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Here's some answers to some of your questions, first of all, I'm the author so I can keep Lavitz in Mayfil if I want to and the story REALLY doesn't have to match the game EXACTLY, second, Lavitz and Lloyd have to have SOMETHING to argue about, and how can someone forgive the person that killed them? And third, how Crystal knows about the Magical Staff will all be explained later on in the story. So just read and find out. That's all that I have to say, for now.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Legend of Dragoon.

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I quickly woke up. Shana was sitting in a chair, beside me.
"How are you feeling?" Shana asked me.
"Fine, I guess. What happened?" I asked.
"After that guy stabbed you, he just disappeared. That Virage disappeared too." She answered.
"Oh." I stood up. "Well, I'll be going now."
"But you should rest for a bit longer." She told me.
"I feel fine." I stepped on the teleporter and left. I walked towards the exit. I bumped into Lloyd on the way.
"Are you okay?" He asked me.
"I feel FINE. Now if you don't mind, I'm leaving this place."
"But shouldn't you wait for the rest of the group?" He looked at me.
"Guess you're right. If anyone needs me, I'll be outside." I left through the exit. The sun was bright. I stretched. A few minutes later, everyone was outside.
"So where should we start looking?" Rose asked.
"I don't know. First we should go get Meru and Haschel. Then we'll figure out where to go from there." Dart explained.
"But where will Meru be? I think I know where Haschel might be." Shana said.
"We should check the Evergreen Forest first, and if she's not there, then Donau. She might have went to visit her parents." Dart crossed his arms. "Haschel might be back home, waiting for us."
"So should we go get this Meru first, or Haschel?" I asked.
"Meru might be closer." Lavitz kicks a small pebble. "We should go ahead and get goin'. It's gonna be a LONG journey."
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We had already walked a good four hours when we finally arrived in the forest known as the Evergreen Forest.
"Why would she be HERE?" I asked.
"Her parents live here. They live in the back of the forest." Dart said.
"Oh." I moved slowly behind the rest of the group. Five minutes later we arrived at a dead end.
"Which one of you two are going to open the way?" Dart looked at me then Lloyd.
"I will." Lloyd stepped up to the forest wall. I could feel his energy rising. The forest wall opened up a bit. Everyone walked through. I quickly followed them.
"Halt! Who goes there?!" A Wingly asked us.
"We are the friends of Meru. Would she happen to be here?" Dart asked the Wingly.
"No. She's not. She just left a little over an hour ago." The Wingly explained to us.
"Oh well. Would you happen to know where she went?" Dart asked.
"Her parents might know." The Wingly answered.
"Thanks." Dart watched the Wingly leave. We made our way towards the teleporter. When we walked inside, we were greeted by two Winglies. A man and a woman.
"Hello again. You wanted to know where Meru was going, right?" The woman asked.
"Yeah." Dart answered.
"She told us she was going to go visit Vellweb again. When I asked her why, she said that she just wanted to." The woman told us.
"Thanks." We turned around to leave. When we were back outside in the forest, it was already getting dark.
"Deningrad isn't too far away. We should be able to rest there." Dart said.
"I don't think we should. Crystal didn't make too good of an impression a few days ago." Albert told him.
"Well, that's her problem, now isn't it?" Dart looked at me coldly. I ignored what he said.
"I still think it's best if we go to Neet instead." Albert said.
"Why should we go there for HER sake?" Dart asked.
"We're going there and that's the end of it." Rose told Dart. Dart went quiet.
We walked for an little over thirty minutes when we arrived at a town. I looked around. The town was more like ruins.
"I still think Deningrad would have been a better choice." Dart muttered.
"We can rest here instead." Rose told him. He muttered something very inappropriate. An hour later, we had all settled down around a fire. I was sitting a few yards away from the group, but I could still hear the talking. I moved to sit behind a piece of a wall.
"How can we trust her?" Dart asked.
"We can't." Rose told him.
"Then why is she traveling with us? She's no use." Dart sounded like he was mad.
"She's traveling with us because Charle told her to come." Lavitz told Dart.
"We don't need her with us. We should just leave her here." Dart told them.
"Why are you acting this way, Dart?" Shana asked. "This isn't like you."
"I just don't trust her. What if she's working for that guy that attacked us in Ulara?" Dart asked.
"Yeah, that guy stabbed his own partner in order to make us believe that she wasn't working for him." Lavitz said sarcastically.
"Ya never know." Dart said. I couldn't stand it anymore. They didn't want me here. I didn't want to be here, but every time I try to run away, they always find me. I looked up at the Moon That Never Sets. It was beautiful. I heard footsteps walk towards me. I turned to see who it was.
"Hi." Lloyd sat down a few feet in front of me.
"What do you want?" I continued to look at the Moon That Never Sets.
"Nothing really. But I would like to know a bit more about you. All that I know is that your name is Crystal and you're a Wingly." Lloyd looked up at the Moon That Never Sets too.
"That's all that you need to know." I told him. He simply laughed.
"What?" I look at him.
"Nothing." He stands up. "How old are you?"
"Fourteen." I look at the ground. He walks away.
"I wonder what that was about?" I asked myself. I laid down, looking up at the stars. "What am I gonna do?" I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up the next morning and Dart and the others were gone. I closed my eyes and quickly fell asleep.
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I woke up the next morning by someone yelling. I listened closely.
"We can't leave her, Dart!" Shana yelled.
"Why?!" Dart yelled back.
"Stop yelling, both of you!" Rose yelled. I turned on my side. I stood up. Luckily, Lloyd was the only one who seemed to see me. I walked over towards the others.
"What's the matter with you? Huh?" I asked Dart.
"You're the problem! Why are you following us anyway?!" Dart yelled.
"Because I was told too!" I yelled back.
"Then stop following us! We don't need you!" Dart had fire in his eyes. He walked towards me. "Why don't you just run away like you always do?" He just crossed my line. My fist slammed hard in his face. He stumbled backwards.
"Dart!" Shana ran over towards him. He quickly stood back up and charged at me. He pushed through Rose and drew his sword. My sword blocked his. The fight began. Rose tried to stop us every now and then, but she was always pushed away. Lloyd also tried, but he got cut in the process. I dodged most of his attacks, but some got through. The same was for him. He dodged most of my attacks. I think the battle went on for a little over thirty minutes. My fist lit up and I blasted him with an energy blast. He stumbled backwards again. He lit up. I'm guessing he had Dragooned because he looked tremendously weird. Now this battle was starting to get interesting. My wings came out. The battle lasted for another thirty minutes, both of us pretty damaged. Dart had slowed down a bit, but I was still moving. He had used his Divine Dragon Cannon a few times, and I was lucky to be able to take the damage and not die in the process. I charged when he turned back to human form. He fell to the ground and my sword stopped just a few centimeters above his neck. He just stared at me. Those fiery eyes just stared. I put my sword back in its sheath. I stood back up and stepped back enough to give him room to stand up.
"Are you okay?" Shana ran towards him.
"I'm fine." Dart brushed himself off. He looked towards me. "Where'd you learn to fight like that?"
"Back home. A friend taught me." I answered.
"That friend taught you well." He told me calmly.
"I'll be sure to tell him that the next time I see him." I pushed my hair out of my face.
"Oh, it's a HE?" Dart looked at me.
"Yes. Now don't start acting like my father. We still hate each other, got it?" I looked back at him.
"Got it." He looked over at Shana. "Let's head towards Vellweb now." Shana smiled. Rose looked a bit irritated.
"You shouldn't have stopped me from stopping the fight." She snarled at Lavitz.
"I had to stop you. They needed to fight this out." Lavitz told her.
"But we would have already been on our way to Vellweb if she hadn't hit him." She muttered.
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It was going on night, and we were still walking. We couldn't take the chance of flying, so we had to walk.
"Can we please rest now?" Shana asked Dart. "I'm tired."
"Fine. Who wants to keep first watch tonight?" Dart asked.
"I guess I will." Zieg said. He hadn't talked much on the journey, and we were all surprised when he finally talked.
Dart lit a fire and sat down. Shana sat down beside him. Rose sat down with Zieg, and Lavitz just stared out into the darkness. Lloyd just stared at the fire. Kongol had been quiet most of the journey too. He seemed to be keeping an eye on me. Every since the fight, Dart's attitude changed towards me. That fight was like a test to see if he could trust me.
"Hi." Lavitz sat down beside me.
"Hi." I stared up at the stars.
"So who's this friend of yours?" He asked me.
"Why do you want to know?" I looked at him.
"I was just curious." He stared at the ground.
"I'm going to go to sleep now." I laid down and closed my eyes.

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*Dream*
"Hey, Crystal, wake up." Someone shook me.
"Huh?" I opened my eyes. "What do you want, Boralo?"
"It's time for your training, silly." A Wingly man stood beside me. I moaned. "Later. It's five o'clock in the morning." I pulled the sheets over my head. He pulled the sheets off of me. "You need to be quiet, Crystal. Everyone else is still sleeping."
"I wonder why?" I pulled the sheets back over me. Once more, he pulled them off of me and picked me up. "Wake up."
"NO." I wiggled out of his arms and laid back down on the bed. I closed my eyes. He dragged me out of the bed.
"Up." He stands me up. I look at him. "Why won't you let me SLEEP?"
"Because it's time for your training. When I started training you, you agreed that you would wake up whenever it was time to train." He let me stand on my own.
"I was five for crying out loud." I moaned.
"Come on." He smiled.
"Oh alright." I followed him downstairs.
"Eat some breakfast then come outside." He left through the kitchen door. I grabbed one of the blueberry muffins that my step-mother had made that night and started to eat. After I had eaten the muffin, I made my way outside. Boralo was waiting for me. Very few cars were out this early. Usually only Humans going to work. I yawned.
"Where are we going?" I asked him.
"You'll see." He walked off. I followed. Boralo was a very good friend of mine. He was the one who taught me the things that I know about Winglies. I never asked how he ended up on Earth, mainly because whenever I did, he never answered. We stopped walking. We were in an underground room. Boralo stayed here often whenever he wasn't training me. He had a lot of books that he let me look at. My favorite was the book on the Dragon Campaign.
"Today I'm going to teach you about some of the ancient artifacts." Boralo told me.
"What kind of ancient artifacts?" I sat down on the couch.
"Ancient Wingly artifacts." He pulled out a book. He looked through it. "Ah. Here it is." He handed the book to me and sat down beside me. "You see this? This is the Dragon Block Staff. Melbu Frahma used it during the Dragon Campaign. It drastically reduces a Dragon's or Dragoons attack and defense. Here's a good picture of the Dragon Buster. Melbu Frahma also used this in the Dragon Campaign. It had the power to go through any Dragon's or Dragoon's armor. Here's my favorite." He pointed to a picture of a strange looking staff with strange inscriptions written all over it. It had a crystal on the top. Its handle was a fancy silver.
"What's that?" My eyes sparkled. The staff was beautiful.
"It's called the Magical Staff. It's power is unimaginable." He explained to me.
"What does it do?" I continue to look at the picture. He closed the book. "That's all for today's lesson." He stood up.
"But what does that staff do?" I asked him again.
"You should be leaving now." He dragged me towards the exit.
"Why won't you tell me?" I stopped walking.
"Because you don't need to know!" He yelled. I froze. I was only ten and I had never really been yelled at before.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell. You should be going home now." He watched me walk outside. I made my way back home. That was the last time that I ever saw Boralo. Even after four years, he never showed up.

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I opened my eyes. Just a dream, I told myself. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. Everyone was still sleeping. Lloyd was the only one awake.
It must be his turn to keep watch, I told myself as I stood up.
"Bad dream?" He looked towards me.
"Something like that." I sat down beside him.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"Uh, nothing really." I stared at the ground.
"There's something wrong, I can tell. So what it is?" He looked at me.
"Well, it's just that a good friend of mine just disappeared a few years ago and I'm beginning to think that he's dead." I continued to stare at the ground.
"How long as he been missing?" Lloyd asked me.
"About four years. He's been like my body guard ever since I was five. He disappeared when I was ten." I answered.
"What was his name?" He asked.
"Boralo." My gaze moved towards the stars.
"Boralo? I once knew a guy named Boralo." He told me.
"You did?" I looked up at him.
"Yeah. We had known each other for a good twenty years. Then he said that he had to leave because he had a job to do. I had asked him if I could come too, but he said no. After that day, I never saw him again." Lloyd explained.
"Oh. Do you think we're talking about the SAME Boralo?" I asked.
"I don't know." Lloyd stood up. "I'll wake up the others."
"Okay." I stood up too. When everyone was awake, we started our journey again.

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