Disclaimer: If I owned Final Fantasy X-2, would I be here typing this story. I would be off with millions of dollars and not be wasting my time with this. So no, I do not own Final Fantasy X-2. So don't sue me, though I do own a copy of the game.

Chapter 2

Paine woke up in a small cabin. Completely covered in blankets. She sat up quickly. And a girl about 15 jumped up off the floor and said

"You're awake. You should still be a sleep for more than a day."

Paine just looked at her as she sat on the end of the bed.

"Who are you? And where am I?" Paine said looking around.

"The name is Alex. My friends found you floating around in the water. You almost froze to death."

Paine looked at her, examined her for a wile and she did look like she could but up a fight. But all the same, Paine kept her guard up.

"Where am I? You have not answered that yet"

"Your in my cabin, it's just off of the market place"

"Which town are we talking about?"

"I don't think that it has a real name, it just called the market place."

Paine gave her a look that said 'you're kidding me right'. But Alex just turned her head. She then got up and grabbed cloths around the room. She gave Paine a normal pair of pants then snow pants, a long sleeve shirt and thick sweater.

"What's all this?" Paine said ash she put the clothes on the bed.

"You think that you will survive out there in what you got on. You'll freeze."

Paine final got a good look at Alex. She wore thick winter boots and strong snow pants. Their was a huge collar around her neck that could easily go up around her mouth and nose with no problem. There was also a par of goggles around her neck.

She ran around until she found another par of boots that were just a thick as the ones she had on.

"What's your name anyway?"

Paine just looks over at her.

"My name is Paine."

"Paine"

"Got a problem with that."

"No, just sound's like a nick name, Never thought that someone would be named Paine"

Paine just gave her a quick glare then looked at the clothes.

"How cold is it outside?

"It quite warm, two or three below"

"Below what?"

"Zero"

Paine shook her head and looked at Alex. Only two or three below zero. She said it as if that was the warmest it every gets. She couldn't be telling the truth. All of Spira is warm expect Mt. Gagazet. But there is no people living on that mountain. Just the Ronso.

There was no way she would be up there when she fell in the Ocean out from Besaid.

"Get dress and come out side if you want." Alex said as she walked out the door.

Paine then got up and changed into the clothes that were left on the bed for her. The collar on the under shirt was as big on her as it was on Alex. The boots fit her fine, thought she was surprised that they were so light. Paine put on a pair of gloves that were on the table, and then toke off outside.

The place was like the Bikanel Desert. It had that fell that you could get lost out their, if you followed Riku out there. The only difference is it wasn't sand, it was snow and ice.

Their was woods behind the cabin. You could see the other side of the frozen desert, it still far away.

At that point, a man came around and threw a pair of goggles.

"You might need them" He said "blizzards come up out of no were around here"

Paine turned around to find Alex talking to boys that had to be the same age as her.

Paine walked up to her.

"Were this place?" Paine asked.

"The Market Place is across the ice, this is the small village called Shallon. It not on any maps, it's too small for that"

"Is there been anyone that has one green eye and one blue eye, long brad down her back?"

Alex thought for a bit "no. no one around her like that."

"What about some one that has blonde hair with little brads through her hair, green eyes, blue banana?"

"No"

Paine in side came a little surprised, and a little scared. Again she was with people that she trusted, and then she out here, away form them, no way of getting to them.

"FIENDS" a man yelled as he ran out from the center of the village.

Then they all darted for cover. Paine on the other hand. Picked up and axe near a bunch of cut down trees and headed into the village. Alex was about to run up into a tree, then seen Paine run towards the Fiends. She then got down and fallowed her.

Paine toke down fifteen fiends before one came up behind her.

"Oh-shit"

Alex then had ran into a shed and got out a belt that went around her waist. And then it had straps that went down her pants, with more pockets then had clips so it could be strapped around her legs.

Alex had one hand in one pocket and one in the other, she pulled out to items and mixed them together and threw it at the Fiend. It was only a Firestorm attack, but it still thought off the fiend long enough for Paine to get to finish it off.

After that all of the other fiend ran off.

Paine dropped the axe. Looked at Alex.

"You're an Alchemist" Paine said with a surprise.

"Yea!" she said a little out of breath.

"Then why did you run? You should of came fight"

"You saw how weak that was. If I came and fight by myself, I would have been killed."

"It would be better to die fighting than to be running away" Paine said staring her right in to her eyes.

Alex just stared back. Almost to say that, you're right.

"If you teach me how to live out here. Then I will teach you how to fight" Paine said easing her stare at Alex. "Deal."

"Deal" Alex said holding out her hand. Then Paine and her shook hands on the deal.

Will Alex survive Paine's training? Find out. Thought you most likely not. Next time, same story, same site.