Disclaimer: Tales of Zestiria is belonged Bandai Namco Entertainment. This is fanfic with OC involved.

Author note: Thank you for reading third chapter! I write this chapter as soon as I finished second and write little by little when I had time. And I realized that since this is going to follow some of original storyline so I have to write down dialog from the original as well. How stupid I was.

Warning: some foul language, OCs, violence, a bit AU, and grammar mistakes that I make here without knowing. Also, there would be OOC moment. This one contains canon x OC coupling as well. (Sorey x OC –reversible, Mikleo x Edna, Dezel x Rose, etc)-can be change as story progress

Chapter.3 Gentle Heart

Returning to the Sorey's house didn't take long since it was just mile away from Zenrus's house. Also, Astra's house was near to Sorey's so basically that made them as neighbor. However, three of them would gather at Sorey's house as their basement. So just like other days, Sorey and Astra stayed inside of house and waited for the girl to come back.
When Astra sat on the floor and pondered again for thinking something, she then looked at brown-hair boy.

"So… I agreed on for letting the girl to rest but what is she like?"

"Oh? Didn't I tell?" Sorey's eyes got widened a bit with confused looking. Astra nodded and filled out what Sorey forgot to mention.

"You don't know her name, you know she is from below, you know she is not bad person, and she needs help. That's what I know so far." Then she also added something to sum it up completely. "And she knew the celestial record."

"Yup! She knew and read the celestial record! I want to know what she thinks about and…"

Then there was sound of knocking on the door stopped in middle of his talking. Sorey closed his mouth and a bit disappointed that he stopped explanations about his same kind and interest person to his friendly sister. However, that frowned face disappeared as soon as his seraph friend entered the house. If it was Mikleo, anything was forgivable to him. Same went for Mikleo as well.

Anyway, Mikleo entered to house and approached to two of them. He was holding something-a glove that had making on it- and just handed it over to Sorey with proud face on him.

"I told you that I hand it over when we get home."

"Thank you Mikleo, you are the best!" Sorey then looked at the glove with enthusiasm and excitement while examined briefly on the glove.

Astra looked at the glove that now it wore by Sorey, couldn't help but felt a bit of worried look on her face. Also, she just let Sorey explained the crest on the glove was mark of Shepherd and role of Shepherd on and on. Mikleo scoffed at his too excited human friend and tried to calm him down.

"I thought Shepherd should be more mature in a way."

Astra then also gave a thought. "Be more reasoning and passionate savior to mankind. That was what I imaged as well."

Then, Sorey puffed out his chest with pride so that he could emit imposing posture to two of them. "Be silence, you two." To make them think he is the Shepherd figure to them but it backfired to them thinking he still had a long way to become charismatic Shepherd if that was his goal.

"I oppose to that idea, o' mighty Shepherd."

"This beast shall not follow such unreasonable order."

Sorey chuckled happily how his friends went along his play on the spot. However, Mikleo changed to frowned face to give some advice to him.

"The relic is not play-toy you know."

"I know." Sorey knew it already and looked at the glove with still excitement eyes on it.

Astra then now followed up to where they found glove. "So you guys found that glove at Mt. Mabinogio ruin?"

"Yup. We found it until we bumped to find the girl."

"And…Mikleo held onto it up this point so that Sorey won't distract much about it."

"Bull's eyes." Mikleo commented on how Astra summed up it perfectly but Sorey pouted briefly as he crossed his arms to close his chest.

When Astra caught glimpse of Sorey's sulking, she changed to another subject.

"So where is this girl anyway? Still wondering the town?"

Sorey, is not sulking anymore, looked at the door with worried face. "Now that you mentioned, she is taking long."

"Well, why don't you go and check on her? And bring Astra along with you." Mikleo suggested the idea and stated the fact that Astra still had not met the girl yet. So the proper introduction between two girls was needed to make by Sorey.

Then Sorey worried on the something before leaving the house. "You think she can see Astra?"

"We know sure that Astra is not seraph so I don't see the problem here. Astra is human just like you, Sorey." Mikleo pointed out that facts to take off the worries from his dear human friend and it worked out fine when Sorey smiled to hear that.

However, they still wondered what kind of art to put Astra inside of egg. When their grandfather asked why she was in that egg but Astra shrugged with confused look on her. The only things Sorey and Mikleo knew are Astra didn't remember much about her and she was human. They didn't saw the looks of their gramps closely at that time though.

"Excuse you guys, but shouldn't we go out to find her?" Astra spoke to them to snap out from their thinking. And they realized they just stood at the front of the door and to their surprise, Sorey grabbed the doorknob but not turned to open the door. They felt awkwardness as their faces got bit red due from those embarrassment.

Anyway there was delay to leave the house but they managed to leave somehow. Then three of them found the girl with armor that looking around her surroundings aimlessly. Sorey was the first person to approach near her while Mikleo and Astra were fell behind few steps from him to give spaces to Sorey and girl.

"How are you feeling?" When Sorey asked to the girl how she was doing, she turned her body to face him to give replies. "Oh, I'm fine since this place is quiet and relax" She smiled warmly to the boy but she continued her words with wondering looks. "But it's weird. I felt like I was being watched the whole time." That would be from other seraphs that kept their eyes on the girl to make sure she was not trouble to village. Sorey then let out small chuckles to distract her from those risen questions and gave looks to those other seraphs.

However there was no need for Sorey's efforts this situation, the girl noticed someone behind Sorey and she moved on to thinking that that looking was probably from that one. "Oh, I didn't see you there. Are you relative of him?"

Astra looked at the girl with examining looks but changed to smile to greet her. "Hello, I heard your situation from Sorey. My name is Astra."

"Hello, Astra. My apologies, I can't say fully explanation of me but it is nice to meet you." The girl said greetings with apologetic looks but there was noble aura around the girl. The aura was not kind of egoistic nobility but well-mannered noble with educated speaking as well. Astra then briefly looked at Sorey then turned her head to the girl moments later. "It's okay. I see that you have your own reason to not speak yourself to us. Also Sorey trusts you so I trust you as well."

Then there was brief of sound from the girl's stomach. The girl couldn't find words in this awkward atmosphere but Sorey helped out by "Shall we eat?"

"I'm sorry. I'm feel like I'm going to faint!" Then she gladly received that help. Astra nodded with agreement. "No need to be sorry. That is normal for you current state." She had tough time to hold the hunger and that was what briefly Astra thought inside of her head. But she didn't say it since there was no need to say it.

Sorey lead them to his house and saw his seraph friend was waiting for them to return at the front of house. And more, Mikleo crossed his arms on his chest while he was standing, and that meant he was worried for Sorey and Astra. Two of them hoped that he didn't worry them much. After Sorey and the girl entered the house, Astra briefly caught by Mikleo when he put his hand on her shoulder when she was about to return to her place.

Astra then tilted her head to him. "What is it?"

"What do you think of her?"

"Her? Oh… I saw that she has no harm intention."

"…You saw?" Mikleo couldn't help but made confused expression. Astra then moved on to explanation.

"You are reasonable to be still on the alert to the stranger but when I see her face, she doesn't have harm intention to Sorey and the village."

"…Are you sure?"

"The girl is cautious to not reveal her information to us and that is reasonable to her as well just like you. Also Sorey gave hand to her because she needed help. I don't see the problem to this circumstance so I agreed to help when we explain this to Master Zenrus."

Mikleo still put his hand on her shoulder but pulled out when he also reached to similar conclusion like she had. "But I still worry about Sorey like Gramps."

"Because of that, Sorey is in good hands. So when that happens, somebodies got his back." When Astra made that statement, Mikleo looked at her like somebody hit behind back of his head but grinned quickly when he realized that. "Well, I also am counting on you big sister Astra."

Astra couldn't help but gave weak elbow punch to Mikleo's side. And when she realized what she just did, she quickly pulled her elbow to withdraw and apologized to hit him. Mikleo didn't see that coming but was glad that she was showing more reactions then their first encounter. He wondered if the girl that Sorey found today would come to good term like Astra now but that would come to answer when more time passed to them. And that situation would surely come to them that not far from future.

Note: Sorry for long delay. The school works are giving me hard times and I have to keep up the life. I will still working on the story on though so thank you for picking this story and read.