Crap, I forgot the disclaimer. Oh well, I don't own Tales of Symphonia, Lloyd Ivring, Genis Sage, Sheena Fujibayashi, Raine Sage, or Colette Brunell. I only own Kendal.

Kendal: I'm not your slave!

Me: Yes you are.

Kendal: O RLY? (crunching sound)

Me: Gaahhh… I take that back! But I still own you... SOMEBODY SAVE ME!!!!

And yeeeesssss, a review! Finally! But GRAMMAR ERRORS? ARE YOU MICROSOFT WORD, RYNA-CHAN???


"In the name of the Goddess, how long are we going to wait here?" Lloyd grumbled. He got no answer from Genis, too busy staring at Presea to bother- Presea didn't even acknowledge that Lloyd had spoken, unlike Genis, who mumbled a very embarrassed "Uh huh"- Colette, soulless as always was unresponsive as ever, so that only left Raine…

"We can't know for sure- For all I know, they might be planning to kill us."

"Whaaat!?" Lloyd yelped. "It's true. We're from the dying world, and one of us could cause this world to lose its flourishing status at any time." Raine looked sadly at Colette.

Genis had ripped himself out of love-struck mode and said agatiedly "But if that happens, what'll happen to Presea here?"

"I want to go home," was her reply. Albeit emotionlessly.

Earlier…

They had managed to walk into the castle gates, thanks to Presea's aid, even though she happened to be unresponsive. Now, they were in the prayer room…

They stepped in nervously, and everyone- The guards, the king, a young girl with a crown on, who Lloyd supposed was a princess or queen, and a man in royalty-style robes with a staff- gave them their full, undividing attention.

Now…

Lloyd swore under her breath. "Man, they told us to wait here, but they're just leaving us alone or something!?"

What happened next couldn't have proved his words more wrong.

Just then, the door in the waiting room opened, and in came the Pope with 2 soldiers. And a red-head. A familiar one at best…

"Hey, you're the ones that I saw with my cute hunnies earlier!" he said with a note of surprise in his voice. "Who're you?" Everyone minus 2 certain emotionless girls choroused. "Oh, my reputation hasn't spread that far? I'll have to work on it, I suppose. I am the great Zelos Wilder, the Chosen of Tethe'Alla."

"This guy's the Chosen?" Genis muttered to Lloyd. "He's an idiot."

Before Lloyd could chuckle, Zelos spoke, rather miffled. "I heard that, little brat!" Before he could perform mass murder, however, the Pope spoke up.

"I have conferred with the king concerning this matter" he said regally. "However, because you come from the dying world, I cannot help you. None of Tethe'Alla's citizens would want this era of prosperity to end, I assure you. Guards! Take the them away."

"No!" Lloyd yelled. "Colette's lost her soul, can't you?!-" "I don't want to hear it! Take them!" As soon as the guards reached Colette, though, she grabbed them and easily sent them straight into the red-decked wall. "Ugh!" One of them yelped. "No one can touch that… that… that demon…!!!"

"Arrgh!" The Pope growled. "Why is she-!? How!?"

"Hey, old geezer, why don't you leave this too me?" A voice came unexpectedly.

Everyone looked for the source of the voices, even Presea and Colette. As it turned out…

"Chosen!" the Pope cried. "What are you saying?" "I'm saying, since that they can't go back to Sylvarant-"

"Yeah, the Rheairds we have are out of fuel. We've got nowhere to go, unless you count Tethe'Alla" Lloyd interjected. "See?" Said Zelos brightly, gesturing to make his point. "They can't go back to Sylvarant, so they can't carry out their own journey of Regeneration!" "Well, actually, we have, but… Colette never finished the ritual at our world's Tower of Salvation, so she has not become a true angel yet. So, our world is still deprived for the most part of mana" Raine said helpfully.

"I'll just keep tabs on them, and if they even think about straying from some other objective in this world, then I'll just snitch on them. This is just for restoring my lovely angel her soul, kay?" Zelos fluttered his eyebrows and grinned at Colette. Resisting the urg to look to his left and laugh, considering that Genis was most likely imitating throwing up at the flirtations of Zelos, Lloyd decided to cement the deal. "We won't do anything but restore Colette her soul" he said earnestly, hoping to win over the Pope guy.

Finally, the pope spoke. "Alright, but first, should this girl be restored her soul, would Sylvarant not fall prey to destrection? Do you not care for your own world?"

Raine answered immediately. "No, we don't."

Her brother reacted with shock. "Raine! Are you serious?!" "Yes," she replied coldly. "We have to focus on saving Colette first, and not get distracted from that goal just because the people of Sylvarant are suffering."

Lloyd had to agree. "She's right, I've gotta say for once, Genis. And besides, if she did complete the ritual…"

He didn't need to say say more- Genis knew what would happen. But it seemed so cruel…

As the Pope left, Zelos spoke. "Why don't you guys and the gourgeous me meet up in the Martel Cathedral? I'll be waiting." He left with a wink at Raine.

Genis gagged, again, the second time in a day.

After meeting up with Zelos (who in the cathedral had called Raine, Presea, and Colette "gourgeous" no more than 3 times apiece) they went on a tour. And, unfortunately, since Zelos was the only one who knew Meltokio at all, they had to follow him, while he flirted around and such.

They were finally fed up with him after around 10… impromptu stops. Finally, everyone with a soul, except Presea, even Raine, lost their patience. "ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE US A TOUR OR NOT, YOU STUPID CHOSEN?" they roared simultaneously. "Woah, woah!" he said in the midst of blowing a kiss to a random, madly blushing hapless girl passing by, shocked.

"WELL? THEN STOP TRYING TO HIT ON EVERY GIRL YOU MEET-"

"YOU DUMBASS!" Genis added the last part.

"BASTARDLY BRAT!"

It sure was something, watching Zelos get literally murdered with the superior intellect and vocabulary of Genis, especially since Genis was about half Zelos's height. Lloyd even rolled on the pavement, laughing madly. Even Raine had to chuckle, unlike the the other girls. They didn't respond at all. Which was something for the spectators of the vocabulary match to stare as well as laugh at.

In a certain café, the west side of Meltokio

I looked on, amused at the reactions of the other occupants/customers as I walked in. Nobody had given me a second look on the street, but in this enclosed place…

I had learned it through years of shame and stage fright, mixed in with embarrassment. If you enter anywhere enclosed, 99 percent of the time, everyone gives you their attention, no matter how long their intrest holds. And this time, their intrest was holding a loooooong time.

I tossed some gald on the bar as I walked up to it. "Some tea."

I didn't bother to mention the amount I had thrown on the counter- It was an amount I always threw on, about a hundred Gald- I was rich, literally from all the loot he nicked from dead people. A LOT of dead people. It happened to be that it was a around 80 more than the price on the board outside.

"Keep the change."

Near that location

"By the way, Zelos?" Lloyd said. "Yeah?" came the smooth answer.

"Where are we going to cure Colette?" He saw Zelos smack himself as if he had done something horrible. He couldn't have been farther from the truth. "I can't believe I forgot where to go to help by little angelic hunny! We're going to a place called Sybak. It's across the ocean, and it's a place of great academic learning. Plus…" "What?" Lloyd asked.

He shouldn't have. "It's full of beautiful smart hunnies!" Zelos exclaimed, his eyes turning into literal heart shapes. They all groaned, except Presea and Colette, of course. It was just then that he noticed a gaggle of armored soldiers outside an alley. "Hey Zelos," he said, trying to get him out of his rant about "beautiful smart hunnies," what's up with that shop over there?"

Inside

I heard I commotion outside just as I finished the cup of tea. I didn't need anybody looking out the window and mumbling in confusion "the Papal Knights?" to know who it was. Okay, somebody did mumble that, but…

I placed the empty teacup on the bar. The owner stared at me frightened, but I didn't return the stare. Who had the time? Who would, if they did, anyway? Besides, I could care less about these discriminating bastards than a puddle of water. More conviniently for the purposes of my thoughts, a puddle of slime.

I pushed the door open, and wha-la, what do you know, a crowd of Papal Knights is there on the otherside of the alleyway I'm in. There was only around 30 or so- Less than the ones at Sybak, which meant I'd have an easier time of ripping my way through them. How nice.

Very close near Kendal's exact location

"And who's that guy in the really huge brown scarf who also has one of its tails wrapped around his left hand?" "It's wrapped around his right, idiot, we just see a mirror image of himself, Lloyd." "Shut up, Genis!"