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(Meh, at least it's better than the rest...)
I'm tired, I'll just paste the chapter and do the review responses at the end of the chapter...and I don't feel like talking to anyone, yes, I'm talking to you Sheena. Just don't say anything, Lloyd. Me, shut up.
9) Bad Dreams
The group minus Lloyd and Zelos (and if you want, Kratos) finally arrived to Triet to visit the fortune teller that helped Lloyd and Genis find Colette from before. And if you hadn't noticed, they left Lloyd and Zelos (and if you want, Kratos) behind.
Genis, having that coma from last time...was still in a coma. So they had to put him in the inn. Presea, Regal and Colette stayed behind to take care of him, leaving Sheena and Raine to go to the hut that lives the mysterious fortune teller.
"May I help you?"
The low, sassy voice from the fortune teller brought a welcoming aura as the two females entered. Raine approaches the fortune teller and told her about Lloyd and Zelos' disappearence. Seems that they actually ran away rather than being banished.
"So you wish to ask me to look for your boyfriends, correct?"
Sheena and Raine exchanges disgusted glances. "Just do this for us."
"Very well, that'll be 500 gald."
"What?"
Back at the inn.
"I still don't understand why they disappeared like that. Isn't that weird?" Colette asked to Presea.
"Affirmative, it seems that their disappearence shared no reason. Although there were some things that I observed."
"Really?"
"Correct. First of all, Zelos did not have that attitude he usually has when he was around his groupies. He was very reserved and he was always near you. Lloyd, on the other hand, was suddenly happy, in both ways."
"Both ways? Was he twice as happy as he was before?"
"No. I mean he was enthusiastically happy and he was ho-"
"Genis is awake." Regal interuppted.
"Genis!" Colette ran to the half-elf boy who finally broke his slumber. "Are you okay?"
"R-Raine? I-Is that you?" He couldn't see clearly as a result of having sleeping for so long. When he can finally see clearly, though, he didn't see his sister. "Where's Raine? Where am I?"
"You are in Triet." Presea answered. "Your sister is currently away."
"Raine! Raine! RAINE!" Genis, being a calm boy for his age, was not calm and something or someone, or some...some...thing has taken over his consciousness. He frantically ran across the room, almost running over Colette and exited the room, yelling random things until they couldn't hear it anymore.
There was a discomforting silence.
"Oh, no! Genis ran off! We must get him!" Colette exclaimed.
"Yes," Regal added, "we must get him before something bad happens."
There was an another discomforting silence.
"Genis!"
The fortune teller hushes both Raine and Sheena as she closes her eyes and focuses into the crystal ball. The woman hums an annoying sound as the crystal ball, according to Raine and Sheena, suddenly creates a white smoke inside.
"Baaaabalibumbalibumbalibumbalibumbalibummmmmmmmm..."
Then some kind of force made the woman stop abruptly and the crystal ball starts to create a black smoke. She started to grunt while still keeping her eyes closed.
"No!"
The crystal ball starts to create an orangy-red smoke and then it exploded, leaving the fortune teller down on the ground. The two females approaches her and tries to regain her conciousness.
"Are you okay?"
The woman slowly opens her eyes and slowly mutters out:
"Lubetiveane ze efial..."
Raine and Sheena exchanges glances as they try to figure out what she said, but they can't make it out.
"Lubetiveane ze efial...Lubetiveane ze efial...Lub..."
"She's lost conciousness, we have to get her out of here." Raine said.
"Yeah, this smoke is making me dizzy."
They both took an arm from the fortune teller, puts it across their shoulders and began to walk outside, where they were met by Colette, Presea and Regal.
"What are you doing here?" Raine asked, "Where's Genis?"
"Uh...Professor?" Colette nervously says, "He's not with us."
"So he's still in the room, right?" said Sheena.
"Not exactly." Presea said, "He fled off."
"What?"
"He was running around frantically looking for you, Professor. So we came here." Colette said.
"We just came out, so we haven't seen him."
"So now what are we gonna do?"
Everyone does or says nothing.
"You little pest! Come back here!"
The group hears a man from afar and was chasing some person under a pink blanket.
"Give me back my merchandise! Thief! Thief!"
The moving pink blanket went around in circles and somehow ran over Colette.
"Ack!"
The figure inside the blanket started to spontaneously move around. To what the group was look at, it looked like it was raping Colette.
"Get it off me! Ow! It hurts!"
Presea unravels the blanket and out came a familiar figure.
"Genis?"
"Waa! I want Raine!" Once again, Genis, being a calm boy for his age, was not calm. His tantrum just made it worse.
"Stop it! You're bashing me!" Colette yelped.
"Genis!" Raine gives the fortune teller to Sheena and approaches Genis. "GENIS!"
Raine's word to her brother echoes around Triet and everyone was silent. Even Genis.
"Raine?" He looks up to see his pissed off sister. "Raine!"
"Hm?"
Genis quickly gets off Colette and hugs his beloved sister.
"Genis..."
"I love you, sis! I'll never do it again! It was an accident! I didn't mean to do it!"
"Do what? What's gotten into you?"
"It was me! I'm the one who did it!"
"What did you do?"
"I-" He paused, wondering what he did. And as you now know, he's officially calm. (Applause)
"What did you do?" Raine repeated.
"Aha! I got you, little pest!" The man who was chasing Genis under that pink blanket finally caught up to him and grabs his arm.
"Ow! Ow!"
"Where's my Limited Edition Triet Carpet?"
"Ow! I don't know what you're talking about!"
The man tuggs his arm harder, "Don't play dumb with me, boy!" After the man said his line, a hand swipes through his face, releasing Genis.
"Hey, who gave you permission to touch my brother?" Raine yelled.
"Look what I can do!" Colette said.
"Not now, Colette, I'm trying to-"
"Look!" Sheena blurted, "Colette's flying with the blanket!"
"Wee!" The pink blanket that Genis dropped to Colette was levitating.
"My carpet! Give it back!" The man, rubbing his face from the slap, takes the blanket away from the happy floating Colette, leaving her landing face up on the sand.
"Owie! That hurts!"
"I don't know what your problem is, sir, so I'd suggest you take that blanket of yours and get out!" Raine commanded.
"Humph, think you're so special..."
The man walks away with the pink blanket at hand and a throbbing right cheek.
"Lu..."
"Huh? What is it?" Sheena heard something from the fortune teller she was holding.
"Come on, let's go back to the inn and find out what she's saying." Raine said.
As they walk away from the tent of the fortune teller, the smoke starts to get bigger and it seems that it's not going away.
Later that night...
"Whe-where am I?" The fortune teller awakens from her short-term coma and caught Colette's attention.
"Look everyone! She's-" Before she could finish, she just realized that no one was there, "awake?"
The group chose Colette to watch out for the fortune teller so they can ponder what's going on in the OTHER room.
"Um, miss? Stay right here and, um, yeah!" Colette quickly leaves the room to tell the others.
"Who is it?" Yelled a voice from the other room.
"It's Colette, the fortune teller's awake!"
There was a long silence.
The door opened to reveal an unfamililar man in pajamas.
"Excuse me? I'm trying to sleep here."
"Oops, wrong room!"
Seems that it's not the room beside it. Must be downstairs.
"Guys! Guys! The fortune teller's awake!"
Colette opens the door that stayed the rest of the group...
But they're not there. Then an eerie sound echoes in her ears, it was coming from upstairs.
"Guys? I'm scared! I'm not playing games here! I'm really scared!"
The eerie sound gets louder as she goes up a stair. As soon as she reached the final stair, the door of the room that stayed the fortune teller made a thud.
"Hello? Miss Fortune Teller Lady? Are you okay?"
The door slowly opened but no one was there. Colette approaches the room with caution.
"Miss Fortune Teller Lady?"
She enters the room and sees no one there. The place where the fortune teller laid had a puddle of some kind of red liquid. Although she was afraid that it'll be blood, Colette went ahead and attempts to examine it. Before she could touch the liquid, a fulsome sound filled her ears, thus creating a spine chill. She turned around and saw one of the most gruesome sights she has ever seen.
"Lubetiveane ze efial..."
"Aaaahhh!" Colette closes her eyes and hides her face from the scene. All she could see was pitch black...
"Wake up!"
"Aaaahhh! No!" Colette opens her eyes and finds herself tireless in front of the group, who was looking at her.
"Relax," Raine said, "you just had a bad dream."
"I...I did?"
Colette looks around and the room was lit up, there was nothing loathesome too see. The fortune teller was awake, too.
"Lubetiveane ze efial!" Colette blurted out.
"Oh, great." Sheena sighed, "Now she's saying that 'Loobze' line, too. Who's next?"
"Life is inevitable." Genis said.
"What?"
"Life is inevitable. That's what she's saying."
Everyone turned to Genis and stares at him.
"What? Angel language. Colette taught me it, remember?"
"I...I know where they are..." Colette whispered.
"Hm?"
"I know where they are." She points to the fortune teller, "She showed me the way."
Everyone slowly turns to the fortune teller. She gave a sigh.
"Oh, boy. This is really paying off."
Review Responses:
Andrain John: Keep reading this story and you'll never imagine what Lloyd's going through now.
Rayestar Ikina AKA Rei Hoshi Kage: Zelos actually says, "Ha!" but since it sounds so crappy, it sounds like a cat.
Marion RUsh (Fishsticks): Dude! It's been a long time! Hope we see each other again in the future!
treekicker: Imposter people amuse me.
Cerse Liminara...
RW: Whoops! The website is gamefaqs dot com then search for Tales of Symphonia. Sorry! Got in a hurry.
Sheena: ...to say the night in my house.
RW: Yeah, since Skeith somehow took over my workspace and doing these weird things to Lloyd, I guess staying with my muse won't hurt.
Sheena: If you ask me, RW did get hurt.
RW: Hey! I slipped! I didn't mean to touch your boobs like that!
Sheena: Yeah, uh-huh.
(Phone ring)
RW/Sheena: I'll get it!
RW: Hey! I got it first!
Sheena: Give me that!
RW/Sheena: Hello?
Skeith: (phone) Mr. Ryu Warrior? Is he there?
RW: (pushes Sheena out of the way) This is he!
Skeith: (phone) Yes, this is Skeith, your Lloyd exterminator. I was just wondering where you put your hammers?
RW: Well...I don't use them anymore so I don't know where it is.
Lloyd: (desperate) No way! No way! NO WAY!
(a whack is heard from the phone)
Skeith: That's okay, I'll find one.
RW: Wait, why do you need a hammer?
Skeith: Gotta crucify the boy.
RW: Huh? No wait! Don't do that!
Skeith: What's that? I'm losing you! I can't hear you! Beep, beep! (Hangs up)
RW: Hey! I...ah, screw it.
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Zelos: Humph!
(In the PS2 Version, Zelos can learn Judgement. Chicks would adore his low, serious voice. If you ask me, I wouldn't.)