A/n: Yay! So I'm updating and I hope that I'm catching up with my other times, you know if that made sense. And the other thing is that I was going to make this one For you, Kerri but then I was thinking that I would give it to you on the next one. Nothing much happens here and the other chapter will be better. Anyway… okay.

Yuna POV
Chapter twenty-seven: Incantation Beneath the Waves
I had said what I wanted to be. This was me now, I wanted to be one with the water, like always. It made me safer and it was like I had always understood it. I knew what the water felt and it knew what I wanted to have such as what my wishes were. Now what was I supposed to do? Sell my soul to the "demons" of Water? I didn't want to do anything like that but there was this feeling in me saying that there wasn't anything like that to be one. After all, being a Watergoddess wasn't like being something like Vunita, was it? Right, of course. Ever since he was taken away, I tried to keep my mind focused but it slipped some times and I didn't have anyone to bring me back to reality right away. Lulu, Wakka, Rikku, Auron, and Jecht don't know that he's gone right now. This was what made me decide that I was going to go on my own now. Be the Watergoddess and go on my own. On a journey that I was going to finish with Tidus.

I didn't want anyone to get hurt and I felt like this was my story to finish. One that I knew that I wouldn't have to have help from the others except myself, Tidus and Serenity. I trusted him and when I was going to be the Watergoddess that I knew was within myself, I would go and find him. After taking of where we had to destroy Vunita. It was a new plan. This was hidden after all the twists that had happened to me.

At first, it had started with my mother which she had died since Jecht and Auron had thought that there was a pilgrimage for me to go on and protect the summoner. The we had learned that it wasn't because of that and it was because of this water fiend. Now this water fiend was Seymour. The thing was that after, we had found out that it was a fake, too. Vunita was the real one beneath the concealment of a disguise. But I had figured that I was the one who had partly figured that out, Serenity was the one who had told me pretty straightforward. And now she was helping me, to be the something that I had always supposed to be. Was my destiny all written before I was to come to be born? I didn't know.

Turning my head to Serenity's direction, I gave her a pleading look of confusion and yet, I knew that there was a state of security in my eyes. The looked that flared within them that held ambition. "Are you ready, Yuna?" she asked me to be sure that I was and that I really wanted to be one. There was nothing for me to say so all I did was nod. "Okay," a warm smile appeared on her young face and she continued, "I know that this will help. I had always felt that you and the water would join together one day. You love the water, the ocean, do you?" I nodded again, it was like she knew me inside out. It was like we were alike, in a way of twins. "Right, then. We have to get to it so you can do what you have to do." She paused and walked into the ocean's water, it calmed down as she walked into it, purifying the liquid and calming it as she walked through it. "Follow me," she whispered.

I knew that she wasn't bringing me into danger and I wasn't scared. I had a feeling that it was going to be beyond the waves of the ocean. Probably another world that was hidden, that laid there deep in the waves, asleep not waking up. Or, it could be something that was simpler like an old temple? There wasn't really anytime for me to think since I felt that I would drift off somewhere that wasn't reality if I didn't.

I was right at Serenity's trail, we were shoulder high in the water now but I still wasn't scared and neither was she. "That is good," she said all of a sudden, I shut my close just in case any water would come in my mouth. But it didn't since the water was calm around her female being. She finished on what she had left off, "I can see that you are not scared of the water, that will prove that you are really one to be like I. Proceed, we are almost there."

There was no response from me but then I had the idea that she knew already. When we were all the way into the water, where our heads were under the oceans surface I held my breath like I did in Blitzball… but then I realized after some time that nothing was happening…. That it meant that I didn't need to hold my breath. I was breathing in water! Serenity, where was she? I turned around and saw that she was deeper in the water, waiting for me. It was like she too was breathing in the water herself.

I swam to her and went by her side. She closed her eyes once and then opened them. I now realized that we were facing nothing, only a vast ocean that waters were all dark and blue under the surface. Opening her hands, cupping them, her fingers were slightly parted from each other but I watched what was happening. Closing her eyes once again, she opened them after moments… and this time there was no glint of light in her eyes. They were a pale cold blue that was darker from the top and lighter at the bottom. For some reason, I wasn't scared and I seemed to know that this was supposed to happen.

Pyreflies began to surround her and flew in graceful movements. Slowly I squinted out into the darkness and saw that something was arising, then I glanced back to Serenity, she was chanting words that I couldn't make anything out of but I had something going on me telling me that I would learn those words, too. She kept on going and the ancient building came out into appearance. I never knew that it was in existence, hidden somewhere near Besaid. She stopped chanting and at that moment, the ancient building was all there, in view but still underneath the waves. She swam to the entrance and I followed just like I had done recently.

When we stepped into the rim of the building we were dry as if we had never gone into the waters of the ocean. What was this place, it was so… mysterious. I turned to Serenity then looked at the surroundings again. It was beautiful so hard to explain with only words, it was something for the eye to see itself and know what I was talking about. The outside may looked battered and beaten but in the inside it was like it was new, as if someone was cleaning it everyday. "Serenity, what is this place?" I asked with awe.

She smiled and cocked her head to one side, "It is the Sacred Temple of all Watergoddesses. This is only one of them. The rest are out there, all lying beneath the waves where only Watergoddesses could reach and know them. From having you get in so easily that means that you really are one of us. There aren't much in the world now… so I think that it is only you and me…." Walking to a wall, she put a hand on it's creamy white shining surface, it was like glass with colour.

I made it to her side and questioned, "Only you and me?" She nodded seeming to have nothing to say. "So, is this place very special to you?"

I wished that I haven't had asked that, there wear forming tears in her eyes but she smiled through them and wiped them away. "Yes." She took her hand off the wall, and leaned on it on her back afterwards looking to the ceiling. "This was one of the first places where I actually got to have time with Tyde."

"Why… but how did he get in here if he wasn't a Watergod or something…?" I raised an eyebrow to show my curiosity.

"Well, it was because there wasn't really anymore Watergoddesses in this world that time too and so I was to inherit all the Sacred Temples and now I ma to take care of them… but I haven't been down here for such a long time." Serenity looked at me with her eyes shining with warmth. "I missed it so much. Tyde and I really loved this place."

"I could tell. What is it like beyond the rest of the building? Is it like some kind of home?" This was kind of scary but when I thought about it, it would be nice to be here for a while.

"Well, you can put it that way. I mean, Tyde and I have slept here together before but we haven't lived here for any long months or so. That would be strange… to be beneath the waves living a life instead of having one where other humans were and lived. Yes, there is somewhere to live in here and all that. I think that it was used as a hide out for Watergoddesses to hide when they needed to. I have one, before."

"Is there also an altar? I mean somewhere where you are supposed to become a Watergoddess," I was trying to bring her to the point on why I had came here. Yes, it was beautiful and I would like to see it longer but I could do that once I was a Watergoddess, right?

"Oh, yes," she nodded. There was this playful and silly giggle in her voice. "That was dumb of me, dragging you over here to only show you this place. We are here for more important business. Come" I sighed, once again, following her deeper into the temple. As I walked further in, following her step by step, I was intoxicated with the sights that my eyes were seeing. It was truly a beautiful place but it was sad that it was hidden beneath the waves. It would be nice to live here but really, it was to much, being under the water and living there. I mean what if something happened and then-no, the water is something that I can trust- "You are not doubting the water, I can see it in your face. That means that you are trusting it to protect you when the time of danger has come to arrive."

"How…" I didn't know what to say since it was like she had read my mind without asking what was on it, "how did you know…?" For some reason I was thinking that I shouldn't be thinking about what Tidus and I could have done if he was here at the moment. It would most likely to be read by Serenity.

She chuckled softly and looked away seeming to embarrassed by the words that she had said. "I… well, the purity from your mind is like mine and in that way I can see what you are thinking but this will not happen all the time. At some moments you are not thinking like me… in a way that I do not act like. And the other times that I will not be able to is when you are thinking of something private. I would only be able to if I were to look at your face and ask you myself."

I sighed, that meant that I could think of the things that I would want to think of… like she said, she wouldn't be able to see what is in my mind if I were to think these things…. I think that this is an ability that people inherit if they are to be one like Serenity. Or is it just that Serenity could only do that. "Um… will I be able to do that if I were to become a Watergoddess?" I looked at her longingly but she shook her head sending disappointment through me.

"Well, yes you can but then it would have to be the mind of someone that is very similar to you. Just like you and I, do you get the point. You cannot read my mind because I am not a living specimen anymore. I am only one of the spirits that do not rest because of the task that they have not finished in their lives." I was sad to hear that I think that she reacted to what I was thinking. "Do not feel sad for me, I chose this path for which my afterlife was to follow."

To tell you the truth, this ability of hers was really getting on my nerves. If everything that she read from it, I wouldn't be able to think by my own anymore…. "Serenity, could you please not read my mind like that anymore? It's really bothering me. If you keep up to it then I would never be able to think without someone reading what I was thinking."

She furrowed her eyebrows as we got closer to this pair of big doors that reached the hieght of the ceiling to the ground level of the, well, ground. It was embroidered with beautiful signs, I was guessing that they were emblems of Water Spirits. "I am sorry but… okay then I will obey what you wish. No feelings hurt?"

"Of course not, why would I? Well, yes, it was annoying but um, I'm not, okay? I'm not really that kind of person that would accuse someone for something that little. And don't ask why, I don't really have an answer." I tilted my head to a side and then pointed at the doors. "We going in or not? You know, I have something to finish."

Nodding, she said, "Right. I know. Okay, just follow me and do not touch anything that you pass by of. You will be able to when you are like me, a Watergoddess but first, you will have to wait."

"Okay."

I followed her in…. each step I took consciously as if I was going to explode if I was going to step on a bomb. My foot walked over the rim of the room… the place where the two rooms were divided determined by the door… it was like water rushing right through me giving me this clammy feeling inside. Though I wasn't wet but it was like I was soaked up in water. As I proceeded into the room, I saw that there was an altar and candles were alit with fires of blue. It was a bit gloomier in here than from out the door but it made me feel secure in a way. I felt the water calmly rushing over me in gentle touches… I was thinking that it was a Spirit of Water that was checking if I was really the one to be the next in line of Watergoddesses. When Serenity and I had reached the altar, the both of us looked at it.

I just noticed and now I realized that there was this crystalline blue medallion that was sitting on a pedestal. Serenity carefully picked it up and pointed it to me. I didn't reach out to it and she nodded for me remembering not to touch anything yet. "Now…" she held it up to my chest "… I want you to say this sentence that I say but do not move. This may take time. When I first did it, it took me awhile before I could say it correctly." Nodding my head she continued, "Now say this sentence that I say. It is not in any languages that you know or as I think. Okay now say what I say…. Wariel no ma leih wa tashi mo, Wariel, e liew aeu."

"Wa… wa… what?" Yep, this was going to take time, I tried again. "Wa.. Wari-rieil no mi lieh aw tashi mo, Wari-rieil, e liew aue?"

She giggled a tiny bit and I tagged along. This was hard and I didn't know how I was going to pull it off. "Um… try saying bit by bit with me, then you're on your own, okay?" she said and I nodded. "Wariel."

"Wariel…"

"…no ma leih…"

"…no ma leih …"

"…wa tashi mo…"

"…wa tashi mo…"

"…Wariel…"

"…Wariel…"

"…e liew aeu."

"…e liew aeu."

She smiled and praised me, "Very good! You are learning it faster than I had when I was doing this…. Now can you say it on your own?" I think that I could so I nodded. "Okay, go ahead." I didn't think and I just said it. I said it with the feeling of water all around me, in a voice that was all clear, in a voice that was determined….

"Wariel no ma leih wa tashi mo, Wariel, e liew aeu."

-Lenna (Yuna-Blueo'hara: I'm going to put Lenna from now on, I think, sometimes.)