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Luna: YAY! 405! Awesome, awesome! And…I'm sorry, kratostheangel, but awhile back I had people vote and they wanted Shelloyd, not Shelos. Though, I admit, I like SheenaxZelos more than anything else, the dynamics of it are great. DON'T KILL MEEEE! And also, not everyone says what they said in the game, obviously; for the purposes of the story. If something isn't accurate, its most likely on purpose; not out of my neglectance. But I'll do my best to not dirft entirely from the actual plot. And on a more personal note, I PASSED CHEM:: hugs self::

Chapter 36: Um…What should I name it…?

" AHHH!" screamed Lloyd, hitting the ground with a thud.

"…Where are we?" asked Regal, blinking.

" Probably on the outskirts of Palmacoasta…" mumbled Raine.

" We're back in our world?" asked Colette, standing up, " Nothing's-"
"-real, to me! Nothing's real…but you!" sang Lloyd.

"-seemed to change…"
" That shows how much you know," said Genis, rolling his eyes, " The mana level has raised, but its still the backwards, narrow minded, desperate world we came from."

Zelos flicked his hair back, and wondered if gel existed on this side.

" Phew…I never expected to come to this side like that…" he mused.

Sheena stomped over to him like a banshee on the kill floor.

" Zelos, why did you butt in?!" she shouted, annoyed.

" Because it's a waste to see a fine piece of ass like yours be wasted," said Zelos, shrugging.

" You jerk!" she slapped him.

" Sheena, that's really cold," said Lloyd, surprised, " I mean, he did save your life."

" Yeah! But only because he wants to DO me!"
"…So?"

Sheena stared.

Lloyd stared.

Awkardddd…

" Yeah! So what if Lloyd's right?" asked Zelos, pissed off, " We would've been killed after you, anyway! Pope's orders and all! "

Sheena just kept staring.

" Why can't I feel anything from anyone other than you?" sang Lloyd, suddenly.

" There wasn't even a trigger word for that one…" pointed out Genis.

" I know…but I felt some sick urge to sing it, anyway." said Lloyd, blinking.

"…Are you saying Kuchi is working for the Pope?" asked Sheena, ignoring the sorta love confession.

" Well…the Church is corrupt, so why not?" said Regal.

And then Colette came forth with a heart warming speech.

" Sheena, please don't do something like that again. Don't make the same mistakes I did. Nothing good will come of you sacrificing your life," she said.

" Like your one to talk…" mumbled Genis.

" Dear God! Colette's absolutely right!" cried Lloyd, " Its scary! My heart, I think it may have stopped-"

" You should thank Zelos," chirped Colette, grinning.

" In the form of hot, sweaty-" began Zelos.

" Zelos, you're a sick pervert," said Presea.

Sheena just gagged a bit.

" But what are we gonna do now?" asked Mithos.

" Videotape them, of course!" cried Lloyd.

" What!? Lloyd!" screamed Sheena, pissed off.

" I was kidding…"

But Sheena didn't think it was too funny. She's a very touchy girl.

" Since we're back here, let's-" began Raine, taking charge.

"-start a riot, a riot! Let's start a riot!" sang Lloyd.

" Just wait a sec, I need to spike my hair, don chains and get mad at my parents!" cried Genis.

"- find out what the Desians are up to," finished Raine.

" What about Mithos? I mean, he is a liability and all," said Lloyd.

" Let's dump him off at the Palmacosta government! I'm sure they won't care!" cried Colette.

" I wanna fight too!" pouted Mithos.

" And do what? Cast Fireball on everything, oh that's useful," said Genis, sarcastic, " Besides, you don't even have an Ex-sphere."
" But, I'm Mithos! Destroyer of Worlds! You puny humans can't even begin to fathom my power!" he cried.

This was ignored.

"Pff, fine, whatever," he said, defeated.

Finally, they get to Palmcosta.

Neil is overjoyed to see them and says, " Chosen one! How is the jounary to release the seals going?"
" Its all a lie-" began Colette, but Genis shut her up by distracting her with a shiny object.

" Uh, great! Its going great! Its not a scam!" covered up Lloyd, " Anyway, we were wondering if you can take care of him."

He nudged Mithos forward. Mithos glared.

" Why? Is he not house trained, or something?"
Mithos began to fantasize about multiple ways to disembowel him.

" No! He's just useless!" said Lloyd.

" Oh, why didn't you say so? Sure he can stay here and breathe our air and eat our food and take up our space," said Neil, grinning, " Are you guys going to the Palmacosta Ranch?"
" What are you talking about? Raine blew it up for her own sick enjoyment," said Genis.

" But we've seen some lingering there, some blue haired guy and a spikey-" began Neil.

" Whoa! That's the Renegades!" cried Lloyd.

" Who?"
" Your mom! Let's go!"
They were just about to leave, when Mithos was feeling very uncharacteristically generous and two faced.

" Here, Genis," he said, " Please take this with you."
" Huh? What is it?"
" it's a flute, dumbass!"

" Uh…Why are you giving it to me, again?"
" it's a memento of my sister who died!"
" I can't take that!" Genis exclaimed.

" If you find yourself in danger, play it. I don't know what it'll do, but maybe it'll save you."
" If you don't know what it does, why are you giving it to us?" asked Lloyd.

" Shutup! Your ruining the moment!" cried Mithos.

Genis blinked.

" The…moment?"
" Ahem. Just take it."
" O-Okay…"
So they left Mithos there like the baggage that he is.

Blond, effeminate, baggage.

When they arrived, Botta, who was standing there idly for God knows how long, said, " We've been waiting for you."

" Are you saying you were expecting us to come here?" asked Regal, like the moron that he is.

Yuan stepped up at that point, eyes narrowed.

" Well, he did say he was expecting you all, so what do you think?!" he scowled, " Besides, we need to get the plot moving along. Like us joining forces."

" What? No!" cried Lloyd, " I never saw that coming!"
Yeah. Neither did I.

" The circumstances have changed," said Yuan, as if that was an explanation.

" Like we'd trust you after all you've done to Colette," said Raine, acidly.

"…Actually…we saved her before. When she was all empty and vessely." said Yuan, " Anyway, do you know of the Ancient Khlaran Tree?"
" The legendary Giant Tree said to have existed in the Holy Ground of Kharlan, right? It's the tree of life, which produces infinite mana," said Zelos, " Well, dur I do."

"…But that's just a fairy tale," said Lloyd.

" No! No its not!" cried Colette, " Its real! Like Santa! And elves! And true love!"
Lloyd laughed.

At the true love part, anyway.

Yes, I am bitter.

" The Giant Kharlan Tree indeed existed. But the Kharlan War exhausted its mana supply and the tree wilted away. And now all that remains is its seed left in the Holy Ground of Kharlan," added Yuan.

" Oh? Its at the final seal? Will it be…shiny? Like that light?" she asked, simple as ever.

" Its known as the Great Seed."
"Are you talking about the soul of Mithos?" asked Genis.

" No, you idiot," said Botta, " it's a SEED."

"The Great Seed is absolutely vital in order to reunite the two worlds." stated Yuan, still explaining stuff.

" Reuniting the worlds?" asked Lloyd, dumbly.

" I believe I told you before, Yggdrasill is the creator of the two worlds. Originally, the world was one, but Yggdrasill ripped it asunder."

" How's that possible?!"

" It was possible for Yggdrasill. The two worlds have managed to survive by vying for the small amount of mana seeping from the Great Seed."

Colette had long fallen asleep at this explanation.

Regal and Raine seemed very interested by intellectual speak.

In fact, I fell asleep, too.

When I woke up, the characters were done with their entire 'explanation' deal, and I'm sorry but I'm assuming you've played and understood this part. Seriously, the dialogue lags for this…

" Wow, I can't believe Yuan and the Renegades are double agents and we gotta stop a mana cannon at Rodyle's ranch!" said Lloyd, quickly, incase anyone else wanted a summary of all the lines of dialogue I slept through, " Hey, Botta!"

" Are you ready-"

"- for this?! Dun Dun duna duna duna!" sang Lloyd, an old song.

Anyway, they got to the Remote Island Human Ranch.

"Ah, one more thing. It seems you've destroyed every ranch you've been to, but we need the mana reactor in order to sprout the Great Seed. Don't destroy this one," said Botta, as they were about to part ways.

" Hear that, Raine?" asked Sheena, " No more Ka-boom for you."
" Aww…" said Raine, feeling dejected.

"In order to disable the Mana Cannon, we need to go to the control room," said Regal.

" My gut says it's the furthest room in," said Lloyd, " So the top floor."

And since no one questions and main character, everyone followed.

Luna: Okay, Short, I know. But I have a surprise, based on something stupid me and my friend did today…But with Tos.

WARNING: IF YOU LIKE VALENTINES DAY, THE CHAPTER HAS ENDED FOR YOU ALREADY. BE WARNED. Flame me about being a grinch, and I'll laugh at you with my indifference.

ANTI-VALENTINES DAY FRIENDS WELCOME.

Bonus: Anti-Valentines Day!

" Damn, why am I stuck with this…?" asked Lloyd, annoyed.

" Because Martel hates us." said Genis.

The 2 best friends were stuck in a room, with roses and chocolates. Roses of every color, well; yellow (friendship) pink ( In between?) and red ( OMG LOVE.). Lloyd and Genis had been assigned to put together the Valentines Day stuff and then deliver it. As in, Lloyd was asleep in class and Raine forced him to do it as a punishment, and threw Genis in for her own sadist needs.

Genis normally hated V-day, but wanted it this year to be when he revealed how he felt to Presea. Aww…

Lloyd, however, hadn't gone to the sappy, dark side yet and still loathed it. Since, well, Colette always revealed her sick obsession for him in various ways.

He rustled through one of the orders and got one that said:

Genis:

YOU ROCK!! MORE THAN AN INFERIOR BEING- I mean…um…YAY FOR FRIENDSHIP!

-Mithos.

Lloyd stared, making sure so Genis wouldn't see it, and went for the yellow rose. Then stopped. What if he were to shake it up…

Grinning to himself, he took a red rose. Ouch.

Genis was grumbling incoherently, unaware.

Next, was:

Sheena:

I think I'm in love with you. Love me, for the love of the bounce of my hair!
-your sugar Daddy,

Zelos

Lloyd casually put a yellow flower in for this one.

Lastly, of the ones Lloyd screwed with, anyway, was Regal.

Dear Raine,

Thank you for having a brain.

-Regal

He put pink. Cause no one really knows what the hell it means, anyway.

Later…

Genis was surprised to see a delivery at his door. Seeing the red rose, he nearly had a heart attack.

Presea! She does love me!

Then he read the message.

And swallowed, hard.

Looks like Mithos looked like an effeminate chick and acted like one cause he was…well…

Genis had a good mind to jump off a cliff.

Sheena, meanwhile, had her heart on the floor with Zelo's message. Then saw the yellow rose.

" You stupid Chosen!" she shouted, to the air, " You get my hopes up and give me…me…AHHH!"

She found him and slapped him.

Hard.

Lastly, was Raine.

When she saw the rose and the message, she was just as confused as I am with simple math problems.

And what the hell was the meaning of a pink rose, anyway?
Lloyd slinked off.

He was the Grinch who ruined V-day.

Luna: Hoped you liked it! Have a great Valentines, for all you who like it. And as for me, and anyone else who HATES IT remember, be your own Valentine. LOVE YOURSELF! FORGET V-DAY! DOWN WITH COMMERCIALISM!!!