As Luna and Bobby walked toward the temple, Luna was lost in thought. Why had Margie told me that? Did she really think that something was going to happen to him, or was she just being a concerned mother? Could it be a little of both, by chance? Luna didn't know what to think. Just as Luna came back to reality, they reached the temple. Just as they were about to enter the temple, Luna was grabbed from behind. Before she had time to scream, a hand was placed over her mouth. Then she felt a blade placed against her throat. Bobby had turned to look at Luna's captor. This left his back open for attack.
Luna saw Braba pop up behind Bobby, and she tried to warn him, but the hand over her mouth was to tight to allow much sound around it. So tight, in fact, that it hurt. All Luna could do was watch as Braba jumped on Bobby from behind and made him fall to the ground. As they wrestled on the ground, Luna elbowed her captor in the stomach. She had her right arm, and pain vibrated from her elbow to her wrist.
Luna ignored the pain and turned around. The person who had grabbed her was Braba's friend from the ship leaving Besaid. He had a crazed look on his face. This scared Luna. She looked at him and he raised the knife in his hand, preparing to fight. Luna thought that someone would surely try to stop what was going on, but where they were, there were no people.
"Oui ymsucd kud so punudran gemmat! Ev ed faneh'd vun sa pnuykeht ris uid, ra fuimt ryja paan sahdahlat di taydr!"
"Putting him to death would have been a favor." Luna rasped, getting mad.
"Fryd?" Luna repeated the sentence in Al Bhed for him to understand.
"Fro yna oui cu sayh? Ra mujac oui. Fro tuh'd oui ihtancdyht dred? Ra'c ymnayto dumt sa dred ra fydkr sa gemm oui." Luna couldn't believe it. Braba was so obssesed that he would kill her. All she could do was stare for a moment.
"Why? Why me? There are plenty of other girls. Why did he choose me?" Luna asked in Al Bhed.
"Because Braba was looking for someone like he had never seen before. But that doesn't matter. All that matters is that he's happy. If killing you is what it's going to take, then so be it." There's no more time to waste. What am I going to do? At that moment, Luna heard Bobby scream. She didn't want to turn her back on Braba's brother, so she began to skirt around him so that his back eventually faced Bobby and Braba. When Luna looked, Luna saw Braba bringing out a knife with a round handle out of Bobby's left shoulder.
Acting quickly, Luna cast Thunder on Braba's brother, causing him to fall to the ground. He got up quickly and resumed his fighting stance. Luna cast Watera, hoping that the Al Bhed boy would stay down. Just as she started to move around him, he once again stood. She stopped and waited for him to get up. When he finally got completely to his feet he said,
"Don't ever mess with Marako. Now you die, weither Braba sees it or not." Marako ran toward Luna, the knife still in his hand. Before she could do anything, Marako had tackled her. She was sitting underneath him, him straddling her. Luna had just enough room to move down just as Marako brought his knife down, causing it to plunge all the way to the handle on her left shoulder. Luna screamed as the pain shot through her shoulder. This seemed to surprise Marako for a second, then he smiled.
"Dra cuiht uv ouin clnays ec mega sicel." They're both demonted, Luna thought. He has to be crazy to think that my screaming is like music. Luna screamed again when he pulled the knife from her shoulder. This time, Marako brought the knife down into Luna's right theigh. The blade was removed beofre Luna even had enough time to scream.
He's going to kill me slowly, Luna thought through the pain. Suddenly, she had an idea. She brought her right arm up and him Marako in the side of the head with her cast. He fell off her and onto the ground, dropping his knife. He recovered quickly and said
"Oui'mm byo vun dryd! Uoi'na hud fundro uv so pnudran'c muja!" as he went for the knife. Luna was faster. She grabbed the knife, pushed Marako to the ground, and then straddled him, just as he had done to her. It hurt to move, but she done it anyway.
"E hajan ycgat vun rec muja. Byo vun drec." Luna said as she brought the knife down. It went through his skin much easier than I thought it would, Luna thought as she let go of it, leaving it where she had plunged it into his chest.