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Hao's new destiny. Part 7.

When they got to the top, they decided to walk on ahead. They knew it was a one-way path so Yuna and the others would be able to catch up.

Sarah smiled as they neared the command centre. Near the entrance was a rather disgruntled looking Gatta. They waved at him as they walked past. He returned the gesture half-heartedly.

"Ah… the Sorceress!" A voice called cheerily. Sarah and Hao's attention was brought to a plump man in orange robes, who was scurrying across towards them.

"Maester Mika and Seymour told me what they knew about you!" The man said in a fairly kind tone, but Hao could see past that. This man wasn't that evil, but he had this aurora that he was hiding something. "I'm Maester Kinoc." He introduced himself.

"Nice to meet you." Sarah replied, performing the prayer. Hao reluctantly copied. Secretly, he was just thinking, 'Oh great! Another one!'

Kinoc smiled at them. "Maester Seymour truly believes you'll be the one to bring peace to Spira." Kinoc said confidently.

Sarah went a little red. "He does?" She double-checked, looking fairly stunned.

Kinoc laughed. "Well yes. Everyone believes that, but not as much as he does."

Hao tried not to snort. He really was starting to hate Maester Seymour even more. He was practically saying he wanted Sarah. But why, was what Hao wanted to know…

"Ah, you're both here!" Yuna called, walking into the entrance with the others following her. Auron's eyes narrowed ever so slightly when he saw Kinoc.

Kinoc however, looked delighted. "I heard from Seymour, but I didn't think we'd actually meet!" He exclaimed before hugging Auron!

Hao distinctively saw Auron's muscles tense under his red coat, but Auron didn't push him away. Kinoc pulled away, and continued. "Good to see you Auron! Ten years is it?"

Auron didn't respond, or reply. Lulu was currently explaining to Tidus who Kinoc was. Then Gatta ran in, telling Kinoc that the troops were ready at his command.

Kinoc nodded, before saying, "Good. Dismissed." Gatta walked back to his post.

Kinoc turned back to Auron again. Hao frowned at the pair. They obviously knew each other well. Kinoc asked Auron the question that Seymour had asked least half an hour ago. "Tell me Auron. Where have you been the last ten years?"

Auron responded the way he had with Seymour, except a tiny bit more politely, "We don't have time for this now, do we?"

Kinoc nodded, before saying a little more quietly, "This plan won't work; you know that." He paused, before saying more quietly so, "We'll just let them dream a little longer…"

Hao and Tidus both shot up when they heard this. "What?" Auron gave them a warning glance. Taking it seriously, they backed down a little.

"Lord Kinoc…" A familiar voice called. It was Seymour again, who was looking a Kinoc with what could only be described as slight annoyance. Hao frowned at him again.

Kinoc also frowned slightly, before nodding and saying, "Oh, yes. Proceed!"

Hao, who wanted to know what Seymour was up to, made to walk towards Lulu, but snuck behind something to eave drop on Seymour. Sarah didn't notice this. She just politely started chatting to Lulu.

Hao tried hard to listen. Seymour seemed to be talking to one of the guards.

"I need you all to keep an eye on Sorceress Sarah." He was telling them. "We can't risk her life. Also, keep an eye on Summoner Yuna and her guardians."

The guards all nodded. It was at this point that Kinoc stepped.

"You really do believe that Sorceress Sarah is the answer to stop all this?" Kinoc asked him. Seymour nodded firmly.

Hao narrowed his eyes. But what they said next just made him realise why he didn't trust Seymour, or any of the Maesters.

"Why are you so concerned about her safety?" Kinoc questioned Seymour. Seymour didn't reply at first. Eventually he said, "I really do believe she can help me…"

Hao frowned. Help him with what?

But before he could listen to anymore, one of the guards called for Kinoc.

Before anyone could spot him, Hao quickly rolled away from his hiding spot and headed back towards Sarah. Something told him that he needed to get her away from the area. And as soon as possible.

"Sarah." He hissed as soon as he got to her. Sarah turned to face him.

"What's wrong?" She asked him with concern. Hao just grabbed her wrist and hissed. "You need to get away from here. It's not safe. I can feel it."

Sarah looked shocked. "Um… okay…" Then she yelped as Hao quickly dragged her away from the area, and they started climbing the rocks. Unaware that they were being watched…

Seymour watched as Hao dragged Sarah away from the Command centre in a hurry. He stared at the area where they had disappeared, then noticed that they were both climbing up the side of the rocky hill. Luckily, it wasn't too steep, so there wasn't much chance of them slipping.

'What's he up to?' Seymour thought. He quickly snuck out to find out where they were going. He couldn't climb, but he could always take the machina lift…

"Ouch! Hao!" Sarah yelled as he dragged her across the top of the cliff.

Hao stopped in his tracks as a horrible roaring sound echoed throughout the area. He and Sarah looked over the cliff to see Tidus and the others ready to go in combat against the sin spawn that had broken free of its cage.

"What are you two doing up here?" A voice questioned. Hao had to resist the urge to snarl. Seymour was stood just a few metres behind them.

Hao, seeing that Sarah wasn't going to reply, did the answering. "I brought her up here, because I had the feeling something like this was gonna happen. I don't want her to get hurt down there!"

Sarah stared up at him. Then she screamed as she looked out to sea. Sin was emerging. It looked a lot scarier when you could see all of it. She started stumbling backwards, out of Hao's grip. Before she could fall over in fear, Seymour grabbed her arms so that she won't fall.

Hao frowned as the Al Bhed and crusaders fired cannons at sin. Stuff that looked like dead skin seemed to fall off sin. Hao looked more closely, and saw they were actually sin spawn. The crusaders charged across the sands riding their chocobo's. At full speed.

Sarah quickly pulled loose of Seymour's grip and ran forward towards the edge of the cliff. The sin spawn that had broken free of its cage was now lay on the floor, twitching.

Hao stared at sin in horror. Had he really been this evil? This thoughtless?

Sarah was also staring at sin, tears welling up her eyes till she couldn't stand it. She wailed desperately and hugged Hao forcefully. She just couldn't watch anymore. Hao nervously rubbed Sarah's head comfortingly. Seymour watched the pair of them, looking fairly depressed.

At one point, Hao couldn't watch himself, as sin gave off a powerful beam of energy, demolishing almost everything in it's path. Even Seymour winced at that and turned away.

"I can't stay here…" Sarah whispered desperately, before pulling herself out of Hao's grip and running away from the current drama that was taking place in front of her very eyes. She truly knew what her destiny was now. She had to stop sin. For good.

"SARAH!" Hao bellowed as Sarah started clambering back down the other side of the rocky hill. "ARE YOU MAD!"

Sarah ignored him, and climbed to the bottom. Seymour peered over the cliff. "It's too dangerous! There are fiends all over!"

Sarah ignored them again. She had to get away from there!

She just was a little unfortunate to bump into one of the flying fiends. It flew down towards her, and went in for the kill. Sarah quickly covered herself up with her arms, knowing she had no chance of getting away in time. She could only hope it wouldn't do too much damage.

She got a shock as the fiend roared in pain before exploding into Pyreflies. Sarah tried to find the source, wondering if Seymour had summoned Anima again. She spotted him standing not to far away, holding his staff, and casting spells at the fiends that were slowly starting to creep up on them.

As much as Hao didn't trust Seymour, he also ran forward to assist him. Sarah quickly jumped back to her feet, unleashed her sword, so that the lizard creature that had threatened Dona and Bartello was at her heel, and snarling at any fiend that came too close.

"We have to get out of here!" Hao yelled, as he dodged out of the way of a charging fiend.

"I'm with you there mate!" Sarah yelled.

"There's a machina lift just over there!" Seymour pointed out. Hao laughed coldly.

"Yeah, and how are we suppose to get to it when it's blocked by even more fiends?" He snapped, loosing patience. Sarah just rolled her eyes.

"Well, I say, that before we leave, we have to find the others." She spoke logically. Hao sighed. "Can't we just go?" He knew the answer was no when Sarah gave him her iciest glare yet.

"Sarah! Hao!" Yuna cried. She was just recovering from being knocked out, and stood just behind her was Auron. Sarah quickly ran towards them.

"No point trying to get out that way." Sarah said. "It's blocked off. By fiends that is."

Yuna looked extremely nervous. "Do you know where the others are? I was knocked out by something, but now I can't find them!"

Sarah looked worried too. "No, I haven't seen them." Yuna looked to the floor, fear smothering her face. Then she looked up to watch sin again. The Al Bhed had gotten a giant type of ray gun, which was aim directly at sin. It fired. Sin had formed a type of force field around itself as protection. Yuna clamped her hands together in hope that the shield would falter somehow. Hao and Sarah also watched, in fear. Seymour just stood between Yuna and Sarah, his face showing no expression. The shield around sin seemed to weaken, but then it spread out engulfing the ray gun. Yuna cried in horror as the gun collapsed and exploded. Sarah just turned away, unable to watch.

Hao noticed something though. Sin seemed to be staring in one particular direction. Hao tried to follow its gaze, then spotted someone charging at sin across the sands. Hao gasped when he saw whom it was chasing after sin. It was Tidus.

Yuna spotted this also and cried, "I'm going to summon!" She pulled out her staff. Hao knew she meant business.

"Lady Yuna!" Seymour snapped, grabbing her staff and forcing it down. "You're still not strong enough! You can't take on sin!"

Yuna looked desperate. "But I want to do something!"

Sarah sighed and turned to face the seas again, just in time to see sin diving back into the deep. Leaving the disaster zone behind…

After…

"Tidus, what were you thinking?" Hao yelled in shock when he caught up with Tidus. Tidus just glared into the ground.

"I don't know… I just… did that's all." Tidus mumbled sourly. Auron stepped towards them.

"Do you believe me now Tidus? That your father really is sin?" He said calmly. Hao actually chocked. "What!"

Tidus laughed falsely. "Yeah. My old man is sin. The sod…"

Hao sighed in sadness. He was never going to forget the events of that day. It wasn't until then he'd seen how evil he'd been. He wouldn't be surprised if in a past life he might have been sin himself…

To be continued…

So Hao's really getting a fair idea how evil he once was. I guess it still lurks somewhere in him, but nowhere near as bad as it used to be. Lol.

Anyway, please review! No flamers! Constructive criticism okay.

I just realised I'd made a mistake in Chapter 2. It's probably no big deal but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else noticed.

They'd just reached the edge of the forest that, in Hao's opinion, seemed more like a forest.

It was suppose to be, 'seemed more like a jungle. Sorry about that, but I can make silly mistakes like that…T.T