Searching for Thieves: A RIKKU MISSION

Disclaimer: I obviously don't own FFX-2 and I don't want to write this disclaimer again but sadly I have too and—

Rikku: GET ON WITH THE STORY!

Ok… ok…

(NOTE to Mr. /Mrs. Cute Kitty: This is even weirder so you may stop reading but still… It gets better) MILD ACTION VIOLENCE

If you like my fanfics please note that I will be writing an X-2 thing with Yuna instead. (though I don't think I'll do a good job) watch out!

Rikku: Hey! That stupid Yuna is taking my spotlight!

(While getting pummeled) The story will continue (stop it Rikku) now!

There is mild + Rikku in this! Please note!

Chapter 2: Kronavilla, City of Time

As Rikku swam towards the chimes, she saw light! But she also saw a giant clock that was almost as big as the Celsius.

"Oh, wow!" Rikku said and she swam faster towards the clock. When she reached land, she exclaimed at the top of the lungs,

"Wow! The city's only about a few miles far…" then Rikku saw the clock. It was bigger than a castle. It was bigger than two castles stacked on top of each other. It was gargantuan. It was looked like it was a thousand feet wide and a thousand feet tall. It was big enough for people to fit in. Rikku looked around and saw that there were no houses or people. She sauntered toward the clock and saw many doors on the clock. The door was a rusted bronze and had the word, KRONAVILLA carved expertly on it. She opened the door and saw hundreds of people running along inside the clock. Rikku was happy to see houses, stores, and inns were lined up inside ramps going up and down the clock.

"How do people get around here?" Rikku questioned and saw a glyph set on the ground. When the glyph disappeared a metal platform appeared and people stepped out.

"Ah! Machina! " Rikku said happily. She ran up to the platform and saw a sign and a series of buttons on the wall. There was a sign above the buttons.

"Floor 1: Market Area, Floor 2: House area, Floor 3: Inn area, Floor 4: Shop area, Floor 5: Forbidden?" Rikku read. She saw the series of buttons and they all had a number on them. The fifth button was shielded by a magical shield.

"Well… might as well head to the inn!" Rikku sighed and pushed the third button.

Wind blew her ponytail as the machina headed for the third floor. People appeared out of no where and were waiting next to her. Some disappeared as Rikku was still heading higher. When the lift stopped, Rikku hopped out to see multiple inns side by side. As Rikku was marveling the strange clock city, a person fell on Rikku.

"Oh! I'm so sorry mistress!" the man said. He pulled Rikku up and bowed.

"I'm Seviran. I must apologize… How may I do this?" Seviran asked.

"You could get me a room!" Rikku said cheerily.

"Ah! You must be an outsider! Welcome to Kronavilla, here, let me show you my room." Seviran brightly said and escorted Rikku to an inn called, "Clockwork Inn."

"Kronavilla is the city of clocks, which is why it is built inside a giant clock." Seviran explained as he led Rikku into a room. The room was very large with two bedrooms and a lounge. A sphere-projector and a spherecorder with a barcode on it were in the living room. Rikku cleverly eyed the spherecorder and asked,

"Are there any empty spheres?" Rikku asked.

"Yes!" Seviran answered and pointed to a drawer next to a projector screen, "The spheres are stashed over there. Each sphere is worth 50 gil to record. You must not take the spherecorder around unless you are going to film something."

"How do you know all this stuff?" Rikku asked. She was pretty shocked that Seviran knew so much about this inn.

"Oh," Seviran said, "I'm the owner's son. Good night!" Before Rikku got to say a word, he was gone.

I wonder why he was in such a hurry? Rikku thought and she dashed into a bedroom.

"Hey Seviran, did you get a rich one?" a man asks.

"She looks wealthy. She's an outsider." Seviran says.

"What did you do?" another man asks.

"I gave her a room Gilthied." Seviran said, "She completely fell for the fib that I'm the owner's son."

"What are you going to do next?" the man asks.

"Kirulius, you know what I'm going to do. Try to "get along" with her then mug her when she's sleeping." Seviran says.

He he he

Rikku started the day with a big yawn. Seviran was hovering above him.

"What the heck are you doing in a girl's room!" Rikku asked as she started flailing away at him. Seviran backed away and said,

"C'mon! Let's go have some fun!" Seviran grabbed Rikku.

"Fun? Sure!" Rikku cheerfully said, "By the way, I'm Rikku."

"Well let's go Rikku!" Seviran said and they happily skipped out of the inn.

This is going along too easy, Seviran thought with a grim look on his face.

"Ooh! Let's go over to the market!" Rikku cheered. Seviran took Rikku to where ever she wanted her to. He bought her antiques, clothes, and food. During dinner, while Seviran bought Rikku a gourmet meal, he thought that her expensive taste made her very rich. Rikku glanced at Seviran while he was ordering. Her heart started to beat faster. Her face turned red.

No! No! Rikku thought, I have Gippal! I don't need a stupid clock city guy. Her heart didn't slow down. Rikku conjured images of Gippal. Then, Seviran came. Rikku's face was still surprisingly crimson.

She gave way into her heart quick; Seviran thought and passed Rikku a steak plate.

"Eat," Seviran said, "It's really good." He bit into his own steak and they had a romantic conversation while eating gourmet steak.

"She completely gave in." Seviran said.

"Who's going to be picked?" Kirulius asks.

"You Kirulius," Gilthied said, "Seviran went the last time and I went before him."

"Fine, fine, here I go." Kirulius says.

"What's going to be her punishment?" Seviran grimly asks.

"It will be death. When has it never been death?" Kirulius laughs.

Eh hehehe

Rikku woke up and felt her left pocket surprisingly light. She felt in and saw that her money was gone! This could be the moment to find the sphere thief! Rikku changed into Lady Luck and quickly ran out of the inn.

"Whoever the thief is I'm going to get him!" Rikku yelled. When she stepped out, she saw a man dressed in black eyeing Rikku suspiciously. Then Rikku grabbed her cards tightly and ran at the man. The man jumped on the machina lift and Rikku followed right in. The man pressed the fifth button and threatened to hurt Rikku with a dagger. Rikku threatened to hit the man with her cards with the sharp side. Then, when they reached the fifth floor, Rikku suddenly realized how he pushed the magic sealed button. His gloves were tipped with a magical material. The man quickly ran out of the lift and jumped onto a clock chime. He jumped higher and higher till Rikku couldn't see him any more. Rikku followed after the man and realized that jumping was impossible in this dress. She turned into a Gunner and jumped on the first chime and jumped higher and higher up. There were two platforms next to the highest chime. One led to a dead end while the other had a corridor where a wall should be. Rikku jumped on the corridor platform and ran through the corridor. Rocks were loose from the ceiling of the corridor. When a rock almost hit Rikku square on the head, she took caution in where she stepped. At the end of the corridor was the man. He took of his mask and clothing. Under it was a light silk one-piece thieves uniform. Two other men stepped out from under a loose floor board that was surprisingly close to her. Two men wearing the same clothing popped up and one of them was… Seviran…

"Seviran took my money!" Rikku asked. She was aghast in shock.

"Yes. I took your money which was a surprisingly large amount of one hundred thousand gil." Seviran coolly said, "If you'd not want to face death, I'd turn back and get a job." Rikku was shocked. She pointed her gun at Seviran.

"See you! So long! Adios!" Rikku exclaimed. She shot 3 shots at him. Seviran swiftly dodged her shots and shot three small finger-daggers at her. Rikku ducked at all three closed a hidden door. The door clicked and it locked. A man laughed as he had a sword and was ready to strike Rikku on the head. Rikku ran out of the path of the blow and turned into a Warrior on the Unerring Path Pocket-Garment. Using her "powerful" brains, Rikku flung her sword at the man that tried to slash at her. Unaware of the flying blade, the man got stabbed in the chest. The others were unaware of this death and administered potions on the wound to close it up. Rikku turned into the Samurai on the grid and used the magical Fireworks spell. The men dodged the explosion before it burned them to cinders. Now, Rikku turned into Machina Maw and shot two Howitzer beams. Seviran dodged this but the other got hit twice. Seviran threw a dagger at Rikku. Since Machina Maw was slow, Rikku couldn't dodge this. It stabbed Rikku in the chest. Rikku vision turned black. She couldn't focus herself. The Smasher-R and the Crusher-L both healed her with HP Repair. Her vision turned to normal but the pain didn't go away because the dagger was not pulled out. Rikku clutched the dagger, struggling to get it out but couldn't pull it out. Now Seviran was sneaking up on Rikku but the Smasher and the Crusher's heat sense could feel Seviran as he rested upon the back with a dagger in hand. When Rikku pulled the dagger out, she felt the cold metal rest on her neck. She flipped forward right when Seviran was going to deal the deadly blow. The Crusher was crushed by the dagger. It malfunctioned and exploded, sputtering and faltering. When Seviran realized this he aimed for the Smasher. Before Seviran would destroy the Machina, Rikku swiftly spherechanged into a Black Mage. She cast Firaga on Seviran and a swarm of pyreflies exited from his body. Since Rikku was no summoner, she couldn't send them to the Farplane. But then, now that there are no summoners at all, they would still go to the Farplane. As she sat next to Seviran's limp body, she saw a pyrefly shining a golden light leave the body.

"May Yevon… Oh screw Yevon and Seviran!" Rikku mumbled. She placed her palm on Seviran's pockets and felt no sign of money. She rummaged the whole room and found no money.

"Ah! There was a trapdoor!" Rikku cheered. She cast Fire on the floorboard that Seviran popped out of. It burned to cinders and before the fire spread, Rikku cast Blizzaga to extinguish the fire. As Rikku hopped in, the golden pyrefly grabbed Rikku by the sleeve.

"Hey! Stop it! Let go!" Rikku struggled as she tried to strike the pyrefly with her staff. Then Rikku saw light. An ethereal form materialized in front of her.

Rikku  POV

It was him. The legendary guardian I loved on my first adventure in "guardianship."

"Rikku?" he asks.

"Auron?" I ask back.

"Rikku… what have you been doing. You're battered," he says in his cool voice.

"I—uh—umm… I wonder… What have I been doing?" I mumble. Auron's "body" stepped towards me and lent me a hand.

"Are you really him?"

"Yes. Come on. Get up," I grab his hand. He swings me up and a katana materializes in his hand.

"No… you're kidding me… you aren't going to pummel me… Are you?" Auron laughs and drops the katana. He embraces me tightly. Tears welled out of my eyes. Auron chuckles and let me go. As he grabbed his katana, Auron said,

"I was sent out of the Farplane to help you on your journey." I laughed. I couldn't believe it.

END POV (NOVEL POV)

Auron tossed Rikku into the floorboard. As Rikku dusted herself off, she noticed that the tears have trickled down her face. As she took sometime to wipe them, Auron appeared next to her. When Rikku was finished wiping, she told Auron that she was looking for her gil. Auron laughed heartily. When he finished his laughter Rikku told him,

"You seem happier these days! What's up with ya?" and she skipped along happily. Auron chuckled at Rikku.

"Thank you Jecht." Auron mumbled and he walked towards Rikku. When Rikku slipped all the gil of the shelves, Rikku had more than one hundred thousand gil. She laughed grimly and broke the window of the forbidden room. She turned into a Gunner and before she could jump, Auron grabbed her and they floated downwards.

I'm not so good with romance scenes but this one was satisfying. Get ready for the next chapter readers!