Cape. 2

First, my uncle Cid, my mother's brother, tried to forcibly prevent me from my pilgrimage. My guardians prevented this from happening, and I'm just grateful that no one was seriously injured. Cid worries about me, didn't want his sister's daughter to sacrifice her life for something that seemed pointless to him. I knew this, but it was my decision to follow in my father's footsteps and become a medium. My decision to start the pilgrimage. I wasn't afraid of death because I believed in the point. I must not forget my innate abilities, my legacy. Hence my duty, my burden. And I'll meet them when I can. That's what I thought at the time.

Then the Besaid Aurochs won a Blitzball tournament for the first time in over 20 years. And not only that……. They won the final. They fought so incredibly hard as I had never seen before. Their will to win was unbelievable, they not only won the tournament, no, with their fighting commitment they also won the hearts of everyone in the stadium.I knew that they owed this entirely to Tidus, who had more or less forced them to finally believe in himself.

Unfortunately, Wakka was unlucky because he was injured. He broke two ribs and it must have hurt like hell because I can still see his painful face before me. I worried about the man who was like a big brother to me.
But this was his big hour, and I did not want to and could not take his triumph from him when the people in the stands cheered him and the Aurochs.
I also have to say today that I allowed the arrogant team captain of the Luca Goers to wear the slap she was wearing.

But suddenly the cheers turned into loud horror, and all hell broke loose in the stadium. I don't know where they came from so suddenly, but in the blink of an eye the entire stadium was filled with the hideous creatures that arise from the souls of the unblessed - and from their hatred of the living.Some today claim that it was Guado guards who summoned them on the Lord's orders. I don't know though.

We got into bitter fighting while trying to protect the lives of Lucas innocent citizens and children. The whole time I thought about the injured Wakka and the inexperienced Tidus fighting alone on the other side of the stadium, and I was very worried. Little did I know then that Auron, my father's Guardian, had joined them. Auron was a powerful, experienced fighter who had served with the Yevonite warrior monks as a boy and who had already accompanied my father on his pilgrimage. I could remember the young, handsome man who played with me as a kid before my father gave his life for Spira. Father had always told Auron he was going to spoil me too much, but I could wrap Auron around my finger as a small child, and I liked it when the young man's often serious or sullen face was lit by a bright smile - but that was well over 10 years ago.We fought hard and I felt the incantation drain my strength. Soon I felt like we weren't going to make it. Despair overran me like a dark wave.

But then something incredible happened.
A bright light blinded me, a light that flared up from the grandstand. When I looked, I saw the Guadolord standing there. He did something ... gestured. "He conjures!" it ran through me.

The next thing I became aware of was a huge aeon, more powerful than I had ever seen before. It materialized right in front of the stands and he was in complete control of it. Such a great power! Yes, I now understood how he could be a maester at his age. The Aeon destroyed the creatures that had invaded the stadium within a very short time without any visible fight. Not even my father had such a powerful aeon. After his summoner beast had wiped out the last disgusting, murderous creature from Lucas's face, he called it back.The crowd cheered him, but he didn't seem to notice. As if it were the most normal thing in the world, he withdrew in his feline way, and the last thing I caught sight of was a brief flash of lavender-blue, eerie, fascinating eyes.

Even if I did not show this openly, this young maester popped up in my head a lot in the near future. Who or what was he?
In the near future my thoughts often revolved around him, even if I didn't show this to anyone. Only Lulu and Wakka, who had known me the longest next to Khimari, reminded me here and there with a warning look that they suspected it.
I was not to see Lord Seymour for a long time, and the events of the coming days of my voyage occupied me too much to ponder what had happened.

We traveled over the Miihen Hochstraße in the direction of Djose and after a few days we reached the Mushroom Rock Road. The sanctuary of Djose was my next goal, and with that goal clearly in mind, there was no time to think about the halfling.Other things challenged me. Tidus worried me. I really liked him very much, and there was a way about him that made me forget my burdens for a while. He made me laugh, and daily training with Auron as well as numerous fights against
Creatures of the uncalled made him mature into a good, enduring fighter.
And yet…. sometimes it seemed to me as if he had experienced deep suffering that tormented him.
But he wasn't ready to share it yet, so I had no choice but to convey to him that I would understand when the time came when he wanted to tell me.
The young Zanarkandier often fell into dull brooding, but I mostly succeeded in pulling him out of this state of introspection. It was especially bad every time his father Jekkt was spoken of, and it was difficult to see how torn his feelings were towards his father. He loved and he hated him, and this dichotomy seemed to torment him very much.I only knew Jekkt as my father's Guardian, a little self-absorbed, but brave and loyal. I had often listened to his stories as a child, and he talked a lot about his little boy, of whom he was obviously very proud. I didn't understand at this point what had happened between him and Tidus, but I noticed that Auron had now taken on the role of father to Tidus.
The two were often related, and while Auron was very strict with him, there was a bond between the two and Tidus began to mature into a responsible, dependable Guardian under Auron's guidance.
The gate to Djose was ahead of us.