Chapter 2
Celestial..Overload?
A/N: Oh gods, I am so sorry for not updating this in forever!!! I've had this lying around for a long time, I just kept revising and revising..then I got caught up in my site...okay, enough pitiful excuses, eh? Let's get this show on the road!
The sun was one of the brightest things Yuna had ever seen in her life when she opened her eyes and looked directly at it. Sitting up, she began to search for her staff, which was unfortunately for her, nowhere in sight. But something else was. And she didn't like it.
"Oh boy..." Yuna mumbled, barely managing to stand before the fiend knocked her down on her back. Unarmed and pinned down, Yuna realized instantly she had no chance against the wolf. But she still wasn't giving up. After a few attempted kicks, punches, and even a bite or two, the wolf was still on top of her, but it had weakened. She knew she could at least throw it off of her, now, and was about to when she heard a familar voice.
"Farewell."
The wolf then went flying halfway across the grass, howling, and she felt someone wrapping an arm around her waist, pulling her up.
"Sir Auron!" she exclaimed, and attempted to hug him.
"Yuna, there is no time. We have to get moving immediately." he said, and she sighed slightly.
"Sir Auron, whatever happened last night caused me to lose..." she began, but watched as Auron handed her her staff. Smiling gratefully, Yuna took her weapon, and stared at him.
"What?" he asked, and she shrugged.
"How...how did you come back?" she asked, and he sighed, then pointed ahead.
"I'll tell you on the way there." he said, and she sighed again.
"Where?" she asked, but instead of recieving a spoken response from him, he just began to walk in the direction to where the Moonflow once was. Now, it was simply a dried-up riverbed...with a treasure chest inside.
Realizing that she'd better catch up with him or he just might leave her there, she took off running after him, calling out to him, and pointing towards the treasure chest. He saw her target as well, and the two walked towards it.
"This is it." he said, and pulled a small brown key out of his oversized coat, then stuck it inside of the lock keeping the chest closed. Yuna watched carefully as he kneeled, opened the chest, then as he pulled out a purple shawl and a small bottle of clear liquid. He then handed them to her, and she recieved the items in her outstretched arms.
"What are these?" she asked, and he sighed.
"One question at a time, please. I'm old." he said, and stood up.
"Aren't you funny." she said, and he pointed to the left again.
"Come on. As I said before, we don't have much time." he said, and the two walked quickly on the path that the Moonflow had worn into the ground. It wasn't very deep back there, but the outside walls of the path began to get taller and more narrow.
"Sir Auron? How did you come back?" Yuna asked.
"Celestial rebirth." he said, then looked over to see her staring at him like he had lost his mind. "To be more specific, the sight you saw last night. It was the calling out of my spirit."
"Why you?" she asked, and he sighed.
"Because I am the only one that knows where the monster lurks. And you and I are the only ones that could possibly defeat it." he said, and she stopped suddenly.
"You and me?" she asked, and nodded. "Why me? I don't even summon any longer...all I have is my staff, and it's not very useful either..."
"You'll understand later." he said, and she sighed, realizing she was not going to win.
"All right." she said, and he chuckled slightly. "What?" she asked, curiously.
"You took that a lot better than Tidus would have." he said, and Yuna shrugged.
"Thank you. At least I think I should say thank you...sometimes it's not hard to deal with something better than Tidus." she said, and he looked at her, raising her good eyebrow.
"I thought you two were..." he began, but she shook her head.
"I thought I was in love with him...but the more I thought, I realized that it was just a form of trust...maybe it was the fact that nobody had ever cared about me...that way before."
"I see." he said, and she noticed immediately that he...really wanted her to shut up. 'Now is not a good time to talk about her feelings.'
Wait...did I just read his mind?
