1. Moments of Paine
From the moment I put it on, I felt strange.
You know how sometimes you feel like hurting someone, but you don't know why? It's like that. Those feelings weren't new to me, of course. It's funny that people ignore those parts of their life, especially when they seem so prescient to me. Whatever, like I care in the end. We deal.
When Tromell gave me the sphere, I could already sense a disquiet coming from it. It's like when I touched it, my feelings were amplified a thousand times, and I could barely control myself. I remember shaking violently there, and Yuna had to grab me while Rikku took the sphere and put it away. When I came to, Yuna's face had this look of intense worry and concern, and Rikku was shaken a bit too, and that's saying something from what she's been through.
I don't know Yuna that well, except from what I've heard. The first time I saw her, I wasn't sure how to react: High Summoner Lady Yuna, defeater of Sin, who has taken so many lives and caused so much tragedy. The Savior of the World, right? She looked nothing like what I thought she would, as if statues of Lord Braska had haunted me for my entire life, and suddenly here is this little girl, a little younger than myself. She seemed, and still does, a bit off, with her obsession with this guy she used to know. Guys are guys, but I can't believe that the Summoner who defeated Sin is still agonizing over him, like he forget to let her know he was just taking off like most guys do, or something.
Back to the point. So, we are taking off out of the Guadosalam, and we take a wrong path. I've really only just met Yuna, and knew Rikku a bit before that, so I didn't even know what had happened until Rikku yells out to get behind a tree. There is a burst of fire over my right shoulder, and suddenly the tree has been scorched into a blackened hump, with sparks and ashes floating around my head. I see Yuna go down, as a giant bird-fiend swiped at her with a claw and she slammed into the ground like ten feet away. Rikku is yelling, and suddenly I see her drop the bag of spheres. They are both down.
There is a swarm of golden magic in the air, and then a line of searing fire streaks down towards me. I get out barely in time, and manage to grab the sphere bag. It's there, waiting for me. The sphere. In a movement of desperation, I unlock it. My feelings are stretched and grown in a thousand directions; I can barely contain my anger and hatred. I don't even know what happened next: I think I was flying, but I felt like a goddess. Is this what it felt like to be one of the Fayth?
The battle goes quickly, but I am still too weak. The fire streaks through me, the screams of fiends assail against me. I barely know how to handle this body. I am on the ground, feeling the moist earth of the upper jungle of Guadosalam. There is the smell of burnt feathers.
When I come to, Rikku is holding me, touching my wounds with a rag. Yuna is still dazed. Where does the girl get the energy to drag two people out of something like that, and still live to breathe again? She amazes me, Rikku girl.
I'll take more care next time with the sphere.