A/N: I don't own tales of symphonia, or the characters in it.
Chapter 1: Enter the dragons
"what has it been? How long has it been since that day… two years. Nearly three?" Lloyd thought " two years since I was Lloyd Irving, dwarven raised idiot. Now I'm Lloyd aurion, the hero of all people, man it feels like it's been forever since I killed Mithos". His Exsphere journey was long and hard, he did it mainly on his own, every now and then meeting Genis and Raine, still traveling the new world to allow freedom of half-elves, but other than that, he hadn't seen much of his old companions. The occasional visit to Altamira, where he'd meet up with Regal and Presea and have a good chat, and work at the amusement park as a mascot. He'd sometimes stop in Meltokio, where he'd have a chat with Zelos over some tea. He hadn't even seen Sheena or Colette, not bothering to track down the summoner and not going to Iselia, where he'd be treated as some sort of tourist attraction. His only companion for the past two years was his trusty "dog" Noishe. All the Exspheres were destroyed, save his own… he didn't want to, he wanted his father, Kratos, to be around when Anna passed on for good. He was coming home, he was going to go see dirk, the pleasant dwarf who raised Lloyd after His mother died, and Kratos returned to Cruxis. "alright, Noishe, let's go home, dad's waiting" Noishe replied with his trade mark "whine" Lloyd smiled " I know dirk isn't really my dad, but Kratos is up in space remember?" . Noishe barked sadly, seemingly hurt that Kratos left for good.
The two entered the Iselia forest, where they effortlessly made their way to Dirk's house. The house of Lloyd's youth had changed, their was a small mine near the spring, and Lloyd saw a third floor in the process of being built, with a small storage bin nearby. He opened the door and heard a voice "who is it?" Lloyd's eyes widened, that couldn't be who he thought it was, he looked near the table, and saw none other than Kratos! "Dad, why are you here?" he asked as he took a seat, Kratos simply said " I will explain later, sit down, tell me of your journey" Lloyd asked again "where's dirk?" Kratos replied "working in the mine, he's the head foreman of the iselian Gold and Mythril mine" Lloyd's eyes widened again " a mine?" Kratos simply nodded " Dirk found Mythril shortly after you left, and he found a huge amount of it deeper in, so Iselia has become rich off it" Kratos listened as Lloyd told him of the journey, and the hardships, as Kratos took all the information in. an hour later, Lloyd finished and Kratos spoke "Lloyd, do you know of a technique called Falcon's crest?" Lloyd smiled "Yeah, it's what I use to finish off all my strong enemies!" Kratos looked worried and angered, and his voice reflected it " you idiot, we have to go to the tree of mana, now!" Lloyd spoke "huh? Why?" Kratos simply said " let me put it simply, Lloyd you dumb-ass, you screwed up big time, you unleashed something powerful, great job stupid." He grabbed his stupid son by the ear, dragged him outside, where he used the Reihard they had to fly to the mana tree.
The tree (which Lloyd named in a fit of brilliance "giant kharlan Tree 2 the 2nd) had grown from the sprout he and Colette left it, and there was even a little house near it, probably Martel's. Kratos and Lloyd landed, when Yuan appeared out of the cottage, Lloyd spoke "Yuan, what are you doing here?" Yuan spoke nonchalantly " I live here with Martel" as if on cue, the green haired tree guardian appeared, and wrapped her arms around Yuan " Yu-yu, we have guests?" Kratos spoke "Yuan, Lloyd did the You-know-what too much, and know the other You-know-what has been released" Yuan stepped back in shock "the boy used the Falcon's crest and shattered it?" Kratos nodded, and Martel's eyes widened, as Lloyd stood there, clueless as usual "what'd I mess up now?" he said, as Yuan stepped forward,ready to tell an epic tale "twenty five hundred years ago, a great menace came from the sky in a meteor, This meteor contained a race of beings called dragons, and they began conquering both Sylvarant and Tethe'alla as though it was nothing, they threatened to break the dimensional barrier, and unravel the delicate balance that held the worlds together. Mithos decided he could not control or destroy the fell beasts, so he decided to create a race that he would use to balance them and seal them both, so he created the falcons, and the two balanced, creating the falcon's crest that the eternal sword sealed. The technique you used breaks the seal a bit, and brings the two great beasts power forth, it's safe for rare use, but constant use awakens the dragons who have destroyed the falcons from overuse of the crest" Lloyd looked dead into Yuan's eyes "so what do we do know?" Yuan spoke " we have to destroy the seven great dragon leaders, before the world is torn asunder" Kratos then spoke "Lloyd, you and I shall go, Yuan do you want to come?" Yuan spoke "why not? I could use some excitement" Martel spoke " I cannot come, I must guard the tree, unless we can get someone else to do the job" Kratos spoke "Colette perhaps?" Lloyd nodded "should I get Genis and Raine to help us?" Yuan nodded "and the summoner as well, I'll track them down, you two wait here" and with that, Yuan dissappeared in that Yuan-like way he had mastered.
3 days passed, and Yuan returned with Genis, Raine, Colette and sheena. Genis had grown since Lloyd has last seen him, no longer in his blue outfit, but wearing a black T-shirt, Black jacket, and funny Blue pants he called "denims", his hair was cut shorter, and he was almost lloyd's height. Colette too had grown, but had let her already long hair grow longer, but she wore it in braids, she now wore simple villagers clothes. Raine was dressed in a white skirt, high heeled boots, with a fancy looking blue top that reminded Lloyd of her outfit she wore to the party in Meltokio, she looked very pretty. She had her hair in a bun, and gave Genis some odd looking sunglasses. Sheena was in her successor outfit, but she was wearing a hood over it. "well well" sheena said to Lloyd "someone grew quite a bit" she noted Lloyd's greater height, and his hair, with which he wore his nobleman outfit, after the exchange of hello's how are you's and hugs, Yuan told the tale of the war of the dragons, and what they needed to do. Colette spoke first "if this really happened, where are the records of it?" Yuan replied "the Records of that time record great catastrophe, fire reigning from heaven, the seas rising, earthquakes happening, great storms engulfing continents, I'm sure Raine knows of them" Raine spoke "yes, it was a time of cataclysm, as death reigned over all" Yuan spoke " the dragons belive they came from the void dragon, chaos, from him Ouranos and Gaia, the dragons of heaven and earth, were born, and soon came the 7 great dragons. Thanatos, the grandest of them was one of the 4 drakenkings , along with Ouranos gaia and Chaos. Ophion, the dragon of storms and thunder, the dragon of earthquakes, Tartarus, the dragon of darkness, eros, the dragon of light, Aether the dragon of fire, and Tethys, the dragon of the sea. Me, Lloyd, Kratos, Martel, Sheena, raine and Genis shall go, Colette, can you guard the tree?" Colette smiled "lord Yuan, I shall do my best" Martel spoke "Good, we leave at sunrise tomorrow, in the mean time, who's hungry?" as all of them raised their hands, and went into the little cottage.
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