Shelinda
"Good day, everyone."
"We can all learn a lesson from what has happened to the Crusaders."
"Only the truly faithful have a hope of defeating Sin."
Biran
"Look! One of Kimahri's friends. Looks just like him."
Tidus
"What?"
Biran
"Both follow summoners on all fours! Hornless goatlings!"
Yenke
"Hornless! Hornless!"
Kimahri
"You come to insult Kimahri?"
Biran
"Wrong. We come to warn little Kimahri."
Yenke
"Summoners disappear. Never return."
Biran
"Next will be Kimahri's summoner."
Yenke
"Poor Kimahri! Lost his horn, next lose his summoner!"
Biran
"Pitiful Kimahri! Howl alone! Howl alone!"
"Do those two got something against you?"
"What, they were just picking on you?"
"Kimahri will deal with them."
"And I'll help!"
"Kimahri alone."
"But..."
Wakka
"It's Kimahri's problem."
"We can't interfere: it's a rule."
"I'm worried."
"Let the Ronso deal with Ronso
problems, ya?"
"That's how it's always been."
"I mean I'm worried about those summoners disappearing."
Auron
"They aren't just disappearing into thin air."
"Hey, if we guardians do our
job... no problem, right?"
"Whoa!"
"Confident."
"Yeah!"
"This is the Moonflow."
Yuna
"These are moonlilies!"
"They say that clouds of pyreflies gather here when night falls."
"The entire river glows, like a sea of stars."
"Really?"
"Hey, I got an idea!"
"We're not waiting till nightfall."
"Then, once we beat Sin, we're
coming back!"
"Hey, we better hurry or we'll
miss the shoopuf!"
"Shoopuf? That some kind of
boat?"
"Whoa, what the...whoa!"
"This is a shoopuf."
"Whoa... Let's ride! Come on,
let's go!"
"All right! We board soon as
we're ready, ya?"
Hypello
"Noo, I don shink sho. Ish bad idea, yesh."
Lucil
"Please, we beg of you!"
Hypello
"Imposhibibble! Imposhibibble!"
"What's wrong?"
Elma
"This guy won't let our chocobo on the shoopuf!"
"It is kinda big."
Elma
"It's just not fair!"
Clasko
"He does have a point, though."
Elma
"So, what? We just leave him behind?"
Clasko
"Hey, I didn't say that. Just..."
Lucil
"It is no good. We will have to find another way."
"We will find a ford where we can cross on foot."
Elma
"Yes. Captain, sir!"
Clasko
"But...that'll take days!"
Lucil
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
Clasko
"Oh, boy..."
Elma
"That's our captain!"
"Where there's a will,
there's a way."
"Those words stayed with me."
"I wonder how Captain Lucil is doing."
"Ten years ago..."
"A history lesson?"
"Jecht saw his first shoopuf here."
"Surprised, he drew his blade and struck it."
"Why?"
"He was drunk... Thought it was a fiend."
"Oh, brother..."
"We offered all the money we had as an apology."
"Jecht never drank again."
"But, it would seem that shoopuf still works here."
Hypello
"Ride ze shoopuf?"
"All aboards!"
"Shoopuf launchin'!"
"Hey."
"Take a look."
"What?"
"Whoa!"
"A sunken city!"
"A machina city--a thousand
years old!"
"They built the city on top of bridges across the river."
"But the weight of the city caused the bridges to collapse, and it
all sank to the bottom."
"Right. It's a good lesson."
"A lesson?"
"Yeah."
"Why build a city over a river, ya?"
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"Uh... Well, it would be
convenient, with all that water there."
"Nope, that's not why."
"They just wanted to prove they could defy the laws of nature!"
"Hmmm? I'm not so sure about
that."
"Yevon has taught us:"
"When humans have power, they seek to use it."
"If you don't stop them, they go too far, ya?"
"Yeah, but don't you use
machina, too?"
"Like the stadium and stuff, right?"
"Yevon, it decides..."
"which machina we may use, and which we may not."
"So what kind of machina may
we not use, then?"
"Remember Operation Mi'ihen? That kind."
"Or war will rage again."
"War?"
"More than a thousand years ago..."
"Mankind waged war using machina to kill!"
"They kept building more and more powerful machina."
"They made weapons so powerful..."
"It was thought they could destroy the entire world."
"The people feared that Spira would be destroyed."
"But the war did not stop!"
"Wh-What happened then?"
"Sin came, and it destroyed the cities and their machina."
"The war ended..."
"and our reward... was Sin."
"So, Sin's our punishment for lettin' things get out of hand, eh?"
"Man, that's rough."
"Yeah, it is."
"But, it's not like the
machina are bad."
"Only as bad as their users."
"It's because of people like the Al Bhed screwin' everything up!"
Hypello
"Whatsh could thatsh be?"
"Sit down!"
"S-Sorry!"
"The Al Bhed!"
"Yuna, we'll save you!"
"Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine."
"Grrah! Those Al Bhed!"
Hypello
"Ish ebullibody okay?"
"I'm sorry! We're all okay now!"
"Yuna!"
Hypello
"Shoopuf full shpeed aheads!"
"Damn the Al Bhed!"
"What do they want from us?"
"Could it have something to do with Luca?"
"What are they after Yuna for?"
"Wait! They're mad they lost the tournament!"
"Or, wait! They're mad about Operation Mi'ihen!"
"I wonder..."
"Didn't Kimahri's clansmen say something..."
"about summoners...disappearing?"
"Ah! So the Al Bhed are behind that!"
"Those sand-blasted grease monkeys!"
"Hey, Wakka."
"It's no use complaining about the Al Bhed now, right?"
"We'll protect Yuna from anyone, anywhere."
"It's that easy. That's all I need to know!"
"Well..."
"I guess so."
"You're right."
(Thank you.)
"You're...not dead?"
"Thought I was done for, back there."
"Rikku! You're Rikku!"
"Hey! You're okay! How you been?"
Rikku
"Terrible!"
"Yeah, you don't look so good.
What happened?"
"You beat me up, remember?"
"Oh! That machina... That was
you?"
"That really hurt, you know. You big meanie!"
"W-Wait! But you attacked us!"
"Nah-uh. It's not exactly what you think."
"Yo!"
"Friend of yours?"
"Uh, you could say that."
"Pleased to meet you! I'm Rikku!"
"Yuna, Lulu... I told you
about her, remember?"
"She was the one who helped me before I was washed up on Besaid!
She's an Al Bhe...beh..."
"Wow, so you, like, owe her your life! What luck meeting here, ya?"
"Praise be to Yevon!"
"So, uh... Rikku..."
"You look a little beat up! You okay?"
"Uh, Wakka..."
"Huh? What?"
"There's something we need to discuss."
"Oh, go ahead."
"Girls only! Boys please wait over there!"
"Right. Sorry, Wakka."
"Sir Auron..."
"I would like Rikku to be my guardian."
"Show me your face."
"Look at me."
"Oh, okay."
"Open your eyes."
"As I thought."
"Um... No good?"
"Are you certain?"
"A hundred percent!"
"So, anyway..."
"Can I?"
"If Yuna wishes it."
"Yes, I do."
"Rikku's a good girl. She
helped me a bunch!"
"Well, I'm for it! The more, the merrier!"
"Then I'll just have to be the merriest!"
"It was strange."
"Even though Wakka had always hated the Al Bhed..."
"Rikku, at your service!"
"He never realized Rikku
was one of them."
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