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Chapter 38: Waiting for the Boat in Luca (Jechtsphere #7)
Auron found himself waiting out on the boat docks in Luca by himself. The sun was going down and neither Jecht nor Braska had showed up.
The boat to Kilika has arrived and was about to set out in about an hour.
Auron was checking the sphere recorder to make sure that he had got the last few blitzball matches that Jecht had asked him to record.
While he was checking, Braska and Jecht arrived. Without looking up Auron spoke to the both of them. "You're late. Where have you both been?" He asked.
Jecht looked over. "Hey, don't gripe at me! We were just out getting some supplies. Incase you forgot we ran out back on the Mi'ihen highroad." He said crossing his arms.
Braska nodded. "Anyways, did you catch the matches that Jecht asked you to record?" He asked looking at the sphere-recorder that Auron was holding recording them all with.
Auron nodded. "I don't see why you wanted me to though. I thought they had blitzball where you come from. That's what you said at least." He said looking up at Jecht curiously as he recorded the older guardian.
Jecht shrugged as if to say. "You don't understand do ya?" He shook his head and laughed.
"Don't know much about sports do ya?" He asked Auron looked over as if to completely ignore Jecht's comment. Really, Auron couldn't careless about sports like Blitzball. He didn't understand the point of such activities.
Braska looked over curiously at Jecht. "Hm? Working on your form are you? Trying to improve your skill in blitzball?" He asked after a minute.
Jecht laughed as if Braska's questions were like hilarious jokes that he had just been told.
"Yeah right! My form and my skill don't need no work!" He said before laughing again.
Auron smirked and muttered under his breath. "Sure, your form doesn't need any work, nor does your skill if you say so. But your grammar needs improvement."
Jecht didn't hear the comment because he was laughing so hard.
"It's for my kid, Tidus." He said once he quit laughing. Braska had a curious look on his face. He had Jecht mention his son Tidus every once in awhile, but Jecht had hardly made a mention about his son playing Blitzball.
"Tidus plays Blitzball?" He asked.
Jecht nodded. He then crossed his arms and looked up at the boat. His eyes taking on that far-away look that they normally got whenever Jecht started thinking about Zanarkand, and his family. "He wants to beat me at it. He tries his hardest, everyday until he tires himself out, and he gets mad at people who try to make him stop." He said.
"I once told him to give it up. Boy, he got so made at me that he gave me the silent treatment for two weeks straight!" He added with a laugh.
Jecht shook his head longingly, looking at the ground. He sighed deeply. "Wonder what he's doing now. Hope my wife isn't too depressed about me and is still taking care of him." He stated quietly.
"Well in any case, I hope Tidus gets a little bigger and builds up some muscle. Can't be much of a blitzball player if your a short person who's all skin and bones." Jecht said off-handedly. He turned and looked over at the boat again.
"Man, I miss my family." He said after a sigh.
Suddenly, Jecht came to realize that the buzzing of a sphere recorder was behind him. He turned to see Auron recording him.
"Hey! Auron! What's the big idea! I didn't tell you to record! Stop it! Shut that damn thing off!" He said out of embarrassment and slight anger at the six year old, who was now shutting the sphere recorder off.
"Sorry. Thought it would be nice to have a sphere showing your sensitive side. Just to let Tidus know his father wasn't completely insensitive." Auron said with a shrug and a wink toward Braska.
Braska laughed and then boarded the boat. "Come on you two. The boat's leaving soon. We don't want to be late getting to Kilika because we missed the boat. " He said.
Auron and Jecht nodded and followed Braska onto the boat.
Several minutes after the sun vanished completely over the horizon, the boat set sail for Kilika.
(Well. I told you it would be short. But I hope that you liked it. the next chapter is going to be a third part to Mount Gagazet. Then we will move onto just outside Zanarkand. Then we actually go into Zanarakand in Ch.41. Well, until the next chapter!)