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Auron's Fan: Thanks for the compliment! And as for letting others have time to review, well, I try to wait as long as possible to update with review answers and such. And I will continue this story as I haven't anything else to do, but sit around, go on my bro's computer (not this one) and play Unreal Tournament 2004 as my breaks. I forgot to add a proper welcome to the reviewing 'room' of this story so, Welcome to Stuck in Spira AF! Sorry about that being late, though.
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Inferno Seifer: I'm sorry you didn't like my story, but you never got to where the fight sequences started. Oh, well...
Chapter 3: And You Thought I Died
I fell through the air at tremendous speeds, and I only had about 400 feet before I fell in the water. I also knew that if I hit the water, I'd die at this speed. I saw above me pieces of the road I was on get sucked up into Sin, but my rates of speed only increased. I felt the wind whip by me and it began to form a vacuum of air behind me. 300 feet to go. 250. 200. 150. And then, suddenly, I saw an image of Jecht next to me. "What? You thought I'd let you die before you even got a chance to help my crybaby son?"
"No…" My body slowed down as now Sin began to suck me into it, only 50 feet above the waters of Zanarkand. "Can I guess? This is my story, and it can't just end here…"
"Save that 'this is your story' crap for Auron, not me!" Jecht burst out laughing. "Well, I guess until next time we meet."
"Yeah, I guess…" I answered. Sin finally sucked me up and pain of no end hit me. It felt like I was stretched from being 5 ft 8 in. to being 12 feet tall in an instant. Everything turned a reddish-brown color from the insides of Sin. Then, even that color ceased to exist as I fell unconscious from getting hit by a piece of rubble Sin had sucked up.
"Not this stupid black abyss again!" I muttered as I realized where I was at. 'Where's he at?' I asked myself in thought.
"Hello again." I turned around to see Bahamut, but this time, there were some others with him. "How do you like your new sword?"
"Heavy, but effective." I replied. "Thanks."
One of the other fayth spoke up. "Do you know why we decide on you, your brother, and your best friend?"
"Um, 'cause we had the most potential?"
"That and because most of the other candidates we had were going to be too old for the trip." Bahamut joked.
"Too old?" I snickered.
(Play FFX Soundtrack No. 25: A Fleeting Dream)
"No, not really, but that is not your concern right now." Bahamut told me. "Your main concern is how you will re-meet will the rest of your group."
"Don't worry about that Bahamut, I'll find a way to get to them." I smirked as I began to disappear from the black abyss. "Trust me…"
I woke up inside of the ruins for a temple, a.k.a. Baaj Temple. I grinned again as I knew I'd meet everyone eventually. I looked around for a great place for an entrance, and I found it upstairs near a treasure chest. I hear a rustle near the blocked exit to where they probably just fought, so I hid in the doorway of the staircase behind me. The group walked in and I heard Tidus speak first. "I wonder if we'll ever meet up with Adam again?" I grinned softly at this comment.
"If I know Adam, he'll have figured out something, hopefully." Byron said somewhat sadly. I heard Tidus shiver.
"Cold… need… fire!" Tidus ran off to get the flint and the withered bouquet. He came in again after getting the flint. But, Ian had already run off to retrieve the withered bouquet. I kept silent and still to not alert anyone to my presence. Ian left and returned to the campfire to let Tidus attempt to start the fire. Lightning crackled and Tidus got the fire started at the same time and I decided to enter now.
"And you thought I died…" I called out.
"What! Who's there?" Byron yelled out in a panic.
I walked out from behind a pillar that I had been behind the entire time. "Honestly, do you think I'd die before anything happened?" I crossed my arms as I said this. "I'd never die before we even get started." I walked down from the stairs to the main hall everyone was in. I saw the look on their faces showing pure surprise.
"But, I saw you fall down off of the bridge… shouldn't you be dead?" Tidus was clearly confused, but he had a reason to be this time.
"That is a story for later, but for now let's get some rest." I answered cryptically.
(End FFX Soundtrack No. 25: A Fleeting Dream)
Right as I said that, the fiend Klikk appeared in front of us. "Man! Can't I even get to rest for 5 MINUTES?" I yelled. I started to get very frustrated.
Tidus thought the same. "We just got done fighting one monster, and now here's another?" He groaned.
"There is never a single moment to ourselves is there?" Byron said distastefully.
"Just kill it already!" Ian rushed the creature and sliced it 2 times before it retaliated with a swipe of its claw. Ian flew back into the wall.
"Ian!" I rushed over and Tidus threw me a Potion for Ian. Catching it barely, I give him the drink, which he almost spits out.
"Tastes like green beans." Ian commented about the taste the Potion held.
I run towards Klikk and swinging at it and spinning really fast, similar to what Link does in LoZ. I hit it at least 4 times before I backed off, not wanting to be hit by a claw. As I predicted, it spun around and slashed at me, but missing by a foot. Tidus ran around it when I had attacked, and now he attacked from the thing's back side, hurting it severely.
BOOM!
The door that was blocked suddenly exploded, sending pieces flying everywhere. Some of the pieces hit Byron and Tidus, but they were small pieces, so it did not damage them. 5 people walked in; 4 carrying guns, and one girl with a pair of claws. The girl, Rikku, walked up next to us, ready to fight the Klikk fiend. "You're on my side? Cool!" Tidus said in surprise.
"Our side." I corrected Tidus.
Rikku nodded and quickly attacked the fiend. It didn't die, so she used a grenade on it. After I reopened my eyes, I only saw pyreflies leaking into the night air. Tidus held his knees in exhaustion. "Whew! That was close." Suddenly, one of the 4 gunmen walked over to Tidus and yanked his hair. "Hey, lemme go!"
The gunman holding Tidus's hair then asks, "Fryd ec drec?" (What is this?)
Another guy answers him. "Y fiend! Eh risyh teckieca! Oac! Ed ec cu!" (A fiend! In human
disguise! Yes! It is so!)
"Fa gemm dras?" (We kill them?) The third gunner asks the leader, whoever that was.
Rikku speaks before they do anything to us. "Fyed! Fryd ev drao yna risyh?" (Wait? What if they are human?)
"Drao yna dra cysa eh taydr." (They are the same in death.) The third one speaks again.
"E vunpet ed! Fa pnehk dras fedr ic." (I forbid it! We bring them with
us.) Rikku pleads with the other gun men. Apparently she won because none of them kill us. Instead, she walks over to Tidus and says, "Cunno." (Sorry.) She punches him in the gut and he falls over, becoming unconscious. Another person whacks Ian over the head with his gun, causing Ian to also fall down on the ground. Byron tried to escape and one guy trips him and kicks him in the side, hard. I duck forward to dodge a gun from the 3rd gun man, and run forward to steal a weapon from the guy who kicked Byron. I grab it and turn around, with the guy in my grasp. The knife on the gun is next to his neck, and the barrel is aimed squarely at the only person not to attack us.
"Rumt ouin vena!" (Hold your fire!) Rikku yelled.
"Fryd tu oui fyhd?" (What do you want?) She asked me in Al Bhed.
I replied coolly. "Spiran only please, I don't have time for translating."
"Fine, what do you want?" She asked me again, but this time in Spiran/English.
"All I want is not to be knocked out, that's all. I don't care where you want me to go, but I only want not to be knocked out." I told Rikku.
"Okay." She repeated what I said to the other people she had with her. "They say as long as you release him." I complied. She grinned a little as the man ran away from me in desperation. "You can follow us back as long as you don't attack us again." So, I followed the group as they hauled Tidus's, Ian's, and Byron's unconscious forms. The 9 of us got outside finally and we boarded the boat the Al Bhed operated on.
About 30 minutes later, Tidus woke up. "Ced, lybdeja!" (Sit, captive!) One of the Al Bhed yelled at him, and he elbowed Tidus.
"Hey, that hurts!" Tidus cried out.
"Hu sujehk, rayn?" (No moving, hear?) The guard told him fiercely, pointing his weapon at Tidus's face. I tapped him on the shoulder, and he paled considerably.
"Cdub!" (Stop!) I told him, using what little I know in Al Bhed. The guard did as I told him, afraid I'd repeat what had happened in the ruins.
"You… understand them?" Tidus cautiously asked me. Rikku and another Al Bhed, known as Brother, walked out of the ship's interior.
The newcomer told the other Al Bhed on deck to, "Caynlr tras!" (Search them!)
"Tu oui hud cbayg?" (Do you not speak?) Brother asked us all. He showed us some goggles.
"I said I don't understand!" Tidus began to become frustrated.
The same guard who was guarding Tidus shouted, "Ehcumahla!" (Insolence!)
Rikku finally stood up to speak. "Fyed! (Wait!) He said you can stay if you make yourselves useful."
Byron spoke for the group. "Okay, what do you want us to do?"
Rikku began to explain the job we were to do. "We found some ancient ruins right beneath us. It's not active now, but there should be some power left. We're gonna go down there and activate it...and then we should be able to salvage the big prize! Okay! Let's get to work!"
Tidus answered for the group this time. "Roger." He jumped off the ship. He also turned to give us a thumbs up sign.
Rikku almost jumped, but I asked her a question first. "What if I can't hold my breath for long?" Byron and Ian also agreed with me.
She handed us each a little capsule-like pill. "This'll help you breathe the water. It'll only last for an hour though, so we better hurry." I swallowed the pill quickly, as did Ian. But, Byron was still skeptical about it. "Unless you want to stay onboard with the others, you might want to take that pill." After that comment, Byron speedily took the pill. Then I dove underwater. Tidus waved at us, motioning for us to follow him.
About 30 seconds of being underwater, some Piranhas decided to attack us. I notice how that there were 2 groups of 2, and one group of 3 Piranhas. Tidus was first to strike, as he was the closest to the fish. Rikku swam up near one group of the fish and stole a grenade. I looked puzzled at her, and she just shrugged and tossed the grenade at the fish she took it from. Immediately, they died. 'Good, one group down, 2 to go.' I thought as I unsheathed Buster Sword and swung at one school of Piranha and killed them in one hit. The last school of Piranha attacked Byron and ripped off some of his flesh. After they finished trying to eat Byron, Ian caught up and vertically sliced 2 of the 3 fish. Byron, wanting revenge, chased the last remaining fish and before he reached it, Rikku tossed him a claw of hers and Byron stabbed it until pyreflies came out of it. After the skirmish ended, Byron returned Rikku's claw back to her, where she then put the pair away, somewhere. I really don't know where she puts her weapons at.
Continuing on, we entered the sunken ruins, and when we reached the console to the door, Tidus banged on it several times. 'Hmph, must be American made…' I thought, 'bang on it, and it'll work eventually.' It had been about 15 minutes already. We kept swimming around the inside of the ruins, and encountered a school of Piranha fish again. Rikku made quick work of them though, with her grenade she had with her. We reached the end of the ruined 'ship' and found a generator of a sort. Tidus banged on it also, forcing it to activate. 'Maybe these generators are touch-sensitive?' I asked myself. We returned back to the main room, where now a larger generator had been activated. Unfortunately, the large fiend known as Tros also entered the room, but for entirely different purposes than us 5. It whacked Ian with a tentacle before hiding behind the generator. I decided to perform the pincer maneuver on Tros, since it was so stupid to let that happen. I motioned for Ian, Tidus, and Byron to attack on the left, and Rikku and myself to attack Tros's right side.
Tros tried to run away from the trio of attackers from its left side, and ran, or more swam, into my sword. Literally. I watched as Tros came nearer and nearer towards Rikku and me. I unsheathed Buster Sword, which was much lighter underwater, and I stabbed forward into Tros's soft body, blood spraying from the gory wound it now had. Rikku followed up on my attack with a few attacks of her own. Now, Tidus had beaten Ian and Byron to Tros's rear-side, and he used Spiral Cut on the boss. More blood flew from this new hole in it as Ian drew out his Katana from Auron, and using an Overdrive of his own. He moved up close to the fiend and cut straight into Tros, and gouged out a circle in the fiend's flesh, and finally, he stabbed in the middle of his hole he cut out, and the sword pulled out the flesh in the middle of the circle. Rikku threw Byron a grenade, and Byron forced the grenade in the bloody hole Ian made, causing Tros to wither in pain and agony as it died. But before dying, it flipped over and spewed a lot of ink all over Rikku and me. We got completely covered in the sticky black ink, and the ink began to become even stickier as we attempted to get it off of ourselves. I gave up and tried to swim up to the surface, noticing how now the ruins we had been in now lighting up a ship of sorts on the seafloor. Rikku was still getting the ink more stuck to her, so I pulled her with me to reach the surface. The bad part? Her hand was now stuck to mine from the ink Tros emitted on us. I hope the others don't think about that in the wrong way. We broke the surface, and climbed onto the back of the ship, where there was the only way on the ship that Rikku and I could use. The ink began to harden as we climbed on the massive ship. Rikku quickly took out one of her claws and cut the ink that held our hands together. By now, everyone had gotten back on the ship and the other Al Bhed including Rikku entered the ship's interior. Tidus attempted to get in, but one Al Bhed forced him outside. Tidus tried to argue, but the door slammed in his face.
I was trying to get off as much of the ink Tros had ejected at me while Byron was drinking down a Potion Tidus had for the Piranha wounds he received. I had only gotten a little of the ink off when Rikku, ink and all, returned with some food. Tidus had fallen asleep when she kicked his arm lightly to wake him up. He sat up almost instantly.
"Whoa! Right on!" Tidus started to eat some of the food as Rikku pulled off some of the ink on her suit thing she wore. Suddenly, Tidus choked on the food he ate, and Rikku stopped for a second to get a canteen of water for Tidus.
She laughed lightly and said, "It's 'cause you eat too fast!" She turned towards me and started talking to me. "This ink's really hard to get off, isn't it?"
I snorted. "Yeah, it's like glue or something. Say, what's your name?" I asked her, even though I already knew.
"Rikku." Tidus began to laugh out loud.
"You really do understand! Um, why didn't you say so earlier?" Tidus scratched his head.
"I didn't have a chance to! Everyone thought oui were fiends!" Rikku smiled some more.
"Uh… 'we'?" Tidus looked confused as Byron said his question before Tidus had.
"Yeah… what do you mean 'we'?" Tidus re-asked the question.
"Oh, 'oui' means 'you'." Rikku explained to Tidus and Byron. I began to zone out, knowing what is said anyways. I looked into the water carefully, but spotting nothing. The conversation dragged on for ages, until Tidus kicked the crate I was leaning on. Then, the boat began to rock.
Some of the other Al Bhed ran out of the interior of the ship, and one yelled, "Sin!"
"Sin ec lusa!" (Sin is come!) Another yelled over the waves of the now violent ocean.
A third guy screamed out. "Ihtan ic! Ihtan ic!" (Under us! Under us!)
Tidus got swept overboard into the hurricane-like ocean and floated off. I held onto a railing as Rikku came near me and handed me 4 rectangular prisms saying, "It's the sphere grid! Don't lose them, and give them to each of your friends and keep one for yourself! I'm sorry I couldn't teach you how to use it, but use it well!"
The next wave threw off Ian and Byron, but I stayed on stubbornly to yell to Rikku, "Thanks!" Then, I let go of the railing…