Tidus
"Rikku!"
"Blitzball!"
Wakka
"Hey! You okay?"
"Heeey!"
"Whoa-ho!"
"Yo! Hiya!"
"You wanna try that move one
more time?"
"Finally, things were
starting to look up."
"You're no amateur. Who you
play for?"
"The Zanarkand Abes!"
"What team you say again?"
"Uh, I meant... Forget that."
"I got too, uh...close to Sin and my head's all foggy-like."
"So I don't know where this place is. Or even where I came from."
"Sin's toxin got to you."
"But, you're still alive."
"Praise be to Yevon!"
"All right, back to practice!"
"I'm Wakka, coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, brudda."
"What? You hungry?"
"Okay! Back to the village. I'll get you somethin'!"
"I felt like I could trust
this Wakka, so I just had to ask."
"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, 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."
"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!"
"'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 as Rikku
said."
"Wakka and Rikku couldn't both be lying. Why would they?"
"But you from the Zanarkand
Abes--that was a good one!"
"Hey, I'm not saying that team never existed, ya?"
"But you gotta figure a team living in luxury like that'd be pretty
soft, eh?"
"I appreciated the fact
that Wakka was trying to cheer me up."
"But at that time, all I could think about was..."
"everything that happened to me--all this--started with Sin."
"Maybe if I could find Sin one more time, I could go home!"
"For now, I'd just live life until that time came. No more worrying
about where, or when, I was."
"Sure it was hard not to think of home. But I started to feel better
already."
"A little better...maybe."
"Hey! It's this way!"
"Huh?"
"What's the big idea?"
"Lemme go!"
"Got a favor to ask ya."
"You want me on your team, right?"
"A major blitz tournament's
coming up. All the teams in Spira'll be there!"
"It's so huge, I'm sure someone there will recognize you!"
"Then you can go back to your old team, right?"
"It'll be fun! What do you say, huh? Come on, come on!"
"Sure thing."
"Dude! Our team is gonna rock,
eh?"
"I thought then that
blitzball and Sin were the only things that Spira and Zanarkand had
in common."
"I wasn't too far off, either."
"This is where I was born. I started blitz when I was five."
"I joined the Aurochs at thirteen...ten years ago."
"Ten years...and we never won a game."
"Well, after last year's tournament, I quit. Time seemed right."
"So, after quitting, I got this new job, ya?"
"But every time my mind wandered, I thought about the game."
"Ten years without a single win'll do that."
"My first match last year was
my big chance."
"But something else was on my mind. I couldn't focus."
"Nice excuse."
"Hey, hey!"
"So you want to win the next tournament--go out with a bang."
"So, what's our goal?"
"I don't care how we do. Long
as we play our best."
"If we give it our all, I can walk away happy."
"No, no, no, no, no. If I say "What's our goal?" you say "Victory!""
"When you play in a blitzball tournament, you play to win!"
"Victory? You serious?"
Luzzu
"Ah, the one from the sea!"
Gatta
"Be on guard. There're fiends on the road today!"
Luzzu
"After surviving your run-in with Sin, 'twould be a shame if
something happened now."
"Who were they?"
"Luzzu and Gatta--Crusaders."
"Crews of what?"
"What, you forgot that too?"
"Hey, sorry. Don't worry about it, I'll help you out."
"Cool."
"In return, come tournament time, I'll make sure we take the cup!"
"Cool."
"About the Crusaders, you can ask them yourself. They've got a lodge
in the village."
"Besaid Village."
"They got any food there?"
"We'll get you something over
there later. Take a look around first."
"Let's see..."
"The Crusaders lodge is over yonder. Luzzu and Gatta are usually
there." |
"Oh, right."
"Over here!"
"Huh? What's up?"
"You do remember the prayer,
right?"
"I didn't know it in the
first place, to tell the truth."
"Man, that's like the basics
of the basics. Alright, I'll show you."
"Go ahead, you try."
"Hey, not bad."
"Okay, now go present yourself to the temple summoner."
"Any blitzball player would
know that prayer. It was the blitzball sign for victory."
"It was then, standing in
that place."
"I began to realize how different this world was from my own."
Man
"Ten years have passed since Lord Braska became high summoner."
"And finally we received a statue for our temple."
"What's a high summoner?"
"I...I got too close to Sin's, uh, toxin."
"It was funny hearing
myself make the same excuse over and over. Funny, and a little sad."
Man
"The summoners are practitioners of a sacred art, sworn to protect
the people of Yevon."
"Only a chosen few become summoners, who call forth entities of
great power: the aeons."
"The aeons hear our prayers and come down to us. They are the
blessing of Yevon."
"So what he meant..."
"was that we should respect some kinda great man or something like
that...I figured."
"Sorry, man. No time for lunch
yet."
"Take a nap! You look bushed."
Man
"You could at least go see how they are doing."
"We can't interfere. It's a
rule."
Man
"But, it's been nearly..."
Man
"But, it's been nearly..."
"It's been nearly a day already."
Mother
"Perhaps you could go look for us."
Man
"People are searching for him now."
Mother
"Thank you."
"Who cares whether he comes back or not?"
Mother
"But he might die!"
"Fine, let him!"
Mother
"Do you..."
"Do you hate him so?"
"If he dies, you'll never be able to tell him how much you hate
him."
"Wakka?"
"Is something wrong?"
"The summoner hasn't returned from the trial."
"Eh?"
"There's a room in there called the
Cloister of Trials. Beyond is where the apprentice summoner prays."
"If the prayer is heard, the apprentice becomes a fully-fledged
summoner, remember?"
"So someone is in there
somewhere and they haven't come back out. Right, I got it."
"A day's already gone by."
"Is it particularly dangerous in there?"
"Sometimes, yes."
"Why don't you go in and
help?"
"There's already guardians in
there. Besides, it's forbidden."
"Hey, but what if somethin'
happens? What if the summoner dies!?"
Man
"The precepts must be obeyed!"
"Like I care!"
Maybe this wasn't such a
good idea after all.
"Hey!"
"What's gotten into you?"
"Hey, it's okay."
"Only summoners, apprentice summoners, and their guardians can enter
here."
"It's a tradition. Very important."
"So what about you?"
"Me? I'm a guardian."
"A guardian?"
"Summoners go on a pilgrimage
to pray at every temple in Spira."
"Guardians protect them."
"The guardians in there now..."
"One of them's got a short fuse, and who knows what the other's
thinking."
"Well, now that we've come this far..."
"might as well go all the way!"
Lulu
"What are you doing here?
Didn't think we'd be able to handle it?"
"No, it's uh...it's just..."
"See, I told you she gets mad easy."
"Is the summoner all right?"
"Who are you?"
Yuna
"I've done it. I have become a
summoner!"
"Man, was I surprised."
And here I was thinking summoners were all old geezers."
"Hey, over here!"
"What? Ow!"
"Wait till you see this!"
"I can't see anything!"
"Ready!"
"Okay."
"I had never seen anything
like it in my life."
"Sure, it was a little scary, but still..."
"I could feel a strange kind of gentleness coming from it."
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