Lily of Blood
23rd April
("Tidus was lost. His hopes of seeing Yuna again faded. ' life isn't worth living' he thought.")
Tidus opened his eyes fully. The men had walked off now, and Tidus felt more alone than ever. Was this how his story was meant to go?
" Kid, take a walk, you need to stretch you're legs!" called the man he assumed was Wakka. Though visually, it was...Wakka didn't remember him. Did the blast cause amnesia? But surely not on Auron as well? If so, why wasn't Tidus affected?
He stood up, no breeze. He wanted the confusion and pain to blow away in the wind, where it would never come back. The warm water still circled his feet, as he had stood half in, half out the water. Repeated questions swam faster and faster round his sore head. ' where am I?' ' who are these people?' 'where is Yuna?' they stayed there, like an old relative you can't get rid of.
" come on," called Wakka for the second time " the warm air could do you good, ya?"
As Tidus heaved forward, a lily caught his ankle. The lily wasn't a soothing shade of purple or white. It was spotted with red.
Tidus couldn't think where the blood had come from. He examined his ankle, and couldn't find any blood anywhere. It wasn't his. This blood, that had stained the flower was someone else's. ' odd,' thought Tidus ' this white flower proves that somebody is injured. Injured in the Moonflow...' the coincidence was unreal. Red and White. Blood and Bandages.
Tidus trailed behind the known strangers. The lily haunted him. 'Blood, from the Moonflow. Shoopuf? Animal?' It hit him like an old granny with a handbag full of rocks. 'Yuna?'
The company walked round the rocks looking for anywhere to shelter from the deadly sandstorms of the Sanubia desert. None.
A silhouette formed in the background of the dark. A small skinny figure, kneeling down to a lump on the floor.
Wakka spotted it a second after Tidus.
" That's Rikku!" he exclaimed.
" how did Rikku get here?" breathed Tidus as he ran. His heart pounded so fast, he was out of breath already. "she's alive!" Tidus remembered that day, how good it felt to say those words before the shocking truth.
The heap on the floor...was Yuna.
" is she okay!" stammered Tidus as he approached Rikku who was taking Yuna's pulse.
" who are you?" she asked
" damn it! Forget about me! Is she alright?"
Rikku shook her head.
" oh thank Yevon, she's only unconscious!" Tidus breathed a sigh of short-lived relief
Rikku shook her head again.
" there's no pulse..."
Tidus was lost. His hopes of seeing Yuna alive again had faded. ' life isn't worth living anymore' he thought
Yuna was covered in patches of blood, her body entangled in Lilies. She didn't move. She couldn't.
Tidus looked down at the flower wrapped around his ankle. The blood belonged to Yuna. It explained ho she died. The explosion. It killed her.
Tidus felt like drowning in his own sorrow. Living meant nothing to him now. The last look he had seen on Yuna's face was that of terror, panic, and pain.
The image would stick in Tidus's mind forever...his last image of Yuna, was one he would rather forget...
Don't cry! I know, it's upsetting but I felt like doing something different from Humour. Please reveiw, another chapter should be on soon, if you guys ( and gals ) like it. Thanks! By Nyviay.
