A New Saviour
Disclaimer: I own neither Final Fantasy nor Shadow Hearts and you know who does.
Author's Note: I just wanted to clear one thing up, 'cause I'm not sure if I explained it yet or not. Yuri's fusion monsters are all gonna be level 3, even though at the time of the Demon's Gate Invocation he would only have up to his level 2 monsters. Yet he's not gonna have Amon 'cause Amon is stronger than the level 3 monsters and technically he would want to use his strongest monster all the time, right? So that's just a little change I'm making. Also, instead o f having 18 different monsters, he's only gonna have the six level 3 ones, because he really doesn't need his level 1 and 2 monsters anyway. K, I'm shuttin' up know, on with the fic ^-^!
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Chapter 4
Yuri lay sprawled on his cabin floor, feeling completely awful. He'd been there ever since the boat left the dock. And no one really wanted to be near him at the moment.
"Why must boats always ROCK so much!" he groaned, as he rolled over onto his stomach. "You'd think that at least one of the others would have the human decency to take care of me, but nooooooo. And after I proved how great I was on the way here."
As the group had made their way to the dock, they encountered some monsters that were called fiends. Yuri didn't think they looked nearly as dangerous as the monsters he had fought in Shanghai, like giant, venomous spiders, or large, mutated toads with arms for tongues. And they were quite easy to beat, in his opinion.
Tidus proved to actually be quite good with a sword as he was able to take out the quicker fiends. Wakka was the best at fighting the flying fiends, as he fought with a blitzball that he hurled at the enemy (which Yuri had found quite lame). Yuna mostly used white magic to heal the party, not bothering to summon her Aeons for such weak monsters. Lulu impressed him the most with her command over black magic as she cast various elemental spells to counter the element of the fiend.
Yuri had decided not to wait and had rushed straight at the first fiend that crossed their path, his claws held tightly between his fingers. The others had simply watched as he took out the enemy with a series of quick punches and kicks. Wakka and Tidus complimented him, and Yuna looked impressed. Lulu, however, didn't say a word nor did her face change. Yuri guessed that she still wasn't happy with the fact that he and Tidus had tagged along.
"That's it, I'm going to the deck to get some fresh air, it might make me feel better," Yuri growled as he forced himself to stand and staggered over to the door.
Well, he was wrong, the fresh air didn't do much, but at least he wouldn't mess up his room if he had to throw up.
"Hey, Yuri!" Tidus called when he spotted him. Yuri turned to see Tidus jogging over. "Why are you all hunched over like that? Not feeling well? You do look kinda pale," he said quickly. The sheer pace of Tidus' words were enough to make his head spin.
"No, I'm not feeling well. I get a little seasick sometimes," he muttered, not really wanting to talk to anyone right now.
"Oh. Anyway, I've been talking to a lot of the people on the boat and I've found out some really interesting things."
"I don't really care," Yuri said, but Tidus didn't seem to hear him.
"Do you remember those statues at the temple? The ones that the old man said were High Summoners? Well, apparently the one named Braska is Yuna's dad! Which means she's famous!" Tidus said excitedly. "So I went to ask Yuna about it." Tidus blushed slightly here. Yuri just rolled his eyes. "When her dad went on his Pilgrimage 10 years ago, Jecht was one of his guardians!" Yuri stared at him blankly. Tidus frowned at the lack of reaction on Yuri's face.
"What's that look for? I don't know who Jecht is," Yuri growled at him.
"Oh, right. Jecht is my old man! He disappeared from my life 10 years ago! Now I know where he was! Even though I still hate him . . . "
"Whatever," Yuri said, clutching his stomach. All this talking was making him nauseous. Or maybe it was Tidus' voice.
"Are you okay? You don't look so good," Tidus commented as Yuri fell onto one knee. "Ahh! Don't throw up here!" Tidus yelled. Yuri looked up at him and gulped. "Ahh! Don't SWALLOW it!" Ignoring the intense feeling of déjà vu, Yuri got up and went to go throw up over the side of the boat.
After he was done, he just hung there for a few minutes, his arms dangling over the sides.
"Having some problems, little boy?" said a voice from behind him. Yuri recognized it immediately as Lulu's. She stepped up beside him and looked out over the water.
"Not problems per say, I'm just a little under the weather," Yuri said, looking up at her. She gave him a look that told him she wasn't convinced. He sighed. "I do have this one problem with boats."
"Well, get used to them, because we'll be traveling across water quite a bit," she informed him. Yuri groaned.
"Can't you just take plane? I can handle those." He immediately regretted that, for it brought back painful memories of when Margarete had chosen to fly a big, rusted heap of a plane and then ended up crashing.
"What's a plane?" Lulu asked.
"Oh, forget it. Hey, Lulu, why are you really talking to me right now. One, I thought you were mad at us, and two I could barf all over any second." She looked mildly disgusted, yet Yuri couldn't help but feel a little happy that he had gotten some kind of reaction out of the seemingly cold woman.
"I am still a little angry, yet you two have proven yourselves. I just didn't want to have anything else interfere with Yuna's Pilgrimage. If we had to protect you two as well, it could have turned out badly," she explained.
"So this is you saying you're sorry?" She chuckled, which actually shocked him a bit.
"Partially. The real reason is because my curiosity had gotten the better of me." Yuri looked confused. "I'm talking about these powers that you mentioned. Yuna had briefly tried to explain them to me, but they sound like something I need to see for myself. Yet you never used them in those fights we had earlier with those fiends."
"Well, I didn't really need to 'cause they were pretty weak already. Plus, it's kinda hard on my brain because it takes a lot of concentration to fuse with one of my monsters. It would really wear me out if I fused for every battle." Yuri groaned slightly and rested his head on the edge of the boat. Lulu had returned her gaze to the water.
He took a minute to study her profile. She was indeed beautiful, unlike any woman he had ever seen. Her long, silky hair and those stunning red eyes. Her pale, soft-looking skin and full lips. She was really quite exotic looking. Alice and Maragrete had both been blond and blue-eyed, which was supposedly how all beautiful woman should look. Yet Lulu was the complete opposite of them.
Before she had a chance to notice him, the peacefulness on the boat was shattered as someone yelled out "SIN! SIN'S HERE!" Lulu turned, alarmed, and quickly made her way to the front of the boat. Yuri tried to follow, but his condition prevented him from running. All anyone could see at the moment was a large fin protruding from the water.
"Come on Lu!" Wakka yelled as he grabbed his blitzball and headed towards Yuna. Lulu followed, Moogle in hand, as the first wave of Sinspawn showered onto the boat. Tidus was already there with Yuna and he was trying his best to fight them off. Wakka and Lulu joined them and took out the remaining Sinspawn before another wave attacked.
Yuri finally made it over, but the fierce rocking of the boat from the large waves that Sin was creating was not helping. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't concentrate enough to fuse. In fact, although he hated to admit it, he was completely useless at the moment. He could barely stand, let alone fight. He looked up and got his first look as Sin, or the part that was above water.
"Yuna, quick, summon Valefor!" Lulu yelled to her above the deafening sound of the waves as she attacked a Sinspawn with a Thunder spell. Just as Yuna was about to, a large wave crashed onto the boat and knocked them all off their feet.
One of the men quickly got up and, extremely panicked, ran for the harpoon gun at the front of the boat. He aimed it directly at Sin's fin.
"Whoa, what are you going?!" Wakka cried.
"I'm sorry, sir. Sin is heading directly for Kilika. I-I've got family there," he told them before turning and firing the harpoon at Sin.
What happened next was all a blur for Yuri. At first, Sin was just dragging them along as Wakka and Lulu continued to attack it. The harpoon had a rope attached, which was tied to the gun nailed to the floor of the boat. But Sin proved to be too strong as it ripped the gun from the floor and disappeared underwater. Then he passed out.
*~*~*~*~
Yuri once again awoke in an unfamiliar bed. Only this time, a bucket had lovingly been placed next to him. He sat up and looked around, noticing Tidus sitting in a chair nearby. He appeared to be asleep. Yuri sat up and stretched. He felt much better now that he had slept off his seasickness. He decided to wake Tidus up and find out exactly what was going on.
"Yo, Tidus. Wake up!" he said loudly, shaking his shoulder. Tidus awoke with a start and jumped from his chair.
"What? What? What is it?" he asked.
"Nothing. But I do wanna know what happened after I passed out. How did I get here?"
"Oh, Wakka carried you in. We're on Kilika, but it seems that Sin got here first. The whole place was destroyed. Then they asked Yuna to do something called a Sending, but we were able to rest first as they prepared the bodies, whatever that means," Tidus told him sadly, bowing his head. Yuri immediately turned and stepped out of the small hut. One look around confirmed Tidus' story. The place looked like a hurricane had hit. The small wooden huts and docks were surrounded by debris, and most of them were in pieces. Yuri spotted everyone standing on one of the docks, staring out at the ocean. He headed over there, Tidus right behind him.
The water was filled with large objects wrapped in red cloth, flowers placed on each one. The shapes told him they were bodies. He couldn't believe how many had died. That's when he noticed that Yuna was stepping onto the water and walking on its surface.
"What's going on?" he whispered to Lulu.
"Summoners perform the Sending to help the souls of the dead pass on to the Farplane. If they do not move on, they become fiends," she told them, not taking her eyes off Yuna. Tidus involuntarily shivered. Yuna began to do a sort of dance, moving her staff over the dead. As she did, balls of multi-coloured light began to rise from the water and dance with her. Yuri noticed that the lights were the same that emerged from a fiend when it was killed.
"Look at her," Tidus whispered. "I've never seen anyone with so much sadness in their eyes." Yuri nodded solemnly. He had never seen a dance such as this, one so full of sorrow. Wakka had his head bowed, and although Lulu's face was characteristically impassive, he could see the tears forming in the corners of her eyes. He then bowed his head as well as Yuna continued to dance.
*~*~*~*~
Once everyone was ready, the group was finally able to head through the jungle to reach the temple where Yuna could acquire another Aeon. They encountered fiends as they followed the winding trails, yet they were almost as weak as the ones in Besaid so nobody had a hard time making it through. Kimahri had also met up with them and was an extremely skilled fighter; using his Lancet ability to learn the fiends attacks, although he didn't talk much. They finally reached a large stone staircase.
"The temple is just at the top of these stairs," Wakka said, trying to sound cheerful. Yuri groaned.
"I also recall you saying 'the temple is just through this jungle'," he said, doing a perfect imitation of Wakka. Yuna giggled, but quickly tried to hide it as Wakka turned to her, a look of mock betrayal on his face. Even Lulu let out a small smile.
"Well, this time I'm right, so quit complaining," Wakka retorted.
"But we're so tired!" Tidus whined. Wakka just threw up his hands and began to make his way up the stairs. Yuna giggled again and followed him, Kimahri right behind her. Yuri and Tidus both smirked as they too began to climb the long staircase.
"You two are worse than children," Lulu groaned as they walked. They both put on innocent faces, or what they thought looked innocent.
"You're right Lu, maybe we should have left them back in the village," Wakka joked. Lulu just shook her head.
"It's not like you're any better," she said. Wakka stopped dead in his tracks, his mouth hanging open.
"You're supposed to be on my side!" he whined.
"See?" she said, as she turned away and kept walking. Tidus and Yuri just stood there, trying to contain their laughter.
"Don't say a word," Wakka warned as the three hurried to catch up with the rest. Soon the stairs stopped and there was a flat circle made of the same stones as the stairs.
"Finally, we made it!" Yuri said. "Could those stairs have been any longer?"
"Yes they can, because they continue over there," Lulu said pointing. The area where they were standing was only the halfway point.
"I give up. It's too hot, I'm too tired, and I'm starting to get really hungry," Tidus said, sitting on the ground.
"Come on, we're almost there," Yuna said encouragingly, turning to face him, a shy smile on her face. That did it. Tidus was up and heading for the stairs. But before he could reach them, the ground had started to shake and a large fiend emerged from the ground.
"Sinspawn!" Wakka yelled as he, Lulu, and Kimahri all got ready for battle in less than a second. Tidus and Yuri took a little longer before they realized exactly what was going on. The creature's main body was located a little farther away and on either side of it rose two tentacles that protected its body from their attacks.
"Take that!" Wakka yelled as he and Kimahri both attacked one of the tentacles from either side. It broke and fell limply to the ground, but as soon as it disappeared another one grew in it's place.
"This isn't working!" Lulu yelled to them. "We have to kill its body, yet the tentacles are protecting it! They even absorb my magic!" She tried to send another Fire at the creature's body, yet it never reached it. Yuri stopped his attack on the other tentacle. This creature was much stronger than the fiends that they had encountered so far.
"Well, that just means I'll have to up the ante here, now won't I?" Yuri said to himself. He stepped back from the others, not wanting the creature to attack him in his moment of weakness.
Yuri closed his eyes and searched within himself, for the monsters that dwelled within him. He silently called for them. He could feel it coming, combining with his mind and body. The pain was subtle at first, but grew as he became one with the monster. He clutched his head and screamed. This got everyone's attention. They turned in time to see a bright light where Yuri stood. It was gone in a split second, but what stood there was not the young man they had gotten to know. Instead, in front of them stood a demon.
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Author: Yeah, I know, I'm evil. He finally uses his fusion and I stop! I dunno, I just couldn't think of another good place to leave it. And I'm sorry that this chapter was a little shorter, but hopefully was just as good. Let me know what you think! If reading a basic plot of FFX is getting a little boring, let me know and I'll try to skip over the less important events, or make them brief. Or just let me know your thoughts in general! Whatever it is, I wanna hear it. Thanks ^-^!
Disclaimer: I own neither Final Fantasy nor Shadow Hearts and you know who does.
Author's Note: I just wanted to clear one thing up, 'cause I'm not sure if I explained it yet or not. Yuri's fusion monsters are all gonna be level 3, even though at the time of the Demon's Gate Invocation he would only have up to his level 2 monsters. Yet he's not gonna have Amon 'cause Amon is stronger than the level 3 monsters and technically he would want to use his strongest monster all the time, right? So that's just a little change I'm making. Also, instead o f having 18 different monsters, he's only gonna have the six level 3 ones, because he really doesn't need his level 1 and 2 monsters anyway. K, I'm shuttin' up know, on with the fic ^-^!
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Chapter 4
Yuri lay sprawled on his cabin floor, feeling completely awful. He'd been there ever since the boat left the dock. And no one really wanted to be near him at the moment.
"Why must boats always ROCK so much!" he groaned, as he rolled over onto his stomach. "You'd think that at least one of the others would have the human decency to take care of me, but nooooooo. And after I proved how great I was on the way here."
As the group had made their way to the dock, they encountered some monsters that were called fiends. Yuri didn't think they looked nearly as dangerous as the monsters he had fought in Shanghai, like giant, venomous spiders, or large, mutated toads with arms for tongues. And they were quite easy to beat, in his opinion.
Tidus proved to actually be quite good with a sword as he was able to take out the quicker fiends. Wakka was the best at fighting the flying fiends, as he fought with a blitzball that he hurled at the enemy (which Yuri had found quite lame). Yuna mostly used white magic to heal the party, not bothering to summon her Aeons for such weak monsters. Lulu impressed him the most with her command over black magic as she cast various elemental spells to counter the element of the fiend.
Yuri had decided not to wait and had rushed straight at the first fiend that crossed their path, his claws held tightly between his fingers. The others had simply watched as he took out the enemy with a series of quick punches and kicks. Wakka and Tidus complimented him, and Yuna looked impressed. Lulu, however, didn't say a word nor did her face change. Yuri guessed that she still wasn't happy with the fact that he and Tidus had tagged along.
"That's it, I'm going to the deck to get some fresh air, it might make me feel better," Yuri growled as he forced himself to stand and staggered over to the door.
Well, he was wrong, the fresh air didn't do much, but at least he wouldn't mess up his room if he had to throw up.
"Hey, Yuri!" Tidus called when he spotted him. Yuri turned to see Tidus jogging over. "Why are you all hunched over like that? Not feeling well? You do look kinda pale," he said quickly. The sheer pace of Tidus' words were enough to make his head spin.
"No, I'm not feeling well. I get a little seasick sometimes," he muttered, not really wanting to talk to anyone right now.
"Oh. Anyway, I've been talking to a lot of the people on the boat and I've found out some really interesting things."
"I don't really care," Yuri said, but Tidus didn't seem to hear him.
"Do you remember those statues at the temple? The ones that the old man said were High Summoners? Well, apparently the one named Braska is Yuna's dad! Which means she's famous!" Tidus said excitedly. "So I went to ask Yuna about it." Tidus blushed slightly here. Yuri just rolled his eyes. "When her dad went on his Pilgrimage 10 years ago, Jecht was one of his guardians!" Yuri stared at him blankly. Tidus frowned at the lack of reaction on Yuri's face.
"What's that look for? I don't know who Jecht is," Yuri growled at him.
"Oh, right. Jecht is my old man! He disappeared from my life 10 years ago! Now I know where he was! Even though I still hate him . . . "
"Whatever," Yuri said, clutching his stomach. All this talking was making him nauseous. Or maybe it was Tidus' voice.
"Are you okay? You don't look so good," Tidus commented as Yuri fell onto one knee. "Ahh! Don't throw up here!" Tidus yelled. Yuri looked up at him and gulped. "Ahh! Don't SWALLOW it!" Ignoring the intense feeling of déjà vu, Yuri got up and went to go throw up over the side of the boat.
After he was done, he just hung there for a few minutes, his arms dangling over the sides.
"Having some problems, little boy?" said a voice from behind him. Yuri recognized it immediately as Lulu's. She stepped up beside him and looked out over the water.
"Not problems per say, I'm just a little under the weather," Yuri said, looking up at her. She gave him a look that told him she wasn't convinced. He sighed. "I do have this one problem with boats."
"Well, get used to them, because we'll be traveling across water quite a bit," she informed him. Yuri groaned.
"Can't you just take plane? I can handle those." He immediately regretted that, for it brought back painful memories of when Margarete had chosen to fly a big, rusted heap of a plane and then ended up crashing.
"What's a plane?" Lulu asked.
"Oh, forget it. Hey, Lulu, why are you really talking to me right now. One, I thought you were mad at us, and two I could barf all over any second." She looked mildly disgusted, yet Yuri couldn't help but feel a little happy that he had gotten some kind of reaction out of the seemingly cold woman.
"I am still a little angry, yet you two have proven yourselves. I just didn't want to have anything else interfere with Yuna's Pilgrimage. If we had to protect you two as well, it could have turned out badly," she explained.
"So this is you saying you're sorry?" She chuckled, which actually shocked him a bit.
"Partially. The real reason is because my curiosity had gotten the better of me." Yuri looked confused. "I'm talking about these powers that you mentioned. Yuna had briefly tried to explain them to me, but they sound like something I need to see for myself. Yet you never used them in those fights we had earlier with those fiends."
"Well, I didn't really need to 'cause they were pretty weak already. Plus, it's kinda hard on my brain because it takes a lot of concentration to fuse with one of my monsters. It would really wear me out if I fused for every battle." Yuri groaned slightly and rested his head on the edge of the boat. Lulu had returned her gaze to the water.
He took a minute to study her profile. She was indeed beautiful, unlike any woman he had ever seen. Her long, silky hair and those stunning red eyes. Her pale, soft-looking skin and full lips. She was really quite exotic looking. Alice and Maragrete had both been blond and blue-eyed, which was supposedly how all beautiful woman should look. Yet Lulu was the complete opposite of them.
Before she had a chance to notice him, the peacefulness on the boat was shattered as someone yelled out "SIN! SIN'S HERE!" Lulu turned, alarmed, and quickly made her way to the front of the boat. Yuri tried to follow, but his condition prevented him from running. All anyone could see at the moment was a large fin protruding from the water.
"Come on Lu!" Wakka yelled as he grabbed his blitzball and headed towards Yuna. Lulu followed, Moogle in hand, as the first wave of Sinspawn showered onto the boat. Tidus was already there with Yuna and he was trying his best to fight them off. Wakka and Lulu joined them and took out the remaining Sinspawn before another wave attacked.
Yuri finally made it over, but the fierce rocking of the boat from the large waves that Sin was creating was not helping. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't concentrate enough to fuse. In fact, although he hated to admit it, he was completely useless at the moment. He could barely stand, let alone fight. He looked up and got his first look as Sin, or the part that was above water.
"Yuna, quick, summon Valefor!" Lulu yelled to her above the deafening sound of the waves as she attacked a Sinspawn with a Thunder spell. Just as Yuna was about to, a large wave crashed onto the boat and knocked them all off their feet.
One of the men quickly got up and, extremely panicked, ran for the harpoon gun at the front of the boat. He aimed it directly at Sin's fin.
"Whoa, what are you going?!" Wakka cried.
"I'm sorry, sir. Sin is heading directly for Kilika. I-I've got family there," he told them before turning and firing the harpoon at Sin.
What happened next was all a blur for Yuri. At first, Sin was just dragging them along as Wakka and Lulu continued to attack it. The harpoon had a rope attached, which was tied to the gun nailed to the floor of the boat. But Sin proved to be too strong as it ripped the gun from the floor and disappeared underwater. Then he passed out.
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Yuri once again awoke in an unfamiliar bed. Only this time, a bucket had lovingly been placed next to him. He sat up and looked around, noticing Tidus sitting in a chair nearby. He appeared to be asleep. Yuri sat up and stretched. He felt much better now that he had slept off his seasickness. He decided to wake Tidus up and find out exactly what was going on.
"Yo, Tidus. Wake up!" he said loudly, shaking his shoulder. Tidus awoke with a start and jumped from his chair.
"What? What? What is it?" he asked.
"Nothing. But I do wanna know what happened after I passed out. How did I get here?"
"Oh, Wakka carried you in. We're on Kilika, but it seems that Sin got here first. The whole place was destroyed. Then they asked Yuna to do something called a Sending, but we were able to rest first as they prepared the bodies, whatever that means," Tidus told him sadly, bowing his head. Yuri immediately turned and stepped out of the small hut. One look around confirmed Tidus' story. The place looked like a hurricane had hit. The small wooden huts and docks were surrounded by debris, and most of them were in pieces. Yuri spotted everyone standing on one of the docks, staring out at the ocean. He headed over there, Tidus right behind him.
The water was filled with large objects wrapped in red cloth, flowers placed on each one. The shapes told him they were bodies. He couldn't believe how many had died. That's when he noticed that Yuna was stepping onto the water and walking on its surface.
"What's going on?" he whispered to Lulu.
"Summoners perform the Sending to help the souls of the dead pass on to the Farplane. If they do not move on, they become fiends," she told them, not taking her eyes off Yuna. Tidus involuntarily shivered. Yuna began to do a sort of dance, moving her staff over the dead. As she did, balls of multi-coloured light began to rise from the water and dance with her. Yuri noticed that the lights were the same that emerged from a fiend when it was killed.
"Look at her," Tidus whispered. "I've never seen anyone with so much sadness in their eyes." Yuri nodded solemnly. He had never seen a dance such as this, one so full of sorrow. Wakka had his head bowed, and although Lulu's face was characteristically impassive, he could see the tears forming in the corners of her eyes. He then bowed his head as well as Yuna continued to dance.
*~*~*~*~
Once everyone was ready, the group was finally able to head through the jungle to reach the temple where Yuna could acquire another Aeon. They encountered fiends as they followed the winding trails, yet they were almost as weak as the ones in Besaid so nobody had a hard time making it through. Kimahri had also met up with them and was an extremely skilled fighter; using his Lancet ability to learn the fiends attacks, although he didn't talk much. They finally reached a large stone staircase.
"The temple is just at the top of these stairs," Wakka said, trying to sound cheerful. Yuri groaned.
"I also recall you saying 'the temple is just through this jungle'," he said, doing a perfect imitation of Wakka. Yuna giggled, but quickly tried to hide it as Wakka turned to her, a look of mock betrayal on his face. Even Lulu let out a small smile.
"Well, this time I'm right, so quit complaining," Wakka retorted.
"But we're so tired!" Tidus whined. Wakka just threw up his hands and began to make his way up the stairs. Yuna giggled again and followed him, Kimahri right behind her. Yuri and Tidus both smirked as they too began to climb the long staircase.
"You two are worse than children," Lulu groaned as they walked. They both put on innocent faces, or what they thought looked innocent.
"You're right Lu, maybe we should have left them back in the village," Wakka joked. Lulu just shook her head.
"It's not like you're any better," she said. Wakka stopped dead in his tracks, his mouth hanging open.
"You're supposed to be on my side!" he whined.
"See?" she said, as she turned away and kept walking. Tidus and Yuri just stood there, trying to contain their laughter.
"Don't say a word," Wakka warned as the three hurried to catch up with the rest. Soon the stairs stopped and there was a flat circle made of the same stones as the stairs.
"Finally, we made it!" Yuri said. "Could those stairs have been any longer?"
"Yes they can, because they continue over there," Lulu said pointing. The area where they were standing was only the halfway point.
"I give up. It's too hot, I'm too tired, and I'm starting to get really hungry," Tidus said, sitting on the ground.
"Come on, we're almost there," Yuna said encouragingly, turning to face him, a shy smile on her face. That did it. Tidus was up and heading for the stairs. But before he could reach them, the ground had started to shake and a large fiend emerged from the ground.
"Sinspawn!" Wakka yelled as he, Lulu, and Kimahri all got ready for battle in less than a second. Tidus and Yuri took a little longer before they realized exactly what was going on. The creature's main body was located a little farther away and on either side of it rose two tentacles that protected its body from their attacks.
"Take that!" Wakka yelled as he and Kimahri both attacked one of the tentacles from either side. It broke and fell limply to the ground, but as soon as it disappeared another one grew in it's place.
"This isn't working!" Lulu yelled to them. "We have to kill its body, yet the tentacles are protecting it! They even absorb my magic!" She tried to send another Fire at the creature's body, yet it never reached it. Yuri stopped his attack on the other tentacle. This creature was much stronger than the fiends that they had encountered so far.
"Well, that just means I'll have to up the ante here, now won't I?" Yuri said to himself. He stepped back from the others, not wanting the creature to attack him in his moment of weakness.
Yuri closed his eyes and searched within himself, for the monsters that dwelled within him. He silently called for them. He could feel it coming, combining with his mind and body. The pain was subtle at first, but grew as he became one with the monster. He clutched his head and screamed. This got everyone's attention. They turned in time to see a bright light where Yuri stood. It was gone in a split second, but what stood there was not the young man they had gotten to know. Instead, in front of them stood a demon.
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Author: Yeah, I know, I'm evil. He finally uses his fusion and I stop! I dunno, I just couldn't think of another good place to leave it. And I'm sorry that this chapter was a little shorter, but hopefully was just as good. Let me know what you think! If reading a basic plot of FFX is getting a little boring, let me know and I'll try to skip over the less important events, or make them brief. Or just let me know your thoughts in general! Whatever it is, I wanna hear it. Thanks ^-^!