Chapter 2 Running away from destiny

She fled from her own city, where she had become a summoner, Bevelle wasn't her home anymore. Surely, she regretted what she said, but she didn't have the courage to kill people.

Yuna fled Bevelle, to then get lost in the forest of Macalania. The summoner was alone, well, not quite… for she still had her faithful companion: Bahamut. The young Woman looked at her surroundings, unsure of which direction to take; she then started walking forwards, aimlessly. As she walked Yuna thought she heard a noise, perhaps it was just was just the wind, but it seemed like hissing. The summoner's eyes shifted around the area nervously, searching form where the noise came. The hissing noise was heard again, except this, time it was louder and startled Yuna, who stopped dead in her tracks.

Feeling she was being watched, she backed away, only to have a fiend leap at her from a bush. Luckily, Yuna's reflexes saved her, for she jumped back just in time to miss the attack. The woman stared at the snake like fiend oddly, for she had never seen such a thing in her whole life, the fiend then let out a hiss at her, irritated. This caused Yuna to focus on the fight, she then closed her eyes and holding her staff she summoned her Aeon. A magnificent dragon came down, soaring through the sky, to then land heavily on the hard ground, causing it to scatter pieces of dirt around the area. Yuna held her hand to her mouth and gasped at the creature's colorful wings and scaled body.

"Oh my…"

The dragon then hovered towards the fiend and punched it powerfully, causing it to growl in pain. The Aeon repeated its attack and the monster gave a final hiss before turning into a heap of pyre flies and the strong dragon crossed his arms in satisfaction before dismissing himself.

"Thank you…" Yuna whispered looking towards the sky, were the creature had disappeared.

After awhile of walking, the forest finally let place to a huge plain: the sky was grey, lighting was seen and it was raining, Yuna recognized this place: it was the thunder plains. She gulped at the sight and waited a moment before starting to cross it. As she walked cautiously and seeing the next town was pretty far away, the summoner thought of something:

'If I summoned Bahamut and rode on his back, he would get me out of here in no time I'm sure!'

Yuna then called for the creature to climb on its back and it took off from the wet ground. Her Aeon flew at an amazing speed, yuna could soon see the entrance of Guadosalam so she demanded her Aeon to land at the entrance of the town, and Yuna dismissed her Aeon before silently entering it.

As Yuna walked into Guadosalam, she was being stared at by all of the Guados who gasped, obviously recognizing that she was a summoner, or did they already know about her actions back in Bevelle? Yuna looked at the inhabitants rather shyly as they marched towards her.

"Greetings, everybody," the summoner whispered awkwardly.

"Milady summoner!" a Guado whispered awed.

"You are most welcomed in Guadosalam!" another one said to her. Hearing those words, Yuna sighed in relief, she thought that master Seymour had already told his people about the "accident" in Bevelle.

"Thank you for your generous welcome," she replied. "I am the summoner Yuna and I came from…uh, never mind," Yuna limited the information about herself, because she didn't want them to know about her rebellion. Yuna then, uncomfortably waited for the Guados to reply.

"Well summoner Yuna, perhaps you would like to spend the night here?"

"Uh, that's really nice of you, but I'm in a hurry so maybe another time," she told them walking past. She knew about her rudeness, but she had no choice knowing that she had to go on, because Seymour was probably hunting her down. Yuna, feeling guilty stopped and turned around to face the people.

"I apologize for my rudeness, but I really am in a hurry I'll come back another time, I promiss," the summoner told them.

"In that case we will all wait patiently for you to come back to Guaosalam, you will always be welcomed here," a Guado explained. After that, yuna saluted them and carried on with her run. She then found herself near a lake glittering with pyre flies, the young woman asked for direction at an agency, and the person there told her that she was at the Moon Flow.

"Thank you; do you know when the next shoopuff leaves?" Yuna asked the person at the agency.

"Yes milady, it's leaving in five minutes,"

"Thanks!" Yuna said while running off. She immediately spotted the creature along with the Hypello guarding it.

"Excuse me!" Yuna replied to the Hypello. "How much does cost to get a ride?"

"That will be six hundred gils, please,"

Yuna thought it was expensive but paid the price anyways, it was that, or Seymour would get her.

"Here you go…" she replied giving him the money.

"Thankshhh!"

The summoner then climbed the shoopuff, and the Hypello guided it through the lake. During the crossing, which gave Yuna some time to rest, she began to think about the man held prisoner back in Bevelle, was he alive? Well anyway this had put her into a huge mess. Yuna sighed as she thought about him, how he looked when she first saw him, he seemed so…torn.

"We have arrived!" The Hypello riding the shoopuff exclaimed causing her to jump, startled. Yuna was now quite a long ways from Bevelle, but still wasn't far enough, so she forced herself to keep going. The summoner walked on the road near the temple of Djose, it was peaceful and the fiends were easy to spot in the sort grass. She continued her journey cautiously, at the watch for fiend ambushes, clutching her staff ready to summon when the time would come. It came soon enough, a wolf like fiend came barring her path, growling fiercely, so the girl summoned Bahamut and the dragon knew exactly what to do: protect his master.

The wolf fiend howled and sprinted at the dragon and bit his leg, but his attack seemed to have only little effect on the sacred creature. The holy beast slowly made his way to the fiend and slammed it to the ground with its tail, squashing it. The fiend then weakly got up and bit the dragon's tail, the huge beast lifted up his tail trying to get rid of the monster that hung on it. Seeing that the monster had decided he wouldn't let go, Bahamut jumped, did a flip in mid and smashed the ground with his powerful tail and crushing the fiend while landing. Yuna thought that the move her Aeon displayed was… ironical, the Aeon then disappeared in the sky. Soon Yuna had reached the Djose temple and since it was nearly night time decided to spend the night there. She was welcomed by priests and was allowed to spend the night in the temple, they showed her the room she would spend the night. She thanked them and directly went to her room and took off her summoner Kimono which was a long purple dress with flower designs on it and a white top with long sleeves, the whole being held by a large yellowish ribbon with wavy designs. The summoner got into a rather uncomfortable bed, which was all the temple could afford, because of economical problems and Sin. She cringed slightly at the squeaking noise it made, but she knew it was a matter of time before she'd get used to it.