Act 2: Enter Sylvarant
Chapter 6: Time Lapse
Shane did not know how long he was floating in the timeless void. Around him were visions of different times and dimensions. But he knew better than to interfere with time, but where was he going to end up, he had no clue.
It was then that the pull of the wind became much stronger dragging Shane deeper and deeper before sinking into one of the visions...
Shane awoke to find himself on a plateau of grass. Looking around, he was on a hill, and very high one overlooking on particular place.
"Where am I now?" Shane said quietly. He looked over the hill and found his answer. He was looking at Iselia Human Ranch.
"Oh great...!" Shane sarcastically remarked "Well looks like I'm in another interesting world."
He then saw two Desians whipping an old lady. An old lady Shane knew: Marble.
"Don't pick on the elderly..." Shane said coldly. He then began to chant a spell he learned from his trained back in the Soul Calibur world.
"Earth Style, Tremor." Shane recited sending a small but powerful seismic wave to knock down the two Desians.
"What was that?" one of the Desians said getting up from the ground. They turned around to look at the perpetrator but Shane was already out of sight. Then a tall man with a mechanical arm walked out.
"What's going on!?" He barked
"Sorry Lord Forcystus." A Desian said with his head down "We'll get back to work..."
"Check the video cameras..." Forcystus said, sending the two Desians running off to do so.
That wasn't a normal quake... Who is capable of this? Forcystus thought quietly, and walked back inside the confines of the ranch.
Iselia Forest
"Those morons in the ranch are worse than the white supremist…" Shane told himself. "Superior beings… what a bunch of bull crap!" He then realized he might have just blurted that a bit too loud for footsteps approached him…
Else were…
"Augh that test was hard…!" Lloyd ranted walking with his hands behind his head. He wore his usual attire of red and had both wooden swords on the side of his belt. Alongside him was his close friend: Genis.
"You fell asleep for half of it, that's why you had to rush." Genis said. "Shut up." Lloyd sarcastically said back.
Then for a brief moment they heard several clangs of metal and a Desian war cry.
"Lloyd!" Genis said abruptly, but Lloyd already had his wooden blades out already. "I know." He said "Desians! Probably someone ticked them off! Let's go!"
Lloyd started towards the bushes and overgrowth followed closely by Genis. By the time they reach the center of the fight. It was nearly over. A Desian was flung over the bushes pass Lloyd and landed in front of Genis.
"Whoa!!!" Genis yelped nearly falling backwards when the body flew towards him. "Something tells me that this isn't good…"
"It's probably a large monster, let's wait here and see if it walks off." Lloyd replied. Ignoring the body they stepped over towards the end of the bushes. Lloyd then extended one of his wooden blades to move some of the branches to get a view of the remainder of the fight. To his and Genis's great surprise, it wasn't a monster that was fighting, it was a human.
As the second and final Desian laid face up at the floor, he could only lift his head to see Shane walking towards him, blade in hand.
"Inferior being…" the Desian choked out "More of us will come for you… it's not over…"
Shane just stood over him grinning. He already knew what was going to happen. This was after all a game. "You lost this battle before you even started fool!" and with that he sliced the Desian by the throat, killing him.
Lloyd and Genis nearly jumped when the Desian's was mercilessly killed before their eyes. "Does he know what he just did?" Genis asked "Who is he?"
"I don't know" Lloyd answered "But he seems like trouble." Lloyd stopped asking questions when the man in front of him sat down. He was wounded. "He's hurt…" Lloyd said
"Should we help him?" Genis asked.
On the forest ground, Shane's right abs had been stabbed by one of the Desians. The wound although not fatal, was deep and painful. He then heard whispering from a near by bush.
"Reinforcements…?" He thought "I'm hurt but maybe just maybe…"
Shane got back on his feet and facing Lloyd and Genis's direction yelled "Come out!!!"
Lloyd and Genis now were shocked. He had seen them.
"Uh oh…! He saw us! Lloyd what do we- Lloyd?" Genis asked puzzled. Lloyd had a hard look on his face, calm but still strong. He then stepped out of the bushes into view. Genis dumbfounded at first followed shortly after.
When Shane saw them, he knew that now things would get interesting. Lloyd was going to ask a question when Shane coughed up blood.
"Poison again?!?"Shane said in his head "I am sick of poison!"
He didn't get to say much more after for the poison was starting to do its work, and fast.
Lloyd ran over and put Shane over his shoulders. "Genis, come on! We got to bring him to the house!" and started towards Dirk's house.
Genis was about to reject about helping this unknown person, but because Lloyd already asked he went along and followed. "Lloyd, I hope you don't get in trouble for this…"
