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Chapter 6: Re-mission
"You're WHAT?!" Wakka squawked.
We were sitting around a table. This time it was just Yuna, Rikku, Lulu, Wakka, Tidus and I. Paine, Gippal and Baralai had prior commitments.
"I know that this is hard for any of us to swallow, but trust me. It all kind of makes sense now."
"How does it make sense?" Tidus grumbled.
"Tidus, Wakka, you two saw the look Auron gave me when we first met in Warrior Training. When I first saw him, I had this feeling." I turned to Yuna, "Was Auron part of your team to fight Sin?"
Wakka leapt back, "Woah!"
"He gets a bit edgy whenever someone mentions Sin." Tidus explained.
Yuna nodded, "Yes, he was part of the team. He was also part of the team that defeated Sin ten years before I did. I was only seven when he left."
"And you're 17 now, so I would've been four. Take two years off of that, then…" I looked up at Yuna, "It fits. My "dad" never died at all. He just got placed into Spira. Both he and mum led me to believe that he was dead."
"We gotta go find him, ya?" Wakka tore up from the table and ran. We all followed him, trying to keep up with him.
There was only one place where we could find Auron: the warrior-training hall.
"Sir Auron!" we all yelled out as we entered the room. Auron turned around from where he was setting up various equipment.
"What?" he wanted to know, and then he looked straight at me again. I felt that recognition between father and child.
"There's something we need to speak to you about," Yuna explained, handing him the note.
He took it and read it, then looked at me, then Yuna.
"Is this true?" he wanted to know. Yuna nodded, "they want the daughter of the guardian at the Djose Temple, then they want us to sacrifice her." She then looked at me, "And we know who the daughter is. The reason why it was addressed to me is because of my dad. They want the daughter of his guardian. Jecht had a son, so who did you have?"
Auron seemed to consider that, then he looked at me, "No…it can't be…" he was horrified.
"Yes, it's true Auron," I said softly, "I am your daughter. I'm the one who has to get sacrificed."
He looked at me, "Is this true?"
"You know it's me Auron," I said softly, "You just can't believe that I've grown up so much. You don't want me dead."
"How can you tell?" Wakka, Tidus and Lulu all asked at the same time.
I looked at them and smiled, "A bond between father and daughter is hard to break. Even if you haven't seen them for twelve years, you can still read their body language and their feelings like a book." I looked at Auron, "Isn't that right…dad?"
He hesitated, then his face clouded over, "Marla." He pulled me into a hug.
"So, it looks like another journey for the great Yuna," Tidus joked as we walked back home this afternoon. This time it was all of us, including Auron. We were to leave Besaid village this afternoon, and travel to Luca to do what I thought was right.
"Yep, it looks like that." She smiled and kissed him. It had come to no surprise as to who liked whom. Yuna and Tidus were meant for each other. Lulu and Baralai got on like a house on fire. For Rikku however, things were slightly different.
"There's this guy at school who's name is Isarru," Rikku explained to me.
Inside the house, I got dressed in my bedroom, which I shared with Yuna. Yuna was already dressed in a kimono-like dress, with a yellow sash. Rikku had on this orange combo, Tidus and Wakka had on the outfits they had on at school, and Lulu looked the same as always. Auron had on a red coat, which a high black collar, which covered most of his face and made him look like a vicar.
AS for me…well, I was wearing the outfit I'd appeared in Yuna's bedroom with.
"Not exactly a warrior look," Lulu had commented.
"Hang on," Yuna grinned, "I've got it." She went into our bedroom and came out with a cloak.
"One side is black," she explained, "the other side is invisible." I slipped the cloak on-the black side of course. She then disappeared into the room again and came out with a sword-a real one. She handed it to me.
"It was a sword that Cid got given for his eleventh birthday. He passed it onto me." I took the sword in my hands. It was a black sword, with the sharp end being coloured white. On one side of it was an inscription of some sort.
"It says Eagle in Al Bhed," Rikku explained.
"Cool," I began making hacking motions in the air.
"OK, then." Wakka clapped his hands to get our attention, "let's go."
"Kimahri!" Tidus and Yuna cried out in unison, as the big thing that I'd seen in the photo strode into the room.
For the second time since I'd arrived here, I fainted.
"What happened?"
"Must have been the sight of Kimahri."
"Why do I scare her?"
"I'm not from this world," I grunted as I woke up. I looked straight into Kimahri's eyes.
"Who are you?" he wanted to know, speaking in a deep, rough sort of voice.
"This is Marla," Yuna explained, "she's coming on the mission with us to rescue my father and Cid. They want the daughter of the guardian sacrificed there. Marla, this is Kimahri."
"Nice to meet you." I said, trying my best to be polite while avoiding fainting.
"let's go," Wakka sounded impatient.
After about ten minutes we stopped at a cliff overlooking a village. There was a statue there as well.
"Alright, now we pray. Chappu didn't pray before he leave the town and look what happened to him."
Yuna sighed, "go ahead." She looked at me, "the prayer is this." She did this cupped hands thingy then bowed.
"Thanks for explaining," I muttered, then joined Wakka down by the statue. I prayed for a safe journey and the hope of finding Braska and Cid. I also prayed that my mum wouldn't be upset and end up dying of shock.
"We will sleep here tonight," Lulu explained to the two of us as we finished.
"Unpack your bag," Yuna hissed at me. I nodded and unpacked it.
The sky overhead of us was darkening fast.
That night I couldn't sleep. Something was bothering me, but I wasn't sure what.
I got up and out of my sleeping bag, walking past my dad, who grunted, then I sat down on the ledge overlooking the village.
"Why new girl awake?" I jumped. Kimahri had woken up and was right behind me.
"Kimahri!" I hissed, "what about you?"
"I heard someone wake up." He explained. He then sat down next to me. It felt a little bit scary to be sitting next to him.
I pulled a photo out of my pocket, "I couldn't sleep."
Kimahri looked at the photo, then at me, "Tell Kimahri about family."
"Well…" I looked down at the photo, "I'm an only child…my mum is probably worried to death about me and my dad's this guy who wanders around mysteriously." I began to cry. Kimahri put his arm around me and drew me in. I looked up at him.
"My dad…it's Auron. I'm the one who has to die," I whispered.
Kimahri left after a while, so I was on my own. I shuddered as I looked at the photo, then back at the cliff overlooking the village.
"You taking your last look at Besaid, ya?" Wakka wanted to know as he sat down.
"Shut up," I grumped.
"sorry," wakka replied, "But I've been thinking. There may be a way for us to be able to fight whoever it is that kidnapped Braska and Cid, rather than sacrifice you. I mean, fear can sometimes work with you, rather than against you."
I turned to him, "You try discovering that your father knew Braska. I," I stood up, "have an empathic connection with my father. Yuna would have one with her dad, and so would Rikku OK? They're probably upset now because they've lost the ones they love."
I crawled off and slept.
The next morning, we hit the beach. However, soon enough, we came across a monster of some sort.
It looked like a jelly blob. It was white, with blue eyes.
"Not one of these," Lulu groaned.
"I can fight it," I mumbled under my breath.
The fire that had been burning inside me shot up and concentrated itself in the sword.
I ran forward and drove my sword into the thing, then I ran back.
The jelly thing then looked like it was melting, then it turned into a bunch of multicolour things.
"Pyreflies," Auron muttered to himself.
Everyone was staring at me.
On the boat, Wakka explained where we were going.
"We're going to Kilika Island. There's a blitzball tournament coming up for the Aurochs. I play for them as well as the besayers. As a promise, we agreed to pick up the Kilika Beasts, which is the blitz team here."
"Okay," I muttered, then Lulu appeared at my side.
"Can I have a word?" she wanted to know.
I nodded.
"I think that you're both a warrior and a black mage," she explained to me once we were up on the top deck.
"Excuse me?" I screeched.
She kept her cool, "I'm a good example of a black mage. Someone who can harness the four elements-Fire, Water,"
"—Blizzard and Thunder," I finished her sentence, "I have been listening to what the professor's been saying in class."
"Anyway, most mages do weak attacks, but they have high magic power. You're what would be called different. You have a high attack power and a high magic power."
"And I can concentrate my power on my sword." I muttered to myself.
"Right," Lulu leaned towards me, "That must have been a Firaga spell you cast."
"A what?" I muttered.
"There are three levels of spells. The first level spells are just what you'd call them in everyday life, fire, water, you get the idea. The second level spells have –ra on the end, like fira, watera, you get the idea. The third level spells have –ga on the end, so it'd be firaga, wateraga, you get the idea."
"alright," I muttered.
Then a crash rocked the ship.
And everything went black.