Disclaimer: I, the person who is writing under the name of Karin Starsen, am NOT stealing these characters. I am NOT stealing a story line, and I am most defiantly NOT stealing their creative worlds and creations. All of this does NOT belong to me… I am simply using there great creation to write my interpretation of a story. But I will NOT have anyone steal from ME either… thank you.

Authors note:

Any character that I find suitable from either a video game, tv show or whatever I am going to put in here. I wanted to mix them all, you know? I will mostly have final fantasy characters. Suggestions will be considered, but will most likely not be used. Sorry! Please R&R)

Life in the Farplane –Chapter one

Yuna's eyes flutter open to a brightly lit… what was? A sky? Whatever it was, it was bright. She sits up, and she's in a beautiful field of flowers… she's been there before. Her eyes widened. She was on the farplane. She sat up quickly and pulled up her arm to stare at it. It slowly faded so she could see a bright red flower through it, then came back into density.

"I'm… I'm…"

"Dead?"

Yuna scrambled to her feet and turned around to see Ansem standing behind. The malice in his eyes was gone, and he seemed to be… happy.

"Don't worry, you get used to it quickly," he assured her.

"W-who are you?" she asked.

"Hold on, it will come to you," he said.

She looked at him in a confused way; then a voice spoke in her head. Ansem…leader of heartless…

"What are…"

"Shush! It will come!"

Heartless… shadow demons…

"Shadow demons. Does that mean you're evil?" she asked, putting her hand to her side to see if her gun was there. It was, and she rested her fingers on it gently.

"Don't fret. After death, I saw my wrong doing… I am no longer that way," he answered cheerfully. "Moving on, I came here to say welcome. Welcome to the life of the farplane."

"Don't you mean death?" Yuna asked.

Ansem turned around and took a step, Yuna put her hand out, but froze as he turned his head back. Something flashed in his eyes.

"You'll see."

"Come back! I have so many questions!" Yuna cried.

"Then why don't you follow?"

Yuna thought about it. What do you have to lose? She stepped forward and followed Ansem through the field that seemed to last forever. But it didn't; it ended abruptly and Yuna swore she didn't see it coming. The came to a forest. In the distance she could see a cliff, and a huge waterfall cascading down the rocks. She gasped in aw, but Ansem didn't even turn his head.

The path through the forest was elaborate with many side paths splitting off here and there. The path was lined with glowing white stones that seemed so pure, like nothing was wrong. The trees were large and majestic, and the leaves were emerald green. The trunks were white, with brown streaks smudging the perfection of the bark. Curving around the bottom of the trees was grass that grew no taller or shorter than the pieces next to it. Everything seemed to be so clean, and perfect. Bliss swept over Yuna quickly, forgetting the situation she had been in, in Spira. Forgotten who else had died.

The duo came to a line of weeping willow trees with white trunks. The branches and leaves obscured her vision, and she couldn't see beyond them. Her heart fluttered with excitement as Ansem put his hand through the branches and pulled them back for her to see. Again she gasped, and put her hand to her mouth. She slowly stepped forward in shock. It was beautiful!

She had stepped into a huge glass dome that displayed bits and pieces of color like a rainbow every now and then. Underneath the dome was a silver city. Tall buildings, short buildings… they were all made of shining silver. She slowly walked into a street, full of people that had died. They all looked perfectly happy, and everything was so peaceful. There was a dull roar of the massive crowd, but there was no anger anywhere. All the people were wearing white, and they had no shoes on. Two small children passed by, ruffling Yuna's skirt.

Skirt? She looked down, and sure enough, she had on a long flowing skirt that went down to about her ankles. Her shirt was white with an intricate silver trim; it was tight and had one sleeve. Her hair wrap was now sparkly silver, and she felt that her soft leather boots had disappeared also. She turned around to ask Ansem, but he was gone. In his place was both a disgruntled Paine, and a confused Rikku. Now Yuna remembered what had happened. They had failed… the fiend had killed them… Rikku spotted her first.

Yunie!" She cried, running forward to give her cousin the biggest hug of her life. Paine followed closely behind. Rikku was wearing a white bikini with silver beads hanging down to her bellybutton, and she had silver shorts on. Paine wore a one-strapped dress that had a slit that went to her hip, and the bottom hem went to a few inches above her knees. Around her neck was a silver chocker.

"Rikku!" Yuna cried, hugging her back. "Paine! You… you didn't make it either…"

"I wish that I could say that I'm glad to see you…" Paine said. "But I don't think that would be quite right…"

Yuna laughed a little. "I know what you mean." She let go of Rikku. "I'm glad to see that you made it. Both of you."

The tears all three of them cried could have filled a bucket, but they eventually came back to the present… and where they were supposed to live. Rikku, still a little dazed, pointed to a young woman with a light brown braid winding down her back, and two tendrils of hair framing her face.

"That girl!" she cried out. "She was in my dream last night… back on earth! Maybe she knows what we are supposed to do…"

Yuna nodded. "Maybe… let's go ask."

There was a hint of curiosity in her voice as she said that. It drove her two friends onward with slightly shaky steps towards the young woman. She woman was facing a small bed of white flowers, she had her finger on her chin as if pondering what to do next. Yuna tapped her on the shoulder.

"Urm… excuse me, but we…"

The woman turned around quickly. Her eyes widened in surprise when she saw Rikku. "Oh! I visited last night! I didn't think you three would be here this quickly," the woman said in a soft voice. "My name is Aeris." She smiled brightly and sweetly. The three friends felt instantly welcome. "Let me show you around."