Whew! Long wait, I know. Sorry about that, but I've been enjoying the summer! You can't take it for granted, you know? Anyway, quick warning. If you already know who the characters look like then you can skip all the description about them. Especially Yuna's, cause considering she's my favorite character, I may have went overboard with it... heh. Well, they did so much to the characters that there's a lot to describe, so I guess it's not all my fault. Anyway, I'm rambling. Get to reading!!

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"But if he dies, you'll never be able to tell him how much you hate him."

"If he doesn't come back, we don't have to worry about him."

"Jeena? Now why do you hate him?"

"You don't listen when he's around."

"Jeen... you see this?"

I woke up at that point. I guess because I was so young that I never remembered what happened after that. I did know that it was related to the pendant. I was never able to open the pendant attached to my mother necklace. However, I would've bet that she would have a picture of our dad in it.

As I pulled myself up from the bed, I noticed that no one was in. Tidus couldn't be found and Wakka was gone as well. "Guys?" I asked to the emptiness in the home. I got up from the bed and headed outside. I still didn't see either of them. Then I wondered of they were over at the temple, because that was the last place Tidus was at before, so maybe he dragged Wakka in there for questions.

"The precepts must be odeyed!" I heard a voice as I entered the temple.

"Like I care!" I knew that was my brother. I looked to the stairs on the other side to see Tidus climbing up and entering through a door.

I didn't like the fact of him slapping someone across the face, figuratively. "Tidus! Wait!!" I tried to stop him, but the door closed before my voice could travel to him. All the eyes that were in the temple adverted to me as I screamed. I sighed as I realized that it was too late to stop him. "He never listens."

"You know this boy?" I didn't even realize an old man coming up to me.

"Uh... yeah. He's my brother."

"Well, because of your brothers rash actions, he may excommunicate the summoner!" He made it sound like it was all my fault, but my anger of him comparing me to my brother rose.

"It's not my fault that he's rash!" I said, sternly. "He plays by his own rules! I had no part of it, so leave me out! If you didn't notice, I tried to stop him!"

The man stepped back from my outburst, but with understanding in his eyes. "Right. My apologies, young one. I had no say in judging you."

I walked past, trying to calm myself, and headed over to Wakka. "So, now what did he do?" I was guessing he was in shock from the scene, for he didn't even move. "Wakka? Hello?" I tried waving my hand in front of his face.

"Huh?" Wakka snapped out of his trance. "Oh, sorry, what was that?"

Obviously, he never watched something like that happen. "What happened with Tidus?"

"He went into the Cloister of Trails. However, doing that may keep the apprentice summoner from receiving the Aeon from the Fayth."

"Excuse me?" What the heck was he talking about? Trails, Aeon, Fayth, Summoner?

Wakka sighed, seemingly both physically and mentally. I didn't know being ignorant would be such a problem for others. "I'm surprised you still know your name. Both you and Tidus seemed to have forgotten everything."

If you asked me, knowing and remembering seemed to go hand and hand in this world. If I knew at least a small bit of what goes on here, I might not feel so small. Wakka started going up the stairs, which lead me asking a question. "Where are you going?"

"Finding a loop-hole." As he reached the top, he looked back at me. "You coming?"

The question threw me off guard. "Me?! If Tidus wasn't allowed in there, why should I?"

"Again, finding a loop-hole. You don't have too if you don't want."

"Oh no, I'm coming!"

"What are you doing?" I heard one of the priests calling either me, Wakka, or both.

"I'm going to check on the summoner, as her guardian," Wakka answered.

"And what of her?" the man asked again, referring to me.

"She wishes to be her guardian too. Ain't that right?"

I looked at Wakka to see his eyes adverted towards me. "Guardian?" I was lost at first, looking back and forth between the priest and Wakka, until it clicked. I most likely wouldn't be able to go in unless I was a 'Guardian.' "Oh, yes. Yes I do."

"Well, then you may proceed," The man came. "And try to get that boy to come to his senses before something drastic happens."

"Yes," Wakka answered as I said at the same time, "Right."

As we walked through the halls, areas of what seemed like puzzles where already cleared. Obviously, the trails in here was trails of the mind. Summoners looked like they needed to be trained in the head more than anything else, but was this the Summoner or Tidus the one who did this?

"Hey!" Wakka called as my brother came into our sights. "What's gotten into you?" He started to walk up, motioning me along with him. I trusted him, so I followed. As my eyes fell on Tidus, his face took the form of another emotion. Embarrassment? Guilt? Confusion? "Hey, it's okay," Wakka continued as we walked up to where Tidus was standing. "Only Summoners, apprentice summoners, and their guardians can enter here. It's a tradition. Very important."

"So what about you?" Tidus asked, sounding as if there was a loop-hole for him to go through himself.

"We're guardians."

It took a moment, but almost as soon as he turned his head, he looked back at both of us. "A guardian?"

As his eyes locked on me, I just threw up my hands. "Don't ask me!" I exclaimed. Not even I knew what was going on. I looked over at Wakka to see him finish a shrug, then the floor beneath us changed with some pattern in the middle. The center piece jerked, almost making me lose balance, and started to lower. Wakka didn't seem fazed a bit.

"Summoners go on a pilgrimage," Wakka continued, "to pray at every temple in Spira. Guardians protect them." As the lift came to a stop, I noticed another passageway leading to another room. "The guardians in there now..." He seemed unsure if we should press on or not. "One of them's got a short fuse, and who knows what the other's thinking. Well, now that we've come this far... might as well go all the way!"

We started through the small tunnel. Strangely, my heart started beating harder each step we took. Was it the fact that Wakka said there was someone with a short fuse in there? I was no different when it came to my brother or my mother's belongings, so why would I be? Maybe it was something else, like something telling me that once I went through, there was no turning back. Like I was going to be tied to what would happen after the fact and my choices would lead it to what kind of ending would happen. If so, I made my first choice, and I went ahead with them.

"What are you doing here?" A feminine voice came as we came into another room. "Didn't think we'd be able to handle it?" A woman on the other side of the room stood up. She was a bit taller than me, but about the same height of Tidus. Her skin was light, lighter than mine, and her hair was black and put up in a decorative fashion. Her dress was black with fur around the top, but only resting around her shoulders. One thing I noticed was that the front of her dress, from the waist down was completely covered with belts.

"No, it's uh... it's just..." Wakka seemed to be overpowered by her already. "See, I told you she get's mad easy," he whispered to us as the woman came closer. I looked over to see another person at the stairs across the room. Well, not exactly a person, but seemed to be a cross between a human, lion and rhino, considering he was upright and muscular like a man, had a face and tail near a lion, and had a remains of a horn on his forehead with white hair reaching behind his shorders. Top it off, he had blue fur covering his body. His attire was nothing that I seen, plus would be hard to explain.

"Is the summoner all right?" My brother asked as the woman stopped in front of us.

"Tidus," I whispered, nudging him in the back. However, it was too late, but as the woman looked at us, her eyes went wide suddenly, especially as she laid eyes on Tidus, like she saw him before.

"Who are you?" She slowly got the words from her mouth as she spoke.

I tried to begin explaining, but before I could speak, a sound came from the top of the stairs. It stole everyone's attention as some door opened to reveal someone coming out. I first noticed black shoes, following a long silk blue skirt reaching above their ankles. That alone made me realize it was a young woman. She had a yellow fabric wrapped around her stomach, from the waist to just below her chest, and tied in a bow behind her. The top seemed to be nothing more than a thick white fabric, being held back by being behind her neck, wrapped around covering only the front of her and was tucked into the yellow piece. Her arms was bare from the shoulder to the elbow, but her fore arms were covered with another fabric, the excess reaching to below the mid thigh when her arms were down. Her short brown hair covered her face, for she had her head turned, looking to catch her breath.

My jaw dropped as she started to walk forward. I didn't think a summoner would a young woman, much less be this beautiful. Temples seemed to be for the older people, to me. As she started to come down, it seemed exhaustion took hold of her and started falling. The room filled with our gasps, but ended as the blue creature I noticed before run up and catch her in the nick of time. It looked as if the summoner thanked it and stood up, flung her hair back, and looked up with a smile. "I've done it. I have become a summoner!"

Okay, the end may be the closest one can come to saying "too descriptive" without crossing the boundary of decency. Again, I don't look down on those who skip some of the descriptive parts of a story. I do it myself.