" The roar of Celsius erupted through the sky as the crimson airship tore through the clouds in pursuit. Along the lines they had lost sight of the Rukh carrying the abducted Tidus and now relied on facts to lead them. They knew, however, it could only be taking him to one place, Bikanel. Their decision had passed by the direction in which it flew, showing no signs of straying from it's path. Their radar clearly showed that."

" With her hands clasped together in worry, Yuna stood against the entrance door with a sigh upon the bridge. Fear and anger filled her towards the events. Feared for Tidus's safety and angered by the Rukh that stole him away from her. She wouldn't forgive whoever was responsible, she would slay them and rid their darkness from this world. She swore it. A promise that would not be broken."

" She wondered why he had to have been taken, why he was stolen away from her arms, from her sight. Why whoever was responsible did this. Sighing once again, a heavy sigh of sadness, she slumped to the floor with suppressed tears. She buried her face into her hands, pressing against her eyes to contain the tears that threatened to show, but couldn't detain them anymore. She needed a release from this pain, and the only one who could do this was Tidus. The man she loved more then anything."

" Approaching footsteps caused her to swallow her grief and brush away her tears with the back of her hand hastily. She had no desire to be seen as a feeble woman at this point in time, she had to stay strong for her lover, she had too. If she didn't, there was no way she could save him, and she couldn't live with being so incompetent as to not rescue him."

Yunie?" The usually hyper tone of Rikku came to her softly and full of sympathy, obviously saddened by Yuna's condition and the abduction to Tidus." Don't cry Yunie, we will get him back. We've got the Youth League and New Yevon on our side, nothing can stop us…" Somehow she didn't seem to reassuring."

It's n-not f-fair!" Yuna gasped as the tears began once again and she pressed her cheeks against her thighs to hide them." It's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair! He shouldn't have been taken from me! What if something h-happens to him?! What if t-they kill him! I c-can't live without him Rikku!!!

Crying will get you nowhere Yuna.." The cold voice of Paine startled her and she could not help but look up with a hateful expression." I know it seems cold of me to say that, but the more time you spend crying over him the more time you waste and the further that fiend takes him. If you want him back, get him back. Don't sit there regretting, stand tall and act." For a moment their eyes met and Yuna could finally see a side of Paine scarcely shown, the side that shared the sympathy Rikku did, only her voice reassured her far more then what the perky Al Bhed every could. Then the warrior turned away."

Yes.." The High Summoner swallowed her tears with a forced smile and pushed her body up. To continue her grieving would not prove beneficial to the matter, she had to uncover a way to rescue Tidus and by Yevon nothing would stop her from doing so." Brother!" She called out sternly." Put the petal to the metal! Get me to Bikanel as quick as you can!! This thing is going to pay!

Roger!!" Brother yelled back with a grin as he exerted more speed from the throttle, tearing off in a burst of flame from the engine as they sped forward."

Hang on Tidus…" Yuna whispered as she silently stepped forth, glancing around the room as the eyes of Nooj, Baralai, and Gippal fell upon her." I'm coming for you my love…

(( Tidus POV ))

I don't know how I wound up in this predicament so quickly. For a moment it was all blurred to me and refused to clear. I remember seeing Yuna's face, petrified with fear before I was lifted. Then I recalled the ocean beneath him and the pain of talons ripping into my skin as I struggled to free myself.

" Let me go you overgrown pelican!" I shouted as I swapped my arms at nothing to make things difficult for the beast to hold me. Yet it's grip did not loosen, instead it tightened and burrowed it's claws only that much further into my skin. I yelled out in the pain that shot through me, the pain that overflowed me my mind with thoughts concerning the matter if I would survive."

Maybe I wouldn't? Maybe this thing would carry me higher, and higher and farther, and farther until it just let my fall? Perhaps it would drop me off at it's nest and allow it's brood to devour me, maybe it would consume me itself?

I laughed at that image, yes, the image of it devouring me while I kick and scream. Then it horrified me. Somewhere in the distance I could still hear the roar of the airship pursuing us, and It comforted it me so to know they had not given up. Yet I wondered where this thing would take me? And I prayed Yuna would save me no matter where I was.

A gust of wind awoke me from the dormancy of my mind as the creature holding me descended. I was confused at first, and thriving in the tumult I remembered the far of call of Yuna's scream. The scream that filled me with sorrow to know she was suffering. I was so careless to be abducted with such ease, weaponless and helpless. Those two words fit my description better then anything ever could. That and frightened.

A blur of dark hills caught my attention as the creature steadied itself. Dark hills that swept past with the speed the Rukh flew and left me wondering where I was. But as my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I realized those were not hills beneath my soaring body, but dunes. Yes, sand dunes, dunes that only belonged in one place….Bikanel.

But as quickly as my realization came, it was diminished by my other acknowledgement. An acknowledgement that could only horrify me further then what I already was. The acknowledgement that I was falling.

My first action was on impulse. I screamed. A scream that broke the barrier of sound as the night's quietude was shattered in a fury of immense, vocal vibrations. Even the Rukh that soared off screeched in dismay as it's eardrums racked to adjust to the waves of sound. Then I was cut off as my body hit the sands.

I rolled, coughing and kicking, as I tumbled helplessly down the dune I landed upon. The sand had not entirely absorbed my impact, it hurt, yet could have been many times worse had I landed on something solid.

Coming to a stop, I hit flat ground. Everything was hazy to begin with, I was confused. Solid ground? Cold and hard. My head throbbed through the pain of my collision, yet my fingers curiously trailed the platform I lay upon. Concrete? Pavement? No..It was different. Marble? Yes, that was it. Marble. I had landed upon a marble platform.

Pushing my body up with the slight dizziness of my head, I straightened my body with difficulty as I sized up the surroundings. Then halted upon the figure before me.

It took me moments to recover from my shock, to recover from the dark, cloaked figure that eye me ominously with azure eyes. Eyes that pierced my soul. I winced and stepped back, desperately wanting to escape the gaze.

W-who are you?" I questioned with a mild stutter, not fully anticipating an answer from it. However, I anticipations were wrong."

My name?" It's voice came out cold and long as it spoke." I am surprised…I thought you of all people would remember me…" When I made no move to respond, it's hand raised gradually. A cold, pale hand, scrawny and bulging with veins. (( It's the Emperor from Star Wars!! O.o;;; )) This site caused me to shrink back all the more. Then it amazed me, as it glowed with a scarlet color. And I remembered."

You.." I began unable to believe." You're the one who saved me aren't you? Why did you have me taken away? I thought you would allow us to come to you?!

That was my original intention to not appear to hasty.." The man began with his cold and raspy tone." Unfortunately, I had not foreseen your so called session of lovemaking…

This confession caused me to blush deeply. Had this man been observing them during their lovemaking? Of course he had. How else could he have known that? Disgusting I thought, absolutely disgusting.

YOU WATCHED US?!!" I couldn't contain myself from yelling. This man had invaded upon our privacy, he had obliterate our secrete by watching us and it angered me so much….oh so much."

Indeed I did…" The man responded as he turned away." And now, with your child growing within her, my problems have only increased…

WHAT??!!" Again I shouted. Was Yuna truly pregnant with my baby? If so, how could he tell? Did he foresee the future? Or did he somehow, in a mysterious way, just know? "

Yes, she is carrying it…Although she would have discovered in time.." He paused shortly." I won't allow it to big discovered. I shall kill it by destroying her. A knife to the gut should do…

Your insane!! I won't let you harm her!" Frantically I lunged with everything I had. I wouldn't allow him to harm her, I would crush him here so she could never be put in his path. Yet as I drew near, all he did was raise his hand, another flash of scarlet filled my sight, blinding me for moments before a searing, hot pain filled my body. I felt as if my skin was being singed off or torn away by a piece of blazing hot iron burrowed beneath my skin. I screamed in agony."

After many moments of enduring an unbelievable pain, I dropped to my knees, weak. From the blurry haze shrouding my eyes I could see steam withering up from my body, like I myself was once on fire. Then again, maybe I was just moments ago?

A cold finger pressed against my chin and lifted my head up with ease. Too weak to resist, I stared up blankly into the piercing eyes of the hooded figure and could not tear away. I felt entranced.

" If you truly need know my name boy…It is Gallant. But you may call me Oblivion.." I did not responded to his words. Did not bother too. For some reason my lips would not form the words I wished to speak. Then, as his finger slowly left my chin, I could feel my strength returning and I prepared to use it against him." But forget not, that your place in life is to assist me. You shall not stand in my way to destroy her, for you shall be the one to do it yourself..

" N-no…" I choked, attempting to reassure myself that I would never do it. Yet my state left me open for such things, and I found myself believing it slightly."

A but you shall my dear, dear Tidus.." A silent chuckle filled the air around me, sending cold chills up my scorching spine." But you shall…" Suddenly, to my own dismay, the ominous blue eyes brightened. They began to glow, and glow with every passing second until all I could see was a cerulean shade fogging my sight. I blinked before I felt my body being squeezed and gasped in a plead for breath.

Yet despite my struggles the binds continued to constrict. I couldn't see them, but whatever was closing around me was painful and I wanted the pain oh so much to end.

In an effort for my voice to cross the distance, I opened my mouth between gasps as I swallowed a final breath before darkness began to take me. I shouted only one name, the name of my love who could save me, the only one who could save me.." YUNA!!!!!!!! "

(( Upon the Celsius Bridge: Yuna POV. ))

I sat down impatiently against the corner of the Bridge's walls. Sighing, I ran my hand through my hair in a fit of contained rage and depression. I found myself wondering if Tidus was alright, if the fiend had eaten him or taken it to it's nest.

Mentally I slapped myself for thinking such things. I could not allow myself to fall prey to such negativity, doubt would not prove beneficial to the matter. It was up to me to stay calm, up to me to make sure everything went smoothly. If I stayed calm, maybe everyone else would? I hoped….Maybe the calmness I felt was received from the others being calm around me? Maybe it was…..Either way it reassured me.

Suddenly, as my head sulked in depression, a voice penetrated my sorrow. A familiar voice, a voice stricken with pain, the voice of Tidus.

" Yuna!!!!!! "

I instantly shot up. Was it really him? Was Tidus really calling out to me? No, I was just hearing things, wasn't I? He couldn't really be talking to me through his mind, could he? Yes! Whatever the reason for me happening to her him It didn't matter. What did matter was the pain in the voice that echoed within my brain.

I could see the worried glances of Rikku and Paine as they faced me. I hadn't known it, but I had been whimpering excitedly and yet fearfully during the ordeal. Maybe they thought I had snapped?

"Yunie?" Came the concerned tone of my cousin. Rikku."

"Yuna, are you alright?" Paine followed up with a question of her own."

Turning to them, I nodded happily, and all the same worriedly. Would they believe me? Would they think I was still sane? I wasn't sure if I was.

" Everyone!" I shouted out so all could hear." Stop the pursuit! Take the quickest route to Bikanel!

What? Yuna, are you certain you want to do that?" Nooj questioned as I limped in an approach to me." We are not certain if this creature is taking Tidus there..

" It is.." I whispered with a smile that hid my fear, and I thought it hid it well because they gave no sign of concern." I'm certain.

" How do you know, Yunie?" Rikku responded, slightly confused."

" Because Tidus just called out to me…"

(( Authors note: How do you like me now?!! I'm not sure I have already asked that but I am asking again!! I have updated twice in one day!! Although, I have to admit…This chapter might not have been too good. I am sorry if it isn't but I have never written two chapters in one day so bare with me here! Anyway, I'll probably update tomorrow. Next Chapter: Tidus is brought into the hidden chamber of Bikanel where Gallant reveals his dark plot to destroy Spira and why!! Yuna struggles to reach him as she venture across the sands of Bikanel to the chamber that arose from the sands, but has the misfortune of stumbling across the Chamber Guardian! Why have all the fiends gathered here? What does Gallant intend to do with the dormant soul of Oblivion? Found out next time on my damn, freaking story ya freaking reviewers!! ))