I sighed, I'm no good with people.

Unfortunately I couldn't avoid this encounter… it was family day, and the people I couldn't avoid were my family. I looked out of the van miserably, let my introduce myself I'm Selena Melisha Breaker… yeah weird name… I'm not depressed, just a moody 15 year old teenager. When I say family I'm not talking about my mom, my dad, or/and my siblings. I have two siblings and both of them are right here anyways, my older brother Todd (… my names prettier) and my older sister Akina.

Yup I'm the youngest. The family I'm talking about would be my distanter (shut up if I can say it it's a word, that's number one of the rules I live by) relatives, my grand parents my cousins etc… well lets start from the beginning

Beep, beeeeep, beeeeeeep

I blinked sleepily at my alarm clock, aka my cell phone, geez when did it get so loud? Hey wait a minute… today Saturday… that means… no school. The alarm was only for the weekdays so it shouldn't be going off and waking me up. I got up and walked over to my cell phone, that's not where I left it. I left it on my book shelf, and now it's on my night table which means someone was touching my stuff, or I'm hallucinating.

I quickly change and walked down the stairs, almost tripping down them. "Stupid stairs" I mutter angrily when I reach the bottom so they can't trip me when I insult them. 'Ha! See I do think things through-' as I thought this, my moment of triumph was interrupted with me smashing my toe against a suit case.I sat down on the stairs and I held my toe for a few seconds, biting my lip and hoping I didn't scream.

As I did this I heard voices coming from downstairs, I stopped and listened for a few seconds. "She should be up by now I set her alarm for 8 o'clock" said a familiar male voice. I blinked sleepily, that defiantly wasn't dads voice, was that his suite case I just destroyed my toe off of?

"You do realize she's going to punch you in the face for that right? You know she hates it when people touch her stuff, or wake her up early and you did both." Ahh that's my big sisters voice but who was the other person?

"Aww that's harsh. Lil' sis doesn't even know I'm here yet, I'll just blame it on dad or mom. Besides she isn't the violent type." Yup that's my older brother Todd, wonder why he's here? I wasn't all that close with my brother and I don't ever remember him ever living in the same house as me, he's twenty-eight with two kids and a wife. Yeah I'm an auntie.

"Just don't blame me when she gets mad at you, she isn't a morning person either" said Akina sighing. I could smell the scent of coffee coming from the kitchen. My sis was less of a morning person then me, normally I would wait for the smell of the coffee on the stairs then risk going down stairs. I never wanted to go near her till she got her first cup of coffee in the morning. I decided it was time to strike back against the inhumanities I had suffered this morning (yes I realize I'm exaggerating). Whatever my brother was about to say was cut off when I ran into the room and jumped on his back. I tackled him to the ground and stole his wallet out of his pocket then ran for it.

Yeah, I just stole his money. I quickly pocketed some of his bills as a form of revenge.

Unfortunately he caught my a few minutes later and gave me a killer noggie. All I have to say is that was worth it. IT WAS WORTH IT! Yeah a few minutes later I was stuffed in the car, and we were off. Off to visit the rest of my messed family.

A few hours later I was pulled out of the car by my older brother, I glared up at him and he ignored me and walked towards the house, I sighed and followed him. I walked up to the house, I'm not even sure whose it was, some relative I didn't know. As I walked into the house I realized the interior was huge, many of my relatives were gathered in the large kitchen near the lobby. My grandparents smiled at me as one of my small cousins ran up and started to talk to me. As soon as the rest of my family were distracted by other relatives, I hugged my little cousin and stealthy maneuvered out of the crowded room.

I wondered around the house for a bit, It had big windows on the left one of the hallways I wondered in to looking out at a lovely looking garden. I heard voices from the right and I knew there were more people behind the closed doors. I continued on walking down the hall, the light coming through the windows gave me a safe feeling for some reason, reminding me that I've been here before. I was here when I was a young child… this house belonged to my moms cousin, Teresa. I remembered an old sun room that I wondered into when I was here on time. I spent the whole time playing Super Mario Brothers on the Nintendo.

I finally found the sun room after what seemed like hours. It was on one of the upper floors the roof and three of the walls were completely made of glass, a vine was growing up the wall from outside blocking some of the sunlight from the window. The room seemed vacant, until I noticed my 8 year old nephew Edonis sitting on an expensive looking couch playing on the Wii that was hooked up to a massive plasma T.V. I smiled at him and he put his finger on his lips and whispered

"I'm playing hide and seek."

I whispered back "Than why are you playing video games?"

"Cause I got bored, im very good at hiding." He smiled "Wanna play with me?"

Edonis was one of my brothers children, I saw him rarely but he was always mature and polite. He had to be the oldest 8 year-old I ever met. He must have come with his mother, they probably came earlier then my brother did, I wondered briefly how he found this room then shrugged and looked at the screen, he was playing Mario Kart. I have nothing against the game or anything, I just played it too much to enjoy it anymore. He looked up at me with bright innocent green eyes, my blue eyes looked down at him "Any other games here?" I asked.

"Yup" he said grinning, he started to look through the games and pulled out random ones and saying their names.

"Smash Brother brawl?"

"Nope"

"Smash Brother melee?"

"Nah"

"Crash Team Racing?"

"No thanks"

Inwardly I was surprised there were a lot of game cube games and I had most of them. Finally after a few minutes he pulled out Tales of Symphonia 2 Dawn of a New World. I stared at it, I hadn't yet finished the game, and I disliked it immensely because of the change in voice actors. I loved Lloyds voice in the first game and the voice in the second game just didn't seem to fit him.

"Is the first one there?" I asked interested. "First what?" he asked obviously never playing the game. "First tales of Symphonia game" I answered. He dug through the games until he found it at the back, I smiled, I hadn't played the game in such a long time.

He took Mario Kart out of the wii, and I put Tales of Symphonia in it. "I haven't played this game in such along time" I said cheerfully. " You have it?" he asked surprised for some reason. "Yup" I said grinning happily. "No spoiling." "Wouldn't dream of it." We each plugged in our game cube controllers after using the Wii remote on the beginning screen. I watched the opening of the game excitedly, after the opening ended Edonis expressed his opinion.

"That was awesome" He said in a breathless voice. He obviously had never played a tales game before.

"Wait till you actually play the game kiddo." I said amused by his reaction.

I pressed the new game button, but for some reason the game froze, thus making me frown and close my eyes out of frustration.

"Umm is it supposed do this?" I opened my eyes and mouth about to say no when I noticed that the screen had changed. It was no longer frozen, in fact it read 'thank you for finding me, disk read, ready to play?' I blinked " uh, well… that's different." I almost hit myself, that sounded like a stupid reply, I mean come on the friggin' T.V. was practically talking to us. I stood up, walking over to the Wii and picking up the game case and looking at the case, I glanced up at the T.V. in time to see the screen chang to 'ready or not here you come.' My vision slowly went black and I heard my nephew say something but the noise faded as well.

I felt a strange falling sensation, that's all I could feel. I could feel my hands, my feet, my anything i began to panic. Even the pain in my toe was better then this, then suddenly I felt everything again. I sat up, and blinked looking around… this was defiantly not my relative's house. In fact this wasn't a house, it was a wide open field. I looked around unsure of were I was, or where to go.

'Where's Edonis?' I thought suddenly, I didn't see him anywhere. 'Maybe this is just I dream, maybe I just fell asleep in the van and still haven't gotten there yet.' Well, if this was a dream, it was the weirdest dream I've ever had. I finally I got off the ground and looked around again. Let's see, there's a forest over there and a mountain over on the opposite side. Well that certainly doesn't help me, I sighed. Well I certainly was not going to climb the mountain, so forest here I come. I walked into the forest glancing at the colossal trees around me. I felt dwarfed in comparison I forgot to pay attention to the forest floor tripped on a log. Yes I am not graceful I know that for a fact, I struggled to get up again. You see I always have this problem when I trip, it's very difficult for me to get up again, I blame my head it was too full of air while the rest of me was too heavy.

I heard the leaves crackle under the weight of something walking of them, my heart sped up as I felt a pang of fear.

"Are you okay miss?"

I lifted my head up in time to see a young boy walking towards me, I thought it was Edonis at first, after all they were the same height. In fact his voice sounded like Edonis's, but it couldn't be… this boy… had dark green hair. Edonis's hair was dirty blond, and his ears weren't… pointy.

"Oh my gosh you're an elf!"

What surprised me was, I wasn't the one who said that.

"Wha-what?" I looked up at him from the ground.

"You're an elf, not me!" I exclaimed, he shook his head rather quickly.

"I'm not an elf, im human."

I reached up and felt my ears… they were pointy, and they weren't the short half-elf ears kind of pointy either, they were long full-elf ears.

As a checked my ears, he checked his to, obviously he wasn't expecting what he found either. A sudden impossible thought hit me, and I voiced it "Edonis?" He looked at me and blinked "Selena?" well isn't this awkward, his eyed were still the same color but his hair and face had changed completely. He had a cute innocent expression on his cute babyish face normally, but now he had a serious, innocent (I didn't think that was possible) expression on a promising face.

I felt my short hair and pulled it in front of my eyes, my hair was red but not the same faded dyed hair I remember. No this was awesome crimson red hair, I was curious to see if my face changed too, but I couldn't check right now.

"Where are we?" he asked, and I had no answer except that we were in a forest.

"I don't know" I replied instead of stating the obvious. I wasn't sure what to do or where to go but from the way Edonis was looking at me, it looked like I was in charge at the moment.

"Let's go look for civilization," at the moment it was the only thing I could think to do.

We walked for hours in silence, I wasn't a very talkative person and every time he tried to start a conversation I only hmm-d in reply. It was too quiet, where were the animals? It was too creepy, I had a strange feeling I was being watched by something, I hate that feeling. We finally made it to a town I froze at the towns name. Iselia. That's… not possible. There's no way, "what's wrong?" Edonis stood a few feet in front of me, I realized I had stopped walking.

"Nothing" I replied not wanting to worry him, after all it could be a mistake right?

I started walking again only to be roughly pushed aside, "ow, what was that for!" I said angrily, I had fallen on the ground again and was not surprisingly having a hard time getting up. I looked up and saw Botta and other Renegades running past me. I blinked, surprised as they ran through the town injuring other poor suckers- I mean pedestrians in their quest to get to the temple.

'Jerks' I thought angrily, Edonis helped me to my feet, not an easy task for a eight-year old, helping a fifteen year old to her feet.

I walked through the town and stopped 'There's no reason to go after him, I'm not sure if going the journey will even get us home' I thought, not wanting to get involved. After all, I might have pointy ears but I still don't know how to use magic or fight. I noticed I had walked to the other side of the town, the school was on my left. I saw a boy wearing red, a little kid with silver hair, and a girl with blond hair walking out. If I wasn't sure where I was before, I was sure now. I think Edonis recognized them from the opening of Tales of Symphonia, because he pulled on my sleeve and pointed. I nodded, and he asked "What does this mean?"

"it means were not in Canada anymore."