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As I looked at the path in front of us, I noticed that I couldn't really see anything in front of us. All that lay in front of us was mist covering the path. From all sides I could feel an eerie chill run down my spine with the feeling of thousand hungry eyes watching us.
I walked right between Kenta and Jin as we walked swiftly through the misty path, every so often glancing at the back of Auron.
"We've come a long way huh." Jin pipped in, his eyes never leaving the path in front.
"From being strangers in Kilika to going up against Sin and hoping to destroy it forever? Yes, we have come a very long way." I said smiling and thinking back.
"I kind of enjoyed this journey," Kenta said looking toward his brother. "minus the Celia being a total brat."
I laughed quietly to myself as we walked forward together, following Lady Yuna and her party.
"So...why aren't you up front with your boy." Jin asked wiggling his eyebrows at me.
"We...came to an agreement that it would not go any further." I told them.
When I heard their footsteps stop, I looked back and saw that the two boys had stopped in their tracks with a blank look gracing their features.
"You're kidding me." Kenta said swiftly walking to stand in front of me. "Right?" Jin asked stepping next to his brother.
"I'm not kidding." I said turning back around to continue walking forward.
"What happened?" Jin asked as he and his brother caught up with me.
"It's...just a understanding between us older guardians." I said not wanting to go into details with these two, especially when a big battle is ahead of us.
The more we walked on, the more it seemed like we would constantly get lost in this haze just running around in random direction, but no matter what it seemed like we would constantly keep moving forward.
"If things don't go to well..." I said addressing the two besides me. "it was seriously a pleasure knowing you twins." I smiled fondly.
"Don't say that." Jin said placing his arm on my shoulder as we walked. "We will get through this together." Jin smiled his contagious smile.
"Besides...we wouldn't let that happen." Kenta chimed in placing his arm on my other shoulder.
I smiled up at the two as we continued to walk in silence, watching Tidus run ahead, urging us to pick up the pace.
'We're lost...' I thought sadly, getting tired of constantly walking a path I did not know.
"Look." Jin said edging forward.
In front of us were stairs leading up to, yet again, a more misty path.
"What's up there?" I questioned quietly to myself as we followed Tidus up the flight of stairs, not worrying if there's any danger waiting for us at the very top.
In front of us, at the point where the stairs ends and the platform began, we are then faced with four big circle dials in the shape of a diamond, each connecting to each other by a thin purple chain. A man stood at the far end, too far for us to see details but we could already tell just by the shape. As we ran closer with weapons drawn to our sides I took a closer look at one of the giant circles. At each point there were symbols assigned to certain elements: fire, water, blizzard, and thunder.
As we drew closer, Seymour had let out a deep, dark cackle, his eyes never leaving our group, a smug smile plastered on his face.
"Don't you ever give up?" Tidus questioned angrily and exasperated.
"Sin has chosen me. I am part of Sin. I am one with Sin, forever. Immortal!" Seymour let out, his voice raspy and laced with greed.
"Why can't you just die?" I questioned to myself haughty, getting tired of always seeing him every time we think we've 'killed' him.
"Sin just absorbed you." Tidus stated, wishing to prove Seymour wrong.
"I will learn to control it, from within. I have all the time in the world." Seymour stated greedily as a purple transparent figure started encasing Seymour. "Since you were gracious enough to dispose of Yunalesca...the only means of destroying Sin is forever gone. Now nothing can stop us!" Seymour let out, his voice taking on a metallic sound.
"Well, we can!" Tidus said proudly.
Seymour's shape had doubled in size, taking up the middle space the four circles had created, taking on a transparent/crystal like structure.
"By all means, try! You should thank me! Your death means your father's life!"
As the battle commenced the four circles started to rotate, each forming the same symbol in the middle.
A couple of minutes went by, the party hyped up with Hasteaga courtesy of Tidus and myself, and I wont lie and say that we weren't getting our butts handed to us. We were getting beat pretty bad because apparently I was the only one who paid attention to the rotating wheels. But the one thing we could not understand was the pattern Seymour Omnis would take. The melee fighters were doing their best to hold him off but it wasn't enough when compared to using magic, especially when you figure out his weakness by chance. Yuna was running low on her magic, resulting in using what we all had in our bags, Tidus, Kenta and Auron where slowing down on their attacks due to finding out that it wasn't doing as much damage as they hoped. Rikku was doing her best along with Wakka and Kimahri while Lulu, Jin and myself played the guessing game on which magic would do the worst damage to our opponent.
I sat down behind the party as I observed the battle, hoping to figure out a pattern and quick. When suddenly it dawned on me that we can take down Seymour in just seconds.
I ran to Yuna and whispered in her ear to pay attention to the symbols that face toward Seymour, and with that symbol to cast the exact Nul element to protect us.
The symbol had rotated to a bright light blue color and I swiftly cast Blizzaga, dealing a great amount of damage.
"How the hell?" Jin questioned casting the same spell as I did before.
"Pay attention to the symbols facing in." I said nodding toward Lulu as a NulFrost was cast over us, and just in time to for our opponent had just cast Blizzaga on everyone making us immune.
"This battle is in the bag!" Rikku yelled throwing a mixture causing 9 Lighting Bolts after noticing the dials had changed to a dull yellow.
"But there is no salvation for the damned! Rest in peace...In eternal darkness!" Seymour yelled casting dispel on the party.
I assisted Yuna on casting the specific Nul on the party.
"Let darkness take you!" Seymour yelled and suddenly before us our surroundings turned black, the only light was the light that surrounded the party in a dome. I quickly cast a shield over the group as the light started to explode from inside. Once the explosions had stopped I cast Curaga on the party as we continued our own pattern. And just like we predicted, the battle was easier than we thought.
The monster before us started to cringe in on itself, a flash of light, the dials behind started to sink deeper bellow as Seymour Omnis started to pulse. It started to explode in itself and before us stood a weakened Seymour. He took two steps back as he collapsed on his knees, bowing down and defeated.
"No!" Seymour murmured out in disbelief.
"Do it now, Yuna." I said glaring at the defeated man before me.
"Send him!" Wakka yelled still in defense.
"Right!" Yuna yelled out as she ran forward to do the proper sending.
And as Yuna performed her sending, Seymour started to talk once more.
"So it is you, after all, who will send me." He breathed out exhaustively, looking up to watch Yuna dance. "But even after I am gone, Spira's sorrow will prevail." Seymour said as Yuna had finished the sending. His body had slowly started to disappear and turn into pyreflies, heading up toward the sky.
"Talking up a storm, even while facing death." I said shaking my head.
"Sin will be right behind you." Tidus said watching the pyreflies disappear.
As we continued on, we came across this old, mechanical looking maze filled with the most dangerous, and monstrous of Fiends, but the most we could do was keep moving ahead, finding hidden puzzle works. As we moved on, a huge mechanical pillar came crashing down in front of us with an old symbol etched in all the circles surrounding the pillar. After getting close enough to the bottom circle we are then transported into this broken down ruin.
"Hey!" Rikku yelled running toward the far end where the sphere hovered, swiftly avoiding the ice spears appearing out of no where. Rikku had touched the spear earning some goodies and quickly it disappeared only to reappear by my side.
"Touch it!" Rikku smiled.
I touched it and gained some goodies of my own and slowly we all avoided the pillars and chasing after the spheres, gaining 10 before we were all lifted up toward the sky and in a bright white flash we had ended up at a broken down floating stadium.
"Do my eyes deceive me..." I questioned taking a small step forward.
In the middle of the glowing, blue platform stood a man with tan skin, one pant leg shorter than the other, long black hair and a bandana tied around his head. With his back turned toward us I could tell who this person was.
'Sir Jecht.' I thought as I watched Auron take a step forward.
"You're late, Auron." Jecht let out his voice gruff and upset.
"I know." Auron stated sadly, silently apologizing.
Jecht had turned slowly around, the sadness in his eyes as he set his sights on his grown up son.
"Hey." Jecht said motioning toward Tidus.
"Hi." Tidus said cheerily.
"Hah! You got tall, but you're all bones! You eating right, boy?" Jecht teased smiling a little. "You've really grown."
"Yeah, but you're still bigger." Tidus, unable to look at his father, mumbled disappointed.
Jecht let out a small chuckle as he stared at his son.
"Well, I am Sin, you know." He said sadly, still making a joke.
"That's not funny." Tidus stated plainly, looking up to hold his fathers gaze.
Jecht let out once again a small laugh as he bought his hand up to massage his neck.
"Well, then...I mean...you know." Jecht said as he bought his hands together, cracking his knuckles. "Let's end this." He said sadly.
"Dad?" Tidus asked.
"Yeah?" Jecht asked back waiting for Tidus to continue.
"I hate you." Tidus said, almost sounding like he was about to cry.
Jecht chuckled again, shaking his head he looked on sadly.
"I know, I know. You know what you have to do."
"Yeah." Tidus said looking up angrily.
"I can't hear the Hymn so well anymore. Pretty soon, I'm gonna be Sin. Completely. I'm glad you're here now." I looked on to Tidus who looked like he was on the verge of crying, unable to look at his father, see his father talk this way. "One thing, though...When it starts, I won't be myself anymore. I won't be able to hod myself back. I'm sorry."
"That's enough." Tidus interrupted, pleadingly. "Let's finish this, okay?"
"You're right." Jecht agreed, placing his arms across his chest once more. Turning around he heads toward the edge of the platform. "Well, then...Let's go!"
Jecht's arms places themselves in the form of an X in front of him as a bright light shines brightly, reading ourselves for battle we watch as Jecht begins to back away and stumbles over the platform, with Tidus running to catch him before he falls, letting out a painful scream.
All around us the light had lit the darkness, showing all of us the ruins of a city and from the place Jecht fell a massive hand emerged engulfed in flames.
"Tidus!" I yelled in warning as I quickly ran to grab hold of his arm, pulling him back.
From below the hand had pulled up a giant monster covered in flames, eyes glowing purple, the thing resembling Jecht.
"Braska's Final Aeon." I breathed out, having small flashbacks of seeing my father and my friend as their Final Aeon.
"I promise this will be quick! Hit me with all you got, Dad!" Tidus yelled out as I took my place behind him.
"You guys concentrate on the Aeon, I'll deal with the pillars on the side." I said casting Flare on the right Yu Pagoda instantly destroying it.
After getting rid of both pillars Auron and Kenta went all out on attacking the Aeon, combined with the Hasteaga that was cast on us. But swiftly the pillars came back once more earning Lulu to deal with the pillars while I took out my sword.
From the corner of my eyes I watched as Tidus stumbled after trying to hit the Aeon and I noticed that it wasn't the first time he had stumbled.
While everyone was attacking the Aeon, I took Tidus by the collar and pulled him to the side.
"I know what you're going through, and I can't tell you to quickly get over it. But if you promised your dad that it would be quick, you can't go and get yourself killed in the process!" I yelled grabbing his collar and bringing him close. "I understand what you are feeling right now...but you can't go into this fight with a clouded mind. I don't want you to get yourself killed! If you can't get your mind cleared then sit this fight out." I turned around and ran straight toward the Aeon, my sword raised high I let the momentum follow my attack through and I felt my sword come in contact with flesh.
Tidus had run past me and slashed his sword through the Aeon and as we backed away we watched the symbol behind engulf in flames, the same symbol that was on the beast. From the aeons chest protruded the hilt of a sword, the aeon took a hold of the hilt and pulled out a huge sword that probably belonged to Jecht.
I watched the Aeon bring back his sword, cutting through each of us dealing a great amount of damage.
With the help of Yuna, we were able to heal everyone back health and continue the onslaught against the aeon.
After several more hits the Aeon started to tremble and embedded the blade into the platform, exhausted from the fight. The huge aeon had fallen on the platform and something had caught my eye. From above, something had escaped the body and disappeared into the sky.
A flash of light, a huge explosion and the Aeon was long gone, leaving behind its gigantic sword and Jecht. The guardian had wobbled on his feet almost about to fall and I notice Auron flinch to run toward his friend, but quickly Tidus had beat him to it stopping Auron.
Tidus had run up to his father and caught him, putting an arm around Jecht and gently placing him on the platform with his hands placed under his head as a cushion.
"You'll cry. You're gonna cry. You always cry. See? You're cryin'." Jecht jived giving a smile.
As I walked closer, I could see Tidus's shoulder shaking, I could hear his whimper and sniffles and that broke my heart. I watched with a heavy heart, the exchange between a son and a father who haven't seen each other in years, who never had a close bond, come together at a time of sorrow.
"I hate you, Dad." Tidus got out through tears.
I laid a hand upon his shoulder as Tidus set his father down on the ground, tears dried and wiped away.
"Save it for later." Jecht breathed out harshly.
Something had caught my eye as I looked to my left and saw a black ball with red splotches float around us.
"Yue."
Hearing my name bought my attention back toward the two boys before me.
"It's about time someone watches over them." Jecht said, smiling weakly as I see him mouth the words. 'Thank you.'
I bowed to Sir Jecht as I let a single tear fall from my eyes.
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