Me: (sigh) I'm sorry Animefreak but you can't hurt Terran and anyway, shape, or form.

Lloyd: She wants to hurt Terran?

Me: yeah cause he locked Tia's memories away. I understand how she feels but I'm planning stuff as I go so…yeah.

Lloyd: Come on! Let's just start the story!

Me: (sigh) Ok…

Lloyd: Jen Rem doesn't own ToS or FF. Only Tiamatt, the Oblivion Blade, Ash, Eria, and Oblivion.

"Tiamatt, wake up." Oblivion nudged my shoulder with his nose, rousing me from my strange dreams.

"What is it?" I yawned, stretching my arms.

"The others are ready to leave. You need to hurry and get ready." Oblivion sighed.

"What?! Why didn't you wake me earlier?" I yelled, leaping to my feet and grabbing my gear.

"Humph, he tried but you just rolled over and ignored him." Eria said irritably.

"You have no right to complain Eria. You were just as bad." Lloyd laughed as he saw the way the girl tried to put all the blame on me.

"Guess that's one thing you've inherited from me." I laughed, then froze suddenly as I realized what I said and more memories flooded my mind. "Man, I can't believe I forgot about my own daughter."

"So you remember Eria and Lloyd now?" Raine asked as looking at me with similar eyes to how Hojo looked at any of his specimens. I flinched and looked away from her, feeling uncomfortable under her gaze.

"Raine!" Oblivion growled. The half elf looked at him before she realized what she was doing and finally backed off.

"I'm sorry." The Professor apologized, as I let out a breath I had no idea I was holding. "I forgot about how uncomfortable that made you."

"No, it's ok. You think after a couple thousand years and being a science geek myself that I would get over it." I replied, shaking my head. "Anyways, I thought we were in a rush."

"Yeah, we have to help Presea!" Genis shouted as a reminder.

"Ok then. Let's get moving!" Lloyd exclaimed taking the lead as we made our way back to Ozette.

We stocked back up on supplies and checked on Presea quick to make sure she was ok before leaving to the dock to the north. The entire time, Raine became more and more nervous, her fear of water and the open water becoming more visible. Her nervousness actually triggered another memory flash, allowing me to remember more about the half-elf. To Raine's relief, it was dark by the time we reached the dock so we set up camp, though I doubt she slept that night from nervousness.

"Are you sure this is the only way to the Toize Mines?" She gulped as Lloyd pulled the specially altered EC out of the wing pack.

"Come on Raine! It'll be fine!" I said happily, trying to encourage her onto the craft. I was excited to be back out over the water but I silently hoped the waves weren't bad. I remembered a trip from my human life as a junior in high school when I went to Florida through a class and I forgot to take enough motion sickness medicine. Let's just say the fish really enjoyed the warm meals…

"Easy for you to say. You like the water." Raine said nervously as she slowly boarded the EC. "Didn't you tell a long time ago that you wanted to be a marine scientist when you were human?"

"Yeah but that doesn't change anything. You'll still be fine." I smiled as everyone else got on. "And if you get sick just tell me and I'll see if Genis has any ginger."

"Thanks." The half-elf gave a small, uncertain smile as the EC began to move.

"At least she knows what helps sea sickness." Eria sighed; staring at the horizon as a "small" four-foot wave rocked the craft.

"Don't tell me you're sick already?" Lloyd laughed as Eria turned green as a slightly large swell moved beneath us.

"Shut it or I'm puking on you!" Eria groaned looking at the red clad swordman out of the corner of her eye. Lloyd backed away nervously, getting a laugh from most of the group.

By the time we reached the southern continent not to far from the mines, not only Eria, but Lloyd and me were on the green side as the seas continued to get rougher through out the day. In fact, only Raine, Genis, Oblivion and Regal were comfortable enough to not be clinging to the sides of the EC. Land was welcomed when we finally found it and set up camp once more. And after a rather light meal, we rested for the trip into the mines the next day.

"I can't believe you got sea sick!" Oblivion laughed, laying his head on his paws.

"So! It's been a long time since I've been at sea and the waves by the end of the day must have been… I'm guessing about ten footers!" I retorted, leaning back on my hands.

"You're probably right." He sighed. "Tell you the truth the only reason I didn't get sick is because I asked Genis for some ginger before we left."

"Humph!" I flopped down on the ground and didn't look at him. "Could've shared some with me, you know. I thought I was like family to you?"

"Yeah, like an annoying little sister!" Oblivion growled playfully, swatting at me from where he lay with one of his huge paws.

"Why you!" I jumped up and tackled the wolf, knocking him to his side and rubbing his stomach causing as canine smile to come across his face as he laughed.

"No fair! That's cheating!"

"I thought I was the annoying little sister. I have the rights to cheat!"

"Will you two stop acting like children?" Eria yelled, causing me and Oblivion to stop our play fight.

"Sorry." Oblivion replied, bowing his head.

"You know for a kid, you're sure uptight." I sighed. "You need to relax and have some fun."

"Tiamatt has a good point Eria." Zelos agreed. "You've been really serious lately. You need to relax."

"How am I to relax when my mission is no longer necessary to complete and the woman who is supposed to be my mother doesn't even remember any of her friends. Not only that, but how in mana am I supposed to return to my own time?" Eria cried in frustration.

"Eria, we'll figure everything out." Colette said, trying to comfort the young girl.

"Yeah and Tiamatt's already starting to get her memory back so she should be able to help you get home." Lloyd added.

"Oh thanks, lay everything on me." I replied sarcastically. "I'll help you Eria. Jus let me figure out everything out first, like the whole memory thing."

"Thanks." She replied, now smiling.

"Eria, I'm curious. What was your purpose of coming to this time?" Regal asked.

"Um…well, I was sent back to help cure the Geostigma but that's been cured so…" Eria started.

"Wait, the only cure is Great Gospel which was lost when Aeris died. How can you help cure the Geostigma?" Oblivion asked, the fur on the back of his neck bristling with suspicion.

"Eria, the vial you gave me in Mizuho," Raine said, pulling the said vial form her pouch. "This is the cure isn't it?"

"Yes, that was the bit of rain I was able to summon back home but I'm afraid it's not enough to cure anyone of the disease. Mom thought maybe you could use you're curative powers to amplify its effects." Eria explained.

"Rain you summoned?" Genis asked. "But I thought that, from what Tiamatt has told us, only one person has been known to be able to do that."

"Eria, how did you learn to use Great Gospel?" I asked, intrigued by why she never used or even how she used it to begin with.

"Some think I'm the reincarnation of Aeris but I think that it's cause only half Cetra can use the limit break. I never really used it cause I haven't mastered it and the last time I used it… I was in the hospital for a week." She sighed as she answered my question.

"Interesting…" I muttered, the scientist part of both me and Tiamatt analyzing the information.

"At least you're not like Raine when you interested in something scientifically." Eria sighed.

"What?!" Raine cried. "What's wrong with the way I study specimens?!"

"Raine, you've been looking at Tiamatt like you're going to dissect her since you found out she wasn't human." Genis reminded his sister.

"Oh…" the half-elf said softly. "I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it." I shrugged, my mind still working through everything said by Eria. "Let's just get some sleep so we can get the inhibitor ore for Presea."

Everyone nodded in agreement and began to settle down for the night as I sighed and closed my eyes to sleep…

"Tiamatt…I'm sorry…"

The next day went relatively quick as we found the mines and searched for the inhibitor ore. Lloyd had a lot of fun using the sorcerer's ring to blow up large boulders that blocked our path and Raine had to collect the shattered pieces of the odd spinning block that had tried to attack us. By the time we had reached the end of mine, we were all tired and ready to breathe some fresh airs. Lloyd was at least having fun blowing various items up. Finally we returned to the entrance of the mines where a rather large man was talking with two soldiers.

"There are no ex-spheres here either." He complained.

"Vharley! What are you doing here?" Regal cried, surprised that the man was in the mines.

"Who is this guy?" Lloyd asked.

"He's Vharley, an ex-sphere broker." Zelos explained.

"I never expected to see you here Regal." Vharley laughed. "And what is this, instead of retrieving the Chosen you've joined up with her group."

"Don't you dare touch her!" I growled, reaching back for my sword.

"Humph. I don't know why you would allow a murderer to be in the same group as the Chosen but I guess it doesn't matter." Vharley shrugged, and left with the guards.

"Regal, what does he mean when he calls you a murderer?" Lloyd asked the shackled man.

"I committed a terrible crime. That is all that needs to be said." Regal replied calmly.

"We can respect that." Lloyd nodded. "You've done nothing for us to not trust you so you're ok with us."

"Thank you." Regal answered, nodding.

"Huh? Tiamatt, are you ok?" Colette asked as my eyes clouded over in memories of Tiamatt's life before the Reunion.

"I know what it is like to be condemned for the killing of others. I was banished not from a town or a city but from a planet. It was actually because of that crime that I met Oblivion." I mumbled. Oblivion nudged my hand with his muzzle as he too, remembered that day and the harsh life I had been forced to live. "But that life is in the past. I'm over it."

"Alright. Then we should be heading back to Ozette." Lloyd nodded.

We left the mines and walked half way back to the southern dock before making camp once again. Dinner was short due to the exhaustion everyone felt after being in the dark mines for so long. Soon, everyone was asleep but me as I felt a sudden surge in the lifestream and watched in amazement, as a pyramid appeared just a few miles from the campsite. What else would appear in this world?

The next morning, Raine instantly saw the huge structure in the distance and after I told her a brief history of the Egyptian artifact. After a long hour of reasoning we finally managed to lead her away back towards the dock where we spent yet another long day at sea as we traveled north. This time, we all made sure to eat ginger to ensure none of us had a repeat of last time. We made camp just inside the mainland that night before heading back to Ozette.

"Ow!" Colette fell to her knees, clutching her arm as she continued to cry out in pain.

"Colette!" Lloyd cried as he watched his friend cry in pain. "Professor Raine can you help her?"

"I'll try." Raine replied taking a step towards Colette but Presea suddenly approached the group. I had a strange foreboding feeling crawling down my spine.

"Let me help Colette."

"I…I guess its ok." Raine said uncertainly.

Presea walked up to Colette and swung her axe at us, causing us to leap back as a man in a cloak appeared from the shadows.

"Good work, Presea! You've brought the Chosen One to me!" the man cackled.

"Filthy Desian!" I spat angrily. "What are you doing in Theth'Ella?!"

"I am Rodyle, the most cunning of the Desian Grand Cardinals. I hope you don't mind me taking the Chosen One!" He laughed as two "dragons" flew towards him. One grabbed Colette as Rodyle leapt onto the other one. Presea tried to get on one too but stumbled. "Hahaha!"

"Colette!" Lloyd cried trying to run after the creatures. I growled angrily, spreading my own wings, and leapt into the air to give chase but something held me back.

"Tiamatt, don't go!" Eria said firmly as she held onto my leg.

"He's got Colette!" I cried, my memories of her flooding my mind.

"I know but if you go now then you could screw everything else up!" Eria yelled back. I paused, having never considered that the young girl might know what would happen next. I landed back on the ground and closed my wings, cursing to myself for not attacking the flying beast before they could escape.

"Lloyd, You put the charm on the inhibitor ore right?" Genis asked. Lloyd nodded. "Please help Presea."

"Yeah…" Lloyd replied, attaching the ore to Presea's bare ex-sphere. The axe woman's eyes instantly regained a natural shine to them and she looked around in confusion.

"What…What's going on? What did I do?" Presea asked, clearly upset by what she had just caused.

"Do you remember everything?" Regal asked.

"Mostly." The axe woman replied. "Lloyd, I'm sorry. I wish to continue to travel with you and help as much as I can for all the trouble I've caused."

"You didn't really have control over what you did so I thinks its ok if you join us." Lloyd nodded, eyes clouded in sorrow.

"Thank you."

"You let the Chosen escape?!" Everyone turned to see Kratos standing behind us, glaring angrily.

"Kratos, what are you doing here?" Lloyd growled.

"That doesn't matter. I believe the Chosen will be safe for now anyways. She's useless to Rodyle." The Seraphim replied half-thinking outloud.

"You work for Cruxis, why did you have Rodyle take Colette if she's useless?" I snapped.

"He is going against orders." Kratos answered back, refusing to look at me. "If I were you, I would head back to Mizuho. They should have found your rhierds by now." With that, the angel spread his wings and flew away.

"Why is he helping us?" Genis asked in confusion. I felt like I knew the answer but like everything else, it was hidden form me.

"It doesn't matter. If he's useful than make use of him." Zelos said.

"Yeah, I guess." Lloyd sighed. "But I want to know why too."

"Kratos is right though, my people should have located the rhierds by now." Sheena added.

"Then let's go." Lloyd said, walking back towards the town entrance that we had walked through just moments ago.

The others followed but I continued to just stand where I was, trying to remember the reason why the Seraphim was helping us. I remembered that he had told me the reason himself but nothing of the actual reason.

"Tiamatt? Are you ok?" Oblivion asked, nudge my hand.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm fine. I was just trying to remember something." I said, pushing the thought of the memory out of my mind for the moment.

"Don't force yourself to remember something. Let it come on it's own." Oblivion sighed. "Now we better hurry before the others leave us."

"Yeah, let's go."

Me: I know this chapter was a little rushed but that was because I had to play this area of the game and I was trying to remember the important stuff so…yeah.

Lloyd: Oh how reassuring. The authoress doesn't even know what to do.

Me: Hey! I'm freestyling this now cause I'm ahead of the notebooks now!

Lloyd: Oh! Well that explains everything!

Me: What the hell is up with you today?

Lloyd: Nothing, just didn't much sleep.

Me: well I don't know what's worse. A grumpy Lloyd or a hyper me cause I get hyper when I'm tired.

Lloyd: Lucky you.

Me: (sigh) Just go take a nap or something. Anyways, Read and Review please!