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Umi grumbled as she stalked through the snowy ground as Seymour belted into a round of scaring people again.

"You do know that they can kill you again?" This caused Seymour to quiet down and walk next to her. "Besides it's better if they notice us not."

"Why is that?" Umi looked at the half-Guado Maester.

"Tell me something Seymour... would you want people connecting the destruction of something so pure as a temple to your likeness?" Seymour looked thoughtful. He followed the short Fayth quietly for some time before he spoke to her again.

"Umi?"

"Yes Seymour?"

"What type of summon were you killed by?"

"One looking very close to Ifrit. Only he was not red. Much larger too as most Terminus Citatio are."

"Terminus Citatio?"

"Yes, although they are called Final Aeons by anyone other than the Aeons. I remember seeing 3 smaller than myself." Umi sighed and stopped, holding out a hand and lightly placing it onto Seymour's robes, causing him to stop. "Do you hear that?" Seymour blinked at Umi, then he heard it. The rumbling of those Machina snow mobiles.

"Machina." Umi grabbed Seymour's robes and hauled him across the icy ground. "Umi what are you doing?"

"Saving us months of torture. I hate being sent back by those guys." she hauled him into a small cave and around a corner.

"Saving us mon-" he was cut off by Umi's hand over his mouth. The snow mobiles passed by and after a minute Umi relaxed a bit. Seymour took the chance to finish his thought. "saving us months of torture?"

Umi looked at him and straightened only to find herself slipping and flailing for Seymour's robes. She grabbed him and ended up dragging him down as well. They fell, Seymour on his back and Umi half laying on him, as he had twisted himself so that he wouldn't fall on the Aeon. Umi blinked at him and blushed, trying to scramble away, but he stilled her by putting his hands on her upper arms. She gulped.

"Calm yourself," he said quietly as he gently pushed her up to sitting. He sat up and looked at her. She was staring elsewhere. He stood and held a hand to her. It took her a minute to notice, but when she did she kind of did a double take, then looked up to him. He was smiling. she grabbed his hand and he pulled her up. Umi stared at him wide-eyed and after a moment walked out of the cave and looked up to the sky.

"We need to make camp soon... " she started across the ice to be pulled back into the cave by Seymour. "Wh-" she began as a clawed hand covered her mouth. Then she heard it. The Machina snowmobiles. Seymour pulled her back into the cave as the sounds of engines died out and feet crunched in the snow.

"Rao Keegan, muug yd drec!" A voice said. Another set of crunching foot prints came to join the other.

"Bnupypmo y payn Jordan." The two bickered in Al Bhed for some time before they left. Umi stepped outside.

"We're not gonna make it to a campsite before dark..." she sighed. Seymour walked up behind her and sat a hand on her shoulder.

"We are in a decent place for a campsite," Seymour said. Umi nodded and they made their way in the cave to look for a suitable spot for the night. Umi rummaged in her pack and pulled a bundle of dried flowers and a set of flint rocks. "If we don't have any wood then we aren't gonna be warm for very long..." Seymour stopped in a smallish room with a small hole in the wall which Umi disappeared into and reappeared after a moment. "Well... it's not very big but we can keep warmer in there if I hang my coat in front of the hole here..." she went inside and a moment later the coat appeared and was hung securely.

Seymour followed into the dark little cave room and found Umi striking some flint. He sighed and stepped over to the dried bundle and snapped his fingers causing a small spark to land on the bundle and start to burn. Umi set the flint aside and mumbled shoving something into Seymour's hands, then curling on the cold rock to sleep. Seymour blinked and looked to what she had given him. A blanket. He knelt beside Umi and shook her slightly.

"What do you want Seymour?" Umi said clearly.

"Why give me the blanket?" he asked quietly.

"The job of a Guardian is to keep Summoners alive." she said flatly. Seymour flipped the blanket over Umi, then he himself crawled under the blanket.

"Then we will share. For a Guardian cannot protect it's Summoner if dead," he stated as Umi began to protest. Then she stopped protesting.

"That wasn't how Jimka saw it. I gave up all comforts to be his Guardian. He said it would make me tougher."

"Did it?" Seymour leaned on his hand.

"I guess it did." Umi sighed heavily. "Good night Maester Seymour."

"Why do you call me Maester Seymour?"

"Respect for a former Maester."

"I've only heard you call me without my title once." Umi turned herself so she could look at him.

"When was that?"

"After you had awoken from fainting and you shouted something at Jimka."

"I didn't realize I had said that. I apologize for those words Maester Seymour..." she turned back around to facing the fire and closed her eyes.

"I didn't mind you saying them."

"I spoke out of place Maester..." she curled upon herself tighter.

"I do not believe so," Seymour said as he pulled her body close to his. "Let us keep each other warm shall we?" Umi sighed.

"Goodnight Maester Seymour."

"Call me Seymour."

"No."

"Umi..."

"I am going to pay you respect. Good Night. Maester."

"Please..."

"No. Go to sleep Maester. We have a long day ahead."

"Umi..."

"You're not going to sleep until I do so are you?"

"No."

"Fine. Goodnight... Seymour.."

"Goodnight Umi..."

Several hours later Umi stretched and sat up slowly. Her hair was slightly disheveled. "I forgot what it's like to be alive.." the ponytail flopped to the side and Umi dug around for a brush. "Good thing I bring the living essentials even if I think I won't need them..." she redid her high ponytail. Only to find her hair tumbling downwards once more. She turned to find Seymour awake. "Good morning Maester."

"Good Morning Umi." she took the hair tie back and began to put her hair back up, when the hair tie was pulled away once more.

"Maester please may I have my hair tie?" Seymour looked at the hair tie then at Umi.

"Leave your hair down for the day and I shall give it back." Umi poked out her hand.

"Make a deal with you... I'll take it down for a day once we get back to the Farplane."

"A week plus no guardian wear."

"One day and I'll wear something nice for dinner with you which by the way was ruined thanks to the jealous Jimka."

"2 weeks plus no guardian wear and 3 dinners!"

"I haven't any other clothes Seymour!"

"I'll get you some made."

"I'm not a summoner or a Maester... just a simple guardian. I must dress for my station."

"And for two weeks you will dress as a Maester."

"No I will dress nicely for two weeks," she replied as she took down her coat. She was about to swing the coat on, when a pair of hands descended upon her bare shoulders.

"Agreed," Seymour said as he turned her around to face him. He took the coat from Umi's hands and put it on her. Then they left the cave.

Two days later they made it to the temple and entered.

"What brings you here?"

"To pay homage to Shiva the goddess of ice."

"You may enter if only you have a summoner."

"Cut the crap. You know as well as I, the Aeons are no more." Seymour then pushed the angry guardian aside.

"Please excuse my Guardian. She knows not her place sometimes. May we please enter?" he heard Umi grumble angrily.

"What business do you have here?"

"Merely to see if the Aeon will answer my prayers." it was then that the temple guardian stepped aside and let them pass.

As she passed Umi muttered, "Damn temple guardians make my job even harder.." they walked over the icy bridge Umi making her way quickly to the chamber. Once inside the chamber Seymour bowed and began to pray. Umi stood aside and growled. Shiva showed herself quickly.

"What do you want us to do with your temple?"

"Do what you will..." she sighed airily.

"Fine. I will destroy the statues in all temples the same as I will do to yours. Discreetly."Shiva disappeared and Seymour began to pray. Umi tapped her foot restlessly and waited for two days before getting annoyed and destroying the statue and the entire chamber. It was then that Seymour ceased his prayer soon after. The Umi grabbed his hand and dragged him from the temple and on to Bevelle. From there they destroyed the Bevelle temple and took an airship to Besaid, Kilika, Luca, Djose, the submerged ruins, Yojimbo's temple, and where ever else that had temples. Once they were done there was one last place to visit. Zanarkand.

"Oh Yunalesca!!!" the scantily clad summoner's ghost walked into view. She raised a fine silver brow at the guardian. Then turned to Seymour.

"Are you looking for the Final Summoning?" Seymour blinked.

"Yes."

"Then you and your guardian must enter." Seymour began but Umi stopped him.

"I will not-" Seymour placed a hand over her mouth.

"Forgive my Guardian." He took an arm and slung it around her shoulders. "Sometimes she speaks out of place." he guided Umi into the chamber and whispered in her ear.

"No Maester..."

He whispered once more.

"Fine." she then felt Seymour's clawed fingers in her hair.

"Summoner step away from your guardian and begin to pray." Seymour stepped back and began the prayer. Umi felt the familiar pain lance through her body and pull her into her final form again. She roared angrily and slashed at the ghost summoner. She soon transformed back into her smaller form again and fell towards the ground. Seymour rushed to catch her.

"Do not stop praying!" Seymour glared at the woman as he caught Umi. He sat her down and resumed his prayers until the chanting Yunalesca stopped.

"Umi... are you alright?" Umi growled and swiped catching onto Seymour's robes and wrapping her fingers around them..

"You'd better treat me better than Jimka..." she mumbled as Yunalesca murmured,

"Impossible. There is no way another could have the same form unless... You. Who are you?" Umi stared at the female summoner.

"Umi Guado," Seymour answered.

"Are you not dead Guado?"

"That I was."
You are not a reincarnation?"

"No."

"Whatever happened you your summoner?"

"I hate him."

"So..."

"Maester Seymour wished to free me, but it seems I cannot be freed."

"You cannot be freed unless he were to become a fiend." Umi turned back to Seymour.

"But he was a fiend..."

"But he was sent was he not?"

Umi fell into the land of unconsciousness.

Seymour waited by her side until she awoke.

"So, you have awakened Umi Guado." Umi groaned and got up.

"Maester we must head back to Guadosalam and report mission completed."

"Why not take the quick way back?"

"I do not go back unless I have to." she began to wander towards the exit. "Come on Seymour. Thanks Yunalesca..." she turned and surprised both summoners by falling and doing a quick prayer.

"The faithless one prays? The Farplane must be having a cold day indeed."

And in fact it was. Auron made his way back from the view portal and to the Maesters. Maester Johnathan was chuckling and Auron strode up and then he said,

"A faithless one has finally prayed."