OOC: I always did, she'd just cast firaga on my Ifrit, and I killed her...but yeah, the aeons are just representatives of the fayth. If there was only one per temple, thered be only one for each summoner, and then nobody would be High Summoner.

OOC: I saw it as that there is one aeon per temple (Because that just makes sense), and the Aeons go to who is calling them at the moment (Besides that last fight with her, you never use the same Aeon as another summoner at the moment). You didn't see Tidus in two places at once...

[OOC:] Because who'd want to summon a whiny-voiced prettyboy when you can get the mighty BAHAMUT? Yeah, BtWT's explanation makes enough sense for me...[/OOC]

OOC: If that was true, why wouldn't they have at least tried making 1000 summoners and summon 1000 summons at the same time and blast Sin... (Don't say that it's hard to be a summoner... There was that bitch from FFX that was one, and the sissy Yuna, and that other guy...)

OOC: Because Sin would have shrugged all those off and killed 1000 summoners at once, only the one from Yunalesca could 'kill' it...

OOC: ... WTF did Ecurt just do... All I can say is if he splits off on his own summoner journey, my guy hates his guts pretty much, so I won't be following him...

OOC: EDIT: Well, it HAD to come soner or later...

Occupied with Ripel's summon, nobody noticed a slim golden sword arcing through the air, tumbling end over end as it fell. But they certainly noticed as it buried itself in the ground with a loud thunk between Raine and Rei, the summoner instinctively taking a step back from the glowing weapon. Suddenly, a man's voice rang out, coming from the beach.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!"

With almost weightless grace, a half-caped figure landed neatly upon the skull pommel of the sword, bracered arms folded across a plated chest. Though it appeared otherwise, he was actually balanced on one armored foot. He hopped off, settling upon the sand with elegant, contemptuous ease, then he paced in front of Raine, seeming to study her. With startling speed, he drew a hand in front of him... and bowed.

"Thank you for staying! My name is Yngwie, greatest swordsman of all Spira! As for you, Miss Raine... your journey ends here!"

He snatched up the sword, and like a gust of wind he was already behind Raine, the blade held in a warding posture in front of her.

OOC: They would have tried. The entire group of Crusaders try killing sin without the Final Summon, you think at some point they would have tried using a large number of non Final Summons...

Edit - What does warding mean?

Dezil had been coming up from behind and while he was temperarily distracted by the second summon, he noticed the golden flash and the odd figure, and heard him say, "...your journey ends here!" Dezil charged at him with the intent of slamming him out of the way, not having enough time for anything else.

ooc-Heh. I know what you mean, with two aeons being at the same place (I don't remember when two could be identical and appear at the same time). However, this is quite different from what they call aeons (all to be explained in due time and I call it an Aeon because I do not with to reveal its true nature yet), and his mission is not the pilgrimage. Think of him as Seymour...only not. Also, he'll be coming and going, and as he's not an actual summoner of the pilgrimage he won't need guardians. In fact, people may need to be guarded from him...

"Summoner? Me? I guess you could call me that, but you don't really have to. Now step aside Lady Summoner."

Ripel took a deep breath, closing his eyes as he concentrated. Then suddenly, a few moments later, his eyes opened and he pointed towards the tentacle Sinspawn. "Energy blast!"

A cry could be heard from above, coming from the Aeon that had flown up there. Soon after a beam of light shot down, striking the Sinspawn. The light it gave off grew bright and engulfed the groups of nearby sinscales, and people would have to shield their eyes to keep their sight.

When it dimmed Sin's spawn (and the near by scales) had been replaced with a crater that was quickly filling with water (which is the origin of Besaid's bay I might add), and Ripel was standing there grinning. Sweating and breathing hard, but he was grinning.

"That was a peace of cake. So are you guys going to deal with the clean up? I wanna get onto the boat...heh..."