CHAPTER 3

The next morning when everyone was still asleep they were awaken by a small child falling down the stairs.

"Ycra!" Yuna shouted jumping out of bed and running down the stairs to the small girl who was standing up and brushing herself off.

Yuna was amazed by the fact that her sister didn't even cry. "Are you ok?" She asked reaching the bottom of the stairs.

"I'm ok." She answerd.

Paine's voice came from the platform above. "Who ever's up will they shut up!"

"Ycra. What are you doing up so late?" Yuna yawned. Waiting for a reply.

Ycra gave her a look of confusion. "In the army we were taught to wake up early." She said. "I'm sorry. I guess I forgot that I wasn't there any more."

"It's ok. I'll make you some breakfast. I'm never gonna get back to sleep now."

When eating breakfast Yuna realised how much her sis had changed. She was once as bubbly as Rikku.

"Ycra. Where were you these last 14 years?" Yuna asked.

Ycra looked up at Yuna. Not knowing what to say she just asked what came to mind. "You won't go to the blitz ball place today? Will you?" She asked with begging eye's.

"What?" Yuna asked. "What do you me..." But she wasn't able to finish.

"Yunie!" Rikku shouted running down the stairs in her night top and shorts. "What are you doing up so early?"

Yuna and Ycra tryed their hardest not to laugh at Rikku's bed hair. "Well. Ycra woke me up when she fell down the stairs." Yuna explained.

"Awwwwww. Did you cry? Did you hurt yourself?" Rikku fussed in her cute voice.

"No. All I did was fall down the stairs. Why would I?" Ycra asked taking another sppon full of cerial.

Rikku looked shocked. Remembering the time that she had fallen down them. She had kept crying for hours. And she was 17!

"Wow! You must be pretty brave!"

Yuna took this as a time to ask Ycra some thing. "Ycra. What happend to your arm?" She asked looking at the long scar going up her sibling's arm.

Ycra looked down. "Oh that! Yeah. I hurt it in training."

"Training? At your age?" Paine asked coming down the stairs.

"Yeah. Training." She said.

Paine sat herself down at one of the stools entrestested. "What sort of wepon did you use?"

"Sword's, gun's, sumari sword, magic." Ycra answerd finishing her food.

Paine's jaw seemed to drop a small bit. "Uh Paine? Are you ok?" Yuna asked.

Paine regained her composure. "I didn't start training till I was 12 years old."

Later on in the bridge when every one was awake.

"Tidus are you ok?" Yuna asked seeing he was holding his stomach.

He looked up at her and smiled. "My stomach hurt's a bit. But hey I'm fine."

"Just as long as your sure." She said.

"Hey Gullwings! Just got a message. Now they've found some thing that looks like a sphere in the Luca stadiom." Buddy told them.

Suddenly Ycra stood up and ran over to Yuna. "You can't go!" She screemed grabbing hold of Yuna's leg.

"Woah! What do ya mean!" Tidus asked kneeling down to look the small child in the eye's. What he found i them was pure fear. "What is it?" He asked worry in his voice.

Ycra looked up at him terrified. "I can't tell you. Just please don't go down there." She begged him.

"Well this could be a once in a life time oportunity." Buddy said.

"Then I say! Gullwing's! Move out!" Brother shouted.

Rikku came over to him and hit him on the back of the head. "What was that for?" Brother asked.

"Can't you see that she's scared!" She scolded him.

"Ycra I'm losing feeling in my leg." Yuna said trying to pry Ycra's finger's off her. "Ycra please!"

In the end Tidus had to sort her out by picking her up so quickly that she didn't have time to strike back. "We'll be back soon. We promise."

Ycra's struggling continued though. "Don't make promises you can't keep!" She shouted down his ear trying to make him let go of her. "Well how do you know that some thing bad is going to happen?"

"I just do!" She shouted.

Ycra had done every thing she could do to stop them from going. Now the Gullwing's were starting to get a bit mad. Tidus and the other's had decided to take her with them. And Yuna was getting embaressed by her keep on screeming.

Finally Yuna had enough. "Can you guy's wait while I have a little talk with Ycra!" She asked anoyed.

"Sure." Tidus said. Happy that maybe her screeming might stop.

Yuna had dragged Ycra behind some crates. "That's it Ycra! What is wrong with you?"

"The stadiom is gonna explode!" Ycra shouted.

Yuna was surpised at her words. "What do you mean?"

"look." Much to Ycra's word's the stadiom did explode.

Now Yuna was scared. Her sister had saved her life. But how did Ycra know?

"Yuna! We're going back to the airship!" Tidus shouted to get over the screeming people.

Back on the airship Ycra was in question. "It's a good job we got back when we did. The second explosion will come in a few minuites." The young child said.

"Ycra. How did you know this was going to happen?" Paine asked.

Yuna would usally ask these questions. But she was in a state of shock, Tidus was trying to calm her down.

"When we dissapered. We woke up in a really wierd rocky place. Some men on motor bikes came and took us to a building. Where they told us that it was year 1002000/apple. They put us in a machine to make us younger. Then they taught us to be soldiers." Ycra explained.

"That's 14 year's in the future!" Paine screemed shocked.

Tidus walked in. Seeing every one's surprised faces he guesed he had missed some thing. "How's Yunie?" He heard Rikku ask.#

"She's fine. She fell asleep. But I take it I missed some thing?"

Every one looked at each other waiting for some one else to tell him. In the end Paine spoke. "She say's that herself and the other kid's were 14 years in the future."