Hi people!
I'm quite new by here, but here's my fic. To be honest this is the first fanfic I write in english so don't mind if it content some mistakes of grammar or spelling.
I'll update it from week by week, sometimes I can also update two chapters by week, depending of how inspirated I am. Anyway, the story is a Shelloyd fic (my fav pairing) and it'll pass one year after the game, without spoilers or references to the sequel.
So without more delay here's it!
Tales of Symphonia:
Age of the Crystals
Chapter 1
The New Journey
The clouds are covering the moon in that night. None creature, beside nocturne predators, would adventure outside their nests in that night. The forest was quietly in the shadows, but one place in that scenery doesn't bring the same quietude.
In the entrance of the forest there was a huge mansion, with a great garden, guarded by many soldiers. Anyone who pass by that local could think that a very important and powerful person live there, but this is just half of true. The most important thing in that mansion is not his owner, but the object which he guarded.
Not only the gardens were watched, the mansion's galleries have a high security too, with guards patrolling and some robots disguised like ordinary objects, but that night nor guards or security machines will stop the two who entered in that mansion and now past by the corridors, while hide back of armors and plants vases.
After much search, the two shadows had encounter the room that were looking for, just two guards and a strange looking statue above the door separate them form the target. The taller figure whisper a chant and the guards hear that, but when they tried to go check the entire corridor got darker and they only fell something hitting them in the back of head before get unconscious.
The other figure drawled a sword and destroyed the statue, that doesn't detected anything because the magical darkness. When the darkness went out, the second invader came to the door and opened it.
They entered in a luxurious room with valuable portraits and statues, there was a comfortable bed near great windows with sight to the gardens. The invader with the sword look around admired with all the expensive decoration, but the other just went to a portrait in a wall. He took off the portrait, revealing a small vault with a number pad and an impression identificator, the taller figures then look to that for some minutes. They have the password, but what they will do about the identificator, then an idea occurred.
"Do you know how to open it?", ask the invader shatting his sword, while approach of the other.
"Yeah!", answer the other while take a piece of paper with the password that they just received from the ones who were investigating that mansion for days.
After enter the password, the taller invader took another piece of paper, but that is different, it has a symbol marked in there that the other cannot understand. Placing the seal over the impression identificator the other invader recites a spell that makes the paper shines weakly. Then the invader places his gloved hand at the seal. The impression identificator analyses and seems to approve.
The vault's door opened, but at that moment the light was on.
"Well, well. I hear that some rats could come to take my cheese…", a noble looking man was stand in other door that gave access to another corridor. He has a mustache, wears a red robe and had an arrogant expression on his face. His age could be between forty and fifty by his white hairs. "But I never thought that will be you two… Lloyd Irving and Sheena Fujibayshi!"
Lloyd and Sheena took out their masks, with a funny expression in their faces.
"What did denounce us?", ask Lloyd in his lively voice and seeing to be calm.
"That doesn't matter! The guards are coming and you will regret to get your noses in my business!"
"Geez! I lost the count of the times we heard this!", said Sheena, like they are in a ordinary conversation. "But I'm not surprise that someone like you get involved in the sales of the expheres, Cromwell!"
Footsteps can be heard from distance, indicating that the guards were coming. Lloyd and Sheena realize that it's the time to they get out of that mansion.
"Well, we enjoyed your company, but we have to take our way."
With this Sheena throws a smoke bomb. When the smoke downs they weren't there. Looking behind Cromwell saw them running to the stairs and ordered the guards to follow them.
After to ascend the stairs, Lloyd and Sheena had reached the roof. Lloyd took the Wing Pack and made the Rheairds appear by the time the guards arrive. He and Sheena Jump in their Rheairds and take off, leaving the guards and an angry Cromwell behind while them gained the night skies.
Lloyd looked to the Exphere they take, it shined like the other ones they collected by all that moths, or it was one year? He can't remember more. The only thing he can remember is all the criminal and bandits that he and Sheena defeat in order to retrieve that stones and prevent that were used to make more bad or victims.
"Something wrong Lloyd?", ask Sheena, seeing how Lloyd was quiet since they left Cromwell's mansion.
"Ah! Nothing, I'm just thinking…"
"Lets just take this to Yuan and quit for this night, I need some rest and you too."
Nodding with the female ninja, Lloyd guarded the exphere and continued their way to the Renegades…
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In the mansion, Cromwell was in the lobby while waited for news of the parties he sent to search for Lloyd and Sheena. The two had gotten that exphere just now he had found someone interested in it. Some guards back, but when Cromwell asked for the two they said to found none signal.
"Perfect! Really perfect!! They got my exphere and simply escape! What are you? A bunch of morons or…"
"Did I hear wrong?", a strange voice echoed by the lobby. Cromwell turns round and saw the "client" that he had encountered that night to talk about the exphere. "Did you lost the exphere?"
"What are you doing in my house? And if so do I lost the exphere? I'm not with patience to talk about this, get out of here, now!" demands Cromwell, the last thing he needed is someone to remember him about the humiliation he just passed.
The stranger only similes and give a giggle, a strange giggle that gives chills on Cromwell. That person's presence was starting to irritate Cromwell, so he ordered to the guards expulse him, but the guards didn't move from their places, they only look from Cromwell to the stranger. The noble starts to labour cold.
"Cromwell, Cromwell… it seems you didn't notice with who you are dealing!"
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Lloyd and Sheena landed their Rheairds near Sylvarant's Base, after size the planes in the Wing Pack they entered in the base and go right to Yuan's office.
The Renegade leader was working in his computer and doesn't seem to notice the arrival of the couple.
"Hi Yuan!", started Lloyd, Yuan stopped what he was doing and look to them with a serious glance so characteristic of him. "Well… we bring one to you today.", Lloyd put the exphere on the table and for the first time Yuan seem intrigated and interested, he took the exphere and analyzed it.
"It's a Cruxis Crystal!", concluded him. "From whom do you take this?"
"Cromwell. So it's because this that mansion had so much security.", commented Sheena.
Yuan doesn't respond to her commentary, he pressed a button in a communicator in his desk and said:
"Denvir! Come here now!", after release the button, Yuan turns to his guests. "About the security in the mansion, I doubt that Cromwell could tell the difference between a Cruxis Crystal and a normal exphere, if he can he wouldn't hid it in such obvious place."
At the end of Yuan's phrase, a black-haired half-elf wearing a red upper armor, black gloves and white clothes, entered in the office. After saw who are the visitors he greeted them:
"Hello Mr. Lloyd and lady Sheena."
"Hi Denvir! Are we just tell to you don't need to call us like that?" said Lloyd, a bit of embarrass.
Denvir was the second-in-command of Renegades since the end of the journey to reunite the worlds. Like Botta, he had a great admiration for Yuan, only compared to his loyalty for the Renegade leader. Lloyd and Sheena didn't know much about his past, they only knew how friendly he was with them.
Yuan handed over the Cruxis Crystal to Denvir, the commandant gives a surprise glance with his dark blue eyes on the crystal, but don't make any question about how they took that.
"Put this in the, vault along with the other expheres." order Yuan.
"Yes sir!" Denvir left the office while Yuan back to sit in his chair.
"I think you don't have anything more to do here, then I request that you leave."
"Ok, it seems we aren't welcome like always. Let's go Lloyd!" said Sheena retributing Yuan's serious look. They has used to Yuan's behave after some months handing the collected expheres to him. Sheena always said that he could at least give a "thanks" to them, but Lloyd doesn't care much, maybe because Yuan was the last Kratos's best friend.
The two leave the office while Denvir came back. They only gave farewell to Denvir before went to the exit of the base.
"You don't think that was a good opportunity to tell to them ab…" before Denvir could conclude the phrase Yuan interrupted.
"They don't need to know now!" said Yuan in an authoritarian voice, indicating that he didn't want to be questioned.
"Ok, but you know, sometimes you could at least thank them…"
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Great smoke clouds rise in the nocturne skies, while flames could be see from the forest. Cromwell's mansion burned and it owner can't do anything but watch while the fire consume all the building.
The "client" was in front of Cromwell while the soldiers held him, not to protect the noble, but for the stranger's order. After have certain that nothing would rest the strange that Cromwell met that night talked:
"Now you know who I am and that nobody fail with me! But don't worry Mr. Cromwell, I couldn't just leave you live in the misery, mainly after you see my face. So I will spare your suffer and give to you the eternal rest…"
After hear that lasts words, all that Cromwell saw and felt, was the darkness, sucking his life…