Ok sea monkeys! I'm baaaaack! Let's see what Tagg has in store for you today.
A great big THANK YOU to all you reviewer type people out there that took the time to read the first chapter and give me feedback. ;)
I don't own FFX-2, so leave me and my ramblings alone.
And we're falling, we're falling…always falling down. I wonder what it would be like to fall up. If you can fall up the stairs, I'm sure that you can fall up somewhere else in the world. Maybe if you fell into the center of the world, you would fall up to the other side. That makes sense, right?
Wouldn't it be neat if I was the first person in Spira to fall up onto the other side? I guess the Something I'm falling with would be the first fiend to do it too. I don't want to share my spotlight with it. It's too…gooey. Maybe if it was a cute chocobo or a cactuar. Not a Something though.
It was still howling its weird howl. I had to stop screaming when I ran out of breath. I had yet to inhale properly. Tiny gasps were all I could get. One reason is that my ribs really hurt from that damn wall that got in my way back in the cave. The other is because of all the wind hitting me as I fell. It knocked the air out of me before I got a chance to get any more in my lungs.
Doesn't that thing ever shut up?! I guess it doesn't breathe or anything, seeing as it's made of goo. Do flans have lungs? I'll have to remember to ask Shinra that too. If I see him again. It's getting on my nerves. Where's a pacifier when you need one? I bet Lulu has one tucked away somewhere that I could use.
Uh oh. It's gone quiet. Did it faint? That can't be a good thing. If a fiend dies of shock, what'll happen to me? I made the mistake of looking down and found that I was directly above the huge Something. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
I heard it go 'SPLAT' below me. Then I went 'SPLAT' too. Only, not on the floor. I landed in the gooey-ness of the Something and sank into it, breaking my fall. It was by far the most disgusting thing I have ever experienced. Being sucked inside a Sandworm is really, really gross. This was worse. The goo was slimy inside, and it got in my hair and up my nose and under my bra…uhhhgh. Gross, gross, EW, gross, gross. Get me out of this nasty thing!
I had to swim my way out of it; it was that kind of liquidy-gross. Nothing will get me out of bed in the morning from here on out like the sound of something going 'SPLAT'. I'll bolt out of bed so fast it'll make your head spin. Just make sure that the hot water is going, because I'll want to get clean REALLY bad. Like I wanted to be right that minute.
At first, I thought that it was completely dark. Now I could see the grossness that was adorning my body glistening in some kind of glow. It wasn't light. It was a glow. And guess what? The gods were smiling down on me because there was this big, huge lake right next to me. Thank you! Thank you, whatever deity has giving me this blessing! Now I can be rid of Something slime!
I was in the water before you could say "Hypello". I tore my clothes off and scrubbed them to within an inch or their fabricy lives. That damn slime totally ruined my favorite bra too. If the Something wasn't already jam, (I can't say toast, it's too gooey) I'd kill it. Somehow.
What, you think I'm not capable of it? I'd have found a way! I would have! Really. Now you've gone and insulted me. You little-CRED! ALL MY JELLY BEANS ARE RUINED! That was a new bag too… poopie! This sucks! How am I going to get out of here without jelly beans to fortify me? They are a staple of my diet. Full of sugar and no vitamins what-so-ever.
I dragged my sodden clothes back on and got out of the water. There might be evil fish things down there that like the taste of Something goo. Bleh. Gag me. What other kind of fiends are down here, anyways? It can't be un-inhabited by fiends. They are everywhere in Spira, even in what used to look like rock walls but really turn out to be caves with Somethings in them.
My eyes were getting accustomed to the darkness and the glow was everywhere. It came from some kind of mossy looking stuff hanging on the walls. This cave didn't look right. Didn't look natural. It had to be natural, didn't it? No one makes caves just to have a cave. You can't make caves anyways. Can you? If you blow up the rock, it'll be unstable and collapse.
Natural or not, this place gave me the creeps. It was eerily lit, and the air felt…thick. Not like peanut butter thick, but like when you walk through a spider web. Like there were filaments of spider silk all around me and invading my lungs. I felt weighed down by it. I don't know which was worse, the air in this gods forsaken place or being trapped in goo.
I think I'll take the air, thank you.
I looked around in the vain hope of finding an exit from this abysmal place. Abysmal, abyss, get it? No? Well, I thought it was funny. I knew there wouldn't be one. I would be stuck down here for the very-short rest of my life. No one would ever find me. Another Something would come along and suck on my bones. I'd die, and no one would ever know it. I can see my epitaph now:
In Loving Memory of Rikku
Only daughter of Cid,
Cousin of High Summoner Yuna
Fell down a big, black hole
And never came out.
Isn't that nice? So comforting to the grieving.
I was still looking around in vain when I spotted what looked like a ray of hope. There was a door-like portal in the wall. How the Hell does a cave get a door-like anything? Caves don't have doors. They have more caves.
Still, it was better than just sitting here waiting to die. So off I went to the 'Door', trudging through countless invisible spider webs as I walked. I REALLY hoped that there weren't invisible spiders to go along with these invisible webs…
Kind of short, but this isn't an epic…yet. MWAHAHAHA! That got your attention, didn't it? I had an inspiration for this fic, and will continue it into what will become a dark, dreary tale of the Underground and what it holds in store for Rikku.
Let me know how you like it! I think I messed up some verb tenses, so if you see them let me know, 'k?
Thank you bunches!
Tagg.