Yuna and Tidus were walking for a good few minutes. There were no fiends insight and everywhere was peaceful and quiet. Yuna glanced at Tidus every once in a while and smiled at him. He would smile back, though she smiled with content, he smiled to please her.
"What will the others think?" Yuna asked with a slight laugh and a smile, "Sir Auron may be angry with us for going off..." The smile faded from her face. They would be so worried for her and she hadn't realised. She had completely forgotten about them; forgotten about the whole Pilgrimage that she had only hours ago said she was going to quit. She looked at Tidus and bit her bottom lip.
"I'm not sure. I don't know if they'll be able to get back..." He said quietly. "They will know we are gone by now, but they will have no idea where." Yuna shook her head.
"Perhaps I can pray to the Fayth, pray that they find their way back here?" Tidus said nothing. "I must do something. How could I just forget like that. I'm useless!" A single tear escaped from her eye but she tried not to let it bother her and just brushed it away. She squeezed Tidus' hand tight and marched on quickly to the village.
On approaching Besaid village Yuna bowed and then ran to the Temple. Tidus bowed half heartedly and then ran after her. Everywhere was quiet.
I though everyone was inside. It was nearly evening, perhaps they were eating... or something.
"Yuna!" Tidus called when Yuna reached the Temple doors. She turned around her head and nodded. "It's quiet." He said. Yuna turned her whole body round and then walked slowly back to Tidus.
"Where is everyone?" She asked. Tidus sighed and walked to the nearest hut and pulled back the thick cloth.
"Hello?" He called. "Anyone in?" There was no reply. He sighed and then looked back to Yuna with a puzzled look on his face. "I don't know. Perhaps they have all gone somewhere..." He trailed off, not knowing the area well enough to take a guess at where the villagers may have gone.
"No, they wouldn't just up and leave, this place is too precious to them, to everyone. It's a village that has a Temple. That alone needs constant guarding or anyone could just walk in!" She ran back up to the Temple doors and pulled them open. The Hymn of the Fayth couldn't be heard. Everywhere was quiet... unnatural."There's something wrong." Yuna cried and she ran up the steps only to find that the doors to the Cloister of Trials were wide open, and some considerable force had been used to open them. Tidus ran in after Yuna and joined her at the top of the stairs.
"We have to go through." Yuna said. Tidus nodded and they stepped through the doors together. The trail itself, though simple enough, seemed to go on for hours until they finally reached their destination. Sphere's and Glyph's confused Tidus' mind but Yuna knew exactly where to go and what to do.
Stepping in the the final chamber they could both hear a small voice. A whisper of a young child. Yuna looked at Tidus and then looked around.
"Hello?" She called gently so as not to make the child jump. "You shouldn't be in here."
"Go away, I'm in training and you aren't my Guardian." The voice was of a young boy.
"Training?" Yuna asked. "You are to become a Summoner? You managed the Trial on your own? So young?"
"Too many questions in your mind." The voice said. "Leave me in peace and do not disturb me again."
"May I ask your name?" Yuna asked, taking a step forward.
"No, you will find out soon enough." Yuna shook her head. "Go." The voice said, not louder or more demanding but Yuna felt that she had to obey and she turned around. Tidus grabbed her wrist.
"Show yourself." He called, not falling for the charm of the strange voice. "You can go back to your training, we need to talk to you!"
"You already know who I am!" The voice said. "You know me well."
"Me?" Tidus asked, astonished. Yuna's mouth fell open and she looked at Tidus with shock on her face.
"Yes, you know who I am."
"Then show yourself!" Tidus cried. They were left in silence for about a minute, neither Tidus nor Yuna wanting to move. Then the door that was in front of them slowly moved forward and a young boy of about four feet in height stepped out. He had scraggly blond hair and baggy blue trousers and a red jumper with a hood.
"Now I have a question for you." Said the boy and he stepped forward a few more steps so that he could make out their faces but Tidus and Yuna couldn't make out the boy's. "What are you doing here? In this way? A Summoner and his Guardian from the future?"
"His?" Yuna asked. "I'll have you know I-"
"I am right. You are the Guardian, you ask too many questions." The boy's voice made Yuna fall silent and she took a step back and lowered her head.
"Wait a minute! I'm no Summoner. From the future? Pah!" Tidus stepped back and stood with Yuna. "This is the Summoner you want."
"I want no Summoner." The boy said. "You are both wrong. I may be young but I know that I'm right. Summoner Tidus and his one lowly Guardian Yuna."