Chapter 20: The Chocobo eater
We stayed in the Travel Agency for a few minutes. I couldn't take that Wakka and Alice were out there alone so I went out there to tell them to come inside. But when I opened the door, they were already gone. My friends... gone until I took out Sin. I was so scared that maybe I wouldn't survive this. But I had to. I went out to the edge of the cliff which over looked the Ocean. I sat down in the grass swaving around my body by the wind. Then Tidus walked out.
"Check it out!" he said as he looked at the ocean and the big pink sky
The sunset was different from the one we saw in Kilika. It was quiet—almost gentle
"Watcha up to?" he walked up to me
I looked up at him and smiled
"Pretty..." I replied
"Sure is" he said quietly
"Peaceful...I wish I could live in a place like this" I said as he looked at me
"You can" he said "Once you defeat sin, right?"
"Uh-huh" I nodded "But then a new sin will be born anyway"
"Well...You can just beat it again"
"I wish I could" I said
"Hey,
you can! Trust me! You are the best Black Mage out there!" he then
paused "Sandra, why does sin always come back?"
I looked up at
the pink sky "Sin is our punishment for our vanity, and it will not
go away until we've atoned"
"How do we do that?" He asked "What did we do that was so bad in the first place? Oh, was it using lots of machine or something? Oh...wait, was that such a bad thing, really?"
I slowly put my fingers to my chin "It's funny..."
"Hm?" asked Tidus
"Ever since I was young, I never questioned it. But now that you ask me if it is that bad or not...I don't know. There are so many things I don't know."
Tidus stood up "Well then, we're the same! Such thinking is very unbecoming of a Black mage" he said with a different voice "Sound like Mika?"
I put my hands to my mouth and started laughing "That's not very nice, you know?"
Tidus Yawned and Stretched as I stood up
"You know...During a game, you have to think of blitz and nothing else, you know?"
"Okay" I replied
"You cant think "That's a cute girl in the fifth seat from the right" he said as he pointed his finger in the air and put his hand over his forehead "And you can't be thinking about where you're going to go on that date, because the minute you do, that's when you lose! You see Sandra, what I'm saying is, you really shouldn't worry, you know? After we beat sin, that's when you can worry about the future"
"I guess" I replied
"But Sandra, How are you supposed to beat something big like that?" he held his arms straight out
"The final summoning" I replied as Tidus looked at me confused "It's the only way to defeat sin. The only way. With it, we can call the final aeon. That's the goal of the pilgrimage. The Fayth of the final summoning lies waiting on the far north, to great Black mage that complete their pilgrimage. At the worlds edge...Zanarkand"
"In Zanarkand?" he asked surprised
"She means the ruins of a city destroyed one thousand years ago." We turned to find Auron
"You sure its ruins?" asked Tidus
"That's what I've heard, mine too" I replied
"You'll see it for yourself soon enough. Sandra, come back inside
"I will go to zanarkand, to see it with my own eyes" Tidus sounded sad
I shook my head, looked back at the ocean and walked back inside.
Everyone rested for awhile until Tidus woke up. He walked to the dorrr and as he got in front of it some other guy walked inside and bumped the door on tidus's nose
"Bakrft qu" he said in a different language
"Sorry?" tidus asked confused
"Ah, forgive me sir. I meant to say "Pardon me" but it came out in Al Bhed"
"Oh, You're an Al bhed?" asked Tidus
He nodded "I am Rin, owner of this establishment" he replied "Hela du saad gui"
"Huh?" asked Tidus
"It means "Nice to meet you" replied Rin
"Well "Helly doo saad wee" to you too" said Tidus trying to speak Al Bhed
"If you are interested...Al Bhed primers can be found all over Spira." He said "Finding them and learning our language might be fun. Here, let me give you one in commoration of our meeting. Although you might want to be careful where you speak our landuage" he handed a book to Tidus
"Yeah, I hear Al Bhed aren't liked much" said tidus "Oh, sorry"
Rin then exhelled loudly "Ed ec a orasa"
Suddenly a scream came from outside
"Someone help! The Chocobos!"
That's our cue, lets go!" said Auron
We both ran outside
"To the Chocobo corral!" said Lulu
I then ran out of the Travel Agency and as we ran a few feet we heard a roar above us. We turned around and saw the giant Chocobo eater on top of the Travel Agency holding a chocobo. It then jumped off in front of us. The Chocobo escaped. The fiend of strong and had too much strength for us so I had to summon Ifrit. I held my stick in front of me as it burst in flames I twisted my staff until the fire gathered in the middle. I kneeled down and made a fire circle around me. The whole ground went up the air. Ifrit was in the middle of the rock surrounded by a shield he burst out as I flew in the air I landed on his shoulder and we both landed on the ground.
"Please, help us" I said to the Aeon
Ifrit made a meteor come from his mouth and strike at the Fiend. It did a lot of damage but not enough. The fiend ran up to Ifrit and striked it with its humongous hand and it knocked Ifrit out. He slowly disappearedWe were at an edge of a cliff
"So...We're to be pushed off a cliff?" asked Auron
I couldn't let that happen but it was to late. No warnings, the fiend pushed us off the cliff
