Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Ashes Can Dance ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

She smiled warmly to her mother and picked up her blitzball slowly. She studied it carefully and ran her soft fingers over the hard bumpy surface.

She was aged about 15 years old with soft red and blonde locks of hair tied up in a bun, her green Al Bhed eyes shined with delight as she spun the blitzball on the tips of her fingers.

A younger girl stood there clapping for the trick. She was about 14 years old with rose-colored cheeks and red-brown messy hair place carelessly atop her head.

Another girl entered the room; she was also about 15 years of age. Her blonde hair was in a tight bun, she has bright green eyes that glittered with the morning sun.

"Well I better be off, ya?" The young girl with the blitzball spoke softly.

"Teii I'll be proud of you no matter what happens." The other 15 year old replied with a smile to Teii; the girl with the blitzball.

"Thanks Starki. I don't know what I'd do without ya as my sis." Teii returned her smile.

"Hm, you be completely lost without her." An older woman replied to them; she had light blonde hair tied back with green eyes that matched the other girls in the room.

"Oh mom!! Come on..!" Teii folded her arms in a huff. The older woman's reply was only to smile at her young daughter.

"Mommy come I go with Teii too?" The youngest girl asked in a soft high-pitched voice.

"No Salci dear, you can't, you're too young to go." The woman stated warmly placing a soft hand on her youngest daughter's head.

"Yeah little children need to stay home." Teii smiled down on her little sister causing the younger one to frown.

Teii leaned over and messed up Salci's hair. Salci looked up to Teii and smiled.

"Well I better be off..." Teii said already missing her family.

"Teii you'll be great out there! You're my sister. My twin in fact so that means you're great at everything." Starki looked at her sister and winked.

Teii smiled and grabbed the last of her belonging that she would need for a trip to Luca and she gave her family one last smile and started to walk off into a whole new world. She took a last look at her family then took off running to the airship, leaving behind a broken hearted mother.

"My little girl is grown up and playing blitzball..." The mother thought to herself.

"Mama? Can I go outside and walk around town for a little bit?" Asked Salci giving her mother the puppy face no one could turn down.

"Sure honey..." The mother's eyed dulled out watching Teii disappear.

Salci rushed outside leaving her older sister and mother alone for a while. A family slowly breaking apart, what little they had to hold them together was gone.

"Uh... Mom?" Starki asked snapping her mom out of a daze.

"Yes hun?" The mother answered.

"Can I go out and work on some my black magic skills?" Starki's voice hinted a bit of begging.

"Still trying to be like Lulu I see..." The mother looked at the young girl.

"You wanted to be like her... When you were my age right...?" Starki asked looking up at her mother.

"Yes... I wanted to grow up so badly... Seems I have over the years. I'm no longer the energy filled little brat annyoing Sir Auron." The mother laughed again thinking back.

"Uh.. Right mom." Starki said still waiting for an answer.

"Oh.." The mother smiled. "Go ahead."

"Thanks!"

Starki rushed outside grabbing a small rag doll of a moogle plushie that belonged to Lulu before she passed away 2 years ago.

"Wakka... I miss you... I wish you would speak my name... Once more... Speak my name... Say Rikku..." The mother watched her last daughter leave, tearing the family apart, not forever but for a time.