A/N: hey guys. Sorry it took so long. I've had so much school work and this is a rare moment for me to actually have time to type. Finals are about 5 weeks away, each week I'm learning a new topic in Italian, and I'm being swamped with tests. So I don't know how good this chapter is. But please bare with me. Thanks
Chap10. Yuna's speech and a surprise
We arrived at Luca about five minutes later, and stood in the stadium on the platform (where Yuna gave her speech in ffx). Yuna was standing in the middle towards the front, Tidus was on her right and I was on her left. I had changed outfits before we got there, I had on the pink shirt and green shorts I wore during the time of Sin and Yuna wore her summoner outfit. Lulu and Wakka were next to me with Vidina, and Kimahari stood next to Tidus. Everyone else stood farther back for the time being. We stood in silence until everyone quieted down.
"Long ago when I had first realized that my father died fighting Sin, I knew that I wanted to be a summoner just like him. When I was seventeen I did just that. I started my journey with only three guardians, Lulu, Wakka, and a Ronso named Kimahari." Yuna started indicating everyone as she said their names. "Then this man standing next to me mysteriously appeared claiming that he came from Zanarkand. Which indeed happened. Sin had transported him through time. He didn't become my guardian for a while yet, but he traveled with us. He helped fight our enemies, he stayed with me, and helped me any way he could, even though he didn't know our customs. Eventually he did become my guardian, along with an Al bhed named Rikku. The other summoners thought that I was insecure having so many guardians. But I wasn't done yet. At the same time Tidus became my guardian, the legendary guardian Auron became my guardian too. He's not with us because he was and unsent and is now in the farplane.
In the times of Sin, the Al Bhed were hated and even feared. They didn't follow Yevon's teachings, they used the forbidden Machina. But in reality the Al Bhed wanted Sin gone just as much as we did. They also lost friends and family, just like we did. My guardian, Rikku, lost her mother when she was only eight years old. The Al Bhed are not evil or even dangerous in the least. They helped to destroy Sin more than you know. Rikku's father and former leader of the Al Bhed helped us tremendously. He let us use his airship for rest and for transport. He helped us fight Sin. The airship had defensive weapons of its own. He fought Sin with us and took us close enough to destroy him.
Unfortunately with the destruction of Sin came the destruction of the Aeons. They sacrificed themselves for Spira. The fayth died to help us. Which meant that Tidus would disappear."
At this point I saw Tidus take her hand to comfort and reassure her.
"Tidus was a dream of the fayth. The Zanarkand that he knew was also a dream created by the fayth after the Great Machina War a thousand years a go. Tidus disappeared and with that and the destruction of Sin came the Eternal Calm. After that things were calm. Spira was slowly rebuilding itself. Now two new leaders were arising. The Youth League and New Yevon.
At this point Baralai and Nooj stepped forward and stood next to the rest of us.
"The Machina were being used more and the Machine Faction was set us."
When Yuna said this Gippal came and stood next to me.
"On Besaid things were equally quiet. Lulu and Wakka had settled down an got married and even had a child, and me I was depressed . It wasn't until Rikku showed up with a sphere containing images of who I thought was Tidus. It wasn't him, but it was enough to make me join the Gullwings, a sphere hunting group. The members were myself, Rikku, our new friend Paine, Rikku's brother, Brothers friend Buddy and a young Al Bhed boy named Shinra..
That's how we meet Leblanc and her crew Logos and Ormi. They were sphere hunters too. They were called the Leblanc syndicate. They also helped us to defeat Vegnagun."
At this point Paine, Leblanc, Logos and Ormi stepped forward with Paine stepping next to Baralai.
"We found many spheres and found out that there was an unsent form the great Machina War that was trying to destroy Spira. His name was Shuyin. His lover Lenne had been a summoner and was fated to fight in that War. He desperately tried to save her by using Bevelle's
secret weapon, Vegnagun. He was caught and imprisoned, but somehow escaped. He went after Vegnagun again, he almost had it working but Lenne showed up and stopped him. He came down from Vegnagun and embraced her, that was when the guards found them and shot and killed them. Shuyin came back as an unsent and tried to destroy Spira with the same Machina as last time, Vegnagun. He wanted to destroy Spire because of all of the fighting that was still going on. We ended up defeating him to and reuniting him with Lenne."
"Now things are quiet again. The Bevelle Fayth brought back Tidus, and he's real, he's no longer a dream and he's here for good. Everyone has found their place, things are settling down. The two new leaders have finally come to an agreement, Lulu and Wakka are settled down with their child, Rikku and Gippal are engaged, and Tidus and I are content the way we are. But unfortunately the peace doesn't seem to last. Someone is trying to kill all of the Al Bhed." Yuna finished. She backed up and motioned for me to say something.
'This wasn't part of the plan.' I thought. 'Go on' she mouthed to me. I took Gippal's hand and made him come up with me.
"Just say what you've been telling me, about how it isn't fair." He whispered in my ear.
"All we want is to live in peace with the people of Spira. That's all we ever wanted. We wanted Sin gone also. I lost my mother and my aunt because of him. Then things finally started calming down just as Yuna said. But then there was the threat of Vegnagun, that not many people knew about, and now there's someone after all of the Al Bheds. Why? That's all we want to know, we've done nothing wrong. The only thing we didn't do was follow false teachings, and now my father's in critical condition because someone attacked him for no reason. Please if you can help us. We're not evil or even mean in the least. We're not bad people. So please if you can, help us." I finished. My eyes had started tearing up, and I quickly wiped the tears away. I stepped back and let Yuna take the stage again.
"People of Spira, wether or not your opinion of the Al bhed has changed or not I'm going to help them. The Al bhed are my friends, and have helped me in te past, so I intent to return the favor and help them. They have helped our world more than you know. So remember we all have friends in all different races that wouldn't hesitate to help us, so we shouldn't hesitate to help them. So people of Spira, tell me. Would it really be that hard to help those that need our help?" Yuna finished. By the end of her speech everyone was standing up front.
As we were about to turn around and leave. Tidus stepped up to the mike. I looked up at Yuna confused, but she looked just as confused as I was.
"Um... I just have a few things to say, Yuna if that's alright?" he asked her
"Of course." she replied
"People of Spira. What Yuna says is true. The Al Bhed are great people. When Sin transported me here about two years ago. I didn't know where I was. I was in a foreign world. The Al Bhed found me, and gave me food and brought me to their ship. They saved me. Actually it was Rikku here, who found me. Even though there are no more teachings, I'm still not familiar with the customs here. But I do know that the Al Bhed aren't evil. I also know that I love Yuna and would do anything for her, I'll support her in anything that she does. Hey.. um.. Yuna can you come here for a minuet?" he asked her
I saw tears in Yuna's eyes, as she walked past me to stand next to Tidus. He took her hand in his and got down on one knee. I saw her eyes widen in shock.
"Yuna... Will you marry me?" he asked as he took a velvet box out of his pocket.
She stood there shocked for a few seconds. "Yes, Yes I will marry you." she said happily.
He took the ring out of the box and slipped it on her finger. Then he got up and kissed her. The whole crowed cheered at the happy couple.
"Thank you people of Spira for listening to us, and we all hope that you will help the Al Bhed." Tidus said as he and Yuan walked off stage, we followed behind them. I caught up with Yuna.
"Ok Yuna, let me see the ring." I said
She laughed at me as she held out her hand. I stared wide eyed in shock. It had to easily been worth more then my ring and Paine's put together. Paine's ring was a silver band with two ruby's surrounding a diamond, and my engagement ring was studded with diamonds surrounding a emerald. But Yuna's ring was a silver band studded with diamonds with two sapphires and two emeralds surrounding diamond.
"Damn Yuna. That's a nice ring." I said
"Thanks Rikku." she said
"The ring is nice, but to me my ring is more then just a ring. It's a promise, and it's I apart of my hand I will never take it off or lose it. And if it do loose it, I will never forgive myself." I said
Then Gippal surprised me by turning me to face him, and kissing me. The kiss was full of love, passion and longing. It was like nothing I have ever felt before, and I'm glad it's gippal I'm experiencing this with, and no one else.
"I love you so much Rikku." he whispered into my ear.
"I love you too Gippal." I whispered back
A/N: This took me longer to update then I had thought it would. I am so sorry. I hope you all liked it. I'm sorry if the ending sucked, but I wanted to post something, because I don't know when I can update again,. I already have the next chapter written, it's just that I got my first job and I've been really busy, and my finals are like in a week, so I've been studying for those also. Anyway you know what to do, just hit that little button and review this chapter. :)