Yuna griped to the wall and started to make her way up the mountain. "You can't be serious Yunie." Rikku called from below "we can't climb Mt. Gagazet." Yuna kept on climbing, slower now, but still climbing. The sun was setting on the mountain as dusk approached and the wind seemed to blow so hard that it intended to knock Yuna down, but the wind could not push her. "Yunie" Rikku whined. Finally Yuna stopped and looked down upon Rikku and Paine.

"Come on girls, that dressphere can't be to far now" Yuna shouted down. Paine, being understanding, nodded her head and jumped unto the wall and started to climb the steep mountain.

"Not you too" Rikku sighed. She played with one of her braids and then impatiently tossed it to the side of her head. "Fine I'm coming too!" Rikku grunted and started to pull herself up the mountain behind Yuna and Paine. It was hard to climb the mountain but this was what they lived for, sphere hunting.

When they reached the top of the mountain the sun had completely vanished from the sky and forced them to make camp. Yuna, Rikku, and Paine did not sleep that night, they all kept thinking about the dressphere they were hunting. There hadn't been a reading of a sphere in months so this was the highlight of their year so far. Trying to take their minds off the new sphere they looked up at the dark night sky. The stars of other galaxies and world shone down on the three that night, giving them memories of their ship the Celsius. How long have they been away from the ship, Yuna asked herself. It seemed like a month or so for they had lost contact with the ships crew and were not aware of the time. But the worries drifted away as Yuna fell gently to sleep.

They had awakened to the bright rays of the sun in the morning. There was no time for breakfast so they pressed on into a well lighted cave. "I've never seen this place before" Whispered Paine. All around them the walls glistened with an aqua tone to every rock. Jewels were studded into all the walls which made if even more beautiful. Rikku stopped to stare at some of the jewels, even tired to take one of them, but Yuna and Paine Kept going. Up ahead they could see an open room that glowed with an ocean blue. The blue made the room look like it was under water, but that that was impossible. In the center of the ocean blue room was a beautiful pearl pedestal.

"There it is" Yuna gleefully chirped as she ran over to it. On the pearl pedestal lay a small sphere. It was different from the others for on the inside it had a black mist-like look instead of the normal color of a sphere. Soon Paine and Rikku ran up behind Yuna and peered down on the Sphere.

Rikku examined the pedestal to see if there were any traps or anything of interest. "Yunie look there's something written on the pedestal." Rikku pointed out. She started to read it out loud "Speaker of the dead… beware…" Rikku hesitated "I can't read the rest."

Yuna reached out for the sphere and picked it up with ease. The room when dark and all around them they started to hear the thundering sound of rain falling. All of a sudden it stopped. Nothing was around them, no walls, no ocean blue light, it even seemed that there were no floors. What happened? Yuna looked around at Paine and Rikku, they looked confused, as did Yuna. Suddenly the ground began to shake and the wind blew at them fiercely. As the wind blew Yuna could hear a deep growl that formed with the sound of the wind. Fallowing the wind's growl were Screams, screams of many people filling her head. Yuna looked up at Rikku and Pain who were still standing against the wind, But neither seemed to hear the scream that she could. In a moment it all stopped; the wind, the shaking, the darkness, and the screams all stopped.

"What was that?" Paine asked, not looking for an answer.

"I don't know but I want to leave right now!" whimpered Rikku. Yuna didn't question her for she wanted to leave right away also. Rikku ran off to the opening in the cave and Paine fallowed close behind. But Yuna didn't leave right away. Instead she opened her hand to see the black sphere lying tightly in the palm of her hand. Was this all because of this little thing? All the wind, the growl, the screams? All because of some small sphere that lay in Yuna's Clutch.

"Yuna" Paine called from up ahead. She closed her hand around the sphere and dropped it in her pocket. She would bring it back to the Celsius to find the secrets it would hold. But for now she would have to find the Celsius.

"Coming!" Yuna called ahead and ran out of the darkness.

Speaker of the dead…beware…