Chapter 7
Everyone continued to stare at Garin as he hung his head.
"Um I can…" Lenne began.
"NO." Kino and Rikku said simultaneously.
"It's better than losing you." Rikku said as she held Garin's hand.
Everyone stared at Rikku with confusion on their faces.
"Have we missed something?" Paine asked.
"Uh, Kino?" Tidus asked looking at Kino, whose face was bright red.
"WHAT!" Kino yelled.
"Nothing." Tidus said quickly.
Rikku and Kino helped Garin stand.
"So you found Vegnagun?" Garin asked.
"Yeah, we placed a return sphere there." Paine answered.
Kino held up a blue sphere
"When we touch this it will teleport us there." She said.
Everyone held out their hands as Kino placed the sphere on the ground. They held their hands only inches away from it as Kino began to countdown.
"Three, two one, NOW!" She yelled as each one touched the blue sphere and instantly, they heard an eerie music from right above them.
"C'mon." Yuna said as she grabbed a ladder right in front of them.
Tidus started climbing after Yuna, then Garin, Rikku, Kino, Lenne, and Paine.
Suddenly as soon as the ladder reached the end and each one climbed out, the music was drowned out with the sound of machinery whirring.
"It's coming from Vegnagun!" They heard a voice underneath them saying.
"Guards!" Kino exclaimed.
"They can't take on six and two summoners." Tidus said as everyone gave him a 'what are you thinking?' look.
"Yeah let's run." Garin said as they ran down toward Vegnagun.
After a while, something picked up each of them. They looked to see each other unable to move because aeons had gripped them.
"Lenne! What are you thinking?" Yuna asked as Valefor's wings had her trapped.
"By what you told me, this is my time. Just me and Shuyin." She said as she ran. After a few minutes guards passed them as if they were invisible as they yelled after Lenne. Later they heard gunshots as the aeons disappeared.
"She's dead." Yuna said quietly.
"Let's go." Tidus said as they traveled all the way back to the city Lenne once inhabited.
They reached the penthouse just as the sun rose. Buddy and Shinra had just begun to wake up.
"What happened?" Buddy asked as he eyed Garin.
"Let's just say Shinra was right." Garin said.
Suddenly they heard an explosion and a voice on a speaker along with a siren.
"WE HAVE LOST! CITIZENS OF ZANARKAND FLEE TO MT. GAGAZET NOW OR BE DESTROYED, BY THE ORDERS OF OUR LEADER, YU YEVON!"
Tidus suddenly had a look of understanding.
"Yuna, we must go. Think about it, you tried to change history with Lenne and you failed. We have to go, or I will vanish. I must be the fayth for the Tidus of Dream Zanarkand. That's why we're here in the first place." He said to her.
"But Tidus…" She said.
"Yuna we must go NOW." He said as he kissed her.
"Fine." Yuna said fighting her tears back.
They reached the spot that Tidus had gone unconscious when he first found the secret of Dream Zanarkand.
They heard a man's voice booming out from the crowd.
"CITIZENS OF ZANARKAND! WE HAVE LOST! I BEG OF YOU TO BECOME FAYTH FOR A SUMMONING, A SUMMONING OF A PERFECT ZANARKAND WHICH WILL EXIST FOREVER, SEPARATE FROM THE WORLD WE LIVE IN! IF YOU AGREE THAT WE MUST DO THAT, STAND AGAINST THE WALL AND YOU SHALL BE THE FAYTH!"
The citizens all yelled agreement as they climbed against the wall. Suddenly a blue liquid substance covered them as pyreflies shot out of them.
"Gravija!" Yu Yevon yelled as the pyrelies circled around him as he slowly changed the pyreflies into his armor, Sin.
The girls, Buddy and Shinra noticed a portal appeared.
"Go into it NOW!" Tidus commanded as he climbed against the wall.
He held out a hand to Yuna as he fell into a sleep like state. Buddy and Shinra entered the portal, followed by a crying Yuna.
"What are you doing!" Yelled Rikku and Kino as they saw Garin standing next to the wall.
"I'm going to become a faith, if I return, I will be instantly sent. I must remain, goodbye girls, I love you." He said as he touched the wall, and was drawn to it and fell into the sleep state as the blue liquid covered him.
The girls tears were drawn in the powerful Yu Yevon was creating with his Gravija spell as they entered the portal. Instead of walking, it felt like they were falling into a giant hole. Then they all hit hard ground as their eyes adjusted to the darkness. It was the same spot they had left the previous day when they had found Tidus.
Suddenly Wakka appeared from the hole they had first arrived in.
"Did I miss something?" He asked when he saw the three girls' tears.
"Where's Tidus and Garin?" He asked.
So they left the cave, and told him and Lulu the whole story. How the two had caused a vortex that took them to Zanarkand, how they met Lenne, how Garin changed and died, how he returned as an unsent, and how the two had become part of the fayths that summoned Dream Zanarkand.
"I feel sorry for you, girls, to lose someone you love." Said Lulu.
"Maybe you should go to the Farplane." Wakka suggested.
"Memories are nice, but that's all they are." Said Rikku sadly.
Rikku began to hold Vidina as Lulu went to get them more tea.
"We need to go back to the airship." Yuna said quietly.
"You're right." Kino said sadly.
Rikku handed off Vidina to Wakka and the three of them teleported to the airship where Paine, and the guys were waiting.
"Guess what." Paine told them.
"What?" Yuna asked.
"I'm staying." She answered.
The girls smiled for the first time since they lost the guys.
"Really!" Rikku asked.
"Abso-posi-you better believe it." She answered.
That's the end of Chapter 8, next is the Aftermath and the name of the sequal.