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FINAL FANTASY X: DEFINING MOMENTS
by Sartori
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CHAPTER 3 - REBIRTH?
On a day like today, the Calm lands couldn't be more mesmerizing. The rolling hills and consistent plains echoed a song of tranquillity that Spira was seldom privy to. Chocobos grazed the grassy knolls in overwhelming abundance. It was almost laughable to think that Sin, would occupy this area so soon. To disturb the peace of this land would be heresy, but it would be done. All for the peace of Spira, which was the focus of Yuna's pilgrimage.
She arrived in the Calm lands with her guardians as soon as the sun had risen. They had spent ages in the Zanarkand Ruins, to transform her love into the Final Aeon. Yuna's staff contained his entire essence. His thoughts invaded her own mind as she held the staff firmly with both hands. Their humanity had become indivisible, as Yunalesca had said, and they would forever remain this way, until her fight with Sin ended with victory.
The mood of the group had changed for the worse. Everyone looked off into the distance with a sense of doom and hopelessness. Only a hint of their previous determination had been left upon their faces. Looking at Yuna, Auron spoke with the strength and consternation of a defeated foe.
"So, this is where the story will end. I had very well hoped for a more satisfying conclusion. But, this will have to do."
As if to punctuate Auron's words with a reply, the ground shook forcefully. The foundations of the earth rumbled and groaned unceasingly. It was Sin. The horizon revealed its hulking form to the spectators, who dreaded the battle ahead of them. The behemoth extended its ample limbs far enough to span the distance between the heroes, in a matter of moments.
Lulu was the first to act. She threw her hand up and a barrage of lightning bolts headed towards the beast. The bolts glanced off of its thick hide. A sheen of viscous liquid immediately encircled Sin's form to protect it from further outrages from the nonplused magic user.
Chaos ensued as numerous Sinspawn swarmed from every orifice that Sin had accumulated. The colonies headed for all of Yuna's guardians, leaving her to deal with Sin alone.
She held her staff, her hands shaking it uncontrollably. Her proximity to the massive incarnation of Jecht disturbed her sanity. It had distracted itself with the battle that had broken out with her guardians. This gave her time to complete what she had come to perform.
She took the silver chain, that Tidus had so recently given her, from around her neck. After placing a light kiss on the symbol that hung in its center, she threw it on the ground in front of her. Raising the staff into the air with one arm outstretched, she said those words for the last time.
"I love you."
A blast of ivory light ruptured from the wand with a vigorous burst. It hit the chain that Yuna had thrown, and expired as abruptly as it had appeared. The chain sat there, as commonplace and ordinary as before. Yuna began to walk over to it, her elegant stride breaking the monotony of the chaotic scene surrounding her. She knelt down and grasped Tidus' memento with pride. Placing it around her neck, she looked up into Sin's expecting glance. In response to its placement, the necklace grew hot with the instillation it had just received. The normality of its appearance had still remained, but it soon began its profound transformation.
Yuna's eyes glazed over, as she lost all control over the flood of ideas and postulations that erupted inside of her. The chain made her into a goddess of purity and light. A metamorphosis that had easily come to pass through her own life of chastity and morality. It blinded the Sinspawn and her party with its arrival. Out of the curious white light her face was the only part of her body that was visible. She constantly looked at Sin, with an unwavering determination. Tears started to fall from her eyes. Every drop hit the ground and formed a standing pool of water. Amazingly, the tears flowed in such a profuse deluge, that the puddle began to take a substantial shape. The shape became solid and lie there, unaware of its existence. It was the unmistakable shape of a naked Tidus. The flow of tears was staunched, and Yuna's glossy expression faded, along with her lighted form. She turned her attention to the sleeping pile of flesh that had appeared before her. As soon as she recognized who it was, she knelt down to help wake him.
"Wake up. Wake up," shaking him gently as she said this. The urgent tone in her voice seemed to rouse him from his enchantment instantaneously.
He stood up, ignoring Yuna. His nudity seemed not to bother him in the slightest, as he turned to face Sin. He was not himself; he was an Aeon now. Thoughts of love with Yuna were expunged from memory in this form of selflessness. His only purpose was the destruction of Sin and its horde of Sinspawn. He surveyed his body hurriedly, waiting for his re-emergence to occur. Almost instantly, his flesh erupted in a violent fit. It sizzled and burned, while liquid fragments burrowed out of his skin. Pain was nonexistent in this immaculate form. Tidus looked straight ahead, while the liquid freshets came from his pores to devour him in a womb of protection. As the sac was formed, his own physiognomy was refined as well. His fingers and toes grew metallic claws, and his hair turned to the color of an ocean on a midsummer's day. The sides of his arms gave way to emerging blades, sharpened perfectly by his new physical structure. Finally, with the sac fully formed, Tidus rose off of the ground. He hovered over towards Yuna and stuck his hand through the gel-like liquid.
Yuna could see Tidus' hand inclined, as if to offer her some company amid this turmoil. She took his hand, and was then pulled up, through the protective wall. They stood inside staring at one another. Tidus looking at her with no emotion whatsoever, while Yuna could not hold anything back. It was an intimacy she had never come to expect right now. He was naked, and she was fully clothed. However erotic the scene may have been to Yuna before, it was effectively spoilt by their surroundings. But, more than anything, Tidus could not love in this conformation. Yuna's heart could not make her see that, no matter how hard she tried. Love breeds ignorance, which is admirable regardless of the cost.
Cold and heartless as it felt, she was still relieved to see her love, no matter how he looked. Throwing all of her cares aside with wild abandonment, she embraced him, careful of the blades on his arms. Tidus carefully caressed her face, his expression one of amusement. She spun around in his arms, and placed her head upon his chest. Words could not evoke what she was feeling now. But, as she spoke, Tidal performed his last duty as the Final Aeon.
"This moment is...."
She was cut short. Tidal had placed his bladed fingertip to the nape of her neck. As she realized what was going on, she struggled, but was too late. He casually flicked his forefinger across her throat. Rains of crimson gushed from the gaping wound in Yuna's neck as she fell to the floor of the protective sac. Blood gathered at the base of their liquid encasement. It mingled with the components of the sac, changing its color from a deep blue to a purplish haze.
As Yuna's life was taken, a single pyrefly rose from her motionless body. It brushed up against the wall, trapped inside with Tidal. This was the source of their fates. It was hard to believe, but pyreflies were the instrumentation of Sin's demise. The ritual of summoning a Final Aeon, and the "sending" of that summoner was what had sustained this spiral of execution for so long.
Tidal placed his menacing fingers around the pyrefly, and absorbed it. This was the only weapon that could destroy anything as evil as Sin. Pyrefly and Aeon, combined to become one being, indivisible. Tidal stood, marveling at the pyrefly and its departure into his own body. Blood flecked his face as it contorted into a rictus of pure satisfaction. Sin will be destroyed.
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END OF CHAPTER 3
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FINAL FANTASY X: DEFINING MOMENTS
by Sartori
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CHAPTER 3 - REBIRTH?
On a day like today, the Calm lands couldn't be more mesmerizing. The rolling hills and consistent plains echoed a song of tranquillity that Spira was seldom privy to. Chocobos grazed the grassy knolls in overwhelming abundance. It was almost laughable to think that Sin, would occupy this area so soon. To disturb the peace of this land would be heresy, but it would be done. All for the peace of Spira, which was the focus of Yuna's pilgrimage.
She arrived in the Calm lands with her guardians as soon as the sun had risen. They had spent ages in the Zanarkand Ruins, to transform her love into the Final Aeon. Yuna's staff contained his entire essence. His thoughts invaded her own mind as she held the staff firmly with both hands. Their humanity had become indivisible, as Yunalesca had said, and they would forever remain this way, until her fight with Sin ended with victory.
The mood of the group had changed for the worse. Everyone looked off into the distance with a sense of doom and hopelessness. Only a hint of their previous determination had been left upon their faces. Looking at Yuna, Auron spoke with the strength and consternation of a defeated foe.
"So, this is where the story will end. I had very well hoped for a more satisfying conclusion. But, this will have to do."
As if to punctuate Auron's words with a reply, the ground shook forcefully. The foundations of the earth rumbled and groaned unceasingly. It was Sin. The horizon revealed its hulking form to the spectators, who dreaded the battle ahead of them. The behemoth extended its ample limbs far enough to span the distance between the heroes, in a matter of moments.
Lulu was the first to act. She threw her hand up and a barrage of lightning bolts headed towards the beast. The bolts glanced off of its thick hide. A sheen of viscous liquid immediately encircled Sin's form to protect it from further outrages from the nonplused magic user.
Chaos ensued as numerous Sinspawn swarmed from every orifice that Sin had accumulated. The colonies headed for all of Yuna's guardians, leaving her to deal with Sin alone.
She held her staff, her hands shaking it uncontrollably. Her proximity to the massive incarnation of Jecht disturbed her sanity. It had distracted itself with the battle that had broken out with her guardians. This gave her time to complete what she had come to perform.
She took the silver chain, that Tidus had so recently given her, from around her neck. After placing a light kiss on the symbol that hung in its center, she threw it on the ground in front of her. Raising the staff into the air with one arm outstretched, she said those words for the last time.
"I love you."
A blast of ivory light ruptured from the wand with a vigorous burst. It hit the chain that Yuna had thrown, and expired as abruptly as it had appeared. The chain sat there, as commonplace and ordinary as before. Yuna began to walk over to it, her elegant stride breaking the monotony of the chaotic scene surrounding her. She knelt down and grasped Tidus' memento with pride. Placing it around her neck, she looked up into Sin's expecting glance. In response to its placement, the necklace grew hot with the instillation it had just received. The normality of its appearance had still remained, but it soon began its profound transformation.
Yuna's eyes glazed over, as she lost all control over the flood of ideas and postulations that erupted inside of her. The chain made her into a goddess of purity and light. A metamorphosis that had easily come to pass through her own life of chastity and morality. It blinded the Sinspawn and her party with its arrival. Out of the curious white light her face was the only part of her body that was visible. She constantly looked at Sin, with an unwavering determination. Tears started to fall from her eyes. Every drop hit the ground and formed a standing pool of water. Amazingly, the tears flowed in such a profuse deluge, that the puddle began to take a substantial shape. The shape became solid and lie there, unaware of its existence. It was the unmistakable shape of a naked Tidus. The flow of tears was staunched, and Yuna's glossy expression faded, along with her lighted form. She turned her attention to the sleeping pile of flesh that had appeared before her. As soon as she recognized who it was, she knelt down to help wake him.
"Wake up. Wake up," shaking him gently as she said this. The urgent tone in her voice seemed to rouse him from his enchantment instantaneously.
He stood up, ignoring Yuna. His nudity seemed not to bother him in the slightest, as he turned to face Sin. He was not himself; he was an Aeon now. Thoughts of love with Yuna were expunged from memory in this form of selflessness. His only purpose was the destruction of Sin and its horde of Sinspawn. He surveyed his body hurriedly, waiting for his re-emergence to occur. Almost instantly, his flesh erupted in a violent fit. It sizzled and burned, while liquid fragments burrowed out of his skin. Pain was nonexistent in this immaculate form. Tidus looked straight ahead, while the liquid freshets came from his pores to devour him in a womb of protection. As the sac was formed, his own physiognomy was refined as well. His fingers and toes grew metallic claws, and his hair turned to the color of an ocean on a midsummer's day. The sides of his arms gave way to emerging blades, sharpened perfectly by his new physical structure. Finally, with the sac fully formed, Tidus rose off of the ground. He hovered over towards Yuna and stuck his hand through the gel-like liquid.
Yuna could see Tidus' hand inclined, as if to offer her some company amid this turmoil. She took his hand, and was then pulled up, through the protective wall. They stood inside staring at one another. Tidus looking at her with no emotion whatsoever, while Yuna could not hold anything back. It was an intimacy she had never come to expect right now. He was naked, and she was fully clothed. However erotic the scene may have been to Yuna before, it was effectively spoilt by their surroundings. But, more than anything, Tidus could not love in this conformation. Yuna's heart could not make her see that, no matter how hard she tried. Love breeds ignorance, which is admirable regardless of the cost.
Cold and heartless as it felt, she was still relieved to see her love, no matter how he looked. Throwing all of her cares aside with wild abandonment, she embraced him, careful of the blades on his arms. Tidus carefully caressed her face, his expression one of amusement. She spun around in his arms, and placed her head upon his chest. Words could not evoke what she was feeling now. But, as she spoke, Tidal performed his last duty as the Final Aeon.
"This moment is...."
She was cut short. Tidal had placed his bladed fingertip to the nape of her neck. As she realized what was going on, she struggled, but was too late. He casually flicked his forefinger across her throat. Rains of crimson gushed from the gaping wound in Yuna's neck as she fell to the floor of the protective sac. Blood gathered at the base of their liquid encasement. It mingled with the components of the sac, changing its color from a deep blue to a purplish haze.
As Yuna's life was taken, a single pyrefly rose from her motionless body. It brushed up against the wall, trapped inside with Tidal. This was the source of their fates. It was hard to believe, but pyreflies were the instrumentation of Sin's demise. The ritual of summoning a Final Aeon, and the "sending" of that summoner was what had sustained this spiral of execution for so long.
Tidal placed his menacing fingers around the pyrefly, and absorbed it. This was the only weapon that could destroy anything as evil as Sin. Pyrefly and Aeon, combined to become one being, indivisible. Tidal stood, marveling at the pyrefly and its departure into his own body. Blood flecked his face as it contorted into a rictus of pure satisfaction. Sin will be destroyed.
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END OF CHAPTER 3
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