The Warriors
Disclaimer: I don't own FFX, and most likely never will.
Finally, now it's an FFX story
The water was pushing me backwards, by the time it overcame me I was already ten off the beach. I looked back, to see my home being overcome with water, and many others. The violent waters got me disoriented, and the broken pieces of wooden homes smashed into me, making it harder still. I smashed into a tall tree, which finally stopped me from being pushed.
The water finally died down, and I fell down from the tree to my knees on the ground below. I quickly got up, and surveyed the area for damage, noticing everything that was within a hundred feet of the beach was ruined. I saw several corpses, dead either from drowning, or being crushed by the shear force of the water.
"Ian!" I heard, I looked to see who yelled that, seeing Stephen under a bunch of wood tiles. He got up from the ground and brushed himself off, then began walking over. "What the hell was that?"
"I have no idea," I admitted, "there are no clouds, so it wasn't a storm, I am stumped. Hey, we should look for people." He nodded, and we went looking under debris, and found nothing but scared children and dead bodies. "Wait, what is that?" I asked pointing out to the sea, noticing a vague image of a ship. We both squinted, but couldn't make out the image well.
"I don't know man," he said, "maybe some debris. We should go to the temple here, we have sinned a great deal, we must go and explain ourselves to the priests, and beg for forgiveness."
I laughed at that, "If there was a god, he wouldn't have let such an event take place." Stephen was always faithful to Yevon, but I had lost faith in the religion after my mother was killed.
"Maybe, but I still believe in finding repent," he said, "and I will get it, so I'm going, are you going to come?"
"Sure."
"Ok let's go," he said, starting to walk toward the temple. We began walking up the path, and then I saw it, and I instinctively stopped. I ran into the small hut looking around, for her.
"Grandma, Grandma!" I yelled, frantically searching for her, "Where are you!" I found nothing, but a little girl, crying in a corner, "Is there an old woman here?" She didn't answer, just looked at me afraid, "Answer me!" I screamed at her, making her cry even more.
"Get away from her," an older man yelled, running into the hut with a sword drawn, "Get away from my daughter!" He ran between me and her with his sword at my throat. I grabbed his sword by its blade and threw it through the opening of the hut, it impaling a tree about twenty feet away.
"Where is my grandmother?" I asked loudly, grabbing the man by his shirt, picking him off the ground with one arm.
"What are you talking about, we have lived here for four years." He said, puzzled and afraid, "Wait, are you Ian?" he asked, with an amazed look on his face.
"Yes, I am."
"Oh," he said, his facial expression changing to a sad one, "well, three years ago, your grandmother…"
"What, what?" I asked furiously.
"She," he took a long pause, and then he crushed me,"died." At that I let him down, and I dropped to the ground. I felt overwhelmed, the person that loved me at home was dead. But I couldn't cry, I just sat there, trying to process the news. After a while I got up, and I turned to the man and his daughter.
"I'm sorry for intruding and yelling at you," I said sadly, then I turned around and left. I went outside to Steve who was worried about me, and I told him I would need some time and that I would meet him later. He nodded an acknowledgement and left. I walked around aimlessly, feeling sick to my stomach. I fell asleep after some time, wishing escape, or for this all to be a dream. I lost track of time, just sitting under a tree, thinking, after I noticed a group of people surrounding me I left for the forest.
The Crusaders stood in front of the direct path to the temple. "Stop" one of them said to me, I didn't listen and continued forward, despite them all yelling at me. After turning a corner I saw why they wanted me to stop, a massive fiend, was fighting a group of five, four being human, the other a small Ronso. I ran up after I noticed they were having major problems. I was a few feet behind them and I threw a knife at the fiend, nailing it in the eye. All of them turned at me to look, but I didn't get a good look back at them. I ran up to the fiend, drew a sword and in one swift move I jumped up and cut off one of its tentacle arms. It screamed in pain, and attacked me, I ducked beneath its tentacles, and jumped up on its head. As it tried to attack me furiously I thrust my sword into its head, then sent a fireball from the end of my blade into its head. The fiend erupted into pyreflies and I fell to the ground, sheathing my sword quickly.
"That was amazing," I heard, I turned around and saw the one who said that, a blonde boy, older than me, "What's your name?"
"My name," I began, "is Ian." They began murmuring amongst themselves for a while about me. "Are you headed to the temple?" I asked, silencing them all. A girl of about 17 stepped forward.
"Yes," she said, "we are." Before she could say more I interrupted her.
"Well, I too am headed there, I shall escort you there." At that I turned and began walking toward the temple with them closely behind. The girl was trying to talk to me.
"My name is Yuna," she said, expecting me to say something back. We continued walking, to a structure with stairs at the base. I walked up first then stopped at a landing. I heard the blonde boy challenge some of the others accompanying them to a race, which Yuna took the liberty of starting. As I stood looking out at the forest I heard a scream from the top of the stairwell. I ran up to find a Sinspawn attacking Yuna.
As one of its tentacles thrust at Yuna I ran forward, and stopped the attack with my bare hands. Then I pulled hard at it, ripping it from the ground, making an eruption of green ooze from the hole in the ground it was in. The head of the Sinspawn then arose, letting lose a green miasma, stopping the rest of Yuna's party, but not me. I ran through the mist, grabbing a hold of the mouth of the Sinspawn. One hand on the top, the other on the bottom I ripped the top of its head off, and then smashed it into the bottom. The remaining tentacle fell to the ground, then the Sinspawn disappeared, releasing pyreflies.
"Whoa, bruddha," a man with orange hair exclaimed, "How'd you do that?"
"Dunno," I lied, "adrenaline I guess. Well we should continue." After that I walked to the temple behind the rest of them. We abruptly stopped, apparently by Kilika's blitzball team. After they imitated the group I was walking with, that was apparently the Besaid blitzball team I became aggravated. I walked up, and past two men, they leaned against each other, hoping to stop me, but I pushed through them, knocking one over.
"Where do you think you are going?" one of them asked. I ignored him and continued walking, and I felt someone's hand on my back. I turned around to see a fist coming at me. I grabbed the hand in mid air in my palm, pulling it forward, sending the man into my knee. As he fell to the ground the rest of the team came at me, as I punched one in the face, knocking him off his feet Yuna yelled, "Stop this!" We all stopped, and Kilika's blitzball team left in shame.
I continued to walk up to the temple, and I opened the doors to let Yuna and her friends in. I followed them in and let the door close behind me, looking around I quickly saw Steven talking to a priest, deep in conversation. I walked up to him, and saw the priest horrified look.
"I've killed many, but, if I didn't I myself would have died, can I be forgiven?" He asked, probably not ready for the answer.
"Well," the priest began reluctantly, "If you would have been killed if you didn't than it is forgivable." That brought a great sigh of relief. "But you must truly wish for forgiveness."
"Oh I do."
"Steve," I interrupted, "Sorry I am late. I was deep in thought."
"Right," he said, "do you want to talk about it?"
"No."
"Ok, but if you want to, know that I will be here to listen."
"Ok"
"Ian," Yuna said, she apparently worked her way over, "I am going into the Cloister, and I wish to thanks you."
"Oh, yeah, no problem," I said, "oh this is my friend Stephen."
"How are you?" Yuna asked, "I am Yuna."
"I am good," Steve replied, "Who are your friends?" he asked looking at the four standing behind her.
"Well these are my guardians," she said, "this is Lulu," she pointed at a young attractive woman, clad in black gothic attire, with red eyes, "this is Wakka," the man with orange hair, he smiled, "this is Kimahri," she said pointing at the Ronso, about 6 and a half feet tall, "and this is Tidus," she said pointing at the blonde boy. Being friendlier than myself he introduced himself to them, and then as if psychically knowing I hadn't told them my name he introduced me.
"Well I am going into the Cloister, but I will speak to you later," Yuna said, then turned around and left to the Cloister of Trials.
"She seemed nice," Steve said.
"Yeah, I guess," was my response.
"Wait, what's happening over there?" Steve asked, pointing at the entrance to the Cloister. I turned to see a big guy throwing Tidus into the elevator that leads to the actual Cloister.
After an hour or so, Yuna and her guardians emerged. I walked over to her, "Yuna, are you by any chance headed towards Bevelle?" I asked.
"Yes," she said, "why?
"Well Stephen and I are going to meet some friends there, but don't know the way there," I began, "so we were wondering if we could accompany you, while you went to Bevelle."
"Well, of course," she said, "that would be great."
"Wonderful!" I said, turning to Stephen, "To Bevelle."
Well that's the end of Chapter 4, please review this.