(Okay, many thanks to DeadEdBoy and treekicker for correcting me. Found some mistakes while reading the chapter and revised it. Sheesh, I haven't been playing the American version for so damn long that I'm used to the Japanese names like "Gaorrachia" and "Rarebird." They had to make the American version so complicated...)
Disclaimer: I like swords!
(Gugh, fine. For the eleventh time, making this the 11th chapter, I do not own Tales of Symphonia! Aaaargh!)
Review Responses:
GirlWaterShaman: Don't make the chibi Kratos mad, that little thing can bite!
Rayestar Ikina: "Saseruka!" is a battle quote, so no, it's not the same. And yes, the PS2 version has alot of stuff the GC version doesn't have. One thing that I wish it didn't have is slower loading capabilities, because of the extras. (Because it's all in one disc...) Meh, I'll stop playing this game for a while and play Tales of Rebirth. (Japanese version, or course.)
DeadEdBoy: Whoa, I'll save the praise 'til later.
animesage: It's okay, dude. Thanks for your patience.
treekicker: There's more where that came from. But please, update your story!
lisette: Go to Japan.
Cerse Liminara: Never heard nor seen "Braveheart: A New Beginning", or whatever you call it. And you know the drill: At the end of the chapter.
RPGs r the BEST: There is no character in the story that's made up. Remember that. As for the P.S., yes I know that. I, have, the, game. And if you have any other extras that I don't know about, try me.
11) Bad Hopes
Bidding farewell to the fortune teller of Triet, whom for some reason accidentally (but at the same time on purpose) plotted the location of the two missing heroes, the incomplete group makes their journey back to Tethe'alla using the Renegade bases. Wait, wasn't the leader of the Renegades a man named Yuan?
This could mean trouble.
Or could it?
Now it was Colette's turn to be the oblivious one, although she has been in the first place, or she just has this characteristic, or something, whatever. But we're talking about an "I just got possessed!" kind of oblivious, not the "Uh, yeah! I knew that!" kind of oblivious.
"Colette, do you know where they are?" Raine asked.
"Um, yes, Professor," the innocent angel replied, "it looked like a wall with words written in it. It said, 'Karma' in really big letters and below it was a smaller words saying, 'Lubetiveane ze efial.'-"
"Or 'Life is inevitable.'" Genis blurted only to recieve that abusive slap from his sister.
"Don't interuppt!"
"Sorry..."
"Well," Colette continued, "the place looked like it was abandoned. Then it started to bleed, like someone was going through it."
"That's scary, have we ever came across a place that's abandoned?" Sheena asked.
"Whatever that means," Regal said, "they're located at a place where nobody goes to anymore."
"Like a graveyard, or a haunted house." Genis added.
"Now, may I ask, how are we going to find a graveyard or a haunted house?" Sheena asked. "We haven't came across anything scary during our adventure."
"Gaorrachia Forest..." Presea whispered.
"Yeah! That's, uh, a brilliant idea!" Genis yelled.
Everyone turned to Genis, wondering what the heck was he trying to prove.
"Uh, I mean. That's a highly considered idea, that we, uh, uh, may go visit!"
The rest of the group remained motionless, once again trying to figure out what the heck is he trying to prove.
"I mean...I didn't say anything."
After Genis awoken from his deep sleep, his mood started to change. According to Raine, he's simply not himself.
Could this mean...
...nah.
Sheena opens the EC Pack and out came the Rheairds. They all boarded the vehicles and flew to the top of the Renegade base. A black portal opens and sends the group inside in just a flash. When they reached the portal to Tethe'alla, five vehicles succeeded in exiting the portal...
Wait, five?
Was there six to begin with?
Uh, oh.
"Hey, where's-" Raine looks back and sees no one. She lookes forward and sees no one. She looks beside her...
"We're right here, sis." Genis replied. He was right beside Regal, Presea, and Sheena.
Which leaves...
"Colette!"
"Hey! Where's everybody?" Colette yelled through the vortex that seemed endless. "I could of sworn we came through here!"
Now the black portal turned purple, and that's not a good sign. You know what that means...
...Okay so you don't know what that means...
...I'll shut up.
"We have to go look for her." Regal snapped. "Only Goddess knows what's happening in there."
"That place is creepy." Sheena said.
"Yeah, I'm not going there anymore." Genis added but only to say it to himself. That means that no one heard him.
Colette's Rheaird started to twirl out of control, like it's running out of fuel, maybe it's because Volt's prescence is absent. One thing's for sure, Colette's not enjoying it.
"Aaaaahh! Help me! Somebody!"
The purple never-ending vortex started to feel steeper as the out-of-control Colette zooms blindly into it. Then she felt like she got out of something and began to regain her senses. But when she did, she realized that she was airborne in an unfamiliar cave.
With no fuel.
The Rheaird starts to pull down slowly by gravity as Colette finds a place to land the dead Rheaird, but her heart races and time is running out. She began to pray to Martel as the vehicle continues to pick up speed from the normal gravity pull.
"Goddess Martel..."
She closed her eyes and hoped for the worse...
And that's all she could do...
All she could see was black.
A shadow.
A darkness.
A-
"I GOT AN IDEA!" Genis yelled, scaring the living hell out of Sheena.
"Genis!" Sheena gasped and pointed at him like a maniac, "Don't do that!"
"DO WHAT?" Genis yelled again.
"That! Don't yell!"
"WHY NOT?"
"Because we're sleeping, that's why! Now go to sleep!"
"BUT WE-" Genis saw Sheena nudging her lips with the side of her pointer finger and gave an evil glare. He quickly responded by whispering, "but we haven't found Colette yet!"
"And we have been all day! I'm just as worried as you are, but it's already late. Plus it's too dark and too intimidating to go outside."
"And that's my idea! The nighttime is something scary and it's covers the whole world. So in order to find Colette, who is inside something dark and scary, we have to look everywhere!"
Eerie silence.
"Go to sleep." Sheena covers herself as Raine, who was sleeping next to her, began moving around as a result of being uncomfortable.
"Stop moving, Genis! You're taking the whole blanket again!"
After realizing what Raine just said, both Sheena and she looked at each other and started to scream. The screams echoed from the inn in Flanoir causing the lights from the neighborhood to flash up. The lights also came on in their three-bed room.
"WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING WITH ME?" Raine shrieked.
"WHY AM I AT YOUR BED?" Sheena shrieked back.
"WHERE'S GENIS?" roared the enraged sister as she got out of the bed obviously with a nightgown on.
Regal sat up and claimed that he's with nobody.
"I'm by myself."
"Genis! You better not be in Presea's bed! If you are, I'll show you how it feels like to sleep with your sister with a big hand mark on your butt!"
There's a big lump on Presea's bed. That nasty little boy...
"Genis!" Raine pulls the blanket from the bed and saw something very horrible, causing both Sheena and her to gasp.
There were only pillows.
"Genis! Presea! Where are you?" Sheena yelled.
"Hey!" a man's voice is heard from the thick wall. "There are people trying to sleep here!"
"Check the closets."
Sheena opens the only closet in the room only to reveal only clothes.
"Under the bed?"
They both checked under the three beds. Nothing.
"Check the whole inn!"
Raine, Sheena and Regal scurried around the inn trying to find Genis and Presea for a good thirty minutes, but they they were nowhere to be found.
"Outside!"
Pissed off mad that they had to put on their trademark clothing in the middle of the night, they walked outside the inn and looked around the town.
"Genis!"
"Presea!"
"Where are you?"
"This is Raine, you better get out Genis before I-"
"That's not going to make him get out, Raine."
"Silence, Sheena! Genis is my brother and I must find him!"
"You said that about Colette being an important person to you hours ago."
Flashback...
"Colette is an important person to me and I must find her!"
...End Flashback.
They both stood in silence in the snow wondering where did that flashback come from. (Sorry, had to do it.)
"Sheena! Raine! Over here!" Regal yelled from somewhere.
"Where coming, Regal." The women walked to where Regal's voice was heard.
"Where are you, Regal?"
Silence.
"Regal?"
Regal disappeared like nothing happened.
"Hey, this is starting to scare me." Sheena frowned.
"Tell me about it." Raine breathed.
"What the-"
Before Sheena finished her sentence, they found themselves freefallling in a purplish vortex.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhh..."
What in the world is happening to everybody?
Sheena: RW! I found you!
Image RW: I - LIKE - SWORDS.
Sheena: Huh?
Image RW: HELLO - MY - NAME - IS - RYU - WARRIOR - WHAT - IS -YOUR - NAME?
Sheena: Are you okay?
Image RW: PLEASED - TO - MEET - YOU - R.U.O.K. - THAT - IS - A -WEIRD - NAME. - WHERE - DID - YOU - GET - THAT - NAME?
Sheena: SKEITH! (Puts on earmuffs)
Skeith: (appears) What?
Sheena: What did you do to RW?
Image RW: ORANGE - IS - MY - FAVORITE - COLOR.
Skeith: Nothing.
Sheena: Like hell you did nothing! Change him back!
Skeith: Hey! I'm not a voodoo, ask Zelos.
Sheena: I thought you crucified him.
Skeith: I did? (thinks) Oh, yes, I did!
Sheena: Skeith!
Image RW: I - LOVE - COOKIES.- AND - I - LOVE - YOU - TOO - R.U.O.K.
Sheena: Change him back!
Skeith: Hmm...where did Innis go?
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Collet: Yarasenaikara! (Japanese Translation: "Because you don't have a chance!" I think...)
(In the PS2 version, Zelos now says something when he kills an enemy. For some reason, he was the only character that didn't say anything when he kills an enemy in the GC version. He now says "Utsukushii!" which means "Beautiful" or "Sexy" depending on how you say it. We all know what he means when he says it...)