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CHAPTER 5(A few hours after the fight)
Sheena stared at her bandaged shoulder while Raine worked her magic on it. The room was lit in a green glow as Sheena's shoulder was healed.
Raine got up and said. "Okay, that should do it but your shoulder will still be sore for an hour or two." He sighed, "I can't believe they were able to beat us and take Zelos so easily."
Sheena added, "Yeah, but that swordsman reminded me of Lloyd. I have never seen a another warrior work two swords as well as him. I caught a glimpse of him using them to fight Yuan, but I lost consciousness before Presea was killed by Yuan." Sheena stared off in the distance, lost in her memories.
"Yeah, by Yuan," whispered Raine, as she hung her head down, she then turned and walked out of the bedroom quickly. Sheena startled at her friend's sudden departure, then shrugged, easily losing herself in her memories as she followed Raine out of the room.
The two walked into another bedroom filled with their friends. Raine and Sheena were greeted by Colette who wasn't as cheerful as before. They sat down in a circle to vote on what to do. Regal, Colette, Genis and Raine agreed that they should go find Zelos while Sheena and Kratos said they would never be able to find Zelos or he might already be dead, they need to stay on their mission. They argued back and forth for about half an hour. A knock rang through the room as Zelos' butler walked in the room.
"Good day," the butler greeted,"Master Zelos politely requests your presence at his mansion as soon as you are able."
"Zelos? Wasn't he captured by the men in black?" questioned Raine.
"He asked me to reply as such..."The butler then proceeded to give a victorious laugh followed by a smug look. He promptly turned and left.
The group stared after him, "Well, okay, we'llcheck on his house but be careful it could be a trap," ordered Kratos.
They walked out of the inn and towards Zelos mansion. The day was warm but not too hot. With the appearance of the butler, they truly didn't believe that there was any real danger at Zelos' place, so they were each lost in their own thought as they walked together companionably, wariness still there at the back of their minds. As they reached his house they saw Zelos outside flirting with a couple of girls and they felt themselves instantly relax. Colette ran at him and gave him a hug. The flirting girls stood there glaring at Colette.
"Hello, Colette, long time no see," Zelos gasped from her tight hug. He then turned and excused himself from the girls with a promise for another day. The girls smiled sweetly before walking away.
After the girls departed, everyone started asking question at once until Zelos told them what happened. "The people who beat us were special renegades called the Black Rouges, they are going to help us on our journey."
"Whyare they helping us? asked Sheena.
"I told Yuan the problem about Colette's arm. He offered for his men to help us as long as we need them." Hesaid looking up in the sky.
"But WHY did Yuan want with you in the first place?"
Remembering the story that Yuan had conjured up, he replied, "It all involved my Cruxis crystal and his plans for Cruxis himself which involved me becoming one of his minions," he said vaguely,"of course, I turned him down, the Rouges will be here tomorrow." He continued quickly, "You can sleep here tonight if you like."
"I'm good," Sheena said shaking her head as she walked back to the inn, Raine followed. "Good night," they chorused.
After returning back to the inn, Raine and Sheena stayed up late to discuss what Zelos really did, sensing that he was eluding the truth. They threw theories around on who the Black Rouges were and how they were involved with what Zelos was hiding. Finally deciding to let Lloyd presume that they believed his story until they could figure out whatthe realsituation was, they turned out the lights and they soon went to sleep.
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Lloyd woke up and stretched his arms. He jumped down from his cot and saw Presea and Tanya dressed and ready to go. "How did you wake up so early?" questioned Lloyd . "Lloyd! It's twelve'o clock," answered Presea, rolling her eyes at him.
"Oh." Lloyd hastily walked to the bathroom and got dressed. He thought what would was going to be like to see his so-called friends, The Black Rogues, again. He went to the break room to get something to eat. Frank was there training on a punching bag, Joshua was shooting his new mana gun at a steel bar. Lloyd noticed that he was becoming as skilled as he is with his bow and arrows. Looking over, he saw Andy swinging his hammer around while Damian and Avian were eating. He joined them and began eating. He sat there while he ateand watched his friends doing their own thing.He felt a pang of guilt, but knowing he couldn't tell them the truth, he finished off his food. "Okay, it's time to go."
They gathered their stuff together and walked to the hangar room where the rehairads were docked. Lloyd sighed, the only problem with version 2.1 is that it doesn't use a wing pack. They boarded one of the rehairads, got seated. When everyone was ready,Andy flew the rehairad and crew to Meltokio.
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It was 4 o'clock and Sheena was getting a little impatient.They been waiting outside Meltokio for an hour but no one had shown up. When they were just about to pack it in, a quiet motor could be heard coming their way in the distance. They all looked up to see a giant rehairad land on the grass. The back on the rehairad opened and six occupants walked out and introduced themselves. The heroes' jaw dropped as they saw Presea come out, followed quickly by Sheena almost fainting when Lloyd stumbled out of the rehairad. He looked up and saw the astonished faces of his former friends and put on a smug face before quickly turning green. "I'm going to be sick." said Lloyd.
"I told you not to sleep in the rehairad," said Presea.
"What? No, you didn't!" yelled Lloyd before noticing that everyone was looking at him and Presea.
"Umm. Hello.Was it something I said?" said Lloyd.
"Is that really you, Presea?" asked Regal, slowly approaching.
"Lloyd, is that you? Maybe Mithos was lying." Kratos said
" No see, I'm the evil clone bent on world domination and Presea here is my evil minion. " Lloyd said sarcastically then started laughing.
"You're not dead, Presea?" asked Genis, looking stunned.
"Shut up for now. No time to explain to the likes of you." She replied harshly,"remember this, Lloyd tried to tell you." She turned,"Wehave to go, now!" Everyone stood there, unable to respondto what she said. Raine, Genis, Regal and Kratos all looked guiltily to Lloyd who glared at them. Sheena and Colette looked between Lloyd and the others, puzzled.
Lloyd and his group then started to walk away from the heroes. Joshua motioned for them to follow.
"Where we going?" asked Kratos.
"Any forest nearby," Frank said.
"umm..why?" asked Colette.
"Cruxis spies," Joshua responded bluntly.
Lloyd stopped in front of the rehairad,nodded his head at Presea who nodded back. He instantly jumped up whiledrawing his swords and then with fury, he sliced the rehairad in half causing it to explode into nothingness. The dust cleared and Lloyd walked from what was left of the rehairad. He looked that the faces of the poeple he was ordered to protect, as they looked on in disbelief.
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