The Prophecy of Balance The search continues, a tales of symphonia fanfic

Hey, in this chapter there's once again a song. It's called 'Die Suche geht weiter' and is sung by 'Rosenstolz'. You can find it again on YouTube. =)

Enjoy the chapter. ;)

Chapter 36: The search continues

Behind the big shadow suddenly a bright light appeared. When it came closer Zelos' and Sheena's breaths caught. Not only that a true yeti had entered the grocery store, no, he was even followed by a second one! It was a little bit smaller and held an oil lamp in his claws. Both yetis had pure white fur, sharp fangs and ice cold blue eyes. The bigger yeti was about six feet high, the smaller one about five feet.

Only when the two moved through the store Zelos and Sheena noticed that the bigger one held a plain brown bag in his claw. They filled it with different food.

"I can't believe it!" Zelos whispered unbelievingly. He didn't want to trust his eyes; his mind just didn't want to understand that he was seeing two living yetis. What would he see next? Leprechauns that promised him a pot full of gold at the end of a rainbow? Fairies that had the size of his thumb? Or would he soon hear the rumor that a girl named Briar-Rose had fallen into a deep sleep and could only be awakened by a true-love's first kiss?

The whole thing seemed to shock Sheena only half as much as Zelos; she was watching silently the two yetis how they put smoked meat into the bag. They could apparently communicate without making any noises.

Sheena frowned pensively. Something about the yetis bothered her, something didn't fit. Maybe it was because the bigger yeti constantly looked around attentively as if he was expecting somebody to come in any minute and to catch them in the act of stealing. But when the head of the yeti turned in her direction she finally noticed what was bothering her. "Zelos! Look more closely at the yetis! Doesn't something catch your eyes?"

Zelos shook his head helplessly. "You mean apart from the fact that they're alive?" He still had to fight with this fact.

"Watch their faces," Sheena whispered.

But Zelos didn't really have the opportunity because now the yetis moved to the boxes with apples Zelos and Sheena were hiding behind. They tiptoed quickly into a darker corner, but in the act Zelos bumped into something and couldn't suppress a little cry of pain.

The yetis stepped back, startled.

"Damn it! Let's get the hell out of here, Xerya!" the bigger yeti said and the two rushed outside.

Zelos' head was spinning. Now the yetis could also talk! As if their pure existence wouldn't be enough! "My view of the world has been destroyed …"

Sheena took out a Blue Candle which was then illuminating the room. "Zelos, you don't need to worry. It weren't real yetis."

"They weren't?" Zelos looked at her hopefully as if she had just revealed to him that the world wasn't doomed after all.

Sheena shook her head. "They didn't blink."

"Oh," Zelos just said. It didn't really seem to convince him of the fact that the yetis weren't real. "But maybe yetis don't need to blink?"

Sheena rolled her eyes. "Yetis can't talk either! They were no yetis, Zelos, it were only yeti costumes!"

"But why should somebody disguise as a yeti to steal? It has to be really hot in those costumes …"

The black haired kunoichi nodded. "We will have to ask that themselves. Come, we should look if they have left behind some traces outside."

Zelos followed his wife outside. He doubted that they would find traces, the two fake yetis would have been after all pretty stupid if they hadn't covered the tracks.

But it looked like they hadn't had time for that because inhuman big footprints were in front of the store leading outside of the city.

"We should follow them," Sheena suggested. She had been kneeling between the footprints and was now slowly standing up.

"Now?" Zelos asked unbelievingly. Sheena couldn't be serious! It was in the middle of the night and he was half asleep.

However, Sheena's glance made him quickly clear that she really was serious. "Tomorrow morning the traces will be gone, it snows here after all regularly. I don't say we have to confront them still tonight, but we should look where they have gone to so that we can seek them out tomorrow."

Zelos admitted defeat. "Alright, alright … But as soon as we've seen where they have gone to we return."

The traces were leading them outside of the city to a little house which was a little bit hidden behind a hill. After Sheena and Zelos had seen where the traces were leading to they walked back to Flanoir to finally get some sleep.

:::

Scowling, Raine was following her friends through the hallways. She didn't like the fact that they had to stay in this castle only because it was snowing and blowing a gale a little bit. They weren't made of sugar and Palmacosta wasn't so far away either. But no, everybody apart from her was of the opinion that it would be the safest to stay in the castle overnight. Even Lunpor had told her in thoughts that that was probably the best.

And so the group was now searching for bedrooms in which they could stay the night. Probably they would use the rooms of the servants and guards because nobody wanted to use the bedchamber of the lord although there was probably the most comfortable bed.

"Well, there we go! A room with five beds," Lykia said contentedly.

The room was furnished plainly, apart from the five beds there were only two shelves and a desk. The walls and ceiling were white; there were neither pictures nor other decorations.

"Ahh … Finally a bed …" Genis moaned while letting himself fall on one of them. "It seems like an eternity to me since I've slept in a bed …"

"Just ask me …" Lykia mumbled quietly. She hadn't lain in a real bed for almost thirteen years.

"Oh, yes, I'm sorry …" Genis apologized.

"Anyway, we should sleep now," Lykia said.

Raine looked troubled at the ground. She was pretty sure that she couldn't fall asleep or would be haunted by nightmares. Too much, which she had locked away in the deepest corners of her consciousness, had resurfaced this day.

"I think I can't sleep." This sentence wasn't coming from Raine though, but from Riki who seemed to be frightened of nightmares at least as much as Raine.

"Maybe Raine can sing you a song," Genis remarked.

"What?" Raine asked in surprise.

Genis was grinning widely. "If I remember correctly you have always sung me a song when I couldn't fall asleep."

Raine's features relaxed. That he could still remember that … He had been maybe three of four years old back then. "Alright. Maybe it helps." Perhaps it would help herself to calm down as well.

Raine sat down on the edge of the bed Riki was already lying in and started singing with a soft voice.

Die Suche geht weiter (The search continues) (Rosenstolz)

Du fragst, warum es so hell scheint

Dort hinten so weit

Du fragst, warum es so kalt ist

Und dunkel zugleich.

:::

(You ask why it's shining so brightly

Back there, so far

You ask why it's so cold

And dark at the same time.)

:::

In the meantime, Raine had closed her eyes while remembering how her mother had song her this song when she had been still a child.

:::

Weit in der Ferne

Weit, ganz weit

Dort strahlt alles schöner, heller und weich

Dort strahlt es viel heller und Zeit ist ganz gleich.

:::

(Far in the distance

Far, very far

Everything shines there prettier, brighter and softly

It shines there brighter and time doesn't matter at all.)

:::

Now that Raine was at the place of her nightmares it was much more difficult to believe that there was a place where it wasn't so miserable, even if she knew of the existence of such places. It just seemed to be more than a dream, a hope to her …

:::

Ich will dir nur sagen

Ich will, dass du weißt

Die Suche geht weiter

Wenn wir kurz halten

Dann nur, um zu sehen

Dass der Weg, den wir gehen

Schön und doch steil ist

Ein Stück nur vom Teil ist

Die Suche geht weiter

Nach vorn.

:::

(I just want to tell you

I want you to know

The search continues

If we shortly stop

Then only to see

That the path we're taking

Is beautiful but still arduous

Only a piece of the part

The search continues

Onward.)

:::

The search would always continue … The search for a place in this world. In a world with humans from which many were still discriminating against half-elves. Furthermore, the search for the Moonstone Shivers. What would she have to search for when she had performed that task?

:::

Wir rasen wie Gejagte, die sich fürchten

Dass die Zeit sie bestiehlt

Die Jahre drehn sich immer schneller, völlig außer Atem

Kann kaum stehen.

:::

(We're running like chased people who are afraid

That time steals from them

The years are constantly spinning faster, totally out of breath

I can barely stand.)

:::

Time passed quickly and they had to hurry with fulfilling the prophecy. But why only Kratos knew …

:::

Was bleibt von uns übrig

Wenn alles vergeht

Ich will dich einfach nur kurz halten

Um zu überprüfen, dass ich leb.

:::

(What is left of us

If everything fades

I just want to hold you shortly

To verify that I'm alive.)

:::

Raine ran softly a hand through Riki's hair. The girl was by now fighting with keeping her eyes open.

:::

Ich will dir nur sagen

Ich will, dass du weißt

Die Suche geht weiter

Wenn wir kurz halten

Dann nur, um zu sehen

Dass der Weg, den wir gehen

Schön und doch steil ist

Ein Stück nur vom Teil ist

Die Suche geht weiter

Nach vorn.

:::

(I just want to tell you

I want you to know

The search continues

If we shortly stop

Then only to see

That the path we're taking

Is beautiful but still arduous

Only a piece of the part

The search continues

Onward.)

:::

Who knew what would still happen during their journey and were they would stand at the end. Maybe shortly after that they would set out on the next journey, and Raine's life only consisted of going from one place to another …

:::

Wenn wir kurz halten

Dann nur, um zu sehen

Dass der Weg, den wir gehen

Schön und doch steil ist

Ein Stück nur vom Teil ist

Die Suche geht weiter

Nach vorn.

:::

(If we shortly stop

Then only to see

That the path that we take

Is beautiful but still arduous

Only a piece of the part

The search continues

Onward.

:::

Die Suche geht weiter

Nach vorn

Von vorn.

:::

(The search continues

The search continues

Onward

Afresh.)

:::

Raine noticed smilingly that Riki had fallen asleep. She covered the girl with the blanket and then heard a low snoring coming from her brother. After she had covered him with a blanket as well she walked to her own bed. She also felt better now. Maybe she managed to sleep for some hours after all. "Good night," she whispered to Lykia and Kratos.

"Good night," Lykia replied quietly, already half asleep.

"Night," Kratos said. He wouldn't sleep of course – not because he couldn't, but because he wanted to keep watch. They couldn't be too sure, after all, that there wasn't anybody left in the castle.

Lunpor, who had lain down in front of Raine's bed, was only dozing as well.

So the others could feel safe this night.

xDD So, it weren't real yetis. ^^ Zelos can calm down again. xD

I really like the song Raine's singing. ^^ And it's really somehow like a lullaby because it's so calm ... You can really fall asleep during that song. xD

To be continued ...