The Day You Came Back

I remember that day, the day we saved Spira, the day where I knew something 
was going to happen. I remember what the Fayth said all to well. 'We will try 
our best, he will come back'. Could they really make him come back? My mind was 
blank, but my heart was pounding, my life was about to be changed.

 I couldn't do much so I sat in the cabin, looking out the window, listening 
to Rikku sing, hearing Paine asking Barkeep for some earplugs. I laughed, but 
only a little because when we reached the island, my heart just stopped.

There he was, the tall tanned man I had grown to love. He was as I thought he 
would be, blonde hair, wide grin stretching from ear to ear. My mind went 
clear, I stood up and started running towards the back of the ship, my heart 
pounding faster than ever, my hair drifting in the air so fast. I had only one 
thing on my mind, to see him. Rikku and Paine tried to catch up with me but I 
didn't let them, I ran for my life as my side-skirt blew behind me.

I reached the exit hatch and opened it, I took a deep breath and took a leap 
of faith, hoping he would catch me if I fell. I hit the ground on my feet and 
started running to him and my arms automatically flew wide open and his did 
the same. I jumped right into his arms, and he was ready to catch me. 

We stayed there on the beach for about ten minutes or so, not caring that 
Rikku and Paine were watching. I could' ve sworn I heard someone say 'Welcome 
back, ya'. It was Wakka and what seemed to be all of Besaid. Rikku let out a big 
'Hiya' and began waiving to everyone.

Then, I took his hand and we began running back to the people and saying 
hello, and then we ran back on to the airship. He said to me,' Wow, you've 
changed.' Did I really change, I suppose I did but was it because I had to change or 
because I wanted to? I answered back,' Well, you' ve missed a few things.' He 
began smiling as we went to the bridge of the airship.

'Tell me everything', he said. I let out a big laugh as I told Buddy to take 
us to Zanarkand. And I simply said,' Well, it all began when I saw this sphere 
of you.'

At Zanarkand we took a stroll along the ruined path of a city dead for a 
thousand years. The city he knew better than anyone else. He stood there, on the 
same hill that he stood on two years ago, when we were altogether, he as my 
guardian, and I the summoner. To me, this place was here to help me remember him 
and to keep my memories, for him, it was the shattered home he once had. 

I walked up to him and said,' You okay.' He turned around with a slight grin 
but he didn't nod his head, all he did was take in a deep breath and then sit 
down. I sat down with him, only to hear a feint whisper coming from somebody 
else,' He's leaving,' the voice said. I stood up immediately just to see that 
pyreflies were surrounding us.

I said to him,' Are . . . are you leaving.' I didn't want him to answer but 
then he nodded his head and said,' Even though I want to belong, I don't belong 
here, I have to go.' My throat constricted, and I got a sudden pain in my 
chest, my heart was burning up, crying as it was breaking. This must have been 
how Lenne felt, losing someone so dear, but still . . . it's not fair. ' No,' I 
said quietly. He came up to me and was about to say something but I didn't let 
him.

It was just like two years ago, except my heart was breaking for the second 
time. The Fayth didn't do their best, if they did he would stay with me. But 
the Fayth then appeared in front of me and said ,' He doesn't belong.' More 
pyreflies came towards us and I couldn't take it. The one man I love is the one 
man I can never have. I looked at him, the man I loved and, just as I did two 
years ago, ran to him but, I didn't feel the warm skin or the soft clothing, 
instead I felt the hard, rocky ground. He was transparent.

I couldn't even touch him or kiss him goodbye, I simply watched , watched as 
he began to cry as I was crying so hard I could have killed myself on the 
spot. I had flashbacks, of when we first met, of when he taught me how to whistle, 
of when we kissed in the Macalania spring. Of when we defeated Sin, he 
disappeared then as well, and that's when I told him how I felt.

Now, as he was leaving I shouted with all my might as my heart was beating so 
hard it could have flew right out of my chest, I shouted,' I love you.' I 
didn't here anything as he left, I waited there as the pyreflies left the sky and 
travelled to the farplane. I sang to myself at that very instant, I had felt 
what Lenne felt without wearing her dress sphere. I sang ' One thousand words, 
call out through the ages, they'll cradle you. Even though I can't see I know 
they're reaching you, suspended on silver wings.'

' On silver wings,' I said to my self. I shed my last tear and said to 
myself,' My words will fly to you on silver wings.' Then I heard the whistle and an 
echo filled the air as Zanarkand was filled with pyreflies. I stood up and a 
walkway of silver was being made from where I stood to the sky. I walked on it, 
and then ran and then was lost in the light. I opened my eyes and I saw him. 
And Zanarkand wasn't ruined, it was full of lights as if it hadn't been 
destroyed when it came to me, it hadn't been. This time, he took my hand and ran 
with me through the city and he stopped on the same hill I was on only moments 
before in the world I belonged to. He said,' I love you.' I smiled and gave him 
a kiss.

I knew I didn't belong here. but I would stay here. ' Where is Sin.,' I asked 
him and he laughed and said,' You destroyed it, remember.' On silver wings I 
was back with the one I loved and I kissed him again. To think it all began, 
when I saw this sphere of you. . .