Disclaimer: "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." Yahtzee for repetition! Now back to the story.

On Earth as it is in Spira: Chapter 5: Getting into Character

I got back on my mark and I could see Silly pushing buttons and levers like mad. I was still working out in my head exactly how I did it. I just… got mad at him. That was all it took. I got mad at my cousin a lot, more often than not it was provoked, but, I did get mad at him often. Mostly I thought of how funny it would have been if just then I would have been able to hit him, I envisioned it, and when it was all over… well I was shocked that I had actually done it. "Okay Lulu, can ya hear me?" asked Silly over the intercom. I looked over at her little protective booth, where she and Max kept out of harms way.

"Yeah, I hear ya."

"Awesome. So, do you think you can pull that trick off once more?"

"Uh… I can sure try," I replied.

"Alright, let's give it a shot." She pushed one button and the blue flan reappeared in front of me, right where it had been the time before.

I glanced over where Silly and Max sat. Max stood up and walked over next to silly. He grabbed the microphone. "Hey, Connie,"

"What do you want Max?" I replied slightly annoyed.

"Good luck."

"Thanks," I replied. I lifted my right hand up. And I could hear Max laughing a little, already falling apart at how I looked, though I didn't care what he thought at all it still ticked me off a little bit, I brought my right hand down, and the thunder spell hit the flan, and it disappeared.

"Nice hit!" said Silly. "Okay, now that we have thunder down why don't we try our hand a little ice ay?"

"Bring it on," I said getting more excited and starting to enjoy this.

"Okay." She pushed another button and a red flan appeared in front of me. "Same motion, just a different spell. Good luck to ya!" she said.

"Thanks." I had to figure something out and quick. I had a feeling that getting mad wouldn't work quite as well; an ice spell had a completely different feeling to it. When you're doing lightning, I discovered you had to think about lightning, and how much it would literally shock you (not to mention the thing you were aiming for) if you did it correctly, of if you messed up, if you did it incorrectly. But with ice, it was a feeling of coldness. As in having no affection, and no feeling. Usually, I was a fairly warm person, I was affectionate toward Grandma Jill, my parents, my cousin, my friends, and it was hard for me to be cold at all. I glanced over at the booth for a second, and I saw Silly talking to Max. He was reaching for the microphone, and she was holding him back. She was probably telling him this spell would be different, so what he did last time wouldn't work quite as well. I looked back at the red flan bouncing up and down in front of me.

I thought about it for a second. Did I feel any affection at all for this creature? First of all, I knew it wasn't real, but if it were would I care? Second, why would I care? Fiends don't have parents, they are the pure evil in a person, and they are not born, they are just basically created. They were a pointless thing, and I felt no reason to feel for them, especially if their intention was to hurt someone who did matter to someone else.

I sighed quickly, and lifted my right hand once again. I felt no affection, no love, no care, no need to protect this creature, no need to hold back. My feelings were so cold that my hand that was in the air was getting cold. I brought it down quickly, and a block of ice hit the red flan, and it disappeared.

"ALRIGHT LULU!" I heard Silly cheer. "You know, you're getting good at this!" She laughed and smiled. I turned, and faced the booth, and bowed. "Okay, two down, two to go. Let's go head and do a lightning one now. Okey doke?" She pushed another button and a yellow electrified flan appeared. I nodded. I knew water was going to be hard.

I had to think about this one too. This couldn't be translated into a feeling, water was a noun, and nothing else… well… it could be an adjective, but only when you add a "Y" to the end. I had no clue how to go about this. "Silly," I yelled.

"Yeah?" she yelled back.

"Any idea what to do for water?"

"Uh-uh, sorry, no clue."

"Max, can you come out here for a sec?" I ask.

"Sure." The door opens and closes and he walks over. "No idea where to begin?"

"Nope."

"Okay," said Max, "let me try this. Water is…"

"Blue."

"And…

"Wet… what are you trying to do?"

"Figure something out, and hoping that some of this will trigger some sort of idea… anything?"

"No."

"Uh… hang on…"

"Wait, I have an idea."

"Well, let's see it."

I raised my right arm once more, and brought it down rapidly, and some way or another, the water spell worked. The yellow flan disappeared, and I looked at Max. "Okay, one more down."

"Wait a second… what did you figure out?"

"Just, thought about the spell, basically. Water is a polar molecule, I just thought about positive and negative molecules in the air, and the neutral feeling I knew it would take to create that. You know, I felt… neutral, just basic, and almost empty. That's what triggered the positive and negative ends to attract like that."

Max stared at me for about 10 seconds. Then the only word he said was, "Huh?"

"Never mind," I said, growing impatient. I noticed that my tolerance for my cousin was slowly diminishing.

"Nice job Lu! You wanna take a shot at an ice flan?"

"Send it in." Max started back toward the booth, Silly pushed the button, and I already knew exactly what to do for this one. I looked right at it, raised my right hand, and said out loud, "Burn," brought my hand down, and the fire spell was cast.

"Whoa..." I heard Silly say over the intercom. "You've gotten really good really fast!" she said.

"No, not really. That spell I felt way back when I first walked on the ship. Every time I said the spell name it would happen. Watch, bring out another ice flan, okay?"

Silly pushed the button, and I raised my right hand again. "Watch this, fire away," I brought my hand down on the word fire, and the fire spell just happened. "It was that simple, it's easy."

"Cool! Well, I suppose that that is about all the training we can do for today. Max, will you go and get everyone else. We're gonna go up to the bridge, and see how things are going."

"You got it," said Max. "I'll meet you there." We all headed for the 'elevator/table.' The second we got off Max took off running.

"You did good in there," Silly said.

"Thanks a million," I said.

"No, really, I mean it. But, you're really slipping into character. You notice that?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you've gotten quiet, intolerable, you get lost deep in thought more often than you realize I bet," she said as we entered the elevator that would take us to the bridge.

"No, that's how I always act."

"You sure about that?"

The truth was, I wasn't sure about that, in fact, that's no where near to how I usually act, but for some reason, I felt the need to hide that. "Yeah, I'm sure," I said, lying.

"Okay, if you're sure." The elevator doors opened, and we walked onto the bridge.

"Silly," Brother said in his thick accent, "you might want to come and take a look at this."