Kat looked at her father when he finally got there. He was hurt, but thankfully not as much as Shinu.

"I am sorry father, but as you see nothing happend too me. You are the one who shouldn't get in trouble so easy. Sit down so I can heal you."

Just when she said that Shinu woke up. They couldn't move on to the temple without her father being healed though. Kat looked down.

"I have to heal my father first. Then we can move on."

She would cast Curaga then and heal all Asuma's wounds at once. It wasn't difficoult cause his wounds weren't so deep. Then she took her backpack and put in her aid kit, she saw Asuma's shirt inside that she took with her so Asuma could have something to change if his shirt was desroyed or dirty. She looked at Shinu and blushed. His shirt was no longer usable so she would rest it beside him.

"Here, take it."

That's all she could say without blushing. She had to go and do something so no one would see her face so she walked to the river and took some water for the trip.

"ONE! TWO! THREEEE!!!!" Erk lept from the prow of the ruined ship, and landed face-first in the sand.

"Uuuuuuggggghhhhhhh..... okay, that's enough of being a hero for one day...... I need a nap..... a very.... very long nap...." Mumbling into the sand, Erk fell asleep amid the charred lumps of flesh and partially glassed sand all around him.

Axel smirked as the old guado suddenly dived head-first into the sand and just layed there. He knew he wasn't hurt, just tired.

Axel still didn't move from Tif's side, but he was very impressed at what he saw the summoner do.

He knew that this young man could definately find his father. It had been quite some time since Axel had seen the inside of a temple. He had never been inside Kilika temple, just passed by it. This was a new thing for him, but he didn't show off his excitement.


((sorry for a short, half-rushed post, just found the falling erk part too funny to write anything else ))

Mieli looked over a Shinu, and he had a smirk he couldn't wipe off his face.

"So I suspect that means we have a change in plan?"

He looked down at his shirt, damn, that was the only thing unrepairable. He was doing pretty good other than that. She did a good job healing him, but he'd make sure to give Kat less work, or at least try not to go so crazy. He took the shirt from Kat in his right, ripping the other shirt off of his skin with his left.

Thank you Kat, I guess this will come in handy huh?

Shinu put the shirt on, though he wished for his old one back. Defense might come in handy to keep shirts in tact in the future. He looked back at Mieli, who asked if there was a change in the plans. Shinu thought about it, and he wasn't sure he had a plan, he just knew that he was going to get the aeons, and kill Sin for what he did to his home.

Nothing has changed. Everyone who is ready to go to the temple, we're moving. I understand why the Al Bheds don't want to, but that's no matter, we need to move on with this pilgrimage. I'll deal with this mess later when we get to Sin.

Anger was the first emotion that swept over him again, but gratitude for being able to keep his life was the next, and that made him want to push forward so he could use his life to get revenge on Sin. No one had ever done it before, and he would make sure he did it. Well, no one to his knowledge did it. He pushed forward through the half cleared forest thanks to Erk's doing, and tried to move quickly.

"It's a long walk through the jungle to get to the temple. There may be more fiends so stay alert.

Oh and if anyone sprays bug repellant on their feet, I hope you can find someone to carry you after your feet swell up. They won't look or feel pretty."

Mieli light up a smoke and blew out some creative smoke shapes like Yevon glyphs, airships, and even a couple aeons to entertain himself.

"Hey Erk, do you have any magic that is as cool as that?"

Mieli pointed to Bahamut fighting Sin in the smoke shapes.

Erk, scorched and tired looking, gave it a dubious look, and then inhaled. Then, with a mighty breath, he blew out a stream of blue flame that took on the form of a massive heron in flight. It crashed through the trees still in their path, before exploding in a brilliant, glittering stream of light, like a sun stolen from the heavens and hurled into the forest.

". . . I might." Erk continued on his path.

"I have an idea, Erk. Would you mind targeting a spell at my sword here?

I want to see if I can catch the magic knowledge and not attack elementally, but actually use my sword to deliver magic to a target bypassing any kind of magic defense it has mentally. It might come in handy sometime if we could do it.

Let's give it a shot, don't focus the force on my blade get it in the immediate area though, as if you were trying to hit an enemy I'm about to strike with my sword."

Mieli drew his sword as if he was about to strike an enemy, but this time he was on Erk's cue.

As they walked, Shinu was slightly upset that he couldn't do any cool, impressive tricks like Erk and Mieli could. He wasn't a magician, and he wasn't about to start smoking any time soon, so he was stuck with just being handsome. Eh, not a bad consolation prize he thought.

You two are lucky, but I do want to see if yall can do pull of borrowed magic. That would be overpowering in battle. Go ahead Erk, let's see it.

Shinu kept his eyes peeled on them, walking behind Kat and Asuma so he knew he wouldn't run into anything while he watched Mieli and Erk practice teaming up.

Erk remained skeptical towards the idea. But it wouldn't do any harm to try he supposed....

Unless he nuked Meili accidentally, but all things were worth sacrifice in the pursuit of knowledge, he supposed. He'd learned this the hard way, many, many times...

Erk shook himself from his reverie, and raised his arm to his head, as his fingers blazed with unnatural light. He whipped the light out and sent a cloud of sparking plasma soaring across the clearing.