Yuna attempts a plan that goes South very quickly, and then things go from bad to worse. Another FFX2 character appears.

Other than a massive amount of editing for grammar/sentence clarity and a few new sentences added here and there this chapter remains mostly untouched. The name of the chapter is changed but very minutely. This is the point of the fic where I embrace AU to the fullest.

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Awakening

The airship hovered over the city of Bevelle and Yuna wondered how she was going to do this. She had a limited amount of time and she wouldn't be able to collect the Aeon that lay in the cities depth. It would take too much time. Far too much time - and time was something she didn't have. She glanced over at Paine who had been the only one crazy enough to agree to go on this harebrained mission with her. Both were in thief dressphere and Paine seemed anxious to get this over with.

Paine looked at Yuna and noticed the strain that crossed the young girls face every time she looked down at the city. Finally Cid's voice came over the loudspeaker, "we're right above the city, it's now or never folks!"

"Launch the ropes, let's go." Yuna told him.

Two cables shot out of the ship and attached themselves to the back of the entrance to the underground of the Bevelle temple. Paine and Yuna both jumped on the rope and skidded down to the temple entrance, "How much time do you think we have?"

It was Tidus and Yuna was glad to hear him again after the total disaster and nightmare that had been last night. She wondered if he was okay but pushed such thoughts to the back of her mind. She had other that she needed to focus on, other things that she needed to do, "Not sure. How long do you think you have?" she asked in reference to Sin potentially showing up.

"I don't know," he answered honestly.

"We'll just have to see then."

They hit the ground and rushed inside. Making their way through the maze of the temple they found themselves facing the entrance to the chamber of the fayth. They entered and the young boy in the purple robe appeared. He looked at Yuna and studied her for a moment, then he spoke, "I see our plan failed."

"I'm sorry I couldn't have done better. But this was our choice."

Paine was taken aback when Tidus's voice boomed through the chambers and looked around trying to find who was speaking to them. She looked over at Yuna who smiled sadly, "It's Tidus. Sin, this is the only place he can speak to others and they can hear him."

"Oh."

The fayth looked at both Yuna and Paine and then back at Paine studying her again as if seeing her for the first time, "You."

Yuna looked at Paine confused. And Yuna was about to ask what the fayth meant when her mind became a whirlwind of noise. She looked at Paine and then back at the fayth, "Sin. It's here."

Suddenly the link in her mind went dead and she and Paine shared looks before sprinting up the stairs. Paine followed her and they found themselves outside on the long bridge that lead to the main city. Above them a shadow of darkness continued to spread, and there on the horizon, was Sin. She tried to contact Tidus, but to her horror she found she was talking to someone quite different, "Tidus is disposed of at the moment. If you wish to talk to someone, I'm afraid it will have to be me."

Outside of her conversation Yuna found her voice and in an icy cold manner whispered his name, "Yu Yevon."

Paine looked at Yuna and watched as the summoner's exterior changed. She could see it happening, a dark aura surrounded her and it was fascinating. If you found watching someone's mind crack under the presence of evil such a thing. Paine did a double take upon realizing what she was seeing and then ran over to Yuna who was staring at the creature in front of her with a hatred that made Tidus's hate for Jecht look like nothing. Inside of her head Paine heard voice of the fayth, "You escaped for a reason, do not let her face this fate."

"But it's too early!"

"It's now or never. Do it."

Paine nodded to the unheard voices in her head and she closed her eyes. Moments passed before they shot open again. Her body began to attract pyreflies in a way that was very different from the dead who instead leaked them, and her red eyes turned silver. Meanwhile Yuna's body started to react to her anger and was beginning to float towards Sin, and her death. Paine looked up and her sword started to gleam, a white light shining from it, engulfing everything and anything in its path. Half way up Yuna stopped and Paine could feel Sin's eyes - or what felt like it's eyes - on her. Yuna's body turned around and then slowly floated back into Paine's arms Yuna's anger assuaged. For a moment Panie and Sin looked at each other sizing each other up. The monster then floated backwards and away, but did not disappear - as if waiting for something.

As soon as Sin was gone she found herself and Yuna surrounded by Bevelle guards, "So, finally the traitor decides to show her face. And the rebellious spawn is with her." a man stepped out Capitol door a few paces away from them.

"Who are you?" she asked of the leader.

"Baralai," he answered her "at the moment, I am in charge of the city. And you two are under arrest. Well Yuna's under arrest, Paine you are hereby sentenced to death."

Yuna looked at Paine worry crossing her face. A slight panic overtook her, she had never gotten anyone she'd known killed just for knowing her. Tidus had not counted because his death had been a choice made by both of them. This death would be just by association only - a decision taken out of Paine's hands. To compound her fear she had just started to know this girl. Had just started to call her a friend, and now, she was going to be killed. She looked up and saw the airship and sighed, there was nothing anyone could do for her or for Paine now. They would have to escape themselves. She looked at Baralai, "May I know why you are killing her before you do it?" she asked.

Baralai seemed to consider her and then nodded, "She's a spawn of Sin. The only known human one. We had her here awaiting death as it was, and she escaped. Her sentence must be fulfilled - it is the law."

Yuna looked at Paine, "Is this true?"

Paine hung her head in slight defeat, "Yes. I was sent here by Sin. But it was the fayth that found me, I work for them now. Yevon government doesn't believe me, so I joined you."

Yuna wanted to ask her more but instead was forced to watch as they tugged Paine away from her. In that moment her hatred for Yevon and the government grew. She looked up to see where Sin was lurking, still waiting and she looked back at the Bevelle capitol building. And at the people who were about to take her friend. She knew what she had to do. Yuna yanked herself away from the palace guards and pulled out her staff, "Let her go." she warned, "Or I will have Sin attack you all."

They looked at Paine, and then at Yuna, Baralai only smirked at the young teen, "Prove it."

After what amounted to a moment of hesitation Yuna took one last look at the man and then dropped her staff. The motionless Sin suddenly started to move towards the city. Yuna looked and saw that Baralai had some how sneaked out as he had finished his words. And as Sin approached the city, it's mouth opened and a small precise beam of energy spewed out of it's mouth. It hit the guard that was holding Paine and he fell down like a rag doll. Paine swirled around and pushed one of the men holding her away. Then they made a run for it. Men after them, Paine looked at Yuna, "Why did you save me? Once Sin is dead I'll disappear."

Yuna swirled her staff summoning Shiva. The Aeon deflected the soldiers while they ran to where the airship had released chains into the ground for them to climb up. Once they were off the ground and a safe distance away Yuna looked at Paine, "Because, you are my friend. And I don't let my friends get hurt, ever, no matter what they are."

Paine smiled. They reached the deck of the airship winded from climbing the chains. As they stood there Yuna smiled and reached into the dark recesses of her mind where Tidus usually lay, "Thanks Tidus. I knew you would gain control again. And it was just in time too."

Her mind remained silent for awhile and the a voice spoke to her, only it wasn't Tidus, "I told you. The boy is disposed of for the moment. Did you not believe me? I saved you, not your Tidus."

Yuna's mind went blank. And she felt as if ice swept over her. Fear and knowledge of what she had done, the sin she had committed hit her full force. She had just let Sin kill, not Tidus's Sin, who would only kill to help her, but the true Sin. She had let Yevon kill, to advance his own game. And she began to shake, Paine came up to try and console Yuna but found the girl's mind blocked from her. After a few seconds had passed Yuna looked up a smile on her face. One that Paine knew with a certainty was fake. And walked away.

A/N: So much changes in the chapter compared to FFX and FFX2 but for this fic I think it's for the better. I 3 Baralai even if he's a giant asshole right now.