/ Final Fantasy \

X

+ Last Mission +

As if defeating the essence of death itself and destroying the colossus Vegnagun

weren't enough. The special lady has yet another challenge to face. It has been two years since Vegnagun's defeat, and thus a lot of things have changed in the life of the former summoner. The once six man group of Gullwings has expanded into a regular Gull-Corps. Spread out among Spira the group scours the world looking for what else? Spheres! The wiz kid Shinra has pursued a large study of the Farplane, he has began to look into harnessing the energy of the Preyflies into a type of energy.

What has become of the infamous Y R P?

Well...

Chapter one

+Moths to the flame+

Verse one

Figure. 9

Six years have passed since you faded. A lot has happened really, while Spira is constantly changing I'm left the same. I've tried, believe me- But I haven't. Paine says I need to be myself but...

You know Wakka and Lulu's son Vidina? He's two now, he's growing up to look a lot like Wakka. Rikku has went out to explore the land outside our small Spira, on airship with her dad. The two finally made up, I'm glad. Paine? Well she has been spending a lot of time with her old friends: The Crimson Squad, it's good because they have a lot of time to makeup together. As for me? Well...I find myself around the new Gull wings a lot, other than that I'm just visiting spots close to me..----

Airship Celsius-

"Yuna! You're back! Oh I missed you so..." From the elevator of the airship came Brother. The man wore a pair of to-big overalls, not wearing a shirt he shows his blue flame tattoos that take up most of his torso, his hair is a blonde mohawk that makes his look like a Chocobo.

Yuna only laughed as Brother ran in to hug her. Following after Brother came buddy, a brown skin and blonde haired man. He wore baggy jeans and a dark purple tank top. With a sigh he pulled Brother away from Yuna. "She was here a week ago Cupid, welcome back Yuna." Laughing even harder Yuna waved at Buddy. Nothing has really changed about her appearance, if anything changed it would be he hair, which now tends to fall over her face a lot more.

"Find anything good yet?" She asked her eyes filled with curiosity.

Both men sighed, looking depressed Brother spoke."Nothing! Not even a lowsy music sphere! Yuna? Why don't you and the girls come back, you all were the best Sphere Hunters we had...please?"

Brother grabbed onto Yuna's leg whimpering. She only sighed.

"I don't think any of us have an interest in sphere hunting now.

You know?" She said dismayed. Brother started to cry.

"My heart weeps..."

Buddy laughed."Didn't think so. Well Yuna, it's good to see you anyway." He said looking down. Brother sighed too, a silence like none other fell over them both.

"You all hear from Shinra?" She asked trying to break the silence.

Brother and Buddy only shook their heads. Finally Buddy spoke up.

"Shinra...he..." Buddy tossed Yuna a sphere, reluctantly she turned it on. On the screen appeared Shinra. He looked terribly distressed, you could see a horrible scene occurring behind him."No..."

Her eyes widened, while her pupils grew into tiny little dots.

Verse two

Paper Cut

''The worse kind of pain is a paper cut"

Yeah right.

The dark abyss was illuminated with the stripes of color that were preyflies. This was the Farplane.

The final resting place of those departed from Spira. Shinra is the wiz kid who helped Yuna and the Gull wings in their journey two years ago. Since then the boy has been engrossed in his studies of the Preyflies and their dwelling. And so it was business as usual when...

CRASH!

From the ground came a pillar of green inferno. The flame acted as a tornado pulling in anything near it, just like that 3 of his colleges were killed. Panicked the boy could only watch the scene ensue. And just like that the flame stopped. There was a calm for a moment, that was when Shinra truly saw the aftermath of the inferno, the ground was scorched and even some land was missing. Whatever was in the tunnel was immensely powerful...

Something fearful indeed.

Shinra stood from his hiding place and walked over to the hole. Staring into it he could hear a rumbling, squinting his eyes he saw a figure flying towards him.

"RUN!" He yelled, and from different areas came a bunch of Albhed, the mass ran for any cover the could find. From the hole came a giant inferno, even fiercer than the one before. Shinra and his colleges could only watch in horror. And like that in a matter of seconds the flame disappeared, leaving a boy in it's place.

His hair in long black dread locks and a black and yellow tail reached from his rear end. By the looks he had to be nineteen at least. Shinra was baffled as to how one teen could harness such power...

It was Unreal

Shinra listened closely as the boy began to speak on a head set he had on.

"Yup, I'm here- Dunno why you wanted me to come to this place. But truth be told Spira does have some fine women." Shinra could hear yelling on the other side of the head set. Laughing a bit he continued to listen.

"So what now? Summoner? Okay- Gotcha, I better get my money." The connection was cut.

Hearing the word summoner the wiz kid was horrified, he was after Yuna? He had to warn them.

But it was too late.

"You were listening the whole time eh?" Laughing the man walked over to Shinra.

"Can't have you spilling the beans can we?"

That's when the Sphere's movie cut off.

Verse three

High Fahrenheit

BEEP! BEEP!

"through the clouds zoomed a beautiful white a purple airship.

It left a singing in the sky as if sped over the endless seas.

Fahrenheit, The legendary airship piolet by whom else? Cid himself! This was the very airship that led High Summoner Yuna to the inside of Sin, You could recognize this baby a mile away. Yes indeed, she's a beaut, seeing her shadow along the mountain side. Watching her glisten in the beautiful amber sunlight.

Yes she's my baby, my beautiful little girl..."

"Bub! Oui ryja du cdub dymgehk du ouincamv! Pacetac-Dra Lamceic ec fyo paddan!"

Spat Rikku at her father, who was talking about his airship to himself again. It really was annoying. But that's why she loved him, that Cid charm that her dad has."Any signs of land?" Rikku asked the Al Bhed woman beside her.

The woman only sighed while shaking her head. So far there had been no sign of land for the longest, they managed to find two small islands but neither were inhabited by life. Yet given the circumstances the small group of Al Bhed continued their search for another land.

Most of the higher ranked people in the group were on the bridge with Rikku and Cid, the bridge was a circular room with giant monitors on the walls. In the middle was a huge navigation map. If you had the right coordinates you could jump all around the world, of course they had no idea where they were so that's kinda useless. In front of the bridge was a huge see through window, so you could see what was going on outside, duh!

"Hey pop! What's that?" Rikku said jumping from her seat pointing out waaaaaaaaay in the distance.

All attention shifted to the window, there it was. If you squinted real hard you could see a large island.

There was bound to be life there! Who knows! Maybe they have just discovered a new nation, if they did they would be famous." "OAARYF! DRYDC SO KENM! Dra meddma kenm fedr dra ryfgaoac! FRUU! FA ZICD TECLUJANAT Y HYDEUH!" Cid hugged his daughter so hard her head could have popped off."Full speed ahead!" He yelled, and with that the ship charged through the skies towards the land form.

Verse three- Part two

Even higher Fahrenheit!

The ship had landed in a big grassy clearing.

Further off you could see a large group of trees, the trees had to lead somewhere, and that's what the group wanted to explore. Slowly the ship landed, the bushes flew back pushed by the huge gusts of wind the ship brought down with it.

Unknowing to the Al Bhed they were being watched.

"Whoa!" Rikku yelled as she jumped from the airship. Cid waved to her as she hopped off."What! You're not coming!" She yelled at her dad. Cid only grinned as the airship hatch closed."Dead beat!" But her voice only got lost in the noise as the ship rose into the clouds, leaving only Rikku to curse her father in her native tongue,"Ohh that no good pop of mine!" She kicked the grass sending a big dirt clot in the air. That's when she heard a rustle in the brush."Uh..." Rikku gulped turning to the bush, She started backing up when she heard the bush behind her rustling too."Oh no...oh no, oh no, oh no!"Rikku tripped over a rock hitting her head on another one behind her. What a klutz. Rikku blacked out.

From the bush popped a red furry pom-pom. Then a weird sound like: "Kupo!"

Came from the other bush. There was a short silence and then out came two little creatures."Kupo! Kupo!" They spoke. The creatures looked like little balls of fur, they had two tall ears and round bellies. On their back were two little bat like wings.

"Kupo?" One spoke to the other.

"Kupo po po." The other said sounding reluctant.

"Kupo!" The other yelled.

"Kupo..."

With that at least five more creatures came from the bushes, each one's pom-pom was a different color. The oddest was a bright yellow one, he looked the oldest. With a joint

'KUPO!' they all fluttered over to the blonde haired girl passed out on the ground.

With another 'KUPO!' they lifted Rikku up on their big round heads, carrying her off into the forest and...The unknown.

Final Verse

from a Whisper to a Scream

The four friends stood on a small ship.

On the hull it read 'SS. Winno'.

This was the very ship where the shared their best laughs.

Nooj, Maven of the Youth League.

Then there was Baralai, Preator of New Yevon.

And Gippal, leader of the Al Bhed Machine Faction.

Oh yes and then there was Paine-

she never was the leader of anything, but she was a member of something much more special. And that was what else?

The Gullwings.

"Oh oh! Remember when we got attacked by the Chimeras? Ha, ha!

Gippal ran away screaming for his mommy!"

"Yeah! Remember the time got attacked by the maniac Chocobo?"

The entire group laughed, they knew they had jobs to do with their groups.

But for know there was a friendship to take care of. Outside the ship waves crashed against the ship's hull. The star's twinkled brightly almost as if they were forming a circle around the moon."So Dr. P, any bright ideas on what to do next?" Baralai spoke.

His hair was out of it's usual fashion leaving it to grow messy and fall over his eyes from time to time. Paine put her hand to her chin."How about the captain decides?" Gippal , Paine and Baralai nodded and turned to Nooj. He gulped and pointed.

"I say one of you skinny dips in the water. I prefer Paine do it but to each his own."

Nooj coughed, and like that all eyes were on Paine. All of the cheered 'do it, do it!'.

Paine laughed. "You wish, perverts." She said walking off into the quarters. Leaving the three men to blame one another for her anger."Now why did ya have to go and do that Nooj? See you made her call us perverts!" Nooj only laughed.

"Hey...look!" Nooj pointed to a spurt in the water, from it you could see a figure rising.

"What is it?" Baralai said running to get a closer look. "Gippal pulled Baralai from the hull,"Idiot, we don't know what that thing is and you go running towards it? Not smart for the Preator."

And then the figure and the bubbling in the water disappeared.

"Not good..." All three men said.

"Above!" Nooj yelled.

From the flag poll on the ship came a figure, this was the same one that attacked Shinra and his team.

Gold eyes glowed in the moon light, burning into that of the three's."Hate to break it to you but I'm gonna need this ship. Just run and I won't hurt anyone." He said sighing.

The three glared at the boy then looked at each other."You got a lot of nerve."

Said a voice from behind the attacker. There stood Paine, her blade at her side ready to attack. Smirking he spoke."And so who is this pretty face?" His body appeared behind Paine, bathed by the light of the lantern above him you could finally see all his features.

Around average height. His skin was brown and he wore his hair in long black dread locks.

Wearing a big black hoodie and long red plaid shorts, his shoes were black combat boots.

He was of a regular body type, you could match his body type with Baralai if you want a clearer picture.

From his rear end was a tail, reaching around Paine he whispered something in Al Bhed.

""Oui'na kuehk du tea rana." He grinned reaching a black and gold sparkling dagger to her throat. Enraged Baralai fired at the attacker, "Leave her alone!" He yelled, but the bullet nearly missed his face."You have really got to mellow kid." He spoke, vision shifting back to Paine he grinned."You're one of the girls who helped summoner Yuna am I right?" He laughed."I'll get a hefty sum on your head." Paine frowned, laughing she sent her elbow into his chest."To cash in on a bounty you actually need the person. Do you see the problem?" She pointed her sword at him."Here comes the hurt." The man only smirked."I see, well If we're going to fight I suppose I'll have to give my name at least..."

Demetri Maverick

+ End of Chapter one+