Chapter 2: Meeting the Team

"I'm not leaving you behind," Stella said in a quiet angered voice. I just turned my head and stared at her untill she finally gave in, "Fine, but I'm coming back for you after I get to the airship." Then she ran off, and as I turned back to Rikku and her companion I noticed that were already right in front of me. The girl in black had her sword half-swung down at my head already. I side stepped it and caught my balance just in time for Rikku's assault, which was much faster and more aggresive. I continued to move my head out of the way at every swing.

I could hear her mumbling to herself, "What is it about this guy, his movement seems familiar, and something about him seems to be making me angry." What did I ever do to her, I wondered in my mind while still dodging relentless attacks. Oh right, I thought sweat dropping, I could have done any number of things to her in my past that I still don't remember. Suddenly outof the corner of my eye I spotted Rikku's companion about to take another big swing at me. I quickly did a back flip and she stumbled, trying to avoid hitting Rikku who ended up standing where I was. "You should just give up now, I mean, if you can't even hit me what chance do you have of beating me," I said shrugging and begining to walk away. Suddenly I falt a huge wack on the back of my helmet and I fell to the ground. Ow, I'm dead I thought, then how come I can feel things... wait some more of my memory of the Farplane came back, so what after I kill those things my memory slowly restores, anyways ah I see now, I chose to be able to tell how much something will hurt when I came back, sort of like how Auron continued aging. I stood up rubbing the back of my head. "Good job, you finally landed a hit, but you didn't even scratch my armor, so the best your going to do is give me a headache," I said turning to face them. They just stood there, then they turned around and started whispering. Then I could hear a loud noise in the background. I looked around but saw nothing, but then I saw something just bove me.

I looked up and was astonished, I'm guessing that would be the airship, I thought as it hovered just overhead. "Well, guess thats my ride," I said jumping to the tallest tree nearby. I took the biggest jump I could and actually got right up next to the ship. I reached out and stuck my claws into the ship, and climbed up on top so I could stand up. Great now I'm gonna be stuck up here till they land right, I thought to myself. Suddenly I heard a humming behind me, and turned to see a door open, or they could have an elevator, I thought laughing at myself inside. Stella came running over ang grabbed my arm and started pulling me along. "Hey, hey calm down I can follow you without getting dragged along," I said, but she dragged me right into the elevator and pushed a button. The elevator door instantly closed and it started moving down. "So how many people does it take to pilot this thing," I said curious because of it's sheer size.

"Two to drive, one to manage the technical stuff, like the engine and it helps if theres an extra person." she said like it was something every one knew.

"How exactly did you get your hands on something like this," I asked the size again making me curious.

She laughed a little, "We bought it off some Al Bhed who said they didn't want it, it was kinda cheap for an air ship, but thats because there were a lot of problems they couldn't fix," she explained.

"So you guys were able to," I inquired, the elevator begining to slow.

"Like I said we needed a techie and well he was able to replace the unfixable parts but his aren't quite as good as the originals, but could if we had some more money," she finished just as the door opened. "Come on, you have to meet the others," she said grabbing my arm and dragging me into the bridge. Everyone instantly turned and looked at me. I scratched the back of my head and gave a small wave. "That's Joe, he's our navigator," she said pointing to a guy on the far left.

"Hey, I find the spheres, without me we wouldn't have any money at all," he said acting cocky.

"Actually then we would just get another navigator," Stella said making Joe sad. "That's Suzzie, she's the driver," she continued pointing at the girl in the middle who only tilted her head back and waved a little. "Over there," she pointed to the right, "is out Techie, his name is Al." From the looks of him he probably wasn't much younger then me. Actually, I had no clue exactly how old I was anymore. Let's see before I died I was... ok I don't remember, and I was dead for... ugh It's hopeless, I thought finally giving up. I looked over at Stella, I would have smiled but there was no way she woulld have been able to tell anyways. "So, uh Chris about how old," Stella started but suddenly someone intrupted.

"HEY hold up there, he's not an official member of our team until he can prove himself," I looked over and found Joe standing on his seat and pointing at me. I kinda just stared at him till he just looked a little freaked out.

"What," I asked.

"Stop starring at me, and what I mean by prove yourself is once we find a sphere we'll send you and only you down to get it, and if you can beat all the fiends and the other sphere hunters and comeout with the sphere, then I'll consider letting you join the team," he explained the whole proving method.

I laughed, "Is that all," I said continuing to laugh.

He sneered at me, "Fine to make it just that much harder for you, you have o do it with your hands tied behind your back," he said acting as though I would back down.

"Joe," Stella yelled sounding like she was about to scold him.

"It's all right Stella, I can handle this," I said interuping her and just as Joe's alarm went off.

"Perfect we just found a sphere, and its one of those weird one's you've got on you already, go get it," He ordered me. I walked away to get ready to head out.

Then I turned around, "Tell you what, lets make this more interesting," I said a look of interest crossing Joe's face. "If I complete this mision without my hands at all, besides picking up the sphere, you have to not talk for one whole month and I get to join the team. And if I don't, well, that's up to you."

"If you don't then you can never join out team and you have to... well I'll decide that later, now get going." he said and I ran off to get ready.

LOL. I was bored so I decided to make a bet. Man I really need to update more often. Sry my good fans. I've been low on time and high on boredom lately. PLZ review. I'll try and update asap.