Authors Note: Yes! Finally at the interesting parts! Thanks for the review loveless an the living fantasy!
Bold-Dreams or Other Voices
Italic-Al Bhed
Normal - Speaking
Carmina's POV:
I woke up with a mouthful of water. I started coughing up water and realized that the water was shallow, so I could stand up. I saw Tidus and Kita-neechan waking up too. "Rikku!" Tidus exclaimed. I walked over to Kita-neechan and patted her back, so the water would come out. All of a sudden, a blitzball hit Tidus and we saw Wakka and the Aurochs. "Blitzball!" Tidus shouted.
"Hey! You okay? Wakka screamed out.
"Heeeeeeyyyyy!" Tidus and I shouted. Tidus then dove under water and did his blitzball move. Wakka dodged the ball and smiled at Tidus.
"Come on Carmina, let's go." Kita-nee told me as she walked to shore. I nodded and followed her. "Tidus, we'll go on ahead." Kita-nee explained to him with a smirk.
"Huh? Oh okay, b-but wai-" Tidus was cut off by Kita-nee grabbing my hand and walking away.
"Oneechan, didn't you wanna meet Wakka properly?" I asked her. She shook her head.
"There's time for that later. Let's battle some monsters and get some experience. Then, we can head to the village and meet up with Wakka and Tidus, alright?" she asked me.
"Ok." I said softly as we ran on the path. We came across a few fiends. A wolf, helm, and a Red Flan. "I got the flan!" I exclaimed happily as I casted Blizzard on it.
"And I got the wolf." Oneechan said as she struck the wolf down with her claws. As we made our way through the path, Oneechan stopped walking. Her ears started twitching.
"What is it?" I asked her as I grabbed the hem of my shirt. She pointed to a bush and I nodded. I casted Water on whatever was behind the bush, and I found a wolf. It was bigger than the usual ones and I backed away. "Oneechan! That is huge!" I exclaimed. Her claws grew out and she smirked.
"Then let's teach the bad doggy a lesson." she told me. I smiled and nodded as I casted Thunder, but realized what I had done. I flinched and whimpered as the Thunder crashed onto the wolf. Oneechan looked at me, and I could tell she was a bit worried. "Carmina, be more careful." she scolded me. I nodded meekly and casted Fire on the wolf. Once we defeated it, Oneechan walked over to me and put her hand on my shoulder. "You all right?" she asked me. I just nodded.
"Well come on, don't let your fear of thunder stop us. Let's go." she told me.
"Neechan, aren't you cold in that tank top and those shorts?" I asked her. She shook her head.
"Nah, I'm fine." she replied. I followed her and we eventually made it to the village. We saw Wakka and Tidus. "Hey!" Kita-neechan called out. They both turned around to face us.
"Hey you two, where were you, ya?" Wakka asked. I just shook my head. "Anyways, I'm Wakka, Coach and Captain of the Besaid Aurochs. You girls are?" Tidus introduced us for him.
"That's Kita and her sister Carmina." he said. Wakka nodded and smiled.
"You guys go visit the temple first, then go back to my hut." Wakka told us. We nodded and Kita-neechan dragged me to the temple. Tidus followed us. Once we got into the temple, I did the prayer to High Summoner Braska's statue. I could hear Tidus and Kita-nee speaking to the priest. 'Oh High Summoner Braska, even if you don't know us, please watch over Oneechan and me as we journey hopefully with Yuna.' I thought. I stood up and walked over to oneechan and Tidus to go to Wakka's hut.
"You guys look bushed. Go take a nap." Wakka told us. We nodded and did just that. Tidus got the bed, while Oneechan and I settled for the floor. We leaned against the bed and fell asleep, with my head on Oneechan's shoulder.
Kita's POV:
A little while after I fell asleep I heard the voices of Wakka and the Priest.
"You could at least see how they're doing."
"We can't interfere, it's a rule." Wakka says to the priest.
"But it's been nearly…"
I could tell Tidus was still asleep as was Mina, so I tried to move her head off my shoulder onto the bed and went for a walk. 'Besaid really is one of the nicer places in Spira.' I went into the temple just as I heard Tidus and Mina running towards it. I stood by the entrance and when Tidus ran in I stuck out my leg and tripped him. I heard an 'Oof' from him and Mina started giggling. He turned to glare at me but I gave him the same glare I gave him on the ship and then he just settled for staring at me. He stood up and followed me and Mina over to Wakka.
"Wakka, is something wrong?" I said.
"The summoner hasn't returned from the trials."
"Why don't you go see if there's anything wrong then?" Mina said.
"Because it's against the rules."
We turn just to see Tidus start running up the steps and we follow quickly hoping he waits.
"Hey, but what if somethin' happens? What if the summoner dies!" Tidus said.
"The precepts must be obeyed!"
"Like we care!" We all said as we ran into the cloister of trials.
We stopped at the entrance and Tidus said "Uhm, now what do we do?"
I sighed "I'll do it." We walked through entire cloister of trials with me pressing glyphs and putting spheres in places and getting the Rod of Wisdom for Yuna. Then we got to the friggin' statue which wouldn't budge no matter how hard I pushed it.
"Tidus, Mina you could help you know?"
Mina ran over and started pushing with me and we finally got the statue to where it goes and a platform was made just as Wakka ran out to us and jump onto the platform since it was already sinking.
"Hey! What's gotten into you? Hey, it's okay. Only summoners, apprentice summoners, and their guardians can enter here."
"So what about you?"
"I'm a guardian." He went on and on about what a guardian was and what the summoners did and finally we reached the bottom. "One thing first. One of the guardians down here has a short fuse while the other is just quiet."
"Thought we couldn't handle it?" She said. (1 GUESS!)
"No, it's uh… it's just..." He turned to Tidus "See, I told you she gets mad easy."
"Is the summoner all right?" Mina said to Lulu
"Who are all of you?" She said to us.
"Well im Carmina and this is Tidus and Kita-neechan."
"Kita-neechan… what kind of name is that?"
"It's just a nickname." I said to Lulu. "My real name is Kita. Nice to meet you…?"
"Lulu."
"Nice to meet you Lulu."
Wakka decided that trying to get a word from Kimarhi was impossible so he walked over to me. "Hey, I've had this question on my mind since you got here. "Uhm… are you half Ronso?" I heard a low rumble from behind me and saw Kimarhi chuckling loudly "Kimarhi would know if Kita was half Ronso, Yes Kimarhi would."
Then the door decided to open and Yuna walked out in all her summoner glory. I saw Tidus glance up at her but then look back at me and Mina smiling at us. 'Why the hell isn't he staring at Yuna and trying to catch her?' I looked at Mina but she just gave me a confused look.
"I've… I've done it. I've become a summoner."
Carmina's POV:
Once we got out of the temple, we all went into the small circle where Yuna was about to perform her summoning. "Hey, over here!" Wakka shouted. He dragged Tidus, while Kita-neechan and I followed. Wakka rudely pushed people out of the way, and I apologized for him. Yuna started to summon Valefor, and when he came out, I almost backed up into Kita-neechan.
"Whoa…." I whispered. Kita-neechan nodded, agreeing with me. Valefor was huge! The wings and everything! When Yuna dismissed Valefor, Oneechan and I joined in with everyone clapping. At night, we had the little bonfire thing in celebration for Yuna. Kita-oneechan and I walked over with Tidus to Wakka and the Aurochs.
"Let me introduce you to the team. This guy here wants into the tournament so bad, I let him on the team. His memory's a little fuzzy, so don't mind him if he says anything odd! The girls' are Carmina and Kita, friends of his. Be nice to 'em, ya? Go on, say hi." Wakka told us. Kita-neechan pushed Tidus forward, but I chuckled as I shook my head, going first. I waved at the guys.
"Hey there you guys!" I exclaimed. I nudged Kita-neechan on the side and she glared at me, but sighed and went along.
"Hey." Kita-neechan said simply.
"Uh….hi guys. So….what's our goal?" Tidus asked.
"To do our best!" the Aurochs exclaimed.
"Nope." Kita-neechan told them.
Wakka explained to his team, "Nope, we got a new goal now! Our new goal...is victory! To win every match, defeat every opposing team! To bring the Crystal Cup back to our island! That's all we need to do to win! Easy, ya?" Everyone then started yelling "Victory!" Tidus, Kita-neechan, and I then walked over to where Yuna was.
"Heathens!" one old man exclaimed. Yuna went over to us.
"I'm Yuna." she told us with a smile. "Thank you so much for your help earlier."
"I'm Carmina! This is Tidus and Kita!" I exclaimed, using Kita-neechan's regular name.
"We're sorry about that. Wasn't that….weren't we not supposed to…I guess we kind of overreacted." Tidus apologized.
"Oh, no. I was…overconfident." Yuna replied.
"Uh, we saw that aeon thing. It was amazing." Kita-neechan told her.
"Really? Do you two think I can become high summoner?" Yuna asked us. We all nodded. Then, a little girl came up to Yuna and asked her to play with her some more. She turned back to us. "So, tomorrow then." Yuna stated.
"Tomorrow?" Tidus asked.
She replied, "We're going on the same boat, aren't we?"
"Oh, really?" Kita-neechan asked, faking the surprise.
"We can talk more! You can tell me about Zanarkand!" she exclaimed as she walked away. Kita-neechan grabbed my arm and we walked off to a separate place. We sat down and started talking.
"What do you think about Yuna?" I asked oneechan. She shrugged.
"She's fine, but what I don't get is-" Oneechan was interrupted by Yuna walking up to us.
Kita's POV:
What I was really going to say was 'what I don't get is why Tidus didn't try and catch Yuna' but of course said person came over to us looking at me with a confused look.
"Hello, you two seem close. Are you related?" Yunie said to us (Yunie = Kita's nickname for her.)
"Um, yes. We're sisters!" Mina said with extreme enthusiasm.
"Interesting… I was wondering, Kita, if you were half Ronso perhaps?" Yuna said to me.
I burst out laughing "No, um, im not." I said stopping my laughter.
"Oh. Are you two from Zanarakand?"
I turned to Mina who answered "Um, Yes. We lived in a different district than Tidus though. But whenever we heard he was playing we would cheer for him even if we weren't at the game."
"Oh, Tidus said he's never seen you around before though and that your clothes were a bit different from any of the districts."
"Um, we like different especially me." I said.
"Different is nice… I guess. One question, do you both think Tidus is an extreme hottie even if he is kind of an idiot?" Yuna said.
Me and Mina gaped at her choice of words then started laughing and nodding. Tidus came over and said to us "What're you ladies talkin' 'bout?" We all looked at each other then we all shook our heads "Nothing of importance." I said to him. He turned on me.
"So, you still don't like me?"
"Not particularly."
"Why can't you at least try to get to know me?"
"I can try but if I find out stuff I don't like then im going to keep hating you."
"Ok but first, do you have any words that you would use to describe me that you would like to get out?"
"Hmm, yup! Ok, here goes nothing. Tebfyt, Ycc, Eteud, Pmuhtea, yht Lnopypo."
"What?"
"Nothing, absolutely nothing."
"Oh, ok well lets go back to the crusaders tent then."
"So tired…" Mina mumbled as she collapsed on the ground.
"Mina!" I shouted as I ran over to her. "Tidus! Come here and carry her to the tent… im not the strongest person in Spira…" Tidus walked over and picked her up with ease carried her to the tent and slowly put her on one of the two empty beds.
"Here you take this one, I'll take the ground." Tidus said to me.
"Nope I got the ground, it won't be that bad." I said back.
"Um… ok. Night."
"Night."
I could hear Wakka and Lulu talking. "Lu! You say I can't just accept Tidus because he looks like Chappu but what about Carmina and Kita! Don't they look like your younger sisters Lily and Maria?"
"Yes.. they do. I'm sorry for judging you Wakka. But we should probably give them our siblings weapons don't you think, since Carmina has black magic skill I can tell and Kita does have claws and grenades but that's all."
"I can give Tidus brotherhood but you're going to have to figure out which things to give to who."
Lu sighed and I heard her walk away just as Tidus woke up and Wakka walked in to see me on the floor wide awake staring at the tent opening.
"You heard… didn't you?"
"Yes… Im sorry about your brother Wakka…"
"It's fine yah? He's been gone for a while now but Lu needs more comfort because her little sisters only passed a few weeks ago…"
"Oh. I feel her pain I gues.. I lost my dad when I was 3…"
Mina woke up with a loud yawn and looked at us. "Who died?"
We turned to each other and burst out into laughter at the irony of the sentence. We smiled at her and she smiled back as we walked outside just to bump into Lu.
"Owie…" I muttered just after I fell on the ground.
I saw a hand in my face and grabbed onto being pulled up a little too hard by Tidus and ending up in his arms. We blushed violently and I backed up hiding behind Mina. Mina laughed and shoved me out from behind her just as Lulu gave us some weapons. She gave me *a huge scythe that was like 2 times the size of me and **a huge black staff to Mina. Wakka gave Tidus brotherhood and we got ready to go.
Carmina's POV:
As we walked up the path, I turned to Lulu. "Thank you for the staff!" I exclaimed happily. She turned to me and nodded. We made our way through Besaid, and after fighting a few fiends, went to the praying stone. I kneeled next to Tidus and started praying as well. Once we finished, we continued down. We came across a three Flans, and Lulu got rid of one of them.
"Carmina! Why don't you do the rest?" Yuna suggested. I nodded and held out my hands towards the Fire Flan. I casted Blizzard on it with my staff and it disappeared in one shot. I turned to the other Flan and widened my eyes. A water Flan, which meant I had to defeat it with Thunder. I turned to Kita-neechan and she caught on.
"Uhm, Lulu. Do you mind if you could defeat that Flan for Carmina?" Kita-neechan asked her. Lulu simply shrugged and casted Thunder on it.
"EEEP!" I exclaimed as I covered my ears and shut my ears, backing up into the person behind me, which happened to be Oneechan. She held me still and patted my back, saying it was going to be ok. After a few minutes, I straightened myself up and looked at the others. They were all looking at me in worry.
"Don't worry, guys. She's just really afraid of Thunder." Kita-neechan answered. Everyone nodded in understanding, then we continued on our way. All of a sudden, Kimahri dropped down in front of Tidus and started fighting him. Wakka interfered.
"That's enough!" Wakka exclaimed.
"What's with that guy?" Tidus mumbled.
"Kimahri Ronso, of the Ronso tribe. He's learned the fiends' way of fighting." Lulu explained.
Tidus exclaimed, "That's not what I meant!" He walked over to Kita-neechan and me.
"Another one of Yuna's guardians, ya?" Wakka commented. I decided to play along.
"What, him?" I asked with a smile. Yuna turned to Kita-nee, Tidus, and me.
"Sometimes we don't understand him either. Kimahri doesn't talk much anyway. But he has protected me since I was a child!" she exclaimed. We kept walking, until we reached the boat. I held my staff to my chest as I walked towards the boat. A little girl ran up to Kita-nee and me.
"Will Lady Yuna be ok on her trip?" she asked us. I crouched down to her height and nodded.
"Yes, yes she will." I replied.
"We'll make sure of it." Kita-neechan added. The little girl nodded and smiled as she gave us something.
"Please take care of her well!" she exclaimed as she handed us a couple of Hi-Potions and Grenades, as well as 10 Phoenix Downs. She ran away and we went on the boat. We stood next to Tidus and watched Yuna say her goodbyes.
Authors Note: Longest Chappie ever! Took so long to write though oh and here are the insults Kita said to Tidus in Al Bhed
Dipwad
Ass
Idiot
Blondie
Crybaby
Oh and the pictures for the weapons are on my profile!