Okay, so I sort of lied... I decided to update before I left, since I had this one done, and the day I came back, since I have that one pretty much done, too :) Anyways, THANK YOU SO MUCH to the people who reviewed:

DarkAnimePriestess: LOVE THE REVIEW! (Teehee)

Paine3: I kept my promise and then some! Enjoy, thank you for reviewing!

Motet: Thank you sooo much for reviewing (again), and I'll admit I was a little disappointed with the lack of reviews, and my other story that's finished has this one beat by a mile, and this one will be much longer. We'll see come chapter 8, I guess. Oh, well, I'm gonna finish this anyway, and hope that another bright idea comes along:)

In front of them was an enormous cavern. All around, much like you might see in a horror movie, were skeletons. They covered the ground, causing Yuna to cover her eyes and groan, while Paine wrinkled up her nose and began picking through them towards the center of the room. In the center of the room stood a small pedestal. On the pedestal sat a sphere.

Rikku reached over and latched on to Yuna's arm. Yuna looked over at her. "We have to, Rikku," she said softly. "We can't leave Paine to do it all alone."

"Human skeletons? Yeah, not part of the job description," Rikku said, unable to tear her eyes away from the bones.

Yuna grabbed Rikku's wrist and dragged her into the cavern. "We didn't have a job description," Yuna reminded her, a trace of teasing in her voice.

Seeing Paine walking through them alone tugged at her heart until… "Fine," Rikku finally agreed. She and Yuna rushed to catch up with Paine, who was carefully stepping around all of the human remains.

"Hey Rikku, why isn't the radio going off?" Yuna asked.

Rikku noticed that it wasn't in her hand anymore. She checked all of her pockets, and didn't find it anywhere. "It must have broke when I fell, since I couldn't hear it, and I don't have it."

"Is it just me, or is there something odd about that sphere?" Paine wondered aloud.

"It's not just you," Rikku replied, looking at the sphere and biting her thumbnail in thought. "It's not really the same color—more of a faint orange, really."

"Something is off," Yuna finally said, squinting at the sphere.

"Speaking of which… I kinda hate being curious at times like this, but… why the hell is this place completely covered with skeletons?" Rikku asked.

"You actually want to know?" Paine replied in surprise.

"Well… no, I mean, yes, but, no," Rikku sputtered.

Paine stopped. Rikku hadn't realized that they had made their way all the way to the center of the cavern. Paine, who was in front, reached out and hurriedly grabbed the sphere off of the pedestal.

"What, no huge monster that we never noticed to come engage us in an epic battle over the sphere like normal?" Paine said sarcastically.

Despite their situation, Rikku laughed at Paine's obvious joke. The fact that Paine never joked made it that much more funny.

Just as they were about to leave, as Paine had been expecting, four gigantic spider-like monsters jumped down from the ceiling. Rikku screamed as they began rushing straight for the three girls standing there at the center of the room!

Rikku didn't take long to study them—she was too busy running for her life! She led the other two girls out of the cavern as fast as her feet could carry her.

"You had to say it, didn't you?" Yuna huffed at Paine as they ran back down the tunnel.

Paine rolled her eyes. "I thought we were getting away with it, for once," she argued.

The girls continued to run. Rikku chanced a look over her shoulder to see if the monsters were even following them. Sure enough, they were, and gaining on them at that.

"Better hurry!" Rikku told Yuna and Paine breathlessly. "They're gaining on us!"

"Put on your Berserker dresspheres," Paine told them. "We're going to have to scale the wall to get out!"

"Paine, there's no way we can beat these things," Yuna said. "They're like spiders! They could out-climb us any day!"

"I guess we're going to have to fight them, then," Paine said, drawing her sword.

When they finally reached the end of the tunnel, chests heaving, they finally turned around to face their attackers. The four gigantic spider-like creatures wasted no time attacking the three girls.

Yuna pulled out her two guns, and began shooting. She shot three of the legs off of the first one, before running under it and shooting at its underside. It almost fell on her, it died so quickly. As it crashed down, it scraped across her back, leaving three long, straight cuts. When it hit the ground, it dissolved into pyreflies.

She went to help Rikku, who had also went for the 'chop off the legs' strategy, who had removed all but two. Yuna shot at what seemed to be its head. Paine had already finished taking down two of them, and hurried over to finish the last one off with Rikku and Yuna. She ran under it, stabbed her sword right into its underside, and came out unscathed. The monster fell, and turned into pyreflies.

"Yuna, you're hurt!" Rikku said, noticing the three gashes on Yuna's back.

"I'm fine," Yuna said, panting heavily. She was still tired out from the long run down the tunnel.

"That was surprisingly easy," Paine commented.

"Disgusting!" Rikku said, wiping off some green goop that had splattered onto her during the fight. "Wait—when did I get covered in this!"

"Let's just get out of here before more come," Yuna said, pulling out a garment grid and hurriedly changing into the Berserker dressphere.

Rikku and Paine followed suit, and soon, all three girls were scaling up the wall rapidly. It was the fastest any of them had ever climbed anything. Despite the fact that the spiders fell easily, that didn't change the gross-out factor—they didn't want to fight any more of them.

When they were at last pulling themselves up out of the hole, all three were heaving sighs of relief.

"I finally feel safe again," Rikku said, not bothering to change out of her dressphere.

As she and Yuna began dancing around with happiness (they had, after all, just outwitted completely disgusting monsters and found the sphere they had spent hours searching for), they noticed Paine, who had frozen up completely.

"What's wrong, Paine?" Yuna called.

"The sphere. It's turned completely gray."

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Lulala