Disclaimer: Once again, just incase any of you forgot how it goes here is my repeated disclaimer…. again. "The only characters that are mine are Connie, her family, her friends, and her family's friends. All the other characters are from FFX, FFX-2, and FFVII. Unless you count the dog and cat's names which are from Kingdom Hearts, the animals are mine, but the names are from Kingdom Hearts." Okay, now before I got off on some major tangent or something let's get the ball rolling.
On Earth as it is in Spira: Chapter 4: One Winged Bird
We came back up the stage elevator. She ran to barkeep again, I just stayed where I was. I still couldn't believe how different I looked. It scared me, a lot. A few seconds later Silly came back with yet another sphere. "Okay! Come on!" she hurried up the stairs in the cabin, and I followed her. She walked past both the beds, and towards the table sitting near by. She jumped up on the table. "Come on up!" she yelled down to me. I shrugged, and hoped up on the table. She bent down, and placed the sphere into the center of the table, and it started downward as well. "You know, there are all sorts of hidden practice rooms all over this ship. I mean everywhere! There's another one in the cabin, and there are two in the engine room. It's actually really cool."
The table stopped, just as the stage had. Except, this time it had steps for us to come down. Silly went first. I was kinda busy looking at the room, but I had reason to. It was a pretty big room. I'd say it was the size of a standard school gym, ceilings and bleachers included. I walked down the stairs, and upon reaching the floor heard my heels click on the floor. They echoed as I walked. I saw silly on the other side of the room jumping up and down waving her arms. I walked over to her, feeling my skirts brush against the floor.
"Hey!" she said. "Okay, stand here."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because this is point one. We're gonna start practicing your magic from here. Just let me go turn things on."
I stood where she told me to, as she ran toward a metal door, with a window next to it, about 30 feet away. I kept looking around the paint job was rather interesting. The whole room seemed to be painted in a metallic silver paint, or something. Everything, that is, except for a mural on one wall that was pretty big. It seemed to be a complete lineage, or something. I couldn't exactly see it from where I was, nor could I make out what is said, or what exactly was on it. Nor did I have the time, for the next thing I knew a fiend was right in front of me. A flan, to be exact. I froze, and started to back away. I didn't know magic yet, and there was a fiend right there!
Silly came out of the door. "Wait!" she said. "Don't move! Stay on your mark," she said.
"But if I stay here it will attack me, I don't intend to let that happen."
"No, you're fine. Oh… I knew I forgot something!" she said. She dashed back over to me and stood right next to the fiend. "It's fake!" She stuck her hand into it. "Hologram. See! Up there are the projectors," she said pointing to where the ceiling met the wall, and in the corners too. Now, any and all magic you do will be real, but anything you attack will be fake, for now anyway." She backed up. "Just stay here. I'm going to go into the booth over there. Don't worry, I can hear you, and you can hear me, but this is just to be safe, you know. Besides, the walls, and stuff are all magic and sound proof. So, I wouldn't recommend coming in here, and screaming for your life, because no one will hear you. Okay, so, that is a water flan. You can tell because it's all… blue… and uh… watery! Okay, so um, go a head."
"Silly," I said.
"Yeah?"
"You do know that I don't know how to do magic, right?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"You also know that I don't even know the motion to do for magic, right?"
"Oh, I didn't know that. Here, hold on." She flipped a few switches, and a hologram of Lulu, or what I thought looked like me, appeared to my right. "It's like this, the most basic spells anyway," she said. The Lulu raised her right arm, keeping the moogle in her left, and brought it down quickly. "Got that?" asked Silly.
"Once more," I said. The other Lulu did the motions again.
"Okay, thank you."
"You're welcome! So… try it!" she said.
I shrugged, and put my moogle in my left hand. I raised my right, and brought it down quickly, just as the other Lulu had done. Nothing happened.
"Okay… uh… try saying something with it."
"Alright," I replied. I did it the same, but this time I said. "Spark," with it. It was the only thing I could think of. Still, nothing happened. "Not a thing," I yelled to Silly.
"Dang. Mind if I try something?" she said.
"No, go right a head." She left the room she was in, and ran back to the table. "The lights will go off for a second, but everything will come back on in a second. I'll send the table back down." Then she left. The table snapped into place letting Silly out, and the lights switched off for just a second. Then the table started coming back down and the lights switched right back on. I thought I'd get a good look at this flan. It looked like a heap of blue slime. Even its tongue and eyes looked like slime. I hated the idea of it, it made me shiver. I couldn't look at it any more, so I thought I'd take a look at this moogle thingy. I was actually surprised how cute they were. I flicked the little ball on the top of it's head a couple of times.
While I was busy inspecting my stuffed animal Silly called down to me, "okay! I'm gonna come back down!"
"Alright," I yelled back. The table started up again. It reached the top, the lights switched off for a few seconds, then the lights came back on, and the table came back down. "Good, you stayed there, I was afraid that you were going to leave your mark. Look who I brought!" she said.
"Connie?" I heard.
I put my moogle back into my arms, and away from my face. "Hi Max."
"Wow… you…"
"I know. I look just like her, isn't it crazy?" I asked.
"Beyond crazy, it's down right insane. You look great."
"Thanks," I replied bluntly, "however I seem to be… not so great in the magic department. Would you give me a hand?"
"Well, the only magic I can do is from this materia, and that basically does most of the work for you. But, I'll try,"
"Thanks."
"You know your basic motion, right?"
"Yeah, we went through all that already."
"Okay. Let me see what you can do."
"Alright," I went through the motions just as I had learned, and just as I was supposed to. I brought my arm down fast, and looked at him. He was laughing at me! "What is so funny?"
"Nothing, sorry," he got himself under control. "Okay, let me see you do it once more," he said.
I shrugged, and did it once more only to find him laughing at me again! "Knock it off!"
"Sorry, you just look so funny. You look like a bird with only one wing! Hahaha!"
"Max, either knock it off now, or I swear to Yevon that as soon as I learn how," I brought my right arm up again, and brought it down when I said, "I will cast thunder on you!" I looked up, and saw a spark quickly turn from a spark to a bolt, and hit Max square in the chest. I had done magic! But, I had hit my own cousin! "MAX!" I yelled and ran to him, going off of my mark, and making the flan disappear.
He coughed a few times. "I'm so sorry; I didn't mean to hit you."
"Why? You did fine! You did magic!" he said excitedly.
"Yeah, but I hurt you."
"Okay, incase you haven't noticed, I'm Cloud. Okay? It's gonna take a lot more than just some Thunder spell to hurt me. But, I felt it. Good job."
"Thanks."
Silly just then came over the intercom. "Lulu, would you get back on your mark? I need to bring the flan back up, so we can practice some more."
"Sure," I went back to my mark.
"Cloud! Come here! You've been practicing hard, but I have a feeling we're gonna need you later, so come in here, okay?" Max went to the room Silly was in. "Okay, Lulu, let's see you do that again," she said.