AN: I return...not with another update, but with another major fic, apparently. The muse for this one is holding all my other muses for YSBAG and A&O hostage until I work on this one...but please, no worries, I swear I will have updates for those two particular stories for the weekend, I'm hoping for YSBAG update by Friday night.

This fic is straight AU, you can forget any ideas of anything sticking to the canon here. It also takes some ideas from Xenogears and warps them to make sense according to my own twisted brand of logic. --;

Wilhelm/Shion, rating's to cover some pretty serious stuff that happens later on in later chapters.

I don't own Xenosaga, Xenogears, or Tsubasa (that's where I got the chapitre bit from)


Time's Prisoners

Prologue

Time Index: Unknown

"Are you sure about this?" Blue-green eyes glanced out from under a gray hood. "It's not going to be pleased with your interference…" A pair of claret eyes met the speaker's own, glittering with an odd light within the recesses of a black hood.

"I am bringing its chosen, so that it may be freed…and you think it will be displeased with me?"

"You know the rules. The only one who can help her is the anti-type…and we don't know who that is. We could never find him." Slender shoulders shrugged, causing the robes of the black cloak to shift slightly.

"Then it stands that someone should take his place. Is it not the duty of the anti-type to guard the contact? You know that some of the others are already looking for her." The first speaker sighed.

"Wilhelm…"

"Yeshua, you worry so. Don't you trust me?" Another sigh.

"Yes. But I cannot help but feel that something's remiss with the whole situation." Silver hair glinted in the pale light as the speaker removed his hood. "I sense this will only end in sadness…I don't want to see you, or the girl, hurt. We know so little…"

"Have faith. The humans are doing exactly what we expected of them…very soon they'll discover it. I hope to have the girl in my hands long before they do, and at the very least, aware and capable of using her skills." With this, Wilhelm turned to leave.

"She's only human, Wilhelm." The slender man paused at this. "She's not like us. Keep that in mind."

"…I will."