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Chapter 6

Six months have passed since Yuna's speech at Luca. Six months only, but it was enough time to the people of Spira to start rebuilding their world.

First, at a personal way. People took a while to realize that they were finally free from Sin. They just couldn't understand it; they always thought that, after a thousand years of suffering, they would never be free. But still, there they were. The great majority of the people weren't sure about what to do... Their lives used to be centered in Sin: where did he attack? will he attack my home? where should I go now that my home was destroyed? And that wasn't all. With Sin's death, people started to think about their beliefs; they always believed that following Yevon's teachings they would be happy, but now, most of those teachings had lost its meanings.

That lead to the formation of some new groups. First there were lots of them, usually with only a few hundred of followers; some still believed in Yevon's teachings, some radically denied them, some were interested in bringing back the lost machinas (since that there was no longer a reason to forbid them),... Those groups evolved, some with the same ideas joined to form a new and bigger group, and now there were four main groups: New Yevon, Youth League, Machine Faction, Truth Seekers.

New Yevon was the one chosen by those who couldn't leave Yevon's teachings behind. New Yevon was lead by some high priests and they claimed Bevelle as their head-quarters. They believed that, in spite of having many secrets, Yevon worked for Spira, and his teachings still have value. Of course that they didn't deny machinas or the Al-Bhed people anymore, but they said that Yevon was one of the most important personalities in Spira's history, and should not be forgotten. Although they had many followers, there were many people who criticize them for still believing in Yevon; those people often said that the New Yevon followers were people who lived in the past, and that could not change their mind.

The Youth League started with a small group of crusaders whose objective was to rebuild Spira. They wanted to fix everything Sin had destroyed. The small group began doing small tasks like building some houses here and there, and was becoming bigger and bigger. Right now, they had enough followers to begin their biggest project until then: rebuild a city. And, in fact, they were already making plans to rebuild Kilica. But one of the main problems with the Youth League was that there were so many ideas, so many people that wanted to help, that sometimes they lost control, and ended up making things worse... They also denied completely Yevon's teachings. They considered that all the suffering in the past thousand years was caused by Yevon, and so he should be forgotten. Because of this belief Youth League's followers and New Yevon's followers often collided...

In the past thousand years, the Al-Bhed always tried to continue to develop and study machinas; but this task was very difficult due to Yevon's teachings. But now, they were free to do anything they like with machinas! And they didn't want only to study them, but also to teach the people of Spira about them. That was why they founded the Machine Faction (they called it "Machine" because some people still associated the word "Machina" with a bad thing). They were very surprised when the Machine Faction began to attract a big amount of followers, much more than they had ever imagined.

There was another group of people whose objective was to find out exactly what happened in the past thousand years, and even before that! For that they traveled around Spira, searching for lost or hidden books, spheres, and every other kind of documentation that could lead to more knowledge. They called themselves Truth Seekers. Although their objective was to discover the truth, sometimes they had to use "dirty ways" to do it: they often got in trouble when searching for stuff in dangerous places, or stealing some documents from the temples... "All in the name of the truth" was their motto.

This was Spira, six months after Yuna's speech, six months after Sin's death.

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"Six months since..."

Yuna was sitting at a cliff near Besaid's beach. It was almost night, so the place was almost desert; not a single sound could be heard except for the wind and the small waves of the sea reaching gently the sand. She liked to go there at that hour of the day, it was the only time she could really relax.

In the past six months a lot happened to Spira; new beliefs, new religions, new ideas... But still the people of Spira needed a guide, someone to go to when they were unsure. Before, they went to a temple, to ask help to the faith, priests or fallen Summoners but now,... they went to Yuna. Now, more than ever, the people of Spira was unsure; they didn't know what path to follow, what to do. Lots of people came every day, asking what was the meaning behind Sin, what group they should join, what will happen next to Spira... No matter what they asked, all of them were looking for answers that not even Yuna had. She often felt revolted, angry because of that. The only thing she had done was to defeat Sin. That didn't make her a god! She was getting really sick of the people that came to her, instead of trying to find their own answers. But what could she do? She never could say "no" to someone who wanted to meet her; and now she was really revolted because of that part of her that couldn't say "no" to a person who was asking for help.

So, that few moments in the day when she could just sit down and think about nothing at all were sacred to her. But today, there was something disturbing her. She had read something about the Truth Seekers... It seemed that they found out some sphere at Zanarkand with recordings of the city before the war between Bevelle and Zanarkand,... before Sin! She got curious about that sphere, she wanted to see it... "That sphere shows his Zanarkand... a Zanarkand that never sleeps."

This thought lead to that one she always tried to avoid, but always ended up thinking about.

"Six months since... you left... So much happened, so little changed..."

In fact, for her, it didn't matter how Spira was, she didn't care about all those groups. She was just there, and he was just gone, forever.

Every day during those first six months, she used to go to that cliff, and whistle, hoping he would come... come running for her. But everyday she had exactly the same disappointment when he didn't come. Every single day. Now, she was starting to give in to the painful truth...

"It's not worth trying anymore... "She felt she was stuck there, hopeless; trying every day to change her life, to change what was wrong. But every time she tried to do so, she was assaulted by the feeling of emptiness, completely lost. So, she just continued with her pathetic life, she just sat back and watched as her life flies by... Thinking about that made her feel that she was wasting her life, but how could she change that? She was so lost, so clueless about what to do, she couldn't even stay focused on what she was doing; her mind was always somewhere else, far away, always on him.

And now she asked herself why... "Why am I trapped in that mindset? Why am I desperate to live while I'm not even dead yet?..." Or, was she dead? She wasn't sure. She was there, living her simple life, but still... she felt like she was all ashes inside, lifeless.

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"Wait a minute! Who the hell is there?!"

"Didn't you listen, boy? There is no one here."

"What? That makes no sense! Now, who is there?! Where are we?"

"Nothing... I'm nothing, you are nothing, we are nowhere"

"What are you talking about?..."

"That's exactly what you heard, boy."

"What the fuck! Why do you keep talking with nonsense? What is that about "being nothing"? We are here, I'm yelling at you!"

"No you're not, you are just thinking you are."

"What do you mean?" - he was getting really frustrated

"Didn't the faith tell you?

"What?..."

"Oh my god... listen carefully, boy, you and me, were never nothing, okay? Nothing at all. We don't exist. We were only a dream, a dream of the faith. But now the..."

"Hey! I know that! Yeah, yeah, I am a dream, and now the faith stopped dreaming. So what? Wasn't I suppose to be dead now? Where am I? This isn't the Farplane!"

"Ha! What? You expected to go to the Farplane?" - the voice let out a big laugh - "Look, you are not dead, because you were never alive, got it?"

End of Chapter 6

I'm having exams in the real live, that means less time to write... that means a slower writing pace ( But I'll keep writing; actually, I have some more chapters already writen, they just need to be revised again and published. So you can expect a new chapter in some days )

Now, about this one; I don't really like it... But I had to write something about what happened in those six months between the first chapters and the ones that will come; I couldn't just jump in the time xD So, this is a small explanation of what happens in the meantime. As you can see, I based somethings in FFX-2 (the Youth League, New Yevon, etc.) but they will have different ways in my story... and I have some cool things planned with the Truth Seekers )

As for Mr. Sanchez, I can't say that Yuna and Tidus will reunite soon; but that doesn't means Tidus isn't here, hehehe... I have some cool things planned for him to.