Chapter 4 On the march

Yuna continued on with her marching that morning, but where was she going? She knew she couldn't flee Yevon's troupe forever. By now she was far away from the Temple of Djose and was lost. She sighed in frustration; now her life was in turmoil…ruined!

"All that because of that person and Seymour!" the summoner cried. Yuna ran, ran to nowhere.

"At first, I thought that being a summoner would be easy, that everybody would welcome me but now I see that it's not true," Yuna said to herself sadly, still running. Tears blinded her, but the girl wouldn't bother to wipe them away, causing her to run into somebody.

"Oh, I wasn't looking, I apologize," she bowed at whoever it was that she ran into. Yuna opened her sore bi colored eyes and they widened at the sight of the person: it was a Bevellian soldier, yuna recognized his clothing's and the look the soldiers had.

"No…" Yuna tried to run in the opposite direction, but other soldiers came running, barring her path. Then unexpectedly, the first soldier she encountered did a chocking noise and fell to the ground limply. Behind him a young stood there grinning, arms crossed.

"Do you guys want the treat I gave your buddy?" the man asked while kicking the body of the dead soldier. The remaining soldiers tried to act courageous by aiming their shot guns at the youth, this caused Yuna to give her 'savior' a worried look, but in return he winked at her and charged at the soldiers kicking one in the stomach and in the head, knocking him out. The last guard, caught in panic aimed at the boy and shot him in the arm before sprinting off. After the panicked soldier ran away, she hurried towards the wounded young man. He winced in agony as he clutched his bloody arm and cursed:

"What a damn fool he is!"

"Are you alright?" Yuna asked as she eyed the injury cautiously.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he assured her, although she didn't seem totally convinced, neither did he. The passed out soldier groaned and stirred.

"We better get out of here quickly," he told the summoner walking away. Yuna nodded and followed him, knowing that he wouldn't go far with his injury which seemed to be fairly profound. They were half walking half running and soon the rocky road was replaced by a muddy road with rich green grass, they stopped to a halt and sat in the cool grass. The young teenager let go of his hurt arm and Yuna gasped at the amount of blood that had flown from his arm now dripping on his clothes. Yuna wanted to heal it but as far as she could recall she hadn't inherited the art of white magic. The woman then tried to rip a part of her dress, but the material was too thick to be ripped. She then turned back to the man who was searching for something in his clothes with his other arm and he got out a small dagger.

"Here," he said handing it to her. Yuna then cut out a small piece of her dress and rapped it around his arm to stop the hemorrhage.

"Thanks"

"No, I'm the one who should be thanking you for saving me,"

"Oh that was nothing I guess I dropped by at the right moment!" Yuna nodded and told him:

"My name s Yuna,"

"Name s Tidus, pleased to meet you, although I would've preferred we meant under different circumstances!" he chuckled as Yuna smiled at his remark. After a moment of rest, they got up ready to continue their journey. A while later Yuna could feel that Tidus was loosing his strength, she turned around to face him; she noticed that he was far behind her so she trotted back towards him to see Tidus kneeled down on the ground panting.

"Are you alright?" the summoner crouched down beside him, placing her hand on his shoulder. Tidus then lifted his head revealing his, now paled face.

"Yeah…I just…need to catch…my breath," he explained to her gulping for air. This only caused her to shake her head.

"No you're not fine, we've got to find a place to stay," Yuna told him as she grabbed his arm and flung it around her shoulder. Although she knew she could summon Bahamut, she didn't want to take the risk, because Tidus would probably lose consciousness and fall off the Aeon and Yuna couldn't order her Aeon where to land and watch over Tidus at the same time. Tidus seemed to be struggling to stay awake, but as luck would have it, there was an Inn just around the bend. Yuna, then grabbed his waist and walked hastily, or at least tried to, for Tidus was leaning on her. Soon enough they reached the inn and Yuna placed Tidus who was semi conscious in a chair and asked the owner for assistance. The owner who was an Al Bhed named Rin took care of the wounded person and reassured Yuna that he would be fine. So, all she could do was to pray to Yevon for his safety.