Well this chapter should bring back memories of an old fic I wrote. Well
I'll let the observant ones find that out.
Trapped in Final Fantasy 10, Chapter 12
Plan B
We all came at Yunalesca with all our might ready for this queen of the damned of sorts but my body began to freeze up before I could draw my guns.
The rest of the group was too concerned about fighting and didn't notice I was unable to move. After they beat up Yunalesca a bit she rose into the air with her hair being revealed even further. Now my body jerked me forward and in front of Yunalesca facing everyone.
"Shinn get out of the way!" Tidus shouted running up to slash at Yunalesca. However my hands were moving on their own and I drew my guns and shot Tidus, two well placed shots to the chest. He fell backwards and everyone stared.
"What are you doing?" Wakka shouted.
"I don't know. I can't move on my own anymore." I said twitching trying to fight back this force.
"It must be Yunalesca!" Rikku yelled pointing at the witch behind me. Now my body began to glow the bright color from the fight with the Spectral Keeper.
"This boy is special among you. He has a fayth inside of him. Now you didn't think that I could control him did you? A summoner can interact with fayth so it was easy for me to manipulate him." Yunalesca cackled to herself.
"You leave Shinn alone!" Yuna shouted.
The rest of us were still attacking Yunalesca and it was working. Eventually her true form emerged, a woman's head with snakes for hair. Very spooky.
This new form was actually wearing everyone down. And the worst thing was I wasn't doing anything this time. Yunalesca intentionally made me do nothing so I could just watch them die.
I saw them all fall to the ground near defeat. Rikku was completely worn out, she could barely sit correctly. Yuna was in terrible shape. I have to keep her alive, I'm her guardian!
Using all my strength I turned around, drew my guns, and fired at Yunalesca with the powered bullets. She was incredibly hurt by such a power and she began to die away again. Her human form lay on the ground fading.
"What have you done?" she asked me. "Such force and might. Without the Final Summoning then Sin will live forever! Yu Yevon will bring the end of us all!"
"What?" I muttered weakly as that stunt I did took it out of me like last time.
"Yu Yevon is the master! You cannot stand a blink of a chance to defeat him!" she said before fading completely. Everyone else heard and soon found the strength to stand up on their own as well.
"Who is Yu Yevon?" Wakka asked us.
"I have no idea." I told him.
"Well now there is no more Final Aeon so we don't have to be here anymore." Rikku said sounding happy.
"Yes, but what will happen now? Without any means to defeat Sin how can we end its destruction?" Yuna asked confused.
"Maybe we'll learn more if we get out of here. We can regroup and come up with a plan." Tidus suggested.
We began to leave but Yuna became curious and walked forward down the set of stairs where Yunalesca came from. I didn't want her to do anything rash or foolish so I ran after her. Once we both reached the end we were no longer in Zanarkand.
When I opened my eyes I was lying on a concrete floor with Yuna on top of me. She soon got off and apologized as she usually would. We were in some sort of stone building but we were baffled as to how we got here.
"Where is this place Shinn?" she asked me.
"I have no idea Yuna. We should try and find a way back to the others." I told her. She walked along side me as we made our way down the ruined hallway. When we turned the corner we heard something like fire starting and people screaming in pain.
A number of armed men with guns were there being burnt by what looked like Fire. The person doing it was this boy who was about my age that was wearing this cloak over his mouth, had a black sleeveless shirt, and shorts on with these brown boots. I only saw the side of his face but there was a scar over his left eye and he carried this large sword on his back. His blue hair was slightly spiked but not by much.
"Who is that?" Yuna whispered, not to get this kid's attention.
"I have no idea." I whispered back. Then the kid turned down the hallway and ran. Yuna got up and started following him. "Yuna, get back here!"
I ran after her and we came to this door that was open. The kid was gone. Inside was this middle aged man operating some kind of machine. Then this portal opened up in the center of the room and he looked at us.
"Who are you?" he yelled at us.
"What is that?" I asked him.
"That is a portal to another world. Judging by your friend's appearance it would be both of your worlds." He told me.
"Oh that is great news." Yuna said running into it.
"Well thanks whoever you are!" I said running for it myself.
"It will be a matter of time before Mistress Hester gets what she desires!" The strange man said to himself as I went through. Who's Hester?
Once on the other side Yuna was in front of me and we appeared to be okay. We were back in the same place we were when we beat Yunalesca. Everyone was still leaving, so we must have been gone a few seconds to them.
We followed them but I wondered where we were. Was that the same place I went to before with all the people chasing me? I'd have to worry about that later.
We all made our way out of the Dome and it was day out unlike when we last arrived. Then we turned to the right and Sin was staring right at us. It didn't do anything though. Why was it here? Did it know that the Final Summoning was no more? I couldn't tell. Tidus seemed lost in thought with it.
It then turned and left as the Airship flew towards us. Sin made no attempt to destroy it. We all got onboard and went straight to the bridge.
Once we got there Cid and everyone else began to discuss what to do next. The Final Summoning was gone so the Al Bhed were happy no more summoners would die needlessly, however the Final Summoning was the only known way to temporarily defeat Sin so now how do we stop it?
"Shinn, how are you feeling? Since Yunalesca controlled you?" Yuna asked me while everyone else was talking.
"I feel a little different than before. Why?" I asked her.
"Summoners can sense fayth within things. That is how I knew that Lord Zaon's statue was empty. And now I can no longer sense the fayth inside of you. I think Yunalesca must have somehow drained it." She said to me.
"I'm a little relieved by that. I mean it made me feel strange with something like that living in me. And I don't think I'll die without having in me or I would have bitten the dust by now." I told her. She seemed kinda happy to hear it, still worried I could perish.
"Relax Yu. We still have Sin to take care of so let's focus on him." I told her.
It was hours and we still couldn't figure out anything to do about Sin. Then Kimarhi, of all the people, came up with an idea.
"Maester Mika smart man. We ask him." He said in his primitive English.
"What if he doesn't tell us anything? We are still traitors." Yuna said.
"We make him talk!" Kimarhi told her. He was an admirable guy. Very devoted and caring even though his outside expression didn't say that.
Cid set a course for Bevelle's Highbridge. I had never been to Bevelle because I was stuck on the Airship when they went in to save Yuna. It was a nice place and very very large. I kept my hands near my guns expecting an attack at any moment as we wandered down this hallway.
That woman in green from Macalania Temple was here. Her name was Shelinda and it appears that she is now one of the people in charge due to the disarray in Yevon. She arranged for us to meet with Mika.
Mika. I hate that man! He put this fayth inside of me for his own cruel intentions and must have just dumped me in Macalania afterwards. It was because of him this all happened.
Eventually the man appeared. He was very old in appearance with a white beard and white eyebrows and spoke in an elderly tongue. I resisted the urge to shoot him right there.
"Ahhh. Lady Yuna and her guardians what brings you here?" he said half joking.
"You know about Sin more than us! Tell us how to defeat it!" Tidus demanded from him.
"The Final Summoning is the only way you can defeat Sin." He said calmly.
"Yeah, but we put a stop to that." Rikku said proudly.
"You.defeated Yunalesca!? How is that possible? What have you done!?" he was now getting angry.
"Tell us!" I began to shout at him.
"You? How are you still alive?" he told me shocked by seeing me.
"What did you do to me? Why did you place a fayth inside me?" I asked.
Mika then took out a sphere and it played back another video for us.
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"How is our experiment?" Mika asked a man in the room.
"Lord Mika his condition has stabilized itself and he looks like he'll live." The man said to Mika.
"Then our experiment is complete. Using fayth we can create a formidable army to crush those Al Bhed where they stand." Mika said sounding happy at the idea. I was furious at it.
"What should we do with Shinn?" the man asked.
"Who?"
"It's the boy's name. He told me when I asked him awhile ago."
"It doesn't matter. Place him with the Sin Spawn being sent to Mushroom Rock. Lord Kinoc will get his bait."
"Lord Mika, placing him with Sin Spawn may kill him. If the Sin Spawn doesn't kill him Sin most likely will."
"Of course. We have no further use for him. I expect him over there and gone shortly." Mika said as he turned and left.
Then the scene changed to one in a cage with a large beast standing tall over me. However I wasn't moving and was lying on the ground. Everyone except for Rikku knew that monster as Sin Spawn Gui.
Then next thing I knew I was in the waters at the ocean being swallowed up by Sin and then the scene changed once more.
It was Macalania Temple.
"Wh-where am I? W-who am I?" I muttered standing.
"My head.my body hurts. Need rest." I said shuffling inside the door.
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That was what happened to me. That other world I went to wasn't where I was from at all. I was just experimented on and then Sin took me to Macalania somehow and I forgot it all.
"Sin's toxin did this to you." Lulu said sounding more depressed than usual.
"You son of a bitch!" I said drawing my right pistol and firing at Mika's head. However the bullets seemed to just pass right through him.
"You cannot kill what is already dead." He told me. He was still afraid of me somehow.
"You better fucking tell us how to kill Sin and do it now!" I boomed as high as my voice would allow.
"Sin is a mere suit of armor, and clad inside that armor is Yu Yevon." Mika explained further.
Then in a flash Mika burst into pyreflies and vanished.
"Don't go disappearing on us!" Wakka yelled to him.
Then Yuna and Tidus disappeared as well. I wonder where they went. Rikku looked very sad; you could tell when that girl was sad because she'd be looking at the floor with drooping eyes rather than happy wide eyes.
"Rikku?"
She didn't say a word. She simply clung to me and held me tightly. I let her, not holding her myself. She seemed like she was crying, and that scared me because Cid would just murder me if he found this out.
We stayed this way until Shelinda came back asking is Mika had come yet. Auron told her he hasn't for some reason. Then we all just left for the airship afterwards.
I parked myself on the elevator to the deck and sat there.
Here I thought I was from another world like Tidus claims and here it is I was just affected by Sin's toxins and forgot being Al Bhed. It seems my life is starting to make more sense to me now.
I was expecting Rikku to come down here and be around me like usual but instead Lulu, of all the people I expected, came down to sit with me.
"Didn't expect you to come here. I would've even thought Kimarhi would over you." I told her.
"I was concerned. It seems that you were only affected by Sin this whole time. We didn't know what to think about you at first." She told me.
"Me either but I guess it's only going to get better from here." I told her smiling.
"The reason I came was to let you know Rikku is on the deck. Maybe someone should go talk to her." I noticed she said "someone" instead of "me" which obviously meant she wanted me to do it. I learned not to get on Lulu's bad side so I did what she asked without question. Taking the elevator up I spotted Rikku sitting with the wind blowing her hair away from her face. She had let it down for some reason. I always thought she looked pretty with it down.
I sat behind her. "Hey" was what she said to me.
"Lulu told me you were up here. Why's that?" I asked.
"I wanted to think. I felt I could up in the sky." She said.
"I'm just kinda tired right about now." I told her yawning really loudly.
She took my head and let me rest in her lap. I looked up at her face and she was still kinda sad.
"Why are you so sad? You always seemed happy to me." I told her.
"Well. You know I've shown signs of my affection for you, but you don't show them back. Don't you like me?" she said right out of the blue.
"As a friend of course I like you. But I'm not sure about anything else. I don't know what to do about it. I don't know my feelings right now Rikku. I'm sorry I can't give you an answer you'd want to hear." I told her.
"It's okay. We'd better get back inside maybe they found out something." She said standing with me and walking along to the elevator.
She tied her hair up like usual again and then clung to me like before. She must really care about me to keep doing that. I felt like I should cling back but I didn't want to. I just didn't feel right doing it.
Hope you liked this chapter. It's pretty long and I'm happy with it. Especially how Shinn is turning out. He's my best original character.
Trapped in Final Fantasy 10, Chapter 12
Plan B
We all came at Yunalesca with all our might ready for this queen of the damned of sorts but my body began to freeze up before I could draw my guns.
The rest of the group was too concerned about fighting and didn't notice I was unable to move. After they beat up Yunalesca a bit she rose into the air with her hair being revealed even further. Now my body jerked me forward and in front of Yunalesca facing everyone.
"Shinn get out of the way!" Tidus shouted running up to slash at Yunalesca. However my hands were moving on their own and I drew my guns and shot Tidus, two well placed shots to the chest. He fell backwards and everyone stared.
"What are you doing?" Wakka shouted.
"I don't know. I can't move on my own anymore." I said twitching trying to fight back this force.
"It must be Yunalesca!" Rikku yelled pointing at the witch behind me. Now my body began to glow the bright color from the fight with the Spectral Keeper.
"This boy is special among you. He has a fayth inside of him. Now you didn't think that I could control him did you? A summoner can interact with fayth so it was easy for me to manipulate him." Yunalesca cackled to herself.
"You leave Shinn alone!" Yuna shouted.
The rest of us were still attacking Yunalesca and it was working. Eventually her true form emerged, a woman's head with snakes for hair. Very spooky.
This new form was actually wearing everyone down. And the worst thing was I wasn't doing anything this time. Yunalesca intentionally made me do nothing so I could just watch them die.
I saw them all fall to the ground near defeat. Rikku was completely worn out, she could barely sit correctly. Yuna was in terrible shape. I have to keep her alive, I'm her guardian!
Using all my strength I turned around, drew my guns, and fired at Yunalesca with the powered bullets. She was incredibly hurt by such a power and she began to die away again. Her human form lay on the ground fading.
"What have you done?" she asked me. "Such force and might. Without the Final Summoning then Sin will live forever! Yu Yevon will bring the end of us all!"
"What?" I muttered weakly as that stunt I did took it out of me like last time.
"Yu Yevon is the master! You cannot stand a blink of a chance to defeat him!" she said before fading completely. Everyone else heard and soon found the strength to stand up on their own as well.
"Who is Yu Yevon?" Wakka asked us.
"I have no idea." I told him.
"Well now there is no more Final Aeon so we don't have to be here anymore." Rikku said sounding happy.
"Yes, but what will happen now? Without any means to defeat Sin how can we end its destruction?" Yuna asked confused.
"Maybe we'll learn more if we get out of here. We can regroup and come up with a plan." Tidus suggested.
We began to leave but Yuna became curious and walked forward down the set of stairs where Yunalesca came from. I didn't want her to do anything rash or foolish so I ran after her. Once we both reached the end we were no longer in Zanarkand.
When I opened my eyes I was lying on a concrete floor with Yuna on top of me. She soon got off and apologized as she usually would. We were in some sort of stone building but we were baffled as to how we got here.
"Where is this place Shinn?" she asked me.
"I have no idea Yuna. We should try and find a way back to the others." I told her. She walked along side me as we made our way down the ruined hallway. When we turned the corner we heard something like fire starting and people screaming in pain.
A number of armed men with guns were there being burnt by what looked like Fire. The person doing it was this boy who was about my age that was wearing this cloak over his mouth, had a black sleeveless shirt, and shorts on with these brown boots. I only saw the side of his face but there was a scar over his left eye and he carried this large sword on his back. His blue hair was slightly spiked but not by much.
"Who is that?" Yuna whispered, not to get this kid's attention.
"I have no idea." I whispered back. Then the kid turned down the hallway and ran. Yuna got up and started following him. "Yuna, get back here!"
I ran after her and we came to this door that was open. The kid was gone. Inside was this middle aged man operating some kind of machine. Then this portal opened up in the center of the room and he looked at us.
"Who are you?" he yelled at us.
"What is that?" I asked him.
"That is a portal to another world. Judging by your friend's appearance it would be both of your worlds." He told me.
"Oh that is great news." Yuna said running into it.
"Well thanks whoever you are!" I said running for it myself.
"It will be a matter of time before Mistress Hester gets what she desires!" The strange man said to himself as I went through. Who's Hester?
Once on the other side Yuna was in front of me and we appeared to be okay. We were back in the same place we were when we beat Yunalesca. Everyone was still leaving, so we must have been gone a few seconds to them.
We followed them but I wondered where we were. Was that the same place I went to before with all the people chasing me? I'd have to worry about that later.
We all made our way out of the Dome and it was day out unlike when we last arrived. Then we turned to the right and Sin was staring right at us. It didn't do anything though. Why was it here? Did it know that the Final Summoning was no more? I couldn't tell. Tidus seemed lost in thought with it.
It then turned and left as the Airship flew towards us. Sin made no attempt to destroy it. We all got onboard and went straight to the bridge.
Once we got there Cid and everyone else began to discuss what to do next. The Final Summoning was gone so the Al Bhed were happy no more summoners would die needlessly, however the Final Summoning was the only known way to temporarily defeat Sin so now how do we stop it?
"Shinn, how are you feeling? Since Yunalesca controlled you?" Yuna asked me while everyone else was talking.
"I feel a little different than before. Why?" I asked her.
"Summoners can sense fayth within things. That is how I knew that Lord Zaon's statue was empty. And now I can no longer sense the fayth inside of you. I think Yunalesca must have somehow drained it." She said to me.
"I'm a little relieved by that. I mean it made me feel strange with something like that living in me. And I don't think I'll die without having in me or I would have bitten the dust by now." I told her. She seemed kinda happy to hear it, still worried I could perish.
"Relax Yu. We still have Sin to take care of so let's focus on him." I told her.
It was hours and we still couldn't figure out anything to do about Sin. Then Kimarhi, of all the people, came up with an idea.
"Maester Mika smart man. We ask him." He said in his primitive English.
"What if he doesn't tell us anything? We are still traitors." Yuna said.
"We make him talk!" Kimarhi told her. He was an admirable guy. Very devoted and caring even though his outside expression didn't say that.
Cid set a course for Bevelle's Highbridge. I had never been to Bevelle because I was stuck on the Airship when they went in to save Yuna. It was a nice place and very very large. I kept my hands near my guns expecting an attack at any moment as we wandered down this hallway.
That woman in green from Macalania Temple was here. Her name was Shelinda and it appears that she is now one of the people in charge due to the disarray in Yevon. She arranged for us to meet with Mika.
Mika. I hate that man! He put this fayth inside of me for his own cruel intentions and must have just dumped me in Macalania afterwards. It was because of him this all happened.
Eventually the man appeared. He was very old in appearance with a white beard and white eyebrows and spoke in an elderly tongue. I resisted the urge to shoot him right there.
"Ahhh. Lady Yuna and her guardians what brings you here?" he said half joking.
"You know about Sin more than us! Tell us how to defeat it!" Tidus demanded from him.
"The Final Summoning is the only way you can defeat Sin." He said calmly.
"Yeah, but we put a stop to that." Rikku said proudly.
"You.defeated Yunalesca!? How is that possible? What have you done!?" he was now getting angry.
"Tell us!" I began to shout at him.
"You? How are you still alive?" he told me shocked by seeing me.
"What did you do to me? Why did you place a fayth inside me?" I asked.
Mika then took out a sphere and it played back another video for us.
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"How is our experiment?" Mika asked a man in the room.
"Lord Mika his condition has stabilized itself and he looks like he'll live." The man said to Mika.
"Then our experiment is complete. Using fayth we can create a formidable army to crush those Al Bhed where they stand." Mika said sounding happy at the idea. I was furious at it.
"What should we do with Shinn?" the man asked.
"Who?"
"It's the boy's name. He told me when I asked him awhile ago."
"It doesn't matter. Place him with the Sin Spawn being sent to Mushroom Rock. Lord Kinoc will get his bait."
"Lord Mika, placing him with Sin Spawn may kill him. If the Sin Spawn doesn't kill him Sin most likely will."
"Of course. We have no further use for him. I expect him over there and gone shortly." Mika said as he turned and left.
Then the scene changed to one in a cage with a large beast standing tall over me. However I wasn't moving and was lying on the ground. Everyone except for Rikku knew that monster as Sin Spawn Gui.
Then next thing I knew I was in the waters at the ocean being swallowed up by Sin and then the scene changed once more.
It was Macalania Temple.
"Wh-where am I? W-who am I?" I muttered standing.
"My head.my body hurts. Need rest." I said shuffling inside the door.
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That was what happened to me. That other world I went to wasn't where I was from at all. I was just experimented on and then Sin took me to Macalania somehow and I forgot it all.
"Sin's toxin did this to you." Lulu said sounding more depressed than usual.
"You son of a bitch!" I said drawing my right pistol and firing at Mika's head. However the bullets seemed to just pass right through him.
"You cannot kill what is already dead." He told me. He was still afraid of me somehow.
"You better fucking tell us how to kill Sin and do it now!" I boomed as high as my voice would allow.
"Sin is a mere suit of armor, and clad inside that armor is Yu Yevon." Mika explained further.
Then in a flash Mika burst into pyreflies and vanished.
"Don't go disappearing on us!" Wakka yelled to him.
Then Yuna and Tidus disappeared as well. I wonder where they went. Rikku looked very sad; you could tell when that girl was sad because she'd be looking at the floor with drooping eyes rather than happy wide eyes.
"Rikku?"
She didn't say a word. She simply clung to me and held me tightly. I let her, not holding her myself. She seemed like she was crying, and that scared me because Cid would just murder me if he found this out.
We stayed this way until Shelinda came back asking is Mika had come yet. Auron told her he hasn't for some reason. Then we all just left for the airship afterwards.
I parked myself on the elevator to the deck and sat there.
Here I thought I was from another world like Tidus claims and here it is I was just affected by Sin's toxins and forgot being Al Bhed. It seems my life is starting to make more sense to me now.
I was expecting Rikku to come down here and be around me like usual but instead Lulu, of all the people I expected, came down to sit with me.
"Didn't expect you to come here. I would've even thought Kimarhi would over you." I told her.
"I was concerned. It seems that you were only affected by Sin this whole time. We didn't know what to think about you at first." She told me.
"Me either but I guess it's only going to get better from here." I told her smiling.
"The reason I came was to let you know Rikku is on the deck. Maybe someone should go talk to her." I noticed she said "someone" instead of "me" which obviously meant she wanted me to do it. I learned not to get on Lulu's bad side so I did what she asked without question. Taking the elevator up I spotted Rikku sitting with the wind blowing her hair away from her face. She had let it down for some reason. I always thought she looked pretty with it down.
I sat behind her. "Hey" was what she said to me.
"Lulu told me you were up here. Why's that?" I asked.
"I wanted to think. I felt I could up in the sky." She said.
"I'm just kinda tired right about now." I told her yawning really loudly.
She took my head and let me rest in her lap. I looked up at her face and she was still kinda sad.
"Why are you so sad? You always seemed happy to me." I told her.
"Well. You know I've shown signs of my affection for you, but you don't show them back. Don't you like me?" she said right out of the blue.
"As a friend of course I like you. But I'm not sure about anything else. I don't know what to do about it. I don't know my feelings right now Rikku. I'm sorry I can't give you an answer you'd want to hear." I told her.
"It's okay. We'd better get back inside maybe they found out something." She said standing with me and walking along to the elevator.
She tied her hair up like usual again and then clung to me like before. She must really care about me to keep doing that. I felt like I should cling back but I didn't want to. I just didn't feel right doing it.
Hope you liked this chapter. It's pretty long and I'm happy with it. Especially how Shinn is turning out. He's my best original character.