Umi looked up at Auron quietly for a moment before speaking, "Sir Auron, jealous or no he shouldn't try to run my afterlife. He ran part of it already. And then 75 years! I was trapped because no one had the courage to step up and fight me! For 75 years I destroyed! Auron, he doesn't know what that means!"

"But you did your job as Guardian for Jimka." Auron patted her shoulder and walked off, leaving her to her deliberations. After a few moments she rose and went to the view portal. She leaned on the wall where Seymour had once before in his constant watchfulness of the living. She had done so over 500 years ago, but for a much longer time than Seymour. 400 years of watching, waiting, wanting to be alive, and most of all to be praised. Rarely was a guardian praised, and even rarer did the praise last. Unlike the summoners who got praised for defeating Sin. Many years their statues would be remembered, many years would their names be cried out in times of joy, but what of those who sacrificed the countless years as Sin so that a calm could be around for ten years. Umi began to think back to the days when she, Jimka, and seven others were traversing the lands on the summoner's pilgrimage.

Flashback

Umi sat upon the cold ground of the Gagazet Mountain trail as Jimka and the other seven guardians were praying for the souls of the undead. In continuous motion the arms moved. As if they were one. Umi scoffed upon prayer often. She hated Yu Yevon, and what he was, but she was not allowed to share her ideals. Most of her kind worshipped Yevon alongside humans, but she was an outcast of both races. Even the al bhed steered clear of her. Maybe it was the silvery lines upon her face or that she had a normal human's hair, who knew, but she was the first half Guado to ever be born. She thought back to her parents. Her mother was a Guado and her father was a Maester of Yevon. A rather handsome Maester. Maester Jonathan. Most human women were jealous that the Maester chose a Guado woman over a human one. But he said it was fate that brought him and his wife together. The incident that caused her to hate Yevon happened when she was still but a child. Her mother and father had both been killed in the name of Yevon and would have killed her had a kind Guado man not stepped in and stopped them.

"Umi, pray with us," one of the guardians interjected into her thoughts. She looked at them and was about to answer with the usual reply, but caught Jimka's glare. She stood and walked beside them and prayed a moment, then walked ahead.

"I prayed for your safe journey Jimka! I'm going ahead!" then she was gone from sight.

Next Flashback

"Choose who is to be your final summoning Lord Jimka," Yunalesca said quietly.

"I choose Umi," Jimka replied as the other guardians blinked in confusion.

"Why the faithless one Lord Jimka?"

"She is the best guardian that I have. I want her to see the power of Yevon."

"Then come both you and Umi. We shall begin" Umi hung her head and stayed put.

"I don't want to be the final summoning," she said quietly and was grabbed roughly by Jimka and shoved towards where Yunalesca was waiting.

"You will go! I have chosen you!"

"No! Jimka! I don't want to be the final summoning!" Jimka dragged Umi into the chamber forcefully.

End flashback

She watched as Seymour was enjoying himself frightening others. She shook her head slowly trying not to laugh.

"So funny that is…"

KN: heh. took a long time to update didn't it? well here it is