I'm sorry for delay.

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"So, what now?" Yuna had been worried for both herself and Spira. Paine was barely holding on to sanity. Rikku was trying to be optimistic.

"What do you mean 'what now'? WE'RE DEAD!" Paine was not exactly in denial either.

Rikku on the other hand was watching them argue, but she had to participate also. "Well, we can still watch Spira though the pyreflies." It was an interesting thing they had found, seeing Spira via pyreflies.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the best thing to watch. Soala was toying with the world, using huge fiends to do his bidding. Bevelle was holding out. Youth League HQ would last only another day or two. Machine Faction was down to just the Chamber of the Fayth and had an hour or so before the fiends took them. Paine's father had been in Luca with them but it was too hard to look at Luca, so for all they knew, he may have lived. Paine hadn't seen him arrive in the Farplane, although as many others were coming in, it wouldn't have been too hard to miss him. Paine said that she hadn't caught him yet (in a disappointed voice).

When people arrive in the farplane, their bodies arrive, then break into pyreflies. Yuna thought that their friends or other ones they would like to be with then meet them, like YRP had. She could envision Sir Auron, Lord Braska, and Sir Jecht sitting together.

Something attracted Yuna's attention to a shadowy area hidden by pyreflies. Movement. Eventually, however impossible it may seem, a moogle walked out. Followed by another. And another. Three moogles now stood before a dumbfounded YRP.

"We must be seeing things." Paine said what no one else wanted to say- they were going crazy. Luckily for us, they were wrong.

The moogles began to do a Moogle Beam. As each one hit YRP separately, they were covered in pyreflies. Then, they were gone.

Meanwhile, Soala was living like a king. He conjured anything he wanted, and an immense army of fiends was around him. He had built himself a castle so large it covered Kilika Forest and Kilika Port. He already had plans for a new empire when Spira lay in ashes. He would have to recreate the human race probably, but no matter. His magic was such that he was immortal, and could do basically anything. So he would have fun toying with Spira's armies and then do what needed to be done.

YRP had materialized in Luca. Or rather, in a large area of ash and blackened earth. They had never looked at Luca while in the Farplane. Perhaps they should've. The shock was unbearable, seeing failure was so hard.

"How did it come to this? How?" Yuna cried hard and long. She was so sad. Many times she had driven away destruction, but today it all lay in ashes. Until she caught a glimpse of something on the ground. It looked like some debris moving up and down. And then, a face.

"L-lady Yuna?" said the remarkably alive Calli. She had opened some sort of trap door. As she threw it open, she said, "We'd worried that you had died!"

"We did." Paine said, after being satisfied that her father was not within five miles.

"Then you'reâ€unsent?" Calli said this with a touch of revulsion.

"Weâ€don't know what we are. We were at the farplane, right Yunie?" Rikku was happy because her optimism had paid off.

"Right. But whatever we are, we got a second chance and we're going to use it!"

"Wait. You said 'we'." Paine said, being able to cut to the chase.

"Yes. Come see." Calli led them down through stairs under the trapdoor. What they saw was a huge cavern extending under the city, filled with refugees. After some very excited talks and explanations, the story stood at this:

When Soala had entered Luca and was in the skyscraper going to the top, he came across Calli, who was helping out a friend that worked there. When asked why he was there, Soala gave his usual grandiose speech about justice and destruction and power. Calli, sensing something was amiss, ran outside and got as many people as she could into the fire cave. It was used for fir, but it worked as a refuge from Soala as well. So now YRP had the element of surprise, and perhaps one last chance to take down Soala. It just might work.

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I don't think I got Calli right. I haven't seen any scenes with her in it in a while. And just so you know, the moogles have brought YRP back to life, they're not ghosts/unsents,