Sorry about the spelling mistakes, my beta doesn't know anything about Tales of Symphonia and so has a problem with their names. She apologizes.
This is not my greatest chapter but I hope it is good enough.
This is my first online fic. I would like to thank the people who reviewed. Good, bad, I love all reviews.
This is a SheLloyd fic...well, eventually.
Chapter 3
During the next 2 months...
The journey wasn't easy for what was left of the heroes.Kratos had decided to join them, apparentlybecause of something Yggdrasill did butKratoswouldn't talk about it. With doubts and confusion in their minds, they didn't have the courage to tell Sheena the real reason Lloyd left, instead they said he was having problems and decided to work them out by himself, they knew they were avoiding the inevitable, but not saying it out loud made it less real. They just couldn't believe how he betrayed them. They repeated the same story to Colette when they found and saved her from the floating castle where Rodyle put her . They managed to make pacts with the summoning spirits easily enough but when they broke the manalinks between the two worlds,the great Kharlan tree went out of control by destroying anything or anyone close, they were barely able to stop it by shutting down the Iselia human ranch because it was feeding mana to the tree. Without the ranch, they were able to destroyed the Kharlan tree, leaving only a seed. Unfortunately, Zelos lost his left arm and Regal was left with a huge scar running down his faceafter battlingLord Forcystus in the Iselia human ranch. After saving the princess from the pope, they decided to go back to Meltokioin order to restock their supplies.
(Ok enough of the history lesson on with the story)
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"Man, we kicked those papal knight's asses from here to kingdom come!" shouted Zelos with a giant grin on his face.
"Hmm...you seem very happy for completing such a easy task as that. Is there something you're not telling us?" questioned Genis.
"Well, now that you mention it, I have a date with princess Hilda." answered Zelos.
Hethen walked up to Sheena and said some very stupid words. "Oh, I hope you don't get too jealous."
Sheena shouted, "Jealous?" she scoffed, "As if!"
Zelos winked at her, "You know you are."
"Oh, you're dead!" After saying this, Sheena punched him in the gut, then in the face. Sheena stood over him, lifted her arm for another punch and yelled, "That better be the last time you talk to me today...GOT IT?"
Before leaving Meltokio,the heroes prepared themselves to continue their journey. Raine went through the supplies to make sure they had everything they needed. They started off, they were almost out of the city they heard yelling, "Stop! Thieves!" The gang saw two people wearing all black jumping from house to house and below on the street they were followed by knights from the castle.
The thieves had run out of buildings to leap,so they jumped down and started dashing down the street. After a few minutes of running, they were cornered. As the two thiefs stood there, one of them pull out two swords and charged the knights. The king's knights were completely outmaneuvered with the speed oft he swordsman.
The group had been running behind the knights, they reached the two thieves finally, onlyto see all of knights were knockout or already dead. Zelos drew his sword and ran at them prepearing to cut them down, but the thieves did nothing.
The thief looked at Zelos and said, "Secondary objective found."
Zelos lifted his sword then swung it down with full force, but the thief just evaded the attack. As Zelos continued to attack, the thief refrained from returning theattack, he quickly moved, Zelos' sword never reaching its target.
"Why isn't the thief attacking? Is he too scared to attack?" Sheena said to Kratos.
He responded, "No, he isn't afraid, he just isn't wasting his energy on fable attacks." Kratos kept watching the thief move with careful observation and noticed only one thing...perfection.
Zelos was getting really pissed now, all his best attacks were missing the thief. He tried thunder... miss, he tried just attacking like crazy...miss. He was getting really tired but he pushed on. After awhile of fighting, Zelos attacks became slower and weaker. The thief was getting very bored with Zelos's lame attempts. He looked back to see his fellow thief was laying on the ground sleeping so he decided it was time to end this. Zelos swung down his sword again but this time the thief jumped backten feet and drew his swords.
"Ready to fight, huh?" Zelos panted, then pulled out a miracle gel and got his lost energy back. "Prepare the second objectve," said the thief before dashing towards Zelos.When the thief got in striking range, Zelos jabbed his sword forward but the thief jumped clear over Zelos' head,then with one sword attacked from behind. Zelos saw this and block the strike with his sword. Hoping this would happened, the thief swung his other sword cutting Zelos' remaining arm. Feeling pain flowing through his arm he winced and dropped his sword. The thief stood over Zelos about kill him, Colette threw her weapon at the thief causing him to jumped back and tripover his partner.In the little time it took him to gain his feet, Colette, Regal, Genis, Kratos, Sheena and Raine were all standing between him and Zelos.
"Leave him alone!" exclaimed Colette. They all got in their battle stance getting ready for a fight. The thief's partner awoke withdrew a giant axe then walked to the thief's side. The heroes were pretty confident since there was only two thieves but seven of them but thenout ofthe blue, six other masked people dressed completely in black come from what seemed like thin air. They then proceeded to pull out their assorted weapons, which consisted of a spear, a giant hammer, a whip, a bow and arrow, iron gloves and a staff.
"Oh that's just prefect." Zelos said as he hid behind Colette.
"Just give us the secondary objective and we'll leave without a fight. "
"Just who are you people and why are you after Zelos? " asked Kratos.
"That's NOT your concern. Just give us the secondary objective and we'll leave without a fight."said one of the men in black.
"No way, we never turn our backs on our friends! " said Genis with determination, after that, the thief with two swords winced.
The battle begun with the ground shaking from ground dasher but the masked men jumped up and at the heroes. Sheena quickly started to summon Gnome but the leader saw this and sent the one with the axe to stop her. As the axe came down on Sheena, shejumped back and had to stop her spell. They continued to fight until the axe wielder took a knife out then stabbed Sheena in her top left shoulder, leaving heron the groundwith her mouth open in a silent scream.
Meanwhile, Kratos attacked the leader with his super lighting strike but the other swordsman just evaded and countered with beast, knocking Kratos back. The swordsman put back his sword and just stood there.
He said. "You didn't get any better since the last time Kratos."
This really pissed off Kratos so he ran at the swordsman who wasgetting the best of him. The swordsman saw Kratos charge towards him so when Kratos got in range, theswordsman's foot coming at him was thelast thing he saw before darkness overtook him.
Regal was fighting the whipmaster.He jumped up andtriedaneagle dive but the whipmaster wrapped his whip around Regal's legand whipped him into a wall. Regal tried to get up but the whipmaster put his foot on Regal's head holding him down and taking him out of the battle.
"hmmmmm...get..hmmmmmmm..head." Regalsaid while trying to extricate himself from under the whipmaster's foot.
Colette flew through the sky trying to dodge the arrows whizzing past her, coming fromthe very skilled archer. He was shooting veryquickly, giving her no time to attack. Colette decided to attackdespitethespeed of the archer. She stopped suddenly, then threw her chakram as he shot two arrows, her chakram slicing through one of his arrows. One arrow hit Colette in the wing causing her to fall, hitting the ground hard. Thechakram came back at him, he tried to duck but it still sliced down his back.
Theeight warriors walked confidently toward Zelos, Genis and Raine.Six attacked Raine and Genis, while the swordsmen and the axe wielder went over to Zelos, he screamed,"Hey you freaks! Stay away from me!"
One of the swordsman dropped a metal ball on the ground whichproceededto release a smog. Zelos fell to theground, trying to hide in the smog and keep a low profile, trying to figure out his next move. Suddenly there was pain in the back of his headbefore he lose consciousness. Around him, the black warriorsdisappeared in the smoke.
Zelos awoke suddenly and looked around for clues as to where he was. He saw he was in a dark room with iron bars. He heard talking from behind him, so he turned around to see a redhead and a blondeman talking to each other.
"Hey, where am I?" demanded Zelos, he scowled when he received no answer.
A door opened and a man walked in towards Zelos' cage. He leaned over and lookedin Zelos' eyes.
"Who are you and where am I?" Zelos asked.
"I can't tell you who I am," The man smirked, "Classified and all that"
He stood up,"You're in a rehairad version 2.1 and Lord Yuanwants to have a talk with you so that's where we're going. So shut up and enjoy your...cage," said the man derisively.
That's the end of that chapter.
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