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Note: this is my first story so please don't be harsh. I'm new.

Chapter 1: Fiction or Alive

I am sitting down in my bed with a Playstation 2 controller in my hand, slowly pushing the buttons and moving the analog stick with Final Fantasy X in play. I reach a save point and save the games progress when I hear a knock on the door, it's my mom.

"I'm awake." I said to her from across the door.

"Okay." I walked up to my Playstation 2 to turn off the power and switch. I started getting dressed as I changed from my pajamas to my favorite red polo shirt, and blue jean shorts. I walk up to my custom made mirror next to the bed to check my spiky brown hair, and readjusted it. I also took a look at my face, my brown eyes are okay, my white face has some blemishes still but it's starting to fade, and my ears are clean.

If you want to know who I am, I'm Eric Lewis, a human boy at age seventeen, and currently a senior at Pine View High School, and this is my story. I'll be eighteen in a month so I'm excited. I open the door and walk across the hall to get my breakfast. After I ate, I went to the bathroom to finish the rest of my chores. I brushed my teeth & hair sprayed my hair to keep that spike.

When it comes to school, I struggle a bit still because of my mental handicap. It's not too high of a level to be completely disabled, but is still enough to be in special education. I still do great in school though so it's nothing to worry about. I got my backpack together in time to leave to get to my car. I have a drivers license and share a car with my identical twin brother Ryan, who had recently turned up missing after chess camp.

Pine View High wasn't very far from my house in St. George, it usually takes me ten minutes to drive there anyway so I wouldn't be late. My mom left for work shortly after. What none of us was aware of was that back in my room my Playstation 2 was blinking green over and over, even though the switch is off. Shortly after words, the TV went on as a blue screen appeared started to fizzle a little, then swirl around until it formed a black and blue portal. It started to spark more as it pushed outwards, as a giant blue hand appeared from the screen coming out of the TV. I made it to the school parking lot & I then think about Final Fantasy again as I got out of the car and locked it. I walked to the building thinking.

'I wish one of the characters was real, that would be cool, especially if it's Kimahri.' I continued thinking until I was in the hallway.

It's a B-day at school today so I get the fun classes today. This year, school is going on a block schedule. Block schedule is basically having eight class periods instead of seven. You only go to four classes each day switching periods between days. First through fourth period are on A-days as fifth through eighth period are on B-days, however, the classes are twice as long. So it still sucks, we don't even get short Fridays here. It also sucks for my friend, Joe, too because he goes to the new Desert Hills high school that was just built during the summer.

A few minutes later, the bell rang sounding us going to fifth period. I went into the resource room for my study skills class, it's a little larger than a regular classroom but it has three other rooms in it. Two for a classroom, one for private meetings, like an IEP I barely did with my mom & my case manager/Consumer English teacher, Mr. Johnston. I gave my greetings to my study skills teacher, Mr. Phillips, as I took a seat. The class doesn't have assigned seats so I got to sit wherever I wanted. What we always do in that class is work on homework if we have any, I usually don't so I get to do whatever I wanted.

I sat there quietly drawing for most of the day and after that did the usual stuff.

After I ate my lunch, I went out and drew some more. I always get involved in every game making situation to get good status when my time of career comes. I always practice on my own using a neat program called RPG MAKER. Its a nice windows program that lets you create your own original or fan-based RPGs. My RPG MAKER's programming language, RGSS, basically Ruby, lets me create other features so it's possible to create other game genres, but so far only in 2D. There hardly has been any notice for 3D games yet.

The bell rang for my seventh period class, Consumer English, my second favorite class. What we do there is basically an English class in the Special Education department. Which is a good thing for me, I was never good at regular English. I walked in to say my greetings to Mr. Johnston.

"Hello Eric," said Mr. Johnston. "How are you today?"

"I'm good, yourself?"

"Oh just coaching Soccer, and taking care of my wife and baby." That was indeed true. He coaches Soccer for both the girls and boys team, and his wife recently had a baby girl not long ago before Summer. I don't remember her name though.

I then sat down getting my stuff ready for today's class. The rest of the class showed up a while later. One kid was late again as usual, he and another are the only ones in the class this year that I never really liked. What we did in this class is write a bell-work on a specific topic. There is no length to it, just write it for ten minutes. After that we turned in our papers & went into reading a book as a class.

The Bell rang again so I got my things together and headed to my eighth period class, to one of my four, yes, four classes with my computer teacher, Mr. Alvey. He's cool sometimes, but he's kind of strict when it comes to the class working. I have him for web development, computer programming two, and Multimedia at third, sixth, and eighth period. My fourth class with him is when I'm his teacher aide, possibly my favorite period there. Sometimes they were fun, but other times were a pain in the ass.

"Hey, where's your brother?" Asked Mr. Alvey. "What happened? He's been gone for like three weeks." I hesitated for a short moment then replied.

"I don't know, the police are investigating now. So far they have no leads." However I've had possible theories of where he is. My first guess is that his transportation got into an accident and got stranded out somewhere near the city limits, which wasn't possible because the chess center was next to the health department across the street from the hospital. My second guess was that he was kidnapped by some stalkers and held hostage, and possibly tortured. That wasn't true either because we don't have much of a crime problem unlike other cities in the country, My last guess, and on I've felt the most, was that he got warped into a galaxy millions of light years away into worlds that I felt was similar to a Nintedo game I played, but that didn't seem to be possibly true either, but it feels like it.

My mind pondered about that even through my driving home. When I got home, I noticed something was wrong. I didn't see any of my cats anywhere but I heard some sound, and what sounded kind of like a roar. I also saw a faint blue light coming from the hallway.

"What the..." I rushed down the hall into my room and stopped for a second to hear it again. It came from my room, as I opened the door, I jumped and fell over in fright in surprise as I saw a giant blue figure right in front of me. I didn't take a good look at first, I thought someone in a costume broke into my room trying to rob my house and kill someone. I scooted myself up into the corner covering myself in total fear. Then I heard a very deep voice say.

"Relax. Not here to hurt you." I calmed a little bit still covering myself and asked. "Why are you here? Who are you?"

"Look." He said. I stopped covering myself as I looked up and to my surprise, I couldn't believe what I just saw. He was no ordinary person, he was a magnificent looking creature. His body mostly looked human, but his head resembled that of a lion, all covered in bright blue fur. He had amber yellow eyes and silvery gray fur around parts of his body, which my guess is his version of hair. On his forehead sat a horn which part of looked like was broken off after losing a fight. He has two braids on either side of his face doubled up, resembling a loop, and held in place by a red band. Some of the gray fur was pulled up in the back as a ponytail and held in place by a dark gray band and a gold band. Hanging from both of his pointed furry ears was two small earrings, along with a necklace of shiny beads with a bronze emblem around his neck.

The creature is wearing a number of thick, black straps that covered his perfectly built arms and torso. Two of them are over his back and front, crossing around the lower midsection and decorated with a worn and tarnished emblem with horns protruding out around the face. From the backside spread out an array of feathers, large ones that were white with yellow tips. A large steel ring on each of his shoulders connected three straps (front, back, and top) to the torso straps. The fourth strap connected the rings to his armlets, bearing a linked chain pattern that covered his entire forearm. Each armlet held a creamy ivory material made from possibly leather or hide underneath with two straps. He also beard a single silver metal ring on his left index finger.

Residing on the creature's abdomen was a piece of armor around part of his torso that resembled a fauld. The color was blue-violet with a gold trim that had fine stitching on it. He also had on another piece of armor over the former that covered his lower abdomen and upper thighs. The material was brown with a gold trim also possibly leather or hide. At the front attached a trim green loincloth that has a pattern of various colors and polygon shapes, along with an additional white loin wrapping behind it, obviously covering his behind and nether regions. The cloth hanged below his knee and had yellow fringes at the end. Over all of that resided a bright red rope wrapped around his waist and tied in a bow.

His ankles, like his forearms, included a sheath of the same material bound by two straps. A decorative buckle at the front matched the armor about his waist. I got up and walked closer to him, like a little kid reaching his arms out when walking to his parents.

"Kimahri Ronso? Is it really you?" I reached my hands to feel his face, feeling every corner of it to see if it was fake, then I opened his mouth and to my surprise, it was real. He had a big tongue alone with white razor sharp fangs and teeth, it was amazing. He lightly shoved me away and said.

"Cut it out!" I then took a look at his blue tail, with a silvery gray tip on it. It was real, and animated! I rubbed my eyes to see more clearly, and Kimahri is still here right in front of me.

"Wow," I said cheerfully, "This is the greatest thing that ever happened to me! My favorite character right in front of my eyes, wait until my mom sees this!" No one else would believe it either. It wasn't just a guy in a Kimahri costume, it's him, the REAL thing, the real Kimahri of the Ronso tribe. Back in Final Fantasy X, the Ronso tribe are a race of blue-furred Lion-like humanoids that lived in the snowy Mount Gagazet in Spira. They were incredibly taller than humans, and I even bet that an average Ronso height can beat an Elf's by about an inch. They're so tall that the children is almost as tall as an average human adult. The Males have a horn on their heads, thus is a symbol of their pride. Any Ronso that loses their horn or are shorter than the average height is shamed from their tribe, and poor Kimahri fit that subject. Despite being taller than everyone else I know, Kimahri is actually the shortest of the Ronso, being only six feet and nine inches. But as I had played through the game back then, Kimahri had gained his pride back from beating both of his rivals, Biran and Yenke, fair and square. It was when I first saw him throughout the game that he became my hero. And now he's here in my very own room in my house in my hometown.

"You know Kimahri's name?" Asked the blue giant. I forgot to mention that most of the Ronso speak mostly in pronouns and incomplete sentences.

"Yes, my name is Eric, Eric Lewis, pleased to meet you." I said cheerfully as I shook his hand, which was about twice my size. He shook back saying, "Kimahri's pleasure, Eric." After a minutes worth of silence and smiling, though Kimahri was mostly in his stotic expression but occasionally smiled later in the game, he then asked.

"Where am I?"

"You're in my home, in a nice little town called St. George. A city from a state called Utah residing in this country called the United States of America. Come on," I said grabbing his hand. "I'll give you a tour of the house."

We walked out of my bedroom, walking around giving him the house tour. It's not a really big house, it's only one story high with four bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room/front room, a tv room shared with the kitchen, and two bathrooms. My brothers and I use the bathroom in the short hallway, while mom uses the one in her bedroom. I showed him all of our rooms, starting with my brother's room, which was completely cleaned up by mom after his disappearance. We then looked at the guest room, and thought.

"Maybe after talking with my mom, she'll let you sleep here. But I wonder if you can fit in that bed."

"Kimahri try." He walked up to the bed and laid down on it. All except his feet, which when on the ground the heels doesn't touch the floor, can fit on the bed.

"Feels soft, Kimahri like." He said, I smiled and thought of something fun as I ran back into my room. I grabbed my pillow from my bed and ran back to the guest room shouting, "Pillow fight!" Kimahri looked at me quickly as I jumped right in front of him hitting him in the face with my yellow pillow. He looked at me wryly and asked, "Why do that?"

"A pillow fight is when two or more people grab their pillows like this one and hit each other with it." I said laughing, "come on, try it."

"Bring it on." Kimahri said this as he grabbed his pillow and hit me side ways with it. I laughed as I hit back, we tossed and hit with our pillows for over a half an hour, even wrestling each other for a little bit trying to get each other while we were down. Shortly after words, the Ronso had pinned me down to the ground, I looked up to his face to see that he was smiling. Whoa creepy, Tidus certainly made him smile from sad to downright scary, a normal person would be scared off but I found it inspirational.

"That was fun. Kimahri happy."

"Me too, lets clean up and finish our tour before mom gets home, shall we?" I said this as we straightened up the bed and put our pillows away. We went out to finish our inside tour showing our three hallway closets, living room, tv room, and small kitchen. I showed him the pantry explaining what it's for then we went to the door across from it, which was the garage.

"This is the garage," I said, "this is where we park our cars and store some of our items. One of my cats usually lives in this area." Kimahri then looked at my white car parked in one half of the garage and asked. "What's that?"

"That's a car, most people drive in it and use it as transportation." We both take a look at my car, it's a white Nissan Sentra with four doors and seats. It came with everything a car has to offer. We then went outside into our backyard, it's a yard as long as our house with a fence separating my yard with the neighbors. We heard one of the neighbor's dog's bark and the sounds of kids playing and screaming. I explained to him about neighborhoods and neighbors, and how we all live together as a community. I then explained about some neighbors religious beliefs, most Utahan's here believed in the Mormon religion which I didn't worry too much about because my family is not religious, but most of my friends are.

"Alright, we're finished with our tour, any qu-" I interrupted myself hearing something open from the garage. I ran back to it to see my mom pulling up next to my car in the garage. She got out and smiled at me and said.

"Howdy." She got out of her car gathering her things. "How are you?"

"I'm good, hey guess what? I made a new friend!"

"Oh cool, who is it."

"I'll show you." I turned to Kimahri who just stood there looking at me and called out, "KIMAHRI, Come on over, I want you to meet my mom!" He nodded and walked over to me. When he was in her sight, she was shocked & puzzled to see what he had looked like. She felt silent for a moment and it seemed to make me a bit nervous.

"Is that real? Or.... is that a costume?" I grinned and said.

"Go ahead, show her." Then after that, Kimahri opened his muzzle and wagged his tail, showing her and she was surprised. Again long silence. "Where did you meet him?"

"In my room." And for the third time and quite disturbing too, puzzling silence.

"How is this even possible?" She asked with concern and confusion in her look.

"Kimahri explain." He said "When in Spira, Kimahri went to Zanarkand to see Yuna reunite with Tidus. Tidus did not disappear, Yuna happy, Kimahri happy at the sight. Then shortly after word, Kimahri saw light, Kimahri went through, then Kimahri meet Eric in this world." Both mom and I were puzzled hearing the story, it made more sense to me than it did her. I figured that was from the perfect ending in Final Fantasy X-2, the game's sequel We all stood there silently for about a minute, then silence was broken from a growl in my stomach.

"Whoa, I'm hungry, lets eat." I said wryly.

"Okay." Said my mom then asked. "Would you like something for dinner umm?

"Kimahri." Eric said.

"Kimahri........."

"Sure." The Ronso said as we walked inside the house then the two of us went to my room while mom was getting changed into her pajamas then cooked dinner. She turned on the TV and called us down to each. We finished our dinner as we put our dishes in the sink, then I asked, "Hey mom?"

"Yeah?"

"Is it alright if Kimahri can stay? I really like him around so much that I was wondering if he can have the guest room."

"Uh, yeah, but."

"Oh come on mom, give him a chance." I whined.

"He's a complete stranger Eric. And I get very skeptical about strange things around the house."

"But mom."

"Alright fine, he can stay, but only for a little while, then he has to leave. In the mean time, go get your shower."

"Alright!" I said eagerly as I ran into my bedroom. I got my pajamas and ran into the bathroom and shut the door. I stripped my clothes off and ran the water on. I waited a few seconds for the water to warm up, then I walked into the tub and started with the soap.

Meanwhile, Mom and Kimahri were conversing about his stay at this house. She said.

"If you get into trouble with the public, you maybe taken by the government for tests and experiments and lord knows what." She said with concern from both her and possibly my own. "Wouldn't he really be upset about this."

"I know," he said, "Kimahri have experience when it comes to battle and danger. Kimahri know magic in addition to physical combat, both spear and fist." The Ronso do seem to have natural skills of a warrior. Some can even use magic, which is cool because I always wanted to fight and use magic just like these characters. Maybe then my life will be more enjoyable than it already is. I exclaimed this as I dried up and got dressed into my pajamas. I opened up the door to see Kimahri get himself comfortable in the guest bed.

"You got to stay with us?" Kimahri grinned at me and nodded.

"Yaaaaay!" I laughed as I felt happy as a child who got to keep a pet.

"Yes, Kimahri glad. Eric make great friend. Like Tidus and Yuna." He smiled as he petted me in the head and said. "Good night." I couldn't believe it, Kimahri petted my head, it felt so good to me. I blushed about this and looked at the tall Ronso, he purred as he slept. I couldn't stop looking at him or hear his purring for over a half an hour, he was so, so, something to me that I really couldn't describe, but was obsessive. I shook that mind off as I went into my room to see my cats running out of my room scared as hell, maybe it was Kimahri's presence. They'll get used to it, I thought, after all, he is part of me now, now I have a reason to live.

I double checked to see if my stuff is ready for school tomorrow, I sighed in relief to see that everything is in there. Including my Financial Literacy stuff, very important information that I needed because it's a requirement for my year along with government class. I then got under my covers silently thinking about how lucky and happy I was to have a real video game character in my life. I wonder what we'll do tomorrow after school, I thought, I know, we'll hang out at Joe's place tomorrow. I fell asleep as I continued dreaming about Kimahri. I wonder why I keep, um, nah! I wonder if something as cool as this is going to happen.

Tell me what you think. This is my first story, so feedback to better myself as a writer is very appreciated. Thanks!

Note: This story chapter has been edited as of 05/15/2009. Don't be alarmed if it was taken for re approval for I still have not gained Trusted User Status.

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Eric Lewis

Human

Class: Freelancer

Lv. 1

Exp: 0

Next Lv: 50

HP: 338/338

SP: 33/33