Preface
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy X, though it is a good game---and the first Final Fantasy I ever played. I also do not own the song 'Someday" by Sugar Ray. If you're confused about that, you'll understand in a little while by reading this fanfic
The fireworks and singing echoed in the twilight skies of the city of Bevelle. It was Calm Day the day that the great monster Sin had been wiped off the face of Spira by High Summoner Yuna and her guardians. The giant whale like creature had terrorized the planet for a thousand years. It had been a divine punishment for the arrogance of the people, from the god of light Erth. A thousand years ago Spira was a modern world. Cars ran in the highways of its cities, and robots did all of the work. But the people became more and more arrogant, asking more and more of Erth the creator, and the other gods. Finally, in anger they cast Sin down on the world. It fell on Zanarkand, the capital city of Spira. After decimating the city, the monster continued to mount unannounced attacks on the world's settlements. Over the years, the people of Spira, believing the gods had abandoned them had turned to the Church of Yevon, a small cult. Soon, what had been a small cult was the main religion and government of Spira. Anyone who did not obey this rule was declared a heretic. The race of people known as the Al Bhed did not recognize Yevon at all. Thus did Yevon ostracize them.
The Yevonites not only worshipped the gods, but rather certain spirits of the dead as well. They called these the fayth. To become a fayth, one had to die. Then the person denied themselves the happiness, Erth's realm, the Farplane to become imprisoned in stone. The damned spirit was then used to summon an aeon. These were creatures that protected the particular fayth's worshipper. A person with multiple aeons was a summoner. As Sin was Spira's sorrow, summoners were Spira's happiness. They and their assigned bodyguards, or guardians went on a pilgrimage to Zanarkand. The city was no longer a place of light and activity. Instead, the spirits of the dead called unsent wandered its ruined streets. In the Dome, a great ruined structure of past glory, the summoner and a chosen guardian entered. There they were greeted by Lady Yunalesca, once a great priestess of Yevon, or rather her unsent spirit. Yunalesca would make the chosen guardian into a fayth. This was called the "Final Aeon. Then the summoner went to fight Sin. The Final Aeon would destroy Sin…but the summoner would die, consumed by the summoning. The Aeon however wasn't as lucky. Sin's core would survive and consume the unwilling soul, and regenerate. The process took ten years. This period of peace was called the Calm. It was a time for happiness laughter, and a little sorrow for the summoner, and for the guardian who gave his or her life, to "kill" Sin.In addition to defeating Sin, summoners had other duties around Spira, helping people as they made their way to Zanarkand, and performing Sendings. The Sending was a ritual dance preformed only by a summoner for someone who had died. The ritual sent the spirit of the departed to the Farplane, and eternal joy. If the Sending was not preformed within two, to three days however, the person could come back as an unsent. Unlike the fayth, who willingly denied their souls eternal peace to help others, and were sealed in temples, unsent were free spirits of the dead who felt for some reason the need to linger in the world of the living. Unsents were reviled by Yevon. It was an abomination of life itself for an unsent to exist. Then one day all of this had changed. The young summoner, only sixteen, Yuna daughter of High Summoner Braska, had defeated Sin forever, along with the help of her six guardians. They had faced many trials. They had also discontinued (to put it nicely) the use of the Final Aeon. They had learned from Yunalesca, who happened to be Yuna's distant ancestor that Sin always came back because of the Final Aeon's sacrifice. They had refused to sacrifice a guardian to her and, enraged Yunalesca attacked them. They defeated the unsent and Yuna promptly Sent her to the Farplane. Thus, with the help of the Al Bhed and a huge airship (one of the forbidden machines, or machina) they had entered Sin. There they defeated its core and destroyed the scourge of Spira, once and for all. Now on July fourth 2005, the people of Spira celebrated their release.
