Chapter II: A Story Begins

The Black Spell remained upon Tidus for quite a moment now. It caused his days to be darker than the moonless nights. In reality the sun never shone a ray of light upon the hollow bastion near the edge of the forest. Tidus' days were dark...terribly dark...

Time left its mark and stories were heard about Tidus no more. The people slowly and gradually forgot about the legendary cold-blooded Slasher and Tidus was never heard of again. He remained isolated in his bastion for a time, not too long and not too short. Time just left its mark.

But the perhaps time will come back and bring at least a spark of light and hope. After all the sphere was still a weak shade of white. There was still time...and hope, but time will soon perish away and take away that hope once the sphere darkens. Tidus' time won't last for long now. The sphere was now a shade darker, no longer as pure and as serene as before. It was a shade different from the time Yunaleska crafted it.

Until this sphere fades into black...it's going to be too late...

At the other end of these vast wide plains, there was a small village located near a small farmland by the countryside. This village was small but prosperous and all its villagers were rich happy people. Well, maybe all the people except a certain lass named Yuna.

Yuna was a humble seventeen year old White Mage living in a small cottage in the outskirts of the village. She lives with her father Braska, also a conjurer excellent in White Magic. As their only means of living, Braska spent most of his life creating different potions and ethers and developing new White Magic spells. Sadly, only a handful of his creations were successful, therefore making it hard for them to live up with the village customs.

Under her father's guidance, Yuna studied White Magic. As she practiced more, she was more able to cast further powerful ones like Curaand Esuna until she grew up into a highly qualified White Mage.

It was hard for both Yuna and Braska to get along with village people considering that they were not as affluent as almost everyone in the village. To help her father under their condition, she would work as a White Mage then heal people with her curative spells.

Everyday Yuna would go down the village square and cure wounded people to earn additional gil. She would charge the rich with a very reasonable amount yet she would also cure those of the same class as her with no charge at all since she was very honest.

Thanks to her nice and gentle personality, Yuna gained the respect of the people. She was soon known as the most reliable White Mage in town.

Yet, she had one aspect that made her seem strange. It is because every afternoon, before the sun sets, she would just sit by the cliff over looking the thick forest lying in an unknown terrain. Yuna would just watch the sun rest under the horizon with its warm gentle light glowing upon her and then she would just hum a certain song which meant everything to her...

Isn't it wonderful...? If we could walk holding hands, I'd want to go to your town, to your home...into your arms...

The people thought it was strange for someone to be enjoying doing something like that. Strange to just sing at the sunset. Strange especially for a young and beautiful White Mage such as Yuna...

Strange...

Yuna is gifted with incomparable beauty but on the surface, she's...strange.

Outside, she's strange, strange to all the people, except for a certain person, a certain person named Seymour. A part of his mind believed that Yuna was as strange as the people saw her, yet a bigger part of his mind thinks that she's the most perfect woman nature has to create because Seymour saw no strangeness in her at all., but beauty, he believed that the only essence of a woman to take notice of is beauty.

And Yuna was glowing with it.

Now it begins. Let me tell you a story...a story that will now begin with a cold-blooded Slasher named Tidus living within darkness, and a destined White Mage named Yuna who, unlike Tidus, lives under the warm light of the sun...

And now our story begins...