For those who know me and were following my previous fanfics: this is up later than I planned. If you must blame anyone, blame my History, Geography and language teachers (Two essays! One weekend! Do the math!).
I don't own Tales of Symphonia.
Approximately a decade after the revival of the Yggdrasil tree
Lloyd came outside to speak to me. 'Me' being Noishe, the first life born in Symphonia and not – as some have described me – a dog. I was – and still am – a protozoan, and until recently, I'd been the only one.
Lately though, there had been sightings of a pale blue arshis, although most humans didn't actually say it was a protozoan.
Looking at this human called Lloyd, I felt a surge of pride. I had helped raise him, and I'd kept him safe everyday. I had helped on his journey, and now he was fully-grown with a family of his own.
Some time after the tree had been named, he and Sheena had gone on a journey to collect all the Exspheres, during which, Lloyd had proposed. Now, they lived together inside Mizuho, and had a young daughter.
Sheena was standing beside Lloyd.
"Noishe, I've been thinking." Lloyd said.
Suddenly, I didn't feel happy and content anymore. I knew something was going to happen, something that I wouldn't like. I could see it in their eyes.
"Noishe. We heard that tree has started making Protozoa again." Sheena said in a kind tone.
"You should go. Find someone of your own kind. I know Kratos asked you to watch over me, but nothing will happen. Besides, who or what would try, with us living in Mizuho?"
But, I was happy. I was content. Don't send me away. Please.
"Noishe, you can always visit us, okay?"
I knew I had to go. With one last sorrowful look at Lloyd, I turned and left.
When I was out of Mizuho, I ran. And kept running. I felt as if I should be crying, but Protozoan's don't cry. But was I really a Protozoan? I felt human, I had not known another of my kind for four millenia...but humans fade. They go away, they die and fade into earth. They lived nowhere near as long as us, so we shouldn't get attached...but I did.
First Kratos, and now Lloyd. Would the pain in my heart ever heal? I doubted it.
I stopped running in a unexceptional field south of where Tethe'alla's Tower of Salvation used to be. I lay down at the foot of a tree, and half hoped the earth would swallow me up, or the coming rains would wash me away.
A small, cold nose nudged my nuzzle.
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