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Harry Potter/ Final Fantasy X Crossover.

Dark Summoner: Memories of Eternity

By: Mage-Alia

Mission 00: Shinra of the Sands

Summary: After Sin's defeat both Summoner Harry and his Guardian vanished from the face of the earth but an odd twist of fate starts bringing all those involved back together two years later, starting with a recording of a man in a cage and a young Summoner just starting out on a great journey. Old enemies will awaken and everyone will discover just how deep some connections run with the past.

Sanubian Desert - Bikanel Island… Former Al Bhed outpost…

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Metal discs and small glowing spheres that looked to be made of pure light lay around the bench top, amid heaps of tools that had been thrown carelessly to the side when they no longer held a purpose. Their owner, a boy that had to be no older than ten, was frowning as he stared at the apparatus before him. It was complete. The first official version of the garment grid he'd painstakingly designed and built mostly under trial and error with the help of his only friend. Spiraled green eyes that where characteristic of all Al Bhed looked over at the man sleeping in the bunk on the other side of the room and Shinra heaved a sigh.

One and a half years.

That's how long it had been since he'd found Kynekki lying in the desert, not long after the destruction of Sin. He'd been living in the desert on his own since 'Home', the sanctuary of the Al Bhed, had been completely leveled. He'd been one of the lucky ones who had found a way out at the beginning of the attack. The Guado hadn't remained long after the assault either, having got what they came for. He'd settled in the lonely outpost, resigning himself to either wait for help or die when a ship had returned to the island. The Al Bhed who came ashore had heard the news and combed the desert, weeding out the survivors who hadn't left on the Airship, helping them get their lives back together. Gippal, their leader, had offered to take them to the mainland to join up with the rest of the Al Bhed but some had decided to stay, Shinra being one of them.

It had been alright after that. Once a month someone would always turn up with supplies and new materials for his long-term projects. Then one day, he'd been disturbed by laughter. Curious, he'd put on his jumpsuit and filtered mask and ventured out beyond the safety of the walls only to find a teenager, practically a wreck as he laughed and cried simultaneously. It had taken some prompting to get him to move so Shinra hadn't had the chance to study him properly until he was sitting in the dim workshop, his hair and skin glowing with golden light, and when Shinra had asked, he said he didn't remember his name.

So from then on he'd been named Kynekki… but even though he'd been eight at the time, Shinra could have sworn he was Al Bhed. He had the right coloring, and didn't even seem to mind the rapid temperature changes that occurred in the desert in the transition between day and night, but it was his eyes that said otherwise. Instead of green with a spiral pupil they where an amazing shade of deep sky blue. He'd taken to wearing goggles to cover them once more people returned to the Island under Gippal's guidance to start digging for the many Machine relics buried in the sands.

Kynekki could have joined them at that point and left Bikanel, but he was in no hurry to leave deciding to stay and help him with the Garment grid by finding the necessary spheres. He'd found nearly eight in total but then an accident had happened with one of the last two. Kynekki had used the prototype 'Warrior' dress sphere for the tests but the original data from the sphere hadn't been completely erased. The residual ghost of the last owner attacked his mind and nearly killed him before he could break loose and disengage the sphere.

That's when he'd started talking to himself and when he'd found the last sphere it had only gotten worse. The sphere had shown a brief clip of a boy of about fifteen with black hair and Al Bhed green colored eyes walking down the steps of a great ancient castle onto sweeping lawns with people laughing and shouting happily all around him. Kynekki had obviously recognized him and treated the Sphere like a priceless treasure. Shinra had discreetly done an analysis on it and knew for certain that it was nearly two thousand years old, if not more taken somewhere off the coast to the north-west of the calm lands, but then how did he know who it was? The young genius had never really asked, not wanting to bother the teen he'd come to see as his older brother.

An older brother he was now leaving behind.

When he was just about finished with the garment grid he had been approached by Buddy, the navigator for the new Airship called the Celsius. They where putting together a team of Sphere hunters, looking for the best of the best and Shinra had jumped at the chance. The invitation had been extended to Kynekki also, but the teen was happy living where he was. He'd rejected it, saying he would rather stay in the desert. Nadala would take care of him. The leader of the machina dig and his long time friend, the Al Bhed woman was the only other person he talked to with any regularity even if there was something big in his mind that held him back from normal human interaction.

Sighing again Shinra jumped down from his chair and began to gather the tools and materials on the bench top into their cases. He was leaving very soon, as the Airship came back for him after picking up the rest of their crew. The captain, Brother, had been yelling very loudly in the background of Buddy's last transmission about his sister and her 'boyfriend' that he obviously didn't approve of. Shinra may have been a kid but he knew that the words "Fro tet cra ryja du kad ehjumjat fedr dryd kiynteyh eh dra vencd bmyla." said in such an outraged tone where obviously going to be followed up by quite a few other derogatory terms.

For whatever reason, Kynekki had laughed at him upon hearing that rant before promptly wondering away. The absent look in his eyes telling him clearly that he was talking back to the voices in his head… he just hadn't been the same since the incident…

The boy genius had just finished packing his things when the roar of the Airship's engines cut through the serene calm of the nighttime desert. Kynekki shot up from the bunk, startled by the sound and had to consciously remove his hand from the hilt of the makeshift sword he'd created from pieces of a blade they'd scavenged in the ruins of Home. After finding the first piece of red metal the nineteen year old had patiently begun sifting through the wreckage until he'd had almost assembled a complete weapon and welded it together.

"They're here already?" The teen asked groggily, speaking in the common language for once instead of Al Bhed.

"Yup!" Shinra said happily as he donned his jumpsuit and mask once more. The little devices he'd planted in the material whirred to life as he snapped the last button into place, making the voice that came out through the dust mask filters sound slightly metallic.

"Have you got everything?" He went on questioning as Shinra shoved a few personal belongings into a bag. Including a newer sphere with a recording of Kynekki that his brother hadn't noticed him filming.

"That's everything." Came the confirmation as the bag was set down on a pile of cases by the door. Kynekki's head tipped to one side as he reached for the goggles hanging from a hook above the sword. He let them rest on his forehead and looked at Shinra with a knowing gaze.

"Rynno, says that you've been worrying again." He said, referring to one of the voices in his head. Standing up he walked over before going to his knees so he was eye to eye with the young Al Bhed. "Please don't, I'll be okay here, just remember to check in from time to time…alright?" Shinra couldn't help himself as he leapt at him and engulfed the other blonde in a hug.

"I'll write every day!" He half cried, sniffling slightly. He hadn't even left yet and he was already missing his only real family member. Kynekki backed off slightly and grinned when a knock sounded on the panels of metal beside the canvas that acted as a door.

"Hey! Shinra!" Buddy's voice sounded muffled outside. "We're back! Did you get everything you needed?"

"Yes sir!" The boy called in reply and gave Kynekki one last squeeze before letting go completely. Before the visitor could enter the older teen slid the goggles on his forehead over his eyes, effectively concealing them from view behind dark tinted and reflective glass. He didn't help them load Shinra's equipment on board but he did emerge as it was taking off and waved back as the young Al Bhed jumped franticly up and down on the deck, torn between wanting to go back and running inside to take apart and analyze the ship piece by piece. All to soon his old home in the sand faded into the distance and Buddy guided him inside to where he'd be spending the next few years on board the Celsius.

So he didn't notice the flicker of gold circling through the clouds before heading back in the direction they'd come from.

Transmission Complete….Alrighty! That's the end of the prologue, but don't write it off just because there wasn't a whole lot of stuff in this part, most of it sets the scene for things happening in later chapters.

A/N:

Also if you have to ask who Kynekki is, or even Rynno for that matter, I swear you need to slap yourself and go read the epilogue of Dark Summoner again. (It wasn't like he was really hiding…)

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Cya