Chapter 3: Searching For the Airship

Rikku continued to cling to my arm as we walked out into the bright desert sun. "Umm, Rikku do you think you could let go of my arm now, I lost the circulation in my hand," I said after a few minutes. Rikku seemed surprised that she was clinging to me and blushed as she let go of my arm. "Cunno," she said. I laughed and told her "It's quite all right but just wondering, why did you grab my arm in the first place?"

We reached the boat that Rikku and the Al Bhed had used for searching for the airship just as she answered, "Umm, I can't tell you right now." I looked her straight in the eye for a minute why is it all Al Bhed have green eyes I thought, then realized that Rikku had closed her eyes. "Hey, why did you do that," I inquired of Rikku. "I was starting to get weirded out with you staring at my eyes," she replied quietly. "Ohh, ha sorry about that, I was wondering why all the Al Bhed's eyes are green, it's actually pretty cool but I just find it odd that all your eyes are green." She just shrugged and then snapped her fingers as though she just remembered something "Hey if your not Al Bhed how come you can speak and understand our language?" Ha I knew this book would come in handy for something I thought as I pulled out the Al Bhed dictionary I had tripped over when I first arived in the desert. She grabbed it and looked at it, then returned it to me and I stuffed it back in my kimono. We climbed on board the ship just as Brother and a few more Al Bhed showed up.

We were all below deck talking while we waited to reach our destination where ever it was. Of course we had to speak in Al Bhed since only me and Rikku could understand English.(So that means if you can't read or find a way to translate this you will have no clue what is going on.) "Cu Rikku..." Brother started to say but Rikku interupted him yelling, "Lyh ed Brother!" He looked puzzled and replied, "Fryd e teth'd cyo yhodrehk." Rikku just sent him a glare that could turn you to stone.

"Rao lyr oui dfu cdub ynkiehk," I said rather loudly. But after that everyone just stopped talking. Eventually I got fed up with the silence, rose to my feet and began to walk towards the door. "Frana tu oui drehg ouin kuehk," Brother snapped as I was about to leave. I stared at him and said just loudly enough so he could barely hear me, "Du kad cusa vnicr yen," then I went out the door, down the hall and went above deck. I walked up to the very front of the boat and leaned on the railing. I sat there gazing out to sea for some time, simply admiring the now almost black water. Hey if it's almost night then that means Tidus is either already at the ruins or will arive soon I thought just as I heard the large Steel door that led below deck open. I turned around to see who it was. I saw Rikku come out except now she was wearing her body suit. "Hey, what's with the outfit," I asked Rikku as she came closer. "Oh this, it's just a little better to wear then my normal clothes, it keeps me warmer and drier," she replied walking up and stopping right next to me so that she was looking out to sea as I had been a while ago. I heard the door snap shut and realized that it was a lot quieter going down then it was opening up, and then I turned to gaze back at the sea again.

"We're getting closer," Rikku said.

"So is it close to those ruins there," I said pointing to the ruins that I could see almost straight ahead of us.

"Genrally we think so, yes. It's probably a little ways past there," she answered.

We stood in silence for a moment, then she began to say something to me, "Chris, umm... no its nothing nevermind," she finished rather quickly.

"Does this have something to do with why you were clinging to my arm earlier," I asked Rikku who was now trying to avoid eye contact with me. I moved around her so that she was facing me. "Hey, look at me and answer me please," I asked but then something caught my eye. "Whoa," I exclaimed moving back to my position leaning on the rail watching what looked like a small meteorite head down toward the ruins and land right in the middle of them without so much as a sound. Wonder if that was Tidus I thought as I told Rikku, "Hey let's go check it out." She nodded and ran to the door which began to open automatically, obviously to tell the others to head for the ruins.

While I waited I decided to pull out my camera and shoot another video. I turned the camera on and started rotating to see everything, then I turned the LCD screen so I could see it from the filming end and rotated it so I was taping myself. "Yea, I know it doesn't look like me but it is me and I kinda missed a lot of cool stuff I could have taped but oh well, it looks like I've been transported to Spira which is pretty cool in itself but also I'm with Rikku and we're about to go meet Tidus and look for the airship. I'm not really supposed to know that it's an airship but nobody is around," I paused for a moment when I heard footsteps, "well that's all for now," I finished saving the clip and putting the camera and any other belongings I didn't want wet in a safe hiding spot I had spotted when we first boarded the boat.

I had hid the camera just in time cause just as I stodd completely upright Brother, Rikku and the other two Al Bhed that had been hanging around in that room with us came through the door. Brother didn't look like he felt like talking much so I kind of ignored him till we reached the ruins.

When we finally did reach the ruins I jumped off the boat before they could lower the gangplank. Rikku was right behind me the instant the plank was lowered. Then we heard a loud crashing noise from a door about 100 feet away I instantly broke into a run straight towards the door but stopped right in front of it waiting for the others. Then as Rikku got closer she yelled out, "back away from the door," I did as I was told and just after I stepped back a little more I saw a grenade land by the door. "Holy..." I started but was interupted by the blast which blew the door clean off its hinges and it fell to the floor with a loud crash. "In we go," I yelled to Rikku who also ran inside next to me. We saw the fiend and ran over to join Tidus in fighting it and of course he asked the same question he always did, "You guys on my side, cool." T idus then ran over and slashed the creature and as it was about to retaliate Tidusjumped back and Rikku threw a grenade at it. It screeched in pain. I then ran over slashed one of its legs clean off and then stabbed it square through the head and into the rest of its spider like body. I pulled it out spun my blade once and re-sheathed it.

I then watched the proceeding scene of Tidus attempting to speak with the Al Bhed and them discussing if he was a fiend or not. Then I had to hold back a snicker as Rikku walked right up to Tidus said rather quietly, "Cunno," and smashed him in the gut, knocking him unconcious. Then everyone except for me left the room. I stood there staring at Tidus thinking well what a fine predicament your in, you've been brought to another world that you think you can return home from but you truly never will, reminds me of my current situation, will I get to go home and if so has any time passed or did it remain frozen my chain of thoughts was broken by Rikku calling to me, "Hey Brother said he wants you to bring that guy back to the ship."Why me," I mumbled to myself hoisting the now unconcious Tidus over my shoulder. Wow you could stand to lose a few pounds there buddy I thought almost as if Tidus could hear me.

When I finally got Tidus up onto the boat they began to raise the gangplank and I threw Tidus to the ground rather unceremoniously and sat down a good four feet from him. Then everyone else went below deck, I heard muffled talking then Rikku came back up and said, "Brother wants you to guard him." Now I was starting to get mad at Brother and I almost snapped, "First of all, why can't someone else do the grunt work around here and second tell Brother from now on if he's got an order he can tell me face-to-face." Rikku gawked at me for a minute till I continued, "Ah, that feels better, sorry, just a little stressed out, I meant the second part but I will guard this guy," Rikku then nodded and went back below deck the door closing behind her with a loud snap.

I went over and grabbed my camera and shot a video of Tidus saying that if you didn't believe that I was in FFX you would have to now as we continued to sail on our original course. I then saved that clip and re-hid the camera. I started to drift off into thought for a while until I heard Tidus groan. Then he sat up, I watched him wearily. He then tried to stand up. "Ced tufh," I said loudly pushing him back to a sitting position. "Hey," Tidus yelled at me but I simply gave him a cold stare which shut him up. Then I banged my foot on the floor once to alert the others that Tidus was awake. They came up and Brother walked over to Tidus and tried to explain through charades that Tidus could stay if he worked but of course he didn't undersatnd so after a little more confusion between the two Rikku came over.

"Fyd," she said to Brother. Then she turned around and said to Tidus, "he said you can stay if you work." Tidus looked shocked and said, "You can undersatnd me?" I sighed, "Let's just get to work already," I ran and dove off the ship and into the water, which was surprisingly warm considering that it probably should have been freezing cold. Also, I noticed that I could almost breathe under the water. Ha so that's how blitzers stay in the water so long I thought as I waited for Rikku to give Tidus his sphere grid. When they finally came down I had located the place where the generator was and pointed towards it to signal them to go that way. It took us quite a while to reach the ruins but we finally reached them and went inside. We eventually reached the generator room where we encounterd a small group of piranha which we quickly disposed of. Then Tidus, Rikku and myself swam upwards to the generator which Tidus began hitting violently, and to my surprise it started.

We then began to swim out of there as fast as we could but unfortunately we still ran into the octopus fiend thing. Fortunately, it was quite a bit easier with three people instead of two.After the battle I noticed that the fiend had dropped something after it had been reduced to pyreflies, I quickly swam over and grabbed it. Then Rikku signaled to a hole in the metal fencing which we used to get out. Then we went off in another direction and we found the airship which was bigger then I could ever have imagined. I would have let my jaw drop if I had not been afraid that the water might still drown me if I swallowed to much.

Eventually we resurfaced next to the boat. Brother let down a rope ladder and we all climbed back up and everyone except me went towards the door but one of the Al Bhed stopped him and he complained but gave up when the door closed. Tidus walked over to where I was sitting. "Hey so you and that girl can actually understand me," Tidus asked. I smirked, "Yea, yea we can. My name is Chris, what's yours," I asked even though I already knew his answer. "I'm Tidus," he said seeming very proud of his name. "Hmm, I think I'm gonna give you a nickname your nickname shall be... sunuh," I said laughing afterwards. "Hey that's more of that language they were speaking, right," Tidus asked me. "Wow, nothing gets by you does it genius," I mocked. "Yep, I know," Tidus replied obviously thinking it had been a compliment. Then Rikku came out with two platters of food she gave one to Tidus and the other to me. I looked at the two platters and noticed his had less then mine Guees I'm more trusted around here I thought while eating my food at a more moderate pace then Tidus who almost gaged on his food.

I listened as Rikku told Tidus her name and then Tidus made a complete idiot out of himself saying he was from Zanarkand. Then all of a sudden the entire ship jolted. The door opened and a large group of Al Bhed including Brother came out and one of them yelled, "Sin," but then the ship was rocked again and Tidus fell overboard. I knew we wouldn't find him since he would pop up near Besaid next. Then something I didn't expect happened, Rikku was hanging onto the railing for dear life when suddenly a piece of stray cargo fell bounced off the railing and hit Rikku square in the head and she fell overboard. " Rikku," I yelled diving for the edge where she had fallen but I didn't see her. Oh crap the cargo must have dragged her down I thought. I stood up and dove over the edge of the ship for the second time today.

HAHA cliffhanger. And will someone pleeeeeeeeeezzz review. I feel like no one is reading my story!