Mushroom Rock Road - It is noon. The party is just sitting down for lunch at the side of the road, close to the cliff.

"Hey, Wakka," Tidus said, grinning malevolently as he held out a piece of dried fruit, ignoring the warning look Auron shot him. "Want some food?"

Wakka glared at Tidus from where he sat next to Yuna and Lulu. Auron muttered something that sounded like 'stupid' as Tidus shrugged and made a show out of eating the fruit that would have made a Priest of Yevon blush. He also chewed with his mouth open, which was just plain nasty. Auron put a stop to the whole show the moment things started to get out of hand. The fruit began wandering to areas of the body that it had no business being in. Fruit was just not meant for that purpose. A quick slap with Darktouch, ended the scene in a surprisingly efficient manner. Tidus yelped, and dropping the ill used fruit on the ground, stumbled around with a little black cloud floating around his head.

"Over here!" Wakka called, moving just out of reach as Tidus turned towards the sound of his voice. Wakka and Kimahri led Tidus around for a while, calling out helpful hints like 'No, this way!', 'More to the left!', and 'No, the other way!'.

"Come on, guys!" Tidus pleaded, waving his arms about as the voices stopped, leaving him completely in the dark. He listened hard, trying to catch the slightest sound, but to no avail. "Hey, this isn't funny. Just you wait 'till this spell wears off!" he grumbled as he flailed around, trying to remember where the edge of the cliff was.

"I'm gonna!"

Tidus tripped over Lulu with a yelp. Laughter erupted from the party as he fell on top of the black mage, who hissed in indignation and tried to shove Tidus off. Hands flailing about, Tidus tried to find solid ground, stammering apologies as he groped around. That was way to squishy to be the ground! His vision cleared as hands lifted him off of Lulu, who had to be physically restrained and reminded that Tidus was one of Yuna's guardians. She was just barely dissuaded from burning him to a crisp.

Tidus took great pains to avoid the black mage for the rest of the day. The party traveled in silence for a time. It did not last long. Just when Auron thought that the rest of he trip was going to be a quiet one, Tidus found another way to amuse himself. The call of a seagull rang harshly in the air and bounced crazily off the cliff face.

Auron groaned as he saw Tidus take a deep breath. Here it comes he thought with dread. Tidus opened his mouth.

"CAWWWWwwwwww!"

Everyone jumped as the sound echoed around them, then faded after a few repetitions. Wakka and Rikku laughed, while Yuna giggled. For one moment, Auron thought that that was the end of it, but he was wrong. Encouraged by the attention, Tidus began shrieking whatever came to mind. Soon Wakka and Rikku were doing it too.

"ECHO!…ECHO!…Echo!"

" CHHHOOOCCCOOBO!…bo!…bo!"

"OOOOOOOO!…oooo!..oo!"

Other words and phrases followed, some less tasteful than others, but those ones seemed to echo the longest, and the loudest. "I just hope no one else is walking around here within earshot." Auron commented to Lulu and Kimahri (the only other sane ones, in Auron's opinion) as the word 'Knockers!' rent the air. Auron leaned against the cliff face wished he could die, again. He wondered, for a brief moment, if perhaps he was not Unsent. Perhaps he had died and was trapped in Hell; doomed to wander Spira forever in the company of idiots.

Yep. He was definitely in Hell. Tidus, laughing wildly, was shrieking 'Kockers' at the top of his lungs. Auron noticed that Lulu's red eyes had narrowed dangerously, and that Kimahri had taken a Ronso sized step away from her. "I think, " she snapped quietly as Tidus showed Wakka how to echo entire sentences revolving around knockers. "That he needs to cool off!"

Garbled yelps echoed along the road in a way that warmed Auron's heart as Lulu doused Tidus and Wakka with Waterga. The water rushed over the two figures, who danced and swore in a futile attempt to avoid the attack. The water left as quickly as it had come, leaving the two young men dripping wet.

"Ahhh, Lu! What did you do that for?" Wakka said plaintively as he wiped the water from his face. He continued arguing with Lulu as the group began moving towards the tunnel leading to the Mi'hen Highroad. Tidus sputtered and ran to catch up, shaking himself like a dog to shed the water and getting a giggle out of Yuna. Auron shook his head as he marveled at how Tidus always seemed to turn things to his advantage.