Introductions: This is my first attempt at a fan fiction, and to top things of, I haven't actually played the Tales of Vesperia game! So I might, no I will get a lot of things wrong. Anyway, this takes place after the events of Tales of Vesperia. Forgive me if there is some spelling or grammatical error and also sorry if the characters becomes out of character, like I said I haven't played the game but only watched walkthroughs and the movie Tales of Vesperia - First Strike (and I can't remember every single detail)…

Anyway, on to the story…

Chapter 1: The Missing Yuri

City of Hope Aurnion (7:20PM)

Flynn was busy as usual in the city of Aurnion. Guarding and defending the town was one of his worries a few months back since the event of the Adephagos, but since then, it has quieted down. Emperor Ioder has great respect over Flynn's ability and therefore was going to relieve the Commandant of his work as soon as the guilds have put a working outpost in the town.

The relationships between the guilds and the empire have gone smoothly thanks to Brave Vesperia. As Flynn does his last round around town, he can't help but think of what happened to everyone in Yuri's party. Lady Estelle is back into the castle, albeit with more freedom. She occasionally goes to Hallure to read stories to the children there. Rita on the other hand has gone of to find ways to replace blastia and has the empire funding her projects. She occasionally visits Estelle in the castle; apparently she has become good friends with the princess. Raven, Karol, Repede and Judith are apparently doing some guild work to hopefully increase the fame of the guild. According to a recent letter (which was 2 weeks ago) Flynn has received, Yuri has gone off to for a week vacation where he went, nobody knows.

As Flynn was lost in his thoughts, a voice called out to him. It was Sodia.

"Commandant!" Sodia called out to Flynn

"What is it Sodia?" Flynn asked.

"Members of Brave Vesperia wants to talk with you."

"Ok, I'll be on my way."

As Flynn heads over to his office outpost, he can't help but wonder why Brave Vesperia would want to talk to him. If it was Yuri, he would have probably just went straight ahead to him without formalities. Somehow, in the back of his mind, something's wrong.

As he entered his office, a familiar voice greeted him.

"Ah! Flynn!"

It was Karol. Along with him were Repede, Judith and Raven.

"Ah, Karol how have you been? Where's Yuri?" Flynn asked as he looked around the room for the said man.

"Well that's the reason we wanted to talk with you." Karol said.

"Why? Is something wrong?"

"Well you see," Karol began to scratch the back of his head, then started explaining, "Yuri hasn't gone back ever since his one week vacation. We were thinking that he might be here, or at the very least you might have seen him."

Yuri has gone missing? It's not like him to make his friends worried for him. Something must have happened. Flynn thought.

"Well did you see the man?" Judith asked noticing the lack of response.

"No, I haven't seen him at all." Flynn replied.

"Well if you do see the youth, can you tell him that Captain Karol is getting worried." Raven said as they began to exit the outpost.

"Will do."

As Flynn sat down in his chair, he looked outside and saw the star Brave Vesperia. Hopefully nothing has happened to you Yuri.

Hallure (5:50PM)

Estelle has just finished her story telling to the kids and is now headed back to the carriage with Rita. It's only been recently that Rita has been joining her in her trips to Hallure for story telling and she was overjoyed.

"Seems like they all were looking forward to your story telling Estelle." Rita said as they entered the royal carriage.

Estelle happily waves back to the children as they leave the town of Hallure.

"Yeah, I'm hoping that I'll be able to publish a book and give it to these kids." Estelle said as she looks back to the town of Hallure, now disappearing from her sight as the carriage was going faster.

Somewhere on the way to Zaphia (7:40 PM)

Estelle began to wonder how everyone is doing; she has heard of Brave Vesperia's achievements in the last few months and has wondered when Yuri will come to visit her. The man that changed her perspective about the world and the man that saved it, a visit from him was something she was always looking forward to.

Rita on the other hand, seemed to be tinkering with something on her lap with complete concentration. Ever since the Empire has funded her research, she's been extremely busy in trying to find something to hopefully replace Blastia. She has been getting some progress, but Estelle was worried that if she put too much time on this she would eventually pass out. So whenever possible, she tries to distract Rita to hopefully relieve some of her stress.

As she looks out of the carriage, she was surprised to see Baul, with Karol, Raven, Judith and Repede flying above her. Karol was apparently trying to wave to her.

"Wait! Please stop the carriage!" Estelle called out to the driver of the carriage.

Rita was apparently too caught with her work that she didn't notice that Estelle called out to the carriage driver to stop, which given the situation caught her off guard and demanded why the carriage has just suddenly stopped in the middle of no where.

"Wha-what happened? Why did we just stop?" Rita asked, apparently oblivious to the fact that Estelle has already gone out of the carriage.

Outside of the carriage, Baul has just landed nearby and Estelle has gone off greeting Karol, Judith, Raven, and Repede (which still stays away from her to her great dismay). But the one person she was looking for was apparently no where to be seen.

"Hey guys, where's Yuri?" Estelle asked the group that has been her family in the past year.

"We were hoping that you could tell us Estelle." Karol said with a sigh.

"Why is something wrong?"

"Well you see, Yuri hasn't shown up after his week break." Karol explained. "It's been a whole 2 weeks since then and he hasn't shown up."

Rita has just gotten out of the carriage and to her surprise the members of Brave Vesperia was out there talking to Estelle.

"Oh its you guys." Rita said as she looked around for the ever sarcastic man. "Hey, where's Yuri?"

"Well it seems that Yuri has gone missing." Raven stated as apparently, they've searched every city and town but Yuri isn't in any one of them.

As the group stood there in silence, a shadow loomed above them, blocking the light of the full moon.

"Wha – a monster!" Karol was the first to realize that something was looming above them.

The monster looked like a Dragon but had a red aer covering it. It was menacing, but yet the monster seemed controlled instead of berserk. The carriage driver apparently saw the beast and started running off without the princess.

"Guys be careful! That monster has a high concentration of aer around it!" Rita shouted to everyone.

Karol was nervous with the events outcome; he hasn't actually fought against big monsters ever since he lost his blastia, so he feared that things might end badly due to their loss of power.

"Where is Yuri Lowell?" This apparently shocked everyone; the only one's they thought that could speak like that were the Entelexia. But supposedly nearly every Entelexia has already turned into a spirit.

"Hey Judith, is that an Entelexia?" Estelle asked.

"No… He doesn't feel like one." Judith replied. Judith then turned to the monster that was asking where they're friend was. "Why are you asking where are friend is?"

"I've been given orders by my master to eliminate the one that wielded the Feather Blade to destroy the Adephagos." The monster said with complete formality. "I ask again, where is Yuri Lowell?"

"Well, you heard we're friends of the one you call Yuri Lowell," Raven stated in a casual tone, "So what make ya think that we're going to tell you where he is?"

"Well if that's the case, then I'll just have to force it out of all of you!" The monster then roared and began to lunge towards to the group.

Everyone jumped out of the way, knowing this situation wouldn't end well, everyone took out there respective weapons. As they attacked the monster, there weapons were bouncing off not doing even a scratch. Rita still hasn't managed to master her invention to replace blastia and the only spell that she could cast as of now was Fire Ball, but even then it was much weaker than before. The Fire Ball was much too weak to penetrate the red colored aer but it was the only one doing any signs of damage.

"Is that all you've got!" The monster seems to be gloating. "Surely your power must be equivalent of Duke or Yuri to have helped defeat the Adephagos! Or are have you all lost your strength after you lost your blastia?"

"Damn…" Raven managed to say after dodging another swipe from the monster. "He just seems to be playing with us! We can't even properly damage him!"

Seeing that physical attacks are not working, Estelle called out the power of Ifrit, Gnome, Sylph and Undine to aid her.

Ifrit summoned a great fire elemental storm that covered the monster, Gnome then came out of the ground and made the rock that made impact with the monster to explode, Sylph then caught the enemy in a cyclone and Undine proceeded to cover the enemy with a tidal wave made out of aer. Estelle then used her remaining strength and charged towards the enemy in a blinding light.

"Ultimate Elemental!"

As the light exploded, the monster though harmed, remained unfazed. The monster apparently received several injuries but only minor ones.

The monster then stopped attacking and stared intently on the eyes of Estelle.

"So this is the power of the Child of the Full Moon…" the monster said aloud more to himself than anyone. "Despite that power, Yuri Lowell is still the greater threat…"

The monster then flew up higher and said one last thing before flying off to the northern direction, "Don't think this'll be the last you see of me."

Karol collapsed to his feet as the threat left; he's never been this scared ever since the events of the Adephagos it was because Yuri was there. He believed that so long as Yuri is there, Brave Vesperia can take on anything. Now that he's no where to be seen, the courage he had as boss was beginning to waver.

Estelle also collapsed to her feet, apparently from exhaustion. Despite that was her strongest attack, the opponent seemed totally unfazed by it. Theoretically, since she's the only one that can use magic efficiently ever since Blastias was destroyed, she might very well be the most powerful being in the whole of Tecra Lumiries. If that monster was totally unfazed by it, then not even the Empire can take an enemy like that. Her real worry however lies on where Yuri actually is. The enemy was not even aiming at her despite that she could pose a real threat.

Judith was also thinking the same thing. Why were these monsters or people, looking for Yuri? All he did was use the gathered power of all Blastias and spirits to destroy the Adephagos using Vesperia No. 1. Was there something more that caused the disappearance of Yuri?

"Damn it!" Rita was shouting at the top of her lungs. "Where the heck is Yuri? Why did he have to disappear at a time like this!"

Author Notes:

This is my first fan fiction so take it easy on me. English isn't at all my first language so forgive my mistakes. And as stated before, I haven't actually played the game but only watched walkthroughs, and the movie Tales of Vesperia - The First Strike.

I'm pretty sure I did a horrible job at the battle that took place. If you don't know what Estelle just did; it's her 2nd Mystic Arte in the PS3 Version. Since I'm horrible with fight scenes, expect to see very little detailed battle scenes until I can improve my descriptions for it.

Reviews are highly appreciated and constructive criticism is welcomed.