Hi there! I got a good review for this ficcie..so I figured I should carry on and open up more of the story! Enjoy!
Chapter 2
Rumours of a new Force
When they arrived in Kilika the sun was setting in the sky, glowing brightly like a large sphere. They all sat on the edge of the wooden walkway, where Yuna had once danced to send the dead to the Farplane.
"So what happened when you guys got here" Rikku asked curiously.
"Yuna danced." Tidus said. "She performed a sending."
"Shall we go and see Dona? We need to get the boat to Luca before nightfall." Paine said.
"Okay." Yuna said, standing up.
Yuna led the way around the corner towards Dona's house. She was greeted by a group of people asking her curiously who the young man was holding her hand.
Yuna blushed but Tidus was quick to respon. "What do you think"
The small group drifted away quietly whispering to each other and Tidus watch them in confidence as they rounded a corner and went out of sight, still mumbling to each other.
Yuna shook her head. "Is this going to happen everywhere I go"
Tidus smiled and put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry. Guess their just jelous that they can't have you and I can."
Yuna laughed and they continued on their way to Dona's. Yuna stopped suddenly as she overheard two men talking in hushed voices, hidden behind a veil that fell from the roof of a house. Yuna stopped in her tracks and Tidus narrowly avoided colliding with her.
"What's up, Yunie" Rikku said.
"Shh.." Yuna said, peering behind the veil.
Tidus looked over her shoulder to listen and Rikku and Paine listened closely from the other side of the veil.
"Why would I lie, Zak" A gruff voice said in annoyance.
There was no reply but Yuna saw the other man shrug when she peered around the veil to see.
"I can do it, and you can help me. We'll be unstoppable, together we can control Spira."
"It would be remarkable if it worked, Daisuke." The young man named Zak replied. To Yuna he looked slightly younger than herself, perhaps seventeen. He had dark brown hair and chocolate eyes. He wasn't dressed like most of the villagers, he wore black jeans and a navy top. His hands were in his pockets nervously.
"It DOES work, do you need proof? 'Cos I can toast one of these villagers with a click of my fingers, see" Daisuke replied coldly. "Besides, I need your help, and If you don't agree, then I'll toast you as well, see? Oh, and of course I'll toast you're pretty little sister, but slowly. She could be fun."
Zak gulped as Daisuke held out a strange shaped, black gun with a dragons head at the end. "Alright...just don't hurt my sister, ok"
"Good, then we have an agreement, tonight we shall meet in Luca. If you are not there then you're sister will wish she'd never been born. Got it" Daisuke said angrily.
Zak nodded violently, and Yuna, Tidus, Rikku and Paine pulled back and pretended to be looking at some items for sale as Daisuke walked passed. When he had gone Yuna peered around the veil. Zak was sitting on the floor with his head in his hands looking frightened.
"We should see if he's alright." Yuna whispered to the others. Rikku and Tidus nodded but Paine looked fed up.
They followed Yuna around the veil and she slowly walked to the frightened boy. "Um..excuse me, are you alright"
Zak looked up, petrified. He almost fell off the box he was sitting on but stedied himself. "Uh...um...yeah, I was just uh..."
"Spill the beans" Rikku said, pointing an accusing finger at him. "We heard what that meanie said to you"
Zak looked at his feet. "Well...I don't see why the High Summoner and her friends should care about me. I'm just a stranger to you."
Yuna looked a little offended. "I help anyone, everyone in Spira should be safe from harm."
Zak looked up at her, his chocolate eyes afraid. "But...you can't help me. I know what he can do. He created a force...it's worse than Sin. What it does, is it makes you die, but it doesn't allow you to go to the Farplane. Then, the victims begin to hate the living, and turn into fiends. But...there's something about the fiends that isn't normal. They're stronger, bigger...more powerful. But somehow...you can tell the person that they once were is suffering, you can feel it. Like their soul is screaming. The Force can do other things too...but I don't understand it. It's meant to be worse than Sin."
There was a strange silence after Zak's explanation. Yuna was frowning, Rikku was looking pale, Paine had her arms folded and Tidus had his hand on his hip and was scowling.
Yuna put a hand on her head, thinking hard and trying to sort out her head. No less than a week ago, she had defeated Vegnagun and got Tidus back. Two years before that she defeated Sin, and stopped it from coming back. She thought things were going to be fine now, she had Tidus back, Spira wasn't fighting...but she was horribly wrong.
"What are we gonna do, Yunie" Rikku asked quietly.
Yuna looked at them all watching her. She was feeling slightly angry, not at them but at herself. She remembered Leblanc calling her a goody-goody and deep down she knew it was somewhat true. But if she wasn't a goody-goody, Sin would still be here and Vegnagun would have destroyed Spira.
"Nothing." Yuna said. "We need to know more first."
Tidus's eyes widened and a grin appeared on his face. "I have an idea. He can be our spy." Tidus nodded towards Zak.
Zak looked terrified. "Oh, no no no no. If Daisuke found out, my sister would be a fiend. I can't let that happen, she's only seven."
"Don't worry." Yuna said, gently. "We won't let that happen. We're going to Luca, too. You can keep away from us on the way but when you get the chance, tell us what you know and we'll help you."
A smiled broke out on Zak's face. "Thank you, all of you. I'll do my best."
They all nodded and Zak walked out from behind the veil, trying to look as normal as he could.
"Alright, we ready to go to Dona's before the boat comes? She might know something about all this." Paine asked, her arms folded.
Yuna nodded. At last the group made their way up to Dona's house, feeling slightly worried about the strange encounter they had just had. Yunawas gripping Tidus's hand a little too tightly and smiled in apology when he looked at her questioningly.
"Dona" Yuna said loudly at the door.
"Yes, Come in" Dona said from inside.
Yuna led the others into Dona's house. It was a small hut with a double bed, chest of drawers, stairs leading up onto the roof area and many paintings and maps of Spira. A small framed painting of Dona and Bathello was standing on the chest of drawers beside a flowerpot. There was also a large tree trunk in the center of the house, the leaves poked out onto the roof area, and there was a table built around the trunk at which Dona and Barthello were sitting.
"My my my." Dona said, shaking her head and standing up. "What brings you here"
"We're on a journey around Spira" Rikku chirped in. "Showing our old friend how much it's changed"
Dona's attention was drawn to Tidus. She looked a little taken aback. "My, My, My. You again? Well where did you vanish to"
Tidus frowned slightly but didn't reply.
"Uh...anyways." Rikku continued. "We just saw this really weird man...he was frightening a boy called Zak and telling him he could create this force..."
Rikku went on with her story, about how the man had the strange dragon shaped gun, and everything that they had talked about with Zak.
"Hmm..." Dona said, putting a hand to her head. "He has frightened a few people in the area, but people beleive it to be a silly rumour he's spreading. He was telling people he could create a force worse than Sin." Dona said, walking over to the window and putting a hand on her hip. "People were quite frightened by it. By the sound of your story, it wasn't just a rumour."
"Well, the Gullwings are on the case" Yuna said.
"Well, if you have any information please let us know." Dona replied.
"The Gullwings gotcha covered" Rikku said, punching the air.
The group said goodbye to Dona and Barthello and left the small hut, in the direction of the dock. They were all feeling worried about the journey lying before them...and somehow they knew it would be no different to Yuna's pilgrimage.
