Aurons big mistake

Chapter 2

By shadows/of/flame

OK, from now on these chapters are going to be longer. I'll try my best. Thanx for the 10 or so reviews I've received for this story. Here goes.

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'A promise to my old man? What promise?' Tidus pondered as the group headed down the Mi'ihen Highroad.

Shortly after Auron had joined their group, there had been rumours of a Chocobo Eater on the Highroad. Auron had mentioned something about one, but as soon as someone asked him about it, he would say he had no idea what it was.

The group reached the Travel Agency, and a huge monster barred their path.

"Fight it! Its the Chocobo Eater!" Auron demanded.
Yuna summoned Ifrit, Tidus and the others did their overdrives, and soon the battle was over.

After a while, Yuna stopped and bowed to a woman in Yevon dress.

Wakka bowed too, and soon everyone but Tidus and Auron were bowing.

"Greetings Lady Yuna. I am Shelinda, and I am a priestess of Yevon. I try to spread Yevons teachings around Spira."

"Greetings Shelinda" Yuna ... greeted.

"Please be careful. The Crusaders are launching an all out attack against Sin with the Al Bhed up ahead. I tried to stop them, but they said it was for Spiras own good."

Yuna nodded.

"Thank you Shelinda."

The group continued on to a barricade. Several Crusaders were warding off people, even summoners.

Yuna walked up to the Crusaders.

"Can we not get past at this time?" she asked politely.

"I'm sorry Lady Yuna," Gatta replied, "Operation Mi'ihen is too dangerous. No one but Crusaders and the Al Bhed can pass."

Auron flinched slightly, but only Tidus noticed.

'Whats up with him?' Tidus thought but at the same time, he suddenly felt a gigantic shadow over him and he went cold.

"Tidus? Whats the matter..." Yuna had spun around, expecting to see Tidus dead or something but instead...

"Maester Seymour!" Wakka and Yuna chanted simultaneously.

"Greetings Lady Yuna. What seems to be the problem?"

Yuna looked behind her at the barricade that barred her from going to Djose.

"Very well."

Seymours shadow left Tidus and he felt warm again.

Seymour and his shadow went over to the Crusaders, looking rather angry.

"Maester Seymour!" they cowered under his glare.

"Please let Lady Yuna and her guardians pass."

"Yes sir!"

Seymour led the way to the control place where Maester Kinoc was telling the Crusaders where to go and what to do.

"Aah Maester Kinoc. Lady Yuna and her guardians are going to witness Operation Mi'ihen."

Kinoc nodded slightly.

"Auron, could I have a word?"

Auron nodded, and Tidus quietly followed, Kinoc and Auron unaware he was even there.

"How is it going?" Kinoc asked.

"Killing the Al Bhed? Quite well actually." Auron replied.

Tidus gasped silently, and turned on a sphere to get this all on record.

"How many Al Bhed have you decapitated?"

"About... 10 or 20."

Tidus was shocked out of his mind. Auron? The legendary guardian? An Al Bhed slaughterer? And he'd killed 10 or 20 in the space of how long?

"Ratio of?"

"2 or 3 per day."

Tidus couldn't take it any more. He left the sphere in a place where it could record everything Kinoc and Auron said to each other, but no one could find it but him.

He quickly went back to camp, and was obviously unaware that his face was pale as the snow on Mt Gagazet.

"Whats the matter Tidus?" Lulu asked, "You look like someone just told you a huge secret."

Tidus nodded, not trusting himself not to spill the beans.

"OK" Wakka chortled, "Its a secret so you can't tell us, right ya?"

Tidus nodded.

Everyone was preparing their weapons when Kinoc and Auron returned, 15 minutes after Tidus had left them.

"berightback" Tidus yelped and ran off behind the tents.

"Whats with him?" Kinoc asked.

"Dunno. He said someone had told him a secret and he couldn't tell anyone."

Auron went pale.

"Did you tell him?" Kinoc asked.

"No" Auron said defiantly.

"Good. Then it can't be our secret then."

But he was dead wrong.

Tidus plucked the sphere out from its hiding place. He pushed the record button, to stop it recording, then rewound it.

As soon as it was finished, he watched the contents.

"How is it going?" Kinoc asked.

"Killing the Al Bhed? Quite well actually." Auron replied.

K: "How many Al Bhed have you decapitated?"

A: "About... 10 or 20."

K: "Ratio of?"

A: "2 or 3 per day."

Then there was more. The stuff he hadn't seen. The more gruesome details.

K: "How are you getting rid of the bodies?"

A: "Most of them just disappear. But some Yuna ends up sending because I usually kill them when Sin is attacking, so no one gets suspicious. I'd better be careful though - that Tidus boy might figure it out some day."

(Kinoc nods)

K: "Maybe you should get rid of him?"

(Auron laughs)

A: "And have his father kill me whenever I reach the Farplane? Get real Kinoc."

(Kinoc chuckles)

K: "But as you know, his father is dead but not in the Farplane."

(Auron nods)

A: "He is Sin."

K: "A bit unfortunate for the boy - to be an orphan at such a young age, but because of Sin millions of Spirians are orphans before their 20s."

A: "Apparently Yuna can get help from her uncle Cid. Him, and his son and daughter are Al Bhed. Should I really kill them?"

K: "Our agreement: Kill all Al Bhed."

(Auron bows his head)

A: "I will kill them all when they have outlived their usefulness."

K: "Good. But we'd better get back to the others before they get suspicious. Its been 25 minutes already."

(Auron nods)

A: "Lets go."

Tidus' heart failed.

His father, Sin? He already knew that.

Kill all the Al Bhed Auron sees? Cid and his son & daughter were in deep trouble.

The end. Till the next chapter. A: Auron

K: Kinoc