Disclaimer: I don't own ffx.......... Yevon, I hate saying that.....
*Hits herself with her spiral* Baka! Baka! Baka! I can't believe I gave my teacher the web address. Oh, well. Ms. Spangler, if for some reason you're reading my story, don't read this chapter. -----------------------
Chapter 3:
Well, this has sure been an interesting day...
While aboard the SS Winno, Tidus got the bright idea to try the "Jecht Shot", but failed and fell on his face. For some reason I found it funny. Yuna gave me the evil eye and started talking to him. WHY WAS I THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW HER EVIL SIDE!? That night I sat on the balcony thinking. Tidus came over to me and sat down.
"Something wrong?" He asked.
"Just thinking." I told him. I was lying.
"You want to go home, don't you"
"When I was a child, I would pray night after night that my life was just a dream. That some day I would wake up from this nightmare. As I grew older I lost hope on that, but I still hoped for it with all that I was. When I came here I thought it was just a dream. Now I'm beginning to wonder. Could I have woken up? Could this be my reality? Am I free from that nightmare?"
No one said anything after that. It was probably because Yuna tackled me off the side of the ship when she saw me sitting there with Tidus. I landed on the deck below, and that's where I slept. Anyway, we arrived in Luca in the morning. I was awoken by being hit in the head with a blitzball.
"Ow! What the-"
Tidus ran over and retrieved his blitzball.
"Oops. Sorry Pretz." He apologized.
"Blitzballs love me I guess."
"Actually that's the second time I've hit you with one."
"What?"
"When you first washed up in Besaid I accidentally hit you in the head while I was doing me famous 'Sphere Shot'" He bragged.
"If you're so famous, how come Wakka hasn't said so?" I asked.
"Um.... That's because I'm so talented it makes people vomit."
"Right..."
Just then, Wakka came out of nowhere.
"You see that stadium, Pretz. Everyone in Spira'll be there. Someone's gotta recognize you, ya?" He said.
"I guess so."
I stood on the deck of the boat, looking at Luca's stadium and the city, which was full of people. An overview of the city, massive and full of people, is shown. The boat pulled into Luca's dock. The voice of an announcer could be head.
"Ah, over there! The ships carrying the players are arriving now! This would be dock number 2."
"All the way from Kilika, it's the Kilika Beasts! High Summoner Ohalland used to play for them--a big name to live up to. Their hometown was recently attacked by Sin. Isn't that right, Jimma?"
"Yes, Bobba. They're going to be pulling out all the stops to try and bring back the cup this year."
"Exciting, isn't it, folks? Our next team off the ramp is... Well, well, well! If it isn't the Besaid Aurochs! They're a living, breathing, statistical impossibility! I've never seen a team this bad! That's right! In twenty-three years they've never made it past the first round! Only a few die-hard fans are in the audience today."
"Best of lucky to them, and a safe journey back to Besaid."
"Aren't announcers supposed to be neutral?" I asked Lulu.
"They are. But no one cares if they call the Aurochs losers." She answered.
"They're that bad?"
She didn't answer.
"Right, Jimma. Moving right along, our next team is... Here they are, folks! Our very own Luca Goers! They've got power! They've got speed! They've got teamwork! They're an all-around first-class team! And they're back home in Luca!"
"Without a doubt, they are the favorite this year, Bobba. And after the way they dominated last year, it'd take a miracle for them to lose today."
"You can say that again, Jimma. Look at the crowd, folks! Look at the crowd! Looks like all of Luca has turned out to cheer the Goers on! They know, I know, and you know, folks! The Luca Goers are number one!"
Then this blue dude walked off another ship. Everyone bowed, except me because I didn't know to. Wakka shoved me down.
"Hey, show some respect, ya? That's Maester Seymour."
"Oh, sorry"
So Seymour went on and on about what he would do for Spira. I noticed he sounded oddly like Winnie the Pooh. What's a "Pooh" anyway? This made me shudder. Then I got bored so I took the microphone from Tidus and stood up on a crate to make up for my smallness in the crowd.
"Hey, everyone! Is it just me or does Maester Seymour sound really g-"
Big mistake! Before I could even finish, Wakka tackled me off the crates. He decided to finish my sentence for me in mid dive.
"Great!" He yelled then went back to me, "What in Yevon's name do you think you're doing!?"
"I got bored." I answered. I really was.
"You coulda said something about the blitzball games!"
"But I don't know anything about blitzball."
At that moment Lulu walked around the back of the crates. Wakka was too busy listening to me excuse to notice. She, like Yuna, took this the wrong way and stormed off. Wakka finally realized what was wrong and quit crushing me. First Yuna, now Lulu. I think I'm gonna get shot at some point or another. Well we all went down to the locker room, and the funky haired team started complaining about how they've had to play the Goers first every year. If you ask me they're all a bunch of winners. Then Wakka burst in.
"We're playin' the Al Bhed Psyches first. If we win, we're in the finals! That's right, we got seeded! Two wins and we're the champions! First things first. Let's go over the basics again, boys." Wakka announced.
The Aurochs cheered.
"Wakka, isn't being seeded, I dunno, cheating? And I know they suck, but they don't need to go over the basics again." I said as I pointed to Tidus, "Not even dipstick over there."
"Seedin' the Aurochs isn't cheating."
"OK! THAT'S IT! What in the name of Davey Crocket's sweat stained buckskins is an Auroch?! I'm renaming this team the Besaid Panda Bears!" I shouted.
"Uh, what's a panda bear, ya?" Wakka asked.
"It doesn't matter!"
"You can't just change the team name, Pretz!"
"Watch me!" I yelled, ran out with my sharpie of doom, scribbled out 'Aurochs' from the score board, and wrote on pandas.
Then, Yuna and Lulu burst into the room.
"There you are! Someone said they saw Sir Auron in a café!" Yuna said.
"Au-Auron?" Tidus stupidly squawked back.
"Yes, Sir Auron! Let's go find him!"
"Let's go!" Tidus so stupidly said.
As we were leaving, Wakka started having a spasm about the game, but Tidus just ignored him. One their way out Lulu grabbed me by the back of my scarf and dragged me with her. Upon asking she just said: "Stay away from Wakka". Well, we went to this café and then Kimahri started gettin' picked on by these bigger kitties with unbroken horns. And somewhere in the middle of it all the games started. Oh yeah, Yuna was kidnapped too. We were informed it was the Al Bhed people and that they wanted Wakka to throw the match in return for Yuna's safe return. How 'bout Wakka win the tournament and we forget Yuna, ya?
Well, we snuck aboard the Al Bhed's tugboat of doom and fought this robot thingy. The rest is all blur because when I told Lulu what really happened with Wakka she didn't believe me and fwaped me with her moogle. I spun around all dizzy like until Tidus, being the nice person he was, caught me. At that Yuna broke her staff on my head. I did however wake up to see this really big, scary thing zapping fiends.
"Holy shit! It's Ms. Church!" I screamed before Yuna realized she hadn't killed me yet and hit me again.
The next thing I was laying on this beach. I saw Lulu and muttered.
"It's a pop-tart..." I said.
I guess she didn't notice. It was all going so well and Yuna-free, that is, until I rolled over. In a big pile next to me was a stack of corpses! I jumped up and ran around screaming until it was time to go. There was this new old dude with us and Tidus looked very troubled. Moving on we stayed at this weird hotel thing until this deformed monkey knocked us off a cliff. We never did pay the hotel bill. When we came to Yuna was still knocked out for a few hours. Tidus began poking her with a stick. After a while my ADHD took over; I was sick of sitting around. Drastic measures were needed.
"Yunie, I'm gonna go make out with Tidus n-"I was saying until she bolted up and started strangling me with a Zim tongue sticking out of my mouth.
Once she finally stopped we continued along until we got to a river. The Moonflow, a gray river dotted with water lilies, and numerous globes of light rising from it.
"This is the Moonflow" Lulu said.
"These are moonlilies! They say that clouds of pyreflies gather here when night falls." Yuna told me
"The entire river glows, like a sea of stars." Lulu added
"Really? Hey, I got an idea!" I was saying until I was so RUDELY interrupted.
"We're not waiting till nightfall." Auron said.
I glared at him.
"I don't even know who you are and I already hate you"
Then I saw it. The deformed squirrel they call a shoopuff. Yes, they made me ride zee squirr- I mean shoopuff.
"Hey. Take a look." Wakka said to me.
"What?"
I stood up and looked over the ledge.
"Whoa! A sunken city!"
"A machina city--a thousand years old! They built the city on top of bridges across the river." Wakka said
"But the weight of the city caused the bridges to collapse, and it all sank to the bottom." Lulu added.
"Right. It's a good lesson." Wakka blabbed on.
"A lesson?" I asked.
"Yeah. Why build a city over a river, ya?" Wakka replied.
"Easy bathroom usage?" I asked.
"Nope, that's not why. They just wanted to prove they could defy the laws of nature!" Wakka corrected me.
"Hmmm? That ain't a law of nature, Wakka"
"Yevon has taught us: When humans have power, they seek to use it. If you don't stop them, they go too far, ya?" Wakka quoted from somewhere from the deep, dark reaches of his mind.
"Yeah, but don't you use machina, too? Like the stadium and stuff, right?" I asked.
"Yevon, it decides... which machina we may use, and which we may not." Lulu said.
"So what kind of machina may we not use, then?" I mocked her.
"Remember Operation Mi'ihen?" Wakka asked.
"Not particularly, no." I answered.
"Or war will rage again." Lulu finished.
"War?" I asked again.
"More than a thousand years ago... Mankind waged war using machina to kill!" Yuna said, shocking me as I didn't know the word 'kill' was in her vocabulary unless directed toward me.
"They kept building more and more powerful machina." Wakka went on.
"They made weapons so powerful... It was thought they could destroy the entire world."
With that I twitched and spazzed a gibberish word sounding like "vegnun" really fast.
"The people feared that Spira would be destroyed." Yuna continued.
"But the war did not stop!" Wakka said.
"Sin came, and it destroyed the cities and their machina." Yuna added.
"The war ended... and our reward... was Sin." Lulu finished.
"So, Sin's our punishment for lettin' things get out of hand, eh?" Wakka said.
"Wakka, you told me that before" I laughed. "But, it's not like the machina are bad."
"Only as bad as their users." Lulu corrected me.
"It's because of people like the Al Bhed screwin' everything up!" Wakka yelled.
The cabin suddenly started shaking.
"Whatsh could thatsh be?" the Hypello driver said.
Everyone stood up.
"Sit down!" Auron yelled.
An Al Bhed suddenly appeared from above the cabin, grabbed Yuna and jumped into the water.
"The Al Bhed!" Wakka screamed.
"Hmm, speak of the devil" I said Calmly.
"Yuna, we'll save you!" Tidus said in a rather cheesy, super hero manner before him and Wakka jumped off the save her. -------- Ok, I'm officially grounded for grades, but am working hard to fix that. Gomen. The good news is I FINALLY beat FFX! Cheer for me! This is the first Final Fantasy game I've ever beaten! Woo! I've not only, in the time I've been grounded almost FINISHED my FFX story, but started on an FFX-2 story. Ideas for the FFX story are still loved. Yes! 11:47! Ok, must type next chapter before I'm discovered. Cya. Oh, if you're reading this Atro, you're in this story ^_^. You'll see.
*Hits herself with her spiral* Baka! Baka! Baka! I can't believe I gave my teacher the web address. Oh, well. Ms. Spangler, if for some reason you're reading my story, don't read this chapter. -----------------------
Chapter 3:
Well, this has sure been an interesting day...
While aboard the SS Winno, Tidus got the bright idea to try the "Jecht Shot", but failed and fell on his face. For some reason I found it funny. Yuna gave me the evil eye and started talking to him. WHY WAS I THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW HER EVIL SIDE!? That night I sat on the balcony thinking. Tidus came over to me and sat down.
"Something wrong?" He asked.
"Just thinking." I told him. I was lying.
"You want to go home, don't you"
"When I was a child, I would pray night after night that my life was just a dream. That some day I would wake up from this nightmare. As I grew older I lost hope on that, but I still hoped for it with all that I was. When I came here I thought it was just a dream. Now I'm beginning to wonder. Could I have woken up? Could this be my reality? Am I free from that nightmare?"
No one said anything after that. It was probably because Yuna tackled me off the side of the ship when she saw me sitting there with Tidus. I landed on the deck below, and that's where I slept. Anyway, we arrived in Luca in the morning. I was awoken by being hit in the head with a blitzball.
"Ow! What the-"
Tidus ran over and retrieved his blitzball.
"Oops. Sorry Pretz." He apologized.
"Blitzballs love me I guess."
"Actually that's the second time I've hit you with one."
"What?"
"When you first washed up in Besaid I accidentally hit you in the head while I was doing me famous 'Sphere Shot'" He bragged.
"If you're so famous, how come Wakka hasn't said so?" I asked.
"Um.... That's because I'm so talented it makes people vomit."
"Right..."
Just then, Wakka came out of nowhere.
"You see that stadium, Pretz. Everyone in Spira'll be there. Someone's gotta recognize you, ya?" He said.
"I guess so."
I stood on the deck of the boat, looking at Luca's stadium and the city, which was full of people. An overview of the city, massive and full of people, is shown. The boat pulled into Luca's dock. The voice of an announcer could be head.
"Ah, over there! The ships carrying the players are arriving now! This would be dock number 2."
"All the way from Kilika, it's the Kilika Beasts! High Summoner Ohalland used to play for them--a big name to live up to. Their hometown was recently attacked by Sin. Isn't that right, Jimma?"
"Yes, Bobba. They're going to be pulling out all the stops to try and bring back the cup this year."
"Exciting, isn't it, folks? Our next team off the ramp is... Well, well, well! If it isn't the Besaid Aurochs! They're a living, breathing, statistical impossibility! I've never seen a team this bad! That's right! In twenty-three years they've never made it past the first round! Only a few die-hard fans are in the audience today."
"Best of lucky to them, and a safe journey back to Besaid."
"Aren't announcers supposed to be neutral?" I asked Lulu.
"They are. But no one cares if they call the Aurochs losers." She answered.
"They're that bad?"
She didn't answer.
"Right, Jimma. Moving right along, our next team is... Here they are, folks! Our very own Luca Goers! They've got power! They've got speed! They've got teamwork! They're an all-around first-class team! And they're back home in Luca!"
"Without a doubt, they are the favorite this year, Bobba. And after the way they dominated last year, it'd take a miracle for them to lose today."
"You can say that again, Jimma. Look at the crowd, folks! Look at the crowd! Looks like all of Luca has turned out to cheer the Goers on! They know, I know, and you know, folks! The Luca Goers are number one!"
Then this blue dude walked off another ship. Everyone bowed, except me because I didn't know to. Wakka shoved me down.
"Hey, show some respect, ya? That's Maester Seymour."
"Oh, sorry"
So Seymour went on and on about what he would do for Spira. I noticed he sounded oddly like Winnie the Pooh. What's a "Pooh" anyway? This made me shudder. Then I got bored so I took the microphone from Tidus and stood up on a crate to make up for my smallness in the crowd.
"Hey, everyone! Is it just me or does Maester Seymour sound really g-"
Big mistake! Before I could even finish, Wakka tackled me off the crates. He decided to finish my sentence for me in mid dive.
"Great!" He yelled then went back to me, "What in Yevon's name do you think you're doing!?"
"I got bored." I answered. I really was.
"You coulda said something about the blitzball games!"
"But I don't know anything about blitzball."
At that moment Lulu walked around the back of the crates. Wakka was too busy listening to me excuse to notice. She, like Yuna, took this the wrong way and stormed off. Wakka finally realized what was wrong and quit crushing me. First Yuna, now Lulu. I think I'm gonna get shot at some point or another. Well we all went down to the locker room, and the funky haired team started complaining about how they've had to play the Goers first every year. If you ask me they're all a bunch of winners. Then Wakka burst in.
"We're playin' the Al Bhed Psyches first. If we win, we're in the finals! That's right, we got seeded! Two wins and we're the champions! First things first. Let's go over the basics again, boys." Wakka announced.
The Aurochs cheered.
"Wakka, isn't being seeded, I dunno, cheating? And I know they suck, but they don't need to go over the basics again." I said as I pointed to Tidus, "Not even dipstick over there."
"Seedin' the Aurochs isn't cheating."
"OK! THAT'S IT! What in the name of Davey Crocket's sweat stained buckskins is an Auroch?! I'm renaming this team the Besaid Panda Bears!" I shouted.
"Uh, what's a panda bear, ya?" Wakka asked.
"It doesn't matter!"
"You can't just change the team name, Pretz!"
"Watch me!" I yelled, ran out with my sharpie of doom, scribbled out 'Aurochs' from the score board, and wrote on pandas.
Then, Yuna and Lulu burst into the room.
"There you are! Someone said they saw Sir Auron in a café!" Yuna said.
"Au-Auron?" Tidus stupidly squawked back.
"Yes, Sir Auron! Let's go find him!"
"Let's go!" Tidus so stupidly said.
As we were leaving, Wakka started having a spasm about the game, but Tidus just ignored him. One their way out Lulu grabbed me by the back of my scarf and dragged me with her. Upon asking she just said: "Stay away from Wakka". Well, we went to this café and then Kimahri started gettin' picked on by these bigger kitties with unbroken horns. And somewhere in the middle of it all the games started. Oh yeah, Yuna was kidnapped too. We were informed it was the Al Bhed people and that they wanted Wakka to throw the match in return for Yuna's safe return. How 'bout Wakka win the tournament and we forget Yuna, ya?
Well, we snuck aboard the Al Bhed's tugboat of doom and fought this robot thingy. The rest is all blur because when I told Lulu what really happened with Wakka she didn't believe me and fwaped me with her moogle. I spun around all dizzy like until Tidus, being the nice person he was, caught me. At that Yuna broke her staff on my head. I did however wake up to see this really big, scary thing zapping fiends.
"Holy shit! It's Ms. Church!" I screamed before Yuna realized she hadn't killed me yet and hit me again.
The next thing I was laying on this beach. I saw Lulu and muttered.
"It's a pop-tart..." I said.
I guess she didn't notice. It was all going so well and Yuna-free, that is, until I rolled over. In a big pile next to me was a stack of corpses! I jumped up and ran around screaming until it was time to go. There was this new old dude with us and Tidus looked very troubled. Moving on we stayed at this weird hotel thing until this deformed monkey knocked us off a cliff. We never did pay the hotel bill. When we came to Yuna was still knocked out for a few hours. Tidus began poking her with a stick. After a while my ADHD took over; I was sick of sitting around. Drastic measures were needed.
"Yunie, I'm gonna go make out with Tidus n-"I was saying until she bolted up and started strangling me with a Zim tongue sticking out of my mouth.
Once she finally stopped we continued along until we got to a river. The Moonflow, a gray river dotted with water lilies, and numerous globes of light rising from it.
"This is the Moonflow" Lulu said.
"These are moonlilies! They say that clouds of pyreflies gather here when night falls." Yuna told me
"The entire river glows, like a sea of stars." Lulu added
"Really? Hey, I got an idea!" I was saying until I was so RUDELY interrupted.
"We're not waiting till nightfall." Auron said.
I glared at him.
"I don't even know who you are and I already hate you"
Then I saw it. The deformed squirrel they call a shoopuff. Yes, they made me ride zee squirr- I mean shoopuff.
"Hey. Take a look." Wakka said to me.
"What?"
I stood up and looked over the ledge.
"Whoa! A sunken city!"
"A machina city--a thousand years old! They built the city on top of bridges across the river." Wakka said
"But the weight of the city caused the bridges to collapse, and it all sank to the bottom." Lulu added.
"Right. It's a good lesson." Wakka blabbed on.
"A lesson?" I asked.
"Yeah. Why build a city over a river, ya?" Wakka replied.
"Easy bathroom usage?" I asked.
"Nope, that's not why. They just wanted to prove they could defy the laws of nature!" Wakka corrected me.
"Hmmm? That ain't a law of nature, Wakka"
"Yevon has taught us: When humans have power, they seek to use it. If you don't stop them, they go too far, ya?" Wakka quoted from somewhere from the deep, dark reaches of his mind.
"Yeah, but don't you use machina, too? Like the stadium and stuff, right?" I asked.
"Yevon, it decides... which machina we may use, and which we may not." Lulu said.
"So what kind of machina may we not use, then?" I mocked her.
"Remember Operation Mi'ihen?" Wakka asked.
"Not particularly, no." I answered.
"Or war will rage again." Lulu finished.
"War?" I asked again.
"More than a thousand years ago... Mankind waged war using machina to kill!" Yuna said, shocking me as I didn't know the word 'kill' was in her vocabulary unless directed toward me.
"They kept building more and more powerful machina." Wakka went on.
"They made weapons so powerful... It was thought they could destroy the entire world."
With that I twitched and spazzed a gibberish word sounding like "vegnun" really fast.
"The people feared that Spira would be destroyed." Yuna continued.
"But the war did not stop!" Wakka said.
"Sin came, and it destroyed the cities and their machina." Yuna added.
"The war ended... and our reward... was Sin." Lulu finished.
"So, Sin's our punishment for lettin' things get out of hand, eh?" Wakka said.
"Wakka, you told me that before" I laughed. "But, it's not like the machina are bad."
"Only as bad as their users." Lulu corrected me.
"It's because of people like the Al Bhed screwin' everything up!" Wakka yelled.
The cabin suddenly started shaking.
"Whatsh could thatsh be?" the Hypello driver said.
Everyone stood up.
"Sit down!" Auron yelled.
An Al Bhed suddenly appeared from above the cabin, grabbed Yuna and jumped into the water.
"The Al Bhed!" Wakka screamed.
"Hmm, speak of the devil" I said Calmly.
"Yuna, we'll save you!" Tidus said in a rather cheesy, super hero manner before him and Wakka jumped off the save her. -------- Ok, I'm officially grounded for grades, but am working hard to fix that. Gomen. The good news is I FINALLY beat FFX! Cheer for me! This is the first Final Fantasy game I've ever beaten! Woo! I've not only, in the time I've been grounded almost FINISHED my FFX story, but started on an FFX-2 story. Ideas for the FFX story are still loved. Yes! 11:47! Ok, must type next chapter before I'm discovered. Cya. Oh, if you're reading this Atro, you're in this story ^_^. You'll see.