Wow, I'm getting these done really quickly ^-^ I had writer's block for a while there, but I'm back at full speed now Just a warning, though, I might not post a chapter a day because they're really short and I'm trying to make them longer. Alrighty, it's the moment you've either been waiting for or dreading!!! Tidus meets Yuna!!!! How will it go?? Well, you'll have to read and find out!!!

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Turned out Cid really did want me to meet Yuna. I have to admit I had my doubts for a while. But, man, those Al Bhed ships are not the luxury I had in Zanarkand. They were basically all metal. For a while I thought they might have salvaged them, too, but then I realized salvaging kind of requires a ship in the first place.

No matter where they got the ships, they were terrible. And there was hardly any room for passengers with all the huge machina. I had nothing better to do than sit on the deck and wonder what Yuna might be like. Goma had told me a little about how she was a summoner like her father, but nothing about what she was like. I hoped and dreaded that she might be like Rikku. I missed my gleeful little friend, and wondered what I would do if I found someone like her. Would I feel more whole? Or would it just make the gap worse?

Either way, I was afraid to find out.

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Mushroom Rock. I have absolutely no idea why they called it that. It looked nothing like a hard fungus.

I helped the Al Bhed set up all of their machina for a few days. I thought their eyes were gonna' fall out of their sockets when they saw how much I knew about machines. We're talking about a kid who failed his sophomore Tech Ed. course in high school.

After about four days, this weird guy with blue hair found me.

"I am Lord Seymour." He drawled. I looked at him warily. He looked like a hair dresser had had a seizure while they styled his blue mop.

"Tidus." I replied warily. Who the heck was this guy?

"Cid wishes me to escort you to Lady Yuna." I tried not to shiver. He was creepy. I let him take me to Yuna anyway.

She was definitely not like Rikku. I could tell before she even looked at me.

"Lady Yuna." Seymour called when we were about ten feet away from her. "Here is the one Cid spoke of." She nodded in thanks, silently dismissing him.

"Hello." She said formally. Completely not Rikku-like. These two were related?! The only trait they shared was their eyes… er, well… eye. Alright, that was pretty freaky. This chick had different colored eyes. One was blue (Like mine). The other was green, but it didn't have the cool green swirls that Rikku's did. Well, they were both short. Other than that, they couldn't be much different as far as I could see. "I am the summoner Yuna. You are Tidus, are you not?" I nodded slowly. "You were close to my cousin, Rikku?" I bobbed my head again. The way she mentioned Rikku like she was some lost toy made my blood boil. Then she smiled.

Smiled.

Why was she smiling?! This was no time to be smiling! I thought they were friends! Didn't she care about Rikku?! "Her disappearance is shocking." She admitted. "And I wish I could help her…" Why was she still smiling?! "But I must continue. I must defeat Sin." I blinked in surprise. How could she defeat Sin? That giant blob that destroyed Zanarkand? How could this teenage girl stop that thing?

She must have seen the look on my face. "You… aren't from Spira, are you?" She seemed curious rather than hostile.

"Um… Spira?" I asked dumbly. She motioned to the landscape around us. I figured she enjoyed using as little words as possible, but I got her message. "So, um…" I began awkwardly. "Why did… Why did Cid want me to talk to you?" She sighed, her smile starting to fade a little. Just a little.

"Cid…" She started. "Only likes Al Bhed. He was really mad at my mother- his sister- when she married my father, who's a Yevonite. I think…" She paused "I think he was hoping I would ask you to be my guardian."

Alright, I wanted some answers. People just kept assuming I knew all this stuff, which I didn't. "What the heck is a Yevonite?" I demanded. "I know they're not Al Bhed, but what the hell are they?!"

"Yevonites are people who obey the teachings of Yevon. Yevon is a spirit who guides the paths of those faithful to him." She said without hesitation, like she had this memorized. Heck, she probably did. "Most Yevonites dislike Al Bhed because they use machina. Yevon tells us that machina is bad. Sin was created to stop wars caused by machina. Though I cannot say that I have harsh feelings for the Al Bhed, my guardian Wakka does." She sighed. "It is good that he is faithful to Yevon, but we shouldn't blame the Al Bhed for Sin." At least she was fair. I hated racist freaks. "He just-" She broke off as a guy with a strange tuft of red hair approached. "That's him." She whispered.

"This a friend of you-" He began in a heavy island accent as he approached. Then he noticed my attire and narrowed his eyes. "Why are you talkin' to a heathen, Yuna?" He asked, still glaring at me. I felt a cold fury rise in me. "Don't mingle with the likes of him." He spat. What was this guy's problem?! It is good that he is faithful to Yevon… Yuna's recent words rang through my head. Good?! If this is how this Yevon freak made his "Yevonites" act, I didn't see why that should be a good thing.

"He's not an Al Bhed, Wakka." Yuna explained gently. I didn't understand her. I would have snarled that at him if I were her. "He's just staying with them."

"So?" Wakka snorted. "That's still bad, ya? The Al Bhed are killing Spira! If they keep using machina, Sin'll never be gone!! They need to stop being so boneheaded and think about the rest of Spira, ya?"

Alright, that made me really mad. "You don't even know the Al Bhed!" I hollered, getting right up in his face. "Maybe you're doing it! Maybe people like you are corrupting this place with your stupid Yevon!" Yuna looked shocked. "The Al Bhed are people, too! Look at this!" I motioned to the preparations for the operation. "They're trying to stop Sin! And you're trying to stop them!! How many of you are willing to risk your life to try to kill this thing?!" As soon as I said that, something changed. Yuna was looking at her feet, and Wakka was looking at her. I remembered Yuna saying she needed to defeat Sin. So I guessed that meant she was willing to risk her life. "Alright, so maybe some of you are." I continued, acknowledging Yuna. "But that doesn't change you. So far Yuna's the only one of you Yevonites I've seen who's been doing anything to try to stop Sin" Alright, that was true, but I'd only met two- maybe three- Yevonites. But, hey, they didn't know that.

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I managed to make this one a bit longer. I'm trying, people, I'm trying. I'm sorry that I slaughtered Tidus and Wakka's buddy-buddy relationship like that, I just needed more ways to show that Tidus cares about the Al Bhed. Also, I'm sorry about the sudden ending. I'm not sure what was up with that, I just couldn't keep going. I'm bringing in a new character next chapter who'll play a REALLY big role in the plot, so review and maybe I'll go a little faster!!!