Final Kingdom
Chapter 5: Training
That day, through all the traveling, they fought many more fiends. And again that night, she trained with Yuna. She did not complain all that much any more, but she still got very tired. In a break of their training, she asked Yuna about her dreams, and if she knew why she was having them, and about the little girl.
"I have never seen anyone by your description, but it is possible that she arrived by the same way as you, even though, we have not seen her." Yuna said, wondering what could bring all these people and things in her dreams, and yet, some of them never having been seen by her.
"It sometimes seems impossible that I have these dreams, but then, I remember them so well when I wake up, they must be important. Though, I don't even know how my brother would be so big already. My mother was only about four months pregnant with him." Kaori said, still confused.
"Maybe time goes at different times, like, maybe you've been gone longer from your home than you think. Maybe where your mother is, then it's been years, instead of just months. I know you may not want to believe it, but you may have to face the reality of it, it may have been a much longer time than you think." Yuna told her, looking sorry for Kaori.
"That's impossible. It can't be. I mean, come on, and how could there be two different times, when I came here from my own world?" Kaori said, not willing to believe it.
"Kaori, I know you may not want to believe it, but it may actually have happened." Yuna said, getting up.
"But-" Kaori started, being interrupted by Yuna.
"Come on, its time to get started again." Yuna told her, getting her staff.
"Yuna, Kimahri teach her now." Kimahri said, walking up.
"Yes Kimahri, you can teach her now. Kaori, don't bombard him with questions. Just learn." Yuna said, thinking that she would start asking him if he knew if there really was a time difference in the two worlds.
They worked on his techniques for hours, even after everyone else had gone to bed. What surprised Kaori though, was the fact that she did not get very tired during all of this, only having fun trying to remember everything. He taught her how to use things that other people or fiends used, and he even taught her how to tell what was left of their health, or what abilities they had, or even what they were immune to.
When they at last stopped, Kaori didn't really want to, but she knew that she needed to so that she could keep up her schedule tomorrow, also not knowing if Kimahri had anything more to teach, and if so, if he would teach it to her the next day.
This time, when she slept, she dreamed only of her brother, and it seemed that he was somewhere that she had once been, in Spira, only, he was even older now, not by much, he was only about seven or eight, but if it kept going like this, then she would be the little sister, instead of the big sister she was planning on.
She knew that her mother had planned on calling him Dustin, so she tried to speak to him in her dreams, find out how old her was, and where he was.
She was surprised at his answer. He was eight and a half, and in a place that he did not know, though he had found people who knew the name Kaori. When he had asked where he was, he was told 'be said'. When Kaori was told this, she knew that she had to get back soon, otherwise something might happen to her brother that had happened to her.
She wondered if she might pass a message to the real Dustin, and told him to look for Vahe in Besaid, tell him that he was her brother, and explain to Vahe how he had gotten here.
After this, she woke up, and it was not much earlier than she would usually get up. She got dressed and went outside, finding Auron already there.
"Where have you been? You're late." He told her, turning to face her.
"I'm sorry. I was talking to my brother. He is in Besaid. I needed him to go somewhere he could stay, so I told him to go to Vahe and ask for help, since he's the only person I know there." Kaori said, getting in her fighting stance.
"You talk too much." Auron told her, starting the fight.
After some time of fighting, she got tired from the little sleep the night before, but she tried to keep going. On one of the attacks that she could usually block, and she didn't this time, Auron knew that something was wrong.
"Never let your opponent know what's going on in your mind. And don't even let them know that you are tired, if you do, you are sure to loose. You must build up durability, so that it doesn't happen again." Auron told her, looking down at her.
She got back up and fought some more, trying to make sure that she did as he told. After a few more parries, she was feeling like before, and it showed, but she didn't let it stop her.
"You are good at learning." Auron told her when they had finished for the morning.
That morning Lulu told her that they would not use the Black Magic, she would just memorize some more. So they started on their way, and they talked while they walked.
Since they had been going in the opposite direction, then they were going back to the Calm Lands, to go to the Magus Sisters temple, and see about their help.
When they got to the temple, Kaori rushed inside, and went into the room. Rikku came to get her, and show her the right way.
When they got to the chamber of the faith room, Kaori didn't know what to say, so she just let Yuna do the talking. When they were about to leave the temple, Kaori asked if this was a place that she could start with by being a Summoner.
"I suppose you could, after all, my father started in Bevelle, and I started in Besaid, and there are many others who have started in completely different places. We already have the things to get to them, and so I guess we can see about you becoming a Summoner. You will need Guardians." Yuna said, smiling at her.
"What are Guardians?" Kaori asked her, more confused than she had been since she had arrived here.
"They help to protect you against anything that might want to hurt you." Yuna explained, "Tidus, Lulu, Kimahri, Auron, Wakka, and Rikku were all my Guardians, and they still are."
"Could I just have everyone here as my Guardian? I couldn't make a choice between all of you. I would just rather have everyone as a Guardian. I only want to have as many Guardians as I have friends." Kaori said, somehow thinking that she couldn't have that many Guardians.
"You sound like me. A long time ago, I said 'I only have as many Guardians as I can trust' and it is true. You will have to ask them if they would like to be your Guardian, and if they except, then you have another Guardian." Yuna told her, even though she was still talking, she was still also thinking back to that day when she said that.
"But…what if they say no? I mean, no one here really knows me that much, and I don't know if they would like it." Kaori said, looking down trodden.
"They will probably love to be your Guardian. Even before I asked him, Tidus acted like one of my Guardians." Yuna said, smiling at her.
Kaori waited for some time, then one at a time, started asking everyone if they would like to be her Guardians. First she asked Yuna, then she asked Auron, and then Lulu, then she asked Tidus, then Kimahri, then Rikku, and then she asked Wakka.
Gratefully, for Kaori, they all accepted. Kaori now just had to get the Aeons to accept her.
Yuna told everyone that they would be going back to see about getting Kaori to be a Summoner, starting with the Magus Sisters.
Kaori herself did not know what she was getting into, but she felt like she could become a Summoner, and possibly that it was what she was supposed to do.
Everyone went with her to one of the rooms, and that was as far as they went. When Kaori got in there, she didn't know what she was supposed to do, so she just stood there for a few minutes.
Yuna had once told her that many ways to call forth Aeons, or even just dead people who hadn't been 'sent', was to pray, like she had taught her, so Kaori prayed in the weird style that they had taught her.
When she had done this, she saw something coming towards her. Three something's. After this, she did not remember very much, she just remembered what she had to memorize, and then other than that, it was basically just a blank.
Outside the room, everyone was just sitting around, waiting for her to come out. Tidus, being very impatient, kept pacing, and asking how much longer it would be, then after some of this, asked if there was any food left, because he was hungry.
After the day had basically passed, then Kaori came out.
"If I am correct, then I am now a Summoner. How do I know for sure?" Kaori asked Yuna, very tired and hungry.
"We will go outside and find some fiends for you to battle, if you have become a Summoner, then you shall be able to summon them with what you have learned in there." Yuna told her, starting to walk outside.
When they got outside, they went across the bridge, and it did not take long to get in a battle, but Kaori did not summon, afraid of what might happen. When this happened, Auron suggested that they go into the cave and let her battle something there.
When they got into the cave, they quickly got into another battle, and this time Kaori did summon. She had become a Summoner. But there was a problem. When she Summoned, she was afraid that something from the summoning would hurt her, so she jumped back, tripped, and hit her head on a rock.
While she was unconscious, she dreamed of a little boy that she did not know who it was, but he kept calling to her, and she knew that she had seen him before, she just did not know where.
When she gained consciousness again, she looked around, and asked where they were going next. Everyone was surprised at her, because one of the other times that she had hurt herself and lost consciousness, she woke up and asked for her mommy.
We will be going back to the Thunder Plains." Yuna told her quietly, knowing that something was wrong.
"Good, then I'll be able to get Ixion, and before we go out of the Calm Lands totally, then I need to get Yo Jimbo." Kaori said, surprising them, because they just told her that there was another Aeon in the Calm Lands, but they had not told her anything else about it, or any anywhere else.
"Are you alright? You seem to know a lot more than you did before you got knocked out, and it might prove fatal." Rikku said, "Have you lost your memory?"
"I don't think so, but then, how would I know if I had, nobody usually does." Kaori said, "Are you alright? You've never acted this way around me before."
They got out, and traveled to Yo Jimbo's temple, and Kaori went in, prayed, and not too long after, came out, ready to leave again.
Since it was starting to get dark, then they went back to the inn in the Calm Lands, and stayed for the night.
In the morning, when they woke up, they found that Kaori was not with them, though she had already trained with Auron, and with Lulu, along with Kimahri and Rikku.
They walked around the Calm Lands for a while, then they found her, and she was summoning Yo Jimbo and the Magus Sisters, and training with them, like it was a everyday occurrence with her.