A/N: Sorry, about the misspelling of a few character names, and the not necessarily good grammar. Here is the second chapter, I've decided to try and update either once a week, or once every two weeks, it will switch off now and then.
DominicanAngel: Welcome first reviewer, hope you enjoy this next chapter.
DarkDragon29: Two reviewers for the first chapter. Sorry about the misplacement of commas, and what not, hope I did better this time. Enjoy.
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Chapter 1: Mysteries
Yuna and Rikku were staying on the Celcius in Besaid, Paine had gone on a little journey to Zanarkand with Barali, about a recent increase of fiends near the chamber of the fayth. O'aka had also set up the first of his stores on the island of Besaid, down by the beach, his store was actually a combination of items, accessories, clothing, food, weapons, and other miscellaneous items. His brother had bought back the store from the Al Bhed near Macalania lake, and they were doing good. Yuna and Rikku along with brother had become very close to the merchant and most of the Besaid citizens had as well, in fact his was the only store on the island, he bought the small store in the village and Maia was now working for him.
"Hey O'aka, so how do you like living on Besaid?" Yuna asked with interest.
"Well, Oaka the XIII has never yet found a better place for business, if ye know what I mean. But, I be thinking maybe I should try to set up shop all over, like in Kilika, the Calm lands, even Luca, they could all use O'aka and Wantz Best Buys."
"Indeed they could, Kilika needs one on the way to the temple, after fighting fiends to get in and even more to get out."
"Yeah and Bikanel. Bikanel definitely needs one, now that people are beginning to move there again thanks to Arnez trying to rebuild Home, as well as for Gippal and his diggers. Oh, yeah, as long as you don't overprice, you could set up shop all over, maybe even eventually rival Rin's Agencies." Rikku said with a somewhat loud voice.
"You know? I believe you lasses are right, and what do you mean by overpricing?" O'aka asked innocently.
"You know quite well, what we mean. On my pilgrimage you were almost as bad as Rin, Rin however kept selling us stuff even when he had a very good chance of dying, stupid al bhed. You definitely overpriced, but not anymore, why is that? Also how'd you get the money again?" Yuna said in a rush.
"Ah my lass, the overpricing was because of the threat of Sin, and as for the money. Ah, now lasses that would be telling." O'aka said mischievously, causing both Yuna and Rikku to wander what terrible thing he did to get all the money.
"Who'd you steal from?" Rikku jumped up slightly as well as yelling, startling O'aka.
"Steal? Hah, you think I O'aka the XIII would steal? You hurt my trust."
Just then Brother came in along with Jassu and Keepa who appeared to be carrying two people. The first one was a boy, the second was a girl. Yuna went over and gasped at what she saw. The two people the three had dragged in were none other than Shuyin and Lenne, the ones she had recently met and sent.
"O'aka." Yuna said.
"That be my name." O'aka said cheerfully, but with a hint of concern.
"I need you to get hot water and rags, as well as and elixir or two. Rikku?"
"Yes." Rikku said wonderingly.
"I need you to go help O'aka get hot water, use fire or fira that Lulu taught you. Then hurry and get Wakka or Lulu, just incase things go bad."
"Yunie, aren't these the two we just beat?"
"Yes, I'm afraid they are, they are close to dead and am worried, what if Shuyin tries to destroy Spira again?"
"How'd they get free of the farplane, you sent them right?"
"Yes I did. I have no idea how they got here." Yuna said. Jassu then coughed incoherently. "Jassu, what is it?"
"Well lady Yuna, we were searching for two missing kids." Jassu began, but was interrupted by Rikku who was just about to leave, but wanted to listen to the story.
"They returned home a little while ago." Rikku said beginning to get hyper.
"See I told you Jassu. I told you they went back home." Keepa said trying to take credit for being right.
"What do you mean you told me? I told you, so don't go trying to take the credit." Jassu and Keepa then broke into an argument and didn't stop until they heard Yuna ahem them. "Oh, right, back to the story. Well searching for the kids we found them on the beach pretty much dead, but not quite. Looked like they took a beating by someone or something pretty powerful."
"Tell them what the one who looks like Sir Tidus said." Keepa interrupted Jassu again.
"I will, if you would just quit interrupting." Jassu snapped at the rotund goalie. He heard him mumble something, that sounded like a curse word, but he ignored it and continued. "Anyway, before I was rudely interrupted. I was about to say how similar they looked to Sir Tidus and yourself, we asked the half conscious one if that was who he was. He answered no and then said to get lady Yuna." He paused for melodrama, then continued, "He said that he had information concerning what could be the end of Spira."
Three days later the farplane was in turmoil. Two of the most crazed villains ever to walk Spira had suddenly returned to the land of the living. No one in the farplane knew how it happened, nor where the two escapees went. But it was bad, the guards of Seymore had been turned to whimpering children by the time anyone found them, and the other escapees guards were just the same. Not to mention the unsending of the supposed new arrivals. Seymore Guado and Lady Yunalesca had escaped from the farplane to who only knows where, the only ones who saw anything were the guards, and they were in no condition to talk. Three rather good friends were more worried than anyone else in the farplane. One of them had fought Yunalesca, where another had seen the craziness of Seymore. The first was High Summoner Braska, who brought the last calm before the eternal one, as well as father to high summoner Yuna. The second was a man who had appeared in Spira by ways not known, he said he came from Zanarkand, he was also the last who had become Sin, as well as Tidus's father; Jecht. The third was well known throughout Spira, he was a guardian to both Braska and Yuna and was also the one who first fought Yunalesca, he was Auron, also known to a few as the one who brought Tidus to Spira. They were best of friends and were talking amongst themselves on how the two had escaped when out of no where appeared a boy clad in purple robes, with a mysterious glint in his eyes, with pyreflies floating around his head. Jecht was the first to notice him.
"What the hell? Who's the shrimp here?" Jecht spoke when the boy appeared out of nowhere, this caused the other two to look at the boy.
"Ah, surely you remember this boy from our pilgrimage, do you not Jecht?" Braska asked in a mildly amused voice.
"What?" Jecht said. The boy spoke up then.
"You may remember me as a lizard that stood up right, with wings, and a wheel on his back. My overdrive was Mega Flare. Any of this ringing a bell?" the boy asked also amused at the dimwittedness of Tidus's father.
"You mean this shrimp here is the aeon Bahamut, one of the fayth.'
"I would appreciate you not calling me shrimp, considering I will be the one to return Tidus back to the land of reality." Bahamut said to a silently fuming Jecht.
"What! Your returning Tidus?" Jecht said happily and realized his own folly and tried to quickly correct it. "I mean, what do you need that crybaby for?"
"He cares, you can tell." Auron said slightly amused.
"What? How dare you say something so preposterous, so wrong, so..."Jecht began.
"So true?" Braska said where the fayth was trying hard not to laugh at the expression on Jecht's face.
"Anyway, what do you know about the break out?" Bahamut asked in an almost whisper.
"Nothing much, it happened so quick, so planned. No one saw it coming." Braska responded.
"The guards that actually were able to see anything , have been petrified, not in body, but in spirit. It's like their soul was ripped right out of their bodies, even though they are already dead." Auron replied showing no emotion in his voice.
"It is as I feared. He is calling out once more." Bahamut said in a voice that would have depressed anyone alive, and some of the dead.
"He who. Whose calling out and for what reason." Braska asked.
"He who controls all elements, all fiends, and all evils. He is the one who gave the power to Yu Yevon to create the entity known as Sin. He rips the souls from people to gain power, with the souls he takes, he can absorb the power, or control the entity. The effects are different for the undead, he still rips the souls out, but he gains no power from it, he needs live souls. I must waste no more time here, keep an I out for any suspicious characters, and watch the entrance to the farplane." Bahamut told them.
"Where are you going?" Braska asked.
"I am going to awaken the fayth once more, as well as return Tidus back to reality. I shall be seeing you again, next time we meet I shall hopefully have good news, be on guard, and Jecht don't cry." With that Bahamut sped with all speed towards he destination, the whole time he could hear Jecht's cursings and Braska and Auron's chuckles.
In another part of Spira, the Al Bhed were hurriedly digging up what could be one of the greatest finds ever.
Nemro was al bhed, related to the gullwings intellect Shinra. He looked very similar to the al bhed Gippal, minus a few things like his choice of clothing and his eyes. He was in charge of the fifteen people scattered about him. After Paine, along with Rikku, and Yuna had cleared the expanse to the area where Home used to be, and defeated the guardian, many discoveries were rapidly being made. Zu and other fiends heavily populated the Background Expansion, and it was risky business. Eventually a camp was set up at the ruins of Home and Nemro was put in charge of the digging group, they had made many recent discoveries, and began drilling a huge hole, in which they were eventually able to make the mechknights and mechavengers. Within the hole, he and his fellow diggers had discovered a passage that led to a room very similar to that of a chamber of the fayth.
Dark crevices outlined the rough walls of the room, and statues stood around guarding. Pictures were depicted of people fighting a foe that was seemingly a demon. There were also stone pillars, ancient writings of a language long forgotten, and a large ancient map of Spira in the northern section. This map was wrongly depicted, it had pictures of islands that are not even there anymore, as well as the islands of Besaid and Kilika, never even existing. On the upper right-hand corner of the map there was what appeared to be a key. A large almost transparent Sphere was in the lower left-hand corner, no one could see it though, so it remained undisturbed, until now.
Nemro was doing his usual routine check up on the excavated passage, 'My we are coming along nicely, the inarticulate method my brother would have had us use, would have made this be done in a dozen years, not a dozen weeks.' he thought this to himself and then went to see how Aphra was doing.
Aphra was another al bhed, around the same age as Nemro, around the twenties, making her ten years older than Shinra. She had short red hair, sky blue eyes, and wore mainly a digger outfit, with a few changes for the arms and legs. Aphra was one of the lucky few who had escaped on the airship, before Cid blew home up. Her fiance had been killed by a rogue Sand Worm a few years back, and had vowed to hunt the Bikanel deserts, until she could find the Sand Worm, she would be able to recognize it by the star shaped scar that her fiance had left on it. She eventually became poor and in need of money, therefore she became a digger and observer, never quite forgetting her plans for revenge. She became close with the expedition leader Nemro and the two had formed a friendship that was unbreakable. She had met High summoner Yuna and her guardians on the airship after Home was destroyed, that was when she met Nemro and Shinra.
"Aphra, how are you doing? Discover anything yet?" Nemro asked excitedly.
"Sorry Nem, nothing that new, a few coins for the Sphere break players though. I also think these pillars have some important job, but am not sure what."
"What type of job? How do you know?"
"Well, whoever it was that designed this building, passage, they must have known that it was sturdy without the pillars. It looks as if the pillars were added after the actual creation of the building."
"So what do they do then? Do you know yet, or no?'
"Dald thinks it has something to do with the map, but he doesn't know why, just a feeling."
"Yep, Yep, just a feeling." a loud hyper voice resounded throughout the building. In came Dald, a very hyper Calm Lands native. Dald was an oddball, if not because of his dark brown hair, that he made stand up straight like the Guado, then because of his choice of clothing. He wore a bright red shirt that said "Save the Chocobos" shorts similar to that of the mysterious guardian Sir Tidus, and a half robe in the colors pink and black. He had been working at the Chocobo ranch for a year as Clasko's apprentice, before heading up to the desert to try to earn some money for himself and his master.
"Dald." Nemro growled, he had a habit of bickering with him like an older brother would argue against a younger brother.
"What's up boss? Did you know, I think I saw a small flock of chocobos outside, there were at least eight of them! You mind if I take a break and try to catch a few?"
"Yes, Dald, I do mind, but you'll probably go ahead anyway." Nemro said, in a tone of misery.
"Yep, yep. Thanks, boss. I'll see you in a few, and I'll come back with the best Bikanel chocobos you've ever seen." Dald went to sprint outside, but tripped and headed face first into a small almost none existent piece of wall near the map. It started a chain reaction and water began seeping into the passage from an outside area.
"Oh, chocobo." Dald said when he realized what he had done,. Then he along with Nemro and Aphra turned around to see that there way out was collapsing. The water continued to expand, and then stopped at their knees. The pillars then began sinking into the ground and an orange light began glowing on the map. A sphere appeared, but it was consumed with flames. The three of them stared at awe, and then the ceiling began to collapse, or more to the point a hole appeared. Two figures then appeared out of the hole one a guado with blue hair and evil eyes, and the other a scantly clad women with long flowing white hair, along with a very large Sand Worm with a star scar on it.
"Ah, I thank you for finding this for us. The first of the twelve have been found, this is the sphere of fire. Once we take it, I'll ease your sorrow and allow you a peaceful slumber." Seymore of the guado said.
"Enough of you ravings, Gaudo," Yunalesca drew out the word Guado. "We have work to do, grab the sphere and let the worm get rid of the witnesses."
"Very well." Seymore said in his usual drawl, and went and took the sphere barely even feeling the soaring pains that shot up his arm and throughout his body as he mingled fire with his blood. Yunalesca glared at Seymore, but then jumped back up the hole. "Remember Spira will always have sorrow, but when we are done with what we are doing Spira will have false hope and peace once more. I am only doing what's right for Spira. May your deaths at the hands of this Sand Worm ease your sorrow. Farewell." So saying Seymore also inhumanly jumped back up the hole.
The whole time Nemro, Aphra, and Dald were speechless, they couldn't believe what they had just seen. They didn't have long to reflect on the manor of the return of the Maester Seymore and Lady Yunalesca, because at that moment saliva began dripping on them and they looked into the gaping maw of the Sand Worm.
"This is going to be fun. Yep, yep." Dald then charged the Sand Worm as did the other two behind them, they would fight with all they could, they probably wouldn't be able to beat the monstrous fiend, but they would go out with a bang. The Sand Worm started its attack.
Well, there it is the second chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. The next four five chapters will not have Seymore or Yunalesca, but another villain may show itself, a little later. Please Review.
Next Chapter: Desert Storm