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Hao's new destiny. Part 17.
"You… KISAMA!" Hao roared in anger, charging full speed towards Seymour, his spear outstretched in his shaking fists.
Seymour however, hardly even flinched, obviously expecting this reaction from Hao. One of the Guado guards that had been stood by his side ran forward, and blocked Hao oncoming attack, by slashing out his clawed hand across Hao's arm, causing him to flinch in pain, before running back to protect Sarah and Yuna. His pulse was now racing in anger. And it was showing too. The area surrounding the battle every now and then seemed to explode into fire, which quickly disappeared as though it had never been there.
Tidus pulled out his sword (Brotherhood) and yelled accusingly across the room, "I knew you were bad from the first time we met!" all this, whilst pointing his finger in Seymour's direction.
Seymour just smirked at Tidus's outburst and replied mockingly, "Oh, my sincerest apologies." Causing Tidus's glare to increase.
Rikku ran forward, ready to aim a grenade at Seymour and the Guado guards, but froze as the Guado guards quickly cast Protect on themselves, and then Seymour cast Shell on himself.
"Dammit!" She hissed, quickly changing her method, by throwing a chocobo feather item at Hao, who felt his speed increase.
Tidus quickly swapped round with Kimahri, who glared at Seymour and the guards, before activating his 'Stone breath' overdrive. The Guado guards suddenly seemed to freeze up, and their clothing and skin had gone grey. Without much warning, the Guado guards suddenly seemed to shatter like glass. But Seymour had been unaffected by this attack.
He raised his hand, and swiped it downwards, sending a powerful Blizzara spell down at Kimahri, who groaned in pain, and collapsed down to his knees in pain. Hao quickly swapped places with Yuna, who cast Cure on Kimahri, but with little avail. Seymour's level two elemental spells were very powerful. And the fact he'd protected himself with Shell meant that magic attacks wouldn't do him much damage as well, so it was no good retaliating with spells.
"God, this guy's tougher then he looks…" Hao mumbled, quickly swapping again with Yuna, and holding his staff in front of him, ready to strike him with one of his special skills. He ran forward, and spun his staff over his head, before doing a nifty spin on the spot, and striking Seymour across the chest with it. As soon as he did this, he jumped back, as Rikku quickly threw a Bomb core at Seymour. He winced to some extent, before standing up straight, and bellowing up to the ceiling, "Feel my pain… come Anima!"
Sarah felt herself shake in worry, knowing exactly what Anima was.
"He's summoning!" She hastily warned the others, who had been frowning at the word 'Anima.'
"Do you mean he's summoning that aeon from Luca?" Hao double-checked. Sarah nodded, and ran forward, swapping places with Kimahri, so now Yuna, Rikku and Sarah were on the team.
"Girl power!" Rikku couldn't help giggling. Yuna smiled softly, whilst Sarah grinned, and gave the others thumbs up. Then they turned to watch, as a humongous anchor seemed to fall from the sky, and penetrated the floor, which was spitting out what could only be described as blood. The anchor started to be pulled upwards by an invisible force, pulling up the humongous aeon, Anima, after it.
"EEP…" Rikku whimpered, slowly tracking backwards slightly.
Tidus suddenly cried from the sidelines, "YUNA! Your new aeon!"
Yuna quickly nodded, and Rikku and Sarah stepped away from the main battleground, leaving Yuna to freely summon her aeon.
She swayed her staff, before swinging it firmly towards the side, and kneeling onto one knee, ice twinkled in the air, and five large ice blocks landed behind her. A translucent figure of a young beautiful woman was floating down into the actual ice blocks. As she came to a standstill, she tossed her hair behind her, and the ice around her smashed. The new aeon was clad in a bikini like outfit, and seemed to generate a cold harsh atmosphere around her. She threw her cloak aside, leaving Yuna to seize it.
The aeon, namely Shiva, stared up at her opponent, whose single eye glared back down on her. Shiva slowly raised her arm, and swayed it downwards. A sharp, painful icicle shot through Anima.
Anima's singular eye started to glow with power, before shooting a Pain attack back at Shiva, who winced at the impact of the attack.
This continuous cycle went on for about another five minutes, until Anima suddenly roared in anguish, causing everyone to wince.
"Is it dying?" Tidus asked, though no one was sure of the answer. But they were all let down as suddenly, blood seemed to seep under Shiva's feet, and she was dragged under ground, almost screaming in fear.
Only god, or Yevon in this case, knew what was happening underneath the floor that very moment…
All they knew was that it lead to a very painful bump, as Shiva somehow reappeared in the sky, and landed onto the cold stone floor with a very hard thud.
Shiva, now drained of her energy, collapsed to her knees in pain, and disappeared in a cloud of Pyreflies. But luckily, her attacks had weakened Anima by a huge amount, leaving it with hardly any chance of surviving.
'I'm sorry about this Anima…' Sarah thought, as she stood in front of the aeon, a tear glistening the corner of her eye. Anima seemed to stare back down at her, with a look of sorrow, and, like back in Luca, seemed to be crying it's own blood.
Sarah held her sword in front of her, her eyes closed in focus. The sword started to glow a deep shade of purple, and strange sparks of lightning were emitting off it. She suddenly charged towards Anima, holding her sword in tight grip, the sword now actually shooting off lightning charges around the room. She slashed the sword across Anima, before raising the sword above her head, and jumping up into the air, and stabbing Anima in her single eye.
Anima let out a wild screech of pain, as Sarah removed her sword, and fell towards the ground at an alarming rate. Hao quickly ran forward, and caught her, almost falling over in the process.
"Arigato… (Thank you)." Sarah mumbled, as she slid out of Hao's arms and to the floor.
Seymour was staring up at Anima, whose eye was worse off then ever. He dismissed her, and stared at Sarah with a look of disbelief.
"That power that defeated Anima…" He growled, his voice going horse. "It will be mine!"
Hao stood in front of Sarah, his staff held up in defence. No way in hell was he going to let Seymour try and kill Sarah, or steal her powers!
Seymour raised his hand, and struck a watera spell at Hao, who groaned, but refused to move out of the way.
"No… I won't let you hurt her…" Hao whispered, clutching his chest, which felt like it was going to explode. It was in agony.
"Hao…" Sarah whispered, looking down at him with amazement. She knelt down next to him and starting whispering some weird Latin words under her breath. Hao felt his aches and pains ease, and felt his joints loosen up. It was like the spell was relaxing him, and slowly wiping away the pain.
Seymour's eyes narrowed. "How pretty…" He snarled, shooting a Thundara spell towards Hao again, but Sarah suddenly stood in the way, and held her sword up in vain. The Thundara spell bounced off it, and hit Seymour instead.
Whilst Seymour was stunned, Tidus and Auron both ran at Seymour at the same time, and their swords connected with his chest. Seymour amazingly didn't straight away fall over. He gasped in horror, before sinking to his knees, and falling onto his back, staring up at the ceiling.
Everyone was silent for a moment, whilst Yuna and Wakka both looked beyond horror-struck at their actions.
Sarah's face had gone slightly white with apprehension, fear that they might of actually killed him. The last thing she needed now was a murder charge!
She slowly got up and walked towards him, before kneeling down by his side, staring down at him. He was still alive, but only just. He slowly looked back up at her, before asking, his voice breaking down, "Sarah, would you… pity me now?"
Sarah froze, and looked away, but didn't reply. Seymour smiled slightly, before letting out one last choke for air, before dying in front of their very eyes.
Sarah slowly stood up again, tears apparent in her eyes. She whispered, "Sorry…"
She stood back from the body, and let her tears fall. Her sword changed back into a necklace, and she collapsed to her knees, ready to do a blessing.
Hao wasn't sure whether to dance with joy, or just sit back and celebrate silently. He could see Tidus was having the same dilemma. He was biting his bottom lip, trying to cover up the odd grin that was now splattered all over his face.
When the blessing was over, Sarah slowly stepped backwards, before turning around and stumbling towards Hao again. She grabbed onto his shoulders for support, and cried silently onto his shoulder.
"I only wanted to stop him… but to kill?" She sobbed. Hao slowly patted her head. At that moment, the doors to the Cloister of Trails opened, and Tromell and two female Guado guards walked in. He froze in astonishment at the sight.
"Lord Seymour! What happened here?" Tromell asked, clutching his heart in a state of shock. Sarah quickly turned around, ready to explain, but started to choke on her tears.
Tromell and the two guards ran over to Seymour's body. Wakka was covering his mouth, almost like he was about to be sick. "What have I done?"
Tidus looked taken aback at how Wakka was acting and yelled, trying not to sound too cheerful, "Wait a minute! It's not our fault at all! Seymour struck first! He's the bad guy!" In the background, Tromell stood up again, upon hearing Tidus's words.
"You did this?" It wasn't a question. It was an accusation.
Auron took no notice of what Tromell said and ordered firmly, "Yuna, Sarah had blessed the body. Send him!"
Tromell stood in Yuna's way, and roared, his usually passive kind voice full of sadness and rage. "No, stop! Stay away from him, you traitors!"
These words along struck Yuna and Wakka hard. They both took a deep breath to stop them selves from gasping too loud. Hao glared at Tromell and bellowed, "Why don't you just bloody listen to our side of the story?"
Tromell completely ignored Hao and ran out of the room, the two Guado guards ran out after him, carrying the now dead Maester in their arms, leaving the others in the room, either staring into space, crying, silently cheering for joy that Seymour was dead (three guesses who?) and just standing on the spot with gruff faces.
"Traitors?" Yuna whispered, faltering slightly in bewilderment.
Wakka nodded to prove she'd heard him right. "We're finished…"
Tidus sighed, his happiness slowly starting to seep away. "Now hold on a minute. Seymour's the bad guy, right? We'll just explain to everyone what happened!" He said this as though it was the simplest solution.
Auron slowly shook his head. "It won't be 'that' easy." He answered, crushing Tidus's ego in one sentence. "Let's get out of here."
They slowly walked out of the room, towards the icicle tunnel again. As Tidus went to walk across it, it smashed, revealing beneath them a room covered in blankets of snow, which hadn't been visible when the bridge was fully formed.
"Give me a break!" Tidus cried, feeling his contentment seep away some more.
It took them at least 30 minutes to figure out how to get past the cloister of trails. There was now no chance of making a quick run for it. Tromell would of surely by now gotten back up.
And they were right. As the door opened, leading into the Temple exit, they straight away spotted the series of Guards standing in the way, all glaring up at Yuna's party.
Tromell stepped out of the crowd of Guards, and joined in the glaring session.
Yuna almost collapsed to her knees in anguish. "Please…" She whispered.
"Give us a chance to explain!" Auron called out calmly, obviously trying to keep his cool for the rest of the group. Tromell was now almost sneering up at the group.
"No need." He said coolly. "I already know what I'll tell the other Maesters."
Auron raised an eyebrow, almost looking bored. "Meaning…?"
Tromell now looked livid. "Lord Seymour was the Leader of the Guado before becoming a Maester!"
Hao's eyes snapped open as wide as they would go and he screeched in anger, "Not to mention he was a real pervert!"
All the Guards gasped in disbelief at Hao's outburst, but Tromell simply once again, ignored Hao and kept his eyes on the group.
All the remains of Tidus's happiness fell like a rock. "You're not letting us go?" He asked tonelessly.
Tromell looked beyond angry now. "Let you go? Lord Seymour would never forgive us if we did!"
Rikku suddenly jumped in, her face alight with hope. "Wait! Wait! Jyscal's sphere! We can show it to them!"
Tromell smirked and held up something horribly familiar. "You mean this?"
The whole group felt their hearts clench. Sarah stared at the sphere in Tromell's hand. He smiled coldly, before dropping it. But before it could hit the ground…
"SPIRIT OF AIR!"
Hao frowned at the sudden outburst. What's more, it sounded like… he suddenly gasped. The Spirit of Air?
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew across the room, so strong; that the sphere that Tromell had meant to destroy flew from it's falling, and seemed to fly towards where the yell had come from.
"Amy!" Sarah cried, trying to run down the stairs, only to be held back by Auron and Tidus, who decided maybe Sarah best not risk her butt by running towards the crowd of guards.
Amy stood by the exit of the Temple, holding the Jyscal sphere in her hands, her hair blowing in the wind that was still blowing harshly throughout the room.
"I'm not letting one of my friends be branded as a traitor by the likes of you!" She cried at Tromell, clutching the sphere tightly. "I know Sarah would never kill unless she had good reason! And she did! It's all in this sphere! Do you even know what's in this sphere? The information it contains?"
Tromell stared at Amy, before replying, "Yes. The Guado take care of Guado affairs!" He finished his last part loudly.
Amy looked at Tromell in shock, and then looked up towards the others. Then she groaned in pain, after receiving a mighty blow on the back of her head from one of the Guards. The sphere slowly slipped from her grip, and landed on the floor, but it didn't smash. Tromell walked up to his and picked it up, before smashing it within his own grip.
"AMY!" Sarah screamed, breaking free of her grasp and running towards Amy, and shaking her shoulders.
The others Guardians quickly used this opportunity to run down the stairs, passed most of the main Guards. Hao quickly tried to pick up Sarah, who cried, "I'm not leaving Amy!"
"We have no choice, we have to get out of here!" Hao insisted angrily, grabbing Sarah from underneath her legs, and carrying her outside, and after the others, with a whole horde of Guards not too far behind.
Eventually, they got to the lake, where they'd had to fight the Machina with Yoh and the others earlier. But instead of a Machina, this time, there were two Guado Guards and a strange muscular fiend. It roared at them and ran forward, aiming a punch at Wakka, who gave off a very high pitch squeak and ducked, only just missing the punch.
The fiend was ready to set another punch when…
"Li Pailong! Stop that creature in its tracks!" Tao Jun suddenly cried, running quickly over the edge of the snowy hill, towards the ice that the others were stood on. As she yelled this command, Li Pailong jumped down also, and aimed one of his own punches at the fiend, aiming straight in its face.
The Guado Guards nervously stepped back, unfamiliar with Shaman's and their powers. They watched as Jun and Li Pailong dealt with the fiend, unaware they were being sneaked on…
"Ahem…" A voice coughed politely. They both turned around, only for one to receive award winning slap across the face, and the other to receive a punch.
Anna smirked at the unconscious Guado Guards and slowly rubbed her hand, then turned to face Pirika, who was beaming that she'd actually knocked the Guado out flat in one hit.
"Not bad…" Anna mumbled coolly, before placing her hands on her hips. Pirika just sighed and groaned in disappointment that Anna wasn't that impressed.
"Hey, where are the others ya?" Wakka asked Anna nervously, still weary of how painful her slap was. Anna sighed and said, "They're spying on some other Guards, and trying to clear the path so you can get out of here more easily."
Wakka nodded, then winced as he turned around in time to see the fiend get punched right where it hurts by Li Pailong. The fiend doubled over in pain, before standing up straight again, and angrily pounding into the ice, either furious that he'd just lost a battle, or he was just having a PMS day or something.
The ice beneath the group started to crack. Yuna's group all yelped, as the ice suddenly snapped for good, and sent them all flying down, except for Hao and Sarah. Hao still had hold of Sarah, and was now trying to safely reach firm land again, but with no luck, as the ice beneath them continued to crack some more under weight.
"Sarah get over to land, now!" Hao yelled, letting go of Sarah and pushing her towards where Anna, Pirika and Jun were standing.
"I'm not leaving another friend to become shark bait!" She cried, trying to drag Hao with her, but Anna quickly grabbed her arm to stop her from going to far out. Before Hao could try and jump to safety himself, the ice he'd been stood on fell down towards the depths.
"No!" Sarah screamed, trying to go in after him, but Anna kept her grip.
"It would be foolish for you to get yourself into more trouble." Anna told her calmly.
"But…" Sarah whimpered, collapsing to her knees.
"I think Hao would prefer it if you stayed somewhere safer then whatever might be down there…" Anna continued, in a voice that clearly said 'don't argue'.
Sarah sighed and stood up. "Should we go and see if the others are okay?"
Anna nodded. The two of them walked off, with Jun and Pirika not too far behind….
Meanwhile…
"Urgh… my head…" Hao mumbled, slowly pushing himself off the ground. He looked around the area, but he didn't recognise it as any part of Macalania. They looked like old abandoned ruins. It was also surrounded by Pyreflies, and was filled with water, but it was only reached they're ankles.
Tidus looked like he was frowning. As though trying to concentrate on something. Hao realised he was listening to the hymn of the fayth, with was playing softly in the background.
"Hao, you're okay! But… where's Sarah?" Rikku suddenly cried, trying to run towards him, but kept tripping over bits of old Machina and stone that was hidden under the water.
"I think she's okay, she's still up on the surface with Anna and all that…" Hao mumbled, rubbing his head in pain.
Tidus walked towards them. "Are the others okay?" He asked, indicating to the others, who were all stood up, apart from Yuna, who was lying down, as though stuck in her own thoughts.
Rikku nodded, "Yunie's still unconscious, but she should be okay, she's breathing normally."
Tidus nodded, "Wakka's just in shock. Can't say I blame him though… Lulu, well she's just the same as always."
Rikku nodded, with a look of approval. "She's so together. All grown up I guess…" She mumbled.
Tidus nodded, and began to walk towards the group. Hao followed, still rubbing his head in pain.
Rikku then smiled. "Just give me five or six years!"
Tidus started walking towards Kimahri. Hao snorted at Rikku's last sentence and replied, "Fat chance…"
Rikku looked highly offended and playfully punched him on the arm. "Oui Pimmo! (You bully)." She cried.
"What do you think Tidus?" She cried, making the beeline for him and Kimahri.
Hao walked towards the others, his eyes now droopy because it was quite dark in the cavern like area, and sat down, thinking in his head, "If Sarah knew all along that Seymour had killed his own father… then why the hell did she agree to marry him?"
Rikku, Tidus and Kimahri were now walking over, all laughing slightly. Wakka got up and walked towards them, "How can you laugh at a time like this?" He cried, taken aback that they could still laugh.
Yuna suddenly twitched slightly, and raised her head.
"Yuna!" Tidus cried in relief that Yuna was now awake.
She sat up straight, and said, "I think I best explain what me and Sarah were planning…"
Everyone immediately crowded around Yuna, waiting with baited breath.
"The plan, was for us to confront Maester Seymour about his father, Lord Jyscal. But Sarah said, best wait until after you've preyed to the fayth, in case something goes wrong." Yuna started explained calmly. "So I agreed with her. We were also going to try and convince him to turn himself in to Yevon's judgement."
Lulu nodded. "In exchange for Sarah marrying him?"
Yuna nodded. "But then you all turned up, having seen the Jyscal sphere, which was not planned. So we had no choice but to fight. But at least we still learnt the truth, even at the cost of his life."
Hao frowned. "Well, Sarah's blessed the body, so he can't come back can he?"
Yuna shook her head. "Blessing the bodies only means cleansing them, but it doesn't stop them from coming back as unsent, unless a Summoner sends them. But because of Tromell, that wasn't possible."
"So, you didn't get chance to ask him to turn himself in?" Tidus double-checked.
Yuna sighed sadly. "Even if we did, it wouldn't make a difference. We should of told you what we were going to do…"
Auron spoke up for the first time in ages. "Enough. Dwelling in the past is futile."
Hao nodded in agreement. "It's too late to start having a go at yourself for your mistakes."
Rikku looked highly offended at the way they were talking, but didn't say anything. Yuna slowly nodded.
"Our immediate concern is Yuna's pilgrimage, and finding Sarah." Auron continued. "Now, Hao, you said she was still in Macalania, didn't you?"
Hao nodded, feeling extra annoyed that he'd decided to leave her up there. It would have been safer if she'd been down there with them.
Auron then turned to Yuna, "Are you willing to continue your Pilgrimage?"
Yuna nodded, but then looked a little apprehensive. "Yes, but do you think Yevon would allow it?"
Auron sighed, and began what Tidus had nicknamed, 'history lessons'. "The fayth are the ones who give power to the summoners. Not the temples or the teachings. If the temples try to stop us… then we will defy Yevon if we must."
Hao was very tempted to do some kind of victory dance because Auron was actually willing to break the rules of Yevon. Wakka on the other hand, looking beyond mortified!
"Woah…" Tidus mumbled, proving he'd actually been listening.
"I can't believe you just said that!" Rikku gasped.
"Sir Auron!" Lulu cried, for once in her life, looking completely gobsmacked.
Wakka eventually managed to find his use of speech again, and spluttered, "Count me out! We have to atone, to make up for the sins we committed!" He paused for a minute, before continuing. "Of course, It's not like I ever liked Maester Seymour, ya? No way I'll ever forgive him for killing Lord Jyscal, and for trying to do us all in too, you know? But still, a bunch of us going against Yevon? No way!"
Lulu half nodded, but replied coolly, "But still, we've transgressed and must face our punishment."
Yuna stepped in again. "We must go to Bevelle! We must speak with Maester Mika and explain what happened. There is no other way, I think…"
Wakka and Lulu both nodded their head's in agreement. Auron sighed gruffly and replied, "So it is decided…"
Yuna looked at him hopefully. "Will you come with us?"
Auron actually grinned, a proper grin, and said, "I am the trouble maker, after all."
Tidus grinned, whilst Hao was now spluttering with laughter that Auron was actually playing along. " Yeah, that's right! You can always count on Auron to complicate things!"
Hao then laughed and joined in the joke. "Yeah, he's confuses things without even trying!"
Auron now rolled his eyes at their behaviour, then almost groaned as Rikku jumped in. "Yeah! Kimahri roars, Auron runs and…"
Hao was now confused. 'Rikku just blew the gag…'
Auron just sighed in boredom and snapped, "I never asked you to follow me."
Tidus now looked almost hurt, but you could tell he was putting it on. "That's what friends are for! Right?"
Rikku nodded and yelled "Yeah!"
Hao suddenly got what they were going on about. They were going to follow Yuna to Bevelle as well.
Yuna nodded gratefully. "Thank you." She whispered to Tidus and Rikku, before looking towards Hao. "Are you going too?"
Hao smiled. "What do you think? I'm not staying here to rot!"
The others all grinned, and started walking away. Wakka still looked stunned that we were still laughing and smiling.
"Man… how came you all act like nothing's wrong?" He asked, both to the group, and himself. "Must got nerves of steel or something…" Leaving the rest of the group to frown.
Lulu spoke up. "You're too edgy. Listen to the hymn and calm down."
Hao scrunched his eyes up tight and bit his bottom lip as though he was trying to concentrate, but all he looked like was someone suffering from constipation. Tidus laughed and patted him on the back and said, "There's a stone wall over there, go behind it and I'll tell you if anyone's coming!"
Hao rolled his eyes and cracked Tidus over the head clumsily. Tidus rubbed where he'd just been hit and then asked Lulu, "Is the hymn coming from the Temple?"
Yuna answered the question for him. "Yes, it is Yevon's gift. It soothes the hearts of the faithful."
Tidus slowly nodded, and slowed down so he was walking in line with Auron. Hao instead walked faster, so that he caught up with Yuna.
"I'm worried, I'll be honest…" Yuna spoke quietly. "I never thought I'd see the day that we'd be responsible for murdering a Maester."
Hao just snorted lightly and grumbled, "You wouldn't be saying that if you saw what happened that night in Guadosalam… the time where I lost my memory…"
Yuna raised an eyebrow. "Did it really make you that angry?"
Hao nodded sadly, feeling sick just thinking about that memory, which had been so easily stolen from him. "Yes… that night, I was in a bit of a stress because Tidus nearly killed me in his sleep, by giving me a killer bear hug… he thought I was you…"
Yuna looked highly surprised at this, and had gone also fairly red, but looked rather wistful. "Um… carry on…" She quickly yelped, realising that she was blushing.
Hao laughed, thinking, 'She's flattered…' but continued, "Anyway… I walked off, hoping to talk to Sarah about the whole Proposal, or comfort her in any way really, because she'd been so quiet the whole night… but when I got to her room… Seymour was already there."
Yuna now looked highly interested, but also apprehensive. "What did he do that made you so angry?"
Hao tried to speak, but the words were now clogged up in his throat. "He… he… um… he kissed her… whilst she was asleep."
Yuna gasped so loud the whole group spun around on the spot, wondering what was wrong. "He what!" She screamed too loudly, causing some of the Machina to rumble slightly.
"Yuna, I know it's a shock but…" Hao started, but then he froze, when he realised something else. The hymn had stopped singing and the ground was shaking even more violently now.
"Something's here!" Wakka cried in alarm.
Auron suddenly noticed something. "The ground!"
Every looked towards where Auron was looking… to see Sin… who appeared to be in deep sleep in a body of water, but was it, above the lake?
"The toxin! Watch out!" Lulu cried, as there was a bright flash of light, and the ground beneath them started to collapse.
Hao's last thought's, before being knocked out unconscious were, 'I hope Sarah's having a better time then we are…'
Back in Macalania forest…
"Where are the others?" Pirika asked in worry, looking around, trying to spot someone she recognised, but with no such luck.
"OI!" A voice suddenly cried. Sarah quickly spun around, hoping it was someone they knew. Unfortunately, it was only Bartello, Dona's gorilla Guardian. He froze when he saw Sarah.
"You!" He cried, running towards her. "Where's Dona?"
Sarah gulped as he ran forward; ready to grab her by the arms, if Anna hadn't stood in the way.
"What's all the yelling about, you're giving me a headache." She said coolly, not even looking at him properly. Bartello looked stunned at her attitude and mumbled, "Dona's gone missing. I can't find her anywhere…"
Sarah thought to herself, 'Maybe the Al Bhed found her…' but didn't let on.
"Why don't you just… keep your cool and retrace your steps? You know, like Sir Auron would?" Sarah suggested.
Bartello's eyes sparked up, and he nodded. "Okay… I will!" Then he walked off without any further notice.
"Okay… that was very random…" Jun mumbled, before turning around, and gasping.
"Oh… crap…" Anna grumbled, as she turned around. Stood in the way of their path, were no less then 20 Guado guards, looking at the group with narrowed eyes. And behind the Guado Guards were Yoh and his group, unconscious.
"What did you do to them!" Pirika cried in fright, running passed them and to her fallen brother, Horo-Horo, who was… snoring?
"A sleep spell of some sort…" Sarah mumbled, fully aware of all the loud snores coming from the whole group, even Iron Maiden Jeanne, who was propped up against a tree, snoring lightly.
One of the Guado Guards stepped forward towards Sarah, and said clearly, "Maester Seymour is saying we must take you to Bevelle."
Sarah could feel herself going white. "Bu… but he's dead! Right?" She cried, looking around, waiting for an explanation.
"No, I'm not quite dead yet…" An all-familiar voice called through the crowd of Guado Guards. Sarah was sure that by now her skin was as white as the snow around her. "No…"
Anna and Jun stood in front of Sarah as the unsent Seymour Guado stepped forward, a sneer apparent on his face.
"I'm far from dead…" He finished off, before suddenly raising his arm, and casting Thundara on the three of them. Jun collapsed to her knees, whilst Anna firmly stood her ground and held her beaded necklace tightly in her hands, and Sarah transformed her necklace into it's sword form.
Seymour just smirked at the two of them. "Go ahead, try it." He said coolly.
Anna was ready to summon the Shikigamis again, but before she could, one of the Guado Guards threw a strange looking bomb in her direction. Anna winced as it hit her, and collapsed onto her stomach, joining in the Shaman snooze fest. Jun and Pirika weren't too far behind.
Seymour laughed coldly. "And I thought Shaman's were suppose to be strong." He said scornfully, before walking towards Sarah, who held her sword up shaking with fright.
"Stay away from me!" She cried. Seymour ignored her, and stood right in front of her. Sarah started backing away, but he grabbed her wrist, and mumbled a strange spell under his breath.
Sarah felt her head go dizzy, and she slowly lost balance, and would of collapsed to the ground if Seymour hadn't been holding her wrist.
"Now…" He turned back to the Guado Guards. "Take these Shaman's, and my fiancé to Bevelle. Then prepare your invasion on the Al Bhed home, in Bikanel Desert…"
Woah… my longest chap so far! I think I did well updating this time! Now I'm hoping to keep working on my other story, which I haven't work on for ages.
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