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"About a thousand years ago, there was a great battle between the summoners of Zanarkand and the Machina, machines, of Bevelle. The summoners soon found themselves over whelmed by the growing number of machina their enemies had and each new weapon was even more powerful than the last until people everywhere thought they could destroy the entire world. In a last ditch effort to save the memory of Zanarkand, they gave their souls to Yu Yevon from their still living bodies and became the medians to give future summoners the power to summon different types of aeons. But, Yu Yevon was a unique summoner. In summoning his own aeon, his physical form had died but his soul continued to thrive, absent-mindedly, continually summoning Sin through possession of any nearby living aeon. Eventually, the possessed aeon would grow into a large bulging mass of unholy armor who's only existence was to destroy although it was neither good or evil... Summoners obtained the Final Aeon, challenged Sin, sacrificed their lives, and created what is known as the Calm. A period of time where Sin is not existant but that would only be short lived as Sin would come back years later and the cycle starts again," said Ginsa. They were merely half way to the docks of the Moonflow and they were lucky not to have been attacked by monsters so far.

"If Lady Yuna tells what should be the truth, Sin shall never be reborn here again..." Ginsa's white, spiky hair swayed in the breeze as they walked. up ahead, there was a crowd of people dancing in front of a cart filled with creatures that had musical instruments. Ginsa stopped, looked at them and then started to walk away as a midget ran in front of him and jumped up and down speaking in a rapid fire voice that was rather hard to understand. "Come one and come all! Welcome to Tobi's show madam and gent! Why don't you come and have a time of your life for only a small donation of 50 gil each," cried the little man. "Sorry Tobi. Your out of luck. We lost our Gil to mugs a while back. We will have to sadly refuse your kind offer," said Ginsa as he looked down at the rather small man.

"Oh but you must, you must! How about we settle on a trade?" Tobi jumped up and down, eager to get something and drag them into the fun. "There is nothing on us of value that you'd need or we can bare to depart. I shall beg your leave," said Ginsa as he headed off. As they would clear ear shot of that short man, Ginsa would say, "Our currency does not work here nor would our Ninja Equipment. It never existed here nor will it ever catch on in a sale. So don't get any ideas... But I'm sure you'll have a blast on the next thing you will encounter," said Ginsa. But something was a bit odd. Was there humor in his voice? Or could it just be a play on her mind?

Ginsa stopped after a bit and there was a rather large rumbling sound as a large water beast, about the shape of an elephant but twice as bit slowly walked into the water. It's long nose curled up tight into what looked like a disk. The differences were that it had no ears, had a large bulky tail with a fin on it, and it didn't seem to have a mouth at all.

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A dry, raspy voice started behind the two so suddenly, it would have startled anyone there. "That, my dear, is called a Shoopuf. It is a large water beast trained to carry people and luggage over the waters. Ever wonder how it got that big without using it's mouth? So have I. But other scholars imagine that it sucks up tiny winy water born organisms through it's schnoz and that is able ot support it's immense size."

Ginsa turned his head and looked back before reciting, "Lord Maechen, elderly scholar that travels the world hoping to discover all it's secrets within his life time. But in that time, he had existed for one thousand years, never had noticing that he had died long ago." Ginsa then turned his head back towards the Shoopuf, wondering when the creature will return on land so they can cross the river.

It wouldn't be for another ten minuets before the Shoopuf came back ashore. "Oi Matsuri. We are going aboard," said Ginsa as he stepped upon the lift and waited for her. When she would climb on, they would be lifted up and brought towards the seats where they were allowed to sit to be transported across.

As the Shoopuf set off with a Hypello holding the reigns, Ginsa called to Matsuri. "Oi. Come here and look down towards the bottom of the river. Tell me what you see," said Ginsa.

Ginsa didn't look at her but instead, lifted his hand and placed it on her head. "Take a closer look." With that, Ginsa pushed her off the edge of the railing and into the water. When she would open her eyes under the water, she would see that there was a sunken city in the depths. She would suddenly be grabbed around by the waist and pulled back to the surface as well as back into the platform by the Shoopuf's long nose. "So, did you see something this time?" Ginsa's eyes were on her, even though she was soaking wet and it would definably wouldn't be safe if she was wearing any articles of clothing that would reveal what was underneath when wet.

((Which I'm hoping not but if you want, you can for the comedy in it. rofl ))

"Yes. It's a city. Do you know how it got there? Never mind, I'll tell you. Long ago, about a thousand years ago before Sin came around, some people built a city over this very river on a large bridge. They tried this to prove they can defy the laws of nature but the bridge the city was build on collapsed under the pressure of all those buildings and people on it and there it lies," said Ginsa as he turned his head to look down towards the water, still in a sitting position. Soon, Matsuri would feel a hand clasp over his mouth as a Ginsa clone popped out from behind her and pulled her back into the water, dispersing before the two hit the water. Luckily for him, they were the only ones on the transport so no one else saw the clone and wondered who they were. After Matsuri would fall in the water once more, the Shoopuf would pick her up and put her back into the platform on its back where Ginsa stood sat.

((Alrighty. This is for the comic relief then. lol.))