((A/N: yay, next chapter time! 1 review huh? well, good enough 4 me. this chapter's pretty short, but it got kratos and raine, and i make a specail guest email appearence. i plan to have them recieve alot of email, so if anyone wants to write them an email i'll "send" it to them.

i do not own tales of symphonia, orKahlua. just to clear things up. enjoy!))

"Wake up!"

Yuan rolled over into his pillow, pulling it closer like a teddy bear, "But Kratos, I don't want to!"

Sheena smacked Yuan with a fish she'd purchased at the market, getting fish guts all over the bedspread.

Yuan bounced out of bed, fully dressed.

So our two heroes quickly made there way to the dock and got on Max's boat. Convincing Max to take them wasn't hard.

"Take us to Palmacoasta!" That would be Yuan.

"Hell no! I already got tricked into that once! And isn't Palmacoasta in ruin?"

"Shut up! In this fic it's not!" Sheena.

"Fic? What the hell is a fic?" Max.

Yuan sighed, "Never mind, if we tell you all your thoughts on your life's purpose will be destroyed! Do you want your life destroyed?"

"No…"

"Then let us on the damn boat!"

And with that they were off to Palmacoasta, the city that had not been destroyed by the Giant Psycho Tree.

Sitting on the deck Yuan heard a familiar ping, "Yay! Mail!"

Sheena rolled her eyes.

"Dear Sheena and Yuan,

Please do not go blabbering about the world of fan fiction to random side characters. It really throws off any seriousness in your quest and confuses anyone who would be reading this. Not that anyone does because your quest to find Kratos and Raine is not some crazy plotline made up by a seventeen year old fan girl as an excuse to make another fanfic involving Yuan and Kratos. It's not like it's being written out so other people can read it using the Internet or anything. Your actions are not just figments of my imagination. So yeah. I hope you save your true loves from certain peril, not that I know what's going to happen or anything.

Yours truly,

Brandy Mallory."

Sheena frowned, "That was weird."

Yuan nodded in agreement, "Lets never speak of it again."

Max pulled the boat into the Palmacoasta docks, "Everyone out. I need to go home. Linda might confess her love for me tonight."

Yuan snorted, "Yeah. Good luck with that."

Strolling through the streets Sheena spotted the post office and pulled Yuan inside, where they were faced with an impossibly long line.

"This sucks. It's a longer wait than when me and Kratos went to see those male strippers at Altamira." Yuan pouted.

"Male strippers?"

"Yeah, big rip off. Just turned out to be a bunch of old men tearing up junk mail for three hours."

Sheena looked at the clock, which didn't seem to be moving, "This will take forever."

She stuck two fingers in her mouth and blew.

The whole post office turned to look at them.

"Hi," Sheena said waving, "I'm Sheena, and I helped to save all your ass's. So let me to the front of the line or I'll summon Maxwell."

The line quickly split, and Sheena walked up to the clerk holding up the letter.

"Can you tell me where this letter came from?" She demanded.

The clerk, shaking in fear, took the letter and looked at it, "Ummm, this letter came from our other Palmacoasta branch."

"What?" Yuan asked, pushing up beside Sheena, "This is the only Palmacoasta!"

"Well ummm, we wanted to expand. So the company bought out a few offices in other parts of the world. This ones from the one in Katz Village." He handed the letter back then ducked under the desk in fear that Sheena or Yuan might murder him.

They went to the nearest bar to regroup. Yuan ordered a Beachcomber (Sprite, orange juice, cranberry juice and vodka) and Sheena had a Paralyzer (Kahlua, vodka, Pepsi, milk and ice).

"Well this sucks," Yuan pouted.

"Yeah."

Elsewhere in the highest tower of a secret, hard to get to, underground lair.

"What about Grave?" Raine asked the auburn.

Kratos concentrated for a second, then twirled around, "Grave!"

His attack was deflected by the door, the rock spike exploding into pieces.

"Guess not."

"Hmmmmm…" Kratos frowned, "That mysterious evil guy sure knows his stuff."

Raine put her hands on her hips, "What makes you sure it's not a woman?"

"Oh come on. No woman could possibly be smart enough to magic block the door." Kratos sat down on the floor, looking around the tiny room he and Raine had woken up in, "Plus bad guy's are always male. It's a fact."

Raine threw a shoe at him.

"What? It is!"

((wow, talk about a dead end for our hero's. will they find a way to Katz Village? Will Linda cofess her love to Max? Will Kratos get more shoes thrown at him? Will the maid get the fish off of the bedspread? is the mystery evil guy male or female?

truthfully i really don't know. but please review. thanks for reading!))