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Chapter 4: Isle of Besaid

The first thing I notice as I wake up is that my head is face down in the water, the second thing I realize is that I'm not dead. I then realize I had forgotten to take off the bubble-head charm, I remember faintly getting rid of Rikku's, but when I look back, I totally forgot about our own. My inattentiveness just saved our lives.

With my face, face-down in the water I realize that I'm floating I quickly push up and start treading water. Tidus is next to me, face down, bubble-head charm still on. I realize that I should take the charm off, as soon as he is awake. It is slowly draining me of magic, and in this unknown place, that is very dangerous.

Startling me, Tidus wakes up sputtering water, not realizing he can breathe. I quickly take a quick glance at my surroundings, after doing so, I'm greatly annoyed. All around us, except, to the left is water. Water in front, water behind, water to the right…you get the picture. A small hardly noticeable outline of a shape is seen, to my left.

"Rikku!" Tidus suddenly yells startling me for the second time in the last few minutes, I think about hitting him over the head for doing so, but to my luck something else hits him.

Thunk. Well it was a sound similar to that as Tidus wide-eyed and confused was hit in the head by a small blue object, roughly the size of a soccer ball. Tidus quickly grabs hold of his head, and glares at the small blue object. Recognition flashes in his eyes and smiling slightly he picks up the ball, and screams.

"Blitzball!" I look on curiously, so that is a Blitzball?

"Hey! You okay?" A voice yells from the small stretch of land, and I blink, seeing as how it is much closer than before, the waves must have been moving us slowly to shore. Tidus also looks surprised, but that lasts about a minute.

Tidus gets a smile on his face, and I can tell it is not a normal smile, he's up to something. I just don't know what.

"Heey!" He yells at the men on shore, before taking the ball and heading underwater, hopefully he knew I took off the bubble-head charm. I watch amazed as the ball comes flying out of the water, quickly followed by Tidus. As the ball reaches the apex of its flight, Tidus flips upside down and smashes the ball towards the shore with a bicycle kick. The ball goes sailing towards shore at twice or possibly triple the speed it came into Tidus at and the man who yelled at us, just barely gets out of the way. The balls goes up, and over, the man who yelled at us looks in shock and then grins.

"Whoa-ho!" He yells and Tidus and I begin to swim over to him.

I realize then that this would be the first land that we would touch since arriving here, I resist the urge to kiss it. The cave and ruins do not count as land.

Making it to the beach, which is quite larger than what I thought, the man smirks at Tidus as we get out of the water and dry ourselves, I do so using my wand, before converting it to a sword, so no one would notice the stick I carry around. I did not yet know if these people could be trusted.

The man who yelled at us has quite the hair-style, and most likely natural. He has tall(not long) orange hair almost like a crested wave. I smirk slightly. 'I'd have no problems finding him in a crowd.' The man like most that I've met in Spira, is dressed oddly. He's dressed in long yellow slacks, a almost armor padding as a shirt, on his arms are glove-like objects, and he wears sandals. A pack at his feet tells me that he really likes the sport Blitzball, as it is filed with different types of blitzballs.

As Tidus and I approach the group I notice two of them turning around and heading into the forest. The orange-haired guy calls over the rest of his men, and quickly surrounds us. I almost grip and pull out my sword, but something tells me to trust him, so I do.

"Yo! Hiya!" Tidus says grinning, I shake my head in amusement at his immaturity.

"You wanna try that move, one more time? The man asks Tidus in an almost Jamaican accent, but not quite. I had thought Tidus could not smile any bigger, but I was of course prooved wrong, as he smiled from ear to ear and raised a fist in the air triumphantly.

Tidus took the blitzball and did the same move only in the opposite direction. I groaned realizing he had just kicked one of their blitzballs into the ocean, where they would never find it. The orange-haired guy stares in amazement, the ball quickly going out of eyesight but small ripple-like waves being made where the blitzball had been. Everyone lets out a gasp of surprise, I included.

"You're no amateur. Who you play for?" The orange-haired man asks Tidus. I should have realized then that Tidus was about to say something stupid.

"The Zanarkand Abes!" Tidus says loudly and proudly. That was it, Zanarkand is like a holy place to these people, Tidus you idiot!

"Uh, just ignore him. He got glose to Sin's toxin and his head is a bit fuzzy. Isn't that right Tidus?" I say the last sentence in a growl. Tidus obviously noticing the tone of my voice, nods weakly. The men begin to murmur to one another and I hear a few words spoken by them. 'He was by Sin.' and something about 'a miracle' and 'praise to Yevon.'

"Sin's toxin got to you. But, your still alive. Praise be to Yevon." The orange-haired man says quickly doing an odd gesture, which the other men follow. Right forearm over the left, they move their hands in a circle in front of them, before moving them into a rough sphere shape and bowing. It must be a sign or prayer.

"All right, back to practice!" The orange-haired man says to the other men who nod reluctantly and get back to practicing. We must have interfered with a training session. Too bad no one played the sport I liked, even if it was canceled due to Voldemort's return, and the death of Dumbledore. I notice the orange-haired man in front of us.

"I'm Wakka, coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, brudda." Wakka says looking at Tidus and I with a slight smile.

"Nice to meet you Wakka!" I say trying to remember how to do the gesture, but failing. I just settle for a handshake. "The name's Harry, Harry Potter. I'm a mage."

"A mage huh? What type? I know of one, though she has a nasty temper."

"Uh…" I hesitate not knowing what to say. I eventually decided to tell him the truth. "I'm a gray."

"A gray huh? So you can do white and black magic, ya?" Wakka asks.

"Well…I have a different type of magic. Neither white nor…black." I say wondering about black. Did that mean evil here? I would have to look into it.

"Oh. Sure whatever." Wakka said he was obviously trying to think what type of magic I would be able to do. He was interrupted by Tidus.

"So Wakka. Where are we? The name's Tidus by the way." He shook out a hand and also exchanged greetings with Wakka.

"This is the Isle of Besaid." Wakka probably would have continued, but Tidus stomach made a loud grumbling sound.

"What? You hungry?" Wakka asks Tidus, who nods sheepishly. "Okay! Back to the village, I'll get you somethin." Wakka then starts heading towards a path heading into the middle of the island. Tidus enthusiastically follows at the mention of food. I swear he is like a clone of Ron.

As we're walking I notice Tidus is a bit edgy. Almost like he is having a mental conversation with himself. Eventually one side wins over the other and he speaks.

"It's true Zanarkand was destroyed, right? A thousand years ago? So, it's just a big pile of rubble now, isn't it?" It was pitiful, even if I knew the truth, I couldn't say anything. If Spira was anything like back home, then news of us would reach half-way around the globe and my enemies would know. It was odd, however that I had seen nor heard anything about either Voldemort or Snape. It did not bode well.

Wakka stops and stares at Tidus, before deciding he has amnesia or just isn't that bright, and telling him.

"Long time ago, there were a whole lot of cities in Spira. Big cities with machina—machines—to run 'em. People played all day and let the machina do the work. And then, well, take a look." he says, motioning to the small ruins around us, I was surprised I did not see them before.

"Sin came, and destroyed the machina cities. And Zanarkand along with 'em. Yeah, that was about a thousand years ago, like you said. If you ask me, Sin's our punishment for letting things get out of hand." Wakka says, and I'm surprised that an angry tone is beginning to appear in his voice, before he continues. "What gets me though...is we gotta suffer, all because of what some goofballs did way back when!" Taking a moment to calm down a little, he begins to speak once again, as Tidus and I continue to listen intently. Wakka obviously had something against Sin, although what I did not know. "Course, we must always repent for our sins! That's important! It's just that, it's hard to keep at it sometimes, you know?"

Tidus nods, and I can feel my hiss. Hopefully not in parseltongue. What Wakka was saying sounded like a bunch of Hogwash, it impossible for one to ever achieve such purity. If one did so, they would die, and the repenting would be for nothing. It was sort of like with Voldemort and his foolish Death Eaters. Wanting to rid the world of muggles and mudbloods, and impossible task. In the end resulting in the extinction of wizarding kind. There was something fishy in this, and I aimed to find out what.

Wakka laughs and suddenly grabs Tidus and puts him in a headlock, breaking the silence to my relief, Tidus tries to struggle. I think about stunning Wakka, but decide he's just messing around.

"But you from the Zanarkand Abes–that was a good one! Hey, I'm not saying the team never existed, ya? But you gotta figure a team living in luxury like that'd be pretty soft, eh?" Wakka says trying to liven things up. It does not work. Tidus finally manages to squeeze his head out from under Wakka's arm, rubbing the top of his head. Tidus just smiles a crooked smile, before running off ahead. He of course has no idea what direction he is going and Wakka soon calls to him.

"Hey! It's this way!" he yells, turning and running to the left of where Tidus was. I follow Wakka, as Tidus is now the one lagging behind. Not long after we come to a large cliff overlooking a lagoon of some sort, my instincts seem to scream trap, but Wakka doesn't look like the kind who would do such a thing. Either way, I turn my sword into a wand and hold it carefully, watching Wakka. Tidus quickly catches up to us and goes near the edge of the water. Looking down into the water, the next thing I know, Tidus goes flying down the cliff. I stare at him before noticing Wakka trying to sneak up behind and push me in. Right as he gets to push me I get out of the way and disillusion myself. Wakka not expecting me to disappear ended up causing himself to fall in, he lands with a splash.

"Hey, what was that for brudda?" Wakka calls up to me. I glare.

"What's the big idea? You trying to kill us?" I angrily yell down at him. Wakka hearing my voice looks around for me, but does not see me. I realize I am still disillusioned, quickly making myself visible I peer over the edge.

"What? No, this ways a shortcut." Wakka looks appalled that I would think he was trying to kill us. I realize that he is being truthful. Sighing at the stupidity of the situation I jump in. I can get out easily if need be.

"Sorry, Wakka. Let's just say I'm cautious about people I befriend. Bygones be bygones?" I ask, holding my wand behind my back and turning it back into a sword, no need for him to find out how I vanished.

"Yeah, sure man. Whatever you say. But you're going to tell me how you disappeared ya?"

"Later maybe." I reply swimming over to Tidus.

"You could have warned me." Tidus groaned.

"I didn't know, not until you were thrown in, sorry."

"Hey! This way!" Wakka yells and Tidus and I follow, I swim slightly farther back however.

We continue to swim for a bit, before solid ground is within view. Wakka suddenly stops, and I do as well, Tidus doesn't however. Quickly Wakka has him in a headlock again, and I shake my head.

(flashback)

"You don't have to go! You can stay here, you can stay and do what you dreamed of." Wakka says

"I can't. Not while Sin is out there." A younger man who looks like Tidus somewhat, but is with out a doubt related to Wakka answers.

"But joining the crusaders? It's suicide ya?"

"Ya. But, I'd never forgive myself, if I stayed. You know?"

"I know. You sure, you want to do this?"

"I'm sure."

"I'll miss you brudda."

"…"

"Here take this. Use it to fight Sin."

"…"

"Go on, go on. Take it."

"Sin can't be destroyed with that. The Al Bhed have agreed to help fight Sin, we will be using their weapons. Sorry brudda."

"Using those sand monkey's weapons? Those traitors…"

"There weapons are powerful, more powerful than just a sword."

"But."

"No buts Wakka."

"But Lu?"

"If, if I don't make it. Tell her, tell her I'm sorry. Make sure she finds someone. You can do that right?"

"Ya." Wakka wipes tears from his eyes a bunch of men and women are heading up a ramp.

"Farewell, Wakka."

"Farewell, Chappu."

(end flashback)

I blinked. Wakka? Chappu? Was that a scene from Wakka's memory? Drat my mind abilities. Since I had arrived on Spira, they had not been working correctly. Ever since I tried to look at Auron's memories, it had been inaccessible to be. Like someone was blocking my powers so I could not see the minds of others. But I had just witnessed a scene from Wakka's memory. Did that mean my powers were returning, or was that just random? This was puzzling. I tried to look farther into Wakka's mind, but found it was shielded, was everyone's mind in Spira well shielded, or did the fayth do something to prevent me from using those powers? I would have to meditate on this.

"Lemme go!" Tidus yells, annoyed at Wakka's juvenile actions, and breaking me off from m thought.

"Got a favor to ask ya." Wakka says thinking it should be pretty obvious, the only thing I can think of is that he want to recruit him on his team. Sure enough I was right.

"You want me on your team, right?" Tidus asks smirking, Wakka releases him and he begins sinking, quickly coming to the surface.

"A major blitz tournament's coming up. All the teams in Spira'll be there! It's so huge, I'm sure someone will recognize you! Then you can go back to your old team, right?" he says, staring at Tidus, who still looks unsure. "It'll be fun! What do you say, huh? Come on, come on!" Wakka says almost pleading, I understood.

Tidus seems to think about it a moment. Before going on his back and floating. He is slowly making way towards land and Wakka and I follow him. He finally makes up his mind.

"Sure thing." Tidus says swimming away. I can't help but overhear Wakka as I swim by him.

"Dude, our team is gonna rock, eh?"

I shake my head and we all continue to swim towards land, once on land I resist the urge to kiss it. Wakka continues walking up the path and Tidus and I follow. The path reaches the top of a large cliff which overlooks a village. It is quite a sight to see. It seems to be the highest elevation around, which makes me wonder how the swimming took us all the way to the top. Strange. The village only has a few small huts, a few larger ones, and in the background is something resembling a temple.

"This is where I was born." Wakka begins, staring out at the village. "I started blitz when I was five. I joined the Aurochs at thirteen...ten years ago. Ten years...and we never won a game. Well, after last year's tournament, I quit. Time seemed right."

Never one a game? That's worse than Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff and the house cup.

Wakka walks away, apparently going to the path leading to the village. Tidus' stomach growls again, and he runs after him, with myself following a moment after.

"So after quitting, I got this new job, ya? But every time my mind wandered, I thought about the game." he says, continuing to walk. Tidus simply nodded, before speaking.

"Ten years without a single win'll do that." he says, as Wakka's face scrunches up, I think he was annoyed.

"My first match last year was my big chance. But something was on my mind. I couldn't focus." Tidus smirks a little at this.

"Nice excuse."

There was some story behind this, I could tell when Wakka's face scrunched up in anger, it was troubling. What had happened? Wakka turns around and yells at Tidus.

"Hey, hey!" Wakka yells at Tidus, but it slowly begins to lose anger.

"So, you want to win the next tournament—go out with a bang." Tidus says, folding his arms over his chest. Wakka nods. "So, what's our goal?" he thrusts a fist out in front of him, pointed up towards the air. Wakka just shrugs, before answering.

"I don't care how we do. Long as we play our best. If we give it our all, I can walk away happy." Tidus doesn't seem to like this answer, and waves his hands in front of him.

"No, no, no, no, no. If I say 'What's our goal?', you say 'Victory!' When you play in a blitzball tournament, you play to win!" I growl softly in annoyance, you don't play anything to win, you fight, and even then you only fight if someone's life depends on it. However these people weren't in a war, and Tidus oddly for a moment sounded like Oliver and Ron. The way they always sound before a big game.

Wakka looks stunned for a moment. "Victory? You serious?" Now it's Tidus' turn to nod. I lose my anger, apparently all sports are played the same.

We continue to walk for a while before we are approached by two figures. Both of them dressed similar to Wakka. One seems to be older than the other, and the other seems to be about my age, maybe younger. I realize these are the two who left when we first arrived.

"Ah, the two from the sea." the first says, eyeing the both of us." I can't help but feel worried by the presence of these two men. Although I do not know why.

"Be on guard. There're fiends on the road today!" the second says, the younger of the two, turning back to the first.

"After surviving your run-in with Sin, 'twould be a shame if something happened now." the first says, and I can't help but feel as if that might have been a veiled threat. I had spent too much time in war, and even innocent things like that could get to me. They nodded at Wakka and began to walk away, apparently back to the beach.

"Who were they?" Tidus asks and I nod.

"Luzzu and Gatta-Crusaders."

"Crews of what?" Tidus asks and I groan. Even though I didn't know the answer either, the word should be obvious. They were some form of military.

"What, you forgot that too?" Wakka says, to which Tidus simply hangs his head. Wakka walks over and places an arm around Tidus' shoulder, before speaking again. "Hey, sorry. Don't worry about it, I'll help you out." he says, as Tidus lifts his head.

"Cool. In return, come tournament time, I'll make sure we take the cup!" Tidus says confidently.

Wakka smiles. "Cool. About the Crusaders, you can ask them yourself. They've got a lodge in the village." He pauses a moment, before continuing. "Actually never mind. They were just leaving, they probably won't be back. Crusaders have been fighting Sin for over 800 years, there latest plan is top secret and Luzzu is one of the heads. If you see a Crusader you can ask more about them. That probably won't be the last time you see them, they're taking the boat to Luca with us."

Tidus and I nod before continuing down the path. As we're walking I can hear noises like wolf howling, I draw my sword. Tidus draws his as well, Wakka takes a blitzball from his bag. I raise an eyebrow at him questioningly, he grins. Suddenly from both sides two rather wolf-like creatures appear. I realize they aren't real wolfs so they must be fiends, they look meaner too.

"Coyotes. They aren't too much of a problem, ya?" Wakka says aiming his blitzball.

"Wakka this isn't time for a game!" Tidus says not realizing what Wakka is doing, I don't realize either but keep my mouth shut and concentrate on the coyote nearest to me. There's only two quadrupeds, and we have the advantage.

"Hey, I know. This is my weapon, you know!" he says, grinning at Tidus. Tidus just shrugs. I stare in confusion, the ball is a weapon?

I quickly dodge a swipe by the claws of one of the fiends, and then put my sword in front of me to block another swipe. "Less talk!" I yell and Wakka nods grinning.

"Stand back! This is gonna be good!" Wakka yells throwing the ball at speeds I thought impossible. The ball flies towards one of the coyotes and hits it dead in the jaw, a crunching sound is head, and blood begins to spill out of the maw of the beast, the ball however is not done, as it bounces off the head of the first coyote and ricochets and hits the other in the leg, the other coyote whimpers in pain and howls. Three more coyotes come out of their hiding spaces.

"Damn." I swear angrily. At least the coyotes are easier to kill than any of the other fiends I've encountered. I watch as Tidus runs forward and decapitates the injured coyote. The other coyotes see this and are a little more cautious one of them runs in and tries to take a bite out Wakka's leg only to be met with a forceful punch in the gut, it backs off.

One of the coyotes charges me and leaps at me throat, it reminds me of Fenrir. The werewolf always went for the throats of its victims, I was hesitant to kill any of these creatures, because I thought they were just animals, but they are more intelligent than mere animals, they have human knowledge. I would have to ask about that later. Seeing a spot where I can enter I quickly stab Gryffindor's sword into the belly of the beast trying to rip out my throat. I barely make it, it drops dead a foot away from my face. I pull my sword out of the body.

There are only two coyotes left now, however it was strange that pyreflies did not start enveloping the dead, something was wrong. I would not find out until much later why this was. I did however notice a single solitary light flying out of the body and away to the north, it made me curious. Curious enough to almost get mauled by one of the remaining coyotes. I watched as a blitzball went flying towards the coyote behind me, it hit it in the upper leg and cracked. It whimpered in pain like a wounded dog, but that was just a cover. The dog slowly walked over to the remaining coyote.

You'd think the coyotes would have, by now realized how futile it was to try an attack us, it was now three to one, as the injured one, although dangerous, could not move fast. The remaining coyote growled at us, before charging towards Tidus. It managed to give him a nasty scratch on the leg, before turning around attempting to do a bit more than a scratch on its way back. It never saw the stunning spell headed towards it.

I had of course turned my sword back into a wand, and Wakka was dealing with the injured coyote, which surprisingly was putting up a good defense. It moved faster than I thought it could for an injured animal, but then again, it wasn't an animal it was a fiend. The moment I changed the sword back to wand I set the spell loose on the coyote heading back towards Tidus, thankfully I hit it dead on and it fell to the floor unconscious. Tidus took this time to stab it through with his sword. Another light shot out of this coyote, one light, and another soon followed as Wakka killed the last fiend.

I don't believe I was the only one surprised at what had been just witnessed, Wakka too was looking on in confusion.

"I don't know what's happenin. This has never happened before, you know? Usually they just go poof in t a bunch of pyreflies. This is most strange." Wakka said itching his head in confusion, before handing Tidus a potion for his leg, which was bleeding quite badly a few minutes ago, now was completely gone after swallowing the potion. I noticed my clothes were likely to disappear on me again soon, it had to be at least an hour, most likely more, so I quickly redid the spell before turning back to Tidus and Wakka.

"Now that they've been taken care of, on to Besaid Village!" Wakka says, putting the blitzball away again and walking down the path, the two of us following suit.

After a couple more minutes of walking we come to the village. Besaid Village. It's not very big, but by no means small either. There are no homes built with bricks, and metal, most of the houses, or huts are actually thatched with straw and other similar objects. Surprisingly they seem to stay up very well. It sort of looks like an Indian village, at least until you see the temple.

The temple is a huge stone structure situated in the back of the village. The temple is easily ten times as high as the straw huts, and is probably ten times if not more big inside as well. As we near the entrance Wakka motions to us to walk over to where he is standing. We do so and he then turns to us.

"Besaid Village." Wakka exclaims proudly.

"They got any food there?" Tidus asks and I groan, exactly what Ron would say, or at least the Ron before the death of Hermione and all of his family.

"Is that all you think about, Tidus? You're stomach?" I ask him and he huffs.

"Well, I'm a growing boy." Tidus says and I shake my head. Wakka points to a hut farther off.

"We'll get you two something over there later. Take a look around first." he says, motioning to the village. "Let's see...the Crusaders lodge is over yonder. Luzzu and Gatta are usually there. Only the innkeeper is there right now, though." he says, motioning to a large blue tent on the left side of the village. "Oh, right." he says, snapping his fingers, as if he had just remembered something, it was probably important.

"You two do remember the prayer, don't you?" he asks us. Tidus and I look on blankly. Wakka seems to notice this and continues.

"Man, that's like the basics of the basics. Alright, I'll show you." he replies, doing the same gesture he did when he first met us on the beach. "Go ahead, you two try."

I do the gesture as well as I can, I most likely messed up, and Tidus does the same. Wakka smiles at us, before speaking again.

"Hey, not bad. Okay, now go present yourselves to the temple summoner."

Tidus and I look at each other. Nope neither of us have any idea what a summoner is. Wakka seems to notice and shakes his head, before pointing towards the temple. Tidus and I walk over to it and enter. Inside it has the distinct feeling and smell of candles and rock. People are all around seeming to pray and talk to stone statues. There's many of them.

Tidus walks over to a statue, that appears to be clad in some sort of priestly robe, holding a long staff in his hand. A man then walks over to him, noticing his examination of the statue.

"Ten years have passed since Lord Braska became high summoner. And finally we received a statue for our temple." the man says, causing both of us to look in confusion. I wisely don't say anything, but Tidus is not wise.

"Whats a high summoner?" Tidus asks, causing everyone in the room to gasp. "I...I got too close to Sin's, uh, toxin." he stammers, quickly trying to make an excuse for himself, it was sad.

"The summoners are practitioners of a sacred art, sworn to protect the people of Yevon." the man explains. "Only a chosen few become summoners, who call forth entities of great power: the aeons. The aeons hear our prayers and come down to us. They are the blessing of Yevon."

"Did you understand a word he just said?" Tidus says turning to me, I shake my head in amusement. "Good, I'm not alone."

"Maybe Wakka, can explain it to us in more depth later. Let's go find him." I say and we walk out of the temple, I notice people watching us, I'm used to it, but Tidus is a bit fidgety. We see Wakka waving to us as we exit the temple. We head over there.

"Sorry, man. Not time for lunch yet." Tidus who had not been thinking about food groaned and glared at him. Wakka didn't seem to notice. I think I glared at him too.

"Take a nap, you two. You look bushed." Wakka says gesturing to the two of the three cots in the room, I wave up my hands.

"Thanks, Wakka, but no thanks. I've been through a lot worse than this. I'll get my due of sleep later." I say smiling slightly as Tidus hops on the cot and within minutes is fast asleep.

I notice an odd looking sphere thing on the floor and pick it up to see what it is. It is then pulled onto the Sphere Grid and Wakka looks on as he sees what my grid is made of.

"Wow. What an interesting grid, ya? I have one too, but nowhere as interesting as yours. You don't seem to have many abilities, but look at all the power, speed, agility, you have. You have very few abilities, but your Grid is very powerful." Wakka says looking at it, I notice an ability called focus, it is one of the last spaces on the Grid, one of the first is null blaze, the rest are just slots. Odd.

"Wait. You have a Sphere Grid too?" I ask Wakka, somewhat surprised.

"They're pretty common in Spira. Most people have one, to help them defend themselves against fiends and the like." Wakka responds, earning a small nod from me. During all the excitement, Tidus still hasn't moved an inch, or even gave any indication he was alive. Tidus sleeps like a rock, nothing other than food could wake him up from such a deep sleep. I look back at Wakka, just in time to see someone approach the door of the hut.

"Greetings. How goes the trials of the apprentice summoner?" the man says, performing the prayer as he speaks. Wakka also does the prayer gesture, before replying.

"I dunno. Lu and Kimahri are in there with her." The man nods slowly, before speaking again.

"You could at least go see how they are doing." Wakka shakes his head at this, looking down.

"We can't interfere. It's a rule." The man seems slightly angry at this, as his tone gets slightly more fierce.

"But, it's been nearly..." Wakka cuts him off at this point, walking out of the hut towards the temple, as if to say, "Fine, come on." I think about following them, but decide not too. They must have forgot I was even there. I would wait until Tidus was up, that way I could tell him where Wakka went. I look at Tidus and feel another surge of memories that are not mine.

(flashback)

Several people are standing on a dock, in front of a boat in Zanarkand. They appear to be talking to a young woman, who seems slightly disturbed by something. The woman is first to speak, turning to one of the men.

"But, it's been nearly..."

"It's been nearly a day already." one of the men interrupts her, causing her to turn to him.

"Perhaps you could go look for us." she says, her tone hopeful. The man simply smiles.

"People are searching for him now." he replies, before walking away.

"Thank you." she says to no one in particular, clasping her hands. A wistful look in her eyes.

(End Flashback)

(Flashback)

The same woman from before is talking to a young boy, apparently her son.

"Who cares whether he comes back or not?" the boy says, looking up at his mother. The woman thinks for a minute, before speaking.

"But he might die!"

The boy simply stands there, no emotion showing at all except anger.

"Fine, let him!" The woman seems hurt by the forceful answer, and hangs her head.

"Do you...Do you hate him so?" The boy nods in response. "If he dies, you'll never be able to tell him how much you hate him."

(End Flashback)

I quickly break free from Tidus memories and decide to head into the temple before I invade the privacy of someone else, Voldemort and Snape were probably having a field day not being able to discover who could be trusted and the like. 'If they are alive.' I thought hoping for the worst, best in my case.

Once in the temple I head over to Wakka, just then the temple doors open and Tidus walks in joining me by Wakka.

"Is something wrong?" Tidus asks, Wakka noticing the expression on his face. Wakka doesn't give any sort of answer and turns to Tidus and I.

"The summoner hasn't returned from the trial." he says, before putting a hand to his chin in thought for a moment.

"Eh?" Tidus says, confused as ever.

"Well, apprentice summoner, really..."

"Ah?"

"There's a room in there called the Cloister of Trials." Wakka explains, staring at Tidus and me. "Beyond is where the apprentice summoner prays. If the prayer is heard, the apprentice becomes a fully-fledged summoner, remember?" Tidus crosses his arms over his chest.

"So, someone is in there somewhere and they haven't come back out. Right, I got it."

"A day's already gone by." Wakka says, looking at the doorway leading to the Cloister of Trials, I can tell he wants to check on the summoner. I then turn to speak with Wakka.

"Is it particularly dangerous in there?" Tidus and I ask at the same time. We look at each other and muffle a laugh.

"Sometimes, yes." I narrow my eyes, I truly do have a hero complex, it is a known fact, something Voldemort constantly tends to use against me. If the disappearance was caused by Voldemort it was my fault.

"Why don't you go in and help?" Tidus asks Wakka.

"Yeah, if someone is in trouble…" I say trailing off, slowly making my way towards the stairs.

Wakka shakes his head, before answering. "There's already guardians in there. Besides, it's forbidden."

That was it, I run up the stairs and notice Tidus following me.

"Hey, but what if something happens? What if the summoner dies?" Tidus says.

"The precepts must be obeyed!" Wakka retorts.

"Your precepts can go suck dragon eggs!" I call out. The man truly obeyed his religion too well. I take out my sword.

"Go Tidus. I'll hold them off." I say and Tidus nods, getting ready to head inside.

"But the precepts?" A temple priest cries. I and everyone else in the room faintly hear what Tidus yells as he enters.

"Like I care!" He then turns around and runs into the Cloister of Trials.

I glared around the room, trying to see if anyone is going to try to stop him, or me for that matter. Slowly before their eyes my sword transforms back into a wand and I hold it threateningly. I notice a few temple guards enter the room and head towards me and the stairs.

"Listen I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to. If there is any evidence of someone being injured or harmed then it is your duty to make sure they come out safely. If you fail to do this, then I will!" I cry at the guards and priest.

"Listen boy! I don't care what freakish thing you just did, but a stick is not going to harm us! Come down and you won't be hurt." A large rather fat man with a thick mustache and dressed in green and brown armor threatened me angrily. I thought he resembled Vernon, by looks and word choice, not to mention he was practically screaming the words at me.

"Fine, I did not want to do this, but as it seems you are going to try to stop him and me, I have no choice. Stupefy!" I yell pointing my wand at the Vernon Dursley like guard. He slumps to the ground unconscious a few people scream, I realize this is getting out of control. I quickly turn my wand to the doors and slam them shut. People scream.

"Quiet!" I yell, this doesn't seem to do anything, I've sent the temple in panic and Wakka is looking at me funny. "QUIET!" I cast a spell to make my voice louder, everyone looks surprise for a minute and looks up at me, I take that time to obliviate all of them. I quickly erase the last few minutes of their memories, and slip inside the Cloister of Trials, opening the doors before I enter. The last thing any of the people in the temple remember is Tidus yelling 'Like I care!' and then Tidus and I entering the cloister of trials. I would not realize until later however, that I missed obliviating one of them, and another in the temple was immune to the spell.

Entering the cloister I begin to follow the path Tidus made, hand still on my wand I cautiously begin making my way around. I discover Tidus some ways through sitting on the floor glaring at a pedestal. I make my way over to him.

"Hey Tidus what's happening?" I ask and he stands up with a start. I hear him begin to mumble something about 'lost' and 'puzzles'.

"Hey! What's gotten into you?" A voice I know asks staring longer at me, Wakka. Wakka walks over and places a hand on Tidus' shoulder. Tidus turns around defensively. "Hey, it's okay. Only summoners, apprentice summoners, and their guardians can enter here. It's a tradition. Very important." He again looks at me.

"So what about you?" Tidus asks and I nod, even though I already know. The way Wakka keeps looking at me is making me nervous.

Wakka smiles again. "Me? I'm a guardian."

"A guardian?"

"Ya. Your missing a Besaid Sphere, take the one back at the beginning." Wakka says to Tidus and Tidus quickly hurries to fetch the sphere.

"How'd you know the sphere was there?" I ask, I'm really uncomfortable.

"I didn't. I just said that to get him away, while we talk." Wakka says pausing and then looking at me. "What did you do!"

"What!" I ask both surprised and confused.

"You mad them all forget about that little skirmish, I saw what you did!" Wakka yells at me.

"I…What are you talking about? You shouldn't remember that!" I say, some people are immune to obliviate, but not many, the fact Wakka was immune just made things more complicated.

"Ya, but I do. I understand why you did it, but not how, or what you did. So spill the beans!"

"You. You're not angry?" I asked surprised.

"Angry. Not that much. Personally I wanted to do so as much as you. It's a good thing you did that, or war would have come swiftly against you and the whole of Yevon! You need to be more careful, don't disrespect Yevon." Wakka said making me realize that although he was ingrained in his religion, he knew the consequences of what would have happened had I not made everyone forget. He was okay.

"Magic. I cast an obliviate spell, it erases certain memories, or all memories from a persons mind, as you can tell, I only erased a few minutes. This is just one of the many spell I can use." I say twirling my and in my hand.

"I won't forget this, but somethin tells me I can trust you." Wakka says and our discussion ends as Tidus returns, without a sphere.

"Sorry. Couldn't find it." Tidus says distraught.

"Is okay. I forgot, I didn't put this back, ya?" Wakka says laughing taking out a sphere and placing it on the pedestal. I watch as the wall disappears and crumbles revealing another room. "Push the pedestal into the whole on the floor." Wakka says to Tidus, and Tidus listens.

"Now what?" I ask. Tidus nods too.

"Come over here." Wakka says and Tidus and I walk over to him. Once there Wakka turns to us and then the pedestal. "Up." He says and soon the pedestal is lifting into the air, and I realize this is like an elevator. As it stops on the top Wakka pulls us off it and whispers.

"Summoners go on a pilgrimage to pray at every temple in Spira. Guardians protect them. The guardians in there now...One of em's got a short fuse, and who knows what the other's thinking."

Short fuse, who knows what the other's thinking, if they said dressed in all black and sadistic, I'd say they were a combination of Snape. I do hope Voldemort or Snape isn't behind this door waiting for me, to rush in and kill me.

"Well, now that we've come this far...might as well go all the way!" he says, before walking towards the door leading to the inner chamber. Opening the door, we're greeted with the sight of two people.

The first is a large bipedal-like creature, with lots of blue fur. It resembles a lion, only on legs…and blue. The lion-type creature carries a large spear weapon. He seems to be quite serious, and silent.

The second is a woman. I do a double take. She's wearing a long black strapless dress, and then from the waist down it seemed to be made of belts. He hair is also done up exquisitely, reminding me of the Dursley's Japanese neighbors. She would have been beautiful if she hadn't reminded me so much of Snape.

The woman noticing us, turns to Wakka a slight expression of anger on her face.

"What are you doing here? Didn't think we'd be able to handle it?" she says, her slight glare causing Wakka to cringe for a moment, placing his hand on the back of his head sheepishly. The glare was worthy of equal to Snape, I felt bad for Wakka.

"No, it's uh...it's just..." he trails off, turning to us. "See, I told you she gets mad easy."

Tidus who is either too stupid, uncaring or not noticing the anger in the woman's voice walks over to her.

"Is the summoner okay?"

The woman's face goes from anger back to apathy, before momentarily switching to confusion.

"Who are you? And for that matter, who is he?" she says, pointing to me.

"Uh, the name's Harry Potter. Gray Mage." I said doing the prayer gesture Wakka taught us.

"A…Gray Mage?" She asks me and I nod. "I myself am a Black Mage, and the Summoner is a White Mage, but never has there been a Gray Mage."

"Yeah, I get that a lot." She looks at me curiously, but soon that is interrupted as the door at the top of some stairs begins to open.

A young girl clad in white robes and a purple skirt walks out of the door. The girl stands still for a moment and realizing what is about to happen as it happens to me a lot, I run towards her. The lion creature also notices but sees that I'm closer and the girl softly falls into my arms. I notice Tidus and all the others in their staring at me in surprise, I shrug, and help the girl regain hr balance. The girl looks at me and nods slowly standing up strait and speaking.

"I've done it. I have become a summoner!"

After checking to make sure the girl is okay, the group of guardians exit with the summoner, followed closely by Tidus and I. Exiting seems to be much faster than entering and soon we're at the entrance to the temple, we slowly walk out and a bunch of people are outside waiting. They cheer the summoner on, as she walks out of the temple into the middle of the village, and Tidus and I quickly slip out of the temple, Wakka also follows.

Hey, over here!" he yells as he runs past us, towards a large circle in the middle of the village. I notice the summoner is in the middle and has a staff…a staff? So is she a wizard? I decided to watch, I went over by Wakka and Tidus.

As the summoner walks into the circle, everyone gathers around, as Wakka punches Tidus on the arm.

"What? Ow!" he exclaims, caught unaware, I quickly take a step away from Wakka.

"Wait till you see this!" Wakka replies, grinning from ear to ear, I despite trying not to, am curious about what is about to happen.

Tidus looks around. "I can't see anything!" Tidus grumbles, Wakka and I ignore him.

Wakka walks closer to the summoner, before speaking.

"Ready?" She nods, before gripping her staff with one hand.

"Okay."

The girl then takes a step back and brings the staff behind her spreading her legs out, one behind the other. Four beams of light then rise up from the circle and form a circular formation around her and spiral each other before shooting into the sky. As the four beams meet in the air, a flash of light appears and something comes diving down like a missile. It stops and levels out a few feet above the ground, spreading its orange wings and revealing itself in all its glory. The creature appears to be some gigantic multicolored bird. It's easily five times as large as the small summoner herself, and gives off a different feel than a fiend does. I momentarily see the shape of a girl, but it passes away and the bird returns. As it lands, the summoner strokes its neck gently, before and outburst of cheers erupt from the gathered crowd, signaling the success of the first…summon? I don't know what it is that she is doing, but as she is called a summoner, summon sounds right.

I still wince though thinking what Voldemort could do with such creatures under his control, not only would he use the creatures for mindless destruction, he would also do tests on them, tests to make them more powerful, I could only hope that he had not arrived on Spira. My hopes were of course in vain, but he had a different plan than what I had thought. I wasn't sure if this was a good or a bad thing.

A/N: I think this is my longest chapter thus far. The next one may be longer. I believe some of the chapters will get very long, and I know for a fact that this story will be at least 100,000 words by the time it is finished. Also I need votes for pairings, they can be in any category which is in probable or higher, and pairings for this story would be appreciated. I do not write slash however, so don't suggest that. Snape also needs a pair up, it can be in any from probable on up. Reasons why would also be nice. Also please remember to vote for the below, LoZ has been taken down and thrown in undecided, depends on if anyone wants it. Please read and review.

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FF10(X)

FFX-2

Wormtail AU HP (decided)

Prequel (unnamed)

Highly probable

Lord of the rings

Final Fantasy 7

FF8

Final Fantasy 9

Probable

Alternate Realities of Harry Potter (probably one or two, any suggestions will be taken in consideration)

Undecided

Legend of Zelda

Other (offer suggestions, I will take anything into consideration)

Xanth (undecided)

Kingdom Hearts (undecided)

Marauders Era AU (undecided)

Artemis Fowl (undecided)