I don't own any characters of Final Fantasy game series. The story is about to start here. This is still my very first story in English, and thanks to my friend I've learned to write a little bit better English in my stories.

Nooj and the others are spending a typical day for them in Bevelle. The four are going to date as Nooj enjoys of the sunny day.

Veronica, thanks for helping me with this story too :)


Chapter 2. Meetings

There was a girl walking in the forest near Bevelle. She had been an orphan until she was ten years old. She lived in the streets of Luca until one man came and took her with him. She grew up while learning to fight the fiends with her two knives. After eight years of training she was finally able to defend herself against her enemies. And that's why she's walking there now. She has a mission given to her by the man with a tiger as his aeon. She has to find Nooj, test him and then bring him to the man. She doesn't know why he wants to meet Nooj but she'll do that favor for the man who took care of her for the last eight years.

"Let's see. He should be around here somewhere" she told herself.

"I guess I have to go to downtown, he might be there, hmm, maybe I'll go to eat something too, I feel hungry"
She continued on her way to the downtown area of Bevelle to find a restaurant where she could have her lunch, a big, delicious lunch.

"Yunie we have to go!" A girl with blonde hair shouted.

"I'm coming!" Yuna answered.

"Hurry up, the boys won't wait!"

"I'm coming Rikku, just wait a minute…"

"I'm so hungry I could eat a Shoopuff…" Rikku said.

"Have you seen my hair clip?"

"It's on your head Yunie…"

"Oh really... I hate being so nervous…"

"Don't worry, he'll love you even more than before after your date today" Rikku said
smiling.

"Sure, let's go!" Yuna said, and the two left the house.

"Are you sure?" Tidus asked.

"Of course, they'll love it" Gippal replied.

"So first we'll take them to lunch, then to the cinema and at last to the concert…" Tidus said.

"That's right my friend"

"But, when are we going to have our private time with them?"

"Oh, I forgot about that…" Gippal said and, thinking.

"How about between the cinema and the concert?" Tidus asked. Both of them knew their girlfriends wanted to have some private time with them.

"I think, that's perfect!"

"So it's settled?"

"Yes" Gippal said.

"HEY THERE!"

The boys turned to see who was calling, and saw Yuna and Rikku running towards them.

"You girls are late" Gippal said and gave a hug to Rikku who smiled happily.

"I'm happy you waited here" Yuna said.

"Anytime honey" Tidus said and kissed Yuna.

"So where are we going?" Rikku asked.

"The first we're going to eat some lunch, I hope you're hungry" Gippal said.

"Sounds great, better get going before they'll eat each other" Rikku said and laughed.

"Don't be so mean" Yuna said and everyone laughed together.

"Okay, shall we go?" Tidus asked Yuna. She seems to be watching something.

"What is it Yunie?" Rikku asked.

"Oh, nothing... I just think I saw someone over there…"

"Who?" Tidus asked.

"I'm not sure. I'd like to go"

"Running after boys, aren't you?" Rikku smiled.

"No, I'm not. I just wanna know if that person I saw was my cousin" Yuna said.

"Your cousin… Oh, that guy?" Rikku asked.

"Will you forgive me if I go? I promise I'll meet up with you later" Yuna said.

"I guess so" Tidus said.

"We'll go to Donk's place" Gippal said.

"I'll meet you there then, just give me one hour" Yuna said.

"Okay…"

"Don't be late!" Rikku said as Yuna ran across the street and in the direction she saw the figure was going.

As always, the streets of Bevelle were full of people. The sun was shining and everyone was happy. Nooj was walking along the street and enjoying the beautiful day, when an old woman asked him to buy something from her small store.

Nooj knew this old woman very well. When he was about 11 years old, he had found the old woman lying in the forest behind his home. She had been in very bad shape but still able to respond when Nooj called her. She had broken her ankle and fallen down, and she had almost hit her head to a rock too. Nooj had helped the old woman to his home and put gauze bandages around her ankle.

The two had spent their time there for two months, and Nooj had been happy he had a guest in the house. They had talked a lot about Nooj's life, alone there on the mountain. The old woman had been so sorry for Nooj when he told her about his parents.

They had left the mountains together when the old woman was able to walk again and Nooj moved in with his new granny in Bevelle. And now, nine years later, his granny's store has run out of customers after those huge buildings had appeared with quite new and modern boutiques. He didn't want to think about it but he felt like he was the only customer left of his granny's.

"Do you have something special for me?" He asked and smiled to his granny as he always did.

"Can't say. But I'm happy to see that smile again" she said.

"And I'm happy when you're happy granny" Nooj said and looked up to the store window.

"Wow... What is that?" He asked and moved closer to the window.

"It's an amulet. I got it from a man with a tiger nine and half years ago. He said it knows its owner" Granny said.

"A tiger? A huge white tiger?" Nooj asked.

"With pink stripes, yes... What of it?" Granny asked and watched him. Nooj seemed to be thinking.

"I... I knew a man with that kind of tiger…" He said quietly.

"And?" Granny asked.

"He... Well... He was my father" Nooj said, his granny seemed surprised, at least a little.

"What are you looking at?" Nooj asked.

"Well, now that you mentioned it... You two do look alike" Granny said.

"Do you think so?" Nooj asked, then he suddenly felt something.

"What is it?" Granny asked. Nooj looked at her and saw she seemed to be worrying.

"Oh, ah, it's nothing... I think" Nooj said. He was sure he had felt something but didn't know what or why, so he didn't wanna make his granny worry any more than she already had to.

"If you want it, you can always buy it" she said and smiled. Nooj watched the amulet behind the window and wondered.

"I think you should…" a girl's voice said.
Both Nooj and his granny turned around to see who was talking and they saw a beautiful young lady standing right behind them.

"Do you know what it is?" Granny asked from the girl.

"I'm not sure, but I do have a feeling…" she said and looked up at Nooj, and then the amulet.

"What kind of feeling?" Nooj asked. Did she know something, he wondered.

"A feeling, like there's some kind of huge power inside the amulet, don't you feel it?" She asked.

"Yes I do, but that doesn't explain why you want me to buy it" Nooj said. He hoped to get an answer, and a good one.

"I don't want you to buy it, but you should. It will be a very bad thing if someone who wants to kill you gets it…" she said. Nooj looked at his granny, who didn't know anything about anyone trying to kill him. The girl looked at them.

"I'm sorry if I said something I shouldn't have" she said.

"It's Okay... I just haven't told her" Nooj said and felt it again. Like something was trying to call him.

"I see…" the girl said.

"Do you know why I feel like something is trying to call me?" Nooj asked the girl quietly.

"Do you really feel that way?" The girl asked. Nooj nodded and watched the amulet again.

"I guess you've got to buy it then, so you can find out what's inside the amulet" the girl said.

"How much do you want me to pay for it granny?" Nooj asked from his granny.

"Just what you wanna pay, you have always paid fairly with me" she said and smiled.

"Thanks granny" Nooj said and paid his granny fairly as always.

After he had hugged his granny Nooj went inside the store. He walked to the store window and took the amulet in his hands. He held it and felt it, something was moving inside. He went back outside to the girl and showed the amulet to her.

"Can you tell me anything about it?" He asked as the girl watched the amulet.

"It must be her, here, you see this? It's the symbol of eternal love and the result" she said.

"Result?" Nooj asked and the girl nodded.

"That's right. This aeon is born from the feelings of eternal love and the result it has given" she said.

"An aeon?" He asked.

"Remember the huge white tiger you talked about with your granny, that's an aeon too" she said.

"How do you know?" Nooj asked. The girl gave the amulet back to Nooj and looked at him.

"My father told me about aeons, and I have the aeon too, see this ring?" She said and showed him her hand.

"My father gave it to me ten years ago, the aeon was sealed inside and the first time it appeared was six years ago, when I got attacked by an evil aeon" she said.

"Oh…" he said.

"Before that happened I always felt it, when it was moving in my ring you know" she said.

"Yeah, I guess I know what you mean" Nooj said.

"Better lay it on your neck or you might lose your power" she said.
Nooj nodded and laid the amulet on his neck. There were many things he didn't know about the aeons, but he felt it was happy in its amulet… Happy!

"What the…"

"What is it?" The girl asked.

"Am I really able to feel that this, 'my' aeon is... Happy?" He asked.

"Of course, it only proves that you are connected" she said and smiled.

"Thanks" he said. He let his amulet rest around his neck. His granny and the girl smiled at him.

"Anyways, what's your name?" He asked. The girl looked into his eyes.

"Don't you know? My father told me you're my cousin, any guesses?" She asked and smiled.

"No…"

"Okay. I'm Yuna, Braska's daughter. Your mother was his sister, wasn't she?" She asked.

"I can't remember, but I think I have heard his name before" he said.

"That's good, and your name?" She asked.

"Oh, it's Nooj" he said.

"Nice to meet you, Noojie" she said and smiled.

"Don't call me that, it's... It's embarrassing" Nooj said.

"I see, and that's why you suddenly turned to red?" she smiled for fun.

"No, I'm not..." he said and his granny and Yuna had a great laugh.

"Really funny…" he said and felt like every single person on the street was laughing at him.

"Come inside you two, I'll go to boil us some tea" said his granny and slowly all three went into the store for a cup of tea.


The end of chapter 2. I hope you like the beginning of this story. Can't say much here so I just hope you enjoyed :)