Me: ...peeks out from behind corner...jumps out and smiles brightly hello my fellow duckies!
(sharp objects fly at authoress)
Me: O.O ...eep! (hides behind FFX plushies) WAIT! I bring gifts!
(sharp objects fall to ground)
Me: ...Whew...I know I know...I have anger you by deleting the chapters...and putting them up again...after a few months...(sharps object twitch)
Me: (scoots away to far corner) But I have a reason! I got kinda upset with the first three chapters and in a huff of confusion I abandoned them. (sad music begins to play) I neglected my baby! I'm sorry! (huggles story) But now I'm back!...(silence)...Ahem...anyway, I have decided that I made my character too Sue-ish for my tatse so de-Sueified her. And now here are the new and IMPROVED chapters of 'Changing for Good.'
Me: Oh! And if Auron's Fan is reading this right now...yes...everyone studies Al Bhed at home...I mean, come on! You can speak to people in a language that they'll never understand unless they are a FFX fanatic! It's kewl...
Me: Oh! And before I forget! FFX plushies for everyone! (Authoress gets rushed and trampled and...well you get the picture) cough cough...hey! Who left the Kinoc plushie?
Chapter 1: The Accident
A T.V. with Tidus sitting by a fire on it was being watched by a girl, 15 with long brown hair and dark blue eyes.
"Here it comes…..5…4…3…2…1…"
"I need food!"
I hit my head with my blue PS2 controller. That line was reliable, unchanging, and…BORING! This was my 10th time starting one of my favorite games, incase you are impaired and didn't know it by the well known quote above it is Final Fantasy X, and it really was ticking me off. Why I felt the need to annoy myself for another day filled with kicking fiend ass and seeing cool cut scenes and finding secret temples and trying to make friends with Seymour and jumping through fields of daisies, laughing, crying, singing, andtelling each other our fears, hopes, and dreams….HA! Had you going there didn't I? Anyway…I sighed and looked at my T.V. with a picture of Tidus yelling for the fire not to go out…WTF? Why the heck was he talking to something that would just ignore him?
I stood up and shook my fist at him "Stupid! I'll teach you to talk like a crazy person! Burn out Fire, DIE FIRE DIE!"
"Jemma, shut up!" My older sister, Annie, called from upstairs where she was working on her History homework (yuck!).
"Syga sa! (Make me!)" I heard a shuffle and footsteps from upstairs. 'Oh cred…' I ran and tried to reach my room but my sister was already downstairs blocking me (How the heck did she beat me?).
She grabbed my arm and started to twist it in a way it should not go. "OW OW OW! Tysh ed Annie! That hurts!"
"What did you say to me!" 'Is it my fault that you don't understand Al Bhed and think I talked back to you….well…I did…but you don't need to know that…'
"I said 'See da saw'." My arm was starting to numb 'Vilg oui Annie…' I inwardly cursed in Al Bhed. I'm not a wimp but I can't hit my sister because 1) she would tell our parents and I would get the PS2 taken away (Damn it! . ) and 2) Small angry people scare me. (I mean she is like 5 foot and I'm 5'7".SEVEN INCH DIFFERENCE…brrr…scary) So I just stood there and took it (I am NOT a rat!).
"Gawd, Jemma! Leave me alone! Don't bother me again or Mom will take away your PS2 …" and with that she started to walk back upstairs. I stuck my tongue out at her (I know pitiful but what I could do…my PS2 was at stake). Luckily she left without anymore 'talking', if you can call it that, it sounds more like the old Charlie Brown cartoon adults did 'Wa won wa won wa won….' lol.
"Pedlr…" I mumbled as I went back to see that I had totally missed the cool scene where you see the bolt of lightning strike and that lizard fiend, the Klikk, appears and it's eyes glow red-ish and attacks Tidus. Now the battle music was playing and Tidus was out with his little wimpy sword (Brotherhood is sooooo much better) against a fiend who could kick his ass to the Farplane and back again…okay a little mean but my sister just won one our many battles AGAIN and I was mad. I sighed as I tried to beat it up A LITTLE at least. I silently thanked Rikku as she came in to join the battle and I just had to wonder again why her little 'workers' didn't help out…they just stand by the door…with guns…that are loaded…and that they know how to use… 'Whatever' I thought as I killed the fiend with one of Rikku's grenades. "Yes!" I pumped one of my fists into the air. I got up to do my lil' victory dance. Right hand up, half turn to the left, jump up turn to face the front again, raise both hands and swish 'swords' into the same pose that Rikku in FFX-2 does in their victory pose. 'Oh yeah….' I heard a snort from the corner of the room. I turned so quickly that I fell over my video game chair and landed on my butt with a loud, painful 'Thunk!'
"Owie…" I looked at the corner but no one was there "Ooookaaaay...Ghostie? Please go away ghostie…go somewhere else...like my sisters room…" There was no more noise so I turned back to the screen. I missed the gut punch scene!
"NOOOO!" I missed seeing Tidus getting beat up by a girl! I sighed in defeat as I took up the controller again and pulled faces at Brother trying to communicate with Tidus, the first time I played this I thought that he was imitating a blowfish monkey in heat, hee hee…Bored again. I sighed again. As soon as I was able to get to a save sphere I saved and turned off the game. As much as I complain about it I still love that game, but I was kind of tired. I got up, stretched, and looked at the clock, '…Hmm…3:51…'
I went into my room and cranked up my radio. 'Ahh Broadway… (I'm a drama-music freak I know...)' I flopped on my bed and snuggled into my snowy blue cotton sheets… 'Boy…I'm tired…' My eyes started to droop. 'Mmmm…maybe I'll just take a little nap then I'll 'salvage the big prize!' I smirked at my little quote. '…If I was able to go to Spira and travel with Tidus, Yuna, Auron, and everyone else…I would be able to make a real perfect ending…hee hee big headed moment…' I shut my eyes only to become more confused.
'I was falling in a black room. Just falling. I wasn't even screaming. I was just watching myself fall into the black abyss. I fell for so long that I lost track of time. Finally I reached a piece of solid ground; at least it felt like it. I couldn't see it at all but I was standing on it. Suddenly a burst of color surrounded me on all sides. I winced and squinted my eyes so that I wouldn't be blinded. Once I was used to the bright light after all of the darkness had left, I saw that I was standing in the Farplane. I walked forward into the field of flowers 'Wow…am I dead?'
"No…you're just visiting."
I spun around to se a little kid with a purple hood trimmed with gold. "You're the Bevelle faith…this is a cool dream…I think." I pinched myself and felt…nothing. "Yup!" I smiled "this is one of the coolest dreams I've had in awhile…too bad that this is only a dream." I nodded and frowned a little while the Fayth moved forward a little.
"Did you really mean what you said?"
I scratched my head. "What did I say?"
"That you could create a real perfect ending for Spira."
"I didn't say that...I thought it."
The Fayth looked at me for a moment and then sighed. "Alright, did you really mean what you THOUGHT?"
I smiled a cocky grin, like Tidus when he talks about blitzball. "Of course!" I struck a 'tough' looking pose, a regular Rikku pose in FFX-2.
The Fayth just shook his head. "This is what I have to work with...we're doomed."
After he said that that Farplane became all fuzzy and woozy. I blinked as the Bevelle Fayth disappeared. I shook my head and…'
I opened my eyes and saw that I was in my room. I got up and yawned. 'Nice nap…' I thought as I went over to turn off the radio which was belting out an unidentifiable song. I stretched my arms over my head and went to check the clock.
"WTF!" The clock said that it was 6:50…A.M.
"OMG! I'm gonna be late for school! WTF? I just got back from school but…AAAHHH! I'm gonna be late!" I quickly changed my clothes (half-sleeve shirt w/ different fabrics sewn together and all different colors of red and flare dark blue jeans), brushed my hair, stuffed a piece of stray toast into my mouth, jump into my blue Nikes, grabbed my bag full of homework that I didn't do 'cuz I fell asleep (A/N Damn my teachers are a bunch of dictators!), and I ran out the door. My parents had already left and my sister…well I didn't really care where she was sooo….moving on. As I ran along the sidewalk to my high school I tripped on my untied shoelace and shouted out a string of curse words (best not to know eh kiddies?) and lost my piece of half eaten toast, so I tied my shoes and ran for it, stomach growling. I finally reached the three-quarters mark where one of my best friends, Gwen was waiting for me. I panted as I ran up to her "Too…much…homework…overslept…going…to…die…" And with that I collapsed at a pile near her feet.
Gwen, in a typical Gwen fashion, rolled her eyes and laughed. "You know…if you tried doing homework during study hall instead of talking all the time then your backpack would be lighter."
I just glared at her and grabbed a tree for support, pulling myself up only to fall on my butt again because my backpack got snagged on something. "Oof!" I glared at Gwen who was now laughing so hard that she had tears in her eyes. I tried to regain whatever was not totally annihilated of my pride and started to walk to school, leaving Gwen to catch up.
"Jemma, wait for me!" Gwen caught up quickly, because of her oh-so-light backpack. I mumbled something unintelligent.
Gwen frowned a little. "What's wrong?" I looked at her and knew that she was really concerned, so I told her about my 15 hour 'nap', with out any dinner OR breakfast.
Gwen's face was etched with concern "That's unusual…maybe you're getting sick…"
"Pfft!" I scoffed "Maybe I'm finally cracking from all of those sleepless nights…"
"What were you doing staying up all night!"
"Uhh…" 'Playing Final Fantasy.' "Doing homework."
She rolled her eyes at me "Yeah right."
As we continued to walk along to school, talking about boys, Wicked, homework, Wicked, more boys, and Wicked! (A/N I LOOOVE WICKED!) We kept on talking until we finally reached the crosswalk to school where everyone else was already heading in, but the light turned just as we were about to cross so we had to wait. I was bored so I looked to see if any cars were coming. There was a semi not too far away but no other cars were near it. 'Bored…' I sighed as I turned my attention back to glaring at the light while Gwen was still talking about Mark (her crush), not caring if I was listening or not. A flash of purple caught my attention, and I saw a little boy in a purple coat…standing in the middle of the road.
My eyes went wide "Kid! Move, Kid!" The little boy just stood there facing the semi, which seemed to be speeding up. I didn't think. The kid wasn't moving so I started to move for him, heavy backpack and all (It's amazing what a little boost of adrenaline can do for someone). I sprinted out into the street, ignoring Gwen's cries to stop and tried to grab the kid. The semi was 500 feet away, and as I reached for the kid…he disappeared. I just stood there dumbly and looked up.
Darkness hit me.
Me: Weeeeeeeeeeell? (looks at readers with big doe eyes) Did ya think it was better with the changes? Well...this chapter didn't really have a lot so...you'll just have to read the next one! (smiles brightly)
Tidus: Are you kidding! Why would they want to do that!
Me: (glares darkly at Tidus while sharpening machete) Wanna say that again, Tidy?
Tidus: (squeaks)...no...
Me: (room brightens) Okay then! R&R as always mah peeps!