Moon Says: It isn't as long as most of the chapters I shit out, but hey, it something. I don't know, in the beginning, I just got tired of certain parts of this story. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm at the end of the game (on my playthrough), mapped out the fanfic, and did some scenes in my mind. I'm going to keep trying to update for those that love this fic. This is for you! Drop me a review and tell me what you think? What do you think is going to happen? I may end of not writing as much and combine a few chapters…

Intervention

~Chapter 8~

As we walked out of what used to be our home away from home, I started getting this really bad feeling. The one I always got before shit really hit the fan. The more time we spent with Yuna and the others, the more I realized just how connected everything was not to mention fucked up.

No matter what way this went down, I knew it was going to end the same: my Emma was going to be the destroyed. And there was nothing I could do about it.

Instead, I just stood by her, supporting her.

The others left Seymour's home not too long later and went straight for the Farplane—except Auron and Rikku. They stayed with us, making sure that both groups had everything we needed to cross the Thunder Plains.

Something that Rikku was not happy about.

At all.

The girl was scared out of her mind, and neither I nor Emma liked that one bit.

Rikku reminded the two of us of Emma's little sister before the world, shadows, and jealousy tainted her.

I honestly didn't know how she was going to get across the field with the lightning striking. Unless she closed her eyes, but then there was the thunder. And fiends.

Emma, though, was thinking of the problem seriously before the others came back. When they did and we started down the tunnel toward the Plains, Emma stopped the girl.

I couldn't tell what was said as I gave them space as there was a reason she was whispering in the blonde's ear, but it made the girl happy enough to jump my Emma.

I just smiled and shook my head a bit before continuing on.

We didn't talk much on our journey through the plains, even when we hit the well placed travel agency. Our group stopped for Rikku, but the others continued on. It didn't matter though because we caught up to them by the time they got out of the woods.

Then Auron had to be a dick and go on about that stupid sphere of my old man's. I could have lived without it. Nothing will make change my mind about him. So what if he changed and dedicated himself to something above himself?

A little too late.

I really was not interested in fighting that giant ass morphing sphere.

I always hated those shits that change their elements. You can't defeat it with anything but magic.

Emma was more than annoyed as well, but lucky for us she could sense that shit. Rikku decided it was time to show just how Al Bhed she was with all those grenade type weapons.

Oh, how I missed our old Squad.

It took more than ten minutes to kill the damn thing, and Auron, who just stood by and watched us, didn't even looked phased when we all gave him such death glares.

Not much later, the Al Bhed attacked, and neither Emma nor I knew what to do. Should we help the group or just let them fall. Rikku was conflicted as well seeing as it was her brother that was doing the attacking.

Lulu was useless as this little ball thing absorbed all her magic and Yuna wasn't able to Summon.

Auron was doing all he could to attack them damn thing while Yuna used spells to protect them. None of thought to attack the damn thing from afar.

Emma, though, just got fed up with the lot of them and threw one of her little knives at the floating ball thing and it went down. From there, Lulu spelled quite a bit of damage until Auron had the bright idea for Yuna to use her Aeons.

Every time things got hard for them, they had her use the Aeons. While said Aeons were of use for that, I always thought using them as the last resort were what a Summon should do. But that's probably because I was used to a Summon who was able to hold her own and not rely on just her Aeon or magic like most Summoners.

Not too long after the Al Bhed were run off, Yuna was carried off by that old Guado who worshiped the ground Seymour walked on.

Honestly? Seeing him tugging her, dragging her, brought back the protective feelings I had over her and a part of me wanted to rip him apart. But I didn't because my love stopped me.

All she did was grip my arm, and I calmed down enough not to kill him. I focused, instead, on her and saw she was barely hanging on by a thread.

I frowned as I realized this. Shouldn't the closer we get to the Fayth, this one in particular, Emma should be feeling better? This was the one she was bonded too…

Something was wrong…something was seriously wrong.

Rikku tugged on her sleeve, drawing our attention to her, "Can you help me with these?" she asked, pointing to the ice-gliders that the Al Bhed had left, "I don't like the thought of Yunnie being alone with them."

Emma and I shared a look before we nodded and each worked on one. The first one I got was still working, and the second didn't need much work which was good because anything more and my limited machina knowledge would have had me embarrassed because I'd have to ask for help.

One would have thought I'd gotten over that years ago, but apparently not.

Auron took Rikku, the Ronso got his own, and Wakka got to ride with Lulu. I drove the last, and Emma held onto me for dear life.

Yes, something was seriously wrong. She only held onto me like this if she was a few steps away from losing control. She always grabbed onto someone like this to stop herself, to hold herself back, to ground…anchor herself.

When we came to a stop and she still held onto me, my eyes hardened.

The Guado were giving us weird looks, but we ignored them as we entered. We weren't even in the Foyer long when a girl screamed from a side room. Emma snapped up and went straight to the room as fast as her legs could carry her.

She was, after all, the caretaker of this Temple. Honestly, I think it was only the ones who stayed with the Temples their entire lives knew who she was.

By the time I or even the others got to the side room, she was already on the floor comforting the girl.

"You need to tell me what happened?" Emma's voice was gentle, soothing.

Its times like these a part of me wished we could have been parents. That child would be the most disciplined spoiled child to ever walk the earth.

"My L-l-la-dy," the girl stuttered before getting control of herself, "I wasn't going through the Lady Yuna's things, I swear! I was just trying to tidy things up. The sphere fell out…it was Lord Jyscal!" then she started crying.

Then in a move I just knew was coming, Emma pressed a hand to the girl's forehead and sent her to sleep. That was my cue to pick the girl up and put her on the nearest bed.

Just when Wakka started to question, Emma threw him the sphere. "I honestly don't give a shit about what it says, but Yuna better be careful when she starts to get involved in matters that do not concern her."

No one moved as she went straight toward me, her hand touched my arm before she said, "Yuna always takes forever, and this one will be disappointing. I'm going to go lie down," before she even finished I nodded and kissed her forehead.

"I'll come find you when it's over. Your room hasn't moved?" I asked as she started to walk away.

Emma shook her head. "It's still near the Chamber of the Fayth like it always has been."

When she was gone, Lulu turned to me raising an eyebrow. "There are no rooms near the Chamber of the Fayth."

I only chuckled. "In every Temple, there is a room a close as one can get to the Fayth for the Chosen. I've got a room in the Kilika Temple."

I watched Wakka closely and felt relief that he just nodded his acceptance before turning to the sphere. "Let's see what trouble Yuna done got herself into now."

There are few things that surprise me anymore. Learning that Seymour killed his father? Nope, that isn't one of them.

Rushing across the completed Trial and finding, after a short confrontation, that Yuna had been accepted by the Ice Fayth? That surprised the fuck out of me.

Know what else didn't surprise me? That Emma came out of the wall, where no door had been there previously, just as Yuna Summoned Shiva and soon lost her shit.

My eyes had not left Seymour, but his moved between the Aeon and Emma. For a brief second, I could have sworn there was pity directed at Emma, but I looked away before I got a good read on him. Instead, I did see guilt and regret on that stupid Aeon's face as Emma took her in.

Emma's eyes hardened and the entire room got even colder. As cold as it did that night on Bikanel Island when I was dying.

Emma was really losing her shit. It showed in the absolute steeliness, in the lack of expression on her face.

In her frozen voice, "Leave."

Shiva looked like her heart had broken, and it probably had, considering that that Fayth felt everything my Emma did. The Frozen Fayth did as girl asked and dismissed herself.

Wakka was sputtering, "How the hell did that happen?"

I only sighed. "Idiot; I told you that she was this Fayth's Chosen as such their connection allows her…certain privileges—"

"And curses," Emma interrupted me before focusing on Yuna who took a few steps back until she had to stop because of backing up into Auron—who steadied the girl.

All of us were so focused on Emma and Yuna that no one noticed Seymour dismissing his Aeon and just watching all of this quite intently.

We should have because I was surprised for a second time in the last five minutes. Before I could blink, Emma had her sword out and she stabbed Seymour through the heart before rounding back toward Yuna. Even when looking crazed and insane, Emma was beautiful.

I was getting quite turned on when she slowly started making her way for Yuna, her sword dripping blood.

When she got in Yuna's face, Emma's whispered words felt worse than someone yelling, "You always have to take what's mine, don't you? Always so fucking jealous, always has to have what belongs to me! Do you want to be me that bad? Fine, kill me and take my skin, my life, everything!"

Emma threw her sword to the side toward the end of her speech. "You wouldn't last ten seconds dealing with the shit I dealing with."

That's when I finally understood what was going on. Everything clicked.

By seeing her Fayth, her Aeon, choose her sister, Emma was forced to acknowledge what the Fayth have been trying to tell her all this time, trying to prepare her. And it was breaking…no it was doing more than breaking the woman I loved.

It was shattering her very soul.

And there was nothing I could do to stop it. This had been a thousand years in the making. I wondered how long it has been since Emma knew exactly how to defeat Sin. How long did she push that knowledge to the far reaches of her mind so she didn't have to think about it?

This was why Sin kept sending me to Yuna because he knew that she was the one who could stop all this.

But didn't he understand that Emma was going to have to agree to do this? Sin would always come back if there were any traces of the Fayth, Aeons left, and here was a prime example of…

My heart was breaking. The Fayth knew that Yuna would convince Emma to give in, to end this all. That's why they waited so long, to find someone like her but not tainted.

I was so anger when I thought about something else. It wasn't just Yuna that was being used to manipulate Emma. I was too. That was why I was put in the Fake-Zanarkand, and I hadn't got taken out until now. That was why I was here, just another bargaining chip to get Emma to agree with them.

How the fuck could they do this to her?

After everything…those bastards knew she was hanging on by a thread, and any little thing could push her over.

But that was why I was here. To calm her down, to anchor her.

Fuck this, everything inside of me was screaming. I would kill Yuna myself if it meant that Emma would get better, to not be used.

After thinking that, I found I didn't give a shit. For Emma, I would burn this world to the ground. I would kill Yuna and let Sin keep on ravishing Spira. If it meant that Emma would still live and be this broken.

For Emma, I would do anything.

And she for me, which is exactly what those damn Fayth were hoping. It made me wonder if soon they were going to tell her that I get to be a real boy if she helps them as there was something wrong with me because I was in the Fake-Zanarkand and part of me died. But they would help fix me in exchange for all this to end.

Bastards.

My thoughts were interrupted when the doors behind us slammed open. Just as I half turned to keep them in my sights, my smart self was on the wall near when she exited her room and keeping the fuck out of all this mess, Emma went for her sword.

Something had snapped inside of her and whatever it was that gave Yuna the chance to kill her was gone. Emma had turned back on Yuna and the others. Auron, by this time, had (when I wasn't paying attention), had moved Yuna behind him and the Ronso.

Like they could have stood against my Emma. No, the only reason she wasn't killing everyone in the room was because something inside her was fighting the betrayal. I wondered if the connection she had with the Fayth were trying to stop her too.

The Guado went straight for Seymour, Emma still stood in between the dead half-Guado and Yuna's group as if she was holding them there for the murder.

Wakka looked freaked the fuck out as well. "Tidus, brotha, do something! She's going to kill Yuna!"

I saw Emma fighting herself. Yuna was innocent, despite being a pawn of the Fayth, and Emma recognized that.

Yuna wasn't her.

"Get your Summoner under control," Lulu ordered as she raised her hand; did the bitch really think magic was going to work on Emma? Ice Magic would do nothing, and through our connection, Fire Magic wouldn't do shit either.

I felt something inside of myself fighting as well. The part that put Emma first, the rage first, kill first, avenge first wanted me to punish the Fayth. If we killed Yuna, then they wouldn't have the pawn anymore.

But then they would still have me, and Creator only knew what she would do to them if they tried that shit with me. What I wouldn't do to them…

The other part of me wanted to protect her from herself. If I let her kill Yuna, then she would never forgive herself, and the breaking the fucking Fayth were doing would be nothing to do with what she did to herself. She was already hating herself because she felt responsible for what happened to her sister…

I was in front of her before I even thought about my decision. I grabbed her head and held it between my hands. "Go!" I commanded them before focusing on the woman in front of me.

I hated myself for doing this, but there was a spell my Squad had invented to calm her if she ever went out of control. I channeled the spell and kissed her, but that was only half of the spell. I took my necklace off and pressed it to her chest.

It would make her immobile for at least half an hour, but I didn't stay with her. I shared a glance with a monk of the Temple, and she nodded to me.

None of us had noticed this female warrior come into this part of the Temple with the Guado, but she was here.

I had to go make sure that my Emma didn't break completely.

I had to go protect Yuna, and once again, I did it for her.