It was the Cavern of the Faith that reminded Lulu of her ill feelings the night before. The sensation of dread and desolation filled her once more as she and her summoner walked the spooky corridor of the cave, the feeling never shaking.

The monsters here were different from anything they'd seen. Ghosts, moving statues that had a gaze so intense they'd literally harden your soul to stone. Luckily, Lulu carried plenty of Softs. There were even exploding pots with many eyes, some sort of alien living inside them.

The scariest of all though was a small green dinosaur with a lantern and a chef's knife, a tonberry. Summoner Ginnem and Lulu quickly learned when they saw one, it was time to run. And ran they did, through the halls and passed all the fiends they could dodge. They kept running until they met the back of the cavern, miles away from the entrance.

They'd found the chamber of the fayth. The holy place that called to the summoner. By the time they reached it, however, both women were incredibly weak.

"We need to rest, Lady Ginnem. We won't make it out of here if we do not."

The summoner turned from the door hiding the hall of fayth inside to address Lulu. "Have faith, child. Believe in me, and nothing can stop us."

Lulu waited while Lady Ginnem prayed inside. Hours passed, and Lulu had to fight not to fall asleep. She drank health potions to restore her flesh and swallowed ethers to refresh her mana and energy. But she was running out. She and the summoner would have to fight tooth and nail to get out.

Eventually, Lady Ginnem emerged from the room only summoners could tread. She appeared weak and drained as she always did after receiving a new aeon.

"I insist we rest now, Lady Ginnem."

"Per-haps… perhaps you're right," the summoner finally conceded.

A transporter lay in the large room outside the summoner's sanctum. Only partially operational but working enough to transport both women to a side room where they could finally rest and make a fire. Once they were fit to fight again, they'd be able to restore the transporter to full capacity and warp back to the entrance.

Lulu slept with a protective arm around Lady Ginnem as she always did, but when she woke up, her heart nearly stopped at the shrill scream of her summoner.

"Luluuuuu, wake up!"

Lulu immediately bolted to her feet at the sound of a terrifying crash and roar of thunder. A demon had slipped into their secluded space of the cave somehow. Not keeping watch had been a grave mistake.

With a grunt and burst of energy, Lady Ginnem summoned an aeon Lulu had never seen. The one she knew to be called, Yojimbo.

"Lulu!" Ginnem screamed. "Give him all the coin we have. Now!"

Frantic fingers dug into her duffel bag for the coin purse. All they had was eighty-two gil. Hopefully, it was enough.

Lulu ran at full speed, throwing the bag to Yojimbo who shook his head, his large sombrero moving side to side as he instructed what Lulu could only think was the fiend form of a dog to attack.

The hit was weak and Yojimbo left when the coin dried up. Lady Ginnem fell to her knees, too weak to win this fight causing Lulu to shoot off a fire spell toward the massive ghost fiend.

The mage's attack wasn't enough, it seemed the ghost was resistant to elemental magic. Then the fiend let out a monstrous laugh, like a whisper from hell before pointing it's grimly finger at Lady Ginnem and casting a Doom spell.

Lulu and Ginnem locked eyes, fear evident all around. They knew what just happened. They knew if Lulu didn't have a Phoenix Down, it was all over.

Lulu threw all the contents of her bag on the ground, tears stinging her eyes as she searched for anything that could help her out of this.

But there was nothing that would bring the summoner back to life once her time came. Nothing that could restore her once she died. Her death would be forever, simply because Lulu hadn't packed enough. Hadn't anticipated how many they'd use to reach the fayth.

"Lady Ginnem!" Lulu wailed.

The summoner shook her head sadly. "I love you, Lulu. You're going to make it out of here. You're going to see Chappelle again, I promise."

Suddenly, Lady Ginnem lifted her staff and spun it all around herself, hundreds of fayth drawing out of the instrument and surrounding her, every aeon they'd collected on their travels appeared at once. Each attacked the ghost and beat it mercilessly into nothingness.

Upon defeat, the aeons disappeared and Lady Ginnem's time came. The Doom spell had stayed in place even after the ghost's death. The timing just had not worked out.

Lulu stared into sad hazels as Lady Ginnem's skin seemed to crack like a flower vase, then, her body started to disperse. A thousand shining orbs began to break apart and float off into nothingness leaving Lulu alone in the dark secluded room of the cavern.

Sending the mage crashing to her knees in a fit of hysterics. "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"