Kinny woke up in a daze. She didn't have a clue where she was she was still very dizzy and confused. The last thing she remembered was calling out someone's name. Someone called Zen.
"Zen?" she said to herself confused before sitting up on a bed. She did not recognise this place at all.
"Tromell!" she called, "Luna!"
She got up off the bed and started to wander round. Still calling their names.
"Tromell! Luna! Where are you incompetents!" she then shouted angrily
"M'lady are you okay?"
A servant came along dressed in the usual Yevonite fashion.
"I am glad you're awake. You've been asleep for almost two days."
"Where are Tromell and Luna?" Arkinlae asked, "And where the hell am I?"
"Why M'lady you are in Bevelle." The servant laughed as if she was joking. "Oh go and change you can't go anywhere looking like that."
Arkinlae looked down at her dress. It was ripped and not looking very decent at all. The servant handed her some clothes and Arkinlae automatically went to get changed. She cam out again in a sleeveless top that ended just below her chest and a long 'Yevonite' skirt down to her ankles. They were both a midnight blue gradually going into a lighter blue in the centre the material shined when it caught the light. Arkinlae then splashed her face with water to wake herself up.
"Come M'lady the maester is waiting for you. You two have both been in the wars. The Maester himself has also been badly injured in an attack."
"Maester, who? What attack?"
"Well there was this man called Zen. The maester tells me he was off his head-."
"Zen, I know that name."
"He's an Al Bhed-."
"Oh him." Arkinlae growled, "The one trying to help ruin everything." She then muttered.
"Yes anyway he was quite off his head and-."
"That will do you have no need to continue."
"Well aren't you Miss Moody."
"Be quiet, now." Arkinlae was getting irritated.
Soon after walking down many winding echoey corridors in silence the eventually reached what appeared to be a dining room. A long dining table was against one wall and on the other was a balcony looking out over Bevelle. Standing at the balcony was a man with blue hair in a long coat.
"Maester Seymour sir."
He turned around.
"Ahh." He said quite pleased beginning to walk towards her, "You have awoken. I did not think that I had killed you."
Arkinlae was looking at him repulsed.
"He if I am not mistaken is a Guado."
"Ay like his father before him." the servant informed her
"Guado have been running Spira!" Arkinlae exclaimed, "And where the hell is Tromell?"
"I am here M'lady." Said he
"You're not Tromell. If you are you look a lot older."
That's Tromell the XXXVIII came a voice from nowhere.
"You mean there have been at least thirty eight more in his line? Good elements what is this world coming to?"
You should know.
Arkinlae ignoring the voice she then looked into Seymours eyes.
"I know you." She muttered
Arkinlae then put her hands over her face as if she had a headache. When she looked back up she seemed to be revitalised.
"Oh Fayth I am glad that is over. Ignore that before I was not myself, well I was, but I wasn't."
"You talk in riddles." Seymour replied
"Sometimes I feel like my whole life is a riddle and I'm just waiting for someone to tell me the answer."
"I believe all life is like that. I believe that the only way to find the answer is death."
"It is not like that." Arkinlae told him.
She then walked past Seymour and went out on to the balcony. She looked beyond Bevelle towards Zanarkand. She then gave a sigh and shook her head and went back into the room. She then remembered Zen and the others.
"Zen? Where is he?" she asked Seymour. Seymour made no reply he gestured for Tromell and the other servant to exit the room. They did so.
"Look Seymour what is your aim huh? Why don't you just let me and the others go and be rid of us, why keep me here? And why not keep Yuna too?"
"Because it is you I am intrigued in." Seymour informed her looking her up and down.
"Why there's nothing to be intrigued about. My life is just filled with pain, grief despair. I've tried one answer and it's lead to more pain."
"Why not take the route I did."
"You just don't get it do you! Did everything I say in the courtroom not inform you? Did you not see what happened there? Have you not plagued me enough? I just want to correct a mistake." She banged her fist down on the table.
"Arkinlae!..." a voice called out in the room, it was familiar to both of them it faded away after a while. Arkinlae then covered her face. She did not want Seymour to think her helpless that she was crying.
"You're doing it again, crying." Said a voice in her head, "You're beginning to act likethe boy Tidus. I thought you would have been stronger than that like you once were."
"My life is anguish enough." She then said aloud."
"Tell me." Seymour said genuinely trying to be kind for her. He went over and put his hand on her shoulder, "Sometimes it helps to talk."
"You think I would tell you?" Arkinlae said shrugging his shoulder off
"Why not go and talk to your friend."
"Zen!" Arkinlae exclaimed, Seymour nodded
"He is down in the cells. I will take you."
Soon Seymour lead Arkinlae down to what it seemed was a prison. Several cages hung in the room. Kinny looked along the row to see a man rattling the bars of his cage. He looked no more than 18 with sandy blonde hair done up in a ponytail.
"Let me out you hear! You can't keep me and Kinny here forever!"
"Zen!" Arkinlae shouted running down to him.
"Kinny you're alright."
"Zen I hoped you weren't hurt. Thank the Fayth you aren't."
"It could have been worse. Though I highly doubt that." Zen said looking at himself as best he could. He had scabs and burn marks from the chords that Mika had him bound with but apart from that he seemed okay.
"Well you look different." He said looking at Arkinlae's clothes
"Well I can't wear my other one anymore." Kinny told him
"Some old things though never change." Zen laughed looking down at the wristbands. Arkinlae also looked at them rubbed one of them and then remembered the reason she had come down there. She assumed Seymour had gone.
(Play FFX Revealed Truth.)
"Zen. I have to tell you something." She said disheartened.
"Are you okay? What did that bastard do to you?"
"It's not that it's just I can't explain."
"Why not? What's the matter?"
"I… I don't know if I can tell you."
"Why Kinny? You've never kept anything from us. Not me Sesh or Bekayla now what is it."
"It's to hard I can't say."
"But why Kinny? Why?"
"Zen listen-."
"No you listen! I want to know Arkinlae. You've kept something from us what is so bad can't us. We're going in circles just tell me."
"How can I!"
"There's something inside you Kinny fight it. I wasn't the only one to see you at the wedding. There is something inside you. Fight it."
"It's not that dammit!" Arkinlae shouted at him, "How could you say if you were me? How could you tell someone, your guardian, your friend, someone whose trying to help you defeat Sin that it was all you fault in the first place! Operation Mi'ihen, The Moonflow, Lake Macalania, Zanarkand. How could you say it was your fault to begin with!" Arkinlae now had given up to a new wave of tears.
"What do you mean? What is this journey doing to you?" Zen asked, "Why do you continue on it?"
"To correct my mistake."
"MISTAKE! Is that what it is? You've been saying that since the wedding. What kind of mistake is it that you'd put yourself through such sorrow and you'd give your life away for?"
"It was my own fault I have to accept it. Let me tell you and I will. But why do you not want me to go on this journey? Why don't want me to go and defeat Sin."
"Because you'll die. And… and… because… because I love you dammit!"
Arkinlae who had stopped crying took a step back in shock.
"You love me? Why did you not say?"
"Because for you the end was near. You were so passionate about defeating Sin. How could I tell you I love you when you were going to do something you really wanted to do! I didn't want to stop you! You seemed so happy that you were going to make a difference, but this pilgrimage is now tearing you apart. And until now I have watched and have never been able to say anything about how I love you." Zen was now beginning to cry.
"Zen," Arkinlae took his hands in hers, "I am so so sorry, I had no idea, but still you and me. We can't."
"WHY NOT!"
"Not now, not while I'm like this and not after what I've been through."
"Kinny just tell me!" Zen pulled her into a hug, it was more than just a friendly hug, it was the kind that as long as he loved her and as long as she was going to defeat Sin he would never let go of her. Kinny didn't no how to react to this. She relaxed in his arms as she had done before. She felt the warmth of his skin against the cold bars of the cell.
(End Revealed Truth.)
"Let him out!" she called to the guard who had been standing at the entrance
"Let him out. No that's not possible." Seymour assured her
"When did you come back Seymour?" Zen asked
"Me I never went away."
"Bugger." Zen swore. He just poured his heart out to Arkinlae and he had been there to hear it.
"Seymour where we're going we won't need cages or prisoners." Arkinlae told him angrily looking at him irately in Zen's embrace.
"Maester Seymour?" the guard questioned waiting for the answer. Arkinlae still stared at him. Seymour knew she would not back down. Reluctantly he sighed and nodded and the guard went to unlock the cage door.
Kinny pulled herself out of Zen's embrace as the guard opened the door and she saw his eyes filled with tears. He didn't want to cry though. He didn't want to put her down more.
(Play: FFX: To Zanarkand.)
Arkinlae walked to the end of the rows of cages till she met a wall. She prayed to the Fayth and then she drew a circle with her finger on the wall. Where she had drawn the circle the wall disintegrated and left a white light.
"What I'm about to say or show it's a bit complicated. I'll start at the end and go back to the beginning…"
"I hope Kinny's alright." Bekayla said to Seshay in Al Bhed as they were walking with Yuna through the Calm Lands.
Both of them after getting put in the cages with Yuna and the others had successfully made it through the Vio Purifico. The hole in which unfortunately for Seshay had been filled. Bekayla had travelled through the water with Rikku Wakka and Tidus and had successfully defeated Seymour and had run back to Macalania Woods.
"She will be." Seshay replied, "Zen will find her. He won't let anything happen to her."
"Unless-."
"Don't you dare finish that sentence Bekayla!"
"Well they could."
"They won't be. Will they?"
"Nah Kinny powerful. They'll get through it."
"Poor Kinny." Seshay then lamented, forgetting about Bekayla, "She's been through a lot. More than most people know. Fayth I don't know if she'll ever be able to tell anyone."
"Anyone what?" Bekayla was now confused, "Kinny tells us everything."
Yuna and the others had now stopped hearing the almost argument between the two friends. They stopped to listen. Losing Zen and Arkinlae had obviously hit them hard.
"There were some things," Seshay sighed now in English now that she had seen the others were interested. She decided she was going to tell them. She didn't like keeping this secret anymore. "There were some things that Kinny never told anyone. I found out the hard way. She was reluctant to tell me even then. I am going to tell you everything I know about Arkinlae, The Yunalaesca. Lady of the Water…"
AN: Hee hee Well that's the end of the story thanks for reading folks…………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………Oh okay I'm only jokin hahaha got ya didn't I. Oh come on I would NEVER do that to my readers honestly.
No it's another cliffy. Sorry I'm loving this keeping you all in suspense. Hmm what happened to Kinny I can hear you thinking. Well you'll have to review to find out or I'm not giving up the next chapter. Mwahahaha (I am an evil person.)
(In case your wondering I'm hinting for you to review.) Okay Seeya.