The Final Aeon drew its sword, and without further ado, advanced on Sin --

But that was, in a sense, anticlimactic. All of this had been written already. The battle between the monsters came only in flashes and brief images of violence because Jecht himself remembered it as such. The only truly coherent image left in the dream was the horrible moment in which the countless pyreflies that made up Sin's body dissolved as the life left the creature -- and then a burst of parasitic energy jumped from it to the Aeon, wrenching it free of Braska's control and shattering the summoner's life in the process. As he began to slump, the dream also dissolved...