a while they found two guards and knocked them unconscious and stole their uniforms. Eventually, their path let to both Kino and Paine to hear a sweet beautiful music, yet it made them feel sad and as if the person playing it was fueling it with hatred. The music was coming from behind a steel door.

"Let's go get the others." Paine said to Kino.

"That's not a bad idea; this music is giving me the heebie-jeebies." Kino said.

And both girls went back down the path at a fast pace (with their ears closed).

"MAGUS SISTERS! GO!" A woman yelled.

The three aeons each targeted one of their now wicked old friends. Cindy used Camisade on Jecht, Sandy used Razzia on Braska, and Mindy used Passado on Auron. When struck, each exploded into Pyreflies. Tidus and Yuna turned to see their rescuer, to see Lenne dismissing the Sisters.

"You saved us, thank you Lenne." Tidus said to Lenne gratefully.

"I also thank you for saving us, but you can't be here!" Yuna said upset.

"What do you mean?" Lenne asked her uncertain.

Yuna sighed and began their story:

"Okay, we're from 1000 years in the future, Shuyin's going deep into the compound to steal a giant machina called Vegnagun. You go and beg him to stop, but there are guards on your tails, so you and he run into a dead end where you die in his arms, and he dies in a jail cell. In our time, he returns as a spirit to use Vegnagun to destroy Spira."

Lenne looked absolutely dumbstruck by this information.

Then Yuna remembered something else:

"SIN!" She yelled.

"Excuse me?" Lenne asked.

"Your summoners will eventually summon a monster named Sin, controlled by Yu Yevon! It will destroy Zanarkand, transforming everyone into fayths for Dream Zanarkand, as well as destroy all the Bevelle troops." Yuna answered solemnly.

"Yuna, it has to happen, or I'll disappear, remember, I'm from Dream Zanarkand." Tidus said, thinking of what the real destruction of Zanarkand was like; all he could think of was blood and death.

"I don't understand what's going on, but I can't let Shuyin kill anyone." Lenne said, knowing (if these people weren't insane) that tonight was her last night of life.

The three of them went further down the dark tunnel until it turned off to the left.

Back with Rikku and Garin, eventually they were trapped both ways, so they began to fight. Finally, the guards held their guns right at the Rikku and Garin's hearts.

"Any last words?" A guard asked them.

"Yeah, Rikku? I have to tell you something." Garin said to her, looking into her eyes.

"Yeah, Gari?" She asked.

"I have always had a boyish crush on you since I joined the Gullwings, so I need to know, how do you feel about me? Now that I'm older?" He asked.

"Gari… I can't believe it. You're so sweet, I liked you like a little brother but now, I don't know Gari. Is this our end?" She answered him.

"Not for you, Rikku." He answered leaning into her.

Rikku understood what he was doing and leaned into him, and they shared a passionate kiss. Different thoughts ran through their minds as the guns shot.

Then the ceiling fell as Garin rubbed Rikku's back. When he did he planted a jet on her that activated and shot her away.

"DAMN GARIN, WHY?" She asked as she flew away.

"I can't let you die with me, goodbye." He answered as she sped away. The last thing Rikku saw was different flashes and Garin's body fill with bullet holes and bloodstained.

"GAAAAARRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNN!" Rikku yelled.

Okay well, tell me what you think? Sorry it took so long, parents are separated, so we go back and forth, getting ready to move to my dad's house where I'm going to go to school at and have no friends as of yet, so whoo hoo for me, but I need ideas and there is more after Vegnagun.