Hello, I just wanted to say that I am sitting at my computer while typing this, and eating graham crackers, and my mouth is completely full and every time I breathe a few crumbs fly out of my mouth. Yeah I just thought I'd tell you that, oh and because you couldn't read it fully, the name of the last chapter was the accidental, justified, insanity spawned murder. R & R!
O'aka was now more afraid, then he had ever been before in his life. After being thrown from the airship by the crazy woman, his parachute wouldn't open. He nearly fell to his death, but a fiend caught up to him in the air and ripped open his parachute bag, deploying it. He landed safely only to find that there were fiends everywhere. He had been running the whole day, stopping only to catch his breath. Now it was nearing dusk, and he still hadn't found the kid who had fallen before him. Lady Yuna refused to pick him up, and he was hopelessly lost. Now worst of all, he started hearing things, loud noises that seemed to come from nowhere. They would just keep getting closer and closer but he couldn't see them, which didn't make sense. When they got close enough, it sounded like whatever was making them was 50 feet tall and right in front of him. Every time they got this loud, he would run, and he ran a little to the left, they would appear to the left of him, as if setting him on a certain course.
Finally he could run no more. he stopped and turned around. The creature, whatever it was, wasn't as fast as he was, and it still had a way to go before it caught up to him, but he would not continue to run. Whatever it was would eventually catch up to him and get him anyway. It came closer, ever slowly, each boom from its steps, another moment closer towards his death. It was very close now, the noise was almost deafening, O'aka's heart was pounding. It was no more then to steps away now, two more steps and he would see his killer. 2... 1...
"Dammit why won't you run!" said Jecht aloud, talking to himself. Jecht was in the farplane still, but he was the one making the sounds. He was in O'aka's mind, making him here the sounds so he would run from them, and using the sounds to guide him toward Tidus. This was no easy task, considering O'aka was still alive. It took a great deal of power and concentration to get into a mortal's mind. So hard, in fact, that he couldn't even produce visuals to go with the sounds.
It was clear that the merchant wasn't going to run anymore, so he had to take a different approach. He called for one of the spirits he had convinced to join him to take the form of an adamantoise, and scare O'aka toward his son. The problem, however is that as a fiend the spirit could not control themselves, and he would have to do it for them. Jecht could control their most basic thoughts, such as where to move and how to roar, but more complicated thoughts, such as to eat this puny human, or not to eat this puny human, was almost entirely up to the crazy fiend mind... almost.
2... 1... zero... what the, where did it go? Thought O'aka, because just as the invisible sound was about to reach him, it disappeared completely. But the silence was only short lived, because now a new terror bounded through the trees, and he had no problem seeing it. An adamantoise rushed at him full speed, and he was not going to wait around for it. He quickly turned and ran, but he was very tired, and this fiend was unusually fast. It was gaining on him, he ran faster and faster, but his legs were giving out.
There was a clearing in the trees up ahead. For no reason at all, he all of a sudden knew he had to make it to that clearing, no matter what. He didn't even know why he felt that way, he just knew something important was there, the knowledge had popped into his head when he saw it. The fiend was closing the gap very quickly, but he would make it, even if he died when he reached the ever so promising clearing, he would make it, and his mind was unreasonably calm.
Tidus was lying there idly when he heard a noise in the distance, it sounded like a large monster bounding through the forest. It was giving chase, he could tell by the speed it was moving at, nothing so large would run at that pace without reason. The fact that it was giving chase made him feel much less worried, but he still grabbed his sword, even if he couldn't do much with it.
The noise was now close, and he could here whatever it was being chased. A mess of blue and green flew in front of him as something crashed through the bushes, quickly followed by the monster, an adamantoise. The thing got up, and turned around. Tidus saw that it was O'aka. "You, boy, help me out here!" O'aka shouted, but Tidus didn't move. "Come on son, I haven't got all day!" Tidus still wouldn't move. The fiend however, instead of ripping O'aka to a gore filled pile of slaughtered human effluence, (awww, darnit!) began to back off, as if something was telling it to, and it had to listen, though it didn't want to.
"Well, that was a good spot o luck now wasn't it. Now why wouldn't you help me, I could have died!" Tidus answered irritated, "you haven't even looked at me yet, have you? I can't move you idiot! Why don't you open your eyes instead of your mouth!" And this was 100 percent true. Tidus's clothes were covered in bloodstains from getting stabbed by so many limbs, and left leg was slightly bent at the middle of his calf, where the bone had snapped clear in half. His entire lower calf was bent at a different angle than the rest of his leg. Any idiot should have been able to see he was in no condition to move.
"Oh sorry, I guess you'll be needing one of these then," said O'aka dumbly. He pulled out an X potion and threw it to Tidus. Tidus ripped of the cork and began to drink as fast as he could. He could instantly feel the effects of it, washing through him like heaven its self, healing all his wounds, aches and pains, and readjusting all of his unaligned bones and joints. The feeling of going to massive pain to none at all was wonderful. He hopped up on his newly fixed legs, and yelled triumphantly.
"Okay, well I'm glad to see you're satisfied," said O'aka "that will be 200 gil please, I will take cash, or you can give me an I.O.U for now, if you have no money with you." "How about I rip open your jugular vein with my bare hands" responded Tidus. "Oh, I see you have a coupon for free everything, thank you for doing business." O'aka said smartly. They were about to head off, but the adamantoise Jecht had managed to control and drive off, had got it's mind back. It burst through the trees and grabbed O'aka in it's mouth. It began to chew through O'aka, starting in the chest cavity. O'aka screamed, but it was too late to save him. Tidus quickly cut off O'aka's backpack, took it and ran. Though he was surprised by O'aka's sudden death, some part of him was happy. Because the fiend ended up ripping O'aka into a gore filled pile of slaughtered human effluence anyway! (people cheering, children crying tears of joy, parade running through the streets with a marching band playing the 1812 Overture. We all hated O'aka, and this proves it.)
Tidus slowed his pace when he was sure he had lost the fiend. He now decided to tell Yuna the good news, and tell her he could walk again. He grabbed the 2 way and switched it on. "Yuna, are you there?" he asked. "Yes, I'm here, please tell me some good news, because I need to hear it."
"I can walk again, and I'm headed toward Mushroom rock, I should be there by tomorrow." "Great!" said Yuna, "We're flying over it right now, we haven't landed yet though, because Sir Auron is speaking with Sir Jecht, and he needs to tell us his plans before we land. So you must have found O'aka, how is he." "Dead," Tidus said a bit to enthusiastically. "Dead!" she said, "Tidus, has everyone you've run into, died a tragic death?" "Well," Tidus said, "I wouldn't call it tragic, but yes. Anyway I'm really bored right now so can you stay on the radio for a little while?" "Sure, until Auron is done talking to Sir Jecht. What do you want?"
"It was just bothering me, you always said it was great being the daughter of someone famous, but I hated it. There had to be some downside to being a high summoners daughter." "Well, to tell you the truth," she said, "I used to get a lot of people making nasty comments whenever I made a mistake. Even from my teachers in school they would say things like, just because your Lord Braska's daughter doesn't mean you have special rules, and you don't have to do things right, as if my father had anything to do with me making a mistake." "Yeah tell me about it," Tidus said, "I had it so bad, even the doctors said I was A.D.D., just because my dad was a drunk."
"You had attention deficit disorder?" said Yuna, "that doesn't seem to have much to do with your dad being a drunk." "Attention deficit disorder! Man, I always thought it meant Always Doing Dope. Geez, I was wondering when why whenever I denied it, they would say it was nothing to be ashamed of. I was thinkin, doping is plenty to be ashamed of, (I have nothing against drug addicts personally, I'm just writing a story here) what are you people talkin about."
"You must have been a dumb child," Yuna said without thinking. Tidus snorted. "I wonder," she said, perplexed, "I thought you were an abused depressed child, not a candidate for A.D.D."
"Oh, I didn't get it until I was like 14" said Tidus. "14?" she repeated, "but I thought A.D.D. was supposed to be cured when you went through puberty?" "Hey, that's what all the doctors were all saying!" said Tidus, "Ohhhh, that all makes sense now, don't worry though, my voice had already cracked by then." "I really hope so, anyway I should be leaving, Auron is done talking to Jecht. Goodbye." The radio died.
Tidus looked ahead to see 2 fangs and a garuda up ahead, he gripped his sword, and got ready for some fun for a change.
I am estimating maybe 5 or so more chapters until the end of this story, so don't stop reading if you are losing intrest, the ending shall hopefully be soon. Unless of course I think of something else that absolutely needs to be added to the story. Well keep reviewing, plot suggestions, writing improvements, anything would be appriciated. If nothing else tell me my strong points so I can try to focus on them. Thanx.