Chapter 2

I sat there with my eyes close on the Al Bhed's ship contemplating my next move. Tidus lay across from me, still unconscious. I needed to get back to Besaid, and soon. I had to see my family, no matter what. I knew that would never happen as long as I stayed with Tidus. He obviously had no idea what he was doing, hell neither did I. There was something strange about him, I have seen victims of Sin's Toxin, but this was a little extreme. The toxin it would take to make his mind that foggy, would be enough to kill him. So there was only one alternative. He actually did believe he came from Zanarkand.

I fiddled with the chains that bound me to the ship, they were strong enough to hold a human, but not strong enough to hold me. I thought about breaking free, but then that would require me to leave Tidus. Something I did not want to do. He was interesting, and I couldn't just leave him with the Al Bhed, with him being so naïve. The best thing to do would to be to take him back to Besaid with me, but I just had to think of a way to get back there myself. My brain racked with a million questions as I desperately attempted to think of a solid plan.

"What are you thinking about?"

I was dragged back into reality as I watched Tidus sit up and began to rub the back of his head. "Trying to think of a way to escape, the Al Bhed are being generous enough by providing us with shelter, but we don't know how long that generosity will last us."

"Who are these Al Bhed guys anyway," asked Tidus.

"Excuse me, but I'm a girl," came Riku's voice as the door to the ship swung open. She held two plates of food and sat one in front of Tidus and the other in front of me. My plate had more food on it. "Eat up, you guys are gonna need your strength."

Tidus obeyed her and immediately began to wolf down his food. I stared at my plate and turned away from her. "I'll eat it in a little bit."

Rikku gazed at me with a confused expression. "Why not now?"

I looked back at her and smirked, "Because, I'm gonna wait it out. If nothing happens to Tidus then hopefully you didn't do anything to mine."

"Huh," asked Tidus through a mouthful of food.

"Oh it's nothing," I called back, "don't worry about it. Enjoy your meal." I then looked back at Rikku. "So what now?"

"You wait, we have a job for you and Tidus over there to do for us."

I stretched my limbs and yawned. "Sorry but I don't do favors for free, why do you think we'll just help you like that?"

"Because we're the only ship here, good luck swimming home to wherever you come from. Look if you do this for us, we'll take you and your little friend home. Where do you need to go?"

I smiled as he said that, this is just what I needed. A free ticket home, and all I had to do was probably just swab the decks or something. "I need to go to Besaid."

"And could you take me to Zanarkand," asked Tidus as he rose to his feet and began to stretch his limbs.

"What did you just say," asked Rikku as she shifted her attention from me to Tidus.

I shot him a look, and he must've picked up on what I was trying to say. "Uh… I got too close to Sin and got some of that toxin in me. I meant to say…I needed to go to Besaid too."

I sighed with relief. Tidus was smart enough to save his own hide, which would make my job a lot easier. "So what do you need us to do?"

She held up a finger, "I'll be back in a little bit, but be sure to eat your food, Shi'ari. You'll be needing all the energy you have."

As she walked away the doors to the ship closed behind her, and I could hear here holding a conversation on the other side with another Al Bhed. "I do not like the way she said that."

"Well what can you do," replied Tidus. "Once we finish this job we'll go to this Besaid place, and I'll be a step closer to going back to Zanarkand."

"You just don't get it, do you? We're on an Al Bhed ship, they could say one thing, and mean a completely different thing. We have to be extremely careful, if we even offend them the slightest bit, they'll feed us to the Fiends. I'm the one who speaks Al Bhed so let me handle this, ok?"

"Oh yeah," said Tidus obviously ignoring me. "I have some questions for you. What are these Fiends you been talking about?"

I sighed with annoyance and sat back down on the cold metal floor. "You really know nothing about Spira, do you?"

"What's a Spira," asked Tidus.

I covered my face with my palm and a groan of annoyance came. "You have to be kidding me. Spira is the world we live in. This is Spira."

"Oh okay, so what are these Fiends?"

I turned away and stared down at the violent dark water. Its waves were like vicious fangs ready to tear us apart. "You're asking the wrong person. They fall into the religion Yevon, and I don't follow any of that crap, when we get to Besaid you can ask my brother and sisters. They know more about them than I do." I then looked back at him. "The only thing you need to worry about them, is that they are bad, and that you need to kill them quickly if you ever run into one."

Tidus nodded his head, "Got it. And that language you spoke back there. Its called Al Bhed, right?"

I nodded my head, "Yup that's their language."

"Do you know any more languages."

"I can speak Ronso." I then cleared my throat and smiled at him. "Shi'ari no like ship. Ship bad. Shi'ari want to go home." I erupted with laughter as I finished my sentence, but Tidus did not join in. He only stared at me with an even more confused expression. I ceased my laughter and sighed once again. "Let me guess, you don't know what the Ronso are." Tidus shook his head. "Of course."

Before another word could even be uttered, something large crashed into the ship and both me and Tidus were sent flying backwards colliding with the rail of the ship. The waters began to become even more violent and the air was filled with a horrible screeching sound. I jerked my wrist forward and the chains broke instantly. I helped Tidus to his feet, and we both sprinted forward and began to peer over the edge of the ship.

"Is it a Fiend," asked Tidus as he searched the waters.

"I don't think it is, its too big to be a normal Fiend."

"Fryd'c kuehk uh uid rana? Tet cusadrehk zicd nys dra creb," questioned Rikku as she joined us out on the deck.

Then a large creature tore itself from the waters. It face was a bright blue colors and it appeared to have no eyes. It's body was long and slender and it had a long tail which looked like it would be used for swimming. It also had two large scaly wings, which it unfolded as it rose into the air.

"RIKKU," I called out. "KU KAD UIN FAYBUHC! YHT KAD YHOUHA FRU LYH VEKRD UID RANA!"

"UGYO," replied Rikku as she turned her back to race away. She then stopped at the door and looked back at us. "Be careful, don't do anything reckless." And with that she entered the ship.

"What is that thing," exclaimed Tidus."

I bared my fangs and readied my claws as the creature released another screech. "It's called Sinspawn. It's a part of Sin, and extremely dangerous."

"I got your gear," exclaimed Rikku as she returned to us. She tossed Tidus his sword and joined us by our side. "They're gonna try to get the ship away from this area, all we have to do is hold this thing off until the engines are up and running."

I nodded my head and glanced at Tidus as he gripped his sword and stared the monster. "I hope you know how to use that."

"Don't worry about me, I may have been caught off guard last time, but now I'm ready to go. I can handle myself."

"Rikku, how long until the engines are ready?"

"About ten minutes they said, we just got to fight this thing off for ten minutes."

"That's perfect," I said sarcastically." I then glared at the monster and pointed a clawed finger at it. "We're sending you back to Yevon!"