If Only I am the one...

A Star Ocean -- Till The End of Time Fan-fiction

By: climax

Disclaimer: will never own the SO3

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Phase 01: Aggression

Fayt panted. He wasn't recovered from his exhaust completely. He took a deep breath. "Man, if Sophia was this fast when she played beach-ball just now, I won't be this tired." Or maybe it's just my body that is too tired to move fast? He asked in his heart.

He decided to search for Sophia and apologized to her. But the problem was, this hotel was not just a mere hotel. It wasn't just luxurious, it was HUGE. Walking was not a good option for sure. But what else he could do?

He walk and walk, transporting and transported, until his body tired again and he leaned his back to a wall for support. "Where the hell is- SHEEE!!" screamed Fayt as he fell backward. The reason why he fell backwards, not FORWARDS, was the wall he knew was actually a door. It seems the door was locked so when he leaned to it, it didn't open. But it seemed that someone had opened the door so Fayt fell backwards.

"Ouch..." growled Fayt as his eyes peered to the ceil- a girl's face.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" asked the girl. She was a cute girl with green eyes, dark skin, and silver hair. Her clothes looks like a stage performer costume.

Fayt quickly got up. "My name is Fayt. Uuh... sorry... I was-"

"Oh, I know! You must be my fan, right? You come here to get my sign, right?" cut the girl before Fayt could answer.

Fayt scratched his head to think what he should say to this girl. "Uhm, no. I am-"

But the girl had gone to his back and draws something to his white shirt. "All right! This should do!" she chirped happily.

Fayt looked to his back. His beloved white and plain shirt now has something like a drawing and letters that sounded: "To Fayt from Peppita". Fayt didn't mind if Peppita's handwriting was good. But her writing and drawing was a total mess. Well, at least he knew the girl's name was Peppita.

"He-hey! What did you do to my shirt?!" yelled Fayt.

Peppita was so startled. "Eep!" The next second she was crying. "He-He is angry..." Peppita sobbed.

"Oh! Sorry! I don't mean to angry to you. I was just shocked, that's all!" Fayt quickly apologized. Luckily, Sophia wasn't here. So he wouldn't be scolded.

"That's okay! I'm the one who made you shocked after all!" Peppita's emotion recovered VERY fast. Her sad face turned to cheerful again in a mile-second.

"Huh?" Fayt could only question.

"By the way, please accept this! This is the reason why I'm here!!" said Peppita as she gave Fayt a piece of paper.

Fayt took the paper and read it. "Rosseti's Troupe Show Ticket? Are you one of the performers?" asked Fayt.

"Hell yes! That's why, I'm so nervous so I'm annoying!" yelled Peppita.

Fayt sweat-dropped. "You are not really annoying for me..."

Peppita blushed. "Errmm... thank you..."

"Fayt... Leingod..." came a very dangerous sounded voice.

Fayt and Peppita turned. What they saw was a ready to explode Sophia with her hands on her hip. Fayt gulped.

"Just a second I left you, you already flirting with a girl that five year younger than you..." said Sophia with a murderous tone. Well, she was misunderstanding about the situation. Because; first and last, Peppita was blushing.

"W-wait, Sophia! I wasn't flirting! I just bumped to this girl when I was searching for you! That's all! I didn't mean to flirt or anything!! Really!" Fayt tried to tell the truth but if humans could easily accept other human's reason(s), there would be no words such as 'unbelief' or 'don't believe' or anything.

"Oh, really?" of course, Sophia doubted Fayt's explanation.

"Yes!!" Peppita answered for Fayt.

"Ok then, if the flirted girl doesn't feel flirted, I'll forget this..." said Sophia as she lowered her hands from her hips.

Fayt sighed in relief. He had to thank to Peppita later.

Unfortunately, Sophia wasn't over yet. She bent her eyebrows. "But... why is this--"

"Peppita Rosseti!" cut Peppita who was bored to be called 'girl'.

"Yes, thanks. Why is Peppita blushing?" asked Sophia.

"Because-"

Light out.

"What the-!" yelled Peppita.

A not-so-hard earthquake happened. This caused Peppita and Sophia loose balance and they would surely fall if they didn't catch Fayt's arms. Not until a second, the emergency electricity functioned and a female's voice rang through the air.

Attention, please. This is the Grand Tear Hotel, announcing an emergency message. Hyda IV is currently under attack by unknown forces. All of the guest, please do not panic and head to the transport room nearby for evacuation. We also apologized for the inconvenience. We repeat, all of the guest...

"Sophia, Peppita! Let's get out of here!" said Fayt as he opened the door manually since the emergency electricity not functioned as properly as it should be because the attack. Peppita followed Fayt. But Sophia hesitated.

"What's a matter, Sophia? If we didn't get to the transport room and transport to the evacuation facility, we will surely die!!" yelled Fayt impatiently as he grabbed Sophia's hand and tried to pull the girl gently but with some amount of power. Peppita tried to help Fayt.

"Yes-yes! What are you waiting for?" asked the girl.

Sophia had a worried face. "But... My father and mother..." she mumbled softly but clear enough to Fayt and Peppita to hear.

"Don't worry, Sophia. I'm sure your father and mother are on their way to the transporter. Maybe we could meet them if we go there. Come on! Before the attacks reach here!" Fayt tugged Sophia again and this time the girl complied.

They all ran to the hotel's transport room. A female worker from the hotel greeted them. "Welcome to the Grand Tear Hotel's transport room. The transporters' entire destination has switched to the entrance of evacuation facility. That means, you aren't transported directly to the evacuation facility. This is because there are too many transporters for the evacuation shelter to receive. After you reach there, please follow the instructions. Thank you for your intention," said the female worker as she bowed to them.

"Your welcome. Now Sophia, Peppita, we must hurry," said Fayt. They all walked to one transporter each. And they were transported just before the door of the transporter room exploded...

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"Father! Mother!" shouted Sophia when she caught their form.

"Sophia!" they replied as they turned their body.

"Father, mother, I'm glad you all okay," Sophia said as she hugged both of her parents. Her parent's hugged her back. "We are too, Sophia. We have been worrying about you. But now you are with us..." said her father. He tried to calm his worried and frightened daughter.

Fayt felt a pang of jealousy in his heart. Right, Sophia has parents that would always care and worry about her. And she has parents that she could worry for. It was different from Fayt that didn't have parents... anymore. They died when he was fourteen. Old enough to understand what is death and young enough to feel alone and helpless. It was happened right at his birthday. He was waiting for his parent's to arrive at home after their long business trip. The last time he saw them was two weeks before his birthday. His parents promised that they would come back no matter what in the way on his birthday. He trusted them. They rarely break a promise. But he never expected that it would be the last time he see them. The last time they hugged him and kissed his forehead. He just turned on the TV because he bored and then the afternoon news popped up and the presenter said that the ship type Flyer with number 83IEO92 with destination to earth was missing.

Of course, at first Fayt didn't believe it. But after one week, his parents never show up. He tried to believe the Federation's Search Team. But not until two weeks, the ship announced to be missing forever. In short, he would never meet his parents again.

Fayt shook his head. No. Don't think about Sophia that way. He turned his eyes to the long line of evacuees. It seemed it was going to be some time longer before their turns. The soldiers kept shouting commands to be calm and line up. Just when it was their turns, from the door appeared some strange people. They wear white mask and blue uniforms plus phase guns on their hands. No doubt they were the attackers.

"There they are!" shouted one of them.

The soldiers quickly set their bodies into their fighting stance.

"Do not panic! Keep going!" shouted one of the soldiers as he started to fire those attackers. But they are only two and no match for five until six attackers. Soon, their body scattered on the floor, badly injured, or maybe already dead.

Sophia was too frightened to scream. Sensing this, Fayt hugged her and rubbed her back to calm her down.

"Don't worry, Sophia. Let's go to the transporter. Once we get there, we will be fine," said Fayt in a soothing tone.

Sophia's mother and father looked at each other. Then they nodded.

"Fayt, we think we could trust Sophia to you," said Sophia's father.

Fayt looked at them. Confusion was clear on his face. "What do you mean?"

"You three can go on the transporter first," said Sophia's mother.

Sophia looked to her mother. Her eyes were red and watery now. "But mother, father. What about you two?" asked Sophia.

"Don't worry, we will catch up. We are going to hold them to buy you some time..." said her mother.

"But..."

"Sophia, please," her father cut her. "You are our only child. And we loved you very much. Just trust us. We will definitely catch up. Fayt, please."

Fayt nodded. "Come on, Sophia. We must go," he said as he pulled Sophia with some force to the transporter. Peppita and he caught up.

Sophia struggled from Fayt's strong grip. But it was no use. "NO! Fayt, let me go! Father! Mother!"

Her parents smiled. "You must survive, Sophia..."

It was the last thing she heard from them before she, Fayt, and Peppita transported to the evacuation shelter...

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End Phase 01

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