Do I gotta do this before every chapter? Disclamier: I do not own tales of symphonia

Thanks to all the people who corrected me, I appreciate it.

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CHAPTER 3: problems

A little while later, just outside the Ossa Trail

"I'm Tired, I wanna eat." Lloyd whined as they just got out of the desert. "Why aren't we flying?"

"Because, we might miss someone."

Lloyd sighed, and hunched as they walked on. Sheena put her arm on lloyds back, and leaned on it, so her elbow went into how spine. "Ahhhhhh!"

Lloyd jumped, and arched his back. Sheena laughed, and walked past. "Hey, that was not cool."

Once they were at the entrance of the Ossa trail, they stopped to look at the hatch, that might've saved Colette a couple months back. Sheena got a playful smile on her face, then she pushed Lloyd onto the platform, and pushed the switch. Lloyd began to fall, when he yelled "RISING FALCON!" He jumped off the ledge, and went speeding towards the ground. He landed safely. "Ha, you gotta try better than that!" Sheena winked at him, and walked off. Lloyd ran, and caught up with her. As they walked, they met a large group of travelers, following a single person, with an exsphere. Lloyd ran up to the person and said "excuse me, we need your exsphere."

The person glared at him, and said "never, without this, I'll be back to the weakling I once was."

And with that, he whipped out a dagger, and lunged at Lloyd. Sheena, being the good ninja that she was, was fast enough to throw a peice of paper at the person, and yelled "PYRE SEAL!" the daggar was blown out of of his hand, and he was thrown backwards. Lloyd quickly ran over to him, and ripped off the exsphere. He threw it to Sheena, who put it in the bag. Lloyd looked at the person on the ground. "There's something wrong, he's pulsating!" Sheena looked over, as a Bright yellow light engulfed him. The group screamed and backed up several steps backwards. Lloyd pulled out the Material Blades. Once the light faded, a giant mutant was left. He slowly stood up. "Remember the first time we got along?" Lloyd yelled to Sheena, and he began to circle the creature. The creature lunged at Lloyd, but he doged it, and cut his back. The creature swong at Lloyd, it caught him off gaurd. It smacked him, and he went flying back. He landed on the ground, and flipped back up, and he ran in again, but kept getting swatted away.

"Llloyd, what's wrong?" Sheena asked him as he landed for the seventh time. He slowly stood up.

"I don't know, everytime I go to jump, or attack, my limbs won't move the way I want them to."

Sheena charged up to the monster, and back flipped over it, and placed a card on its back

"DEMON SEAL!"

The creature was thrown toward Lloyd, nearly landing on him. He jumped on the monster, and stabbed it's back. He was about to stab him again, when a seiring pain entered his back. "Away from my brother!" yelled the voice.

The blade was pulled out of his back, and Lloyd painfully turned around, and looked at the man. He was about Zelos's height, with short, perfectly spiked, blood red hair. He was wearing red leather, over a black silk suit. He was wielding a staff that had a long, slim blade on either end. Lloyd jumped down, as one of the blades was thrusted at his head. Lloyd ducked, and went to stab him in the stomach, but he jumped backwards. He raised his staff, and yelled "FIRE STRIKE!"

Both blades on his staff light up on fire, and he swung them in a circle, at Lloyd. He dove to the right, and rolled onto his feet. He faced the man, and yelled "who the hell are you?"

The man looked at him, and said "Alex, your personal angel of death."

Then, he charged at Lloyd. "PSI TEMPEST!"

Lloyd jumped over him, and landed on the other side. He thrusted his sword under his arm, stabbing Alex in the back he howled in pain. He turned , and swong at me, but missed. Sheena got up behind him, and threw a card onto his back. "DEMON SEAL!" he was thrown to his brother.. He slowly got up. He was bleeding from his head, and lip.

"I...I... I will avenge him, you hear me? I WILL KILL YOU BOTH!" and with that, he ran back into the woods.

"Who was that?" Sheena asked as Lloyd put a lemon gel on his wound.

"I don't know, but he seemed strong."

"Yeah, we'll probably see him again" She said as she put another one on his back. Lloyd jumped up, and yelled "LET'S GOT TO IZOOLID!

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YEP, A SHORT ONE... I decided that I need a bad guy, so there he is... sigh... this chapter sucks