Tales of Symphonia: The Return of Mithos
It's been one month, and Lloyd and Sheena only destroyed half of the world's exspheres.
They ran quickly to their destination, they had to tell them what had just appeared. They ran into trouble on the way though, Lloyd got angry, and wanted to finish off whoever was in the way anyways.
"Don't you dare interfere again," A strangely familiar voice called out.
"What?" Lloyd wondered. Then an illusion appeared before them. It couldn't be, can it?
"M-Mithos?" Sheena asked and looked very confused.
"Yes, of course it is, who do you think I am, Santa Claus? No duh, but anyways, please don't go, I don't want you to come any further. Something has happened to me, and I will not allow you to interfere with my life again!" Mithos said, the image coming clearer.
"No, let us through, we saw what happened, we need to inform the others," Lloyd said taking out his swords.
"Yeah, they probably know, but still something might happen to them," Sheena said taking out her cards.
"Fools, I will not let you pass!" And Mithos, or maybe just an illusion, but hard to tell summoned a dragon. "Try to pass now hahahahahaha!" And with that he disappeared.
"Easy," Then Lloyd took out his material blades and swung at the dragon. But no, it didn't fall, it hit him back with it's tail.
"Oww…" Lloyd said, rubbing his head. He tried to get up, but it hurt.
"Lloyd! Don't worry, I summon Undine!" Sheena yelled, and Undine appeared before her.
"Yes grand summoner Sheena?" Undine said, not seeing the dragon.
"Attack the dragon!"
"As you wish," Undine closed her eyes for a while then, "Triple Spread!"
The dragon moaned in pain then perished.
"That is all," Sheena dismissed the summon spirit and ran to Lloyd.
"Lloyd? Are you okay? Say something!" Sheena lifted his head so he'd face her.
"Sh-Sheena? Is, is it gone? Are you hurt?" Lloyd slowly got up, but groaned in pain. The dragon hurt him pretty bad. He rushed it, he should've waited till they found a weakness.
"I was so careless," Lloyd then finally got back up and limped a bit, beginning to walk.
"No you weren't, not exactly, just don't worry. Let's just hurry. You need help?" Sheena asked catching up to him, but he pushed her away.
"No, I'm not weak, I'm fine," Lloyd then continued.
"Don't be so stubborn!" Sheena then touched him on the shoulder, "You don't want to get hurt again, please let me help."
"Um…Oww…Sorry, but it's okay. I appreciate your help, I'm just angry about Mithos. I thought he was happy up there with his sister," Lloyd then stopped, turned to Sheena and smiled, "But we'll beat them again, I promise I won't be so careless again. I don't want you to get hurt, not you or anyone."
Sheena blushed, and thought 'He is stubborn, but he has such a big heart.'
Soon enough, they made it to Iselia. Luckily, nothing bad happened to it, so they headed straight to Professor Sage's house.
Lloyd went in and fainted on the floor, and Genis and Sheena picked him up and placed him on the couch.
"Hm…Stubborn as always, I guess I'll just heal him," then Raine casted first aid and Lloyd woke up with only a few scratches.
"Genis? Professor? Sheena? Oh no! Did you tell them Sheena?" Lloyd asked Sheena in desperation.
"No, she didn't what happened?" Raine asked.
"We, we saw him. We saw Mithos," Lloyd said putting his head down.
Raine didn't seem so terrified. "What's wrong? He is living with his sister now, why wouldn't he be happy?"
While Sheena told them about their encounter with Mithos, Genis looked outside and noticed something, there was a huge thorny beanstalk outside right next to the place where the tower of Salvation was.
"Does it have something to do with that?" Genis asked, he turned to them.
Lloyd saw the fear in Genis' face, it must have been… "Hey, that's what we saw in the house of Salvation. I think it must have something to do with Mithos. But how?"
Raine thought for a while, then she told them "I think we should head over there for a closer look."
They rushed to the giant thorn and there they hid behind a tree because, they saw Mithos talking with an older man.
"Get this away! I need to see my sister about this!" Mithos yelled at the man.
The man shook his head, "No, because, your sister, is at the top of this."
Mithos' face turned white, "What? Why? What do you want from us?"
The man transformed to a younger person, about the age of Mithos. "Do you remember me now?"
Mithos was shocked, "It, it can't be, Klopan? What, how did you survive?"
Klopan snickered, "You, you were my best friend, and Martel, was the love of my life."
"But, how did you survive the fall?"
"I died, and unfortunately, I went to hell, and was there for four thousand years. Tortured, for something you did!"
"What did I do?" Mithos was then confused, very confused. Klopan glared at him, a touch of pain was in his eyes.
"The devil, Torturatos himself, knew of you plan to turn everyone into one race, he said it was evil, and that everyone was suffering. And since I died earlier than I was supposed to, I was sent down there. And I hate you, I hate you all for it," Klopan then glowed red.
"Then how did you end up here?"
"I sold my soul, to become a bringer of hell upon these people, to get revenge on you for making me suffer. You have no idea of the heat, the pain, the seperation of me from who I thought was my best friend and the love of my life..." Then he transformed back to the older man, then grew horns and wings, not like Mithos' but like bats'.
In the bushes, they all looked at each other, they knew about his evilthoughts, but they never knbew that the devil watched over them and knew exactly what they were to do.Lloyd was shocked, "He didn't want us to interfere, maybe he thought we were going to help that man."
"But we would never, if it's true that Martel is up there, we need to help him! No one deserves for their siblings to be tortured," Genis confirmed then stood up.
"No, don't go, we must wait, Mithos will never let us assist him."
"Why, why do you do this to Martel?" Mithos said, going back to the conversation between them.
"I am going to make you suffer; the only way to get up there is through me!"
Then Mithos transformed into Yggdrasil. And prepared himself.
"You will perish..."
Yggdrasill jumped around and brought out his wings.
"So, you too are dead, but how do you get wings? You did such a hateful task, and yet, you get wings of angel's, and I get tortured! Now you are going to get it! Devil's chamber!" And then an earthquake happened under Yggdrasill's feet, a hole appeared and he dropped through it. At the bottom he witnessed his worse fears and it was hurting him, so he tried to escape, but he barely got out alive.
"You're pathetic, I can't believe I left you, Kratos and Yuan protect her. I will give you mercy, help me, I will return Martel, and together we shall rule the world!"
"Sorry Martel, but it' the only way…" And they transformed to their winged form and flew up.
"Thorcus! Protect this! And only take in those with the key of the underworld."
"Yes master," And Thorcus turned invisible to watch over the tower, or beanstalk.
Raine, Lloyd, Genis, and Sheena were all silent and then they a someone come down from the Tower of Salvation. It was, Kratos! Also they saw some familiar looking people in the trees.
"Dad?" Lloyd called out. Kratos turned to him, but he was angry about something.
"Lloyd, did you just see what just happened? This is bad…" Kratos then frowned.
"What does this mean?" A voice came from the bushes, it was Presea. Regal and Zelos came out.
"Hey, where's Colette?" Zelos asked.
"Oh yeah," Genis said, "We have to tell Colette."
"Let's go gather at her house." Raine said.
Quick jump to Colette's house.
"Wow, that is so weird. I can't believe this," Colette shook her head, not understanding.
"We are not lying, we need to find that key of the underworld," Lloyd said.
"We have to defeat Abyssion, and then defeat, Torturatos," Kratos claimed.
"This will be a difficult task. Abyssion, he's very powerful," Raine claimed.
"We need to train, I need to continue to practice being an angel." Lloyd said, grinding his teeth and clutching his fists.
"Yes, you are right," Presea said.
"Hm…" Kratos thought…