translations at the bottom, yo!

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Chapter 2 --- In Some Flooded Ruins

When Tydus woke up he was alone in a place he had never seen before. It was very cloudy, very broken, and very wet. A quick search revealed that Tydus still had his player's guide, but it didn't have much to say about what to do now.

"I will hurt Auron badly when I find him," Tydus told a scrawny bird perched on some nearby rubble. "You seem to be the only thing alive here, and I feel compelled to talk to you," he continued, but before he could carry on with the unproductive conversation the bird lifted its mangled wings and took off.

"Hey, wait!" Tydus yelled, but the rubble soaked up the sound like a sponge. He decided to follow the bird, for there did not seem to be anything else to do. He splashed and swam through the flooded ruins, looking for the dark outline in the sky that was the bird. When he caught up with it, he was at the entrance to the remains of what might once have been a temple. The early dawn light that was beginning to fight its way through the clouds reflected off the wet rubble at the entrance made it look heavenly. Tydus decided that the temple was more promising than the bird, for he was a city kid and the idea of eating the bird never crossed his mind. It was just as well, because the bird was only a figment of his imagination.

In the gloom of the inside of the temple Tydus followed a crumbling path over a giant flooded room. Once again, the ground fell out from beneath him and he dropped into the dark water.

"Do I need to lose weight or something?!" he shouted to no one.

He swam around until he found what looked like an exit, but as he neared it he was aware of other creatures somewhere close. Tydus stopped and pulled his sword out of his pocket dimension. Out of the murk came several large, freakish fish. Tydus was ready for a fight, but suddenly a much larger and more freakish fish, if it could be called a fish, swam by, catching the smaller ones in its huge mouth.

"Oh, crap!" yelled Tydus as Geosgaeno turned on him.

Then the world fell apart.

When it pulled itself back together the big fish was between Tydus and the exit and it was battle time, as indicated by the turn meter, attack menu, and announcement bar lined up around the edges of Tydus's vision. Geosgaeno was almost five times his size, with all manner of spines, fins, and other scary or dangerous things. Tydus prayed a little, then swam up and swung his sword willy-nilly in the creature's general direction. The damage showed 42.

"Crap again!"

Then the giant beast attacked. It halved Tydus's health.

"Triple crap!" yelled Tydus, and made a break for it. "Auron, wherever you are, I promise to temporarily withhold your beating if you come save my butt!" But Auron didn’t come, to no one's surprise.

Tydus made a beeline for the exit, using his inherent blitzball speed. The fish tried to suck him back, but he finally made it through. As a final attempt to kill Tydus, the fish crashed into the wall, closing the hole with rubble.

Wherever Tydus had ended up, it was dark and, like everything else here, filled with more rubble. He walked until he found an large room where light had found a way in. When he got through he was in what must have been a great hall. There were dry patches here and a part of the ceiling had fallen in to reveal that the sky was already getting darker. Tydus noticed that he was shivering and his stomach made a loud rumble that echoed through the equally empty hall. He was starting to think about what bird tasted like.

He walked to the center of the hall and noticed what looked like a fire pit. There was even some old wood in it.

"Well that would solve one problem," said Tydus, "I just need to find some flint…" He looked around at the huge piles of rubble. A gleam caught his eye. He walked over to investigate and found a box full of flint. "What luck! Now if I just knew how to make a fire…" He flipped out his guide, which told him to press "X" near the fire pit. By the time he figured out what that meant and got a small fire going it was very dark. The warmth and light were very comforting. For lack of any better ideas he explored some of the hallways that branched from the main room. Along one broken hall he saw what appeared to be a Withered Bouquet.

"This looks important, maybe I should keep it," and he stuffed it carelessly into his pocket dimension. He went back and sat by the fire. He started to relax and everything that had happened since the blitzball game flowed out of his head. Eventually, he fell asleep.

Tydus dreamed about the day his father did not come back. It was pretty boring, not sure why I bother to bring it up. "Stupid old man, " he muttered.

When he woke up the fire was very near dead. "Crap! Where's more wood?" But the old temple wasn’t made of wood and (suspiciously) didn't have any emergency wood supplies, so the fire went out. It was near dawn, though, so he could still see, but he was cold again and his stomach felt like it had resorted to eating itself.

After a while he thought he heard a noise somewhere above him and once again sensed that something was watching him. He looked up to the crumbling upper floors and saw a horrible many-legged monster. Seeing it was discovered, Klikk jumped down to openly challenge Tydus. Tydus was beyond fear, and the only thought that stood a chance in his head was "Breakfast!"

The world broke apart again for the battle transition. The two, er, warriors exchanged a few blows and Tydus was beginning to think that the fiend would never die when a wall to his right blew up. Many oddly dressed men walked in, lead by an oddly dressed young woman. "Must be blitzball players!" Tydus logically concluded. But before Tydus could ask exactly who they were the woman jumped into the fight on his side.

"Hooray for me!" said Tydus.

With the grenade-chucking lady helping, Klikk was quickly disposed of. Much to Tydus's disappointment, it then puffed into nothing. "No breakfast, then," Tydus sighed.

"Nacdnyeh res!" said the woman.

"Pardon me?" asked Tydus as the men walked menacingly toward him. One grabbed his arms behind him. "Hey!"

"Fru yna oui, yht fryd yna oui tuehk rana?" the woman asked.

"Those goggles make you look hot," Tydus said, flipping his hair.

She smiled and took off her headgear. Tydus found her to be very cute.

"Zowee!" said Tydus.

She slapped him.

"Oh, fudge! That stings!"

She socked him in the gut.

"Oooo," Tydus grunted, and he slumped to the ground, unconscious yet again.

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Tydus doesn't know New Al Bhed yet, I don't think it's very fair for you to, but life's not fair.  ^^

Nacdnyeh res = Restrain him

Fru yna oui, yht fryd yna oui tuehk rana = Who are you, and what are you doing here