Chapter 14: Reunited Again

Kratos's POV

I knew what I had to do.

Find the materials to forge the ring to get the Eternal Sword.

Now that Cruxis had decided to leave the Chosen alone, I could wander Tethe'alla and find the needed materials.

Ainos. I could easily get it from Welgia.

The Sacred Wood from Ozette. It had to be used to fuel the fire.

A Mana Fragment. That could also be taken from Cruxis.

The Pact with Origin.

I didn't know what I was going to do about that, but I would worry about that later.

As I traveled Tethe'alla I encountered Lloyd and the others a few times.

They had restored the Chosen of Sylvarant to her normal self using a poor Key Crest I had warned her about.

She didn't listen.

Lloyd had grown even more powerful, I could sense great power from him when I met him in Ozette and helped them find Colette.

When I now had everything I needed, except a mana fragment, I found out that Sheena had made pacts with every Summon Spirit except Luna, and was in Sylvarant to do that right now.

They were working with the Renegades.

Their leader who I suspected was Yuan didn't understand the way the Great Seed and the mana links worked, he thought he did.

If Sheena made the pact…

Regardless of Cruxis's orders, I went to the Tower of Mana.

I waited at the entrance of the seal, where Colette had lost her voice.

Lloyd and the others came, walking up the bridge of light.

They had found some new allies as well.

Presea, a small girl with great powers from her exsphere which had stopped her growth for 16 years.

Zelos, the Casanova Chosen of Tethe'alla, who was secretly Cruxis's spy. He had helped me gather a few of the needed materials for the Pact Ring.

Regal, who had killed Presea's sister, the President of the exsphere manufacturing company, Lezareno.

"Kratos!" Lloyd yelled.

"Stop! You don't know what you're doing!" I said "If you make a pact with Luna then the Great Seed-"

"And that is exactly what we desire!" Yuan snarled as he stepped in front of me, throwing a lightning bolt at me, which I dodged.

"Yuan? So you are a Renegade. If you release-"

"Silence fool!" Yuan roared "Do you think we'll pass up this opportunity? Lloyd! Sheena! Make the pact quickly."

Lloyd and the others stepped onto the teleporter and vanished.

"So you are the Renegade leader." I wondered.

"Sorry old friend" Yuan smirked "I'm going to have to kill you now."

"I think not." I smiled as I slashed at him with my sword, in his weakest area.

Where I had stabbed him.

Yuan roared and collapsed to the ground.

I stepped onto the teleporter, and appeared at the seal.

A glowing light had appeared in Sheena's hand.

"You did it Sheena!" Colette cheered.

"No!" I yelled as the ground began to shake.

I was too late.

Lloyd's POV

I was going to have to work with Kratos.

The very thought of it infuriated me. When I told Raine that she praised me again like when I used the word avaricious.

It almost reminded me of when we freed the prisoners at Palmacosta and Asgard before we found out the truth.

I kept staring at Kratos. I was afraid he'd try and take Colette, or attack us when we weren't looking.

When I also had to go with him to stop Forcystus since he wanted to confront him, with Colette and Raine, I ignored him.

"What are you looking at?" Kratos scowled, innocently.

"Oh please," I rolled my eyes, "I'm not falling for that. Number One, I don't trust you. Number Two there's no reason I shouldn't be watching you."

"That really hurts me." Kratos rolled his eyes too. "I'm not too thrilled about having to work with you too."

"Good. Cause you're a traitor, and I'm only working with you cause I have too." I retorted.

"That's good."

"What?"

"Because you and I…are enemies. Enemies don't like each other."

"Well that's perfect. After you tried to kill Colette, I sure don't like you!" I fumed and walked off to Colette.

"You don't seem too happy to have to work with Kratos." Colette asked.

"He tried to kill you Colette; I don't care if we have to work together. I hate him."

"When we were on the Journey of Regeneration, you two hated each other in the beginning then he became your mentor in the end."

"Yeah, but that Kratos was a lie." I retorted. "This is the real Kratos. A Traitor."

(A/N: I'm skipping a lot of plot spoilers and other things, because they're not that important to this story so please don't hurt me)

Kratos's POV

The Chosen was slowly dying from her Cruxis Crystal.

After we returned to Dirk's house, and he explained to us what was happening.

"You should all stay for the night." Dirk offered.

"I must humbly decline." I muttered and I walked out of the room.

As I was about to leave, Lloyd yelled "Kratos!"

"Yes?"

"You're not going back to Cruxis, right?"

"I must."

"What?"

"One day you'll understand" I scowled, angry that Lloyd had followed me. I wanted to talk to Anna before I had to leave.

"So you really are our enemy." Lloyd stated.

I left, Noishe whining at me as if to say;

"Come back Kratos!"

Lloyd's POV (A/N: I love this part:)

"Yeah we got the Mana Leaf Herb!" I cheered as we headed back to the Elven Story Teller's house.

"Now we just need a Mana Fragment then my cute hunny will be cured." Zelos agreed.

We entered the small hut that seemed to be clinging to the cliff hanging over the waterfall.

"So you succeeded." The Storyteller stated.

"Why didn't you tell us there was a retarted plant guarding the Mana Herb?" Genis asked.

"You seemed determined enough that you would face a great amount of danger to acquire it."

"Thank you for your help," Regal said "But we really need to get going."

"Wait." Raine snapped, "What kinds of stories do you tell?"

"All of them." He smiled "How the elves came from Derris Kharlan, the planting of the Kharlan tree, the story of the hero Mithos."

"The story of Mithos?" Sheena asked.

"Yeah." I agreed "We've heard his name wherever we go, but we don't really know what he did or anything."

"Wait, in Heimdall talk about Mithos was taboo." Zelos said.

"I tell the stories of the elves, without being held back by the heavy burden of Heimdall's restrictions."

"Would you tell us the story?" Colette asked smiling "We have enough time."

"Mithos and his sister lived in Heimdall. They were outsiders who were banished from Heimdall. The reason that Mithos stopped the Kharlan War was so that he could return home."

"Outsiders?" Genis asked "Was Mithos…a half-elf?"

"Mithos a half-elf?" Zelos snorted "No way! All the scriptures in the Church of Martel describe him as a human or elf."

"Mithos was a half-elf" the Storyteller glared at Zelos "Just as I am. Just like your two friends, right next to you. Only one of Mithos's companions was human, and they were treated like outcasts."

"Then if Mithos saved the world why is he 'taboo'?" Regal asked, quoting Zelos.

"It's because he was a half-elf!" Genis yelled.

"No. It was because Mithos is a fallen hero."

"What does that mean?" I asked.

"The spirit Origin gave Mithos a magical sword called the Eternal Sword. Mithos used this sword to divide the world into the two worlds of Tethe'alla and Sylvarant."

"What?" I gawked.

"These four heroes changed the shape of our world, Mithos Yggdrasill, his sister Martel Yggdrasill, and their companions Yuan and Kratos."

There was silence for a few seconds. Me, Genis, Colette and Sheena all blurted out questions at the same time.

"One at a time." The Storyteller sighed, nodding at Genis.

"Yggdrasill of Cruxis is Mithos the hero!" Genis yelled.

"Mithos was the one who divided the worlds in two! If The Eternal Swords is what he used, then we need to find it!" Sheena gasped.

"Martel is Mithos's sister!" Colette exclaimed "That's why he wants to resurrect her!"

"Kratos is 4,000 years old?" I blurted "But he's human like us!"

"Not even an elf can live that long." Raine nodded.

"Using special Cruxis Crystals, all of them have stopped aging. They can live forever." The Storyteller explained.

"Thank you for telling us the story" Colette curtsied smiling.

"It was my pleasure."

"That was shocking." Genis exclaimed as we left the shack.

"This information will help us." Raine nodded.

"The Eternal Sword was used to divide the world in half" Zelos said "So it must be involved if we're gonna reunite the worlds"

"Yeah, but where is it?" Sheena wondered.

"It's in the Tower of Salvation my hunny" Zelos smiled winking at her.

Sheena hit him on the back of the head. "I'm not your hunny!"

"Let's go to the Tower of Salvation then "Raine declared "We need to go to Cruxis's base to get a Mana Fragment as well."

I was the only one still shocked that Kratos was angel. I guess I was the one who knew him the best.

Still, I knew he was an angel, but I didn't know he was able to live that long.

But being Mithos's companion, that mean that he was the one who separated the world.

This twisted world we lived in, that demanded the sacrifice of innocent people, was his fault.

Author's Note: Please review!

Coming Soon…

Chapter 15: Salvation