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And now, for no reason at all, the group decided to go to Lake Umacy. Because no way in hell am I going to the Tower of Mana, only to have to backtrack ALL THE WAY TO THODA GEYSER again from there anyway, and that's what I always do when I play. Sue me for not following Namco's vague plotline, dammit!

"Wow. A lake." grumbled Genis.

And so it was.

"Hey, lookit!" cried Colette, peering, "I see something in the water!"

"Is that a unicorn?" Lloyd said, excited.

"No, it's your face." replied Genis, annoyed. Lloyd kicked him.

And yes, it was a unicorn. Lying under some...logs. With a conveniently placed air bubble of it. Which I totally don't understand how it's stayed there for so long, but whatever.

"Oh, you have unicorns on this side, too." Sheena mused. Lloyd looked at her, confuzzled.

"From this side?"

"Um...look over there! It's a unicorn!" pointed Sheena, sweating a bit.

"Really? Wow!" cried Lloyd, his ADD kicking in conveniently at that precise moment. Raine rolled her eyes.

"I wonder if we could contact it?" she mused, "So I have get my haxx healing skillz."

"But it's trapped in a watery prison," mentioned Kratos, melancholic, "We cannot reach it from here."

"Couldn't I swim to it?" Lloyd asked, peering in.

"No. You'd drown." snapped Kratos.

"Really?"

"But in order to master Boltzman's healing technique, we need the unicorn horn." persisted Raine.

"...There is a way." began Sheena, dramatically.

Everyone stared at her.

"...Duuh?" chimed in Lloyd and Colette.

"We could summon Undine." continued Sheena, shooting a confused look at Lloyd and Colette, "She exists in this world, right? If I make a pact with her...I can summon."

"Wasn't the art of summoning lost a long time ago?" asked Raine, all suspicious.

"If you don't want to rescue the unicorn, I won't force you!" replied Sheena, panicky, "In fact, let's just not make a pact at all! Yeah!"

"No, it sounds cool and much more fun then doing what we're supposed to do!" grinned Lloyd, "Let's go to Thoda Geyser!"

Genis, Colette, Lloyd and Sheena all walked off.

"ANOTHER side quest?" demanded Kratos, irritated.

"Yes." replied Raine, redundantly.

And so OFF THEY WENT TO THODA! YAY!

That was sarcasm, by the way. And so once they got past all the pokemon shark rip-offs and the kung-fu starfish, they arrived at the main room.

"Pact! Pact!" chanted Colette and Genis, because they were just that mature.

"Despite these two behaving like complete idiots, my inner scientist is sexually excited right now." noted Raine, smiling, "I simply must study this later!"

"A summoning pact...hmm..." Kratos stated, like he was trying to be even more handsomely broody then he already is. Or something. Sheena, however, wasn't encouraged.

"It's easy for you to say..." she mumbled, "I-I might fail you know."

"You'll do fine!" grinned Lloyd, "I mean, I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about and I'm being blindly optimistic, but..."

"You don't know anything about summoning!" Sheena cried, without moving her lips. Odd. (Seriously, check out her mouth in the game and she doesn't move her mouth.)

Sheena obtained the title "Wow! A Ventriloquist!"

"Go on!" urged Genis. Sighing, Sheena approached the altar. Undine appeared in a swirly pattern of blue light. Ooh. Undine was a...mermaid-type thing in a purple dress.

"You who possess the right of the pact. I am one who is bound to Mithos. What is your name?"

"I am Sheena." Sheena stuttered, "Um...canImakeapactwithyouplease?"

"Mithos?" Genis asked, confused, "Mithos the Hero could wield a sword AND summon? How over-powered was this guy?"

"Mithos is a common boy's name." sighed Raine. Yeah, with all those Mithos' running around that we've met so far. "It's not necessarily Mithos the Hax. Don't jump to the most obvious conclusions."

Kratos coughed, awkwardly.

"Bound?" interrupted Lloyd, his retardation kicking in, "Like, a slave bond?"

"Shut up, Lloyd." Sheena sighed. "Anyway...um...can I make a pact? Pretty please with letsnotdie on top?"

"As things stand now...I cannot." answered Undine, placidly.

"W-what?" gasped Sheena, going a bit pale. "Why?!"

"I am already bound by a pact." explained Undine; "I cannot form two pacts at the same time. That's slutty."

"What am I meant to do now?" complained Sheena to the group, confidence hitting rock bottom. "They never mentioned this in the brochure!"

"W-what should we do, Lloyd?" asked Colette. Yeah, ask the guy who basically goes with his gut instinct and has no idea what's going on around him 75% of the time. Good choice, Colette.

Colette gained the title of, "Opinions are overrated!"

"Um...can't you get her to just cancel her old pact?" tried Lloyd.

"How?" demanded Sheena, "This Mithos dude could be anywhere!"

"A summoning pact requires a vow." sighed Kratos, getting tired of dealing with over-emotional teenagers all day, "As long as the pact-maker upholds the vow, the contract is valid."

"I know about that. The summoner and spirit agree to the pact." answered Sheena impatiently.

"Exactly. Therefore, all you need to do is follow Lloyd's advice. I can't believe I just said that, but get her to cancel her old pact. It's possible this Mithos is dead or an obsessive, effeminate idealist anyway."

"Is it really that simple?" inquired Genis, a tad snotty.

"I suppose you could call it simple, but nobody asked your opinion anyway." replied Kratos. Ooh, shot down.

"Okay...I'll try."

Sheena cleared her throat.

"Undine! I ask of you to annulst thy pact with Mithos and establish a new pact...with me." she finished, lamely.

"Before we can make a new pact, I must test your strength so I'm not just giving my powers to a bunch of know-nothing morons."

"What?!" cried Lloyd, surprised. "We have to fight?"

"Draw your weapons."

"Draw them?" asked Colette, bemused, "Like, with a crayon?"

"No, dear." sighed Raine as Lloyd and the others plunged into a vicious battle. "Just go lie down or something."

They fought.

They won.

Hooray.

"I am impressed. Now swear you vow, a vow on which we can base our contract." stated Undine, deciding to be nice because it was clear Sheena was either a total summoning noob or something traumatic and plot-related had happened to her.

"Right now, at this very moment, people are suffering." stated Sheena, "I vow to save those people!"

Wow, Sheena's got a pretty big workload ahead of her. Does that mean she'll go right assisting everyone with stubbed toes and stuff, too? (Somewhere far away, a million Sheena fanboys will start injuring themselves on purpose.)

"Wow, Sheena, that was awesome!" cried Genis.

"Yeah, Sheena, you're amazing!" chirped Colette, "That's my bffl!"

"Ahh, oh stop it." blushed Sheena.

"You have a surprising breadth of knowledge, Kratos." Raine remarked to Kratos.

"I once new somebody who was obsessed with summon spirit." shrugged Kratos.

Ahh, Raine. Always so passively suspicious.

And just like that, they were back at the Lake.

"Alright! Time to go see the unicorn!" celebrated Lloyd, "Let's call out Undine!"

"That's not going to work." replied Kratos, "Only pure maidens can see the unicorn. At the very least, you me and Genis are out."

"Kratos! Genis is only twelve!" grinned Lloyd, "I'm sure he can probably go see-"

"Shut up Lloyd!" screeched Genis.

"Anyway, let's send the Professor and Colette." shrugged Kratos, ignoring Lloyd, who was holding Genis away from him with one hand and laughing at how pathetic his friend was.

"I can't." mumbled Raine, "Colette can go by herself."

"Hey! Why are you all assuming I can't go!" fumed Sheena, embarrassed.

"Well, you do let your bra show." admitted Lloyd.

"It's not a bra!" Sheena yelled, going purple, "It's an undershirt!"

"Really?"

"They don't make them this low..." Sheena muttered.

"Oh. But why can't the professor go?" added Lloyd, frowning.

"Um...I just ate." answered Raine. Evasiveness, thy name is...er, Raine.

"Just send Sheena and the Chosen!" snapped Kratos, getting impatient. "God, do I have to direct EVERYTHING around here!"

"Whatever, I'm summoning her now." Sheena sighed. "Ahem. I summon thee, Maiden of the Mist! Undine! Please take us to the unicorn."

Undine nodded, and Colette and Sheena went skating over the surface of the water. The unicorn magically woke up at that precise moment, and surfaced.

"...Martel?" asked the unicorn, coming close. And I couldn't help noticing that the unicorn had a nicely straightened mane for something that's been lying underneath a lake for god knows how long, but never mind that.

"Martel? No, this is Colette and I'm Sheena." replied Sheena, confused, as Colette smiled and started patting the unicorn, nearly impaling her hand on its horn.

"Well, Martel wasn't an idiot." sighed the unicorn, "But this sickness...I live to cure Martel's sickness. This girl has the same sickness."

"What? Colette has AIDS?" cried Sheena, shocked.

"...No." the unicorn said, staring at Sheena a bit. "Anyway, but this must be the Chosen of Mana. I know that for some reason. Here..."

And to Colette's delight, the unicorn's horn started to glow. But then it started to fade.

"Hey! What's wrong?!" asked Sheena, panicking.

"...Our horns are our very lives...use it well."

"But, you'll die!" Sheena cried, upset.

"Do not be sad. I was going to off myself out of sheer boredom anyway, and when a unicorn dies, another is born in its place. So we just keep coming back. Bye."

Sheena and Colette went back to the shore, looking all depressed.

"The unicorn died..." said Colette, sadly. "It gave us its horn."

"Yes, we know." Kratos said, indifferent as usual.

"You knew?!" Sheena gasped. "Cold-hearted!"

"One will be born in its place," said Raine, placidly, as she stared with fascination at the horn. Shut up, you perverts. "That's why the unicorn is one of the many mythical beings that die and come back. TO THE TOWER OF MANA!"

Raine went rushing up the stairs at insane speeds to attach herself to the wall. Everyone else followed at a much slower pace.

"Look at this marvellous pillar!" gushed Raine, a maniacal gleam in her eye, "Look at this wonderful path!"

Genis sighed. She was completely off her head. Any minute now and she would start kissing the wall.

"But there's no whatchmacallit stone." noted Lloyd, observant for once. "Let's see if I can open the door!"

He failed. Why is it that whenever it's necessary to go somewhere in a game, you always have to go on a long, pointless search for the key that only has one use, then go in a big building full of annoying theme-music and very irritating monsters? Bleh.

"Well, there's no point in staying here." Kratos noted, deadpan, "We must look for a key."

"That shouldn't be too difficult. With our luck, one will probably just magically turn up." noted Sheena.

"Raine, we've leaving." Genis told Raine, who was already examining the magical lock on the door with a magnifying glass she pulled out of absolutely nowhere. "NOW."

"Couldn't we just break the door down or smash a window?" asked Lloyd, always up for a bit of mindless destruction.

"...No."

"PLOTHOLE 12!" cried Plothole girl, jumping out of a random tree. She was just happy to be there, because there weren't any plotholes in the previous chapter. Kratos just shook his head.

"Just be quiet and tell us where the key is."

"Oh. Hima."

"Then let's head there." Kratos said smoothly, taking off and ignoring Raine's howls of misery that she had to be pried away from another fabulous ruin.

"I've said it before, and I'll say it again." Lloyd grumbled to Genis. "Your sister needs professional help."

Genis wondered if it was possible to disown himself.

Ahh, plothole girl. Anyway, go ahead and review! Click that button right thar! You know you want to press it!

Okay, I'll be quiet now. :P