Hey,. Thanks ADJ! That's really nice. Yeah, I tried to put it so it wasn't
like others- Oh, and I forgot to say it's a FF7/10 Cross, because FF7 is my
favorite Final Fantasy, and I always thought Lulu was the coolest character
(so I starred her son instead!) ^_^
I'm sorry it took so long to write another chapter! School is really hard this year, so I don't have a lot of time to write! But I'll still post regularly, don't worry!
Disclaimer-Wish I did, but I don't.
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Yuna walked through the maze, feeling so much pressure as if she were being crushed. It had been five years, she thought over and over, and yet this place hasn't changed a bit. Not even a speck of dust was in there. And yet the place was so familiar, that she felt she could take this pressure just to be in it one more time.
It was simple to go through the maze; no one over the whole time since she became summoner had put the spheres back in their rightful places, so the doors were still open. She noticed the glow wasn't as strong, but there was a perfectly good explanation behind that. At last, after what was only minutes but felt like hours, she reached the Fayth.
Yuna walked through the small door, and saw a dark bronze statue, in crumbled pieces in a hole in the floor. She kneeled down and touché the pieces, the memories of the chaos Yu Yevon put the world through.
"Valefor."
All was still, and here seemed the calmest place to think about her decision. But there was no place in her mind to think now: Her mind was made up the moment she touched the bones of a dead Aeon.
"I'm going to the Farplane."
The next morning was bright, and the Besaid sun was high over Spira. Lakki was still asleep in his small twin bed, but as soon as the light when through the hole in the wall used as a window, his eyes wanted to open.
"..Go away, sun," he muttered, throwing his face under the pillow. "I wanna sleep."
Not too long after he felt himself being shaken around, and when he opened his eyes, he found his two friends, Chekkre and Matto.
"Hi guys," he said while trying to stifle a yawn. "What're you doin' in my house?"
"We woke up early," Matto replied. "We decided to wake you up since we knew you never wake up early." "So? Mommy said something about a early bird catching worms if you wake up early, and I don't want a worm."
Chekkre, Lakki's so called 'girl-friend', giggled at his little remark, and she and Matto helped him off of his bed. It was small, but so was he, and it would sometimes take a struggle to jump off.
"So, where are we going today?" Lakki asked his two friends.
"We're gonna go to the Temple and explore a hiding place that Mommy said they opened up. I don't think I was supposed to hear it, though."
"Well then, let's go!"
The three ran out of Lakki's room and down a small hall where the walls were made up of straw, and darted through the straw door that swished back and forth. Wakka and Lulu's house was very close to the Temple, right next to Yuna's, so they were able to climb up the stairs and through the opening used as a door with no trouble. They looked around and saw a long pair of stairs that had always been there, and two large double doors they had never noticed before. It was barely open, and to their luck, not even the Priest was around to be seen.
"That must be it!" Chekkre said, pointing up to the large double-doors. "I've never even seen them before!"
"You think they were there the whole time?" Matto asked both Chekkre and Lakki.
"Who cares?" Lakki protested, jolting up the stairs. "I wanna see what the inside looks like! C'mon you guys!"
Lakki's two best friends looked at one another for a minute, and then followed the young boys lead up the stairs. The doors were huge compared to them, since they all seemed pretty small for their age, and it took the effort of all three children to push it wide enough for them to slip through. When they opened the doors, they came across a long hall.
"Wow," all three of them said at the same time. Without even thinking, they just started to run, all the way down through the hall and barely looked where they were going. They thought they found the biggest secret in all of Besaid, and it was even better than when Lakki found out both of his parents saved the world the year he was born! His Mother explained that he himself was smaller then a blitzball then, but when he asked to explain it, she said he would understand when he was older. Like he wanted to wait that long!
But, anyway, all through this mysterious place they went, laughing and enjoying their peace and quiet without the harsh sun, until they finally reached a dead end with yet another kind of strange door.
"You know, this place is weird," Matto said, walking up to the door. "It's like a . a.. Chekkre, what do they call that thing again? When you pray or something? Waittaminute, what's praying again?"
"A shrine?" Chekkre suggested. Matto nodded.
"Yeah, that's it! But what's praying?"
"It's something stupid our parents and stuff did before we were born. It was like they talked to a wall while bowing or something."
"Well that's dumb," Lakki said, jumping by Matto who was about to attempt to pull the door open. "I don't see the point of praying to a wall. Oh, wait! Remember Chekkre about that Bu Devon or something? The guy cricket who thought it was a God and got beat up by Mommy and Daddy?"
"Oh yeah! Yu Yevon, the BEETLE thing took over the minds of monsters certain people could control, and also the power of the most powerful monster that ever existed!"
"SHIN!" Matto and Lakki said together laughing. Chekkre sighed, knowing that her younger friends (she was only two years older than them) were only joking. She walked up to the two of them, and saw that the door had nothing that would let it move.
"Are you guys going to try and pull it?" Chekkre asked. Matto nodded and before Lakki had a chance to say anything at all, Matto gripped at the bottom of the door and pushed upwards as hard as he could. Matto was the strongest of the three, but even he couldn't lift it up. Chekkre came to help, but their efforts were useless.
"C'mon Lakki!" Matto said, letting go of the door for a second. Lakki nodded, and went to pull the door along with them, but the second he touched it, it reacted and opened automatically. The three jumped back, bewildered.
Chekkre looked over to Lakki, who was busy examining his hand thoroughly looking for something that would have made the door open. "Who'd you do that Lakki?" she asked.
"I dunno," he replied, and he started to walk through the door. "C'mon!"
The three walked inside, to see a dull room with a large circle indented in the center. It was dark, and had several markings on the walls, and inside the circle was what looked like a decaying animal. Chekkre looked at it with wide eyes, then shut them so she would see it no more in disgust; Matto looked at it with amazement, but was a little scared as well, and Lakki stared with barely a reaction at all, and was drawn to touch it.
"Ew!" Matto exclaimed as Lakki bent over to run his hands through the filth. "You are nasty Lakki! Hey! Look at what you did!"
Not long after Lakki touched the decay, the room was starting to light up as the torches on the walls sparked a heavy blue fire. The young boy pulled his hand away, frightened, but unlike his two friends who had fled of fear, screaming down the halls in the distance, he stayed there, watching each flame light. Suddenly a pain in his head shot through him, and things he never thought before, like memories, ran through his mind like wildfire. He closed his eyes slowly as he left the conscious world behind.
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".Mommy?"
Lakki awaked with a terrible headache, but his eyelids were too heavy to open and seemed like weights. He could hear voices around him, and he could see red, so there was definitely light outside, or wherever he was. His mind was trying to think, but everything he heard he couldn't comprehend, like his mind was forcing him otherwise. He felt like he was lying with his back down on a flat and uncomfortable board, and he could feel things pressed upon his body that were cold to the touch.
"..Mommy?" He repeated again slowly, and a little more clearly. This time, he mustered even strength to open his eyes, and he saw blurry objects that were mostly white all around him, in a dark room. The only thing that had light was a bright lamp that was in his face, something he had never seen before in his life.
"Where's Mommy?" he asked one of the white figures. As his vision became clearer, he noticed it to be a man, and he looked the same as everyone else. Without answering Lakki's question, he pressed a cold round metal on the boy's bare chest, which made him flinch at first.
"Breathe deeply," the man instructed. Lakki did so, suddenly afraid of the man's deep tone, but he asked again.
"Do you know where my Mommy is? What about my Daddy?"
The man again didn't reply, and opened the inside of is jacket, revealing several silver objects and sharp knives. Every single detail sent chills down his spine, but the one he chose was barely made of the bitter substance. In the deepest pocket at the bottom of all those rows he took out a round cylinder shaped tube, with a needle at the end. It looked sharp to the touch, but it was also something, like the light bulb, that Lakki had never seen.
The man turned around and walked over to a shelf, and for the first time Lakki noticed his long black hair, that was thin and pulled back. The man reached for a small bottle filled with a green-like substance, and he pulled a trigger at the top of the needle and injected some of the fluid. Then he walked over to Lakki, who was curious about the needle and its contents.
"Hey," Lakki said nervously, sitting up. "I saw some words on the jar over there. I can't read. Can you tell me what it is?"
The man looked at him in a dark way, but decided to answer. "'Jenova Cells'," he muttered. This puzzled the young boy even more.
"What's a Jenova? What's a Cell? Is it supposed to look green? What are you gonna do with the pointy thing?"
The man stayed silent, and then grabbed Lakki by the neck, jerking him forward. He thrust him back onto the board flat on his back, leaving him whimpering in pain. But the real pain did not come until the needle pierced through his skin on the neck, tearing his small muscles, and he could feel the flow of these 'Jenova Cells' swimming through his body. It as like a new power; something he never had.
"Mommy! Daddy!" He cried through ear-shattering screams as the man gripped him tighter and tighter to stay still. "Mommy! Daddy! Help me!"
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Lakki woke up in his bed screaming, still traumatized from the realistic nightmare, and he could feel an extreme pain in his neck as he sat up. He felt something wet on his cheek, and when he went to touch it, he realized he had been crying.
"I wonder if Mommy and Daddy heard me?" he wondered, and he lifted the covers off himself and jumped off his bed. He looked around, and realized his room was the same as it was when he left in the morning to go to the Temple. Was he unconscious for such a long time?
"Mommy? Daddy?" He walked out of his tiny bedroom, and looked around the house, but found no one there. It was dark outside, so he assumed that he had been asleep for the whole day. He walked outside, feeling suddenly afraid of the new eerie presence in the house and saw a figure walking on the outskirts of Besaid.
"Auntie Yuna?" he muttered, hiding behind a tree. He watched in silence as Yuna, who was cloaked with a long brown cape, walk further and further, out towards the dock.
"What's going on?"
Curious of her whereabouts, Lakki decided to follow and he was right about her going to the docks. He his in the distance, and he saw several people at the dock- Including his Mother and Father, the Priest, Yuna, and a boy who he had never seen before. He was standing beside Yuna, who was opposite of everyone else, and it looked like she was leaving.
"You'll promise and tell me when Lakki is better?" Yuna asked to Wakka and Lulu. "I saw that rash he had on his neck, and it looked really bad. I hope he gets better soon."
"Maybe the captain can take him to Luca to get treated?" He overheard the Priest suggest. "They have good technology there now, almost as good as the Al Bhed. He might be able to take care of it."
"That can't be possible," Lulu argued, who was leaning against Wakka's shoulder. "Wakka and I are busy, so we don't have the time to take him."
"Duh Lulu!" he heard the boy say rudely to his Mother. He decided immediately he didn't like the boy for being like that to his Lulu. "Priest- Dad said the Captain can take him, not you! I used to work as a sailor guy during Sin, so I know the Lucan Captain is trustworthy. Remember, I used to live in Luca."
Lakki didn't feel like listening to the answer, figuring it would be tomorrow when he would find out, and decided to run back home into bed before he would got caught. Wakka told him that spying was bad, and that Lulu would let him have it if he was found doing it. He ran silently until he reached his room all the way back in Besaid, occasionally stopping to take in some breaths and continuing on. Before going back to bed, which he still felt unusually tired, he looked in the head-to-foot sized mirror he head and saw on his neck a red rash like Yuna said. If you looked close enough, which Lakki had a tendency to do so, you would find a small whole.
"'Jenova Cells'," he muttered. "I wonder if it was real?"
Well, did you like this chapter? I hope you did! Tell me, the review button right over there in the lower left-hand corner! And can you guess who the white coated man is? It's obvious but it's... O_O *shock music*
I'm sorry it took so long to write another chapter! School is really hard this year, so I don't have a lot of time to write! But I'll still post regularly, don't worry!
Disclaimer-Wish I did, but I don't.
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Yuna walked through the maze, feeling so much pressure as if she were being crushed. It had been five years, she thought over and over, and yet this place hasn't changed a bit. Not even a speck of dust was in there. And yet the place was so familiar, that she felt she could take this pressure just to be in it one more time.
It was simple to go through the maze; no one over the whole time since she became summoner had put the spheres back in their rightful places, so the doors were still open. She noticed the glow wasn't as strong, but there was a perfectly good explanation behind that. At last, after what was only minutes but felt like hours, she reached the Fayth.
Yuna walked through the small door, and saw a dark bronze statue, in crumbled pieces in a hole in the floor. She kneeled down and touché the pieces, the memories of the chaos Yu Yevon put the world through.
"Valefor."
All was still, and here seemed the calmest place to think about her decision. But there was no place in her mind to think now: Her mind was made up the moment she touched the bones of a dead Aeon.
"I'm going to the Farplane."
The next morning was bright, and the Besaid sun was high over Spira. Lakki was still asleep in his small twin bed, but as soon as the light when through the hole in the wall used as a window, his eyes wanted to open.
"..Go away, sun," he muttered, throwing his face under the pillow. "I wanna sleep."
Not too long after he felt himself being shaken around, and when he opened his eyes, he found his two friends, Chekkre and Matto.
"Hi guys," he said while trying to stifle a yawn. "What're you doin' in my house?"
"We woke up early," Matto replied. "We decided to wake you up since we knew you never wake up early." "So? Mommy said something about a early bird catching worms if you wake up early, and I don't want a worm."
Chekkre, Lakki's so called 'girl-friend', giggled at his little remark, and she and Matto helped him off of his bed. It was small, but so was he, and it would sometimes take a struggle to jump off.
"So, where are we going today?" Lakki asked his two friends.
"We're gonna go to the Temple and explore a hiding place that Mommy said they opened up. I don't think I was supposed to hear it, though."
"Well then, let's go!"
The three ran out of Lakki's room and down a small hall where the walls were made up of straw, and darted through the straw door that swished back and forth. Wakka and Lulu's house was very close to the Temple, right next to Yuna's, so they were able to climb up the stairs and through the opening used as a door with no trouble. They looked around and saw a long pair of stairs that had always been there, and two large double doors they had never noticed before. It was barely open, and to their luck, not even the Priest was around to be seen.
"That must be it!" Chekkre said, pointing up to the large double-doors. "I've never even seen them before!"
"You think they were there the whole time?" Matto asked both Chekkre and Lakki.
"Who cares?" Lakki protested, jolting up the stairs. "I wanna see what the inside looks like! C'mon you guys!"
Lakki's two best friends looked at one another for a minute, and then followed the young boys lead up the stairs. The doors were huge compared to them, since they all seemed pretty small for their age, and it took the effort of all three children to push it wide enough for them to slip through. When they opened the doors, they came across a long hall.
"Wow," all three of them said at the same time. Without even thinking, they just started to run, all the way down through the hall and barely looked where they were going. They thought they found the biggest secret in all of Besaid, and it was even better than when Lakki found out both of his parents saved the world the year he was born! His Mother explained that he himself was smaller then a blitzball then, but when he asked to explain it, she said he would understand when he was older. Like he wanted to wait that long!
But, anyway, all through this mysterious place they went, laughing and enjoying their peace and quiet without the harsh sun, until they finally reached a dead end with yet another kind of strange door.
"You know, this place is weird," Matto said, walking up to the door. "It's like a . a.. Chekkre, what do they call that thing again? When you pray or something? Waittaminute, what's praying again?"
"A shrine?" Chekkre suggested. Matto nodded.
"Yeah, that's it! But what's praying?"
"It's something stupid our parents and stuff did before we were born. It was like they talked to a wall while bowing or something."
"Well that's dumb," Lakki said, jumping by Matto who was about to attempt to pull the door open. "I don't see the point of praying to a wall. Oh, wait! Remember Chekkre about that Bu Devon or something? The guy cricket who thought it was a God and got beat up by Mommy and Daddy?"
"Oh yeah! Yu Yevon, the BEETLE thing took over the minds of monsters certain people could control, and also the power of the most powerful monster that ever existed!"
"SHIN!" Matto and Lakki said together laughing. Chekkre sighed, knowing that her younger friends (she was only two years older than them) were only joking. She walked up to the two of them, and saw that the door had nothing that would let it move.
"Are you guys going to try and pull it?" Chekkre asked. Matto nodded and before Lakki had a chance to say anything at all, Matto gripped at the bottom of the door and pushed upwards as hard as he could. Matto was the strongest of the three, but even he couldn't lift it up. Chekkre came to help, but their efforts were useless.
"C'mon Lakki!" Matto said, letting go of the door for a second. Lakki nodded, and went to pull the door along with them, but the second he touched it, it reacted and opened automatically. The three jumped back, bewildered.
Chekkre looked over to Lakki, who was busy examining his hand thoroughly looking for something that would have made the door open. "Who'd you do that Lakki?" she asked.
"I dunno," he replied, and he started to walk through the door. "C'mon!"
The three walked inside, to see a dull room with a large circle indented in the center. It was dark, and had several markings on the walls, and inside the circle was what looked like a decaying animal. Chekkre looked at it with wide eyes, then shut them so she would see it no more in disgust; Matto looked at it with amazement, but was a little scared as well, and Lakki stared with barely a reaction at all, and was drawn to touch it.
"Ew!" Matto exclaimed as Lakki bent over to run his hands through the filth. "You are nasty Lakki! Hey! Look at what you did!"
Not long after Lakki touched the decay, the room was starting to light up as the torches on the walls sparked a heavy blue fire. The young boy pulled his hand away, frightened, but unlike his two friends who had fled of fear, screaming down the halls in the distance, he stayed there, watching each flame light. Suddenly a pain in his head shot through him, and things he never thought before, like memories, ran through his mind like wildfire. He closed his eyes slowly as he left the conscious world behind.
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".Mommy?"
Lakki awaked with a terrible headache, but his eyelids were too heavy to open and seemed like weights. He could hear voices around him, and he could see red, so there was definitely light outside, or wherever he was. His mind was trying to think, but everything he heard he couldn't comprehend, like his mind was forcing him otherwise. He felt like he was lying with his back down on a flat and uncomfortable board, and he could feel things pressed upon his body that were cold to the touch.
"..Mommy?" He repeated again slowly, and a little more clearly. This time, he mustered even strength to open his eyes, and he saw blurry objects that were mostly white all around him, in a dark room. The only thing that had light was a bright lamp that was in his face, something he had never seen before in his life.
"Where's Mommy?" he asked one of the white figures. As his vision became clearer, he noticed it to be a man, and he looked the same as everyone else. Without answering Lakki's question, he pressed a cold round metal on the boy's bare chest, which made him flinch at first.
"Breathe deeply," the man instructed. Lakki did so, suddenly afraid of the man's deep tone, but he asked again.
"Do you know where my Mommy is? What about my Daddy?"
The man again didn't reply, and opened the inside of is jacket, revealing several silver objects and sharp knives. Every single detail sent chills down his spine, but the one he chose was barely made of the bitter substance. In the deepest pocket at the bottom of all those rows he took out a round cylinder shaped tube, with a needle at the end. It looked sharp to the touch, but it was also something, like the light bulb, that Lakki had never seen.
The man turned around and walked over to a shelf, and for the first time Lakki noticed his long black hair, that was thin and pulled back. The man reached for a small bottle filled with a green-like substance, and he pulled a trigger at the top of the needle and injected some of the fluid. Then he walked over to Lakki, who was curious about the needle and its contents.
"Hey," Lakki said nervously, sitting up. "I saw some words on the jar over there. I can't read. Can you tell me what it is?"
The man looked at him in a dark way, but decided to answer. "'Jenova Cells'," he muttered. This puzzled the young boy even more.
"What's a Jenova? What's a Cell? Is it supposed to look green? What are you gonna do with the pointy thing?"
The man stayed silent, and then grabbed Lakki by the neck, jerking him forward. He thrust him back onto the board flat on his back, leaving him whimpering in pain. But the real pain did not come until the needle pierced through his skin on the neck, tearing his small muscles, and he could feel the flow of these 'Jenova Cells' swimming through his body. It as like a new power; something he never had.
"Mommy! Daddy!" He cried through ear-shattering screams as the man gripped him tighter and tighter to stay still. "Mommy! Daddy! Help me!"
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Lakki woke up in his bed screaming, still traumatized from the realistic nightmare, and he could feel an extreme pain in his neck as he sat up. He felt something wet on his cheek, and when he went to touch it, he realized he had been crying.
"I wonder if Mommy and Daddy heard me?" he wondered, and he lifted the covers off himself and jumped off his bed. He looked around, and realized his room was the same as it was when he left in the morning to go to the Temple. Was he unconscious for such a long time?
"Mommy? Daddy?" He walked out of his tiny bedroom, and looked around the house, but found no one there. It was dark outside, so he assumed that he had been asleep for the whole day. He walked outside, feeling suddenly afraid of the new eerie presence in the house and saw a figure walking on the outskirts of Besaid.
"Auntie Yuna?" he muttered, hiding behind a tree. He watched in silence as Yuna, who was cloaked with a long brown cape, walk further and further, out towards the dock.
"What's going on?"
Curious of her whereabouts, Lakki decided to follow and he was right about her going to the docks. He his in the distance, and he saw several people at the dock- Including his Mother and Father, the Priest, Yuna, and a boy who he had never seen before. He was standing beside Yuna, who was opposite of everyone else, and it looked like she was leaving.
"You'll promise and tell me when Lakki is better?" Yuna asked to Wakka and Lulu. "I saw that rash he had on his neck, and it looked really bad. I hope he gets better soon."
"Maybe the captain can take him to Luca to get treated?" He overheard the Priest suggest. "They have good technology there now, almost as good as the Al Bhed. He might be able to take care of it."
"That can't be possible," Lulu argued, who was leaning against Wakka's shoulder. "Wakka and I are busy, so we don't have the time to take him."
"Duh Lulu!" he heard the boy say rudely to his Mother. He decided immediately he didn't like the boy for being like that to his Lulu. "Priest- Dad said the Captain can take him, not you! I used to work as a sailor guy during Sin, so I know the Lucan Captain is trustworthy. Remember, I used to live in Luca."
Lakki didn't feel like listening to the answer, figuring it would be tomorrow when he would find out, and decided to run back home into bed before he would got caught. Wakka told him that spying was bad, and that Lulu would let him have it if he was found doing it. He ran silently until he reached his room all the way back in Besaid, occasionally stopping to take in some breaths and continuing on. Before going back to bed, which he still felt unusually tired, he looked in the head-to-foot sized mirror he head and saw on his neck a red rash like Yuna said. If you looked close enough, which Lakki had a tendency to do so, you would find a small whole.
"'Jenova Cells'," he muttered. "I wonder if it was real?"
Well, did you like this chapter? I hope you did! Tell me, the review button right over there in the lower left-hand corner! And can you guess who the white coated man is? It's obvious but it's... O_O *shock music*