Responding to Reviewers:
Ashley Regal: I don't really mind spelling, thanks.
Wyvern's Darkness: I know, but Dark Elves were the first enemy I ever had trouble with, back in the days of Final Fantasy. I can't burn Colette, sorry, and I agree the programmers should let you choose with Kratos ending too. Is your name from FFIV Wyvern? The little brother of Bahamut?
Mizu: Last chapter for this, though there will be a sequal.
Lloyd (Irving) Aurion: I can't burn Colette, maybe in the sequal. But you should try writing a chapter fiction, too many one shot stories, they need chapter stories. Thanks for saying it was better, Zelos will have plenty of torture... later.
Zelda's Fox 38: No Vanna White, I'm sorry. I had to put in the Knights who until recently said 'Ni'. I really don't like Zelos, though Regal isn't my favorite character either.
Kratos, Protozoan Master!!!!: I'm typing but school has gotten in the way, so sorry for the delay.
CrystalTears: Thanks for the review. I'm writing more, don't worry. Thanks for the good luck.
Sakura-chan79: Really? Well your fiction seemed more S/L than C/L. No Kratos, he's to busy nursing his wounds.
GM: This is the final chapter of Surviving Flanoir
Anti: Except for the alternate ending
GM: Well, I'm making that separate from this; it isn't very humorous you see, more tragic really.
Bane: And this chapter contains amounts of bashing, mostly to one character
Anti: I'll do the last disclaimer: Green Magi does not own Tales of Sympthonia or Namco
Bane: This fills the romance part of the story, finally, after about 6 chapters of humor.
Now, Onto the story
Emotions are strange things, happiness and sadness could combine at once, as well as anxiety and relief, and they can become several different things at once. When emotions that are opposite combine, the one feeling them are often filled with conflicting thoughts, this is what was happening to Noishe as he stood above the fallen Ninja and Swordsman.
Lloyd! I'm so glad I found you before…No, don't think like that, Lloyd, you need to be more careful, I'm over 10,000 years old and I have never seen such stupid actions!... Except of course the time some idiot thought of flying an Ice Cream Rehaird over a cliff, the poor guy never had a chance… Thoughts such as this filled Noishe's head as he tried to awaken Lloyd, who wouldn't respond.
Colette was flying over to them, her wings melting the hail as they fell through them. As she landed next to Noishe, (after folding her wings) she had an anxious look upon her normally smiling face. She saw burn marks, mud, ice, small holes, bite marks, and a number of scratches on the ninja's purple outfit. Lloyd was in better shape, just some beak marks from the swallows, who were no where in site.
"Noishe," Colette turned to the Protozoan, who was nudging Lloyd, attempting to awake him. "We should get them to Flanoir as fast as possible; Sheena is already in bad shape." At this, Colette acquired the famed title of "Pointer of the Obvious", famous only because no one had been so incredibly oblivious like that for over 3,000 years. "Do you think you could carry both of them?"
"Whine, whine, bark, whine" Noishe responded, sarcastically once more this time meaning; No, I can't carry them, I've only carried all eight of you at once, so why should I be able to carry two humans? Noishe felt another presence nearby, in fact, several presences nearby.
"Okay then," Colette responded cheerily, still having no idea what Noishe was yapping about, as she was about to pick up one of her fallen friends. But she stopped as she spotted, 9 yards away from her, one of the most terrifying things she ever saw… (View is magnified by 900) A Microscopic Spider! "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" She screeched and it attracted more spiders, bigger spiders, that don't need a microscope to see. "OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! IT'S A SPIDER COLONY!!!!!!" Her wings burst out and she took off to the sky, only flying about 12 feet off the ground.
"Bark, bark, whine" Noishe tried to reason with the girl, but it was no use. The keen eyes of the Protozoan caught sight of one of the spiders moving toward Lloyd. Noishe, with bared teeth, jumped at the overgrown spider, and lets just say all that was left was some blood on the snow.
"Noishe, I have a…Idea" Colette had an idea, the normal sign that an apocalyptic meteor was going to destroy the entire world, but this is a humor fic, not tragedy, so that doesn't happen. "I can carry Sheena and Lloyd from the air and you can defeat all those nasty, evil, backstabbing, web weaving, horrible spiders." She said it like she had discovered the secret of Alchemy, not just some idea that would work.
"Whine" Noishe said in an impressed tone, meaning; Wow, you actually figured out something for yourself, who would have thought.
Colette grabbed Sheena in one hand and Lloyd in the other, and lifted off, temporarily struggling with their combined weight. She flew around a bit, getting used to balancing, but in one, horrible, horrible wrong turn, she almost dropped Lloyd. She flew around a bit more, while Noishe tore up (to put it politely) the spiders below.
"Okay, Noishe, I'm ready to fly to Flanoir" She said enthusiastically, not aware that two of the party members were about to have one of the worst experiences of their lives,
"HOOOOOOOOOOWL!" Noishe cried out, running at the angelic girls pace, and destroying any type of enemy that got in the way.
Back to the Inn of Flanoir
So I just locked Genis alone in the room, with no key, and he has no idea what is happening. Presea had finished her carving of Noishe, and was starting to pace outside of the three rooms. The carpet was starting to fray where she was walking, so you could see her cat prints on the carpet.
"Let's see, waking up Raine without obtaining mortal wounds, 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003, chance of getting Genis out without accidentally waking her up 49... Not even an equal chance…" Presea was muttering to herself as she started to devise a plan to rescue Genis from the peril she put him in. As she was debating this, she noticed the seemingly empty pot of seafood soup Raine had tried to make.
Another guest of the hotel came by, and saw the pot and carving laying directly in his way. "Excuse me little girl, can you move your toys?" He asked her, as if he was talking to an eight year old.
"Of course…" Presea responded in a monotone, reaching for the pot, inside she saw it wasn't quite empty. The man moved past muttering something about immature kids.
The pot still had a few ounces of seafood stew left in it, not that she was hungry, and she dumped her portion of the soup out the window when she was eating it. But the soup had burned the stone street, how the Professor managed to make lethal food without poison, the world will never know. But, it gave Presea an idea; she could burn the hinges off the door, and then glue them back on after she had the key.
She moved toward the door, and carefully poured the acidic soup over the hinges. It worked; apparently, the Ph level of the soup was 0.00052, a very powerful acid. She stepped into the room, and thankfully, Genis was still where he was when she left, but was softly snoring.
Just then, a knock was heard at the front door, and as she went down to open it, this time taking the room key with her, she was shocked to see Noishe covered in blue spider blood, and Colette carrying Lloyd and Sheena. Noishe stayed out and started rolling around in the snow to get the blood off, while Colette stepped in, Presea quickly shut the door to keep the cold out.
"Hey Presea, guess what I found!" Colette asked her cheerily, acknowledging the 2 warriors she was holding. "Noishe led me to them, and they don't seem in the best of health, I'm tired." Colette said it all in a rush. "Would you mind holding them?"
"No, I do not mind" Presea slipped back to monotone, and grabbed hold of Lloyd in one hand, and Sheen in the other. "I'll go put them in them back, and you can wake the Professor so she could heal them." Presea ordered Colette, then, before Colette could protest, Presea went up the flight of stairs.
"Okay, I hope the Professor is in a good mood…" Famous last words came for Colette as she walked into the room where the Professor was sleeping. The quickest way to wake a person up is to dump a bucket of cold water on their head, which is what Colette was going to do, forgetting that Raine had a pathological fear of water.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! WATER! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" Raine let out a scream that could wake the dead, but there was no dead to be awakened. After calming down, she had Colette explain, and she grabbed her staff, and followed Colette to heal Lloyd and Sheena.
At the Town Square
The Wheel of Judgment was finally slowing down, the anticipation was immense. Regal was playing a game of solitaire, while Zelos tried to weasel his way out by flirting, it wasn't working, the last time anyone had heard of the Chosen there was 100 years ago. When the wheel stopped it landed on 'V.P'.
"So we're being judged by a Vice President?" Zelos asked the crowd who were shocked at what it landed on.
"No, here V.P. stands for… Village Pyro," the random villager from before said as the Pyro came forth.
"Heheheheheheheheheh… I say that they are covered in Kirima juice, lit on fire, and catapulted out of town." The pyro was happy; he got to set something on fire.
"The punishment will be fulfilled as soon as we build a catapult." The villager announced.
"It really doesn't have to be like this… We could just forget it happened." Zelos tried his logic, only to have it fall on deaf ears.
10 p.m. The Inn
Sheena had recovered first, and decided to get out of her scorched, bitten, clothes. She found her "Successor" outfit, and left to get changed. After she showered and changed, she decided to go for a walk, it was a lovely night out, a full moon with no clouds to block the view. She just wanted to take a break, after what had happened, she needed one.
After walking through the curiously empty streets, she stopped at the spot where she and Lloyd had talked that night before they charged the Tower. The memories came back to her quickly, though she tried to get rid of them. The only thing different was Flanoir had recently added a bench, so she sat down, lost in her thoughts.
(Now to Genis)
After getting up, Genis had wearily gone to the door. He was still pink, and that bothered him, he didn't enjoy pink very much, only for his Katz outfit. Opening the door, he saw Presea leaning against the wall drowsily.
This distracted him so much, that he didn't see the Noishe figurine, and tripped and fell down the flight of stairs, leaving a pink imprint whenever he bounced on the floor.
Awakening Presea, who immediately saw what was happening judging from the pink Genis imprints, ran down the staircase. She found him in the middle of the floor of the lobby, in a daze. She tenderly picked him up, and headed back up the stairs, hoping the manager was colorblind to pink. But that didn't matter to her at that moment; all that mattered was the little half-elf in her arms.
(Lloyd)
Recovering after Genis, he noticed he was in an inn, not the snow, but an inn. He decided to take a shower, falling into a cave isn't exactly hygienic. After taking a shower and dressing into his "Nobleman" costume, he decided to take a walk.
He noticed Presea was taking Genis up the stairs, and he decided not to ask about it. He didn't want to annoy anyone who could wield an axe. He decided to go view the city from where it had the best view, which was where Sheena was at that time. He had a lot to ponder about from the event that happened, and he needed somewhere quite.
When he got there, he noticed that Sheena was also there. That gave him a shock; he didn't expect Sheena to awaken first after what had happened. He sat down next to her, snapping her out of her dream world.
"Lloyd! You're awake, that's good." Sheena told him, blushing that she didn't hear him even after all her ninja training.
"I'm glad to see you're okay Sheena, I was worried about you…" Lloyd spoke the last part very softly, but because of their close proximity, she heard him anyway.
"That was quite an adventure, wasn't it?" She asked him, her face losing the blush.
"It was…" Something was bothering Lloyd, every time he and Sheena were together, his stomach felt like there was a pit in it. He had heard that this was the first sign of falling in love, but he denied it since Raine had been cooking in an effort to improve, so he just blamed it on her terrible cooking. But he hadn't eaten her cooking recently, so he had no excuse, he had to face it; he was in love with Sheena.
"Is something wrong?" Sheena asked after a pause, you could see the concern in her eyes.
"I have to tell you something" Lloyd took a deep breath and faced Sheena, "I love you…"
"W-what?" Sheena stuttered, she loved Lloyd, but she never thought he loved her.
"I love you Sheena," the words were foreign to his mouth, but the only way to describe his feelings.
Sheena was in total shock, this had to be a dream, but it wasn't. After moments which seemed like an eternity, she answered, "I love you too." She was glad to finally tell him, the truth was eating her up inside. She then kissed him lightly.
Lloyd was also in shock, he had no idea Sheena like him, and after all, she did try to kill him when they had first met. The kiss made his heart stop for a few seconds, then he returned it more… I'm not going to use passionately, everyone uses that word (takes out thesaurus) how about…magnitude! He returned the kiss with greater magnitude, as two flaming objects flew (or catapulted) by.
Zelos & Regal
After being set on fire and catapulted, they landed on the rocky beach on the edge of the continent. Regal, thanks to the handcuffs, didn't fall in. Zelos, on the other hand, fell into the freezing water. The shampoo attracted all sorts of carnivorous fish.
"OMG! IT'S A RED SEAMONKY" Zelos screamed as the lethal piranha-like sea creature attacked him.
"To help or not to help, that is the question" Regal was no longer on fire, the snow saw to that. He was debating to risk his life to save Zelos, or to leave Zelos on his own. He decided to leave Zelos on his own; he needs to learn to take responsibility.
"NO!!! DON'T LEAVE!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKK! IT'S A… LEECH! GET IT OFF OF ME!!!" Zelos was trying to attract attention, but no one was paying attention, because no one was there. So he had to get out by himself.
(I'm going to spare you all the trouble of reading about how Zelos got out.)
When Zelos had finally got out, he was a mess, bleeding in several places, and not in a very good mood. His hair healed him because of the gel enough to get back to the inn at Flanoir. So he was recovered. (I can hear the boos already)
In light of all the events, it appeared that they hadn't noticed that they could use magic again. The machine had worn off.
Now ending the Story
GM: There, finally done.
Anti: Now to work on the AE
GM: Of course
Bane: And then the sequel
GM: I'm sorry if you have a story up and I haven't read it, I haven't been on for a few days.
Bane: The lines aren't working either...