When Ranma, Yuna and the guardians finally returned, Ranma proudly showed the others his new gem. But he didn't tell them which Esper it contained... yet! He didn't want to spoil the surprise.
When Yuna once again returned to the temple's courtyard, several temple visitors went towards her and congratulated her.
'Yuna sure does carry a lot of responsibility,' Ranma thought. 'I mean, I'm also out to finish Sin, but it's not like everyone in this country is depending on me. They don't expect that much from me. They only see in me what they see in Akane and Wakka: Just another guardian.'
Ranma sighed and walked towards the stairs, while Yuna and the others still were busy talking to the people. 'Am I glad not to be in the center of attention like her? Or do I envy her a little bit?
At that point, Tidus interrupted his thoughts by yelling out loud:
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!"
Ranma nearly fell off the balustrade he was sitting on, while Akane madly giggling came out of the courtyard.
"What the...?" Ranma stuttered. "What the heck was that? Did Tidus finally flip or something?"
"No, no," Akane giggled. "It just, well... He told Yuna he felt like screaming... I guess she didn't think he would mean it literally!"
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While he escorted Yuna down to the Cloister of Trials, Wakka had ordered his team to pray in the temple, then to return to the large, circular platform in the middle of the long stairway, for some training.
Ranma believed that they must have been tired by now and desperately waiting for their return.
What he didn't expect was that they were came running towards them in a wild panic, as if they were fleeing from something.
"Whaaaah!" Letty screamed.
"Look out," Datto screamed. "Sinspawn!"
They all ran up to the platform, where the ugly monster just stuck his heavily armored head out of the ground, thereby cracking the stone floor. At two other locations on the platform, its tentacular hands were coming out of the earth.
"Hey," Ranma called. "That thing looks just like the one that attacked me while I was riding Sin's fin!"
"Lemme at it," Ukyo shouted and ran at the beast, spatula raised above her head.
CLANG!
The spatula almost got knocked out of Ukyos hands while it harmlessly bounced off the Sinspawn's armored body shell.
The spatula was still shaking after Ukyo took several steps back to safety, making her body shake as well.
"W-W-W-Well, t-t-t-that c-c-c-could have g-g-g-g-gone bet-t-t-t-ter!"
"We have to take out the tentacles first," Wakka said. "They're protecting the main body!"
"Well, It certainly is a good time for me and Yuna to try out our new summons, right? Ready, Yuna?"
She smiled. "Ready if you are!"
She then spun around her rod and created some kind of fiery portal on the ground. "Hear me, beast of hellfire! Appear before me, Ifrit!"
Ranma raised his hand containing the sparkling opal and yelled: "I command thee! Wild beast of mother earth... Come, Fenrir!"
The fiery portal under Yuna's feet erupted in flames that didn't seem to harm her body. Molten rocks crashed down around her, and Ifrit appeared, carrying Yuna on his shoulder. He safely put her down on the ground and roared at his enemy.
The opal seemed to vanish while gleaming brightly. The earth in the middle of the platform seemed to break apart as a giant head made from rocks pushed itself out of the earth. It's eyes were gleaming in a green light, and on its top stood the fierce wolf, Fenrir! He howled at an image of the moon that seemingly appeared above his head.
The Sinspawn just growled at them and lashed out with his tentacles. They hit the rocky structure and did nothing.
"Come on, Fenrir," Ranma shouted. "Let's take out these tentacles first!"
The mighty beast snarled and his eyes seemed to glow. Mentally, he commanded the earth formation under his feet to form two stone hands that erupted next to the tentacle hands of the fiend. Brutally, they grabbed the flailing appendages, squished them and ripped them out of the ground.
The Sinspawn squealed in pain as his tentacles disappeared in two clouds of pyreflies. The hard armor of the monster split open and revealed its ugly face.
"Now it's our turn to finish the job," Yuna commanded Ifrit. The red-furred devil of flames snorted while exhaling flames out of his nostrils. He created two huge fireballs in his hands and threw them at the enemy's face, one after another. When they hit their target, they caused a huge, fiery explosion. Ifrit took a deep breath and spit a third, even larger fireball at the fiend. The explosion grew even bigger. Afterwards, Ifrit stuck his claws into the earth and ripped out a stone disk, which he hurled at the Sinspawn.
The stone disk cracked apart in a bright flash, and the flames seemed to engulf the entire creature.
When the fire once again went out, the fiend lay collapsed on the ground, only twitching a lot. Afterwards, it disintegrated.
Ifrit and Fenrir proudly roared into the sky, while their summoners excitedly cheered.
Let's see if anyone is going to stand in their way now!
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