This isn't normal. No, wait... this was never 'normal' to begin with. Where do I even begin? Currently we are on board the Pangalatic Federation Battleship Aquaelie about three hours from Moonbase. Looking around I only had one thought.

I didn't belong here.

There was Fayt conversing silently with his father over something, Sophia nearby and giving her own input.

That wasn't supposed to normal either, Dr. Leingod, by all accounts should have died.

Maria and Cliff were chatting about some odd thing, Maria looking stern as always and Cliff... well Cliff just looked like Cliff, no other way to put it.

Over at another table Nel and Ryoko Leingod, who was picked up from Remote Station #6, as well as adding to the list of 'not normal' things, talked about our stories on Elicoor II, most of them probably about Fayt. He is her son after all.

Probably did her proud too...

And me... well like I said. I'm not supposed to be here. I'm just staring out the window watching the universe go by as I wait, flipping my green wide brimmed hat. Brown leather strap around it, with some light blue and yellow beads, yellow circle with a light blue star on the left side with some old eagle feathers sticking out from it. Had that old thing as long as I can remember...

Maybe longer. Who knows anymore?

Well I suppose I should just introduce myself now. James Jennings. Average eighteen year old, orphaned, too much to say otherwise. My adopted Dad is busy more often than I'd like usually off touring in some odd country singing rock n' roll to people who most likely didn't even speak English. I guess I'm about... 5'10, maybe 5'11, long brown hair pulled back into a ponytail and brown eyes. Average looking I guess, someone else might say otherwise.

And well... it all went away from normal on a school day... And when I mean away I mean LIGHT-YEARS away.

Literally.

For something so far from normal... it started normally enough. Go to school, fall asleep in a class I could teach better than the teacher (Which wasn't saying much really) go to the store, get hit on by the girl with glasses... she's cute but a little... scrawny for my tastes. Well, what I figured was normal anyhow...

"Man what a day." James said as he set a bottle of Pepsi on the floor, crashing in his seat as he turned toward his TV, pressing a button on the TV and the Playstation 2 council before picking up the controller. "Ah well... Now I can kick back, put on some Star Ocean and... and..." Blinking twice James slapped his own face before looking back at the screen. It didn't look, or act, like solid glass but like a sheet of water, waves slowly crossing the surface. Reaching out with a finger he tapped the glass causing it to ripple slightly. Blinking he pushed his hand into the glass, watching it pass through a bit before pulling it back...

Only to have another hand reach out from the TV and grab him, giving him a harsh yank as he screamed out, his arm then body being dragged through the TV. The hand moved to grip his shirt as he became aware of his new surroundings, a light grey metal room with a pair of beds and a desk, an adjoined room and a potted plant. But the hand, or rather it's owner, was what took James' attention.

"Welcome my young friend. The Fayth asked me to help you save the universe. Welcome... to your story."

The owner of that hand turned out to be Auron, from Final Fantasy X. At first I thought I was on Spira, before Sin was destroyed. Or I would have, but I probably thought I was daydreaming at that point.

Regardless, I wasn't. Spira was light-years away. Earth was light-years away. Truth be told I was at least a thousand or so years out of place.

And in a few short days I would end up on Hyda IV. And after that, I'd meet the Leingods and Sophia.

But at that point I just remembered thinking... 'Where's a pair of shiny red slippers when you need them?'