Welcome to my Tales of Symphonia fanfiction. Now this is basically a remake of the storyline but it happens three years earlier. This is a Shelloyd fic and I plan on adding various crossovers (This will not be nearly the same as you remember, I'm not kidding. Nowhere near the same). I don't own Tales of Symphonia.
It started off as another peaceful day in the village of Iselia where the gentle winds blow, the shines in a blue sky with few clouds to look at. The villagers attended to their daily duties and all the children learned in Professor Raine Sage's school...well, almost all of them.
"Lloyd! How many times do I have to tell you? Stop sleeping in my class,"an angry woman screamed at him. This woman was Professor Raine, an elven instructor who taught the villagers. She has silvery white hair and dark blue eyes wearing a brownish orange garment. She is usually known as very calm and intelligent but those who really know her claims she has a short temper and an unhealthy obsession for ruins.
As Raine screamed, a fourteen year old boy jumped out of his seat and panted heavily. This is Lloyd, he was found in the forest by a dwarf at the age of two. He has brown spiked hair with red-brown eyes, he wears a red jacket with black pants that his dwarven father made. He is an outsider and not too many people think he's bright. He is an idealist who believes in helping others despite the fact that the village constantly berates him for his stupidity. But little does everybody know it, Lloyd can be pretty smart at times and he is an up and coming swordsman with a unique style with two swords he invented on his own.
Anyway, Lloyd has a habit of sleeping of in class when it was becoming too boring which happened to be five minutes ago.
"Sorry Professor Raine, is class over," Lloyd asked hopeful. Everyone else started cowering fearfully under their desks. Raine had started twitching, it was unfortunate that this happened everyday.
"Lloyd, class started only five minutes ago," Raine answered eerily calm. Lloyd gulped. "FIVE MINUTES AND WE ALREADY HAVE TO DO THIS," Raine screamed. Lloyd gave a nervous laugh in reply. Raine sighed and started walking around and helping the other students.
Lloyd relaxed and sat down. He silently opened his book and pretended to read it. He hated reading, he didn't know what good reading would do in life because frankly it hasn't did any good so far besides bore him. He heard two girls in the back gossiping and spreading rumors. He eventually heard his name and turned around to wave at them giving a genuine smile. They both rolled their eyes while one of them commented how big of an idiot he was under her breath. Lloyd turned around keeping his smile as he pretended to read once more.
"I can't believe him, this happens everyday," one of them remarked loud enough for Lloyd.
"I know, he's such a stupid idiot, he never gets anything right, he constantly makes stupid comments, and he doesn't learn even after so long. How is it possible to be so stupid," the other replied just as loud.
"I bet it's because he was raised by a dwarf with bad parenting skills. I hear that dwarves are the stupidest creatures to...," she continued to comment but Lloyd refused to listen anymore and his smile faded. There are few things in the world that pissed Lloyd off and bad-mouthing Dirk was one that was near the top of the list. Lloyd raised his hand.
"Yes Lloyd," Rained asked noticing Lloyd's aggravated look.
"Can I use the bathroom," Lloyd asked quietly. Raine nodded and Lloyd got up to leave. He walked out of the class and straight out the front door, he was getting sick of class and needed to leave. He knew he would get in trouble later but, "Now is now, later is later," Lloyd told himself. He took a deep breath as he walked across the village looking at the sky. As he walked into a crowd of people, he randomly stated, "Looks like it's going to storm tonight." As he stated this, everyone looked at him as if he was an insane psycho killer. The sky was blue with very few clouds off to the east, however, the wind was blowing to the west.
"What in heavens do you mean? It's such a nice day," an elderly woman stated pointing at the sky. The rest of the villagers stared at Lloyd like he was an idiot. Lloyd grinned. He found it ridiculous that the villagers all questioned his ability to think. He just happened to be right the last ten times he predicted a storm was coming.
"You'll see," Lloyd said confidently as he trailed off to the entrance of the village. He often wondered why Dirk was so persistent to get Lloyd to come to school at the village. Dirk did say it was for Lloyd to be taught with his own kind but Lloyd did not view himself as one of them. But it did bring him to Genis and Colette so he left it at that. If it wasn't for his friends, Lloyd would've stopped coming a long time ago. Besides, he did good in Art and PE so it's all good (or so he tells himself). He arrived at the village gate and saw the guards eyeing his dog Noishe as it stared in return. The two guards noticed Lloyd's arrival.
"Lloyd, this thing has been staring at us all day and it's freaking me out," one of them complained. Lloyd sighed.
"He was just waiting for me. How many times do I have to tell you that Noishe is a dog," Lloyd asked rolling his eyes.
"Well, regardless of what it is, it can't be in the village, remember," the other stated sneering at him. A few years back, Noishe was happily welcomed into the village. People loved playing with him. But one day a few children decided to throw rocks at Lloyd and Noishe attacked them. Noishe has been banned ever since.
"Yeah, yeah, keep your helmet on. Come on Noishe," Lloyd replied cooly as he called to Noishe so they could leave. Noishe whined and slowly followed Lloyd. The both journeyed to the entrance of the forest. As they walked Noishe was whining more and more. "Geez Noishe, you're whiny today," Lloyd remarked getting another whine as a reply. They reached the entrance and Noishe barked and started nudging Lloyd. Lloyd was confused. Usually every time they arrived at the forest, Noishe would whine and run off. But Lloyd noticed that Noishe seemed to beg Lloyd to come with him and that's unusual. It seemed that Noishe was very afraid of something that lurked in the forest. However...
"Noishe, you're just being more paranoid than usual," Lloyd said. Noishe just whined and ran off. Lloyd shrugged and continued through the forest. The only thing that he found odd was that there was no monsters (rabid bunnies and plants with the occasional wolves) running around. Everything seemed to be hiding. Lloyd however pushed it off and continued to walk. Passing the Desian Ranch, Lloyd noticed that the temperature seemed to be dropping. Lloyd looked up at the sky and saw that it was beginning to fill with clouds.
'Storm's coming sooner than I thought,' Lloyd thought. He figured he should arrive at home earlier so he'd have time to train. He saw a mercenary the other day performing artes that he wanted to try, the only one he knew so far was Demon Fang. So far, he thought he was doing pretty good for being self-taught. He saw a total of five artes performed but out of all of them, he could only understand how one of them worked. The others he would work on in due time.
He arrived at his house and took a deep breath. He saw Dirk working outside while making house preparations for the storm. He was in middle of boarding the windows. He saw Lloyd in corner of his eye and turned to him.
"Hi dad, do you need any help with anything," Lloyd asked politely. Dirk just gave Lloyd a questioning look and stared at him.
"Lad, what are yeh doin out of school already," Dirk asked curiously as he raised and eyebrow. He started tapping his foot against the ground. Lloyd was twitching and he nervously gulped. He completely forgot about his father's reaction.
"I umm...there's a storm coming and I thought you needed help, hehe," Lloyd said while nervously laughing. He was only half-lying since there really was a storm coming.
"Dwarven Vow Number Eleven, "Lying is the first step down to a path of thievery". Tell me the truth, why'd yeh leave," Dirk asked once more.
"People in the village were being rough so I left," Lloyd explained reluctantly.
"Lloyd, yeh can't do that every time somethin' goes bad. Yeh know what happens if yeh drop out of school," Dirk said. Lloyd sighed. He would have to stay home and help his father with his work and he knew that was no fun.
"Yeah, yeah I know. So what do you want me to do," Lloyd asked changing the subject.
"Well, I'm pretty much done 'ere lad so yeh should run along and go train before it rains," Dirk answered in which Lloyd replied with a wide grin. In less than a second, Lloyd was already running towards the middle of the forest and yet he still noticed no monsters.
"Today's getting weirder and weirder, oh well, maybe I'm just lucky today," Lloyd said, and he left it at that. Unsheathing his wooden swords from their scabbards, he got ready for his daily training. He first decided to remove his exesphere. "Hmm...I hope this works," he thought out loud.
"Demon Fang!" He brought the wooden sword on his right to the ground, charged mana into the blade, and swung it forward emitting a shockwave that moved along the ground for a time until it eventually dispersed into nothingness. Lloyd dropped to his knees and started panting heavily losing his grip on his swords. "Damn it," he panted out. He reached for his exesphere and reattached it to his right hand. He instantly felt it's energy flow through him. "I'm nothing without this gem," he commented staring at it. He wanted to practice the other artes that he saw before but he felt that he could only master one of them without any prior knowledge. Lloyd sighed and picked up his weapons to prepare for the next attack. He walked towards on of the many trees in the forest and stared it down.
He charged mana into the blade on his right and drew the sword back. "Sonic Thrust!" He thrust the sword forward into the tree and it went right through it like paper. Lloyd grinned, he was right after all. But he didn't know how the other ones worked with mana. If only he had seen them one more time...
Lloyd felt drops of rain land on him. He looked up into the sky and beyond the trees to see dark gray clouds that were growing numerous in numbers.
"Come on! Just a little longer," Lloyd pleaded. As if replying, the rain poured harder and showed no signs of stopping. Lightning started soon filled the air. "Guess I should head home," Lloyd said as he made a sprint to his house. Lloyd made it back to his home and saw Noishe sleeping soundly under his little shed. Lloyd yawned and opened his door. Dirk was cooking his Dwarven Pot Luck Surprise when he noticed Lloyd walk in.
"Welcome back, dinner's almost finished," Dirk said finishing up his cooking, He was blindfolded and unfortunately for Lloyd, he was throwing many inedible things into the stew. Dirk finished his cooking and removed his blindfold to serve Lloyd and himself their bowls. They sat at the table and took their time removing everything inedible from their food (socks, knives, etc.)
"So, how'd yer training go," Dirk asked making conversation.
"Ish wens gred," Lloyd replied with his mouth full. Dirk looked at Lloyd expectantly. Lloyd swallowed his food and repeated himself. "It went great, I learned this really cool stab attack. It was awesome, my sword went right through the tree," Lloyd explained exuberantly. Dirk nodded in reply. They spent the rest of their dinner making small conversation before finishing their food and heading of to their beds. Lloyd felt so tired that he just jumped into the bed with his clothes on and fell asleep just like that. What Lloyd didn't know, was that sleep he fell into, would probably be the last peaceful sleep he would have for a long time. He would not expect a loud air piercing scream of a kunoichi.
That's the end of the chapter, I apologize for it being so short but I didn't feel the need to drag out the prologue any further. I hope you all liked it and I ask for any reviews whether they will be compliments or flames. I would also like some ideas on what games that this fanfiction will be crossed over with though do remember there won't be any major changes to the storylines I have planned. I still promise you this will be nowhere near the same. If you have any ideas, please review. I hoped you all enjoyed!