Disclaimer: Chapter 1, seriously thinking of stopping this.. It's gettin' old..

Okay, chapter 15.. Might be the only one up for a while.. I'm really slacking off on the writing... School's taking its toll on me now that I'm seriously starting into it again.. And I don't want to mess it up with another depression.. I have enough of that as it is.. But I will eventually try to update as often as possible.. Chapter 15 is hopefully not as boring as 14. But that's up to what you think.. Enjoy either way..

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Chapter 15 - Good and Evil

"There's an incoming call from The Youth League's Headquarter!" Shinra announced from his seat in the ship.
"Accept it!" Paine ordered as they all joined in around Shinra to watch whatever news The Youth League carried.

"Gippal, Baralai?" Rikku wondered when she saw them all crushed together with Nooj to fit into the small image of the sphere.

"Hey, Rikku!" Gippal smiled, seeing the small shade of red growing across Rikku's face as she happily greeted him back.

"Not now, Gippal." Nooj sighed. "Is Yuna there?"

"Here!" Yuna answered, showing herself more clearly for Nooj to see. "What's up?"

"We carry some disturbing news, about Guadosalam..."

"You guys went there?" Buddy questioned.

"Yes," Baralai sadly admitted "I wish we hadn't."

"Why, what happened?"

"When we arrived, we encountered the most horrific scene ever. Everyone there was dead, slaughtered in brutality." Gippal said, trying to muster up as much strenght to keep himself from puking.

"So you mean to tell me that Daan was right?" Tidus exclaimed from behind everyone, making it impossible for anyone to know who the voice came from.

"What? Who's Daan?" Baralai curiously asked, what was it that this Daan was right about anyway, he thought?

"Nothing, we can talk about that later. What I want to know is what brought you to Guadosalam in the first place." Yuna said.

"We recieved a distress signal about something escaping from somewhere. We didn't get much more than that, niether a name of the one who escaped, and niether what it escaped." Nooj explained, almost feeling himself re-telling a tale for the 10th time in a short period of time.

"I sent out two of my men, since I didn't actually count on it being that very much of an emergancy to call in a squad. I sent Laq and Aiko out, and they never returned. That's when I set out with Baralai to inspect this. We meet Gippal on the way, and what we encountered will somehow forever stay with me in my nightmares."

"I see," Yuna answered, she herself trying to sound as professional as she could without showing any sign of weakness now when she needed to stay her strongest.

"This has to have a connection with what the Fayth said..." she whispered.

"What?"

"Nothing, did you see anyone or anything there that could've been the cause of the whole mess?"

"No, we didn't stick around for us to share the same future as that place," Baralai admitted, shame for his own cowardness never escaping the girls. "but as we ran, we felt this aura of evil and hunger chase us all the way back to the Shopuff ride. It's hard to explain, nothing short of a terrifying feeling though."

"Where are you guys now?" Tidus asked, not really knowing of who these guys was or where they were in Spira.

"Who is that?" Gippal questioned, not recognizing the voice.

Tidus stepped forward and was met by what he expected to be met by.

"Shuyin!"

"No! He's not Shuyin!" Yuna defended. She took a hold of his arm and dragged him closer to her side. "This is Tidus, he was and still remains a guardian of mine from my journey days as a Summoner."

Nooj and the two others remained quiet. Making Yuna take the discussion to an end.

"We're passing by your camp in a few minutes on our way to Guadosalam, do you want us to pick you guys up?" she asked them. "So we can all talk this over more together onboard?"

"Very well." Nooj replied, ignoring Baralai and Gippal's comments and questions about Yuna qutting the Gullwings or not wanting to save Spira once more.

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"I thought you were intrapped by your brother, Alyzzia." Avernus voice echoed through the halls of the dead city of Guadosalam.

"Haven't you heard? I was released after being imprisoned for over ten centuries." Alyzzia smirked, looking around herself at the fairly strange blue, green place she was within.

"What is this place?"

"Don't change the subject! I find it very hard to believe that your brother Aztrax actually released you this soon after your little stunt for power struggle with him. I find it very hard to believe that he would ever release you at all."

"Think what you want, Avernus. You're not the one born with a sibling, you can't possibly know of the love bond a brother and sister share."

"I have to agree with you on that." Avernus smiled at her cleverness. "But that doesn't answer me why you're here, around me."
"Let's just say that I need to find some entertainment after being trapped inside a cell for such a long time. When I heard of your escape I couldn't help but think that this was my chance for a very wild ride." Alyzzia said as she encirkled Avernus, taking in every aspect of his appearance, which for her was an incredible view. "I know of your plans of dominating Spira. Is it true that this was the world you once lost through entrapment by my brother as well?"

"I can't lie about that, now can I? Truth is, I despise your brother, I despise humans. Escaping your brother so-called top security cells is my way of taunting him, and to rule Spira, is my way of killing and hating humans. Still I can't figure out where you fit in." Avernus explained, telling of what he saw of his future.

"How about making me fit into the role as your companion in this? Of course the prize in the end is yours, you can have Spira for all I care. Just let me be there with you along the way, provinding you help and protection from my brother's bounty-hunters. After all, I do want to settle my score with those awful demons who tortured me while I was imprisoned." Alyzzia said, making every word sound duller than the previous as every new one sounded promising and lustful.

"I can't see why I need any protection in this at all, Alyzzia. I prefer going solo on this one."

"Don't get over your head too much, Avernus. I can sense what you plan, what you want. You know what that means right? If I can sense through you, it's evidence enough of you having a weak mind. You think that you can overpower my brother's men with such a weak mind? They're trained in ways of which you could never think off." Alyzzia spat

"Oh, is that so?" Avernus smirked.

"Your mind is clouded by hatred and vengance. You're angry at my brother because you lost your chance to control this world centuries ago." she said to him, telling of what she saw within him.

"You want to control this world, at the same time as you taunt Aztrax. You cannot manage that with such a weak mind that even I can see through."

Avernus expression turned into a disturbed one as the woman in front of him dared to call him weak. That she dared to speak of his plans so openly. He understood her point, she was her brother's sister. She knew of what she spoke off. Yet he couldn't help but wonder.

"And what do you get out of helping me?" he asked, trying to sound as if hadn't gotten affected by her words at all.

"As I said, I'm only doing this for the entertainment of it all, nothing more." Alyzzia lied with a smile.

"I still don't trust you, unless you somehow can prove yourself of being helpful to me." Avernus crossed his arms across his chest, awaiting her response.

"I sense that you want whatever is hidden behind a certain door in the Bevelle Undergrounds, yes?"

Avernus nodded nervously, was he really that weak-minded? He focused all of his powers into controlling his emotions, and so on hoping to cloud his mind from her radar.

"What if I told you that I could get you into Bevelle unharmed, a free-pass into the very depths of the city of secrets?" Alyzzia offered. "Of course the guards would only dare to hurt you. But you, can kill at your own will. Spill as much blood as you want, crush as many bones as you please yourself to do. Hmm, what do you say, my dear friend?"

"I say whatever is needed to say after you've proven yourself to be able to do this." Avernus smiled, liking the idea more and more with every second that passed.

"Consider it done, start your journey now and you'll get a scratch-free entry by the time you reach Bevelle." was the last Alyzzia said before flames of red encirkled her whole being, sucking her inside it's fury depths and disappeared together with her.

"It's a shame for someone born out of pure evil to be such a beauty." Avernus smirked as he went to start his journey to Bevelle, where more blood to be spilled awaited him. "A total shame..."

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"Baralai, stop this nonsense!" Paine shouted, trying to get some sense in the white-haired praetor.

"How can I not act defensive when someone being an exact replica of Shuyin is before me? How can you all be so sure that he's not Shuyin?" Baralai asked them all furiously.

"Because he's not!" Yuna said back, harshly. "I've known Tidus longer than any of you on this ship, and I would know if he was Shuyin or not. He is not Shuyin!"

"I believe you." Gippal smirked from where he stood next to Rikku. "He doesn't look like Shuyin all that much when you think about it. Shuyin had this grown-up sense to him and his features, unlike Tidus here."

Tidus shot Gippal a questioning look. "So you're meaning to say that I look alot more childish than Shuyin?"

"That's exactly what I mean." Gippal smiled, noticing Tidus reaction to all of this.

"Why you," Tidus trailed off as Yuna cast him a stern gaze. "hmpf.. How old are you then?"

"Older than you, I bet." Gippal smirked, nonchalantly.

"Oh, but that's where you're wrong, Gippal." Rikku smiled, knowingly. "He's the same age as Yunie."
"Whatever, what is age anyway!" Gippal scoffed at them all.

"I would say the same. Although I wasn't the one calling my looks childish." Tidus replied, crossing his arms across his chest.

"You all are acting childish!" Brother exclaimed. "You all a bunch of kiddies!"
"Oh yeah, then what are you? A psycho with a touch of inbreed loving?" Tidus countered, somewhat proudly of his choice of words.

Yuna however, couldn't believe that Tidus had just said that. She sighed loudly and made it clear to everyone, especially Tidus that she wasn't at all pleased with what he had said.
Tidus, not slow on getting the point that she was mad, but very slow on as to why she was mad made a haste call of her name only to be ignored. "Aww, come on. What did I do now?"

"Why don't you use your brain to figure that out. Unless it's in its childish stadium still, making it rather hard to really think." Gippal laughed, still by Rikku's side, earning himself a quick punch into his right shoulder by her small, yet powerful hand. "Hey, what'd you do that for?"

"That's for you not knowing when to keep your mouth shut." she replied annoyed.
"I very much enjoy this lively conversation going on, but please. Can we go on with the subject at hand, as it seems to be very disturbing yet important." Nooj said, speaking up for the first time since coming onboard the Celsius.

"I agree," Yuna said openly to them all. "if what you told me about Guadosalam is true, do you have any idea as to who might've done this?"

"No, as Baralai said earlier. We didn't stay around all that much to find out. We felt a strange aura of death around the whole place, and the aura stayed with us all the way to the Shopuff." Nooj explained sadly. He wished he had somehow stayed behind to find out who or what it was that had caused the death of his soldiers together with all of Guadosalam.

"Whatever it is, it has immense power to kill off everyone in Guadosalam. Think about it, a normal human could not be the cause of this." Paine stated. "To think a human of some sort killing everyone in Guadosalam? The poor human would be killed or caught eventually when entering a city full of people."

"I see where your point lies in this, Paine. But I would rather think of it being someone human than some overpowered beast." Yuna admitted with a sigh. "Although I can sense the connection with Guadosalam and what the Fayth told me."

"What are you speaking of, Yuna?" Baralai asked her. "What is it that the Fayth has told you?"

"I don't know very much. But the Fayth came to me, explaining the situation behind Tidus' health, and then he mentioned something about some kind of evil escaping. While so, I thought that it has to be the Farplane in which it escaped from. Because that's where the Fayth's are from what we know." Yuna explained hastily.

Tidus expression turned into a confused frown as he went to ask her something. "What do you mean with my health?"

Yuna turned to look at him. She panicked, she had slipped up on the lie she had pulled on him just hours earlier. She couldn't handle this just now.

"Nothing, what I meant was that he wondered if you had returned or not." she smiled, hating herself with every passing second. She was pulling a second lie upon the first one.

Tidus not knowing wether to believe her or not just shook his head in confusion and walked a bit from them all to sit himself in a corner. Wanting some alone time to let it all sink in.

Yuna watched her love with sadness in her eyes. She thought it was for the best not to let him know the full truth just yet, he was already so confused as it was. She was all too confused herself.

"Connection or not, we'll have to find out when we reach there." Nooj spoke up, breaking the silence.

"Yeah, how much longer will it take Brother?" Rikku asked her brother.

"About 30 more minutes." he replied with pride over that The Celsius had such a speed.

"Great, why don't we all just take a while to pack up what we might need and just rest the rest of the way." Rikku smiled, recieving accepting glances.

Yuna took this opportunity to spend some time with Tidus. Hopefully she would be able to make him feel a bit better considering the circumstances.

She slowly walked over to where he sat in the corner with his face buried down into his knees which he held up with his arms around them. She softly sunk down into a crouching position and reached out to gently touch his shoulder, making her presence known to him. Yuna awaited as he slowly looked up, showing his bright blue eyes to her in complete vulnerability.

She smiled, trying to push away the tempting sigh she wanted to express. Her hand gently went to caress the side of his face, and she saw him lean into her touch.

Tidus felt the incredible warmth that only her had gave away. He felt himself wanting more of this intoxicating feeling. He wanted to embrace her and feel her in his arms, he wanted to taste her lips again with hunger. All he wanted was her; her warmth, her skin's softness, her lucious lips and her incredible love.

He stopped leaning into her soft touch, very much to his dismay, and straightened himself up. He was now looking down on her, she was still crouching. He offered his hand down and smiled when she smilingly accepted it. It seemed that she knew what he felt the need for, and she felt the same.

Yuna tightened her grip on his hand and smilingly walked ahead of him, pulling him behind her out of the room where everyone else minded their own business. She thanked whatever high power Spira now had after Yevon that no one seemed to notice their disappearance from the bridge as she led Tidus into the elevator with a grin.

"Aren't we sneaky now, miss Yuna." Tidus teased, grinning more widely than ever at how she managed to take the lead in everything they did.

"We can stop if you don't agree." Yuna said in a simple emotionless voice.

"No, no!" Tidus almost yelled in panic at what she had just suggested. "I was only kidding."

"So was I." Yuna giggled. Tidus was always one to be easily fooled by her. A cute thing in her opinion.

The elevator closed, leaving only the two of them inside the small room. Both of them fell silent, just looking into each other eyes, letting the gentleness of the moment seep into them.

"So, what do we do now?" Tidus asked after a while.

"I don't know. I just wanted to be alone with you. We haven't really had much alone time with each other in our awake since your return." Yuna stated sadly.

She slowly felt herself close up on him and gently swing her arms around him, embracing him lovingly. Just wanting to feel warmth from inside his arms.
Tidus smiled at her small yet loving gesture and returned it warmly as his arms went behind her back to softly hold her closer to him.

"Do you know anything about what happened?" he quietly asked her, holding her tighter.

"What do you mean?" she wondered, stifling the moan that wanted to escape her mouth as he continued to hold her.

"About what happened to me?"

Yuna flinched slightly unaware to Tidus, as she rested her head against his solid chest. She felt his heartbeat so close to herself in the safety of his arms.

"No, I rather not dwell on it right now. All I want this moment is your love." she said, blushing a crimson red color at her own words.

"I think I can deal with that." Tidus chuckled before retrieving one of his arms from behind her back to softly touch her chin, lifing it up ever so slowly so her eyes met his. "I'd do anything for you." he whispered before his lips crashed down on hers. With his other arm still around her slender waist he tightened his grip on her, pushing her closer to him as he caressed her cheek with his other while feverently meeting her lips over and over in desire and passion. He no longer remembered himself or where he was as all he could think of was the beautiful goddess he was now kissing.

Yuna moaned loudly into Tidus' mouth as the kiss grew deeper and she soon felt his tongue enter her mouth. She let her own tongue meet his in a dance they would not forget anytime soon.

Tidus hurriedly deepened the kiss more in his graving for more, and he soon pushed Yuna up against the wall behind her, making her backside accidently hit the elevator button leading to the Engine Room without any of them noticing it. Tidus let his hand glide from her cheek and entangle itself in her hair as their kisses became even more heated.

They both broke apart hastily when they both heard the elevator door open itself as it had arrived by the engine room. Yuna giggled at Tidus' startled look on his face and was soon met by his cerulean eyes which shoned with passion. "T-that was..." he gently started in a sweet voice.

"Amazing." Yuna ended for him with a smile.

Tidus nodded smirkingly as he bent down to put a small and innocent kiss on her lips. "We better get back to the others before they get way to suspicious."

"Brother might get suspicious, he always is." Yuna giggled. "Rikku and Paine is way over their heads about having Baralai and Gippal onboard that it doesn't matter if we're there or not, they wouldn't notice it very much. Shinra and Buddy doesn't care about it as well."

"What a fantastic crew you guys have on this ship. If we count Brother way, it would be the perfect crew." Tidus joked as he went to push the button leading to the bridge behind her.

Yuna slapped him playfully on the shoulder with a smile. "Stop it will you, he's my cousin after all."

"Yeah, that's why it's disgusting to have him onboard. You do know that he has an immense crush on you?"

"I wouldn't call it immense." Yuna muttered, turning her back to Tidus as she leaned into his arms with her backside. "Besides, he's probably over me by now. He knows that I only love you."

"Doesn't change the fact that he had a crush on his own cousin." Tidus sighed into her hair as he held her.

"Give him a chance, he's actually not that bad when it comes to entertaining us." Yuna said simply as the elevator came to a stop, the door in front of her opening immedietly.

Still holding her back tight to his chest he followed her out of the elevator with his hands hooked around her stomach. "Fine, but if I see any moves coming from him, then don't expect me to hold back."

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Okay, end of chapter 15.. A bit of Avernus and Alyzzia conversation up above.. Guess that's the only part I really liked, I somehow like the bad guys a bit more than anything else.. Good is boring, Evil is fun.. as it says.. Hehe..
Til next time

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