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Part four: Blitzball
They had reached Luca a day later with no further trouble. Upon thier arrival Fox had witnessed first hand just how important blitzball was to these people. It was thier only sport and the only way for them to take thier minds off of Sin.
Tidus had decided they should all go and have a drink at the bar as a pregame celebration. Fox had opted not to join them, alcohol takes your edge away. Yuna had also decided not to go because she simply didn't drink. While the others were busy getting plastered, Yuna and Fox took a walk around Luca.
"Fox, you don't like to talk about yourself do you?" Yuna asked him after a few minutes of silence.
"A soldier has little use for words. I was raised in a very different world than this." he told her. He knew she would
ask more questions. There was something odd about Yuna, the others might not have noticed it but Fox certainly had.
She acted cheery and upbeat but he saw through it.
"Could you tell me about your world? None of us know anything about it." She asked.
"There were parts of my world that were good, but i never saw them. We don't have Sin but we have something far worse." Fox said.
"What could be worse than Sin?" Yuna exclaimed.
"War." Fox said simply.
"We used to have wars. When Sin came everything changed. Zanarkand and Bevelle were in the middle of a machina war a thousand years ago. Thats what caused Sin to appear." Yuna told him.
"Wars never stopped in my world. The superpowers talked of peace and disarmorment to quell the masses, all the while they fought and schemed to gain power over each other." Fox said in disgust.
"The superpowers?" she asked.
"The strongest nations. All they cared about was thier own power. They made decisions that cost thousands of lives without blinking." Fox said. He was growing tired of this conversation.
"They sound like horrible people! How could they be allowed to d-" she started before he raised his hand to silence her. They were not alone. Fox thought there was about ten of them, maybe more. He drew his sword and backed Yuna up to the dock. He wouldn't be able to stop them all if they rushed her.
"Yuna, summon Valefor and get out of here." Fox told her. Why hadn't they attacked yet? They must not be pros.
"Why? Whats wrong?" she asked, looking around. Just then five people came charging at them from out of nowhere.
They were joined by five large machina's, each one had blades for arms.
"Do it! Now!" Fox ordered as he threw himself into combat. He charged and easily removed one of thier heads. He was right, they were not very skilled. They shrieked in horror at the sight of thier now headless friend. Fox used this and sliced anothers torso in half before spining and stabbing a third in the gut. He removed the sword and put it through the mans head to end him.
The remaining two started running and commanded the machinas to deal with him. They were much better fighters,
thier AI made them work as a team. Fox quickly checked and made sure Yuna was safe, he saw her flying on Valefor
in the distance.
The first machina lunged at him and after a quick sidestep he cut one of its mechanical arms off. Two more machinas now charged him while a third positioned itself behind him. He leapt into the air and aimed a kick at one of the two in front of him. It fell over as he twisted in the air and sliced the other ones mechanical head off. He was not fast enough to dodge the one behind him and if not for a quick movement on his part its blade would have gone through his face. He sliced the thing in two as he removed its blade from his shoulder.
He turned around and saw that four of them were still functional. Apparently they didn't need heads as thier CPU's seemed to be somewhere on thier torsos. That explained why the one he bisected was not getting up. This time all four charged him with thier blades ready to strike. He ducked the first blade and the rolled out of the path of another. Fox brought his sword up through one of them and cut it in half up the middle. This attack had cost him however, as it gave one of the machinas enough time to land another blow.
This time its blade got him in the gut and caused much more damage. He returned its stab with one of his own and
pierced its CPU. Fox jumped back and watched it jerk around sporadically before falling to the ground disabled.
The two that were left prepared for another charge as Fox stood his ground. His stomach wound was bleeding
more than he had expected and his vision was already starting to blur. He didn't know if he could survive
another charge.
They ran at him once more as his reflexes slowed from blood loss. The first one to reach him brought its blade down in an attempt to cut his head in half. He was able to avoid lossing his head but he was slower than he thought and could not evade it entirely. It still connected and cut him deep down his face. Fox slahed the machina to bits with his sword. Blood from the cut on his face had gotten into his left eye and rendered it useless, and as a result he didn't see the machina with with only one blade approach from his left. It smashed into him hard breaking his arm and several ribs. It pinned him to the ground and knocked his sword out of his hand. Then it brought its blade back in preparation of its final strike and Fox fully expected to die.
Just before it could end his life a blitzball came out of nowhere and hit it in the face. It flew off of him and crashed several feet away. Before it could get up and defend itself from this new threat Kimahri was on top of it. The ronso decimated it with his lance and in seconds the machina was in pieces.
Fox looked up and saw Lulu, Wakka, Tidus, Kimahri, and Yuna gathered around him. He laid his head back and closed his eyes as he felt pain wash over him. Within seconds he had passed out.
Fox awoke the next day and was suprised to feel quite good. None of his bones were broken and his cuts were entirely gone, not even a scar. He was not used to magical healing and it made him feel a little odd, but he was healthy none the less.
He walked out of the room and down some stairs to look for the others. Lulu, Yuna, and Kimahri were waiting for him downstairs.
"Wheres Tidus and Wakka?" Fox asked.
"Thier at the blitzball game. They made it to the semi finals!" Yuna said excitedly.
"I was out that long?" Fox said as they headed towards the blitzball stadium.
"Yes, you've been asleep for some time." Lulu told him. They entered the stadium and took thier seats. Fox had
never really been one for sports, he had seen too many battles. He scaned the crowd looking for potential threats instead,
which reminded him.
"Yuna, did you find out why those people attacked you?" Fox asked her.
"Oh, yeah we did. Those were some goons the Luca Goers hired. They wanted to kidnap me and use me as leverage against the Aurochs." she answered.
How foolish, he had almost died in an attempt to protect her from something as ridiculous as that.
"Thank you for stopping them. You almost died to save me." she said quietly. He barely heard her over the sounds of the stadium.
"I am your guardian. Besides, i can't do what i was sent here to do alone." Fox said. But he had said too much, it still wasn't time for him to tell them about himself. Even though they had saved his life he didn't think they were ready to know about him yet.
"You were sent here to do? Sent by who?" she asked. He was spared having to tell her he wouldn't answer yet by the appearence of fiends. They were swarming the stadium and people were screaming. Fox drew his sword for the second time in Luca and began to fight.
He decapitated a smaller fiend and headed towards another. Kimahri beat him there however and impaled it through its chest. A fiend leapt at Kimahri from behind but Fox cut it out of the air before it could reach the ronso. Within seconds the fiends had surronded Fox and Kimahri, sensing resistance. The fiends came at the two warriors from all sides and it was choas. Fox stabbed one throught its chest and aimed a kick at another leaping towards his face. He put his sword through another one as it tried to bite his leg and while he pulled his sword out of its head another fiend jumped on his back. It was about to chomp on his neck before Lulu blasted it off him with a fire spell.
Kimahri chopped two fiends in half with a single swing of his spear. He grabbed another out of the air and crushed its neck with his bare hand. A slightly larger fiend took him to the gound and swiped the ronso's lance out of his hand. It flew and stuck into a wall a couple feet away. Kimahri grappled with the beast and eventually managed to break its arm. The ronso delivered the killing blow when he bit through the fiends neck with his powerful teeth. He threw the fiend into a smaller one and retrived his spear before launching himself back into the frey.
Yuna was hanging back and healing anyone who was hurt. This proved difficult for her because fiends kept chasing her around the stadium. Lulu was hitting anything stupid enough to come near her with spells powerful enough to blast them into the air. Wakka and Tidus had left the blitz sphere and were carving fiends to bits.
Eventualy a huge fiend appeared at the south entrance and started causing all kinds of mayham. Fox, Kimahri, and Wakka were all running towards it before it let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground dead. A man in a red outfit removed a rather large sword from it and began to literally hack fiends into shreads. Tidus seemed to know him as they spoke a few words before proceeding to kill more fiends.
Then a man appered in one of the top boxes of the stadium. There was something about him that Fox did not like, he looked cold and emotionless. He raised his arm and summond a huge aeon. It was shakled in chains and one of its eyes had a black glow to it. The beast began to annihilate every fiend in the stadium with ease. It blasted them into nothingness as it made painful screams and shrieks.
An hour later, after things had calmed down a bit, they all went to meet the man in red. Fox heard Tidus say his name was Auron and apparently he had been a guardian to Yunas father, who had killed Sin previously. They made thier way down to where he and Tidus were.
"Yuna. I would like to be your guardian, as i was to Braska." Auron said. Every body else was impressed, apparently this Auron was quite important. Fox gathered that having him as a guardian would be an honor for the rest of them. Fox didn't mind, the man was quite adept at killing large fiends and he had the look of a warrior.
Yuna accepted immediately and they all began to prepare for the trip across the Mi'ihen Highroad. Fox felt Auron and he were much alike. The man let off an aura of power and authority. Fox could tell the man would be of great help in thier batlles to come.
While they were gathering supplies Auron approched Fox and spoke.
"That an intersting sword you carry. I've never seen another like it." Auron commented.
"It's a sword not of this world. Me and it come from another place." Fox told him.
"So you are not from Spira." Auron guessed.
"Correct." Fox confirmed. Auron studied him for a moment and then walked away. Fox knew Auron had just sized him up.
He wasn't particularly fond of being evaluated like that, but Fox had done the same to many people through out his life.
Once they had enough supplies they started on thier trip across the Highroad. Fox noticed that Tidus seemed a bit down
ever since Auron had spoken with him the day before. Fox knew there was something Tidus and Auron weren't telling the
rest of them. He was being kept in the dark on this but wasn't he keeping the rest of them in the dark about himself?
He decided to leave it alone for the time being, Auron and Tidus would tell him when they were ready.
Fox found it much more difficult to continue his training with Lucavi now that Auron was with them. It was not as easy to slip away from the man as it was with the others. Fox had been making progress until Auron joined them. Often when Fox was training he would hear Auron and have to stop. Auron was good at hiding but Fox was better at detecting. Fox would turn and face the direction Auron was in and wait for the man to leave. He couldn't keep this up forever though, eventually Auron would just ask him what he was doing all those nights. Fox felt that Auron was not somebody he wanted to lie to. He would just have to wait and see how things played out.
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