Chapter 2: Quite Island, Little Trinket
dark dragon knight1993- Thx for your review! I hope I can keep pumping out more good chaps. Here's chapter two for ya.
Jaina-Fel- I'm glad u like it! Here's chap 2!
cutelittlekitten18- She will find romance somewhere in the story...don't know when though. Hope you like chapter 2!
A/N: I have another story, "The Shattered Calm" it's an FFX-2 fic.
Lauren felt consciousness flooding back into her into her body. She took in her surroundings with the only sense she had available at the time, her ears. Seagulls called overhead on a mild wind that rustled through the leaves of some kind of trees. The sound of waves lapping up on a beach and smashing into a cliff face took over all other noise. She heard and felt some wild splashing near her as her eyes finally returned to her. "Rikku!" A familiar voice called out. She shot her eyes open and found them underwater. The salt stung at her eyes causing her to pull violently out of the water.
Once her vision returned to her, Lauren glanced to where the voice called out from to see Tidus get struck in the head with a bumpy blue and white ball. A voice hollered over the noise of seagull calls and waves crashing on the beach. "Hey! You okay?" Tidus and Lauren hastily shifted their gaze to see an orange haired guy in a yellow overall like garment standing on the beach.
"Heeey!" Tidus shouted to the orange haired man, which now had a group of five others in the same yellow overalls. Tidus dove under water under the blue and white ball. He did a slow paced back flip in the water and smacked the ball with his left leg, sending the ball out over the ocean.
The orange haired guy shielded his eyes from the sun and watched the ball go out of sight. "Whoa-ho!" He smirked and glanced back to the five others behind him.
Tidus swam over to the beach and walked up to the six guys, Lauren following hastily behind him. "Yo! Hiya!" He greeted the six men.
"You wanna try that move one more time?" The orange haired man queried. He tossed another ball at Tidus as he headed back into the water. He copied the technique he had done earlier. "You're no amateur. Who you play for?"
"The Zanarkand Abes!" Tidus answered.
The group of same dressed men glanced at each other with a confused look painted on each of their faces. "What team you say again?"
"Uh, I meant... Forget that. I got too, uh...close to Sin and my head's all foggy-like. So I don't know where this place is. Or even where I came from." Tidus fumbled around with his words trying to get the heat off him.
"Hey! I remember where we came from!" Lauren piped in through the chatter of Tidus and orange haired man. "It was that huge city where I met you and Auron."
Tidus nudged Lauren in the side. "Hey, I meet this girl, Rikku and she said that the place we were at was destroyed a thousand years ago. We don't want to draw any unwanted attention to ourselves"
"What you say?"
"Never mind that. She…I mean we got to close to Sin like I said." Tidus diverted the man's attention.
"Sin's toxin must have gotten to you. But, you're still alive. Praise be to Yevon!" The orange haired man said doing a weird gesture. "I'm Wakka, coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, brudda. And your names are?"
"My name's Lauren." She said, outstretching a friendly hand. Wakka took her friendly hand and shook it.
"And mine's Tidus!" He exclaimed while also shaking Wakka's hand.
Both Lauren's and Tidus' stomachs begin to growl. "What? You hungry? Okay! Back to the village. I'll get you somethin'!" And with that Wakka began strolling down a road that was cut through two sand dunes.
Tidus shouts to the orange haired blitzer, causing him to while around. "It's true Zanarkand was destroyed, right? A thousand years ago? So it's just a big pile of rubble now, isn't it?"
Wakka looks at Tidus funny before answering. "Long time ago, there were a whole lot of cities in Spira. Big cities with machina-machines-to run 'em. People played all day and let the machina do the work. And then, well, take a look." He gestured to some old ruins dotting the beach. "Sin came, and destroyed the machina cities. And Zanarkand along with 'em. Yeah, that was about a thousand years ago, just like you said. If you asked me, Sin's our punishment for letting things get out of hand. What gets me, though...is we gotta suffer, 'cause of what some goofballs did way back when! 'Course, we must always repent for our sins! That's important! It's just that, it's hard to keep at it sometimes, you know"
Tidus looked like he was deep in thought. Starting to laugh, Wakka places his arm on Tidus' shoulder. "But you from the Zanarkand Abes-that was a good one! Hey, I'm not saying the team never existed, ya? But you gotta figure a team livin' in luxury like that'd be pretty soft, eh?" He said, trying to cheer Tidus up.
They then continued strolling up the path and around a bend in the road near a bunch of ruins imbedded in the cliff face. Tidus stopped there, at those ruins, and became emerged in thought again as Lauren and Wakka continued on till they came to a cliff edge. "Hey! This way!" Wakka shouted, shaking Tidus out of his pondering.
Tidus runs up and looks over the edge of the cliff and sees nothing but crystal clear water. "Huh?" he felt a hand thrust into his back, pushing him over the edge and into the water. "What's the big idea?" He shouted as Wakka leapt into the water next to him followed soon by Lauren.
"Hey, it's just a little fun Tidus! Loosen up will ya?" Lauren giggled as Tidus splashed her and swam off slowly.
The water of the lagoon was so mild and soothing that if she went on her back and closed her eyes, Lauren would have fallen asleep. Not a word was uttered form any of the three as they went on swimming through the lagoon back to the village Wakka spoke of. At one point Tidus went down to the floor of the lagoon and found a treasure chest with some kind of item in it. As they drew closer to the end of the lagoon Wakka put Tidus into a headlock.
"Lemme go!" He shouted through his flailing.
"I got a favor to ask ya." Wakka stated frankly.
"You want me on your team, right?" Tidus queried. Wakka let him slip out of his headlock and down into the water.
"A major blitz tournament's coming up. All the teams in Spira'll be there! It's so huge, I'm sure someone there will recognize you! Then you can go back to your old team, right? It'll be fun! What do you say, huh? Come on, come on!" Wakka pleaded Tidus to join his team.
"Sure thing." Tidus went on his back and kicked away from the orange haired blitzer.
After another few minutes of swimming, they came to a beach and landed. Tidus and Wakka continued to talk about Blitzball, leaving Lauren to think by herself. 'Where is this summoner they sent me to protect? They said they would send me directly to her.' She stopped at the summit of the hill where a whole village was visible.
"What's that?" Lauren questioned gazing down upon the village that had a huge, blue building near the back of it.
"Besaid village." Wakka presented. "This is where I was born."
"It looks so nice and peaceful." Lauren pointed out the serenity of Besaid village.
"Yeah…" Wakka turns away from the hill top and towards a path leading down to the village. "Come on, this way."
The three of them strode down the path leading to Besaid village for about three minutes before they ran into two men. One of them had short red hair and the other had very short back hair "Ah, the ones from the see." The red haired one said.
"Be on guard. There're fiends on the road today!" The one with the very short black hair warned the three companions.
"After surviving your run-in with Sin, 'twould be a shame if something happened now." The first one said before walking off back to the village.
"What's his problem?" Lauren asked Wakka. "It sounds like he doesn't want us here." She said with annoyance floating on her voice.
"Don't worry about it. He didn't mean it that way." Wakka tried to clear the name of the man.
"Who where they anyway?" Tidus inquired, breaking the conversation between Wakka and Lauren.
"Luzzu, the orange haired one, and Gatta." Wakka retorted. "They're crusaders."
"Crews of what?" Tidus was utterly confused and had not one clue as to what Wakka was talking about.
"You can ask them yourself, they have a lodge in the village." Wakka said as he motioned for them to start hiking to the village again.
A few minutes of walking brought them upon a few coyote like things attacking a helpless villager. Wakka took up his blitzball and hurled it through the air at the fiends attacking the villager. It hit one of the fiends on the head, drawing its attention along with its five other pack members to Wakka, Lauren, and Tidus rather than the villager. Tidus and Lauren drew out their swords and prepared for the coyote like fiends' charge. Wakka sent his blitzball soaring through the air, smashing into one of the charging fiend's head sending it rolling backwards on the dusty trail.
One of the fiends leapt into the air at Lauren but she sidestepped the fiend's aerial attack. After evading the attack, she brought down her katana blade onto the back of the fiend as it landed next to her. It let out a howl of pain as the blade sank deep into its flesh, almost severing it in half. Another one of the fiends charged her as the first coyote like fiend burst into pyreflies. It snapped its powerful jaws down upon her left leg, sending crimson blood dripping to the ground. Her shrill scream of anguish broke the tranquility of her surroundings.
Tidus plunged his sword down an oncoming fiend's throat. It gagged on the blade, spitting up blood. He removed the blade from the coyote fiend's throat by ripping his blade upwards into the sky. It burst into pyreflies allowing Tidus to run off and help Lauren fend off her attacker.
Tidus went and smashed the coyote fiend that was latched onto Lauren's left leg with the side of his blade. It yelped and released its tight hold on Lauren's leg. She fell back from the fiend to address her wound while Tidus pushed the fiend back. The wound wasn't too severe, only about a centimeter deep puncture where all the teeth fell. Tidus whirled around, letting something fly back at Lauren. She gazed at the object oddly. "It's a potion!" Tidus hollered back through his fight with the fiend. "Drink it! It will heal your wound!"
Lauren popped the cork and gulped down the surprisingly sweet tasting liquid. She felt the liquid flow down her esophagus and then spreading throughout her entire being. It sent a warm, tingling feeling coursing through her veins, instantly healing up the wound on her leg. After the potion had taken affect, she stood up and hopped on her previously wounded leg. Amazingly she didn't suffer any pain. She glanced back to where Tidus was before she swallowed the potion to see him finish off the fiend by crushing it into a tree trunk with the blunt side of his blade.
Wakka had long ago finished off the second fiend that attacked him and was waiting for Tidus and Lauren to catch up. "You guys were pretty good back there, ya?" Lauren and Tidus smiled back at the blitzer.
"Yeah, we've had some practice." Lauren declared looking over to Tidus.
The villager hurried up to where the three companions were standing. "Thank you!" He bowed. "Here, here. Take this." He handed a small trinket over to Lauren. The item was black, smooth to the touch and rounded at the edges. A golden necklace dangled off of what appeared to be the top and through Lauren's fingers.
"What's this?" She queried still examining the trinket.
"I'm not totally sure but legend has it that it can activate an unimaginable power …that is if you can find out how it works. No one has ever been able to activate its powers but people keep trying to figure its secrets out." The man said.
"But if it doesn't work then why are you giving it to us?" Tidus inquired.
"You seem like smart, strong people. I have faith that you will get somewhere on the path to unlocking its powers." The man pushed past the three friends and strode up the hill.
"Wait!" Lauren yelled at the man but he was already around a bend and out of earshot. "I guess we'll just keep it for now." She slipped it into a pocket on her jeans.
The man walked along until he came to a wooden bridge with a waterfall cascading behind it against the cliff face. 'They have taken the bait master.' He spoke in his mind to an unknown force.
An eerily soft and slithering voice rang through the man's head. 'Good. All is going according to plan. Good work. Now all we have to do is sit back and wait for the right time.' The voice cut off and the man did some bizarre gestures and then disappeared into thin air.
The three friends stopped under an archway that used fro the entrance to Besaid village. "Well, here we are." Wakka announced displaying the village.
Lauren's and Tidus' stomachs growled again. "I see you two are still hungry. We'll get you something over there later." Wakka gestured to a small hut that looked exactly like the rest. "Take a look around first. Let's see... The Crusaders Lodge is over yonder." He pointed to a larger hut. "Luzzu and Gatta are usually there. Oh, right. Over here!" He waved them over behind the wall connected to the archway.
"Huh? What's up?" Tidus questioned as they walled behind the wall, out of sight from everyone in the village.
"You remember the prayer, right?" Tidus and Lauren both looked at the orange haired blitzer in confusion. "You...must have forgot or something. Here, I'll show" He preformed the odd movements that he had done earlier on the beach. "Go ahead, you try." Tidus and Lauren both execute the prayer, although it was a little sloppy.
"Hey, not bad." Wakka congratulated them on a job well done. "Okay, now go present yourself to the temple summoner." He showed them the temple before he walked off.
Tidus went right off to the crusaders' hut but Lauren wandered around the village a bit. The random villagers scattered throughout the town gawked in wonder at Lauren and whispered amongst each other. She just disregarded them and continued on her way around the village. She finally got tired of waking around aimlessly and getting gossiped about and went to join Tidus in the crusaders' hut.
She spread the door curtains and stepped inside in the middle of a conversation between Tidus and the crusaders. "The Crusaders are sworn to battle Sin! We have chapters throughout Spira, accepting all who wish to join our struggle! The hero Mi'ihen formed the Crusaders eight hundred years ago as the Crimson Blades. Later, our ranks grew and we called ourselves the Crusaders. We've been fighting Sin ever since!" Gatta explained the history as well as the purpose of the crusaders.
"You've been fighting it that long and you still haven't beaten it?" Lauren stepped into the conversation.
"Well, we've steered Sin away from towns many times! And that's all we can do. Nobody's ever been able to defeat it. Our mission as Crusaders is to protect the temples, towns, villages, and people of Spira." Luzzu retorted.
"So then whose job is it to defeat Sin?" Tidus inquired.
"Is Sin's toxin really this bad, sir?" Gatta turned to question his friend.
"It does seem rather bad..." Luzzu trailed off and the started back up again. "We could just tell you, but I think it's better for you to try and remember. Go pray at the temple. Perhaps Yevon will help you regain your memory." He offered.
"Will do!" Tidus exclaimed before striding out of the hut, Lauren followed him closely.
"So Tidus…" He looks over to her. "What do you think a summoner is?"
"No idea!" He admitted. "But I bet we'll find out when we go to the temple." Lauren nodded and they continued on into the temple.
The temple was a large dome with different levels of stands wrapping along the outside walls with random statues on them. Directly from the entrance was a large stair case with statues acting as sentinels on either side. Right behind each of the massive statues were doors that led into separate rooms with random trinkets and other assorted items. There were a few people standing in front of a few of the statues along the outer walls, praying. There was a priest like man dressed in robes standing in front of the massive statue to the right of the stair case. Lauren and Tidus stared at the statue in wide wonder.
"Ten years have passed since Lord Braska became high summoner. And finally we receive a statue for our temple." The priest explained.
"What's a high summoner?" Lauren queried, taking the words right out of Tidus' mouth.
The priest gave her a queerer look as if she was crazy or something. "We…we got to close to Sin's, uh, toxin." Tidus made the same excuse over again.
The priest's and several others' eyes widened at the word 'Sin'. "Praise be to Yevon you are still alive." He preformed the prayer. "The summoners are practitioners of a sacred art, sworn to protect the people of Yevon. Only a chosen few become summoners, who call forth entities of great power: the aeons. The aeons hear our prayers and come down to us. They are the blessing of Yevon." Lauren and Tidus nodded despite their utter confusion and walked away from the priest.
"We found out a little bit but I'm still confused." Lauren whispered to Tidus as the walked over to one of the statues lining the outer wall.
"Yeah, me too." They stopped in front of the statue. "Guess we should try praying." They both preformed the prayer and the left the temple.
The two of them strolled out of the temple, down the stairs, and off to the hut that Wakka had previously pointed out. Lauren drew the door curtain aside and saw Wakka standing with his back faced to the door. He heard the two come in and pivoted on his heel to greet them. "Sorry, no time for lunch yet. Take a nap! You two look bushed." He apologized for the lack of time to eat.
"No problem. And thanks for everything Wakka." Lauren thanked her newly acquired friend.
"Yeah, Thanks Wakka." Tidus joined in.
"Have a good nap you two." He said, leaving the hut to just Lauren and Tidus. They both found respective couches/beds and laid down to rest.
Lauren awoke after about an hour or so of sleeping to an empty hut, except for the sleeping Tidus. She stretched the weariness out of her arms and legs and got a crick out of her neck. She waltzed over to the sleeping Tidus and whispered his name. He awoke with a start, shooting up into t a sitting position with a worried look on his face. "Calm down Tidus! It's just me!" Lauren reassured him.
"Where's Wakka?" He got out of bed and examined the empty hut.
"Dunno. Maybe at the temple?" Tidus nodded and they headed for the temple.
They find Wakka standing just below the stairs that led up to a door. "Is something wrong?" Tidus pondered.
"The summoner hasn't returned from the trial. Well, apprentice summoner, really..." Wakka said getting confused looks from both Lauren and Tidus. "There's a room in there called the Cloister of Trials. Beyond is where the apprentice summoner prays. If the prayer is heard, the apprentice becomes a fully-fledged summoner, remember?" Tidus shook his head.
"A day's already gone by." Wakka seemed worried.
"Is it particularly dangerous in there?" Lauren asked out of curiosity.
"Sometimes, yes." Lauren and Tidus circled around Wakka.
"Why don't you go in and help?" Lauren asked the troubled blitzer.
"There's already guardians in there. Besides, it's forbidden." Wakka said in an attempt to stop what was going to happen next.
Tidus pushes past Wakka and the guard standing there. "Hey, but what if somethin' happens? What if the summoner dies?" He shouts at the top of the stairs. A priest yells at him about some precepts must be obeyed or something. "Like I care!" He hollered, turning around and bolting through the door.
"Wait up Tidus!" Lauren took off after him, not heeding to any of the augments made by Wakka, the priest or the guard. She tore open the door and ran up to Tidus, who was examining a glyph on the wall. He reached out and touched it. It glowed and shimmered before disappearing and then reappearing on the wall to the right. Lauren reached out and touched this one, it slid up a section of the wall allowing her and Tidus to go down a ramp.
Once down the ramp they came to a green colored sphere in a pedestal set upon a recess in the wall. Lauren picked up the sphere and gazed at it questioningly. "What do we do with this?" Tidus walked down another ramp and found a door with a sphere shaped slot resting in the middle of two doors. Lauren ran down to meet up with him and placed the sphere into the outlet. The door swung open revealing another hallway.
The two went down the hallway and rounded the corner to see an empty slot in the wall. They continued on past it and rounded another corner. There was a pedestal to their left with empty slots and a glowing glyph on the wall to their right. Tidus rested his hand on the glyph and it glowed. The section of the wall slid up to show a bunch of blue colored lines running along the wall, all meeting up to a blue sphere in the middle of the back wall. Lauren went up to the sphere and yanked it out of its slot. The lit up lines faded into blackness. She then took it over to the pedestal and placed it gently into one of the slots on it and then pushed it onto a shining tile.
A lift appeared as so did Wakka. "Hey! What's gotten into you two? Only summoners, apprentice summoners, and their guardians can enter here. It's a tradition. Very important." Wakka scolded Tidus and Lauren.
"So what about you? What are you doing in here Wakka?" Lauren retorted to Wakka's scolding.
"Me? I'm a guardian!" He boasted. "Summoners go on a pilgrimage to pray at every temple in Spira. Guardians protect them." He explained the role of a guardian even though the question was not posed. "The guardians in there now... One of them's got a short fuse, and who knows what the other's thinking. Well, now that we've come this far...might as well go all the way!"
The lift lurched and began its descent into what was know as the Chamber of the Fayth. In the room outside the chamber stood a woman clad in all black garments and a tall blue furred equivalent of a lion, only it was standing upright on its hind legs. "What are you doing here? Didn't think we'd be able to handle it?" The woman in the black dress snapped.
"No Lulu, it's uh...it's just..." Wakka stumbled on his words and then turned to Tidus and Lauren. "See, I told you she gets mad easy."
"Is the summoner alright?" Lauren and Tidus inquired in unison.
"Who are you two?" Just then a door in the back of the room opened. A young woman stood in the doorway, leaning on the frame for support, sweat dripping down her face. She had two colored eyes, the left one blue and the right green. She was dressed in a white robe like thing and then a dark blue long skirt with flowers on it. She took a step forward but her knees buckled, sending her down the stairs placed below the door. Luckily, the big blue lion guy was there to catch her and prop her upright.
"I've done it. I have become a summoner!" The girl declared through her huffs and puffs. They leave the temple and walk outside where a throng of excited villagers awaited the return of their summoner.
The summoner walked into the middle of a huge yellow, brown circle in the center of town, enthusiastic villagers all around. "Hey, over here!" Wakka grabs Tidus and Lauren by the arm and drags them up front with him. "Wait till you see this!"
"I can't see anything!" Tidus complained. Wakka released his grip on both him and Lauren.
"Ready!" Wakka stated to the summoner.
"Okay!" And with that she did some strange dancing that made a glyph appear in the sky. The next thing that could be seen was a large object with a white smoke tail streaking through the sky. The thing broke through the glyph and opened its wings to reveal a giant bird with blue feathers running up it long neck. The thing landed next to the summoner and she ruffled it feathers. The throng of surrounding villagers applauded for the summoner and tightened their circle around her. She soon dismissed the aeon and it soon became night.
Wakka ensnared Tidus by putting his arm around his shoulder and pulled him in to meet the rest of the team. Lauren walked around the village, by herself, still receiving puzzled looks from a lot of the villagers. She soon spotted the young summoner and went over to introduce herself.
"Hi. My name's Lauren what's yours?" She outstretched a friendly hand to shake the young summoner's.
The summoner took her hand and shook it. "A pleasure to meet you Lauren. I'm Yuna." The two girls sat down around a small fire.
"You're clothes are like nothing I've ever seen before." Yuna examined Lauren's sweatshirt and blue jeans.
"I'm not from around here."
"Where are you from then?" Yuna cocked her head, a puzzled look painted on her face.
"Chicago." Yuna gave her another odd look. "Uh…I mean…I got too close to Sin's toxin. I can't remember anything really." Lauren fibbed. Of course she knew where she came from but she couldn't tell anyone that, they wouldn't believe her.
"I've heard Sin's toxin can mess up your memory, but to forget all of your memories that must be depressing." The light brown haired summoner said.
"Yeah…"
"So who's that guy you're with? A friend of yours?" Yuna queried.
"He's a friend that I met not too long ago. And then we both ended up on this island." Lauren put her hands in front of the fire to feel the warmth coursing through her body.
"Do you remember where you guys came from to end up on this island?" Yuna snuck a glance back to where Tidus was laughing with Wakka and the rest of the blitzball team.
"Not a single clue." She lied once more.
"Oh…" An elderly couple came out of one of the throngs of villagers and walked up to where Lauren and Yuna sat.
"Leave the summoner be!" The old woman cried out. Lauren got up and shot a glance back at Yuna before heading off for Wakka's hut. It appeared as though Yuna mouthed the words 'sorry' as she retreated from her and the elderly couple.
Before reaching the crusaders' hut, where she was told she could spend the night she gazed back and saw Tidus walk over to where Yuna was sitting with the elderly couple. She could have sworn she heard the couple scold Tidus for what he did earlier but they let him talk to Yuna anyway. Lauren pulled back the door curtain and walked into the hut and said good night to the inn keeper. She plopped down onto the last bed in the inn and took off her shoes. She covered herself with the smooth cloth sheets and closed her eyes for a good night's rest.
Lauren awoke the next morning to Tidus freaking out about something. "Whoa! You're giving this...to me?" She pulled away the door curtain and saw Wakka giving a large, clear blue sword with air bubbles in it to Tidus.
"Yeah, use it well!"
"We're taking the same boat as Yuna, right? Why do we gotta wait here?" Tidus questioned the fact as to why they were just standing in the middle of the village instead of at the docks.
"Yuna came to this village ten years ago, when the last Calm started." Wakka explained."
"The Calm?" Lauren questioned, finally jumping into the conversation.
"Since then, she's been like a little sister to me and Lulu. But she had the talent... She became an apprentice. Now, today, she leaves as a summoner." Wakka completely ignored Lauren's inquiry.
"This is our journey... We should leave together." Lulu finished off the explanation as Yuna came stumbling out of the temple with a little too many suitcases. "You really don't need all that luggage." Lulu criticized Yuna's judgment.
"They're not really my things. They're gifts for the temples we're to visit." Yuna tried to carry the multitudes of suitcases she held but almost fell face down.
"This isn't a vacation, Yuna." She lowered her head in defeat and left the suitcases lay on the sand for someone to pick up after her. "Okay! Off we go!" Wakka ushered the group out of the village and up the hill right outside the village.
They stopped at the summit of the hill and Yuna looked back down at Besaid village. "Take your time." Lulu comforted Yuna.
"Let's get going, man!" Tidus complained.
"Ease up Tidus. She's going on a long travel and won't be able to come back for a long time so she needs some time to say good bye." Lauren yelled as Tidus.
After some time Wakka turns to Yuna and speaks. "Are you ready?" Yuna nods her head 'yes' and the group of five moved along but stopped at a statue nearby.
Wakka stood in front of the statue for a short while before he did a prayer. Tidus walked over to stand beside him and Lauren went to his other side. "It's an ancient custom. People leaving the island pray here for a safe trip. Chappu didn't pray that day. Said he'd miss his boat." Wakka's voice was low and sounded very sad at the mention of his dead brother's name.
"Who's Chappu?" Lauren asked, fore she had been asleep when that was explained.
"He was my brother." Wakka told her. "He joined the crusaders and went on to fight Sin. He was killed by Sin in the next operation.
"Oh…I'm sorry Wakka."
"Hey, it's no biggie, ya? Everyone, let's pray!" Wakka did another prayer as did everyone else. "That should do it!" He declared, starting the group back up again.
After walking a short while they came upon some large ruins with moss growing all over them. "Where's that blue guy? Isn't he one of your guardians Yuna?" Lauren asked the young summoner. With that the blue furred lion appeared up on top of one of the ruins and leapt off with a spear head facing down towards Tidus.
Tidus leapt out of the way for the spear. "What's with that guy?" He shouted after almost being skewered.
"Kimahri Ronso, of the Ronso tribe. He's learned the fiends' way of fighting." Lulu elaborated Kimahri's reasoning for the abrupt attack.
"That's not what I meant!" Tidus howled.
"Sometimes we don't understand him either. Kimahri doesn't talk much anyway." Yuna smiled at Kimahri. "But he has protected me since I was a child!" She boasted before the group moved on towards the docks.
Along their way to the docks they encountered a few random fiend battles, which were cut aside easily. When they arrived at the docks there were groups of villagers waiting for Yuna to arrive so they could see her off. The group walked onto the dock and up the plank ramp and onto the ship, the S.S. Liki. The villagers waved goodbye as well as called out as the ship began to pull away from the docks. "Goodbye!" Yuna waved bye to her friends and village mates as the ship pulled out of the docks and onto the ocean.
Lauren and the rest walked around the ship till they found either someone to chat with or found some place to be alone. Yuna was at the front of the ship surrounded by a bunch of passengers. Lauren went up to listen in on the conversations that the passengers were having with Yuna along with each other. "Word is that summoner's got noble blood!" One of the passengers of the S.S. Liki exclaimed.
"I heard she's Lord Braska's daughter!" Another said.
"Ya don't say?"
Lauren found Wakka standing not to far off and went up to him. "So, is Yuna's father famous or something?"
"She's the daughter of High Summoner Braska! You saw his statue at the temple. Lord Braska defeated Sin ten years ago. Yuna's the heir to a great legacy!" Wakka told Lauren of Yuna's father.
"It's tough when your father's famous." Tidus butted into the conversation drawing a confused look from Wakka.
Lulu walked up from out of nowhere to stand beside Wakka. "Wakka's...a bit lacking in the imagination department." She said drawing a laugh from Lauren and Tidus.
"Ha ha. Thanks, Lulu. I'll keep that in mind." Tidus chuckled. The villagers finally cleared away from Yuna, allowing her to get some air. Tidus walked over to chat with her some more. Lauren walked around the S.S. Liki for a while until there came a massive vibration and the ship was tossed around by a few immense waves.
"Sin!" Someone called out from the front of the boat.