Me: Well, this is great. The ToS group, including my charcters, have found Tales of Symphonia, and my Gamecube, which we need a PLAYSTATION!

Lloyd: Ooooh! Totally!

Me: I know, right?

Sheena: He's not talkin' to you, SylphWindDancer.

Kratos: Hey, Lloyd, I died.

Anna: NOO!

Lloyd: One life bottle, coming right up!

Me: (Turns Gamecube off)

Everyone: HEY! We were just about to defeat Maxwell!

Colette: Oh, I know! SylphWindDancer wants us to say the line!

Regal: SylphWindDancer owns nothing. Now-

Presea: Turn the ---- thing back on!

Everyone: ...

Chapter 21: Things are not as they seem...

Celeste had found a small half-elven child crying, and backed up in a corner of a burning house, and she rushed in. The half-e;f had dark purple hair and silver eyes, with burn marks here and there. Celeste made it to the back of the house, where the child was, and picked her up, whispering, "Don't worry. I'm gonna help you. It's okay now."

Celeste decided the child didn't look older than 11 years old, but picked her up bridal style, and tried to rush outside, but the house was quickly collasping around them. Scarlett was flying outside, sucking up small parts of the house, trying to make sure that her sister would get out in time.

"Come on, Celeste, hurry!" Scarlett yelled over the crackling flames.

Celeste didn't hear her, but summoned her wings again, and tried to fly out, but the house gave away.

"CELESTE!"

"Celeste, no!" Scarlett began flying down to the house, determind to find her sister, but was held back by Kratos, "Scarlett Renne Aurion, stop!" he ordered against his struggling child, "I'll go down there, and you try to suck up the flames - slowly!"

Scarlett nodded, her face written with panic. Kratos let her go, and he flew down there, Anna and Lloyd watching. Sheena was summoning Undine to bring heavy rain to douse the fires, after all, Scarlett couldn't take all of it by herself. Scarlett obeyed Kratos's orders, and began sucking up the fire, but quickly, then she'd slow down, and pick up again. Kratos was down in the burning house, trying to find his daughter.

He began coughing, but shouted loudly, "Celeste!" he inhaled more smoke, but saw the fire was dying down. He heard Lloyd come down beside him, and he looked at his son, "What exactly are you doing?"

"Helping you find Celeste. Origin can't help us in this kind of situation!" Lloyd replied, feeling the cold rain go down his sweaty back, "I might be able to move some of the hotter blocks of brick because of my gloves, you go inside!"

Kratos hesitated, but nodded, and Lloyd began moving some of the hot bricks. Zeki had heard all this, and he came up in front of the house, "Mom!"

"It's okay..."

"Mom, where are you?!" Zeki cried, going to the scene. Everyone called for him to stop, but he couldn't hear anything. Everything was muted, silent. Nothing was reaching his blocked out ears.

"Stop it. She's okay..."

"MOM!"

"Up here."

Scarlett heard a man's voice, and saw a shadow of a man in the air holding two people - Celeste and the half-elf. Scarlett's heart stopped. That couldn't be...could it? No, it wasn't possible...was it?

Lloyd saw the figure, too, and called his father out of the house. Kratos came out, cursing his son, saying something about 'what could be so important?' Kratos saw him, too. A man was holding his daughter, but who was it?

All the angels swore out loud.

The man held up a hand, and the small child went floating down the Scarlett, and she took the child, seeing she was unharmed except for the burn marks. This whole time, Scarlett didn't take her eyes off the man.

They stood there so long, the flames were all gone, and Sheena rejoined them. Zeki saw the man, and snapped, "What are you doing to my mom?!" and he drew forth his kantanas threateningly.

"Absolutly nothing." the man sneered.

Celeste seemed to stir up in the arms of the man, and she was aware of where she was, and began struggling, "Ah, let me go!"

The man held her by her wrist, glaring at her. Celeste stopped struggling, and saw the man's silver wings. She asked him, "Are you back to yourself?"

"Momentarily. He keeps taking over." the man answered.

Celeste brought her wings out, the man letting go of her. "I still love you, no matter what...Theron."

Me: HUGE, HOUSE SIZED CLIFFY, RIGHT?

Celeste: I KNEW it! I just KNEW it!

Scarlett: I can't tell if that's good or bad.

Kratos: ...Read and review...I guess...