Telling Shawna, she had to go, I found to be a really hard thing to say. She never really did show any dislike towards me, and honestly she was nice to me the few times we did talk. Yet part of me loathed her with a passion and was dancing in joy to see her packed off. Yet the other part of me, was wondering in confused thought at my sudden elation to see her go.

 

 I was truly standing in a cross roads. Tell her nicely, with kid gloves, or just tell her bluntly. Sighing I moved towards the group consisting of Tidus, Shawna, and a few of the injured Al Bhed.

 

 Shawna it seemed, was milking the extra attention from Tidus, for all it was worth.

 

 “Well I was frightened at first, but then I realized that it was only a broken arm. I mean if I have to I can cast the black magic spells with my other arm.” She said happily with a smile.

 

 “Yeah that’s great. Really great, because you’re going back to Besaid.” I said as I knelt down next to Shawna a grimace on my face as I told her the news.

 “What, why? That isn’t very fair!” She said scowling and looking at me with bitterness. “I mean it’s really not fair at all.”

 “Really now.” I said. “It’s not fair?” I asked out of curiosity.
 “Well it’s not fair because I was looking forward to the whole trip.” She said as she turned her face away from mine to look out at the ruined temple.
 “Oh for the love of Blitzball!” I said with a sigh. “You left the camp, You got yourself hurt, and You weren’t here when the other group was coming back!” I said sharply. “It’s because of You, that they’re hurt and you only got away with a broken arm! You acted very much like a child that has no respect for authority and what you were told to do!”
 
 “Tina! You don’t have to be so harsh!” Tidus said to me waspishly, his eyes hard with anger.
 “Yet it’s true!” I snapped back, “If she and Paine had been here when Rikku’s group were coming back, Rikku’s group might not have had so many injured people! Your girlfriend is skilled in the arts of a Black Mage. A High level Mage at that, and she wasn’t where she was told to be. Rikku was counting on her and Paine to be here in case her and the Al Bhed got into any trouble out in the open water,” I said snapping at Tidus, “and she wasn’t there! So it’s her responsibility to go with the other Al Bhed. She can at least make sure they get back to Besaid!”

 

 Tidus looked at me for a few moments then turned his head away his eyes sparking with anger. After a few more moments he stood up and spoke.
 “Shawna, Tina’s right. You disobeyed Rikku’s orders, and because of that, not only did you get hurt in your wanderings, many other Al-Bhed got hurt too. These people saved my life once. You’re to go back with them.” He then slowly started to walk off not once turning to look back over his shoulder.

 

 “Well this is just great.” Shawna said as she stood up after he had gone a fair distance away.
 “Oh, do shut up!” I said turning to face her, an anger suddenly welling up inside me. “You came along uninvited, you messed up and lost Rikku’s trust in you, and not only that I have the sneaky suspicion that you only came along to keep an eye on your boyfriend!”

 

 Shawna’s face turned stony, and her eyes held an icy glare. “Don’t you dare accuse me of such a thing.” She said anger easily heard in her voice. “You don’t even know me. You have no right to judge.” She said. Her words were icy, and cold. Mine were just as cold.
 “I don’t need to judge you. You’re so insecure with your insecurities that you have to keep an eye on your boyfriend when he’s around other girls. Let me tell you something missy.” I said jabbing my thumb over my shoulder to point at Yuna who was several feet away. “That girl there Loves my best friend. They probably had a great thing going, until you came along with hormones set on overdrive.” Not even noticing that I had gained the attention of the others, I continued. “That’s my best friend you’re dating, and I have to be honest. I don’t like you.”
 “Can’t say I like you much, either.” Shawna said coldly. “You just show up out of nowhere, and next thing I know you’re on the Blitzball team, you get hurt, he gets mad and goes out to fight for you!”
 “Well that’s not my problem now is it, Shawna? It’s your problem.” I said as I scowled at her.
 “Would you like to see what happens when lightening strikes a person?” She said a scowl on her own face.
 “Sure go ahead and try Shawna.” I said as I walked away. “Oh wait, you seem to have forgotten something. Your casting arm is broken. Have a nice trip back to Besaid and good riddance!” With that I walked away, my mind thick with thoughts of anger and hate.

 

 I hadn’t gone very far when I felt someone grab my arm. “Look Shawna, just go to Besaid.” I said with an annoyed sigh.

 

 “It isn’t Shawna.” Said a soft voice behind me. “It’s Yuna.” Yuna let go of my arm as I turned to look at her. “I heard what you said to Shawna.” She said as she held her hands behind her back and looked at me.
 “Oh, Yuna. I didn’t mean for you to hear that.” I said as I sat down on a rock. “I just got so mad, Yuna.” I said with a sigh. “She just struck me as someone who wasn’t taking this whole thing seriously.”
 “Well, okay I can understand that.” Yuna said as she tucked the fabric from her white mage outfit under her and sat down as well. “I took my Pilgrimage four years ago, and I took it very seriously. I wanted to make Spiras sorrow, Sin, go away. Like my father before me. I took it really seriously. Even if I knew that I might die.”

 
 “Then I admire you for your courage and strength.” I said as I stared off in the distance. “I don’t think I have the strength to really go as far as I should for this thing. Sometimes, my inner thoughts about this whole thing scare me.” I admitted.

 

 Yuna took her time in responding to what I had admitted to her. Looking out towards the waters that surrounded the ruined temple of Baaj, she pursed her lips in thought.
 “I think,” she said, “that everyone has a part of them that they are afraid of. For myself, I think it’s regret. Of course this is because I watched the Aeons, commit a very huge sacrifice.” Yuna closed her eyes and then turned her head slowly and looked at me. “They sacrificed themselves, Tina. They gave up their very beings and souls so that all of Spira, may go on and rebuild.”

 Yuna looked down at her hands and rubbed them on the flowing white robes of her outfit and squeezed her eyes shut, and then swallowed as she shook her head slightly.

 

 “We killed them.” She whispered.

 

 I didn’t know what to say, it was a given fact by now that the Aeons had come back before, but under possession of a shadow of a restless man. It was further fact, that even now, they were coming back again. If I could have gone back in time, I would have at least tried to console Yuna. Yet at that moment in time, I knew very little of Yuna, save what I had been told. I had never really gotten to know her.

 

 So, I remained quiet and looked out at the waters. The silence breaking every now and then with soft conversations in the Al Bhed language.

 Brother arrived in the Celsius with Buddy the next day. After a night of stress and tension between Shawna and myself, the Airship, for me at least, was a welcome sight.
 
 However what wasn’t a welcome sight was Shawna having a temper tantrum, while screaming in Rikku’s face about how unfair her being packed off back to Besaid with the other Al-Bhed was. Notably, Rikku didn’t bat an eye or flinch. Which for the usual hyper and bubbly girl was highly unusual. Watching the scene I realized that while Rikku was normally a girl looking for fun, she was also very strong willed. It was like watching Rikku grow up a bit at that moment.
 
 Shawna on the other hand was acting very much the stubborn part of a child who was told she couldn’t have the newest toy that all the other kids were talking about. Not only was she screaming in Rikku’s face about how things were so unfair, she was also stomping her foot and as I watched, Shawna reached out and made a grab for her scarf and tried to pull it off. As I watched this, I saw Rikku’s face twitch with annoyance, but she didn’t retaliate back. In stead she took a deep breath and spoke calmly. 
 
 “No. You’re not staying. You’re going.” Rikku said as she adjusted her long scarf around her neck and shoulders and crossed her arms over her chest.
 
 “This is so not fair.” Shawna said as she remained where she was. “I don’t want to go.”
 
 Rikku threw her arms up in the air, in what was immediately recognized as her annoyance with the situation. “We’ve been over this already.” Rikku said as she turned away from Shawna. “You’re going back with the other Al-Bhed and that is final. You’re the only one capable of at least doing the job right. Spira knows, Brother certainly isn’t, and we know Buddy will have his hands full.”
 
 “But..” Shawna said her lip creasing downwards as she stood looking at her feet.
 “No buts! Get out of here.” Rikku said waving her hand over her shoulder. “Try to at least follow these orders, huh?” With that the young blonde Al-Bhed woman walked off leaving Shawna standing before the boarding ramp, the tall dark skinned Al-Bhed known as Buddy standing beside her, arms crossed over his chest, goggles covering his eyes.
 
 Standing at a distance I watched as the girl followed Buddy up the ramp and into the engine room of the airship Celsius. All I could think, was that finally the trouble maker was gone. We were now able to continue on with our decided game plan and try to find answers, and our first object of interest on our list were the two items that Rikku and her team of Al-Bhed had found out in the debris of the ship wreck of the ship we had originally decided to explore. 
 
 Though even if that were so, I had my own objects of interest to investigate. Don’t get me wrong, I was interested in what Rikku had found, but I was also interested in what could have made the ground shake the day before. So while the others were getting things ready, I had taken the opportunity to go off by myself to check the area where Shawna and Paine had been after the ground had stopped shaking.
 
 I was standing on what was left of the bridging walkway across the pool, looking down into the now calm waters, knowing that there were fiends within those very waters. I was contemplating just jumping in and exploring the waters, fiends or not, when I felt the pressure of a hand on my left shoulder.
 
 Standing and turning on my feet, I came face to face with Tidus. “Alright,” he said with a wry smile, that felt more fake then it looked genuine. “what’s up? Why did you go off on your own?”
 
 Looking away I pointed downwards into the water. “What’s down there?” I asked ignoring his questions.
 “Just, the old doorway to where the chamber of the Fayth resides.” Tidus said following where my finger pointed. “Wait, you’re not thinking of going down there are you?”
 
 I looked back at Tidus and grinned. “Might as well.” Turning back to look down at the waters I bent downwards balancing on my feet as I rested my arms on my knees. “Besides, something here made the earth shake yesterday. I’m betting that it was that Fayth Anima.” I said.
 
 “Give me a break, Tina.” Tidus said as he growled rolled his eyes. “The last time anybody saw Anima..” He said only to be cut off by the high pitched voice of Rikku.
 
 “Was two years ago, when Yunnie, Paine and myself fought her. She was the last Aeon we fought, that was under Shuyin’s evil emotional baggage.” She said walking towards the two of us, her right hand on her hip. “But it wasn’t here. We fought Anima on the Farplane path.”
 
 “Oh I see.” I said standing up and looking at Rikku. “Where is this...” I started to ask, only to be cut off by Rikku.
 “The Farplane Path?” She asked as she looked from Tidus and then to myself, and shook her head slightly. “Well, there are only a few places that lead to it. Now if I remember correctly.” She said as she tapped her chin in thought. “There was a Fayth for every temple. Valefor, the Aeon of the Besaid Isle Temple, Ifrit of Killika Temple, Ixion of Djose Temple, Shiva of Macalania Temple, and Bahamut of Bevelle Temple.” She said with a nod.
 “Ah, Rikku, weren’t there the others?” Tidus asked as Rikku led us back towards camp.  “Like the Three Fayth of Remiem Temple known as the Magus sisters, Yojimbo the Stolen Fayth at the bottom of the Calm Lands cave, and then there was Anima, of Baaj Temple.”
 “I was getting to that!” Rikku said with a laugh. “Anyway. After the Fayth had sacrificed themselves when we fought sin. The Pathway to Remiem Temple was found to be blocked off due to one of Sins attacks. Then we learned that Macalania Temple sank beneath the ice. When the Aeons tried to come back to warn us about Shuyin only Ifrit, Ixion, Valefor, and Yojimbo came via holes dug out from the inside out, where their Fayth statues were to be found. Bahamut had made his appearance where Vegnagun used to be kept in Bevelle Temple. We figure he got there via the hole Vegnagun made when it ran away like a scared child from Nooj when he was possessed by Shuyin.”
 “Okay, but that still doesn’t explain how Shiva, the Magus sisters, and Anima fit into it.” Tidus said as he fell into step beside me, raising his eyebrow in thought.
 “Well,” Rikku said as she tapped his chin a few more times. “I think Shinra said that it was very possible that the other Aeons were unable to break through to the surface to their respective temples. So they met up and fought us on the Farplane path.” 
 “And how did you gain access to it?” I asked breaking into the conversation. Feeling that the answer might be helpful to me somehow.
 “Oh! We jumped into one of the Holes. When we landed, we found ourselves on one of many winding and twisting paths that went downwards. I’m guessing each path was a path towards each temple that an Aeon reappeared in. As we made our way down, we would come across a central point. The first point, Shiva was waiting at, the next one, the Magus Sisters, then finally Anima. After that we found ourselves in the Glen.”
 
 Tidus blinked and stopped Rikku by taking some hurried steps and barring her way. “The Farplane Glen, right? The one below the stone balcony at the Farplane where people see and speak to images of the dead. Right?”
 
 Rikku blinked and put a hand on his out stretched arm. Nodding her head she stopped walking. “Yeah, why?” she asked.
 Tidus sighed and shook his head. “Oh. Nothing. Never mind.”
 “You sure?” She asked as she looked at him closely. “You’re not hiding anything are you? Cause if you are, I’m going to start calling you Auron Jr! ” With that Rikku turned on her heel with a laugh, and ran off back towards camp. Tidus jogging after her.
 “Rikku!” He roared. “Get back here!”
 
 Standing there by myself briefly I thought about what I was told.
 
 “Interesting.” I said as I nodded my head, and then ran after Tidus and Rikku. "This could prove useful, I think."