Final Fantasy X: Story Guide, Part 2
rapid communication, updated on 09/09/01
by Henry H. Jerng

Please note: As a rapid communication, this guide may contain minor errors that will be corrected in the final version. (Narration) refers to Tidus' comments on the events in the game.

This picks up where the last update left off......

After battling through several groups of soldiers, they finally arrive at the altar to face off Kinokku. (Kinokku) "The farce is over." Aaron holds Tidus back from doing something possibly foolish. (Aaron) "Look." Soldiers surround them with rifles pointing right at them. As Seymour looks on, Yuna slowly unveils her summoner's rod. The end of Kinokku's rifle keeps Tidus from rushing forth. Yuna now confronts Seymour with her rod held in a horizontal position. (Seymour) "You want to send me to the other world so much as to act as my pretend bride? You're a stubborn one. Well then, you're fit to be my bride." Yuna holds her rod vertically, and then small particles of light begin to emerge around Seymour. (Maika) "Stop! Don't you regret the lives of these people? (Referring to Yuna's guards) You're choice will decide the fate of your friends. Do you accept? Will you forsaken? Which do you choose?" After a moment's thought, Yuna drops her rod and allows it tumble down the stairs. (Seymour) "That's enough."

Yuna and Seymour stand face to face in front of everyone. A confident smile emerges on Seymour's face. Rikku and Lulu struggle to consider what they can do. Seymour places both of his hands on Yuna's exposed shoulders. Seymour kisses Yuna on the lips, and a bell rings to the sound of hands clapping. Tidus can clearly see Yuna's clutching hand, as she attempts to hold back her disgust. At the end of their kiss, Seymour turns to the crowd. (Seymour, waving his left hand) "Kill them."

(Kinokku, with his gun pointed at Tidus) "It's too bad, but it's to maintain Ebon's order." (Aaron) "Aren't weapons against the teachings?" (Kinokku, now pointing it at Aaron) "It depends on the time and place." (Yuna) "Stop!" Everyone discovers that Yuna has gotten herself at the edge of the altar, determined to do something drastic. (Yuna) "Please drop your weapons. If you don't, I……" Yuna takes a few steps closer to the edge. All is quiet. Seymour issues a command to lower the weapons. Tidus and Rikku run up toward the altar. (Yuna) "Hurry! Please escape!" (Tidus) "Come with us!" (Yuna) "I'll be fine. I too will escape." (Seymour) "Please stop. It's too high up for us to help you if you fall." Yuna wipes her mouth in disgust of the earlier kiss. (Yuna) "I don't care. I can fly." Tidus and Rikku shake their heads in disbelief. (Yuna) "…..Believe me." Tidus nods. Yuna lets herself fall backwards off the side. Tidus reaches out to her. (Tidus) "Yuna!" Seymour and Maika look down to see what happens to Yuna. A bright light appears, and immediately the summon beast Valforre dives down to catch her from her fall and carries her off.

(Rikku) "Shut your eyes!" Seymour turns around to be blinded by an intense flash of light. Tidus and others begin to run away. (Wakka) "What was that?" (Rikku) "Al Bhed's flash bomb!" (Tidus) "Let me down! I'll kill Seymour!" (Kimari) "I won't let you down. Yuna said to escape." (Lulu) "We'll hook up with her next." (Aaron) "She'll weather through!"

They continue to rush down some stairs. (Rikku) "Where did Yuna go~!?" (Kimari) "Beberu Palace's shrine. That's one place Yuna will be aiming for!" (Tidus) "The prayer child's room!"

They end up at the upper end of some stairs going down a large open area or tower. (Lulu) "It's too quiet…… A trap?" (Tidus) "I don't care if it's a trap. Yuna is waiting!" (Rikku) "Oh?" She steps over to operate some kind of control panel. (Wakka) "Why is there a machine in a shrine…..?" (Rikku) "But, it's convenient." (Wakka) "That's not the problem! What happened to the teaching? The teaching?" (Rikku) "I'd have difficulty with it even if it was told to me!" The stairs become some kind of moving platform. After reaching another part of the shrine, Rikku is needed to operate another control panel. (Wakka) "Is it another machine…..?" (Aaron) "This is reality behind Ebon. It betrays its own teachings in the shadows." (Wakka, sighs) "Pressing people into incrustations….."

Tidus rejoins the group near an entrance. (Lulu) "Here is the entrance to the trial room." (Rikku) "I wonder if Yuna is really here." (Wakka) "We'll know if we go!" (Lulu) "Let's go!"

After completing the trial, they come upon the prayer child's room. (Tidus) "And Yuna?" (Wakka) "She' probably inside!" (Tidus) "Don't tell me 'probably'. Check to be sure!" Tidus tries to lift the door by himself. (Wakka) "He, hey!……" (Tidus, trying very hard to lift the door) "By now, there are probably no regulations left to break!" Kimari comes to help, and they manage to lift the door. He gives Tidus the signal to go in.

Tidus finds Yuna kneeling before the prayer child. (Tidus) "What is it……?" (Aaron) "It's the prayer child. It's important to the heart of a summoner, and it awards the power of the summon beast. Extracted using Ebon's secret techniques, it's the ghost of people who were sealed in an image. Again, that is also a miserable dead person." The prayer child dives into Yuna's body, and she collapses onto the image. (Tidus) "Yuna!" Aaron walks away. Tidus holds Yuna in his arms, and he proceeds to carry her out of the room.

(Rikku) "Wait! It's a bad idea to come out!" Tidus exits the prayer child's room only to find them cornered by the Beberu soldiers. (Kinokku) "A big haul. You all with receive judgment." (Aaron) "Humph! What I want to wait for is a fair judgment." (Kinokku) "Say your prayer then." The soldiers take them away.

(A voice) "Now, we'll open a session for Ebon's highest court. This is a holy court that conducts impartial trials in the name of Ebon. To those being judged. Believe in Ebon, and speak the truth." Yuna and the others stand in front of a Ebon court headed by an elderly Ronso. (Lulu) "Priest Kelk Ronso." (Kelk) "Summoner Yuna. You are someone on the order to protect the citizens of Ebon." (Yuna) "Yes." (Kelk) "If so, then I will ask. You inflicted harm to priest Seymour Guado…… and furthermore generated commotions by organizing with the Al Bhed tribe. This agitates the order of Ebon. It is a treasonous act that I want to forgive. What led to such an outrage. Tell me your intentions." (Yuna) "Well……The real traitor is priest Seymour. The priest had killed his father Jiskal with his own hands……!" (Kelk) "What!" (Seymour) "What? Are you hearing this for the first time?" (Yuna) "Is this all?…… Oh, priest Seymour…… is already dead!" (Lulu) "To send the lost dead to the other world is a summoner's important job. Yuna, as a summoner, was only doing what's natural." (Yuna) "Priest Maika…… Why don't you send priest Seymour to the other world!" (Maika) "Are you saying….. send the dead to the other world?" (Yuna) "Yes." (Maika, laughing) "Fu, fu, fu, fu……. " (Yuna) "Priest?" (Maika) "Send the dead to the other world?" Little speckles of light emanate from Maika, and Yuna begins to understand. (Maika) "Indeed, I too am a dead person." (Wakka) "Huh!" (Kelk) "Headpriest Maika is a wise director. Even as a dead person, he is important to Spira." (Kinokku) "Direction by an excellent dead person is better than the rule of a foolish living person." (Seymour) "Life is, after all, a empty dream. The death that comes after life is eternal." (Maika) "People die. Beasts die. Plants die. Even the earth dies. There's nothing but the power of death that can rule all of Spira. It's useless to oppose it." (Yuna) "If so….. then it's Sin! I am a summoner! I'm a summoner, just like my father! I will continue my journey to try to stop the death that Sin brings! Do you….. Do you also call that useless!? (Yuna begins to cry) It's not just me! There are many people who have stood up to Sin……These people's fight, these people's sacrifices. Is it all useless!?" (Maika) "I am not saying it's useless. The truth is that no matter how many summoners are sacrificed, in the end Sin is not defeated. There is no way to prevent its resurrection. The bravery of people who fight it will give hope to the citizens. The life and death of summoners is decisively not useless." (Aaron) "It will not become useless, but it also will not become a resolution." (Maika) "Hum…… Indeed, that is the truth of Ebon." (Yuna) "Maika, sir!" (Maika) "The Ebon's truth that will not change. The Ebon's truth that will continue." (Yuna) "It's strange….. and funny." (Maika) "The person who takes objection to the truth, he or she that is, is a traitor." (Yuna) "Maika, sir!"

Tidus finds himself placed in a prison cell. (Tidus) "Let me out! Hey, let me out! Are you listening!?" Aaron is locked in the same cell as Tidus. (Aaron) "It's useless." (Tidus) "I wonder how Yuna is doing." (Aaron) "Yeah. But she will recover. She's a tough girl." (Tidus) "She will recover!? If she continues the journey, she'll die. So, that's why it's called Spira. Whether someone dies or gets killed, he or she becomes that sort of monster." (Aaron) "Aah…… it's the spiral of death." (Tidus) "Huh?" (Aaron) "Sin scatters death, and the summoners that challenge Sin die. To protect the summoners, the guards give up their lives and die. The true forms of the prayer children are ghosts made from death. The Ebon priests are dead people. Spira is full of death. Since only Sin is repeatedly resurrected, the number of the dead accumulates. This continues in circle forever. Thus, the spiral of death."

Kinokku shows up. (Kinokku) "Come out. We have decided on your punishment." (Aaron) "Punishment? I trust that we'll be executed?" (Kinokku) "What are you saying? You certainly don't expect us to kill our dear friends." (Aaron) "Well said."

Tidus is forced to stand next to a pool of water by a few soldiers. (Soldier) "Well, are you next?" (Tidus) "What do you intend to do with me!?" Tidus thinks he's going to get shot in the back or something. Instead, he gets shoved into the water below. (Soldier) "Go quickly!" (Tidus) "Where is everybody?" (Soldier) "You're still floating around there, aren't you?"

Tidus finds Wakka. (Wakka) "Oh! You're okay!" Rikku shows up too. (Tidus) "What kind of punishment is this?" (Wakka) "Maybe they're aiming for us to die by the side of the road." (Tidus) "What a crafty method!" (Rikku) "Where's Yuna?" (Tidus) "I don't know." (Rikku) "If we wait here, maybe she will come." (Tidus) "Hmmmm…… Let's wait by the exit." (Rikku) "I wonder if there is an exit."

Maika, Kinokku, and Seymour have a conversation within the shrine. (Maika) "What happened to the priest from Ronso?" (Seymour) "It looks like he didn't take my patricide very well." Maika laughs. (Maika) "Hmm…… He's a Ronso, after all. He stood by his position because of his hard-headedness." (Seymour) "Compare to that…… summoner Yuna is the great summoner Blaska's daughter. If we let her live, she has some useful value." (Maika) "That girl will disturb Ebon's order. We cannot let her live." (Seymour) "……All right, sir." (Kinokku) "Cheer up, Seymour. Once released into that 'Road of Purgatory', no one has come out alive." (Maika) "Yet, we must limit any chance that may allow her to escape. Station soldiers at the exit, and settle it then if she shows up." (Seymour) "Leave that job to me." (Maika) "Hum…… You said that you took her as a bride?" (Seymour) "Because she is my bride. So, leave it in my hand, at least." (Kinokku) "Wait. I'll go too." (Seymour) "You don't trust me?" (Kinokku) "Can you trust a man who committed patricide?" (Seymour) "Fine. As you please." Seymour walks off.

"Yuna, I'm sorry."

Yuna runs into Lulu on the Road of Purgatory. They then find Kimari. (Kimari) "Yuna, sorry about losing you." (Yuna) "Ummm….. It's okay." Then, Aaron is located. (Aaron) "I suppose there is an exit somewhere. I must find it." They also come across Isarru. (Isarru) "Yuna! As expected, you……" (Yuna) "Why are you here?" (Isarru) "After disembarking the flying ship at the Nagi Plains, I came here to Beberu….. I was summoned by Kinokku. It was an order to take care of the traitors." (Aaron) "Will you carry it out?" (Isarru) "I must. It's the shrine's order. I must do it, even if you're Blaska's daughter." (Lulu) "And your guards? I think there are two." (Isarru) "Maroda and Passe aren't here. It's better that I undertake this dirty business on my own. Yuna…… I'm sorry about this." Yuna and Isarru go one-on-one in a summon beast battle.

Of course, Isarru's summon beasts are no match for Yuna's. (Isarru) "Damn…… (Yuna tries to approach him) Don't approach me!" (Lulu) "Yuna, let's go." (Isarru) "…… There is a passage ahead that leads to the surface." Yuna bows to thank him for the information. After everyone else leaves, Aaron stops by to comment. (Aaron) "Quit your journey already."

Now we're back to Tidus, Wakka, and Rikku. The common water monsters are quite simple for them to handle, but then they encounter a giant sea serpent. Luckily, they manage to keep it out by putting a gate between themselves and the monster and eventually defeat the monster.

The entire party is reunited. Rikku runs to Yuna to give her a hug. (Rikku) "Yuna~! This is great~! This is really great. I was so worried~!" (Yuna) "Um…… Thank you." (Tidus) "Ah…… Well…… " Before Tidus can say anything to Yuna, Seymour, Kinokku, the Ebon soldiers show up. Yuna and her guards are ready for a tough fight. Strangely, Kinokku doesn't seem to be moving, as one of the soldiers drops him on the ground. (Aaron) "Kinokku……!" (Tidus) "Damn you……!" (Seymour) "I saved him. This man was a dead person of influence. As much as he wanted this huge power, he was afraid to lose it…. Day after day he was afraid of the hidden enemy, devising troublesome plots. Without have a moment of peace, he knew that he was being cornered. But…… there's no need for him to worry anymore. He has been released to the hands of forever rest. Death is delightful sleep. In all respects, I have drenched…… and kindly scraped away his sadness. Then…… if I can destroy all life, then I can say the same thing for…… all the suffering. Don't you think so? Therefore, that's why I need you. (offering his hand) Here, Yuna. Go with me to Zanarkand, to the city of the returning dead, in order to save Spira using the power of the dead. Borrowing your power and life, I will become the new Sin….. I will destroy it and save it." (Tidus) "What is that…..?" Kimari takes a stab at Seymour. Even though his axe penetrated through his chest, Seymour remains calm. (Seymour) "How offensive…… That's enough. If I must, I shall put you guys to rest as well!" Seymour raises his rod, turning Kinokku and the Ebon and Guado soldiers into those little particles of light. He then begins to transform himself into some super-Seymour.

(Kimari) "Run! Protect Yuna!" (Aaron) "Go!" (Tidus) "Old man, don't kid me……" (Aaron) "He said 'go'!" The party leaves Kimari behind to handle the transformed Seymour. Yuna stops in her tracks. (Yuna) "We must not leave Kimari behind!" (Aaron) "He is a guard. Protecting you is everything to him." (Yuna) "But!" (Tidus) "That's right! He's a guard! Ah, I'm a guard! So, I'll go wherever Yuna goes!" (Yuna) "Anywhere?" (Tidus) "Yep. I will protect you." (Yuna) "Well…… " (Tidus) "Yuna, let's go. Kimari~! We won't leave you behind~!" They rush back to Kimari. (Wakka) "Hey! Let me in on this too~!" Wakka runs after Tidus and Yuna. (Rikku) "Me too!" Rikku is going back. (Lulu) "I'm running back too." And she's off. Aaron has no choice but to conform.

Kimari stays his ground, preparing to fight Seymour. he shakes his head at the sight of everyone returning. The fight with Seymour (other form) begins……