Author's note:
Um, for one of my new readers, I don't know if your still reading but I've updated and I don't know what chapter you're on at the moment. But I got this one waiting for you.
And I would like to say that the full sentences in italics are lyrics from the second season of Full Metal Alchemist for the ending theme. I'm a disclamer for it so all lyrics are for their respective owners to Square-Enix.
Another thing that I would like to say is that the next chapter might be rated higher since it would be the second last chapter. Okay, enjoy!
Yuna POV
Chapter twenty-nine: Break Through and Move Across the Door
There was no chance that I was going to let Vunita get away with it. To tell you the truth, when would she grow up? She thinks that she's a person of wisdom but she's being really stupid and not looking what's right in front of her. I would never understand her, never and why? Because she was acting like a piece of crap… just like always.
I sighed, frustrated and looked around me. It was all white and that scared me. The surroundings where all calm and quiet… and maybe to quiet that I can't trust it. "Vunita bring your ass over here! I want this to end and now, you hear me! VUNITA!" Furrowing my eyebrows, I knew that this was not going to help. What was with her?
I knew what she was trying to do. Vunita was trying to catch me off guard and that's when she would strike, to end me but that won't happen, not in my life. It was quiet again when I closed my mouth and breathed through my nose…. I right stepped and twirled (just like I would in blitz ball).
I dodged the invisible attack.
"I want you to stop hiding Vunita! We have to end this, through all the losses and sorrows, we have to. Everything has an end to it and I want you to have an end to your story. Just please, stop this!" She was not going to hear me, not now, I was guessing. "Look, Vunita I just want to-"
"You want to fight me," I heard her voice all around me in a second. "Fight me to end this because I am to stubborn to talk with. It that right?"
I furrowed my eyebrows a second time. "Yes," I muttered.
"Well, well. What is it that you have to fight me with? I do not see any equipment with you so what is that you are going to use to fight me?"
Right…. What was I going to use? Oh, yeah, I had the water but all the way here, in nothing world? "I do have something," I replied bringing my head up. "I will tell you that and nothing more." If I would then she would know better on how to beat me.
"Ha… is that so. So it is something you know and for me to find out," she said. Black mist was starting to form in front of me. I was assuming that it was her retreating from her hiding.
"Yes," I muttered again. I was beginning to get impatient. "Just hurry up, okay? I would like to get this over-"
"Yes, yes I know. But how do you know that you are the one to win? Even though if you were to defeat me, there would be a consequence since I am one with the Darkness."
I took at step forward to her fully formed body. "Yes, and I am one with the goddesses."
"Goddess, eh?" She smirked and rolled her eyes. "So you're just like," her hand turned into the silver blade that had once before tried to put an end to me, her voice raised its level at the ending word, "HER!"
Lunging forward, she tried to hit me once again but just like before, I was able to dodge it, fast and easy but I knew that everything of this battle will not be like that. Just like before she tried again and instead her blade met with the ground, half way into the earth and I, was in the air, doing a back flip. I began to go downwards back to the ground and landed on her back. She gasped in pain and I punched her in the face.
With some effort she shook me off and just about a metre away, I stood, watching her with an attitude that suited my mood. "Give it up, Vunita. Is this how you're going to fight me? I expected it to be harder and since this will be the last battle, it should be too."
She was breathing hard while she looked up to me with her black pupils. Blood trickled down the corner of her mouth but she laughed and it was a bitter one. "Ha. Just wait. That was only a warm up, nothing more. Now I'm ready and you should be too. Because," she stood up straight now, "I will be using the powers of the Darknesses and you should be using what ever you are going to!"
"I will be planning to use what I am going to. Why should I not?"
She chuckled darkly and held out her arm, with black mist circling around it. "You… should have a limit to your naivety you know. You will stand no chance against this."
"Oh?" I let out a half laugh since I was serious. "Well, I think that what I am going to use, I will be using now." The thing was, I didn't know what I was going to use and so that was my problem. But out of nowhere? It seemed like I didn't know and from the start but I really knew…. Okay so things were getting confusing. "Ay," I muttered. As if it was instinct, I raised my left hand with my fingers spread out. I started to twirl and a mist of faint water circled around me….
If there are some rules, destroy them…
I felt the power of then water within me and spilling out. Vunita was messing with the wrong person. She was always messing around with things. I quickly bent down, touching my hand to the ground. Standing back up, I drew my palm away from the ground and with that, there was a blue staff coming out from the ground….
If you're thinking of resting your injured legs…stand up and move a step forward from here instead…
"AAH!" I lunged forward with the staff in my hand and Vunita did the same with her blade of Darkness.
Even if we push through the distorted winds… and get ahead of the cold sky… we are still lost…
Our weapons met in a loud clang. Behind me, there was the sacred mists of water and Vunita, there was her Darkness that she was so loyal to. I was thinking… thinking… of everything that I went through and this was it to fix those things….
We are screaming all the time… Just believing isn't the answer…
I wasn't going to let her get away with it. I right stepped and dodged her attack and guess what, she did the same. Though I had done that, there was a little cut on the side of my arm… and just again, so did Vunita….
We have to expose our weaknesses and wounds and continue to struggle or nothing will begin…
Again, just again, I ran and stuck out the pointed end of my staff, it was somewhat like a spear but it was more like a staff. I didn't hit her with it but called out the spirits of the water which watched me from ever since I had just become a watergoddess….
Break through and
Water spilled out from nowhere and went toward Vunita. She called upon the Darkness and ordered it to protect her in way of a shield. A mist engulfed her being but I was still coming at her….
move across the door…
I broke trough and the spear like staff pierced into her heart. It was over. Just over. Everything was done and now she could rest in peace as well as Serenity, Tyde, Tidus and I.
Move across the door.
She fell to the ground and clutched her body in pain. The water was purify her soul it didn't seem like it was working but it was… I saw it with my eyes.
Though it was purifying her, she was dying and that was a good thing. That was so she could rest and be gone from her evil ways. But there was something more that I felt was not finished with. I just knew that there was something else.
Both of her hands were on the ground on either side of her head. Her bangs covered her face and left gaps for both of her eyes. She looked up to me with a faint smile. I knew that she was happy now… I walked to her side and knelt down, holding the staff tightly in my hands. I listened for what she had to say, "… Yuna, thank-you for helping me to understand. I know when we had just fought it seemed like nothing but I have seen what goes through you. I am going rest now and maybe Serenity and Tyde as well. But there is something that you would not enjoy…."
"What is it?"
"Since I was living of the anger and hatred within you… you, too, will have to go…."
"What do you mean?" I asked terrified of getting the picture.
"I mean… that if I am to go you will have to leave Tidus as well. This is nothing of my being doing it is just something that you will have to do. If I lived of the anger and hatred within you though I am gone, other spirits will be waiting to have a host to live upon like you. You see, your anger and hatred is stronger than so many others though you have a pure heart more than others. So you are getting what I am saying?"
I nodded slowly with tears in my eyes. I would leave Tidus… and everything that I was fighting the last battle for. But I had done the right thing and I would do that again. "Right," I whispered. "Right."
"You are very smart Yuna. I hope that you will say bye to your friends and family beofe you will leave…."
"Where would I stay?"
"You will be staying in this realm and take of it. Consider yourself as some kind of guardian… of this place."
"Okay… thank you for telling me that. But once I say good-bye to my family and friends how will I come back here?"
"Hmm," she smiled and looked up and me. "If there are some rules, destroy them…If you're thinking of resting your injured legs…stand up and move a step forward from here instead…Even if we push through the distorted winds… and get ahead of the cold sky… we are still lost…We are screaming all the time… Just believing isn't the answer…We have to expose our weaknesses and wounds and continue to struggle or nothing will begin…Break through and…move across the door…Move across the door."
I had listened to her words and a puzzled look came across my face. "What does that mean?"
She laughed softly. "You will understand soon enough. Now go home with Tidus and say good-bye for each other. You will come back in a week. Is that okay?"
"Yes… that is okay." I stood up as she began to disappear. I turned and was reunited with Tidus.
Break through and move across the door…Move across the door.
Author's note: Thank you thank you all! For all those who have reviewed before and those who haven't but read it. I'm almost done this story and I'm happy to have written it. I also thank my new readers!
-Yuna-Blueo'Hara
