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Chapter 15 My Story
Yuna and the others gathered around Seshay.
"Tell us Sesh." Yuna said, "What is it about Arkinlae. I can tell something's been going on, Operation Mi'ihen and the wedding didn't pass me by certainly."
"It is hard to explain, even when I found out I get the feeling Kinny didn't tell me everything. I will try and tell you everything least what I know…"
Arkinlae Zen and Seymour had now travelled to another place, it was not Zanarkand, in fact it looked like no place even in Spira. The stood by gates huge gates towing above them, they were silver metal that looked as if they could withstand a machina attack or even Sin. There were pillars of ice and water on either side, which sparkled in the light. There was even a bit of snow falling with a line of white dividing the sunny area from the front of gates.
"What is this place?" Zen asked
"You will guess soon enough." Arkinlae told him
The guards on top started shouting and one took out a communicator.
"Arheldonlec is here!"
The trio turned around to look upon a Guado like man coming towards them. His hair was in the style as a Guado's would be, but instead was frigid ice and his beard was long and flowing made up of water and it came down to his waist, his robes were white like ice, but they still seemed to flow as he walked. His silver skin shone in the sun. He looked old, but without his beard he would have looked a good deal younger. He couldn't have been anywhere younger than his early 30's. He walked up to a pad beside the gates and put in an identity card. The machina made some beeping sounds; he then spoke into a microphone that the machina brought out. Finally something flew down from the top if the gates. Something that looked like a metal bird. It hovered just in front of Arheldonlec. It then opened out into a screen and a body shape appeared on it. A line of light started to go up and down the body on the screen as well as Arheldonlec. When it had finished, the body on the screen had colours of blue, green and some tints of yellow on it.
"Identity confirmed Arheldonlec. Welcome home sir." The monotone voice of a robot was heard intercom before then crackling out.
There was a creaking sound and then the huge metal gates opened. Arkinlae and the others moved back as the gates opened outwards. Arheldonlec with what it seemed guards walked through Zen who shivered. Seymour looked at him and rolled his eyes.
"It…its cold." Zen breathed before feeling the warmth once again.
Arkinlae followed Arheldonlec through the metal gates and the others followed only to be met by some more ice gates. These ones did not require a test though. Arheldonlec just touched the ice and it melted into a waterfall, which he walked through. Arkinlae followed and Zen hurried after her. Seymour looked back at the metal gates, which had closed. He then looked at the water gates, which refroze. Surprisingly it was still light in that vicinity. There was little light shining through the ice but the light seemed brighter than just coming from there. Then Seymour looked though he didn't know what gave him the inspiration to do that looked at the floor. It seemed to be made up of the twisted roots of a tree. In between the gaps was water and then he saw pyreflies dancing in the water. It almost looked like. No it can't be here it's so different.
He then looked back at the gates. How was he going to get through? Curiously he touched the ice. The ice melted where his hand was placed, but the whole thing didn't melt as it had done with Arheldonlec. He drew his hand away from the ice. It made his hand tingle with the feel of the cold. The gate froze a soon as his hand was drawn away. Seymour then pushed his whole body against the ice. The ice where he placed his body melted, he began to walk through. Arkinlae was waiting for him on the other side.
"Where the hell were you Guado?" she said angrily, "I'm here to show Zen my story I don't want to be waiting around for you."
Zen and Seymour then got a proper look at their surroundings. All the walls of the place were made up of silver metal. The metal seemed to twist and turn around each other like braches. There were people bustling round going down a tunnel that lead out of the city and there were two other levels you could walk to. The others you had to take lifts. In front of Arkinlae and the other two they could see some doors leading into what it seemed a house. There was a big screen on the wall right by the doors and an intercom could be heard all over the city informing people coming and going of the news. People crowded round Arheldonlec welcoming him and trying to shake his hand.
"Where are we now?" Zen asked though afterwards thinking he might regret it
"We," Arkinlae explained, "We, although you might not believe it are in what we now call Guadosalam."
Zen and Seymour's eyes widened. They looked round. They could now tell it was Guadosalam, but it was so bright and so modern. From what it looked like in the present, you never would have been able to tell it was once a hive of activity for men and machina alike.
"Guadosalam!" Zen exclaimed, "It's amazing, you were right Kinny it is metal."
"Astonishing, quite astonishing." Seymour mused, "But wait if you once ruled in Guadosalam, does that mean that I am a descendant of you, or if not you your family?"
Arkinlae laughed at this comment and shook her head
"That you will find out soon enough." She said smiling.
Zen then noticed that things were following the people. Little sphere pieces of matter with trails and they turned multicoloured. People were playing with them and seemed to be talking to them.
"Pyreflies!" Zen exclaimed
"Very observant." Arkinlae congratulated, "Pyreflies are, I mean were peoples companions they could be a best friend to you almost like a pet, well that's certainly how people treated them. Everyone had one of course and they followed you everywhere but as they were created here in The Tidal Lands they could only travel through Spira's waterways."
They then noticed Arheldonlec outside the house doors. The doors looked much the same, as in Guadosalam only the twisted normally red parts were a dark midnight blue and then the rest a blue like water colour. They then saw that there was a small balcony above. A child was standing on it looking down at Arheldonlec. She had light blue skin and dark blue lips with pale blue hair that if it weren't sticking up would have come down to her chest. She was wearing a long silver dress.
"Kin!" she called to it seemed no one, "Father's here!"
Another child joined her, this one was older, she had silver skin with blue lips and water blue hair down to her waist. She was wearing a long blue dress.
"So he is." She said not as enthusiastically as the first girl
"Shiva, Kin, where are my girls?" Arheldonlec called
The girls disappeared for a minute and the came out of the doors. The one in silver who they assumed was Shiva ran to her father, Kin was not far behind. Arheldonlec grabbed Shiva in a hug and then spun her around before lifting her up on to his shoulders. He then saw Kin.
"Good to see you," Was all he said, "You glad your dad's home?"
Kin didn't answer but looked at her feet. A woman wearing short-sleeved crop top and a long flowing skirt both in a sea green was standing behind Kin. She nudged her frowning and Kin nodded. The woman didn't look like Kin at all she had blue skin with silver hair much like Shiva's. Kin looked much like her father when you saw them as a family.
"Come Heldon you must be tired." The woman who could only be his wife said to him.
"Rather." He replied putting Shiva down, come you two let's go in.
With that Heldon put his arm round Shiva's shoulder, took his wife's hand looked at Kin signalling her to follow them and walked in. Kin looked at the three of them with a look of dismissal in her eyes. She then reluctantly followed.
Next minute Arkinlae Seymour and Zen were in what it appeared was a living room of some sort. There were two tables on both sides of the room both had white tablecloths and were adorned with food. The four family members then came into the room and three large clear balls that were obviously the light to glow brighter than when Arkinlae and the others were there.
"The lights shine brighter when all the Ars are here as a family." Said the mother
"The lights will always shine brighter when an Ar enters this place." Heldon said.
"I'm confused." Zen said to Arkinlae, "First he's Arheldonlec now he's Heldon."
"Ar is our last name." Arkinlae told him, "Lec means Lord. It's like being called Maester. They use it as a title. Like me."
"Kin your name is Kin so your last name is Ar and Lae must mean Lady." Seymour twigged, "I understand now what you said to me in Guadosalam. 'I do not wish to be called Lady twice in the same sentence."
"Yes you called me Kin, Zen at the Moonflow. I must say I hate to here the sound of that name, but it is the name I have known all my life. Arkinlae helps me to try and forget. I suppose you will have already worked out that, that is me." She pointed at the blue haired child, "As it was me in Zanarkand."
"So you must have been brought through time." Zen said, Kinny why didn't you tell us? What's so terrible about that?"
"Watch the rest and you will see."
Instead of watching the rest of Arkinlae's life they saw little snippets. Arkinlae explained as they went.
"I was always blocked out by my parents, blamed for everything when Shiva could get away with murder, my father seemed to care more about his dog more than me but because of my position I became arrogant. People were never friends with me in my childhood as I was educated at home and when the time came I went to school at the lake with other Guados. I didn't feel I had time for friends and I certainly didn't want to be friends with guados. However every person has a soft side. I took to keeping to myself and not doing anything before my parents. They found a fault in everything I did. It used to make me feel terrible and malcontent, but as I got older it turned to anger.
Zen and Seymour looked as Kin was sitting in her room. She was sitting at a computer desk spinning round on a chair. She then got up and paced around the room and finally went back and sat in the chair. The door to her room then automatically opened and Shiva came in. This Shiva looked about 11 or 12 and Kin looked about 13 or 14
"Come on Kin, dinner."
"I'm busy." Kin replied gruffly
"Come on Kin." Shiva assured trying to pull Kin out of her seat hoping that Kin would play along
"Why should I? Mother and father dearest I'm sure would not miss my presence."
"Silly Kinny of course they would." Shiva then changed her tactic and tried to show an interest in what her sister was doing. "What are you doing Kin."
Kin didn't seem as if she wanted to share anything with Shiva, but she did all the same.
"I'm writing… something and there's this person and they are going to save the world you know, but he doesn't understand that to save the world they're going to have to pray and believe in these god type people and I want there to be you know a special thing that the god like people will tell them to believe."
"To Kinny's surprise though Shiva smiled. Shiva was type of child who acted younger than was. No surprise having been babied by mother and everything served to her on a silver plate. Kinny had received similar treatment, but after parents dismissal of her she try act older. However in her room she felt that she could be whoever she wanted to be. She didn't have to be forgotten child, or tough child of Arheldonlec when meeting other children or even the smart kid in school. She could just be herself and let imagination take her places where she was hero. That what she did most of time. She never liked revealing ideas though fear people might laugh at her, for Kin thanks to mainly her mother telling people of 'bad' behaviour and whispering behind back made her paranoid and care what people thought of her."
"Poor Arkinlae." Yuna said when Seshay had just told them the last bit of her whole character as a child.
"You see Yunie although you're sad that you lost both your parents, I suppose you have still had a good life because of Wakka and Lu and Kimarhi, so maybe Arkinlae has had reasons for acting like she does you know. What I still don't get though is how did Kinny ever live in Guadosalam?" Rikku said
"That may hard to explain." Seshay confessed, "I s'pose is hard to know who Arheldonlec is too?
"Got that right this whole thing is confusing." Wakka butted in
"Hey wait just one minute. Ever thought that Spira's past might not be a simple as you think even if though we did have the use of machina." Tidus added
Everyone looked at him slightly confused. Lulu then nodded
"Machina makes life easier and people lazy, but machina does not make emotions any different." she then spoke up.
"What you mean kid?" Wakka asked
"You just don't get it do you?" Tidus gave a slight chuckle. "Arkinlae didn't live in Guadosalam a few years ago. This is way in the past. Maybe just after Sin came maybe before I don't know, but sometime before most people know."
"How do you know it's in the past?" Yuna asked him
"Silver, shiny metal. Since when have we ever seen those things in Spira so far? The only time I've ever seen metal that isn't rusty is in Zanarkand. So that means Kinny might be able to know more about Sin and Zanarkand, she must have been brought through time like me."
Seshay meanwhile was looking at her feet and making head movements. Lulu saw Seshay shaking her head.
"We can make assumptions till the fiends come home, but I for one suggest we let Seshay continue her story, only then will we find out the answers…"
Seymour, Arkinle and Zen looked as Kin just stared at Shiva and then turned back to the computer screen. She started muttering words to herself. Her expression changed and then she typed quickly.
"I've got it. Listen. Ieyui Nobomenu Renmiri Yojuyogo Hasataekanae Kutame."
Shiva then nodded and started humming it.
"That's my song." Kin then said defensively frowning and Shiva went quiet.
"Kin where are you!" They heard her mothers voice shout angrily.
(Play FFX Wandering Flame.)
Someone then entered the room. It was a man with mottled sea green skin at least on one half of his face. The other side was metallic green machina had replaced that half it did not look exactly as his face might have once been, but it did look convincing enough. His beard was not very long and was only on his chin they were also a darker sea green and he wore grey robes.
"Lady Kin, Lady Shiva your mother requests your presence." The guado said
"Hmph yeah right." Kin muttered her arms folded
"Yes we were just coming. Thank you Tromell." Shiva said
Seymour looked at the Guado as he exited the room. The scene around them then dimmed.
"Tromell the first." Arkinlae informed him, "The first of many who would serve the house of Ar no matter its occupant." She then paused and went on to a different subject." My story is not yet done, but that scene was significant if you choose it to be. For in that scene I take it you heard something familiar." Arkinlae then started humming.
"The Hymn of the Fayth!" Zen exclaimed, "You were the one who began it."
"I did not begin The Hymn of the Fayth. I had the words and the tune, but I did not make it the Hymn. I was surprised myself when I first heard The Hymn. It hit me hard. Made me reflect though I understand why my sister used it."
"Isn't Shiva an aeon or something?" Zen asked
"The aeon that occupies Macalania Temple." Seymour sighed his eyes then widened he had taken it into account, but it had only fully dawned on him. It seems that watching the past of a person who is standing right by you could make you slightly naive when processing information. "Then that means if you are her sister that you are a Fayth. Then you possess powers beyond this world. Powers of the aeons."
"Not technically. The aeons only have godly powers because they were Fayth. Fayth were expected to have these 'godly powers' that's why people had elected them as leaders. I once had powers such as these, but of course after certain events I lost them. Though I suppose it is a reason why I absorb the powers of the aeons rather than summon an aeon itself. That could be also why I am re-remembering the powers I once had."
"Absolute power." Seymour muttered staring at her though no one heard him.
"Now we skip more insignificant parts of my life I am now the age I am now. 16. My father finally decided that because he and my mother weren't getting any younger and me being the eldest that I should practice duties I might need for becoming a Fayth. Fayth in the case then is the equivalent now of a Maester. They govern a country and decide what's best for it. All over Spira we were having a fiend problem and we had to sort it out. This was the task my father set out for me to do. Though from here I suppose this is where things went from bad to worse
(End Wandering Flame)
A new scene now began. Kin was lying on a bed moaning that she was bored. A guado came in. This one was a woman she had bright blue skin and her hair was fashioned in a similar way to Seymours. Bits near the front stuck out in pointed shapes but she had a kinder face than Seymour and her hair was going more to the green side of the bluey green colour that was the shade of her face.
"Stop moaning M'lady." she said in an accent, "You knows your mother won't like it."
"There's nothing wrong with the fiends anyway they haven't bothered me so why bother doing this?"
"Don't you care that people might die because of them?"
"Well as long as I can do what I want my way and no one elses.That's the problem I think people should be made to do things."
"That sounds to much like dictatorship you should get thoughts like that out of your head."
"As long as things can be done my way I don't care what happens with this fiend business."
"You're bored I can tell. Well I suppose it won't be long now, we're on an airship. Imagine having to be one of our ancestors and having to fly all the way to Zanarkand using wings instead of an airship."
"I suppose so." Kin said, "Thanks Luna."
The guado Luna then took Kin off to another room and that scene ended.
"Unfortunately things did not go well. I did stop the fiend problem. I sent them to a place that I thought wouldn't matter. I banished them to a place in Tidonia, Guadosalam that was only home to most of the guado in that area. It did not matter to me. They were only guado after all. That place then became The Farplane. Little did I know however that now that they were in a world that I controlled I could also make some of them do my will. That will come in later. Obviously the pyreflies were loyal to their masters they were programmed like that to stick by them no matter what even if they were dead. Pyreflies mourn too. I suppose that can explain why they transform into their old masters and give off memories."
"So that's why pyreflies remain around the dead." Zen said, "But how come we no longer have pyreflies as pets?"
"Production stopped that's why living people no longer have them and they remain around the dead. Even fiends had them after they went to The Farplane, but of course the pyreflies they consumed did not show affection to them and they are only released when the fiend is killed. In fact the consummation made them forget their previous masters and look for new ones. That is why pyreflies can come around those newly dead and unsent. Fiends consume them, they forget they look, they find, they get consumed again and it continues. If an unsent has control of them the pyreflies take the form of the unsent but of course because the unsent person is not a proper person the pyreflies can not take their thoughts and so begin to convert back to the fiend ways."
"So mysteries of Spira explained." Zen said, "I never realised pyreflies were like that. Machina with some sort of intelligence and living properties."
"The first signs of Artificial Intelligence. Zanarkand wasn't the only city with its machina." Arkinlae informed him.
Zen and Seymour then saw Kin and her mother. They were standing on one of the upper levels of Tidonia. They were arguing.
"You only let the fiends into Tidonia, into Guados home!" Her mother shouted at her
"Who cares huh? At least they aren't hurting us. They were only Guados anyway."
"You know you are lucky some are still alive, where would we be then, we'd have no more people to work for us or to sell to Bevelle or Zanarkand."
"Elements mother do you know how many 'survived' the fiends coming? Not that it matters. None they're dead every single one of them. Not just men either, women and children too. There's enough at the lake anyway. Weren't you saying as well that there's too many of the guado scum cluttering up The Tidal Lands anyway? Besides I suppose many guado would welcome death after the lives they had here."
"You killed all those guados!" Kin's mother exploded
The argument continued for at least an hour. Once Kin brought Shiva into it saying how if she'd done it that her mother would be congratulating her.
"You leave Shiva out of this!"
"You're only denying it because it's true!" Kin shouted, "Ever since she came along it's been Shiva Shiva Shiva, 'well done Shiva' 'That's very good Shiva'. But Kin oh no Kin could never be that good, even if we made the same mistakes Kin got in trouble and it was never Shiva's fault because she was only young and didn't know any better. All my life somewhere there has been something I've done that was done as strive for acceptance and I've never received it. Do you know how, not sad, angry that makes me feel?" Tears started to fall from Kins eyes in anger
"I never felt sad anymore." Arkinlae explained, "Never sadness, sadness made me feel weaker, anger gave me strength and I relied on it a lot more because of my mothers reaction of I cried."
Kin's mother saw her tears and slapped her.
"Don't you dare cry! No daughter of mine cries. It means your weak, but you are anyway. Shiva would never do this."
"Bloody Shiva!" Kin shouted at the top of her voice. "Shiva I hate her I hate her! I hate you!"
"Take that back!" he mother said slapping her again, however Kin couldn't feel it anymore. Eyes wide and angry Kin started to walk towards her mother who backed towards the edge of the walkway. Kin stopped as her mother did. Her mother slapped her again, "Kin stop this right now before I slap you again." Her mother warned. Kin just swore at her mother and her mother then punched her. Blue blood then came out of Kin's nose and mouth. Kin wiped it from her mouth even though more came.
"I don't feel it anymore haven't you guessed that? I've taken shit like that before. Kin did anything wrong she got slapped by her mother or hit by her father. I feel like shit now and you can't make me feel any worse. I hate you bitch!"
(Play FFX Ending Theme)
With those last words she gave her mother a push. It was then all over in a scream. Kins mother fell and landed just by the low walkway in front of the house. Kin looked and then ran down to look at her mothers body. Colour was draining out of it and it was becoming a grey colour. Kin just stared at it feeling no emotion. She watched as her mothers body just melted into a pool of water.
"I hate you mum." Kin announced, "I hate you I hate you I HATE YOU!"
She then punched the water and hit the ground with her fist.
(End Ending Theme.)
Heldon hearing the noise came out to see what was happening. He saw Kin shouting at the water and punching it. He had already worked it out. He knew that his wife was dead. With that he ordered his guards to seize Kin and they dragged her inside the house inside her room and locked her in there. The scene then changed to night. Kin was banging on the door and attacked it with Wateraga. She did this numerous times until the door flew off its hinges. She was angry at her father also, though not as much as her mother as he had given her the chance, but he acted like it had never been his idea and that Kin had harassed him, well once he'd found out the decision. Kin walked along the corridors of the palace until she came face to face with her father he started shouting and complaining at her as usual. Kin though for once wanted to meet her father. She had something up her sleeve literally.
"You're too old father." She told him concerned though it was obviously fake, "Rest your eyes." And then suddenly she brought out the dagger she'd been hiding up her sleeve and stabbed him in his chest. Heldon did not cry out, but made a noise as if he was shocked and then fell to the floor.
"Rest them forever." Kin said and then gave a slight smile.
"She never cried for them me don't think, well not when she like that." Seshay continued, "She just so full of hate and retribution."
"She killed her own parents." Lulu couldn't believe it.
"Driven to madness I assume." Rikku said.
"She's starting to sound more like Seymour." Tidus said
"I suppose though now she regrets." Yuna says, "She realises that she did do wrong. I now see why she seems so inconsolable about things."
"And would explain why she was suicidal." Lulu said
Everyone stared in shock.
"It's true Seshay isn't it? Isn't it?"
"Yes." Seshay confessed, "I think she doing it either as payment or grief me don't know which though it all pointless."
"I suppose we can't just be angry at Kinny." Rikku said, "I mean it's her parents fault as well I suppose Arkinlae just took it to the extreme."
"Me don't know. Me only telling you bits she told me." Seshay replied, "Maybe was worse actually living through it, maybe seemed right."
"Maybe it did." Yuna said
"You killed your parents Kinny!" Zen exclaimed after just watching the scene, "How could you what made you do that!"
"I don't know. Zen I'm sorry." Arkinlae said sadly
"You're as bad as him. You knew full well what you were doing and you did it anyway. Your sorry." He said the last words sarcastically and in disgust
"This is why I didn't want to tell you, but Zen you haven't seen all of it, maybe if you had or if you'd lived the life I had it would have at least crossed your mind. I regret it now of course who wouldn't I just feel now alone."
"Kin I'm sorry," Zen said, "It's just you know you killed your parents it's kind of a big thing to take on board. Especially as you did it. My special little Kinny."
"You know now and you're disgusted so don't try and be nice, no one else was I can understand if you aren't."
Zen then walked away from Arkinlae and sat crossed legged in an empty space and contemplated. Seymour however came over to Arkinlae.
"What you did is understandable." He told Arkinlae
"You only did it for power." Arkinlae retorted
"Don't tell me you didn't either. You'd have got rid of the two people who made your life hell and you'd have the power to control The Tidal Lands or whatever you called it. You did want power didn't you?"
"I was arrogant then. No one ever listened to me, blocked me out. Having control was a chance for me to be listened to."
"No one can blame you. At least no one who really cares."
Arkinlae didn't seem to object to him talking anymore. She knew he would be wrong, but she still listened. She seemed to enjoy having someone on her side in all this.
"It doesn't matter I mean you killed your parents. They made your life hell and you wanted revenge it's only natural." He continued
"Leave it out. Then I believed it was right now I'm not so sure, but I suppose it's not as bad as other things."
"What other things?" Zen asked coming back over
"Do you really want to know Zen?"
"Yes!"
"You said that before how do I know you won't freak out again."
"Kinny what's done is done you can't change the past. Like you said you can only look back and reflect things." Zen said caringly putting his arms round her waist.
"Okay then. Now what you have seen here is only part one of this 'book'. Now we will be beginning part two. This part is no longer called my story, but our story." Kinny said working her magic to make the next scene.
Seshay and the others had finally made their way down the Calm Land gorge until they were outside a cave
"Come," Said Lulu, "The Fayth is inside."
Everyone started to walk into the cave all except Lulu and Wakka. Yuna paused and turned round.
"This where..?" Wakka asked
Lulu nodded and everyone looked at her questioningly
"My first summoner, died here." Lulu finally let out with difficulty
After that everyone walked in. Lulu looked at the entrance for a few more moments and then followed.
Pyreflies scattered the cave as did fiends. Tidus just chopped a magic urn and it self destructed. In fact that was all they had encountered so far.
"These magic urns are really annoying. There's nothing magic about them." He said
"Phew you got that right." Sesh agreed
The troupe then all entered a hallway where they could all spread out and didn't have to walk in single file. Something then occurred to Tidus.
"What's a Fayth doing in a place like this?" he asked
"They say the Fayth got stolen from it's original temple and then was placed here." Wakka told him
"Why steal a Fayth?"
"Summoners use the Fayth to train to obtain the Final Aeon. If there is no Fayth summoners cannot train." Auron informed Tidus
"And then summoners won't die." Rikku said a bit too enthusiastically.
"That's probably what the thief was thinking." Wakka agreed
Tidus looked over at Yuna who seemed to be a bit uncomfortable and then back to Rikku.
"I kinda agree with him." Was all he said.
They then walked on. Seshay however looked around for a few minutes Bekayla by her side as ever.
"Why they always assume theifs men?" she said to herself before catching up to the others.
Then they continued walking, fighting fiends along the way of course. The paths twisted and turned, but Seshay knew the way after sneaking and following Kinny when she'd been there last time. In fact Arkinlae seemed to know her way to well around that place Sesh had noticed considering she'd never left Bikanel, but of course Sesh had not worried. After Seshay's accurate guidance they reached another hall. The entrance to the Chamber of the Fayth had been blocked by fallen stones, but a transporter lay if front of the fallen rocks.
"Hmm so that's what happened." Seshay said, "Smart, very good." She then said after looking at the transporter.
Then suddenly a person appeared in pyreflies before them. Lulus eyes widened and she gasped. She then walked forward and addressed the person.
"Is it you? It is you is it not Lady Ginnam?
Lady Ginnam made no reply.
"Forgive me I was to young." Lulu said it sounded as if she was in tears. Lulu then looked at Yuna and Yuna began to dance. However instead of disappearing and going to The Farplane Lady Ginnam remained.
"There is no human left in you is there?" Lulu asked and still the woman did not reply, "Then let me perform my last duty as your guardian."
Everyone stood by Lulu, they knew a fight was coming.
(Play Lulu's Theme.)
Lady Ginnam summoned an aeon. It was a being dressed in samurai type clothing in bright reds yellows and purples.
"Aeon?" Seshay asked Auron and he nodded, "Uh oh." She then said
The guys had already started attacking the aeon.
"Dark Attack!" Wakka called
"Firagra!" came from Lulu
"You will hurt no one!" Auron said as he used Power Break
"Hey Yuna summon an aeon!" Tidus called
Yuna did so she held her staff and a lightening type portal appeared she used her staff to pull out an aeon in the form of a horse. Ixion she'd named it.
"Ixion Aeospark!" Yuna commanded
A ball of lightening was thrown toward the enemy aeon. Its overdrive gauge went up by a considerable amount. It retaliated with Wakashi.
"Thundera!"
The aeon shrank in pain it was still alive and it's overdrive was almost full.
"Again Aerospark!"
That clinched it. The aeons overdrive was full. It put two fingers before it's face and drew it's sword. It slashed Ixion and blossom petals fell. Then Ixion felt the damage. It was weakened it's HP down to 1 as the enemy aeons overdrive dictated. The enemy aeon then attacked Ixion with Wakashi again and Ixion fell and disappeared in a shower of pyreflies.
"Whoa it took out an aeon in two moves ya!" Wakka exclaimed
"If we attack it again it will only do the same thing." Rikku said.
Seshay then had an idea
"White magic work good on aeons." She said, "Kinny say."
"But I don't know any white magic attacks." Yuna said
Seshay had to act fast she ran over to Lulu and pulled out her sphere grid. Lulu was startled by this, but made no move to stop Seshay.
"Bingo!" Seshay muttered and grabbed Bekayla's hand, "Come on you I need you." And she dragged Bekayla back down the halls.
"Wait where are you going?" Yuna called.
"Go on Becks use Extract Ability on that Magic Urn." Seshay ordered.
There was the sound of a rifle as Bekayla did so. The others heard what could only be the urn exploding as the others they'd faced before had done. Next minute Seshay was running back to the others with an Ability Sphere in her hand.
"Good urn filled my overdrive gauge." She told the others. She then went back over to Lulu with her sphere grid still out. Seshay moved the right number of places she needed and then inserted the ability sphere.
"There Lu. Now you knows Holy." She explained, "And soon boy is that aeon in for a surprise."
Light then came around Seshay as she activated her overdrive
"Enpower companion!" she shouted and then blasted Lulu with clear liquidy substance. It surrounded Lulu almost as if she was in a shield.
"White Mage!" Seshay then called
The Liquid then turned into a white light and disintegrated.
"Now activate your overdrive Lu!" Sesh instructed
Lulu did and then looked surprised
"White magic fury that's new."
"Yeah my overdrive." Seshay explained, "It gives me the ability to make one of my friends overdrives better for the entire length of the battle. After that it's back to normal. Now use Holy Fury on the aeon."
"Holy Fury let's see how you like this." Lulu said
The Holy did damage to the aeon 10 times thanks to Sesh's overdrive and the aeon weakened.
"See ya!" Tidus laughed
"Enough." Auron also said
"Poa poa." (Bye bye.) Came from Becks
All three attacked the aeon at once and it then as Ixion had done it faded into pyreflies. The form of Lady Ginnam then burst into pyreflies.
"Strange." Lulu said, "Somehow I thought it would be sadder."
"You're stronger now." Wakka said caringly and stood by Lulu.
Everyone then let Yuna on the transporter. Tidus didn't hesitate to follow her.
"Yuna?" Seshay enquired, "Mind if I come?"
Yuna shook her head and motioned for Seshay to come on too.
"Wait there I'll be back." Seshay told Bekayla
"E'mm secc oui." (I'll miss you.) Bekayla said tenderly smiling at her.
Seshay, Tidus and Yuna then were in the Chamber of the Fayth. They saw the stolen statue tied down with ropes or something like it. They all had the symbol of Yevon that was found at all the temples on them. Yuna did the prayer gesture and a figure appeared he looked like a crusader a dog at his heels. He then addressed Yuna.
"I am the Fayth you have called upon." He told her, "Few dare to speak my name."
"Huh? You look different." Seshay stated confused, "When Kinny here you look like Guado."
"Kinny? Oh her well of course. I only changed in hoping she'd feel guilty of her past, but as she's obtained the other aeons, or should I say there powers obviously not."
"Wait" Seshay instructed Yuna and went back on the teleporter.
When Seshay reappeared she had Bekayla and the others who had decided to follow wondering what was going on crowded in the Chamber.
"Becks this aeon different from when Kinny came here."
(Play This is your tale.)
"I want nothing more to do with her!" The aeons voice boomed
"You know Arkinlae?" Yuna said, please tell us what you know of her. We want to help her, we fear something isn't right about her."
"To right there isn't." Said the aeon he changed back to the man Seshay had seen him, as when she had followed Arkinlae, "She will doom everyone on this world She almost did once before, thankfully we are here much to her disappointment. Especially me I could tell she wouldn't be pleased to see me."
"How do you know her?" Lulu asked
"She is my captor. The one who brought me here. She stole me from the temple and tried to get rid of me. But I will always be here. She will always curse me as she once did. I am the father who never died…"
AN: Ohhh spooky bet you didn't see that one coming he he. Hope it's got you in the mood to find out more. As always. REVIEW!
Sesh: Yeah dis is where da story gets gooooooood he he
Kinny: Not for me I don't like it
Sesh: Well that's you you're just boring
Kinny: Well you didn't live it… Hey don't you call me boring.
Sesh: I'll call you whatever I want Miss Prettyface!
Me: Uh oh I think I'd better go before all hell breaks loose. I think if you review then they might stop. SESHAY PUT DOWN THAT INCREDIBLY LONG POINTY DANGEROUS WEAPON NOW!