A Summoner's Call

This is Our Story.
Love Will be Found
Friendships Will Be Tested
Love Will Be Lost
Our Lives to Be Spared.

A Summoner in the story of Final Fantisey X is a person with the devine power to summon great beasts to aid them in their quest to protect their homeland Spera. Traveling with their guardians on a quest called a Pilgramage they set off to restore peace to Spera by destroying a great monster called Sin that creates havoc and destruction wherever it goes. It is the summoner's job to destroy Sin and bring a time of peace called The Calm to Spera. But there is a terrible price to pay for a summoner to do this. In order to have the power to defeat Sin they must travel far and learn to summon many aeons until they are strong enough to summon the Final Aeon. The Final Aeon is powerful indeed but it is in fact SO powerful that in destroying Sin it also kills the Summoner and one of the summoner's guardina must aslo die and will ten years later come back as a new Sin.

Most of you already know the tale of Yuna the great Summoner who grew up on Besaid Island. Who'se father was the gread Braska and the last summoner to destroy Sin. But Yuna will turn her back on the teachings of Yeavon because the high priests of Yeavon are corrupt and because Yuna will fall in love. But this story isn't about Yuna it is long before the time of Yuna or even her father Braska. Our story is about two Summoners who were best friends in childhood but the power of time has turned them so they must fight against eachother for the good of their families and their home Spera.

Elva and Jade were best friends as children. They grew up on Besaid Island in a village only just smaller then the one Yuna grew up in. Elva was the daughter of the Shamen and leader of the villege and Jade was an orphan who was basically raised by the entire villege. Jade was found the same day of Elva's birth. Elva's mother died in childbirth that night and her father Sorian had found a child just outside the villege. There was nothing with the baby but a thin blanket she was wrapped in and a piece of paper with the word 'Jade' on it. Sorian took the child home and he searched for the parents for years after that but he never did find anyone who would claim the child. So Jade was raised by everyone in the Villege. She lived in the home of the Shamen and she was best friends with Elva. The two of them were closer then sisters and they were never separated.

On the year that the two turned 14 Elva recieved a calling to become training to become a summoner. Elva accepted the calling as an honor and Jade was very excited for her friend. But as time went by and Elva had more and more to do as a summoner in training she would often travel out of Besaid Island far out into Spera and Jade was only sometimes permitted to come along. Jade also trained though because she wanted to become Elva's guardian and help her when it was time to begin her pilgramege. But as time went on and as the two had so much training to do they eventually grew apart somewhat.

It was a night of excitement when Elva had finally completed her training and became a summoner. The two were now 18 years old and there was a lot of celebration in Besaid that night but to everyones supprise Jade seemed to have vanashed as the night was half over. They had a search party all through the night and for months after for the young girl that had shown up on their Island but Jade was never found and they finally agreed that Jade must have been carried away by sinspawn(wild monsters in Spera) and was dead.

Elva was devastated by the news and she herself eventually turned her back on her training temporarily to go out and search for Jade herself only to come back to Besaid with a heavy heart. She never had found her but when she reached Besaid again she descovered that her home Island had been attacked by Sin and that most of her loved ones were dead. Elva found her father the Shamen just as he was taking his last breaths near the temple of Yeavon(yeavon is the god of Spera). Her father used his last breaths to tell Elva that it was he who was the cause of Jades dissapearence. He said that Jade had been a distraction from Elva's training and that he had paid thieves to steal her away in the night and take her far away. Sorain had felt so guilty over the years that he had sent his daughters best friend away and caused her so much grief. It was his own guilt and anger that had attracted Sin's attention in the first place and so Sorain took all of the blame for the destruction on their home on himself as he died in Elva's arms.

Elva then picked up her summoners staff and set out into Spera beginning her pilgramage early with no guardians for everyone she knew was dead. She promised herself and her father that she would find Jade again and that together they would save Spera and bring the Calm to their lands once again.

Guardians are those that travel with and advise summoners in their pilgramage. It is their responsibility to protect the summoner at all costs until they are strong enough to destroy Sin.

Menwhile though Jade was taken and left to die in the desert. She somehow made it to Bevelle and she was taken in by the priests there. The priests trained Jade to be a summoner as well and though she didn't have as much time to learn as Elva had Jade quickly picked up the learnings of a Summoner but Jade had a different plan in mind with her powers. She began thinking 'Why risk my life to save Spera when I could find a way to save it forever?' Jade then snuck away from the temples of Bevelle and began her pilgramage as well with her closest friends from Bevelle (only two) to find a way to destroy Sin forever wether it meant sticking to the teachings of Yeavon or not.

The two friends will meet again and what will happen when Elva descovers that her best friend from childhood is against the teachings? Elva has always been taught to kill those that would attempt to change the ways of Spera. But could she ever kill her best friend?
Our Story Begins the night the two friends separate and begin their adventures when Jade gets kidnapped and when Elva arrives home to find her missing.​

 

On a ship just a few miles away from finally reaching her home on Besaid Island, Elva stood in the front of the ship, the with the wind blowing her hair and her face calming her stress a lot. She sighed and leaned against the mast behind her.