The Grind Begins

After a bit, Tidus was finished hyping up the Aurochs, and went over to talk to Yuna when she was alone. I watched on for a little bit, before I decided to walk over to my hut, with Lulu following behind me. She planned on talking to Wakka about his thoughts on Tidus, but it would be much tamer this time since she talked to me about it first, even if it was brief.

Wakka talked to Tidus about Yuna, of course he lied and said she wasn't his type, but it was obvious that he was into her. Of course Wakka is pretty oblivious, and just believed his words. I couldn't care less, but honestly due to my knowledge of FFX-2 those two are destined to be lovers anyway. I wanted to change Tidus' fate and make him not be a 'dream'.

Later in the night, Lulu and Wakka started having a light argument, which was really just Lulu laying on facts to Wakka, while I just watched. Eventually, Wakka looked to me for help, I just sighed and touched Lulu's shoulder.

"Let's just get some rest, ok? This conversation isn't really going anywhere. Let's just see what the kid is like, and see where things end up in the future alright?" Wakka let out a sigh of relief, and Lulu let out a tired sigh as I brought her away from Wakka and diffused the situation.

By the time we got back to our hut, Lulu just pulled me into a hug on the bed, and fell asleep. It must have bothered her quite a bit, but hopefully she got over it for now. I wonder what Tidus' reaction will be once he finds out I'm a summoner as well, just a different kind of summoner.

The next morning, I was helping Yuna gather her things, since she knew I had an inventory, which was apparently unique to me, and planned to take advantage of that fact by having me pack litterately everything she had of value. I tiredly took a deep breath by the time she was done. The room she had in the temple was basically barren by the time she was done.

Once we got outside, I saw Tidus with the sword I made for Chappu when Wakka wanted to get him a gift to protect himself as he joined the crusaders. That's right, I made that sword in this timeline. My crafting ability has that sword as a recipe on the crafting screen. Chappu never used the sword though, which was kinda sad. I walked up to them looking tired, with Yuna full of energy behind me. The two of them had like four suitcases as well, I put a hand over my face and sighed, before looking at Tidus.

"I see Wakka gave you an old sword I made years ago." I was putting away all of the suitcases in my inventory before Tidus finally reacted to what I said.

"Wait, YOU made this sword?! That's awesome! Does that mean you made everyone else's equipment?"

"That is a pretty good assessment, but not an incorrect one. Yeah, I crafted all the equipment everyone uses, from Yuna's staff, to Lulu's dolls, to even Wakka's blitzballs."

As I spoke, the recipes for the basic equipment with either no slots or one slot appeared in the crafting tab of my menu. This was a part of my memories, but I guess I had to talk about it in a 'cutscene' like environment for me to unlock them.

I'll probably get better recipes as I get better materials and experiment, since I can craft anything I 'put my mind to'.

I still can't get over the fact that in the original game, Lulu would have told Yuna that the one suitcase she was going to bring was too much, and now her, Wakka, Yuna, and even Kimahri were taking advantage of my inventory to bring any and all supplies possible. Which isn't really a bad thing because it means we will always be prepared.

Speaking of which, I wonder if I could build a house that could house us anywhere, since I don't seem to have a size limit on my inventory, and could fit a hut in there. I did have a hut in my inventory, but I was more talking about a modern home with modern facilities, because while there are modern facilities due to the use of machina, I wanted something on the go.

Huh, thoughts for later. While I was in my thoughts, thinking of the perfect house to be placed anywhere, Lulu tugged on my jacket to notify me that we were leaving. As we headed out of the village, Yuna made one final goodbye to it, and we headed out. Eventually we went up the mountain until we came upon the statue and a view of the village.

We let Yuna stare at the village for some time until she was ready to go. Before we left, all of us, with the exception of Kimahri, who was ahead to 'test' Tidus, prayed at the statue for a safe trip. Once we finished, the party moved on, until Kimahri confronted Tidus and tested him. The fight went the same as within the story, with Wakka stopping the fight, and Kimahri being disappointed in him.

As Kimahri walked away, Tidus asked what his problem was, then Lulu of course, didn't answer the question, but instead described who he was. Eventually Wakka and Lulu told him that he was a guardian, and had protected Yuna since she was a child.

Afterwards, we got into our first 'battle', I heard a screen crack, but the difference was the fact that all of us were ready to fight at once. Also there were like six enemies, two dingos, two water flan, and two condors. Wakka and Lulu saw this as an opportunity to show me off, so she gave me a tug on the shoulder and well Wakka just.

"Why don't we let our resident Alternative Summoner handle this one." The guy had a smug look on his face as he left Tidus confused by what he said. I just sighed, walked forward, materialized my staff, which looked like a blue walking stick, and summoned the maximum amount of frost soldiers I could have right now. Which was five. I summoned two swordsmen, and three archers.

The reason why I could deal with the flans as well, was because the frost soldiers deal ice magical damage alongside physical damage. Tidus' mouth was agape with surprise as my frost soldiers decimated the weak enemies. They fought in tandem, with the swordsmen in the front, attacking, and defending the archers, while the archers took out the flying enemies, and just went to town on the rest.

(Just so the readers know, every single drop from enemies, the amount of enemies and the type of enemies, will be determined by a random number generator.

There is a chance that Yole could get nothing as well, even if that chance is small since he will most likely be fighting a large amount of enemies with his party.) After the enemies were taken care of, I looted what they dropped after they turned into totes of light. I looted one potion, two speed spheres, and one mana sphere.

Now that I think about it, everyone in my party has access to their own sphere grid, but they don't have an inventory, which is interesting to say the least. At least it seems like my inventory is infinite and time stops within it, so that's cool. There was another fight that happened after that, but it was on a smaller scale, with one water flan, one condor, and one dingo.

So Wakka took this opportunity to see what Tidus had in regard to fighting. He one shot the dingo, Wakka took out the condor with his blitzball, and Lulu casted thunder on the water flan. When I looked at the drops, I saw that rng smiled upon us this time, because while we got one potion, and one speed sphere, one dragon scale dropped.

While in the game, it was just used for mixing, and crafting attachments to gear, I could do a lot more with this. Lulu must have seen the crazed look on my face because she sighed. Yuna also laughed at Lulu.

"The boat itself won't leave without Yuna, so we can hunt for a little while to gather some materials that you need." What a woman after my own heart. I ran up and hugged Lulu as everyone else, including Tidus laughed at me, but I didn't care, the girl gave me an excuse to grind.

Not that I would gain much in the way of experience here, unless I fought a large amount of enemies, but these drops are what I am after. With that being said, I ran around near the beach exit, with everyone else joining me, since they wanted to get stronger as well. Soon enough, I heard a screen crack, and was immediately disappointed when I saw a condor and dingo.

I quickly took them out with my frost soldiers and kept looking for more fights. It took a long time that seemed like several hours, but the sun didn't move, and apparently I was in a state where time wasn't really moving either. Only an hour and a half actually passed according to my menu's clock, even though I did quite a few battles, and the real time didn't move at all.

I could keep going at it, but I went through four more fights against enemies ranging in amounts from 3-10. I think I could wait since now I had a total of three dragon scales. I could experiment with one, and see what I could do with the others. Although it's not nearly enough to make armor, it's fine. The scale itself was a deep sea blue that reflected off of light.