"Ooh! You made it!" Wakka said he seemed so happy to see me; he even gave me a high five. I was almost glad, but then I remembered the way he lied to me, and left me… I wished that I had been put there alone, or at least found someone else. Then Rikku swam up, thank goodness.

"What's our sentence?" I asked.

"Think they expect us to give up and die down here."

"Well, that's a lame way to kill someone."

"Where's Yunie?" Rikku asked with wide green eyes.

"I don't know."

"Wonder if we should wait for her…" Rikku asked shyly.

"Hmm… let's wait at the exit."

"If there is an exit."

"How about we split up and look for one?" I suggested.

"I don' know if das' such a—"

"Its fine, you and Tidy should go one way and I'll go the other."

"What?" Not exactly what I had planned.

"Ha-ha, das funny, but I think we should stay together ya?"

"Don't be silly, Wakkie, I know black magic remember? I'll be fine on my own; it's you two that I'd worry about."

"But…"

"Go on you two, I'll meet you back here in a couple of hours," Rikku said with a big grin as she swam away.

A couple of hours, with Wakka? A few says ago I would have been thrilled, but now… I just wanted to be somewhere else… anywhere else. We were silent for what felt like hours, just swimming, and trying to avoid each-other's eyes. After awhile it got lonely, I missed the time when we could just talk, and joke, rough house and have fun. I realized then that without Wakka, there wasn't really any fun in Spira.

"So… uh… Tidus… how you been?" Wakka asked nervously, not even making an effort to look at me.

"What do you care?" Wakka stopped swimming and just floated there, looking at me for the first time in days.

"I care!"

"Of course you care, that's why you lied to me and left me—"

"Tidus… can't we just forget dat happened? Start from scratch, ya?"

"Oh, you want to start from scratch, huh? Start again with Lulu and forget about me, right Wakka? I mean, you already used me, so why don't we just start over."

"Tidus, please… I—"

"Let me guess, you're sorry?" I said bitterly.

"What'choo want me to say, huh?"

I thought about it for a long time, all the things I wished he would say, and knew he wouldn't. I tried hard, to make sure that it didn't show.

"There isn't anything that you can say," I turned around and swam away from him. "I'm going to go find Rikku; you can keep looking on your own."

It didn't take long to find Rikku.

"Tidy! What are you doing here?"

"I… thought you might want some help."

"You left Wakkie all alone? Why are you two fighting so much?"

"We're not fighting…"

"I can tell, there's something going on," Rikku said, putting her hands on her hips.

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Okay, but we better go check on Wakkie, and make sure he's alright."

"Fine."

"And you have to promise to tell me what this is all about later, okay? I'm here for you, ya know?"

"I promise."

We swam back through the old waterway for over an hour; by the time we found him he was already doing his best to fight the giant worm.

"Hey! Didn't we already kill that thing?" Rikku asked scrunching up her nose.

"Looks like dat wasn't good enough, ya?"

"I think it's a zombie!"

"Goody!" Rikku said with a big grin. "Then I can use Firaga on it!"

"Well, you want to do dat, yeah?"

"Okay!" Rikku cast as many rounds of Firaga as possible, Wakka barraged it with Blitz balls while I threw as many phoenix downs on it as I could, it didn't last long. With a last jolt of Thundaga Rikku killed it, and blasted the door open.

"Woo hoo! Nice shot, ya?"

We found our way out of the water and in front of Bevelle, where we met Yuna, Kimahri, Lulu and Auron.

"Yunie, are you okay?" Rikku asked, running up and grabbing her hands.

"Yes."

"It's good to see you." Lulu said, wrapping an arm around her.

"Lady Yuna." Maester Seymour said lightly. Seymour and Kinoc were blocking out path, along with a handful of Guado Guards.

"Kinoc!" Auron shouted as Seymour pushed Kinoc into the water, apparently he was already dead.

Kimahri grabbed his spear and impaled Seymour, but that didn't seem to faze him.

"I cannot let you pass." As Seymour stared at us the space around him started to swirl, the guards and Kinoc's body turned into pyerflies and transformed him. He looked like a stone angel that protects people's graves, accept evil.

"Yuna, Go!" Kimahri yelled at her. We all ran, leaving Kimahri behind, but Yuna stopped us before the gates.

"I won't leave him."

"Yuna, he is a guardian, he had sworn to protect you." Auron said, trying to urge her on.

"We're all guardians, hey, I'm a guardian too."

"So?" she asked with hopeful multi-colored eyes.

"So, it's my job to protect you Yuna. So that means, where ever you go Yuna, I'll follow."

"Really?"

"Yeah!"

"Let's go!" She said running back across the bridge.

"Hey! I'm coming too!" Rikku shouted running after her.

"Wait for me!" Wakka shouted.

"I think I'll go too." Lulu smiled at Auron and chased them. When we got back to Kimahri he just shook his head, but I could tell he was happy to see us.

"He may not be the Kinoc that I knew, but you will not get away with murdering my friend," Auron grumbled.

"You're not gonna touch Yuna, you freak!" I screamed at him.

"Hmm, you would keep me from my bride?" Seymour asked with what would pass as a smile on his mutated face.

"I won't let you go!" Yuna shouted, holding out her wand.

"Fine then, try and stop me!"

Yuna tried to Summon Shiva, but as soon as she appeared Seymour sent her away, along with all the other Aeons. Wakka, Auron and I all tried to attack his body, but the thing connected to his back healed him and turned Auron to stone.

"Auron!" Rikku shouted, casting an Al Bhed potion on each of us.

"Thank you." Auron said, exercising his stiff limbs.

"So dat's what those are for!" Wakka said, obviously amazed at how much stronger he felt.

"What do we do? We can't attack his body." Lulu said, casting reflect around us as we planned.

"Kimahri know." Kimahri jumped up and slashed the thing on Seymour's back to ribbons.

"Now, attack his body, give it everything you've got!" Auron yelled. It was an orgy of magic and slashing, but before long Seymour's body fell. We ran from Bevelle as fast as we could, a horde of soldiers chasing after us. People were everywhere, and it looked like a riot began before we got clear into Makalenia woods.