Author's Note: Thankies to the two people that favourite and/or story alerted the story!
Carmina's POV:
When we got on the boat, Kita-neechan and I went over to a corner of a ship. "So…..Yunie's choice of words earlier at the bonfire…." Kita-neechan started.
"Blonde hottie?" I asked her with a giggle. She nodded and then shook her head in disbelief. "I can't believe Yuna said that." I told Kita-neechan as I crossed my arms and leaned against the side of the boat. We walked over to Wakka and Lulu. We started talking to them, then went back to the corner of the boat. As I leaned against, the boat Kita-neechan just stood up straight, looking in deep thought. All of a sudden, the boat started shaking.
"W-WHOA!" Kita-neechan and I shouted as the boat rocked. I lost my balance and almost fell of the boat….if not for my hat was holding on to the boat.
"Mina!" Kita-neechan exclaimed.
"No oneechan! I'm fine! Go help fight Sin! NOW!" I yelled at her. She looked at me for a little, then nodded.
"Don't let go." she ordered to me as she walked away with my staff in her hands. I nodded and continued to hold onto the boat. I grunted as I tried to pull myself up on board, but it was no use. My arms started growing tired, and they started to feel numb as well.
"Agh!" I grunted as one of my hands fell off. I put that one quickly back on the edge, but my other hand slipped off before I could put my other hand back. I remembered water here was breathable, so I just closed my mouth so no water would come in. I kept sinking and sinking to the bottom. *SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT* I kept thinking over and over again as I flailed my arms around. Suddenly, I saw a flash of blonde hair and Tidus appeared in front of me with a thumbs up on his face. *Wait…wasn't he supposed to be here instead of me? And where's Wakka?* I thought as I smiled and gave a thumbs up back to Tidus. He pointed to the surface and I nodded. He grabbed my arm and was about to pull me up, when all of a sudden, a Sinspawn came out. I looked at it in surprise and motioned to Tidus that I didn't have my weapon.
He nodded and motioned for me to use magic. I nodded and he held my arm as we fought off the Sinspawn. Since I didn't want to use Thunder magic, I settled for Fira. Once we defeated it, Tidus quickly pulled me up and lifted me onto the boat. I started gasping for breath as I lied down on the deck of the boat.
"Mina!" Oneechan exclaimed as she ran over to me and put my head on her lap. Yuna went over to me with a worried look, and so did everyone else, except for Kimhari. Yuna started curing me and I thanked her.
"Thank -cough- you." I managed to say. Yuna smiled.
"You're welcome." she replied. Tidus panted and went over to me.
"You ok there Carmina?" he asked me. I nodded and he smiled. Kita-neechan was running her fingers through my ponytail as we helplessly watched Sin tear apart Kilika. Once we arrived at Kilika, I stood up with the help of Oneechan and we got off the boat.
Kita's POV:
As we were walking off the boat two people ran up to Yunie "Greetings! I am the summoner Yuna, I have come from Besaid. If there is no other summoner here please allow me to perform the sending."
"Thanks be to ye!"
"We feared our loved ones were to become fiends!"
"Please take me to them." Yunie said with a sad tone to her voice.
"We'll go see if there's anything we can do to help in town." Wakka said to all of us as he ran off with the Aurochs.
"Uh, what's a sending? Are we going somewhere?" Tidus said to Lu.
"You truly are clueless. Are you sure it's just your memory that's the problem?" Me and Lulu said at the same time. Lulu turned to me and gave me a look saying If-you-know-so-much-about-it-why-don't-you-tell-him?
"The dead need guidance. Filled with grief over their own death, they refuse to face their fate. They yearn to live on, and resent those still alive. You see, they envy the living. And in time, that envy turns to anger, even hate. Should these souls remain in Spira, they become fiends that prey on the living. Sad, isn't it? The sending takes them to the Farplane, where they may rest in peace." I said to him.
Lulu looked at me as though I was crazy since I said exactly what she was going to say.
"Summoners do this?" Tidus said to me.
"Oac."
"Eh?"
"I mean yes."
"Oh."
We go over to where Yunie is starting the sending. Me and Mina have our heads tilted down slightly in respect for the dead and even though Mina didn't know them I could see the tears running down her face. I wrapped one arm around her and rubbed her back comfortingly and kept muttering things like 'It will be alright' or 'No need to be sad' and cheesy things like that.
Yunie walks back over to us and I can see the tears on her face.
"It must be tough, being a summoner." Tidus said to me.
"Yunie chose her own path. She knew from the beginning what it meant. All we can do is protect her along the way. Until the end." I said to him
"Until the end? What's the end?" Everyone turns to stare at him.
"Until she defeats sin." Me and Lulu said to him with a slightly frustrated tone in our voice.
Yunie walks over and says to all of us "I... I hope I did okay." Me and Mina walk over to her and hug her while Lulu says "You did very well, they've reached the farplane by now. But… no tears next time hmm?"
We all walk back to the inn and go up to our rooms and once again… Two rooms left. Tidus offered to sleep on the floor in one of the rooms but I denied that request and told him I'd take the floor in Mina's room.
"Why… Why do you sleep on the floor all the time instead of me? The big, tough, ultimately awesome boy compared to the weak, small, kitten girl?"
"Because One, Im not a weak, small, kitten girl, and Two, you're an idiot if you think you're a big, tough and ultimately awesome boy!" I said running quickly to Mina's room and locking the door. I curled up in a ball on the floor and fell asleep quickly. I heard banging on the door in the morning and I went over and opened it. It was Datto, one of the Aurochs.
"Hey, Wakka told me to come get you, said something about Yunie wanting to talk to ya. Can you wake up Blondie in the too? Wakka, and I quote, 'I need Tidus's help to start fixin' up the docks, yah?', So if you could just get him that would be great… Bye!" He said slamming the door.
"Um, ok…" I said walking out of the room and grabbing a bucket filling it with cold water and walking into Tidus's room silently.
"WAKE UP YOU LAZY ASS!" I said while throwing the water on him.
He screamed the girliest scream you could have ever heard in your life and I quickly ran out of the room and over to Mina's and making it seem like I was asleep on the floor. He walked in to see me curled up and shaking he grabbed some water and threw it at me. I hissed at him and jumped up about to claw whoever threw the waters face off. I realized it was Tidus and calmed down… a little. I jumped onto his back and wrapped my tail around his legs tripping him.
"Do you surrender?" I said.
"I SURRENDER! I SURRENDER!" He said as I climbed off his back giggling. I walked over to Mina and shouted in her ear "Mina, if you don't get your ass out of bed right now im going to drag you out and drop you in the ocean!" She woke up instantly giving me a glare that could almost put my ultimate death glare to shame… but not quite.
Carmina's POV:
After oneechan woke me up and I got ready, we both headed out and met up with Yuna. She was sitting down, near the docks.
"Hey Yuna!" we both exclaimed. She turned to us and smiled.
"Hey you two. Come here." she said as she patted the space next to her. Oneechan sat on her right and I sat on Yuna's left.
"So, what's up?" Kita-nee asked. Yuna stared out in the sea and smiled softly.
"I wanted….to ask you something. I was a bit curious about it earlier. How did you know…what a sending was? Aren't you from Zanarkand?" she asked. I looked at Kita-neechan and she nodded. I twiddled my thumbs.
"Well, we were curious about a lot of things. So, in Besaid, we asked a few people about Spira. Though they felt suspicious about us, they told us about a lot of things." Kita-nee explained, lying through her teeth.
"Ah….I see." Yuna said with a smile. "So….what do you think about him?" Yuna asked us.
"Who? Tidus?" I asked her with a grin. She nodded.
"He's an idiot." Kita-nee answered right away. Yuna giggled softly.
"I don't think so." Yuna stated. Kita-nee shrugged.
"Believe what you want." she replied.
"I think Tidus is all right. He is an idiot, but a lovable idiot." I told Yuna.
"Hm…." she said as she nodded. We all were silent for a little, just looking at the calm sea. I let out a satisfying sigh as I stretched out my arms. "I have….one more thing to ask you." Yuna stated. We both looked at her.
"What?" Kita-nee asked.
I smiled, "Yeah, what's up?" Yuna looked at both of us with a smile, then turned her head back to the sea.
"I would like to ask….you two….to become my guardians." she stated. We both looked at her in surprise. I smiled widely and hugged her.
"Sure! I accept Lady Yuna!" I exclaimed. Yuna smiled and nodded. She then turned to Kita-nee.
"Kita?" Yuna asked. Kita looked at us and nodded.
"Well, why not?" she asked with a faint smile. I cheered and stood up to hug Kita-nee.
"Wait….what about the blondie?" Kita-nee asked.
"He…..I…I don't know yet. I'll have to think on it." Yuna replied. We nodded and headed inside the Forest, where everyone else was waiting for us.
Kita's Pov:
We saw everyone standing there with looks of impatience on their faces. Yunie smiled sheepishly at all of them and mumbled "Sorry…" They all smiled back, even Lu, as she cleared her throat.
"I have asked Carmina and Kita to be two of my new guardians, I hope that is all right with everyone?"
A bunch of yeahs, and sures were heard from the group except of course from Tidus who just frowned ever so slightly.
"What about me?" He said with a slight pout on his face.
"Oh…Um, Well… would you like to be my guardian too Tidus?"
"Hell Yeah!"
We all sweat dropped and started our walk to the temple when Luzzu and Gatta showed up.
"Company, HALT!" Gatta said/shouted to us.
"The fiend before us is Ochu, Lord of the Wood! We've had trouble with this one before. Remember, discretion is the better part of valor." Luzzu said.
We ran up to Ochu and quickly defeated it… It was mostly Mina and I though. We did allll the work. (Insert giggle here).
Luzzu smiled at us and we heard a "Whoaaaa!" in the background from Gatta.
"Two young guardians beating Lord Ochu. Very impressive Lady Yuna!" Luzzu said to Yunie.
"Ehh? But everyone else helped too… didn't they?" Mina said.
"Eh heh heh… No it was all you guys, yah?"
"Oh."
"Sir, we should fight too!" Gatta said to Luzzu.
"We will chance soon enough." Luzzu said.
We finally made it to the temple and… here comes the speech about the steps.
"These stone steps have a history, you know? Yep, Lord Ohalland trained here at his peak."
"A race huh? Think you can beat me?" I hear Tidus say to the Aurochs. I smirk and drag Mina with me to where Yunie is standing.
"Yuna, Mina, Kita if you please?"
"Ready?" We all say and start running up the steps.
"Hey! Hey!" They all shout as we reach the top. We see Sinspawn and watch Datto run down shouting "L-LOOK OUT!"
"Everyone quick! Sinspawn!"
We all get up there and defeat Sinspawn and I got a few more grenades and some potions from stealing.
"Hey, Kita when did you learn to steal? Don't tell me your half Al-Bhed?" Wakka said/shouted to/at me.
"Ajah ev e fyc, fryd fana oui bmyhhehk du tu ypuid ed?" I said to him. Mina was giggling behind me as Wakka just stared.
"Eteudel tita fedr knyjedo tavoehk ryen..." I muttered.
"So you are Al-Bhed?" Wakka half-shouted at me.
"Tu e muug Ym-Prat du oui!" I shouted at him.
"Eh?"
"I said, do I look Al-Bhed to you."
"Well no but you speak Al-Bhed so I just assumed th-"
"Well maybe you should stop assuming things!" I shouted at him walking into the temple.
Carmina's POV:
Kita-nee was about to walk inside, when Bickson and his crew came out. Kita-nee just backed up and walked over to me.
"You here to pray for victory, too?" Wakka asked them.
"Us? Pray? Who needs to pray? The Luca Goers always win!" one dude shouted. I snarled and so did Kita-nee. We hated these guys with a passion. Oneechan hated Bickson and the Goers even more than Tidus.
"Oh yeah?" I asked as I crossed my arms. Oneechan crossed her arms as well.
"Then why are you here?" we asked at the same time.
"We've been praying for some competition this year! So what's your goal this time? You gonna "do your best" again? Ha! It's too bad your best isn't good enough! Why even bother showing up?" Bickson asked. Kita-nee and I growled, but Yuna shook her head. We sighed.
"This time, we play to win!" Tidus shouted.
"Oooh! Play away! Just remember even kids can play, boys." Bickson said as he walked away. Yuna and everyone else went in, but Oneechan and I stayed for a bit.
"HEY BICKSON!" Kita-nee and I shouted. He turned to us with a smirk. Kita-nee and I exchanged glances, then nodded as we smirked.
"What is it Besaid losers?" he asked smugly. Kita-nee smirked as she held her hand up.
"You look a bit chilled. Why don't you…get toasty for a bit?" she asked as she casted a weak Fire on him. Her magic was a bit weak, since she's better with her weapon.
"W-wha? Get this off me!" Bickson exclaimed. Kita-nee looked at me and nodded.
"Oops sorry." I said with a smirk. I held my hand up. "Was that too hot? Why don't you…..cool off?" I asked smugly as I casted Waterga on him. A huge water blast was fired at Bickson, and he fell onto the ground, soaking wet. Kita-nee and I laughed as we high-fived each other. We ran inside the temple to catch up with the others. We prayed quickly to Lord Ohalland, but was then confronted by Dona. It took Kita nee's and my will power to not make any snide comment to her.
"Lousy bitch…." I muttered as she walked away. Tidus heard me and so did Kita-nee. We all started laughing quietly as we went up the stairs. We went in the Cloister of Trials, then once Yunie got Ifrit, we exited the temple and went back to Kilika Port.
"Ok! Off to Luca we go!" I exclaimed as I got on the boat with Kita-nee.