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The Lost Valentine	By : Dalie Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 716 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII, or any other game/anime characters I may borrow. Nor do I make any money from writing this. It is purely for my enjoyment, and hopefully other pople's too.

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Chapter 4
I continued to meet with both Machen and Rinoa. They have been so helpful to my research. (Well, more Machen in the research area, but Rinoa isn't just there for me to look at.) I have gone back to hunting through the archives with Machen.
He must be a linguist. His grasp of so many different languages is amazing. From the language of Yevonites (Whom I am still learning more about) to those who lived in ancient cities like Treno (Now little more than half-excavated rubble), he speaks so many.
We came across some documents by a race called the Al-Bhed. Apparently they lived at the same time as the Yevonites, but were rejected for their use of machines. It's is truly amazing to think that they had such complex technology all that time ago but only a small percentage of people were willing to use it. I think that must be why it fell into disuse and out of memory. It sounds like they had some pretty interesting thoughts about energy conversion. It isn't a subject I'm interested in, but as I work for an energy company then renewable energy sources should probably be recorded.
I am still concerned about the claim that the Lifestream will flow freely over Gaia's surface, but I suppose I cannot really do anything to stop it. Machen said the one who predicted this was a child- a boy not even in his teens. But, again Machen makes mistakes. Rinoa was with us that day, and she laughed. Her nonchalance over his prediction was due to his ages. She said he probably had a nightmare and made certain facts he'd found fit this idea. It made me feel easier to hear it like that, but then... geniuses come of all ages.
I tried to put it mentally in the 'apocalypse' category- the one where the many predictions of the end of the world go, to be studied at leisure but not frowned upon in any believable manner. It didn't work. As I am sure I have said before. He seems like he was very intelligent and he had so many facts. It is as though he did proper scientific studies with hypotheses, and methods and results; comments on how his studies may not be accurate, how he tried to make them so. Like I said - boy genius. It unnerves me. He sounds like he knew what he was talking about, and he predicted something that could only be a disaster.
I think Rinoa could tell I was starting to focus too much on doomed futures. She left me a note one morning, it directed me though the labyrinth of a library. I got there and she had a blanket laid out on the floor, what looked like antique paperweights placed around its edge. In the centre there was an electric candle and a picnic basket. Rinoa sat there in a small white dress that could not have been warm for where we were. I gave her my coat.
She explained you shouldn't have actual fire around so much dry paper. Then she told me she'd help me look into a new religion, with a more positive outlook on things.
We came across 2 religions there. One of them had just 3 gods; something I am learning is a small number for ancient religions. Their gods created, protected and destroyed respectively. As with a fair few religions, the focus was not on the deities themselves – this one helped its followers become aware of whom they were on the spiritual plane. Again, a little different. Apart from the religion of Yu Yevon, (Who claimed the Farplane was a window to the spiritual plane, and the Al-Bhed refuted this- according to Machen) I struggle to think of one other religion that claims humans can exist on the spiritual plane. I have once again put small collections of sheets into my satchel to study later.
The other religion we came across is more modern than those of Yevonites and the Cetra. It is a fighting religion, one which was trained to army recruits in several different countries, from what we could tell. It was deeper in some ways, claiming that if you received aid from the gods, then something must be sacrificed. We were both silent for a moment after Rinoa translated that. It made my stomach churn to think of sacrifice- everyone else's gods seemed to simply give to those who had what was necessary to do the asking.
My nausea eased off when I realised it wasn't lives that were taken. These gods aided by using your body as a host, settling in the back of your mind and only bursting forth in times of need. Their hosts could channel magic through their presence to fight off fiends and their own natural abilities, such as speed and recovery time- healing time... these increased. They were stronger, faster and better able to defend themselves. All they had to give up were experiences. Not all of them, from what I can tell. Just some experiences, from many years ago. They drew from long term memory, usually going back at least 10 years. There are a few instances of more recent memories being taken, but maybe what they asked of their gods is what varied the chosen memories. I guess the quality of certain things differs. Or maybe they took memories according to sentimental value.
Their gods were called guardians and they protected soldiers who fought against many foes at once. I guess a few old memories could be viewed as a worthy sacrifice. The guardians get to view people's experiences for themselves, as though they were living them instead of separated. The hosts get an increase to their battle stats, and the guardians could act as summon gods and come forth to fight in times of need. There are comments that those who were attached to their gods for several decades experienced great pains and a deep sense of lose and hopelessness at separation from said god. It makes me glad that materia, rare though it is, is not a part of the body and does not meld the consciousness of the summon gods to the user.
I wonder if these gods are also a part of the Lifestream as well... There is more overlap in certain names. The gods Ifrit, Bahamut, Shiva... Some names occur over and over. If I could extract part of the Lifestream and observe it... How many secrets it must hold!
I stayed long into the night with Rinoa that day. We eventually had to move due to hunger- we had only had breakfast and a large picnic lunch. She once again kissed me when we separated. I managed not to do a fish impression again and kissed her back properly. Of course, I then bravely fled as we were outside her house and Caraway is a rather intimidating man.
We studied these religions again and again, taking time to find Machen and ask his opinion of them. He is a fascinating old man, even if no one seems to know who he is. I very much value his company.
I have decided summon gods are a welcome distraction from apocalyptic documents. I did not realise how much of a distraction though...
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