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Now onto the chapter!

Note: This Chapter is very long because if I had to split it into two parts, it wouldn't make any sense. I'll do my best to avoid this in the future though…

Chapter 2: Time To Go! Tephra Cave!

As the three of us were heading towards the ruins, Shulk was helpful enough to inform me about what he knew about the world. It was pretty nice and gave me some information about this place that I would need to know. As I guessed they asked me questions on where I was from, but I decided to avoid the question; after all who would believe I was from another world and suddenly dropped down into this one without any warning or prior knowledge?

It wasn't very long once we stepped into the ruins and the place really took the breath away from me. I'm not sure why, but I was always one to fall in love with anything regarding nature… including my strange fondness of rocks… Regardless during the way there, Shulk and Reyn finished up quests got new ones and even helped me get myself used to battle… After getting a weapon of course. I still hadn't showed the weird bracelet of mine yet and since Shulk had the Monado upon his back, he was kind enough to lend me his Junk Sword until I found a weapon that I could use on my own. Maybe if I can somehow control the weapon from my bracelet and use its powers, then I could return Shulk the favor. Too busy in the thoughts and distracted by nature, I didn't notice the two had stopped by a door with a green marking onto it… until I almost bumped into Shulk. Luckily I stopped just as Shulk turned to me as I stopped.

"Neetz, are you ready?" He asked looking at me.

"Huh-?! Oh right, I am," I replied, "I… kind of got lost in the beauty of this place… Where I come from we don't… usually have these kinds of stuff…"

"Well, can't waste anymore time now," Reyn said us, "Let's get going."

"Right!" I replied smiling.

The three of us walked passed a caved in-route but then Shulk stopped seeing… just a lamp?

"An ether lamp…" Shulk said aloud.

Reyn walked a bit closer to inspect it as I went over to them, as I was still lagging a bit behind.

"Don't traders use these things as guideposts?" Reyn asked.

"Yeah. We can follow them to the Bionis' knee."

"Ok. But if armed traders need guideposts, it must be pretty dangerous here."

"But… aren't guideposts supposed to lead a safe route for traders?" I asked them both.

"Only one way to find out," Reyn replied looking over at me, "Let's keep our wits about us."

"Defiantly," Shulk said nodding, "Neetz, stay close."

"Alright," I replied.

~Xenoblade Chronicles: Rewind~

Let's see what kinds of things we did up to find about four soldiers lying on the ground… We killed many monsters to get quest items, which for some reason was harder than it was suppose to be according to Shulk. Mining crystals and somehow I was getting the best crystals, which Reyn got jealous of me because of that… And now we found dead trader bodies from Colony 6. I watched as Reyn and Shulk returned the bodies to the B Bionis by placing them into a pool glowing a teal blue. Shulk noticed how uncomfortable I was seeing the bodies, as they were gross, so he told me it would be fine… That we'd get through this together and I could return to my family… If only he knew…

"That was way harder than I thought it'd be," Reyn said in between breaths, "I'm just about ready to collapse."

"Then you should train harder," I said jokingly walking over to the boys.

"And you should too you know!"

"Oh come, I was just joking around Reyn… Can't a girl have some fun too?"

"Let's take a rest you two," Shulk said turning to us, "If the monsters in here really killed all these traders, we need to be at our best. I'm wide awake, so I'll take first watch. Neetz, get some sleep as well; you're not use to fighting, so it's probably drained out your energy as well along with that headache of yours."

"Thanks, man," Reyn replied, "The nap'll d me good."

"Sure thing Shulk," I replied remembering my headache, as it came back again, "I'll need it…"

We gathered up some wood and started a fire, but I soon got myself comfortable and fell asleep nearby the fire.

"…You're a survivor from the Monado expedition team that went out fourteen years ago…" Reyn's voice said in my head… "There was a blizzard or something and your mom and dad died…"

The dream state I was in had me… watching something like a cut scene as the two of them were talking, but I was only seeing a part of it. I was sleeping by the fire and they were by me as I slept, but I guess Reyn couldn't fall asleep… But the thing he was talking about… was it about Shulk?

The scene changed as I found myself standing in the small campsite, all along but with Shulk's… Monado lying in the ground… Looking at myself, I seemed normal until I noticed that the bracelet was missing from my wrist…

"A curious one you are… to find yourself in this world…" a soft, male voice said echoing in the area, "Yet you do not fear it…"

"Um… W-Who's there?!" I asked aloud…

"You hold the key… The key to their survival and your return home… But if you're forced to choose only one… Which one would you want…?"

"The key… their survival and my return home…? Just- What are you talking about…?!"

"Just help the Monado… It'll explain everything in due time…"

"…Neetz! Neetz!"

My eyes widen hearing Shulk calling out to my name.

"S-Shulk?! Shulk!"

"Neetz!"

~Xenoblade Chronicles: Rewind~

My eyes shot open just as I heard hissing around me. Grabbing the Junk Sword as I got up, I found me with Shulk and Reyn surrounded by the spider-like creatures, sending chills up my spine.

"W-What are these thing d-doing here?!" I asked before they charged right at us.

Separating, Reyn got most of the creature's attention, but a few of them were focused on Shulk and I. As we were fighting them off from the back, I had to keep myself watching out for the spiders coming after me. I only swung my sword when needed as Reyn with Shulk's help took out the rest of the monsters. Once all the creepy monsters were gone, all of us looked at one another as we placed our weapons away.

"I'm sorry Reyn," Shulk said before looking over at me, "Are you alright Neetz?"

"Shaken… but fine…" I replied.

"Don't worry about it Shulk," Reyn replied, "It looked like you were having a nightmare!"

"Really?" Shulk asked folding his arms and he began to think.

While he was thinking, both Reyn and I noticed how… distant he was when I called out his name…

"The True Monado?" Shulk asked aloud, not noting how confused we were, "Was I dreaming?"

"Shulk? Hello~?!" I asked waving my hand in front of his face, "Are you listening to us?!"

"What's with you?" Reyn asked, "We better get a move on."

As Reyn led the way, I looked into Shulk's eyes, just trying to see what was wrong with him. I knew that my dream was weird… but I couldn't think about it just yet, as with killer monsters daydreaming wouldn't be an option. Grabbing his arm, I noticed how he didn't even flinch, but I sighed and started to drag Shulk along.

"Let's get going Shulk before Reyn gets worked up," I said aloud.

I only took a few steps before I heard Shulk clear his throat.

"Now look who finally decided to wandering inside his head," I said stopping and releasing my grip, "S-Sorry but I didn't want you to lag behind…"

"No, it's fine," Shulk replied before we both saw Reyn going off still, "Let's get going then."

"Lead the way Shulk!"

Both of us headed off, but when we finally got to where Reyn was, my eyes widen to see what looked to be egg sacks with armor inside of it.

"What on Bionis are those?" Reyn asked looking at them.

"No kidding Reyn," I replied before looking at Shulk, "Got any ideas Shulk?"

"Monsters' egg sac… I think," Shulk replied as the three us went a bit closer to them, but Reyn went the furthest, "But it looks like there are Mechon parts insides as well."

"So… what can of monsters are these?" I asked Shulk, not wanting to get closer to them.

"Probably some type of Arachno…"

Just then Shulk's eyes widen and a flash a light blinded me for a second.

~Xenoblade Chronicles: Rewind~

My eyes opened to see everything all black and white… Webs came forth and grabbed both Reyn and Shulk before pulling them up towards the ceiling. The next scene changed to them surrounded by Arachno and then… their bodies were lying dead…

~Xenoblade Chronicles: Rewind~

The vision soon left as it came before I saw Shulk turned towards Reyn.

"Reyn! Neetz! Get back!" Shulk yelled.

"What was that?" I asked myself quietly before I instinctively moved backwards and dodged webs coming down form the ceiling, "AH~!"

My eyes darted up as I heard more sticky webs then shoot down and wrapped around both Reyn and Shulk.

"Reyn! Shulk!" I yelled as I got up shaking in fear.

Before I could run to them, the webs were pulled up into the ceiling, leaving me all alone with the eggs as I heard footsteps and yelling faintly.

"What just… Did I… just see the future?" I asked, "…Get it together Neetz! The boys need your help… even if you do hate spiders…"

I looked towards the exit before seeing the egg sacs move a bit more. Maybe I should get out of here as quietly and quickly as I could. To my relief, I was able to get out of there without making much noise before running off to find the boys. It didn't take long to see their shadows, running atop a second floor away from the monsters.

"Shulk! Reyn! I need to hurry and get to them fast!" I said looking down at the lake before seeing vines in the distant, "If I can climb up… I should be able to get over to the boys."

The only way logical was to run across the lake and dodge the enemies. I really had no choice but to do so and I did. Managing to get through safety, I saw vines and as it reached over to the upper level. This was my only way up to the boys and fearing for their safely, I started to climb up.

~Xenoblade Chronicles: Rewind~

"Neetz!" Reyn's voice called out to me as I ran holding the Junk Sword.

"Shulk! Reyn!" I yelled as I looked left and right hoping to catch a glimpse of them.

Panting, I kept running until I entered a spiral cavern and stopped, seeing the two in the middle of the swarm.

"Guys!" I yelled.

"There's too many of them!" Reyn yelled out, "We kill one, and ten more pop up!"

"Hold on!"

Just then more of them started to shoot webs and chase after the boys after from me, causing them to run away. The room was the one I saw in my vision… Oh no!

"Shulk! Reyn! Don't run that way!" I yelled chasing after them, "Guys!"

"Neetz!" Shulk exclaimed stopping with Reyn and turning around to see me.

Just as I stopped, my eyes widen seeing what looked to be the queen of the Arachno crawling down behind them and the vision matched up perfectly with this one. If this was truly a vision, I needed to do something to save them! The queen or leader finally landed down and when the boys turned around, it roared aloud before lunging to attack them. Fear and panic swept through my body and the grip on my sword tighten, not noticing that my bracelet was glowing and changed the Junk Sword to the first weapon I had.

If only I had come here sooner!

Just then I heard buzzing from my sword and when I looked down, a symbol appeared in the diamond: an hourglass with a thunderbolt going through it. The glass now became a brown color before the hourglass's thunderbolt began to glow a gold color.

"What's… What is-?!" I asked aloud before getting cut off.

Everything around me began to fade away into tiny particles as my headache grew worse. I saw the vision again and all that appeared in my mind way if I was just there faster… I could save them… Shulk would have reacted too late and Reyn was defenseless… I needed to stop time to save them! My eyes opened up as the particles began to reform, but while everything was being placed back together, I noticed that another version of me was there… When I had just stopped running as the leader of the Arachno was coming down. Gripping my sword, I had to charge at the creature while it was still climbing down, before it got to Shulk and Reyn. As I ran, the blunt edge of the sword suddenly had a blade form at the ends, but it was purple laser-like extension. Time was slowly returned as I just fazed through Shulk and Reyn as the creature landed down.

"No… leave them alone!" I yelled raising my sword up as it lunged at them.

Suddenly everything returned to normal speed as my blade sent the leader crying out in pain, cringing back in pain, I panted heavily before I turned to look back at Shulk and Reyn, both in shock as I noticed that the other version of me had faded away.

"What just… What did you just do?!" Reyn asked looking at me.

"What's that weapon you're holding?!" Shulk asked seeing the blade I was holding as I stood up.

"I… don't know…" I replied as I saw the brown glow of the diamond fade away, turning to a purple glow to match the extension of the blade, "This… is the first time I've actually used it…"

"…Well that's something-! Neetz!" Shulk yelled as his Monado activated and turned a yellow-golden color and used it to form a shield around the three of us, much to our surprise.

"What just happened now?!" I asked turning around to see Shulk watching as the Monado returned to its original blue color.

"The power of the Monado?!" Shulk asked eyes widen looking at the blade.

Both Shulk and I didn't see the leader coming back to attack us, but Reyn luckily noticed this and blocked the attack, along with the shield Shulk made. He quickly sent it back with a strong force.

"Glad two of us figured out what these things were going to do," Reyn said looking back at us, "Let's go you two."

"Right!" Shulk replied activating the Monado.

"Got your back boys!" I replied with my blade ready to strike, "I'll try my best!"

The leader roared at us and the three us started to attack after the shields faded away. As many more Arachnos came from all around, Shulk and Reyn focused on the leader as I took out the small ones while making sure no more attacks weren't predicted by Shulk. The blade I had was surprising working well and I felt like wielding this was natural to me…. Despite myself never actually hold any kind of sword on Earth before. It felt all-too normal and it sent chills up my spine as I fought. Shulk was casting the shield on us whenever he had a vision or the leader tried to attack us.

"Neetz! Let's get ready for a chain attack!" Shulk yelled back at me as I saw a swarm of the creatures running my way.

"A Chain Attack?!" I asked a bit confused before seeing them getting closer, "Argh! Spiral Strike!"

Grabbing my blade in one hand, I quickly twirled around and the force of my attack killed most of them before I stopped. It felt like… it looked like an Art… Did I learn an Art…? Those special moves that Reyn and Shulk used…? I shook my head, not wanting to think deeply about it as I ran over to form a triangle around the leader.

"Ok, ready Shulk!" I yelled with my blade out ready to attack.

"Right, time for a chain attack!" Shulk yelled.

Shulk swung the Monado at the leader, inflicting Break as Reyn was the next to go, using topple. Reyn motioned for me to attack and I had a good idea on what I needed to do… and it would work as I had more enemies around me.

"Let spins the tides to our favor!" I said activating my Spiral Strike.

I spun around quickly and then stopped soundly before landing down. I quickly swung my blade that sent it reeling in pain.

"Shulk, now's your chance!"

The Chain Attack succeeded and as soon as the leader had fallen, the other Arachnos fled the scene, leaving us to chance our breaths. As the boys withdrew their weapons, I looked at mine, which was still activated.

"Looks like the Monado works on more than just Mechon," Reyn said as the three of us faced each other, "I gotta say that was pretty awesome! And don't forget that wrap thing you did Neetz! That was still pretty awesome!"

"Right… thanks Reyn," I replied with my free hand scratching the base of my head and neck.

"Reyn... Neetz… I think I realized something," Shulk said looking at us.

"And what's that Shulk?" I asked lowering my hand.

"The future I see… It isn't set. I think it's more like a warning."

"A warning?" Reyn asked.

"Yeah… A warning about what would happen. What will happen if I don't do anything or if I can't do anything. So I can use this power to change the future. And that's exactly what I intend to do…"

"Well if that's the case…" I said with my free hand resting now on my hip, "I think other people would like that too… maybe even your friends back in Colony 9…"

"Yeah… Say Neetz, about that thing you did earlier with that weapon of yours… Can I see it?" Shulk asked looking at me.

"Um… Sure thing-!"

I held up my hand holding the blade, but to my surprise the blade had returned to the normal Junk Sword. Confused, I swung the blade a bit, but nothing react and my headache felt the same dulling pain as it was before…

"Huh? Did it just disappear?!" Reyn asked surprised as I was.

"I… not sure myself," I replied as I placed my sword back into its sheath, "But even still… That was weird how time seemed to vanish for a few second…"

"What do you mean?" Shulk asked.

"I… really don't know how to even begin…" I began trying to figure out how to even begin to explain this to them… as it wasn't clear to me at all, "I can say it was that when I saw you both about to be killed by the huge leader… everything around me vanished into tiny particles as my headache grew worse. Then as I was thinking about how I could change it… and when everything was returning to what it was originally… but it wasn't the same; it looked like there were two of me and I had gone back into time. I… then ran 'through' you two and struck the huge Arachno… as crazy that sounds its true…"

"So wait… if that were so, then why was it that the Junk Sword changed into the sword you used to fight the Arachno off?"

"I… not sure… but I do have a feeling this bracelet of mine might hold the key to this puzzle…"

I lowered my jacket sleeve to show them and as I predicted, Shulk was immediately fascinated by it.

"What kind of bracelet if this?" He asked as he grabbed my arm to see it better, "It's nothing like I've seen before! Did you get this where you came from?"

"…Um… Funny thing is I kind of found it on the ground and decided to hang onto it… but yeah I did find it where I can from…"

Having to lie to Shulk wasn't easy, but then again the smell of dead creatures wasn't something I'd get accustomed to either.

"Say Shulk, how about let's get out of this cave? I… think it would be safer than inside here considering the creatures in here. Plus I kind of need some fresh air."

"Yeah, you're right," Shulk replied, "Alright then, let's get going to the Bionis' knee."