Chapter 7: The Enemy Within

"Put me down now." I screamed at the sentinel who was carrying me over his broad shoulders, so that I was facing the sentinel behind me and my backside was in the direction we were headed.

"Hush up little missy, we're taking you somewhere special, just like you." He laughed, while the other one followed behind.

"How many times have I told you now that I'm not crazy?" I yelled furiously, punching his firm back daringly, which seemed to have no affect on him whatsoever, giving that his body was built to handle this kind of treatment.

"Honey you can punch and scream all you like, I am not going to put you down until we get you in that room of your's." He said seriously.

"Fine but I have to speak to Ti…uh I mean that blonde-headed man." I said reframing myself from mentioning his name, fearful that I would land myself in more trouble then I already was.

But I suppose it couldn't get that much worse as I was already basically put on death row.

"Ah…you mean the master. Why's that young miss?" The sentinel asked becoming a little friendlier.

"The Master? Why does everyone keep calling him that?" I asked frustrated and confused.

"Well he is the leader of Zanarkand young miss. He is the youngest to ever reign over Zanarkand in fact." He replied matter-of-factly. "Now tell me…why is it that you feel you must speak with him?"

"Because…I just need to. He doesn't know what he's doing." I replied trying to persuade them to take me back.

"Look, we are but the mater's faithful servants. We have no right to ask for his attention unless it is an emergency." He replied, while the guard behind me kept quiet.

"But it is an emergency." I argued, not giving them a reason as to why they must believe me.

"Miss…asking the master to come and see you because you 'think' he doesn't know what he is doing, is absolutely out of the question. It is an insult to him. Besides if he put you on death row, he would know what he's doing I'm sure. It's not like he does it every day. He would have a pretty good Zenit reason to sentence you to that." He replied reassuringly.

"How do you know I'm on death row?" I asked surprised.

"Well the place I was told to take you…basically told me everything I needed to know." He replied shortly.

"Where were you told to take me?" I asked as soon as he finished his sentence, hoping that it wasn't a torture chamber or anything that was even remotely close to it.

"Oh it ain't too bad once you get used to it. Well actually that's a lie, I mean I ain't ever been in one of em myself, but from what I've heard it's pretty much alright. I mean if you're used to being alone." He answered trying to make wherever he was taking me sound as comfortable as possible.

"Yeah well that's something I've had to deal with for quite a long time already." I answered truthfully in a rather soft tone.

I was confused. Wasn't this man supposed to be telling me to hush up and not even talking to me the way he was, like this other sentinel, who was following not even looking at me?

Well I guess I was grateful that he was being the way he was with me, because I felt a little more relaxed and had stopped trying to escape by punching him with my fists ages ago.

"Will there be anyone else in there?" I asked hoping that I wouldn't be locked up with other 'really' insane people.

"Oh no miss. This place is isolated. You'll be alone until you're taken to Mt Demise." He replied not even realising that he had just mentioned my deathbed and that it made me feel sick to the stomach just thinking about it.

"Oh." Was all I could whisper gloomily.

Hang on Yuna, why are you giving up like this? You have just found the one man you've been searching for. And you're just going to let these guys take you away from him. I mean Yevon Yuna, you have hardly tried to even make proper contact with Tidus yet. He may only need a little help remembering who he is, or was, and then he will see how utterly bizarre this whole situation is.

"Please I beg of you stop. Turn around and take me back to your Master." I said demandingly.

"No can do. If I go back on the Master's orders I could be put in here myself." He replied returning to his firm sentinel voice.

"But…" I started but was suddenly cut off by the sentinel behind me who had kept quiet the whole way.

"Young lady if you utter another word, I shall have the pleasure of cutting your tongue out and presenting it to the master himself if that is your wish. As that will be the closest you'll be getting to him if you don't shu-" he was suddenly cut off by the sentinel who was carrying me.

"Docile, hush up, you're getting on my nerves and you haven't even finished a sentence yet." Said the sentinel, who was clearly irritated by the man behind me.

"Well maybe that's because you just cut me off once again Seraph." He replied referring to the last part of the other sentinel's comment. "I hate it when you think you're above me all the time. Just because you've been serving the master longer it doesn't…"

Once again the sentinel known as Seraph cut Docile off.

"Docile I have no idea what you're talking about. I only answer to the master, no one else, so stop talking to me please."

"There you go butting in again. And you've clearly been answering to this one" He said referring to Yuna, "for the last fifteen minutes. So you just contradicted yourself." He said trying to make Seraph feel like a fool.

"I have merely been stating the obvious to her Docile. So if you don't mind I am going to continue the rest of this trip in silence. Which means I am talking to no one, including you little miss."' He said pushing me up higher over his shoulder.

I decided to keep my mouth shut for a while and try to register everything that was happening.

I think that I was in so much shock, that I didn't realise that I was in fact going to die in a matter of days, even hours. This truly scared me all of a sudden for the first time since everything had happened. I must have just seen Tidus and thought 'safety'. And that he would have just made everything go away. And that any minute he would come running after me and rescue me from the sentinel's grasp on me. But now it had finally seemed to sink in, that Tidus seriously didn't know me and he wasn't going to save me this time. I was most likely going to die under his command.

Oh Yevon what am I going to do? I can't let him do this. I don't even know why I've been so inexplicably calm about the whole situation until now. Tidus just seemed to make me feel so safe by just being here that I had sort of blocked the reality out. Oh Yevon…I had literally blocked out the reality of the situation, only thinking about the fact that I had finally found Tidus. Oh Yuna don't start crying, it will show that you're weak. You can't cry, I forbid you to. No Yuna don't…

I sobbed into the sentinel's shoulder quietly, so angry with myself for being so weak. They were just a few tears and I couldn't even hold them back.

"Hey…why are you crying young miss?" the kind sentinel asked as he started to walk down some dark stairs.

"It's nothing. I'm not crying, I just…" I started.

"You aren't very good at lying you know?" he stated questioningly.

I wiped away the few hated tears that had managed to escape my eyes, "I didn't lie. I believe you are quite mistaken." I argued angrily.

"Miss, I've heard girls cry in my time, believe me, they all couldn't bear it when I had to leave them," he began trying to humour me for some unknown reason, "and I can distinguish a girls weeping better then I can tie my own boots." He replied sympathetically.

"But…you can't tie up boots." I answered dumbly.

"Exactly." He replied.

I nodded my head in an understanding manner, even though I knew he most likely didn't see me.

He went to ask me what was wrong again, but someone from behind interrupted.

"Sentinel's return to your post, I will accompany the girl the rest of the way to her new room." Said the gruff voice.

It was sir Auron. It was him who was in my room only a while ago. I was about to shout his name happily but remembered his words in the room. He too obviously didn't remember me. This was just going too far. Something must have happened to both Tidus and Auron when jumping off that ledge that day.

But Tidus had always said he'd never forget me and that he'd always be there. So why had he gone back on his word. Surely love was stronger then some other force that had obviously tampered with his mind.

The sentinel pulled me off his shoulder with ease and placed me back on my feet. I looked up at him, he had longish black hair, a gigantic body which was mainly made up of muscle, I'd say he was about seven foot, and he wore long dark-blue pants and a dark blue mini cloak which flowed around his waist and showed off his torso. I looked up at his face for the first time since meeting him and gave him a look, which said 'thankyou'. He seemed to understand. Then he and the other sentinel marched off on sir Auron's command.

Sir Auron now turned to me and circled me as he tapped his fingers on his mouth thoughtfully.

He still looked the same, except for the fact his left arm was now functioning as well as his right and he was wearing a long black cloak, sort of like Tidus' now that I thought about what Tidus was wearing.

I forced myself to stop daydreaming about nothing, and focus on getting out of this place. I was not going to die, especially under the order of my one love.

So I decided to speak.

"I want to know what I must do to get out of here." I stated formally, keeping my head held high as I waited for him to stop circling me and answer my question.

It took quite a while for him to stop observing my body mind you and that was actually quite disturbing, especially when he had acted as a father figure in my life more then once.

"Well my girl there is not much you can do." He answered as he finally halted in a position in front of me.

I kept silent hoping to come up with another way to get him to help me. He however broke the silence with something I didn't expect.

"Young lady, if I'm not mistaken you resemble a young girl I used to know." He stated staring at me right in the eyes.

I froze in shock. Heremembered me. He actually knew me. But for some strange reason I decided to keep quiet and ask him who this girl was.

"And who might this young girl be?" I asked staring back at him.

He stared at me knowingly and stated, "Oh she was a bright young girl. She was quite clever actually. She became a summoner."

I knew he knew who I was. But I kept up the little charade anyway.

"Oh? And what name did this girl go by." I asked seriously trying to keep a smile off my face.

"I should think you would know…Lady Yuna." He replied not showing any real emotion of happiness appear on his face. But I remembered that had always been sir Auron's way. I finally let myself go and screamed out in joy.

"Sir Auron you remember me. I knew you would have to." I said ready to hug him, but he backed away, not accepting the gesture.

"Young lady, I am not here to greet you with a heart filled moment of happiness. I am not here to reunite with you or anything that is remotely close. I am simply here to make sure you get to your room safe and sound, ready for the event." He said referring to the one-way trip to Mt. Demise.

I once again felt a pang of panic and confusion.

"But Auron…I'm here now. I want to be with Tidus…I…you can't seriously want me dead?" I choked out staring at Auron in disbelief.

"It's not what I want, it's what is best for Tidus." He replied sternly.

"But I thought that me and Tidus being together was the best thing for both of us." I replied, still trying to get around Auron's hurtful words.

He shook his head and let a frustrated grimace appear on his face, "Lady Yuna, you can't be with him anymore. He belongs to the city of Zanarkand. Why didn't you leave him be two years ago after we left? Why? Because you believed that he seriously was in love with you, didn't you? Yuna how old were you? Seventeen? You don't even know what love is. You 'think' you love him Yuna, you don't 'really' love him. When I brought him here, I thought we were cured for good from your world of sorrow and suffering, but you had to find a way didn't you? You're just like your dam father." He growled furiously, as the veins became visible in his neck.

I gaped in absolute shock. There were no real words to describe how I felt just then.

"Sir Auron, you did this? You mean Tidus was never really doomed, you just made him and everyone else think that? Why Auron why? What good is he to you, other then the fact that…" I trailed off realising at that exact moment why Auron had done what he had.

A/N: So how did you think I went this time? It's a bit longer as I promised a few chapters ago, that I would make my chapters longer. How was the end of the chapter? Tell me what you think of Auron and why you think he doomed Tidus' to a life without Yuna? Send me your theories. I already have the next chapter typed, I just wanna know what you think?

By the way I am only going to start updating every Friday after I return from holidays. So until next week I will most likely be updating a few more times before I go away.

Thanks so far to everyone who has been reviewing my story. Mostly thankyou to digitalgirl89, Aurum Potestas Est, Saturn Stars and mandyfanforevr. You guys have been with me all the way so far.

P.S. Remember this part: He would have a pretty good Zenit reason to sentence you to that." He replied reassuringly.

Basically the sentinel is swearing the word Zenit, as people in Spira commonly swear Yevon.

Now 'Seraph' the kind sentinel's name is pronounced, Say-rarf, 'Seraph' also means angel.

Docile is the rude sentinel's name and is pronounced, Doe-sile, 'Docile' also means obedient.

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