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Tales of Symphonia 2
The Return of Mithos Yggdrassill
Chapter 5: The Leverage of Mithos
In Derris-Kharlan, Kratos and Yuan appeared where the group was. Everyone was watching Raine try to heal Lloyd with her healing arts. It was not working. Some force was blocking Raine's power. A worried Kratos ran up to Lloyd and tried to heal him, but to no avail. Colette was crying and wishing for Lloyd to not die, Genis and Presea were holding hands and praying for Lloyd to get better, Sheena was summoning all of the summon spirits she still had pacts with, and Regal was trying to heal Lloyd with Grand Healer.
"Oh, Lloyd! Don't die! I love you! I'll go to Mithos and have him take me instead of you." Colette said, sad and mad.
"No, it's best for you not to become injured, not for at least another nine months." Kratos said, looking at her with commanding eyes. Colette just looked at him, confused, along with everyone else, except for Genis, Raine, and Yuan, who went on to say: "Do you need a pillow for your back?"
"No, my back feels fine!" Colette said, staring at him with a blank expression, Genis and Yuan laughed, but Genis was immediately shut up be Raine, who slapped him, and Kratos glared at Yuan, shutting him up.
Lloyd still did not move he kept tossing and turning, until Sheena looked at Lloyd's Cruxis Crystal, which, to her horror, lacked a Key Crest.
"Everyone! Mithos took Lloyd's Key Crest! We must get it back before Lloyd becomes a monster!" Sheena shouted. "That's why healing arts would not work, he was fine all along physically, that is." Raine said.
"Kratos, I am going to save Lloyd whether you like it or not!" Colette said. Kratos was surprised at this, for he had never see her speak so authoritatively. "If you come, you must not get hurt, or I'll never forgive myself." Kratos said. "Yuan don't start." he also said. Yuan sighed.
Kratos wanted to see how long Lloyd had before he would transform into a monster. He asked the Eternal Sword, which said three hundred days. Kratos, relieved, asked if anyone would like to come with Yuan and he to stop Mithos. Sheena, Regal, Colette, and Genis decided to come. Presea wanted to stay behind with Lloyd and protect the Professor, who said she would still try to save Lloyd herself. With that settled, the group that would go back to Symphonia worked out a battle plan.
Meanwhile, back on Symphonia, Mithos was deciding what to do. After an hour of debating with himself, he decided to go to Heimdall and take revenge on the elves that cast him out. He teleported to the village, where he saw everyone freeze in terror.
"It's Mithos! Call out our forces! Let's show him what happens when he dares to show himself here!" the elder said. Mithos grinned as all the elves in the village suited themselves in battle armor and got swords. They all ran up to him, and Mithos raised his right hand into the air. The elves surrounded him, and and they charged him.
"Time to die fools! Multi-Indignation Judgment!" he shouted. Instead of the attack attacking one person at a time, like usual, all the elves were attack with multiple Indignation Judgments. After it was over, the elves fell to the ground, dead. Mithos laughed, and went into the elder's house. The elder was terrified at what he saw, and tried to stand up to Mithos. Mithos just fired a mana ball at the elder, and the elder fell to the ground and stayed motionless.
"See what happens when you cast me out? It may have taken four-thousand years to take revenge on you, but now I have, along with all the elves here in this village! Ha Ha Ha!" Mithos said, impressed with himself. Mithos went back to the Giant Tree, which seemed to recover when he put the exspheres and Cruxis Crystals on it. Mithos took a Cruxis Crystal off the tree, broke in half, and equipped one half on him, the other he put back on the tree. When he did that, the tree and Mithos began to glow. Mithos's sword appeared from the tree, and he took it. The light vanished, and Mithos disappeared.
"Now, to revive the Five Grand Cardinals." Mithos said. He went to the Temple of Darkness, where Shadow slept, and went to his seal. Shadow appeared before Mithos, and said: "Sheena and I, pact." in a raspy voice. "I am Mithos, I ask that you annulst thy pact with Mithos and establish a new pact with me." Mithos said. "Fight." Shadow said.
Shadow went up to Mithos. Mithos yawned, and fired a mana ball at Shadow, defeating him. Shadow fell back away from Mithos, saying: "Vow." "I vow to revive my dead comrades and shape the world in my image." he said. "Agreed." Shadow said. Mithos absorbed Shadow, and received his proof of the pact, and Mithos smiled. He then summoned Shadow and had him from a portal to Niflheim, the Underworld. He got there, where he asked his sword to show him the way to the souls of the Five Grand Cardinals.
"I am so glad to have this sword. Made from the core of the Giant Tree itself!" he said to himself. He reached the souls of the Grand Cardinals, used his sword to send them to the base of the Giant Tree, and left the Underworld.
On the surface, Mithos took Cruxis Crystals five of the six remaining whole Cruxis, Crystals, broke them in half, put the half-Cruxis Crystals on the souls of the Grand Cardinals, and the rest on the Giant Tree. Mithos then commanded his sword to revive the dead Cardinals. A blue light surrounded them, which went into their backs. Then, blue wings like Mithos's appeared on each of their backs. They then regained their physical form, and finally woke up.
Kvar looked around. He saw Mithos and knelt. The other Grand Cardinals followed suit shortly after, their wings flapping like Mithos's. "Lord Yggdrassill!" they all shouted. Mithos told them to rise. "Five Grand Cardinals! I command you to go rebuild your human ranches. Pronyma! I want you to try to get Sylvarant and Tethe'alla to declare war on each other, so that I can come in and wipe the floor with them when they are weak." Mithos said. "Yes, my lord!" they each said. They all flew away in separate directions.
"Now to cripple the bond that all of the fools that love Lloyd have with him!" Mithos said. He took out Lloyd's Key Crest, held his sword to it, and said: "Sword of the Giant Tree! Connect Lloyd's Cruxis Crystal with his Key Crest, and then make the mana in his body go out of control!" Mithos said, pointing the sword in the sky. A beam of yellow light burst from the Key Crest and sped to Derris-Kharlan, where it reached Lloyd's Cruxis Crystal. The yellow light surrounded Lloyd, and he woke up, just as the light vanished. "Lloyd!" Raine shouted. Everyone heard, and ran toward him they all were so happy, including Colette that they (except for Kratos on Yuan) began to cry.
But the celebration did not last long. Lloyd slumped over, and began to moan. He began to change color, finally stopping at green. He got larger, until finally, a blinding light engulfed him. When the light vanished, a huge monster like Marble was wearing Lloyd's clothes. Everyone stood back, and Colette fainted. Lloyd looked around, and walked up to Raine and hit her. Raine collapsed and Genis ran to her. Genis tried to wake Raine, but to no avail. She seemed dead. "Lloyd! You killed my sister! Time to die!" he shouted. Genis started to run to Lloyd, but Kratos flew in and picked him up. Lloyd ran away. "Wait, we cam always heal him. All we need to do is go get Lloyd's Key Crest and equip it back on to him." Kratos said, firmly.
"But, Raine... I swear, I will avenge you!" Genis said to himself. "Alright, I'll go with you and get Lloyd's Key Crest with all of you guys. Presea, are you going to remain here with Raine?" Genis said. "Yes, I will stay with her so that Lloyd will not disturb her." she said. "Fine then, let's go save Lloyd!" Genis said. But to himself, Genis said: "Lloyd, you will die once I become an angel with the help of Mithos! Ha Ha Ha!" The group left for Symphonia, and Presea was alone with Raine. "Raine, I'll miss you, you were like a mother to me." She said beginning to cry. "How will you miss me when I'm right here?" Raine said opening her eyes. "Raine! we thought you were---." "Dead? No, I just faked it so Lloyd would not harm me anymore." she said. The two then began to talk like a mother would to a daughter.
Meanwhile, the group reached Symphonia. "Let us go by the Lezareno Company and see if Lloyd's Key Crest is there." Regal said.
"I would advise against that, for Mithos has it. Why, do you ask, well it is quite simple. Only Mithos could have the Key Crest go out of control." Sheena said.
"I agree, let us head for the giant tree, for I feel Mithos is there." Kratos said, using his angelic senses.
The group then had Sheena carry the ones who could not fly with Sylph, and the others flew to the Giant Tree. When they got there, they saw Mithos looking at them, with his arms crossed. "You have finally come-to your doom." he said. "Mithos! You turned Lloyd into a monster! Why? Why would you do such a thing?" Sheena asked.
"Fools, I tried to save Lloyd. It was his fault that he turned into a monster." Mithos said, lying. Everyone except Genis saw through this lie. "He's right! Lloyd was awake and fine right? He could not control himself, and he killed Raine!" Genis thought, clenching his fist. Mithos saw this, and grinned. He went up to Genis, grabbed him by the arms, and flew up in the sky.
"I feel your pain, Genis, having lost your sister, I read your mind, and I propose this to you-join me, and I'll save Raine." Mithos said, with an eager look on his face.
"How were you able to read my mind?" Genis asked. "Well, I am the most powerful being alive right now." Mithos said, grinning.
"All right, I'll join you." Genis said, looking anxious, but then evil. "I'll pretend to throw you to the ground and use you as leverage to get the others to take Lloyd's
Key Crest. Then, they will think that you are being tortured by me, and will come to save you, but what a surprise they will have!" Mithos said laughing loudly. "Yes, my lord Yggdrassill!" Genis said. "Alright! Throw me!" he said again.
Mithos threw Genis to the ground, who seemed to be knocked out. "Genis!" everyone shouted. Genis tried to get up, but could not, for Mithos flew down and stood on him.
"You can have your friend if you allow me to keep Lloyd's Key Crest." Mithos said.
"No! Guys, you can always come after me! But for now, let me stay captive, so that Lloyd can be saved." Genis said.
"If I can save both of you, I will!" Regal said running to Mithos. Mithos got off of Genis, and went up to Regal. "Genis will die if you come any closer. Here, take the Key Crest, I have no use for it. Now go, before I change my mind!" Mithos said.
"Regal, let's go. We can always save Genis later." Colette said.
"Fine, I'll leave with everyone else." Regal said. Everyone except for Mithos and Genis left. When they vanished, Mithos raised Genis up in to the air, took the last Cruxis Crystal on the Giant Tree that was whole, broke it in half, put one half-on Genis, and the other half on the Giant Tree. Genis began to glow yellow, and finally, wings like Mithos's appeared, except they were yellow.
Genis walked to Mithos, thanked him, and began to tell him what he called the "Perfect Leverage". Mithos's eyes opened really wide as Genis was saying this. When he finished, Mithos rubbed his hands together, and asked Genis to come with him to get his new sword.
Finally! Sorry that I could not update yesterday, I was busy thinking of how this story was going to play out as I was writing this. By the looks of it, this will be a long story. Anyway, thank you for the reviews, and as a sneak peak for later events, here: Lloyd is saved, Genis's "Perfect Leverage" is realized by Mithos, but when Lloyd realizes that he cannot save Genis from Mithos, it will be like this-Lloyd is to Obi-Wan where Genis is to Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith. Anyway, until later, goodbye!