Sorry for killing everyone.. D: but we had some character rehab, or what ever, and then i lost part of hte sotry, and Leon didn't get on the internet, and hten we just descided...
screw it, lets start over.
soooo...
we did.
Frozen = Lloyd, Colette, Genis, Phaidra, Kratos, Raine, Random Desians, Random Gaurds, and just about everyone elese who's names are not Piers.
Leon controls Piers :3
Oh, and everyone on Sylvarant who is in tune with Mana or has an Exsphere or Cruxis crystal can see the Psynergy Aura. According to Leon... which means... just about everyone in the tales crew.
Eventually, Aurian makes an apearence.
I own no one in this chapter. But my soul. but that doesn't make an apearence.
If the words look suspiciously like the game text, thats because i found a wonderfull web-page that had the game 'script' with the different options.... and i'm a lazy bastard. sooo..
i really own just about nothing. D:
August 28th
Raine turns to the back, and asks the boy standing there a question. there isn't an answer. "... Lloyd Irving, wake up! Lloyd!" Lloyd snores in reply, standing up in the back of the room holding two buckets. Raine's temper flares, and she throws a chalk-board eraser at his face. It hits.
"How the hell can he sleep standing up?" Piers looks up.
"Exactly.." Genis mutters, as Lloyd wakes with a cry. Raine voices the same thought that Piers had.
"Uh.. Professor Raine. is.. class over?"
Raine sighs. "Fine, i'll have someone else answer the question. Genis, how about you?"
"Yes, Raine." Genis stands, and 'recites' after Raine makes it back to the teacher's desk. "Mithos, the Hero, brought about the end of the Ancient War in the Holy Ground of Kharlan." Piers glances at Lloyd, listening to Genis talk about the war. He sighs, thinking that all war is pointless.
"Correct. Afterwards, Mithos the Hero formed a pact with the Goddess Martel to seal way the Desians whom caused the war." Raine continued.
"But the Desians came back and are now causing everyone to suffer!" Lloyd shouts from the back, still standing there with a white smudge on his face and buckets in his hands.
"We covered that in class last time, remember? when the Seal weakens, the Desians reappear. Just like now." Raine sighs at Lloyd.
"This is why I hate war. It always comes back to haunt the next generation." Piers mutters.
"I…I knew that. I…I just forgot.." Lloyd mutters, and Raine sighs again. Maybe her white hair came not from being an elf, but because of Lloyd...
"Today is the Day of Prophecy. It is a very important day, which the Chosen of Mana will receive an oracle from the Goddess Martel. Now, Chosen One…Colette." A blonde girl in white stands.
"Yes, Ma'am."
"Tell us about the Journey of World Regeneration." Raine says. Piers knew about the journey, but he listens to Colette anyway.
"It is a journey to seal the Desians. Upon passing the trials of the Goddess Martel, the Summon Spirits that protect the world awaken, and Mana is restored." Colette says. Lloyd starts dozing again.
"Correct. I suppose we should expect the Chosen herself to know the answer to that one. Mana depletion is the cause of the current food shortages and droughts." Raine says. Lloyd twitches in his nap. Piers glances back at Lloyd. He nudges Genis, whom he was sitting behind.
"Should we tell Raine?" He jerks his thumb at Lloyd.
"It is said that this occurs because the Desians consume vast amounts of Mana in their human ranches." Lloyd wakes before Genis can reply, and Raine stops talking. Lloyd meets eyes with Colette as she sits back down. "The Chosen's journey has two purposes—to revive Mana as well as defeat the Desians. Now, for the next question—" A bright light flashes through the classroom from the window.
Piers flinches from the light. "Wh-What was that?!" Lloyd echoes this, just as startled, but much more curious.
"Thats..." Colette whispers, hands clasped before her chest, almost a praying gesture.
"Settle down, everyone. It would seem that the time for the oracle has come. I will go and check on the chapel. Everyone, stay here and study on your own. Understood?" Raine moves for the door.
"Professor! I'll go with you!" Colette turns to go as well. Piers sits back down, casting a glance at Lloyd and then at Genis.
"No, Colette. If it is the oracle, the priests will come here for you. Wait here with everyone else." Raine says, then hurries out.
"Yes Ma'am." Lloyd sets down his buckets, and inches sneakily(in a bright red jacket) for the door, Genis intercepts him, glancing at Piers.
"Lloyd! Where are you going? Don't tell me you're sneaking out! Raine will get mad!" Genis says, jumping a little. Kid's only 12, after all.
Piers gets to his feet. "Yeah. And we'll get into trouble for letting you."
"I'm really curious to find out what really happens to Colette when she receives the oracle. They always talk about the Chosen of Regeneration and the Day of Prophecy, but no one tells us what really happens." Lloyd says, sticking his thumbs into his belt, and eyeing the door.
"But my sister said to stay and study by ourselves." Genis protests.
"It's research." Lloyd says.
"Well, if he puts it that way... We ARE supposed to learn about the journey of regeneration. And she did say by ourselves." Piers says, musingly.
"That's just an excuse!" Genis says, waving his hands in the air.
"So? An excuse is an excuse, right? Don't be so stuffy. You're coming too, right? We're best friends, after all!"Lloyd says, crossing his arms and looking smug." Colette, want to come along, too?" Colette looks over from the La-La land she had been in.
"..Huh? Um, Okay." she walks over. "So, where to?"
"The church, right?" Piers picks up his bag. "Lets go!"
"See?" Lloyd says to Genis. "Dwarven Vow #4: Don't depend on others. Walk on your own two legs. Okay then! Let's go to the temple!" Lloyd punches the air, on the way out.
Genis raises his hands in annoyed defeat. "Not the Dwarven Vows again. You always use them when you need an excuse..."
Once the quartet gets outside, Lloyd notices something. "Hey.. Its awfully quiet..."
"Colette!" Frank comes up.
Piers looks around. "Uh-oh...My trouble senses are tingling." Genis gives Piers a weird look.
"Father!" Colette cries.
"Frank!" Lloyd says, waving a little.
"Thank goodness you're safe." Frank says, hugging Colette after giving her a visual inspection for blood on her white clothes.
"Frank, what happened to the towns folk?" Genis asks.
"They're all hiding. Desians invaded the village a short while ago. Luckily, no one was hurt. they just passed through and headed to the temple." Frank says, letting go of Colette.
"Bingo..." Piers looks at Lloyd. "Lemme guess. You still wanna go to the temple, huh?" Lloyd nods.
"Why?! Iselia has a non-aggression treaty with the Desians!" Genis protests.
"You mean that agreement where they don't attack the village as long as we leave the human ranch alone?" Lloyd asks, clarifying.
"Yes…Grandmother said it's to protect me… Oh! Where's Grandmother?" Colette looks worried.
"Didn't they already violate the treaty by attacking the village or the temple?" Piers points out.
"They didn't attack the village.. and i'm not sure if the temple ispart of the treaty." Genis muses, thinking.
"It is.. and Phaidra is there preparing for the ritual."
"Phaidra's in the temple? but that's where the Desians.." Lloyd stares, thinking.
"The priests are there with her. There's no need to worry. Now, Colette.." Frank puts a hand on the girls shoulder.
"If the temple is part of the village, then they violated the treaty. Ergo, we're entitled to send men to the temple to at least check it out. Does Iselia have any guards?"
"A militia..." Genis says, a tad ruefully.
"I know. I promise to fulfill my duty as the Chosen." Colette says, her ever-ready smile faltering for a fraction.
"Good luck, Colette." he turns to the three boys. "Lloyd, Genis, Piers, you should go home."
"I'm worried about letting Colette go by herself." Lloyd casually rests his hand on a sword hilt, one of two wooden blades. "I'll go with her to the temple."
"If Lloyd goes, I'll go. He'll end up getting a splinter." Lloyd makes a face at Piers, indicating his gloves, although the left is split by a bandage-like wrap.
"Me too." Genis says, smothering a grin poorly.
"But... alright.." Frank gives up without much of a try, dropping his hand from Colette's shoulder. "Thank you. I'll wait at the house. comeback immediately if anything happens." then he leaves to the Brunel house.
Piers smirks. "Gloves mean nothing. C'mon. We're wasting time!"
Lloyd scowls for a second. "Splinters! I can't get them if I'm wearing GLOVES!" he rants for a moment. If his rage is short, nearly walking into a zombie-monster is a good distraction. "Whoa! Monster!" Lloyd dodges its shambling attack.
"I thought the northern region was a sanctuary. Why are there..."
"It must be part of the trial. Martel's Trial involves battling monsters."Colette gets chakrams out.
"Can we help? Not that I can do much." Piers asks.
"Yes. Until we get to the Priests. they'll take over."Colette smiles at Piers.
"We don't have time to talk!" Lloyd says, bouncing from foot to foot, he's already got his swords out."Let's get this thing!" Lloyd seems to have a tiny bit of blood-lust.
"Roger!" Genis shouts, pulling out his Kendama. Lloyd charges in, slashing-hacking away. Piers merely stands back, not having a weapon to fight with. They killed the monsters.
"Remember, ghosts are weak against magic, not your swords. so leave them to me." Genis says, as they head past the feebley moving bits of zombie.
"That was amazing, Lloyd!" Colette says, cheerful despite the carnage.
"ah, well.. I owe it to this thing." he touches the wrap around his left hand.
"That's right, the Exsphere." Genis looks at Lloyd's hand, and the bulge in the wrap.
"Exsphere?" -so that was the energy I sensed from him...-
"Yeah. It's designed for combat and brings out my maximum strength. Without this thing, I'd be nothing…" Lloyd says, all very modest and such.
"But you're still strong, Lloyd!" Colette cheers,.
"Yeah, at least his sword skills are good." Genis says, bashing his friends academic skills.
"What do you mean, at least?!" Lloyd asks Genis.
"Face it, Lloyd, that zombie has more brains than you. Now hurry up! Time's a'wastin'!" Piers had a knack for distracting attention from his comments. They hurry out, Lloyd chasing Piers.
The temple is a domed building in a cliff-face. Lloyd shades his eyes as he looks up at it, streamers flicking in the air from the ocean north. the light still beams up from the dome.
"Whoa, that light really is coming from the temple!" Lloyd says.
"An oracle is going to be conveyed. Colette's going to be the Chosen of Regeneration." Genis sounds awed.
Piers glances back at Colette. "Congratulations. I don't envy you, though. Its too much responsibility...I couldn't handle the fate of this world."
Colette is staring at the light. "It's really, really bright!"
Lloyd and Genis sweatdrop. "Say, Colette…when the oracle is conveyed, you'll become the Chosen who will save the world, right? You're going to be like the hero, Mithos! So maybe you should act a little more…you know, Chosen-like…"
Piers rolls his eyes. "She can't act any different than she is. Its like asking Lloyd to be a woman." Lloyd twitches, and Genis and Colette laugh, although Colette is laughing for his comment.
"Yeah! No problem. No problem."Colette smiles.
Genis notices soemthing off. "Hey... there's a lot of commotion at the temple.."
"I thought so..." Piers sighs. A priest walks down the stairs, staggering and clutching his side.
"Chosen one!" he gasps out, and collapses down the last few stairs.
"Pastor?!" Colette cries, and moves to kneel next to him. the man had landed on his face, and so Lloyd helped the girl turn the man over.
"Hey, are you alright?!" Lloyd asks the standard question. Genis stares at the growing blood stains.
Piers steps back, feeling a bit queasy. "Ugh... I hate blood..."
"The Desians broke the non-aggression treaty and attacked the temple… Chosen One…quickly…the oracle…" The pastor confirms what Frank had said.
"I know." Colette says.
"Please…be careful… I regret that I will not…be able to pro…tect… the…Cho…sen." His breath coming bubbling, the pastor dies.
"Pastor, hang on!" Colette hold the man's hand.
"It's no good. he's.. gone." Lloyd says softly.
"C'mon. Lets not let him die in vain. You three can fight, right? You gotta do something... I'm useless, though..." Piers mutters.
"Sidelines." Genis mutters. "You can chuck Gels to us if we need them. Here." he passes over a handful of apple gels, and a pair of orange. Lloyd and Colette nod and hand over more Apple gels.
"Let's get going." Lloyd says, after moving the pastor to the side of the walk way.
Piers tucks them into his bag so he can reach them fast and easier. "Let's go." Piers agrees. The party races up the stairs, Genis lagging behind his older, and taller friends. A man in a robe, quite unlike the preist-robes, steps before a party of Desians. priests lie on the ground, bleeding and those already bleed out. Phaidra backs to the door.
"Where is the Chosen?" the man asks. the teens reach the top of the stairs.
"Run, Colette!" Phaidra shouts. Piers freezes, gagging, nearly throwing up at the sight and smell of the blood. a Desian points at Colette.
"Lord Botta! There she is!" the Desian cries.
This Botta turns around. "Chosen One, your life is mine!"
Lloyd draws a sword, stepping in front of Colette. "I won't let you Desians get away with anything!"
"Desians?" that first soldier laughs.
"What's so funny?!" Genis shouts, all child-rage, holding his Kendama in a tight fist.
"Well then." Another Desian joins the first. Piers remains behind the others, waiting. "Die at the hands of the Desians you so hate. Get them!" the party of Desians rushes in. Lloyd swears, something Raine would have clocked him for even muttering, drawing his other sword, and the battle played out. Botta stood back, watching. Genis cast Fire ball after Fire ball, Colette using her rings to keep Desians back. One sneaks around the fence, and jumps for Piers. Piers catches his movement in the corner of his eye. He sweeps his arm across the direction he was coming. Diamond-like shards of ice appear and stop the Desian in his tracks. The ice then explodes, knocking him into the wall. During this, Piers acquires a blue aura. Genis gapes after fire-balling one of the remaining Desians into a crisp, and Lloyd beats one to unconsciousness just a bit over.
"Whoa!" Genis says. A large man comes out of the Temple, wearing a horned helm, and a sword across his back. at his side is a hammer, and in his hands are a ball-chain weapon.. easily Genis's size.
"Do not get in our way.." he rumbles, as his comrades flee. Piers steps forward, aiming to distract him, casting Frost on the large Desian, attempting to freeze his boots to the ground. Lloyd looks at the ice, then at Genis, and Piers.
"Wow, Piers, I didn't know you were a mage!" Lloyd calls, before darting in to attack the much larger man. Genis grinned, and Colette smiled, although she looked a tad worried. Piers keeps trying to restrict his movements, with little success.
"Damn! Its been too long." He mutters, gritting his teeth. Vidarr takes his hammer, and crushes the ice, before slamming it into the ground in front of Lloyd. Lloyd blocks the majority of the rocks thrown up in his face, but the shockwave sent him stumbling back. Colette misses blocking a flying rock, and lands on her rump, and Genis gets peppered with them, sending his small body flying back toward Piers.
Piers yelps, getting knocked back by Genis. "Ow... You okay, Genis?"
Genis groggily rubs his head. "I think I need an apple gel..." he mutters, getting off Piers. Lloyd blinks away dust to see that Vidarr is homing in on him, ball ready to smash down.
"Guh..!" Lloyd brings his swords up, and shuts his eyes. A clang wasn't what he expected, nor Vidarr's cry of pain, and a wet cutting noise. Lloyd opens his eyes hesitantly to see a lean man cut Vidarr's arm off. Piers stands, turning to Genis, holding out his hand.
"I may be out of shape, but I can still heal." He closes his eyes. The same pulsing aura appears, this time it feeds energy to Genis.
"Huh...?" Lloyd stares up at the man, who glances back. the guy was wearing purple... "Who are you?" Lloyd asks. something..familiar.. why the hell would this guy's back be familiar?! Lloyd shook his head to clear his thoughts. Cold red-ish eyes survey them, before returning to Lloyd.
"Get out of the way." He says, before returning his attention to taking apart Vidarr. Lloyd bristles.
"What?!"
"This opponent is beyond you. Stay back."
"B-Beyond us?! Just who do you think you're talking to?!" Piers snaps. The man kills Vidarr, and flicks the long-sword he wielded to clean it. a blue gem glints from the back of his other hand, visible over equally purple gloves with knuckle caps in its bronze-like mount, as he turns to face Botta, but glances back at Piers.
".. Children."
"Damn." Botta snarls, almost. "I never thought you'd show up. Retreat for now!" the Desians that can move run with their leader.
"Amazing.." Colette stares.
"This guy's incredibly strong.." Genis mutters.
"Children?!" Piers seems kinda pissed at the comment.
Lloyd seems pissed for other reasons. "Y..yeah. I... I suppose so..." he mutters.
The man looks at the dead priests, paying no more attention to them once he recognized the work of death, then at the teens. "Is everyone all right? ... No one seems to be dangerously wounded..." with the fringe of dark-red hair, the man's eyes seemed to be either orange, or red. Green sparks flicked about his fingers, and he indicated Colette and Lloyd. "First Aid." Green sparks flicker into existence over wounds, and the wounds vanish. The gem on the back of his hand flickers with an inner light, not the green of the healing spell.
Piers grunts, seizing a discarded sword and detaching the sheath from its owner. "If I have to fight, it seems I can't rely on my ..magic anymore."
"Is that.. an Exsphere?" Lloyd asks the air. Phaidra moves over to the teens.
"How can I ever thank you for saving the chosen?" She didn't talk to the teens but the man. His eyes flick back over their group, and rest on Colette. He gives a faint nod-like motion, but turns it into turning back to Phaidra.
"...I see. So this girl is the next chosen." Colette blinks, and stands, dusting herself off
Piers scowls. "If only you knew..." He jabs the sword into its sheath. For a second, the man looked to be smirking, but it was gone so fast it must have been a trick of the eyes. Lloyd too is scowling, but the man is ignoring them both.
"That's right! I have to go accept the oracle! Grandmother, I'm going to undergo the trial now." Colette moves for the Temple.
"What trial?"
"..The monsters, I assume. An malevolent presence radiates from within this chapel." Lloyd mouths the big word of that sentence from the tall man.
Piers scowls. "Violence begets more violence..." He looks at Genis. "Did I heal everything? If my magic is weak, I might have missed something..."
Genis grins at him. "Nope, it's all taken care of."
Phaidra nods at the man's explanation. "Yes, that is correct. The Chosen is to receive judgment from heaven. But the priests that were to accompany her fell at the hands of the Desians..."
"Then I'll take on the job of protecting Colette." Lloyd says.
"Lloyd?" Phaidra asks, and somehow, the man seems to be paying more attention after hearing that. "...I would be uneasy with just you."
"Good..." Piers mutters. The man flicks his attention back to Lloyd.
"...Your name is Lloyd?" there was a hint of something in his voice. Surprise?
"Yeah, but who are you to ask for my name?" Lloyd rests left hand on a sword, shifting his weight to the right foot.
"..I am Kratos, a mercenary." Kratos says. "As long as you can pay me, I'll accept the job of guarding the Chosen."
"...Under the circumstances, I have little choice." Piers glares at Kratos. He could sense...something. Maybe it was just the Exsphere. Like with Lloyd, but... more. Lloyd gapes a tad indignantly as Phaidra continues. "Please be of service."
Although there was no handshake, or exchange of money on the spot, Kratos nodded. "It's a deal, then."
"W-wait! I'm going too!" Lloyd shouts.
"..Lloyd, you'll only get in the way. Be a good boy, and wait here." Kratos's tone was firm.
"...Ow. I can feel Lloyds damaged pride from here." Piers mutters. It was visible how much Lloyd was fuming. Then, he grinned. A faintly evil grin...
"..Go~tcha." he says, dragging out the vowel, grinning, although not the usual full-blown grin. A faintly sneaky grin.. "I'll just follow you on my own."
"You're a stubborn kid.." Kratos says, slightly amused, then turns toward the temple. "Fine, do as you wish."
"I'll do just that." Lloyd says, still with that faintly evil grin. "Let's go, Genis, Piers!"
Piers growls. "I'm not your flunky, Lloyd." He follows anyway.
"But you are one of my best-friends!" Lloyd grins, turning on the full blown happy one.
"Lloyd, I figured you were going to say that." Genis said, falling in behind Lloyd, as he follows Colette, who follows Kratos.
"This isn't a field trip, you know.." Kratos sounds resigned.
"Exactly. Unless we go to a feild." Piers mutters. Kratos gives a resigned sigh. They walk inside a dark room, with a high ceiling, and spread out a bit, Kratos farther to the left than the teens. Both Genis and Lloyd are trying to look at everything at once.
"..So this is what the inside of the temple is like..." Lloyd mutters.
"Colette, you've been in here many times, right?" Genis asks her.
"Yeah, but it seems different than usual."
"I wonder..." He glances at Kratos. -Does he know? He...I Don't think he's human.-
"I sense the presence of monsters. Don't let your guard down." Kratos tells them, then goes back to studying the three ways on.
"We can handle a few measly monsters." Lloyd holds his arm up, and rests his other on the bicep. "Let's go."
"Wait." Kratos is closer to their group this time, the movement insanely quiet. "Lloyd... Are your sword techniques self taught?" Piers rests a hand on the hilt of his borrowed sword.
"...I miss Dreamtide..." He sighs, watching Lloyd and Kratos.
"Yeah, that's right." Lloyd says. he looks confused when Kratos reaches back under his split-cape, rather like swallow-tails, and plops a book into Lloyds hands. "What is this thing?" Lloyd's distaste for text is obvious.
"It is a training manual. If you are going to use a sword, then at least learn the basics. " Kratos starts past Lloyd, and says lower. "You want to protect the Chosen, don't you?"
Piers glances at Genis. "You seemed surprised that I was a mage." He comments.
Kratos continues walking, looking at the center path. "Hmph!" Lloyd makes a face. "You think you know so much!"
"Yeah. I thought you were human." Genis says, watching Piers.
"I-I...Don't tell anyone..." Piers lowers his voice and whispers. "I'm half elf. My ears just aren't pointed..."
"Really?" Genis whispers back. "that's s-"
"-Whatcha whispering about?" Lloyd pokes his head into their whisper fest.
"How poorly you did on the last test." Genis says quickly. Kratos returns.
"We cannot continue yet. there is a barrier." He tells them. "We take another path first." Colette immediately points them to the left, and after a little bit of walking, they found some old boxes with items.
"Nice save, Genis. I know how touchy Lloyd is about failing." Genis grins. "Later." Genis mouths, jerking his thumb at the others. Kratos ignores the teens as they break open boxes to find some Gald, and healing items, seemingly studying a light fixed to the wall, and then the cave in ahead.
"Now the right path!" Colette cheers, after they split up the Gald. Piers nods. He refuses the healing items, as he can use Ply. He takes his share of the Gald, however. Which leaves Lloyd, Colette and Genis to divvy up the healing items, although Kratos moves over and picks up a bottle, which seems to keep the light inside.
"..." Kratos hands it to Genis. "You might want to hold onto this." He goes back the wall.
"Huh?" Genis looks at it in the light.
"It is a life bottle." Kratos explains, as they find nothing else. "It will revive those who have fallen..."
Piers smiles. "Those are rare. And expensive. But, knowing Lloyd, we'll be needing it soon."
"Hey!" Lloyd snaps.
"..Recently.." Kratos adds to his previous sentence, a tad darkly. Genis blinks as he gets what Kratos was saying, and moves closer to Colette. It doesn't help that the man unsheathed his blade through a zombie after he said so, and continued to walk on with it out.
"Kratos is...different, no?" Piers comments. He felt a stronger connection with Genis than Lloyd or Colette.
"He's creepy." Genis says, as Lloyd says "He's a jerk."
"He's strong." Colette comments. "And he knows what he's doing."
Piers merely shrugs. "Whatever...I don't trust him..."
"He's a jerk." Lloyd repeats.
"Slime." Kratos tells them.
"What?" Lloyd looks like he's trying to figure out why Kratos insulted himself.
"Behind you." This was accompanied by a sigh as Kratos cut through a spider. Lloyd spins around to spot a slime behind him. Piers casts Frost. A pillar forms under the Slime, spiking it, giving Lloyd a chance. Lloyd cracks the pillar, and kills the slime that had been partially frozen. Lloyd frowns at the slime, and the ice.
"Thanks." he says, turning back to walk with the party, but whether to Kratos(unthinkable!) or Piers, is uncertain. Piers smirks. He keeps a hand on his borrowed sword. When he got back to town, he'd need to get his pirate blade out. Dreamtide was such a handy move. Kratos continues to lead them through the chapel without a pause, and they go down some stairs. in the large room below, a platform was suspended in the air.. by just its stairs.
"Whoa!" Lloyd exclaims his awe at the room.
"Look, look!" Genis beats Kratos down the stairs, and moves for the edge, toward the way they had come, but on that platform. "Something's glowing!"
Piers stops, watching. "The oracle?"
"Wow! Let's go see it!" Lloyd says. Unfortunately, this is the level down, and as the party looks for the path, through the transparent floor of their platform, they notice...
"there's gaps in the path." Genis says with a sigh. "We can't jump those... there's no bottom.."
"Look, something's here!" Colette says, from out of the group. turning, Lloyd and co spot.. a large rock golem. Kratos lunges. Piers casts Cool, drawing the sword, attempting to freeze the golem's feet and legs. Kratos takes use of this to drive his blade in like a wedge between the rocks forming one of the creature's legs, and start taking apart the golem. Colette gets back up from where she had tripped as the golem had come up, and Kratos passed her. Lloyd darts in, not about to be out-done by the older male. Its upper body spins in a complete circle, and Kratos whips out a small shield to catch the blow. Piers jumps up, jabbing his sword into any flaws in the rock, trying to pry the golem apart. Lloyd goes flying back, but twists in mid air and lands, albeit a tad heavily. Kratos is wearing a scowl by now, and he swings his sword back.
"Sonic Thrust." he says, and shanks the Golem. Surprisingly, it even works, and the rings from the speed of the attack chip the rock even more.
"Lloyd! You okay?" Piers looks back at the teen.
"Yep!" Lloyd jumps side to side a tad, testing out his legs. "All good.." he darts forward again, as Genis casts Fire Ball. It just washes over the rock.
"Dammit, i'm useless!" Genis says.
"Demon Fang!" Lloyd says, shooting a triangle of energy from one of his swords in a down-swipe. Kratos side steps it, continuing to hack and slash. It topples off its one leg. And turns into.. a block.
Piers pants. "I'm not much help, either...dammit..." They stop, now that there's a block of rock instead of a golem.
"Wow!" Colette cheers. "It turned into a rock!" She says, looking at the block.
"well... it was kinda a rock to begin with..." Lloyd mutters.
"Oops!" a fatal sound, in any context. Colette trips, and the block of rock fell down one of the block shaped holes in the platform.
"uh..." Lloyd looks through the floor. the block cleared a path below.
Piers sighs, looking at Genis. "Is everyone okay? No-one need healing?" Kratos has a bruise on the side of his face, but he's ignoring it. Lloyd is walking a little stiffly on one foot, and keeps shaking one arm.
"Hey! it fell into one of the holes below!" Genis points. He's untouched, mages being a back-line battler, and Colette hadn't been in the battle.
"My arm tingles." Lloyd admits.
Piers, glad of a chance to prove his worth, casts a Ply spell on Lloyd's arm. "Seems it was sprained..."
Lloyd shivers. "It's cold!" he mutters.
"Oh, no!" Colette, oblivious to the conversation, is saddened by the fall of the block.
"I get it!" Genis says, hitting his hand into his fist.
"I see." Kratos murmurs, looking through the floor.
"What are you two talking about?" Lloyd asks, turning to look.
"In just a moment.." Genis draws it out, turning to look around. Piers sighs, hating to be left out of the loop.
"It'll probably.." Genis points farther down the platform. "See, there it is!" A golem was spawned.
"Whoa! there's another one!" Lloyd jumps back.
"Now, let's take care of it and drop it down below!" Genis says. Lloyd looks confused, but with Kratos moving in to kill the monster, he wasn't about to just stand there. Piers darts forward, starting to hack at the golem's legs. Lloyd uses his Demon Fang several times, and Kratos shows he knows the technique as well, although his was a tad more powerful. Of course, having the man run up behind it to attack in the reeling of the golem probably helped. Piers finally manages to hack through the leg, kicking it out from under the golem. It starts toppling over. Lloyd yelps, and backs up quickly, and Kratos just darts back, a flicker of the healing spell flitting across his shoulder and face. Piers sighs. He looks at the Golem.
"Hurt yourself again?" He asks Lloyd. The golem into a block, and Kratos and Genis already started maneuvering it into a hole so they paths below could be opened.
Lloyd shrugs. "dunno."
"I best heal you anyway...hopeless..." He casts Ply, starting to weaken.
Lloyd blinks. "That.. wasn't as cold as before." he mutters, shifting to peer at Piers. "You need an Orange Gel? I think I have one.."
"It won't work. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."
Lloyd frowns. "It helps Genis when he has trouble with spells."
"Lloyd! Another Golem!" Genis shouts, waving for the teen.
"Ah! I'll try not to get myself hurt this time!" Lloyd waves to Piers as he runs to join the rock-'killing'. Piers concentrates the last of his Psynergy to cool the rock, making it brittle and easier to snap. Kratos slams the hilt of the long-sword into the rock-golem, which does cause it to fracture, and neatly steps to the side as Lloyd Combo's in with his blades. When Lloyd couldn't continue his attacks, Kratos stepped in, and surprisingly, they worked well as a team. The Golem turns into a block again.
Piers pants, getting tired quicker. "D-Damn..."
Kratos took care of the healing this time, and Colette comes back from la-la land to help out. They went down side paths, gathered a few more items, Gald and a mélange gel, and then went to the shiny they had seen from before. Genis peers at it, resting on an altar like machine.
"Is this.. the Sorcerers' Ring? I've heard about it before. It's a holy artifact of the Church of Martel." Genis says. Piers stands beside Genis, examining the artifact, too. A small blue-ish ring, with a red something in the center.
"With this, we should be able to deal with most traps and obstacles." Kratos says, nodding at the ring.
"Wow!" Lloyd crows. "Let me try it!"
"Ok Lloyd." Colette plucks the ring up, and passes it to the teen. Piers watches. He has a Psy Crystal in his bag, but daren't use it yet.
".. You're like a little kid." Genis sighs. Lloyd makes a face at the small boy, which doesn't help his 'little kid'-ness, and slips the ring on. Having got everything in this room, they head back to the first room of the chapel, then turning up the center path. Piers follows, feeling all old and useless. In the center hall, a shut door stood behind a glowing blue seal.
"It's Sealed." Kratos explains why they couldn't go this way in the first place.
"The Sorcerer's ring can open it." Colette says.
"Ok! leave it to me!" Lloyd moves to the center, eyeing the red blob on the door, and thrusts his fist out. A small fireball shoots out, and the door opens. "Oh." Lloyd looks at the ring. Piers grips his sword tighter.
"... Is that all the Sorcerers Ring does...?" Lloyd sighs.
Genis shakes his head. "You get bored so easily." Colette glances at Piers.
"Are you ok?" she asks.
"J-Just a bit tired, that's all. Its been a while since I've had to fight."
"Oh.. ok! If you want to take a break, let us know!" she smiles at him, as Kratos moves forward to inspect the glowing blue circle on the floor.
"It's a warp." He steps onto it. "It'll take us to the top floor." He vanishes, his image stretching up for a second. Lloyd scowls, but he and Genis wait for Colette to go first. She waves, and does so, then the boys follow. Piers is last, getting a queasy feeling as he's warped. It's an large alter room, with the domed roof above them, and the strange round altar a circle platform in the center. The beam of light was emitted from it.
"The top floor." Kratos nods at the light, moving back and to the side. Again, the walls are more interesting to the man than whats actually in the room.
"Yes. That's the altar." Colette agrees.
"Then that shining thing there.." Lloyd pointed at a rock on the altar. "must be the Cruxis Crystal." it's blood red..
"Cruxis Crystal?" Piers asks.
"It's what makes a chosen a chosen." Genis explains.
Colette nods. "That's right. They say I was born with that in my hand."
Genis jumps up and down, pointing up. "Look at that light!" A gold spark was floating steadily down.
So, I've heard that Colettes Official Birthgday is like, December 10th. but I've already plotted out most(up to Kvar's death) of the story line on a calander, starting from the 28th(based on distance travel-able per day, acroding from what I understood, it was like, four, five days from Iselia to Triet, and since the game doesn't five us any kind of idea, so that's what we're going with. :D
yes, I am a geek.
:D more shall come sooon!
Frozen and Leon
even though I'm the one keeping all of this... *grumbles*