After saying goodbye to Neil, Yukunan's family, and the people of Palmacosta. The group retired into the Inn to get a good night's rest.
Everyone was asleep except for Zelos, Sheena, Colette, Raine, Presea, Kratos, and Yuan, who were all sitting in a circle in the middle of the huge bedroom.
Zelos slowly grasped Sheena's left hand and looked at the symbols on her arm. "I wonder what they mean.."
Sheena had a look of disgust when looking at the mythical symbols on her arm. "They look horrid."
"Colette or Presea, do you think you can decipher what the symbols might mean?" Raine asked.
Colette crawled forward and sat in front of Sheena, taking her left hand with her hands while Presea sat near the left side of Sheena, looking down at her symbol covered arm.
Colette's nearly whited out eyes focus first on the forearm before looking at the rest of the arm. "Hm.. this symbol right here.", Colette lightly pressed her index finger on one of the symbols near Sheena's elbow that looked like a red letter 'X' with a circle background and four small white daggers pointing to the 'X', "Means power."
"Yes. That does mean power. Power over evil." Presea then pointed to the red 'X' in the symbol. "Anything that is red, means evil. While anything white means good, holy, and innocent." Presea said.
Since Raine was learning something new, she was very close to Sheena's arm with excitement in her eyes. She was so close to Sheena's arm that Sheena could feel Raines' cold breathe breeze upon the skin, which was making her shiver.
"Raine, you don't have to be so close!" Sheena said in a loud whisper, as to not wake everyone up.
"My apologies, but this is all so fascinating." Raine Cooed.
Sheena sighed and rolled her eyes while Zelos chuckled.
Presea then asked. "Sheena. How does your arm feel?"
"It feels heavy and very warm." Sheena eyed at her arm. She also moved her fingers, which was also covered in symbols, front and back.
"And Colette, how does her arm look to you?" Presea looked towards Colette when asking.
Colette blinked a few times. "It looks mostly white with see through flames surrounding it."
"Kate told me that the 11th order had some interesting powers invested in them. I am now suspecting that one set of those powers will be granted to us when we complete our trails." Presea sat back down onto the ground.
"That seems to make sense." Yuan said.
Zelos looked up at the ceiling, speaking out what's been bugging him. "The 11th order doesn't seem to be evil. Don't you agree, Raine?"
Raine nodded. "Like I said before, there seems to be more to this 11th order than what was told to you Presea. The fact that men from were from the 11th order seem to help you Colette and Sheena, and another fact is that the powers granted to you both are very holy. It all opposes what an evil organization would do."
Sheena looked at Presea. "Do you think that stories of the 11th order have been twisted? I mean, it's possible that the 11th order is good and the Imperial Army of Toren is evil?"
Presea simply nodded and said nothing else.
Kratos closed his eyes and then crossed his arms. "If that's the case, then hopefully the Imperial Army of Toren is long gone. We wouldn't have time to fight an entire army if they got in the way."
Sheen yawned and got up from the ground. "Well, we can worry about that when the time comes. Right now, we should get some rest."
While the rest went to bed, Kratos and Yuan were out in the front porch of the Inn. Soon, Mithos joined them, sitting on the first steps of the stairs.
"Kratos, Yuan... Did the past me ever mentioned anything about the 11th order or the Imperial Army of Toren?" Mithos asked.
Yuan slowly sat right beside Mithos. "No, you didn't. But how could you anyway? All that stuff happened one thousand years before the Great Kharlan War."
"But wouldn't you think we would have found some kind of sign of both groups existing at some point?" Mithos looked towards Yuan.
Kratos than spoke. "Perhaps, but most likely the Great Kharlan War erased any evidence of either group."
"Hm, I see.." Mithos slowly placed his forearms on top of his knees since he was sitting in a fetal position. His eyes looked lost in thoughts.
Kratos saw this. "Is there something else on your mind, Mithos?"
"I just.. miss my sister and Pronyma... How did guys feel about Pronyma?" Mithos was curious as to what their answer was going to be.
Kratos slowly leaned forward, placing his forearms on the wooden railing while looking forward. "If you want the honest truth from me. I didn't care much for her in the past and I still don't in a way."
Mithos had a shocked look. "How could you say that..?"
"I say that because she enjoyed hurting people." Kratos simply said.
Mithos got up from the stairs, determined to make Kratos feel a different way for Pronyma. "Yeah, that is because I messed up her mind. It wasn't completely her fault!"
Kratos then looked towards Mithos. "You attempted to the do same thing to me and Yuan, but neither of us broke down and we didn't enjoy hurting people. I don't see the excuse for her to be how she was back then."
"But." Mithos was interrupted by Yuan. "Mithos, calm down. It's Kratos's opinion on her, no use trying to change his mind about her."
Mithos sighed and sat back down onto the stairs. "Well, what's your opinion on her?"
Yuan looked up at the clear night sky. "Well, in a way I did feel sorry for her and I still do. She, just like most half-elves, didn't have a good upbringing. So she must have felt the world would be perfect if it was just lifeless half-elves. And the fact that she most likely loved you and you killed her... hm."
"Despite how I feel about her, Mithos, I will help in any way possible to have her soul be free from Abyssion's grasps. She at least deserves that." Kratos said.
"Thank you Kratos and Yuan." Mithos had a slight smile on his lips.
At first light, the whole group was outside, rejuvenated and ready for anything.
Lloyd stretched and loudly yawned, "Oh yeah! I am ready for this!"
Colette giggled at Lloyd while Sheena shook her head.
"Calm down Lloyd, you won't be doing anything right now. Regal will be doing his trail now." Raine looked towards Regal, who was holding the complete set of Apocalypse leg guards.
Emil than asked. "So since we defeated the demonic versions of Yukunan's family. Does that mean Regal finished the first half of his trail?"
"I assume yes. I can't think of any other test that Regal would have to go through now besides this." Yuan placed his hands behind his back.
Presea, standing next to Regal, looked up at him. "How do you feel?"
Regal lightly smiled. His blue, somewhat bushy, bangs covered his eyes just a bit. "I am not going to lie, I am pretty nervous as I have never gone through something like this before."
Sheena slowly placed her hand on Regal's shoulder, "It's okay to be nervous. I was nervous too and I am pretty sure Colette was as well."
"I sure was, but even I overcame the odds and got illuminated. You can do it too, Regal!" Colette said excitedly.
Regal nodded and got onto his knees now. Placing the black leg guards onto the ground in front of him. He sighed in an attempt to relax his tensed body and focus on the demonic voices that were being emitted from the leg guards.
Regal soon opened his eyes and he was in the Ballroom in the castle in Meltokio. He was wearing a black tux with a pink flower on the pen pocket of the suit. His eyes were scanning the room quickly, seeing everyone looking towards him, as if they were shocked to see him.
"How dare you be here?! You damn murder!" One male said while spilling his wine on the rug. The male's date holding him back from attacking Regal.
Regal looked at the angered male before realizing he was at a period of when people knew he killed Alicia. "I had no choice but to kill her. She begged me to." Regal tried to explain.
The people in the room began to uproar at Regal. Throwing food and drinks at him while yelling "Lair!" and "Murderer!". Regal covered his face with his arms, able to slightly see between his arms. He soon saw Vharley, who was standing there and laughing at him.
"Vharley!" Regal rushed through the crowd of people, pushing men and women to the side.
Vharley tried to get out of the room but was quickly grabbed by Regal, who then lifted him up from the ground by the collar.
"How could you make Alicia transform into a monster?!" Regal yelled.
Vharley said, in between choking and gasping noises. "It w-wasn't my fault that her b-body was weak! You were n-never going to have a family with her a-anyways! How would it l-look to your and your c-company's image if people w-would had found out you were seeing someone who looked half your a-age?! She d-deserved to die! What are you g-going to do, kill me to right in front of a-all these people?!"
A shadow was casted over Regal's eyes due to his bangs covering his them when he tilted his head down. The people was still yelling and throwing food at him. He soon released Vharley, and quickly did a spin kick. His foot connected to Vharley's head, kicking it clean off his shoulders and it landed on one of the tables. Vharley's headless body would kneel down and slump over to the ground. Blood spraying out from the open neck.
Just then, the guards came into the ballroom, surrounding Regal. One of the guards looked at the headless body. "My god... you monster! You will be locked up for the rest of your life!"
One of the guards came up behind Regal, attempting to place handcuffs on his wrist, but Regal did a front kickflip, sending the guard crashing into some of the other guards.
"That's it! Kill him!" The guards rushed towards Regal with their sword and staffs aimed at him. While the rest of the people was screaming and running for their lives.
In a matter of seconds, Regal was sending some of the guards through tables and walls while others were being impaled by his powerful thrust kicks, which was easily going through the armor they were wearing.
"You evil, c-corrupted son of a bi-" The wounded guard that was talking got a powerful kick in the face by Regal, instantly killing the man.
Regal seemed to be in deep distress. His hair was messy and he was sweating. "Corrupted?! This whole city is corrupted! G-Gurghhhhhnhh!"
Regal got onto his knees and held his head tightly. The voices in his head were getting loud. Some of the voices saying "Jealousy", "No family", "No love".
A dark being was now seen being split off from Regal's body, causing Regal to be in great physical pain. The dark being managed to get out of Regal's body and stand in the pool of blood that was surrounding Vharley's headless body.
Regal, huffing and on his knees, slowly turned to look up at the being, who looked exactly like him except its eyes was pitch black and its hair was a darker blue.
"So... you must be the evil side of me.." Regal said nervously while getting up to be at eye level with the dark being.
The dark being didn't say anything back to Regal, though it's breathing could be slightly heard with a slight echo effect behind the exhale of air.