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FFX: Duelists' Fate
Chapter 5: Which Path to Pick
By KokoroHikaru
The cool air mingled with the warmth of the crackling flames outside provided a calm tone to the night. In the lodge where comfty beds are supplied in rows, two-thirds of the group of adventurers is restless. The world of Spira seemed to be far more than a video game.
Ryou sitting on the bed in the corner was clicking around on a laptop. Tsuki's laptop to be a matter of fact. It had lots of facts and tips about Spira, but no info giving away the storyline of Final Fantasy. Tsuki remember she had it in her bag. It makes you wonder how much stuff is in her bag. Tsuki, however, was sitting at the table where the two other Crusaders were at earlier checking her deck, possibly improvising a new strategy.
Tidus on the other hand was fast asleep on another bed diagonal from Ryou. He was stirring around, mumbling something. Maybe because of a dream?
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( dream sequence)
Tidus stands on a dock in one of Besaid's harbor. He remembers that he was going on the same boat as Yuna today to Kili-something. The young blitz player spots Yuna on the far end of the pier. Running up to her, he notice that the summoner had a worried look on her face peering out to the open, blue horizon.
Yuna faces him as he walks up. "The boat's not here yet. We have to go quickly."
Tidus gives her a confused smile. "Huh?"
"We're going to Kilika together, remember?"
He scratches his head. "Oh, er… yeah."
Suddenly, a voice perks up in defiance. "No he isn't, he's cumin with me to Luca."
They turn to see the blonde Al Bhed girl, Rikku, walk towards them. Rikku gives Tidus a small punch on his arm and frowns. He rubs his arm and glares at the Al Bhed. "Hey, what was that for?"
"You said you come with me." Rikku pouts.
Yuna looks at him, then to Rikku. "He did?"
"Plus Wakka said not to get any ideas."
Yuna turns to Tidus again. "Wakka said that?"
"SO, you're comin' with me." Rikku pulls on Tidus' arm.
"Hey! How come you didn't invite me along?" Tsuki with her hair being whipped by the air came up the dock, giving a pout. "I thought we were friends, and not how you're thinking with these girls. You are more delusional than Bakura."
Tidus blinks a few times. What's going on? "I umm……" this was getting frustrating.
"Well forget it. I'm coming along, whether you like it or not." There was some bickering about putting Tidus in a bad position.
The Zanarkand Abe's star player just looked on in an exasperated way. "err…."
A different voice spoke up this, gruff and a bit taunting. "You, with girls? Come on, you cant even catch a ball! Further more be with them!"
Tidus turns to the person of that voice. Ah, him. It was his father, Jecht. The man was dressed in baggy white pants and an assortment of red, cloth belts. He wore a headband which also is red. On his chest which was bare, revealed on his dark tanned skin the symbol that was the same one on one of Tidus' short's pant leg. Jecht had dark hair and on his face was a sneer.
His father's mock bothered him and made him mad. Somehow, and I don't really know how but it's a fantasy, Tidus is now shown as he was as a small child. He sits on the docks crying, hurt from what his dad says. Now to get this straight, the kid crying is Tidus around the age of eight.
As Jecht made fun of the boy, the kid muttered something that was but a mere whisper. He sniffled a couple of times, sitting on the dock with knees drawn up and head looking down. "I hate you…"
Jecht looks at the boy bemused. "What you say?"
The blonde headed boy raises his head an inch off his knees, muttering in anger and sniffling in tears. "I hate you…"
"What you say again? I can't hear you." Jecht's bitter tenor echoed, the taunting tone in his voice visibly heard. Rikku and Yuna standing behind Tidus' father supported the boy, cheering him on.
"You tell him!" Rikku shouted.
"You can do it!" Yuna said encouraging Tidus' younger form.
Even, oddly, Tsuki joined in. "Yeah, tell the jerk how you feel!"
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"I Hate You!!" Tidus screams, which scares the living daylights out of Ryou and makes Tsuki send her cards flying everywhere in shock.
They stare at Tidus with mixed emotions evident on their faces. Ryou gave a gulp, closing the laptop. He remembered now "machina" was forbidden when Wakka had told them earlier where Spira dwellers thought this is one of the causes that brought Sin upon them. He quickly hid it under his sheets.
"Are you alright?" Tsuki questioned, picking up the asunder of cards. She gives Tidus a worried glance.
"I'm fine." He replies, walking over to her to help pick up the cards along with Ryou. Tidus glared at the odd pieces of papers he picked up from the ground. Monster, Magic, and Trap cards? What were those? He stared at the graphics on them one last time, one in particular, a blonde girl dressed as a black mage, before handing them over to Tsuki.
Tsuki, not wanting to press on the matter of his dream, gave a loud yawn. Giving a stretch and pocketing her cards, she waved signaling her going to sleep. "Maybe you should get some fresh air before bed; it looks like you need it."
Tidus nods in agreement, watching them for a moment. Ryou hands Tsuki a silver rectangular object before crawling into the bed in the far corner. Tsuki, putting the object in her bag, slipped into the cot opposite of Tidus', the ones closest to the doors.
The blitz player headed towards the opening, the crackling of flames still heard in the air, but there was something else to. Pulling back the veil, he sees Lulu and Wakka talking, more of arguing, by the bonfire.
Lulu was speaking at the moment, her feelings were masked so uncertainty led to say her emotions were most likely contempt. "I know he looks like Chappu. At first I was surprised, he almost looks exactly like him… but he isn't Chappu, no matter how much they resemble."
"I know… but h-he needed our help." Wakka said seemingly in exasperation and losing the fight at the same time.
"Then what of the other two? What were they for?" her bitter tone raised a bit, and her patience ran thin.
"They also needed help… I mean, look at them…" his voice wavered off.
"Excuses again? Enough, Wakka!" That was it, Lulu strolls off in frustration. Wakka just looks helplessly at her, thinking whether or not to go after her. Thinking then it would useless either way he heads towards the lodge looking down.
Tidus drops the veil, stepping aside. Wakka enters just in a while. "So, who's Chappu?"
The Auroch's coach looks up at him, sighing. "Chappu was my little brother. You guys look lot alike. Well, my bro, you see, was in the Crusaders. In one of the fights against Sin, he didn't make it. I learned of that on the day of my tournament."
"Oh, so that's why you couldn't concentrate."
"Ya. Well, tomorrow's a big day. Rest up, 'kay?"
"Yeah."
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Tidus, stretching and yawning, sees most of the crew outside and ready to go. Wakka was humbly explaining the teachings to Ryou and Tsuki who are partially confused about it. He waves hello back to the others as they see his approach.
"Hey, sleepyhead, ready to go?" Wakka gives Tidus a ruffle on the head, which seems quite annoying.
"Yeah, yeah." He brandished Wakka off. "So, what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
"Not yet."
"Why?"
"Because we wait for Yuna." Lulu said, gazing over at the temple.
"How come we can't go ahead?"
Lulu groaned. "Our stories start together, so they will end together."
They were interrupted by the sound of footsteps and boxes being dragged. Yuna had appeared on the top steps of the temple pulling on a load of cargo against the ground.
Lulu gave her an odd look. "What are all those for?"
Breathing hard, the summoner looks up at the group. "They are gifts for the temples we visit."
"Yuna, it isn't necessary."
"I-I guess so…" She leaves the bundle at temple, subsequently walks to the group.
While the party walks slowly out of the town, Wakka held Tidus back. "Hey I've got somethin' to give to you." He hands the swordwielder a pretty big, long sword with an extraordinary blue blade with an unusually hooked end. "I gave it to my brother, but he decided to fight with a machina."
"Oh." Tidus waves the sword, which is called Brotherhood. "Well, thanks." They went on to catch up with the group.
They proceeded up the hill on a small road. A dog-like fiend, a dingo, stands out, ready to fight. Tidus got ready. "Leave this to me."
"'Ey, try the sword I gave ya." Wakka giving a suggestion.
After pulling Brotherhood, he runs up to the fiend, slashing it in half. The fragile bone-crushing sound admitted some chills before the creature dispersed into fireflies- like orbs. "Not a bad job if I say so myself." He throws his sword in the air, and then catches it by it hilt, a signature victory move.
Next two ball-shaped, blue bird fiends, condors, emerged from woods. Wakka steps up. "Flyers, just my department."
"What do you mean?" Tsuki asked, pouting to be left out of the action for so long.
Her question was answered, when the Auroch's cap't threw his blitzball at one of the condor. That aerial fiend dropped like a stone after being hit by a ball, dissolving too into those orbs of light.
Then, out of the blue, two senbons struck out pass Wakka, missing his stuck up hair by a toothpick's end, hitting the last condor in the throat killing it instantly with a small splatter of blood. Tsuki picked up the senbons after the remains of the condor disappeared. Everyone else just gave her a stare. "Um, I couldn't help it."
The party continues on to the top of the hill, when a blobby fiend, a flan, pops out. It looks kinda harmless as a gloppy puddle of watery stuff. Wakka warned the newcomers. "Trouble."
Tidus gives him a perplexed look. "That thing? Just watch." He slices the water flan, but little damage. "Opps."
"See…"
Tsuki pulls out her silver whip, cracking it on the ground in front of the fiend. "Let me try."
"No, don't." Too late. She lashes at the blobby creature, getting the same results as Tidus.
"It's all because of your wrist movement that disables your ability to kill it, meaning you suck."
Tsuki recognized that voice already. "Then how would you do it, Bakura?"
"Simple, enough." Pulling out his knife from his pocket, he sets it flying at his target. The next event just sets them blinking, the knife is lodge in the blubbery mass of the water fiend and Bakura standing gawking 5 feet away at the fact he couldn't destroy something as tall as a Kuriboh. "That thing's eating my knife!"
"No, you baka, you threw it in there." She turns to Wakka. "So, how do we kill this if we can't kill it physically?"
Wakka turns over, gesturing at someone. "Now you kids will listen? It's up to playing with the elements. So, here comes our black mage. C'mon, Lu!"
Lulu walks into the fighting grounds, carrying her Moggle doll. "My turn?"
"Yeah, yeah. It's a flan."
"How does this exactly work?" Tidus asks.
"Easy. This is an elemental fiend, right? So each element has its weakness. For example, fire and ice are opposing, as the same with water and lightning. So this water flan is weak against lightning." Lulu explains, concentrating her energy and raises her arm, which is copied by her doll. The moment her and her doll's arm struck down, a burst of lightning struck down destroying the fiend.
Bakura picks up his knife, which shocks him a bit from the spell. He mutter, "I could have done that if I wanted too." This earns him a glomp on the head by Tsuki.
Reaching the top of the hill without further disturbance, they rested at a tiny statue that was on the cliff peering over the Besaid village. Lulu and Yuna gazing at it for one last time. Wakka was praying at the statue. "It's a tradition to pray here before leaving here for a safe journey."
Tidus, Tsuki, and the others did the following except Bakura, following after that, they went along the road to the pier. The lush environment was filled with trees and vivid, tropical plants. Waterfall cascaded off rocks usually near bridges.
A large shadow overcastted past the assembly of travelers. A gigantic, fat, flying dinosaur/bird fiend, a garuda, (best I can describe it) flies overhead. Tidus signals at the other blitz player. "It's a flyer, your department, Wakka."
"Err… not exactly. Here let's see what our summoner can do." Wakka brings in Yuna in his place.
The summoness, appearing nervous, did the same thing before at the town circle and summoned Valefor. Everyone cleared the field, now watching in safety as the creature fight. The aeon at her disposal attacked using various techniques like elementals, physical attack, and a special one called Sonic Wing. The garuda was defeated in a matter of minutes.
"Impressive, there's more to aeons then I thought." Bakura remarked with a small hint of asperity.
"What did you think? They were for show or something." Tsuki was getting impatient, and was motioning them forward.
At that moment, another garuda ambushed them in a fight, striking Wakka first. "Let me take care of this."
"I thought insignificant flyers were your department, Wakka." The tomb robber's tone of voice was detectable of mock.
Giving Bakura a glare back and receiving a shiver from the teen's cold stare in return, Wakka focused all his magic. "Just watch, kid." He throws the blitzball at the fiend, smacking it hard in the head.
Black smoke emits from the garuda's mouth or beak, so it randomly attack an enemy. It misses Tidus who retaliates, putting a nasty gash in the living thing. The fiend random attacks, and because of its blindness, it allowed the others to damage it quickly. Tidus slashes at it, letting blood ooze through its wounds. Lulu burning it with her fire spells, charring it likes burnt chicken. Tsuki and Bakura helped along with the thief mugging it at times. Yuna stands in the back, healing any damaged members.
The process was nearly the same for any other fiends that came there way. Tidus, Bakura, and Tsuki hung in the back. Tidus chuckling at Tsuki make fun of Bakura who threatens him to shut up or else, but not knowing the tomb thief very well, he still laughs.
Tsuki shuts up for a moment and Bakura tensed, the three stay rooted the spot. Something odd lingered, a challenge? Peering up in the Besaid ruins, they see a blue figure jumping across the ancient pillars that surround them.
The creature landed on all four, creating a boom. Tsuki and Tidus backed up, only Bakura gave a scoff at it. The strange being crushed the dirt with its claws; it glanced up giving a humongous roar, definitely ready for a battle. The blue fur, the lion-like face, the grayish hair with some in braid, and weird clothing, this was one of the guardians they met in the temple. Why the hell's it gonna attack them? Maybe, bad impression?
Whatever the reason, it struck at Bakura foremost who countered for a stab at the gut, but that was evaded. Cursing, he regained his balance to see Tidus battling the brute. Tsuki was lightheaded at the sight of human blood, but somehow she can stand monster blood, just not human's. "Get back on your feet, girl! And fight!" he was already annoyed at her sitting there.
Listening to his command, our whip wielder strikes at their opponent. Grabbing back her whip, she thinks hard for a way to distract it away from Tidus. Only one way, provoke. "Hey, you big, furry…er… puppy dog, over here!"
"Puppy dog? Where the hell did you get that?! Couldn't you find a better insult?!" Bakura fumbles with a potion, one of the many items Ryou stocked up on. Tidus also took one.
"I dunno… eek!" she dodges a hack from its halberd to her right arm. "I couldn't think of what to call him, so I thought back to what Kaiba calls Jonouchi, but it works." Ducks her head down, but some strands of hair were slit off, she throws some senbons at it. It smacked deep into the blue, furry arm, making the creature emit a deep roar of pain.
Tidus comes back into the game, doing some kind of acrobatics, and then slashing down at the enemy. It stumbles back, but jumps in the sky striking down at him back.
"Enough." The rest of the party had emerged back. The opponent stops and walks away pass Yuna.
"I apologize for Kimahri. He's sorta protective." Yuna smiles in sad attempt, looking over at the bloody two boys and the dizzy Tsuki. She uses cure, which seems to mend both clothes and wounds.
"He's lucky I didn't finish him off." Bakura sneered, then receives a glomp from Tsuki again. "Will you stop that?!"
"Not until you stop that." That was just her reply.
"Stop what?" Tsuki just sighs at him.
Wakka explains to the three of them the fact Kimahri a Ronso, one of the different kinds of races on Spira. Along with some other info. They head onto the sandy beaches near the docks. Little kids surround Yuna, bidding good byes.
Tidus boards the ship, the S.S. Liki, after talking t some villagers. Tsuki and Bakura follow. She taps him on the shoulder. "We're going with you as I have decided. I think Luca's one of the best to find Yugi and Malik."
"Um, I guess. The more, the merrier?" He shrugs, giving a tiny cheerful smile.
The S.S. Liki pulls out of the harbor. As it goes, a little boy standing on the pier waves bye to Yuna in tears. The summoner returns the farewell, taking a last look at the whole island as it disappeared into the horizon.
Tsuki sits at an end near the bow of the ship, sorting out equipment. To her, it didn't seem fair that the others had bracers, rings, and stuff to protect them while she, Bakura, and the rest didn't. Something was wrong though, she had know of Spira's world map, equipment, weapons, items, aeons, and everyday-encountered fiends in her laptop, but this shield armlet, S.A., was not part of any equipment in Final Fantasy X she've seen before. It was still armor and expandable, so it could be used by a few people.
She picked up one with SOS protect, slip it on her right arm. It had a pearly and decorated design, but should work. Tsuki tosses another at Bakura with magic and hitpoints enhancements. He examines the weird red bracelet with silver lining. "What's this?"
"Armor." She checks the scenery, seeing Tidus talking to Wakka and a group of people surrounding Yuna. Kimahri and Lulu weren't far from their protected summoner.
"It looks like an ordinary bracelet to me."
"And the Millennium Ring is just the weirdest looking pendant to me."
"Okay, you've proved your little point, but Yugi's Puzzle is the weirdest looking one…. Your Ankh is second." He clasps on the shield armlet.
"Mine's not, but anyway, speaking of Yugi, where do you think those two are?"
Examines the S.A. again, seeing nothing different and did nothing different. "One thing, they're not here. Another is I care very little of what happens to the pipsqueak, the pharaoh, and that would-of-been tomb keeper."
Tsuki cocks her eyebrow. "Even if they together hold the Rod and Puzzle?"
"Alright, that's probably one thing, but stop asking me these ridiculous questions!" Seems to be already getting mad, Bakura that is.
"Okay." She ignores Bakura who is fuming and ready to kill something (doubtlessly this was the best idea), and watches over to Yuna and Tidus. They seem to be having a conversation. Listening closely, Tsuki hears Yuna's prediction that Tidus' father, Jecht, was one of her father's guardians. It almost gave the impression that this was satirical, to her at least.
At near end of their conversation, a jolt rumbled through the ship. The seas were going crazy, towers of waves rocked the S.S. Liki hardly in the waters. Yuna lost grip of Tidus' hand when the boat tipped, but luckily saved by Kmahri. White foam splashed over onto the bow, the seas calmed by little. An object appeared on the side of the ship, pasting slowly.
A sailor stands in disbelief, seeing the creature, to yell out one word. "Sin!!"
Bakura and Tsuki froze for a moment. Sin? An encounter this early? Bakura glared at her. "Did you know this was going to happen?"
She looks innocently at Bakura, nearly looking as sad as Ryou. "I didn't! I don't have the walkthrough for FFX! I didn't know really!" calming down, she said one thing more likely to her personality. "But, then, don't tell me you'll back out of fighting now."
"Hmph, I've faced the Egyptian God cards. This couldn't be any worse now you've think about it."
"Sin is about as large and as powerful as an Egyptian God card. And you've nearly ALWAYS lost to them."
"Shut up."
Bakura pulls out his knife, at the same time listening to the sailors' plee. "Please, Lady Yuna, we have to stop it. Our families are in Kilika."
With the summoner's approving nod, the shoot out harpoons connected from the deck. The first harpoon missed the target and sailed into the water. The second one however collided right in its target, the Sin's fin.
Yuna's party ready themselves. Three Sinscales from Sin's fin wiggled off and landed onto the deck; they unraveled themselves revealing their winged-insect-like form. So the battle begins….
-End of Chapter 5-
*the contest starts 1/4/04 and ends 1/9/04. You've read this far of my story, so here's the deal, write me a better summary for the entire story, along with ideas you would like to see happen in FFX: Duelists' Fate. 1st place gets a prize; the others get credit of their ideas. Email me your contest piece at DMGDuelist@yugiohdungeon.com and good luck!
*in your review, include which YGO character you would like to see summon the first Duel Monster in Spira. Who would it be? Yami Yugi? Bakura? Malik? Tsuki?