Chapter 8
Shuyin snuck into the temple around three o'clock in the morning. It was pitch black out and most of the guards was knocked out sleep, just from standing guard. Sleeping on the job. That's a shame, anybody could come in here steal anything they want. Shuyin tip-toed his way into the temple and walked slowly to the lift, making sure he was making no kind of noise. As he got on the lift he sighed in relief. Once he made it down to the bottom, he took a few turns and pathways until he reached the place where Venagun rest.
"Ahh, so this is Venagun." Shuyin said softly. He walked up to the resting machina. He stood on a circular platform. The whole room was gray and cold. "Venagun, I need your help." Shuyin said as he stared at the machina. He took one step forward admiring the machina with his blue eyes. "INTRUDER!!!!" A few guards yelled as they ran up to Shuyin and he turned around facing them. Damn.
The guards ran up closer to Shuyin. One pointing his gun at Shuyin and the others surrounding him. The ones that was surrounding him ran up to him. Pushing him down to the ground and handcuffing him. "Let me go!" Shuyin yelled out while he tried to break loose.
"Shut up!" One of the guards said while picking Shuyin up.
"Don't you know this is dangerous stuff you're messing with?" The guard who was holding the gun asked. Shuyin said nothing as he looked back at Venagun. I will be back. The guards took Shuyin to another level below the temple. There was a huge machina that was moving. It had a couple cells hanging down from it. "Deactivate the machina." One of the guards said. "Yes sir." He walked over to the control panel and turned the machina off. One of the cells stopped right in front of Shuyin as the cell door open. The guard took the handcuffs off of Shuyin and pushed him into the cell. Shuyin fell to the cell floor and came to his knees.
"This outta show you not to try to sneak into Bevelle." The guard said.
Shuyin stood up and wrapped his hand against the thick bars. "Let me out! I must save the summoner!"
"Ha, you must be from Zanakard. You should know, whoever this summoner is, he or she is a very dedicated person. They know what will happen to them. There's nothing you can do about it."
Shuyin turned around and leaned against the cell bars, as tears ran down his face. He really needed to be with Lenne at the moment. "Let me out!" Shuyin sobbed. The guards just laughed at him and said 'pitiful man, you're not even worthy for a summoner'. Shuyin listened to the guards hurtful words. I'm gonna get out of here. If it's the last thing I do.
In Zanakard
Tidus and Yuna spent the next day together. He told her how he made it back and Yuna told him how she ended up in Zanakard. They did everything Tidus promised they would do two years ago. Yuna took a deep breath of the cool ocean breeze as she placed her head on Tidus shoulder. "It's beautiful out here." Yuna said.
"I know. I told you it would be." Tidus wrapped his arms around Yuna. "It's strange how Zanakard is the same. Just the way it was before I left it. It just feels funny being here. Ya know?"
"Yeah, because in my time Zanakard is nothing but ruins. I'm just glad I finally got a chance to share it........like this." Yuna said.
"Yuna?"
"Hmm?"
"What about the Machina War? You're not going are you?"
Yuna raised her head up off of Tidus's shoulder and stared out at the ocean. "I don't know. I kind of want to........but then I don't."
"Don't go. This is not your time. If you do go, you can alter time. And who knows what would happen." Tidus sighed. "I can't lose you."
Yuna started to have tears form in her eyes. She looked up at Tidus. "I won't go, I can't lose you either." With that they both embraced each other and Tidus placed a gentle kiss on Yuna's forehead as they both watched the sunset.
A week had passed by already, and Shuyin still hasn't returned. This was the last week of freedom. Lenne wanted to spend as much time with Shuyin as possible. "Ugh, I can't take it anymore!" Lenne yelled out in her room. "Shuyin! Shuyin! Shuyin! Why would you run off like that!? You should of known I was coming back! All you had to do was wait! Just wait!" Lenne cried out. Lenne wiped the tears from her eyes and stood up. She grabbed her summoners rod and ran out the house, passing Rikku. "Hey Lenne! Where are you going?"
Lenne stops and looks at her with tears still in her eyes. "To get my man." With that she ran out the house and down the street. Shuyin, I'm going to bring you back to me.
Yuna and Tidus saw Lenne running down the street she ran up to them. "Yuna, I need my body back." Lenne said almost out of breath.
"But I don't know how to return it to you." Yuna said.
Lenne pulled Yuna in front her. "Hold both your hands up, palms facing me." Yuna did exactly what Lenne said. Lenne placed her hands facing Yuna's hands. "Concentrate."
"Oh great you're in my head again." Yuna said.
Lenne just looked at her with a serious look. "Concentrate got dammit."
Yuna's eyes grew big and became serious herself. "Sorry." With that she concentrated. A white light started to form around them in a spiral formation. Yuna looked around at the spiral it was pretty. It was white and lavender, with a glittery pattern. Yuna turned her head back to Lenne and stared into her eyes. The spiral became larger and wider, completely hiding their bodies. "Yuna, I'm going after Shuyin and please do not follow me."
"But......what if you get caught?" Yuna said.
"We will be fine. Trust me. It's something I need to do."
"I understand." With that the light burst open revealing a million of pyreflies flying away from them. Yuna looked around. "Where did Lenne go?"
Tidus looked around in amazement. "I don't know. She vanished with the pyreflies."
"Could she be dead?" Yuna said while placing her hand on her chin in a thinking way.
Tidus walked up to her in the same position. "Naaahhhh." They both said while shaking their heads.
In Bevelle
Man, forget this. I'm gonna get out of this cell. Shuyin still was sitting in the cell. One of the guards was standing in front of the cell guarding it. Shuyin stood up and grabbed the guard by the collar of his shirt. "Hey!" The guard screamed. "Put me down!"
"Not until you unlock this cell." Shuyin said with a evil grin on his face.
The guard squirmed. "Never!"
Shuyin pulled back on the guard collar causing the guard's head to hit the thick cell bars. "Open the damn cell!" Shuyin yelled.
The guard's head was pounding so he gave in. "Ok......ok." Shuyin let the guard go and the guard unlocked the cell. Shuyin jumped out the cell and punched the guard with a powerful punch, knocking the guard unconscious. Shuyin looked around making sure it was safe. He ran down the pathway while taking turns, running into some guards on the way, but he knocked them out too.
Shuyin finally made it to the level where Venagun rests for the second time. "Made it." Shuyin walked up the tall, spiral stairs that leads up to the control panels that controls Venagun.
In Zanakard
"Guys, we gotta go after Lenne. I have a bad feeling something's bad is going to happen." Yuna said.
"But we don't know where she went." Paine said.
"I know. If Bevelle is using machina. I'm sure Shuyin went to Bevelle to see what machina they was planning on using. He would do anything for Lenne. I know from experience." Yuna said.
Tidus looked at her with a confused look. "What do you mean experience? Did he do something to you."
Yuna laughed. "Oh, don't get so jealous. I know about you and Lenne. But you're with me now and nothing is going to come between us."
Tidus laughed also. "I think I like this new you."
"Well get use to it."
"You two, we have a major situation going on here and all you two is talking about cuddling. We got to help Lenne out, before Shuyin decides to do something crazy." Rikku said.
"For once, she's right." Paine said.
Yuna stood up. "Then YRP are back into action!"
"Exactly!" Rikku and Paine said.
"Wait a minute, but how are we going to get there. We can't use the Celisus." Tidus said.
"Chocobos!" Rikku said.
"Chocobos?" The other said.
"Yes, Chocobos. We're close to the Calm Lands. So let's go catch some Chocobos!"
"Good idea." Yuna said.
"Then what are we waiting for lets go." Tidus said while running out the house.
Paine sighed. "Why do I hang with these people."
In Bevelle
A human form of pyreflies started to appear in the temple. As the light from the figure died down Lenne appeared. "That was weird," she whispered. Lenne started to hear footsteps in the temple, she quickly ran to the lift and waited for it to go down. "What was that?" One of the guards asked as he looked at the guard who was across the hall.
"I don't know. It sounded like footsteps."
"Lets go check it out."
Lenne moved some of her beautiful, long, brown hair out of her face as the lift took her down beneath the city of Bevelle. She stepped off the lift and glances around the underground place. It was foggy, damp and cool. She sighed, "Where could Shuyin be?" She walked forward a few feet. "Somebody went down the lift." Was all Lenne could hear as the voices started to get closer. They are coming. Lenne started to run down one of the pathways hoping to find her love, Shuyin. Hopefully finding Shuyin and bringing him back to Zanakard. There is enough conflict going on around the war. They didn't need anymore.
The Calm Lands
"I got one!" Rikku yelled out as she caught one of the smaller chocobos. "You're just a baby, but you'll do."
"I got one also." Paine said. Tidus walked over to Yuna and picked her up. "Tidus put me down!"
He walked over to the chocobo Rikku caught and placed Yuna on it before getting on himself. "Hah!" Tidus yelled while kicking the chocobo gently with the heel of his shoe, with that they took off towards Bevelle.
"Hey! That was my chocobo!" Rikku yelled. Paine rode her chocobo over to Rikku and pulled her up. "Lets go!" Rikku climbed on and they sped off to Bevelle.
In Bevelle
Lenne went through a few corridors and made a lot of twists and turn, dodging a bunch of guards on her way. She had a feeling some of the guards was follwing her but she payed it no attention. She went through some steel double doors only to find Shuyin at the top of the stairs. The bright, intense lights from Venagun shined down on Lenne as she stood on the circular platform. Shuyin looked down at the brown haired beauty. "Yuna? What are you doing?"
She stretched her arms out as an order for him to stop this madness. "I'm not Yuna." Lenne took a few steps forward. "It's me Lenne."
Shuyin's eyes lighted up with joy and pure happiness. "It's really.......you." Shuyin said as he walked down the spiral staircase down to his one and only love.
Lenne stood in her same spot with tears in her eyes. She missed him so much. As Shuyin arrived to Lenne's slender body, he embraced her with a hug of love. Lenne placed her arms around Shuyin's neck as she placed her head on his chest. "Why would you run off like this.......you knew I was coming back. I couldn't leave you. You know that. Don't you?" Lenne asked as she looked up at Shuyin with watery eyes.
"I knew.....but I couldn't bare seeing you go into the Machina War once you returned." Shuyin sighed. "And lose your life." Shuyin placed a light kiss on Lenne's lip. Once he pulled back he pointed to Venagun. "Lenne, this machina can stop everything. It can stop the war."
"Shuyin, it is too powerful. It can destroy the entire world. Venagun would be outside guarding the city if it wasn't so powerful. It's out of control. You know that."
"But........" Before Shuyin could finish his sentence four guards appeared at the door. Two was on their kneeling down aiming their guns at Shuyin and Lenne. The other two was standing behind the guards who was kneeling, with their guns aiming at Shuyin and Lenne. Shuyin stood in front of Lenne and grabbed her by the small of her back. Lenne held her hands up against Shuyin's chest as they both looked at the guards and then back to each other.
Lenne looked up at Shuyin with watery eyes, but the tears wouldn't come out. Shuyin did the same. He flashed a smile, insuring Lenne that they will be together again one day. It was the end for them. Their life together was over in the living world. They knew that they will always meet up on the Farplane and can always be together.
"It's over Shuyin." Lenne said.
"Baby, I know. I'll see you in the Farplane."
"See ya........" As Lenne said those final words to her love through her mind, the guards fired and hits the both of them. Lenne falls to the ground face up and her head facing Shuyin's lifeless body. Shuyin fell face down with his head facing Lenne. He tried to reach out to Lenne with the last bit of life energy that he had left in his body but he couldn't. His crystal blue eyes locked on his lifeless love's body as he passed on. Lenne tried to say something but she couldn't. She just lets out a single tear as she saw her love die in front of her. As the tear rolled down her face and hits the ground, Lenne lets out her last and final breath of life and passes on.
Halfway To Bevelle
Yuna, Tidus, Rikku and Paine was halfway to Bevelle when Yuna said, "Stop." Her voice was cracking it was almost as if she lost her best friend, a tear rolled down her face.
"Yuna, what is it?" Tidus said as he turned around and looks at Yuna.
"We're too late." Was all Yuna could get out as she started to break down in tears.
"We're too late for what?" Paine asked.
The pyreflies started to form around Yuna's body once again. This time it felt as if they was taking over her body. Lenne? Is that you? Yuna clothes started to change into the songstress dress that Lenne wore. Yuna looked over at Tidus and watched as the same thing happen to him. Pyreflies was taking over his body also. What the hell. A person who looked just like Tidus started to take form with Tidus body. Once the pyreflies died down, it revealed two people Lenne and Shuyin.
"Lenne......." Rikku said.
Lenne nods. "Yes, it is me. I want to introduce you two to Shuyin."
"Hi." Shuyin said. "Thank you for taking care of Lenne for me."
"You're welcome." Paine and Rikku said as their eyes went back to Lenne.
"I just wanted to say thank you for everything, you two have done for me before we pass on to the Farplane." Lenne said softly.
"Farplane?" Rikku said.
"You're dead?" Paine asked.
"We will let Yuna and Tidus tell you. Give this to Yuna." Lenne handed Rikku a purple sphere. "We must be going." Lenne and Shuyin started to fade away. Rikku and Paine watched as the pyreflies floated up to the sky, forming a glowing circle and vanished.
Yuna and Tidus eventually came back to reality. Their eyes was full of tears from experiencing the love of a couple from 1000 years ago. From their ups and downs........until they took their last a final breath together. Tidus and Yuna embraced each other with a hug, letting both of them know, that they aren't going anywhere. They was going to be their for each other through thick or thin and for the rest of their life.
"Umm, Yunie. Lenne told me to give you this?" Rikku said while holding the sphere up to Yuna.
Yuna pulled away from Tidus and held the sphere that Lenne left for her. Watch it when you return. "It's her dress sphere." Yuna said softly. Yuna gazed at the sphere with her blue-green eyes as a purple light appeared around the gang.
"What's going on?" Tidus asked.
"We're going home." Yuna said calmly. The light took over each and every one of their bodies and faded away.
The Deck of The Celisus
Two weeks had went by and Yuna and Tidus told Paine and Rikku the whole situation about what happen to Lenne and Shuyin. They all cried, even Paine showed her soft side. There was one thing Yuna never did do. She never did watch the sphere like she was suppose to. "Guess it's time." Yuna sat on the deck of the Celsius messing around with the sphere.
"What ya doing?" Tidus asked as he sat down next to Yuna.
She sighed. "About to watch the sphere."
"Can I join you?"
"Sure." Yuna pressed the sphere and a small hologram started to form.
Flashback
Lenne went through a few corridors and made a lot of twists and turn, dodging a bunch of guards on her way. She had a feeling some of the guards was falling her but she payed it no attention. She went through some steel double doors only to find Shuyin at the top of the stairs. The bright, intense lights from Venagun shined down on Lenne as she stood on the circular platform. Shuyin looked down at the brown haired beauty. "Yuna? What are you doing?"
She stretched her arms out as an order for him to stop this madness. "I'm not Yuna." Lenne took a few steps forward. "It's me Lenne."
Shuyin's eyes lighted up with joy and pure happiness. "It's really.......you." Shuyin said as he walked down the spiral staircase down to his one and only love.
Lenne stood in her same spot with tears in her eyes. She missed him so much. As Shuyin arrived to Lenne's slender body, he embraced her with a hug of love. Lenne placed her arms around Shuyin's neck as she placed her head on her check. "Why would you run off like this.......you knew I was coming back. I couldn't leave you. You know that. Don't you?" Lenne asked as she looked up at Shuyin with watery eyes.
"I knew.....but I couldn't bare seeing you go into the Machina War once you returned." Shuyin sighed. "And lose your life." Shuyin placed a light kiss on Lenne's lip. Once he pulled back he pointed to Venagun. "Lenne, this machina can stop everything. It can stop the war."
"Shuyin, it is too powerful. It can destroy the entire world. Venagun would be outside guarding the city if it wasn't so powerful. It's out of control. You know that."
"But........" Before Shuyin could finish his sentence four guards appeared at the door. Two was on their knees aiming their guns at Shuyin and Lenne. The other two was standing behind the guards who was kneeling, with their guns aiming at Shuyin and Lenne. Shuyin stood in front of Lenne and grabbed her by the small of her bak. Lenne held her hands up against Shuyin's chest as they both looked at the guards and then back to each other.
Lenne looked up at Shuyin with watery eyes, but the tears wouldn't come out. Shuyin did the same. He flashed a smile, insuring Lenne that they will be together again one day. It was end for them. Their life together was over in the real world. They knew that they will always meet up on the Farplane and can always be together.
"It's over Shuyin." Lenne said.
"Baby, I know. I'll see you in the Farplane."
"See ya........" As Lenne said those final words to her love through her mind, the guards fired and hits the both of them. Lenne hits the ground face up and her head turned facing Shuyin's lifeless body. Shuyin fell face down with his head facing Lenne. He tried to reach out to Lenne with the last bit of life energy that he had left in his body but he couldn't. His crystal blue eyes locked on his lifeless love's body as he passed on. Lenne tried to say something but she couldn't. She just lets out a single tear as she saw her love die in front of her. As the tear rolled down her face and hits the ground, Lenne lets out her last and final breath of life and passes on.
End of Flashback
"Oh my God!" Yuna cried out. She turned away from the screen and cried into Tidus's chest. "........why?"
Tidus placed his arms around Yuna, doing his best to comfort her. "It's ok Yuna. They are in peace now. No more suffering for them." Tidus said as he rocked Yuna from side to side.
Yuna cried. "It's......not alright. Why did she have to leave this sphere for me! Why!?"
Tidus pulled Yuna back and lifted her chin up to him. "She wanted to show you what true love was. How her and Shuyin lived. How they was happy together. And how happy they was when they died. They will always be a faithful and strong couple from life to death. Forever." With that Tidus placed a kissed on Yuna's lips as they flew over Spira together. I guess he's right. Lenne's life was perfect. She was a summoner and a singer. She was famous and happy. She had Shuyin and he did his best to protect and did a excellant job at her loving her. Her sphere was telling me to find my true love and be happy with that person for the rest my life......the way she was with Shuyin.
Yuna smiled up at Tidus and said, "I love you through thick or thin......"
Tidus kissed her once again. "Forever more and for all eternity."
The End.
AN: Well that was the end of 1000 Years Away From Home. I really enjoyed writing this story, it was interesting. And it also looks like since this was my first ever Final Fantasy fanfic, it turned out pretty well. There might be many more stories from me. I'm glad ya'll like this one. Oh yeah I wanna thank all my reviewers for reviewing the story. I love you guys. Ya'll was my inspiration. So as I have inspiration the more stories you will get from me. So I'll see you later with a new fanfic whenever I get an idea. And don't forget to review this story even though it's the end.