Fire and Ice FFX Prequel The First Calm series

by Renmiri

After 9 years of the First Calm Sin returns and resumes his killing. Zanarkand survivors are being persecuted all over Spira. Pushed by Bevelle, the daughter of a Zanarkand mage joins forces with a sick young man to defeat Sin.

1. Chapter 1 Yara

Yara

Until she was 7 everything was OK in her life. Yara wanted to be a healer working at Bevelle's large healing center where her mother worked as a nurse. Her father was a reasonably prosperous business man from a respected family in Zanarkand and sold Zanarkand stuff in Bevelle at his shop.

But the Bevelle / Zanarkand war started, changing her life forever: Her father got called to Zanarkand and never made it back, because the war had started and he was one of it's first casualties. When Yara was 8 Bevelle's troops took everything that her father owned away, confiscated due to the war. Her mother had no one to go for help an had to work double shifts to make ends meet. But it got harder and harder since she was being ostracized in Bevelle due to her family ties to Zanarkand. At Yara's school Yara was having similar troubles. Yara adored her father and having him and his family reviled by Bevelle hurt her a lot, but losing him to the war hurt her more.

When she was 9 the war ended and Yara and her mother thought their troubles were over. Fat chance! Rumors started spreading that since the first time Sin was seen was near Zanarkand then it meant that Zanarkand had something to do with it's appearance in Spira. Some say the rumors were fomented by Bevelle, which did not wanted to be blamed for Sin, and wanted very much to get an excuse to confiscate even more treasures from Zanarkand's kin and the few survivors.

At 15 Yara was able to get an apprentice position at the healing center and Yara and her mother thought their life was finally changing for the better. But alas, that was not to be. Yara and her mother hit hard times as her mother got sick. Yara's low income as a healer's apprentice was all that sustained them. When she was 17 her mother passed away and Yara was left alone in the world

To make matters worse, each year the rumors about Zanarkand and Sin go worse and people were starting to be very hostile to Yara. When Yara was 19 her ability to work in Bevelle was virtually gone but she had nowhere else to go. Thankfully the hospital hotshots that treated her like dirt never bothered to fire her. So she trudged on, unsure of what else to do. That was when she met someone who would change her life forever