(SPHERE HUNTING TIME!)
A month had past and the whole crew on the airship were now fast friends. Koaso fit in fine, and Kiki's past problems were starting to ebb away. That's when they found the sphere. It started out like another normal day for the gullwings…
"We're getting some sphere waves from Zanerkand ruins," Buddy announced. "They're pretty strong, so we better get there before anyone else does."
"Ooo Yah!" Rikku exclaimed jumping into the air. "I needed this today!"
All of the gullwings assembled on the bridge. They all got ready for the adventure to come while they waited for Brother to land the ship. Once landed, they all went outside and waited for Brother's instructions.
"Well, it looks like it can't be too far into the ruins… and the fiend level is pretty low, so just head on in and keep on your toes."
"Alright, let's move out!" Yuna said. They all headed in towards the ruins. Of course at the front door, they ran into the first fiend. A fire element. They all got into battle positions. Koaso was a warrior, as well as paine – Rikku was a thief – Yuna was a berserker – and Kiki was, well, Kiki! Koaso had the first blow. It was average, but weekend it a little. Then it was Yuna, who had a critical blow. Then Kiki went, she whipped it with her tail several times, and it became very tired and slow. Then Rikku and Paine finished it off together.
"Yeah!" Rikku yelled. "How was that?"
Paine even smiled. She loved to fight things, it was just in her nature to do so. "That was pretty good," she said.
They continued into the ruins for while, when they heard Buddy's voice.
"It should be very close now! Just a little to your left…" they all turned to the left and started searching along the ruined wall and junk from tourists. Rikku was the one to find it first.
"I found it!" she cried happily. "But it's… black?"
They all walked over and examined the sphere. It's was very interesting to them , because most of them haven't even seen a black sphere before. Only Yuna and Paine had.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Paine asked. "Let's watch it."
They all huddled in towards the sphere and this is what they saw…
A man sat against the ruined wall. He was talking to another man, who seemed a lot younger.
"So, what do you say that you are doing again?" the second man asked.
The man against the wall replied, "I'm experimenting with machina…"
"How exactly?"
"I'm fusing it… with humans…"
"Oh my… that's horrible! How are you going to get people to do that?"
"I have three god children coming… they will work…"
"I… I can't let you do that!"
"That's too bad… I would have shared the profit…"
The first man pulled out a gun and shot the second man. The screen became fuzzy, then it went blank.
Everyone immediately turned to Kiki. She had tears in her eyes. Koaso took her hand and mumbled… "Yes… it was my father… but it's over now…"
"No!" Kiki cried. "There are more. There are two… and they're probably my step sisters…"
(Oh yeah, two chapters in one day! Hoorah! Okay, tollivandi silverwing ( I know I spelled it wrong, but she had reviewed me so her name is there) is probably going to write about another machine fuse. But I was the first one, and she is the second, so don't blame her for copying me. It's okay with me, oi Tolly? Okay, R&R)