The Warriors

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The walk down the Mi'hen highroad was almost completely silent. I walked behind the group, just within earshot, I still cant trust them, I have no idea why, they just feel to nice. Steve dropped back after a while to convince me to join them ahead. "Why?" I asked, "am I going to get interrogated?"

"Why do you always assume the worst Ian?" he asked, slowing down.

"I don't assume the worst," I said turning to face him behind me, "I am just asking."

"Fine, I promise we won't interrogate you," he said honestly, "so will you join us?"

"Sure"

We walked back up in double time to rejoin the rest, but just as we caught up the party of eight suddenly stopped. Yuna was met by a little girl, who asked her if she was going to bring the Calm. I saw Yuna, she somehow stayed composed, after being asked if she was going to kill herself, she was so strong.

The rest of the road was quiet, Yuna and Tidus conversed quietly, Lulu and Wakka did the same until we reached a stop. We entered an inn to be greeted very politely by an Al Bhed man.

"Sir Auron," he said as we spread throughout the room.

"Yes?" Auron responded

"I cannot thank you enough," he said walking right up to Auron.

"It was no problem," Auron said. Then the Al Bhed man bowed lightly to him and left the building. Everyone seemed to ask him what that was about but he just replied with his usual "nothing". I left the with everyone else, but turned away from everyone else. I walked to the end off a large cliff, leading to an ocean, and stood on the farthest corner possible without falling. I pulled my legs out from under me and landed hard on the ground, landing with just enough of my body on land to not fall. I watched the sun set over the ocean, turning it a brilliant orange for a few minutes. There were two suns, and after a while none, but still a light could be seen, turning the clouds all colors imaginable. I laid down on my back, my legs still drooped over the cliff, crossing my arms behind my head. My eyes felt heavy, but my body wasn't tired and as I closed my eyes I felt a presence arrive.

"Hello," I heard a soft womans voice, knowing instantly it was Yuna.

"Hi," I said, not wanting to talk.

"So," she said, obviously struck for words, "Um our last conversation was cut short."

"Yeah?"

"Well I would like to learn a little more about you."

"Ok."

"Um, well, why did you decide to become my guardian?"

"I dunno," I said not knowing the answer, "I guess because you deserve the best guardian ever."

"Hahaha," she laughed, it was nice to hear that, "Well I have to thank you again, thank you so much."

"Yeah."

"Do you always talk like that?"

"Like what?"

"You always give the shortest answer possible."

"That a problem?" I asked jokingly.

"Oh no," she said much too apologetically, "It's just..."

"Just...?"

"I don't know, it's," she paused, obviously looking for a non insulting word, "Unique" she fished out.

"You mean annoying right?"

"Of course not"

"You can be honest with me Yuna," I said standing to finally looking at her.

"Its just that, you don't really answer my questions, and you make it hard to get to know you."

"Ok, I shall be more thorough then."

"Thank you," she said apparently awaiting an acknowledgment, "So-"

"Yuna!" Wakka yelled from afar, "It's getting dark ya, let's go inside and get some rest."

"Ok!" she yelled back, she turned to me, "Well, I will speak with you again later," then she ran off.

"Ok," I said just loud enough for me to hear. I fell back down to the ground, landing on my back, and watched the sky change from an orange and pink hue, to pitch black with white dots. It was cold, colder than you would think it would be in such a hot place. I watched the sky until I saw no light, I soon fell asleep.

Sunlight woke me up, that and the massive hand coming at me, springing me into action. I rolled just out of the way before the hand crushed me, I reached for my sword, but couldn't find it, and was forced to fight this massive fiend with no help. It again swung its arms at me, to fast to dodge, I brace my arms against my chest waiting impact, and left the ground when it smashed into me. A wall stopped my flight, and as soon as I recovered I saw the fiend rushing me again, but this time I could react. It's massive arms flew at me, but I jumped above them before they connected. The wall it hit collapsed, and many now riled up chocobos ran out in a panic. A woman from the inn came out and saw the utter chaos and let out a loud yell, getting the fiends attention. It turned to her and charged, she screamed for help, and I sprinted to her. As I met the fiend I tackled it with all of my might, knocking it away from her. It once again turned its attention to me, and raced at me. As I dodged it's attacks I saw my sword on the ground about 100 feet away and made my move, I pulled a small dagger from my shoulder armor and stabbed the fiend in the eye. I rushed toward my sword and the fiend closed the gap between us. As it came within arm's reach I dove and rolled, and in one liquid move grabbed my sword, ripped it from the scabbard, and rolling back onto my feet, turning and stabbing the fiend. The others finally came out of the inn, just in time to help me when I finally had the upped hand. Yuna called forth the Valefor, which spit a bright yellow beam at the fiend, finally killing it. It exploded, sending pyreflies into the sky. I chuckled and returned my sword into it's scabbard.

"Are you ok?" Tidus and Yuna seemed to ask in unison.

"Yeah," I said smoothly fixing my hair, "Good thing you came when you did," I joked, "And i just grabbed my sword." After that the same Al Bhed man that owned the inn came out.

"You killed it, that fiend has been killing my chocobos and eating them, I cannot thank you enough. Here, you may ride my chocobos for free down the mountain as payment." After Yuna gave many undue thanks to him we finally departed down the long road. We finally reached the bottom and were stopped from continuing by a dozen armed troops. No one is allowed to pass, they said.

"Now what?" Tidus asked.

"We could force our way through," I said seriously, "They don't look so tough."

"No," Auron said, "Starting a war is all that would accomplish."

There are many strange instances in the world, many 1 in 100 chances, but when Seymour came walking by I could calculate that probability. He approached Yuna and said something, then walked up to the armed guards and said something, something the guards protested to. I began to walk up to them and heard from the Maester "I will take full responsibility." He turned back to us and announced, "You may all pass." He seemed to turn to Yuna, smile and turn back and walk up the path. I had a bad feeling about him, something indescribable. But we soon followed, walking up the steep dirt path. The road there wasn't built conventionally, or easily walkable, it had bumps and turns and sudden holes, just looking at it I though it would break. But fortunately under the combined weight of Kimahri, Auron, Wakka, Tidus, Stephen, and myself the most hollow regions didn't break. We went up a series of elevators and finally reached the summit where we ran into Maester Kinoc. He told us about Operation Mi'hen, an attempt to rid the world of Sin once and for all.

"It will never works," Auron was the first to speak out, "Only a summoner can kill Sin." Still Maester Kinoc asked us to help, which Tidus decided was a good idea.

We waited for a while, then approached Kinoc, he asked if we were ready and we replied yes.

Thats Chapter 7, Chapter 8 will come by real soon, please comment, I would like to know how to improve my future chapters.