Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Rebirth ❯ Awakening ( Chapter 1 )

Final Fantasy X - Rebirth By: blood_red_angel15

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the FFX characters.

Chapter One- Awakening

Where am I? When did this happen? What is going on here? Questions ran through Tidus' mind like a wildfire as he slowly came out of the deep sleep that had overtaken him as he left Yuna and the others at the Calm Lands. He stretched out. It felt like his bones had been immobile for a lifetime. Darkness surrounded him in every direction except for a small amount of light above his head. He began swimming and about a half a minute later broke the surface of the water. He looked around and swam to shore.

"Who the heck are you!?" asked a person from behind him. He turned to see a heavyset man in an old, worn out Besaid Aurochs bliztball team uniform.

"Where am I?" Tidus asked turning to face the man completely.

"Why your in Luca, the third biggest city in Spira. I'm Datto, assistant captain of the Besaid Aurochs. Care to buy some tickets for the Bliztball Championship tomorrow?" Said the man after a small fit of laughter. "Say, don't I know you from somewhere?"

"Maybe. How long has it been since Sin was destroyed?"

"Two years tomorrow, buddy."

"Thanks." He said as he handed the man some Gil that he had in his pocket and ran off towards the Inn.

"Hey, you didn't get a ticket and besides you gave about 500,000 Gil!" The man shouted at him.

"You can keep it." He hollered back as he kept running.

Three years! It can't be, it just can't be! He thought as he slowed down to a walk. He walked in to the Inn and asked for a room. After he paid he went out into the town to check out what had changed. He walked slowly towards the entrance of the bliztball stadium and item shops.

Out in the middle of the walkway was a huge stone statue depicting him, Yuna, Wakka, Auron, Rikku, Lulu, and Kimahri. He turned and walked into the bathroom and looked in a mirror. His hair had grown down to his shoulders and turned lighter than what it used to be. His clothes had darkened but his Caladbolg sword still hung off his side attached to his belt. He turned and walked back out to the front of the stadium and left to the shops where Yuna had been kidnapped near the start of his guardian-hood.

"Hey bruddas, what's our goal for tomorrow's tournament?" Said a voice he would of recognized anywhere from behind him. He turned and saw the man that was like his brother, Wakka.

"Win!" Called the Besaid Aurochs.

"Then I am not dreaming, I guess." Tidus said as he stepped up behind Wakka.

Wakka and the rest of the team turned to look at him as their jaws dropped. The just stood there with mouths open for a moment until Wakka finally found the words to say.

"You're… You're actually back. I thought… We all thought that you were gone forever." He said as he gasped for air and hugged Tidus.

"Now you really didn't think I was gone, did you. Come on, you guys know I never back down from challenge." Tidus said as he hugged him back. "Anyway where is everyone else and what has happened over these last three years?"

"Come with me and I'll tell you." He said as he, Tidus, and the team began walking towards the Grand Maester's box in the stadium. "Oh, but before you see everyone you should get a hair cut and change clothes."

An hour they entered the rooms that the Maesters stayed in during the tournament. The team entered first one by one, followed by Wakka and then Tidus finally stepped through with his arms crossed across his chest to the surprise of the two people that were in the room before they entered. Lulu and Rikku were sitting on the couch.

"Your back! I knew that you'd never die!" Yelled Rikku happily as she ran up to hug him.

Same old Rikku, always thinking about her cousin at the same time she was thinking about herself.

"It's good to see both of you again. I still have no clue what is going on here though." Tidus replied with a feeling of joy that rushed over him.

"Well since you went off to the farplane or wherever you were, a lot has changed. We rely on machina now, Zanarkand has been rebuilt, and Yu Yevon is a being of the past now. Wakka and I have been married for about a year and a half now." Lulu said with a rare smile.

"Yunie, Kimahri, and I are maesters now! My father has started up airship ports all around Spira and has ten airships like the one we salvaged. He used the airships to rebuild the Al Bhed home and Wakka even helped. " Rikku replied. "Yunie's the Grand Maester."

"Where are Yuna and Kimahri by the way? I mean if both of them are maesters and the tournament is tomorrow, shouldn't they be here for the opening ceremonies? And Yuna is a big supporter of the Aurochs." Tidus asked with a hint of expectance of in his voice.

"They will be arriving around ten tonight. I suggest that you are ready by then because Yuna has not been the same since that night on the airship. She alone believed that you were still out there somewhere. It seems that she's right again." Lulu answered.

Suddenly, as if something that one of the others had said had turned a key in mind, a titanic amount of knowledge entered his mind. The fayth had somehow had made him real because of an alleged alliance of the spirits of Seymour, Yunalesca, and Yu Yevon who were creating an undead army to break out of the farplane and enter the living world. Just as the thoughts entered his head the fayth that helped summoners receive Bahamut spoke directly into his mind.

"The chambers of fayth have begun to resonate to provide their services to the summoners once again. The alliance is almost ready for their assault on the farplane barrier and eventually the world. You have a little over one month before they will escape. Gather the summoners together again as I will be drawing on my maximum powers to bring Auron, Jecht, and Lord Braska to assist you. This threat is far bigger than any one person can face. You are more than just a dream or real human now. You are a combined fayth. You must lead the summoners to the plains of the Calm Lands to prepare for their undead army. They will try to get to the rebuilt city Zanarkand. You must not allow this to happen. Good luck my young friend."

The news of what was going to happen in one short month struck him like a sledgehammer. It may have been shocking news but ever since Sin he had been ready for anything.

"Wakka. Lulu. Rikku. There is going to be a war to make Sin look like child's play. The fayth that dreamt me into life just told me that in one month a gigantic undead army led by Seymour, Yunalesca, and Yu Yevon will escape the farplane and begin to lay siege to Spira. The fayth have started to give power to the aeons again so we are to gather the summoners of old together and stop the army in the Calm Lands because they are trying to get back to Zanarkand." He said as he paused for a moment to let the information sink in.

"I am now a summoner as well. I have control over all the aeons and am able to control the final aeons of old without dying. Auron, my father, and Braska have been resurrected to help us. It seems that I am no longer a simple dream but a full human now. The fayth told me that my father and I never really will die because we became something more when we came in contact with Sin. Once Yuna gets here and the tournament is over I will need your help dearly, guys. I will have to speak to her when she gets here."

After he had finished telling them the news of war one month away, he and Wakka headed to the locker rooms where the team had went.

"Even if you are a summoner now brudda, we gunna see if you've improved your bliztball skills any, ya' know." Wakka said with a normal joking tone in his voice. "By the way, I've mastered both the Jecht Shot and the Jecht Shot II. I might be a bit of competition for you now."

"Is that so? Then I might actually have to start playing for real then. It was so easy beating the Goers that I could have tied my hands behind my back. But back then no one believed I was really from Zanarkand." Tidus replied also jokingly.

"Well I have an idea then. Since the whole world will now you're back tomorrow at the tournament, why don't we make Rikku and Lulu keep your being here a secret till the game tomorrow? Yuna and the whole world can see you in the sphere."

"That's a good idea. It'd be like a surprise for Yuna." Tidus said after a moment of consideration. "You go tell Rikku and Lulu not to say anything to Yuna or Kimahri except that they're really interested in the tournament tomorrow."

"You go on ahead a get some practice in with the boys and see ya in a little while. Stay in the hotel tonight and stay away from the airship port and if you go out into public I'd wear like a hood or something ya' know. That statue out front makes you pretty recognizable."

After about two hours of practicing with the team, Wakka came rushing in. Apparently he finished telling the other two about the surprise about a minute before Yuna and Kimahri arrived. She had decided to just stay in the suite all night.

"All right guys, tomorrow the matches begin. There are so many free agents this year that some teams split in two and now there are eight teams going for the trophy. Tidus and me will lead the main offensive. Ropp, you Jassu be open for passing and main offensive blocking." Wakka said as took a pause. "Botta, Letty, and Miyu, you people are in charge of shutting the other team down before they get close enough to Keepa to try their luck against our brick wall. Keepa, if they do get in your zone, you know what to do and how to do it."

"You got it cap'n!" Keepa hollered from the back.

"All right guys. Meet in here at ten tomorrow morning and we're gonna take the trophy back to Besaid again. We are the Besaid Aurochs! What's our goal."

"Win!" Tidus walked slowly back to the Inn with his hood pulled over his face so that only his nose and mouth showed. He went up to his room and fell asleep while waiting in anticipation for the next day