"Stay away from the temple!" Just like in Macalania, a monk stood in front of the temple door, refusing to let Suih in.

            "Back off!  I'm a summoner!  I have to get to the Chamber of the Fayth to obtain the next Aeon!"  Suih pushed the monk, and he stumbled backwards.  Suih simply stepped around him, and entered the temple.  Without much concern, the trio walked up the stairs and into the Cloister of Trials.

            "I think you were a bit rough on that monk back at the entrance." Ohino commented.

            "Oh, so what?  They show no respect for the Al Bhed, why should I show respect for them?"  Suih casually said, putting her hands on her hips.

            "You're going to carry that attitude for the rest of your life."  Mira sighed.  Eventually they reached the Chamber of the Fayth, and with her head held high, Suih entered.

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            Suih walked up to the Fayth, and knelt down.  She closed her eyes, and concentrated on the Hymn.  'I want to defeat Sin,' she thought.  'I want Mira to be happy again; I want everyone to be happy again.  Sin will never come back when I'm through with him.  Everyone will be able to build large cities with confidence that Sin won't return to destroy them.  I want to live, even after defeating Sin.  I know its highly unlikely, but I want to try.'  Suddenly, Suih felt warmth in her body.

            "I have entrusted you with my Aeon, Lady Suih.  Your will is unbreakable, and your courage, undefeatable.  Go forward to Zanarkand, and fight Sin with the strength you have showed me today."  Valefor's fayth told Suih, as he began to fad away.

            "Thank you."  Suih whispered as she stood up, and proceeded out the door.

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            Ohino looked up from his standing position as he heard the Chamber door open.  Mira turned her head towards the door, still clutching her necklace that she had been holding the whole time.  Suih wore and expression of happiness as she proceeded down the steps.

            "We will continue our journey from here.  I have the next Aeon." Suih smiled, and followed her two guardians out the door.  They walked back into the temple and descended the stairs, ignoring the stares and whispers coming from the Yevonites praying in the temple.  As they left, they found the tent they were in earlier, and asked the attendant at the desk if there was a ship leaving for Kilika Island.  The attendant told them when it was leaving, so they headed out towards the dock.

            They only ran into some weak fiends that were easily taken care of.  They hadn't gone far before they approached a large stone looking over Besaid.

            "What's this?" Suih asked while poking it.

            "It's a prayer stone." Mira stated simply.

            "Who would pray to a stone?" Suih looked totally confused.

            "You don't pray to the stone.  Yevonites pray here before they leave the island for a safe journey." Ohino said.

            "Oh!  I get it!  I know you guys follow Yevon, so if you wanna stop here…" Suih slowed down as she saw Mira and Ohino were already walking off.  "Wait up!" Suih called.

            "You've taught us something." Mira said, noticing Suih's confused look.

            "Yeah.  We learned that we don't need Yevon to get rid of Sin.  The teachings said that if we repent enough, Sin would go away.  But that's just a load of garbage.  It's been a thousand years, and Sin's still here, ya?  So our repenting hasn't done anything, y'see?"  Ohino continued from Mira's statement.

            "So…you guys don't follow Yevon anymore?"

            "Nope." Both guardians replied in unison.

            "That rocks!" Suih yelled, just before a fiend attacked.  "Ack!!"  She stumbled backwards in surprise, but soon recovered herself.

            "Why don't you summon Valefor to strengthen your bond?" Ohino suggested.

            "Ok!" Suih said, as she prepared herself for the summon.  Suih bought her staff in front of her, holding it with both hands.  She closed her eyes, and a summon glyph appeared below her, and illuminated her with its purple glow.  She opened her eyes, and spread her legs, one in front of the other, and twirled her staff in her right hand.  Four beams of light shot to the sky, and parted the clouds as the huge Aeon decended from the sky.

            He got into his battle position, and Suih told him through her heart what to do.  Valefor backed up a little, then flung his wings forward causing air pressure to damage the fiend.  The fiend attempted to counter, but it missed, and Valefor swiftly came back at it, and attacked it with its giant claws.  The fiend lay in a heap on the ground, as pyreflies engulfed it.

            "Great job!" Ohino called as Valefor was dismissed.  Ohino had black hair that reached mid-neck, and it was spiked naturally.  He wore a red bandana around his forehead.  He had a black shirt with blue pants, and he wore and armored cloak that he sometimes wrapped around his body, hiding himself from the shoulders down.  He had black boots, and he carried his sword in a sheath at his side.  The rest of the journey towards the docks was pretty uneventful, except for the fact that Suih tripped and cut her forehead on a rock.

            They finally reached the dock where the S.S. Liki was awaiting departure.  They boarded and Suih immediately ran to the front of the boat.  She stood there with her eyes closed, feeling the soft ocean breeze.  Ohino walked to the upper deck, and sat under the umbrella.  He tilted his head upwards, closed his eyes, and got lost in thought. 

            "I'm going downstairs!" Mira called from near where they boarded.

            "Okay!" Suih responded, with her eyes still closed.

            Mira ran down to the lower deck as fast as she could.  She knocked on one of the room doors, and when there was no response, she opened the door, and crawled into a corner.  'I hate ships…' she thought as she closed her eyes and tried to go to sleep.  Back upstairs; Suih had opened her eyes to the heavier breeze as the ship took off.  A small boy had run up and tugged on her arm.  She turned around, bent over. 

            "Hello there!" She said cheerfully.

            "Yna oui y cissuhan?" the boy asked.

            "Yr, cu oui'na Al Bhed?" Suih felt a lot better speaking in her native tongue.

            "Oab!" A huge grin found its way onto the small child's face.

                "Oac, E ys y cissuhan! Yht yh Al Bhed cissuhan duu!"

            "Criya! Criya frana yna oui?" A lady's voice called.

            "Ujan rana sudran!" The boy waved his hand towards his mother.

            "E ruba ra teth'd pudran oui." The lady smiled as she picked up her child.

            "Susso!  Cra'c y cissuhan!" Criya pointed to Suih.

            "Yh Al Bhed? Y cissuhan?" Criya's mother looked confused.

            "Oac.  E ys Myto Suiheisan." Suih smiled.

            "Kuut milg uh ouin bemknesyka, Myto Suiheisan." The lady bowed.

            "Dryhg oui." Suih replied as the woman and her child walked away.

            "Suih!" Ohino came running down the stairs from the upper deck.

            "Ujan rana!  Oops! I mean, over here!" Suih laughed to herself.  Once she got started speaking Al Bhed, it was hard for her to revert back to English.

            "I can see land! We're almost to Kilika!"

            Mira heard this downstairs, and heaved a sigh of relief.  Ohino really wasn't as happy as he looked or sounded.  The entire ride, he was upstairs thinking about Suih, and all the memories he had of when they were younger.  He didn't cry though.  He knew if Suih saw him cry, she might lose faith in herself.  All getting the next Aeon meant to Ohino was getting one step closer to Suih's death.