Chapter II: Lost Memories
Well, here's chapter 2, a.k.a., the chapter where Heiei meets everyone! (Well, except Rikku...) Anyway, I own Heiei only, no one else, so, yeah...anyway, ONWARD!!!!!
(Heiei's PoV)
"Hey...hey...are you still alive?" I heard a concerned voice say from far away I was shaken roughly awake, I slowly sat up and rubbed my head. After making sure I wasn't hurt,I got up and looked around.
"Where am I?" I said, looking at the people standing around me, a young woman with short brown hair, obviously the one who woke me up, looked at me strangely.
"What do you mean?" she asked, "This is Mushroom Rock."
"Mushroom Rock...where's that?" I asked.
The woman, along with the others she was with just stared at me, a tall man wearing sunglasses and a red trenchcoat spoke, "What is the last thing that you remember?"
"Uh..." I racked my mind, I could barely remember anything "...I remember being in the water, then slamming into a large...um...gray thing...then I blacked out." I told him.
"Sin..." a redheaded man with gravity-defying hair said, "You must've gotten to close to Sin, ya? His toxins can do strange things to you."
"Sin..." I said to myself, "I can't really remember."
"It was the toxins." Another woman said calmly, this one was older and wore a long somewhat er...revealing dress. "What can you remember?"
"Um...I only remember my name, age, the fact that I can use white magic, and that I can use this saber." I said, drawing the weapon, the blade was a brilliant crimson color, and the hilt was silver and bound with leather.
"Tell us." The brown haired woman said.
"What? What do you mean?"
"Tell us your name." She said
"Oh, it's Heiei." I said
She nodded, "My name is Yuna, I am a summoner." She said, "These are my guardians, Wakka, Lulu, Auron, Kimahri Ronso and Tidus."
The one called Tidus looked at me strangely. "Hey, what's wrong with your eyes?" He asked
"What do you mean?"
"Your eyes, they're gold." Tidus said
I turned and looked in my reflection in the water, "Hmm...I guess they've always been like this..."
He just nodded, "Oh, okay, I was just wondering, that's all."
I sheathed my saber. "Don't worry about it." I told him.
Yuna looked at me, she had obviously been speaking to the others. "Heiei," She said, "Would you like to come with us? We could always use the extra power, and we could also fill you in on what you forgot."
I shrugged, "Sure, I'll go with you," I said, "It could be interesting, and I'd like to remember what I forgot."
Yuna smiled, "Thank you." She said
Auron, the man wearing the red coat, spoke then, "Come, the temple is down that road." He said calmly.
We started to walk off of the beach, Yuna in front, and everyone else following her, Wakka, the man with gravity-defying hair walked up to me, "Hey, since you don't remember everything that you're supposed to, I'll fill you in ya?" He said
"Okay, sure."
(Djose Highroad-Path to Djose Temple)
We walked down the highroad, Wakka was explaining everything that I needed to know about Spira, it was quite interesting, although...he seemed to talk about Blitzball a lot, saying that he played and things like that. Suddenly, a strange er snake-lizard-thing shot out of the ground in front of us. I took a few steps back and drew my saber, whatever it was, it wasn't friendly.
"Wakka, what is that?!" I asked, "Some kind of monster?"
"Not quite, bruddah, but real close, it's a fiend, just take it down, ya?" The man said, spinning a strange blue and white ball on his finger.
"Alright, fine." I said, "If it wants a fight, it'll get a fight!"
Auron ran up beside me, holding a huge blade over his shoulder, he looked at the fiend, "Hmph, too easy." He said.
I looked at him, "Hey, where are the others?" I asked.
"Guarding Yuna, the three of us will be enough to defeat this weakling." He said.
The fiend slithered towards us, at an amazingly fast speed for something so large, it took a swipe at Wakka with one of its bladed arms, but the blitzball player sidestepped it and threw the ball at it, dazing it. Auron then rushed in and slammed the blade down on the creature's snake-like body, causing a deep cut to form and start spewing black blood, the snake-thing then attacked again, swinging at Auron this time, but the red coated man blocked the strike with ease. As Auron held the creature at bay and Wakka threw his ball at it like a madman, I decided to finish it off, I ran at the fiend and slashed upward, cutting a deep gash in its stomach, I then slashed at the creature's head, severing it. The beast burst into pyreflies and disappeared.
Yuna walked over to me, "You're quite strong Heiei, I think that you would be a good guardian with a little more practice." She said.
"Thank you." I said, I then bent down and wiped my saber on a patch of grass, "Shall we continue?"
She nodded and walked ahead again, followed by the others, Tidus walked up to me, "Hey," He said, "You were pretty good back there, where did you learn to use that saber like that?"
"To tell you the truth Tidus, I can't remember, I only know that I can use it, that's all."
"Oh," he said changing the subject, "So, what do you think of Yuna?"
"She seems nice." I said
"No," he said, "Not like that, what I mean is do you think she's cute?"
I took another look at the summoner, "Nah, not really, I usually wouldn't go for a girl older than me anyway." I said
"How old are you?" He asked
"16." I said
"Oh, I see, well, I'm glad." Tidus said
"Why?"
"Less competition." He said
"Ah."
Soon we reached the temple, it was huge and crackled with electricity, we walked inside and the others followed Yuna through a door in the back. I started to follow the others in, but Kimahri, the big furry thing, stopped me, "Only summoner and guardians may pass." He said in a deep voice.
"But..." I started to argue, but he cut me off
"Heiei is not guardian yet, he may not pass." He said.
I sighed, "Fine, I'll wait." I said.
(The next morning)
I woke up late the next morning, I guessed it was about 10:00, Yuna was successful in getting the Aeon, it turned out to be an electrically-charged unicorn called Ixion, at least that's what Wakka told me.
I got out of the small bed that I had been given for the night and walked out of the small side building, everyone else was already there, waiting.
"Hey, Heiei, what kept you?" Tidus asked.
"I slept in, yesterday was tiring, you know, with the losing my memory and the battle against the snake-fiend." I said
"Oh, yeah...I forgot about that."
"Did you sleep well?" Lulu, the tall woman in the black dress asked.
I nodded, "Yeah, so...where to next?" I asked
"The Moonflow." Auron said, "We should go."
Yuna nodded, "Okay, let's." She said.
I followed Yuna and the others, wondering what the Moonflow was...but more importantly, what exactly it was that I had forgotten.
Well, there ya go, Chapter 2 for you people who actually reviewed chapter one, all two of you...anyway, Rikku will appear in either chapter 3 or 4, it depends. Review please!