Final Fantasy X Complete Script

Chapter II: Besaid Island

Besaid Island

Unknown Sea

[Tidus wakes up spluttering]
Tidus: Rikku!
[smacked by flying object]
Tidus: Blitzball!
[Wakka and Aurochs wave from beach]
Wakka: Hey! You okay?
Tidus: Heeey! (Waves back and shows off "Sphere Shot")

FMV: Blitzball!

[Tidus' shot flies off over the jungle.]
Wakka: Whoa-ho!

Besaid — Beach

[Tidus swims ashore. run off. Aurochs surround him.]
Tidus: Yo! Hiya!
Wakka: You wanna try that move one more time?
Narration: (fistpump) Finally, things were starting to look up. (demonstrates)
Wakka: You're no amateur. Who you play for?
Tidus: The Zanarkand Abes!
: (muttering)
Wakka: What team you say again?
Tidus: Uh, I meant...Forget that. I got too, uh...close to Sin and my head's all foggy-like. So I don't know where this place is. Or even where I came from.
Wakka: Sin's toxin got to you. But, you're still alive. Praise be to Yevon! (Yevon bow)
Wakka: (To Aurochs) All right, back to practice!
Wakka: (To Tidus) I'm Wakka, coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, brudda. (shakes hands)
Tidus: (whimper)
Wakka: What? You hungry? Okay! Back to the village. I'll get you somethin'!

If Tidus talks to Aurochs on the beach...

: Hey, I'll admit it, we're not the best blitzers in Spira.
¬"To do our best!" That's our motto. Guess it's not enough, though. Here, take this. And do your best, ya? ~Gil
¬We're always top dogs for the first few minutes of the game, ya? Then we start to run out of breath. That's when they get us. But Cap'n Wakka, man, he don't stop! No halftime breath for him, ya? He just keeps going!

: That shot was spectacular, brudda! Wish I could shoot like that.
¬Cap'n Wakka's waiting for you. You better get going, ya? There's fiends on the road, ya? Use this if you get into trouble. ~Potion

: I gotta stop closing my eyes when the ball comes down.
¬You being a blitzball player's probably what saved you out there. The best players–they can hold their breath, like, forever! I wish I could do that.
¬We had an underwater race once, ya? To see how long we could go. Two laps and we were out, but Cap'n Wakka went five, no sweat!
¬That toxin's nasty stuff, ya? You should go rest up. What am I saying? Take this, it might help! ~Hi-Potion

: I can head the ball pretty good. Today's just a bad day, ya?
¬This is really weird, ya? I could do five in a row yesterday!
¬I'm nowhere near Cap'n Wakka, but I can hold my own underwater, ya? It's just that... I'm not so good with the ball.
¬It true that the best players can even sleep underwater? Man, that's like...superhuman, you know?

: I really want to make Cap'n Wakka proud at this year's tournament.
¬Come practice with us once the toxin wears off, okay? Hope you get better soon, brudda. ~Potion

Narration: I felt like I could trust this Wakka, so I just had to ask.
Tidus: It's true Zanarkand was destroyed, right? A thousand years ago? So it's just a big pile of rubble now, isn't it?
Wakka: Long time ago, there were a whole lot of cities in Spira. Big cities with machina–machines–to run 'em. People played all day and let the machina do the work. And then, well, take a look.
[view switches briefly to beach, ruins poking up through rainforest]
Wakka: Sin came, and destroyed the machina cities. And Zanarkand along with 'em. Yeah, that was about a thousand years ago, just like you said. If you ask me, Sin's our punishment for letting things get out of hand. What gets me, though... is we gotta suffer, 'cause of what some goofballs did way back when! 'Course, we must always repent for our sins! That's important! It's just that, it's hard to keep at it sometimes, you know?
Narration: It was just as Rikku said. Wakka and Rikku couldn't both be lying. Why would they?
Wakka: (Guffaws) But you from the Zanarkand Abes–that was a good one! Hey, I'm not saying the team never existed, ya? But you gotta figure a team livin' in luxury like that'd be pretty soft, eh?