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Trust and Lies Chapter 4

Safe at last?

--Under Bevelle--

Unsents were coming from every direction and each one led more fiends. Suddenly all the unsents began looking over their shoulders and then they fled followed by the fiends, everything just stopped, all was silent. "Did we do it? Is it safe?" Rikku asked.

Right on cue an eerie voice bellowed form the walls "The test begins. Now!" Little did they know it was just the New Yevon military leader on a loud speaker.

"Test?! But I didn't study!"

"I don't think that's the kind of test they mean Rikku." Paine backed away from the walls

Something is a little off here... Nalah pondered, "What's going—?" She asked but her words where droned out when stone pillars fell from the ceiling.

"Look out!" Yuna yelled as the pillars crashed to the floor shattering, fortunately no one was hit.

"Oh! We gotta get outta here!" Rikku made a mad dash for the door. "It's locked!" she called as she ran back to her friends, they hadn't gotten very far from the door because of all the fiends.

"What?! Are they trying to do, kill us?!" Nalah tried to stay calm, but then it occurred to her, maybe that's exactly what's going on.

"One more thing like those pillars and we're all goners!" even Paine was getting worried now.

"We can figure this out... Just stay calm." Nalah reassured herself.

"Stay CALM?! You want me to stay CALM?! NOW?! ARE WE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE????!!!!!!!!!!" Rikku was now running in circles to accompany her frantic yelling.

"Rikku!" Paine raised her sword. Rikku ran so that Yuna was in-between the two of them and stopped. Suddenly there was a loud crash. Every one turned just in time to see a flurry of arrows shot out of the wall and directly at them! Nalah jumped into the air doing a back flip and landing on the ground, things like that came with being a cat. The arrows slammed Yuna in the side, Rikku in the shoulder, and Paine near her collarbone.

"No!" Nalah yelled throwing her own crossbow (Nalah is an archer, remember what happened with the archer dress sphere in Chapter 1?) to the ground to help her friends.

Rikku winced and grabbed her shoulder. She didn't want to cry, but it hurt so much. She let one tear fall from her eyes. Nalah looked at them not sure what to do. The arrows had been shot with such force that all of them had fallen to the ground. Yuna, Rikku, and Paine slowly sat up clenching their teeth to dull the immense pain from the wound. "Ummm... I'll get the arrows out... Sheesh we have to stop the bleeding too... Oh, first tings first, this may hurt a bit." Nalah bit her lip she ripped Rikku's arrow out first Rikku gave a small cry as it came out, as did Yuna, Paine just bit down on her lip and let out a very muffled wince. Nalah looked around her, she had to think of some way to bandage their wounds. "Do any of you have any experience in healing?"

"Try sphere changing to white mage." Yuna suggested.

Nalah cursed, "I don't have it on my grid... any of you?"

"Sphere changing while injured is risky! There are thousands of things that could go wrong in the process!" Rikku exclaimed worriedly.

"We have to do something!" Paine snapped. "Just do it the way people who don't have magic do it!"

Nalah bit her lip nervously, Yuna, Rikku, and Paine were loosing blood quickly and if the fiends were to return... She started to rip off part of her own clothing to make a bandage but then she realized she didn't quite have enough to spare, she wouldn't be able to tare through leather armor anyway.

Nalah stared off at the cold blue stone that the room was made of all that was in it was rock, shards of the broken pillars. "Rocks!"

"What?!" Yuna and Rikku exclaimed in unison.

"Stone would put pressure on the wound and help a little... maybe? I don't have the slightest idea if it'll do any good at all, but it was worth a shot... Right?"

"I suppose it makes sense... what do we have to loose?" Paine shrugged.

"A LOT!" Rikku said franticly, she began to wave her arms but moving the joint in her shoulder was painful.

"Do you have a better idea?! All of us are wearing straight leather and metal so we can't make bandages, none of us can sphere change, we ran out of high-potion half and hour ago, and the door's locked!!!!" Paine shouted angrily, then she let a slow sigh escape her, "Nalah, get some rocks..."

--Labyrinth--

Baralai was extremely confused. Sometimes his thoughts seemed to move far to slow, and sometimes far too fast. Currently they happened to be fast. Slow down Baralai! Get a hold of yourself! What do I know so far? Aldimar wanted to kill Yuna, Rikku, and Paine because they found out too many of New Yevon's secrets. Now he wants to kill Nalah too... And maybe even me? They must have placed the fiends there themselves so that they would come and trap them there... Aldimar said the doors were locked.

"You haven't left yet?" Baralai jumped at the sound of a familiar voice, he searched around for a moment before seeing Kiran casually sitting on the ledge near the room's high ceiling.

"Kiran! You scared me! How did you get down here? And, where haven't I gone yet?"

"I have my ways, and you should be helping your friends." Sometimes Kiran really confused Baralai and he was starting to get fed up with it.

"How? I'm stuck down here." Baralai motioned to the large room he was standing in, he wasn't really stuck he just didn't fell like getting lost in a mess of cloisters.

"You know as well as I do, when they fought you, almost a year ago now, you were in the labyrinth. One of them near where Vegnagun was, you know your way around. Get to Venagun's chamber, head up and you get to them. Hurry they are in danger." Baralai was shocked. How did Kiran know all this? However he knew it Baralai would have to find out later, he had to help Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and Nalah now. Nalah... She was right... I guess she is trust worthy. Baralai ran toward the hole that led to the next cloister.

"Baralai!"

"What?" Baralai turned around frustrated.

Kiran was holding his staff! "Catch!" He threw Baralai the weapon.

"How..."

"No time for questions now. Your friends need you."

"Right! Thank you!"

--15 minutes later--

No fiends had come for quite some time, Yuna, Rikku, and Paine were resting, the group had decided it was to dangerous for them to move injured, so Nalah was wandering the Machen was unsent and good! Maybe there are others... Chances are they aren't down here! She wasn't sure where she was, she just knew she was very deep underground, "Help! Someone! ...Anyone?" Nalah yelled at the darkness, she didn't expect a response, but she got one.

"Nalah?!" a voice came from somewhere behind her.

"Who the $&?!" Nalah was dumbfounded when she heard someone who knew her name respond. The voice was familiar, but she couldn't quite place it. Baralai emerged from the shadows. "Well if it isn't Mr. Perfect himself. Why are you down here?"

"No time! New Yevon wants to kill you, all of you!" They want to kill me now too...

"What?!"

"This whole thing was a setup! They wanted to kill Rikku, Yuna, and Paine, now you and me too. Where are they anyway?"

"Hurt... bad." Nalah bit her lip assumed that Baralai would be furious with her for letting them get hurt, but he did no such thing.

"At least you're alright."

"How do you know all this?" Nalah looked right into Baralai's eyes, she still didn't trust him. Baralai began explaining all about New Yevon's plan, and about Kiran helping him, but Nalah eyed him suspiciously and he got nervous, in result it did seem like he was lying.

"Great, now do you have plan to get us out of here?"

"Ummm... no.... you?"

"I asked you first." Nalah frowned frustrated with Baralai. Her eyes flashed a deep blood red, Baralai backed away slowly. "What?"

"Nothing..." Nalah cocked her head and her blood-red eyes clouded a bit making them much less intense.

"Whatever..." Nalah's tone jumped in the middle of the word, implying that she wanted an explanation, also implying he was acting a little idiotic.

"Never mind. We need to focus on getting out of here."

Nalah began pacing so absorbed in thought that she tripped into one of the many holes in the Bevelle underground. Baralai grabbed her arm preventing her from falling.

"Stupid holes..." Nalah muttered.

"Nalah that's it!"

"What?" Nalah's eyes changed yet again gold this time.

"One of the holes leads to the farplane! And in the farplane there's one of those blue sphere things! If you just touch it takes you straight to the Celsius!" and thus the plan was formed.

Baralai and Nalah—who still didn't trust him—headed to find YRP and get to the farplane. Surprisingly everything went well... They made it with only minimal fiend attacks, and they all made it back safely, but they knew, they wouldn't be safe for long...

-Chapter 4 Complete-

Someone has to make sure Spira is safe! It's all up to the Gullwings! As usual...