FFX-2: Ties That Bind Fanfic
Chapter 3: Summoner Paine
Rikku held her heart with her left hand, covering the wound in her Dark Knight armor. Her breast burned from the attack from of all people Yuna. No it used to be Yuna, now it was a fiend. Fur crept up out of Yuna's suit, her ears pulling up into points atop her head and her face, her face pulled out into the beginning of a distended muzzle. And that beast now had Him pinned, powerless and at it's mercy.
"Yuna, snap out of it!" he pleaded to the beast to no avail.
"Yunnie, come on Yunnie, Come back to us!"
The beast howled and rose it's fore-paw for the death blow. "Stop this madness Yuna!" spoke a mysterious but familiar voice. The trio paused as a figure descended from the airship as it returned. He towered over 15 feet tall. Clad in red and black, his face a clay mask, but the voice unmistakable, as was his blade. And on his shoulder sat a woman clad in a black robe wielding a familiar style staff.
"Aaron! Do it…"
The ground was churned up in chunks of fine dirt as the sword cleaved through the ground releasing a wave of pure energy that cut harmless through the Blitzball Ace and Slayer of Sin and slammed into Yuna-Fiend sending her flying onto her back. She growled leaping back to her feet as Rikku and the boy rose to their feet. Paine stepped forward toward the team.
"Say hello to my Aeon, Aaron."
"Aeon? But how…the Fayth are…"
"Yes I know, just like magic died with Sin so did the Fayth. Thank Shinra and his Summoner Dressphere."
The boy gasped "You can't be thinking of using an Aeon to slay Yuna?"
"No, Shinra says the only way to save her is to…"
Before Paine could finish her statement Yuna-Fiend attacked again, charging the Aeon, fangs and claws barred. Aaron paused drawing his jug from his hip and hurling it like a grenade, it hit Yuna-Fiend dead on and exploded. Yuna-Fiend again hit the ground hard and her body seized up as it was instantly petrified into stone. Paine smiled warily and Aaron began to fade away.
"Aaron Wait, don't…go…we…have…so…muc…" Rikku began but Aaron was already gone before she was finished, "Poopie!"
Paine stepped forward drawing her staff high as she began a familiar dance around the statue. Rikku and the Hero of Zanarkand watched in mute shock as she began a Sending. The statue began to crack and fissure. As Pyre Flies began to filter their way out. Clinging tenaciously to Yuna's soul the energy orbs slowly broke free dissolving into the atmosphere. The statute continued to fissure and crack flaking away. Yuna stood her body exposed to the elements panting as the last of the Pyreflies left her and she collapsed to the floor panting.
"Let's go…home." Said the Hero of Sin as he wrapped Yuna in his shirt and headed back with the others toward the Transport Sphere.