Searching for Thieves: A RIKKU MISSON
Disclaimer: I do not own FFX-2 but I own many of the other stuff.
CHAPTER 1: Cuaquar Madness!
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Thanks for all of those people who reviewed to me! This may be a disappointment to all of you readers because there are lots of Final Fantasy X-2 facts now. This was also from the top of my head so no flames please.
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Screaming at extremely high pitches, Rikku continued to fall, skirt flapping flamboyantly. Afraid that there might be some extremely painful objects under her, she grabbed the Unerring Path pocket grid and changed into Machina Maw after two swift sphere changes. Now that she was riding a one-ton machina beast, she was falling even faster than before. Now, Rikku braced herself for a destructive fall, but instead, she hit water. Holding her breath, Rikku looked around, trying to find a glimpse of a sphere now that she was underwater. When she reached the bottom, it was strangely unlike the sea that she and Tidus traveled when he landed on her ship. It felt like a real, solid, land. She could walk on the ocean floor, as she could run along the airship. She ran along as she saw strange blue, cactus shaped coral. Then she saw… or did she? She thought that she saw some blue catuar/fish like fiends. Then—she saw it again! She morphed into Gun Mage and shot two perfectly aimed shots at the cactus-fish vision and it missed just like a real cactuar would dodge it. Suddenly, her vision got all dark and fading and she couldn't hold her breath any longer. As Rikku tried to breath, the unnatural settings of the sea made forget that it was an ocean. She fainted into the sands slowly sinking deeper and deeper in…
"Who is she?" whispers a wandering voice.
"Who knows?" someone whispers back. Rikku woke up and saw 4 people look at her.
"Augh!" Rikku exclaimed, "Who are you people?" The people jumped back and one began to chuckle. "That's what we should be asking… Who are you?" the man asked.
"Well, I'm Rikku! I'm an Al Bhed going around to find a missing sphere." Rikku said and began to stand up. A woman pushed her down.
"You are still weakened from loss of breath… You inhaled too much water and we should be introducing ourselves as well. I am Timala," the woman said. They all introduced themselves. The man who spoke before Timala was Endelf. The other man was Gareth and the other woman was Moresca.
"If you are hunting for spheres, we have one that we can give you…" Gareth said. Rikku instantly shot her hand out in front of Gareth.
"For a price of course!" finished Moresca. Rikku frowned and slowly pulled her hand back. She reached for her pocket and pulled out a carefully wound pouch.
"No. That's not what we mean," said Endelf, "We have a serious problem. We came underwater for some research about the strange behavior in this ocean. We gathered enough specimens to go back home… but the cuaquars, cactuar-like underwater fiends, have blocked the entrance. I'll hand you this sphere if you can eliminate the cuaquars."
"No problem!" said Rikku and she stood up and stepped out of the hut.
Suddenly, a couple Cuaquars began attacking Rikku. She used the Samurai dressphere and began slashing at advancing cuaquars. One cuaquar began to wave his tail around and bubbles the size of Rikku's fist began rising into the air. One by one, they popped creating a loud melodious sound. As Rikku slashed away uselessly, more cuaquars began swimming closer to her by the hundreds. All the cuaquars started to strike Rikku using their endless supply of needles. Rikku morphed into a Dark Knight and cast Darkness on all the needles causing them to disintegrate. The cuaquars changed tactics and began to ram her with their spiky heads. Rikku slashed at the charging cuaquars and whilst defeating no cuaquars, she constantly got hurt. Covered in needle marks, Rikku cast Black Sky on the cuaquars and some of them exploded into pyreflies. When the other living cuaquars saw this, they started to begin casting spells while others constantly hit her. Casting Black Sky on the spell-casting fiends, they morphed into pyreflies. Seeing that Rikku was a hard challenge most of the summoned cuaquars fled from the battle field. Now Rikku turned into a Trainer and told Ghiki to call her friends. She told Ghiki to call her friends and monkeys dived into action. While the monkeys were fighting the fierce cuaquars, Rikku stuck her head into the hut, took a deep breath (like Timala advised) and watched the battle commence. The monkeys strangled the cuaquars causing them to flee like the others. Rikku sent the monkeys away and turned back to enter the hut.
"You did it!" exclaimed Gareth and Moresca and handed the sphere to Rikku. Rikku greedily eyed the sphere and snatched it out of their hands.
"Thanks a lot!" said Rikku and she watched the sphere.
The sphere is recorded in the same ocean that Rikku is currently in.
"Why do you think the sea is this way?" asks a muffled voice.
"Who knows? That's why we're here collecting specimens!" says another voice.
"Look at those cacti-shaped coral… What do you think those are?"
"Let's collect them!" The sphere turns to face the coral and a white metallic hand reaching out for a branch. Suddenly, a cuaquar jumps on the arm and shoots needles piercing through the metallic material and tears it open.
"Caleveb!" exclaims the man, "The fiend cut the diving gear!"
"Well I don't know what to do!" says Caleveb, "I guess that you shouldn't have tried to collect the coral." The movie moved up and down as if Caleveb was shrugging. The sphere turns to the other man. Water filled up a fishbowl that was over his head. The cuaquar shoots needles at the man's chest causing blood to rise from his gear. The man faints, water still in the bowl.
"Saramael, are you okay? Saramael!" yells Caleveb as the sphere begins to get fuzzy and clicks off.
"That was… weird…" commented Rikku as her face crumbled and her bright smile was replaced by a disappointing frown. Well… Thanks anyways." Rikku turned to leave the hut.
"I think they were planning to give me this sphere," Rikku mumbled as she stepped out into the ocean. She swam upwards, hoping to find some recognizable chunk of Spiran land. Once Rikku had her head above the water, the sky was totally black. Suddenly, a bell chimed 12 and Rikku looked up into the sky.
"Could somebody help me?" she asked as she took a deep breath and swam towards the bell.