I got stuck on the other Tales of Zestiria story, so here's a new one.
- There will be many Tales of Shadows things in here, but the storyline of Tales of Vesperia is unchanged.
- There will be a few God Eater elements in here, such as the aragami.
- There is a brief mention of Tales of the Abyss.
- This is a year after the end of Tales of Vesperia.
- This is after the end of Tales of Zestiria, but at the end of the game where you can access Hexen Isle, so Sorey is still with the group.
As Sorey and the rest of the group climbed the large stairs for their final battle against Heldalf, a portal stood at the final door.
"Doesn't that lead to Hexen Isle?" Edna asked without any emotion. Lailah nodded.
"Indeed. It should lead to the Hexen Isle ruins, but..."
"Uh-oh..." Zaveid whispered. Sorey started needling the poor fire seraph.
"What kind of ruins?!" Everyone else sweatdropped.
"...What a nerd..." Rose mumbled.
"Since this is in kittybeard's place, it might be a trap," Edna told the Shepherd.
"Think it might take us straight to Heldalf?" Sorey asked, crossing his arms, Mikleo went up to him.
"If it does, we'll be killing two birds with one stone, since we get to see some ruins as well!"
"...There's the second ruin nerd..." Rose sighed.
"...Idiots..." Edna growled, hiding her face with her unfolded umbrella.
"The ruins are waiting!" Sorey cheered, running into the portal, followed by Mikleo. Lailah gasped, covering her mouth with her hands.
"They can't! It's too dangerous!" With that, she ran into the portal.
"I. Hate. Everything!" Edna ground out, folding up her umbrella and slamming the tip down. Rose scratched her head.
"If I'm too far from Sorey, I can't do a thing about the hellions." As she said that, she went into the portal.
"Do we help them?" Zaveid asked.
"Sorey's getting too far away to defend us from malevolence," Edna replied. "You can stay here if turning into a dragon sounds better." Leaving Zaveid, the earth seraph entered the portal. The wind seraph sighed and went after the little girl.
On Auldrant, after the incident on the Tower of Rem, the group was relaxing on the flight to Belkend.
"I'm so glad the miasma's gone," Tear sighed with relief.
"So, the miasma's been destroyed?" Anise asked.
"That, or it's been teleported away somewhere," Jade replied. "The hyperresonance could have done any number of other things to it."
"But it's gone, right?" Guy asked.
"That's right," Jade answered. "Whatever's been done to the miasma, it's not our problem anymore."
"You and your ruins..." Rose seethed. After they had gone through the portal, the group ended up in a strange place, surrounded by overgrown trees.
"This totally isn't Hexen Isle," Edna growled, clutching the handle of her umbrella at her side so tightly her knuckles were turning white. "I want to kill you so badly now, Sorey."
Sorey had an awkward smile on his face and scratched his head, "Oops."
"'Oops' doesn't solve what happened!" Rose shouted at the brunette.
"Soooo, where the hell are we?" Zaveid asked, looking around.
"I haven't the slightest idea, but I can sense no malevolence here," Lailah replied.
"Maybe we were teleported off the Glenwood continent?" Mikleo suggested.
"Even so, we should still feel some malevolence," Sorey replied, crossing his arms, thinking. "It's a global issue, after all."
"I don't care about that! I just wanna get back!" Rose whined.
"We aren't near a portal, so I'm afraid that's not possible yet," Lailah replied.
"Ugh! Give me a break!" Rose moaned.
"I agree with Rose; This is a pain and it's your fault!" Edna snarled at Sorey. Mikleo stormed at her.
"Hey, lay off! It's not all Sorey's fault!"
"Shut it, Meebo!" Edna snapped at the seraph. "You're partially at fault for not stopping Sorey!"
"Look, fighting isn't getting us anywhere!" Zaveid yelled. "Let's just find a way outta this forest."
Easier said than done. As the group tried to find their way out, they compared the forest to a maze. At last, the group made it to a clearing. Little did they know, it was the center of the forest.
"Weren't we just here?" Zaveid asked after taking a good look around.
"We've been going in circles?!" Rose screamed. Sorey sheepishly scratched his head.
"Heh, heh...sorry." Edna held her umbrella like a sword and pointed the end at Sorey.
"Get us outta here soon before I tear you apart!" Some nearby bushes rustled. Sorey took out his sword and glanced at Lailah.
"I don't think it's a hellion; I feel no malevolence."
Lailah held up some slips of paper. "Even so, it can still be a threat," she said. Leaping from the bushes were several creatures. Their body was parallel to the ground like a four-legged creature, except they only had two legs. Brown fur covered them, except for their tails and heads, which looked like bone. Their tails were flat except for a single, curved claw at the end. On their head were two, yellow, slitted eyes and a large mouth with rows of sharp teeth. As they breathed out, a thin black fog came from their mouths.
"Aw man, I thought we were done dealing with that miasma crap!" Zaveid exclaimed.
"Miasma?" Mikleo asked.
"We'll explain it later, Meebo," Edna replied. "The miasma coming from them isn't thick enough to harm us."
As two leaped at Edna, the earth seraph trapped them with rocks, like she did with Eizen. Zaveid used blades of wind to wound them.
As one tried to attack Lailah, Sorey knocked it away with his sword. Even though he wasn't able to cut it, he stunned it long enough for Mikleo to trap it with water and Rose to finish it off by bringing her two blades down on its head
One swung its tail to break itself out of Edna's rock trap and charged at her with its mouth open. Edna froze it with Final Embrace and Zaveid finished it with Horizon Storm.
"Luzrov Rulay!" Unseen by Zaveid, the other creature broke out and leaped at the wind seraph, jaws open. Sorey, armatized with Mikleo, shot an arrow to knock it away.
While they were busy dealing with that one, the rest of the creatures surrounded Rose.
"Fethmus Mioma!" Rose shouted. Once she was armatized with Lailah, she spun in a circle to knock back and burn the creatures with the giant sword. Sorey, Edna, and Zaveid came over, having killed the one they were dealing with. Rose separated from Lailah and called out Edna's true name, combining with her. Zaveid created a tornado and Lailah added fire to it, lifting the rest up. Sorey shot them all with the arrows to knock them back down. Lastly, Rose punched the ground and giant slabs of earth came up and the monsters landed on them, breaking their backs.
Just as the group started to relax, three more of those monsters showed up.
"Give me a break!" Zaveid sighed. He was mad, but was casting a spell anyway, joined by Lailah. As Rose and Sorey charged to attack the monsters, a man with long, silver hair jumped out of the bushes. The two monsters turned and snarled, but were cut down by the man's red-purple sword. Zaveid and Lailah quickly stopped their casting before they caused an accident. Rose and Sorey were going too fast to stop and ended up falling on their sides on the ground, earning them protests from the seraphim they were merged with.
"I'm going to hurt in the morning, Sorey!" Mikleo's voice shouted.
"Son of a bitch...!" Rose growled, rubbing her head. "We could've hit you, ya know?!"
"I simply came to help out," the man replied.
"We didn't need help!" Rose snapped. Zaveid walked over to the man.
"Thanks a lot for showing up," he said sarcastically.
"Since he's a normal earth-dweller, he can't see you or hear your snide comment," Edna's voice sounded from Rose. The two got up as one, Rose brushing her and Edna off.
"Don't worry; I heard his insult clearly." the man said. "Monsters like those are new to Terca Lumires."
"Hold up a sec," Sorey said, getting up. "Did you say...Terca Lumires?" Unseen by either Sorey or Mikleo, a rock-like fist collided with their faces and sent them flying into a tree, Mikleo separating from Sorey.
"Damn, that hurt!" Mikleo spat, rubbing his face. Sorey glared up at Rose, who had one fist extended.
"What's the deal, Rose?!"
"It's not me!" Rose told him. Edna separated from her in a green flash.
"It was me," Edna said simply.
"Why?!" Sorey demanded.
"For getting us stuck in another world," Edna replied.
"You got me too!" Mikleo snapped. Edna smirked.
"Sucks to be you, Meebo." Mikleo glared at her. Lailah went over to the man.
"Thanks for helping, umm..."
"Duke."
"Can you explain what's going on, Duke?" Zaveid asked. the others joined the fire and wind seraphim.
"A strange substance appeared and new monsters were created from it," Duke replied.
"Miasma was coming from the monsters we fought," Lailah murmured. "That must be the strange substance."
"Um, what the hell's miasma?" Rose asked.
"It's toxic to us seraphim, but not to humans," Edna answered. "Only by staying in you can we be safe from it. However, armatizing harms both the human and seraph using it."
"We'll need some kind of protection to be safe from it as well," Zaveid said. Duke turned away.
"I can show you out of Keiv Moc. However, you will be on your own afterwards."
"Why can't you come with us?" Lailah asked.
"You have your own goals to attend to," Duke replied simply.
"What a ray of sunshine," Zaveid grumbled.
I'm trying to do fewer characters in this story.
