The last chapter was a little short but I'm being really generous today. THREE chapters in a day. Wow. I told you, my brain is in writing mode right now. Anyway, back to the story…

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I froze. Rikki? A clone? But why? What? Why did they need Rikku? Surely they made a clone of her for a reason. It wasn't just their idea of fun, was it?

Man. I was confused. I didn't even know who "they" were.

Rikki eventually started dragging me again when I didn't walk a step for a few minutes. "Come on, Tedious." She grumbled. She'd started calling me that when I tried to leave Luca without a weapon. "I thought you wanted to find Rikku." She said exasperatedly.

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By the time we reached the Moonflow it was almost nightfall (We'd stopped to chat for a while. Basically I just told her about how I was from Zanarkand). For some reason Rikki seemed really excited about this.

"This place is SO pretty at night." She said in awe as we approached a giant dinosaur thing Rikki called a "shoopuf". It would supposedly get us to the other side of the Moonflow.

But my God she was right on when she said it was pretty. The moon was just starting to rise when we boarded the shoopuf. Rikki leaned over the edge of the… well, I'm not sure what it was. It was basically a fenced platform on top of the shoopuf. Anyway, she leaned over the railing and pointed to the water below. I joined her and watched speechless as clouds of little firefly thingies gathered around little purple flowers. I'm not really one to compliment things on their looks, but it was beautiful. The whole river seemed to glow.

It was the second best thing I'd seen since I'd arrived in Spira.

"What are those?" I whispered. Rikki smiled, still staring at the Moonflow.

"Pyreflies." She said softly.

Pyreflies, huh? I decided I liked them.

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Well, to my delight there was more road to travel. Notice the obvious sarcasm there, people. After we spent the night on the other side of the Moonflow, we were off to the rest of Spira.

Rikki was finally starting to answer questions. She actually told me all about the Zanarkand we were headed to.

Turned out it was just ruins. That was really it.

Ruins. My Zanarkand. In ruins. I couldn't believe it. I wouldn't believe. Not unless I saw it with my own eyes. Have I ever mentioned how much I loved Zanarkand? Well, I loved it a lot. I loved Zanarkand and I loved the people in it and I loved blitzball and… well, basically I loved everything about it.

I couldn't bear to think of it in ruins.

In Zanarkand I was somebody. People knew my name. I was an idol. I mattered to people.

In Spira I was just another face in the crowd.

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The road on the north bank of the Moonflow was no different from that of the south. Ugh. If we didn't get to Zanarkand sooner or later I was going to explode. As I've said before, that's never a good thing.

Oh, I don't think I've ever mentioned that Rikki's a thief. Rikku was-is- too. She just kind of goes up to her enemies and… well, it looks like she attacks them (and sometimes she does ((she mugs them))) but then when she comes back you can see her tucking some prize away in her pocket. It's actually really cool. I wish I could do it.

Anyway, I actually got really good at using a sword. I could do this really cool "spiral cut" thing. I actually got to put all my flashy blitz move to good use.

I was so glad Rikki had come along. If it weren't for her I probably would have drowned in the huge pool of my despair. Alright, that's a little too much figurative language. It sounds weird.

God I keep getting distracted. Anyway, I don't think I would have been able to keep going. Plus she saved my butt with the whole weapons thing.

I thought it was rough then. I had no idea what was in store for us in Guadosalam.

I'll just tell you this: trouble. Trouble in the form of hairgel.

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THINK I RAN OUT OF THINGS TO SAY????? Yeah, I'm really sorry about that. I guess my writing mode's come and gone. I'm sorry. I really didn't want this to end up as short as chapter 6. Then that 4th to last paragraph… man, I don't know what was up with that… Give me a day or so and I'll write a good long chapter, alright?