Disclaimer:I, Evelyn Dark, do not own Tales of Symphonia.

Written in Stone╫

Written by: Evelyn Dark

«Chapter 1»
Fate

--Anki--

(Chapter edited)

September 14, 2008

Life you could say sucked, and I mean it sucked. Why in the world would someone pick me to keep a world in order, I mean there are lots of people who could do a better job then me. Heck there are lots of people who are better then me, so then why was I the one stuck baby sitting a soon to be hero and his entourage. Why was I the one to have to make sure the dork lived, the one to throw her life away just to protect some world I thought didn't even exist.

What has Fate gotten me into?

I was hot, I was sweaty, I felt proud even happy despite the fact that I looked really bad at the moment. Turning my black marching hat around, I slipped the red wooly coat off from me to sling over my shoulder and continue to hum on my way to the bus. Though I felt bad that Mandy, my flute, lost it's screw during the parade route. Thankfully the wonderful drum major and my director fixed the problem to my dilemma with a piece of hay straw. Yes a hay straw, surprisingly it held and allowed me to play our song. I felt proud because I heard a lot of people hollering our school name, though I was pretty sure it was the people in our town that hollered it.

So you got me I'm a band geek, but I'm proud of it even though I really needed a shower because my hair was sticking to my head from all the sweat. Getting near the bus I was met with my band director.

"Hey Angela, did it hold," Mrs. Lovington asked pointing at the flute that was carefully grasped in my other hand, that was not holding on to my jacket.

"Actually it did," I said looking down at my flute, looking back up my band teacher I smiled while she just made a little cry of excitement.

"That's great," she said with enthusiasm, before she turned with a clipboard in hand going to the bus crying out about the sign out sheet that was on the clipboard. I mingled a bit to see some band student parent try and hunt Mrs. Lovington down as she went the opposite direction. I went into the bus to get out of my band cloths and organize it as much as I could, on a bus anyway. Just when we were about to leave from the parade route area some random 7th grader on the bus, and I have no clue as to why he was there, exclaimed something to us.

"Mrs. Lovington our bass drum is out in the ditch," that of course pissed her off. So we made the bus stop so our stick boy could go fetch the 600 dollar drum, and actually squeeze it through the small doors and into a seat.

Well once done with the drama for the day the bus made its way back to the home base, we--the stick boys and I--started to sing little songs like Row row row your boat and the wheels on the bus. Yeah we're lame so deal with it, I was pretty glad when I got home I was tired despite the fact that the parade route was nothing compared to the one in Carrolton or the one time during the Apple Festival were we totally lost our way and kept walking for a very long time trying to find the bus. It was tiring when you were carrying a Saxophone and a holster for the bass drum and some water bottles; it was even stupider when you were the one to hold them at your own will.

Well I dive head first into my bed, not really caring to change my cloths to my pajamas, which was Eeyore even though I hate him. So I dozed off before waking up in the middle of the night just staring at my pillow, I of course had the strangest dream ever my dream were I was on this gravel path way and I was walking towards some kind of light. I thought I've seen the gravel path somewhere but it just wasn't coming to me.

Jumping out of bed I made my way to the kitchen to get myself a little midnight snack and maybe pace for a while to think of where I saw that path before. Just about halfway of biting into my sandwich did I realize were I saw that path before, I've been there before. It just so happens that the path way was in my neighborhood, it was like a few blocks from were I lived. Hurrying up to eat my sandwich I whipped my hands together to get the crumbs off of my hands as I quietly sped to my room to grab my jacket.

Right about half way through my way to the path right after donning my jacket and heading out the door in the middle of the night and walking in a fast pace through the empty streets of my block and taking a right did I start asking myself why I was going there in the middle of the night. Taking a few more steps did I start to panic, well you would start to panic to if you were walking around you neighborhood in the middle of the night and you let your imagination get to you.

I just shivered as I started to come up with the many ways I could die here, were some random person just jumped out of no were and started to beat me and then rape me. Or were a car would come out of no where the driver drunk and he/she didn't know I was there and I got ran over. Or… I wasn't going to think anymore or I might chicken out and turn right back--even though once again I don't know why I was going there in the first place.

Tacking a sharp left I started to pick up my pace before taking another right then a left when I stopped right in my tracks to see the little gravel path that curved right behind some trees. I slowly made my way down the path, my eyes trained on a bush that was on the curve. This hadn't been my first time waking up in the middle of the night wanting to come here, but the last time when I got close to the curve the bush rattled and it scared the shit out of me. So then I started to walk backwards with my eyes on the bush then started to run backwards letting my eyes go back to the street roads when I got back to them.

Stopping a few feet away from the bushes I stood there and waited to see if the bushes would rattle, when it didn't I made that turn. Turning around I started to run backwards with my eyes on the bushes, not letting my eyes to wonder till the bushes was out of my site then I turned back around to keep going down the gravel road. When I got to the end of it I found myself at the clearing again that had this sort of waste pond, you know the place were all the poo that you poop go down the toilet yeah that place. Thankfully it wasn't that much full and it didn't stink, going around the pond I made my way to the side were the fence was that encircled the area. Keeping near the fence I found the little hole under the fence just big enough for me to squeeze, once under I kept to the fence once again finding the corner of the other side of the fence.

There as the corner that kept the fences together was this thick log the protruded from the ground and near it was a sturdy branch that I could use to heave myself over the fence. Taking one of my hand to hold on to the large log and putting one of my foot on the branch I slowly heaved myself over onto the other side, patting my hand to the side of my jeans to get rid of the dirt on the log I made my way down the tree infested area to the other clearing.

Looking around the area the certain force that drove me here just vanished, I was really unsure really but soon my eyes wondered up to the sky. It was really great this night not a single cloud that covered the stars, and soon my eyes wondered once again to the moon. I really loved the moon I even name it Lady Lunar for its round pale color and how it held such majestic qualities. After a few minutes of staring I suddenly start to realize that it was a full moon, even that the moon was starting to glow a soft blue color.

I just raised my eye brow at that, which was something you didn't expect everyday. Nor was the crouching figure behind me waiting for the right time to pounce, I of course looked down at the ground to make sure the grass wasn't purple then looked back only to be tackled by something and hear my head hit the ground with a sickening crunch.

My head hurt like hell, and I felt groggy I put my hand up to my head noticing that I was in a bright room due to the light that was penetrating my eye lids. Slightly opening my eyes I hissed and closed them back, I was really like a vampire when it came to bright lights when I was like in the dark for some time. Slightly opening my eyes again, I blinked a bit trying to regain my lost vision. Getting up I started to survey the area through my scrunched eyes, from what I could tell I was in a white place the just was endless at every direction and some fog that curled at my feet.

Making a full 360 degree turn I was scared stiff to find a lady smiling at me, it kind of creeped my out. Swallowing I gave a small wave as I started at her with my big eyes, she was really beautiful. I mean she had porcelain white skin and blazing red hair and emerald green eyes, I stiffened even more as her eyes just pierce my soul I shivered as some goose bumps formed on my arms. She wore a sort of pink thin clothing that billowed out from her in a feather sort of way.

"Uh… hello," I said with a nervous smile, she just stood there with a smile which was really starting to tick me off.

"Hello young one," she said in a bell like voice, it made me flinch at how my voice sounded like compared to hers. Then my questioning self kicked into full gear, I mean if you were in an unknown area and just found this person to pop up when the place was empty in the beginning you started to ask some things.

"Where am I, who are you, and why am I here," I asked in a hurried tone, nervousness was dripping off of my tongue. Her smile just widened even more as I just got more ticked off; don't ask me why but I just was, you got a problem with it.

"To answer you questions young one this is the dimension between worlds, and I am Fate controller of time and the threads of fate that are woven and intertwined to mortals," she said in her silver bell voice, I don't know why but I had a feeling that I was either talking to a goddess or a drug addict who was seriously smoking to much pot for their own good. Though she hadn't really answered my last question, then as if she could read my mind she answered.

"You are here, young one, to help me," she said with a warm smile. Translations: I dragged you crummy little ass over here to do my bidding because I'm just too lazy to do it myself. Since I was thinking that it was no surprise that I had look that made her think that I was calling her crazy or that I was confused.

"A goddess can not interact with mortals, only other mortals may," she said even then her smile didn't vanish. So then my guess of her being a goddess and not a drug addict was correct or semi, but anyway from that I came up with another translation. As I said before since I'm such a beautiful goddess I do not think that I should sink so low to you mortals dirty ways, so I shall have you do it for me since your just a insignificant thing compared to me so you have to do as I say. Snapping out of my little translations I had a sudden question to ask once again, though I think she's getting tired of me already.

"So what does that have to do with me," I asked, not quite sure if I should trust the lady or not--even when I had this little voice in my head scream drug addict still.

"You will know when the time has come, but for now safe travels," she said as she walked right up to me kissing me on the forehead. I was to shock to step back and punch her and say "whore why you do that, I ain't you bitch' but of course I was watching to much TV for my own good. Then as I stood there I started to blink as my vision started to blur, soon I was getting so woozy I fell down and I blacked out. Through all the black that surrounded me I could hear a faint voice in the back ground far off.

"If you need of anything, do not hesitate to ask me,"

Evelyn Dark: Prevet (hello) my friends, I just could resist a self insert because I just love having other ToS character torture each other so I thought why not myself torture them. It was interesting, though Fate is really getting on my nerves with her stupid smiles. Anyway nakemiin (good bye) ^^

Mooching with the Renegades: Part one

Of course the silver haired boy was Genis and with his little devious acting skills he got to ditch us, which I hope is to tell the others and get help but if he wasn't I was sure to haunt him in his sleep for the rest of his life. The 'Renegades' as I have remember their name slugged Lloyd into a cell while I was on the other side waiting for our death sentence, well that's what our guards were saying anyway. I just hoped that Lloyd would wake up soon because I hardly doubt I knew how to pick a lock.

--Ren'ai, Pi-su, ken Koudou--

--Love, Peace, and Justice--