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I stood on the deck of the Airship Celsius looking up into the blue sky above me as the wind blew through the shorter portions of my hair. No one was around, so I saw little harm in daydreaming out loud. I pretended that he was still here, my Tidus.
Everyone is telling me that I should move on with my life, that I may be hoping for something that can't and won't come true. There's nothing wrong with a little hope, is there? It is only wrong if it is a false hope and in that case, it's the one supplying that false hope that is at fault, or at least that's what I said to Lady Yunaleska two years ago. But now I wonder, is my hope false hope?
I've come a long way since those days we spent on the pilgrimage to Zanarkand and I know I couldn't have done it without everyone's help. I know that I defiantly couldn't have done anything without his help. Even though, back then I was scared and even a little angry, I was happy as long as the road went on forever. It was great, as long as we never reached Zanarkand, for once we did, the pilgrimage would be over as well as my life. Once I summoned the final aeon, my fayth, my life would end and the Calm would begin, but the Calm wouldn't last forever. Yu Yevon would take my fayth and make it into a new Sin and the cycle---or more accurately, as stated by Seymour, Spiral--would start anew. I used to believe that if I could give even a moment of piece to the people, that was enough but it wasn't.
Now, because of everyone's hard work and sacrifices, Sin is gone for good and the Eternal Calm is here. It's been a full two years since then and it seems like the whole world is finally returning to normal, for everyone else anyway. As happy as I am, I can't help thinking that something is wrong. Something is missing---you.
"Yunie! There you are! We've been looking everywhere for you!" I returned back to Spira. I turned around to see my cousin Rikku standing behind me. Her speed was astounding! "Come on, we're almost to the Thunder Plains! We're gonna land soon and I don't want you to almost fall off again because of Brother's terrible landings!"
"TERRIBLE LANDING, HUH?!" The microphone that Rikku wore on her scarf was a mixed blessing. The more I look at my cousin, the more skimpy her outfit seems to become, not that I should be one to talk. That's another thing, I've come a long way from my summoner's robes. The only thing I kept from my old outfit was the boots, not that I threw the rest out, I have them somewhere special locked up in a chest. The location is a secret.
As for Rikku's choice in garments, that's a whole other story. Her favorite dress-sphere is 'Thief' (mine is 'Gunner') and is made up of very little. I try to be open-minded but I hardly consider a bikini, micro skirt, cowboy boots, bandana, sleeves cut off of one of MY shits, and a scarf an outfit! Paine, on the other hand, dresses the most modestly out of the three of us.
After we defeated Sin and Yu Yevon, I returned to Besaid, Kimahri returned to Mount Gagazet, and Rikku, well, she just continued to fly around the world. Life in Besaid was pretty boring, each and everyday used to go by so slowly, but what do I expect? The Eternal Calm is just that, calm. I just needed something more. That's when Rikku showed me the sphere of a man who looks like you but I wonder, is it truly you? I have my doubts ever since I fell into the Farplane.
I remember the day she came with the sphere. I was walking on the beach, daydreaming, when suddenly I walk right into Wakka! He said that I had a guess waiting for me at Lulu's house but he wouldn't tell me who. He also said that my guest had something for me. When I asked him who it was, all he said was "A friend." I think he was trying to cheer me up but when I got there, it just added to the disappointment. I feel bad about feeling like that, but honestly, I was hoping it was you. I was hoping that you had returned through some miricle but it was only Rikku.
She was sitting next to Lulu and they were talking about something when I came in but they quickly stopped when I came in. Looking back, I think I know what they were talking about. I think Lulu was trying to protect me. She didn't want me to see that sphere, just in case it wasn't you. I think she didn't want me to get my hopes up or me to end up with a broken heart. I'm so lucky to have people who care about me so much.
When I stepped closer, Rikku tackled me to the floor. All I say was a big grin and green eyes looking down at me. She gave me a big hung and told me that she missed me. I hadn't seen her in the longest but we still kept in touch, sort of. She kept sending me spheres of all the places she went to, not that I had never seen them before. She sent me sphere from almost everywhere except for Zanarkand. I know why though I always pretended not to. I heard rumors that it became a tourist hotspot and hoped that my sacred place was still the way I remembered it but alas, it was a tourist trap. How my heart hurt.
After I got back up, Rikku stood with her closed hand out, holding something. She called it "The really supper-duper, ultra special, just for Yunie thingy". Yes, those were her exact words. Very Rikku! Anyway, I was a sphere. Rikku said that Kimahri fround it on Mount Gagazet and told her to give it to me. So what did she do? She watched it (though she said that she was just checking for non-Yunie appropriate material) and eventually brought it to me. I don't mind, really.
When I played the sphere, I was utterly shocked! The man in the sphere looked just like you! I asked her if she knew when it was recorded and she said that she had no clue and no one that she asked could date it. That's when I made up my mind. I was going to look for you and that is why I'm here now. Sort of.
"Yunie? Yunie? Spira to Yunie!" Whoops, I spaced out again. "Yunie, come on, we're gonna land soon!"
I followed her back to the bridge of the Celsius where everyone was waiting for me. We've been through a lot together and when I say a lot, I mean A LOT! We started out as normal sphere hunters on a mission to have fun but now, I don't know what to call us anymore. We're in the middle of a war between the Youth League and New Yevon, fighting Aeons that should not be here, trying to stop something called Vegnagun, and trying to keep the Eternal Calm from crumbling beneath our feet. Sometimes it's just too much, you know? If you were here, what would you do? I wonder.
I believed that then would be the last time in a while that we would be able to relax and actually enjoy ourselves. At the time, we were getting closer and closer to the Thunder Plains to give a concert. The idea was that the concert would unite the members of the Youth League and New Yevon. Everyone likes music, right? Weirder things have happened. For me, it was a chance to express how I felt, the feelings welling up inside from all that had happened: losing you, the changes in Spira, my weird dream, fighting my former aeons, what happened in the farplane, discovering the secrets of New and Old Yevon, and the whole business with Vegnagun, Shuyin, and Lenne. I think that was just too much for me. I wished so badly that you were there by my side, but you weren't and I had to face that.
"So, you wanna rehearse one more time, before you go?" Rikku asked. I just looked up at her and nodded. We went to the cabin and rehearsed for a little while but I just couldn't concentrate. Luckily, I did well enough.
"So any ideas on what you're going to sing?" I nodded and began to hum a tune that had been floating around in my head for a while. I think it may have been a song by whoever had the dress sphere before me. It was a pretty tune, completely different from my other song: Real Emotion. Did I mention that my last concert was crashed by Rikku and Paine? Yeah, I know, it doesn't make sence but the one singing wasn't me. My garment grid was stolen and someone else pretended to be me--namely LeBlanc, our rivial sphere hunter. This time it really was me out there and I was alone. I just hoped that my song reached the person that mattered most, you.
We walked back to the bridge together, Rikku and I, as the airship landed in the Thunder Plains. It was time for the show but something seemed wrong. Brother was pacing back and forth and Buddy was talking to someone through the airship com system. I decided to ask Paine what was up.
"What's going on?" she frowned slightly. I looked again at Brother.
"It seems like a fiend is attacking the audience and anyone who just happenes to be in the general area." I think that was the most words I heard her speak at one time. I thought for a moment. No audience means no show.
"I guess we're gonna to have to go stop it, huh." Rikku responded, with a sigh. I patted her on the shoulders and smiled weakly.
"Let's go, then." Paine added. As we left to deal with the fiend, Shinra, Buddy, and Brother finished preparations for the concert. "It's hurt time."
Everyone is telling me that I should move on with my life, that I may be hoping for something that can't and won't come true. There's nothing wrong with a little hope, is there? It is only wrong if it is a false hope and in that case, it's the one supplying that false hope that is at fault, or at least that's what I said to Lady Yunaleska two years ago. But now I wonder, is my hope false hope?
I've come a long way since those days we spent on the pilgrimage to Zanarkand and I know I couldn't have done it without everyone's help. I know that I defiantly couldn't have done anything without his help. Even though, back then I was scared and even a little angry, I was happy as long as the road went on forever. It was great, as long as we never reached Zanarkand, for once we did, the pilgrimage would be over as well as my life. Once I summoned the final aeon, my fayth, my life would end and the Calm would begin, but the Calm wouldn't last forever. Yu Yevon would take my fayth and make it into a new Sin and the cycle---or more accurately, as stated by Seymour, Spiral--would start anew. I used to believe that if I could give even a moment of piece to the people, that was enough but it wasn't.
Now, because of everyone's hard work and sacrifices, Sin is gone for good and the Eternal Calm is here. It's been a full two years since then and it seems like the whole world is finally returning to normal, for everyone else anyway. As happy as I am, I can't help thinking that something is wrong. Something is missing---you.
"Yunie! There you are! We've been looking everywhere for you!" I returned back to Spira. I turned around to see my cousin Rikku standing behind me. Her speed was astounding! "Come on, we're almost to the Thunder Plains! We're gonna land soon and I don't want you to almost fall off again because of Brother's terrible landings!"
"TERRIBLE LANDING, HUH?!" The microphone that Rikku wore on her scarf was a mixed blessing. The more I look at my cousin, the more skimpy her outfit seems to become, not that I should be one to talk. That's another thing, I've come a long way from my summoner's robes. The only thing I kept from my old outfit was the boots, not that I threw the rest out, I have them somewhere special locked up in a chest. The location is a secret.
As for Rikku's choice in garments, that's a whole other story. Her favorite dress-sphere is 'Thief' (mine is 'Gunner') and is made up of very little. I try to be open-minded but I hardly consider a bikini, micro skirt, cowboy boots, bandana, sleeves cut off of one of MY shits, and a scarf an outfit! Paine, on the other hand, dresses the most modestly out of the three of us.
After we defeated Sin and Yu Yevon, I returned to Besaid, Kimahri returned to Mount Gagazet, and Rikku, well, she just continued to fly around the world. Life in Besaid was pretty boring, each and everyday used to go by so slowly, but what do I expect? The Eternal Calm is just that, calm. I just needed something more. That's when Rikku showed me the sphere of a man who looks like you but I wonder, is it truly you? I have my doubts ever since I fell into the Farplane.
I remember the day she came with the sphere. I was walking on the beach, daydreaming, when suddenly I walk right into Wakka! He said that I had a guess waiting for me at Lulu's house but he wouldn't tell me who. He also said that my guest had something for me. When I asked him who it was, all he said was "A friend." I think he was trying to cheer me up but when I got there, it just added to the disappointment. I feel bad about feeling like that, but honestly, I was hoping it was you. I was hoping that you had returned through some miricle but it was only Rikku.
She was sitting next to Lulu and they were talking about something when I came in but they quickly stopped when I came in. Looking back, I think I know what they were talking about. I think Lulu was trying to protect me. She didn't want me to see that sphere, just in case it wasn't you. I think she didn't want me to get my hopes up or me to end up with a broken heart. I'm so lucky to have people who care about me so much.
When I stepped closer, Rikku tackled me to the floor. All I say was a big grin and green eyes looking down at me. She gave me a big hung and told me that she missed me. I hadn't seen her in the longest but we still kept in touch, sort of. She kept sending me spheres of all the places she went to, not that I had never seen them before. She sent me sphere from almost everywhere except for Zanarkand. I know why though I always pretended not to. I heard rumors that it became a tourist hotspot and hoped that my sacred place was still the way I remembered it but alas, it was a tourist trap. How my heart hurt.
After I got back up, Rikku stood with her closed hand out, holding something. She called it "The really supper-duper, ultra special, just for Yunie thingy". Yes, those were her exact words. Very Rikku! Anyway, I was a sphere. Rikku said that Kimahri fround it on Mount Gagazet and told her to give it to me. So what did she do? She watched it (though she said that she was just checking for non-Yunie appropriate material) and eventually brought it to me. I don't mind, really.
When I played the sphere, I was utterly shocked! The man in the sphere looked just like you! I asked her if she knew when it was recorded and she said that she had no clue and no one that she asked could date it. That's when I made up my mind. I was going to look for you and that is why I'm here now. Sort of.
"Yunie? Yunie? Spira to Yunie!" Whoops, I spaced out again. "Yunie, come on, we're gonna land soon!"
I followed her back to the bridge of the Celsius where everyone was waiting for me. We've been through a lot together and when I say a lot, I mean A LOT! We started out as normal sphere hunters on a mission to have fun but now, I don't know what to call us anymore. We're in the middle of a war between the Youth League and New Yevon, fighting Aeons that should not be here, trying to stop something called Vegnagun, and trying to keep the Eternal Calm from crumbling beneath our feet. Sometimes it's just too much, you know? If you were here, what would you do? I wonder.
I believed that then would be the last time in a while that we would be able to relax and actually enjoy ourselves. At the time, we were getting closer and closer to the Thunder Plains to give a concert. The idea was that the concert would unite the members of the Youth League and New Yevon. Everyone likes music, right? Weirder things have happened. For me, it was a chance to express how I felt, the feelings welling up inside from all that had happened: losing you, the changes in Spira, my weird dream, fighting my former aeons, what happened in the farplane, discovering the secrets of New and Old Yevon, and the whole business with Vegnagun, Shuyin, and Lenne. I think that was just too much for me. I wished so badly that you were there by my side, but you weren't and I had to face that.
"So, you wanna rehearse one more time, before you go?" Rikku asked. I just looked up at her and nodded. We went to the cabin and rehearsed for a little while but I just couldn't concentrate. Luckily, I did well enough.
"So any ideas on what you're going to sing?" I nodded and began to hum a tune that had been floating around in my head for a while. I think it may have been a song by whoever had the dress sphere before me. It was a pretty tune, completely different from my other song: Real Emotion. Did I mention that my last concert was crashed by Rikku and Paine? Yeah, I know, it doesn't make sence but the one singing wasn't me. My garment grid was stolen and someone else pretended to be me--namely LeBlanc, our rivial sphere hunter. This time it really was me out there and I was alone. I just hoped that my song reached the person that mattered most, you.
We walked back to the bridge together, Rikku and I, as the airship landed in the Thunder Plains. It was time for the show but something seemed wrong. Brother was pacing back and forth and Buddy was talking to someone through the airship com system. I decided to ask Paine what was up.
"What's going on?" she frowned slightly. I looked again at Brother.
"It seems like a fiend is attacking the audience and anyone who just happenes to be in the general area." I think that was the most words I heard her speak at one time. I thought for a moment. No audience means no show.
"I guess we're gonna to have to go stop it, huh." Rikku responded, with a sigh. I patted her on the shoulders and smiled weakly.
"Let's go, then." Paine added. As we left to deal with the fiend, Shinra, Buddy, and Brother finished preparations for the concert. "It's hurt time."
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