It's a Shocking Run through the Thunder Plains
[Welcome back folks! Well our heroes are now leaving Guadosalam behind, and are walking towards the Thunder Plains. a long barren area lined with tall spires to attract nothing else but lightning strikes. As they arrive Rikku becomes terrified.]
Rikku: Oh, no... We're here.
[Lighting strkes skitter across the plains.]
Link: Just how in Din's name are we supposed to cross this death trap?
Lulu: See the lightning rod towers? The lightning is drawn to them.. hopefully.
Wakka: We head north, not too near and not too far from the towers, ya?
Lulu: Meaning we should avoid wide, open areas.
Rikku: I think I forgot something in Guadosalam.
Auron:"Nice knowing you.
Rikku: Okay, okay! I'll go!
[They start their trek over the plains and pass by the first few towers with nary a strike, but as the pass the fourth, a large lighting bolt strikes the tower.]
Wakka: Whoa! That was a close one!
Lulu: Stop kidding around.
Wakka: Yes, ma'am...
Rikku: Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh...
Wakka: Hmm? What's wrong?
Rikku: Eh heh heh heh heh heh heh...
Link: 'shudders' I don't know whats worse... the Shadow Temple... or Rikku's creepy laughter!
Rikku:: I wanna go home! I hate lightning! I hate thunder! Let's go rest over there! Please?
Auron: This storm never stops. Better to cross quickly.
Rikku: I know, but... Just for a little while?
Link:...heh. So, now what?
[The party starts to walk by a travel agency, paying it no mind.]
Rikku: Pretty please? Just for a few minutes? I'm scared of lightning! Let's rest, please? Pretty please? I'm too young to die! You're mean...cruel! Your moms would be ashamed of you! Are you having fun doing this to me?
Auron: Fine, we rest. She's worse than the storm.
[They walk inside the travel agency.]
Yuna: I'm...a little tired. Do you have a room available?
Clerk: Ah, Lady Summoner. Yes, just over that way.
Yuna: Thank you.
Wakka: Uh, Yuna?
[She goes to a resting room.]
Lulu: It's not like her.
[Link goes into the hallway a little while later. He puts his ear to the door when he thinks he hears a man in there.]
Link: The hell...?
[He stumbles in after trying to open it a smidgen. Yuna has a sphere open with a man's hologram in it.]
Link: Gah!
Yuna: Y-Yes?
[Link looks over toward the man's image in the sphere as Yuna turns it off..]
Link: I...well... It's nothing, really. I...I just, uh... I'm sorry... I shouldn't have come in. Uhh... Wasn't that that Jyscal Guado guy?
Yuna: The sphere is his will... It says, 'Take care of my son.'
Link: His son...? Seymour?" Well, I can think of a way to take care of him...
Yuna: I'm sorry.
[She runs out of the room. Link starts to move towards the sphere, wanting to get a peek, but Wakka sneaks in and restrains him.]
Wakka: What do you think you're up to?
Link: Yuna...Yuna was acting funny, s-so...
Wakka: Yeah, yeah! She'll tell us when she's ready, so hold your chocobos till then, ya?
Link: Fine, just lemme go!
[After resting up, Rikku still won't move.]
Rikku: It's not stopping, is it?
Auron: Don't tell me you were hoping it would. Fine. Stay here.
[Auron walks outside.]
Rikku: All right, already. But! You didn't have to say it like that, you know! You could be more comforting or something! You know, try to cheer me up? You just don't get me at all, do you? Hey! Are you listening? I'm not scared! I'm not scared, you hear?
[Rikku walks confidently outside. A man runs by to take Yuna's picture with a sphere and runs off. Our heroes continue to the entrance of Macalania woods but Yuna stops thy when they're almost through the Thunder Plains.]
Yuna: Everyone...wait.
Wakka: What's up?
Yuna: I have something to tell you.
Lulu: Here?
Rikku: We're almost out of here! Let's go!
Yuna: I have to say it now!
Link: Um... I don't think we should stop out in the open, where we can be fried like a Coocoo by lightining!
[Auron looks at a sheltered structure.]
Auron: Over there.
[They walk over to the sheltered structure.]
Link: It's times like these I hate when my gut is right...
Yuna: I've decided to marry.
Lulu: I thought so.
Wakka: B-But why? Why'd you change your mind?
Yuna: For Spira's future...and Yevon's unity. I thought it would be the best thing to do.
Auron: That's not good enough.
Lulu: Wait, is it... Is it because of Lord Jyscal?
Link: Hey! That sphere!
Auron: Show me.
Yuna: I can't. I must speak to Maester Seymour first. I truly am sorry, but this is... It is a personal matter.
Wakka: You're kidding, ya?
Auron: As you wish.
Yuna: I'm sorry.
Auron: Just one thing.
Yuna: I won't quit my pilgrimage.
Auron: Then it is...fine.
Link: Wait a minute, Auron! You don't care? I mean, you're not going to stop her?
Auron: No, I'm not. As long as she is willing to face Sin...all else is her concern. That is a summoner's privelege. As long as she journeys.
Link: But that's...
Wakka: Yuna, just one question. Can't you just talk to Maester Seymour? You've got to marry him?
Yuna: I don't know. But I think it is the right thing to do.
Wakka: Okay, I guess.
Rikku: Yunie...
[A thunderbolt strikes.]
Rikku: Quiet! I wish we could help somehow, some way!
Yuna: It's okay... I'll be fine.
Link:: She says, "I'm sorry." He says, "It's fine." She's "willing" to face Sin. She's "privileged." I didn't understand. But somehow, I felt like I didn't belong. But if I didn't belong with them, I'd be stuck in Spira, alone. I've already lost the only two people I had ever really cared about, due to stupidity... an in this place; I wasn't going to let that happen ever again.
Auron: Next, we're going to Macalania Temple. Yuna can talk with Seymour there. We guardians will wait until they're done, and plan our next move. Understood?
(Alright folks, i know it's a short chapter again, and not too much going on. But hopefully, come next chapter i can make it better. I Didn't have too much time to work on this one. But tune in next time as our heroes make their way through Macalania woods into Macalania Temple; and try to find out what's going on with this sphere that has Yuna seriously considering marriage!)