Disclaimer: Just to make this clear I do not own Tales of Symphonia or any of the characters. Just having fun.

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WRONGLY ACCUSED

Chapter 1

It has been just over two hours since they defeated Yuan and Botta. The group decided it would be good to rest for the night. Everyone, except Lloyd, was near the fire talking about pointless things they wished they could be doing. Betrayal was the only thing on his mind.

Feeling edgy since Kratos betrayed them at the Tower of Salvation, Lloyd looked at Zelos as thoughts rushed through his head.

'Could he betray us? Nah...then Sheena would hate him. I know Genis and Raine wouldn't turn on us. I've known them for years and Genis is my best friend. Now Regal is a tough one, he did attack us twice before he joined us but what would he gain from betraying us? Nothing I can think of right now. Now Colette...no, no she would never betray us...right?' He asked himself. 'That just leaves Sheena and Presa. Sheena couldn't betray us because...because she just couldn't! I don't know why but I trust Sheena.' Unable to rest his mind, he continued to sit and pondered his feelings.

"I LOVE these rehairds !" yelled Raine to Genis excitedly. "They must be so complex inside its outer shell." Making a snap decision, "I'm going to take mine apart to see how its machinery works." She started walking toward her rehaird quickly. "NO! It took us forever in that stupid maze-of-a-base where Presa got lost to finally get these rehairds, so you're not going to wreck them by taking them apart." said Genis harshly to his sister, Raine, hoping to curb her foolishness.

Lloyd wasn't paying attention to Genis and Raine, instead, he turned his head toward Presa. 'I wonder if would she turn on us, she did get "lost" in the base for a little while. Hmmmmm.' Lloyd considered to himself.

Sheena just walked up from behind Lloyd and asked, "Hey Lloyd, can we quickly stop by Mizuho to restock on supplies tomorrow?"

"Yeah, I guess." answered Lloyd automatically, being too preoccupied with his thoughts to hear the question properly. After another hour of thinking but coming to no conclusions, Lloyd fell back and went straight to sleep.

The following morning was a little chilly when the rehairds landed in a field near Mizuho. Lloyd dismounted his rehaird and walked to the ninja town.

Before they entered, Kuchinawa approached and halted the group, "Sheena! The two men, Yuan and Botta, captured Tiga." said Kuchinawa.

"Why?" asked Sheena

"They want their revenge on you and your friends! They said they will be at Latheon Gorge."

Without notice Sheena ran out of the town and on her rehaird and yelled, "Hurry up already!"

They ran after her then left for the gorge. As they approached the gorge, they noticed an elf guarding the gorge so Sheena opened the now very large monster list book. "Look at this," Sheena said, holding out the book, the guard peered into the book suspiciously. Sheena then slammed the book into the guard, knocking him out cold.

Sheena turned around, "Simple but effective, now let's go!"

After searching for an hour they found Yuan and Botta standing over over an unconscience Tiga.

"Let him go NOW!" yelled Sheena.

"Lloyd follow me. I'm going to kill you myself. The rest of you can fight Botta." Yuan calmly said. Genis laughed at Yuan. "Oh I get it, you're too scared to fight more than one."

"All right" Yuan answered, "pink-headed girl, you come too. We are going to fight on the other side of the gorge." As Lloyd and Presa walked around the gorge with Yuan following while carrying the bound Tiga.

Botta smirked, "Ready to die?" then charged at the rest of the group.

Yuan followed Lloyd and Presa to the highest point of the gorge and stopped. He dropped Tiga then drew his double-sided sword, "Let it begin."

Upon hearing this Presa and Lloyd drew their weapons and ran at Yuan. Yuan blocked both of their attacks with ease. He continued letting Lloyd and Presa attack him as he blocked then countered. Lloyd stopped attacking for a second to catch his breath,Yuan saw this as his chance and begun his assault on Lloyd, attack after attack, finally knocking him to the ground. Presa tried to help Lloyd but Yuan knocked her back everytime. Lloyd got up from the ground and once again charged at Yuan, but with thoughts of Regal, he faked out Yuan with a slice, kicking Yuan with all his force. Yuan felt mild pain so he swiped at Lloyd's chest. Feeling a iron sword slice through his chest, he screamed and doubled back. Lloyd saw Presa walk over to Yuan, who was laying on the ground, and lifted her axe...

The rest of the gang were having troubles with Botta when renegade troops came from nowhere to help him. Genis nailed seven renegades with indignation while Raine cast healing spells. Sheena has been out of the battle since Botta nailed her in the head with the back of his sword. Zelos raised his sword to block an attack, but using all his might, Botta smashed right through Zelos' sword. Shards from the broken sword dug in his arm and his body leaving Zelos on the ground, his blood quickly forming a pool.

As Botta was about to finish off Zelos, a light of mana shot through the sky. Seeing the mana, he yelled, "That was the signal, troops! Fall back!" Hearing the order, the renegades quickly disappeared.

" I wonder what that was all about?" Genis said before dusting himself off. "Let's go find Lloyd and Presa.

"I think they went that way," said Raine while picking up Sheena from the ground.

...Lloyd jumped to the right to avoid the giant axe flying towards him. Looking into the familiar eyes of who he thought was his friend, "Prepare to die You stupid doll!" Lloyd said as he jumped up over the Presa look alike and without hesition he kicked it over the edge of the cliff. Lloyd looked down over the cliff to make sure it fell down but saw nothing, so he hoped for the best that it died. He turned around to see the rest of the gang watching him in fear and anger. Genis was on the verge of crying then looked upon Lloyd and screamed "Murderer!"