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"Highwind?" Wakka asked, blinking a bit.
"Do you have any relations to a Rikku?" Lulu asked.
Casimir shrugged. "I might, but I don't really have time to check up on all my descendants…" He said. It was funny that he said descendants instead of relatives, but whatever.
Wakka raised an eyebrow at him, but Lulu just pointed at the airship on the beach. "He's most likely in there." she said.
Casimir nodded. "Alright, thank you." He said, before turning to the boys. "Go off and play, I'll be back soon." He said, and the two nodded furiously before running off.
He stepped slowly onto the airship and looked around for someone he could talk to, to find out where Seig would be. He spotted Rikku and Paine and walked up to them.
"I'm looking for Seig, do you two know where he is?" Casimir asked.
Paine raised an eyebrow at him. "Do you always walk onto other peoples airships?" she asked.
"He's in the cabin area." Rikku said quietly, pointing down the hall.
Casimir bowed his head slightly and said, "yes, and thank you." He then headed down the hall and to the cabin, where he found me snoring softly under the covers.
Casimir bowed his head slightly and said, "yes, and thank you." He then headed down the hall.
He smiled slightly at my sleeping figure, before slipping off his goggles and placing them on the pillow next to me.
"Sleep well, my friend.." he whispered with a small smile, before turning and slowly heading back for the bridge, his scythe resting against his shoulder.
Yuna eyed Casimir suspiciously as he walked into the bridge. "Who are you?" She asked.
"Casimir Highwind, old friend of Seig's." He replied, "I came here to talk with him, but I can wait until he wakes up."
Yuna gave a slight nod. "Alright." She said.
"Are you from around here?" Paine asked.
Casimir shook his head. "No, not really." He said.
For a while, no one spoke, so he decided to break the silence. "Well, I'm going to go find the boys, I'll be back in a few hours." He said, before heading for the exit.
About three hours later, I woke with a yawn, and blinked a few times in confusion when he saw the goggles. It took a moment, but he grinned and slipped them over his head, so they were hanging around his neck. He then headed out for the bridge.
"Finally." Paine said, "Some guy showed up looking for you awhile ago."
Yuna walked over to me, nodding. "We weren't to sure about letting him on at first…" She said.
"He's alright." I said, "Not much harm, to you guys at least. God help his enemies.." I then shrugged. "Comes with lots of training, I suppose.."
Yuna sighed, and seemed relived. "Okay, good." she said.
"Know where he went?" I asked, "It's kinda odd for him to want to come and talk to me, since he has his sons with him now, so it must be important.."
Yuna shrugged. "He said he'd come back after he found the boys."
As if on cue, Casimir walked onto the ship, with the two identical boys following after him. I walked up to him with a grin, and we gave each other a brief hug.
"Good to see you again man." I said, and he nodded.
"Yes, it is." He replied.
"Are you guys gonna be done soon? We wanna go play hide and seek again, but we need more people!" One of the boys said.
"It'll only a few minutes Maximus." Casimir said, and the boys nodded furiously. It was funny how, even though they were 15, they still acted like little kids.
"Can I talk to you for a moment, in private?" Casimir asked, and I nodded before following him back towards the cabin, leaving the boys on the bridge.
"So, are you like the high summoner?" The other boy, Nathaniel, asked.
Yuna smiled and nodded at him. "Yes, I'm Yuna." She said, offering him her hand, "Who are you?'
"I'm Nathaniel, and this is my brother Maximus." Nate said, taking Yuna's hand and shaking it.
"Yeah, we're identical twins. Pretty cool huh?" Max said, grinning along with his brother.
Yuna shook his hand, grinning. "Its very cool." She said, "I don't have siblings, let alone a twin."
Nate raised an eyebrow. "don't you ever get lonely all by yourself?" He asked.
"Yeah, I dunno what I'd do without Nate..it'd be really boring.." Max said.
Yuna chuckled. "No, you see that girl over there?" she said, pointing at Rikku, "She was like my sister, so I wasn't really alone."
The boys both nodded. "Oh, I guess I kinda forgot about friends.." Nate said, "We haven't seen ours for a while.."
"well, she's really my cousin." Yuna explained, "Where are you friends?"
They both shrugged. "We don't know anymore." Max said, "We haven't seen them for three years, we've been training under Casimir-sensei.."
"Oh wow three years?" Yuna exclaimed, "That is a long time! What are you guys training for?"
"We're gonna become peacemakers." Max said, and Nate nodded furiously. "Yeah! All we have to do is learn the secret of Tyhla Uv Taydr, and then we get the cloth!" Nate said.
"Peacemakers huh?" Yuna said, "Never heard of that before."
"It's a bit underground." Nate said, "Not very many people know of them, not yet anyway…"
"Are you guys planning a rebellion or something?" Yuna asked, and they both shook their heads furiously.
"No! Nothing like that.." Max said, "it's just that Abdiel, Casimir-sensei's teacher, and his newer students are all Kael's allies now, and are going to fight us.."
Yuna gasped. "Kael?" She was quiet a bit before shaking her head. "this is bad…"
"Worse than you think." Max said. "We cant kill them, no matter how hard we try." Nate said.
"what do you mean you can't kill them?" she asked, "Are they all already dead like Kael?"
Max shook his head. "No, they're immortal." He said. "All of them are." Nate said, "And soon, we will be to."
"Immortal…" Yuna whispered, this was bad…
"You guys can become immortal?" "If you learn the secret, you have the choice of taking the gift of graduation, which is immortality." Nate explained, "So far, all the people who have graduated have taken it.."
Yuna nodded slowly. "Yeah, even Casimir-sensei took it." Max said, "He said he was alive way before Zanarkand was even built!"
They both shrugged. "I dunno, I don't think he ever lived in the city." Nate said, "Back then, there were many peacemakers, and they were all on the same side, instead of split like they are now."
"Yeah, the peacemakers would keep Spira from tearing itself apart, and that's why they had to be immortal." Max said, "People knew who they were by the white cloth with black designs that they all wore, in some form or another."
"So the peacemakers have been here like the beginning of Spira?" Yuna asked, and the boys nodded. "Yep, they were the first effective warriors of Spira." Max said, "Every move in the Tyhla uv Taydr technique is meant to be fatal."
"wow you guys know a lot about Spira!" Yuna exclaimed. "More then the philosophers that's for sure!"
"It's part of our training, we gotta learn the past before we begin training." Nate said, "The learning was kinda fun, but the training defiantly isn't.."
'It isn't fun, but we have to do it." Max said.