Chapter eight time everyone. Hope you enjoyed the last chapter. First I apologise that there might have been a few inconsistencies between chapter 6 and chapter 7. I ended chapter 6 a certain way which I didn't like so I started chapter 7 the way I wanted too. I should have mentioned it in the introduction but I forgot, sorry. We'll fix it in this chapter subelty. Anyway, onto the good stuff.

Please forgive any spelling or grammar mistakes.

Chapter 8

Yuna was led by Maester Kinoc and his guards away from the dungeons. She was apprehensive about what potentially was coming but not frightened. She had toughened up a lot since first leaving Besaid, mostly down to him. She wasn't going to let Seymour, Kinoc or Maester Mika intimidate her. Just like he'd tell her.

Kinoc finally lead them through the seemingly endless corridors to a door and opened it. He held it openfor her, gesturing her inside. Yuna stepped inside and sure enough saw Maester Seymour was sitting at a table waiting for her.

"Ah, Lady Yuna…." he greeted in that snakey tone. Yuna didn't answer him, not wanting to appear polite whatsoever.

Maester Kinoc looked over at Seymour from doorway as if waiting for instruction. Seymour looked over to him and merely said;

"Leave us please Kinoc, me and my darling wife have much to discuss. As for the others, you know what to do."

Kinoc nodded in response and then closed the door behind him, leaving Yuna and Seymour alone.

"Please sit," he told her now. Yuna cautiously did so, though she took her time about it. Not because she was scared or nervous, it was to show Seymour that she wouldn't just do as he ordered willingly.

"Would you like something to eat or drink?" he asked her, still in that creepy tone that sounded so natural to him.

"No," was all she answered him with. She deliberately tried to sound as least formal as possible which in her case didn't sound natural at all.

"Yuna, where are your manners?" he asked with a small laugh. Yuna just scowled. She wasn't going to let him manipulate or deceive her anymore. He friends needed to keep her cool.

"Very well," he said eventually. He reached out to pick up a goblet in front of him which was filled with wine and slowly took a sip of it. He then placed it back down and asked;

"So Lady Yuna, after the events of our wedding I didn't expect to see you back in one of Spira's major settlements again. I expected you and your guardians to be harder to track down. Tell me, why did you come here to Luca, surely you knew it would not take long for you to be caught."

Yuna looked away from and again didn't speak. This time though it was because she didn't know what to say. Seymour waited for her to respond eventually when he realised she wasn't going to answer he spoke again.

"Come now, your silence is doing you no good at all. If you will not tell me why you're here and not on your way to Zanarkand perhaps I can guess?"

Yuna looked back at him again, her eyes wide. Surely he couldn't know the real she'd come back, could he?

"I've been informed that your friend, the son of Sir Jecht, is not amongst your party," he said slowly with a grin. "I also did notice him in Bevelle during our wedding ceremony that other guardians attempted to prevent. Tell me this, why is he no longer amongst you. Is he one of your guardians is he not?"

Again, Yuna couldn't bring herself to answer him. And Seymour knew he making her uncomfortable and he wallowed in it.

"I assume then that's he left his position," he said now. "It's an awful thing for a guardian to abandon his responsibility to his summoner like that. Truly cowardly."

Yuna then found her voice again and jumped to her feet.

"He's not a coward!" she snapped. "How dare you call him that. He's twice the person you could ever be, as our the rest of my guardians!"

Seymour merely laughed again.

"I seem to have touched a nerve."

Yuna calmed herself and sat herself back down on the chair. She'd promised herself that wouldn't lose her composure. Seymour however kept prodding.

"Why did he leave you Lady Yuna? I assume he's the reason you came back here to Luca. You wanted to search for him and ask him to be your guardian again? Touching. Foolish, but touching."

He then rose from his chair and made his way over to the window. He store out of it onto the mighty view of Luca. He had the best view in the whole city.

"What happens now?" Yuna eventually asked him.

"We await Maester Mika's arrival," Seymour answered her without turning around. "Once he arrives he will decide what your punishment should be for actions, such as slaying me and turning against Yevon's teachings. I doubt very much he would decide to execute the daughter of High Summoner Braska, no matter how severe your crimes. I should think an imprisonment would be more likely."

She turned her head indifferently (even though he wasn't looking). She then asked another question.

"What of my guardians?" she asked now.

"They will not be so fortunate," he told her bluntly. "They will likely be sentence to death, sooner rather than later. Either death by fiends or by being cast into the Via Purifico in Bevelle to drown."

Yuna was shocked by this. She rose to her feet again and banged her fist on the table.

"NO! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" she exclaimed.

"Oh but I think you'll find we can," Seymour answered her smugly. "In fact, the arrangements are already being carried out. Kinoc is over-seeing things as we speak."

Yuna lost her voice completely. Now she was scared, scared for her friends. They were going to be executed, she had to do something.

Meanwhile…..

Tidus made his way towards Luca's city hall where the Yevon temple was located. It was surely also where the others would have been taken. As he walked he kept thinking things over in his head about what had happened. Yuna and everybody else had been captured by Seymour, they'd come here to Luca (for Yevon knew what reason) and were now in deep trouble. He knew had to save them, he owed it to his friends after what he'd done to them previously. Rescuing them probably wouldn't make up for his previous abandonment but it was a start. It would show them he truly did value them as his friends and wanted to be part of the pilgrimage again. It would show Yuna that he cared.

He was thankful that he hadn't ended up going to the Calm Lands on that ship like he'd agreed with the captain earlier. He'd been told to come back at 9pm when they'd be setting sail and it was during his attempt to kill time he'd gone into the café and learned all about this. If he'd have stayed on the ship and waited until departure then he'd have been taken to the Calm Lands, miles away from the others and it would be surely too late by the time he learned and got back to help. Surely it was a sign, a sign that he was indeed supposed to help them.

He finally reached his destination and found a large crowd gathered outside with lots of media crews and curious locals being held back by several dozen guards. He'd guessed right, this must be where Yuna had been taken and people were now here hoping to catch a glimpse.

"How am I going to get in there and help them without causing a scene?" he wondered to himself. "I'll have to try and sneak inside but it looks to be heavily guarded and I bet it's the same inside too."

He continued to think and as he did so, not far away someone else was causing quite a gathering from the crowd. It was several members of the Luca Goers who happened to be walking by. A few people broke away from the crowds and instead went over to the blitzers to request autographs. Tidus watched them and as he did a very genius idea occurred to him. Well, not so much an idea, but a memory.

Back in Zanarkand one time when he'd been warming up for a Blitzball game a couple of fans had managed to sneak themselves into his private dressing room by dressing up as stadium guards which gave them access. It made him think. If those fans could get could past many security guards by disguising themselves then surely he could do the same here? It was worth a shot.

He'd have to lure one of those Luca guards into a trap, beat him up and steal his uniform. That way he could go inside and find the others undetected. It was just how was he going to get a guard away from the others in order to incapacitate him?

After a few minutes he finally settled on an idea. He walked to the nearest guard (who was shouting at some reporters to get back).

"Hey pal," Tidus told him.

"What kid!?" snapped the guard who was stressed.

"A guy has collapsed around the corner, he needs help. Quick!"

"Tough luck kid, we have other things more important to deal with."

Tidus quickly thought on his feet and kept prodding.

"Please, the guy's gonna die. His kids are sobbing, we need a guard with a first aid kit. Please!"

The guard looked at him and finally relented.

"Oh fine," he said giving in. "Take me to him. Let's get this doen quick, the commander will have my ass if he see's my away from my post from anything."

Delighted to have got what he wanted, Tidus led the guard away from the guardrails and crowds and away down a side street.

"Where is this guy?" the guard demanded angrily. It was obvious that he was truly afraid of being caught away.

"Just over here," Tidus pointed towards a side alley. He and guard entered the darkness.

"I don't see anything," the guard said now sounding very impatient. Tidus however did answer him. Well, he did hypothetically, but not with words. Instead with a fist. Tidus attack the guard as fiercely as he could to incapacitate him. The guard put up a bried struggle and tried to fight back but he was eventually over powered. Tidus repeatedly struck him until the guard finally fell into unconsciousness.

"Phew," Tidus puffed as he leaned against the wall to catch his breathe. That had been harder than he hoped it would be. Still, he got what he wanted. After catching his breath he began to strip the guard of his uniform and pull it onto himself. It was a tight fit but he just about squeezed into it.

After putting on his helmet he stepped back into the street leaving the battered and stripped guard behind in the darkness. Tidus knew he had to get inside and find the others fast, he couldn't be sure the guard would remain unconscious and unfound for long. Making his way back to the guardrails outside the town hall he took up the position the other guard had been in.

"Hughes, where have you been!? roared a gruff voice now. Tidus looked around and saw a very large guard walking towards him. He stuttered a response.

"Sorry…. boss…. Erm…. I was…. erm…. having a bathroom break."

"There are no breaks!" the guard spat furiously. "I don't care if you piss yourself, in future don't you dare leave your post unless ordered too. Understand!?"

"Yessir," Tidus replied.

"Good, now get inside. They need more guards down in the dungeons."

"Yessir," he said again, only this time more chirpy. It was hard for him to contain his glee. He now had the perfect way to get to his friends.

"Hold on guys, I'm coming," he thought.

Let's leave it there for now. Hope you enjoyed that chapter and I cleared a few inconsistencies up. I hate continuity mistakes so I was very annoyed at myself for making them. Please rate and review, it's very highly appreciated. Until the next chapter then.