9.
Title: Indecision
Rating: G
Pairing: Light Yuna/Tidus if you really look.
Word Count: 498
Warning(s): SPOILERS FOR BEVELLE!
Summary: Yuna's first aeon.
Dedication: To Lyla, my oldest friend.
A/N: I felt very solemn while writing this. Very thoughtful and quiet. So it's not meant to be anything funny, not really. Tidus' POV.
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I remember when I first saw her step down those stairs, the light trickle of sweat gliding from beneath her brown hair. Why was praying to some icon something that would result in such weakness? Wasn't prayer something like reassurance? Something to lift you up and give you strength? I couldn't understand why someone like her would stumble and perspire from prayer, even though she'd been in there for over a day, as Wakka had said.
I mean, come on. Like I didn't stay up for a good fifty-six hours that one time after the game back in Zanarkand? A day should be nothing for her! Though I half would expect her to have fallen asleep in there and gotten all the rest she needed. 'Cause who is seriously going to spend all that time praying? Right?
…I didn't think it was stupid to think like that back then.
But there was something I had not seen then. Like a girl standing in a circle of sorts that had absolutely no purpose to me, and twirling a staff with some foreign and symbolic design crafted at the top. Then the air shimmered, and there was something odd when you looked through it. I squinted and strained my eyes, but it was still as though I was looking through… some transparent thing, something that bent the air—and suddenly there was white etched into the air, a glyph they called it, and a light broke away from no where and rocketed into the sky.
Where above that missile of light headed, suddenly it burst open, wings, a curious long tail and neck. In the heavens there flew a huge bird with religious rings and a sheen that would dull the brightest pearl. And in that moment it dived down from the heights, settling before this summoner girl.
I hadn't seen at that time, the way that this magnificent, frightening creature had alighted before her, had crooned under its breath in pleasure at her presence and companionship. I had not seen the way that it stepped forward to press its head closer to her hand and the soft light that shone in their eyes.
I had not seen the gleam of purpose in her eyes, the light of hope and love that settled in one of blue, one of green, as she closed them and fell from the highest point in the world, that edge on Bevelle. And my heart stopped, only to come to life when that dark flash burst through the pale glyphs etched into the air and caught her, the same light in its eyes that I had seen before bi-colored ones closed.
I hadn't seen then the way Yuna would rush up to Valefor with her hand out to touch the aeon's chiseled head. Nor how Valefor eagerly pressed itself into that caress, only to leap into the sky in a moment and destroy whatever had come to threaten its summoner girl.
I hadn't seen anything.
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I really think that Tidus came to realize this over time. To appreciate the strength and compassion that Yuna had in herself. And I know that each of her aeons was something special to her… so I wanted to show it.
On another note, I'm sorry for how long this took me to update. I've been busy, as usual. But I've finally gotten it up! In time for a new week.
