Diana-sama

"Tales of Symphonia: Possessor"

Disclaimer: Hah! Don't I wish I owned Tales of Symphonia! There'd be a bazillion sequels and prequels and YEAH it'd be awesome. But, er, I don't. sigh.

Summary: Eventual Kratos/OC. (:-D! Kratos) A girl from out world wakes up to find herself in her recent favorite game, Tales of Symphonia! o.O Meeting up with the Chosen and her companions, Maria ends up on a journey surpassing the boundaries of a 'game' and finding herself in one of the most bizarre tales of fantasy and romance ever to be spun...

FIRST OF ALL, A NOTE TO READERS! For some reason, some of my symbols and letters and signs etc don't show up when I upload documents on to FFN. I apologize for any of that, and so you can blame FFN for anything of the sort. (Though, I'll admit to spelling or grammar errors, and for those I apologzie.)

2. Kratos' Discussion

When they finally returned, Maria was not surprised to see that Colette was injured, and smiled reassuringly. "Let's go back to town first," Genis said worriedly. "We can talk about what to do next after that."

As Maria began to nod, Sheena piped up, "Luin is in shambles right now. Are you sure Colette will be able to rest there?"

"Perhaps Asgard would be a better choice," Kratos suggested.

Agreements were made, and they headed back to Asgard. Maria watched as, behind them, the Asgard Ranch blew up. She sighed. "It makes me wonder..."

"Wonder?" Sheena asked from beside her, as they hurried along to Asgard.

Maria frowned a little. "When did the Desians become the Desians? When did they stop being regular half-elves and decide they needed to destroy all humans? And, how did they figure out how to make humans into exspheres in the first place?"

Sheena blinked. "That's a lot of wondering," she finally replied. "I never thought about any of that... you're clever, Maria."

"No I'm not!" Maria laughed easily, blowing off the complement. "I'm just curiouser than a cat, and get myself into equal trouble!" She laughed girlishly again.

"Say, even if you can't tell us where you were from, you can still tell us about what it was like there, right?" Colette asked, sounding genuinely interested.

Genis got an idea: perhaps Maria could be persuaded into giving clues as to where she was from... "Yeah! What was your family like?"

"My family... well... my mother and father lived in different places, because they were divorced." At the couple of confused looks, she explained, "divorced is when a married couple decide they don't love each other any more, and live in different houses and sometimes marry different people."

"That's horrible!" Colette said emphatically.

Maria shrugged. "I didn't really care... it was their lives, not mine..."

"But it still influenced your life," Kratos said quietly.

"Yes..." There was a pause. "My mother was okay, I suppose. She might have really loved me, I'm not sure... I'm still angry with her for what she wanted me to be. My fath-"

"What did she want you to be?" Lloyd interrupted.

"It's rude to interrupt," Maria informed him, before continuing. "She wanted me to be a harlot, basically. Easy money."

"That's disgusting," Raine said.

"What's a harlot?" Colette asked.

Maria turned a little pink. Blushes were easy to spot on her pale skin. "It's someone who... will... have a, ahem, relationship with another for money and not love."

"Oh..."

"Well, anyway, that's why I'm still not too happy with my mother... my father obviously disliked me. I wasn't religious like he was. My sister..." Maria glared at the distance. "I hated her. She was the worst thing that ever came into my life."

"Why would you hate your own sister?" asked Lloyd. His tone indicated that he thought Maria crazy for hating family.

"She ruined my life," Maria spat. "For one, she made my parents divorce. She was so expensive, my father lost his company and all his money, and my mother divorced him. For another, she tricks my parents into spoiling her. She acts super nice outside, while inside, her maliciousness rots. Most importantly, she tried to kill me, and my parents did nothing about it."

The hatred in Maria's voice was scary. She took a shaky breath and said, her voice dead calm, "but that's all over now, because I'm here, and they're not." She breathed deeply for a minute and then gave a shaky smile to her companions. "Sorry for rambling. I just get so frustrated when I think about how unfair it is... why don't we talk about other things?"

"What about your friends?" Colette asked, looking sad for Maria.

Maria shifted uncomfortably. "Every year or so, I would shift to a different person or 'circle' of people and befriend them. None of them ever really liked me, I just wanted someone to talk to. But, really, that doesn't matter..." She smiled bravely. "Besides! If it weren't for the hardships in my past, I wouldn't be who I am today!"

A silence hung over them for a while. "Look, we're there!" Raine said hurriedly after spotting Asgard. Entering the town, they bought rooms at the inn and Colette was put in one of the beds to rest while the other adventurers talked. Uninterested in their conversation, for she already knew what it held, Maria wandered.

It was hardly different being inside the game versus outside. Now she could smell, and touch things, but, other than that it wasn't too different. It all basically looked the same.

The fake Chosen & Co. should be here, Maria thought, wandering back to the inn. I'll wait for Lloyd and the others to come out and go with them. I wonder if Lloyd will end up with Colette, because she is the default soul-mate?

However, Maria's plans were foiled when Kratos stepped out before anyone else and spoke to her. "Maria." She walked over to him, and he began to leisurely walk around the village, Maria in tow.

"I ought to have a boy's name," she thought aloud. "People will think it odd if I call myself Maria, like I'm some gay guy or a crossdresser or something. Oh! Maybe I could cross-dress..." She ran through ideas absently, speaking quietly so only Kratos could hear.

Kratos eyed her amusedly. "No plans of how to return to normal?"

"I can't think of anything," Maria replied unhappily. "I mean, I don't even know how I got here. Maybe if I could figure that out, I'd be able to theorize a way to return my body to normal, or figure out how to go back and forth between this w... here and my home..."

"I think it's time you told me about yourself," Kratos stated. "I understand not wanting to let the others know, but I might be able to help you with the knowledge you need."

She smirked. "What with you being in high power and having seen centuries go by and all." Kratos didn't look quite as amused as she basically called him an old geezer. She took a deep breath, thinking. "Yes, you probably could give me information I want. But I don't think I'm willing to spill my past to you just because of that."

Kratos, again, did not look pleased with this, but kept his expression cool. "What about a small piece, then? Where are you from." He ended it as a command, not a question.

"No," Maria shook her head. "I can't say."

"You won't."

"I shouldn't, so yes, I won't."

"Give me something."

Maria thought for a long minute, when a commotion from another part of town reached their ears. Maria shook her head. "Ah. It seems Lloyd and friends have met the Imposters..."

"How do you know?" Kratos asked sharply.

Maria winked. "You said give you something, right? I think that little clue is enough to bother you for a while. Now come on, I want to go watch Lloyd and see if I'm right."

The two of them began walking toward the commotion. "Right about what?"

"If Lloyd's soul-mate is who I think it is," she answered mysteriously, grinning.

This is fun! Hehehe.

Kratos looked displeased once again.

A/N: AHAHAHAHAHA! ;) Sorry. I'm just so giddy right now. (I blame lack of sleep and lots of reviews! heart) I know, I know, it's pathetically short, but I wanted to update, and I'm about to fall asleep. Sorry. Things have gone from boring to hectic in a second, and I'm stuck flailing around trying to do everything at once, as usual. le sigh Anyways. Hopefully I'll have a piece of fanart of Maria by next update:-D And hopefully the next update will be soon, and long.

REVIEW REPLIES! -

Sakura1106: What didn't you get:( It's supposed to be a bit confusing right now, as far as Maria's past, but other than that if you know the game well you should know where they are. (As in this chapter for example, they blew up the Asgard Ranch and are meeting the Fake Chosen & Co. in Asgard.)

Kousetsu:3 Muahahaha. Maria's past, and the whole body-switching thing will not be revealed for a very long time. Most of the first half of this story will just be relationships growing and the plot moving along. I'm going to try and stick the story as close to the original game as possible, with the twisted bit just being Maria and a couple of the characters' personalities which she effects. Near the ending everything will be revealed bit by bit and it will all end very dramatically, I assure you ;)

memumbo: Ahaha. ;;; I'm a slow player, and I try not to use the internet cheat guides when I play, while still trying to find all the little hidden plot pieces etc. I spent a good 10 hours of that just leaving the game on and doing other stuff, and a good two hours looking for ways to change the Affection scores. Though, I've finished the game now. (50:58! Hahaha.)

And as for her body, she will not get it back until very close to the end of the end, I'm afraid. Yes, I'm "into gay stuff" but that's not going to be up on this version. An adult site will eventually have the nastier scenes I have planned for this story, however, on FFN, all gayness will be at a minimum. ;) The only bits I'll have up here is possible suggestions or implications way later on (and I mean WAY) and MAYBE a kiss scene. Nothing more. And, I'm taking in to account that Maria is now a girl in a boy's body. She doesn't understand anything about the body, AT ALL. Meaning she gets really confused when she finds herself attracted to girls (coughSheenacough). So, there's sort of a weird thing going on with the reader not really understanding whether Maria is "gay" or not. She thinks she's a woman, but she definitely has a man's body. It's very complicated. :) But romance, again, comes in way later.

da deltadasher demon: Don't worry, I've finished it! Have to say I didn't much like the ending though, I'm afraid. And, keep in mind, Maria only knows so much. She has no idea Zelos betrays the group (though I find it odd that I didn't fight him in my game- can that happen sometimes? In the guides it says you fight him.) Or that Kratos is Lloyd's father. (I freaked out when I found that out! My friends laughed their asses off at me. UU;;; ) And I like hearing ramblings, as I know I ramble myself all too often! -