I don't own Seiken Densetsu 3. SquareSoft does. Man, admitting it in such short lines makes the disclaimer much less painful ^.^

What lies in the future.

Chapter 2

~The Future~

Lise, Hawk, Duran and Carlie both stared at their floating 'friends'. Duran looked at Angela's body, still limp in his arms.

"How is that possible? And if that's the truth, then what happened to our Angela and Kevin?!"

Lise said, trying to remain calm as she could. She was failing miserably.

The ghost Kevin smiled warmly, sending shivers down everyone's spine. This was too weird, even for them.

~I told you this would be weird.~

Ghost Angela nodded and floated down towards the real Angela's body. Duran hugged her protectively.

"What do you think you're doing?!"

~Relax, will you? I'm only trying to help.~

Ghost Angela waved her hand in front of Angela's face, and Duran sighed in relief as she began breathing. Ghost Kevin did the same, and the both looked at each other.

~Perhaps you should put them somewhere safe, and then we could talk.~

Nodding, Duran carried Angela's body inside the Temple. Lise and Hawk carried Kevin.

"Ok, so come on, talk. If you're from the future, and you're here, then… What happened to them?"

~Let's just say… we switched…~

Kevin opened his eyes and found himself lying in a dark alleyway.

"Wha… How? Where? THE OTHERS!"

He looked around him frantically, yet he found no sign of his friends.

"Weird. Better look around."

Stepping into the light, Kevin gasped.

'Weird. Beastmen aren't supposed to be in Wendel.'

But they were. All around him walked Beastmen and Beastwomen, going about their business like normal people would on any other normal day. Kevin looked around again for his friends, but only got odd glances in return.

'Well, better start looking.'

Kevin walked down the crowded street, looking around still. No human was in sight

"EXCUSE ME SIR!"

Kevin almost jumped out of his skin as a merchant approached him with an odd looking weapon.

"SIR SEEMS TO BE A STRONG WARRIOR! SIR NEEDS A STRONG WEAPON!"

Kevin got his Skull Dissect ready, earning him a shocked cry out of the merchant. Several other Beastmen turned to look at the weapon.

"Sir, that's… That weapon is…"

"Sir, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to come with us."

Looking behind him, Kevin saw three Beastmen in uniform. They seemed to be the authority in the place.

'Uh oh.'

"Er, I didn't do nothing."

One of the uniformed Beastmen pointed at Kevin's Skull Dissect.

"That weapon is illegal. Anyone seen even carrying it is to be taken under arrest immediately."

Kevin shook his head and took a step backwards while holding his arms before him. He had taken his claw off the moment the three arrived.

"What weapon?"

"Don't play dumb! We saw it! Now hand it over!"

The Beastman reached to grab the weapon away, only to be grabbed by Kevin and thrown quite a distance down the street.

"Hey!"

"What do you think you're doing?!"

The merchant, a rather small Beastman, cowered behind his desk in fear. The other two uniformed Beastmen looked at each other, and when Kevin turned back to them, the two ran away.

"Pathetic."

Other people on the street stared at him, and when a few glared, Kevin took it as his note to leave.

"See ya!"

He wandered around the city for a while, getting more and more weird glances. But the thing was, there was more of a veriaty. Confusion, hate, fear…

'What happened?'

He ended up in a huge square, decorated with plants and flowers and trees. In the middle stood a huge statue. A couple was sitting on one of the benches, kissing and laughing. Kevin approached them slowly.

"Where is this?"

The two looked at him. At first they were annoyed to be disturbed, but then their faces turned to the same mask of confused feelings Kevin saw all around. Kevin sighed and tried not to cut the two in half.

"WHERE IS THIS?"

The man finally seemed to find his cracking voice.

"This is Wendel, former Holy City of the humans."

The man spit at the last word, and Kevin looked away, annoyed. That's when he noticed whose statue it was. He approached it slowly, and read the inscription. He turned back to the couple.

"WHEN is this?"

"Wha, what kind of a question is tha…"

"WHEN IS THIS?!"

The woman fainted, and the man caught her.

"This, this is… this is the 21st year to the new Goddess of Mana."

The man stopped there, and looked relieved. He took his girlfriend and ran away.

'21st year?! Than… I'm 20 years… AHEAD?!'

"So you're the owner of the Skull Dissect!"

Kevin's eyes widened as he recognized the voice. He turned around and smiled.

'Well, it HAS been 20 years!'

"Sir, I'm afraid you'll have to come with… us… KEVIN?!"

"Last time I checked. Been a while, hasn't it, Lugar?"

A/N: well, it's not the 22nd yet. I just felt like writing this. Buhbye!