Tales of Symphonia: The Secret of the Angels

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A/N: Thank you so much Blue-Angels-Wings!! Reviews make me very happy! I've realized that my chapters are very short so I've decided to lengthen them. Thank you to all who have been reading this!!

Chapter 3: Kratos...?

Lloyd slowly opened his eyes. Genis was kneeling above him, looking down.

"Lloyd! Are you awake?" the boy asked. Lloyd sat up in a daze.

"Wha??" he said idiotically. Genis grunted and folded his arms.

"You're so stupid, Lloyd!!" he laughed. After this comment, Lloyd seemed to snap awake. He got up.

"What did you say?!" Lloyd shouted. Regal, who was cooking breakfast at the fire and tasting the porridge he was cooking, looked at the two and sighed.

"Will you two keep it down?" he pleaded. Lloyd and Genis both stared at Regal and sat down. Sheena and Presea came over. "Did Raine find anything new?" Regal asked. Sheena shook her head.

"Nothing. Nothing at all," Presea also answered. Sheena sat down. Presea followed suit.

"She says that she has no idea what could've drained so much mana out of the Yggdrasill Tree," Sheena explained, "and she says that she doesn't know where we could get enough mana to restore it either." All of them looked at the ground and kept silent. The fire reflected off Sheena's sad eyes. "I don't know if we'll be able to save the tree this time." Then, Colette came running toward them.

"Hurry!! Hurry! We found something!!" she cried. Shortly after she notified them, she sprinted off toward the tree. The group ran after her and came to Raine.

"Professor Sage!! What happened?" Lloyd asked. Raine was examining a piece of burnt paper. She handed it over to Lloyd. The paper had strange letterings marked on it and there was a drawn picture of a dragon. Lloyd eyed the dragon carefully. It was covered in shadow and its blood-red eye stared back him. Its scales looked hard and cracked. Its wings were like an evil darkness, trying to consume the world. "I can't read this writing!" Lloyd said.

"Let me see," Colette volunteered. She peered at it thoughtfully. "Ah! It seems to be written in the Angel Language!" she cried in delight. She studied it some more. The rest of the group patiently waited. Finally, she spoke. "It says:"

"The darkness will come

at unexpected times,

where light lies far off in the distance..."

"One with hate, jealousy, and a corrupted heart

shall be sacrificed to the epitome of shadows

and may the darkness

swallow up his or her heart..."

"However, there is a small ray of hope,

for the guardian shall say,

'Heed that thy shall not give up,

for if thy hope dies,

the world shall die as well...'"

"The darkness lays in the hero's castle,

hovering over the e..."

Colette stopped. "This is where it ends. There's no more." Raine was thinking carefully.

"It says 'the darkness lays in the hero's castle..." she said, "the hero, I predict, should be Mithos. And his castle is at the end of Derris-Kharlan." Genis looked up at her.

"Wow... that was pretty intense..." he commented.

"Yes, I agree... 'one with hate, jealousy, and a corrupted heart shall be sacrificed'. What does that mean?" Raine said. Lloyd answered her.

"Well, I certainly don't think it's one of us," he said.

"Me neither," Genis agreed.

"C'mon! Let's go to the Tower of Salvation already!!" Lloyd cried. The rest followed.

-The Tower of Salvation-

Lloyd and the others ran to the altar in Tethe'alla. Genis paused and screamed.

"What's wrong, Genis?" Lloyd asked.

"Blood stains... there's blood stains!" the half-elf cried.

"Where? I don't see any blood stains..."

"They're all over the ground! Don't you see them?!" Genis protested. Lloyd shook his head.

"C'mon! We don't have all day!!" Sheena shouted. Then, all of a sudden, a figure appeared out of the shadows. And the figure was very familiar, especially to Lloyd.

"You- you can see the blood stains?" the character asked. Lloyd gasped. "Humph. Don't look at me like that..." Lloyd managed to speak.

"Kratos...?"

A/N: heheheheheheheh... So how did you like that? I wrote longer this time. The prophecy thing really sucks because I made it up myself... all well... please review!!