A/n: YAY! I have hit the 20 mark!I seriously thought that you would spell Tidus's name Tidius, but guess I was wrong... I'm currently proof reading this story like once or twice a day and whao! I found So many spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes that I didn't know was there before! Anyways here's the next chapter, and once again, this is AU, the cast have all of our technology and entertainment, but they live in Spira. So Thanks once again to Slamlam, Paine3, Princess Mukkura, Sweet Raine, TidusXYuna637 for reviewing! You guys rock!
"No way am I climbing any more trees!" Tidus said remembering what had happened the day before.
"Ti! Please?" Yuna begged doing her puppy eyes as Tidus smiled.
"Oh, alright," Tidus agreed, handing his cell phone to Rikku so he'd have Rikku's cell phone (his was low on batteries). Tidus them climbed up the huge tree, which wasn't half as bad as it looked. Once he got to the top, there was a grassy looking meadow, (this is the same place where you had to go and get that Cactaur in chapter 5)...Tidus made a mental note to take Yuna here for their date, it had a overly view also. Tidus then searched his pockets for the cell phone when he realized it wasn't there...
"GUYS? WHERE IS THE CELL PHONE?" Tidus said looking down at everyone else.
"WHAT! YOU LOST MY PHONE?" Rikku hollered angrily.
"HEY! I HAD IT WITH ME EARLIER!" Tidus said, it was hard to hear him so he had to scream almost.
"CHECK YOUR POCKETS!" Gippal yelled back.
"I DID! IT"S NOT IN THERE!"
"Strange," Baralai said browsing through Tidus's phone and his. "There seems to be a connection, just Tidus's phone was low on batteries so he couldn't call anyone..." Baralai said.
"You mean he's climbing up there for apparently no reason?" Paine smirked.
"Yep. Think we should get him down?"
"No way...This is kind of entertaining,"
"Guys! Where's my phone?" Rikku whined as a Squatter monkey ran by them, clutching something.
"Is it just me or does that monkey look like it has your phone?" Paine said standing in front of the monkey who had appeared now to be holding Rikku's cell phone and banging it against a tree.
"HEY! That's mine!" Rikku said pouncing on the monkey as it ran up to the branch.
Paine glared at the monkey, her red eyes threatening the existence of the monkey if it wouldn't give back Rikku's phone. "Give. It. Back." Paine said slowly as the monkey winced and handed her the phone. Paine then threw the phone up at the tree that Tidus was on and using his quick reflexes he caught it .
A few more minutes passed by as the group glanced up at Tidus talking on the phone trying to get them some help.
"ARE YOU DONE YET?" Baralai yelled.
"THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHERE WE ARE! THEY SUGGESTED CALLING THE POLICE!"
"For what? Getting lost?" Gippal muttered. "That's not worth it..."
"LULU ALSO SAID THAT WE NEED SOME SERIOUS HELP."
"YOU CALLED LULU?" Rikku shrieked. "I AM RUNNING OUR OF MINUTES ON THAT THING YOU KNOW!"
"YOU BETTER CALL SHINRA , OR BUDDY RIGHT NOW OR ELSE I'LL HOLD YOUR BLITZBALL HOSTAGE!" Yuna screamed.
"NO! NOT THAT! ANYTHING BUT THAT!" Tidus sobbed remembering his prized Blitzball. Tidus then quickly dialed the number and started tlaking on the phone. After what seemed like another hour or so, Tidus had successfully managed to text Gippal's cell the directions and put the directions in the saved folder in Rikku's phone. Tidus slowly made his way down from the tree.
"You did it!" Yuna said happily hugging Tidius as Rikku started doing her happy dance and took her phone back and smiled.
That night, after no more encounters or anything, the group had made it back to camp peacefully. The funny part was that the camp was only ten feet away from them the whole time... It was now around one AM in the mornin. The sky was dark with few stars and the moon was rarely even seen as the trees blocked the path of the sky anyways
"I can't believe we went through all of that for nothing!" Tidus whined after everyone told him that he practicially climbed the tree for no reason. "Why didn't you guys tell me?"
"Well...you climbing a tree was so much more entertaining..." Paine replied.
"Hey!"
Yuna then headed back to her mini kitchen and started to prepare dinner with the help of Tidus and Rikku while Baralai, Paine, and Gippal started to start a fire. The boom box that they had brought was playing some of the songs from The Beatles.
Paine threw yet another block of wood into the camp fire as Gippal lit a match and threw it in, after many attempts the fire would just occasionally die out.
"This is hopeless..." Baralai said getting frustrated at the fire as yet another flame burned out.
"I think we're missing something..." Paine muttered.
"To start a fire we must have the following, oxygen, which we have more than enough of right now, fuel and heat." Gippal said smartly. "Military camp, remember?"
"Oh, yeah..." Paine and Baralai said.
"If we where in X-men we could like just turn that flame bigger if you had Pyro's power!" Gippal added.
"Pyro sucks! Ice man is so much better!" Baralai countered. "Or Storm for that matter!"
"Nuh uh! Wolverine is the best!" Paine added. "Or Nightcrawler!"
"No way, Rouge is better than all of those people!" Gippal said. "Jean's pretty cool too, same with Magneto."
The three then started to have an argument about which X-men character they thought was better. They where quickly interupted by Rikku a few moments later.
"Need more trash?" Rikku said suddenly as she came up to them holding on to a few oil bottles.
"I think we have over enough fuel..." Baralai said thinking as a small flame formed again.
"Ok!" Rikku said happily throwing in the empty bottles, just then the flame started to grow bigger and bigger! That's it! They had forgotten about oil! The camp fire was starting out very nicely now.
"YES! WE DID IT!" Gippal, Paine, and Baralai shouted happily.
"Yay!" Rikku added as she came back to help Tidus and Yuna.
"I swear! It's not in there!" Tidus said as Yuna was boiling some water.
"What do you mean it's not there?" Yuna asked curiously, she had just sent Tidus to get them the food that they had for camp.
"The food! I checked everywhere in the car for any signs of food! The only thing I could find was gum, a Pepsi or two, coffee, and a bag of chips!"
"YOU MEAN WE HAVE NO FOOD?" Yuna said shouted shocked as Rikku came up to them.
"I DON'T WANT TO CONVERT TO CANNIBALISM! OR EAT A MONKEY!" Tidus said freaking out and starting to sob while hugging Yuna who was still staring off into space.
These random hugging encounters are getting more frequent... Yuna thought, but he's SO cute!
"NO ONE IS GOING TO EAT GHIKI!" Rikku shouted addressing her pet monkey.
"It's ok, we won't convert to cannibalism, Tidus," Yuna said comfortingly. "Or eat a monkey for that matter..."
"Ok, so what are we going to do now?" Tidus asked.
"We could always order take out!" Rikku suggested.
"But that just detests the point of camping..." Yuna said disappointingly. "And it's one AM I don't think any stores or food places are open..."
"Need any help with anything?" Baralai asked as him, Gippal, and Paine came up to the three.
"Uh...someone forgot to pack the food..." Yuna said slowly.
"Strange, I did pack the food..." Baralai said remembering packing the food in the hidden compartment under the seats,
"Maybe someone robbed our car and took the food out!" Tidus suggested going to weird conclusions now.
"Yeah, and yet why would they want to rob th car?" Gippal added. "It's PINK."
"Are you sure?" Paine asked, "I mean you checked everywhere, right?"
"Yes, everywhere..."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive!"
"But we have two options open then" Baralai said "We can go to Ralph's which is open twenty four hours and get some food and stuff and bring it back here so Rikku can cook-"
"NO!" Everyone shouted as Rikku raised her eyebrow and pouted.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Rikku pouted.
"Well uh..., um...how should we put this..." Gippal said putting his fingers together.
"Well remember um...Thanksgiving?" Yuna said uneasily "You made Thanksgiving dinner...and all..."
"That took me forever! And we where missing so many ingredients that I had to substitute them!"
"Yeah, we could tell, you made Yuna go to the hospital because you put this one poisonous thing in it as decoration?" Paine smirked remembering the memory.
"That was an accident!"
"Remember my birthday cake and how it was moving for some reason?" Tidus said recalling his fifteenth birthday. "I swore that thing was alive..."
Flashback
"Happy Birthday to you, happy Birthday Dear Tidus, Happy Birthday to you!" Everyone sang to Tidus.
It was Tidus's fifteenth Birthday, One more year til he could get his driver license! Tidus was really excited, because mainly all of his closet friends where here and of course presents! One of his Friends, Rikku had even offered to bake him a cake! He hope that this would be good!
So there was Rikku holding out a two layers cake that said Happy Birthday, Tidus on it. The cake looked prefect. Yuna was wincing for some reason however. Then it struck Tidus, Rikku's cooking could lead to trouble more than half of the time. He could just hope that Luck was on his side today.
"Happy Birthday!" Rikku said hugging Tidus and laying the cake in front of him.
"Thanks, Rikku! It looks awesome!" Tidus said happily hugging her back.
"Make a wish!" Yuna added as Tidus nodded in agreement and made a wish and blew out all of the candles as everyone cheered. "So, who wants cake?"
The room erupted with replies. Tidus then dug a knife into the cake cutting it when something odd happened...The cake started to sink into a blob...
"Huh? Tidus said.
"It does tricks!" Yuna exclaimed gleefully.
As if that wasn't enough, the cake started to shift back and forth, now it was like Jell-O...Tidus could swear he saw something coming from the side of the cake trying to be stick out. The cake then melted, giving it an even scarier look. Tidus started at the cake, scared of what could possibly happen next...
"Whoa, is that cake even safe?" Jecht whispered to Auron.
"Well...I think it's alive..." Auron replied. "Let's get out of here before we have to eat it..."
"Of course," Jecht said heading outside after excusing himself and Auron.
"Well, aren't you going to try it?" Rikku said happily.
"Um...sure!" Tidus said poking the fork into the cake, he didn't want to hurt Rikku's feelings, but he swore, one day he'd tell her the truth about her cooking. Everything was in slow motion for him now as he slowly put the fork into the cake and...
Thank you Birthday Luck. The cake then exploded onto everybody in the room, the guests ran around screaming and fleeing as Tidus, Yuna, and Rikku ended up laughing like crazy. Whew, at least they didn't have to eat it...
"Uh...Surprise!" Rikku added glancing at her two friends who where laughing like crazy now.
Flashback Ends.
"And well, no offense or anything, but most of the food you cook isn't exactly um...safe..." Gippal finished also remembering a time Rikku made him taste her cupcakes which had bounced off the floor and crashed into a few dishes breaking it. "I mean remember those cupcakes that bounced and could break things?"
Flashback
"Gippal!" A young Al Bhed girl yelled holding on to a bag of cupcakes. She then spotted the Al Bhed boy, Gippal, and came up to him excitedly.
"Gippal! There you are!" Rikku said happily. "Brother got me an Easy Bake Oven! Well actually he stole it from this other kid, but that's ok! Anyways! I made cupcakes! And I made them for you!" Rikku said happily showing Gippal the cupcakes.
Gippal could swear that they where burnt and looked like a moving Jell-O...and to be honest, they didn't look all too good... "Is that safe?" He asked.
"Of course it is silly!" Rikku said digging her hand into the bag. "here, try one!"
"Aw...Really, That's alright." Gippal said backing away from Rikku and putting his hands up defensively.
"Try it, Gippal!" Rikku said advancing on Gippal, putting the cupcake closer to his face now...
Gippal ha no other choice then. He ran.
Rikku started chasing Gippal all around now, "GIPPAL! GET BACK HERE! GIPPAL! PLEASE! I'LL CALL YOU GIPPY! C'MON!"
A dead end. Just his luck, there was no escaping Rikku now. Gippal then too the door on the left and ended up in the kitchen, with Rikku innocently coming up at him and trying to force him to eat the lethal cupcake.
"Look, here Cid's girl, I don't'---" Gippal started, as Rikku shoved a cupcake in his mouth. The substance was rubbery and Gippal had wondered what in the world she put in there... Gippal then went into a series of coughing.
"WHAT! Are you alright?" Rikku said trying to un-choke him.
"Yeah, just fine," Gippal said sarcastically. "What do you put in those?"
"Well that'd be a secret!" Rikku smiled innocently.
"Remind me to get you Cooking for Dummies for your birthday," Gippal said half joking and half not really. "You REALLY need it..."
"WHAT! MY COOKING NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!" Rikku shrieked suddenly throwing the cupcakes at him. The cupcakes started to bounce off one of the walls, then it shattered the wall as it bounced onto the kitchen and broke the dishes, shattering them on to the floor...
"Oopsies..." Rikku said innocently.
Flashback ends.
"Meanies..." Rikku said crossing her arms and pouting. "You don't have any taste in good and real food!" She added dramatically as everyone burt into laughter.
"Ok, so who wants to head over towards Taco Bell? It's the only place that is open at this time, actually." Baralai said quickly, Rikku's cooking did sound scary...
So together everyone got in the car, until Baralai pointed out that they had to stop the camp fire and ran out and poured Yuna's boiling water all over it to stop, he them made his way back into the car. Paine volunteered to drive to the nearest Taco Bell and found one after thirty minutes of driving. The group then ordered five chicken chalupas, three beef chalupas, three chicken quesdilla, and two nacho's supremes, three Pepsis, one mountain dew, one dr. Pepper, and two sprites. After five minutes of waiting the food came and the group made their way back to camp eating along the way. They where greeted with such a destructive site...
"WHAT HAPPENED?" Yuna screamed looking at their camp. "Two of our tents are missing and someone lit the fire!"
"Um...Yuna...wrong camp..." Paine said rolling her eyes as she backed the car up into it's parking space, now their camp had the fire out and three tents like normal.
"Ok, so for tents," Rikku stated after she finished eating. "We only have three two people tent, there are six of us as in three boys and three girls, so..."
"A boy and a girl are going to have to share a tent" Rikku finished, "Volunteers?" She added slyly.
"I'm sleeping in the car." Paine said instantly.
"I'll share a tent with Baralai, then." Gippal said, then facing Tidus he added, "Sorry man, but you snore really loudly..."
"I had a cold that time when we where traveling!" Tidus snapped. "Do I snore that loudly?"
"Sorry, but you do..." Rikku, Yuna and Baralai said at the same time.
"Hey!"
"Ok, then so Yunie and I will share a tent, and that leaves Ti with his own!" Rikku concluded.
"Are you sure you want to sleep in the car? It is kind of far..." Baralai said to Paine.
"I'm not a fan of camping." Paine replied. "Tents, ugh."
"Now who wants to make smores?" Yuna said enthusiastically raising a bag of marshmallows, sticks, and chocolate and gram crackers as the group restarted the fire and enthusiastically surrounded the fire.
Yuna's and Rikku's tent... Three AM
Rikku sat up in her sleeping bag with a start. She had heard some growling and thrashing outside! What could possibly have happened? Rikku glanced over and saw that her cousin was sleeping peacefully. Rikku then opened up her little window on the side of her tent and glanced out. Her eyes widen in shock at the sight before her.
There was a black bear about nine feet tall and definitely wide sitting at the table and eating some of their leftovers from Taco Bell... The bear seemed to be enjoying it too as it looked for more food, destroying Yuna's mini kitchen and looking through the camp fire.
I'm just dreaming... Rikku thought to herself as she pinched herself, the bear was still there. What to do when you see a bear... Rikku thought.
Until Next time then!
Oh yea, and just in case... Disclaimer: I do not own any of the places that they go to like Taco bell, Ralphs, and stuff, along with all of the songs.
Thanks for all of the lovely reviews! Constructive critisim is accept, but compliments will be great appreciated and loved:D