A/N: It's weird, when I first started this story I was really into it for about four chapters. Then I lost interest for ages and I had to force myself to write chapter five and then I wrote chapter six before I went away on holiday during July/August. When I got back I wrote chapter seven and got interested again! Anyway, nine chapters after that and I'm still paying attention to my story! Hope you like chapter sixteen!

Disclaimer: Go away.

My computer is being totally dodgy, so I can't access certain areas of the fan fiction site. One of these certain areas happens to be the place I go to see who has reviewed my story – therefore I can't give a dedication! I'm getting this sorted, so when I do find a dedication I replace this with it. Sorry!

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Last Minute Preparations

Punch, punch, kick, duck, roll, repeat on the other side ... That was my routine with the punch bag in Luca Gym.

The Gullwings & Co., after a lot of discussion between themselves, finally told us they were going to Luca and the Mi'ihen Highroad to train up for Nemesis. Yuna insisted we came along too.

"You never know, something might go wrong and you need to fight," That was what Yuna said after we groaned with reply. In the end we decide to come along. Some of us were going to the Highroad to train, while others were going to Luca Gym. Martha, Lillie, Victoria and Holly all decided to go to the Highroad with the majority of the rest doing the same, while I went to the Gym with Rikku and Paine. Victoria said she would join us after a bit of fiend training.

"So, why'd you come here instead of with your friends?" Paine asked, massacring the punch bag beside me.

"I got enough training yesterday on the Highroad, thank you," I said between punches. "Why'd you come here?"

"I've had enough training with fiends anywhere," She said through gritted teeth.

"Same here," Giggled Rikku, getting up from falling flat on her backside on the treadmill. "I bet all the boys just went there to show off their skills in fighting, and knowing Gippal probably to show off his body. Yunie probably tagged along wanting to stay with Tidus! And don't take this offensively but, your friends probably went along because you haven't exactly had a lot of training, have you?"

"Got that right," I breathed, collapsing onto the floor. "I'm surprised at you, Rikku, though," When she looked at me suspiciously and Paine peered round the side of the punch bag, I continued, "Don't you want to see Gippal take his top off?"

She blushed furiously, "No! What makes you say that?"

I smirked at her and she blushed some more, realizing what I was talking about (i.e. for those with a bad memory, I was talking about the kiss).

"Something you've not been telling us?" Paine asked, eyebrow raised.

"Shut up!" Rikku said, folding her arms cross her chest. Then she returned to the treadmill. Me and Paine just laughed.

::Fifteen Minutes Later::

Victoria came into the Gym room we were in (it was empty besides me, Paine and Rikku) and plonked herself down on the floor why I had fifteen minutes before.

"Tired?" I asked, getting onto the treadmill Rikku had been using and putting it on medium setting.

"Yep. Ten battles in fifteen minutes. No time to rest."

"How are the others?" Rikku asked from a bike machine. "Are they coming?"

"Holly, Lillie and Martha are staying on the Highroad until a bit before we go. Baralai, Gippal and Nooj might come across later, and I don't know about Tidus and Yuna – they left five minutes after we arrived."

"Probably exercising by themselves," Paine said, matter-of-factly.

"Exercising what?" I asked, "Their tongue's?"

Victoria recovered from a her laughing fit a few minutes later.

::An Hour After::

Baralai and Gippal arrived an hour later.

"Your friends," Baralai said to me and Vic, "Are currently busy trying to find Yuna and Tidus, who have disappeared. Nooj is making his way over now."

Sure enough, five minutes later Nooj arrived. No word on Tidus and Yuna. After that there wasn't much talking. Every so often someone might ask for the time, or change machines. Holly arrived some time later, saying they had found Tidus and Yuna on the Old Road, and that she (Holly) had run ahead because she couldn't be bothered to fight more fiends, while Martha and Lillie were coming over slowly with Tidus and Yuna.

Half an hour afterwards and were all in the Gym. Well, besides Buddy, Brother and Shinra who had been aboard the airship all along. They weren't going to fight Nemesis, just stay as back-up.

"You guys ready to come aboard now? Brother's starting to get on my nerves," Buddy said through Yuna's communicator, so we all returned to the Celsius.

::Celsius, Deck::

When we returned it was 9:00pm and Buddy suggested we rested, so everyone went to the Cabin besides Buddy, Brother and Shinra. And me. Instead I went up to the Deck and sat on the Gull statue.

Don't get me wrong – I wasn't bursting with energy or something. I was probably one of the most tired people there, yet ... Well, I'm sure you've felt it before. You know, when you so tired you think you could drop off any second, but when you try to go to sleep, you can't? That was what I was feeling. And somehow, fresh air has always helped me fall asleep.

I don't know how long I was up on the Deck, thinking about everything that had happened while I had been in Spira and back home. I seemed to lose all my senses because I was so deeply engrossed in my thoughts, because all of a sudden the sky around me was pitch black, and I couldn't even make out the land – only the bright lights from the towns and cities below as we passed over them. I peered down into the Bridge of the ship from above, and it was empty. I guessed it was on autopilot.

"It's past midnight, you know," A voice said.

Past midnight? I thought to myself, Amy, you've been thinking for more than three hours! Maybe you should get some sleep – Who said that?!

I spun around so quickly it looked like I was having a spasm. I couldn't actually see the person's face – it was hidden in the night – but I could make out their height ... and their hair. And their clothes.

I sighed, "Christ, you gave me a shock, Lillie!"

"Sorry," She smiled apologetically. "So, you been here since nine?"

I nodded. "I knew I'd never get to sleep, so I came up here to think ... Mind you, I think I might have fallen asleep up here ... Three hours is kinda long to hold out when you're as tired as me. And I don't feel tired anymore, so maybe I did fall asleep ... Anyway, what about you?"

"Possibly an hours sleep, then I was just lying in bed after that, thinking like you. I would have tried to fall asleep again but someone else in the dark was snoring and it sounded like a bulldozer, so that choice was out the window."

I laughed, and Lillie came to sit besides me, which was slightly in front of the Gull statue.

"How can they all sleep, knowing ... what's going to come?" Lillie asked.

"They've done this before, haven't they? If you think about Yuna's pilgrimage ... every single one of them had to fall asleep knowing what was at the end. We're amateurs. It's not as though anything's going to happen in our world like this ... And if it did, well, we certainly wouldn't be dealing with it."

"Sometimes I think it's better that way," She muttered.

"Yeah," I agreed, "We have wars and everything, but they're in control – well, they are as much as they can be – and Spira, well, it isn't, really. Our world ... is safer, for where we live, at least. And we're taken care of better, when things do get out of hand ..."

"Good old Earth," Lillie joked, but inside we were both feeling down.

After ten minutes or so silence, I asked quietly, "So, what time is it now?"

Lillie consulted her watch, "One in the morning, exactly. We should go back in, I'm getting cold!"

"Where, to the Cabin?" I said, standing up.

"I don't fell like rest, maybe just the Bridge? The Engine Room'll be too noisy."

I nodded in agreement, and we headed towards to the lift. As we came between roughly five metres of the door, Bahamut's Fayth appeared before us.

He stood there for a few moments, letting us recover from our shock, then he said, "Sorry about the sudden appearance but it was necessary I spoke to you now. Because of the Chamber's of Fayth and the entrance in Guadosalam making the Farplane out of limits, you must enter the Farplane through the entrance in the Omega Ruins-"

"We guess that," Lillie said inaudibly.

"Another thing ... you did understand what Farra told you, correct?"

"Yes. We never told the others, just what they could do to help. And we know we have to follow our 'essence'. Even though we do not know how to. Is that what you came to explain? What our essence is?" I said, all in one breath.

The Fayth laughed softly, "Of course not, that is what you have to find out yourself. All I had to do was check upon, make sure you understood."

He was half way through dissolving into the air (well, that's what it looked like, at least) when I stopped him.

"Wait!" I yelled, and he came back into view. "When we met before ... I know it's not a big deal, but when you said we'd helped you in many ways ... you said 'firstly' but you never said-"

"'Secondly'. You are correct. What I was going to say to you was ..." He thought for a few moments. "You were going to destroy Nemesis for us. You see, the Fayth can for-see certain things – Farra can, of course, see more than we can - and we all for-saw that you would find Farra, and follow out his request. But before you ask, we can not tell you whether you will be victorious. Our future-telling abilities stop there, we can not see past you entering the Farplane." And then, he dissolved completely.

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A/N: Okay, from what I'm guessing, this story should end in ... two chapters? Three at a push, but I don't think so. There will be a sort of Epilogue, but it will actually be in the last chapter, it won't be separate.