A/N: Hope this satisfies your needs.

Disclaimer: I do not own Square-Enix (wish I did though ...)

Sorry, I'm no longer doing the dedications! This stories nearing an end and I just want to get it over with, so I can't be bothered to search. Once again, sorry.

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To The Farplane And Beyond

At some point between three and four in the morning, Lillie and I fell asleep on the Bridge. We were chatting there for over two hours! We were both woken at the exact same time in the morning, roughly around eleven o' clock.

"Who is that?" I grumbled, hearing voices by the lift. "Why'd they have to wake us up?"

"Well, it is almost lunch time and – Hey, I think it's Paine and someone else." Lillie said, lifting herself off the floor (uncomfortable, but what do you expect?), peeking through the railings and looking along the corridor. She nodded and motioned for me to look. I walked over and we both spied on the pair for more or less five minutes. We were about to leave (well, stop spying) because they were both speaking in whispers and we couldn't hear word, when – suddenly! – Baralai learnt towards Paine and gave her a quick kiss.

"Omigod!" Lillie gasped. "Are they a couple? How long do reckon they've been dating?"

"My guess is they weren't dating when we came here – obviously some time since we started our 'adventure'," I said, walking away.

"Yuna and Tidus, Baralai and Paine, Nooj and Leblanc ... Ooohh, we should play match maker on Gippal and Rikku!"

I laughed, shaking my head, "Too late – they're already together."

"Since when?" Lillie asked, looking at me suspiciously.

"Since I spied on them a while ago, when they were both in the downstairs of the Cabin and I was on the upper level. It was after Gippal embarrassed Rikku here on the Bridge, I think. She came storming in here, but they kissed and made up. And I sort-of confronted her about it in the Gym."

Lillie raised an eyebrow, "Sort-of?"

I nodded, "Yeah. I said something about wouldn't Rikku want to go on the Highroad and see Gippal take his top off, I think. Can't remember. Anyway, she got all embarrassed, and the kiss I witnessed was too much of a snog to be ignored!"

Lillie laughed and was about to say something when another voice butted in. "Who snogged who?"

We turned around and saw Baralai standing half way down the steps on the right hand side. There was a definite tinge of urgency in his voice – probably because he suspected we'd seen him and Paine. Which of course we had.

"Well, you and Paine for a start!" Lillie blurted out, making Baralai blush a deep crimson colour. She continued, "But that's not who we were talking about. We were talking about-"

"What we were talking about was none of your business!" I answered, sticking my tongue out at him.

He replied by rolling his eyes, then he asked for the time. When Lillie replied it was lunchtime, he turned around and started back up the stairs. He paused for long enough to say, "Me and Paine are going to wake the others up. Some of them are in quite deep sleeps, I should think some yelling in their ear will wake them up. Want to help?"

We were running past him before he had finished.

::Cabin::

Everyone besides Victoria, Lillie, Martha, Holly and I went to the Bridge after we had lunch, almost an hour ago. During the stage of the night, when the airship had been on auto-pilot, we had flown north from Luca, following the path of the Mi'ihen Highroad, Mushroom Rock Road, Djose Highroad (this was roughly the part where me and Lillie went into the Bridge) and then the across the Moonflow. From their the airship took us over Guadosalam, through the Thunder Plains and up to Macalania. We then woke Brother up, he became pilot once more, and started to turn around and fly south-east to the Omega Ruins. At the current time, we were almost half the way their. The only view out of the windows was ocean, and lots of it.

"I wonder how the others are feeling about this?" Victoria wondered aloud, the 'others' meaning everyone on the Bridge. Holly got up and left, taking the lift down to the Bridge. Five minutes later, she came back.

"They're not feeling very well, the others. Nobody was talking – they all seemed tense. But why? They weren't like this when Vegnagun or Sin was around! And we've only seen Nemesis attack once, that was Djose Temple, so why are they so worried?"

"I think," I spoke up, "It might be because Nemesis, or rather Lae, used to be a Fayth. That's got to be bad news."

Martha sighed, "I just want this over and done with."

"Yeah," Lillie agreed. There was a moments silence, then Lillie said again, "We're doing all this, you know, saving the world stuff, but what for? I mean, sure, we'll be saving lives, and that's great, but after that? We don't even know if we'll ever, you know, if we'll ever ..."

"Go home," I finished for her, when she seemed unable to get the words out. She nodded.

"Alright, everyone, we're here!" Buddy's voice came on over an intercom. He'd put on a cheerful enough voice, but it was an obvious fake.

::Omega Ruins::

"Can we please rest?" Rikku moaned. We were by the boulder at the end of the path, obviously in the Omega Ruins. Lillie's hand was hovering over the dial, waiting for the signal to carry on.

"No! We have to do this now!" Brother snapped from the airship, with Buddy and Shinra. The three of them were in the airship that was parked (can you park an airship?) back near the beginning of the path. Because they were actually in the Omega Ruins, we still had communication either way. Their job (Brother etc.) was to wait for us to either come out, or to stand by and help when they were needed.

"But 'm so tired!" Rikku said, sitting down on the path, her head resting on her knees.

I think Brother was about to reply, but if he was, he didn't get the chance, mainly because at that moment I said, "Maybe we should stop. Entering the Farplane tired could be – no, will be – fatal. After all, when we enter the Farplane, it all begins. No going back."

The other nodded in agreement, and we stopped until everyone said they were fine. It was at least a fifteen minute wait, but it seemed like hours. Lillie turned the dial, 360 degrees, like before. The floor beneath us opened up, swallowing us. Once again, we were sliding down that spiral slide. As the end of the slide came nearer, I could see the gap at the end that lead us into the Farplane. This is it, I thought, Once we enter the Farplane it begins. No going back.

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A/N: Next chapter is the last one! Review please, you too Martha!