Disclaimer: I do not own ToS, but I wish I did. This is my first fanfiction, so please be kind. Everything else I have writtin up till now has been for my original story, The LOST. I own rights to a few characters that exist in the strory, as I'm throwing my own characters in this for fun. Be forewarned though, I don't know when I will next be able to update. My family and friends (along with my un-official beta reader, Sempai) are all pestering me for the next chapter of LOST. I don't know how much longer I will be able to mantain my sanity! Aaaagh! This story is in an AU. I know this is anoying, but I'm going to say it now: This is a story involving an OC/Zelos. I usualy can't stand that kind of thing (The Forgotten being an exeption), but I had to do it. After I played the game for a third time (each time Zel lived because I'm a freak) and Zel was going to have to be killed, I lost it, and deleted the game, and started over. May Zelos be sexy forever! Huzzah!

P.S. This is a memi-angst fic, and I'm going to start out with my character. Can you guess who she is? XD

Prologue

Kage sat on an iron bed in a darkened bedroom. It was already 11:00, but she still couldn't get to sleep. 'Dammit.' Her head was tilted downward, her dark greasy

chocolate hair covered her eyes. It had been weeks since she had left the house. Shio wouldn't let her leave. Shio, her step-dad was a cruel and controling man. She could

never understand whst her mother saw in him, but then again, she shouldn't be suprised, as she often told herself. Shio was the fourth guy that Mom had been with, not

including her father. Kage's father... Kage didn't know much about him. She had been raised by her mother, and her mothers Brothers. She wasn't sure what to think about

him. No one even knew if he was alive or not, but Kage's Mom didn't think he was. "He was never very responsible" her grandmother once told her, when the then eight

old Kage had asked. Her father had given her her name, and most people didn't believe it was her real name. Her father, according to everyone whas a lying, horrible man

hurt Kage's Mom very badly. Kage had, before then, often drempt that her father was an elf, or a fairy, or somthing, and that she would one day be taken away by him.

Life in the city she was born in was hard, children had to fend for themselves more often then not. People who lived even a vauge resemblence of a good life were

looked down upon, and the children shunned. Kage had been one of those children. For a large part of her life, all she had done was make false friends. Everyone she had

known were in high places due to the good places she had lived in most of her life. Well, at least they were considered good where she lived. Kage had turned eighteen the

other day, and they had all celebrated with a small party. All meaning Kage and her imaginary friends: Zelos, Kratos, Regal, Presea, Colette, Lloyd, Genis, Sheens and Raine.

They had popped up into existance one day when her mom had taken off time out of her 'buisy schedule' to to take her to a Blockbuster in Houston, where she lived, and

Kage had selected a game.

The name of it, "Tales of Symphonia". Kage had read the back of the box, and decided she wanted it. Kage always had her head in the clouds. People often told

her she was air-headed, but she wasn't stupid. When people called her names, including her friends, she would get angry, but deep down inside, she was really sad. She

would play the game every day, but still had not beaten it. As it was only a five-day rental, she had to turn it in, but decided not to. She hid it, and her mom had to pay for

the missing discs. The game had become her life. Every twist and turn in the lives of the characters resembled a turn in her own life. The characters became her only

freinds. At night, when no one was at the house, which was as it almost always was, she would talk to them. She would tell them about her day, her feelings, her

discoveries, her hopes, and her sadness. A year later, her mother got rid of Aki (the man she had been with at the time), and Kage went to live with her grandmother.

Another year passed and her mother returned. "Kage, how would you feel if I told you I had met a new man?" Her mother asked. Knowing what would happen if she voiced

her true feelings on the subject, Kage had replied "I'd love to meet him". A period of time passed, and her mother married the new man, Shio. The new family all packed up,

and Kage was forced to leave the slums of her childhood, into the sunny beach's of California.

Kage was now eighteen, and legally an adult, but her mother had dissapeared. Her mom was the only member of her family that would still talk to her, and she had

vanished, just like her biological father had, to be left in the care of a sick man. '12:00' Kage sat up, and her bare feet hit the wooden floor. She walked over to the window

and looked outside. Her step-dad had left her here and locked her inside. The room she was staying in was the only room of a one-room wooden house more deserving of

the name 'shack'. Shio had tossed her in the door yesterday night, after taking her out to dinner and told her to "stay here" because he "would be back soon". Then he

locked the door, and still hadn't come back. She held her hand-made zelos plushie to her chest, and squeezed it tightly. "Hey, Zelos." Kage murmured. "It's a full moon

tonight." She looked up at the moon-lit sky and smiled grimly. Kage had no doubt that her step-dad would not come back for her. To him she was just a crazy little girl. It

was late, and she was really hungry. Kage pressed her hand against the glass and pushed, the pane fell out. Kage put the Zelos plushie in her mouth, and jumped out the

window. Grabbing 'Zell-kun' in her hand, she shoved the doll into her large pants pocket, and ran.

She didn't know why she was running, or where to, but she felt the need to. It was like some evolved form of a primitive instinct- the moon seemed to be whispering

to her 'This way, follow me'. Kage obeyed and ran until she reached a large stone dais. She had been left in the desert, and the sky was brilliant, like Kage would imagine

it would of been at the beginning of time. She jumped up on to the oddly-colored grey stone, surrounded all around by golden sand. Looking up at the moon, the chill of the

night air slapping her as a sudden gust of wind blew her scrappy clothes. Suddenly Kage was afraid, so she did the only thing she knew to do when she felt scared.

"Tethe'alla... protect me." Tethe'alla. The moon, and a place from her game. As if drawn by her voice, the moon seemed to shine brighter. Kage cenched and unclenched

her hands. It was really late. 12:00 was really late. She needed to get back to the shack. What if Shio had come back for her. As Kage was about to turn around, she

found her feet frozen in place. 'Why can I not move?' Her eyes opened widely as a lavender whirlpool suddenly appeared at her feet. "Wha?" She uttered aloud. Trying to

move her feet, she stumbed and fell. She was no longer standing but she couldn't move. When she tried to, she felt a sharp pain shoot up her back. This was all so

familiar, somehow. "!" Suddenly, Kage was pulled through, and everything went dark.

"Hey, Zelos, are we there yet?" The brunette youth compained. "No. Estimated time till our arrival...5min and 15 seconds." Replied a pink-haired girl, in place of the

exausted Chosen of Tethe'alla. "We really should hurry, the mana is dissapearing." The professor said. "Do you think it could be Aska?" asked Genis. "No." Sheena

turned toward Genis. "Aska's signature is different. This one... is stronger." Lloyds head snapped up. "Do you think it could be Cruxis?" "..." Zelos looked towards Lloyd,

but didn't say anything. Zelos had assured the party that he knew how to get to the place the mana was eminating from, but not how. "Zelos, you've been awfully quiet this

whole time. Do you have anything to say?" Raine looked at Zelos who shook his head 'no'. "I'm betting he is just tired. Right, Zelos?" Smiled Lloyd, perky as usual. "Yeah,

just a little tired. Don't worry about me." He flashed a charming grin towards his temporary companions and turned to look at the moon.

Zelos Wilder had been woken up around 11:00PM by a Cruxis messenger telling him that his 'Gaurdian' was soon to arrive. When Zelos asked what he meant, the

page had mentioned that he didn't know anything, then left. There were so many ways to translate whatever it was that they were trying to say. He could go with the

"gaurdian angel" bit or the "parent" one, but Yggdrasil was never that simple. He had a way of making everything more complicated then was necissary. It was of little

matter though: Whatever his Lord was planning was fine with him, as long as he didn't have to be chosen of Tethe'alla anymore. "Remaining time until arrival, ten

seconds." Damn, Presea was a creepy kid. To think, he, Zelos, might of ended up that way if he hadn't obeyed the leader of Cruxis. "So... we are here, then." Murmured

Raine. The Rheards decended upon the cramped island. "This... place..." Murmured Raine. Indeed, 'This place' was the Otherworldly gate. "Do you think someone is

coming here from Sylvarant?" Genis whispered. Zelos knew better. Whoever this 'gaurdian' was, he certainly wasn't human, definatly not from the backwater world of

Sylvarant. After all, now was soon, right? Wherever this being came from originally, it was most assuredly part of Cruxis. They all got out of the flying-contraptions and

walked towards the dais. "The mana... is here... where is the source?" Zelos ignored Genis and walked towards the center of the dais

...Now...

A young womans voice broke the groups sudden silence, and Zelos' eyes opened wide. 'What?' He quickened his pace and stopped. A child was lying at his feet.

Confused, and a little desturbed he knelt down on the ground. "What the..." Lloyd's voice seemed far away. He tuned them all out. This was his 'gaurdian'? This frail, pale

woman-child? She didn't hardly look strong enough to lift a practice sword! His hand moved as if on it's own, and he brushed the dark, dirty hair out of the girls face.

'Who...?' The girl he gazed upon had dark brown hair- almost black, and looked very ill. She was so thin- like she hadn't eaten in days and there were dark lines under her

eyes, as if she hadn't slept in days. As if awoken by his touch, the child awoke. "..." Zelos and everyone looked at her. Lloyd was kneeling on the ground next to Zelos, but

every one else stayed back, shocked at his sudden move. Sheena broke the silence. "Get your hands off her, you perv! She's not one of your hunnies!" The ninja-woman

growled. Zelos didn't move. He was shocked. The girl he held in his hands as no elf- or even half-elf, but she sure as hell wasn't human. Her eyes held none of the spark

children were supposed to have. They seemed dull and lifeless, but he couldn't see any type of crystal on her, cruxis or otherwise.

"...Zell..los?" The girl murmured. The red-headed chosens eyes widened brefly. Oh course she would know his name... she was his gaurdian... right? Zelos

nodded, and looked at her. "What... is your name?" He asked the girl. "My name is... K..age. Are you rea..lly real?" His arms tightened they're hold on her shoulders.

Never had he heard anyone sound so vunurable. She didn't seem to despise him... to love him... just curious. "Real as can be, Hunny! 3" He said, trying to put some of

his 'normal' self into his words. "..." Kage looked up at him, and smiled. "Are Regal...Presea...Collette...Lloyd...Raine and Genis all here as well?" The girl asked,

hopefully. "Yes." Zelos said. "Hey! What about me!" Sheena huffed, and Kage grinned a grin much like Zelos. "Ah... Sheena Fujibayashi... As hot-headed as ever, I see."

Kage was sure that this was just another one of her dreams, but why destroy it by thinking too much? 'Good dreams like this don't come often...' She thought. Without

thinking, she did what she had done in many other dreams before this. She sat up- careful of her back- (since when do dreams convey pain so well?)- and kissed the

Chosen of Tethe'alla. Then she fell back down, and his porcelin face of shock dissapeared with it from her sight.

A.N. Sorry it was so short, but I had to get the idea out of my head. I dunno if I'm going to write more. If you want me to, comment so, please! TT Anyways, I started writing late... it's 2:43AM now. I'm going to make an account, and post it now. Sayonara!