A/N: Hey everyone! Another chapter and I'm pretty proud ^^ two in one day hehe. Hopefully this is a good chapter too. I've noticed that my chapters that are being created aren't as long as my beginning chapters. So I apologize for it. So I hope you enjoy this chapter as well and forgive me if there are errors and some stuff doesn't make sense. Thank you Rainbow Haired Girl and Eidolon02.

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy X, Auron, the FFX characters, story line and plot. BUT I do own all my OC's

"Wow!" Yuna exclaimed.

We had come across a fayth dripping with energy and from behind we found a huge swirling vortex reaching up towards the sky. Any one who never came this way would never have guessed something like this would be here.

I looked up to the side of the cliff and touched it like I always did and felt it pulsing beneath my hand and I shook my head not really understand exactly WHY this was here...just came to a understanding that it was here.

"Wh-What are those?" Wakka questioned running ahead of Lulu.

I stood behind Yuna as Auron came up from behind me. I looked up to him and back to the fayth, I had a feeling Auron knew something...but I wasn't going to pester him about it.

"Those are fayth." Yuna answered as she walked closer to the massive stone to take a better look. She let out a gasp in surprise and looked up. "A summoning! Someone is using these fayth! Someone is drawing energy from all of them!" Yuna answered to all of us.

"This many?" Rikku asked.

"Why would they need something this big? What exactly needs something like this to be summoned?" Kenta questioned, his right hand placed on his chin in a thinking matter.

"Who wields power on this scale, and what could they be calling?" Lulu questioned stepping forward.

Rikku had ran pass me and straight up to Auron. She looked him straight in the eyes while playfully glaring at him

"Hey, you know something, don't you? Spill the beans!" She demanded glaring at him.

Auron walked ahead ignoring the stares the little teen was giving.

"Look not to others for knowledge. This is your journey, too." He stated.

"Yunie might die, you know?" Rikku pleaded, pouting a little.

I rested a hand upon my shoulder and gave her a reassuring smile hoping to calm the poor thing down.

"No...Auron's right. This is our...This is my story." Tidus said shaking his head.

'How rude...' I thought shaking my head and smiling a little. 'It maybe your story but we're helping you write it...may as well say it's our story.'

I watched as Tidus went to go touch the fayth but once he touched it he blacked out and collapsed onto the ground.

"Tidus!" We all yelled when suddenly I felt a sudden pull and my mind went black.

I had awoken to a city full of flashing lights...the place was completely empty though. No one was walking around, talking, nothing. The place was very beautiful though...from another side I saw someone moving toward a docked houseboat.

"Follow him..." I heard in my head and I did just that.

As I got a little closer I noticed that it was Tidus who was walking around toward the boat and I tried to keep hidden the best I could so he wouldn't notice me yet I could hear what he was saying.

"Don't worry...even if you stay away enough you can still hear the conversation." A little boy wearing purple flashed across my mind and I nodded my head.

I watched as Tidus kept running around until he went inside the boathouse. I gritted my teeth debating if I should leave where I was hiding and go inside or just stay here and play the waiting game.

"Don't worry so much...you'll be able to see and hear everything through a 3rd persons eye." I felt Bahamut shake his head. "I have to go now...behave, keep quiet, and keep hidden until I tell you you can come out." I nodded my head and just sat and watched as Tidus looked around the place...when his eyes landed on the boy dressed in purple sitting the the far left back corner.

"Welcome home." the Fayth greeted.

"You..." Tidus said in realization as he walked closer to the boy.

"Remember me? We met in Bevelle." He said still sitting on the floor.

"Uh...yeah." Tidus stuttered nodding his head.

"But that wasn't the first time we met. I've known about you for a long time. A long, long time." The Fayth said looking up to Tidus.

"I...I feel like I know you, too. Where are we?" Tidus asked with one eye brow raised.

The fayth chuckled at the question and looked down.

"Silly, don't you recognize your own home?" The fayth said disappearing. Suddenly from behind appeared Wakka's figure.

"What's gotten into you? Hey!" Wakka said calling out to Tidus.

"Wake up! Wake up!" Rikku's figure appeared, pleading to something.

'What's going on?' I questioned looking out.

"I thought Bahamut said to keep quiet." The image of a man flashed in my head and I shook my head, agreeing to keep it down.

Tidus crossed his arms across his chest and then suddenly nodded and looked back toward the entrance.

"Wait...this is a dream." He stated coming to a conclusion.

Then from behind the fayth came running down the ramp earning Tidus to glance behind.

"Precisely." The fayth nodded looking up to Tidus.

"A dream? Are you crazy?" Tidus yelled in frustration. "I don't have time to be dreaming now!" He said in a matter-o-fact tone.

"You're wrong." The fayth said shaking his head back and forth. "It's not that you're dreaming. You are a dream." He stated blatantly.

"Huh? Wait a sec." Tidus said and then the fayth bolted right out of his house earning a chase from Tidus.

'What does he mean...'you are a dream.' I contemplated shaking my head.

"Like your mom before you...doesn't listen." Yojimbo said shaking his head.

'Fine, I'll shut up. Then later you have stuff to explain.' I scolded.

"I'll answer anything, just shut up and watch." He scolded.

I watched now from my point of view as Tidus exited his house and chased the fayth to the upper deck. They stood next to each other look out toward the city lights.

"Long ago, there was a war." The fayth stated.

"Yeah, with machina, right?" Tidus asked.

"Yes. A war between Zanarkand and Bevelle. Bevelle's machina assured their victory from the start. Spira had never seen such power. The summoners of Zanarkand didn't stand a chance. Zanarkand was doomed to oblivion. That's why we tried to save it - - if only in a memory." The fayth said sadly.

"What did you do?" Tidus asked taking a seat in front of the boy as the fayth turned to look down at Tidus.

"The remaining summoners and the townspeople that survived the war...They all became fayth - - fayth for the summoning." The fayth told not breaking eye contact with Tidus.

"The summoning...You mean Sin?" He questioned.

"No. I mean this place." The fayth shook his head. "A Zanarkand that never sleeps."

"W-what?" Tidus stuttered.

"The dreams of the fayth summoned the memories of the city. They summoned all the buildings, all the people who lived there." The fayth went on to explain.

"The people...What, they're all dreams?" Tidus asked standing up then pointed at himself. "Me, too?" He questioned.

Earning a nod from the fayth, he ran back toward the ramp that stared at another part of the city followed by Tidus.

"Yes, you're a dream of the fayth. You, your father, your mother, everyone. All dreams. And if the fayth stop dreaming..." The boy explained and in a flash Zanarkand was no more...no flashing lights, no tall buildings, no billboard signs, no nothing...just the boathouse...Tidus's house.

'If Tidus is a dream...if the fayth stop dreaming...' I thought shaking my head. 'No...'

"No!" Tidus let out in disbelief. "So what if I'm a dream! I...I like being here." He confessed looking up to the fayth who was standing still on the upper deck.

"We've been dreaming so long...we're tired." The fayth said sounding exhausted as he disappeared. As Tidus went to where he was standing the fayth appeared back on the bottom deck. Would you and your father...Would you let us rest? Both you and your father have been touched by Sin. Sin, the one whom all of Spira - - the spiral - - revolves." He asked now him looking up at Tidus.

"What are you saying?" Tidus asked as he saw the fayth disappear. He had went back down to investigate and look around. He found the fayth standing at the far end of the boat house...dangerously close to where I was hiding.

"You two are more than just dreams now." He stated.

"Wake up! Wake up, please!" Yuna's figure appeared behind Tidus.

"Just a little more, and maybe...Maybe you are the dream that will end our dreaming at last." The fayth said as Tidus shook his head in disagreement. In a flash I saw Tidus disappear and I stayed hidden and quiet until someone told me it was okay to come out.

"You can come out now." I heard the gentle voice of the kid Bahamut.

I hesitantly came out from my hiding spot and walked up to the boy.

"Did I pass out like Tidus did?" I questioned looking down at him.

"No, your body is being moved...you're talking like normal...but your mind isn't there." He stated looking at me.

"So...is it really true?" I asked not taking my eyes off him. "If you guys disappear...then so does Tidus." I questioned sternly.

All he did was nod.

"So what will happen...you and I both know that Yu Yevon will take over the Final Aeon...but how will Tidus and his father destroy the cycle and let you guys sleep?" I questioned. "In order to stop the cycle we can't use the Final Aeon..."

"These questions can't be answered..." Bahamut said as I took a seat on the ground before him.

"Tidus can't disappear!" I said now suddenly interested on the ground.

"You promised something you may not be able to keep." He stated.

"I promised to keep them together...and at first I thought I would just have to stop Yuna from using and getting the Final Aeon." I placed my fist on the ground and squeezed my eyes shut tight. "Now...I have something on my hand that I cannot change..." I shook my head. "These two are meant for each other...I would die if I see Yuna heartbroken after the final battle..." I confessed thinking of how Yuna will feel when she finally knows the truth.

He walked a little closer to my form and contemplated on what I just said.

"You grew to care deeply about these people...haven't you." Bahamut stated as he continued to look down.

I stopped to think for awhile...I thought of everyone that I have met on this pilgrimage. Kenta, Jin, Yuna, Rikku, Lulu, Wakka, Tidus, Auron, even Kimahri.

'Especially Auron...' I thought remembering the first time I set my eyes on him, the first time we got trapped on the Old Mi'ihen Road...everything up to now.

"Yes, I have...they're like my family." I shook my head and looked up at the aeon. "No, they are my family. Through this pilgrimage I've felt like a sister, a mother, and a girlfriend. I want to watch out for them...and I feel that they watch over me just as much as I would. I never had a family since I was four...and I lost everyone on each pilgrimage. That's why this one I promised to keep everyone around..."

I stood up and walked away a little from the aeon to think.

"Auron...is he too going to vanish...does he really have to vanish." I asked sadly looking out to the city that appeared again.

"He made his choice 10 years ago..." He stated.

"Why does things like this happen..." I ask him, pleading him to tell me.

"I can't tell you why." He stated.

"Is it because I'm not meant to be happy?" I questioned. Looking back to him.

"That's not it...the way things played out and the path people went were what gave you the results. It's nothing against you...or anyone. It's the decisions they made." Bahamut stated.

"Is there...anything that I can do to change the end results." I asked determined. "If the path Tidus goes on leads to the fayth finally getting eternal rest. Then what can I do to change that end result...the result where I can save Auron, Tidus and the fayth."

I watched as Bahamut disappeared and appeared back on the upper deck.

"There really isn't much you can do." He stated looking away.

"Please..." I begged. "if there is another path we could take or a decision I could make to completely change this result where Auron doesn't disappear, Tidus doesn't disappear and you all can rest eternally." I begged. "I will do...absolutely anything to keep everyone happy."

"Well...there maybe something you could do, decision wise and path wise." Bahamut said.

"No."

I looked around and a man with a dog suddenly appeared right next to me with his hand laid upon my shoulder.

"Not that..." He said glaring straight at the young boy.

"She asked what she could do and I found a path that she can go on...but when I tell her the decision is completely up to her." He stated plainly.

"I promised her mother...that I would watch over her. I plan to keep that promise." He stated as the dog next to him started to growl.

"I know you promised Yue's mother and you have been doing a very good job, but lets let her choose what she wants...let her choose her own path." He said appearing close to us, giving us a fair amount of distance between us.

"I said no and that's a no." Yojimbo said sternly.

"Wait..." I muttered stepping in front of Yojimbo and facing Bahamut. "Whatever it is...if it's to keep Auron here, to keep Tidus from disappearing and for the fayth to finally have their eternal sleep...then we have a deal. You just have to tell me the deal."

I could feel Yojimbo tense up behind me and laid his hand again upon my shoulder and pulled me back to him, giving it a little squeeze.

"Don't do it...I gave a promise and I can't do it if you take the deal your gonna be given." He muttered still not taking his eyes off Bahamut.

"You made a promise to my mother and you've been doing it for at least 30 years of my life which I am very grateful for you keeping that promise going for so long. But now I made a promise to those two young teens and someone I love dearly...I want to keep that promise just as you wanted to keep that promise to my mother." I said looking back to Yojimbo and gave a small smile.

I felt him sigh and even though his grip let up he never took his hand off my shoulder. I smiled up to him and looked straight at the young kid, Bahamut, ready for what is to come.

"What's the deal?"

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