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Chapter Six
The hard- shelled fiend pounded on the group of friends taking little to no damage despite the fact the fact that they used their best attacks. Baralai, having been attacked the most by the monster, lay on the ground too tired to even stand. Tidus stood in front of Yuna attempting to shield her from the danger. Yuna was rapidly firing at various parts of the fiend hoping to catch it off guard. Paine stood over Baralai swinging her sword every time it tried to approach him.
"Die you damned fiend," Yuna screamed at monster. She stopped firing because she knew she was just wasting bullets. The fiend dived at Tidus pushing him out of the way and knocking Yuna into a pile of crates. Her head hit the wall and she blacked out for a second. As she recovered, she had a flashback to the battle on the boat. Lenne had conjured lightening out of nowhere. How was that possible? "Lenne, where the hell are you when I need you?" Yuna screamed into ground. She slowly looked up hoping to see her oldest friend, but instead saw the evil eyes of the fiend. It raised its claws to strike her. This was the end she thought. There was nothing more any of them could do. She squeezed her eyes closed so she wouldn't have to watch, but the final blow never came. When she regained her vision, she saw the fiend fainted in heap with sparks flying around its body. She turned her head in the direction the shoot had been fired from. Gippal stood there. Yuna smiled and ran towards him. He looked away from her and raised the gun at Yuna.
"What are doing? The fiends dead. We don't have to fight anymore," Yuna said backing away scared her had lost his mind. She turned her head to see if the other were all right. She cursed when she saw they too were knocked out. She drew her own guns and turned to face Gippal.
"Come with me Yuna. I really don't want to hurt you." Gippal said quietly. It was evident from his voice that this was the last thing he ever wanted to do.
"Get out of my way I'm going to save my cousin." Yuna growled.
"We want the same thing Yuna. Come with me and Rikku will fine." Gippal pleaded his hand shaking on the trigger of his gun.
"Put the gun down and we'll go together." Yuna replied. She pointed her own her guns at him.
"Sorry," he said, "but I don't want Rikku to get hurt." He pulled the trigger and a bolt of lightening blast out of it.
For Yuna time almost stood still. She saw the lightening approaching and freaked out because she knew she didn't have enough time to dodge. It was going to hit her head on at full force!
"No! I won't let it end like this." Yuna screamed as the bullet speed towards her. She raised her arm in front of her face. Just as she was sure it going zap her it bounced away, flew back at Gippal, and knocked him out. Gasping, Yuna let her arms fall to her side collapsed to her knees. For a second she felt as if she was going to be sick. The world spun around her. She wanted to rest to join her friends in their peaceful slumber.
"Yuna you must continue," a voice called to her.
"Shut up!" she screamed at nobody. All the same, she grabbed her guns from the ground next to her and jumped for the boat. There wasn't much time left. It was slowly filling with water. Once aboard she darted into the cabin.
"Hello Yuna," a cold voice said, "I knew you'd be coming here one way or another. You're weakened by your desire to help this miserable being you call your friends."
"Who the hell are you?" Yuna snarled at the dark- cloaked man who had his back turned to her. The man slowly turned around to reveal his identity to Yuna.
Upon seeing his face, pain ran through Yuna's body like electricity through a circuit. An image of the man at the computer in her dream flashed before her. Unable to bare the pain she collapsed. Tears formed in her eyes.
"How pitiful," he said, "you aren't worthy of half the fuss everyone's been making about capturing you." He walked toward her and pulled her up by the collar.
"Don't touch me," Yuna said weakly. A shield formed around her. The man pulled his arm away in shook and pain.
"What power," he laughed sickly, "you truly are your father's daughter."
Yuna sat on the ground still in too much anguish to move. He is going to come back Yuna told herself you have to get out of the way. She wiped the tears from her eyes and tried to focus on something other than pain. The man kicked her sending her into the back wall of the cabin.
"I can't take this anymore," Yuna cried out beating her hand on the floor. "Leave us alone." As she cried, she sensed a strange aura of power leaving her body. Another wave of pain washed over her causing her to cry even louder. The man laughed sadistically at the girl's intense suffering. He took his gun and fired heartlessly at Yuna. Without even seeing the bullet, she deflected it. She closed her eyes and forced everything she felt out of her. All the pain, all the anger, all the hopelessness Yuna felt in explode out of herself. It took the form of orbs of energy and slammed into the man that stood there torturing her. He was knocked off his feet and sent flying through the wall and onto the deck.
"How beautiful," the man said regaining his balance, "you really are the ultimate weapon." He exit the sinking ship and disappeared into the night.
With the last of her strength Yuna called out, "Tidus, please hear me…"
Tidus's eyes flew open. Ignoring all the pain left in his body from being pummeled by the fiend and then shot, he jumped to his feet and sprinted to the edge of the dock. Yuna was calling him. He didn't need to hear her voice he just knew, call it lover's intuition. Memories of his promise washed through his mind like a tidal wave. He would protect her even at the cost of his own life if that were what it took. His eyes flashed from the churning water to the boat, which was quickly going under. Tidus knew he had to act fast. There wasn't much time left. He took a few steps back then darted forward at full speed and jumped over the water landing on the ship's deck, which shuck with the added weight. Getting back up on his feet, he ran straight for the cabin. When he arrived, he was horrified to find Yuna unconscious under a pile of rubble and Rikku tied up not to far away. Puddles were beginning to form all over the place from water that seeped in from the many holes Yuna had made. Tidus cursed knowing full well that even he would have a hard time getting the two girls to safety. He slashed the ropes that bond Rikku with his pocketknife and shuck her desperately trying to awaken her.
"Come on Rikku," he said, "now would be a very nice time for one of your hyper out bursts."
Slowly her eyes opened. "Gippal is that you don't do anything to put Yuna in danger…" Rikku said weakly her voice trailing off at the end. Tidus shuck her again. A little harder this time.
"It's me, Tidus. You have to get wake up. We don't have all day. The boat is sinking."
She opened her eyes again and struggled to get to her feet. Tidus put his arm around her for support, but she pushed him away. "Go to Yuna," she ordered, "She needs you more."
Speechlessly, Tidus obeyed. He grabbed Yuna and hugged her close to his chest. He knew there was no way he'd get her awake in time. Tidus and Rikku walked back up to the top deck progressing as quickly as possible in their current condition. The water reached over their ankles.
"Mr. Hero," Rikku asked, "how do you suppose we make it back to the deck. It's too far to jump now."
Fearfully, Tidus looked to confirm what Rikku had said. Unfortunately, she was damn right. Alone he might be able to make it, but not while carrying Yuna.
"We swim!" he said even surprising himself with own lack of a better solution.
"There is no way. We don't know what is in the water."
"If we don't act, we're going to find out whether we want to or not."
"How are you going to swim while holding Yuna?"
"I'm not. I'll go first then I'll steal a life raft from another boat." Without another word, he gave Yuna to Rikku who nearly buckled and dove into the water. He swam full speed to the other side and pulled himself out. Finally, all those long lonely hours of blitz practice were paying off. Running around his unconscious companions, he headed straight for another boat. It didn't have a raft on it. Tidus cursed and scanned the area for another one. He quickly found one, but there were people on the ship who were almost definitely drunk from the game and wouldn't appreciate a guest very much. Acting without thinking, he smashed a nearby crate with his sword, grabbed one side, and chucked into the water. Wood floats right. He descended into the water next to it and pulled it along to the now more than half sank ship.
"What the hell are you planning now Tidus?" Rikku called at him. She was doubled over struggling to keep Yuna above the surface of the water. Tidus appeared next to her, grabbed Yuna and put her on the wood plank. He pushed it to the shore. Barely able to stay afloat.
"What about me?" Rikku screamed. Tidus lay Yuna's soaking, but still breathing body onto the dock then called back.
"I've seen you swim!"
"Damn you Tidus," she cursed and was forced into the water when the area she was standing on sank into the abyss below. Luckily, she too was a strong enough swimmer that she was able to make it to the dock on the other side. Both Tidus and Rikku lay of their backs utterly exhausted from the rescue. Tidus pushed himself up on one elbow.
"I hear footsteps. You don't think its more fiends do you?"
Rikku watched the same direction as Tidus. "It's the police. Now they come after we nearly drowned to death." She then fainted from sheer exhaustion. Tidus too gave into the pain figuring there would all be all right now that help had arrived.
Yuna slowly opened her eyes one at a time now very used to the sinking feeling. This time she was standing in a cold, dark corridor. The only light came from a slightly opened to door. A small dark-haired girl stood behind it peeking into the room out the line of view of anyone inside.
"Sister…" Yuna called longingly at the girl. The girl didn't turn around or even acknowledge Yuna's presence. Yuna reached out to put her hand on the younger version of her older sister, but she went right through her. Yuna sighed. It was just like before. Curious at the point of this vision Yuna walked right through Lulu and into the room, but pulled back when she saw who was there. It was that man from the boat. The one who tried to kill her and he was talking to her mother.
"What have done? What the hell have we created?" Yuna's mother screamed tearing rolling down her face.
"No," Yuna said, "Don't cry…I'm here. Mother why can't you see me?"
The man laughed. Yuna pulled out her guns wanting nothing more than to kill him. "Her powers are nothing next to my daughters."
"Lenne resisted it. We shouldn't have proceeded any further. We could have killed her."
"I know, but as scientists are first responsibility is to..." Yuna's mother interrupted him by slapping in the face.
"Our first responsibility is to protect our children. I can't be a part of this project any longer. I already put one of my children's lives in danger. I won't let them touch Yuna."
"But Sarah they'll never let you leave they haven't gotten what they wanted yet. Anyway, unlike either Lenne or Lulu Yuna is a perfect match. Theoretically she should be the one…"
"That is exactly why this must stop. There's no telling what they'll do if they find out she has that ability." Yuna's mother stormed out of the room catching little Lu off guard.
"What the hell are you doing here? I told you to remain in the room at al times." Tears filled Lu's eyes.
"But Mommy I missed you. Why are you always away?" The women picked up her daughter and embraced her.
"I'm sorry Lu," she said crying too, "I have committed the ultimate sin."
Yuna felt something cold on her face. Reaching up she discovered she too was crying. She had also dropped her guns to the ground and when she went to pick them up a shadow appeared behind her. It was that boy again.
"You see Yuna. You do have the ultimate power inside you."
"Why! Why would they do that to their own children? What is this power? Why would Lenne's own father come after us?" Yuna screamed random questions at the boy. He just smiled.
"This only one side. Reality isn't black and white nor are most people good or evil." Yuna didn't like the emphasis he put on the word most.
"Your power is very different from that of even your sister and Lenne. You alone can come into contact with me. That is the ultimate power. That is why. There will be a time when I can discuss why with you, but first you must return to the place where this all began. (a/n sry…couldn't resist quoting xenosaga) The laboratories hidden in the mountains outside of Zanarkind. All your answers are there…well most of them anyways." he continued.
Yuna shivered. "What are you saying?"
"But do not worry. We will help you, if you call." the boy faded back into the ether.
"Wait," Yuna screamed running to spot where he disappeared, but he was long gone. The room around her melt away and Yuna was left in the darkness again.
"Oh foofie!"
Tidus once again sat next to Yuna who was sleeping restlessly on a bed in a small room in an inn in Luca. He laid his hand on her forehead.
"What's happening to you, Yuna?"
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