A warning ahead of time. With Jeena being the one nearly always saying his name, Tidus may actually be called by his name by the others as well. If not in the actual conversations, then the ones on the side. Anyway, enough of my talking, BACK TO THE STORY!!

Disclaimer: I own no Final Fantasy property.

I woke up, feeling myself floating. I just thought it was light headed from the second ride of my life, until when I tried to get up, my face was then covered in water. As I noticed, I turned myself over and brought my head up, chocking from the water that suddenly tried to make it's way down my throat. I moved my hair from my face and then heard more splashing. I looked over to see my brother bringing his head up as well.

"Rikku! Jeena!" My brother screamed as he looked out to the sea.

"I'm right here," I said, grabbing his attention. Not for long, however, for next thing we knew, a ball hit him upside the head. I looked over to where the ball came from and saw a few men standing at the shore.

"Blitzball!" I looked back over at Tidus and noticed he had a blitzball in hand.

"Hey! You okay?" One of them called.

"Heeey!" Tidus called back. Apparently he already made a new friend. What I didn't expect was him going under, bringing himself under the ball, and jumping high in the air. I never saw his move up close, so now I was able to tell that he twisted himself, back flipped and kicked the ball to the men on shore. It traveled faster than I could set my eye on up close. The man at the shore must've thought so to, for as it came to him, he just barely dodged it.

"Did you have to show off?" I asked, smiling.

"Hey, you said as much yourself," he came back. "I might as well be married to blitzball."

I just rolled my eyes and swam forward to the shore. Now where have we been thrown to? Apparently someplace nicer than that stone building we were in before, and with nice enough people to ask if we were alright.

By the time we made our way to shore, everyone started to gather around us. For some odd reason, I was feeling embarrassed. Maybe it was because I wasn't the center of attention? I got that idea when one of the taller men came up. His hair was red and standing up, the front of it longer than the rest. He wore a blue band across his head, and some arm accessory on his left arm. He wore what all the other people were wearing, some yellow suit that even went down to the legs, covering most of the blue pants they were wearing with it.

"You wanna try that move one more time?" the man asked, hesitating some as if from shyness. My brother was getting pumped up as he asked that. He did the move again, only this time he did it all on land. The shot tore through the water as it traveled. "You're no amateur. Who you play for?"

"The Zanarkand Abes!" Tidus answered right away. Suddenly there was murmuring throughout the group.

"What team you say, again?"

That's when I remembered what Rikku said. "Don't tell anyone you're from Zanarkand." I decided to come in. "Sorry, he didn't mean to say that. You see, we got a little to close to, uh... Sin and our heads are a little... foggy like. So we're not exactly sure where we are."

"Or even where we came from," Tidus added.

"Ah, Sin's toxin got to ya," the man said. "But you're still alive. Praise be to Yevon!" The team did some type of gesture that looked familiar. "Alright, back to practice!" He called to the team and they followed. He then turned back to us. "I'm Wakka, coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, brudda."

While he shook my hand, I had to ask. "Brudda?"

"It's just somethin' I use." There was a sound of grumbling. Tidus nearly doubled over, holding his belly. "What? You hungry?"

That's when my stomach started again. "He's not the only one."

"Okay! Back to the village, I'll get you two somethin'!"

We followed him a small way, but I could feel something wrong with Tidus. "What is it?" I asked, silently.

"Something's going through my mind," he replied. "Do you trust Wakka?"

"Well, he seems nice enough. I do so far."

"'Ey, what'cha two talkin' about?"

I motioned Tidus to speak with a nudge. "It's true Zanarkand was destroyed, right? A thousand years ago? So it's just a big pile of rubble now, isn't it?"

"Long time ago," Wakka started, "there were a whole lot of cities in Spira. Big cities with machina- machines- to run 'em. People played all day, and let the machina do the work, and then, well, take a look." He pointed over to some old ruins of some building. "Sin came, and destroyed the machina cities, and Zanarkand along with 'em. Yeah, that was about a thousand years ago, just like you said. If you ask me, Sin's our punishment for letting things get out of hand. What gets me though... is we gotta suffer, 'cause of what some goofballs did way back when!"

"That's not right!" I exclaimed.

"I'm with ya, but, 'course we must always repent for our sins! That's important! It's just that, it's hard to keep at it sometimes, you know?" It was just like Rikku said as well. They couldn't both be lying. However, my train of thought was stopped as Wakka laughed suddenly. "But you from the Zanarkand Abes, that was a good one!" He said, getting Tidus by the neck. "Hey, I'm not saying the team never existed, ya? But you gotta figure, a team living in luxury like that'd be pretty soft, eh?"

It was nice that Wakka was trying to cheer us up, Tidus at the least. However, hearing the same story, possibly from different sides of the map, made me believe that it must've been true. Perhaps, if we found Sin again we could go back home. Well, until then I though we should live life as it was right now. No time like the present.

We followed Wakka to an intersection in the road. "Hey! It's this way!" He pointed to the right and followed. As we kept going there was nothing but a cliff with a lake below. His village was around here? It was a good scenery, though why would he bring us here?

"Whoa!" I looked to see Tidus falling into the water. Did he lose footing or something? My answer came as I felt something push me on the back, making me lose balance and fell into the cold water myself.

"What the?" I looked up and saw Wakka dive in too.

"What's the big idea?" Tidus asked in frustration.

We didn't receive much of an answer, other than a gesture to follow. We swam for some time. I didn't know when we'd arrive at where we were supposed to be. I was starting to think Wakka had us take the scenic route. To tell the truth, I didn't mind. A small swim in a lush area was pretty relaxing, if you count out some fish trying to nip at us.

"Lemme go!" I heard my brothers voice behind me and I looked to see him caught in Wakka's grip.

"Got a favor to ask ya," he said, still having Tidus in his grip. They looked like brothers in that scene.

"You want me on your team, right?" Wakka let go and Tidus sank in the water. I'm guessing from all the struggling.

"Do you play blitzball?" Wakka directed the question toward me.

"Me? No, Tidus is the one that plays, not me," I answered just as Tidus came back up. "Why?"

"Ah, his name's Tidus? What about you?"

"Jeena," Tidus answered for me.

"Well, I was thinking. A major blitz tournament's coming up. All the team's in Spira'll be there! It's so huge, I'm sure someone there'll recognize at least one of you!"

"That'd mostly be him," I murmured, rolling my eyes.

"Maybe so, Jeen," I guess Wakka heard me, "but you are brother and sister, right? It'll be fun! What do you say, huh? Come on, come on!"

"Sure thing," Tidus said as he submerged into the water. He didn't sound all that thrilled.

"Dude! Our team is gonna rock, eh?" Wakka sounded pumped.