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Chapter 8- Attack on the mountain

That night Yuna, Rikku, Paine and Tidus stayed up all night and talked about what was happening. Yuna didn't leave Tidus's side because she was so worried, Rikku paced, and Paine glared at the floor as if it where the floor's fault.

"Just what the heck are we supposed to do!" Rikku wailed.

Yuna stood up from Tidus's side as she felt dread in her stomach, and a niggling feeling in the back of her head that something was wrong.

"Yuna?" Tidus said, standing up beside her.

"We have to go. Now." Yuna said quickly, pulling out her pistols and edging carefully out of the camp like a fox.

"Now!" Rikku shrieked. "We haven't slept!"

But Tidus was already drawing Brotherhood and following Yuna out of the camp. Rikku grabbed her Sphere Grid, stuffed it in her pocket and zoomed after them with Paine at her heels.

"Yunie, what's this about?" Rikku squealed.

"Shh…" Yuna said, leaning out of the camp and holding an arm out to stop Rikku.

They all listened intently as they heard voices close to the camp entrance.

"YOU WERE A SPY ALL ALONG, EH?" Daisuke was shouting.

"No really…just listen…they're not here! I was umm…I was a spy but now I'm telling you where they are! They're NOT here! They got away on the Airship after what happened on the Thunder Plains!" Zak was saying quickly.

"All right, all right!" Daisuke groaned. "Wait here, I have to go and check the Woods carefully first."

Zak nodded and Daisuke headed off into the Woods with his dragon-like gun in his hand. Zak sighed and spun round when Yuna emerged from the camp.

"Lady Yuna!" He gasped, rushing over. "You must get out of here! He found out. I threw him off the trail but I don't think I can go on much longer…he really knows how to control Spira…I know what he can do."

"What can he do, then?" Paine hissed. "Because we're all a little confused about what's going on."

Zak looked around nervously. "Just trust me! Please, get out of here! Amaya told you didn't she, Yuna, Tidus? She told you about what is going to happen!"

Yuna looked at the floor and sighed. "All right. We'll go. Please be careful, Zak."

Zak nodded. "We'll meet again, don't you worry. I don't wanna hang around Daisuke too long."

Tidus thumped Zak on the back in encouragement. "Don't worry."

Zak nodded and gestured for them to leave. The group did so, hurrying up the hill and into the open air. As they did Yuna heard a yell and looked around in horror.

Daisuke was racing towards Zak screaming, "TRAITOR! THEY ARE NOT HERE! I HAVE SEEN IT!"

"Run!" Yuna hissed to her friends and they bolted for the Calm Lands.

Out in the bright illuminated Calm Lands they ran as fast as they could. Yuna wished Clasko was nearby with a Chocobo.

Rikku seemed to be thinking the same thing because she said, "Where IS Clasko when you need him!"

Yuna twisted her neck mid-run and saw Daisuke rushing out of the Woods in a state of fury. His gun was shooting around the plains madly and Yuna ducked as a beam of light blue light was sent zooming at the shop.

When they reached the shop a man shouted, "Lady Yuna! What on earth-?"

"Please!" Yuna cried. "Hold him off!"

The man nodded, looking quite frightened and Yuna and her friends continued to race towards Mt Gagazet without stopping for supplies. They could hear Daisuke's gun firing in all directions but they always managed to avoid it.

Rikku slammed a hand on her walkie-talkie in anger. "BROTHER! CODE RED! DISASTERIFFIC!"

The walkie-talkie made no response and Rikku yelled in anger at it.

Yuna was getting a stitch. She stumbled slightly and Tidus grabbed her and tugged her away from the beam of light that had just shot from Daisuke's gun.

"It can shoot quite far can't it?" Tidus panted, trying to joke.

After what seemed like an age, the group were charging over the bridge into Mt Gagazet. Yuna looked around and with relief saw Daisuke was a long way away.

"Don't stop!" Tidus shouted. "He might use his power to catch us!"

Yuna realized he was right. None of them knew the ultimate power Daisuke held, but they knew it would be something terrible. Yuna nodded and they all charged up the mountain path.

Yuna stopped at the top and looked around frantically as the others tried to catch their breath. "Where's Kimahri?" Yuna gasped.

The Mountain was empty. The save sphere hummed quietly in the corner, the Commsphere was covered with snow and you could only just make out the blue screen, and the wind whistled in the usual way. There were no Ronso to be seen.

"I bet they're up at Kimahri's statue." Paine said.

"We'd better get there. Fast!" Rikku cried, dancing on her toes and staring at the entrance to the Mountain in fright.

"Kimahri's statue?" Tidus questioned.

"We'll tell you later!" Yuna said, rushing up the Mountain path.

"Whoa, Yunie!" Rikku called. "Hadn't we better change to a warmer dressphere?"

"There's no time!" Yuna snapped. "Come on!"

The four of them ran as fast as they could up the Mountain, their sides in agony and their faces pink with cold and effort. Suddenly they heard a shot, and saw Daisuke charging up one of the hills not far behind them.

"No!" Yuna shouted in frustration.

The group charged across the snowy mountain, hearing Daisuke's gun shooting after them. It luckily missed each time, but Yuna feared it would eventually hit someone. It was the same dragon like gun she had seen before, back in Kilika.

After a long time of running and dodging rays of blue light, they reached the cliffs that led to Kimahri's statue.

"Climb!" Paine hissed, jumping on the first rock and hoisting herself up on the second.

Rikku, Tidus and Yuna didn't need telling twice. Yuna waited until Rikku and Tidus were safely at the top before she climbed onto the second rock. As soon as she did though, she felt something gtab her leg.

"AAH!" Yuna yelled, twisting her neck. With a gasp she saw Daisuke pointing the gun at her face.

Before Yuna knew what had happened, Rikku, Paine and Tidus had leapt from the top of the rock and knocked the gun right from Daisuke's grimy hands. She didn't know how they managed it, but she briefly glimpsed Rikku kick the gun from his hand, and the next thing she knew, he was gone in a flash of blue light.

She blinked. "What the-?"

Tidus went to pick up the dragon like gun, but Paine yelled, "No!"

Tidus looked at her, a bit shocked. "What? Kimahri might know something about it."

"It could be dangerous. It's best to-"

"What? Just leave it there so some other maniac can get it? Risking my own safety to ensure that this…thing doesn't get back to Daisuke is a risk I'm willing to take." Tidus said, clearly determined.

"Okay…" Paine said, shaking her head.

Tidus carefully picked up the gun, and they continued to climb the rocks. Reaching the top they saw the Ronso, sitting around the statue. Lian and Ayde were playing chase, Kimahri was chatting to a female, and several others were scattered about the clifftops. Yuna smiled as she spotted her own statue, sticking out around the corner near the cliff edge.

Kimahri looked at them and then made his way over. He stared at Tidus for quite some time and then said, "Kimahri miss you."

Tidus scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"But Mountain tell Kimahri that dream shall become reality. Mountain know many, many things. Kimahri hear Mountain, so Kimahri grow wise, become Elder."

"An Elder!" Tidus gasped.

Kimahri nodded.

"Can we skip to the point?" Paine asked, arms folded and lips pursed.

Yuna dived into a quick explanation. When she had finished, Kimahri frowned.

"Kimahri talk to Mountain and other Ronso about this. Kimahri will examine gun. Can Yuna and friends wait?"

"Sure, Kimahri." Yuna said.

Rikku and Paine decided to go and see what other Ronso thought about their situation. Yuna knew what she wanted to do right at that moment.

"Hey." She said to Tidus, "Come over here. I want to show you something."

She led Tidus around the corner and showed him the statue. The statue of Yuna standing with a pistol held up near her face, and she was grinning. It was one of Yuna's usual poses when she was wearing the Gunner dressphere.

"This…this is what they said they'd make…two years ago." Tidus said quietly. "I…I never thought I'd see it with… you by my side."

Yuna took his hand and squeezed it gently. "Well you are doing right now."

Tidus grinned.

"Hey Yunie!" Rikku cried, charging round the corner. "Daisuke got up here! Kimahri and the others are holding him off! He told me to take the gun and run!"

"Back in the fray..." Tidus sighed. It was a usual battle comment of his but he said it with less enthusiasm.

"I think it's safe to run." Paine said from behind her.

"Yeah, run!" Tidus said, as Daisuke blasted a Ronso of their feet with a new gun.

The Ronso were doing their best…but Kimahri knew Daisuke was too strong. He ordered his people to pull back, and Daisuke, laughing manically, took to the path after Tidus, Yuna, Rikku and Paine.