Tales of Symphonia: The Secret of the Angels
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A/N: Thank you so much Mablung Elensar for your encouraging review! Also, I am very grateful to Blue-Angels-Wings for emailing me. Thank you very much! This is my ninth chapter and probably my favorite. My character appears here. I've tried to make her have some flaws, but if you have ever tried making a character, it is very hard to make a flaw. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this! If you feel my character is too perfect or you dislike her, feel free to tell me. Enjoy!!
Chapter 9: Tsumaru
-Kazumo-
Everything was destroyed. Everything. Nothing was left expect for a few rotting corpses. Only flickers of flames were left. Ash, dust, and debris were everywhere. There was nothing left. Not a living thing left. The houses were gone. The roads were so scraped that they did not exist anymore. Fire could be seen at a distance, its smoke covering the sky in darkness.
"I- I can't believe this!" Lloyd stammered. Kratos flinched. Colette started to cry.
"How come everywhere we go, there's always misfortune!" she cried. Lloyd held her close to comfort her. "It's just not fair! It's not fair!" Kratos walked toward an area where a house should have been. He examined a rotting corpse.
"It's the work of a Serpent, I suppose," the swordsman said. Raine winced.
"You- you don't mean one of the five Serpents, do you?" she asked nervously. Kratos nodded. The Professor gasped. "But- but I thought it was only a myth."
"Humph! Everything seems like a myth when things are perfect. Only when conditions are bad, people begin to wonder," Kratos said, "it is not only a myth."
"What do you mean, five Serpents?" Lloyd asked. Raine turned to him.
"I'm sorry, but this is a bad time to explain. We need to take care of our conditions right now," she said. Lloyd nodded. The group began looking around at the debris. Raine was thinking and examining the destroyed houses. Then, Kratos walked up to Lloyd.
"Lloyd, I've been wanting to ask you this," he started.
"What?" Lloyd replied.
"What do you think of having a 'sister'?"
"What! A sister? No way!"
"I see…"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, forget I asked…" The swordsman walked away.
Meanwhile, Genis and Presea were looking at some dead corpses.
"These are scary, don't you think?" the half-elf asked. The girl nodded. Genis thought of the girl he had seen in the Tower of Salvation. I wonder if she had anything to do with these Serpents, Genis thought. He stared into the foggy air and sighed.
"Whoever has done this shall pay," Presea said. Genis looked at her and then smiled.
"Yeah!"
-Later, the group gathers together-
"Did any of you find anything?" Raine asked.
"Besides ugly corpses, burnt-down houses, and nothing?" Zelos said. Sheena hit him on the back. "Ow! What was that for?"
"That was for being an idiot!" Sheena replied. The Chosen whined.
"There's nothing left here. We might as well go to Ozette. I hear it has been rebuilt and we can use the shops again," Kratos said.
"That's good. We might as well settle there," Raine said and headed toward the exit.
"Who's there?"
All of them turned around and set their eyes on a female. She was standing on a rock, with her two swords in a battle position. Her short, brown hair drifted in the breeze, her hazy blue eyes stared down at them.
"I said, 'Who's there?'" the girl repeated impatiently. Her light-blue jacket blew in the wind and her skirt was dirtied. She was panting and the headband she wore around her head traveled with the air. Kratos stepped up.
"We mean you no harm. We were just investigating the leftover debris. That is all," he said sternly. The girl glared at him and laughed.
"Well, well, if it isn't Kratos, our little traitor," she replied, "how sad it is to see you with these fools!" Lloyd's anger grew.
"How dare you call us fools!" Lloyd shouted, "we saved the world! If we hadn't you wouldn't be here!"
"Oh yeah! Because of you, my home was destroyed!"
"What?"
"No one understands…"
"No one understands what?"
"All you did was kill Mithos, the one who was going to save the half-elves!"
"What? He was going to destroy everything! What's wrong with you?"
"Why you little-"
"Stop!" Kratos cried and the girl stared at him with fearful eyes. "Don't argue any further!" Her eyes became watery and her vision blurred.
"Fine! Be that way! I see! I can't believe even my own 'father' would reject me! I see the way it is!" she said with scorn and then turned to Lloyd, "you're son is so pathetic! You think that he can save me? You've disappointed me!"
"Tsumaru! Stop this nonsense at once!" Kratos shouted like Lloyd had never seen him before, "you have nowhere to stay now so you should come with us!" Tsumaru… so that's her name, Genis thought. She looks a lot like that girl I saw in the Tower of Salvation… The girl looked suspiciously at the half-elf.
"A half-elf is with you?" she asked, "that's… not right…"
"Tsumaru!" Kratos once again commanded. Tsumaru put down her weapons and looked at the ground and obediently followed Kratos. The group left for the entrance but all kept a sharp eye on the strange girl. Kratos put his arm comfortingly around her. "It's alright… you'll be alright…" he cooed. Tsumaru was quietly crying, Genis could tell. However, then, she crackled an evil laugh. Everyone stared at her in shock.
"None of you know… true pain… or true loneliness… " she whispered in such a small voice that it was taken away by the wind.
A/N: Well, that's the end of this chapter. I'm sorry, I'm going to be delaying update dates. I'm not allowed to go on the computer as much anymore, so my time is limited. If you have any comments of my character (Tsumaru) please review or e-mail me!!