Hello, and welcome to the story. I posted this story years ago under another account name: Selene Ikuza. I am starting new by reposting edited versions of the first half of the story and hopefully I can finish the story this time around. Thanks to all those who are reading this.

Disclamer: I do not own Tales of Symphonia.

Chapter One: Fallen Girl

The sun shone particularly brightly in the Triet Desert, reflecting light off the golden yellow sands. The Chosen's group was trudging dutifully through the hot sands. Kratos was walking ahead of Raine and Colette, silent as usual. Then, without warning he threw out his arm.

"Wait," he said glancing back at Raine. "Do you hear that?"

Raine gave him a questioning look, but then she heard it. A low rumbling reached her ears and was getting louder.

"Where-"

"Look!" Colette exclaimed. "A shooting star!"

"In the daytime?" Raine asked.

The two adults followed her pointed finger and saw a glimmer in the sky that was growing larger by the second. It was round and encased by an angry orange glow that gave it a tail. The objected looked like a vary dangerous shooting star.

The trio watched the object fall closer and closer until it crashed with a ear-splitting sound that caused the ground to shake all around them. Colette lost her balance and fell backwards. Kratos and Raine remained standing but stunned.

"What in the world was that?" Raine asked, helping Colette to her feet. Smoke was billowing from behind the dunes ahead of them.

Colette set off at a run for the crash site.

"Wait, Colette!" Raine called, but the girl was already well on her way, leaving Raine and Kratos no choice but to run after her.

Colette stopped just above the crash site and stared down into the center. Kratos stopped at her right shoulder. If he was expecting anything to be the cause of such an unusual occurrence, it wasn't what his eyes were seeing at that moment. The round orb had left a crater in the sands and seemed to have broken in half upon impact. The orb was made of some dark stone and had been hollow, like a gigantic capsule, and in between the two halts of the capsule was a girl.

A girl?

An unconscious girl lay in the wreckage, her cloths torn, dirty and bloody. Her body was twisted at an odd angle, her torso angled in the opposite directing from her hips, and her limbs sprawled every which way. She seemed to be bruised and bloody in many places. For some time the trio was in a stunned silence. Raine was the first to speak.

"What in the name of…is that a girl?"

"It would seem so," Kratos said tonelessly.

"She's wounded…We need to help her," Said Colette turning to the other two.

"It would be unwise Chosen," Kratos said, "If we help her and she turns out to be an enemy we would all be in trouble."

"But if we don't do something she'll die!"

"Colette, Kratos makes a good point. She could be dangerous."

"But we cant just leave her to die…even if she is an enemy, no one should have to die like that," Colette said sadly.

Kratos stared down at the girl. Something about the sight of her bothered Kratos, though he didn't know why.

"Well…If it is the Chosen's wish…"He started to say.

Colette smiled, "Thank you Kratos."

"Kratos are you sure?'' Said Raine.

"If she is dangerous, she can't do much in the state she's in. We'll help her but also keep a close eye on her. It she tries anything, We can take care of her easily enough."

"Well…all right," Raine said defeated.

"I'll go get her."

Kratos walked down the crater, careful not to slip on the rocks and stones. As he got closer to the girl the strange feeling inside him grew. It was like he knew something about her but he couldn't remember what. He stood next to her and stared for a moment. Her hair was long and dark brown, and it framed her face like a portrait. She was pretty but nothing about her stirred Kratos' memory further. Brushing the feeling aside he kneeled down, slid his arms under her, and gently lifted her up. She was very light. Kratos walked back up to his companions.

"We need to take care of her right away," Raine said examining the girl. "Kratos, can you carry her to Triet?"

"Yes."

Colette looked worried, ''Professor Sage, will she be okay?''

"She should be okay as long as we act quickly. But be aware, we may have to kill her if she tries anything."

Colette bit her lip, but said nothing.

With the strange girl in Kratos' arms, the group continued to Triet's Desert Oasis.