A grand war is approaching. The Al Bhed know what is coming. The Priesthood of Yevon will try to destroy them, now that they have purged those who followed Omega's heresy. We were the border between the fanatical Yevonites and the greedy Maesters. The Al Bhed now believed they might be able to win, with summons, magic and technology.
Al Bhed stayed with their original mission of preserving knowledge, recording it with multiple redundancies. The Al Bhed might need my help so I decide to give it to them. Our time is coming.
The hooded figure looks around the circle. It is time for the binding to be performed on again. The ancient imprisonment rituals are started in careful measured tones. This would be simple enough. And once done she would have an Aeon imprisoned for all eternity.
But she needed Leviathan and Alex. They were two of the most powerful summons who had always opposed the cult of Yevon. Alex would have to be destroyed and Leviathan enslaved. Twice they had escaped.
It was time to arrange her armies once again. Time to take back what had been stolen. If only Leviathan still existed in this world. If only. If Alex still existed he would be hiding in the Al Bhed and despite the Guado's invasion they had found no clue to its position. Still they would attempt the summoning of Leviathan.
"Against our enemies
Your power is hurled,
King of the Seas,
Encompassing the world."
The entire temple shakes. Pyre flies start to gather forming into a giant serpent shaped being. It is almost coming together and then just as she thinks it is working, the image shatters into a thousand shards.
"What went wrong?"
"Sorry, Maester. I'm not certain what happened here. The summoning worked, but somehow he shook loose from the bindings. I'm not certain where he'd be."
As Lulu and Wakka were walking they heard a sudden splash. As the looked out towards the sea, they saw a man they thought dead swimming towards them waving his hand to attract their attention.
"Sinspawn!" cursed Wakka.
Lulu shook her head. Typical Wakka, instincts first. It was nice to be back in the old routine.
"Don't get us wrong, we're glad to see you it's just that..."
Tidus looked at them. He wondered what they hadn't told him. Something very important, extremely important in fact. Someone had powerful reason. But they had better tell him.
"Yuna and Rikku were drifting apart."
"Why would they...?
"Over a certain man."
Tidus could be slow at times, or rather willingly blind, but he was no more an idiot than Wakka actually was. He spoke quietly "Oh, Me. And since I was dead..."
"We did a quick patch job, which unfortunately relied upon you being dead. Of course now Yuna's told Rikku how close it was. And that Rikku could still win it..."
Tidus blinks at that. "Yuna's the one for me."
Wakka and Lulu look at each other as if the don't believe it, thanking heaven that Tidus can be ridiculously unobservant. Then Wakka manages to change the subject.
"You remember when you hit you head of the globe, ya?"
"Do I? I was going for a Sphere Shot 2."
"There's no such thing."
"Not here, no. But I forgot I was playing in an enclosed sphere, so up I went...."
Yuna and Rikku smile at each. It's painful but for the first time in a long while the smiles are genuine. Now all they have to do is deal with certain problems.
"How do we rehabilitate the Al Bhed without upsetting the die hard Yevonites?"
"Operation Mi'hen. Mention that the late Maester's realised they had been manipulated, which is why they sanctioned the operation, and it worked better than they hoped. Don't mention they excommunicated the crusaders which pushed us into it before we had the airship."
"Perfect. That should do it."
"Then we reveal we're both married to Tidus."
"I'd wait upon that if I were you," Lulu scolded them.
"Why he's dead. This plan seems great. It rehabilitates the Al Bhed, lets us blame some Maester lost in the confines of history. And so..."
"Maybe, because I'm still alive."
At this Tidus gets double glomped, Rikku beating Yuna to him by a fraction of a second. While he appreciated having two cute girls after him, it always ended in disaster especially when you loved them both. In different ways to be sure, but it was still disastrous. Suddenly time twists.
"Maester Lesca, the Al Bhed ships are retreating."
Lesca looked out at the Al Bhed ships. The machina using heathens were dangerous, and were manoeuvring for power. Sin had not destroyed them yet. And they were gaining summons at an unhealthy rate. For some reason the summons seemed to like that heretical song. The worse problem was the unhealthy amount of summons they were picking up. Where would the go next? It was obvious there could only be one place.
"They have to be heading to Omega's Temple."
"Why?"
"Because Titan is there. And the poor priest being a recent convert is counting on us assuming he still does not know about that. And they think we'll expect them to go to Remiem."
The Yevon Monks head fast to the Temple of Omega. There is a dignified scramble as they move to positions. The monks also draw out something else that no Yevonite should use - Machina Weapons. Including robots designed by Omega himself - The Defender Series.