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A.N : thanks to MoonLight M3lody for helping me with my story.
Chapter 4
Regal had been flying for a long time before he reached his destination. It's was a quiet place near the Ossa trail. It was there that the Lezareno mercenaries' base was established. It was surrounded by forest and you could see a small river flowing near. The base had been constructed there for many reasons. The first thing, it was far away from any major town like Meltokio, Flanoir, Altamira or Palmacosta which was useful, since they didn't want to be harassed by people or by Zelos hunnies. The second, it was really quiet and peaceful, something great for a place that is supposed to be for relaxation after a mission. The last reason, the spot was nice and big enough for the base. The base itself looked more like a regular house or a big cottage than a mercenary base. It was a big house made of stone with a chimney on the side. There were also many windows so the light would come inside the house. The interior was pretty simple, there was a kitchen, a living room, a dining room and nine sleeping rooms.
Regal was going to see how his friends were after one week and to relax from his administrative work. It was quite relaxing walking in the forest with only the sound of bird accompanying. Then, the melodic voice of Sheena pierced the peaceful atmosphere: "You, pathetic excuse for a chosen!" followed by the sound of a slap. You could hear Zelos whining: "You're so violent, hunny." just to be slapped again by Sheena. Regal couldn't help but smile at those sounds, even after one year and a half this was the sound that everything was going fine. He finally reached the house. Before he had the time to knock at the door, it was opened by a red-haired male who stumbled into Regal. "Hey Regal, it's you. Everyone, Regal is here." shouted the magic swordsman.
It didn't take long for Regal to be surrounded by his friends. He was assaulted by questions from his friends. After answering all those questions, he entered the house and everybody went back to their occupation. Genis went back to the kitchen since he was the one who was supposed to cook. Raine went back to her reading. Zelos decided to take a little nap to pass the time. Presea went to help Genis. Lloyd and Timothy went outside to spar. Sheena and Colette decided to follow them. Regal decided to take a walk around the house.
Lloyd and Timothy were standing face to face. Lloyd was with his trusted swords and Timothy holding a bastard sword. Lloyd rose in the air shouting: "Rising falcon" before thrusting in the direction of Timothy. Timothy jumped sideway and slashed with his sword but he missed Lloyd, who was back on his two feet and started to attack again. Timothy kept blocking the swords of Lloyd before jumping back and slashing at the level of the stomach. The attack was so fast that Lloyd almost hadn't the time to block. Timothy attacked furiously before pushing Lloyd away with a beast. Before Lloyd got up, Timothy was already in front of him his sword pointing toward his chest while he was saying: "Match, I won." with a smile in his face.
They want back inside in time to see everyone sitting around the table. While Genis proudly entered with his paella. Soon everybody was enjoying the food and talking to each other. Then, Regal stood up and said: "Since I'm here, I'm going to assign you your first mission." there sound of joy coming from everybody around the table. They were all lacking action especially Lloyd who was getting bored. There were three missions. The first mission was to assure the security during a wedding of important Tethe'allan nobles who have made many enemies. The second mission was to escort a travelling merchant from Triet to Iselia. The last mission was to investigate caravan attack from bandit near Palmacosta. After some time talking together the team were formed. Lloyd and Colette were going to the wedding, Timothy, Sheena and Zelos were going to escort the merchant, Presea, Genis and Raine were the one with the investigation mission.
Later that same day, Lloyd was staring at the star. Then with a little smile, he said: "Hey Kratos, I mean Dad. It's funny. I remembered that time we talked about what we were going to do after the journey of regeneration ended. I said I was going to travel around the world in a boat and that I wouldn't be a mercenary. Looks like I got mistaken. I hope you will come back here and work with us."
During that time on Derris-Kharlan
A.U. Yeah, Kratos moment
Kratos was looking at the sheet on his desk. On this sheet was a plan, if you could call that a plan. The closest definition of this would be a drawing of a 5-years old kid. Next to the desk was standing an angel. He looked at the angel and angrily said: "I asked for a vehicle that could take me back to Symphonia and you get me that drawing." The angel then looked at Kratos and asked him to follow. He walked a long time before entering a big room where many angels stood next to a pile of scrap. Kratos asked what this thing was and he was answered that it was a space ship. His face became white with fear and anger. Fear, because he was thinking that if he entered this he would surely die in a horrible way. Anger, because the best thing ten angels could come up with for spaceship was this. He asked if he could have a demonstration. One of the angels stepped forward, took a helmet sitting near the ship and climbed a pile of metal that was used as stairs. He got in the cockpit and pushed some button. A loud noise was heard before the ship slowly launch off. Kratos looked at the ship that was going out of the room by a large hole that was made from the numerous accidents that occurred during the construction of the vehicle. It then went high into the sky and finally into space. Then, a big light was saw and nothing. The spaceship was no more. The seraph just went back inside thinking that it could have been him in that spaceship. The Derris-Kharlan air force took quite a blow but at least Kratos understood something he was going to make the blueprints next time.
A.U. Sorry for the time it took to update I got many things to do but now it is over. Next chapter will be the first mission.