melodiesoflife | BLITZBALL!

Characters: auYUNA and YOU!
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: June 15th - June 29th
Summary: Blitzball! ~ Feel free to run into Yuna during all and anything. These are just general things if you wish to run into her.
Warning: Maybe be profanity and swearing because…fans. Nothing crazy or bad!

Player Meetings

Yuna was excited to meet players that she hadn’t had the chance to greet before. She’s been on the team for a couple of months now and she still hadn’t met all the players on the other teams. She had met a few in passing but it was nothing like this.

Celes was excited. He was using this chance to get his Blitzball signed by all his favorite star athletes. Yuna followed him with a wide grin, greeting the players while Celes gushed about how great they were.

After they finished going around Celes turned to Yuna. His cheeks were flushed a slight hint of red as he held out his prized Blitzball towards Yuna. “Will you sign it too?” He couldn’t say it but Celes was Yuna’s biggest fan.

Souvenir’s, Food and Drink

Yuna was staying away from the Vuvuzela’s though that didn’t mean she didn’t hear them. Luckily sound traveled differently in water so during the match all the cheering became a dull clamor in the back ground of the playing sphere.

She finally got a break and she decided to take a look at the shops and the stands. There was so much to see. She wanted to get an Aqures Chocobo shirt but she couldn’t wear it during the match and she already had Aqures Chocobo pajama’s thanks to Celes. She smiled at the stands deciding to get something light eat for now. She’d have to get back soon anyway but it was nice to absorb the excitement from those who loved Blitzball as much as she did.

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She smiled passing him the strawberry cake and a small fork that she had stashed in the bag. She picked up the chocolate one and took a small bite as the sun slowly made it's decent behind the skyline. She just watched it in silence nibbling at the rich chocolate cake as the stars slowly began to dot the sky.

"Look!"

Yuna leaned back some resting her shoulders against the cold surface to looking up at the dark blue sky that expanded over the world like a blanket.

"It's beautiful."

Ven did the same, leaning back on one hand to admire the view. As many times as he'd seen such a sight, he never got tired of it.

"Yeah," he agreed quietly. It made him smile, but there was no denying that it was a bittersweet sensation. Terra and Aqua... He wondered how they were doing, wherever they were. What they were thinking as they looked up at the sky without him.

After a heavy moment, he brightened his smile and turned to his cake again. "It's really good!" he told her. "Thanks a lot for picking 'em up. I guess... there are still some nice things inside the city that I haven't found yet." Not just outside it.

"There is a lot to see and try." She smiled fondly at the sky remembering all of those she had to leave behind. "Sometimes the most exciting things are just outside your door. You don't always have to go very far."

Yuna had traveled her world and then to other worlds. It had been so long since she was home and the excitement she missed the most was just walking around Besaide. She shifted so that she could eat small bites while looking up at the stars. She had no concept of the time the passed as they sat there.

"What was your favorite thing to do? In your world." She knew that Ven had traveled like Aqua but she knew there was a place out there that he considered home too.

For a moment Ven ate in thoughtful silence, considering the question. It was a simple one, but still -- now that he thought about it, he had pretty simple answers.

"I liked to do things like this." He indicated the horizon with a nod. "We trained a lot -- me and Aqua and Terra -- so it was nice to go up on the summit and watch the sky like this afterwards." He had other light hobbies, reading and sketching and the like, but those were more for rainy days. Most of his free time had gone into bolting up to the usual spot, sometimes alone but usually with his friends.

"Back then, I hadn't -- seen any other worlds. Besides ours." That statement came haltingly, as Ven realized partway through that it wasn't entirely true; but it wasn't a lie, either. It was complicated, like many things. "All worlds share the same sky, though, so we'd look up and imagine what some of 'em must be like." His smile quirked at the memory. It had been fun, making up their own worlds. Promising to work together and go find them one day.

"What about you?" he asked. "Did you spend most of your time playing Blitzball?"

Yuna smiled at the skyline picturing Ven's world. "That sounds really amazing." She didn't mind the silence but she liked listening too. She could pick up the tones in Ven's voice that told her how special those moments where and it made his words more important somehow. Like she could feel the joy that he had felt when running up to that summit.

She sighed placing her chocolate cake down as she thought. She has done so many things, it's hard to say what she does now.

"No, I used to just watch my friends play but then they stopped so I decided to as well. I travel a lot. Not to different worlds but around Spira. I was always moving towards something or searching for something that I had to find." She paused remembering those feelings. "I don't know if I can say I ever found it. Since I've gone to other places... well, things have been complicated. This is the first place I've really been able to have fun since leaving home."

Ven listened attentively. Yuna's words seemed vague, or he at least didn't understand at first -- but the more she spoke, the more he felt he could understand if he tried. He wasn't sure what it was like to chase after something without knowing what it was -- or maybe he did, and simply didn't realize it yet -- but there was one thing he could sympathize with.

"Complicated, huh..." He leaned forward to rest his arms on his knees, unfazed by the long drop below. "I think I know the feeling." To him, at least, it meant long stories, unanswered questions, and mixed emotions. He'd had all of those since waking up in this world. And speaking of--

"It's that way for me, too, though. A lot of..." He hesitated, but there was no better way to phrase it. "A lot of bad things happened before I came here. But I've made a lot of friends since then, and I've had some really good times. Sometimes I forget about the bad things for a while." Ven frowned, however, the cool breeze gently scattering his bangs over his forehead. "But... I wonder if that's wrong."

It was complicated, everything was always complicated and Yuna hated the word. Why couldn't things be simple? Why did they have to fight battles where they had to loose in order to win?

"Why would it be wrong?"

Yuna sat up slightly looking over at Ven. She could understand the feeling considering the countless bad things that have happened to her in the past. Didn't they deserve to be happy when so many bad things happened to them? Her life has been to the service of others for so long, now she just wants to be free.

"Because..." That neutral expression slipped into a frown. "I'm here, and I'm okay -- I'm happy -- but... Aqua might still be caught in that world you mentioned. And Terra..." Ven's eyes narrowed, almost wincing. He didn't finish the thought. "I just wonder if it's fair. For me to be happy when I don't know where they are."

They were alive, he was sure of that much -- he refused to believe anything else -- but... being alive didn't mean they were okay, necessarily.

“Wouldn’t they want you to be happy?”

Her voice was soft and it seemed as if Yuna was trying to justify her own happiness as well. “I think that your friends would want you to be happy Ven. So it would be okay.” She turned towards him with a wide, confident, smile.

“Don’t you?”

Ven considered that. It was true, he couldn't deny; Terra and Aqua would both want him to make the best of his situation, just like he hoped that they'd moved on just fine without him for those ten or so years. Looking at it the other way around... he wouldn't want to deny them happiness just for his sake.

So, momentarily, his smile returned. It was a comforted look. "Yeah. I think you're right." After a couple more seconds, he gave a quiet laugh. "If they show up, I'll have to bring 'em up here with us sometime. Y'know, assuming we don't save the world before then." Wouldn't that be something.

Yuna laughed softly, pulling her knees to her chest. She wished that she had people to go looking for but now she can't think of a reason to keep searching. Tidus was gone and there was another Yuna here that most likely mirrored her thoughts on the young blitzer. Then there were others she's met, other's she's loved and those too are gone. They might never remember her so why should she search?

Her thoughts were a little bit dark but Yuna wasn't sad. She was resolute. She would live each day and she would keep smiling. Even if it was hard.

"Thank you Ven. For showing me this place."

He gave a warm hum. "Don't mention it. It's nice to share something like this again."

It wasn't quite the same, but that was all right. It didn't have to be.

BLITZBALL!

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