A Story revolving around Gippal from FFX-2. If you like Drama, action, and love scenes, this is the fiction for you! I welcome all reviews!

Anything in Al Bhed will be translated into English in brackets, so don't worry if you can't read it. This is a story with a mix of characters from final fantasy X-2 and made-up characters from the same world. Also, since I never saw an explanation to Gippal's lost eye, I'll explain it myself.

PROLOGUE

Gippal shoved Baralai. "You destroy EVERYTHING! Ku du RAMM yht NUD drana! E lyhhud pameaja oui! Ruf tyna oui dyga so Rikku?" ((Go to HELL and ROT there! I cannot believe you! How dare you take my Rikku?))

"Shut up Gippal. She left you. Deal with it." Baralai walked away… well, he nearly floated away. The way he walked made Gippal wonder if he was a little on the other side.

Gippal gathered himself up and headed inside the Djose Temple. He locked himself inside the small room to the left of the main stairs, lay on his bed, and cried. He silently thanked the Creator that it was loud in the temple and no-one would hear.

FLASHBACK

3 children, a young Gippal and 2 girls, 1 of which would grow up to be Rikku, play in the Desert sands. Their mothers call them for dinner and they head home, only to be confronted by a Fiend!

"Oh No! Gippal, Gippal… We have to get away!" Rikku cried.

"No, it will chase us. We have to get it!"

The three children picked some knives up they had been given from their mothers for protection, and attacked the Fiend. They finally defeated it, but not before it tearin out Gippal's right eye and the Fiend severely injured the other little girl, whose name Gippal could not remember.

Rikku and Gippal carried the girl back to her home.

Flash Forward…

The Girl and her family leave the Desert, and they are never seen in the area again, though they are heard from now and then… Rikku and Gippal become friends.

FLASHBACK ENDS

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Laelu looked up at the sun. She was happy to be back so close to home… she hadn't been here since she was a child…

Upon her return were many warm welcomes. Even Rikku, her early childhood friend, was present. And what a joy it was to hear that Gippal, who had saved her life as a child, had become the Al Bhed's Leader.

"Ra fungc yd Djose Temple. Ra icac uha uv dra nuusc drana yc rec rusa yfyo vnus rusa. Dra uha uh dra mavd uv dra cdyenc." ((He works at Djose Temple. He uses one of the rooms there as his home away from home. The one on the left of the stairs.)) Rikku told her.

Laelu thanked her, hugged her, and made her way to the Temple