The sun rose over the horizon as three friends, stood on the soils of a land, lost in time. A short, brunette female, a shorter red haired male and a tall dirty-blonde male. All gazing out at the light, from their position. It was bright as it rose. They had been travelling for quite some time. Several scares of not having enough food, or fuel to get them here. Behind them, was a large, blue-green space ship, better known as the Elsa. It was hard to believe that they had actually made it here. It was... destroyed, yet after the long wait, and the knowledge of just what it meant... It was beautiful. Little grass grew here, most was a barren waste land, with destroyed old buildings, cracked roads and other areas were simply plains of dirt, and rock.

The three stood and watched as the sun rose, however. Not worried much at all of what may happen to them now. Silence overcame the area, and they assumed that it's how it had sounded the entire time, since over four thousands years ago... So long, yet... Here they were. It was amazing that it hadn't been completely demolished in that time.

"We're here." came a voice from the taller male.

"Lost Jerusalem..." said the female. They continued just staring in awe at the land before them.

"We've gotta be careful. Probably shouldn't stay outside for too long all at once, either. Without the E.S.'s, we're pretty vulnerable." the red-head pointed out, looking up to the others. "But we may as well start now... The sun's coming up, and we'll have the light we need to look for clues." The others nodded in agreement, and the three started off walking.

Their steps were slow-paced, as they went through this old world. Though new to them, they knew that it had been here much longer.

"The land of origin... Our homeland... And Zohar's original cradle." the female said. "Allen, can you... really believe it?"

"I know what you mean, Cheif. I never thought we'd make it this far."

"Ah, what the Hell are you two talkin' about? Never thought we'd make it?" The shortest piped up, a cocky grin on his face, "I'd say you're full of it, but... I kinda agree. I mean, Lost Jerusalem?"

"Jr..."

"Uh, yeah Shion?"

"Do you sense anything near-by?" Shion looked to the red-head and tilted her head a bit, curiously. He was a special realian... If anything was coming close, he'd be first to know, right?

"No, not really..."

"Odd... Didn't Nephilim and chaos, send the Gnosis here..?" She pondered a moment, hoping they'd actually come to the right planet, and not some other place. Though this looked right. Barren, destroyed, abandonned. Four thousand years of nothingness. She wasn't even really sure if what she was seeing, was really buildings and roads. And not just large rocks. The wood in them had rotted(not that she'd have recognized them as wooden houses anyways, since the only person she knew with a house like that, was... her brother Jin... who had unfortunately died attempting to protect chaos, Nephilim and Abel, along side her creation, and best friend; KOS-MOS.

"Yeah... They were supposed to."

Shion's mind went back to that day... She had managed to leave Jin on good terms... And chaos and KOS-MOS had never been on bad terms... but still... All three of them would be missed greatly.

She shook her head to clear her mind, but as soon as she had come back to reality, she heard a howl- no. It sounded more like... a whale..? Where they close to the ocean, she wondered? Perhaps... This was a new land, after all. "Are we..."

"Gnosis!" Jr. called out, and readied his guns.

"We have no Hilbert Effect here!" Shion stated.

"Damn!" Jr. said, firing bullets from those two pistols anyways. KOS-MOS was gone, they had no 100-series, and U.R.T.V.'s couldn't do it, unfortunately... They'd been created for brute-force in war, not for the destruction of Gnosis.

The whale-noise grew louder, and Shion raised her weapon... She wasn't sure what the MWS would do against a Gnosis who hadn't been brought into the physical world by the Hilbert Effect, but she wasn't going to just stand there and be killed by the rejecting soul of the past. It was then, however, as Shion charged for a blast at the beast, that a glimmer in the sky sparkled. It sent out an odd feeling, over the world, and though Jr.'s guns were blaring, and the Gnosis' whale-like call was sounding... she could almost hear a voice. A familiar voice...

"Shion..." was all it said. A female's voice, soft and calm. Almost monotoned. "You cannot defeat the Gnosis on your own. Allow me to help you." As she closed her eyes, she saw those crimson stare, gazing out of the darkness created by her eyelids. All went silent around her for a moment. Then the sound of an explosion went off in her head, and she fell to her knees, then collapsed to the ground on her side. Yells of worry from Jr. and Allen came around her, and soon after, she felt them shaking at her shoulders.

Her eyes opened, and she looked around. "What... What happened..?" she asked. Her location, was familiar. The Elsa. She was in the female quarters of the ship, and Jr. and Allen were nowhere to be seen. They weren't allowed in there, she remembered... But... it didn't answer her question. A pink-colored robot hopped a bit up and down, next to the large swirl-eyed bunny, a little ways away. "Do... you know what happened..?" she asked, slowly sitting up.

"SHION WAS YELLING IN HER SLEEP." the robot replied.

"Ah... it was... just a dream..?" she spun her feet out to the floor off the bed and stood slowly, placing a hand to her head.

"ALMOST TO LOST JERUSALEM." the robot said, and hopped a bit more.

Shion nodded and smiled. "Thank you." and with that, she decided to go find the boys... She walked to the door and stepped out, into the main lobby area of the Elsa, and let out a soft sigh. She turned and went toward the bridge and found Tony and Hammer bickering about something, and Captain Mathews telling both of them to "Shut the Hell up!" it was a typical day on the Elsa... Jr. and Allen, however, were no where to be seen on the bridge. She turned, and left, deciding to leave those three to their business, and head back toward the diner area. She was greeted by another robot, with a quick; "HELLO SHION." she nodded and waved a bit, noticing Allen sitting at a table near the back, and Jr. playing that weird HaKox game that KAMAKAZE had set up for them.

She made her way to the back, and got greetings from the others, as she took a seat next to Allen, looking up through the skylight, to the starry expanse all around them. "How long do you think it'll be before we get there..?" she asked, and Jr. smirked, turning away from the game, as he finished a level.

"Can't say for sure... Though this is takin' a damn long time, thanks to there being no UMN Columns to jump through." that was something everyone could agree on, for sure. The trip was a long one, but... it gave them some time to relax a bit, too. They had gone a couple years with no relaxation what-so-ever. Getting dragged into the long prophetic-like journy thanks to Wilhelm. It was annoying, the more she thought about it... But she wouldn't let the past get in the way of her future. They were losing distance between themselves and Lost Jerusalem. They had promised chaos that they would do everything in their power, to help him, as he had helped them. Though that may not have been his goal on what to get them to do, it's how Shion took it. He said to shape their own future... Shion wanted to shape hers, so she could help those who deserved it. And if anyone in the world deserved her help, it was chaos and Nephilim. They'd both done so much for her...

"Errr... this is uh... Your captain speaking..." Mathews started, over an intercom system. "You guys might... wanna get up here and see this." he said, then the message was over. Jr. laughed a bit, but anyone could tell he was as nervous as Captain Mathews had seemed in his announcement. Allen was no better, of course, which caused Shion to worry; Which seemed to be her specialty lately...

Ah, the wonderful land of fanfiction writing. This is my first self-written fanfic. Most of the time, the closest I get is role-playing, so this is a new-ish situation for me. We now join the trio, Shion Uzuki, U.R.T.V. #666 Rubedo; also known as Gaignun Kukai Jr. and Allen Ridgeley on their quest for knowledge of the past, and their lovely findings on the planet 'Lost Jerusalem'. I'm writing this, as though it picks up from the very end of the third episode of the Xenosaga game series. I'm going to give this the name of my role play, actually; "Xenosaga Episode IV: Wiedergeburt eines Monsters" translated in English, is "Rebirth of a Monster". Hope you all enjoy!

All Xenosaga related material, such as past story references, characters' names, personalities and appearances, the title "Xenosaga" itself, and any terms, items and/or relics(such as the Zohar) and anything else that may come up that's related to the games themselves, belong to Tetsuya Takahashi and Monolith Soft. I do not claim to own any of these things =)