Cat-Alin: Yes, I'm reopening my list of One Shots of each character!
Since the One Shots I already have in German are so full of mistakes and I think that they're not the best, I'm going to write new versions.
Be happy, the english ones are NOT going to be translated into german, so you're going to be the only people knowing the newer versions.
And my muse is the respective character of the One Shot and we start with ..
-A stage with every possible ToS Character appears, the spotlight is swinging like mad-
-The Spotlight suddenly stops-
Cat-Alin: And it's .. Shihna Fujibayashi!
Zelos:
-wolf-whistles-
Shihna:
-punch- -sits down in a stool next to Cat- Hello. What is the point of my One Shot? .. Not Volt, is it!?
Cat-Alin:
Please say the disclaimer.
Shihna:
.. Cat-Alin doesn't own any character of ToS, nor ToS itself and neither Namco. If she did, she'd have made Kratos bathe in the Onsen.
Cat-Alin:
For Sure!
(Seiren: japanese. Elemental Spirit; Safureki: japanese. Pyre Seal; Ahomiko: japanese. Idiot-Chosen)

A young woman, her black hair falling loosely around her, was lying in bed, tossing around.
A little animal, lying next to her, lifted it's furred head and looked at her. The woman had clenched her fist into the blanket and seemed to be in pain.
The little animal jumped up and started to tap the woman with it's paw on the cheek.
"Shihna .." it said.
The woman tossed around.
"I .. don't want to .." the woman muttered.

The big temple, from a far, looking like a lightning rod ..
An old man was helping a little girl out of a boat and spoke to the peculiar dressed people behind him. They nodded and the old man smiled at the little girl, who was looking frightened to the top of the temple ..
The inside is dark and the people, surrounding the old man and the girl like guards, were holding candles to show the way ..
The girl looked scared at the big altar in front .. and the lightning struck ..

"No!!" the woman yelled, bolting up in bed, stretching her arm out, as if she was trying to hold somebody.
She panted and when she realized, that she was in no danger, she sighed and fell back.
"Shihna .." the animal said again. "Again that dream?"
Shihna, the woman, smiled and pat the animal's head.
"Yeah .. sorry, if I woke you, Corrine .." she said, looking exhausted herself.
"Shihna, you know that you can always trust that I will protect you, if anything ever happens to you!" Corrine assured the woman.
"Yeah, thanks, Corrine." she said and patted the side of her pillow. "Lie back down and sleep."
Corrine looked worried for a second, then the little animal stepped back onto the pillow and curled itself up.
When Shihna was sure that Corrine was sleeping, the little furball rising and lowering with the steady breathing, she got up and left her room as quietly as possible.

She carefully pushed the curtain to the side.
She didn't want to wake anybody, although the old man wouldn't have woken up, even if she would've been loud.
Shihna knelt down to him and smiled sadly.
"I'm really sorry, Grandfather .. It's my fault you're like this .." she muttered.

Next morning came quickly.
"Shihna. Tiga wants a word with you." Orochi, a blue-dressed Ninja told her.
"Alright, I'll be there in a minute." Shihna said and tied her hair back with the pink ribbon. "Come on, Corrine!"
The little furball stretched and jumped down the bed, following the woman to the main room of the house.
"Tiga, you asked for me?" she said and bowed a bit, then sitting down in front of him.
Tiga nodded.
"I have thought over my decision of your arrival and failure from yesterday." he said.
Shihna nodded.

"Shihna?" Tiga asks surprised. "You have come back. So, I presume that you have successfully assassinated the Chosen of Sylvarant?"
Shihna is quiet and sits down in front of the man.
"It is not like that." she says and takes a deep breath. "I have not killed the Chosen. For she has searched for a way to save both, Sylvarant and Tethe'alla, on her journey of regeneration."
Tiga nods. He looks displeased, but listens to the woman.
"Although, her journey may have managed to get to the Tower of Salvation .. she has fulfilled the Angeltransformation, but she has no longer a soul."
Tiga nods again.
"Her group has come with me to Tethe'alla. They are right now in Meltokyo, the emperial city, to ask the king for help in retrieving Collet's .. I mean, the Chosen's soul. She will get her soul back and not fully regenerate Sylvarant."
"Thus, Tethe'alla is still safe." Tiga agrees, nodding his head. Then he looks earnest at Shihna. "You do know that you have abandoned your true duty and have sided with the other group?"
Shihna nods.
"Yes."
".. I can tell, that you're exhausted of the journey. Stay here for today and I will tell you, what you should do the next morning." Tiga says.
Shihna nods and gets up, leaving after another bow.

"I want you to accompany the group and help them to retrieve the Chosen's soul."
Shihna looked up, startled.
"Tiga, are you sure?"
Tiga nodded.
"Yes. Once the Chosen's soul is back in her body, I want you to help them in any way for their further plans."
Shihna nodded sadly.
"You mean, you are exiling me from Mizuho?" she asked.
"No, dear goddess, no." Tiga laughed amused. "No, I want you to bring the group here, once there is an opportunity to do so."
Shihna cocked her head to the side.
"What is your plan, Tiga?" she asked.
"I will not tell you. Bring the group here when you have the chance and I will tell you." Tiga smiled.
Shihna nodded and got up.
The little furball of an animal followed her. Shihna stepped to the exit of the village, hearing just a few faint mutters around her. She sighed.

The woman appeared in a smoke-bomb, seeing her familiar people - one who she didn't paticularily like - and some strangers. They were in the middle of a laboratory.
"He's not from Tethe'alla." Shihna said, her gaze on the teenage boy, just barely younger than she was. He was dressed in red and his brown hair was standing upwards. "Therefore, he has no kind of discrimination towards half-elves."
A researcher with high, pointy ears frowned, not resisting when Corrine had bitten through the ropes that were tying the group's wrists together.
"Very well .." the researcher sighed. "If you come back once you save your friends, I will tell you how to save Presea."
The group nodded and took a secret passage out of the institute, running towards the bridge.
"Hey, Shihna." the teenage boy said, looking at the woman sideways while running. "Why did you come back? Weren't you supposed to tell your chief about your failure?"
"He told me to keep an eye on you." Shihna answered and noticed the boy's frown. "B-but you know, I'm completely on your side, Lloyd!"
Lloyd grinned.
"Well, I'm glad you're back!"
Shihna cleared her throat.
They stopped when they bridge was being put up.
"They're cutting us off .." Lloyd muttered. "We'll jump!"
The five people started to run faster and up the raising slant and tried to jump onto the other side.
They didn't make it and started to fall into the deadly water.

Shihna panicked and tried to focus her thoughts for a second.
"Undine! Help us!" she screamed and the seiren appeared.
A mana infused wave of water shot up and carried the group safely to the other side of the bridge.
"We're alive .." Lloyd sighed relieved. "Thank you so much, Shihna!"
"I .. I'm sure glad I managed to summon her .." Shihna mumbled.

The lightning struck .. and the seiren of thunder appeared.

"Guys!" a preteen boy with pointy ears ran towards them, a woman resembling him was there, too.
"You saved us .. thank you." the woman said.
"Ah, no problem!" Lloyd grinned. "Sensei and Genius are part of our group. No way would we let you leave!"
Genius looked unsure.
"But .. we're half-elves .."
"So?" Lloyd grinned and the boy Genius smiled widely. "Now, all we have to do is to get the rheairds and Shihna making a pact with Volt."
"Volt!?" Shihna exclaimed scared.
"Shihna-san?" Presea, a young girl with blank eyes, asked.

The seiren stared at the group of weirdly clothes people, the old man and the young, young girl at the front of his altar.
"Don't worry, Shihna." the old man said and smiled.
The young Shihna gulped and stepped closer to the altar.
"I am Shihna." she said, her voice trembling with nervousness and fear. "I seek a pact with Volt."
The seiren twitched and sparked, his big red eyes resting entirely on the girl.
Shihna looked frightened and spoke again.
"I seek a pact with Volt!"
The red eyes flew wide open and a shower of arrows made out of lightning shot over the altar and out of the temple, towards a certain village ..

"I.. It's nothing .." Shihna mumbled to herself, trying to get herself away from her nightmare.
"Say, Lloyd, where are the rheairds, anyway?" a man with long red hair asked. It was Zelos, the Chosen of Tethe'alla.
"Up on the Fooji Mountains." Lloyd answered.
"Well, let's go there first, since .."
Shihna didn't hear the rest, retiring unintended back into her thoughts.

The lightning arrows seemed like deadly shooting stars, falling towards the tiny village of Mizuho. Everyone was outside, ready to welcome the pact-group back and all ready for the festival for them. The stars fell and first one, then another person got hit by them, several high voltage blasting through their body.
Back in the temple, the same stars of death were falling everywhere, hitting one of the men in the back. The young Shihna rooted to her place in fear, twitching when an arrow just barely missed her, at last cowering into a tiny ball, her arms over her head.
"Shihna!!" the old man cried when a lightning arrow went directly towards the girl. The man threw himself over her, protecting her and getting hit by the lightning itself.
"Aaaargh!!"

"Grandpa!" Shihna cried when she realized what happened.
The old man lay limb on the floor, the seiren had disappeared and complete silence was left in the temple.
"Grandpa ..! Grandpa!" Shihna grabbed the old man's shoulders and shook him a bit, tears streaming into her eyes. "Grandpa! Wake up, please!"
The old man gave no reaction and Shihna wailed out loud, lying over the man's body, seeing no more possibility.

"Dammit, wait!" Lloyd yelled.
Shihna snapped out of her memory and just saw a pair of lightblue wings in the sky.
Lloyd grumbled and turned back to the group, putting his swords back, which had probably been thrown out of his hands.
"Alright, let's follow his advice and go to Mizuho." Lloyd sighed.
Everybody nodded, Shihna a little more hesitant.

A tiny moan came and Shihna flinched, looking up, afraid that the seiren was back.
One of the men in the back got up and looked around, the dead bodies of people around him.
"Chief Igaguri!" he called and stumbled towards the girl and the old man. "Shihna, what ..?"
Shihna shook her head and more tears fell from her eyes.
The man felt the throat of the old man.
"Don't worry, Shihna." the man calmed the girl down. "He's alive. But unconscious."
"Un .. unconscious?" Shihna hicked.
The man nodded.
"Yes, probably in a coma. But he'll be fine." the man took the old man up into his arms. "We'll go back to Mizuho. Think you can walk?"
Shihna stood up a bit wobbly and nodded.
She went together with the two remaining men over the sea, back to Mizuho.

"Perfect timing, Lloyd and you others." Tiga greeted them happily. "We've located the rheairds."
"How did Kratos know ..?" Lloyd mumbled quietly to himself.
"But there is one problem." Tiga warned them and Shihna flinched, her heart beating fast, knowing what was going to come.
"What problem, Tiga-san?" Lloyd asked.
"If there is no 'fuel' for the rheairds, they will crash once more." Tiga said and his eyes turned to Shihna. "So, you have no other choice but to form a pact with Volt f-"
"I .. I can't!!" Shihna yelled and ran away, muttering to herself. "Don't make me go through such a nightmare again!"

The people of Mizuho watched in awe, stopping dead in their tracks of removing their dead comrades, as the girl and the man carrying the chief came back.
The little group went into the main house and layed the chief onto his bed, covering him up. It looked as if he was just sleeping.
Tiga, the vice-chief came in and saw the little scene and understood.
"Shihna. Come with me." he said gently and led the girl outside of the house, everybody still standing where they stopped.
"I am sad to tell you" Tiga said loud and clearly to them. "That our chief Igaguri is lying in a coma, unsure of when he will wake up. As vice-chief, I'll substitute him, until he's awake once more. We're here to also inform you, that - as you might have guessed through the lightning here - that the pact with Volt was not successfull. Shihna tried her best, but Volt went out of control. Of course, we are all sorry for the losses we have gained through the failed pact .."
After the speech, nobody said another word and they went quietly their way, carrying the dead away. Shihna trembled. Tiga led her back inside, making her sit down on a soft cushion and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Do not worry, Shihna." he said and smiled. "It's not your fault."
"But .." Shihna hicked. "But it is .."
"It's not." Tiga reassured her, but Shihna didn't believe him. Everybody was mumbling about her now, for sure.

"Shihna-chan?" Zelos wondered and looked at the woman, who had run into him by accident, lost in her thoughts. "Aw, Shihna-chan, I love you too!"
The Chosen put his arms around the woman, who tensed up.
".. Ahomiko!" she said and slapped him with her cards away, running to a place where was alone.
"Shihna .." Corrine popped onto her shoulder and looked at the woman. "Don't worry. If you ever have trouble, I'll be there to save you .. remember?"
Shihna smiled a bit.
"Thanks, Corrine .. but I just can't."
She flinched when she heard steps approaching and turned to see Lloyd coming over.
Shihna looked away, Lloyd's smile was sort of embaressed, but understanding.
"You heard it, right ..?" she asked. "You heard of how I let the people of this village die."
"You didn't let them die." Lloyd replied.
"Of course I did! Why do people keep on lying to me!?" she yelled at him. Lloyd looked taken back. More because of the tears coming from her eyes, than from her yelling. "I AM responsible for the deaths! I am! If I had managed to make that pact with Volt, the village people wouldn't have died and I wouldn't be looked down on!"
Lloyd smirked slightly and stepped closer, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"It's not your fault." Lloyd said again. Shihna looked at the ground. "Sensei explained that the then-attempt for the pact failed, because Volt is speaking an entirely different language. A language that humans don't understand. Sensei learned it a bit, so she'll be able to tell us what Volt is saying." The teenager's grin widened. "This time, we'll know what he's saying. And nobody is going to die because of that."
Shihna clenched her teeth, trying to hide her trembling.
"But .. what if he still attacks us?"
Lloyd grinned even more and grabbed his swords, standing in a very braggy pose.
"Then, we'll just kick is rear!"
Shihna cuckled a bit and wipped her tears away.
"Alright .. I'll try." she said and Lloyd nodded.
"That's the spirit, Shihna!"

Shihna gulped and stared at the entrance of the temple. She went stiffly ahead, towards the altar where she lost a dear person and lost her self-esteem. She hoped that nobody would notice how much she was trembling.
"You ready, Shihna?" Lloyd asked and Shihna nodded.
".. Let's do it!" she stepped towards the altar and with the same lightning struck, Volt appeared before her again. Her heartbeat fastened when she saw those big red eyes staring at her. "I am Shihna. I seek a pact with Volt."
Volt sparked and twitched.
Refill frowned. "I am bound to a pact of Mithos, the hero."
"How can Mithos have pacts with Tethe'alla AND Sylvarant seirens?" Lloyd wondered.
"Maybe he had a rheaird as well." Genius suggested and Shihna cleared her throat.
"I ask that thou annulst thy pact with Mithos and form a new pact with me." she said.
".. My former pact is broken, but I have no desire in dealing with people. Leave!" Refill translated.
"Why?" Shihna clenched her fists. She had taken her courage to come here and try again. She wouldn't give up that easily. "We NEED your help!!"
Volt sparked and twitched and the same lightning arrows shot towards the group. They all fell to the lower level.

Shihna was stiffened with fear to her spot, shivering like mad and she held her hands over her ears. She was terrified by the sound, bringing up her worst memory. Shihna didn't notice how Volt floated down to her and charged an attack at her.
Maybe it was right this way. Volt killing her. She was supposed to have died twelve years ago. If she had, her grandfather would still be conscious.
"Shihna ..!!"
Corrine jumped off of Shihna's shoulder and in front of her, taking the attack.
".. Corrine!!" Shihna screamed and knelt beside the little burned furball. "W-why ..!?"
"Shihna .. it's alright .." Corrine weezed. "Volt got betrayed .. and doesn't .. believe in humans anymore .. you .. have to show .. him right .."
"Corrine! Don't speak! Please!" Shihna begged the little furball.
Corrine smiled.
"Try to form the pact .. Shihna .. I know .. you can .." Corrine's body faded away, the golden bell falling to the floor, the clinging sound ringing long in Shihna's ears.
"D .. don't die .. you can't die .." she muttered to herself.
Lloyd jumped in front of her and used his swords to parry an attack that Volt sent onto Shihna.
"Shihna, hang in there!" he snapped at the woman.
"But .."
Lloyd followed Volt and parried several other attacks.
"Dammit, Shihna!" he yelled. "If Volt won't agree, form the pact by force! Do you want to live forever in fear of Volt's shadow!? Do you want Corrine's death to be for nothign!?"
Shihna shook her head and glared at Volt.
"For the sake of everyone who helped me .. I demand your power!!" she yelled and charged at the seiren.

The young Shihna went quietly through the village. The people formed groups and started to whisper among each other, glancing to the girl. Shihna knew what they were talking about and knew it hurt. But she wouldn't show them. She wouldn't show them how much they were hurting her, talking behind her back about how it was her fault that so many people had died. It would hurt more if they told it to her face, but at least they would be honest. And not so many marionette-like with smiling masks, assuring her that she wasn't responsible for anything.
But she knew better.

Shihna sighed. The sardonyx-stone appeared in front of her and Refill translated Volt's last spark.
"Speak your vow and the pact is formed."
Shihna sighed relieved.
"As I said .. for the sake of everyone who helped me .." she said and her foot touched the clinging little bell. She picked it up and smiled a bit. "And for Corrine's sake as well .. I will change the system of the two worlds."
Volt disappeared as a stream of pure mana into the ring.
"We did it!" they all cheered and congratulated Shihna, Zelos gave her a hug, which seemed alright. Until he made a remark over her body. He got a slap for that.

They left the temple and Shihna stopped, looking around.
"Something wrong?" Lloyd asked.
"No .. I just thought I heard something .." she muttered and entered the EC.

"Corrine .."
"Mh?" Lloyd looked at her. They were in his home village, Iselia, and Shihna kept glancing towards the west. "Something wrong?"
"Corrine is calling me .." Shihna mumbled and ran towards the west, into the temple of Martel. "Corrine? Corrine!"
Lloyd and the others followed her.
"Corrine! Where are you?" Shihna called and ran through all the rooms of the temple. And stopped at the altar.
A seiren that looked a lot like Corrine, just bigger, was standing there.
"Corrine .."
"My name is Verius." the seiren said. "But I am also Corrine."
"Then .." Shihna said and looked happy, but hesistant. "We can form a pact .. and you'll be back by my side?"
"No." Verius said. "I am the seiren of hearts."
"Seiren of hearts?"
"Because 'Corrine' was so close to you and the others, Corrine experienced how it was to be the closest form of seiren and human. He found out how the hearts of humans enlighten their lifes. And I have transformed from him, after his death."
".. so, you won't form a pact .." Shihna sighed and Verius put his blue eyes on Shihna.
"I am the seiren of hearts. If you think of Corrine, you will think of me." Verius said. "I know that your heart is light and balanced. So, I will always watch over you."
Verius glowed golden and disappeared.
Shihna smiled and remembered how she had met Corrine.

Shihna walked around the seiren institute and saw a little furball attached to machines through cords.
"Huh? What are you?" she asked and got a sharp paw snatched at her.
"Shihna, watch out." a researcher warned her. "I see you've found our experiment #352."
"What is it?" Shihna asked.
"It's a seiren. An artifical one. We created it. It's name is Corrine." the researcher said proudly. "Or so it claims."
"An artifical seiren ..?"
The researcher nodded.
"Yes. We're doing some tests to find out about the mixture of artifical and real mana in it's tiny body."
"It seems like it's in pain .." Shihna mumbled to herself.
"Of course, we have to watch out, since seiren - even an artifical one - have great power in them."
"So, these machines watch out over him and test him, ey?" she asked and slapped one of her cards into the researcher's face. "
Safureki!"
The researcher got knocked backwards and Shihna quickly unplugged all the cords from the tiny seiren.
".. Why ..?" the seiren asked.
"You can talk?" Shihna wondered.
"I'm not as narrow-minded as you humans." Corrine pouted.
"Hm .. I'm Shihna. And I want to help you." the woman said and smiled. "Your name is Corrine as I heard."
"Yes .."
"Well, nice to meet you, Corrine!" Shihna smiled.
"Nice to meet you, too, Shihna!" Corrine smiled and jumped onto Shihna's shoulder, snuggling it's furry soft face against the woman's cheek.

Cat-Alin: The first One Shot!
Shihna:
You forgot to put my grandpa back to consciousness.
Cat-Alin:
Yeah, but I decided to put Corrine in. And the last part with the memory of meeting Corrine .. it happened like that in the Drama CD.
Shihna:
Although you didn't quite understood what they said.
Cat-Alin:
Nope. But Shihna really hits the guy with Safureki away.
Shihna:
Whatever. We hope you enjoyed this and give us some reviews.
Cat-Alin:
Who will be next?
-spotlight zooming around like mad-