"Seize them," a priest shouted, "they come to befoul the temple and defy Yevon."

With that priests and villagers seized Zen, Bekayla and Seshay leaving Arkinlae staning at the bottom of the Cloister of Trials steps, Yuna her guardians, Tidus and the rest of the villages watching.

"Hey nice Al Bhed, let nice Al Bhed go." Seshay said hoping for her guard to be lenient

"Hate to burst your bubble sis," Zen remarked, but something tells me we're in trouble."

Chapter 2 The Summoning That Went Wrong.

Yuna came down the steps and looked at the three captured Al Bhed

"What ever you are planning to do please leave, I have nothing against Al Bhed but they have no need to come into temples unless there are going to vandalise it."

"Wait," Zen said, "Sesh look."

The three Al Bhed starting talking in their language.

"Guys it's Yuna." Arkinlae

"Yeah Yunie." Seshay replied.

"Please leave." Yuna said.

"Who do you Al Bhed think you are anyway?" Wakka said

"I am apprentice summoner Arkinlae from the island of Bikanel." Arkinlae said rather fiercely in English who was standing behind him, "I insist you let my guardians go."

"No the precepts must be obeyed." Said a priest, "Al Bhed do not go by the teachings. You may go apprentice but your 'guardians' may not."

Arkinlae then walked to the top of the steps and then laughed. "You do not let blonde haired blue eyed Al Bhed speaking people in the temple, yet you let a black haired green eyed Al Bhed walk right into the Cloister of Trials, I wonder what the Maesters will make of that."

Before anyone could stop her Arkinlae walked right into the Cloister of Trials.

"Go Kinny!" Zen shouted

"She be okay?" Seshay asked.

"I don't know, but part of me hopes she doesn't get accepted."

After four hours Arkinlae was still in there.

"Let us go in please." Said Zen, "What if something's happened to her."

"Oui lyh'd gaab ic rana vunajan." (You can't keep us here forever.) Bekayla complained

"She should have thought of that before she went in." the priest laughed, "That'll teach your scum to be summoners."

Another hour passed and the priests, Zen, Seshay and Bekayla were still there. Soon the doors opened and a very weak and drowsy Arkinlae staggered out. It seemed her staff that seemed to be made of dead wood with thorns twisted round into a shape on top similar to Yuna's was the only thing keeping her up. She was about to make her way down the stairs when she fell all the way to the bottom. Tidus who'd been there to see if she'd come out yet was going to run and help her. Al Bhed had helped him and he was going to help her but Wakka stopped him. Arkinlae lay motionless at the bottom of the steps. Zen was struggling to be free, but his guards didn't loosen his grip. Arkinlae then got up.

"Hey," she sounded disappointed, the priests smiled thinking she hadn't done it. Arkinlae looked at her friends straight in the eyes, "Guys I'm a summoner!" she shouted happily.

The priests released their grip out of astonishment. The three Al Bhed ran to their friend. Seshay gave Arkinlae a hug.

"Sure what want?" she asked

"Yes I'm sure." Arkinlae said definitely, "I know you guys don't like it, but I feel it's right for me to be a summoner and it's what I want to do."

"An Al Bhed summoner," Zen muttered curiously, "That'll sure go down in history if you defeat Sin."

"Lady Yuna, I don't wish to be a rival, but defeating Sin is important to me. Not just for me but for all Al Bhed. You dismiss them when all they're trying to do is find out about Spira's past, the evidence of which Sin took away. I'm not just going to defeat Sin to give them more of a chance to do this but to let Al Bhed voices be heard." Arkinlae said.

Yuna nodded, now that Arkinlae was a summoner Yuna didn't feel as apprehensive towards her seeing as the Fayth thought she was fit to be one. However she was still on edge about her guardians. Yuna nodded at Arkinlae accepting her as a summoner and with that the villagers of Besaid went outside to welcome the birth of one summoner and to acknowledge the birth of another. The four friends gathered in the circle but were pushed to the back as Yuna summoned Valefor.

"Come on Kinny I bet you can beat that." Zen encouraged

Arkinlae did her summoning dance. The rest of Besaid looked round. Arkinlae's dance was different to Yuna's but something came through the clouds as Valefor had. This summoning however came out different. It came towards Arkinlae but instead of landing went transparent as if she was dismissing it and it turned into pyreflies that seemed to go inside Arkinlae.

"Looks like our Al Bhed summoner can't seem to summon." Said the priest laughing. Most of the crowd joined in.

"You take those words back." Zen said threateningly holding out his fist.

"Oui pycdyntc." Bekayla swore getting his weapon out.

"Fyed!" Arkinlae shouted, "The last thing we want is a fight, we're already in enough trouble in Yevon's eyes as it is."

"Fine." said Zen, "But tomorrow we're getting the first boat to?"

"Kilika." Arkinlae finished.

At night Arkinlae and her friends sat away from the others. Surprisingly one person did want talk to them that night. Tidus came over.

"Fryd tuac ra fyhd?" (What does he want?) Bekayla asked irritably

"Shh let's hear him out Bekayla." Arkinlae replied, "He doesn't seem to want trouble."

"Hey guys," Tidus said, "Look I'm not asking for trouble, in fact I don't get what this whole thing with Al Bhed's is but do you know someone called Rikku?"

"Know Rikku?" Seshay asked

"Yeah she helped me when I first came to Spira."

"Well we don't know her that well but she was friends of the captain of our ship." Zen explained

"I know her too, she was the instructor of our training when she wasn't away." Arkinlae added.

Meanwhile listening Tidus was spinning a blitzball he'd been given by Jessu on his finger.

"Oui play blitz?" Seshay asked

"Yeah," Tidus replied, "I used to play for the Zanarkand Abes, put I've joined the Aurouchs for this tournament thing."

"Zanarkand? You wish. That place went a-." Zen was interupted

"Thousand years ago so I've been told." Tidus finished.

"Oui live Zanarkand?" Seshay said confused.

"Oui'ja paah kud po duquh syda."

" 'You've been got by toxin mate,'" Zen laughed translating his friend, "Yeah definitely."

"Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't mean it's not true. I mean you all thought a black haired green-eyed Al Bhed wasn't true remember. So maybe someone coming from Zanarkand isn't so absurd." Arkinlae pointed out.

"Braska, guardian, Zanarkand." Seshay piped up.

"Yeah Sesh you're right." Said Zen. "Hey Kin member that guardian of Braska."

"Hey I thought you didn't like Yevon." Tidus remarked slightly confused.

"We don't believe the so called 'teachings' of Yevon, but we still respect the summoners who brought us the Calm, we just hate all the 'Yevon say this Yevon says that.' We just think maybe Yevon could be wrong." Arkinlae explained

"Wait a minute." Tidus said leaning in to get a closer look at Arkinlae, "Have we-."

"Hey kid!" Wakka shouted.

"Gotta go." Tidus apologised, "See you on the boat?"

"Yeah if you're going to Luca, we'll see you!" Arkinlae called.

The Al Bhed talked for a few more minutes until they all decided to go to bed. All of them especially Arkinlae was tired. Before going to sleep Arkinlae thought. What went wrong, I am a summoner. The Fayth said so. Maybe in Killika things might be different. With that Arkinlae fell into a deep sleep while the murmurs of voices and the crackling of the fire outside the Crusaders Lodge continued around her.

AN C'est fini. There that's chap 2 done, please review hope you enjoyed that as much as the first.