Chapter 1 a new reality
An overweight glasses wearing eighteen-year-old boy sat in his room about to start a new game on final fantasy 10. For the boy fantasy was far better than reality, for a time he could forget the endless bullying. He could also drag his mind away from the death of his mother nine years ago. His little sister no longer recognisable from the person he had grown up with, and didn't help with all the nasty rumours she spread. His sister was perfectly willing to break his stuff, hit him and say all sorts of nasty things, and she always got away with it. There was also the absentee father, who acted more like a disinterested landlord then a parent. Only knowing that there were people worse off than him kept him there, that and a healthy fear of death.
Just as he selected the new game option, he idly wished to be anywhere but there. After watching the intro movie and getting up to the point where Auron and Tidus get sucked into Sin a great wind sprung up as everything in the room got sucked towards the screen. A spinning black and white portal opened in front of the screen and the boy got sucked in, passing out as his alarm clock hit him in the head.
(From here the story will be first person unless stated otherwise)
I awoke in a great black nothingness wondering what in the hell was going on and clutching my head. what the hell happened? "You have been chosen," said a child's voice behind me. Spinning around I locate the source of the voice, its, a small boy wearing a purple hooded cloak with a golden wheel like pattern on the front. This just got weirder, probably hit my head harder than I thought.
"How do you mean, Chosen? Who are you?" I half ask half demand taking a step forward.
"Chosen to end the cycle of death and rebirth in Spira," replies the boy calmly. What?!
"Spira? You mean Sin? What of the idiot? Sorry Tidus" I reply half asking half stating, while trying to divine the child's identity.
"While the other Fayth believe that he is our hope, I am not so sure," replies the boy shaking his head. I gotta be dreaming. Wait other fayth…..he's a fayth then?
"I see, if you haven't noticed I'm not exactly cut out for battle," I state gesturing down at my body.
"You seem fine to me," states the Fayth smiling slightly. At this I notice that I'm no longer wearing glasses yet can see perfectly fine, I also seem to have a lithe swimmers body but with some hidden strength. Taking a inspection of my clothes, I seem to wearing a T-shirt, trousers and steel toe-cap boots, everything's black. At my feet is a black, water proof, rucksack and a katana in a dark green, almost black, sheath.
"This is a dream," I state taking hold of the rucksack, I instantly know its contents. A half dosen potions, some changes of clothing (all Black), a tent and my PSP with an infinity symbol on it.
"Perhaps, Perhaps not. It doesn't make what's happening any less real," says the Fayth smiling slightly, behind him I catch a glimpse of a dragon standing on its hind legs with multicoloured wings and a gold wheel thing suspended over its back. Bahamut, he must be bahamut's fayth then.
"Did I die," I ask, remembering what had happened to get me here, after all swirling vortexes are not possible in the real world. that or I really am dreaming.
"That depends on what you mean by die," states Bahamut's fayth calmly.
"You're beginning to annoy me, tell me right out why this is happening," I say taking a step forward angrily.
"A Dream of the Fayth and the Fayth of a Dream, you see the best of what can be, over and over throughout the ages," Bahamut's fayth explains calmly, yet mysteriously.
"You sound like a Vorlon," I state shaking me head. A Dream of the Fayth, that's obviously Tidus. Fayth of a Dream, dose he mean I'm a Fayth? Impossible. I remember only eighteen years of life, so what dose he mean by throughout the ages? And the best that can be? Dose he mean I can see the future.
"Yes," replies Bahamut's Fayth. "I've seen your dream, perhaps if you are there things will go better,".
"I still think this is a dream, which explains you getting the Vorlon referance, but what's the worst that could happen?" I ask rhetorically, knowing that I'll wake up before dying in a dream.
"Waking or Dreaming, all is real. A Dream must end, so must a waking life," says the boy. ok now I'm starting to get annoyed with this guy.
"Fine, I don't care any more. Send me to Spira or back to Earth, either is better than listening to riddles," I spit out sharply hoping to get a decent answer from the boy.
"I'll send you to Spira, of course. But only if you promise me something," replied the Fayth.
"It depends on what you want me to promise, but I guess almost anything is better than where I was before this. Except of course listening to your endless riddles" I respond curiously. Don't care if this is a dream, rather be dead then back there.
"You must promise to protect Yuna no matter what, even if it should cost you your life, Moridin," states the Fayth, for the first time using my name.
"Duty is heavier than a mountain, death is lighter than a feather. Either is better than being here or there," I mutter not really surprised that Bahamut's Fayth knows my name, "I promise." I never brake a promise unless I have to.
"I will hold you to that promise when we meet again. You will awaken on a Besaid Beach," responds the Fayth before everything once again goes dark. oh crap…..
From observer POV
"You lied to him," stated a woman in a red dress appearing in the darkness.
"Not exactly, I just didn't tell him things in an easy to understand manner, Phoenix, he needs to learn the truth of his origins by himself," replied Bahamut turning to her.
"Why send him to Spira, he cant beat Sin now, he's been asleep since before even Sin was made" asked a knight appearing next to Phoenix.
"We are bound to Spira though the Fayth, Alexander, until that link is broken we cannot help other worlds with their problems," explained Bahamut.
"Yuna, she holds the key to everything. Who knows perhaps she will become one of us," mused a woman in light blue clothes.
"What of the Dream? Tidus?" asked Phoenix.
"He should be at Besaid by now," replied Alexander.
"Events are about to unfold, will we be released from the bonds or will we be bound to Spira for the rest of time. It all depends on Yuna and Moridin," mused the woman in blue.
"There is another way, Shiva, there is always another way," stated an Old man with lightning crackling in his voice.
"If there is I do not see it. What do you speak off Ramuh?" asked Shiva
"It depends, if Yuna falls for Moridin or Tidus, and if she dose which will it be? Some day the dream will end, if she ends up loving Tidus could we really deny her that?" explained Ramuh.
"I hope Yuna falls in love with Moridin, his protective shell around his emotions is not as strong as he thinks," replied Phoenix.
"We will see, meet here after they are asleep tomorrow?" asked Bahamut; he got nods all round as his close friends vanished into the ether.
A/N edited and now a little longer.