Chapter 15: A Few Surprises
Nothing out of ordinary happened while on Mt. Gagazet. We had the usual bit of trouble with the Ronso's who would not let us pass then when we finally were able to get permission to continue Biran and Yenke jumped in front of us and fought Kimahri. Kimahri beats them senseless, they let us past, we spend a long time walking up the mountain, ran into Seymour, beat him (what a pain that is). Continued through the puzzles and junk in the caves and walked out to meet the fiend that Yunalesca sent to test Yuna. I didn't really fight my absolute hardest, but I didn't need to since everyone else took the fiend down pretty eaisly. After the battle Rikku wanted to rest to think of a way to save Yuna but the others wanted to keep moving so we continued. I had just noticed but it seemed that the closer I got to Zanarkand the less I talked. As we got closer the sun continued setting. We stopped and started a fire, and sat there for what seemed like ages, I guess I talked less cause I was still worried what would happen after we beat Sin. Will I go home, will I remain here forever, what will happen to my friends and family back home... how long have I been here now, hey I just realized I haven't flown into a solid object or been seriously injusred for awhile now. We sat there for awhile longer and finally decided to move on.
I stopped just in front of Zanarkand. Rikku noticed and called to me, "Hey, you coming or what?"
I nodded, "Yeah, I'll catch up a little later, just gimme a minute okay," I called back. She nodded and ran after the others. I wasn't sure why but my gut was telling me to stay here. I stood there till after the sun had set. It was so dark I couldn't see 20 feet away. This was dangerous, if a fiend attacked me I wouldn't be able to see it, I wanted to turn around and walk inside but my body would no longer allow me to move. Being in the dark was improving my hearing obviously cause my own breath seemed a little loud. The only thing that caused my head to turn was the sudden sound of something large coming out of the water, I thought about it for a minute and realized it could only be Sin, meaning either he was going to stand there a long time or the others were almost back. Suddenly my body seemed to act on another gut impulse against my will. I started running, running straight at Sin. What am I goin nuts, Sin is at least 1 000 000 times my size, I can't fight that. Sin must have realized this too because he just stood there thinking I would stop or just attack uselessly.
Again a surprise for both of us as I jumped and continued going up even when I knew I should have stopped. I kept going up till I had gone higher then Sin stood. I came flying down extremely fast and out of pure instinct drew my sword and slashed at Sin's hard shell. Useless, I thought as my sword stopped for a minute on the rock hard shell that stood before it, then it pierced the shell and I pulled it down and out. The wound opened to a round hole and I jumped through. "Ha, I'm inside Sin long before the others will get here, not that I can do anything but stand around once I reach Jecht anyways, since I need Yuna so she can summon the Aeons and that whole frustrating thing," I said as I landed on what seemed like air itself. "Wow, this place is screwed up, I can't tell what I can walk on and what I can't." I looked around and saw Jecht off in the distance a little bit. Guess I could go talk to him, I thought jogging off in that direction.
When I finally got up to him I was actually out of breath, it had been a lot farther then it looked (like ten miles more). "Hey, what do you want now," he asked as if he had seen me before.
"Say what," I asked when I had caught my breath a little bit, "This is the first time I've met you."
"No, you've been hanging out in here for... oh wait, no you just look like that other guy," he said, "I'm Jecht, or Sin as you probably know me and you are," he asked.
I was astonished, "How can you be so friendly after you've killed hundreds or people, but so as not to be rude I'm Chris," I said worried that if I made him mad he might change into his big scary form thing and I couldn't take that on by myself.
"Nice to meet you, oh and as for your question, I'm not sure really this all seems unreal to me." he said. I slapped my forehead and then thought of something.
"Hey you said I look exactly like someone, who did you mean," I asked wondering if it could be that same guy. But before Jecht could answer he dropped down and slashed at me. I did a quick backflip to avoid it and drew my swords and slashed both at him. He blocked with his one sword and quickly grabbed what I noticed was a gunblade (for anyone who doesn't know it's pretty much a sword with a gun for a hilt). I kicked it out of his hand and jumped back to catch it. When I did though I noticed that it had a n orb in it just like my blades did. I pulled it out with surprisingly little effort adn the blade literally turned to dust in my hands. I put the orb in my dagger pocket and put up my guard just as he attacked me again. He pushed me back and smashed my blade of darkness, which to my surprise shattered into thousands of pieces. Since I figured it was useless anyways I pulled out the orb and threw the remainder away and as I did so it turned to dust before it hit the ground. I put the orb with the others I had and stood ready for his next attack. I've gotta hold out till the others get here at least, I don't know if I can make it though.
Please review. I'll probably update soon since I seem to be getting less homework now (thank god) plus I'm spending more of my spare time doing this now so yea.