Author's notes: Whoa!! So much has happened since I last updated!! Sorry about the supper long wait, and if everyone has lost interest in my story by now, I don't blame you!! But, if by a small chance there is someone willing to read the next part, I would be very grateful. So anyways if there isn't much interest in this fic I'll just stop!! So if you want this story to continue at least one person!!! REVIEW PLEASE!!! But, no pressure!! Anyways, I have a really hard time completing thoughts, so if you venture into my other stories you will see that none of them have been completed either. Oh well...life goes on!! So good bye for now!! 8)Falcone(8
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy X or Final Fantasy X-2, but I really, really wish I did. ;;
Part 2b: Shifting Time
The sphere viewer filled with lines of gray static that buzzed across the screen. As the lines slowly started to disappear, a picture of Besaid Village Square filled with its joyous inhabitants was visible. Children leaped up and down and adults smiled merrily, all indications of a happy day.
After traveling the length of the village, the sphere finally turned towards the Temple and zoomed in on a figure, unrecognizable due to the shadows cast by the Temple columns.
The sphere still zoomed in, the person slowly began stepping towards the Temple ahead. When eventually reaching the entrance, he pulled open the heavy, engraved stone doors and stepped inside.
Immediately he was covered in a shower of blue light that emitted from the torches along the walls, revealing the square and tanned face of Wakka.
Standing grandly within the entrance, Wakka wore the traditional wedding garment. It was made of blue linen, embroidered with a gold thread that draped around his body.
His eyes stayed fixed on a woman that knelt on the Temple's marble floor, looking towards the sky. Slowly, Wakka walked towards the woman and once there, she stood up to face him.
Wakka looked deeply into the maroon eyes of Lulu, who was wearing a beautiful blue and white dress. Her slender, pale face was flourished with bright pink cheeks, which complimented her rosy lips. Lulu's usually pulled back dark hair was now flowing freely around her face, but covered at the back by a white veil covered in island flowers.
Lulu and Wakka smiled at each other as they proceeded out of the Temple and into the blazing sunlight, shinning all over their home village. All the people smiled and clapped as the couple walked down a path through the people to a man standing on the blue centre.
The ceremony began and consisted of many traditions that hadn't changed despite the recent betrayal of Yevon. Both Lulu and Wakka recited their vows and expectations of their spouses in their marriage life together. Soon after, Lulu and Wakka took hold of a red scarf that signified their bond and began to walk back to the temple. Once they reached the Temple entrance once again, the man who headed the ceremony took away the scarf from their hands and placed their hands together. Wakka looked over at the man, who smiled and nodded. Wakka's smiled grew bigger as he turned back to Lulu wrapped her in his arms. Lulu slowly brought her hand up to his cheek and caressed it lightly. Slowly he moved his face closer to hers as he closed his eyes. Gently, he pressed his lips to hers, sweeping themselves up together, as he tasted the warm moisture that resonated form her. The crowd cheered as Lulu and Wakka turned back to cheering village and announced themselves as officially bonded.
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Suddenly static filled the screen of the sphere viewer, ending the sphere that they had been watching.
"Even since then, so much has happened," Yuna said after turning from the screen that everyone had been watching intently. "But it just shows how many good things happened from the many sacrifices that have been made." Tidus leant back onto his elbow and looked over at Yuna, who had started a conversation with Lulu and Wakka. Every time he gazed at her he knew that she was the person he wanted to spend the every minute of his life with. Just seeing her every morning sent a great warm rush through him, and when he pressed her tender, pink lips to his he felt more alive than ever. One day, when the time was right, Tidus knew that he would ask Yuna to marry him so that they would really be together forever.
Suddenly breaking Tidus from his haze, the sphere viewer, which hadn't been turned off yet, began to fill with static. All the occupants of the room looked over at the screen to see a picture developing from the static.
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Stumbling over his own feet, a man walked towards the broken and deserted dome that lay among the rest of the ruins of Zanarkand. He looked as if he was fairly young, but around him pyre flies flew everywhere indicating that he might already be dead. His youthful features were somewhat see through, but it wasn't certain, due to the static and darkness of the surroundings. His brown hair and tattered Yevon uniform visible, the young man made the familiar route that so many summoners had made before him.
"No," came his weak voice from between strained sobs, tears flowing down his red cheeks.
"No!" he said again, his voice more tormented. Pulling his hands up to his head, the young man stopped in front of the dome's entrance and fell to his knees. Bending his head down so that his hair draped over his face, his tears began to fall more vigorously as he began to sob uncontrollably.
"I will not let go of the dream! It's the only way she can come back to me, the only way to see her and to hold her!" Suddenly standing up, the young man wiped the tears from his face and starred boldly ahead of him. In his hand he held a half glowing sphere, which he held in front of himself.
"This is the only thing that can do it, "he said as if pained by it, as he took out the other half of the sphere. Holding both parts inches apart, the young man suddenly thrust the two halves together causing a great light to erupt from it.
"I love you Nalien," he whispered within the light, "Come back to me!" The light rumbles for a few more seconds before the force of the explosion caused the screen to go blank.
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Yuna shifted in her seat, her face pale and her throat dry.
'That was strange, huh?" Wakka said as he got up and turned the sphere viewer off. "Rikku said that when she found the sphere at the Zanarkand ruins, she detected no other recording on it."
"I've seen that man before," she said still looking at the screen, "he was in a dream of mine one night two weeks ago. In it he killed Tidus."
End of Part 2b