Chapter two: Sizzzzzzle

"Auron, Jecht, everyone ready? We're going to cross the thunder plains, today."

"Err... I think we should buy some more stuff... potions you know... In case we're hit by lightning." Jecht regarded Auron, somehow he behaved strange this morning... Braska nodded.

"Ok, Auron but hurry up. I don't know how long we will need and I want to be in a save place when it's getting night."

An hour later they stood at the beginning of the thunder plains, it was raining, the wind wiped into their faces and lightning flashed down almost every second.

"Well, now I know why it's called the thunder plains..." Jecht said as a roaring rumble stroke the air, he gulped.

"Good. Then let's get through this as fast as possible." Braska shouted at them, as the thunder was too loud, and marched forwards. Jecht followed him... just Auron procrastinated...

"Huh? Auron are ya comin or not?" Jecht looked at him and walked back, as Braska did.

"Auron, is something wrong? You're a bit pale." The Summoner was slightly worried about his otherwise very self-confident guardian.

"It's nothing... I just... I think I've forgotten something in Guadosalam... ahem... We should go back, shouldn't we?" A wide grinning appeared on Jecht's face.

"I see... Hey Braska! Ponytail-lass got damn funk of the big bad plains! He's nearly pissing into his panties!" Auron blushed and shouted at Jecht.

"I'M NOT! I'M NOT AFRAID! I just don't want to be deep-fried by one of those!" He pointed at a lightning which immediately carbonised a kaktor that went astray.

"Ah c'mon! Ya' re timid! Ya're twitching whenever there's thunder!" Jecht started laughing, while Auron knotted his fists.

"And if I am? It's nothing wrong about holding dear to one's life! And you can't tell me that you are NOT afraid!" Jecht looked down onto his feet, that was a point for Auron.

"And you know what? I'm afraid, too. But we have to cross it to get to the Macalania forest! Please friends, let's go... As fast as we' re passing it, as soon we'll be through it." Auron and Jecht looked at him, they nearly had forgotten Braska was with them. They nodded and walked on.

Braska led the group, then Auron and Jecht was the end. They had been marching for a while, Auron still extremely nervous, when Jecht had a fantastic idea. He behaved quite silent and then, without warning, slapped Auron onto the shoulder. Terrible idea!

Auron yelled out, jumped up and crashed into Braska, then he fell backwards and rested on the ground heavy breathing, staring with eyes wide opened into the stormy sky. Jecht was rolling with laughter.

"...MAN!... Do you want to kill me? I think... I've got a... heart attack... Moron!... Uhh I'm feeling sick." Braska shot a rebuking glance at Jecht, who immediately helped up Auron and apologised his behaviour, though rather questionable as he was still snickering.

"I hope you get fried crispy! You deserve it!" Auron pushed him away and followed Braska. Jecht ran after them.

"C'mon Auron! Don't be so unforgiving! I just tried to cheer ya up a bit! To distract ya from the weather!" Auron shook his head but secretly he smiled, slightly.

"I can renounce your solicitude! Just try to warn me when you're noticing some lights!" And they walked on.

"Auron watch out! There comes a..."

"AAAHHH!" sizzle

"Err... lightning... I'm sorry!" Braska and Jecht ran to the smouldering coal that was Auron.

"Are you ok?" He stood up and knocked off the dirt.

"Sure, I'm your guardian! A little electricity won't knock me out!" Though he still twitched when five seconds later next to them a lightning conductor was hit.

"Hey Auron... Ya could record a bit of this for my son! I bought some new spheres. That'd turn ya mind from the storm!" Auron sighed and took Jecht's shoulder bag with the spheres.

They walked on and after some minutes they rested at the bottom of a lightning conductor.

Auron switched on the sphere and recorded the surroundings.

"Hey hold it steady!" He tried to find Jecht with the sphere, he still had some problems with concentrating on the reality and the little pics in front of his eyes.

"Why am I doing this?" He shook his head and turned the sphere off. Jecht walked around a bit and convinced Auron to continue. He switched the sphere on again, this time he had Braska in his field of vision.

"What'd you see there, my Lord?" Braska roused from his thoughts like from a dream and shortly looked at Auron.

"Oh I was just... thinking..." Different from Auron, he turned his eyes on Jecht who was wandering in circles slightly around the lightning conductor.

"This is important! No foolin around! You're gonna spoil it!" Suddenly a lightning flashed up and blinded Auron. All he heard was Jecht.

"WHOAH!" He whirled round to catch the place of action. There behind the conductor Jecht kneeled still smoking.

"Oh... oahhh... " Auron walked over to him, recording everything and grinning.

"Are you alright?" Again Braska was worried about one of his guardians being fried. Auron chortled, wasn't that what he deserved?

"Now there's a scene for posterity!" He walked over to him and thanked praised Yevon for such compensative justness.

"Yeah... yeah..." Jecht wasn't as cheery as Auron but he realized it was his own fault. If he hadn't walked away from the conductor, he wouldn't have been hurt. And this time even Braska couldn't suppress his hilarity. Auron ended the recording before his laughter would shake him too much to get a clear filming.

Several snickers and barbecues later (actually around 270 as Braska thought the plains to be a good place for training), Auron had enough. He stopped where he stood and didn't move. Braska and Jecht who noticed it already wanted to ask him why he was doing this, when lightning flashed up. Auron twitched, covered his head and half a second later was jolted backwards. That was the moment when the light flashed up, nothing electrical, but realization... an idea. Auron got up and told his companions to jump, right in the moment he would give them a sign. They didn't even knew why they followed his order but they would obey.

They continued their journey and for a while nothing then fiends appeared. Then after some minutes, lightning flashed up again.

"JUMP! NOW!" Auron shouted at them and they did it. Half a second later, a light bolt burned the place where they just had stood. Both stared amazed at Auron.

"Actually it's quite simple... Light's faster then electricity... You see the light and than you have a short time to react... that's all. I think we can go through it now, without being stroked down again." With a self-satisfied smile on his lips and an enormous lack of fear, he walked on.

The thunder plains could no longer scare him!

End chapter 2.

Note: At some times in this FFX- ff I will add some sort of "scenes that we'll never see in FFX" stuff I thought of while being bored and that I didn't wanted to open a new ff for. Names will be short cut with their initial letter, beside of some special names. Oh and I like music... You'll see.

This is the first time:

Spira's Zanarkand: Our party meets Lady Yunalesca again in the chamber of fayth. They talk the first few sentences than Yunalesca notices Auron.

Yule: You? What are you doing here? I thought you had enough?

A: humms a melody HIT ME BABY, ONE MORE TIME!

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Auron and Jecht are sitting at the shore of the moonflow, Braska is asking at the Shoopuf station how much it is to ferry over. Jecht tries since several minutes to pinch Auron's jug. Auron get's annoyed, while Braska is returning to them in the background.

A: Hit the road Jecht!... And don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more! Hit the road Jecht! And don't you come back no more!

J: Oh Auron! Oh Auron! Why'd you treat me so mean? You're the meanest Auron that I've ever seen!

B: Hadn't I told you: No one drinks the stuff in your jug Auron? Neither you nor him! Drunkards!

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After the blitzball- match in Luca: Auron just convinced Yuna to take Tidus as her new guardian. Tidus walks over to her, falls onto his knees and rips open his waistcoat.

T: I'm a slave for you!

Y: Growl Hit me with your rhythm stick.

L to A: Don't you miss the old times when the world wasn't as spoiled as those?

A: You mean, my time as Braska's guardian?

L: No, I meant the time before. Reptiles aren't such sexaholics, and the dinosaurs you grew up with...

A: I'M ONLY 35! IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT ALL MALE JAPANESE VIDEOGAME CHARACTERS OLDER THEN 29 LOOK LIKE MIDLIFE CRISIS!

W: What'd you mean with "videogame"?

A sweat drop Err...