Okay, this wasn't as short as I thought it would be. Well, not much I can say beyond that, unless I want to spoil anything.
Disclaimer: I own no Final Fantasy property.
I was able to catch up with him after a while, finding him hiding from the entrance. Being the Abes star player gave him nearly all the blitz ball fans in Zanarkand, and the entrance was filled with them. I'm guessing he's waiting for back up.
"Why are you hiding, your highness?" I asked as I got up close.
"Mind helping me plow through these people?" he asked to counter.
"Excuse me?" I got in few crowds before and was able to push through, but not with someone else at my back.
"Just to get through here. I'll give you the best seat." Okay, now he was just trying to bribe me.
"You already had me at asking a favor," I said, sternly. "You know I hate bribes." I pulled him up and got him behind me. "When we get into the crowd, hold on."
The crowd started screaming as we came into view. People was already swarming toward us and that's when I felt my brother's hand grab my bare shoulder. By that time, I put my arm up and picked up the pace. I felt my brother being pulled, but he was able to quickly recover as we made our way past and into the stadium.
"Thank you, Jeena," he breathed after nearly being pulled in by a fan girl.
I gave him a quick jab in the arm. "Hey, what's a sister for?"
He was actually able to get a good seat for me, not that I would want to watch. I just went to see his games cause we were family. I didn't find much interest in it. What I did watch from this one was somewhat scary. The teams were strangely aggressive. I was starting to wonder how Tidus was fairing, that is until he tackled one member of the opposing team out of the sphere with a cocky look. My eyes didn't advert to it any more until the crowd started to grow silent. I looked up to see my brother starting to make his signature shot, but was cut off as buildings was heard falling in the distance. Then some shot was fired through the stadium, making it fall apart. The crowd was pushing me as they made an escape, but I was thinking about Tidus. Where was he? Did he make it back to the sphere in time to leave? I couldn't look back for others were pushing me forward.
As I hit the entrance, Tidus was lying on the ground. "Tidus!" I ran over to try and help. "Hey, are you alright?"
He pulled himself up before looking at me. "Yeah, just bruised a little. What happened?"
"You got me, but let's get out of here!"
"I'm with you." We started running, following the rest of the crowd. "Auron!"
I looked back to see the very same person. "What are you doing here?"
"I was waiting for you," he replied in a deep, calm tone.
"What are you talking about?" Auron didn't seem to pay us much mind for he started to walk off. We exchanged looks and started running after him.
We followed him to the road, but the more we ran, the more that devastation seemed to appear. Everyone was running in the other direction and I was starting to wonder why Auron would lead us toward the core of the problem. "What the...?"
I looked over at Tidus from the sudden outburst. "What?"
"Didn't you see him?"
"Who?"
"That boy. You didn't see?" I was starting to think he was losing it. "Hey! Wait!" Auron appeared in our sights and Tidus started after him. My confusion kept me from following for a second. "Hey, not this way!"
"Look!" I set my sights at some sphere out to the distance. It looked to have something inside it. "We called it 'Sin.'"
"'Sin'?" I repeated in question. What was Auron talking about? However, something else caught our attention. There was this thing that popped out of the side of a building, having some kind of pods spewing from it. Was this 'Sin's' doing?
"Jeena!" Tidus pulled me back as the pods was landing on the same road we were on. They started to open, looking like some strange insect. What the heck were they? My brother tried to fight them off, but the things retaliated and pushed him back.
"Take it." Auron put a sword in front of Tidus. It was red with silver lining around the bladed edge. As Tidus took it, Auron pulled him up and let go. My brother could barely keep it up for it started falling down, until he got his second hand around it. "Here." I looked over to see a couple of gloves thrown at me. As I caught them, they pulled me down. They were a lot heavier than they looked. The material was tough, but flexible and the knuckles were hardened with a type of metal. "There gifts from Jecht."
"Our old man?" Tidus asked in disbelief. He didn't put much thought into it, for he already started swinging the sword, making the bugs pull back. However, the weight of the sword pulled him back as well, making him land on his butt.
"I hope you know how to use it." I saw Auron pull out his own sword and I knew that the only way out now was the fight our way through. I put on the gloves, though feeling as if they weighed me down, and took a stance. "These ones don't matter. We cut through!"
We started running, Tidus slicing one to push through them. A couple more took place and Auron tried to cut through another, but the one beside took it's place. I took my fist and pounded on the head, hearing the skull, if it had one, break into pieces. 'Dad actually found something useful,' I thought. As we made our way, more of those pods started coming down and forming more of these insects. They surrounded us and I was starting to worry.
"Don't bother going after all of them. Kill the ones that matter and run." Auron seemed experienced at this. We listened and cut out way through, well I smashed my way, leaving the others behind. Why weren't they following us?
As we got closer to the sphere, a type of pillar was in the rode. The things moving on top let me know it was alive. Suddenly, a strange push came down on my, like gravity increased, and it hurt. "Get out of my town!" My brother screamed at the pillar of tentacles.
"Some can't wait to die!" Auron exclaimed as he jumped in the air. He pointed his sword down and plunged it into the ground. Next thing I knew some aura emitted from him and explosions came to the insects surrounding the pillar and to the pillar itself. What was Auron? Was he still human? "Keep hitting it! It'll die eventually!"
I followed and started punching as hard as I could. I didn't even realize how much of an impact I was making until after something came over me and I jumped, swinging myself around and kicked the thing straight through. I looked up and noticed lights coming out of it. What was this thing?
Auron immediately ran past and kept going. What the heck was he trying to show us? That question alone made me follow him, but I didn't know about Tidus. "What are you laughing at, old man?" I looked at him to see him looking at a screen with our dad's face on it. He probably hated him more than I did. "Auron! Let's get out of here!"
"We're expected."
I was getting more confused by the second. "Huh?" He didn't even look at me. He just kept running.
"Give me a break, man!" Tidus exclaimed as we followed.
More pods rained down in front of us, as well as behind us. "More?" I asked to the wind, looking at the sea of monsters that was before us. How are we supposed to make our way now? We started to try and push our way through, but each one we kill, another took it's place.
"Hmph. This could be bad," I heard Auron say and looked to find him looking around. His eyes then set on a fuel tank hanging on the edge of the bridge. "That! Knock it down!"
"What?!" Tidus and I both screamed.
"Trust me. You'll see." I still didn't find it a smart idea, but I trusted Auron. When I got the chance, I ran over and started messing with the connection, making the electric link break and had the fuel fall below.
"Brace yourself!" I called just an explosion took place from the fuel tank and destroyed the supports for the bridge in front of us. The monsters that were on there vanished from sight as the road started to fall.
"Go!" Auron said, calmly. I wasn't sure what to do, so I listened and jumped, running across the falling bridge. Auron was the first to jump on to the other and things seemed to be getting higher. I jumped, using what power I could from my body was just barely able to grab on to the edge of the other piece of road.
"Auron!" Tidus yelled as we both were trying to pull ourselves up. Auron appeared over our heads and looked at us.
"Auron!" I yelled just as the bridge felt to start lifting up. Auron then looked up at the sphere, now seeming more organic.
"You are sure?" Okay, now he was talking to it? I pulled myself up to the point where I could get my arms on the road. I looked up to see Auron reaching down. "This is it." He grabbed my by the strap of my top and Tidus by his jacket and pulled us up, feeling as though without effort for it felt like I was floating some. "This is your story." Things were getting brighter by the second. "It all begins here." With that, Auron looked as if he was being stretched into the sphere. After a second, I felt no different. I was getting scarred, started panicking, then I felt... sleepy.
And now the real story begins. I'm getting hyped up writing this. I hope the readers here are enjoying it as well.