Disclaimer: I do not own Dissidia Final Fantasy. SquareEnix does... and even if i did i most likely would NOT make any of this canon...

AN: this is to be read with the seriousness of a Shoujo manga (that means not seriously at all). It will be a shoujo manga type romance with a shoujo manga type heroine. If you like Shoujo manga I'm sure you can see the elements at play here. If you don't like shoujo manga I'm not sure if you will like this. you have been warned...

My Heavenly Blitzball Club

Watching them train was hypnotic. You could see it in his eyes how much drive he had and the dedication he put into his sport. I wished that I could be like that one day… to look so happy doing the thing I love.

-- Chapter 1--

Blitzball.

Hana Latacia knew she would never understand it, but watching Tidus play was something that never ceased to fill her with wonderment. It was entrancing. The droplets of water sparkled as they clung to his blond locks and tanned skin, and he moved in the water just like he glided through air. It was graceful like a dance to an unknown melody only he knew.

She really wanted to know it too. One day she would. One day--

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Hana groaned, covering the pillow with her head as she reached out with her other hand to turn off her alarm.

"Time to wake up, sleepy head!" she heard her mother's voice chime in the door way.

"N,no not yet," Hana replied, trying to suffocate herself in between her pillow and mattress.

"Don't 'no not yet' me. It's already almost 6:30..."

Hana's eyes widened in shock and she sat up in bed with a jolt.

"W,what the-- 6:30! NOOOO!"

Hanna jumped out of the bed quickly, tangling herself in her sheets and tripping onto the floor with a loud thump.

"What? You have plenty of time to get to class, Hana."

"Y,you don't understand!" Hana gasped, doing her best to detangle herself. "I'm late! Oh my god I'm going to be late!!!!"

Hana scurried around the room finding the pieces to her uniform scattered about. She hastily tugged on the dark colored clothes and flung her yellow ribbon around her neck without bothering to tie it.

"Aren't you going to get breakfast?" her mother ask, peeking in on Hana as she speed brush her teeth and combed her dark hair.

"No time no time no timeeeee!"

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Huff puff huff puff.

Hana ran as fast as she can through the streets of Deling City and thanked the gods that the school was only a few blocks from her house. Bicky would have her head if she wasn't there in time for the Journalism club's morning briefing.. As Hanna neared the school she could already see her best friend and her trademark blond braids.

"Bicky!" she called waving and bounding across the street, but her luck would have her trip on the curb and she fell to her knees on the sidewalk

"Hana!" she heard Bicky yell but she couldn't help but noticed by the pair of feet in front of her that there was someone who could have easily stopped her fall.

"You… you JERK!!!!!" Hana yelled, picking herself and looking at the stranger who had let her fall. "Don't you know common courtesy!?"

The person looked at her with curiosity as if noticing for the first time she was there. He had long blonde hair accented with some purple. He came off as having some air of importance and if Hanna was thinking straight she would have known why. However her better judgment was unfortunately clouded by anger.

"Well? What do you have to say for yourself, hmmm?" Hana crossed her arms.

The older student merely frowned, "I would say someone needs to be taught a lesson in respecting ones elders."

Hana's glare deepened and the older boy's eyes shifted down at the yellow ribbon which remained undone around her collar.

"And also how to tie a proper knot."

With that said, he turned on his heels and strolled into the building, leaving Hana hurriedly tying her ribbon bow in embarrassment and frustration.

"ARGHHHH guys like him make me so mad! He is so arrogant!" Hana growled.

Bicky stepped forward and touched her friend's shoulder.

"H,hana you DO know who that was right?" Bicky asked.

"Pshh judging by his bad attitude, an upperclassman with a complex."

Bicky shook her head.

"No, that's Mateus Palamecia. I'm sure you've heard of him right?"

And with that Hana paled. She had heard that name all right and if the rumors were right he had the power to make her life a living hell. Not only was Mateus the senior class president, he was also known as "The Emperor" in the halls because his word was law. She had heard so much about him and the horrors that occurred when someone got on his bad side, but she never actually knew who he was.

Hana shook her head, trying to clear the apprehensive thoughts that crossed her mind.

"I don't care," she finally said. "He needs to learn he can't pick on just anyone… besides it's not like he'd actually remember me anyway."

"Well we need to hurry anyway, Hana." Bicky said, holding on to the camera around her neck. "We're late and don't even bother apologizing. You were dreaming of -him- again won't you?"

"W,what!? NO!" Hana blushed. Although she and Bicky knew the assumption was correct.

Bicky rolled her eyes, "See you're making us look bad. Terra said she was thinking of giving us an exclusive story and here you come making us late to the morning meeting bumping into Emperors and what not. Let's go."

Hana Latacia and Bicky Krosse were in the school's journalism club, Hana as a writer and Bicky as a photographer. They were both first years on the club and Terra had said that she would consider their request to write an article for the sports section. Bicky was excited because she loved Blitzball almost as much as she loved photography, and well Hanna had a crush on a certain 2nd year blitz ball ace. They were really hoping they'd get to cover the team this season.

"Don't sulk about it," Bicky comforted her friend as they entered the building and neared the class where the meetings were held. "I doubt they even started. The briefing starts at 7."

Hana looked at her watch, sure enough it was 6:58.

"Let's hurry!"

That said, the pair darted for the class and made it only a minute late, when nobody had really started talking yet. Upon entering the class they found Terra sitting at the front of the class. Luneth and Arc, both first years like Bicky and Hana were already there too along with Firion, Maria, Garnet, Tifa, and Selphie who were the other members.

"Well that seems to be everyone except for our sponsor. Anyone have any objections to starting without him?" Terra asked.

Nobody did except Selphie, which they chose to ignore. Everyone knew she had some weird crush on their teacher Mr. Laguna Loire anyway.

"Well, basically Firion and I were thinking of the proposed assignments. Selphie we see no objection on you and Maria handling the entertainment page."

"Booyaka!" Selphie chimed.

"Tifa you're approved for that advice column but we really would like you onboard with feature writing. Garnet's doing copy editing again this semester and going to teach Arc the ropes for when we graduate."

"Thank you," Arc smiled.

"Luneth is with me on the feature story this issue."

Nobody missed the blush on Luneth's face at that.

"Bicky on photography as per usual and Hana gets the Blitzball story. Congratulations."

Terra nodded in Hana's direction and Hana was a bit stunned. She was really happy to get to do a story on her idol's team but in reality she knew absolutely nothing about Blitzball. She really had to rely on Bicky this time. She really owed her friend.

"Thanks Terra!" Hana exclaimed. "I'm so glad. You won't be disappointed."

Terra nodded, "I've always liked your columns so this should be interesting."

"What about me?" Firion asked. "I'm usually the sports guy."

"True," Terra lifted a white sheet of paper to her face. "We talked about this though. I doubt 'Why Basketball is better than Blitzball' will go over well with the general population during the start of Blitzball season. You need to pick something else."

"Pshhh. Basketball is way better," Firion scoffed.

"We all know you don't like Mateus, Firion. Get over it. Stop trying to bash the sport. He isn't the entire team, you know," Maria said, putting a hand on her adoptive brother's shoulder.

Firion shrugged it off.

"I know," Selphie chimed. "He can help us. You're a really good writer, Firion. I bet you could do a great interview with Kuja and Genesis from the drama club. They're putting on LOVELESS this spring."

"That sounds wonderful! I'll write that down," Terra said before Firion could protest. "Ok well if that's it for now I'll see you all after school!"

And that was how the meeting adjourned and Hana was the official journalist tracking the Blitzball team. Hana was on cloud nine thinking about how she would be able to now spend lots of time writing about and observing Tidus at his best. Watching him from the window of the journalism club room always managed to thrill her, and she'd finally see it up close. She practically shined, forgetting about one little thing. That little piece of hell on earth, "The Emperor" was a part of that team too.

-to be continued

Arc & Luneth - FFIII

Terra - FFVI

Firion, Maria, Emperor - FFII

Selphie, Laguna - FFVIII

Tifa, Genesis - FFVII

Garnet, Kuja - FFIX

Tidus - FFX

other character appearances on the horizon.

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