I'm baaaaack. Did ya miss me? I couldn't let this story go too long without an update, especially with the cliffhanger of an ending I gave you all last update. here we go!

"Baralai!" Kerra gasped as she noticed the barrier dissolving. "I can see Spira from here...and I definately don't think I'm supposed to be able to!" She felt his hand clench hers tighter as she led him on farther into the farplane, in search of Yuna. The truth was beginning to dawn on her. The white crystal had now served one of its two purposes... to dissolve or preserve the border between farplane and mortal world. She made a thankful prayer to the fayth that the Guado monster would never be able to use the second purpose. To summon its aeon. Not even Yuna would be able to summon Aquestia, through that brought a little bit of sorrow to the safetly. Only Aquestia would be able to separate the realms again.

"We better find Yuna, and fast" Baralai squeezed her hand a bit to awaken her from her thoughts. "You're right...she's close now" He heard her say, though there was fear in her voice. The fear was righteous however, what would they do once they found Yuna? How were they going to get themselves out of this one? "How can you tell?" He gave her an inquisitive look. How could she tell...come to think of it, how could she navigate this place so well? When he recieved no answer, he grew a little bit worried.

"Kerra, what's wrong?" He stepped in front of her and looked straight into her sorrow-filled eyes. Although nothing could have prepared him for what he was about to hear.

"This is home, Baralai..." The words echoed in his ears. "Home? What are you talking about? How could this be..."

"Baralai, did you ever wonder how I came to wash up on the beach that day? That day that Gippal found me?"

The truth be told he had wondered, and wondered often. "But, Kerra..."

"I had forgotten too...I had forgotten everything, until everything began to come back to me in little pieces. The crystal is mine, Baralai. I am it's protector." He watched as a warm tear trickled down her pale face. His hand reached and smeared it away before it could fall completely. "We have to get it back, Baralai. It's the only way..."

"The only way to save Spira..." He sighed and kissed her trembling lips. "Don't worry, Kerra, we'll get it back." As if it was that simple, just walk up and take it from a guado roach that refused to die.

As they kept walking, hand in hand, Baralai eventually saw what they had been following the entire time. It was the source of the distortion, a bright white light contained inside a cavern that was positively draped in devious laughter.

"Vierda!" Kerra cried out as she saw the guado woman on the floor. She broke from Baralai's steadfast grip and ran toward the pale and cold looking figure. No...she can't be...

"Dead? Oh yes I'm afraid" came the oily slick voice that made Kerra wish to vomit, and she would have done so, if not for respect of the dead woman in her clutches.

"Kerra!" A voice called out from the shadows beside the monster. "Kerra get out of here! You'll be killed!"

"Yuna! Hold on! I'm not leaving without you! I promised Tidus!" She answered the pleading shrieks.

To her displeasure however, it was Seymour who answered her call. "Do not worry, my dear bride, Yuna. I do not intend to kill her. "

"That's right, you bastard...you need me alive" The anger burned in Kerra's heart, anger she had never experienced before. He didn't know that he wouldnt' be able to summon Aquestia, but what he didn't know, couldn't hurt them. "If you let her go, I'll cooperate with you, but I insist that you let her go first!"

To hear Kerra's voice ring again in that tone thrilled Baralai, but the fact that she was agreeing to help him nearly knocked him off what little balance he had. Kerra, how could you? How could you betray Spira. Is it because this is your home?

"Very well, wench, here is your girl. After all, when I have controll of the combined realm, she will be begging me to take her." This comment was followed with a sly grin, which was rewarded with a scowl from Yuna that could have turned Sin away fleeing. Kerra kneeled beside the woman.

"Kerra, why are you going to help him" She wispered, barely audible.

"I'm not..." Kerra replied in an equally hushed tone. "Just make sure Baralai knows that too..."

Yuna nodded and headed toward the direction she had seen the silver haired man standing, undetected by Seymour as of yet.

"Now for your end of the bargain, my aeon slave." The look of contempt Kerra returned to him rivaled Yuna's look of disgust, but she knew what must be done. "Yes master..." She added extra hatred to the last word, as if to figuratively spit upon it.

He held out his hands, the crystal sphere amulet nestled inside, and Kerra placed her hands hovering above the glittering object. With the influence of its mistress, the sphere began to glow even brigher in a swirling blinding light. So bright, even the figures of Lord Seymour and Kerra herself seemed the blackest of shadows. Then something happened, that the Lord of the Guado did not intend, although he did not know the difference. The crystal thrived off of the emotions of its mistress, and so the light grew tinted with red near her hands. The red light flowed out as a colored liquid poured into pure water, until the entire stream of energy was tinted blood red with her malice and hatred.

"What is it you desire, my lord?" Her voice echoed in the vortex of power, holding a deep metallic quality. She opened her eyes, and even Seymour was taken aback by their color, a crimson red to match the flames of swirling light.

"I desire the service of the aeon Aquestia, and dominion over the combined realm" He answered cooly despite the fear in his eyes.

Tah dah! Another cliff hanger for ya. Sorry guys, It just couldn't be helped! But hang in there, we're getting toward the end of the story! Leave a few reviews and I'll get the next chapter up faster...