Finally, another fight scene! Yay! (Kendal: W00T!) I'm not good at describing scenes, so R&R an tell me how good I was writing this. Oh, and 1 review? Only? (Feels unloved) Cruelty… sniff… Well, there's 2, but BOTH ARE BY THE SAME PERSON, AND SHE KEEPS RANTING ABOUT SPACES BETWEEN SPEAKING CHARACTERS! SCREW THE CONCEPT!

Damn, what's up with the stupid disclaimer? Okay, Kendal, you do it, I'm tired.

Kendal: Hell no!

Me: I own you, remember? I can delete the story AND you anytime I want.

Kendal:Biiiiiitch...

Me: (Abuses)

Kendal: Bastard! Fine, this idiot (Shoots dirty look) doesn't own Tales of Symphonia, or any of the characters, he only owns me and the plot.


"Yo, bastards."

I observed quite a few arms twitch as the impact of the word struck home. Another thing I was famous for- Pissing off almost anyone. Or anything, for that matter. Psychologically, or even physically. I was notorious for that.

I just might not be, if I didn't get the hell out of this situation…

Almost everything was stacked against me- It was an alley way, so no chance of spin-rushing them here, like in Sybak, unless I wanted to be stupid and risk his cleaver getting stuck in the wall; there was also a smaller chance of being able to dodge anything; I relied solely on my cleaver and guantlet and dodging to avoid damage- There were bystanders about; I had a clean anti-government reputation, which meant no killing bystanders or else, especially not the guy with chocolate brown eyes looking at me from about 30 yards away, through a gap in the human wall at the other side of the alley- And I was out numbered, obviously.

But the things in my favor were much bigger-I could climb up the walls to escape at any time with my climbing daggers, I could use long range magic if I had to, and since I had no armor, I had no chance of being obstructed by the walls of the alleyway. Well, the alleyway was large, but at the middle it was pretty narrow, allowing only one person through at a time. Where I was, there was a bashed up fountain that drunkenly emitted water in the small open area where I stood. They were just outside the alley. And the soldiers were pretty damn bulky, but I could easily rush through it.

Plus, I had diversionary tactics. Which involved horribly damaging the eardrums of certain people in green armor.

Behind the Papal Knights

Zelos did a double take. Lloyd knew why a second later.

"Wh-what the-!? It's- It's the Ravager! Oh god, I'd better get the hell out of here!" Lloyd didn't let him. As soon as Zelos stopped struggling, he saw through the gap where he had first seen the guy. The guy seemed to be speaking… And the soldiers were reacting rather angrily, twitching their arms. "What's that-" he look closer at the person in question in order to find a correct word to describe him "kid talking?"

Lloyd looked back to see everyone, including Zelos, stare at him with wide eyes. Raine was first to break the silence. "A… kid?" she muttered, roughly pushing him out of the way to look through the gap in the ranks. Just as Lloyd was about to object to the rough treatment she had given him, she looked up, looking absolutely stunned. "You're right…" she said wonderingly. "He is a kid…" "What!" Genis yelped. Then he laughed. "Zelos is scared of a kid, ha ha-" "I didn't know he was a kid, you brat!"

Lloyd looked again, closer. He saw that the… kid… look somewhere around his own age, 17 or 18. And 30 soldiers had to be summoned to take arrest him…?

Outside a café

"Disarm yourself and we will take you in gently. Resist, and face the-"

"Shut already, with the 'don't resist or face the consequences' crap, I'd rather go to hell than go in quietly, sons of bitches!"

"CLOSE YOUR MOUTH, SCUM-"

"OH, IS THAT ALL YOU CAN SAY? THEN HOW ABOUT YOU SCREW YOURSELF!"

"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!"

"I DARE TO SAY THAT, SO DEAL WITH IT!"

"GET HIIIIMMM!!!"

"FINALLY!"

I threw my sword straight in the body of the first guy who rushed me, right when he reached the narrowest point of the alley. Hard. Because my victim had slowed down to get through the narrow point, the others bunched against him, therefore letting the cleaver spear 3 instead of a single body. I rushed and ripped it out, kicking the bodies off it. They went backwards, knocking over another 3- I had pushed it, hard. I stabbed those knocked down in their chests, just under their chest bone, so atleast when they died, they wouldn't feel a thing. That's how it worked- Stab a person in their heart, and they just die. No pain. Something to do with the nervous system? I dunno, the heart's part of the circulatory.

6 down, around 25 to go. I cut down one as he was about to take a swing at me, knocked a pike out of some idiot-who-want-to-stab-me's hand, then threw my cleaver again. It meant I now had more, if only slightly improved mobility, at the cost of now have a chance of 2 peeps wising up and attacking me at the same time. That didn't happen. Until…

When I had polished off my 15th-in-total kill (I counted through all the carnage) 2 of them got ready to throw their spears at the same time at me. Okay, perhaps they were just doing it out of instinct (couldn't see any sign that they were giving each other signals for when to throw), but I was occupied with 3 of the Papal Knights, so…

I ripped out one of my climbing daggers, and, as both of those soldiers in the background were getting ready to throw the pikes, I slashed my cleaver with the broad sharp side of the semi-stiletto, albeit much sharper than any other stiletto or knife except its twin.

SCCCCRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Lloyd roared "STOP!" as the screech was heard all over Meltokio. The others- Even Presea, but definitely not Colette, had their hands over their ears as well. Lloyd had to screw his eyes shut in order to get the sound out of his head…Since I had slashed the dagger with full force, the resulting screech of metal was deafening. Even I, for all the pain I could take without moving a muscle, HAD to wince at that. No body or thing with ears could endure a sound like that… not even me.

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I glanced around, and even though I had ringing, painful ears, I had to grin with satisfaction at the utter mayhem I had caused. Maybe chuckle. One of the pair who had tried to throw his pike at me had been afflicted with ruptured eardrums before he could let go and was now howling with his hands over his ears. The other had almost let it go, but the effect of the sound had taken its toll; He was now rolling around in sheer agony, like his counterpart, and even as I watched, his pike, thrown way off course by a previously convulsing hand, fell to the ground with an ungraceful clank. The 3 in front of me were having seizures, twitching like ferrets, while the rest were howling pitifully in utter and ridiculous agony. Too bad the pedestrians hadn't covered their ears, as everyone except me was down. Poor them, I was now out of the alleyway and in the main part of Meltokio, where I could now move, kill, and escape freely. Yay. After some quick stabs to the remaining soldiers (To the heart, of course)…I looked around. 2 kids and a woman were standing up. One pink haired girl was slowly, shakingly taking her hands off her ears. Everyone else alive was twitching in absolute agony on the ground.

That's when I noticed that the of the 4 now standing, they all…

"Exspheres?" I muttered, surprised. Then, I notice a fifth person.

I realized that first the girl was standing, but not cradling her head, which meant either she had lost her hearing, or had more endurance than me- Most likely the latter choice. Second, she was wearing angel wings. A member of Cruxis. Only thinking of the name was enough the make me tighten my grips around both of the objects in my hand. And, finally…

Her eyes. I remembered the eyes of Cruxis angels. They were empty, but at least there were sparks of life in them- This angel had no spark in them at all. I could see her breathing, but I couldn't see her move. She was just… there. Which meant she was soulless.

In some corner of my mind, far from where I was absorbing the information and trying to churn out a conclusion, a voice told me move it, you can think about this later. You want to get swarmed by pikemen, swordsmen, and what-the-crapmen? My feet obeyed the the voice, but I was too busy staring to even notice that I was about to step on…

I jumped as I stepped on something warm and soft. I had been so absorbed in my thinking that I hadn't seen a longhaired guy in my path that was twitching from my little sonic disturbance… On closer look, I had stepped on his chest, and…

He cracked open an eye and look straight into my own golden ones.

I should have known. It was the Chosen of Tethe'Alla, the infamous womanizer of this dimension. I resisted rolling my eyes at him, but then he stared up at me in absolute terror, I stared back. For 30 seconds, we played a staring contest, until I, feeling the need to get the hell out of here, kicked him in the jaw. I just lift my left foot, exactly parallel to the Chosen's stiff-at-his-sides arms, and slashed up. Crack. Immediate concussion.

Hearing the heavy, clanking footsteps of Papal Knights, I ran on the wall, jumped and vaulted over the 20-foot wall, long gone before they came to that little corner of Meltokio.

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"Wh-who was he?" Genis asked as he wobbled on his feet. Lloyd shook his head, and, as a loss of balance stability first lost by the horribly point-blank screech of metal on metal and further lost by his shaking of his head, fell flat on his nose. "Owww..." he mumbled, as Zelos snored on, unaware he was missing a very hilarious scene. Well, anybody would be when they're knocked out, right? As Colette just stood there, oblivious (thankfully) to the metalic sound, Raine staggered to her feet, using a her rod as support, hoping desperately she didn't fall like Lloyd did.

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"How in the world did they have exspheres? And how come that girl didn't seem to have a soul? Or was it an illusion?" I muttered to myself as the first spire of the Tethe'Alla Grand Bridge became visible on the horizon.
Urg, no more reviews? I feel quite unloved... Oh, and you noticed my new system of character switching, right? (Or not...) This system is now offiically IN USE! (Well, it'll be absent in the next 2 chapters, but after that, it's here to stay)