Two Worlds: Prologue
A/N: This is my first FFX story, so please don't flame, but please review.
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General POVA hand gently reaches down and strokes his sleeping daughter's brown hair, trying to keep her from waking up, but saying goodbye at the same time.
He gently reaches down and kisses her on the forehead, then looks at her, trying to memorize her, before slowly starting to walk out.
"Daddy..." The soft, sleepy voice of his daughter makes him turn around, walking to the edge of the bed and sitting there.
"Where are you going?" she asks curiously.
He smiles sadly, she reminds him so much of his beloved wife, who he also has to leave, but she has his build, and his talent with weapons, even at her age.
He gently reaches out and strokes her hair again, playing with the strands even as she makes a face for him doing so. "I'm going on a trip," he says softly, sadly, not wanting to say the enormity of this trip...
Or that he may never return.
Her eyes fill with tears, as she wraps her arms around him. "Do you have to go?" She says softly, begging him to stay.
He gently wraps his arms around her, trying to hold back tears as he rests his chin on her head. "I promised a friend I would go..." He looks down to her head, choking back tears "I'll be back, someday. I promise." He whispers softly, keeping a promise that might not happen.
"Promise?" she asks softly, burying her face into his chest.
"Promise." He says, kissing her gently on the head. "Take care of your mother while I'm gone. I'll be back soon," he smiles as she yawns, reminding himself how young she is. "Now..." he says, pulling gently away. "I think it's time for you to go back to bed, goodnight, Sara." He says, tucking his daughter in before turning away to her door.
"Daddy?" Sara asks one more time, sleepily.
"Yes?" He says, turning around to look at her one more time.
"Good luck on your trip." Sara says sleepily, falling asleep as her father smiles sadly at the words and leaves her room for the last time.
Many years pass...
In a city that never sleeps, ten years passed since Jecht's disappearance.
Tidus, under the care of Auron, grew up to be a teenager, and a star of his father's old team.
Another one, a girl, one who has no memory of her past except of her name....
Starts her story....
Zanarkand: The night of Sin's attack
Sara's POV
I wander the streets of Zanarkand, having no memory except for the last ten years, wandering around as a beggar and a thief.
I hear there's a blitzball tournament going on, a huge one, but I can't afford to go.
"Sara..." A soft voice calls out to me, and I turn around in the alleyway to see a young boy in a purple cloak looking back at me.
"How do you know my name?!" I demand, backing away defensively.
The boy makes a placating gesture, "I know a lot about you... Like your past... And your future." He says, and then pulls out something from his cloak as I tense, ready to run. "Don't worry..." He says, and hands me a ticket for the blitzball game.
"Huh? Why are you-"
"It's important that you be there," he says, and in a blinding flash, he's gone.
I stand there, bewildered.
Why is it important?
I hesitate, looking at the ticket; I always wanted to see blitzball...
And it's free, with me having nothing else to do.
I shrug, what the heck....
I mean, what can happen in a little game?
I pocket the ticket and head to the stadium.
Blitzball stadium
I watch the game going on, watching a blitzball player named Tidus getting the most action and is obviously the best player showing off a little for the crowd when he has the opportunity.
I watch as he shoots out of the water, doing a flip-like thing in mid-air...
A sudden rumble interrupts the game, and I look up to see this big blob of water attacking the city.
I stand frozen, undecided on what to do before instinct takes over and I push my way through the crowds, only to almost trip over a teenage boy that's a few years older than me unconscious on the floor.
I kneel down, "Hey kid... Are you okay?"
He opens his eyes, and looks at me in surprise. "You're younger than I am!!" He protests, before taking my offered hand and letting me help him up.
"I'm Sara..." I say, looking around.
"Tidus," he says distractedly.
He runs, pushing through the crowd as I follow him.
"Auron!!!" He shouts in surprise and a bit of happiness as he runs up to a red-coated man who I assume is Auron. "What are you doing here?!"
The man walks away without a word, as me and the boy look at each other. "Not much of a talker..." I say wryly as Tidus ignores me and runs after him.
I stand there, undecided on what to do. I can spend the rest of my life as a beggar...
Or follow them into the unknown, but maybe a better life.
Without any more hesitation, I follow them.
A large globe-like thing floats above the city, Auron running towards it as I look at Tidus, stumbling back in fear at the thought of going towards it.
"We called it Sin..." Auron's voice floats to me.
Sin...
I struggle with my memory... It sounds so...
Familiar.
A dizzy spell hits me as I struggle to remember, and I shake my head, the thought passing as I do so.
A tentacle comes out of thin air, scales surrounding it...
"What the heck is that?!" I ask, looking at Tidus, who looks at Auron who ignores us.
Scales come shooting out, and I as I look closer, they look like pods, surrounding us and opening as insect-like things.
Helpless and unarmed, I stick close to both as them as they fight, Auron with a cutting down style that kind of reminds me of something, and Tidus with a hacking type of slash.
Then run on, following them as they head towards the globe fighting along the way.
I look around desperately, seeing no way to escape as these insect-like creatures another one appears after taking one out.
Auron looks around also, apparently having the same thoughts as I do about the situation.
"That!!!!" He yells, surprising both Tidus and me with the statement as he points with his sword to the fuel tank. "Take it out! We'll get through!!"
I look at him as if he's insane for suggesting such a thing, as Tidus asks him if he's crazy or not.
"Trust me.... You'll see!"
I watch as Tidus and Auron attack the fuel tank over and over as the insect- like things get closer....
The fuel tank explodes, the road in front of us collapsing as Auron yells at Tidus to go across it.
I look at Tidus hesitantly, then follow right behind him as he jumps on the road, running across the road and jumping half a beat behind him as he jumps himself.
I feel myself falling....
Falling, as I desperately reach for anything to grab...
And wrapping around my arms around Tidus's leg, pulling him down with my weight.
"Let go!! We'll both fall if you don't!" Tidus yells at me desperately, even as Auron grabs him by the shirt and hauls him from the ledge, either not knowing I'm there, or not caring.
"This is it... This is your story..."
I feel Tidus struggling against Auron's hold, and wonder in the back of my mind how I got myself in this situation.
"It all begins here..."
I scream as I feel myself being pulled on, being tugged towards the hole above us, as I hear Tidus's desperate cry...
As everything goes white.
TBC....
A/N: Please review.