Shuyin

'What…what the fuck just happened?' I'm staring at the sphere in this Guado's hand with complete confusion. 'How did her pyreflies get absorbed by the sphere?'

My attention turns from the sphere to the Guado himself. "What did you do?" I screamed out. 'No…this can't be. I just got her back. How is this happening? Why is this happening?' I began to panic.

The Guado laughs at my confusion and smirks. "Calm down, my friend. She is safe…for now."

"For now?" I growled. I'm trying to keep my composure, but I can feel my panic rising. "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?"

"She'll be safe, so long as you cooperate." He replied, as if it was the simplest thing in the world. "I told you that I had a proposition for you. I require your help."

"Help with what?"

Seymour paused. "Lenne is unfortunately leverage to ensure you'll participate in this plan I have for the two of us. To finally cleanse Spira once and for all."

I'm gritting my teeth. I feel the anger building up inside of me. I'm ready to rip his smug fucking face off. 'How dare he use Lenne like this? I swear to the Fayth, I'm going to make him pay…but for now? For now I have to play along. For Lenne.' I thought.

"What do I need to do?" I conceded.

Seymour giggled to himself. It made me only want to rip his head off even more. "Well, I require two things from you." He paused to consider how to lay out his demands.

"Ultimately, I want you to show me how you did that neat little trick with possessing the Fayth. I'm going to require one of them to work as the inner core for the new Sin I am going to build"

"New Sin? Are you kidding me?" I scoffed.

"I'm very much serious. Yu Yevon did this 1,000 years ago; and with every final aeon summoned, he repeated the process." Seymour was smiling towards me. I guess he was reveling in his 'genius' plan of his.

He continued, "But before that. I need you to take care of a certain girl and her band of merry fellows for me."

I know who he's referring to. The same girl who stopped me. The one who finally defeated Sin for good. The girl who took down the colossus, Vegnagun.

"Why do you need her dead?" In all honesty, I became grateful towards the girl. She brought Lenne back to me. I really don't want to repay the favor by killing her.

"Because she's the only one I can foresee who will stop us."

'Us? What is with this 'us' bullshit? I want nothing to do with this.' I thought and sighed in frustration.

"And what if I say no?" I ask.

He snickers. "I will crush this sphere, and your beloved's soul will be destroyed."

I'm clenching my fists. The thought of her soul being killed hit me in the gut like a punch from a Bashura fiend. I felt sick to the stomach.

"How am I to kill her?" I ask. I don't want to kill her, but if it means saving Lenne…

"Well, this is where I know fortune is on my side." He laughed to himself.

'Dear gods this guy is fucking annoying' I was losing my patience.

"You are very much like her little boyfriend. Same looks, voice, and trust me…I can see a lot of behavioral similarities between you." He started, "minus all the swearing on your part. You're going to need to cease doing that."

"Where are you going with this?"

"I'm going to need you to possess Tidus. Pretend to be him for a while. Get close to Yuna and her friends; and when the time is right, I want you to kill them all. And then save Tidus for last." Seymour explained

'Okay, now I feel even sicker to my fucking stomach. Is this guy serious?'

"What say you?" He asked.

"I have no choice, do I? I'll do it." I replied reluctantly.

"Good! Wonderful." Seymour exclaimed. "And when you are successful, you will have your beloved Lenne returned to you. Safe and sound."

I can feel my lips trembling. I don't want to do this. But I can't lose Lenne. I just can't… "How am I to possess him? How can I possibly imitate him?"

"I told you, you two are very much alike. In fact, I have my own theory on why that is." Seymour smiled. "He is a Dream of the Fayth, after all. From Dream Zanarkand. Star player of the Zanarkand Abes. Son of Jecht."

My eyes widen, "…wait. A Dream of the Fayth? Like one of those summoned from the Fayth on Mt. Gagazet? The ones from Zanarkand who recreated the city in a dream version?"

"Correct."

"And he's…he's the son of Jecht in the Dream Zanarkand?" I'm piecing the puzzle together. My father was named Jecht. I was the Star player of the Zanarkand Abes. The Fayth recreated people who lived in the city…

"It seems you are figuring it out." Seymour replied. "Be yourself. He is also very emotionally reactive like you." He giggled again. ('I swear to Gods I'm going to stab him for each time he giggles like that')

"So imitating him shouldn't be difficult" I replied.

"No. Just be yourself. But again, cut down on the swearing. He didn't do that as much as you do." Seymour replied.

"Okay, but how do I possess him?"

"We wait until they come to the Farplane Glen, while they visit on their grand tour of Spira; which they are completing right now."

"Fine." I sighed.

Seymour smiled in triumph.

Tidus

"I can't believe you've done this much in two years!" I exclaimed

"Well, it was actually the past few months." Yuna replied. "The first 16 months or so, I stayed on Besaid."

"Well that's boring." I teased.

Yuna smacked my arm playfully. "I left because I knew I had to find you. Especially after seeing that sphere…"

"Yeah, you keep mentioning this sphere. What was on it?" I asked.

"Well, it looked like you…in a jail cell. Umm…"

"Yuna?"

"Ultimately, it wasn't you. But it led me on the path to finding you." She looked to the ground and smiled. This was one of the many things I loved about her. She was so sweet, but passionate. She was kind of shy, but ready to help her people whenever they needed it.

I tipped her face up towards me, "My face is up here you know."

She laughed and rolled her eyes. "I'm sorry." A pause filled the air. "It just hurts…to think about us being apart. And I'm so grateful to have you back." I can see her blinking to prevent tears from falling. "The whole experience brings up strong emotions in my heart."

I hold her face in my hands. I stare into her heterochromic eyes. This was another feature I loved above her. Her eyes were so unique, so pretty. One eye was a beautiful shade of blue which reminded me of the ocean. I found that I could stare into its depths for eternity. Her other eye, a gorgeous shade of green which reminded me of the green grasses of Spira. It reminded me of our journey together through Kilika, the Mi'hen Highroad, the Calm Lands, etc. It reminds me of the setting where we watched that sunset outside of Rin's Travel Agency. The grassy fields where we joked and discussed difficult topics, particularly of the nature of Sin. I shook my head. 'Don't want to think about the bad parts of my memory like that…'

"I'm so grateful to you. For bringing me back home."

Yuna smiled in return. "I'm so happy you're home."

A few moments of silence permeated the air before I asked where our next stop on the journey will be. We just passed the Thunder Plains and were residing at Seymour's…I mean, Leblanc's Chateau. Leblanc was a strange woman. She stared at me with confusion and curiosity; and she had a weird statue of her lover…'yeeesh. Talk about psycho girlfriend.'

"How about we visit The Farplane? I believe the Guado have fixed it by now."

"Fixed it?" I inquired

"Mhmm. It became unstable after they left. It was closed off to the public." Yuna explained.

The idea of an unstable Farplane was a bit spooky. But luckily they have it under control. Yuna and I made our way out the Chateau and up the slope to the Farplane entrance. We cross through and walk the winding halls to the Glen where people can go to see a vision of their deceased loved ones.

"So you never went to the Farplane to see me?" I asked.

"No, the Farplane was unstable then. But even if it wasn't, I wanted to believe you were still alive." Yuna paused. "Going there would have confirmed you were gone."

I nodded. I understood what she meant. I honestly didn't want to try and summon a vision of anyone two years ago when I first visited the Farplane. Back then, I thought of my old man (though I knew he was "alive" as Sin), which made me think of my mom. Seeing her apparition was a bit intense. To be complete honest, the Farplane kind of creeps me out.

We make our way to the Glen to observe the beautiful flowers and glowing, dancing pyreflies which filled the environment. Of course, I tried not to think of my old man and mom again. Buuuuttt…that made me think of them. So they appeared. Yuna held my hand for support.

"I want to tell you more about what started my journey…" Yuna began to explain the sphere Kimahri found in more detail. She explained the Crimson Squad, Paine's story, their journey sphere hunting, the concert she held…

"Wait…WHAT?" I exclaimed

Yuna giggled. "Yeah, I held a concert with the aid of Lenne."

Before I realized what was happening, I saw a vision of the two individuals Yuna was speaking of. The Farplane Glen was reacting to her story. I gasped in shock…'that guy! He really does look like me!'

Yuna giggled a little when she saw the look on my face. "Told you."

I continued to stare at the visions. It was freaky. Like looking into a mirror. I noticed that something seemed familiar about the woman as well, but I couldn't place why I felt like I knew her.

Yuna then explained the final battle with Vegnagun, how the Fayth were possessed, the Aeons returned, and the Fayth thanked her for all that she did by bringing me back. I listened to her story as I continued to gawk at the visions.

'She had quite the journey…'

Yuna walked over a few feet away from the visions of Shuyin and Lenne to call for a vision of her parents to manifest. Her back was turned to me. At this moment, I got closer to the visions of Lenne and Shuyin. I was trying to piece together my draw towards them. My curiosity was growing.

The next thing I knew, I saw pyreflies flying out from the vision of Shuyin and shot into my body. I think collapsed then, with the world fading to black.