Chapter 4: The Second Shadow
I was now running backwards up a mountain path, that was practically in the middle of nowhere on Besaid Island. I was running backwards so as to keep a lookout for Rikku and Paine, who had been chasing me for at least ten minutes now and just cause I can actually almost run faster that way, plus it looks really cocky. I was having great fun till I fell. It didn't hurt but it annoed me beyond compare. I stood up and looked around, who digs a random hole and hides it for no reason, I thought as checked to make sure I still had the sphere. Then I saw a figure in the shadows, it looked familiar but when it stepped forward I noticed that it was a female, but it reminded me of dark figure that resembled me back near the Farplane. This was not like me at all though, it was as I said Female and well it was hard to describe since all it looked like was a shadow. I was expecting it to attack me like the shadow me had. This one however seemed a lot less aggresive then the first. It held a staff and didn't seemto be doing anything besides making gestures and swinging its staff in the air.
Then after a few seconds I saw a bright flash and felt myself knocked back. "That was a spell right, damn that was strong," I said standing up and moving my neck around, making sure it was still atached. I ran over and jumped kicking the shadow as I fell. It fell back but since it seemed to get back up with ease I gussed that I had to hit it with my claws. I quickly formulated a plan and set it into action. It was rather a simple plan I thought, knock over figure, then jump and fall on back on top of figure and , of course, I would have to make sure my claws were positioned so as to hit the figure. The plan worked perfectly, so far these shadows were slow and rather stupid actually, the first one had worried me but the second had quelled those fears. Just as before though the shadow had split and pieces entered my body. Just as before I recovered some memories, but this was no single memory flashing before my eyes, instead many flashed in front of my eyes all at once. I sat up suddenly and looked around, the memories I recovered this time were all my memories of Yuna, a lot had other blacked out images in them too, I'm guessing they were many people that I still didn't remember. Time to get out of this hole, I thought running up the wall and doing a flip so that I landed on my feet outside the hole.
Right in front of me though was Rikku and Paine, who had just now caught up and reached the far side of this hole, they were panting and bent over with their hands on their knees. "Aww poor babies, am I too fast for your little feet to keep up with," I asked trying to bug them. It must have worked because they instantly took off at a, well more of a jog then anything, I took off at a run laughing so hard that I forgot to watch where I was going. Now most people would probably watch where they are going while at the top of a mountain. Today however by some crazy twist of fate, there were two people not watching where they were going, me and well you'll find out the other person in a few seconds. Now as I ran I did turn to look what was in front of me but all I saw was a person and then open air, and in my mind that meant I would run into the person and then we would both fall off the cliff.
I did run into the person who then tumbled with me to the cliff and we did fall but I caught the edge of the cliff with my chin, which may I add was a total fluke and actually almost phsically impossible so don't try it at home. The other person then proceeded to catch my ankle and to their luck, not fall. "Well, I like meeting new friends but usually I'm not this important a link in someones life till after I know their name," I said trying not to laugh since that would cause me to fall. "Chris, Chris is that you," I heard a voice which I now recognized to be Yuna's. "Umm... no," I said in an alomst questioning voice, wondering if she would believe me. She didn't of course, "Yes it is, where have you been and why haven't I even thought of you until now," she asked. I thought about what she just said, why is it that she knows who I am but no one else recognizes my voice, I thought as I noticed that Rikku and Paine were now approaching me and decided to ask Yuna a favour. "Hey Yuna, could you possibly not tell anyone who doesn't figure out it's me under here that it's me under here," I asked in one breath. "Yea, sure, but why..." I cut her off though, " No time to explain at the moment!"
Rikku walked up and raised her foot back, "Give me one good reason not to boot you in the head right now buddy," she obviously still exhausted from the earlier run. "Well, one, it would hurt with such soft boots on, two, I'm too pretty to fall and third, I'd rather not hurt the innocent person hanging from my foot right now," I said as quickly as I could. "I said one but since you gave me tow good ones I won't and... Oh my gosh, Yunnie, hurry Paine we gotta help her," she said now jumping around. "Clam down, hey what do you mean two, Allright, "Yunnie"," I said acting as though I didn't know her, "can you climb up my body?" She didn't answer but started grabbing pieces of my armor and pulling herself up toward Rikku and Paine who helped her up when she got close enough. "Oh, by the way you are not to beatiful to fall," Rikku said putting her foot against my head and pushing. "Ouch," I yelled as I began to fall but I quickly flipped myself around and dug my feet into the side of the cliff. I stood there for awhile wondering where the heck my ride was. "Hey Chris, sorry we took so long, we lost the connection with you a couple seconds ago," I heard as the airship approached me from behind.
"Bloody hell, could you have taken any longer," I yelled at Joe as I got into the bridge and broke the ropes behind my back. I held out the sphere, and still mad I asked very loudly, "What do I do with this thing?" Suddenly they all gathered extremely close and were staring at the sphere in astonishment. I sweat dropped, "Umm, what's wrong, did I break it or something," I asked not sure what they were so amazed with. Then finally after what seemed like at least an hour one ofthem finally decided to answer. It was Al who I hadn't heard say much yet, but he was talkitive when he had something to talk about. "This sphere isn't the normal size this could have occured in many diffrent ways, I need to do some tests on it, if I may," he said putting his hand out. I stood there and thought about it, but found no personal use for the sphere so I handed it to him. "Oh and Chris do you think you could chop this sheet of metal in half," he asked holding up a thick hunk of metal. I stood there wondering why he could possibly want me to do that but I decided to cooperate and gave it a good hack with my hand and it fell clean in two. "Thank you," he said scraping some shards of my armor that had chipped off when I hit the metal. Ah, I see testing my armor are you, well good I might figure this stuff out if he does, I thought then realizing I hadn't seen Stella since I had gotten on the ship and I hadn't heard from her since she stormed off after I jumped down to Besaid Island. "Yo, Joe, where's Stella," I asked seeing if he remembered our bet. He opened his mouth but then closed it. He had obviously remembered. I looked over at Suzzie and she said, "She's in her room, down a floor farthest door on your right," she said pointing me towards the elevator. I nodded and took off down the hall.
That's where I'm ending it for two reasons. First, there is a lot of stuff in the next chapter. Second, that "stuff" can't be seperated so I need it all in my next chapter. So my next chapter will be long, and take a long time to complete, so please bepatient my readers. Oh, and plz review if you don't my head will explode and you'll never find out how this ends ( okay so I'm begging for reviews) but thats only because there are so many hits on my story an so few reviews.