Hey again! There's some idiotic asshole who calls himself GARBAGE, and he's starting to piss everyone off. He pissed me and Aurons a sexy dead guy off by giving us shit. So if you have a problem with this GARBAGE freak, tell me in your review. And if you're reading this, GARBAGE, you're gonna be dead meat (laughs demonically at GARBAGE's expense)

We last left off with Tidus and I being abducted by Al Bhed! Where'd they take us? Let's find out...

Chapter 8: Meeting Rikku and Kinshi

I woke up. I was on a hard piece of metal. I tried to stand up, but I fell. Moving was hard to do. It was cold, very cold indeed. Lights were shining in my eyes repeatedly. I had to keep my eyes closed because they were so bright. The sweet smell of saltwater told me that I was on a boat. When the lights weren't shining in my eyes, I scanned my surroundings. Two metal poles were sticking out sideways on the deck. A large metal object, knowing that it was the bridge, was in the back. That's what was shining the lights. I could also see the group of people who "saved" us from the Klikk.

Mustering all of my strength, I stood up. The men looked at me, guns in each hand. "Tuh'd tu yhodrehk vihho!" they said.

I put my hands in the air. Somehow, I knew what they said. I wasn't supposed to trick them. From this point on, I was starting to wonder if I was part Al Bhed... Then I remembered.

"Where's Tidus?" I asked them. They looked at each other. "Fryd tet ra cyo?" one of them asked the other. "Paydc sa," the other replied. One of the men walked over to the two girls. "Ec ra y veaht eh teckieca?" he asked the girl in red.

I grumbled. These people aren't very smart, I thought. But what's weird is that I can understand them...

"Zicd mayja ic ymuha vun y frema, ugyo?" she said to them. She turned to the girl in black. "Oui lyh aqbmyeh du res fryd'c paah rybbahehk, ugyo?"

The girl nodded, and came towards me. I stepped back. I had no idea what she was capable of. She destroyed the Klikk back in the ruins with one grenade. I gulped. I hope I wasn't next on her To-Destroy list.

"Where's Tidus?" I repeated.

The girl smiled. I cocked an eyebrow. What's she getting at? She pointed towards the bridge. There, lying unconscious, was Tidus.

I turned back to the girl. "What did you do to him!" I shouted. I ran up to her and grabbed her by the collar. "Answer me!"

The girl got a little scared. "Calm down!"

I let go of her and stumbled back. I totally forgot that Al Bhed can speak English as well as Al Bhed. "Who are you, really?" I asked her.

She smirked. "Now I get the respect from you?" she shot back. She sighed. "My name's Kinshi, and the girl in red is-"

"I know who she is," I interrupted. "That's Rikku."

"You understood back in the ruins?"

"I can speak and translate Al Bhed."

She nodded in amazement. "Not a whole lot of Al Bhed haters can speak our dialect."

I stared at her. "I'm not an Al Bhed hater," I replied.

"We thought that too, but the men insisted that oui were a fiend."

"Uhh..."

"Oh. Oui means you."

I gaped. "Whatever." I pointed to Tidus. "He's alright, right?"

Kinshi sighed. "Being a fighter, you should know. But he's fine."

At that moment, Tidus woke up. He yawned. "yawn Morning everyone," he said, still trying to wake up. He looked around. "Uhh, where are we?" he asked me as he stood up.

"Apparently, we're not in Kansas anymore."

Tidus stared at me. "What's a Kansas?"

I shook my head. "Forget it." I turned to face Kinshi. "Tidus, this is Kinshi..." Kinshi waved. Tidus waved back. "...and that over there by the bow is Rikku." Rikku turned away from the water and waved.

Tidus nodded. "So, who are they?"

I told him the story of how we were "rescued" by the Al Bhed, and how they thought we were fiends. This made Tidus double over in laughter. He fell down, laughing hysterically. "You guys... thought... that we... were fiends!" he asked, still unable to control his laughing.

Kinshi sighed. "I didn't want to do this," she said as she whipped out a doll shaped like a cactus with legs and arms, "but I must." She put her empty hand in the air. Suddenly, a streak of lightning hit Tidus. Tidus cried in pain. "Oww!" he sobbed. "What was that for!"

Kinshi laughed. "For laughing uncontrollably and for being a great big pain in the ass."

Tidus whimpered, and laid down, trying to forget everything that had just happened to him.

It was hard to stifle a giggle. It seemed that way for Rikku. I bent over Tidus's crumpled body. "Calm down," I soothed. "Who knew that she was a Black Mage?"

Kinshi coughed. "Actually," she replied, "I'm a Warrior Mage!" The Cactuar doll changed from a stuffed animal to a long broad sword with needles around the blade. The sword was bright green with a brown handle, which had a carving of a Cactuar on it.

Tidus and I stared at her. We gazed in awe at the wondrous transformation. I chuckled. She is kind of cute, I thought.

After a few minutes of staring at my crush, Tidus leapt at me, and punched me in the jaw. "Get a hold of yourself!" he roared as I fell to the ground. Rikku and Kinshi giggled hysterically.

I stood up, grinning. "How stupid did I look?" I asked.

"Like a person on a diet at the base of a mountain made of cake and ice cream," Rikku replied.

This made everyone laugh. Who knew Rikku could be so hilarious? I guess I was still getting used to my new life, because I forgot that Rikku was always funny.

Rikku straightened up and looked serious. "How did you get into a place like the Baaj Ruins?"

Tidus and I explained the best we could about the attack on Zanarkand, Auron, and Sin and Ronoa. Rikku and Kinshi nodded as we told the story. After we finished, one of the men came out from the bridge and onto the deck. He was carrying a tray of food. "Dinner's ready," he said. We stared at him. Silence. The man backed away. "I'll leave you guys alone," he said to break the silence, and went back inside.

Rikku sighed. "What you told us couldn't have been possible," she said.

Tidus and I looked at each other. "It is true!" I shot back. "We didn't come here by boat, plane, or magic, so how do you think we ended up there?"

Rikku was silent. "Zanarkand was destroyed about 1000 years ago," she said quietly.

"WHAT!" Tidus yelled.

"You said that you were from Zanarkand," she tried to explain. "But it was destroyed a thousand years ago. We don't know if Sin destroyed it, or if it was from the Machina War between Zanarkand and Bevelle, but..."

Kinshi spoke up. "You said you were near Sin," she mumbled. She stood up straight. "Oh my God! Rikku, they're sick!" she screamed.

"Calm down!" Tidus yelled at her. She stopped screaming. "What do you mean we're sick? Are we lechers or something?"

I decided to brag about my unknown knowledge again. "Sin lets out a toxin whenever you're near," I explained. "Since we were near Sin, we breathed the toxin."

Tidus just stared. "So... we're sick?" he asked Rikku.

"Afraid so," she replied solemnly.

I put my head near Tidus's ear. "What they don't know, and shouldn't know," I whispered, "is that Sin can teleport people to different times."

Tidus looked at me questionably. "How do you know all this?" he asked.

I growled. "I thought I told you that I'd tell you later!" I yelled. I stopped. Rikku, Kinshi, and Tidus were just looking at me, stupefied. I could feel the red hotness of embarrassment crawl all over me. "Uhh..." I tried to speak. "Uhh... nothing happened."

Everyone sighed. "Whatever," Kinshi said.

Rikku stepped forward. "I have a favor to ask you two."

Tidus and I looked at each other. "What kind of favor?" Tidus asked while folding his arms.

Rikku cleared her throat. "The reason that we're here in the ocean is because there's something below us. Me and my crew tried to investigate using machina- machines- to determine what was under us. But each time we made out a shape, some stupid fiend would eat our machina. I tried going down there myself, but it was too deep and dangerous for me to go alone. So I was wondering..."

Kinshi interrupted. "Will you go with us?" she said quickly. She made a puppy dog pout towards me.

Tidus stared into space. I went red in the ears. I smirked. "Of course we'll help. Isn't that right, Tidus?" Tidus was too busy eating. He started to choke. Rikku fetched him a glass of water. "Here, drink this," she said, as Tidus grabbed to glass and chugged it. He coughed. "Thanks," he said.

Rikku smiled. "You'll choke if you eat too fast."

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I can't wait to see what we're going to find underwater! But Rikku said that fiends were down there... What if a big fiend tries to eat us? Tune in next time!