Author's Note: This is the prologue to a story that I hope you'll enjoy. I do.
Disclaimer: FFX-2 belongs to Square Enix, but I own the plot. Yay me. xD
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There was nothing, nothing at all, for miles. Blackness, that's what it was. A complete and total emptiness the likes of which have never been seen. A blackness that swallowed you whole. I couldn't understand where I was. I didn't feel… anything.
No. I was standing, that much was clear. There was something hard beneath me like a floor, but it seemed I was in some sort of abyss. How a floor was there, I didn't know, but I understood it with a simple acceptance. It was there, and that was all. One step in any direction would send me tumbling into that abyss, and so I decided without thinking to take that step.
I was falling, falling through nothing, for how could I fall through the air if I didn't feel the wind? It was a dive worthy of a blitzball player, and I felt suspended between here and nothing. Because there was nothing, and nothing was here, so I was nothing, nowhere, and nobody.
I was thinking, yet there was no thought. A place that wasn't there, nor here, nor anywhere found in living memory. With the abyss, the floor, the falling, the nothing, the mere idea of it all drove a spike through my mind. A voice reached me through the confusion.
"Remember…"
I found that I could talk; I now had a mouth and could use it. "Hello?"
"Remember…"
"Where am I? Who are you? Why can't I see anything?"
"You see that which you must."
"But I need to see!"
And as the words left my mouth, my sight came with a flash of color. Images whizzed before my eyes. Just as suddenly as they came, they disappeared. I looked down and saw myself falling, now, but falling to what, I still couldn't see.
"Remember…"
"Remember what? Who are you? How come when I asked to see, I suddenly could?"
"You are alone."
This was pointless. "Hello? Help me, please! I can't remember anything! What happened to me?"
"You have passed."
"Passed? Passed a test? What do you mean, 'you have passed'? Where did I pass to?"
"On," said the voice simply.
"On?" I whispered. "But… but that means…"
"You have died."
"But… how?" It didn't seem true; I was here, wasn't I? Wherever 'here' was, anyway. "What happened? How did I…" I couldn't form the word.
"Remember… you must remember…"
I searched my mind for any trace of memory past where I was at the moment. "I can't remember much. Just a hand, with a black glove on; something blue that seemed to shimmer; something giant, huge, a machina; another large monster, a mass-murderer; and… and my name." I closed my eyes, though it didn't make a difference but make the black seem that much darker.
"Yes… remember…"
"My name… my name is Yuna."
"You remember…"
"A little…" I said quietly. I couldn't remember anything else, but my name stuck.Yuna. And a new word came into my head; summoner. Then another word, too, came to mind. A name.
Tidus.
And in another whirl of colors, I could remember who he was, his face, his love, his past, all at once. But one thing escaped me, tied to the word 'summoner'. I couldn't remember what he had to do with me, besides that I cared deeply for him. Or, at least, I had.
Then, though I had felt nothing at all the whole time, pain stabbed me in the stomach. It was a white-hot knife, and I screamed. The sudden loud noise seemed to echo in my head, growing louder and louder still, until I couldn't stand it.
And then it all vanished. I was neither here, nor there, no longer falling, but not standing, either. No pain, no thought, no feeling.
The voice came to me again, fading now. "Remember… who you are… And be careful with what you can do…"
Then out of the silence, a new voice came stronger than the other, almost in a shout. "They are not to be trusted!"
And suddenly, I had no memories at all; it was as though my mind had been wiped clean. I was back where I had started, no feeling, no mouth, no vision. I was not falling, not standing; it was like vertigo.
There was nothing.
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Author's Note - Thanks a bunch to RecordCover, my beta. -heart- Without her this would never have gotten posted. xD
