A/N: Hah! I'm updating again. o.o; Yeah. . .

-.o You'll have to excuse the poor-excuse of an update. Again, I'm out of good ideas at the moment, and, well, I've got tons of stuff on my mind. . .

Disclaimer: Okay, good news! We haven't been sued! ::cue confetti/streamers:: Let's keep it that way! n.n So, of course, I don't own Tales of Symphonia, or any of its characters. . . supposedly. The characters from the game that reside in my home are just a figment of my imagination that I obsess with. And if you think they live with you, remember it's just your imagination. No matter how real it seems, they're not there!

Lloyd: Genki, stop ranting.
Genki: BLARG! IT'S MY IMAGINATION!
Lloyd: O.o?
Genki: ::whispering:: Just play along, or I'll get sued.
Lloyd: Oh. Okay. Blarg, I'm. . . Genki's. . . imagination?
Genki: MEEP!
Lloyd: ::sigh::

Banana Mana Mania

Chapter 5

In case you forgot!

"Gah! Stupid boy! But, fine, fine. We go on to the last trial. But be warned, it's the worst!" He guided the team into the last room, and their jaws dropped at the site.

"OMIMARTEL IT'S A GIANT TV!!!" Lloyd ran for it and hugged the television. "Televisssssssioooooooon. . ." ::drool::

"And on it, we'll play. . ."

"GameCube?" Zelos pointed to the console on the floor. "Seriously, man, what's the last trial?"

"This is the last trial, fool!" Eugene shook his fists. "Do you not know the awesome powers of a GameCube?!"

"Well, I like the PS2 better--"

"Shut-up! GameCube is thee best!! Nintendo shall rule forever, and don't you forget it! (1)

"So, you must beat me in two out of three games. Are you ready?"

"Heck, yeah!" Lloyd grabbed a controller.

"It's ON!"

As Eugene turned on the GCN (that's abbreviation for GameCube), Lloyd held in the Z button so that the system made funny squeaky sounds as it did its little thing. Everyone else blinked as the game loaded.

"First game: Super Smash Brothers Melee!"

To make a long story short, Roy vs. Purin. Who won?

"HAHA! I WIN!" Lloyd threw the controller down and did a victory dance.

"That's not fair! Your stupid Purin didn't deserve to win!! Th-the Japanese Pokémon were completely throwing off my brain, man!"

He started singing like Purin. (2)

"Martel, cut it out!" He switched the disks and moved on to the next game.

". . .we're playing Mario Power Tennis? Fine then, let's go!"

Lloyd chose Peach, and Eugene chose Bowser Junior. Ugly game.

"Man, Peach rules!"

"NO FRICKIN' WAY!" Eugene roared.

"Now, we want our prize!" Sheena shouted.

The group all yelled along.

"Fine, fine. It's up there." He pointed to a shiny thing on the top of a giant flight of stairs and took off.

"Hey, where are you going?!" Lloyd shouted as Raine was already halfway up the stairs.

"ARTIFACT-ARTIFACT-ARTIFACT!" Quickly making it to the top, she pulled out a golden rod, and examined it. It seemed more like a staff with a banana on top. "This must be. . . the Great Banana Rod!" She held it up in triumph as a great rumble came.

"Uh-oh. . ." Genis sighed. "That can't be good."

Another tremor roared, this time without any stopping as pieces of ceiling fell.

"RUUUUN!!" They scooted as fast as possible out through each room, finally making it back safetly into McDonald's.

"Wow, such a fast scene changer. . ." Zelos commented.

Oh, shut-up! My working hours are late: from maybe 9:00PM-2:00AM! It's too late to think.

"Then work earlier!"

Can't. Parents would kill me.

"Do you take this as your 'job,' or something?"

To satisfy myself and my fans. Until I get a summer job. I'm already applying for one at a mini-golf course. Last year I couldn't work there because they weren't taking fourteen-year-olds.

"Well, good luck on that."

Thanks.

"She's interrupting again. . ." Lloyd sighed.

H-he started it!!

"Did not!"

"Shut-up so we can find these monkeys and get outta here!" Raine yelled, hitting Zelos and Lloyd over the head, and then throwing a cookie past the authoress.

OOH! COOKIE! ::chases after cookie::

By the time the authoress got her delicious cookie. . . ::munchmunch:: the team was back in the forest that the monkeys first attacked. The ruins of the nerd (3) convention still laid in rubble.

"Oh my go-- What happened here?" Regal asked as Genis and Lloyd held flower petals, tossing it upon the rubble.

"May the nerds in this last convention be remembered," Lloyd started quietly.

"as their nerdy remains lies here," Genis finished, before both ran out of petals and bursted out laughing.

"Idiots," Sheena sighed.

A figure came towards them. A flying figure. Shaped like an angel.

"Stay away, whoever you are!" Zelos shielded himself. "Stupid I-have-problems-with-my-identity freak!"

"Hmph. Well, what a greeting," the figure grunted, as Zelos put down his arms and everyone blinked.

"Kratos?!"

"Have you seen Yuan? He's been gone for weeks now." Stares were traded among them. Had the person that had been following them actually been Yuan, or just some crazy guy?

In unison, they gave a simple shrug.

"Okay, then, I guess not. I take my leave." Kratos flew away.

As if on some magical cue, a shepard girl appeared. Well. . . upon closer inspection, it was a crossing guy dressed as a shepard girl. (Note: BLUE HAIR.)

"Who are you this time?" Presea asked.

"The name's Josie!" he said in somewhat a good girl's voice.

"A shepard girl named Josie. Odd," Regal commented.

"Well, I got punished for stealing bread, so I was forced to be a shepard. But, I won't go any further with that." She waved a finger, as if summoning someone. "Little! Bo! Peep!"

Three walking sheep ran to them. (Walking sheep ran?. . . nevermind.) One tripped before Josie's feet.

"Watch yourself Peep, you need to stay sharp on your feet with those monkeys still around," another sheep said to the one on the ground.

"I know, Little!" Peep got up. "You wanna practice with a game of. . . tag!" She tagged Little.

"No way! You're it!" Little chased Peep as playful music was played on a mysteriously placed piano by a blonde boy.

"Guys, stop it, before the music turns into Mission Impossible and Josie starts crying 'Monkey!'" the last sheep (obviously Bo) yelled.

"Darn it! I almost had my line too." The music stopped.

"Aren't you going to help us at all, or are you going to keep giving us this nonsense?" Genis huffed, crossing his arms.

"Yes, yes--" Josie's voice fell short as her head turned. "Run for your lives! The monkeys are coming!! Monkeys, monkeys, monkeys!" Complete chaos occured: the sheep were screaming like crazy as random yelling townspeople ran back and forth. (4)

"How do we use this?" Colette asked, now in possession of the Great Banana Rod.

"Just hold it up and yell 'Monkeys, go the heck away!" Josie and her sheep ran off, as the big crowd of monkeys came forward.

"Wait, say that again!--" But Lloyd's voice trailed off as they were too far away. "Colette, pass it here!" Colette tossed the rod to Lloyd, as he held it up.

"Um, does anyone remember?"

"It started: 'Monkeys, go. . .' but that's all I got," Genis replied.

"Okay, okay. . . let's see. . . Monkeys, go. . . bake a pie?"

Nothing.

"Uh, Monkeys, go. . . to the bathroom!"

Still nothing.

"Ooh, I got it! Monkeys, go HOME!"

Nope.

"Dammit! We're screwed."

Haha. Will they ever be able to get the monkeys to go away? Sorry this is starting to suck. n.n; This story isn't as big as a success I thought it would.

Lots of notes for you. x.x;

(1) DAMN STRAIGHT! NINTENDO ROCKS MEH SOCKS!

(2) Okay, okay. This might be a bit hard to catch on to, so I'll explain. As you should know, Super Smash Brothers Melee is a GameCube game. If you've never played it, YOU SUCK! Just kidding. The game can be switched into the Japanese language, and although that doesn't make it completely Japanese, most of it is, including the menus and crap. Even sound effects get changed, including the Pokémon (the ones you use Poké Balls for.) Also, Jigglypuff gets changed to Purin. That's why Lloyd sings like Purin: It's Jigglypuff! If you have SSBM, I recommend that you learn your menu, then switch theh language to Japanese, set up lots of items only being Poké Balls, play as Purin and another Japanese character, and play. It's hysterical.

(3) Thank you for the "geek/nerd" correction, for whoever did that. n.n;; I can't remember who, and I can't check because I'm w/o internet access as of now... but thanks!

(4) Definitely gotta explain THAT load of crap.

Okay, here's the deal: MY FIRST PERIOD CLASS OWNS THIS PIECE OF. . . STUPIDITY. Yeah, seriously. We had to put a musical together, so we wrote The Girl Who Cried Wolf, lacking in the guys in our class. A lot of their lines, such as, "Watch yourself Peep, you need to stay sharp on your feet with that monkey (wolf) still around," and "The name's Josie!" are actual lines. e.e;; Anyway, anyone who somehow wants the copy of the script (GODDESS KNOWS WHY O.o;) I have it typed on my computer. Just email me and I'll send it.

Lloyd: You put that dumb musical in there?!
Genki: Yeah, sad part is. . . (Mystery Man) stoled my part!! T-T
Lloyd: So, you're a guy with identity problems now?
Genki: Haha. I'll start singing a song!
Lloyd: Oh no. . . I hear it--
Genki: ::to the tune of the Pink Panther:: The bread, the bread, I'm gonna steal the bread it's almost mine, I need to eat, I need to eat the bread I need to DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE--
Lloyd: ::covers mouth:: I HEAR IT ENOUGH DURING YOUR CLASS!
Genki: ::pries off hands:: XP Oh! I forgot to add: The guy sitting at the piano is an actual classmate of mine. XD Nice and funny kid, plays piano excellently. (He can even play a Linkin Park song and Mission Impossible!)
Lloyd: That's enough, start working some more! (Or go to bed, let's not almost miss school like the other day. . .)
Genki: Hehe. n.n; I'm losing my voice because of that damn musical!! -.-;;;; Half of my lines are yells and shouts.