Tales of Viola

Hi, Mike AZ 2 here, just doing a Tales of fic based on a RP forum that Fishyputnam and I were working on with Darkmoom, Digitalmaster and Hishibi until it was deleted. The story was so good though that I wanted to do this.

This is technically a crossover between Tales games, but the story is original. There will be character appearances and references from the series itself, however. Oh, and the title is subject to change if necessary. Some of the OCs here aren't mine, I'm just borrowing them. Aster and Rise were borrowed from Digitalmaster 1100, Savannah and Malin are Castle Darkmoon's OCs, Chris and Barry are Fishyputnam's, and Raven and Shin are Hishibi's.

For references, thoughts are ', spoken words are indicated by ", and _ can mean either a change in character point of view or time lapses.

Disclaimer: The Tales of series of games were developed by Namco, at least Graces was as far as I know.

Prologue: Chance Meeting at Questa

In the peaceful town of Questa in the ancient kingdom of Viola, a young man with blond hair, blue pants and a yellow shirt browsed the local shops as he explored the town. The youth's name is Trent, son of a renowned knight from the capital city of Viola.

'Man, the shops don't seem to sell the weapons I'm looking for. Oh well, I'll go check out the town, it's not as big as my hometown, but still big enough' he thought.

Trent walked around Questa, taking in the sights and visiting the shops and talking with the local villagers. The blond eventually came to a fortune teller's shop and looked around. An Elven woman owned the shop, she spoke as soon as he entered"Welcome, you're the first customer I had in a while."

Trent hadn't met many people of other races before, but he acknowledged her"Hi."

The woman put a hand on her crystal ball as she askedl"Care to have your fortune told? It's not free, but it's merely fifty gald."

Trent shrugged"Sorry, but I was just looking around. I'm not interested right now."

"Then go, I'm afraid I'm in no mood to have anyone loitering in my shop" said the elf woman.

Trent apologized and left the shop. The blond went to the center of town, thinking on what to do next.

In another shop in town, another young man with brown hair, bluish-green eyes and a brown tunic with pants had just purchased a weapon, thinking'someone might like this.'

The brunette man's name was Christopher James Putnam, he went by Chris for short. Chris had just arrived at Questa a while ago, and was wondering aimlessly through Viola Kingdom. While exploring the town, he came the square and saw the blond man'he looks friendly enough.'

Trent saw the brunette man walking towards him as he was passing through and stopped"Hey there, who are you?"

"Christopher James Putnam, but you just call me Chris. Nice to meet you" grinned the man, extending his hand for Trent.

The blond shook his hand"I'm Trent, where are you from?"

"I just go wherever the wind takes me" replied Chris.

"Really? I had only just arrived at Questa this morning, I usually don't go far from town though" shrugged Trent.

The brunette looked surprised"Why don't you?"

"I've heard rumors of monsters in the fields, I hadn't found a weapon when I went to shop for one earlier" replied the blond.

Chris grinned as he took his dualblade out, separated it into two and proffered one half to his new friend"I think I know where I'm going. You up for a little monster hunting?"

Trent grinned back as he accepted the weapon"Why not? Let's go."

"Great, let's head on out. My friend will find us soon" said Chris.

"Who's your friend?" inquired Trent.

The brunette replied"He's a member of the Ursan tribe, we'll see him as soon as we're out of town."

The two men headed towards the southern gate, the blond having no idea what adventures were about to unfold for him. As they left Questa, Chris held a dagger behind his back for a small bear-like figure who jumped from the nearby bushes, much to Trent's surprise, and received the dagger"Gee, this isn't my dagger, but thanks Chris."

Trent was astonished to see the tiny creature, who addressed him"Hey, my name is Barry, how are you?"

"Er, I'm Trent. I was surprised to see someone jump out of the bushes" said Trent, nervously.

Barry shrugged"Sorry, I look similar to some monsters, so I have to hide. It's nice to meet a new friend, Trent."

"Well, we all set, let's go" grinned Chris.

My apologies for this short prologue, but this is the best I can do for now. The next chapters should be longer, I promise.

At any rate, this is more of a secondary project, I may not update this one very often. My primary fics at the moment are Rune Factory: Until the End of Time, Dragon Quest IX: Arianna and Trent's Journeys, and Kingdom Hearts Dissidia: Dawn to Twilight, if you'd like to look at those.

Please feel free to review.