Chapter 2: Home Sweet Home

When I began to wake up I felt a sharp pain go through my head. "OWW," I groaned loudly, as i reached for my face hoping that if i covered my face the pain would go away. Of course it did not, and after laying there in pain for several minutes I realized that I wasn't wearing my glasses. Great, where are my glasses I thought as I slowly sat up and opened my eyes. " What the... where the heck am I, a beach," I asked no one in particular. Then I noticed several things, first of all I could see perfectly and I wasn't wearing my glasses. Second, I was technically on a beach, but only the beach of a small pond. I began to look around a little more, hmm just from a quick glance my guess is that I'm in the dessert near an oasis and judjing from the odd creature I can see in the distance I think... yes I'm deffinetly in FFX. I got to my feet but as I did so I noticed that my clothes were not the same, it looked almost like I was wearing a black kimono with white stripes making odd shapes and designs and a pair of matching fingerless gloves.. Well I might as well see what else is diffrent I thought to myself checking to see if I had changed anymore besides what I had observed already. I found the hilt of a sword by my side and pulled it out of it's sheath, it was approximately four feet in length but only about two and a half inches wide. I swung it around a bit then put it back in it's sheath, admiring how light the blade was. I found a rather large pouch on the belt I was wearing, I opened it to find a large quantity of daggers, awesome I'm gonna have fun with these. The last thing i found that had changed was my hair, on earth it had been long, rathermessy and in need of a cut, here it seemed as though it was all slicked back and spiked out at the back of my head.

After a while I finally decide that I would atempt to find Home. I began walking in the direction I estimated to be towards Home, I had only walked a few steps before tripping over something in the sand. I landed face first in the sand, mumbled and then turned to see what had caused this frustrating occurrence. It was burried slightly so I dug it up to find that it was an Al Bhed dictionary. Ha i already knew some Al Bhed but this will probably come in handy I thought as i stuffed it inside of my kimono. I continued walking for some time slashing any fiends that got in my way. I had walked for what felt like hours and was beginning to get thirsty and tired, when I stopped and decide to see if I was carrying any items, like a potion or something, but of course with my luck I didn't. When I finally looked back to the path ahead I saw an Al Bhed machina scout. Crap, I'm way to tired for this I thought as the machina charged at me and tried to stab me with one of it's needle like arms, I tried moving but to no avail, it cut the left side of my torso and my arm. I felt a burning sensation throughout the left side of my body. "Ahhh," I screamed out in pain, grabbing my sword and slashing the machina in two like it was warm butter. I stumbled backwards some but regained my balance and continued walking but at a slower pace now. I had only been walking fow a few minutes when I heard a girl screaming.

I broke into a run, I didn't know who was screaming or even if it was really a scream, maybe my mind was playing tricks on me after all I must be almost completely dehydrated by now. I still continued to run towards the scream that I had heard just over the dune. When I got over the dune I saw a girl laying on the ground with her hands on the back of her head and a large piece of what looked like junk to me falling down towards her. I quickly leaped forward and slashed the "junk" in two, each half landing on either side of the girl. I sheathed my sword as the girl stood up. It was then that I recognized her, it was Rikku, I would have been overjoyed had I not been dehydrated, tired and bleeding. Rikku ran over to where I was standing.

"Dryhg oui," Rikku said to me.

I smiled a grimacing smile for I was still in pain and replied, "Yho deli," then fell onto my knees.

"Yna oui ymm nekrd," Rikku asked in a panic trying to help me back to my feet.

"So ryli ec Chris," is all I managed to say before I looked down at the sand to see that I had lost so much blood that the sand on my left had turned completely red. I then collapsed on the ground as everything went black, the last thing that I saw was Rikku yelling something to the other Al Bhed and then all went black.

I awoke to find myself hog tied on a bed. "Well at least my kind hosts were kind enough to leave me my daggers," I said moving around so that a dagger fell out of the pouch on my belt. I then manuevered myself so that I could grab the dagger and cut the ropes. I got up and rubbed my now sore ankles and wrists. I looked around for my blade but could not find it. Of course they wouldn't leave my sword in here, guess I'll just have to go find it. I walked towards the door, but then I realized that unless the Al Bhed were stupid they would have guards by my door. Gotta be a way out of this I thought looking around the room. Then I came up with a plan. I grabbed anything that was metal that could possibly make noise from being dropped on the ground threw it up in the air and quickly jumped above the door and managed to suspend myself there. The racket that the objects made obviously attracted the guards attention, the door opened and a single guard came in. "Aww only one that's no fun," I said before dropping down and giving the guard a swift spin kick in the head. I turned around quickly to make sure there were no more guards and luckily there wasn't. I poked my head into the hall and looked around and still didn't see anyone. Looks like my luck has changed for the better I thought as I walked out into the hallway. I walked down a ways and found another room, the door opened automaticaly so I walked in and I found a huge stockpile of weapons; guns, swords, maces, and some other weird looking gizmos and junk.

"How the heck am I supposed to find my sword with all this other stuff here," I asked myself quietly putting out my hands in a gesture towards the garbage. Then as I did this my sword floated up out of the pile, still in it's sheath, and into my hands. Not only that but my watch was somehow stuck to the sword. What the... oh well at least now I know what time it is, oh wait my camera Ichecked my pocket and found it was still there perfectly intact. I put my watch on my wrist, my camera in my pocket, my sword by my side and walked back into the hallway. I turned in the same direction I had been walking and took a left at the T-intersection in the hall and I saw two guards but before I could panic I heard one of them snore. I walked over and had to keep from laughing, it was Brother and some other random Al Bhed guy and they had both fallen asleep while guarding a door. I simply walked right through the door.

I walked through a slightly curved hall and came out in what looked like a small map room, with a table with a map of all of Spira on it and next to the table was Cid and Rikku. They had not seen me yet because they were facing away from the entrance at the moment and were locked deep in conversation.

"I don't think we can trust him Rikku," Cid said in an almost angered voice. Why is he talking in English and is he talking about me?

"Why not pop he saved me and why would an Al Bhed hater save an Al Bhed," Rikku quickly retaliated. I stood there listening to them argue for almost ten minutes when all of a sudden... BEEP! I looked down at my watch it was 1:00PM, crap i really should have shut off the hourly tone on my watch. "Who's there," yelled Rikku. I slowly came out from around the corner.

"Hehe your guards are a little lazy, they seemed to be taking a cat nap so I let myself in, and for your information I am not an Al Bhed hater," I said all in one breath.

"WHAT," screamed Cid as he stormed past me and towards the door which I heard open and then close and i could hear muffled Al Bhed curses through the door. I turned my attention back to Rikku just in time to notice that she had her face about two inches from mine.

"Ahh," I screamed and jumped back so far I slammed my back into the wall, which brought back the painfrom my wound in the desert. I slid down onto the floor and tried to relax but Rikku came over and sat down next to me.

"Hiya," she said in an extremely perky voice, "umm, thanks for saving me earlier, I guess I owe you one?"

"No way you already repaid your debt cause you brought me here and I would have died if you hadn't," I replied. She looked thoughtful about this for a moment then nodded.

"My name's Rikku," she said after a brief moment of silence

"Yea, I heard Cid call you that so I know, and in case you forgot my name is Chris," I replied. It really wasn't a lie but I had known her name since I saw her in te desert but she didn't have to know that, after all it would seem odd if I knew everything.

"So... where you from," Rikku asked seeming very curious about this question like it would determine what her opinion of me was. I tried to think of the best lie I could but I resorted to the old "Sin's toxin" lie

"I don't really know, I got to close to Sin and it's toxin affected me," I almost forced this out word by word. She looked at me for a long time and I just stared back. It almost felt like she was looking into my very soul trying to tell if I was lying.

"Oh, how would you like to come look for machinawith us," Rikku asked. I thought about this for a minute, and realized that if I went I would get to meet Tidus. Then again meeting Tidus isn't something I'd really want to do but Rikku had a look like she would be crushed if i said no so...

"Sure, just as soon as I can get up," I finally replied sounding as happy as I could with pain that I was in. Fortunately, Rikku gave me a potion and told me to drink it, I did so and felt better almost instantly. I stood up just as Cid came into the room.

"Hey pop Chris here is gonna join me and Brother to look for machina," Rikku said to Cid after a few seconds.

"Really? That's fantastic, but Chris you better make sure that Rikku doesn't get hurt at all or I'll hold you personally responsible," Cid said without a hint of sarcasam in his voice at all. "Now you two better go stock up before you leave," Cid said as me and Rikku left the room together.

"So what, does this make me your bodyguard or something," I asked Rikku after we had bought a few potions and some other items. Rikku didn't really answer, all she did was grab on to my arm and as she did so I blushed and just looked away.

YAY done chapter 2 now I can go to bed man this computer roomis hot. PLEASE REVIEW! I'll be sure to update soon.