Macalania: Seymour's True Colors, Seymour Vs Fierce Diety!
[Welcome back, readers! Our heroes have finally reached Macalania Temple, but under the pretense of catching up to Yuna, who went ahead with Tromell. But what is going on with Yuna? Time to find out as the party walks into the temple; as they do so, a monk blocks the way when Rikku nears.]
Monk: Halt! The likes of her are not welcome in this hallowed place.
Auron: She is a guardian.
Monk: An Al Bhed, a guardian? Preposterous!
Rikku: I've decided to be Yuna's guardian now, and that's all I want.
Auron: And that's all one needs to be a guardian.
Link: Got a problem with that?
Monk:"Very well.
[Our heroes walk past the monk, and Shelinda runs over once Link has run into the great hall.]
Shelinda: Ah! There you are! So Lady Yuna is getting married. You shouldn't kid around about these things.
Link: ... I guess..
Shelinda: You're not happy?
Link: Nah, it's complicated (Link walks on by Shelinda) Say... Have you seen Yuna ?
Shelinda: I believe...she's gone to the Cloister of Trials with Maester Seymour.
Link: You're kidding me?
[Upon hearing the news the team runs frantically to the Cloister entrance, which is blocked by a monk. Suddenly, a woman runs out of the nuns' chambers.]
Nun: Lord Jyscal! A sphere, in Lady Yuna's belongings...
[Inside the Nun's chambers...]
Auron: This may well answer a few questions.
[Link sets the sphere on the ground and it plays, a hologram of Jyscal coming up in the recording.]
Jyscal: What I am about to tell you is the unclouded truth. I swear it on my honor as a Guado. Listen to me very carefully, for I shall tell you the truth about my son, Seymour. His mind is closed even to me, a maester of Yevon. But I can feel flames of darkness burning in his heart. He is using Yevon, the Guado, and even the summoners. If he is not stopped, he will surely bring destruction and chaos to Spira. I will leave this world soon, killed by my own son. But I do not fault him. Because I was not wise enough, he has suffered, and become twisted. I could not protect him and his mother from the world and its cruelty. I will accept death as punishment for my deeds. But whoever is watching this... I implore you to stop Seymour! Stop my son.
[The recording ends.]
Auron: Wonderful.
Rikku: Will Yuna be all right?"
Auron: Without us, no.
[Auron leaves the room.]
Wakka: Where you goin'?
Link: You saw, didn't you? Seymour's bad news!
Wakka: But he's a maester!
Link: Do what you want, I'm going! Regardless if he is a maester or not.
Lulu: Come on, Wakka. Let's at least hear him out.
Wakka: This can't be happening.
[Kimahri pushes the monk guarding the Cloister out of the way and the party enters after Yuna.]
Auron: Kimahri's up ahead. Go.
Link: Right! By the way, Auron. I'm using it if i need to.
Auron: Right.
[Wakka walks by Auron.]
Auron: We will protect Yuna from anyone. Even a maester.
Wakka: This can't be happening.
Lulu: If he is truly at fault, it must be done.
[And with that the party runs through the completed trials to the antechamber. Seymour and his guardians are waiting for Yuna.]
Link: Seymour!
Seymour: Please be silent. Lady Yuna prays to the fayth.
Link: Come over here and make me!
[Seymour starts walking towards the party; Yuna stumbles out of the fayth.]
Link: Yuna!
Yuna: But why...?
Link: We saw Jyscal's sphere.
Auron: You killed him.
Seymour: What of it? Lady Yuna, certainly you know of these things, did you not? Well then, why have you come here?
Yuna: I came... I came to stop you!
Seymour: I see. You came to punish me, then. What a pity. Ah, of course 'Protect the summoner even at the cost of one's life.' The Code of the Guardian. How admirable. Well, if you're offering your lives, I will have to take them.
Yuna; Maester Seymour, I trust my guardians with my life. But they are also my friends. I will not stand by and watch them be hurt. I will fight you, too!
Link: All right!
Wakka: Maester Seymour!
Seymour: So be it.
[The team fight Seymour for the longest time. All the while he is just toying with our heroes, Everyone is scattered accross the antechamber tired and hurt, as Seymour pulls out all the stops and summons his strongest Aeon.]
Seymour: Feel my pain! Come, Anima!
[Anima's hideous form materializes out of nothing into the battle, with no-one but Link left to stand up to Seymour.]
Link: guess it's time (puts on the Fierce Diety Mask)
(Link transforms with the strange power of the FD mask. It takes over, Link becoming stronger... Faster)
Fierce Deity: Hmph! Seymour! TIME TO PAY...WITH YOUR LIFE!
[Anima spots FD Link and beings bombarding him with dark energy pulses. FD just stands there taking each hit like it was nothing. He draws the Great Fairy sword from the sheath on his back, and readies as the smoke starts to clear. Everyone stumbles to their feet just watching, expecting the worst. The smoke clears and FD lunges forward, sword drawn straight for Anima's head.)
Fierce Deity: It's time! THUNDER BLADE!
(Fierce Deity charges his magic energy into the Great Fairy sword, and unleashes a furious lightining attack that Anima could not stop. The shear force of the sword slicing into Anima, combined with the sheer ferocity and force of his thunder magic, causes Seymour's aeon to dissintigrate into the void it came from. The battle ends with the defeat of Anima and Seymour.)
Seymour: "That power that defeated Anima... It will be mine!
Fierce Diety: Don't count on it. You're life is forfeit. Time to pay for you're fathers death!
[Seymour gets smoked like a Guado cigarette as FD Link's sword runs him through. FD Link steps back , sheathing his sword runs to Seymour as he dies]
Seymour: Yuna...you would pity me now?
(Just as Seymour breathes his last, Tromell enters just in time to see our wounded and tired heroes standing near Seymour's dead body..]
Tromell: Lord Seymour! What happened here?
Wakka: What...what have I done?
Link: (in Fierce Deity form) Wait a minute! It's not our fault at all! Seymour struck first! He's the bad guy!
Tromell: You did this?
Auron: Yuna. Send him.
Tromell: No, stop! Stay away from him, traitors!
[Two Guado monks carry Seymour's corpse out, not allowing it to be follows them out.]
Yuna: Traitors?
Wakka: We're finished.
Link: Now hold on just a minute! Seymour's the bad guy, right? We'll just explain to everyone what happened!
Auron: It won't be that easy... Let's get out of here.
[The party starts walking back through the finished Cloister of Trials, but the walkway starts to disintegrate as they near the end.]
Link: Just great!
[The party reworks the Cloister and heads back to the main hall, as they arrive, they are greeted by Tromell, and a group of Guado, who are staring at them.]
Yuna: Please...
Auron: Give us a chance to explain.
Tromell: No need, I already know what I'll tell the other maesters.
Auron: Meaning...?
Tromell: "Lord Seymour was the leader of the Guado before becoming a maester."
Link: Let ... us ... GO!
Tromell: Let you go? Lord Seymour would never forgive us if we did.
Rikku: Wait, wait! Jyscal's sphere! We can show it to them!
Tromell: You mean this?
[He holds up the sphere and crushes it.]
Tromell: The Guado take care of Guado affairs.
Kimahri: Away!
Auron: Run!
[Link readies his sheild and runs forward through the crowd of Guado, followed by the others straight out of the Temple. They run all the way back to Lake Macalania, as fast as they can. Some Guado appear in battle with them...and a huge four-armed ape of a boss. They defeat them all, but the monster punches the frozen lake and cracks it, sending them plunging to the bottom. They all land at the bottom, in what appears to be the ruins of a city.]
Link: (narration) "Praise be to Yevon." That's what I would have said, if I was a follower of Yevon. Somehow, we were all together, alive. Even if I had a headache from wondering what was in store from us next.
Rikku: I'm sure Yunie's okay. She's breathing fine and all. How are Lulu and Wakka?
Link: Well, Wakka's in shock, can't blame him though. And Lulu, well, she's just.. Lulu.
Rikku: She's so together. All grown up, I guess.
Link: I guess.
Rikku: Well, just give me five or six more years.
Link: So, Kimahri, how do we get out of here?
Rikku: Hey, don't change the subject!
Kimahri: We climb.
Rikku: Kimahri, too!
Kimahri: Only those who try will become.
Rikku: Huh?
Link: If you want to be like Lulu, you will have to work hard... I think.
Rikku: Oh I will!
Kimahri: Kimahri think Rikku should stay Rikku.
Rikku: Hey! Are you saying I'll never be like Lulu? Kimahri!
[Link laughs.]
Wakka: How can you laugh at a time like this!?
[Yuna wakes up.]
Link: Yuna! Are you ok?
[Later on, Yuna tells the others her motives for going to Seymour.]
Yuna: I wanted to confront Maester Seymour about his father, Lord Jyscal. I wanted to convince him to turn himself into Yevon's judgement.
Lulu: In exchange for marriage?
Yuna: Yes, if that's what it took.
Link: So, what did Seymour say?
Yuna: He didn't say anything. Now...now I don't even think it was worth it. I should have told you what I was going to do.
Auron: Enough. Dwelling in the past is futile.
Rikku: Hey! You don't have to say it like that!
Auron: You want to waste time listening to her regrets?
Rikku: You don't have to say it like that.
Auron: Our immediate concern is Yuna's pilgrimage. Are you willing to go on?
Yuna: Yes. But then, do you think Yevon will allow it?
Auron: The fayth are the ones that give power to the summoners. Not the temples or the teachings. If the temples try to stop us...then we will defy Yevon if we must.
Link: My kind of plan!
Rikku: I can't believe you said that!
Lulu: Sir Auron!?
Wakka: Count me out. We have to atone, to make up for the sins we have committed. Of course...it's not like I ever liked Maester Seymour, ya? No way I'll ever forgive him for killing Lord Jyscal...and for trying to do us all in too, you know? But still, the bunch of us going against Yevon? No way!
Lulu: But still, we have transgressed and must face our punishment.
Yuna: We must go to Bevelle. We must speak with Maester Mika and explain what has happened. There is no other way, I think.
Wakka: I agree.
Yuna: Sir Auron...
Auron: So it is decided.
Yuna: Will you come with us?
Auron: I am the troublemaker, after all."
Link: "Yeah, that's right! You can always count on Auron to complicate
things!"
Rikku: Yeah! Kimahri roars, and Auron runs off, and...
Auron: I never asked you to follow me.
Link: Hey, but that's what friends are for. Right?
Rikku: Yep!
Yuna: Thank you.
[Auron walks off.]
Rikku: Friends, huh?
Wakka: Man... How can you all act like nothing's wrong? Must got nerves of steel or something.
Lulu: You're too edgy. Listen to the hymn and calm down.
(as everyone takes this moment to rest, Link walks over to Yuna, all the while the 'hymn of the fayth' reverberates loudly)
Link: Is that coming from the temple?
Yuna: Yes, it is Yevon's gift. It sooths the hearts of the faithful.
[suddenly all goes quiet)
Lulu: The singing stopped.
[The ground shakes.]
Wakka: There's something here!
Auron: The ground!
[Suddenly Sin appears floating nearby, underneath our heroes)
Yuna: Sin!?
Lulu: The toxin! Watch out!
Link: (narration): It was then I knew...that Sin really was my old man. For the first time, I was finally able to believe it.
Link: Zelda's Lullaby... You were listening, too! What is it this time?
[Link is shown an image of Hyrule Castle Town's cityscape.]
Link: Hyrule... You homesick, too? That's not your world anymore. You're Sin now.
[Link is shown a memory of him, younger, sitting on Statue of Triforce in Hyrule Castle]
Link: Hey, I'm older now, you know? I know. You want this to end. I'll find a way. Promise.
[The image ends and Link loses track of where he is. Well that was indeed surprising; a throw down between Anima and Fierce Deity Link. I'm surprised Link could control the Feirce Deity... Well, another chapter ends with our heroes in a bind, I wonder if there is some kind of pattern here. well join us next time to see how our heroes get out of this bind.]