VGA: Yo.

AD: Okay then...

VGA: Anyway, I've check my hit list-

AD: Oh, God, who're you gonna kill now!?!?

VGA: What? Not that hit list. I meant the one for the story. You know, how many people have clicked on the story page

AD: Oh.

VGA: Anyway, it says that readers have checked out the story over 700 times, but there are only 19 reviews.

AD: You suck.

VGA: Oh shut up. My point is, please review! It's not that hard, just press the button... If you like the story, review! Don't be shy! If you want to offer some criticism fine, just no flames. Anyway, I just wanna say thanks to all the readers who have reviewed.

AD: They reviewed because they pitied you

VGA: Oh shut up. Now go announce the chapter you piece of shit

AD: Fine, here's Chapter Twelve

VGA: Hey, twelve's my favorite number

Disclaimer: I don't own Tales of Symphonia. If I did, Presea would of gotten to "neuter" Rodyle (or spay. I'm not sure).

Chapter Twelve

"Yah!!" Lloyd yelled at the top of his lungs as he brought down his right blade severing the zombie in half. He smirked to himself but was suddenly shoved to the side by someone wearing neon green.

"Watch it!" Margarita snapped. She then turned her attention back to the boxing iris she was currently in battle with. Her arm must not of hurt anymore. They had found themselves in a nasty situation, a horde of monsters had ambushed them. At the inn, they had decided to go to Altamira, since it was closer. They would navigate through Goaracchia Forest and find the exit toward the sea. Then, they would use the EC near the dock.

"Lloyd! Duck!" Lloyd did as he was instructed. Several balls of fire flew over his and into the face of a pumpkin tree,

burning it to a crisp.

"Thanks Genis!" Lloyd gave the half elf a thumbs up before running off to fight another monster.

"Lloyd, you haven't changed," Genis sighed to himself. Then he began to work up another spell.

"Cyclone Seal!" Sheena shouted. A burst of air sent a small ghost into the air. Then, Colette flew up to it and cried, "Grand Chariot!". The ghost was sent spiraling down to the ground where it was finished offwith a well placed "Grave" spell, courtesy of Zelos.

"Whoo! We kick ass together, don't we girls?" Zelos purred.

"Oh shut up," Sheena snapped. "It was already dead when Colette hit it."

"Oh no! I think Zelos helped too!" Colette insisted.

"See? My angel agrees as well," Zelos said.

"But isn't she Lloyd's angel?" Raine asked.

Lloyd, who was currently battling a coffin monster, heard this with the aid of his angelic and instantly turned around to face the others.

"She's not my angel! Why do you always say that!?" he snapped. The coffin monster then turned around. It's coffin doors opened and a monsterous hand pulled Lloyd inside in a blink of an eye, closing the doors.

"Lloyd!" cried out Colette.

"Get me out of here!" Lloyd pained cries erupted from his confinement.

"I'll take care of this," Margarita sighed. "Looks like the Pathetic and Idiotic One needs my help once more." She then finished off the boxing iris and ran up to the the coffinmaster. She punched the shriveled up old man in the gut, causing the doors on his coffin to open, which Lloyd tumbled out of. Then, she did something really unexpected.

"Devastating Beast!!" Suddenly, a red colored sonic wave about three times bigger than the average "Beast" attack appeared. It hit it's target, and caused gigantic explosion, like dynamite would, and smoke scattered the area. When it cleared up, there was a big crater where the monster had once stood.

"Whoo! That was easy!" Margarita chirped with her hands on her hips, almost innocently (and I use "innocent" very loosly). She was covered with dirt, several scratches, and her clothes were torn in some places.

"That was..." Raine gaped.

"Amazing!" Sheena finished.

"An attack like that has to use up a ton of mana," Genis stated.

"Babe, that was smoking!" Zelos whistled. "For now on, I'm gonna call you the Fiery Fisted Senorita!"

"Listen you, I- Hey, 'Fiery Fisted' doesn't sound half bad," Margarita said proudly.

"Where's Lloyd...?" Colette asked.

"Who? Oh yeah, the idiot!" Margarita jumped into the hole. Seconds later, she and a equally dirty and scathed Lloyd emerged from the hole. She was dragging the swordsman by his foot, and then left him on the floor. She bent over him and said, "Hey idiot! You alive?"

"Yes, I'm alive," Lloyd growled. "Couldn't you of at least given me heads up before you blew up the entire clearing!?"

"No."

"You know what!?"

"So Raine, how much longer till we get to the dock?" Sheena asked, ignoring the other two.

"Well, according to the map," Raine explained. "The exit should be a few pathways ahead. As long as there are no distractions, we'll get there in about fifteen minutes."

"Okay you two, break it up!" Sheena called.

Lloyd sat up and look at the sky, then his eyes widened.

"What're looking at?" Margarita looked up in the sky and said, "Son of a-!"

Everyone looked up to see a fiery comet rocketing out of the sky.

"Look! It's a shooting star!" Colette gaped.

"Make a wish my angel!" Zelos laughed.

"Do you think it will land?"

"Most unlikely," Raine stated. "Most shooting stars burn in the atmosphere before actually hitting the earth."

"Maybe it'll reach this time," Lloyd mused. "Doesn't it look pretty close?"

"Yeah, but it won't," Genis said. "The chances of it landing here is a one to a billion. There's no way it'll-"

The star crashed into the trees several yards ahead of them, causing a moderate earthquake. Birds that had been nesting in the leaves took off, as did several woodland creatures.

"And I stand corrected," Genis finished, astonished.

"Cool! Let's go check it out!" Lloyd said eagerly, and pushed himself to his feet. "Come on Noishe!" Lloyd placed two fingers into his mouth and whistled. Noishe's large ears perked up and he was at Lloyd's side in a instant. The swordsman then saddled up on him and rode off into the bushes.

"Lloyd! Get back here!" Raine shouted. "Sigh, he never listens."

"Lloyd! Wait for us!" Colette ran into the bushes after her friend, followed by Margarita who said, "Hey don't leave me with these people that I hardly know!"

"So much for finding the dock," Genis groaned.

At the clearing

"Well damn," was the first thing Lloyd said when he got to where the "star" had landed. The entire clearing was bare and in the middle was a type of aircraft. He got off his dog and looked at it. "Th-this is a rheaird...?" Lloyd recognized it from his previous adventures. But who had been riding it?

Noishe suddenly got excited and began whining, his tail wagging.

"What's wrong boy?" Lloyd asked. "You're not gonna bite me again, are you?"

Noishe huffed and pulled Lloyd's sleeve with his mouth, not hurting him though.

"Is there something you wanna show me?"

The animal then trotted over to a tree and barked at it's branches. Lloyd went over to the spot, looked up at the branches and said, "Son of a bitch! Y-Yuan!?"

A blue haired man was dangling from a tree branch by his long cape, unconscious. Red armor, flowing cape, faggish haircut, yep, definitely Yuan. How did he get here?

"Yuan!" Lloyd called. "Wake up! Hey!!" Yuan winced and groggily opened his eyes. Everything was blurry and he felt like he was floating. He could make out two blobs below him, one red, the other white.

Did I make I it back? he thought. Am I dead? Where am I?

"Yuan, it's me Lloyd!"

Oh, goddess, I must be in hell!

"Yuan, snap out of it!!"

The half elf's eyes widened. "W-what the-!? Lloyd!?"

"Dude, are you allright!?"

"Wait, where am I first of all?"

"You're in Goaracchia Forest, hanging from a tree branch."

"Ah, that's goo- Tree branch!?" He jerked suddenly, and the branch he was suspended from snapped. He hit the ground face first, which was painful.

Lloyd went up to him and said, "Are you okay!? That looked like it hurt!"

"No. I feel wonderful," he sneered sarcastically.

"You must not be in that much pain."

"If I could move, I'd strangled you."

"Lloyd!" a voice called.

"Wait right here," Lloyd instructed, then got up and left.

"Oh yeah, did you think I was gonna get up and get myself a martini or something!?!?" Yuan yelled.

"I hate this place. I can't wait to go back home," the strange elf growled. He came across a log and gratefully sat on it. He then pulled out the strange black stone he had found on the bridge earlier. It looked... evil. But he couldn't help but pick it up. He vaguely thought that he had seen something similar to it in a book he had read or something. He wondered where it came from. Maybe that Lloyd guy had dropped it. If he did, that meant...

"I can feel evil mana radiating from it..." He peered into it's glossy surface, and saw a black rotting creature staring back at him. Then, he felt hot breath waft over him from behind. He turned around to see-

"Oh, shit!!"

"Ugh, this is not how I planned to get back here," Yuan groaned, still laying on the floor but had been turned on his back.

"Hold on, I'm almost finished," Raine was currently using her magic to heal him. "There. You still shouldn't move though. In the meantime, why don't you tell us how you got here?"

"Who is this dude anyway?" Margarita asked.

"This is Yuan," Lloyd explained. "He helped us defeat Mithos. I think I told you about him before we got Asgard. Yuan, this is Margarita. She just joined us."

"I thought you looked unfamiliar," Yuan said.

"... Oh yeah! Now I remember!" Margarita snapped her fingers. "Didn't you say he was the fag who nearly destroyed the world cause of his stupid plan with the Summon Spirits?"

"That's the one!"

"Is it true that you have faggish fairy wings? If so, can I poke them?"

Yuan gave both the teens deathglares.

"If you weren't Kratos' son, I'd beat the shit out of you and cut you into small pieces," he growled menacingly. "As for you," he turned to Margarita. "You're lucky I can barely move."

"Ooh, I'm so scared," Margarita teased, unfazed by his threat.

"What about Da- I mean Kratos?" Lloyd asked. "Why didn't he come? You better not have abandoned him there or I'll!-"

"Calm down," Yuan said nonchalantly. "He'll come. Here's the thing, we desposed of all the exspheres, right? I began to look into trying to find a way out that godforsaken hellhole. I happened to of had a rheaird with me and I was able to use it to to fly off Derris Kharlan."

"But what about-"

"Let me finish. I have a device at my base that can transport people back and forth to Derris Kharlan. My plan was to get there and use it to bring Kratos back. We agreed that if I didn't contact him within three days, that meant the plan failed."

"Oh."

"I should get going," Yuan forced himself to stand up.

"Are you sure?" Raine asked. "It hasn't really been long enough for the magic to actually heal you."

"I hurt like hell all over but I think I can still fly the rheaird. The longer I take, the more pissed Kratos will be. You know Lloyd, he really misses you."

Lloyd opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. Yuan walked passed him and got on the aircraft.

"Thank you for your assistence," he said.

"Wait!" Lloyd said suddenly. "I-is there someway you can tell us when Kratos will be here?"

Yuan thought for a moment. Then, he dug in his cape and pulled out a small device and tossed it over to Lloyd.

"That's a communicator," he explained. "You can talk to me or your father anytime you want."

"Why would we want to talk to you?" Zelos asked. "Oh, I get it! You get lonely don't you?"

"Oh, shut up," Yuan snapped. "It's so that I can tell you when Kratos arrives, you stupid piece of shit"

"You're the one who's a piece of shit Yuan. At least I don't dress like one."

The half elf gave Zelos one last angry look before taking off to the sky.

"Man, that guy's an ass," Zelos said.

"True, but you shouldn't have provoked him," Sheena said.

"So, Lloyd what're you waiting for?"

"What're you talking about?" Lloyd asked, confused.

"Aren't you gonna call your old man?"

"U-um, well," Lloyd wasn't entirely sure if he wanted to talk to Kratos. Not that he hated him or anything, it was just that it would feel strange talking Kratos, whom he just barely found out was his father (Spoiler!). Not only that, what would they talk about? Kratos wasn't very sociable...

"I..."

Suddenly, a deafening roar snapped Lloyd out of his thoughts. He recognized it anywhere.

"The black monster..." he whispered.

AD: Kratos is gonna be in the story?

VGA: Of course he's gonna be in the story you stupid piece of shit. A TOS story without Kratos Aurion is like banana without it's peel. It's naked! It's incomplete! Kratos is like the peel that holds the story together, and keeps it from falling apart!!

(Confetti shoots everywhere)

AD: ...What the hell's wrong with you? Didn't you just write a story that makes fun of Kratos?

VGA: Oh shut up.