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Chapter 3 ---
Tydus is DOOMED
"Sai, dequ og!"
"Wha--?" Tydus mumbled.
"Y zeyr, dequ og!" the woman repeated.
Tydus opened his eyes. There were a few men
standing around, and the young woman. They were on the deck of a small
ship in the middle of some ocean. It was night, but several floodlights
were on and Tydus could see everything clearly.
One of the men was trying to get his attention.
"
"I'm no good at sharades," Tydus remarked.
"He wants to know if you can swim," said the woman.
"Hey you can speak English?" asked Tydus,
"That's the most normal thing to happen to me in days!"
"Look, if you help us, you can stay and we'll feed you."
"Food?! Can I have that now?"
"No, work first."
"Phooey," said Tydus, "Fine. So
what's your name?"
"Most definitely it is Rikku. I need you
to accompany me underwater to a wrecked ship. We need the power from it
to run our own."
"Evr ta koynq etuol yl!"
added the man.
"Okay then. For food!" cried Tydus,
and he jumped into the water. Rikku
followed. Tydus soon found out that the water
was infested with piranhas. As a curious coincidence, they carried
grenades, which was good because Rikku was running
low.
Many battles and a few level ups later and they had reached the sunken
ship. Rikku found a hatch, but the controls
were broken.
"Where I'm from, we pound things that don’t work," said Tydus, and he started pounding the controls. Rikku was greatly surprised to hear the gears start turning
as the hatch opened. They swam through into more ruins. Tydus was wondering if there was anything more to this place
than rubble and ruin.
They swam down corridors covered in seaweed until they reached the power
room. Tydus once more attacked the machines
with a barrage of punches and kicks. The generator spat lightning
everywhere, but lights flickered on and a faint hum emanated from everything.
"That doesn't seem very safe…" Tydus noted.
"But it's very aesthetically pleasing," Rikku
countered.
They swam back toward the hatch, but in one of the rooms there was something
new, a very large and squid-like something.
"Wha-hey!" exclaimed Tydus
as they prepared for battle.
Rikku chucked grenades like a crazy man in a shot-put
competition, and Tydus used his overdrive, which was
not nearly as impressive as Auron's. According
to his guide, it would get cooler the more he used it. Tros kicked the bucket and disappeared in a cloud of
pyre-flies.
The rest of the crew joined them shortly, and within no time they had refueled
the ship and were on their way to wherever it was they were going.
The odd group of people was so grateful to Tydus for
helping them that he got to sleep on deck. It was dawn before Rikku came up from below deck, carrying what smelled like
the most wonderful food in the world. In fact, it was just a bunch of
freeze-dried space food, but Tydus hadn't eaten in
days.
"Smells god-like!" said Tydus.
"I'll tell Ropp you liked his 'cooking,'" Rikku replied as Tydus positively
gorged himself in the TV diner.
With the immense hunger gone Tydus's mind was
prepared to think. It thought about all that had happened recently, then decided that it really didn’t feel like thinking
anymore.
"So who are you?" Rikku asked.
"Oh, poo," thought Tydus's
mind. Tydus said, "My name's Tydus, and I'm the star player of the blitzball
team the Zanarkand Abes.
My old man thinks I'm a weak little crybaby, but he's dead so he can stuff
it."
"Wait, you said you were on a Zanarkand blitzball team?"
"Yeah, something wrong with that? You're not from the Duggles team, are you?"
"Is your head okay? Zanarkand has been a
ruin for 1,000 years, remember? It hasn't had so much as a garbage committee
since then."
"What? But the guide said I was in Zanarkand,
and everyone else said so, too. I was just playing a nice game of blitzball when a giant sphere comes and lays waste to all
of city. Worst of all, Auron showed up and was
being a jerk like he always is, then he got us sucked into the sphere and it
dropped me off where you found me, all alone, too!"
Rikku stood there and thought a bit. Then she
said, "Sin. I think the sphere thing you described was Sin.
You must have gotten too close to Sin. That makes your head funny
sometimes. It probably made you think you were there when it destroyed Zanarkand 1,000 years ago."
"This is probably all Auron's fault. He
practically fed me to, uh, Sin, is it?"
"Just relax, people who get close to Sin sometimes get a little insane in
the membrane, but I'm sure you'll get better. How about
we take you to Luca. That place is big on blitzball,
maybe you'll find the team you really belong to."
"Whatever," Tydus mumbled. He was too
busy thinking of all the nasty things he was going to do to Auron
if he ever found him. "So, what was that language you guys were
speaking?"
"Wow, you're really out of it! We're Al Bhed,
and that was our language. It's not that hard to learn. Just switch
the letters with other letters and you have it. Try it!"
"Lsel'z etzopr!
… Dsel lse lanq?!" said Tydus, "Sai, Y'b zraeqyvm
Eh Tsar!"
"Good, except Al Bhed is just Al Bhed."
"Oh, then Y'b zraeqyvm Al Bhed!"
"Yes, that's nice…"
Suddenly, the
water a short ways away exploded, spraying them with water.
"Aiiiiee!" screamed Tydus.
"Sin!" screamed the Al Bhed.
Sin was not really a giant sphere of water now, but a more aquatic
monster. It was also just as big as before, and when it rammed into the
ship the force was so strong that it knocked Tydus
overboard.
"Aiiiiee!" he screamed again, and was
knocked out once more.
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The great
dialogue mysteries unveiled!
Translations:
Sai, dequ og = Hey, wake up
Y zeyr = I said
iaes = yeah
Ajjynyavl bucabavl uj
epbz evr hamz yv lsa
delap = Efficient movement of arms and legs in the
water
Evr ta koynq etuol yl = And
be quick about it
Lsel'z etzopr = That's
stupid
Dsel lse lanq = What the heck
Sai, Y'b zraeqyvm
Eh Tsar = Hey, I'm speaking Al Bhed