Disclaimer: As I said before, I don't own Star Ocean: The Second Story characters. I wish I did. Don't sue me or anything, because you won't get any money. Besides it would be a waste of your time and plus you have to find me first. :P (nyah nyah). Later.
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Chapter 2 - Audience with the King
They arrived in Cross late and had stayed at the Knight's Inn. The next morning they made an appointment for an audience with the King.
"It will be awhile, before you can see the King. Why don't you walk around the Castle or town and check back later."
Everyone split up and went their own way.
Rena was walking around town when she saw Bowman, Claude, and Dias by the church. Dias was leaning against the building looking as if he was sleep.
She snuck up closer to hear what they were saying.
"She's a about an 8." Bowman said as he pointed to a petite woman with brown hair. "What do you think Claude?"
"I don't know 7, maybe."
"Man your picky."
"What about you Dias?"
"" Dias just ignored him.
"That one sort of reminds you of Rena, doesn't she Claude?"
"How so?"
"Well, look at her. The way she walks and her eyes"
"She looks nothing or bears any sort of resemblance to, Rena whatsoever." Dias interrupted in a slightly irritated tone.
That was when Rena had walked up to the trio. She was ticked.
"I give you both a ZERO!"
"Aw come on Rena. We were just fooling around." Bowman said.
Rena turned toward Bowman. "I'm going to tell Nineh."
"Uh"
"Well, what would you give me then?" Claude asked.
"I told you, a zero. A zero for you and Bowman."
"What about Dias?" Claude asked.
"Dias?" Rena looked at the older Expellian. She smiled. "He would get a 20."
"That's not on the scale it's 1- 10." Bowman said suppressing his smile.
"Why would he get that and I get a zero?" Claude asked in a slightly ticked tone.
Reese-chan and Asura-hime pop up out of no where yelling in unison, "That's because Dias is a HOTTIE!! With a nice bod and sexy voice!! WOO- HOO!!"
Asura-hime keeps chanting. "Dias is a hottie!!"
Reese-chan says, "Claude, you suck!!. It's my fan fic. What I say goes. MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
Asura-hime agrees. "Same here in mine. Bye now."
She drags off Reese-chan, who is laughing like a maniac. Asura-hime shakes her head. "You've had to much candy for today." They pop out.
"Who were they?" Bowman asks.
Rena shrugged. "I don't know. I like them."
"Well I DON'T!!" Claude said as he crossed his arms.
"You're acting like a child. You're just mad because they said you sucked and that Dias was a hottie."
Rena grabbed Dias' hand and walked toward the hotel. (wipe that thought out your mind.) "Come on Dias. Let's go see Aunt Rachel."
Claude just stood there fuming as he watched them leave.
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Knight's Inn
Rachel was surprised to see Rena walk in the hotel while holding Dias' hand.
"Well, well. What do we have here?" She thought to herself with a slight smile.
"Hello Rena. Hello Dias. What a surprise to see you two here. Especially together like this."
Rena raised her hands to hide the blush creeping up to her cheeks. Dias rubbed the back of his neck and looked up at the ceiling. Rachel smiled.
"What happened to your old boyfriend? The one you had the special night with."
Rena looked confused. "Huh?"
"Special night?" Dias eyes widened in realization. "With whom?"
Rachel shrugged. "The blond boy. I think his name was Claude. Yes, his name was Claude."
"Claude" Dias eyes narrowed. He then smiled. "I'll be back in a moment."
He unsheathed his sword and started walking out of the hotel.
Rena looked at him. "Dias, where are you going? Why did you take out your sword?"
"I'll be back in a minute."
5 minutes later
Rena and Aunt Rachel heard a blood curdling scream come from outside.
"AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Claude screamed as he ran for his life. "HELP ME!! HE'S GONE MAD!"
"DIE! DIE! DIE!" Dias yelled as he ran after the blond haired Earthling while swinging his sword.
Through all the commotion no one notices the two girls with laptops laughing like maniacs.
"MWA HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!"
Claude ran into the hotel with Dias closely at his heels.
"GET OVER HERE!" Dias shouted at Claude as he grabbed him by his throat. He held Claude a good 6 inches up off the ground against the wall. "NOW, WHAT IS THIS ABOUT A SPECIAL NIGHT' WITH MY RENA?!"
"What are you talking about?!" Claude asked as he struggled to get free and breath.
"You know damn well what I'm talking about." Dias growled.
"Dias, what are you so angry about?" Rena asked.
Dias looked at Rena without letting go of Claude.
"Rachel said that Claude and you had a special night' together." As he said this his grip tightened on Claude's throat.
"Special Night?" Rena looked confused. "What are you talking about?"
Dias stared at Rena for a moment, "You've no idea what Rachel meant by special night, do you?"
Rena shook her head. "I guess not."
Dias dropped Claude to the floor. He bent down and whispered some things in Rena's ear. Rena's eyes widened and she turned crimson.
"AUNT RACHEL!" Rena shouted out of mortification. "I TOLD YOU CLAUDE IS ABSOLUTLY NOT MY BOYFRIEND!"
"AhemExcuse me."
Everyone turned toward the voice. It was Celine.
"Darlings, we need to get back to the castle. It's almost time for our audience with the King."
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Inside the castle
"That is all that happened, your Highness." Rena concluded.
"That was a magnificent tale." The King said. "This calls for a celebration in your honor."
"Your Highness?"
"Please, dispense with the formalities Rena. Especially you Dias, you are my nephew after all."
Claude, Chisato, Bowman, Ernest, Opera, Precis, and Noel fell over in shock.
"YOUR NEPHEW?!" They shouted.
Chisato noticed that Celine didn't look surprised at all.
"Why aren't you surprised, Celine?" The red head Nedian inquired.
"Oh, my fiancé, Chris, told me already."
"Who is Chris?"
"The Prince of Cross."
"Today is full of surprises." Noel muttered.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next night~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everyone in town was invited to the party.
Chisato, who was dressed in a strapless yellow dress, looked around the ballroom. She spotted the others and made her way over to them.
"Chisato, you look wonderful." Noel said with a smile.
Chisato blushed. "Thank you. You don't look so bad yourself."
Celine looked around the group. "I see everyone else is here except Rena and Dias."
Bowman, who was standing next to Nineh, looked around the ballroom. "I don't see them anywhere else either."
"Oh, I think I see them" Precis said bouncing up and down. Her mouth dropped open when she took a better look. "Rena looks beautiful in that dress andDias is looking GOOD!"
Everyone turned toward where Precis was pointing and stared in awe.
Rena was wearing a Chinese style dress, made out of red silk, trimmed with gold with a split that went up to mid-thigh. On her wrists dangled gold bracelets and her hair was pinned up into a bun with a few tendrils of hair hanging loose. On her feet were red high heels that strapped around her ankles. Next to Rena stood Dias in a black Chinese style suit with gold trim. The designs were embroidered in gold thread and he wore Chinese style slippers. His hair was pulled back into a ponytail.
"Wow." Claude thought along with every other guy in the room who were staring at the couple.
They saw Rena gesture to Dias to where everyone else was and they made their way over to them.
Precis was the first to speak. "You two look great. I mean GREAT!"
Rena blushed. "Thank you, Precis. You look good, too."
"Hey Dias, how come you didn't tell us you were related to the King?" Claude asked.
"Because it was none of your concern and it still isn't." Dias said flatly.
Claude opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by one of the servants.
"Young Master Flac and Lady Rena, the King would like to see you two for a moment."
"All right. Where?"
"In his private chambers."
"Come Rena. Let's go see what he wants."
"We'll see you later on." Rena called over her shoulder.
"Damn. I was going to ask Rena to dance with me." Claude muttered.
Reese-chan popped up next to him. "Oh, you were never going to have a chance at that."
Claude groaned. "You again. How are you so sure?"
Asura-hime popped up on the other side of him. "We made sure of that. You didn't stand a chance."
"YOU TOO?!" Claude yelped in surprise. "Where are you coming from? Why didn't I stand a chance?"
"MY fan fic what I say goes." Reesechan said with a smile. "Dias is a hottie and I like Rena she's nice."
Asurahime nodded her head. "With me too."
"Why don't I get to get Rena. I'm the main character."
Asurahime and Reesechan cleared their throats then shouted at the same time. "BECAUSE YOU SUCK! AND DIAS IS A HOTTIE!!!!"
"Anyways you pissed me off." Reesechan said as she put a hand on her hip. "I had your dumb butt at level 99. 99, I say!! At the BEGINNING of the game and you STILL died in one hit by the weakest boss in the game ALAN!!"
"I just don't like you." Asurahime said grabbing her friends arm. "Calm down Reesechan you finished him off with Rena."
"She was level 10. He was 99. Why couldn't I just have had Dias in the beginning with her?!" Reesechan said before they popped out.
"How do they DO that?!" Claude yelled in frustration. People within ear shot looked at him as if he was insane.
For the rest of the night Rena was dancing with Dias or someone wanted to talk to them.
Claude was plain out of luck and was wondering what Reesechan and Asurahime were talking about.
'Level 99?' he thought. ;)
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Authors note: That's true I did. I had already beat the game and was messing
around. ~Reesechan