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This fanfic is not very good. I can tell you that in advance. Any and all
convulsions, regurgitations, vomiting, swearing and etc. cannot be attributed
to me or my Fic. Legally. Please? ;;^_~ Enjoy the fic, if and only if you can.
Also, I aplogize for my last fics, which was really REALLY bad. Smoking is
hazardous both to your health and to your sanity. Especially weed.

The Final Aeon- Goodbye... Sin.
Based very loosesly on Final Fantasy X by Squaresoft.
By Rocky Valkyrie

The end. The culmination of their journey. It all ended with that moment.
Or did it? Would Yuna and Tidus really end Spira's suffering? Would they really
change the world? Did they possess that much power, really? The pair seemed so...
so frail, so normal, and so mundane. Something that one could see everyday.
Could this really possess the power to defeat Sin? Maybe it was in that plainess
itself that therein lied the strength to defeat Sin. After all, it was their love,
their bond, that would dethrone Sin. But... it would only create a new Sin. The
bond between the summoner and the fayth; it was strength, the strength neccessary
to defeat Sin; the strength to destroy the summoner, the fayth and also, Spira.
It was the same bond that created Sin.

Yunalesca was performing her ceremony on Tidus. She had written a few
things on him and had started chanting wildly. Yuna just sat back and watched.
The fearful ritual frightened Yuna. Whether she knew it or not, she was shivering
in her fetal position. She waited... for what would come next. What would come
next? Would she finally fulfill her 'destiny' of defeating Sin? Would she end
it all, or would she simply continue the cycle of Sin's destruction? All she
wanted... the only thing she needed... it was reassurance. It was something that
she knew for sure. She didn't have that at this moment. Her faith was shaken.

"AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!" Tidus suddenly shouts, screaming obscenities and
grabbing his head by the temples.

This action causes Yuna to perk up and look straight at Yunalesca. She
saw her chanting, looking serene, almost peaceful, sitting down in front of the
screaming Tidus, and it was barely visible, but while chanting, she could see
Yunalesca's eyes' water coming down, flowing down her face. She, who had lived,
or somewhat lived, for more than a thousand years, had accepted this practice,
this fate... for more than either Yuna or Tidus combined. She understood, this
was the only way to defeat Sin.

Yuna turned her gaze away. She couldn't bare to watch any longer; his
anguish was painful even to look at. She couldn't bare to watch him in his pain.
He was turning into a stone monument on the floor. He was being etched into
carved and painted stone in a hole in the floor. His soul was being stolen from
his living body to live in another vessel, the stone, as a fayth; his life was
being taken from his still beating heart. The pain was excrutiating. This would
be the second time that a dream would dream for all of Spira.

"Juic tajaw tajahen ih yidna Sin!!!" Yunasleca says, sounding like she's
speaking Al Bhed. Perhaps the summonings really originated from the Al Bhed.

Tidus let out a burst of light. The light was light purple, soft, gentle,
calming almost, and after a few minutes, Tidus was gone. He was now a fayth.
Yunalesca motions to Yuna to come closer. Yuna does and then sits in front of the
fayth that once was Tidus.

"Tidus..." Yuna whispers to the spirit-like figure of Tidus, which was
standing over the fayth's rock.

"Yuna..." Tidus answers, "...my power will be yours. I'll help you do what
you've wanted for so long... I'll help you beat Sin. Condiser my power yours."

Yuna did not answer. All she did was shed a few silent tears, try to hold
Tidus' hand, but pass through it. She then turns around and talks away. She finally
had the power to do what she had wanted all along, but was it really worth sacrificing
herself and Tidus?

She walks off without another word. Her journey was not going to last very
long after this point, she would just have to go to the Calm Lands and have her
final battle with Sin. When she came back to the room where Wakka, Lulu and Khimari
were waiting, not a word was said, but they went on. The original three from the
beggining of their jounrey had returned to the three. Then a voice was heard from
behind them.

"Wait," Yunasleca says, sounding a bit hesitant, "let me... let me come with
you. I would like to see what has happened on the outside in my absence."

The party glances at each other, then they turn around, uncaring. Yunalesca
follows behind, but not too closely. She is wise enough to keep her distance. The
party feels dirty; like whatever will happen to them will be okay; like whatever will
happen to them won't change a thing. They all felt like spitting on Yunalesca, they
felt betrayed. Yunalesca lets out a silent smile.

The party manages a uneventful trip to the Calm Lands. Now the only issue left
was getting Sin to come to the Calm Lands' shore. Wakka had contacted Gatta somehow and
asked him for the Crusaders' help. They were to bring the Sinspawn that hadn't been used
in operation Mi'ihen to the Calm Lands. And after a few delays, the Sinspawn were there.
The stage was set for Sin to be defeated. Ready or not, the time had come.

Sin is fast approaching. Yuna readies herself by starting the chant to summon
the final aeon. It's the final confrontation, the guardians are set and ready at their
respective positions. The coming onslaught is nothing that can be prepared for. Sin comes
closer and closer to the shore. The Sinspawn are released into the water. Luckily, this
time, none of them can fly, and they all hit the water. Cold sweatdrops start coming
down, flowing down Yuna's face. She is concentrating as best she can. Her chanting is
eerie, and the 3 remaining guardians ready themselves. Yunalesca stands away from them,
behind everything. All others have left already, the Calm Lands, for the breifest time
imaginable, is finally totally and completely calm. Very different from what is about
to happen.

Sin finally comes. The guardians look at Yuna nervously; their suspicions were
right, she had not finished the final summoning ceremony. They also saw one other thing:
Yunalesca was shifting nervously, and more than usual, she was eyeing Sin suspiciously
as if she was hiding something. She was hiding something, they all thought, but it wasn't
something they were worried about. Sin was about to be defeated, and all would be well.

Anxious, Khimari jumps down to the water and waits, fending off the Sinscales and
little Sinspawn that were trying to come to shore. Lulu casts a few spells at Sin from
far away, and Wakka throws his blitzball at the Sinspawn. The closer Sin got, the more
of its spawn came close to the shore. Khimari was up to his ears in Sinscales and Sinspawn,
he was flailing his spear wildly, trying his best to beat the Sinspawn down as fast as he
could. The Sinspawn came in their numbers, flooding the beach with their attacks. Lulu
just kept casting spells on the coming Sin, trying to hold it back. Wakka and Khimari
are fighting off the Sinspawn; the Sinscales seem to have disappeared, and only the Sinspawn
have taken over the beach. Khimari and Wakka are overwhelmed by the numbers.

Just then, Yunalesca decides to help. She chants swiftly, and before long, she
dark summons Bahamut. Dark summoning was like Grand summoning, except that there was more
power and less control over the aeon. Bahamut looked different, too... Bahamut's body
looked smoother than it did when Yuna summoned it. The colors were a bit faded, and there
were less decorations all over its body. Bahamut flew into the scene and used Neo Flare
on the beach full of Sinspawn, nearly clearing it. Then it flew down and started wailing
away at the newer coming Sinspawn. Khimari is toppled by 4 Sinspawn, but luckily Bahamut
saves him, smashing 2 of the Sinspawn, causing the tide of that battle to turn. Wakka is
still on higher ground, pounding at the Sinspawn from a safe distance. Yuna's getting
closer to summoning the final aeon.

And then it comes. Yuna finally completes the ritual for the final summoning.
As if from some viscious unseen hold, Yuna is released, and she falls to her knees on the
grass before the beach. Yuna sarts to fade, and pyreflies can be seen floating around her.
She looks at one of her hands, and sees that she is dying. A silent, solitary tear flows
down the side of her face. She rematerializes completely and collapses. Then she starts
phasing between tangible and intangilbe, and pyreflies appear near her. Then, as if on cue,
the sky goes dark, the moon can be seen, and pyreflies start to come out of the water like
steam from boiling water. As the pyreflies rise out of the sea, the waves start to go
ballistic, thunder starts to crash everywhere, and a small earthquake can be felt. Then
comes a strong wind, blowing harder than had ever been witnessed before. Out of the sea,
then, comes something that looks oddly familliar. Sin.

The final aeon; the mirror image of Sin, but one that is smaller that it. It lets
out an exhasperated cry, a wail, and then advances towards the other Sin. This causes the
waves and the rest of the sea to crash in all directions, to ebb and flow wildly. Yuna's
Sin advances, and the other Sin advances. They attack each other with large beam lasers
from the distances, futher destroying the balance that once was. These beams were the
same as the one that had destroyed operation Mi'ihen. The sea was being tossed around like
it was nothing. The destruction left was equally great. There was a path of destruction
left in the wake, where the paths of both Sins were. Then they came close enough to attack
each other physically.

They both had these big spherical force fields, but when these came together, they
reacted and just about cancelled each other out. There was plenty of friction, but they
had come close enough to use their physical attacks now. Yuna's Sin was the first one to
strike; it raised its lazy, sort of dripping arm and smacked Jecht's sin in what looked like
its face. When the arm hit it, it slipped past it, and the other Sin did a sort of full
body slam onto Yuna's Sin. Then it raised both of its hanging arms up and looked like it
uprooted Yuna's Sin, knocking it back and down. Yuna's Sin retalliates by popping up and
shooting a beam out of its face. The other Sin curls downwards because of this, and then
it front flips forward, toppling Yuna's Sin with its massive weight. Then out of the other
Sin, who is on top, comes a beam, shooting out upwards into the sky. This beam came from
Yuna's Sin, and after this assault, Yuna's Sin pushes the other Sin upward and forward.

The other Sin comes back at Yuna's Sin with both 'arms,' smashing the headpiece
of Yuna's Sin, and causing it to shoot another wave of energy out at the other Sin. Then
from the outside parts, the arms come up and then under the the arms, then push forward,
ripping one of the other Sin's arms off. The arm quickly explodes and turns into plenty
of Sinspawn as the pieces reach the water. Another arm forms where the one was missing,
though, and quickly. It comes back at Yuna's Sin faster and harder than before. Then it
uses its other arm to land a furious uppercut upwards, launching Yuna's Sin high into the
air. Then it shoots a few lasers at Yuna's Sin, making big, light-filled holes where gray
blob used to be. Yuna's Sin is down; has the father defeated the son once more?

It's not the end, though... Yuna's Sin starts to glow red, almost a radiant purple.
Something that looks like pure energy flows around it, clearly showing off the energy,
the aura of Yuna's Sin. It had reached its limit. It was about to use its overdrive;
Giga Graviton. The sky and just about the whole world turned pitch black. Jet black. The
only source of light left was the purple aura surrounding Yuna's Sin. Then time itself
seemed to slow to a halt. Brilliant rainbow-colored lights flashed around the other Sin,
a black, shining sphere glowed near the other Sin. The sphere grew huge, swallowing the
other Sin, turning it small as a household pet, then it grew small again, restoring Sin back
to its gruesome large self. The sphere repeated this process a while, then, all of a
sudden, brilliant explosions happened near the other Sin, and Yuna's Sin's headpiece started
to glow. A large, more powerful laser than before comes and shoots its might out at the
other Sin. The other Sin is destroyed. Completely.

But Yuna's Sin does not escape unharmed. Moreover, it is hurt and a big chunk of
the upper part of it is missing. It wails, and sinks a bit low down into the sea. But Tidus
still has control over his aeon, Sin. The transformation from saviour to destroyed had not
occured yet. But the battle was over. Right?

Suddenly, something appears from the smoke of the explosion where Sin used to be.
It was Yu Yevon; something that the party had not been informed about. The two who knew
had kept their peace; neither Auron nor Yunalesca had said anything about it. It was a
human; a summoner, enveloped in a ball of light, chanting, summoning till he would be
released. His eyes were closed and he was focused on summoning, on continuing the cycle of
destruction. He was coming closer and closer to Yuna's Sin. In fact no one was there to
stop him. But it was at a slow pace. He would not reach Sin for another half hour, perhaps.
But there was no one to stop him. He was powerful, and they were tired.

Lulu looks at Yunalesca and asks, "Is this what you have not told us about?"

Yunalesca nods and says, "Yes... Yu Yevon."

"What you talking about, ya?" Wakka demmands, running at Yunalesca.

"He... he was a summoner. For ancient Zanarkand. When Zanarkand and Bevelle were in
a war, he was a summoner for Zanarkand. Bevelle was a great city which used machina to defeat
the primitive Zanarkand. But... as the people of Zanarkand were going to die, they all changed
themselves into fayth. And Yu Yevon was the one who summoned their dreams into existence. Like
your friend, Tidus." Yunalesca explained, "The fayth became the end of Mount Gagazet. They all
dream Sin out. Yu Yevon is the one summoning, and summoning... he calls on their power. He must
be stopped, or else the cycle of death will continue."

"But... how do we stop him?" Wakka asks.

"There... there is no way I know of. For a thousand years I have searched for the
answer, but I have found none." Yunalesca says.

"Then..." Lulu says, "...the cycle will continue?"

There is no answer. There is nothing more that is said on that matter. There were about
25 minutes left till Yu Yevon enters Yuna's Sin. The three tried their attacks on Yu Yevon;
Lulu tried her spells, Wakka tried launching his blitzball, and Yunalesca tried her aeons.
But none of this did any good. It would seem that there was no way to stop Yu Yevon. If only...
But, hope was lost. Alas, would there be no happy ending? No parade, no joyous celebration?
No happily ever after?

To be continued...