A Moment Never Remembered
Final Fantasy IX Fanfic by: Sarah, chibisarah.com, shinigamipinay@aol.com
CONTAINS: MAJOR SPOILERS/can only be read AFTER finishing the game AND going through the ATEs quite smartly to give a good understanding of the whole story. Dammit, it's supposed to be a story of everyone's past, or as I like to put it, "an equivalent of a player pressing the pause button to figure out what the hell is going on in the whole game." Yep… oh yeah, there's the cursing and the angst, but for those hentai jerks, nope, no lemon for yoooooou.
Prologue – The 'Chosen'
It was those times when the world known as Gaia would stand still in a moment, where time that has lagged behind can finally catch up to those who wish for it. The past lives of the 'chosen' remained a blur and vague until the day Gaia stood still. Suddenly, the 'chosen' journeyed into the unknown, the realms of their past, the dimension of reality. They asked countless questions, searched relentlessly for the answers, but not even they would know if they have discovered the truth. The truth, they say, is the key to knowing your purpose in life.
Yet, it came to such a surprise to the 'chosen', that some tried to run away from the truth, no matter how painful it could be to revisit what took so hard to forget. The others absorbed the truth likewise, and even wanted to stay in their eternal reverie. Little did they know that other 'chosen' ones who took the journey before made that same mistake, and chose to remain in the place where time stand still, where there is no darkness and no light, where nothing exists except the memories of their own. They chose to relive it over and over again, with no escape to the present.
How did they become the 'chosen'? Going into the past of which they forgotten means that they will understand how life is linked through them, how they could defy fate in any which way. In other words, it could be called a 'destiny.' Destined to meet the other 'chosen.' Destined as to be linked in some rhetorical way. Destined to watch the same night sky when the moon is at its highest. They didn't chose to be the 'chosen'; the wheels of fate and time did all the work. They were just simply there. The only work the 'chosen' did was to exist.
