Notes from K3:

1) I want to give a big thanks to the 4 people who reviewed this story. Hehe, you guys rock! :]

2) This is the part where you actually learn what's happening to poor little Kare! Well, kind of. And ever wonder what happened to the Scorpion Army in this world?

3) Does everyone remember that nameless Ressistance guy, who gaurds the sewer entrance in SouthTown? Does he have a name? I never saw one, so in this story, his name is Ryjei. And he's also Krissie's love intrest...hehehe...

4) Enjoy!



History Repeats: Part 3



After the Mana Fortress incident, all the people who had been at the underground Palace had split up. Some left for obvious places, such as Sergo had went back to sailing the seas. Yet others were harder to find. There was no longer a need for the Resistance, so they had disbaneded. Krissie, their former leader had left for places unknown.

Kare and Ella had tried to find her so that they could invite her to their wedding, but no one had been successfull in locating her. Appearently Sage Joch, or Jhek or whatever he was calling himself by now, had been the last one to see Krissie a year ago. Before she had left to "go see an old friend"...

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Ella couldn't help but laugh a bit when Senfa found out just how excited Flammie was about it's return.

"Sorry, Senfa-det! I forgot how loud I can be. I'm just so glad you're back!!" Flammie said when the Sprite regained consciousness, speaking to the minds of both his passangers.

"Wow. Flammie. You can talk. Hehe, I always wondered how you knew where we wanted to go! You and Kare have got to be the biggest tricksters in the world! Well, besides me, anyway!" Senfa broke off into a crazy sounding laughing fit.

Ella and Flammie stared at the small thing in disbelief. /Why the heck does it laugh so much? And why does it's laughter sound sort of...demented?\ They both thought simultaneously.

"Uh, Flammie," Ella said, conveniently quieting Senfa. "We need to find Krissie. Do you have an ideas on where she could be?"

"No...Sorry." Flammie told her regretfully. "That freaky old dude, Picard might know, though. He's got nothing to do being holed up in that lighthouse of his, so he keeps tabs on everyone. I wonder how he does it..." Flammie pondered.

"Do you think Picard knows where Kare is?!" Ella asked frantically.

"Maybe! You should ask him!" Flammie answered. They flew across the ocean in silence, Ella hoping to finally know Kare's whereabouts, and Senfa wondering how a guy who spends all his time in a remote lighthouse could know where any given person was at any given time.

"Hey!" Flammie's voice brought both of them out of their thoughts. "There's the lighthouse! I have to let you off at the bottom of it, sorry! See you two in a few minutes!" Flammie said as he started his descent toward the lighthouse.

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Ella sighed. They had climed all those stairs just to find that after all the time that had passed, Picard's favorite activity was still to spin around in cirles.

"Hey! Listen up! We-" Senfa began.

"Hello, I am Picard, Caretaker of this lighthouse." He interupted, not even bothering to pause in his twirling.

"Yes, we know. You already know us, remember?" Ella reminded him.

"For a direct listing of the dwellings of every person on this planet, listen attentivly. Aaron Abaca...Kippo Village. Allissa Ac-" Picard continuted, still spinning around.

Senfa facefaulted and poked Ella in the arm. "Ella, this will take forever! He's still the same mindless idiot he's always been! Grr." the sprite complained. It walked up to Picard. When it was about two feet away from him, it called upon the Gnome's power. A big rock with a happy face mysteriously engraved on it dropped onto Picard's head.

When Picard came to a few minutes later, he felt strange.

"Picard...*sigh* Can you answer two questions for us?" Ella asked him.

"Oh, hello Miss Ella. What can I do for you?" He asked, his brain starting to tingle.

"I should do that to people more often..hehehe..." Senfa muttered to itself.

"Uh, Picard, do you know where Kare is?" She questioned frantically.

"Uh..." Picard's head was so tingly that he was starting to get light-headed. "Uh, no. I don't know where he is. You should ask Krissie. She might know." He said, standing up.

"Okay, that's the second question. Can you tell us where Krissie is?"

Picard felt giddy and suddenly he had the strange desire to spin around in circles. He thought about the girl's question. "Yes, although why you want to see her and and spin in cirlces I don't know...um...I think she's with a friend..In, uh, that other city on the on continent...not NorthTown but...um...the other one."

"SouthTown! Come on, Senfa!" Ella waved the Flammie drum. "Thanks Picard!"

As Senfa and Ella jumped onto Flammie they saw Picard twirling around again, saying something about the almighty-ness of circles. "What a wierd..." Senfa mumbled as they flew for SouthTown.

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"Mara used to be part of the Resistance, so she probably knows where Krissie is in the city. Besides, I haven't seen her for a while." Ella thought out loud when Flammie let them off.

They both walked into Mara's houst to see something they didn't expect. Krissie was sitting on Mara's bed, just now putting on her shirt.

"Uh...Hi! Hehehe!" Senfa laughed. "I never would have guessed this!"

Krissie imediatly turned to them with a smile. "Senfa! Ella! I haven't seen you two in the longest time, and I have improtant news for you-" Krissie broke off when she noticed the strange looks the two were giving her...

Ella and Senfa ducked when a pillow form the bed came flying at their heads. "You guys are stupid!" Krissie yelled at them.

"She's right! I've been sleeping on the couch for the past few weeks. Ever since Ryjei got here." Mara said, walking into the room.

"Hehe!" Krissie laughed. "You didn't think he'd be gaurding that sewer entrance forever, did you? Hahaha, and he can do a LOT more then just say 634!" Mara scowled at Krissie, remembering non-too-fondly the annoying noises that had kept her up many a night.

Ella and Senfa shared a face-fault. "An I thought you and Kare were weird!" Senfa whispered. Ella gave it a 'warning' look at that comment.

"So, Krissie!" Senfa said, stopping it's potential fight with Ella and Mara's potential fight with Krissie. "You said you have some important news to tell us?"

"That's right! Uhm...Now what was it, again?"

"Maybe we should start by telling you something Krissie." Ella said, taking a deep breath and sighing. "Kare's gone. He disappeared without a trace...I'm so worried about him...Do you have any idea where he is?" Ella asked.

"Oh! No, I haven't, but that reminds me of my news! You see - " She began.

"Krissie! Krissie!" A girl shouted as she ran into the house. She looked slightly familiar to Ella and Senfa, being a short girl with blonde hair and currently wearing a blue dress.

"Alyse? What is it?" Krissie asked in confusion at the sense of urgency that her infromer/friend was showing.

"Krissie! Ryjei's been kidnapped! He's not at the shop, and there were signs of a struggle and he's gone!" The girl named Alyse said frantically.

"Oh, no...Again?! I wonder who took him THIS time..." Krissie sighed. "Okay, get the old Resistance members in the city to form a serch party, and try to hurry! This is important, like last time!"

"Right!" Alyse gave a quick salute before running out the door.

"Again?" Senfa asked as Krissie gathered her weapons.

Krissie winked as she headed for the door. "How do you think we knew about Dyluck last time? The same exact thing happened back then to Ryjei..." Krissie trailed off as she thought about what she had just said. "It's happening again, isn't it? Greeeaaat....Well, let's go find Ryjei first off..."

"I'll stay here." Mara told them, happy to have some time alone.

"Bye then! Stay safe!" Krissie said as the three left. They walked to the item shop the Resistance had bought a year ago and that most of the members now worked at.

"You never did tell us what your important news was." Ella reminded Krissie.

"Oh, yeah! I'm sorry, so many interuptions...Sylphid came to speak with us! We were having a party to celebrate out little one year reunion and poof! Sylphid was there. He told us two ver intersting things. He said that the only reason he was able to find and get to us was because he used the other elemental's mana. Some THING had stolen half of all the Elementa's powers! And you can guess it is probably for a dark purpose..." Krissie said ominously.

"What was the other thing he told you?" Senfa asked, breifly surfacing from it's fond memories of Sylphid and Grandpa.

"He said something about Solar Magic."

"What in the Underwold is Solar Magic?"

Krissie gasped. "No need for such profanities, Senfa! Anyway, he said that the 2 of you needed Solar Magic to face the one taking the Elemental's power. All you have to do is go up to the Mana Tree with the Mana Sword and the Tree will grant you the power." Krissie explained.

"Just perfect!" Ella stomeped her foot down in a huff. "There's a new threat on the loose, WE have to stop it and to do so, we need new magic AND the Mana Sword which is ALWAYS with Kare and he's disappeared!!!" Ella yelled out in one breath of air.

Ella was extremely frustrated at the events that had taken place thus far in the day and didn't want to think about what might be yet to come.

Krissie saw this and she also knew that sometimes things were just too much for a person and THAT was bad for the team. "Ella, why don't you and Senfa fo back to Mara's and get some sleep? Searching for Ryjei will be the easy part, and it would be better for you guys to be well rested for what's coming. Besides, what use will you two be if you stay up worrying?

Ella was very grateful for the kindness of aquantinces at the moment. "Thanks, Krissie. Be sure to tell us if you get any information about Kare or if you need our help, alright?"

Krissie smiled and saluted. "Right!"

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Ryjei trembled in utter terror as the figure came closer and closer toward him. Thankfully the person stopped to speak to the ones who Ryjei knew had kidnapped him. They were stupid mindless idiots who followed their leader, whoever that happened to be. The team of three were on their knees, bowing to the person in front of them. Srupid dolts as the were, the Scorpion Army knew how to follow orders and 'please' their masters.

Suddenly the three left and the figure resumed his course to where Ryjei was chained to the wall.

"Please!" Ryjei pleaded. "Don't kill me! I-I'll be your servent if you let me live! Please, just don't kill me!!" Ryjei sobbed.

The figure laughed. Ryjei could guess that the figure was a man, judging by the hight and frame of the body alone. When the figure spoke, it confirmed Ryjei's suspicions although there was still something very strange about the whole thing.

"I shall not harm you...I only want tou to deliver my message. Fo back to your friends, the Resistance, and tell them this: As of this night, war is declared! The Mana Knight against the world!!"

Ryjei's mouth was open in shock as his captor lit a candle and held it between them. The person standing in front of him was none other then Kare himself.

Ryjei was dumbfounded. "KARE?!?! What the - Why are you - Huh?!?!"

Kare chuckled darkly. "My resons for doing this are none of your concern! Just do you duty in telling them all the Kare is against them, pathetic mortal!" A demented spark flashed in Kare's eyes.

Kare's demonic laughter was the last thing Ryjei heard and a sword being raised above his own head was the last thing Ryjei saw before pain rang through his body and he fell into darkness...

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[Alright, for now this story is on hold. Sorry! I'll get back to it as soon as I can, and until then, enjoy the cliffhanger! :)]