Love Her and Despair Remaster [34]

Title: Love Her and Despair
Chapter 34: "Venus/Mars"
Final Fantasy X/X-2
Characters: Nooj, Baralai, Isaaru, Lulu/Auron
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2100
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The Story So Far: Sin has destroyed the fayth, and now only one thing can oppose it: Vegnagun, doomsday weapon from an ancient war. Auron and allies lure Sin to the Thunder Plains for a final showdown, where Auron hopes to distract Sin long enough to give Vegnagun one clear shot.

Illustration by @mintywolf

No one on the flight deck had spoken since Cid's low whistle. All eyes were fixed on the forward windows, where Shinra's scanners projected a grainy image of Auron and the fayth's statue through a film of rain and static. Past the display, they could see rank upon rank of thunderheads massing to the north. Sin was hidden by the clouds, but barbs of lightning were leaping towards it from the spire of every tower, forming a vast sizzling canopy.

Lucil had risen from her seat, one hand braced against the console, the other digging into Elma's arm.

Elma surreptitiously cupped her hands in Yevon's prayer, drawing a thin smile from Lucil.

Rikku was leaning forward, nervously drumming her fingers on the gun controls.

Inexorably, all the strands of lightning contracted together like the spokes of Thundaga magnified a thousandfold. The scanner's display went white. A blinding flash lit the Thunder Plains from end to end. Even at this distance, the gash of lightning splitting the sky from Sin's nose to the ground looked enormous.

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Love Her and Despair: Table of Contents

Welcome! My journal is a miscellany of Final Fantasy fandom, started on LJ in the mid-2000s, ported to DW in 2010. My labor of love is a novel-length fanfic, Love Her and Despair, an AU sequel to Final Fantasy X exploring the question: "What would have happened if Yuna had chosen the Final Summoning?"

Table of Contents

Act I: Menace at Sea - Ch. 1 2 3 4 5 6
Act II: Operation Mi'ihen - Ch. 7 8 9 10 11 12
Act III: Al Bhed Homecoming - Ch. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Act IV: Assault on Bevelle - 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Act V: Breaking the Cycle - 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
Act V: The Houses of Healing - 42 43 44 45 46 47
Act VI: The Last Battle -

Map of Spira [full-sized]

Thanks Where Due

To many reviewers and critiquers who have given me the encouragement to keep going (I would thank you individually, but I'm afraid of missing somebody) and to FANARTISTS including cirruscastle, mintywolf, Ayrania-chan on DA and Schmutzige_Banane on DA. THANK YOU.

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The old ToC post is here.