A/N: I got a weird idea, and so decided to put it to work.  Hopefully, I'll be able to stick to the original storyline the best I can, and keep the original characters, IN CHARACTER!.  ^^  Wish me luck people, this is the first proper Final Fantasy fic I've written so it might not be totally brilliant ^^;

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Psycho Girl: Time for something new that's been bubbling in muse's head ^^

Muse: Why my head?

Psycho girl: Because you're my muse.  You come up with everything

Muse: One of these days I'm going to kill you

Psycho Girl:  ^^ Good luck! And now for,  DISCLAIMERS!!!!!!!

I don't own any of the Final Fantasy characters.  However, I DO own Keyain/Automaton and the Thrice Triads.  To find out what Keyain/Automaton looks like go here:

Muse: Yes, we all wanted to know that --;

Psycho Girl: Didn't you just? XD

Muse: Never mind…

Psycho Girl:  Oh, and there's spoilers too!

Muse: Just get on with the story!

Psycho Girl: Fine, fine

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Automated Aeons

Chapter One:

The Forgotten Fayth

In the past, Summoners used to come to me, asking for aid in defeating Sin.  I'd grant them the aeon, and then they would go and ask the next Fayth for the aeon.  But soon, my temple, the place I was given immortal rest within, was destroyed by a huge attack.  I never knew what actually happened, since I was lost within the Dream at that time.  All I knew was, no more Summoners came to me.  I became a forgotten Fayth.  The statue I was imprisoned within remained untouched.  Even the priests that used to live within my temple walls had vanished.  Even with my tiring Dream, I felt alone.  Zanarkand was filled with Dreams, but within them all, I was lost.

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I stood at the entrance of the Dome, awaiting my other team mates to come and join me as we lost, again, to the Zanarkand Abes and their star player, Tidus.  Once again, we'd get creamed and settle for second place.  We never seemed to win first.  When Jecht had played for them, they were unstoppable, and now, with his son on the team, they were invincible.  The Zanarkand Abes had gained the name 'Undefeatable'.  No team could ever win against them, not even the Luca Goers.  We could beat them, but never the Abes.  We Triads always had to settle for second best.

Running up to me came two of the other players.  Tealae wore a huge grin on her face, while Zrand wore his ever stoic, emotionless face.  The two were an unstoppable pair when they combined together.  The twins seemed to know what the other was thinking, and acted almost on impulse.  But even with them on our team, the Zanarkand Abes managed to blast us into oblivion.  Greeting them with a slight wave of my hand, Tealae waved back madly, then ran up and threw herself onto me.

I felt her arms cling tightly around me, and I could only returned the embrace.  She was a strong and powerful Blitzer, and we all knew it.  She held onto the ball so tightly, it would take the strongest of men to make her let it go.  Not only that, but when she wanted the ball, she got it.  Her tactics were a little unorthodox at times, and Zrand was often ashamed to call her his twin, but she was the strength, he was the brains. 

Looking into the green swirls of the powerful girl, I smiled back and attempted to free myself from her grasp.  Failing, and miserably, she clung even tighter.  I could feel the bones in my body snapping under the pressure.

"Oh come on Key, at least give me a better hug than that!" she said, still grinning "Or you could kiss me and I'll let go"

"If I hug you tighter, you'll squeeze me to death.  If I kiss you, I might as well end my life here because you'll crush my bones" I replied, smirking at her.

"No fun" she said, and dropped her hold around me.  I gasped for that well needed air.

"Where's the rest?" Zrand asked.  I shrugged my reply.  "Same as always"

"I heard Luce, Kraze and Rae went to see this fiend that was found up on the ridge," Tealae said with her ever present grin. "You know what those three are like when fiends are concerned.  Especially Luce"

I nodded, still trying to fill my crushed lungs with air.  Even being a Blitzer, it was difficult to breath after one of Tealae's bone crushing hugs.  Slowly, I managed to breath normally again, and ran a hand through blue and locks.  The gentle wisps fell infront of my eyes, and a flick of my head quickly removed them from my vision.  Sighing, I looked back at the Zanarkand Blitzball dome.

I saw both forms.  Being a Fayth, I knew what it looked like in Spira, outside of my dream, with Yunalesca granting suicide to the Summoners and a faithful guardian.  I also saw the huge dome, filled to it's capacity, ready to watch the game, or should I say, ready to watch the Zanarkand Abes star player Tidus defeat the Thrice Triads?  The huge machina building was captivating, no matter which way you saw it, even more so magnificent in the Dream.

Turning, I gazed over the machina filled city of Zanarkand.  Every now and again, I caught glimpse of the ruined city, how it looked at Sin had devastated it.  Inside, I knew this world we lived in was all but a dream.  For Tealae and Zrand, this was reality.  This was all we had left now, a Dream to dream for all eternity.  I wanted to wake up.

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I longed to release my aeon once again, and protect the Summoner who called me, but that would never come.  My temple lay in ruins beneath the sands of the vast waste land.  Thrice was a barren land now, not even fiends could survive here.  So far from the coast of Bevelle, my home was forgotten, the temple I resided within abandoned.  Not even Yu Yevon, the one that had imprisoned me here, bothered about me anymore.  I longed to awaken from the Dream, take breath again. 

Or at least to fight Sin like I was supposed to.

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"Keyain!!!" screamed a girl, running towards me like she had always done, but this time however, she wasn't run to me, she was running from something.  "Keyain help me!!!  Please!"

I couldn't help her, not in the way I wanted to.  Yu Yevon had me in his grasp.  The powerful Summoner held my like a child's toy, and he hadn't placed a single finger upon me.  I felt myself changing, becoming something more than human.  I heard the screams of the people around me, and the wails of the numerous fiends.  Zanarkand fell around me, and all I could do was stare at this powerful form before me, and change into the creation he wanted me to become.

I wanted to help Tealae and Zrand fight the fiend that was destroying them.  Unsent's with hate problems ravaged Zanarkand while the monks from Bevelle destroyed the world I knew with their dominant machina.  Their weapons unmatched ours, but Yu Yevon was turning me into the weapon that would destroy everything, and bring forth the chaos.

"Become the Final Aeon" I heard Yu Yevon say, and I obeyed.

I felt a strange force overcome me, and I changed into a great form, the one that would create the Spiral.

I lost all control of my senses, I even stopped hearing Tealae's cries.  I became the Final Aeon, to be summoned against the machina, and destroy everything.

I was Sin.

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Laying in my stone imprisonment, I felt the urge to see the world as it was now, with Sin attacking Spira like I had once attacked Zanarkand.  I needed to be free of my bonds, but what could I do?  Only a Summoner could free me, and right now, I was lacking in a Summoner's presence.

"Hush Key, it'll be all over soon"

"You promise?"

"On my life"

"But Teal, I'm trapped.  I killed you.  I killed everyone.  The Liar lived within me"

"Don't worry Keyain.  A Summoner will find themselves washed up on the shores of Thrice and find you"

"You mean I'll be summoned again?"

"Refuse"

"What!?  I cannot refuse, I'm a Fayth now Tealae, I have to grant the aeon"

"No you don't Keyain.  Let the Summoner call you, and succumb to your own song.  As Sin you were once free of your stone bonds.  Find the strength within yourself to break those bonds that hold you now"

"Become a live Fayth?  Teal, that's impossible."

Tealae laughed.  Her laugh was soft, smooth and comforting.

"You're a forgotten Fayth, Keyain, no one will notice.  Even the Guado, and they are attune to the call of the dead.  Technically, your not dead"

"I'm not alive either"

"Let the Summoner come, Key.  Let them think they are being granted the aeon, then end their prayer.  You'll free yourself"

"But why?  Why am I being granted this ability?"

"Let's just say that it's the last wishes of a dead lover"

Hearing her voice again stilled me, and kept me from returning from the dream.  I will wait for the Summoner.

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Psycho Girl: The End!

Muse: You've hardly begun!

Psycho Girl: So?

Muse: I'm sure the readers will want to know more

Psycho Girl: No they won't

Muse: You think so lowly of yourself

Psycho Girl: No I don't ^^;  I'm great, brilliant and successful.  It's you I think lowly of.

Muse: I feel so loved --;

Psycho Girl: Who's in love with you?

Muse: Never mind.  Let's just see what the readers think ok?

Psycho Girl: Nice reviews make me happy and get cookies ^^

Muse: At least your not giving away chickens anymore

Psycho Girl: Very, very, very, very nice reviews get headless rubber chickens!!!!!! –holds one out for the world to see-

Muse: I had to say it didn't I?

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