Chapter 9:Trapped

I shook my head after regaining control and getting to my feet, my head felt like it was going to split wide open. I put my hand to my aching head and turned around. I stopped abruptly at the sight of what had to be at least three hundred guards. "Ah, whoa there, now hold on, I know you think I blew up all this stuff but it really wasn't me, so much as a demon thingy posessing me... and I might as well just shut the hellup since there's no chance you will believe that anyways," I said dropping my head. I stood there a moment before realizing they were not attacking me in any way. "Leave and don't come back, and we'll consider letting you get off without any penalties," I heard a random voice call out from the crowd of guards. "Oh, thanks very much, your kindness will not be forgotten," I said bolting off towards the entrance. I almost tripped at least ten times, but that was not surprising considering that my legs were now much stronger because of the chaos bringers. Just then I spotted something shiny in the corner of my eye. I stopped and bent over to retrieve the glistening object, which turned out to be the final matching orb to my armor. I stuck it in my left leg's orb socket but realized I had no time to test it out now.

Stella and the others were waiting for me just outside Bevelle. Guess they got kicked out or decided to back away from the fighting or something. "What was that about, and what's with the wings," I heard Joe ask as I approached. "Hmm, wings," I said questioningly looking at my back and realizing that I had sprouted large bat-like wings, "well, thats a odd sight now isn't it, no clue, andywas, no time to be sticking around here." Suddenly I had a very odd feeling in the depths of my very soul itself to go to the deserted temple where I had origanally met with Tidus and been rescued by the Al Bhed. "I have a need to travel somewhere, and I don't think I'll be able to reach it very quickly any other way then the airship, since I have no bloody clue how to use my wings anyways," I said muttering the last bit about my wings. "Hey, wait, Joe I thought we had an agreement that you don't do any talking, at least for another week I think, I don't remember the length of our deal, so since I'm feeling generous I'll... only charge you 1000 gil for breaking our deal," I said laughing at his expression. "Oh, come now, I'm not that mean, only 100 will do," I said as he rached into his pocket and handed me 100 gil. "Ah, and seeing as I care nothing for money, hey Al," I said causing him to look directly at me, "catch," I finished throwing a large bag of gil. "I believe I'll be able to satisfy my need of travel, you go fix up the ariship," I said giving my wings a little test flap.

I then ran and jumped as high as I could and flapped my wings as hard as I could, surprisingly, and completely against all logic, I managed to stay airborne. "Make sure you come back in one piece okay," I heard Stella yell. I turned to see her face was red and I gave her a simple thumbs up and took off. Ah, but there was a minor, tiny, little, insignificant detail I managed to overlook. I don't have a clue in which direction that abandoned temple is, nor do I know it's name, ruling out the option of asking for directions. I may not have all my memory back, but I have enough thatI remember that at no point did I ever know the name of that damned temple, nor did I care, till now. Turn directly to your left and head straight you idiot, I heard a voice in my head say. "Now what, would I listen to you for, you want me to die," I said realizing it was that evil guy inside my head who had killed me as I did the same to him. True, but I only want your spirit to die, not your body, if your body dies I die, and the further away from that acursed girl you are the happier I'll be. "Well fine, but if this is a trap your toast pal," I said taking his directions and flying the best I could considering I was just learning how to use the wings I was doing well.

Right when I was over the ocean I spotted something and realized two things about it right away. One, it was the Gullwings airship. Two, they were heading the same direction as me. "Hmm, me lazy, me be hitchhiker," I said laughing at my own idiocy. I flew a little lower and prepared to grab on to the passing airship. I almost missed, just barely snagging the last object possible. It seemed like a completely random bar near the engines. It was kinda hot here however considering my leg armor turned red hot. Good thing I'm dead, otherwise my leg would be burnt really bad right about now, I thought pulling myself towards the ship itself more and clamping on with my now large set of three claws on each hand. I took the remaining moments of the trip to examine my now mutated self. Not much new with my arms, just both mutated now, my feet were like talons with one sticking out of the back as well. Tiny spikes came out around my ankles, and my knee had a spike that looked like was attached to my shin and did not bend at the knee. (Therefore driving my knee into someone would impale as well now.) In addition to my wings wich I could fold up to act as a cloak in the front of sorts, I now had two large spikes sticking out of the area of my shoulder blades, just above the root of my wings. Just below were two slightly smaller spikes, then at my lower back were yet two smaller spikes. They were all slightly curved and none of them ruptured the armor, the armor seemed to morph along with my body. The I laughed as I noticed that I had a long lizard-like tail that came out just below and between the smallest spikes and ended in a large spiked ball.

The airship did not seem to plan to land since it approached and let them off and then began to ascend a little. I decide to leap over and latch on to the wall of the temple. That was a complete success and allowed me to overhear a short conversation between Rikku and Paine. "You sure the sphere radar wasn't wrong, I mean it said there was like some huge sphere right on the ship," Paine said sounding quite negative. "Maybe that was some glitch, or something on the ship that it thought was a sphere, it doesn't matter, it's never wrong, there is a sphere here," I heard Rikku say sounding less sure of herself with every word. Well, can't let the Gullwings get a sphere before me now can we, I thought crawling along the wall to a place where I could climb up without being seen. I clambered up and looked around. "Oh, the metal hunk is here," I heard an all to familiar voice squeal. i looked over and much to my horror I was right, Leblanc, apparently she liked guys who were strong and had no intrest in her at all, cause that was me, and she had me in an unreleasable vicegrip. "Let go, must find sphere, and possibly something else important to me living," I said having a hunch thats why I had a feeling I had to come here. She finally let go and then began blathering on that she could help me. "Look, I really don't want your help, plus besides a sphere I'm not even sure what it is I'm looking for," I said, she immediately gave me sad puppy dog eyes. I responded with a cold stare telling myself I would not let her help, but then I realized I had no time for this. "Fine, whatever, just don't get in my way," I said slouching over in disappointment. She nodded and ran over to her lackies and began giving them orders. Just before leaving she turned and blew me a kiss, just after she turned her back I shuddered with disgust, she's like bloody three times my age, eww, I thought realizing that I had better get moving.

I let my body move instinctively, it seemed to know exactly which way to go to reach the sphere. I was running down a long hall when suddenly a fiend jumped out at me. "Random encounter," I shouted grabbing the fiend and tossing it into a wall with my full strength, "I win." I turned a corner and saw that I was already in the room and noticed that I was now in a water filled room. Well, it was not so much a room as a bowl outside. Then I saw it, the sphere was at the bottom of this pool. Plan, plan, umm, freeze the water, walk across get sphere, me smart, note to self give self treat at next chance, I thought laughing a bit. I concetrated on my ice power and moved it into my left arm and then continued to freeze over the water. I didn't want to was te time and freeze it solid so I just made it thick enoughto walk on. I jumped down and began walking out to where the sphere was. Suddenly I heard the ice smash behind me and turned to see the giant fish thing that attacked Tidus. "Ah, you can not hit me, because you are to ugly," I said moving as it smashed through the ice again, I then dodged another attack and taunted it once more, "that attack missed much worse then the last, I overestimated you, you are not ugly you are fugly, mwhahaha" iwent on like this for awhile not realizing what was happening. Then it hit me alittle to late, like when I was standing on one last small island of ice. "Ah, you are fugly, hungry, smart fish I see," I said as it leapt up and gobbled up me and the ice chunk. I ended up inside the part where you can see inside.

It leapt out of the water and I saw Rikku and Paine looking on to the strange scene of me kicking the fish as hard as I could and yelling, "Me no like being eaten, me give fish bad indigestion if you no spit me out!" The fish was to hungry to give me up fora bit of pain though, so instead I simply pulled out a pair of swords and, well to put it simply, in the next few second the fish went from whole to about ten thousand pieces. I swam down to get the spherebut Rikku and Paine grabbed it just as I got there. They began swimming as fast as they could away from me. I was only able to just keep up since I was basically a rock running underwater. I managed to jump out of the water and into a small passage they had gotten out of the water into. I ran after them and lunged to grab them but only got Paine's ankle. She tripped and Rikku kept moving for a bit with the sphere, Paine's trip caused a large echo but nothing else. I jumped up to chase Rikku and get the sphere but as I passed by paine she reached out and manged to trip me. I feel witha loud clang that caused a shaking to go throughout the temple. I pulled myself to my feet and saw a huge rock falling towards Rikku. Damn my good nature, I thought as I quickyl rushed over and braced myselfto catch the rock. Rikku was now huddled up under me and a giant rock. "Move," I grunted holding the enormous rock. She looked up but as she did I heard a lous crack beneath me. "Dammit this place is falling apart," I said just preceeding the floor shattering and me and Rikku falling through.

I found it very dark even though I was lying on my back, then I realized something, the rock fell on top of me. I squirmed around then managed to grab the rock and lift it off myself. I looked around and saw that I was trapped the floor we fell through had been covered, and all the tunnels around were blocked up with so much rubble that if I tried to remove it I would most likely be trapped under a whole wall. Even I would be stuck under that much rubble for a very long time, I thought putting the rock down in a corner and continuing my search for any way out of here. Looking up again I noticed something, Rikku had fallen through as well, but she had fell onto a large root sticking out of the wall near the top. "Now I'm not certain but I think you might need a hand up there," I yelled to see if she was actually awake and if she would accept aid or not. I saw her stick her head over the side and stick out her tounge, to which the root shook a bit. She yelped and grabbed on tighter. I let out a laugh, "Tell you what, I'll get you down from there, completely unharmed, if you drop me the sphere, if you still have it that is!" She sat there for a minute, obviously contemplating her choices, only really two, drop or accept help. I then saw something shiny falling. "Ah, must catch," I said diving and grabbing the sphere a good inch from the ground. "A little warning would have been nice, oh right help you," I said lifting the rock from earlier and placing the sphere in a spot where it could not be reached nor crushed. Just in case she decides she wants it back and is a little faster then me, I thought walking beneath the long shaft again. "Hmm, let's see, to skinny for my wing span, guess I'll have to use the walls," I said leaping to the wall near the bottom. I then jumped off that wall and to the other side and continued jumping off oppisite walls till I reached the root and then I dug my claws into the wall so that I was at the same eye level as Rikku. "Hi, I saw that you were just hanging around and decided to come on up," I said laughing at her situation. "You said you'd help me," she whinned. "Ah, yes, I suppose I did say that, I didn't promise though, it's not like if I didn't help you I'd be breaking a promise," I said, causing a look of anger and astonishment on Rikku's face. "Yea, like I'd really let an innocent girl fall to her death, it's not like I'm evil, I just joke around at the worst times," I said leaping over so that I was right next to the root. "Now would you rather I carry you, or are you just gonna get on my back, now that I think that over I'm carrying you either way so," I said as Rikku rolled her eyes and pushed off the root and grabbed onto the two large spikes at the top of my back. I almost lost my balance as the root she had just pushed off of fell into the room below and broke into pieces. "Hmm, I dunno, if you had timed it right, you might have been able to jump up and land perfectly fine," I said rather sarcastically. She wacked me over the head and yelled, "Now the heck are we gonna get down?" I smiled, which I guess showed with my eyes a little, "Fast, slow, or mid-speed way?" She looked confused, "Uh, fast, I guess?" I laughed, "Well, hold on tight then," I said and she instantly looked like she was regreting her decision as she tightened her grip on the top two spikes and wrapped her legs around me so that I was carrying her like a piggyback.

I pushed off the wall just enough so that I was right in the center of the shaft. We were falling extremely fast and going faster, and I could barely hear myself think over Rikku's screaming. My feet hit ground and went through so that the ground now started at my shins. I bent my knees to absorb a little bit of the impact but still lurched a bit. When I looked back Rikku looked dazed and then fell off my back. "Ouchie," she said as her head hit the ground. "What were the other two ways," she asked still dazed from the great speed of the fall. "Well, slow I would have crawled down like a spider and you could have probably sat on one of those spikes, and mid-speed I would have slid down the wall with enough grip that it wasn't freefall but a little faster then crawling," I replied walking over to the rock and lifting it to get the sphere back. I got up with it in my hand and turned only to have Rikku try and stab me with her dagger. It scaved off the armor and she looked shocked. I sighed, "First, this weapon, useless," I said breaking it with one hand, "second, even if you did have weapons that could pierce my armor, like these," I continued making a set of daggers that Rikku could use. "Even if you do pierce my armor it wion't do squat, so go ahead and try," I said putting my arms to the side. She tokk one dagger and drove it through mr armor and pulled it downward, something that would kill any normal man. However my armor, as always, sealed up behind the cut and I went unscaved. "How do I know that your not just really skinny and it missed you," she questioned causing me to sigh again. I made areally long sword and cut the armor perfectly in half with one swipe. It seadled up and Rikku's jaw dropped. "Yea, I'm dead okay, get over it, I'm a little concerned on how to get out of here," I said frustrated. "Why, don't you just smash away all that debris covering those tunnels," Rikku asked to which I just gave some of the debris a light kick causing a few light rocks to fall on my armor from the wall above. "Well, your dead right, so it won't hurt," she said trying to convince me. "Not the hurt I'm worried about, more the trpped and unable to move forever thing," I responded causing Rikku to droop. I sighed, Doesn't appear to be any possible way to get out without getting buried alive... well dead, whatever, unless, ah but of course, that has to help, or else I'm trapped here for a very long time to say the least, I thought coming up with a plan.

Ah wow, long chapter in such a short time, well I do have most of the story plaaned in my head already so, makes sense. Please review, considering I haven't gotten any reviews on the last two chapters I'm starting to wonder if my story is any good. Also, this is the longest chapter in this story so far.