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Chapter 5Yuna woke up on a stone surface. She could hear music, but not any music that she had heard before, this had more of a pulse behind it. She sat up, and thought that maybe she was in the Farplane, but that all changed when she saw where she was, she was in Zanarkand, but not the Zanarkand that she knew, the Dream world Zanarkand. She stood up and looked around her, she saw Wakka, Lulu and Rikku on the ground as well. She went to each of them waking them up, and saw that their reaction was just the same as hers. They started to walk when she heard a familiar name being chanted, it was 'him'. Tidus, Tidus, Tidus. When she found the source of the chanting she saw the boat, and saw him come out of the door, wave, and run to his fans just as she had seen him do. "This is impossible, I saw this when I came here the first time."
"The first time Yuna? We've never been here before, except when Seymour showed us the sphere." Wakka said, Lulu and Rikku nodded their heads in approval. "This is where Seymour took me when I touched the faith on Mt. Gagazet. And this is what happened; he ran over and started to sign some people's blitzballs." And just after Yuna finished he started to sign the Blitzballs. Yuna looked at him, he looked happy, and he looked different. The Tidus that Yuna knew had changed along the journey, this one looked the same as Tidus had when he had first come to Besaid. "Come on." Yuna said and ran up the docking arm that connected Tidus's boat to the rest of Zanarkand.
When Yuna arrived she looked straight at his back, he was talking to some kids, when she saw him turn round and look right into Yuna's eyes. "Well hello. What's your name? I don't remember seeing a fan as beautiful as you. And trust me I would remember."
"Um…" that was all Yuna could say, after all these years she was standing with Tidus, that's when she realised, this wasn't the Tidus that she had come to love, this was the Tidus that was in love with Zanarkand, the Tidus before he came to spira. A Tidus without the memories of the journey, and no memories of her. "Yuna, my name's Yuna."
"Well Yuna, you coming to the game." He asked, Yuna shook her head, when Tidus saw all of them he said, "Well, groupies. Tell you what; if you walk with me to the stadium, I'll get you front row seats. As long as I can watch the sun set with you." The last part was directed at Yuna, this was defiantly not the tidus that Yuna loved, but he wasn't far off, a spark of hope was given to her when he said, "I can't shake the feeling that I've met you before. Have we?"
"Yes. Long ago. In another life maybe." Even though this wasn't far from the truth as far as Yuna was concerned, this was impossible for Tidus, and he just laughed. "Well ok, I won't argue with this 'past life' belief that you have going on. Well, shall we, the game will be starting soon." And with that he walked off, not even bothering to see if Yuna was behind him, even though she did run to catch him up.
They walked to the stadium, even though yuna reminded herself that this was not her Tidus, she was still comforted by his touch. They talked, yuna tried to drop hints about the Spira that she came from, hoping to jog his memory, but nothing worked, it was if he wasn't the Tidus that she knew, but just a shadow of him. As they walked all time seemed to stop and she saw him, the faith from Bevelle. The Faith walked up to Yuna and said, "I'm sorry that we got cut off before. I see that he managed to escape, and by your presence here I believe that he has the sceptre." Yuna just nodded, not saying anything. "I see, well I also see that you have found Tidus again. I must inform you that this Tidus is just a dream. The Tidus that went to spria was a dream, but the transition into the real world changed him into a near real person."
"Then why did he disappear when the Faith died. If he was real he would have been able to stay with me."
"Believe me when I say this. He did change, his spirit was changed into a real person, but his body remained a dream. When his body died, his spirit went to the Farplane, where he is now. I'm afraid that this Tidus is what you would call…a clean slate." The Faith said, yuna's heart broke. "I'm sorry, I have the power to bring Tidus into this world, but I must warn you, he will still be the dream, not a real person, and it will take time. This Tidus will be no more. Replaced by the Tidus that you know. Do you want that?"
"Yes, more than anything." Yuna said, colour returned to her face. And time continued. Yuna now didn't try and drop any hints, she just walked.
The stadium was packed with people. Hundreds, no, thousands of people from all over Zanarkand. Tidus was sitting with his eyes closed, hand on the blitzball, waiting for his team mates, he stood up and looked around, having just opened his eyes he was surprised that his vision found the girl that he had met only a few moments before. It surprised him, even though her clothes looked so strange, so simple, he found something intoxicating about her. BANG! An explosion rocked the stadium, everyone in the stadium jumped back, the sphere in the centre of the stadium had just appeared, even though everyone in Zanarkand knew that sound, Yuna's 'groupies' jumped back more than the rest. Tidus didn't let his mind slip, if he played his cards right, he might just be in with a shot to score, and he wasn't talking about the Blitzball game. He jumped in with the rest of the team, and saw the opposing team jump in on the other side of the sphere. Tidus swam over to the centre of the Sphere, where the Zanarkand Duddles Star player met him, they shook hands, even though Blitzball is a rough sport, everyone of the players are never rude, or hostile to another, before, or after the game. Tidus dropped the ball in the centre, and saw it fall into a kind of launcher, they swam back to their places, and the game began.
Tidus launched himself in from the starting position, and was about to grab the ball when everything changed. Tidus turned and writhed, as if he'd been hit with a bullet. He couldn't move, he was paralysed, and he was blind. But his hearing was still there, for the moment, as the last thing he heard was the time out bell being rung. These bells are only used when a Player seems to be in trouble, and what is meant by trouble is when they have sustained an injury that is life threatened. But that bell was the last this Tidus heard, in fact it was the last thing Tidus ever heard, or thought about, when all his senses died around him.
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