Welcome to chapter 2!! This time around it is Toan's side of the story.

Let's read...

Toan was a boy about 13 years old, walking through a forest with a cautious look about him. He was wearing the strangest assortment of garments that some could imagine. On his feet he wore some regular old leather shoes. For pants he wore tight black sweatpants. On his torso he bore an orange poncho with many zigzag designs. Perched upon his head was a green hat that looked like a bulb. On his left hand, attached to his glove was a light blue stone.

He was walking down a forest path making sure to keep his guard up. He was walking through the forest, making sure to look around corners carefully until WHACK! He was hit right in the back of the head with a boxing glove. A small pixie stood in front of him giggling madly. How could I be so stupid? Thought Toan, I shouldnt have let my guard down. Then, the pixie went for a second hit, but Toan was ready this time. He dove under the fist, and then slashed straight for the pixies head. The pixie fell to the ground and disappeared into thin air.

He continued on down the path, massaging the bruise left on his head by the pixie. He was still angry with himself for that. He kept a mental note to be much more cautious. As he continued, killing more pixies and other things of the sort, one of them dropped a shiny stone, which he kept in his pocket to get past the owl blocking his path.

He then approached a half-red, half-yellow floating ball. He walked up to it and touched it with his left hand. It popped open and a yellowish-green thing popped out and flew into the blue stone on his hand. Satisfied with his work in this area of the forest, he went to go to the next area.

He approached an owl blocking his way to the next area. He held out a shiny stone, which it rejected. Toan then dropped the stone to the ground, and it disappeared. He began rifling through his bag and pulled out a small, red berry. He showed it to the owl, which took it and swooped away. He then proceeded through the opening.

He walked into a large opening with a cave off to the left and a huge open area for the rest of it. He took a few steps forward and heard a deep growling from above his head. He looked up and saw two werewolves hanging on the top of the forest canopy. As he unsheathed his sword they dropped down upon him, so he stepped backward quickly. The one on the left slashed its claws at him, so he ducked under the attack and beheaded the right one. Then the left one aimed another attack at him, but he ducked down and slashed at the werewolfs legs. It howled in pain, blood spurting out of what was left of its legs, then finally died from blood loss.

Toan walked over to the cave, ready to attack anything, but nothing happened. He yelled something like AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH! into the cave and still nothing happened. Then he remembered Treant, the guardian of the forest, saying a killer snake lived here. Maybe if he made a mouse sound it would come out. He tried every sound like a mouse, but nothing happened. Maybe Caoco, the music guy could help.

Toan left the forest via magic and landed in the village. He then looked at what atlamillia parts he had. He saw he could put a torch on Caocos house, completing it. So he placed the torch on Caocos house, and then entered. Like most other houses in this village, it was a cramped, wooden house. It was full of various furs and meats. In the middle of the room was a cauldron fill of stew. Caoco was sitting on a bench next to the cauldron.

Toan! Caoco exclaimed. Thank you for restoring my house. I finished a song in celebration. Would you like to hear it, Toan?

Toan nodded his head and Caoco started playing his guitar and sang a song about the great Fudoh, one of the best hunters this village ever had.

After he finished, Caoco asked, What do you think? Toan nodded his head and gave him the thumbs-up. Thanks, Caoco started Here you have this. He handed Toan a weird-looking flute like thing.

I made it Caoco said but its a bit off-tune. Toan nodded his head in approval and left.

Toan played it to see what it sounded like, and it sounded just like a mouse! Toan, happy about his gift, left to the forest area he was in before.

He walked up to the cave with an uncertain look on his face and played the flute-like thing. A huge snake, probably about 22 ft. long jumped out over his head. He was a bit shocked by its sudden appearance, but turned around to look at it anyway. It flew forward towards him, but he jumped quickly to the side and grabbed its tail. Its tail thrashed around, knocking Toan into the ground repeatedly. Toan let go before it could break anything important, and landed on his feet. The snake was turned around, so this was the perfect time to attack. Toan pulled out the Serpents Sword that Treant gave him to kill the very snake in front of him. He threw the sword at the snakes back and it left a large cut on its back. It fell to the forest floor, but Toan could get it quickly because the snake was thrashing around in a frenzy. Toan ran up to a tree, bounced off the side, sending him flying through the air. He took the sword while he was flying by the snake and slashed its head off.

The head fell to the ground with a shower of blood. Toan looked very pleased with himself, however he was massaging broken ribs. Then the pain of being thrashed around set in, and he sat down with his back to a tree. He pulled out some special bread and ate it, which made his ribs feel better. He got up and stood where the snake disappeared seconds before. He walked over to a nearby spring and washed off his blade.

He walked over to the middle of the clearing and felt something collide painfully with his head. He fell to the ground and looked up and saw a shadowy figure in the slightly darkened forest. He went to get up and attack whatever it was, but found he couldnt move. The shadowy figure moved over to Toan and removed the atlamillia from his glove. The only thing Toan could do was give him a hateful stare. The figure then said Now dont look at me like that.

He was still looking at him when he saw a purple light illuminate the semidarkness behind the shadowy figure. The figure turned to look at the new development, and relaxed when two teenagers, about the same age as Toan appeared on the forest floor, unconscious. He walked over to the teenagers and took a purple stone on the ground, an atlamillia

He took the atlamillia, on in each hand, and smashed them together. They merged making one atlamillia in a dark blue color. He then reached in his pocket and took out a yellow atlamillia, than merged them again. The final stone, Toan saw was a green color. Then the shadowy figure disappeared, and Toan could move again. He sat up, but as he did a rock hit him in the head from out of nowhere. As he was falling unconscious he saw a bright, white figure appear, look around, then disappear. Then his head hit the ground, him finally falling unconscious.

Well, that was OK right? Anyway I'll get chapter 3 up soon.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Cloud 1 or 2 or any of the characters in said games