Yes, I do have an excuse for the late update, and it's not writer's block. I went on a trip. Yes, I went somewhere. It's an amazing occurrence. I went white water rafting. My advice to you is to try because it. Is. Awesome. Seriously, give it a shot sometime. Anyway, There was no computer or internet access where I was and I was busy so I had no time to write a draft or anything. Plus I had to go through hell week (AKA the last week of school) AND I went to Maine for a week with my friend Happy. And I'm sorry, but it was more fun to watch her sister kick my butt at poker then to write fanfiction.

And I just had to express my opinions on Mt. Gagazet in this chapter. I mean, seriously, it's the strangest mountain I've ever seen...

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I don't know why Mt. Gagazet is named as it is. It should be either Mt. Big-Colorful-Bear-Men or Mt. Weird. If you see a mountain that has walkways practically floating like in Guadosalam (Seriously, was the game designer obsessed with those things?!) let me know. Throw in creatures like that big blue thing what was with Yuna and I think you can sum it all up with "weird".

But according to my handy little stolen map, Zanarkand was on the other side.

"Tidus, come on, come on!!" Rikki jumped around me, back to her annoying, energetic self. At least I didn't have to carry her anymore.

"Rikki, we just went through all of the calm lands without stopping at all." I informed her. "We need to stop for a while." I had to admit to myself that it was the truth, even though I really didn't want to.

"How can you be tired?!" She tugged on my arm, urging me forward. "I feel like I haven't walked in hours!"

"That's because you haven't!" I snapped. "I had to carry you through the whole freaking thing! Then you almost got us killed!!" I reminded her. She seemed unfazed by this.

"That doesn't mean we can stop now! We're almost there!" She urged. "There's a cave at the top. We can stop there." She suggested.

I sighed reluctantly and agreed to her idea.

Even though I was ready to collapse right there from exhaustion and the thought of going all the way up the mountain was like striking up a conversation with the devil.

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Apart from the fact that I was freezing, exhausted, and once again had a migraine from Rikki's babbling, the mountain wasn't that bad.

When we were almost at that cave Rikki had mentioned we saw the weirdest thing in the world.

And neither of us had any idea what it was.

There was some... glowing blue spike thing sticking out of some sort of lake... I'd never seen anything like it. It was... well, it was pretty darn creepy. All along the sides of the path were huge rock walls with what looked like stone bodies all over them. They were glowing just like the spike thing. They seemed to emanate a weird blue fog as well...

I just wanted to get moving, but Rikki was running around like the little freak she is examining everything. Her eyes were about the size of Jupiter.

"Rikki, can we please get going?" I called to her. It was hopeless to try to follow her around. I swear that girl's on steroids... She hopped up and down to try to see something that was above her head. Since she was technically staying in one spot, I did the first thing that popped into my head.

I tackled her.

Then, once more, I dragged her.

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I know, Tidus is mean to poor Rikki :(. That just popped into my head and I felt like putting it in, so yeah... Anyway, I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in like... a month. But now I am back (I PROMISE). But you guys are gonna' kill me when you see the next chapter *cue maniacal laughter* Why? Well, you'll find out, won't you? *cackle* You can blame my halloween birthday for my witch resemblance...