Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ 1000 words ❯ Chapter 1

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

A Thousand Words

Disclaimer: I do not own or own rights to; Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy X2, 1000 words( the song),
Lenne, Shuyin, music, the english language or any poetic elements used in this story.I'd like to say thanks to all the people
who actually do own these things for not sueing me...unless you do sue me.

The crowd roars as a beautiful young woman with long brown hair and light brown

eyes steps off the monstrously large stage. She exits the building through the back door

and she starts walking down the street.

“Hey, Lenne.” She hears from behind her and she quickly turns around to look.

“Oh, hi Shuyin.” She responds. Shuyin is tall a boy her age with dark blonde hair.

“Lenne, that was an incredible concert .”

“Well it had to be, it may be the last.” Her voice begins to trail off. You can see in her

face that she’s thinking of more important things.

“Huh? What’re you talking about?”

“You didn’t hear?”

“Hear what?” He began to grow impatient.

“Our peaceful city of Zanarkand is going to war.”

“What!? But why?”

“I don’t know, there has been trouble with the rising groups of people who are strongly

opposed to yevon and the officials are all agreeing that we need to go to war to

make peace.”

“This isn’t right, why should you have to go fight just so everyone believes in yevon?”

“It’s okay, and I’m not the only one. Every summoner in the city has to go. We

have to defend our rights.”

“Lenne, you’re not a fighter anymore, you’re a songstress, and the best one to ever live!”

“Hmm, thank you , but that changes nothing, I still have to leave first thing tomorrow

morning.”

“Lenne, I-”

“Well it was nice seeing you but I really must go, can we talk again later?”

“Of course, I’ll come over your house as soon as I can”

“Well, goodbye until then.” She tried to act cheerful, but seeing him so upset only made

her feel worse.

“Goodbye, Lenne.”

Lenne walks into her house and nearly collapses into a chair. She was incredibly

exhausted from everything that happened that day. Everything had changed so quickly

and the training she had went through as a young girl, that nearly all women went

through, had dragged her mercilessly into a fight of very little importance to her.

She falls asleep deep in thought of the task that was at hand.

She wakes up a few hours later to the sound of a light scream. The scream seemed faint, but

it shattered her dreams with a hammer wielding the force to smash diamonds to dust. She

quickly jumps up and begins to walk outside. When she gets outside she sees Shuyin on the

on the ground as a large man walks over to him.

“You’re not so tough now are ya?” The man said as he chuckled to himself.

“Well how tough could someone be tough when they’re fighting a hideus gargantuan like

you?”

Lenne said with a deep look of fury burning through her once soft eyes.

“Lenne get out of here, this doesn’t involve you.” Shuyin said as he strained himself to

stand up.

“We’ll see how you like picking on people smaller than you!”

She quickly rushed in, punched the man in the stomach than kicked him right between the

eyes. With a loud thud the man falls, face first, onto the ground. He manages to stand up

and begins running.

"Valfore!" Lenne shouts as a monstrous bird like creature soars out of the air and attacks

the man, being careful to leave him unharmed.

“Ahh!” He screams as he flees for safety.

Lenne then helps Shuyin into her house. She works quickly to tend to his wounds.

“Thanks, I’m feeling a lot better now, but you shouldn’t have risked your own safety for

me.”

“Shuyin, I couldn’t have just left you there to die, what happened with that guy anyway?”

“He just had a drink to many. He was fightin' with his girlfriend and looked like he was

gettin’ ready to take a shot at her, and I couldn’t just let him do that.”

“You ran into a fight with a guy that size for someone you didn’t even know? Shuyin,

what would I have done if you had gotten hurt, well hurt worse?”

“I was gonna just keep walking, but when I saw how he was treating her I just couldn’t

stop thinking about what if something like that happened to you, and I couldn’t let him get

away with it!” He began to calm down. “Anyway, have you heard the rumors about the

Al Bhed's new weapon?”

“What new weapon?” She replied with sort of a blank stare on her face.

“Some sort of giant machine with the power to crush entire cities in a single blast. It’s

supposed to have some kind of a cannon that can destroy everything around for miles. They

call it 'Project Vegnagun.'”

“That’s horrible, how can we win this war when they have a weapon like that?”

“Simple, Lenne, we take it. I’m going tonight to steal it from them and end this war. Then

you won’t have to go fight.” He gets up and begins to walk towards the door.

“But, Leon I-” She begins to whimper.

“Lenne, save your tears, ‘cause I’ll come back.” He whispers as he walks out the door.

It doesn’t take long for Lenne to get ready. She packs a few things and prepares to head out

after Shuyin. She begins to run towards the Al Bhed's base. It’s location was no secret,

but it was supposed to be so well guarded everyone would just avoid it. Lenne pushed

forward using every last bit of bravery she had. As she arrives at the base she catches a

glimpse of Shuyin knocking out two guards at the front gate. She was shocked. How could

he manage to do this? He was nearly killed by a single man but these two were taken out

easily. She walked through the base following the remnants of the dead and the injured. It

hurt her to continue, feeling sympathy for all life, but she pressed on."I have to help Shuyin save Zanarkand."

She reaches the end of the hallway and she sees it. She sees the horrible mechanical

giant built for the single purpose of taking innocent lives. Lights begin to turn on as it starts

making loud noises. She looks up and can see Shuyin at the controls. She can faintly hear

footsteps coming in their direction, she knows the soldiers must be coming. Suddenly,

a harsh feeling of cold came over her, that of a late winter’s night chill. It then dawns on

her, if she was willing to give her life to save the people she cared about before, she could

do it now. She runs out to the center of the platform, spreads her arms out and prepares for

her certain fate.

“Shuyin, hurry, fire the cannon now, save everyone, save all of the people you came here to save.”

All of her fear leaves her as she stands in front of the machine, it’s cannon fully charged by

now. She calms herself and accepts death.

A look of shock comes across Shuyin's face.

“Le-Lenne?” He looks down at her, his eyes sparkling from being so clos to tears.

Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, the machine powers down. Shuyin jumps down out of the

machine's controls and grabs Lenne in his arms. Al Bhed soldiers rush in, all pointing their guns at the

two of them. Leon looks at the soldiers, with a look colder than absolute zero.

Lenne looks at him with a tear rolling down her cheek. It had finally dawned on her why he

had done all of this and why he stopped the cannon. They both smile and gaze deeply into

each others eyes. All of the soldiers are prepared to fire and just as they begin to shoot she says to

him,

“I love you.”






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