CHAPTER 9

They arrived in Djose about two hours later and were greeted by Gippal who was holding a small monkey. Rikku walked off the airship and onto land followed by Marlene. Gippal opened his mouth to speak but Rikku put her hand over his mouth. "Let me tell her!" He nodded and handed the small furry animal over to her. "We want you to have this little guy! Remember to feed him, clean up after him and give him loads of attention!"

Marlene smiled and took the monkey from Rikku. "He's so cute!" She fused. "Do I get to name him?"

"Yup! Yup!" Rikku said walking back into the temple as it began to rain. "Any thing you want!"

Marlene walked in with Rikku and Gippal thinking of what to call the monkey. "Sabrina! That's what mommy was called."

Rikku smiled and took Marlene into the small room that she would be staying in. But sitting in that room made her miss Yuna even more. She remembered hat when they were on the airship and she had to go and say here to get away from Brother Yuna had come here and told her that she could come back. Marlene kept on hoping that would happen now, but deep in her heart she knew it wouldn't.

Rikku helped her unpack and was talking too much to notice her silence. "Ain't you gonna say anything?" Rikku asked sitting on the bed next to Marlene. "What's wrong?" Rikku asked surprised when Marlene started crying. "What ever it is you can tell me."

Marlene didn't say anything but kept on crying, in the end she fell asleep. Rikku lifted Marlene off of her and put her under the covers. "What was wrong with her?" Gippal asked.

"I don't know? Hey do you think she misses Yunie?" Rikku grabbed a warm drink and started drinking it to warm herself up. "I mean… It wasn't nice of her to just dump Marlene when they've been as thick as glue. They were fine until Tidus came back."

"Before Yuna had no one to be especially attached to, so she found Marlene and enjoyed what she had missed. But then Tidus comes back, marries her and they have a kid, no room for Marlene left."

"You know you make sense for once? But what Yunie did was mean!" She walked over to a comsphere and connected it to Besaid.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm gonna call her and tell her that she's being selfish! And she should take Marlene back as soon as possible!" Hiding behind a machina was Marlene; she had heard that last part and wondered why no one wanted her.

She walked back to her room and picked up the baby monkey and snuck outside, not making a single noise until she was out of sight of the temple.

There as no one on the mushroom rock road, most likely because it was night. Marlene saw two cross roads and chose to take the one to the Moon flow.

Marlene walked all across the Moon flow and smiled at the beauty of the lake as the pyreflies danced over it like faeries. She continued her journey and walked through Guado Salam. For some reason Yuna had always told her not to go through there. Marlene stopped dead in her tracks as she remembered that she wasn't allowed in for her own safety. But then again Yuna wasn't with her now. If she cared about her then she would be with her now. Disobeying Yuna's orders to never go into the small village she quickly walked through and found herself on the Thunder Plaines.

She had to outrun fiends a few times getting cuts and bruises and feeling tired. Soon she was in Macalania. Marlene saw a figure coming towards her; he looked like the person she had seen in Besaid. As he got closer she noticed that it was!

She sat down against a tree trunk and saw him come closer until he was in full view. He bent down to look at her and she could feel herself being picked up by him and then carried off, and fell asleep tired from the long travel.

She woke up wrapped up in a warm blanket next to a fire. Looking around she noticed that she was in a cave. It was dark inside and damp, outside there was a snowstorm. Looking around a bit more she noticed the same figure cooking something that smelled good.

"Where am I?" She asked. The man turned around, he had dark blue hair, white skin, and funny coloured eyes.

"Ah. I didn't realise that you were awake." His high pitched voice spoke. "You are at Mount Gagazet."

Marlene nodded and sat up. "I'm Marlene. What's your name?"

He smiled. "I am Seymour Guado, I know your name." Marlene looked at him confused.

"I know where I've seen you from now! The sphere! Shinra and Yuna showed me a sphere of you! They said that you were my…" Her voice got smaller. "Are you my dad?" She asked him.

Seymour nodded and handed her a piece of food that he was cooking. "Here. You've travelled a long way; my guess is that you are hungry."

Marlene nodded and eat the piece of meat he handed her smiling as it went into her stomach. "Thank you." She snuggled back under the covers feeling cold as the fire died down.

Seymour moved closer to her trying warm her up. "Warmer?" He asked feeling tired himself. Marlene nodded and closed her eyes not realising that the man she was with now was pure evil.

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