-= Star Ocean : The Second Story - Never Again =-
-= Prologue =-
-= By : Ashi-chan =-
Author Notes: I hope I get some good sayings about this fic... sayings... *chuckles* Anyways... the legal stuff... I do not own Star Ocean in anyway (I have the game! ^-^). The characters are owned by tri-Ace and Enix. Oh... but I like I said before... I do own Claris and Ashley..."Hey Ash! One more day!"
"Yes...I know..."
"I'm going to miss you kid!," her cell mate said, patting her on the back, "I remembered when you first came in here... you were a scrawny little girl... and you still are. Crying every night...," she laughed heartily and changed the subject quickly.
"When you return to the outside world...," she blinked and pointed, "What are you going to do? Get those dragons off your back?"
Nodding her head side to side, Ashley brought her hand to one of the dragons necks, "I'm not even worrying about it any more...," she said, "14 years with them on, you think I'll get rid of them now?"
Indeed 14 years had pass since she had been possessed with the demon dragons known as Gyora and Urura. And her appearance hadn't change much, except for a few rings under her eyes and she now a short pigtail of hair, nothing had changed.
"Guess not...," her cell mate said, "Now to think about it... you get to see your kid again... I kinda feel sorry for the whelp...," she looked into Ashley's eyes with deep concern.
"How so?"
"Well," she said, "The last 2 times you saw her... she had barely knew how to walk...," she sighed from the memory, "She was crying when she saw you leave the court room, chained up. I remembered when she kicked the guard in the shins..."
Ashley winced from the memory. She indeed had a daughter, Promise Alixander... Anchors.
"And the second time... she was around 5 or 6... that strawberry blonde head looked at you funny... and never brought her back... she didn't even come back herself!"
Silence. Ashley shrugged.
"But you were a great mother even if you were behind these bar for ten years," she grinned Ashley turned her head and she comtinued, "And you still had your friend's support." She licked her lips, "That Dias man was-," she was cut off.
"ELAINE!!!," Ashley turned her head and shouted, "Be quiet for a moment!"
Obeying, Elaine then heard what Ashley was listening to... and it wasn't her.
"The tournamnet of Arms is in less than a week!"
"Claude Kenni is still the champion!"
Ashley continued to listen. Ashton had been in second and Dias seemed to become really soft and placed third... All were to return as the Kings request and fight... new challengers were invited...
"I think... I will see my daughter...," she turned to Elaine and smiled softly, "at the Tournament of ARMS..."
