Edit January, Saturday, 31, 2009 - We're working on this slowly, but at the moment its being re-written. This is the first chapter rewrite, and we shall re-write the 2nd and 3rd chapters and then later post the 4th. Sorry about the wait everyone!

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Luke gripped Asch's sword in his hand. He tugged it towards himself, a scowl marring his face. "Dammit! For the last time, I will be doing it!"

"No you stupid replica! I already said, stay away!" Asch pulled firmly on his sword, the sword slipping out of Luke's grasp. The red head replic fumbled for a better grip on the sword, "Listen to me, you're the original! I should be the one to…"

"Are you in that much of a hurry to die?!" Asch snarled at his replica.

"I…I don't want to die anymore than you do!" Luke stuttered.

"Then just shut up and let me do this!"

"No! I'm just a replica. I'm going to do this!" Luke dived for Asch's sword. The original took a step back as Luke wrapped a hand over the hilt of the sword. Luke drew the sword and faced the replicas. He raised held the sword up and yelled, "Replicas, I will be the one to die with you!"

"You stupid idiot." Asch shook his head in exasperation staring at his replica.

"NO!" Tear ran for the look a-likes a hand rising to rest on her chest as Guy moved to block her path to the two redheads.

"Stubborn idiot." Guy muttered as Natalia gasped and took a step forward. Jade blocked her way with a shake of his head and the princess stopped in her tracks. Anise stood rock still, fear etched into her eyes as Luke gasped and fell on to one knee, one of his hands fading from view. His eyes widened and he felt his heart skip a beat as he felt another hand join his left one, the one still visible.

"Stupid replica." Asch muttered adding his own energy to Luke's, forcing the replica to stand as the original kept a firm grip on his sword in Luke's hand. Luke steadied himself gritting his teeth against the force that was leaving his body and moving through it, glad his hand had reappeared. Both look a-likes stood like this, side-by-side, both hands on the sword for a few seconds as the replicas gave their energy.

"I think its working Master!" Mieu cried, face creased with a giant smile. However as soon as those words left the small chegals mouth an energy induced tremor shook the room. Asch was thrown back, his grip ripped from the sword.

"Asch!" Luke look back at his look a-like, fear swirling in his eyes. He tensed his jaw and tore his eyes from Asch, focusing on his hyper resonance. Luke gasped as the jewel within him pulsed, eyes wide and his jaw gapping at the sudden immense pain ripping through him.

"Luke!" Tear, Guy, Natalia and Anise cried and rushed over, Jade following at a much slower and calmer pace. As the group hit an invisible line a bright light enveloped them. The light was gone almost as quickly as it had come.

Asch groaned and rubbed his head as he stood up, using a beam to support his weight. He looked around not seeing any of the others. He sighed and walked over to where his sword lay, picking it up and fingering the hilt.

"Stupid replica. I'm knew you'd screw up." Asch looked up at the sky, eyes widening and a slight smile crept across his face. There was no longer any of the purple tint that the miasma carried.

"Or did you?"


Luke groaned as he came to, where he didn't know. All he remembered was pain and a bright light then nothing. He did however feel cold of the surface he was lying on. Luke groaned again and sat up, brushing a few stray hairs away from his face.

"Where...am I?" Luke rubbed his head. He could feel the start of a headache pulsing painfully, probably from the dust in the room. He looked around the room, noticing the walls were bookshelves that reached from floor to ceiling and were overflowing with soft and hard cover books a like. There was a strange apparatus made of silver and blue material that glowed and was sitting in the middle of the room. The room itself appeared to be a large library of sorts, with a golden light filtering in from somewhere above.

"Am...I alive?" Luke frowned as he stared at each of his friends that were exploring the three doors in the room.

"Well now this seems like a nice little mess you've gotten us all into." Jade said across from Luke, looking into one of the many books that lined the shelves. He closed the book and threw it at Luke. The book hit the centre Luke's forehead, giving him an even bigger headache and a bruise to match.

"Ow that hurt!" Luke leaned back, raising a hand to his forehead.

"Exactly." Jade smiled.

"What the hell did you do that for?!" Luke stared sourly at Jade, a slight pout on his lips.

"Well you wanted to find out if you were alive didn't you?" Jade smiled in that unsettling way of his, "And now that you know, what should we do to get out of here?" Luke growled and looked around, his eyes showing his confusion.

"Are we in a library?" the replica wondered outloud.

"An old one maybe?" Anise mumbling as she leaned down to feel the crack between on of the doors and the floor.

"Or an abandoned one?" Tear mumbled from across the room.

"Perhaps, but regardless of where we are, we need to find a way out...we've already lost Guy..." Jade's voice was solemn. Luke paled quiet a few shades.

"Y-you mean he's..." Luke began but averted his gaze to the ground clenching his fist, the words caught in his throat.

"...obsessing over the machine in the middle of the room instead of looking for an exit? Why yes!" Luke looked up at Jade, a shocked expression on his face.

"Jerk." the replica muttered.

"Come back over here Jade! Its fantastic! I need your help with figuring out what this machine is!" Jade looked over to Guy and pushed his glasses on his nose.

"I'm busy at the moment, but in due time I will."

"I feel a breeze coming through this door Master!" Mieu cried bobbing in front of the biggest door visible.

"Yeah, I feel the breeze here but not in front of the other doors." Anise said as she stood and walked over to Jade and Luke who still seemed to find it alright to sit on the dusty floor.

"Are you planning on sitting down there all day Luke? Or do you plan on joining us bipeds?" Luke stood up slowly mumbling under his breath about Colonels that needed to get sticks out of their asses.

"So it seems that this is the only exit. What should we do?" Tear asked as she too joined the group dragging Natalia from what she thought was a Fairy Tail book.

"But I want to read the book!" Natalia whimpered flapping her arms and gripping the book with one hand.

"Lets try busting through it." Luke suggested as he finished brushing himself off. He turned to face the door and backed up, nodding his head in determination.

"That just might work..." Jade trailed off. Luke ran towards the door and attempted to do a flying kick on the door, but ended up in a swearing heap on the floor.

"...if the door was a little less thick." Jade shrugged.

"Oh and you decided to say this AFTER I kicked the door bastard!" Luke swore under his breathe.

"Oh I'm sorry, but my mind does seem to be going in my old age." Jade smiled as Luke rolled his eyes and rubbed his pulsing foot. 'There's going to be a bruise there tomorrow' the redhead thought sourly.

"There's no use in trying to break through it like that." Tear knocked on the door with the back of her fist, her face thoughtful, "Its too solid."

"Well we can't just sit here and do NOTHING!" Luke screamed and began attacking the door once again, trying to not use his injured foot.

"I'll help too Master!" Meiu cried as he head butted the door.

"Yes. It could take hours, days, months, years..." Jade began to ramble on as he looked around at the oddly bright room.

"That would be really bad." Anise whined. Luke fired a kick at the door as someone opened it up from the outside, a look of complete and utter shock on the other's face.

"WAH!" Luke ended up kicking the person who had opened the door, and in turn knocked the brown haired youth into a silver haired women.

"Or it could only take a few seconds." Jade mused.

"LLOYD!" the silver haired lady yelled.

"IT WASN'T MY FAULT PROFESSOR!" the red-clad teen threw his hands in front of his face to ward off an attack. An auburn haired man grabbed a blond and pulled her away from the door as the silver haired women and the one named Lloyd crashed into a silver haired boy.

"OW! Watch were you going Lloyd!" the silver haired boy cried.

"It wasn't my fault!" Lloyd pleaded as a black haired women in purple clothes twitched while she pulled the silver haired boy from the mess.

"You might want to watch out. You know better to stand behind Lloyd when he opens a door, or anything for that matter. Remember what happened when he opened that strange looking chest?" the black haired women reminded the silver haired boy as the silver haired women detached herself from Lloyd and whacked him on the head.

"Whose fault was it then?!" she roared.

Luke stepped forward with a sheepish expression on his face, "Um, I'm sorry. I just wanted to get out and..."

WHACK! SLAP! BONK! BANG BANG BANG! Luke had nice large swirls for his eyes. He fell back onto the ground in the Tower, eagle spread.

"It seems you've knocked our friend out. Oh well." Jade shrugged his shoulders. Anise, Tear, and Natalia had nice large sweat drops at Jade's and the women's behaviour.

"Three...two..." those with the silver haired women backed up, as if sensing impending doom. The women's bangs were covering her face.

"...one..." the women just about exploded on the Auldrant gang.

"WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF SUCH A HISTORICAL TREASURY?!"

"BECAUSE WE WERE LOCKED IN!" Anise cried. A silent moan was heard from the silent, or really not so silent, form of Luke.

"Luke. Wake up." Tear stepped forward to leaned down and shake Luke's shoulder.

"I'm up, I'm up." Luke groaned rubbing his head as he sat up. He winched as he rubbed over the sore spots, "Whatever hit me must have been a really big." he mumbled.

WHACK!!

"ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT?!" the silver haired lady stood with her hands on her hips glaring down at Luke.

"Lets just hope he doesn't insult her cooking." the silver haired boy muttered.

"GENIS!" WHACK!! The boy sported a large red mark on his face. Lloyd looked away and pretend to be interested in the bushes growing by the path, as the blond stared in horror.

"Wow, it's a new record." the purple clad women shook her head.

"Indeed." the auburn haired man mumbled.

"Professor. Please don't hurt them." the blond clasped her hands in front of her and looked at the silver haired women.

"I'm going to go join Guy at the machine now." Luke stood up and pointing to Guy and beginning to walk that way as well.

"I MUST SEE THIS MACHINE!!" A silver and orange blur rushed past Luke and knocked him to the ground once again. Guy was soon joined by someone in his ranting.

"FANTASTIC!" Guy grinned widely.

"Isn't it?!" the silver haired women cried as her blues shined.

"I wonder what kind of machine it is! I've never seen anything like it before!"

"Neither have I, but I would assume that it would be magitechnology."

"Magitechnology? What is that?"

"How can you not know what magitechnology is?!" both groups stared at the two tech-freaks.

"Here." Luke looked up to see a hand in front of his face. He reached up and grabbed it. Lloyd pulled him up, a grin on the youths face.

"So, who are you guys?" Lloyd released the redheads hand as Luke blinked.

"I'm Luke, um. The guy wearing the blue military outfit is Jade Curtiss, the brown haired lady is Tear Grants, the two blonds are Guy Cecil and Natalia Luzu Kimlasca Lanvaldear, and the black haired girl is Anise Tatlin. Who are you?" Luke questioned Lloyd.

"I'm Lloyd Irving." Lloyd answered. He pointed to each of his comrades as he named them, "The man wearing purple is Kratos Aurion, the black haired lady is Sheena Fujibayashi, Colette Burnel is the blond in the Priest outfit, and Genis and Raine Sage are the two elves in our group."

"Elfs?" Luke mused to himself, a confused look on his face.

"Meiuuuuu."

"What is it Meiu?" Luke adverted his mind from what Lloyd had said about his two comrades being elves, and stared down at the blue creature. Meiu opened his mouth to speak but was beaten to it as Colette squealed.

"He's so cute!" Colette bounced on the heels of her feet and crouched down beside Meiu, her blue eyes bright. Lloyd moved an inch away from the blond as Sheena and Kratos both stared either nervously or impassively at the group.

"There's two of them…" Genis mumbled as he came to stand beside Lloyd, his eyes following his sister and Guy through the door to the Tower of Mana.

"Don't worry Genis. I'm sure the Professor is fine." Lloyd tried to reassure his friend.

"We'll never get her out of Ruin Mode." Genis stared dejectedly at Lloyd as the red-clad swordsman tensed and took a step away from the Tower.

"Crap!" the brown-haired teen swore.

"Ruin...Mode?" Luke looked between the two confused. Genis looked towards the redhead.

"It's what Raine does every time we come across a Ruin or a machine she hasn't seen before, and when we're aren't in danger." Genis sighed and tugged at his hair. He stared at the sky as if to ask the heavens, "Why my sister? Why?"

"Don't worry. Guy will back off soon enough once he gets a good look at her." Luke nodded confidently and Genis only stared at Luke as if he had a few screws loose.

Back with Guy and Rain.

"Or it could be an Oracle Stone. Yes, I think that's what it is." Raine grinned as she slapped her fist into her open palm.

"Oracle Stone? What's that...AHHH!!" Guy had looked up at the person he had been talking to, having just noticed they were female.

"What is it?" Raine turned to look at Guy, who was shaking like a leaf on the ground.

"I was wondering when he was going to do that." Anise sighed.

"That isn't nice Anise." Tear scolded the black-haired child.

Anise shrugged and smiled cutely, "Well it is true."

"Maybe someone should save him." silence followed Natalia's statement.

"Nah." the girls agreed with each other.

Guy backed away from Raine at a breakneck pace and tried to dart out of the Tower but ended up tripping over the discarded book Jade had thrown earlier. Raine could only blink at the others actions.

"Well...maybe we won't have to worry about Ruin Mode as much as I thought." Genis's dry voice poked its way into Guy's ears.

"R-ruin M-mode?" Guy questioned from his spot on the floor, staring at Genis.

"He has a phobia of girls." Luke explained for his friend as Guy smiled nervously and then looked back at the still confused Raine.

"Only when they sneak up on me!" Guy defended himself as Raine came over to them.

"I didn't sneak up on..."

"AHHH!!" Guy bolted up and scrambled back closer to the door. Raine narrowed her eyes and was about to take a step forward when she noticed The Book which Guy had tripped on. Her eyes widened, then narrowed at those she did not now.

"Who. put. this. book. on. the. floor?" Raine hissed as she picked The Book up. The Auldrant group pointed towards Jade. Jade only shrugged.

"I needed something to prove Luke was alive, and I was too far away to smack him. I feared my old bones wouldn't take the strain." Jade fixed his glasses. Now Raine wasn't the only one twitching.

"Humph. Old my ass."

"Did you say something Mr. Kratos?" Colette looked at the auburn haired man.

"No. I did not."

"Oh." Colette grinned.

"Though I would like to know how these people got into a sealed area." Kratos lingered his hand over the hilt of his blade.

"Yes." Raine looked at the group with an odd look in her eye.

"Don't even think about it Raine!" Genis shouted as in walked in and beside his sister, a glare on his face.

"My my, are we getting defensive now? Oh well." Jade shrugged, "If we want to avoid a battle we ought to explain. Guy, do the honours."

"WHY? Why always me?!" the blond cried out.

"Just speak up already Guy!" Natalia scoled the swordsman.

"And look at what you're doing Natalia! You're reading some stupid fairy tale book!"

"Fairy Tale?" Raine's eyebrows furrowed, "Let me see it."

Natalia looked up at the women whose hand was held out for the book, the other one resting on her hip. She bowed her head, lips trembling, and passed the book dejectedly. Raine eyes widened, and her jaw dropped.

"You THINK this is a Fairy Tale?!" she roared, eyes leaking anger.

"What is it then Professor?" Lloyd asked as he, Colette, Sheena and Kratos walked in.

"Its getting quiet crowded in isn't it?" Jade commented. Tear glared at the Colonel, wondering how he could think such a thing when they might have to fight they're way out. Wait, this WAS the Colonel.

"It's the Legend of Mithos!" Raine steamed.

"Legend? But it sounded like a Fairy Tale..." Natalia's eyes widened as Raine marched over to where the book had been in the first place, only found because of the book missing in one of the shelves.

"No. It's a very old legend. Mithos was the savour of the Karhlan War. If you people don't know that, then you are obviously not from either World." Kratos pointed out in his blunt way. The six from Auldrant stared at the others, wondering why Kratos had said "either World"

"Not from either World...how can that be?" Sheena wondered out loud, her fingers resting on her chin.

"Lets ask them." Kratos stared at the six with a pointed glare, his hand grasping the hilt of his sword. Lloyd rested his hands on the hilts of his blades, wondering how the Auldrant group got

into the Tower of Mana without the key, and why they were locked in.

"Well, all I know was that we were in the Tower of Rem, trying to get rid of the Miasma..."

"LUKE!" Guy was the only one of the Auldrant group to not shout at their red head comrade.

"No, no go on Luke." Guy urged.

"Well, since you already started, there isn't any reason for you to stop. Guy," Jade smiled at Guy as Guy's ears literally perked up, "You can do the next one." The Colonel smiled widely as the blond groaned at the Colonels oh so kind offer.

"There was a bright light in the Tower, and then..." Luke gulped, "...a searing pain, all through my body," Luke looked down at his hand periodically, eyes wide with the fear of what had happened, "...then we just kind of woke up here..." Luke finished lamely sensing his comrades urging him to keep mostly quiet. Kratos grumbled under his breath, and in a flash he stood before Luke, his sword point at his throat.

"I suggest a longer and detailed explanation."

"Mr. Kratos!" Colette shouted and clasped her hands in front of her.

"Kratos!" Lloyd shouted at his mentor.

"Kratos." Raine sighed.

"The idiot." Sheena rested a hand on her forehead.

"Oh boy." Genis mumbled.

"UGH!" Luke moaned as he grabbed his head and fell forward, Kratos dropping his sword to catch the ailing teen.

"Luke!"

"Is it Asch?!" Luke groaned and passed out, Kratos looking quite annoyed at having become a

support stand..

"Kratos." The auburn haired man nodded, and lifted Luke onto his shoulder, stooping to grab his blade and to sheath it. He turned around and walked right out the door, both groups following with Raine at the head.

"Where are you taking Luke!" Guy ran after the mercenary.

"I suggest you tell us where you're taking our comrade, and if you do anything funny, we will kill you." Jade stated as he followed the group. Raine turned on her heel and stomped over to the Colonel. She pointed at Luke.

"That boy needs medical attention, and I can NOT give it to him in the Tower of Mana so we are taking him to Hima. It just so happens we have something to do there as well. And also, you and your comrades are not in the position to be telling our group that you would kill US if WE did anything funny, when we should be the ones saying so, as NO one could have gotten into The Tower of Mana without the Key!" Jade took a step back as Raine turned on heel once again.

"Fair enough." the Auldrant group just stood with gapping mouths. It had been said more than once, but not in that attention grabbing way. There was no way to get into the Tower without that key, and they had done so. That would mean...

"We've been transported here from our world through the Tower of Rem." Tear mumbled to herself.

"Did you say something Tear?" Natalia questions and Tear shook her head.


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