Mez: We don't own Tales of Symphonia. I own Nia and Stephen; Jade owns Cruxis/Jade (whom she's starting to confuzle me with her history!) On with the fic!

Outside the Renegade base – Jade's POV

"Those are mine, you worthless mangy..." I looked down into the room through a convenient skylight.

"Mmmph" I turned towards my captives. How dare they interrupt me?

"By Loki, silence your tongues." I snapped at Regal and Presea. I had tied and gagged them.

"Why don't I just kill you pitiful fools?" They looked at me in fear as I brought out my Whip Scythe.

"Jade?" I turned to see that Nia and Stephen were standing in front of me.

"My name is not Jade. My name is Lady Cruxis you inferior fools." I looked at their reaction. To bad I don't have a camera.

"Cruxis?" Nia, rather than being fearful was confused.

"When I departed from this world, Mithos named his organization after me."

"But you were never from Symphonia!" Nia insisted. "Remember, Reality?"

"I'm not from Reality or Symphonia. I was born as Cruxis of Rafer in Agorned."

Nia and Stephen both gasped.

"What's the matter, Stephen? Is it that you thought you'd never have to pay for destroying my homeland?"

"Stephen didn't intentionally destroy Agorned. He's regretted his mistake ever since it happened." Nia protested.

"The fact remains: my home is gone. My family, my bloodline, everything gone, ceased to exist in memory even!"

"I'm sorry. You're all alone…I know how much that can hurt." Stephen said sadly.

"You think I'm alone? Fools. I have Lloyd Yggdrasil – none of you will keep him away from me for long!"

"But he can't understand how you feel. He can't understand the pain of losing an entire world."

I allowed myself a smile – they had no idea how wrong they were…

"He can understand. He's suffered exactly the same loss. After all, he was born in Agorned, too."

"What?" Nia's voice was filled with tones of disbelief. "How? That's not possible."

"Agorned was nice enough, but I wanted more. After giving my followers instructions on how best to conquer Agorned, I travelled, along with Mithos, to Symphonia. Unfortunately, he got memory loss – my way of travelling through worlds seems to do that – and completely forgot where he came from. Before I could perform the ritual for him to regain his memory, he got emotionally attached to a half-elven girl called Martel.

"In his state, he seemed to think that Martel was his sister. Well, I just couldn't bring myself to tear him away from her. In the end, I helped him by modifying the memories of Martel, Yuan and Kratos. I left Symphonia soon after that. I roamed Reality as a Protozoan, until I felt the time was right and I transformed back into my human form. I wasn't concentrating on what I was doing, so I lost my memory too. And then I met you."

"So, after that, you worked on getting your memories back. Then you came back here."

"Yes. And now I remember Uncle Kratos, Uncle Yuan… and what happened to Aunty Martel." I looked at Stephen wondering what would affect him the most in terms of torture.

"Uncle!!? But if Kratos was known as that to you during the Kharlan war why did you torture him?!" I turned to see the ToS group minus Lloyd, Regal and Presea.

"I what? I would never…I…" I held my head in my hands the voice that had haunted me since materializing in Reality…It wasn't Cruxis as I had thought it was, but someone else.

Jana: That wasn't where it was going to end. It was meant to be longer but Mez said Cliffy so I agreed. Don't hate me! It…it was Mez! Anyway Let's talk with my OC Jade or rather Cruxis of Rafer now.

Cruxis: …

Mez: Can you talk? Or are you just shy?

Jana: Say something please Cruxis.

Cruxis: Why should I talk to you Inferior fools?

Jana: Mez and I decide weather you get Mithos back or not…(Smug look)

Mez: Good one.

Jade: Fine. I will act as your muse with Uncle Kratos and Lloyd…

Jana and Mez: Uncle Kratos???

Jade: It just slipped out. You do it sometimes.

Jana: You got me there. But now I'm going to have to make up a plot to go with it. (Start to sulk)