A/N: Yay, people read my story! I realised I had made a little mistake in the last chapter. When Maechen was talking about Lae's past it said a few years after he left Bevelle (eighteen) he became a fayth, which made him twenty-odd. But in chapter 4 I describe him as in his forties. Sorry!

Disclaimer: This gets boring.

Dedication time! This chapter is devoted (heh heh, cool word XD ) to Anime101. I know you've just started reviewing, but you reviewed all my chapters and, well, your story's brill! (P.S. To Martha, if you read chapter 8 you will see that chapter is dedicated to you!)

The Hidden Aeon

After Maechen gave us his little talked, he requested to be returned to Mt. Gagazet. God knows what for. As Brother flew the airship to Gagazet, I went to the cabin to think. I sat down on one of the sofas up near the beds. Barkeep wasn't in there, probably in his own room, if he had one. Anyway, as I was thinking about various things, such as going home, the talk with Maechen, I suddenly remembered the talk with the Fayth. I don't know why, but a certain part came into my head.

"We're sorry to have caused you so much trouble. We ... got ourselves into the mess," Lillie said.

"Do not be sorry. The three of us, you helped us, in more ways than one. Firstly, you gave us, the previous Fayth, a position in life again. It was only for a few minutes, but it has certainly healed wounds deep beneath the surface. Years ago, when we were imprisoned in statues, we wanted to rest and we managed to. None of us would return to those statues, those temples, but helping people is something that will never leave us. Thank you."

"We're glad we could do that for you," I smiled. "Is it possible you could help us again?" The Fayth nodded in reply and I continued, "Do you know anything about Nemesis? Every piece of information will be helpful."

Of course there was more, but a certain part stuck in my head.

"The three of us, you helped us, in more ways than one. Firstly,"

Firstly? It was then that it occurred to me that hadn't even been a 'Secondly'. Was it because there wasn't one? Or because I cut him off before he got the chance to say it and then forgot? Then, I didn't know why I was making it such as big deal. So what, we hadn't heard the 'Secondly' part! But, I still couldn't help feeling maybe it was something worth knowing. I was going to think more about it, but my mind was taken off it when I heard voices. I got off the sofa and crept over to edge, staying out of view. There was nobody in the cabin, but I could hearing yelling from the corridor.

Sure enough, as the yelling got louder I saw Rikku storm into the cabin and plonk (hehe, groovy word, XD) herself on a barstool. She let out a huge agitated sigh and put her head down on the table.

"Rikku ..." Gippal was standing in the doorway, an apologetic look on his face. Rikku ignored him. "Look, Rikku, I'm sorry!"

Huh? I thought, Sorry for what?

"You always do that!" She screamed, "You always humiliate me in front of my friends. Even when we were little you did! You were never nice to me, you constantly teased me and made fun of me!"

"Not all the time ..." He muttered feebly, but Rikku wasn't done yet.

"Why can't you ever be kind to me?! I hate you! I HATE you!" Rikku was crying now. Well, not really crying, more like howling. Something told me I wasn't meant to see that ...

"Rikku, please!" Gippal walked over to her slowly and tried to hug her, but she pushed him a way.

"Leave me alone," She muttered weakly. Gippal kept trying to apologise and hug her, but she kept shoving him away. He wouldn't give up (men, eh? lol). Eventually, though, she couldn't be bothered and Gippal had his arms wrapped around her. She turned away from the bar and stood up gradually, her arms now around him as well. It wasn't really a hug any longer – more of an embrace (if you can tell the difference : P). Gippal was looking down at her. She looked back up with a smile on her face. A real one, not fake. Gippal leant closer until they were centimetres apart. Then they began to kiss.

I stopped watching then, I reckoned I had seen too much.

::Still In The Cabin::

I am so not a sensitive person.

After Rikku and Gippal left the cabin to return to the Bridge (or possibly the Deck or Engine Room for a little alone time, tee hee-hee) I lay back on one of the beds thinking about them. And what was I thinking? Not 'aw how sweet!' or even 'they're cute together' (which of course they are!). No, I was thinking 'Heh heh, the perfect come back if I get into an argument with one of them!' See? How insensitive is that?! Very.

I decided there was no longer a point in me staying alone in the cabin so I left. As I was in the corridor leading to the lift I turned around and noticed Barkeep returning to his usual position behind the bar. (Does he do that on purpose? How come he's always there when you want him and he disappears when you want him to? Does he have 'Hypello intuition' instead or something?)

::Bridge::

Anyway, I returned to the Bridge to find we had arrived at Mt. Gagazet. Everyone, besides Barkeep, was there.

"Hey, where'd you go?" Baralai asked, making most people look at me.

Uh-oh, can't say Cabin, Rikku and Gippal will know I watched. What if somebody else went to the Engine Room or Deck? "Uh, just went somewhere to think." Thankfully I got away with that. After all, I was hardly lying, was I?

"Well, I must bide my farewell," Maechen said, walking up the stairs and along the corridor. "I will be at Mt. Gagazet for quite some time, if you need me again!" Then the lift door closed. As soon as we saw him on the mountain side (how can a frail old man like that walked against the winds up there?) Buddy asked where it was to now.

"Hey, what exactly does your ocillar finder pick up?" Holy asked.

"Anything, besides people, if we did finding Maechen would have been a synch. There was one that could find people in the other airship, but not in this one," Buddy said from his chair. Of course, the airship in X. You use it to find Yuna, I thought.

"Anything?" Holly continued. Buddy nodded. "Will it find previous Chambers Of Fayth?"

Everyone stared at her confused, until I piped up with, "So we can find Nemesis's Chamber? maybe finding out what aeon could be will help us. You never know, and it's not as though we have anything else to do."

Shinra looked as though he was thinking. Then he said, "Evidently, it won't pick up actual Chambers Of Fayth, but it will pick up pervious aeon dwellings. We can search for pervious aeon dwellings, then cross off the ones that come up if we are already aware of the aeon." And that's what we did.

The ocillar finder singled out fifteen aeon dwellings. We managed to cross out ten (all the original aeons, the Magus Sisters counted as three different aeons). In three places there were two aeons marked (that's if you exclude the Magus Sisters).

The point is, this part took ages, we didn't understand everything at first, and I am not, I repeat not going to explain everything. So instead, I'm going to make a summary of what happened.

::Summary Of What Happened::

The first place we went was Macalania. Turned out, Yojimbo's real resting place – not the one in the Calm Lands – used to be there until he was moved. Then he was replaced with Shiva (how kind ...).

Next we went to Djose. Turns out the Fayth forgot to tell us something (and this was not the 'Secondly' part, either). When Lae first became a Fayth, his aeon rested in Djose Temple. Until he was stolen. Then he got replaced with Ixion.

After that we went to Kilika Temple. Before Ifrit lived there (oh no, not another stolen aeon) a previous aeon lived there. We didn't find out the name. Let's just say No-Name used to live there, okay?

Our fourth destination (that sounds so pompous, don't know why) was the first lonered island east of the Omega Ruins. That was where Lae's aeon rested. We didn't exactly find anything interesting, but we did find out he was a water element-based aeon. I can remember thinking, So that's where the water aeon is! The reason for that being Ixion is thunder, Shiva is blizzard and Ifrit is fire. Look, no water!

I just realised I got something wrong above. We actually half managed to eleven places. The cause for that? Well, the final destination was Zanarkand. In FFX, Scary Green Zombie Man (SGZM?) says you have to go see Yunalesca, and that the aeon that used to be there no longer was. We could half remove it from our list because we knew that an aeon used to be there, but we also didn't know what one. Anyway, we had a look at it again and found out the aeon that used to be there before Yunalesca ambushed it. We didn't find out it's name, but we did fin out something. You remember No-Name (look at the Kilika Temple section above)? Well, No-Name used to reside in Zanarkand. Then when Yunalesca took over it was moved to Kilika Temple. Finally it was stolen (not a-bloody-gain!) and taken somewhere else. The weird thing about that? There was no more places to search. So where exactly did it go?

::Back On The Bridge::

"Fung dryd uid, csyndo byhdc!" (Work that out, smarty pants!) Brother yelled at Shinra, after Yuna had just mentioned the missing destination.

"I'm just a kid," He said in reply. Everyone groaned.

"Quit arguing," Buddy said, "Our main focus is Nemesis. I'm worried, he hasn't done anything yet. That could mean he's going to strike soon."

"Then we just have to get him before he does!" Rikku said excitedly.

"Don't you think we should train or something first?" I said, "I mean, I know you can defeat Vegnagun and Sin but Nemesis is dead, as well as being a previous aeon. And e all know what he did to Djose. hey, didn't Nemesis's aeon used to live there before he was stolen? Maybe he struck there first not because he escaped there, but because he had the most hatred for it."

"It's an idea," Victoria said.

"And," Nooj butted in, "It may be a clue. He struck Djose first because he hated it the most, right? That's what you're saying. So where's he going to have the second most hatred for?"

Everyone thought was a moment. Then I said, "Bevelle. Or Luca."

"The question is which one?" Lillie mumbled.

A/N: Ooohh! Bevelle or Luca? (Not that you're deciding, lol, I already know!) Read chapter 12 to find out!