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I'm afraid updates won't be possible around July. Maybe one or two, but I'm away for most of July so I'm afraid for then, my stories won't be going anywhere.
Hao's new destiny. Part 15.
"Do you think we should stop for supplies?" Wakka reasoned as they walked near another one of the stop off inns.
Auron nodded. "You never know what's around the corner, so we best stay well prepared."
Rikku happily skipped up to the inn whilst humming, followed by Yuna, who was still silent and fiddling with her fingers. Tidus followed, whistling in boredom, and Sarah shortly followed, looking through her pockets, obviously looking for any gil that could be used to buy items of usefulness.
Hao walked in, rubbing his hands together. "Boy… it's chilly out there." He mumbled as he walked into the inn.
"Oh, hello there…" An old wavering voice called. Hao spun on the spot to see an old man in mostly green robes standing nearby. He was wearing a pair of circular glasses, and had an old wizened face, but seemed to radiate knowledge and kindness.
"Who are you?" Hao asked with interest. Tidus noticed the man too and joined in the conversation.
"I am Maechan." The man who now had a name told them slowly.
"Are you some kind of traveller?" Tidus asked him curiosity. Maechan nodded.
"Why yes. I also have an unfortunate habit of telling many stories that I learn during my travels. Would you like to here some?"
Hao thought for a moment, maybe it'll waste time, but then he thought, 'Maybe it'll be useful…'
"Um, sure, do you know anything about Yunalesca, being a Sorceress?" Hao asked, thinking that if he learnt anything about Yunalesca and her secret strength, he could inform Sarah.
Maechan sighed sadly and nodded. "Yes… such a pity… Yunalesca never did learn how to use her skills as a Sorceress. She would rather die an honourable death by defeating sin with her Summoning skills then trying to solve the mystery to using her Sorceress skills."
Tidus looked like his usual confused self, whilst Hao's eyes were wide with curiosity. "So Yunalesca… never learnt the pure skills of a Sorceress?"
Maechan nodded. "Yunalesca was naturally born a Sorceress, but not purely. She only had a quarter Sorceresses blood inside of her, which meant learning the less basic skills like Blessing and Beast summoning…"
Tidus suddenly interrupted. "Beast summoning?"
Maechan looked surprised. "It's a rather confusing but useful skill that few Sorceresses learn. It's a lot like normal summoning, but the Sorceress only has one beast as a Guardian, and can only be summoned at times when a Sorceress has spare strength. The beast also isn't prayed for like the aeons are. They are given as gifts, or attract the eyes of the person they feel they belong to. That is why Sarah felt she had to buy that necklace. The beast that lives within her resides in that necklace."
Hao now understood about why not many people knew about Yunalesca being a Sorceress, and he knew about what the lizard like creature that was residing in Sarah's necklace, but something else was puzzling him…
"Erm… one more thing… you know about the barrier that surrounds Spira, that stops our Shaman spirits? How did it get there?"
Maechan now looked intrigued. "I haven't got much of an idea… but I have a feeling it was put there on purpose, as though it was planned. But… I have no thoughts on who could of put the barrier there…"
Hao frowned. "Why do you think that?"
Maechan sighed. "Because the barrier wasn't there when Lord Braska was on his Pilgrimage. It only formed about 2 years ago."
"What only formed two years ago?" A voice suddenly called. Hao and Tidus turned around, thinking it might have been Yuna or Sarah or anyone else from the group, but instead, a girl with a long deep red cloak and an ankle length blood red dress was stood there. The cloak covered her face, so that you couldn't see her eyes. Her hair was tied behind her cloak, so you couldn't see her hair either.
"Amy?"
Hao quickly spun around when he saw that Sarah was standing just next to him. She was staring at the girl in the cloak with amazement.
"Sarah?"
The two of them suddenly laughed softly and hugged each other briefly. The girls cloak fell down, revealing her long silvery blonde hair.
(Note: Sorry Amy (AKA: Hao is Hot) but I don't know your hair colour so I made one up…)
Tidus scratched his head in confusion. "Whose Amy?"
Sarah smiled. "She's a fellow Shaman who helped me with my training. But a few weeks before I left for Spira, Amy had to leave, but she wouldn't tell us where! So this is where you've been hiding you sneaky little… whatsit?"
The two of them cracked up. Eventually Amy stopped laughing and said, "Hey, I heard you're getting hooked aren't you? With that Maester guy?"
Sarah went silent. Tidus just looked uncomfortable, whilst Hao just glared at the ground, mentally burning a hole into it. Suddenly, Amy spotted Hao and gasped.
"H… Hao Asakura!" She cried, looking both scared and… she was blushing?
Hao looked confused, wondering why she was blushing. Sarah rolled her eyes. "Amy's both scared of you Hao, and she's also got a bit of a childhood cru…"
"SARAH!" Amy cried, running forward and covering her mouth. Sarah choked slightly then laughed. Hao felt suddenly a lot like Tidus did when he didn't have a clue what was going on.
"Sorry about that Hao…" Sarah mumbled. Amy just sighed and sat down on the floor next to Rikku, who beamed and held her hand out for Amy to shake.
"It's ok… AHHH!"
The scream had made everybody jump, but it didn't stop him or her from laughing very loudly at what had just happened. Hao had stepped forward whilst speaking to Sarah, but hadn't noticed that a bit of Amy's cloak was still sticking out a bit. The result was Hao stumbling passed Sarah, who quickly grabbed his arm to support him, but she lost balance too, and the both of them went flying.
Hao's head felt extremely dizzy as he tried to open his eyes clearly. He yelped as he saw a face hovering not too far from his. What made him blush more was the fact that the face belonged to Sarah. He tried to move, but he found he couldn't. As his eyes cleared up, he realised why.
When Sarah had fallen over with him, she'd landed to that she was on top of him, her legs straddling his hips. She went furious red at the position they were in, whilst Hao started stuttering nervously, "S… so… sorry!"
Sarah quickly stood up again, hoping no one noticed that she was blushing enough to melt the snowy lands of Macalania. She wasn't so lucky.
"Sarah, last time you went that red was when Seymour proposed to you! Now what's the problem?" A clueless Tidus asked, scratching his head. Amy rolled her eyes and snapped, "She's embarrassed that she landing a wrong looking position with a cute guy, that's all!" Amy yelling this only made Sarah blush some more.
Meanwhile…
"ARGH!" Yoh screamed as he ran as fast as he could across the Thunder Plains. Every time a strike of lightning went anywhere near him, he did a funny little dance (like whenever Mari from Hanagumi tries to shoot him) before diving next to Anna, who was calmly walking along the Thunder Plains. It was like the lightning itself was scared of Anna, because she hadn't been struck once!
Ren was the most unfortunate in the group. Because of the way his hair was styled, he attracted lightning like a magnet would attract metal. He'd already been struck about 10 times.
Jenn-Chan and Lyserg worked together to avoid the lightning. Every time one of them saw a flash, they'd warm each other, so that they'd be able to dodge most of the lightning shots. This had worked rather well, and together, they'd only received about 7 strikes of lightning.
Chocolove was using his speed to avoid the worst of the lightning strikes, and had received the least strikes, only about two. That was rather funny, seeing as he was also carrying Manta, which slowed him down a little, but because Manta was so short, he hadn't attracted the lightning much.
Faust, who was more then happy that he was still able to see Eliza, was doing some type of sprint across the Thunder Plains, whilst doing his weird maniac laugh (you know, the one he used when he was running towards Iron Maiden Jeanne, whilst the X-Laws screamed in a panic that he was up to no good?)
Tamao, Pirika and Horo-Horo were all running along next to each other. Whenever lightning was aimed at them, Horo-Horo would grab them both and jump on his ordinary snowboard, and using the slippery ground, skidded to safety.
Ryu was extremely annoyed, because the rain was making his hair floppy, and spent half his time along the Thunder Plains yelling abuse that the sky. It was no surprise then that he got the second largest amount of shocks out of the group…
"How much further?" He eventually cried in pain, as he tried (and failed) to re-style his hair back into perfect shape. Jenn-Chan rolled her eyes at him for his attitude towards his hair.
'He's sooooo gay…' She thought to herself, before smirking and laughing to herself silently.
Anna looked over the wasted lands of Thunder and rain. She sighed. "This place is stupid. Why not just take some type of machine across this land?"
Jenn-Chan shook her head. "We can't really, because this world has kinda band that sort of stuff…"
Anna glowered. The lightning in the sky seemed to freeze. Even the rain had frozen.
"Fine! So we risk our butts by crossing a place where danger is around every corner, by foot?" She snapped at the others. They all flinched in fear, except Jenn-Chan who stood her ground, though she felt slightly intimidated too.
"Well, you can't blame anyone here for that rule. If you want to blame anyone, blame this whole Yevon thing." She told Anna firmly.
"Are you… speaking badly of Yevon?" A voice popped up from behind the group. Shelinda was stood there nervously. Anna glared at her. "What of it? It's not like we care about the customs of this world!"
Shelinda looked gobsmacked. "How can you speak badly of Yevon?" She cried.
"How can you live in a world without quick transportation and life saving machines?" Anna retaliated back.
Jenn-Chan groaned and sat on the ground in frustration. They were gonna be here for a while…
Meanwhile…
"You liked it, you liked it!" Tidus and Rikku chanted the minute they were outside the inn. They had decided that this song was dedicated to Hao, and his permanent blush.
"Shut up!" Hao cried in feeble defence, but he couldn't take on both Rikku and Tidus, who were now currently doing some type of victory war dance down the pathway that lead towards open snowy ground. They froze when they saw someone walking up the path. Hao sighed. It wasn't Seymour, but it was someone who he felt uneasy around.
"Oh, hello again Tromell." Sarah nervously called, walking down the pathway towards the old wise looking Guado. He smiled back at her kindly.
"And the same to you Sorceress Sarah." He replied, performing the prayer. Sarah copied quickly.
"I have decided." She told Tromell slowly, whilst slowly twiddling with her fingers, trying not to look anyone in the eye as she continued speaking. "But first, I must ask… will I still be able to travel with Yuna as her Guardian if I do marry?"
Tromell nodded happily, as though he was more then happy about answering the question. "I'm sure Maester Seymour wishes for nothing more." He told her boldly. "Now, I will take you to him."
Tromell turned away and walked ahead, with Sarah not too far behind. The others started to follow, but Tromell suddenly turned around and told them, "I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to stay here. We must follow Guado tradition. But Lady Yuna may come, as she does need to pray to the Fayth of Macalania. One of the Guado Guards will come to pick the rest of you up later." He indicated to the rest of the group as Yuna quickly ran ahead towards Sarah and Tromell.
"Yeah right, more like they just want some private time to 'get to know' one another…" Hao grumbled under his breath, referring to Seymour and Sarah. Auron rolled his eyes and grumbled, "No, it actually is a tradition for the Guado."
"More like an early Honeymoon…" Hao snapped in annoyance, making a few people frown at him with disapproval. Tidus suddenly laughed and said, "But if no one had been around with the situation earlier, you might have had an early honeymoon yourself!"
Hao went red again, whilst Rikku giggled, linked arms with Tidus again, and the two of them danced on the spot, chanting 'You liked it' again.
Eventually, Tidus stopped laughing and ran to the edge of the cliff, which was next to the pathway Yuna and Sarah were walking down, with Tromell in hand. "HEY YUNA!" He cried, before bringing his hand to his lips and blowing. A long loud shrill whistle echoed across the lands.
Yuna smiled softly at Tidus, before saluting playfully, and walking on. Tidus smiled, as though a lot had been taken off his chest. But that look disappeared as a loud roar was heard in the distance.
Suddenly, several giant types of machines seemed to fly over the cliffs, surrounding Tromell, Sarah and Yuna. Yuna gasped in shock, whilst Sarah quickly pulled out her sword in defence.
"AL BHED!" Wakka roared in anger, charging across the hill down towards the commotion. The others followed.
They ran into a defensive circle around Tromell, Sarah and Yuna. Auron said firmly, but not angrily, "Go!" To Tromell.
"Thank you!" Tromell called wearily, before trying to safely drag Sarah and Yuna out of the circle. Sarah however, stubbornly tried to pull free, banging into Yuna in the process, who'd dropped something that looked suspiciously like a sphere.
Yuna managed to break free in vain and ran back to the centre, ready for battle. Sarah was all set to join her, but for such and old Guado, Tromell had a vice like grip, and determinedly pulled Sarah away from the commotion.
Rikku looked terrified though when she saw a man who looked a little older then her standing at the top of the cliff. His entire chest was tattooed with plenty of bright purples and other faint colours, and his hair was in a Mohawk. He started yelling stuff at Rikku, which Hao struggled to translate, as it was all in Al Bhed. He was saying something about blocking magic and summoning.
"Oh no!" Rikku cried when the Al Bhed finished his rant. Tidus gulped and asked her, "Translation?"
Rikku gulped and replied, "He said he's gonna cut off our black magic and summoning skills!" Hao choked and glared at the Al Bhed man. But his glare turned into a nervous headshake as a giant machina climbed over the hill. It was equipped with two machine guns, and one big giant gun. A small piece of machina was spat out of the machina and it started dancing in the air, cutting off the black magic and summoning skills.
This… was not a good day…
This will probably be my last proper update for quite a bit because of my busy life in July, so please don't tell me to update dead quickly, because I won't be able to!
Hope you enjoyed! Please review, but flamers are not welcomed! Any flamers can just go and burn my homework!