Yep. Like most people here, I'm doing a Self-Insert... How unoriginal, right? Wrong! Unlike most of the SIs I've read, my character, doesn't know the game she's in well (That's noted in this chapter by the way).

I did want to do an Abyss Self-Insert, but I decided against that, since I already have an Abyss fanfic (which you should check out by the way.) so I decided to do the only other Tales game I've played, which was Dawn of the New World. I'm really interested in where this will go.

Huge thanks to my beta reader IHaveNoIdea8, thank you so much!

Disclaimer: I do not own Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World, its characters, locations, the original Symphonia or any other games mentioned over the coarse of the fic. I only own my SI character.

Chapter 1: A Sudden Disruption in My Life!?

"There! That about wraps up this chapter." I smiled as I saved my now completed chapter for my Tales of the Abyss fanfic. Switching off my laptop I sighed. What was I to do for a few hours until the rest of the family got back? Dad was at work, Mom out shopping and my little brother was spending the night at a friends.

A light bulb went off in my head. I pushed myself away from the desk, slid down the rail of the main stairway (even though I shouldn't really be doing that, since Mom's always yelling about that), turned the corner and headed down into the finished basement. I love being down here, I can just focus on videogames for as long as I wanted to.

Walking over to the Wii, I examined all of the Wii games both my brother and I had obtained over the years. Okami? Nah, I've played through the game so many times and it was getting a little boring. Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword maybe then? No, I'm too lazy to play through the game blind, I'd get lost without a guide.

I sighed. I really wasn't in the mood to play a GameCube game, and by how things were going, I would end up having to play one. I ran my fingers over the Wii games one last time, when I suddenly stopped on one game.

Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World.

Ah, I remember playing this one a few days ago! I'd never played Tales of Symphonia for the GameCube and I picked this game up sometime in March and hadn't gotten around to playing it until a few days ago. I had recently finished up Chapter 2 of the game, on a blind run, since Tales games I'd found are easier to do blind runs of. Maybe I would start another file; though this time I would pick the option to not swear to a certain character that shall not be named for the sake of spoilers.

Since the game was already in the Wii, I turned on the TV after turning on the power for the Wii. After pressing the start option from the Wii's home menu, I walked over to a TV a ways from the Wii and turned it onto a random show for some background noise. Heading back to the Wii, I picked up the remote and nunchuck and waited for the game to load.

However, the Wii choose the perfect time to glitch on me and give the error has occurred screen. I sighed as I placed the Wii remote and nunchuck down beside me and pushed myself off the ground and headed over to the Wii. This had been happening a lot over the past few days, which was really annoying me, but we'd had the Wii for a while and I don't want to lose all the save data we have on it.

"Curse you Wii…" I muttered under my breath as I removed the Wii's power plug. Normally that would have fixed the problem, and the Wii's power would be on a red light, though this time, it stayed green. I plugged the Wii's power plug back in and moved in front of the TV. The error message screen had vanished, but the TV's screen had turned white. "Come on, I wanna play~." I wined as I stared at the screen. I sighed and just turned the TV off and then on again. The white screen had vanished and I could hear the hum of the Wii, but the screen was still blank. Sighing, I turned away from the Wii over to the other TV which I turned on earlier, until I accidentally tripped over the Wii's power cord and sensor bar wire, and the Wii came down on top of my head.

I honestly didn't think this day could get worse, but alas it did as my vision blurred and I felt lightheaded. The last thing I could remember was calling out for help before I blacked out.

Pain… ow… Oh ow! My head…

I could hear myself groaning as I placed my right hand on my head. I was painfully aware of what felt like an awful headache. I guess the Wii hit me too hard on the head. Hopefully my parents and brother could find out what was wrong with the Wii, game and TV. Seriously, if Mom or Dad found me, I don't even want to think about their reactions to seeing their daughter lying unconscious down in the basement. At this point my eyes were still closed, as I was too afraid to see where I had ended up.

…Even though I knew I should open my eyes, I just wanted the pain to go away. But curiosity had taken over at this point and I slowly opened my eyes. Though when I opened them, I realized two things. One, I'm not in the basement at home. Heck, I'm not even at home. Second, this room looked very familiar. I was lying down on a bed and over to my left, I could see a window with light shining in, a desk, a small bookshelf and a table that acted as a nightstand. In front of me was another small bookshelf, a small nightstand with a pull-out door and door to the immediate left of the bookshelf. Then it hit me.

"Oh my gosh…" I voiced my thoughts out loud, making sure that all of this was real. If my memory severed me right, I was in the house above the inn in Luin, Slyvarant. Then, this means…

"No way… No way in hell is this even possible!" I nearly screamed. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door and I pulled the sheets up closer to me as the door opened.

"Oh good, you're awake. Are you alright?" A woman's voice asked. A woman with short red hair, wearing a short sleeve red shirt with a light yellow long sleeve shirt underneath, a long blue skirt that stopped a little bit above her ankles and brown boots walked in. She sat down at the end of the bed and faced me.

I couldn't believe it. Flora is looking right at me. This… is real. I'm… really in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Great… I'm in a game I've barely played!

God, what did I ever do to deserve this?