Chapter 2: Yuna
Mattius2k04: Chapter two is up! Audience: *Claps* Mattius2k04: Now, as I have said, I spent ALL 14 days of my Christmas vacation working hard on this. Now, do you really think I would have only completed a chapter? Nope. So in total, you people have about 6 or 7 chapters to read. Depending on my reviews, and if I feel like it, I will write more. Enjoy! Audience: *claps*
Later, after Tidus and Wakka had seated, they found themselves sitting besides a cold-endowed man with a dark, brooding style, and holding an extremely long sword in its sheath.
"Um, excuse me sir?" Asked Wakka once he met the man. "Aren't you Mr. Auron, the longsword teacher at Balamb?" The man made a small glance towards Wakka, and replied with a short answer.
"Yes." Auron spoke.
"Well, my friend here is going to be in your class." Wakka replied. Auron replied with a gruff 'hmm' and looked away. Wakka pressed his point, speaking once more. "He has the Firestarter sword, and I was hoping to ask you if you knew anything about who wielded it." This time, Auron replied with more enthusiasm. Turning his head to look at Tidus, he spoke slightly louder.
"Firestarter." Spoke Auron, laughing gently. "It's been a long time since I crossed blades with that. You must be the son of Jecht."
"You. know him?" Tidus replied, walking over to Auron. "Did he.. Did he win the Fire Tournament?"
"Yes. I fought him in the Finals. Quite a fighter. I'm expecting the same of his son. I hope he has trained you well, young Tidus." Replied Auron.
"How. how do you know my name?" Asked Tidus.
Auron simply pointed to his eyes, and spoke "You were at the tournament. You were too young to remember, but you were there. Before Jecht became drunk, quite literally, on success."
With a rumble and a shrill whistle, Tidus felt the train start, and a Stewardess asked him to sit.
"Well, I expect you to show some skill." Spoke Auron once more.
"Thank you, Sir." Replied Tidus, taking the window seat. "I'll try my best."
It seemed like days passed by before they finally arrived, while realistically, it was only three hours. Tidus and Wakka stood up, stretched, grabbed their suitcases, and left the train.
"Woooaahhhh!" Wakka exclaimed. "It's huge!" Balamb Garden was sitting right in front of them. It was a massive, white-coloured, and beautiful structure, with hovering yellow halos hanging towards the top, and an awesome green garden relayed all around it. Green fields surrounded it, and the Mountains sat in glory behind it. The whole scene seemed gigantic, and Tidus and Wakka felt themselves dwarfed in front of it. They stood there, for a seemingly long time, admiring the scenery. It got even better as Tidus noticed Yuna, and who must've been Rikku, running towards the building.
"Aha! Tidus, you gonna go for her already? Told ya that there'd be chicks here!" Wakka laughed, head locking Tidus. "Leave me some or I'll have to hurt ya!" He laughed again.
"Argh!" Tidus shouted, grabbing Wakka's arms. "Lemme go!" With a gasp, Wakka let go, and Tidus stumbled forwards, gasping for breath. "Stop that!" Tidus laughed.
"We'd better get going, or we're going to miss the opening ceremony!" Wakka laughed, and began running towards the entrance. Tidus soon followed, and the two found themselves dodging past uniform-clad soldiers, running through a beautiful garden and bursting through the glass doors.
They ran through the marble halls, passing sparkling water fountains surrounding a giant elevator that seemed to go the whole length of the building. Yellow-hat-clad faculty members watched them as they ran as fast as they could, past a large stairway, past the Gunblade Usage 101 room and the Black Magic Usage 101 room, and dodging past several more uniform clad soldiers, one of whom Tidus realized as Squall Leonhart, the Teacher of Gunblade Usage 101. Squall didn't seem to care about the speeding students, and continued down the hall.
"Slow down, Wakka!" Tidus panted, screeching to a halt outside the Auditorium doors. "You missed the place!"
Wakka stopped immediately, losing balance and hopping forwards a few steps on one foot. He whirled around, and ran towards Tidus, and they burst through the Auditorium Doors, very noisily. They both blushed as the whole audience of some-3,000 people turned to see who had caused such a racket.
"Uhh. uh-oh, what now?" Wakka whispered, 3,000 pairs of eyes still on them.
"Act cool." Tidus replied, never taking his eyes off of the audience. The standing speaker, whom Tidus realized as Headmaster Cid, had stopped talking, and was wearing a big smile underneath his goofy glasses and neatly-kept brown hair. The two walked, as calmly as they could (though Tidus was shaking inside), and looked for some seats.
"Yuna, isn't that that guy you like?" Rikku asked, turning to see who had made the loud noise. Turning to see her cousin, she realized she was blushing.
"Um, no, that's Tidus." Yuna gushed. "And, and I don't like him!" She fidgeted with her hands. Wakka and Tidus seemed to stop dead, while Wakka whispered something to Tidus and they started walking.
"Yunie's got a boyfriend!" Rikku laughed playfully, tapping Yuna's nose. Before Yuna could stop her, Rikku shot up and gestured towards Wakka and Tidus, who noticed and walked towards her. Rikku soon noticed all the attention was drawn to her, blushed, and sat down, lowering her head and giggling softly.
"H-hey Tidus, Wakka!" Yuna whispered, as the two young men sat besides her. Cid had resumed talking, and the audience of new students had turned to face him again.
"Yuna, how you been?" Wakka asked. Tidus shot him a glance, and asked her the same question.
"I'm great, but we'd better listen to Headmaster Cid or we'll get in trouble!" Yuna warned, tapping Tidus's hand and putting a finger to her lips. She turned towards the headmaster, who had started another speech.
"I know you are all new, and have yet to make a real name for yourselves," spoke Cid into a small microphone, "but there is one new student who should be asked to come up here. She passed the entry test for black magic with flying colours, an astounding 100%! Please welcome Miss Lulu, from the Trabia region!" Cid stepped back, clapping, and a beautiful woman stood up at the front of the audience. The whole room shook with clapping, and Yuna, Tidus, Wakka, and Rikku joined in.
The woman made her way up to the stage, holding her face in her hands. It soon became apparent that she was an incredibly beautiful woman. Long, braided black hair, twisted into a sort of bun at the top of her head, with a small amount of it covering the right side of her face. She wore an elaborate black dress that dragged behind her, and she seemed to not notice- or not care about- the sea of clapping hands as she made her way to the front of the stage.
"She's hot!" Wakka exclaimed, excitedly, and whispered to Tidus "You can have Yuna dude, I'm goin' for her!"
"Good luck man, she's getting 100% in her tests, and you got, what, 53%?" Tidus laughed. "It's a wonder you even got accepted."
Wakka replaced his look of excitement with one of insult. "Hey, hey, hey!" He exclaimed. "Gunblades are hard to use! You only got 87% because you used the easiest weapon ever!"
Tidus was undignified. "Still man, you shouldn't use gunblades as your first weapon. I might use one eventually, but only after I get some experience."
Wakka and Tidus shot nervous glances at each other as Lulu started speaking and the clapping died down.
"Well," she cleared her throat, "I really didn't expect this to happen, but. I'm glad to be learning alongside you all, and I hope you can all reach the standards that I tried hard to reach."
"Whoa, sounds like she's got a bit of an authority thing." Tidus laughed silently. "You sure she's even your type?"
"Hey man, she's hot, and that's all I really need." Wakka replied.
"But I'm sure you can all do great." Continued Lulu. She stepped back, and Headmaster Cid once again stood forwards to pick up the microphone. The audience hesitated, and began clapping.
"Thank you Lulu, and I'm hoping you yourself meet all the expectations we have of your great skills." Said Cid. "For the rest of you, we have a speech from a particular number of teachers."
Tidus and Wakka found themselves listening to several long, and nearly identical speeches from many teachers. Finally, Sir Auron stepped up, his long red robe almost dragging behind him. Tidus noticed he seemed to have had his arm broken, or at least was wearing it in a strange way.
"That's Sir Auron, your teacher!" Exclaimed Wakka. "He always wears his arm that way until he fights, and people say he can knock down a T-Rexaur with his sword."
"Ahh, so that's why he keeps his arm that way." Tidus realized.
Sir Auron made his speech. "You are all potentially powerful fighters, but there is one among you, who shall be unnamed for the sake of privacy, who has my particular eye." At this, he seemed to look straight at Tidus, who noticed one of his eyes had a ragged scar, keeping the eyelid closed.
"I coulda swore he just stared right at you!" Wakka whispered to Tidus, as Sir Auron continued.
"This young man is the son of the winner of the Fire Tournament of Galbadia, sixteen years ago. He has a particular sword, and if he is anything like his father, he will do great things." Continued Auron. He picked up his sword with ease, unsheathed it, and pointed it towards the audience. "As for everyone else, I sincerely hope you can prove my high expectations to be justified. Thank you." He stepped down, and once again, Headmaster Cid took the mike.
"I hope you all enjoyed this presentation, and as of now, you are dismissed to your dorms." Spoke the Headmaster. He waved his hand, the salute of Balamb, and the audience stood up (and at this, it seemed like everyone had yawned and stretched).
"I wonder who Sir Auron was talking about?" Rikku asked Yuna, and Tidus barely overheard her.
He was talking about me. Tidus thought. But why? I did good on my tests and all, but it's like Wakka said. I did average, I guess, so why does he seem to think I'm going to be so powerful?
"Whoever the guy is," said Yuna, "I bet Sir Auron's going to work him hard, like he is said to do to whoever he thinks has talent."
"Well, Yuna, I bet I know who he is!" laughed Wakka. "He's right here-" But Tidus hit him in the gut. Wakka stuttered with a loud "oof!" and took a step backwards. With an angry glance, he whispered to Tidus "Why did you do that?!"
"Because he was talking about me!" Tidus angrily whispered. He noticed Yuna standing near them with a confused expression. "Uhh, sorry Yuna, but I just need to talk to Wakka alone for a sec, okay? Then maybe we can meet up or something." Tidus spoke.
"Um, yes, that's fine. Uh about both I mean, you can talk to him in privacy. I'll wait here." Yuna replied, her hands clasped at her waist. Rikku could be seen bouncing up and down, carrying her giant suitcase, grunting with physical exertion as she heaved it out of the auditorium. With a wink to Yuna, she disappeared.
"Thanks, I won't take long, promise." Tidus said. Yuna took a few steps away, and Tidus resumed his conversation.
"So, why don't you want me to tell her, ya?" Wakka asked. "She might think it's cool, y'know!"
"I don't want her to know because I don't want her to tell everyone!" Tidus replied.
"What's the matter?" Wakka asked, stroking the stubble at his chin. "You always liked attention, ya?"
"It's not that, it's just I don't want everyone to think I'm some kind of great fighter or nothing. I don't want to seem like a showoff, either." Tidus replied.
"Oooh, I get it!" Wakka realized. "Ya, well, have fun. I won't tell no one, promise!"
"Thanks buddy." Tidus said gratefully.
"By the way, if you're going to meet Yuna, I'll take your bags up for you." Wakka replied. "Then I'm gonna try to find Lulu." He grinned, and blushed.
"Good luck, man." Tidus replied, and with a wave, he turned to Yuna. "See ya 'round!"
Wakka lifted the bags, his muscles bulging, and shuffled out of the auditorium.
"Well, do you want to go?" Tidus spoke to Yuna. She nodded, smiling, and they walked off to find a good seat.
Mattius2k04: Chapter two is up! Audience: *Claps* Mattius2k04: Now, as I have said, I spent ALL 14 days of my Christmas vacation working hard on this. Now, do you really think I would have only completed a chapter? Nope. So in total, you people have about 6 or 7 chapters to read. Depending on my reviews, and if I feel like it, I will write more. Enjoy! Audience: *claps*
Later, after Tidus and Wakka had seated, they found themselves sitting besides a cold-endowed man with a dark, brooding style, and holding an extremely long sword in its sheath.
"Um, excuse me sir?" Asked Wakka once he met the man. "Aren't you Mr. Auron, the longsword teacher at Balamb?" The man made a small glance towards Wakka, and replied with a short answer.
"Yes." Auron spoke.
"Well, my friend here is going to be in your class." Wakka replied. Auron replied with a gruff 'hmm' and looked away. Wakka pressed his point, speaking once more. "He has the Firestarter sword, and I was hoping to ask you if you knew anything about who wielded it." This time, Auron replied with more enthusiasm. Turning his head to look at Tidus, he spoke slightly louder.
"Firestarter." Spoke Auron, laughing gently. "It's been a long time since I crossed blades with that. You must be the son of Jecht."
"You. know him?" Tidus replied, walking over to Auron. "Did he.. Did he win the Fire Tournament?"
"Yes. I fought him in the Finals. Quite a fighter. I'm expecting the same of his son. I hope he has trained you well, young Tidus." Replied Auron.
"How. how do you know my name?" Asked Tidus.
Auron simply pointed to his eyes, and spoke "You were at the tournament. You were too young to remember, but you were there. Before Jecht became drunk, quite literally, on success."
With a rumble and a shrill whistle, Tidus felt the train start, and a Stewardess asked him to sit.
"Well, I expect you to show some skill." Spoke Auron once more.
"Thank you, Sir." Replied Tidus, taking the window seat. "I'll try my best."
It seemed like days passed by before they finally arrived, while realistically, it was only three hours. Tidus and Wakka stood up, stretched, grabbed their suitcases, and left the train.
"Woooaahhhh!" Wakka exclaimed. "It's huge!" Balamb Garden was sitting right in front of them. It was a massive, white-coloured, and beautiful structure, with hovering yellow halos hanging towards the top, and an awesome green garden relayed all around it. Green fields surrounded it, and the Mountains sat in glory behind it. The whole scene seemed gigantic, and Tidus and Wakka felt themselves dwarfed in front of it. They stood there, for a seemingly long time, admiring the scenery. It got even better as Tidus noticed Yuna, and who must've been Rikku, running towards the building.
"Aha! Tidus, you gonna go for her already? Told ya that there'd be chicks here!" Wakka laughed, head locking Tidus. "Leave me some or I'll have to hurt ya!" He laughed again.
"Argh!" Tidus shouted, grabbing Wakka's arms. "Lemme go!" With a gasp, Wakka let go, and Tidus stumbled forwards, gasping for breath. "Stop that!" Tidus laughed.
"We'd better get going, or we're going to miss the opening ceremony!" Wakka laughed, and began running towards the entrance. Tidus soon followed, and the two found themselves dodging past uniform-clad soldiers, running through a beautiful garden and bursting through the glass doors.
They ran through the marble halls, passing sparkling water fountains surrounding a giant elevator that seemed to go the whole length of the building. Yellow-hat-clad faculty members watched them as they ran as fast as they could, past a large stairway, past the Gunblade Usage 101 room and the Black Magic Usage 101 room, and dodging past several more uniform clad soldiers, one of whom Tidus realized as Squall Leonhart, the Teacher of Gunblade Usage 101. Squall didn't seem to care about the speeding students, and continued down the hall.
"Slow down, Wakka!" Tidus panted, screeching to a halt outside the Auditorium doors. "You missed the place!"
Wakka stopped immediately, losing balance and hopping forwards a few steps on one foot. He whirled around, and ran towards Tidus, and they burst through the Auditorium Doors, very noisily. They both blushed as the whole audience of some-3,000 people turned to see who had caused such a racket.
"Uhh. uh-oh, what now?" Wakka whispered, 3,000 pairs of eyes still on them.
"Act cool." Tidus replied, never taking his eyes off of the audience. The standing speaker, whom Tidus realized as Headmaster Cid, had stopped talking, and was wearing a big smile underneath his goofy glasses and neatly-kept brown hair. The two walked, as calmly as they could (though Tidus was shaking inside), and looked for some seats.
"Yuna, isn't that that guy you like?" Rikku asked, turning to see who had made the loud noise. Turning to see her cousin, she realized she was blushing.
"Um, no, that's Tidus." Yuna gushed. "And, and I don't like him!" She fidgeted with her hands. Wakka and Tidus seemed to stop dead, while Wakka whispered something to Tidus and they started walking.
"Yunie's got a boyfriend!" Rikku laughed playfully, tapping Yuna's nose. Before Yuna could stop her, Rikku shot up and gestured towards Wakka and Tidus, who noticed and walked towards her. Rikku soon noticed all the attention was drawn to her, blushed, and sat down, lowering her head and giggling softly.
"H-hey Tidus, Wakka!" Yuna whispered, as the two young men sat besides her. Cid had resumed talking, and the audience of new students had turned to face him again.
"Yuna, how you been?" Wakka asked. Tidus shot him a glance, and asked her the same question.
"I'm great, but we'd better listen to Headmaster Cid or we'll get in trouble!" Yuna warned, tapping Tidus's hand and putting a finger to her lips. She turned towards the headmaster, who had started another speech.
"I know you are all new, and have yet to make a real name for yourselves," spoke Cid into a small microphone, "but there is one new student who should be asked to come up here. She passed the entry test for black magic with flying colours, an astounding 100%! Please welcome Miss Lulu, from the Trabia region!" Cid stepped back, clapping, and a beautiful woman stood up at the front of the audience. The whole room shook with clapping, and Yuna, Tidus, Wakka, and Rikku joined in.
The woman made her way up to the stage, holding her face in her hands. It soon became apparent that she was an incredibly beautiful woman. Long, braided black hair, twisted into a sort of bun at the top of her head, with a small amount of it covering the right side of her face. She wore an elaborate black dress that dragged behind her, and she seemed to not notice- or not care about- the sea of clapping hands as she made her way to the front of the stage.
"She's hot!" Wakka exclaimed, excitedly, and whispered to Tidus "You can have Yuna dude, I'm goin' for her!"
"Good luck man, she's getting 100% in her tests, and you got, what, 53%?" Tidus laughed. "It's a wonder you even got accepted."
Wakka replaced his look of excitement with one of insult. "Hey, hey, hey!" He exclaimed. "Gunblades are hard to use! You only got 87% because you used the easiest weapon ever!"
Tidus was undignified. "Still man, you shouldn't use gunblades as your first weapon. I might use one eventually, but only after I get some experience."
Wakka and Tidus shot nervous glances at each other as Lulu started speaking and the clapping died down.
"Well," she cleared her throat, "I really didn't expect this to happen, but. I'm glad to be learning alongside you all, and I hope you can all reach the standards that I tried hard to reach."
"Whoa, sounds like she's got a bit of an authority thing." Tidus laughed silently. "You sure she's even your type?"
"Hey man, she's hot, and that's all I really need." Wakka replied.
"But I'm sure you can all do great." Continued Lulu. She stepped back, and Headmaster Cid once again stood forwards to pick up the microphone. The audience hesitated, and began clapping.
"Thank you Lulu, and I'm hoping you yourself meet all the expectations we have of your great skills." Said Cid. "For the rest of you, we have a speech from a particular number of teachers."
Tidus and Wakka found themselves listening to several long, and nearly identical speeches from many teachers. Finally, Sir Auron stepped up, his long red robe almost dragging behind him. Tidus noticed he seemed to have had his arm broken, or at least was wearing it in a strange way.
"That's Sir Auron, your teacher!" Exclaimed Wakka. "He always wears his arm that way until he fights, and people say he can knock down a T-Rexaur with his sword."
"Ahh, so that's why he keeps his arm that way." Tidus realized.
Sir Auron made his speech. "You are all potentially powerful fighters, but there is one among you, who shall be unnamed for the sake of privacy, who has my particular eye." At this, he seemed to look straight at Tidus, who noticed one of his eyes had a ragged scar, keeping the eyelid closed.
"I coulda swore he just stared right at you!" Wakka whispered to Tidus, as Sir Auron continued.
"This young man is the son of the winner of the Fire Tournament of Galbadia, sixteen years ago. He has a particular sword, and if he is anything like his father, he will do great things." Continued Auron. He picked up his sword with ease, unsheathed it, and pointed it towards the audience. "As for everyone else, I sincerely hope you can prove my high expectations to be justified. Thank you." He stepped down, and once again, Headmaster Cid took the mike.
"I hope you all enjoyed this presentation, and as of now, you are dismissed to your dorms." Spoke the Headmaster. He waved his hand, the salute of Balamb, and the audience stood up (and at this, it seemed like everyone had yawned and stretched).
"I wonder who Sir Auron was talking about?" Rikku asked Yuna, and Tidus barely overheard her.
He was talking about me. Tidus thought. But why? I did good on my tests and all, but it's like Wakka said. I did average, I guess, so why does he seem to think I'm going to be so powerful?
"Whoever the guy is," said Yuna, "I bet Sir Auron's going to work him hard, like he is said to do to whoever he thinks has talent."
"Well, Yuna, I bet I know who he is!" laughed Wakka. "He's right here-" But Tidus hit him in the gut. Wakka stuttered with a loud "oof!" and took a step backwards. With an angry glance, he whispered to Tidus "Why did you do that?!"
"Because he was talking about me!" Tidus angrily whispered. He noticed Yuna standing near them with a confused expression. "Uhh, sorry Yuna, but I just need to talk to Wakka alone for a sec, okay? Then maybe we can meet up or something." Tidus spoke.
"Um, yes, that's fine. Uh about both I mean, you can talk to him in privacy. I'll wait here." Yuna replied, her hands clasped at her waist. Rikku could be seen bouncing up and down, carrying her giant suitcase, grunting with physical exertion as she heaved it out of the auditorium. With a wink to Yuna, she disappeared.
"Thanks, I won't take long, promise." Tidus said. Yuna took a few steps away, and Tidus resumed his conversation.
"So, why don't you want me to tell her, ya?" Wakka asked. "She might think it's cool, y'know!"
"I don't want her to know because I don't want her to tell everyone!" Tidus replied.
"What's the matter?" Wakka asked, stroking the stubble at his chin. "You always liked attention, ya?"
"It's not that, it's just I don't want everyone to think I'm some kind of great fighter or nothing. I don't want to seem like a showoff, either." Tidus replied.
"Oooh, I get it!" Wakka realized. "Ya, well, have fun. I won't tell no one, promise!"
"Thanks buddy." Tidus said gratefully.
"By the way, if you're going to meet Yuna, I'll take your bags up for you." Wakka replied. "Then I'm gonna try to find Lulu." He grinned, and blushed.
"Good luck, man." Tidus replied, and with a wave, he turned to Yuna. "See ya 'round!"
Wakka lifted the bags, his muscles bulging, and shuffled out of the auditorium.
"Well, do you want to go?" Tidus spoke to Yuna. She nodded, smiling, and they walked off to find a good seat.
