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Yuna laughed slightly when Caius said that she should give him suggestions on how to fight with Vordun. “Valefor’s really more similar to a bird with a few dragon qualities,” she said with a smile. “But flight will be incredibly useful when he's big enough. I know at least once, I pretended to jump off something and had her catch me below to escape.” It was another of those stories that just popped out of her mouth before she had time to think about it, but at the same time, it didn’t feel like a lie. Yuna was starting to accept that these moments were probably memories slowly creeping back to her.
Caius had some additions to her plan that were really good, and she nodded when he suggested that she summon Valefor to distract them and then he could warp down with Vordun for a second surprise attack. “You’re right,” she murmured when he suggested waiting to free the prisoners until they were done. As much as she wanted to free them immediately, they could get hurt in the onslaught or be used as leverage if they let them out too early. At the moment, the safest place for them might have been in the cages unfortunately.
“Give me just a moment then,” Yuna said, pointing back in the direction that they had come. “I don’t want them to notice me summoning if we’re going for a surprise attack. I’ll need just a bit of space as well.” Her aeons weren’t necessarily dangerous, but they could cause a lot of collateral damage when they appeared, so she usually had her guardians step back whenever she summoned in battle.
Giving Caius one last smile, Yuna walked back away from the cliff’s edge until she was confident that the people at the bottom wouldn’t be able to see her. She could still see Caius, so she gripped her staff and turned her back on him so she could focus. Truth be told, she was far more nervous than she normally was, because she hadn’t yet tried this on Zephon, but she couldn’t let him down or the people who needed their help. This had to work.
Taking a breath, Yuna swung out with her staff and spun in a fast circle to the side. Her sleeves and skirt billowed out as she turned and started to spread her arms, but she could already tell that something was wrong. She couldn’t feel Valefor’s presence, and there were none of the usual tell-tale signs that she was coming. No gusts of winds. No tinge of magic. There was nothing.
Frowning, Yuna stopped moving and stared at the distant trees in a panic. Did that mean that she couldn’t summon in Zephon? It felt like losing a part of herself, and she wasn’t sure that she could cope without it. What was even her identity if she couldn’t say that she was a summoner anymore? Biting her lip, she glanced back at Caius, deciding that she needed to try one more time before admitting defeat. She didn’t want to let either him or the people trapped in cages down.
Trying to calm down, Yuna closed her eyes and took a moment to just breathe and feel around for a connection. There did seem to be something there, though it was faint, and she was positive that it wasn’t Valefor, but she focused on it anyway. The air around her turned colder the more that she concentrated, and finally she opened her eyes and brought her staff down hard on the grass. Frost exploded out across the grass from the point of contact that her staff made with the ground, and she shivered as a cold wind blew around her while an ethereal figure gracefully materialized into view.
Yuna stared at the armored figure in front of her that glistened in hues of purple and blue like ice, and her lips parted in understanding. “Shiva...”
It shouldn’t have been possible. She hadn’t yet passed her trial at Macalania Temple, and this aeon didn’t look anything like the beautiful, immodestly-dressed woman that there were statues of in the temple. Still, she couldn’t argue her presence, and just thinking about Macalania Temple made her feel dizzy. Had she been there after all?
Suddenly remembering Caius, Yuna turned back towards him and gestured for him to approach. “Slight change of plans,” she said with a faint smile. “It looks like I’ll be using ice.”
What Yuna had stated she could and would summon, and what she actually summoned were two very different things.
Very different.
"Bloody hell..."
It had been a long, awkward pause after Yuna's initial attempt to summon hadn't worked, and Caius was beginning to wonder if she had actually tried to summon before since coming here. She didn't seem all that sure herself. But so long as they didn't get caught, there was a good chance they had time, right? Unless she somehow screwed this up royally, which he did hope didn't happen. They would lose their advantage that way. But... Then frost exploded out across the grass from the point of contact that her staff made with the ground, the moment that she brought it down. Caius would shiver a bit and tighten his jacket a little. He knew that the bandits down below would feel that cold too. They were likely about to lose their advantage.
But the figure that appeared made Caius forget about all of that for a moment. He recognized the icy, slender figure that flew about... His pupils shrank, his eyes widened and his breath was caught in his mouth.
Shiva.
"By the Six..." Caius would mutter, immediately following up on his "bloody hell" remark. What had happened to Valefor? The thing she was meant to fly down on and rain down the first attack by surprise to set up the second surprise attack? This wasn't Valefor... This... This...
This was an Astral.
Between the cold and the absolute shock of it all, it was a surprise that all Caius could do when faced with one of the very Gods that made up his world, was turn toward Yuna.
“If I didn’t know any better I would think you summoned one of my worlds Gods just to screw with me” Caius quipped, as if a joke was the only reaction he could think of throughout all of this. He was looking the Glacian in the eyes, and telling jokes. That was basically Caius. He had been coping with humor lately. "Alright, we can still salvage this plan... I think... Let's just uh... Set the Ice Queen on them I suppose. You two can start up on that attack, they're probably about to come after you anyway. We lost surprise one but... If Vordun and I circle around, we might still be able to catch them by surprise while Shiva is doing... Shiva things. I've only actually seen Shiva in action once in my life, and it was from a fairly far distance. So I don't really know much about what Shiva things are. So uh... Good luck with that. The Shiva things I mean."
With that, Caius and Vordun would take off, hoping to circle around just as some of the bandits would begin to head Yuna's way after the frost explosion had alerted them...
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19
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Tidus
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294 POSTS
Erin
I live for the people of Spira, and would have gladly died for them, but no more!
Caius looked like he had seen a ghost, but maybe that wasn’t too surprising after he had shared earlier that some of her aeons were considered gods in his world. It made her wonder if they were somehow even more powerful where Caius was from, but she supposed that now wasn’t a good time to ask. Not after Caius pointed out that the people below likely knew something was going on now.
“I’m sorry,” she murmured, glancing over at the clifftop in the distance. She supposed that he had a point. Cold air generally sank, so the bandits and the people trapped in cages would have felt the rapid change in temperature even from the bottom of a cavern. Maybe they’d even send people up to investigate. “Shiva was just the only one who answered my call.” It hurt to admit a little. What use was a summoner who couldn’t get her aeons to come? But then, Yuna still wasn’t sure if that was because they’d abandoned her or because they simply didn’t exist in Zephon. One look at Shiva was enough to tell her that maybe this wasn’t quite the same entity that summoners prayed to at Macalania Temple.
Still, this wasn’t the time for worries. Shiva had come, and Caius was right. They had a job to do.
Yuna couldn’t help but laugh a little as Caius babbled about her doing ‘Shiva things’ before he took off at a run with Vordun at his side. He really was nervous around the armored figure next to her. It was kind of cute coming from the tall blond man who was normally a bit unreadable. “Nul-Frost,” Yuna murmured as an afterthought, casting an additional spell on Caius before he could get too far. He’d likely wonder about the tiny white ball of magic circling near his head, but he’d thank her if he got too close to any of Shiva’s attacks during the chaos. She wasn’t about to leave him unprotected from ice damage.
Following suit, Yuna took off at a run towards the opposite end of the cliffside than Caius had gone to. The grass brushed against the tops of her boots and pulled at her skirt, and she could feel Shiva’s icy presence behind her without even having to turn around. The cold was starting to raise goosebumps on her arms and shoulders. She wondered if the bandits could feel it too.
There was a small dirt path nearby that led down towards the hill. It was littered with tree branches and seemed a little steep, so Yuna took her time going down, lifting her skirt with one hand and holding her staff out with the other as she strained her ears for the sounds of anyone approaching. If it wasn’t for the slight hum of the connection between her and Shiva, she might have missed the click of the gun barrel in the trees to her left side.
Whirling around, Yuna swept out with her arm, and Shiva was at her side in an instant, ice shards spearing their way into the trees. There were yells of surprise—Yuna winced at the ones that sounded pained—but she didn’t have time to worry for her attackers. There was the crack of a gun shot that rang loudly in her ears as a bullet hit firmly in the center of the Protect spell that she had cast on herself earlier before attempting to summon. The force of the impact shattered her spell and sent her careening backwards. She just barely managed to take shelter behind a tree before the second bullet hit. A branch above her head exploded, and wooden shards rained down on her. Judging from the lack of further attacks, Shiva was keeping the men busy, but Yuna was still a little shaken as she rubbed her stinging cheek from where a piece of flying debris had hit her. There was a small amount of blood on her fingers when she pulled her hand away. Forbidden machina truly was terrifying. Yuna’s ears still rang with the sounds of their weapons.
Casting an additional Protect spell on herself, Yuna gripped her staff and dashed out from behind the trees as she continued her way downhill. Everyone remaining at the bottom had to have heard the gunshots, and she was positive that they’d be coming her way. Hopefully that gave Caius the opening that he needed.
Seeing as the bandits were beginning to check out the cause of the commotion, Caius would have Vordun climb back onto his shoulder as he would make a beeline around the bend. Climbing down the long way, he hoped that while Shiva was busy distracting and attacking, Caius could still make that surprise attack happen. Caius wasn't an overly religious man, but he couldn't help but feel a sense of pause at the fact he was about to fight alongside someone commanding Shiva of all things. It was just... Weird. Very, very weird. He wondered if he could talk to it? Or would Shiva disappear when the job was done? He wasn't sure.
A cold white ball was beginning to float around his head, and he had to guess that it was Yuna's doing. He didn't know what it did just yet, he wasn't familiar with Nul-Frost. But he was sure that it would be useful.
The bandits had sent scouts out to see the cause of the ice, and when one would attempt to attack, they would have Shiva to reckon with. Some were afraid, some continued to attack while others returned to camp to regroup. But when Shiva came into view of the entire camp as she and Yuna went downhill, it was absolute chaos. Gunfire began to patter toward Yuna and Shiva as they hoped to quell this monster and its master before they could kill them all.
It really was the opening that Caius needed.
Coming out from the other side of the hill, Caius would draw his gunblade and throw it forward, sending him and Vordun careening into the brunt of the bandits that had banded together in formation, running his blade across the back of one of them. Realizing they were being flanked too late, the bandits would scramble to try and deal with this new threat on top of the monster that was heading for them. One of them would grab a sword and swing at Caius from the side, but Vordun would loose a jet of flames that would singe their head and the bandit would go down trying to put out the fire. Vordun held on tight as Caius would begin a dance of death, cutting through bandit after bandit with blinding speed, easily cutting past their defenses while they were still trying to get their bearings. With only part of the attention on him, and the bandits trying to deal with two flanking targets, Caius was able to cut through the first wave with ease before moving further into the camp. With the camp not as heavily guarded as they'd sent a fair few after Shiva, Caius would jump into the fray with another Warp Strike, though when the group would turn to them, Caius would be forced to throw up the Glaive Barrier as a rain of gunshots headed his way. With so many shots hitting the barrier at once, Caius was worried it might fail, but it seemed to hold up. The minute the volley ended, Caius would drop the barrier and point the gunblade toward the formation, firing a shotgun shell-like blast their way as Vordun would launch another fireball toward them. Caius scored a headshot with the first shot, while the others would dive away from Vordun's attack...
And then came Shiva's ice shards.
Two would be impaled by them, and several came Caius' way as he would try to brace himself and Vordun, knowing the barrier needed another moment to recover. But when the shards came, they dissipated on contact, revealing that Yuna's spell was indeed to protect him from Shiva's attacks. Letting out a sigh in relief, Caius allowed his gunblade to disappear as a double-edged short sword appeared in its place. Isp, was what he had called it to Yuna earlier. Splitting it in half once more, Caius loaded the chambers using his own energy as fuel before opening fire while the bandits were trying to recover from Shiva's attack. Unable to guard against two sides, Caius was able to mow them down quickly with rapid fire shots from both gunblades.
The numbers were thinning, but Caius noticed one of them running for a prisoner cage, seeming to be fumbling for a key...
"Shit!"
Final Fantasy X
19
YEARS
Female
Tidus
Heterosexual
294 POSTS
Erin
I live for the people of Spira, and would have gladly died for them, but no more!
Yuna did her best to avoid the barrage of bullets being fired at her as she sped her way downhill. She ducked behind trees and kept up a steady stream of Protect spells. Her skirt and sleeves were liable to be full of rips and tears after this as they kept catching on loose branches, but she didn’t have time to worry about that right now.
This Shiva was certainly a different one than she was used to. Yuna winced at every pained yell that reached her ears, and she gripped her staff tighter, wondering if she should try to rein her in. Yuna hated to let people die, even when they had caused as much harm as these bandits had. This armor-clad figure was as graceful and elegant as the Shiva from Spira, but this one seemed to be much more of a warrior than she was used to. Still, she didn’t think that she could live with herself if she restrained Shiva too much and Caius or one of the prisoners got hurt. What was the right balance here?
As Yuna struggled with her moral quandary, Caius made his move. There was a blurred streak through the air, and then the man was suddenly near the front lines, swinging his sword and moving between groups of people so fast that Yuna could barely follow the action. This must have been his infamous ‘warp-strike.’ It was mesmerizing to watch, and Yuna would have been amazed and stopped to watch if it had been under other circumstances. As it was, she needed to keep moving.
Between Shiva and Caius, they were making quick work of their numbers. One of Shiva’s frost shards got dangerously close to Caius, and Yuna sighed in relief when the white orb circling above his head disappeared as it absorbed the blow instead. She was glad that she’d cast Nul-Frost on him before they’d started. As Yuna finally skidded down to the level ground of their camp-site, she noticed with a pang that the bandits’ numbers had really thinned out, and several were motionless on the ground. It was a horrifyingly sad sight. This was necessary, Yuna tried to remind herself. She and Caius were saving people. But she’d need to do a sending for the fallen regardless. They deserved at least that.
Caius cursed loudly, and Yuna braced herself for finding him hurt, but his eyes seemed directed towards the prisoner cage instead. Following his gaze, Yuna froze as she caught sight of a man fumbling with a key at the door. Yuna took off running after him, knowing that she’d never make it in time. The man hauled the door open and reached inside, and Yuna stared at the terrified, injured-looking prisoners before she threw out her staff. “Thunder!”
A crack of lightning struck the man just before he managed to grab anyone and threw him to the side where he hit the edge of the metal cage with a clang. He groaned feebly as Yuna sprinted up and knelt by his side. Snagging the key from his grasp, she laid a hand on him and murmured a cure spell as healing light briefly appeared at her fingertips. Whatever he had been about to do to the prisoners, she couldn’t bring herself to kill him.
With the door now open, some of the healthier prisoners bolted, and Yuna reached out a hand and cried out “Wait!” Not many of them listened to her (not that she could blame them), and Yuna could only pray to Yevon that they were able to avoid the chaos going on between Shiva and Caius’ devastating attacks. The injured prisoners mostly stayed put at least, and she breathed a sigh of relief for that. “I’ll be right back to heal all of you,” she murmured, pausing to cast a cure spell or two on the ones closest to her before she ran out of the cage again.
Shiva had automatically drifted closer to her, so Yuna ran towards her, tugging at their connection to let her know her intentions. Shiva offered her a hand in invitation, and Yuna clutched onto her icy grasp and scrambled up, sitting on her shoulder to put her above most of the crowd. She had often sat on Ifrit’s shoulder in the past, but where that had burned, this sent a frigid chill straight through her that she felt went to her very bones. She’d have to make this quick.
“We’re only here for the people you took!” Yuna winced and reinforced her Protect spell as a bullet struck it and nearly shattered the barrier. “Let them leave with us, and no more lives need to be lost today!”
It might have been naive of her, but she wouldn’t be able to live with herself if she didn’t at least give them a chance.
Caius glimpsed the motionless few, and frowned at the sight. It was a travesty that people had to die, and he hated knowing that he was the cause. But he had to keep moving, he knew. If he didn't, then innocent people would die instead. Who was Caius to decide who decided to die and who didn't, he thought? He didn't have the right, he knew. His was just a matter of opinion... But these bandits could defend themselves and the people they had taken for malicious reasons could not. It was a poor reason, but it would have to do. All he could do was just try to be careful, but not too careful so as to fail here and make this all for naught.
Yuna had been able to make it to the cage in time and save the prisoners, and despite casting Thunder on the bandit, he watched her cure her immediately after. Something that caused the mercenary to loft a brow. Was this woman a saint? Something clicked in Caius' head at that, as he thought back on seeing her fight, and now seeing her character now...
She was everything that he had suspected she was from their time together. And even more.
Caius had made his decision already but they had a job to do before they could get to that. Some of the prisoners had bolted, despite their plan to ensure the coast was clear before letting them out. Caius let out a silent curse when he heard Yuna cry out to them. Their plan had begun to fall apart at the seams, but he hoped that they'd thinned the numbers out enough to still make this work. He watched as Yuna climbed onto the shoulder of Shiva, and he quirked a brow again. She was something. She was really something, he thought. A saint that could ride the Astrals like mounts with expert control.
He had thought only the King was great enough, compassionate enough, and worthy enough to even call them. But Yuna may just be every bit as worthy, he realized. Her character had shown that so far. He watched amazed as she would ride Shiva into the fray, bellowing to the bandits that she only wished to take back the hostages and to stop the fighting. Some of them, seeing her ride the giant ice monster, would flee, either due to her words and hoping she wouldn't attack, or just in terror. Others would decide though, that they'd rather take their chances with a fight as they would rush past Caius and go for the bigger threat - the monster. Caius though, had decided he'd had enough.
"FIRA!" The Kingsglaive screamed at the top of his lungs to catch their attention, launching a fire spell that would explode just on the edge of their presence, the explosion not harming them terribly as he'd aimed just behind them, but it would cause them to lose their feet. As they began to get up from the impact, he brandished his blade.
It was his turn now.
"Hold on, Vordun!" Caius called to his companion as he would toss his blade at the first bandit, Warp-Striking forward, catching the blade and slashing at the shoulder of the first bandit before tossing again and warping once more, striking, warping, striking, warping, again and again as he moved from bandit to bandit with blinding speed - aiming at weak spots that he knew wouldn't kill but would certainly keep them grounded. Shoulders, sides, anything that would damage enough to take them down quickly with precise strikes the moment that he came out of the warp before he warped to the next without stopping.
Within seconds, all of the remaining bandits would go down and Caius found himself crashing to the ground and skidding across until he came to a halt. The Glaive let out a low, exhausted groan as he pushed himself up to his knees. He'd entered Stasis, as a result of using his magic the way he had in such a short time. He looked up to Yuna, then, and gave her a grin as he tried to catch his breath.
"Let's... Hah... Hah... Let's get the prisoners out and get them all healed up. Your job starts now, Healer."
Final Fantasy X
19
YEARS
Female
Tidus
Heterosexual
294 POSTS
Erin
I live for the people of Spira, and would have gladly died for them, but no more!
Yuna clutched onto Shiva’s shoulder as some of the bandits fled but others rushed towards them. It had probably been stupid to make a target of herself, but she wanted to at least give them a chance to stop this needless fighting. The touch of the ice aeon’s armor seared into her palms with how harsh the cold was, and she fought a wince, raising her staff slightly as the people with guns drew closer. But in the end, she didn’t have to do much.
Yuna watched in amazement as Caius sent a fire spell exploding near the edge of the group that knocked the majority of the remaining people off their feet. He’d stated earlier that he knew some black magic, but watching him in action was something else. Even Lulu had still struggled with the mid-level spells when they had gotten ready to leave Besaid. Caius really was amazing in battle.
Before the bandits could regroup, Caius had started warping between them, his blows precise enough to fell someone with each strike. Her eyes landed on one of the men on the ground, and Yuna blinked in surprise when she noticed that he was going for non-lethal strikes to the shoulders and torso. The bandits would be injured and lose some blood, but they’d walk away from this after she made her healing rounds. Somehow Yuna liked Caius even more for that, and she shot him a slight smile, but he was basically a blue blur right now, and it was hard to land her eyes on him. That was fine. She could thank him afterward.
As the last person who had stayed to fight collapsed to the ground, Caius suddenly shot into view, but he immediately dropped to his knees and skidded to the side across the grass, looking satisfied but also exhausted. “Caius!” Yuna slid down off of Shiva, letting go of their connection and giving her a quick bow as the ice maiden faded back into the ether. She was beyond grateful for her help and normally would have taken longer to thank her, but she was too concerned with the blond man on the ground to not rush the process.
“Are you okay?” Rushing to his side, Yuna dropped to her knees next to him, feeling some measure of relief when Caius shot her a weak grin, joking between breaths that it was her turn.
“I guess you’re right,” she said with a faint smile. “You certainly did your part. You’re amazing in battle! I could barely see you sometimes.” Quickly scanning all the injured between the people in cages and the bandits scattered across the ground, Yuna let out a slow breath. She certainly had a lot of work ahead of her. She’d have to conserve her magic. “You can rest,” she reassured Caius. “I should be alright. I didn’t use too much magic after summoning Shiva. You and her did most of the work.”
Climbing to her feet, she gave Caius a grateful smile before heading off to the row of cages. While both groups needed her attention, she’d definitely focus on the innocent group first.
After what felt like hours of draining her magic to the very brink, Yuna finally stumbled back over to Caius and collapsed into the grass next to him. Laughing tiredly, she glanced up at him and smiled slightly. “Well? Would you say our first mission together was successful?” She didn’t know about Caius, but she felt like she could sleep for a week once they made it back to Torensten.
"Ha... Ha... Ha... Yeah... I'm fine" He promised between breaths as Yuna would ask of his welfare. Caius, the moment he got his bearings, would quickly check for Vordun and ensure he was fine. The coo that Vordun gave when Caius stroked his head indicated he was okay, but Caius would make a note to do a more thorough examination later just in case. He turned to Yuna once again. "My power is something that needs to be handled with moderation. In cases like these, I push it harder, which usually leads me to this. I can't use my magic for a bit... Hah... Phew... But a bit of rest and I'll be fine. You... Whew... You go 'head."
He smiled when she complimented his abilities. He would have the chance to compliment her later, once he had rest.
She would leave him to rest while she did her part. Now, Caius had time to consider the point that had come earlier. To be honest, the decision was easy. But as he began considering it... A horrifying realization hit him. In summoning Shiva in front of these bandits, Yuna had distinguished herself. She had done something that would ensure they never forgot her face. But most importantly - Yuna had identified herself as a threat. Worse yet, a potential target. This made Caius' decision even easier, he supposed... A woman like her, she may very well need a family now more than ever, just as much as he realized they may very well need her. Caius wouldn't deny that they had need of her talents, but her character spoke so many more words to him than that.
By the time Yuna had returned, Caius had gotten the rest he needed. Stasis was debilitating, and could be deadly if it happened at the wrong time, but it was short-lived. Caius had lied down against a tree and had quite nearly fallen asleep when he could sense a presence beside him. Opening his eyes, he would see that Yuna had finished her work. The hostages - the people she had been hired to help - were healed and he assumed so were the bandits as he noticed that the place had been cleared out save for the two - well, three - of them. When she asked her question though, he chuckled as he sat up.
"Our first, huh?" He teased, interested in the wording of that. He supposed it didn't hurt to segway this here...
"Yuna?" He inquired then, getting to his feet as he turned to face her. His expression had become serious, and it was clear what he was about to say meant business. "As I told you before, the Dragonblades are meant to encompass honorable warriors, who want what is best for everyone they can. And are willing to do what they can for these people. Those that join are not just skilled in battle... But hold strength of character as well.
People like you.
Yuna, your skill in battle is incredible. Your spell range is phenomenal, and your summoning abilities, your capability of working with the Astrals tells me that they deem you worthy of doing so. But it is your strength of character that has told your story the most to me. Healing even the bandits... Its not something I'm sure even I would have done."
He held out a hand to her.
"I'm sure I can confidently speak for both myself and the others when I say that the Dragonblades would love to have you... If you would be interested in joining our little family."
Final Fantasy X
19
YEARS
Female
Tidus
Heterosexual
294 POSTS
Erin
I live for the people of Spira, and would have gladly died for them, but no more!
Yuna flushed slightly when Caius pointed out that her wording made it sound like she expected to do more missions with him. ”Oh! Ah...I’m sorry. I guess I misspoke.” Feeling embarrassed, she glanced over at where Vordun was stretched out next to him. After their travels over the past few days, Yuna had nearly forgotten that they had just been hired to do a job together. Now that it was over, she supposed that they wouldn’t see each other again unless Yevon willed it. It was a little sad to consider. They hadn’t known each other long, but Caius was definitely one of the people that she felt she’d connected with best since she’d woken up in Zephon a few weeks ago.
While Yuna was lost in thought, Caius stood up and turned to face her with a serious look on his face. He started talking about the Dragonblades again, and Yuna nodded in attention as he laid out that the group was full of warriors but also people with a strong character. “I’m glad you formed a group like that,” she murmured before she caught his next words.
“People like you.”
Parting her lips in surprise, Yuna stared at Caius as a smile crossed his face and he laid out how she had impressed him with her summoning and her decision to heal the bandits as well. “You did a lot more today than I did,” she protested, but then she paused when Caius extended a hand down to her.
“I'm sure I can confidently speak for both myself and the others when I say that the Dragonblades would love to have you... If you would be interested in joining our little family.”
A family. A purpose. The two things that she’d missed most since coming here. Yuna felt like she could hear her heartbeat pounding in her ears as she looked up at him. She didn’t know the full details yet, such as where and when the group met up or what the commitment was, but she knew enough from what he’d told her that she found herself reaching out and grasping his calloused hand. Climbing to her feet, she shot him a smile.
“A summoner without a purpose is an aimless thing on Spira. To be honest, the Dragonblades sound like exactly what I needed.”
She wasn’t giving up on her pilgrimage or on getting back to Lulu and Wakka. But until Yuna found a way back to Spira...well. She might as well do what she could to help this world, right?
It appeared that it didn't take Yuna long to make her decision. Honestly, while he was a bit worried she would find she had a path to follow that took her away from such violence, he was also somehow not surprised that she had accepted. Yuna just seemed to... Fit. She fit the Dragonblades like a glove, he knew, and that was part of why he had wanted to recruit her. A warm smile crossed his face as she would accept the offer, and he would grasp her hand and help her up when she took his.
"Welcome to the Dragonblades, Yuna" He spoke softly. He hoped that Celes would be alright with this, his recruiting on the spot like this. But when she saw Yuna... When he told her what Yuna was like, what she had done... Her strength of character... He was sure that Celes would be just fine about it. And they needed people. Especially people like her. It was people like Yuna that would give the Dragonblades the reputation that they wanted. It was people like Yuna who could fight a good fight... But would do so with the honor and grace that would ensure the continued livelihood of her brothers and sisters in arms. He knew she'd never do anything to harm their chances of finding work... And that was perfect.
And he had to admit, he was quite looking forward to a chance to get to work with Yuna again. So it seemed that the two would be heading back together, then, now that the job was done. While it would be farewell for now once they got back to the city and were given their fee, he knew this wouldn't be the last he saw of Yuna. Especially not now.
