Well time to dive back into some more of Shinn's character. Hope you all
enjoy it.
Trapped in Final Fantasy 10, Chapter 11
Fru ys e? (Who am I?)
I couldn't explain what my body was going through. It was very painful, like my body was being tossed and mangled around every which way. Then my face hit the dirt and I just gave into the pain and blacked out.
When I woke up I was in this field with some odd looking houses, not what I was used to in Spira. I stood and walked around. Children were playing with this ball in this paved road.
They all starred at me like I was insane. Well looking at a kid with swirled eyes with two guns might be strange. One girl who looked my age walked up to me. She looked just as afraid.
"Why are you dressed like that? You look weird." She said to me.
For some reason I couldn't respond in English.
"E tuh'd mug feant! Oui tu!" I shouted. In English I would have said "I don't look weird! You do!"
She looked at me like I was going to kill her. The children looked the same way.
"Don't hurt us you monster!"
She...called me a monster! Just when I thought that I had heard enough of being called a freak, heathen, traitor, and monster it comes back to haunt me yet again.
I looked hurt by the comment and she didn't seem to care. Next thing you know I had a bullet come flying at me. It hit me in the chest and I fell to the ground.
"Get away from them!" A large man said holding a more advanced looking rifle than the Warrior Monks used.
"You just killed him! You didn't have to kill him!" The girl shouted to him.
"Hey, he looked like he'd hurt you! Besides what's done is done." He said.
Then their looks turned from fear to absolute fright. I had stood up and just dusted myself off. Sure that gunshot hurt but I've been through worse things since traveling with Yuna.
"Holy shit! What the hell are you?" He said aiming his weapon at me again. I drew my two pistols and fired knocking the gun from his hands and wounding his trigger finger. I didn't want to kill him.
Then I ran when I saw more people come out and run after me.
I didn't want a fight. I just wanted to get back to Zanarkand and back to everybody. How did I wind up here anyway?
People were still coming after me, some shooting at me. I just ran as fast and as far as I could.
I ducked into an alley from the looks of it and it seemed they couldn't find me.
I fell straight on my butt and sat there hugging my knees to my chest. I began to cry actually. Tears fell down my cheeks and I hear them hitting the puddles on the ground.
"Rikku! Yuna! Yhoputo!" I called out in Al Bhed and then I felt the sensation yet again. It felt so painful again I felt like I would pass out from the pain but I managed to fight it back until my body struck the cold concrete floor with the dank atmosphere. I was back in the Dome, I was positive.
"Where did you go!?" Wakka was the first to shout at me. My cheeks were still stained with my tears. I never expected to do it, but I just leapt at Wakka and hugged him. Probably because I was glad to be back with everybody.
"Um, glad you're back to brudda." He said baffled as I let go and looked around. Apparently they solved all the puzzles.
"Sorry. I have no idea why that happened." I said embarrassed.
"Where did you go?" Lulu asked me.
"I have no idea. First there were these houses and people who had funny clothes on, nothing like I'm used to and then they all began to shoot and chase after me. Then I came back here." I explained.
"Well I am glad you are back Shinn. We still have to enter the chamber and obtain the Final Aeon." Yuna told me.
We all headed into the chamber and the room changed shape and color. Now we shared six platforms and one large fiend was in the center with large scythes on either arm.
"Let's see what you're all about!" I said scanning it. "Spectral Keeper. Attacks anything in front of it when attacked. Causes Berserk and can kill something instantly with Glyph Mine."
We took our positions and began to attack, and, like my scan said, he attacked the three spaces in front of him, occupied by Auron and Tidus. They lived through it but weren't in great shape.
I looked at the fiend's face and noticed something. It had no eyes. Maybe it can only hear us and feel around which is how it attacks.
"Everybody stay still!" I shouted. They all did so and didn't make a move or even a sound. The creature then looked confused, moving his head around and trying to detect something. Auron and Tidus used the platforms and teleported over to us. That sound made the creature strike forward, but hitting nothing but air.
"He can't hear us. Be quiet and attack and run, got it?" I whispered to everyone huddled together.
We all got prepared and all attacked at once, and I mean all of us. Swords slashed while Black Magic struck and gunshots roared as grenades were being flung all around.
By the time the fiend knew we were behind it and counterattacked, we were on the other side of it.
"Wow Shinn, you come up with the best plans." Rikku whispered to me.
Then the creature did something I didn't expect. It began to feel around the area with its arms for something. We'd teleport but it would alert it of our positions. Guess my plans aren't that great.
Then Tidus did something really stupid. He leapt onto the creatures face and it shook him around violently flailing.
"Attack him! Do it!" He shouted hanging on for dear life. We all did what he wanted. We managed to deal a sizeable amount of damage but then it succeeded in removing Tidus.
"You okay?" Wakka asked his fallen friend. Tidus stood but looked dizzy from all that.
"Stand back everyone! I'll summon!" Yuna declared calling forth the Aeon known as Bahamut, the King of Dragons.
The majestic black scaled beast flew down from the heavens at blazing speed and landing next to Yuna on a stone platform. The first thing it did was let out these black spheres that exploded on the fiend. Then the floor under Bahamut began to glow.
"What's that?" I asked seeing it. Before anyone could respond the floor exploded and Bahamut was defeated. His form evaporated into Pyreflies.
"I guess we're out of options now, ya?" Wakka declared.
"We have one solution left." I said to them all dodging another swing.
"What's that?" Tidus asked.
"Yuna try and use the Fayth inside me." I told her.
"Are you sure? We don't even know if anything will happen." Yuna protested.
"We're out of choices for now. Please Yuna, just try." I begged.
"Okay, please be safe." She said twirling her rod around and around in various positions. I felt something occur inside me. I couldn't figure out what but I had a good idea it was the fayth.
My body soon became engulfed in light. Then my body slightly changed.
Now I looked the same but taller and a little older with the same clothes and darker skin. My body seethed with power, and I planned to use it.
Taking aim I fired at the creature and the bullets were covered in light too and they pierced the monster and made it bleed and it eventually fell down were it came and died. Then I reverted back to normal and fell to the ground.
"Shinn!" Yuna cried holding my head up.
"I'm not dead. Just tired." I told her. I barely did anything with that power and yet it wiped out so much energy. She cast some sort of magic on me and I felt some energy return.
"I can stand now. Thanks." I told them.
"Well now that that's settled." Auron said.
"Yes. Everybody wait here." Yuna said going down the new platform.
We waited for a few minutes. Tidus looked worried and so did most of us. Then we heard Yuna call out from below.
"Everyone, come quick!"
We wasted no time in getting on the lift and going down.
"This isn't a fayth." She said kneeling over some statue in the ground. "It's just an empty statue."
Then the old man from before came out again. "That statue lost its power as a fayth long ago. It belongs to Lord Zaon, the first fayth of the Final Summoning. His soul is gone."
"You mean...there is no Final Aeon?" Rikku asked.
"Fear not. Lady Yunalesca will show you the way. Come." He said vanishing again.
"Wait a minute. Auron, you knew didn't you?" Tidus asked the old man.
"Yes."
"Than why didn't you tell us?" Rikku cried.
"If I told you the truth would it have stopped you from coming?" Auron answered.
Soon enough Kimarhi went ahead through the portal before us and we all followed. We ended up in this large room with a very skanky woman coming at us.
"Lady Yunalesca." Yuna said.
"Welcome to Zanarkand. I congratulate you summoner on completing your pilgrimage. I shall bestow you with the power which you seek." The woman with white hair explained.
"Now you must choose." She also said.
We all looked confused.
"Choose the one whom I will change. The Final Aeon must be born of a person and that person must share a bond with the summoner. Long ago, I chose my husband as the fayth and our light was strong enough to conquer Sin."
Then she left through this large door and we were left decided.
"Make one of us a fayth?" Yuna asked herself.
"This is crazy!" I said out loud.
"I agree! There must be a way we can break this cycle. Once we get the Final Aeon and defeat Sin then what? It'll just come back!" Tidus shouted.
"Hey. You wanna defeat Sin and keep Yuna alive? That is just not gonna happen brudda." Wakka told him.
"If you want everything, you'll end up with nothing." Lulu chimed in.
"But I want everything."
"Now you're being childish." Wakka said.
"Oh I give up! What would an adult do then? They know they can just throw away a summoner then do whatever they like. I refuse to just stand here and let Yuna go! And what Auron said about there being a way...I think it's true."
"Well, if one of us has to become a fayth I volunteer." Lulu said. Wakka soon volunteered himself as well.
"Count me out of that." I said.
"Hey, it's for Spira." Wakka snapped at me.
"To hell with Spira! What the hell has Spira done for us? They weren't too slow to outcast us from Yevon or send Guado after us and try to kill us over and over. Not to mention Seymour trying to do us in over and over. Spira is just making summoners go off and do their dirty work and not thinking about the summoner's life at all! To Spira they are just tools to bring some happiness and when those tools break then they just send another one. I hate to say this but I refuse to take part in some event like this!" I burst out.
"Well I just want Spira to be happy. I do not mind becoming a broken tool by doing so. So please let's stop this fighting." Yuna asked.
"I'll go ask Yunalesca." Tidus said hanging his head down.
"You'll think of something?" Rikku asked. He nodded.
Then we all marched into her chamber beyond the large doors and she stood there.
"Have you chosen?"
"Might I ask something first? Should Sin come back even if I use the Final Summoning to defeat it?" Yuna asked.
"Sin is eternal. You cannot defeat it permanently. Every Aeon that defeats Sin becomes Sin in its place. Thus is Sin reborn." She said.
"So that's why Jecht became Sin." Tidus muttered.
"But, if we atone for our crimes Sin will stop coming back, ya?"
"Will humanity ever attain such purity?" Man this woman was depressing to look at, even with a body like that.
"This cannot be!" Lulu burst out in a tone of voice I never knew she could produce. "The teachings state we can exorcise Sin with complete atonement!"
"It's comforting isn't it? It is better to just accept death than try and find ways to delay it. Such is what brings Spira such hope. Now choose who will renew this hope."
After a long and fearful pause Yuna said her answer. "No one."
I was hoping she wouldn't pick somebody. That wouldn't help anything. She then explained why she became a summoner and didn't want to cover up sorrow with lies.
"Poor creature. I will free you from your pain. Let me be your liberator." Then her hair extended down into the ground and she laughed at us in a menacing way.
"This is it! Now's the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now's the time to shape your stories, your fate is in your hands!" Auron shouted.
"Yuna needs Kimarhi, Kimarhi protect Yuna!"
"Well I'm fighting." Rikku said.
"I can't believe we're fighting Lady Yunalesca, gimme a break!" Wakka moaned.
"You can always run." Lulu told him.
"No, I'd never forgive myself. Not if I ran now. Even in death, ya?"
"My thoughts exactly."
"Yuna. We can't let this false hope continue any longer. Let's bring this fiend down together!" I told her.
"Yuna! This is our story. Let's see it through together!" Tidus told her. She nodded and smiled as we set forth to face Yunalesca. Though my body began to feel like it did when she used my fayth inside me.
This was a long chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it.
Trapped in Final Fantasy 10, Chapter 11
Fru ys e? (Who am I?)
I couldn't explain what my body was going through. It was very painful, like my body was being tossed and mangled around every which way. Then my face hit the dirt and I just gave into the pain and blacked out.
When I woke up I was in this field with some odd looking houses, not what I was used to in Spira. I stood and walked around. Children were playing with this ball in this paved road.
They all starred at me like I was insane. Well looking at a kid with swirled eyes with two guns might be strange. One girl who looked my age walked up to me. She looked just as afraid.
"Why are you dressed like that? You look weird." She said to me.
For some reason I couldn't respond in English.
"E tuh'd mug feant! Oui tu!" I shouted. In English I would have said "I don't look weird! You do!"
She looked at me like I was going to kill her. The children looked the same way.
"Don't hurt us you monster!"
She...called me a monster! Just when I thought that I had heard enough of being called a freak, heathen, traitor, and monster it comes back to haunt me yet again.
I looked hurt by the comment and she didn't seem to care. Next thing you know I had a bullet come flying at me. It hit me in the chest and I fell to the ground.
"Get away from them!" A large man said holding a more advanced looking rifle than the Warrior Monks used.
"You just killed him! You didn't have to kill him!" The girl shouted to him.
"Hey, he looked like he'd hurt you! Besides what's done is done." He said.
Then their looks turned from fear to absolute fright. I had stood up and just dusted myself off. Sure that gunshot hurt but I've been through worse things since traveling with Yuna.
"Holy shit! What the hell are you?" He said aiming his weapon at me again. I drew my two pistols and fired knocking the gun from his hands and wounding his trigger finger. I didn't want to kill him.
Then I ran when I saw more people come out and run after me.
I didn't want a fight. I just wanted to get back to Zanarkand and back to everybody. How did I wind up here anyway?
People were still coming after me, some shooting at me. I just ran as fast and as far as I could.
I ducked into an alley from the looks of it and it seemed they couldn't find me.
I fell straight on my butt and sat there hugging my knees to my chest. I began to cry actually. Tears fell down my cheeks and I hear them hitting the puddles on the ground.
"Rikku! Yuna! Yhoputo!" I called out in Al Bhed and then I felt the sensation yet again. It felt so painful again I felt like I would pass out from the pain but I managed to fight it back until my body struck the cold concrete floor with the dank atmosphere. I was back in the Dome, I was positive.
"Where did you go!?" Wakka was the first to shout at me. My cheeks were still stained with my tears. I never expected to do it, but I just leapt at Wakka and hugged him. Probably because I was glad to be back with everybody.
"Um, glad you're back to brudda." He said baffled as I let go and looked around. Apparently they solved all the puzzles.
"Sorry. I have no idea why that happened." I said embarrassed.
"Where did you go?" Lulu asked me.
"I have no idea. First there were these houses and people who had funny clothes on, nothing like I'm used to and then they all began to shoot and chase after me. Then I came back here." I explained.
"Well I am glad you are back Shinn. We still have to enter the chamber and obtain the Final Aeon." Yuna told me.
We all headed into the chamber and the room changed shape and color. Now we shared six platforms and one large fiend was in the center with large scythes on either arm.
"Let's see what you're all about!" I said scanning it. "Spectral Keeper. Attacks anything in front of it when attacked. Causes Berserk and can kill something instantly with Glyph Mine."
We took our positions and began to attack, and, like my scan said, he attacked the three spaces in front of him, occupied by Auron and Tidus. They lived through it but weren't in great shape.
I looked at the fiend's face and noticed something. It had no eyes. Maybe it can only hear us and feel around which is how it attacks.
"Everybody stay still!" I shouted. They all did so and didn't make a move or even a sound. The creature then looked confused, moving his head around and trying to detect something. Auron and Tidus used the platforms and teleported over to us. That sound made the creature strike forward, but hitting nothing but air.
"He can't hear us. Be quiet and attack and run, got it?" I whispered to everyone huddled together.
We all got prepared and all attacked at once, and I mean all of us. Swords slashed while Black Magic struck and gunshots roared as grenades were being flung all around.
By the time the fiend knew we were behind it and counterattacked, we were on the other side of it.
"Wow Shinn, you come up with the best plans." Rikku whispered to me.
Then the creature did something I didn't expect. It began to feel around the area with its arms for something. We'd teleport but it would alert it of our positions. Guess my plans aren't that great.
Then Tidus did something really stupid. He leapt onto the creatures face and it shook him around violently flailing.
"Attack him! Do it!" He shouted hanging on for dear life. We all did what he wanted. We managed to deal a sizeable amount of damage but then it succeeded in removing Tidus.
"You okay?" Wakka asked his fallen friend. Tidus stood but looked dizzy from all that.
"Stand back everyone! I'll summon!" Yuna declared calling forth the Aeon known as Bahamut, the King of Dragons.
The majestic black scaled beast flew down from the heavens at blazing speed and landing next to Yuna on a stone platform. The first thing it did was let out these black spheres that exploded on the fiend. Then the floor under Bahamut began to glow.
"What's that?" I asked seeing it. Before anyone could respond the floor exploded and Bahamut was defeated. His form evaporated into Pyreflies.
"I guess we're out of options now, ya?" Wakka declared.
"We have one solution left." I said to them all dodging another swing.
"What's that?" Tidus asked.
"Yuna try and use the Fayth inside me." I told her.
"Are you sure? We don't even know if anything will happen." Yuna protested.
"We're out of choices for now. Please Yuna, just try." I begged.
"Okay, please be safe." She said twirling her rod around and around in various positions. I felt something occur inside me. I couldn't figure out what but I had a good idea it was the fayth.
My body soon became engulfed in light. Then my body slightly changed.
Now I looked the same but taller and a little older with the same clothes and darker skin. My body seethed with power, and I planned to use it.
Taking aim I fired at the creature and the bullets were covered in light too and they pierced the monster and made it bleed and it eventually fell down were it came and died. Then I reverted back to normal and fell to the ground.
"Shinn!" Yuna cried holding my head up.
"I'm not dead. Just tired." I told her. I barely did anything with that power and yet it wiped out so much energy. She cast some sort of magic on me and I felt some energy return.
"I can stand now. Thanks." I told them.
"Well now that that's settled." Auron said.
"Yes. Everybody wait here." Yuna said going down the new platform.
We waited for a few minutes. Tidus looked worried and so did most of us. Then we heard Yuna call out from below.
"Everyone, come quick!"
We wasted no time in getting on the lift and going down.
"This isn't a fayth." She said kneeling over some statue in the ground. "It's just an empty statue."
Then the old man from before came out again. "That statue lost its power as a fayth long ago. It belongs to Lord Zaon, the first fayth of the Final Summoning. His soul is gone."
"You mean...there is no Final Aeon?" Rikku asked.
"Fear not. Lady Yunalesca will show you the way. Come." He said vanishing again.
"Wait a minute. Auron, you knew didn't you?" Tidus asked the old man.
"Yes."
"Than why didn't you tell us?" Rikku cried.
"If I told you the truth would it have stopped you from coming?" Auron answered.
Soon enough Kimarhi went ahead through the portal before us and we all followed. We ended up in this large room with a very skanky woman coming at us.
"Lady Yunalesca." Yuna said.
"Welcome to Zanarkand. I congratulate you summoner on completing your pilgrimage. I shall bestow you with the power which you seek." The woman with white hair explained.
"Now you must choose." She also said.
We all looked confused.
"Choose the one whom I will change. The Final Aeon must be born of a person and that person must share a bond with the summoner. Long ago, I chose my husband as the fayth and our light was strong enough to conquer Sin."
Then she left through this large door and we were left decided.
"Make one of us a fayth?" Yuna asked herself.
"This is crazy!" I said out loud.
"I agree! There must be a way we can break this cycle. Once we get the Final Aeon and defeat Sin then what? It'll just come back!" Tidus shouted.
"Hey. You wanna defeat Sin and keep Yuna alive? That is just not gonna happen brudda." Wakka told him.
"If you want everything, you'll end up with nothing." Lulu chimed in.
"But I want everything."
"Now you're being childish." Wakka said.
"Oh I give up! What would an adult do then? They know they can just throw away a summoner then do whatever they like. I refuse to just stand here and let Yuna go! And what Auron said about there being a way...I think it's true."
"Well, if one of us has to become a fayth I volunteer." Lulu said. Wakka soon volunteered himself as well.
"Count me out of that." I said.
"Hey, it's for Spira." Wakka snapped at me.
"To hell with Spira! What the hell has Spira done for us? They weren't too slow to outcast us from Yevon or send Guado after us and try to kill us over and over. Not to mention Seymour trying to do us in over and over. Spira is just making summoners go off and do their dirty work and not thinking about the summoner's life at all! To Spira they are just tools to bring some happiness and when those tools break then they just send another one. I hate to say this but I refuse to take part in some event like this!" I burst out.
"Well I just want Spira to be happy. I do not mind becoming a broken tool by doing so. So please let's stop this fighting." Yuna asked.
"I'll go ask Yunalesca." Tidus said hanging his head down.
"You'll think of something?" Rikku asked. He nodded.
Then we all marched into her chamber beyond the large doors and she stood there.
"Have you chosen?"
"Might I ask something first? Should Sin come back even if I use the Final Summoning to defeat it?" Yuna asked.
"Sin is eternal. You cannot defeat it permanently. Every Aeon that defeats Sin becomes Sin in its place. Thus is Sin reborn." She said.
"So that's why Jecht became Sin." Tidus muttered.
"But, if we atone for our crimes Sin will stop coming back, ya?"
"Will humanity ever attain such purity?" Man this woman was depressing to look at, even with a body like that.
"This cannot be!" Lulu burst out in a tone of voice I never knew she could produce. "The teachings state we can exorcise Sin with complete atonement!"
"It's comforting isn't it? It is better to just accept death than try and find ways to delay it. Such is what brings Spira such hope. Now choose who will renew this hope."
After a long and fearful pause Yuna said her answer. "No one."
I was hoping she wouldn't pick somebody. That wouldn't help anything. She then explained why she became a summoner and didn't want to cover up sorrow with lies.
"Poor creature. I will free you from your pain. Let me be your liberator." Then her hair extended down into the ground and she laughed at us in a menacing way.
"This is it! Now's the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now's the time to shape your stories, your fate is in your hands!" Auron shouted.
"Yuna needs Kimarhi, Kimarhi protect Yuna!"
"Well I'm fighting." Rikku said.
"I can't believe we're fighting Lady Yunalesca, gimme a break!" Wakka moaned.
"You can always run." Lulu told him.
"No, I'd never forgive myself. Not if I ran now. Even in death, ya?"
"My thoughts exactly."
"Yuna. We can't let this false hope continue any longer. Let's bring this fiend down together!" I told her.
"Yuna! This is our story. Let's see it through together!" Tidus told her. She nodded and smiled as we set forth to face Yunalesca. Though my body began to feel like it did when she used my fayth inside me.
This was a long chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it.