Bad news. I guess I can't really drag this story on as long as I'd truly like to... Anyway, here is chapter fifteen, and hopefully more than ever, thing's will start making sense! Gosh, and another shorty! (I think I finally realized why my chapters have been so short though. It's called: Lack of Inspiration! I'm so sorry!) Enjoy!

Chapter 15: The End of My Story

Rikku didn't know what to think. She just sat there, a ways from Tidus' non-moving body, just staring at him. Where had Yuna gone? What was even going on?

"Oh no!" Rikku cried then, standing up, "What if Yunie's done something terrible to herself! I'd better go find her!"

"Wait Rikku!" Rikku had started off, and was now wondering if she was going crazy. Was that Tidus' voice? She turned swiftly around, to see Tidus, who just a second ago was deceased, standing up.

"What in the world is going on?" Rikku gasped, "I mean, you're dead!"

"No time to explain Rikku!" Tidus cried, grabbing her arm and running in the same direction that Yuna had been running in, "We have to save Yuna!"

"But Tidus, you're like, weak!" Rikku cried, noticing that Tidus was grabbing his side, and wasn't quite running as fast as she'd known him to run.

"I don't care!" Tidus said, biting his lip to hide the pain, "Yuna's gonna die, unless we do something about it!"

"Can't you explain on the way?" Rikku moaned, as she chased after Tidus.

"We don't have time," Tidus just said, and reached out his arm to stop Rikku, "What are they up to?"

Rikku peeked around the bush that Tidus and she were ducked behind to see Yuna standing in front of the man by the name of Zed, and a rather pretty blonde who didn't look too happy.

"It's not like we meant to kill Tidus," Lea was saying, "That was all an accident. He wasn't supposed to get involved."

"It was only you we wanted," Zed said, and he sounded rather upset by everything.

"Why me?" Yuna asked. She wasn't fighting, she was just standing there, as if not knowing what to do.

"Because! You're the one that stole him away from us!" Lea was now looking at Yuna with tears slipping down his face, "I know I never acted like it, but I really truly did love him!"

"More like the popularity that came with it," Tidus said, stepping out of the bush.

"How you escaped is beyond me," Lea said, looking away from Tidus, but then Lea gasped, "You didn't use the—."

"The crystal?" Tidus said, pointing to the no longer glowing crystal around his neck, "Yeah."

"But Zed's powers...Didn't he kill you?" Lea looked truly amazed, "We gave you a second chance at life, and what do you do?"

"Leave Yuna alone," Tidus said, taking out his sword, "Or I'll kill both of you."

"But we're old friends!" Zed said, taking a step toward Tidus, "We were the best of friends! And then you just leave Lea and me for some stupid girl as if we didn't even matter!"

Zed's eyes were beginning to glow. He was obviously quite angry.

"It took us a long time to get here, and to achieve our powers," Lea said, sounding not nasty, but now angry, "Either way Tidus, you'll die. As for Yuna, she's going too!"

At that, Zed began to transform into the giant fiend again, and began to head straight toward Yuna.

Plowing in front of her, with his sword outstretched Tidus jabbed his blue sword straight into his best friend's heart, and pulled it out, bringing the oozing blood along with it. Without regrets, Tidus whipped around, slicing through Zed, all while Yuna stared in amazement, as if not knowing what to do.

"I don't want to kill you," Tidus said angrily to Zed, "But you're not leaving me a choice!"

"Yunie watch out!" Rikku's voice was suddenly heard, as Rikku jumped out from her hiding place just as Lea grabbed Yuna by the hair and toppled over her.

Suddenly, Lea's eyes began to glow also, but she didn't transform. Tidus could tell she was conjuring a large spell, perhaps greater than the one that he was killed with.

Tidus began to run over to where Yuna was, but suddenly heard something behind him.

"It's all over..." Tidus thought, as he knew what Zed was doing behind him. He knew Zed was just going to kill him, and then allow Lea to kill Yuna.

Yuna was looking fearfully at Lea, and then, just before Lea's spell could strike, Zed's was released, and Tidus closed his eyes, waiting to be struck again by Zed's spell. However, this time, the spell didn't hit him.

"No..." Tidus thought, as he quickly reopened his eyes, "He went for Yuna!"

That wasn't the case either. Now, Lea was lying on her side, looking in terrible pain.

"Zed," Lea rasped, "How could you?"

"I'm not going to let you do any more damage," Zed said, looking at Tidus, with his strange glowing eyes.

Lea's were still glowing, and before Tidus could stop, Lea struck her spell, aimed at Yuna. Tidus started after the spell, hoping to have it strike him instead of Yuna.

It was Zed that jumped in front of Yuna. Then, his large fiendish body broke into dust.

"Zed!" Tidus screamed, running over to where his best friend had just stood.

Yuna finally regained herself and jumped up, unleashing her pistols.

"Give it up Lea!" Yuna cried, but it seemed as if Lea had given it up.

With tears welling up in her eyes, Lea stared angrily at Yuna, and then at Tidus, and then slammed her fists into herself, and began to glow again.

"Stand behind me," Tidus warned, but Yuna was far too busy watching the whole scene to even listen to him.

Even Rikku was staring in awe and confusion as she wondered what was going on.

Then, just as Zed had, Lea burst into dust particles, obviously dying.

A bright light consumed the other three, knocking them over onto their backs. Then, everything slowly came back into focus slowly, and Yuna and Rikku sat up carefully, both of them feeling groggy from the whole experience.

"Okay, you have some major explaining to do!" Rikku said, looking over at her cousin.

"Where's Tidus?" Yuna asked, standing up, and looking around. However, Tidus was no where in sight.

"What if they took him with them or something!" Yuna cried, and began running frantically in circles, "What if I've lost him!"

"Yunie," Rikku whispered, sounding fearful, "That's him right there."

She pointed to an almost misshaped tangled looking body, and with tears streaming down her face, Yuna ran up to him.

"Tidus!" Yuna cried, kneeling down next to him, "Tidus?"

"I'm okay," Tidus said, but the last thing he looked was "okay".

"No you're not," Yuna said, kneeling down to him, "You're injured. Terribly. You should have just let them kill me!"

"Naw, I shouldn't have," Tidus said, trying to sit up. He knew it as well as Yuna did, though.

Tears were welling in Yuna's eyes, and she just watched Tidus, as if not knowing what to say next.

"No arguments?" Tidus said, forcing a smile.

"Not now!" Yuna cried, having her tears finally begin to flow, "Please not now!"

"No cheeky comments?" Tidus just said, feeling like crying also.

"I hate them," Yuna whispered, "Why did things have to happen like this?"

"I don't know," Tidus said slowly, "I guess that's just how things were supposed to be. But their powers...And how did they get here? And...Are they dead...?"

Tidus' voice cracked, and he suddenly couldn't say anything else.

"Don't leave me," Yuna cried, but knew that there really wasn't anything she could do.

Tidus' voice went limp then, and Yuna calmly did her best to swallow her tears, but with barely any luck.

Then, she screamed in agony, burying her head into his chest.

Rikku watched from nearby, having her confusion disappear.

"Yunie, you have to send him," Rikku said slowly.

"I won't," came Yuna's muffled response.

"But if you don't—."

"I said I won't!" Yuna screamed at her cousin, "Just leave me alone! Just for once! Leave me alone!"

Then, still in Yuna's arms, Tidus' body erupted into pyreflies, and Yuna watched tearfully as they floated off toward the farplane.

All Rikku could do was continue to watch as her cousin cried into the grass.

"I won't even try to get along this time. I'll just live every day depressed, until I finally die. Right now, all I want is my death. A sweet slumber, away from all of my problems. Away from him. No! Not away from him! Anywhere but away from him!"

"Hey Yunie! We're back." Rikku said, as she walked slowly up to her cousin.

"Please just don't tell me, Rikku. I don't want to know," Yuna said, standing up, staring out into the water.

They were in Besaid, standing on the lonely dock, staring out blankly into the sea. Or at least Yuna was.

"You're right, it probably would be better that way," Rikku said, "I mean, if you didn't know what we saw, or didn't see, at the farplane."

"Just leave, okay?" Yuna said, staring into the clear water, watching a small, carefree fish swim by.

"Okay Yunie, but I really think you need to shake out of this depression you're in. You're not much fun to be around."

Then, looking rather angry at her cousin, Rikku jogged off, leaving Yuna to herself.

"This isn't fair," Yuna thought to herself, "Why can't I just join you?"

It was only a day after the strange events of the day before. Just the day before they had run into Zed and Lea, and just the day before Yuna had watched Tidus leave her yet again.

The Blitzball tournament had been canceled, or at least for Yuna and the Aurochs, it had. Yuna had turned down the Maestress opportunity, not caring if she completely destroyed her respects also. She didn't care about anything.

She just wanted to be alone.

"I'm leaving," Yuna said, her voice firm.

"What? Where?" Rikku asked, as they all sat around the fire in Besaid, eating. All but Yuna, who was standing there, staring into the fire.

"I don't know, but I'm leaving," Yuna said again. She had made up her mind. She knew exactly where she was going. She was going to the farplane. Literally.

"Goodbye," Yuna said into the silence, and marched off. Everybody just stared at her, as if not knowing what to say, or even what to do.

She was now on the path toward the ocean, tears slipping down her face. Still, she knew very well that this was what she wanted.

She couldn't take it any longer. The loneliness, the pain in her heart, the tears that fell nonstop. The dreams...

The dreams were the worst part of it all. Worse than the loneliness, the heartbreak...Worse than anything imaginable.

Those dreams where she saw his face, smiling at her, the dreams where she saw Lea laughing at her, or even Zed's solemn face.

She had no idea what had happened the day before. Where Zed or Lea had even come from, why they wanted her, why they're voice sounded like the Fayth's in her head...

The Fayth...

Yuna stopped dead in her tracks. Then, she just shook her head, to clear it.

Tidus was gone. That's all there was to it. He wasn't even gone this time: he was dead.

Dead. Gone. What was the difference? She'd never see him again. That was all that truly mattered in the end, right?

"You may have lost yours to save mine, but I don't care anymore," Yuna said, shaking her head, "I'll just journey until it's over. The Fayth's, or Lea's, or Zed's...Their words. "Yuna will die, and it'll be all your fault"; those words. They're going to come true."

Yuna smiled, bringing a tear with the smile.

"This is my story. And it's going to end here."