Responding to reviewers from chapter 8 of Surviving Flanoir:
crystaltears: Thank you, if you have any questions, just ask.
Zelda's Fox 38: Sorry, the job of Village Pyro has already been taken, but you can try for crazy guard who likes to catapult out of town. (Don't ask) Spoony-ness will come soon.
NomadicOne: Well, I'm glad you jumped over to see. It's one of the things fan authors write for, other people to enjoy their work.
Dragoonknight1: The sequel will have Sheloyd, I promise. I have to write what is on my mind before I forget, or I will forget.
Wyvern's Darkness: I couldn't burn Colette, it wouldn't fit into the plot, I'm sorry. Yes, the Sheloyd took a while, but you can't just have Lloyd suddenly realize it, he'd have to go through something first. This isn't the AE, and anyone could add a suggestion.
Mizu: Thanks, I hoped it was a humorous ending; you do have to feel sorry for the poor seamonkies though.
YAAAY!!: I don't' have the heart to kill Colette, another author did and it was depressing, even though it was a Sheloyd fic. I'm glad you love the story.
GM: Okay, this is a Humor/Mystery/Romance fiction, but I could only fit the first two.
Anti: Why not just label it general?
Conscious: YOU SPEAK TO ME OF IMPUDENCE!!! THAT IS IMPUDENCE!!!!!!!
Bane: Oh shut up.
GM: My muses are relatively insane….
Anti: Okay, I'll do the disclaimer, before doom befalls us all. Disclaimer: Green Magi does not own Namco or Tales of Sympthonia or Edgar
Conscious: Um, Doom only opens if someone opens it…
Anti: I was being sarcastic…
Bane: But the game doesn't make sense, why do people make the same mistake of opening the portal so many times?
GM: (shakes head) Anyway, now I will give the immunity passes to Two Characters. Genis, here's yours.
Genis: Cool, so I don't get knocked unconscious, maimed, or wounded?
GM: Yup. (for the first two)
Zelos: Why not me? All the worlds' women will grieve if I die.
Edgar: That's MY line (takes out chainsaw)
Zelos: Oops…
GM: Genis gets it because he's my favorite character of ToS.
Colette: Why him?
GM: Because he can use magic.
(all sweat drop)
Raine: I use magic!
GM: So? You heal, who cares if you can cure yourself if your enemy is dead before they can make another move?
Raine: I am so going to kill you.
GM: Ignore Raine, anyway, Presea, you get one to.
Presea: (moves head to one side) Why?
GM: Do I need a reason? Anyway, on to the story.
The Wonder Chef was found dead in the Sylverant Renegade Base. The suspects are;
Lloyd Irving, the Wonder Chef said he shouldn't eat all meat.
Colette Brunel, cooks with all fruits, but is too innocent to kill someone cold blood.
Genis Sage, the Wonder Chef never told him how he disappeared.
Raine Sage, horrible cooking, the Chef had insulted her once.
Kratos Aurion: Cooks with 4,000 year old recipes. Kind of sword crazy.
Sheena F: Cooks with Pineapple, Assassin, might have killed him for fun.
Presea Combatir, cooks too extravagantly, prime suspect.
Zelos Wilder, saw the Wonder Chef flirting with one of his floozies.
Regal Bryant, was always 2nd to the Great Chef.
Yuan, the murder was conducted in the Sylverant Renegade base.
"So, we need to find the murderer before he or she strike again." Yuan finished telling his story to the party who were just outside Flanoir ready to take off.
"How could we have done it? The Rehairds just started working two days ago." Lloyd argued with the age old half elf. The snow was currently subsiding, and you could see the clouds.
"Well, we did all go off to different places for different reasons." Raine intervened; the two warriors would be killing each other soon.
"Yah, you dragged me off to the Triet Ruins and— OW!" Genis stated before being slapped by Raine. He only had a few pinkish tints in his hair left over from the shampoo.
"Anyway, you all have to come with me." Yuan demanded, only to meet snickers.
"WHAT!" Yuan screeched out, he hated being left out on jokes.
"Heheheh, your hair is on fire, hahahahah!" Zelos told Yuan, whose head, was on fire. Yuan started running all over, and then banged his head against the snow covered ground.
"Well that was…disturbing." Presea added her monotone opinion. She turned to her friends, "If we go, there is a higher probability of Yuan no longer bothering us."
"Good idea Presea!" Genis blurted out, blushing as he said it.
"Let's hurry then," Sheena input, trying to save the poor boy any more embarrassment.
"We only have seven working Rehairds, one of us will have to share…" Regal added, somewhat distracted that the Wonder Chef was dead, poor Chef.
"I know my voluptuous beauty will be honored to join me," Zelos said, looking at Sheena.
"Pbbt, yeah right. How about when the Nifleim freezes over? You know what, not even when the Nifleim freezes over, because I don't want to be flying over ice." Sheena replied to the perverted playboy.
"Come on O' Great Beauty, join me?" Zelos asked her again.
"How about, NOT!" Sheena punched Zelos, who flinched from the punch to his face.
"It's over between us Sheena; no one makes me bleed my own blood." He told her, quoting Dodge Ball. His lip was a little bloated and bleeding a little bit, but it was okay in total.
"Um… Sheena can ride with me, if she wants to…" Lloyd said quietly, so only Sheena and everyone who wasn't Zelos could hear. No one noticed other than Sheena though; they were too busy watching Zelos is pain.
"Can we go now, the sooner it is over the better." Raine said in that tone that meant we-are-going-and-no-arguments-or-else-extreme-pain-will-befall-you.
"Okay then, here you go." Yuan handed Raine two coconuts.
"What are THESE for?" Raine asked him suspiciously.
"Well, you bang them together, and it sounds like a horse." Yuan told the Grand Healer like she should know that.
"And why would I want to bang them together?" She was starting to lose her composure; somebody was going to be in serious pain if Yuan didn't stop.
"So we can sound like we're on horses" Regal answered before Yuan, who had a surprised look for a second, then it went back to normal.
"FINE!!! AND I MIGHT AS WELL DANCE WITH ZELOS WHILE I'M AT IT!!!!" Count down on Raine's anger clock had begun.
"Nobody asked you to dance with Zelos sis." Genis interrupted her death glare.
"Look, the Angry Mob from chapter 8!" Zelos said that, and then jumped on his purple Rehaird. "Quickly, to the Zelos Cave!"
After everyone except Lloyd and Sheena had gotten on, the mob was closer than they were comfortable. The Green Rehaird was the only one left.
"Well Sheena, here we go." Lloyd told her as he boarded the rehaird, excited about flying again. "Don't let go", he warned before taking off.
"I don't want to let go…" Sheena whispered to herself, off in dream world, not noticing how tightly she held on to Lloyd.
"Hey Sheena!" Genis called from his rehaird, moving close, but not so close that it would crash and burn.
"What?!" Sheena didn't enjoy falling asleep and then waking up a few seconds later.
"You're choking Lloyd, I just thought you should know." He said in that smart-alecky way that he was famous for. Lloyd was in fact turning purple, Sheena was holding on a bit too tight.
"Sorry Lloyd!" Sheena loosened her death grip as the purple receded from Lloyd's face.
While this was happening, Colette and Presea were in an intimate debate about……………………………………………......................................................................................................................................………Colette's wings.
"Wings aren't that great." Presea argued, "You need to use extra energy to move a wing, which humans are not supposed to have."
"Oh come on silly!" Colette responded in that cheerful way that anyone who has even heard about ToS knows about. "You see such beautiful views, and they're so pretty!"
"My wings are so awesome, everybody fear me!" Zelos decided to add his opinion which was worth about zero on the world market.
"Oh, I like your wings too Zelos," Colette told the other Chosen, "But mine are much better than yours."
"Colette, you wound me." Zelos looked like he was hit by Genis' Indignation Judgment. Then of course, because he wasn't looking, he flew into a rain cloud and after a few minutes, got out and was soaked to the core.
"Yuan, how did the Wonder Chef die?" Raine asked the Renegade Leader, after stifling her laughter, she so enjoyed seeing Zelos in pain and/or annoyed.
"Apparently, a bucket of Rehaird grease was above a door, and when he opened it, he was doused, then, something caused him to set on fire." Yuan told the Professor, who was looking back toward her companions.
Suddenly, Zelos' face grew pale and he fell off his Rehaird onto the sands of Triet, right next to the sandworm nest. Fortunately, (or unfortunately), the sandworms were busy chowing down on some creature who's form was too disfigured too tell what it was. A worm looked up toward the chosen, but went back to chewing a few seconds later.
"We might as well save him..." Lloyd said, with a tired sigh in his voice, he was always looking after Zelos. The only thing Zelos did was get them lost and in trouble with villagers all over the worlds.
"Do we have too?" came from Raine and Sheena simultaneously, Sheena in a semi-tired voice, while Raine was on the edge of rune mode, they were passing near the Triet Ruins.
"If he dies, we have to fill out all the paperwork, and do we have time to save the world AND file meaningless paperwork?" Regal was the voice of reason, which he sometimes hated being.
They came down and Presea grudgingly picked Zelos up, and they had to walk the rest of the way to the Base, no one wanted to have Zelos with them, who would have thought? (Sarcasm.)
When they finally got there, Colette gave a cough, and started hacking all over the place, eventually ending up on her knees with her hand on the ground.
"Pro-fe-sor..." Colette gasped out, "C-an'-t ta...lk" after stuttering this out, she promptly shut her mouth and looked at the silver-haired half elf pleadingly.
"Well, then you must have…" Raine took a dramatic pause, "Laryngitis. It causes you to have a sore throat and very limited speaking ability, the best way to recover is to not talk at all." And at this, there was silent rejoicing among the party; Colette was becoming too annoying of late.
Colette nodded her head, and then put her hand over her mouth like she was going to be sick. She ran to the other side of the base, and was over there for a few minutes, leaving the 8 to just stand around and do nothing. She came back out, smiling like nothing happened.
"Well that was…awkwardly disturbing," Presea added her opinion, which was what everyone was thinking, but didn't want to say outloud. Presea dropped Zelos onto the sand, (un)fortunately, Zelos hit a rock. "It is your turn to carry him Colette".
Colette just continued to smile and picked Zelos up, and started to move forward up the stairs of the base. Everyone expected her to trip, but she didn't.
"Hey Lloyd," Sheena whispered to him while everyone was watching Colette. "You know that wish I made on that shooting star at Flanoir before Zelos betrayed us? It was that this would happen to Zelos".
"Well, apparently it worked." Lloyd turned toward the ninja and whispered, "Remember, it was Raine who cooked, so maybe she poisoned him."
Genis heard their voices but not what they said, and stared at the warrior and ninja, who were standing directly next to each other. Could it be that Lloyd like Sheena? Or, does Sheena like Lloyd? GAH! My head, IT BURNS! This happens every time I have a problem that seems unsolvable… Let's see, Lloyd is too thick headed to notice if someone likes him, or is he? Problem isn't mathematical, MY HEAD HURTS!
"Raine…" Regal was taking a chance, "Did Zelos eat the fish?"
"Yes… why?" Raine answered, puzzled.
"The fish was poisoned, but it will wear off in a few minutes…" As an after thought, Regal added, "You aren't banging the coconuts".
The Renegade Base doors opened, only to reveal a familiar face, Kratos. In his normal purple outfit, and with that trademark frown on his face he walked down and pretty much pushed everyone in.
"Kratos, what are you doing here?" Raine asked the angelic mercenary, a small blush appearing on her face as they stopped in the hall with the GameCube.
"Apparently I'm a suspect, I don't know why." Kratos glared at Yuan who was looking at the ground kicking at a non existent rock.
A sound that meant the ways out of the base were closed sounded. This meant that there was another person in the base other than themselves, a high probability it was the killer.
"Yuan, where are the other Renegades? This place is empty." Sheena asked with a tiny miniscule amount of fear in her voice. She absent mindedly moved closer to Lloyd.
"I sent them out to get the people on my hit list." Yuan told them, receiving stares.
"You have a hit list?" Genis asked the Renegade leader, who was fidgeting again.
"No, um…What hit list? Just forget everything I said about that okay." Yuan stuttered for the first half but regained his composure. Note to self, think before saying anything.
"So, we are stuck, in a base, with a murderer?" Raine had an edge to her voice that would have split stone. She just noticed she was missing her staff, how was she going to bash people without it? "Where's my staff?"
"Pretty much and I don't know." Yuan told her smiling; he was as ignorant as Lloyd and Presea sometimes.
"How about we split up and search that way, a pair searching each part of the base?" Zelos suddenly woke up and gave his useless opinion. Which they decided to take for once.
"That sounds like a good idea!" Kratos said, "And why don't we leave our weapons here too? Haven't you ever read any horror books, boy? Every time you split up, YOU DIE!" the angel shook his head, how could people not see the obvious?
"I think we should do it." Regal said to no one in particular, "I will search the kitchen!" He started to take a step toward the door, when he remembered that he needs a partner. "Everyone move to whom you want your partner to be, I'll take whoever."
Sheena and Lloyd stayed where they were; they already were next to each other. Genis moved shyly to Presea's side, who just looked at him and gave a nano-second quick smile. Raine moved next to Kratos, who was devising a plan to escape the base, it hadn't been cleaned for years, and there were pizza boxes all over. Zelos, seeing three of the four girls were taken, immediately stood up and skidded to Colette's side, who just kept on smiling. So it seemed Yuan and Regal were stuck as a team.
"Let's go!" Raine was enthusiastic; she might sneak a peek at some of the base's magi-technology. And so the teams set off in separate directions.
GM: Well, there you have it, the first chapter of the sequel.
Anti: You forgot the AE to the last one…
GM: First this.
Bane: Well, any comments are appreciated.
Conscious: This isn't a Celos, it's a Sheloyd, Gesea, and a touch of Kraine.
Anti: Well, the killer has already been decided, and nothing can change it, just so you know.