Magic Mirror: Broken Valentine Saga

Amazon Bunny- KYAAAAAAAAA! I downloaded a whole lotsis of TOS MIDI FILES! They're all saved on my computer now!

Kratos- 'says proudly' I have my own theme song.

Zelos- 'pops up from hunny watching' Me too! Me too! It's just too bad they don't have the song where Lloyd and the others fight me in the Tower of Salvation. One of my favorite songs, even though I die.

Amazon Bunny- O.O Hello...

Sheena- FINALLY! 'glomps Zelos' 'tears in eyes' How could you? You were always a pervert, but I never doubted that you were a good person when it came down to it!

Zelos- I side with the strongest! It was a simple matter of weighing Cruxis, the Renegades, and all of you.

Genis- In other words, us?

Raine- 'glances at Kratos' 'cough cough'

Presea- ...

Regal- Are we here just to take up space and make your story look long?

Amazon Bunny- ...maybe. XP

Colette- THAT'S MEAN! (aha, I actually got her to say that to Lloyd in one of them glowing patches before)

Amazon Bunny- Disclaimer anyone?

Yuan- 'magically pops up'

Everyone- O.o

Yuan- 'cough' I am interested in one of these so called 'twenty-dollar bills'...

Amazon Bunny- 'sigh' 'digs for wallet'

Yuan- Amazon Bunny does not own Tales of Symphonia. Money, please. 'holds out hand' O.O!

Amazon Bunny- KYAAAAAA! 'running away in the other direction with huge dust storm'

"Kratos!" Colette screamed. "She's not breathing!" In shock and horror, the former Chosen of Mana fell from the feathery bed, and crab walked a few feet away as quickly as she could. When reality sunk in, she got back to her feet and hurried to the lifeless body sprawled across the bed.
Kratos fumbled in his pack for an apple gel, or whatever he could find that was of use. Only a half-used up panacea bottle and the hard shells of two lemon gels, a pineapple gel, and a miracle gel. Crap...
"Colette, go alert the others immediately! Go!" The mercenary hurried to the bedside. "Hurry!"
"R-right!" Colette gasped, running from the room."I'll get Zelos and Regal to go get a doctor in Meltokio!" She called over her shoulder, sprinting down the hall and slamming the door.
Kratos cursed himself for his uselessness. Sure, there was a store three floors down...While calling the female professor's name and shaking her gently, and more violently by the shake, he tried to think of what use he could make of the panacea bottle and gel shells. A vivid, yet disturbing thought came to mind. It was crossing the line with his chivalry, but it was the only way...
Grabbing the lemon gel shell, he stuffed it in his mouth and chewed vigourously. When they had reduced to a liquid, he hesitantly lowered his face to Raine's peaceful facade.
I'm sorry, Anna! he thought. He tilted her head back and pressed his lips against hers, transferring the lemony liquid into her mouth. It was a rather strange task, he had to admit. Stroking her throat gently with two fingers, he felt her swallow reflexively, the lemon liquid trickling down her throat. Now for the miracle gel...
As he repeated the process, he felt the woman begin to stir in his arms. But he was not quite done with the transferring of the miracle gel. When the last drop of the liquid was swallowed, large, blue eyes snapped open with the shock of something pressed against her with auburn hair..?
"AIEEEE!" Raine screamed and shoved the mercenary off her bed and off of her. "KRATOS!" Her eyes blazed.
"You...were unconscious," Kratos said slowly. "And I only had lemon gel and miracle gel shells on hand."
"So? There's a shop three floors down," Raine said through narrowed eyes.
"Well, I was afraid that there was a line, and if we had waited any longer..."
Raine scowled. "I don't need your help," she said sturdily, the marking beginning to itch. Her hand reached up to massage the mark, but halfway up, she remembered that Kratos was in the room as well, and lowered the hand.
"Please leave," she said stiffly. "Tell Genis and Lloyd that I will be there shortly."
He didn't know why, but Kratos stiffened at her cold remark. "Very well," he said icily. "I will notify them of your recovery." He said, his head slightly turned to face her.
"Don't...go..." Raine thought. "Please stay here..." But the door shut.

"Every time I told you to leave, my heart kept telling you to stay," Freya whispered, tears trickling down her cheeks. "And when you've finally come back to me...You leave again." She raised her face to the heavens as a gentle breeze ruffled her silver hair.
"Faithe is up there," she whispered to herself. "She's up there, and Troy still thinks of her. He gives me this pitiful look every time he sees me, because when he sees me, it reminds him of her. He still loves her. He doesn't love me. He just can't stand being alone all this time..."
Thinking that thought gave her an empty, hollow feeling inside.
"I'm nothing..," Freya thought. "Troy doesn't care about me. He never...did. After all these battles, after all we went through...he still loves her." Sighing, she spread herself out on the grassy hill, blue eyes transfixed on the stars overhead, twinkling merrily.
"When a falling star falls overhead, it means a soul has finally left to heaven. If there is a red colored shooting star, then someone very important to someone else will die soon," she said glumly. She sighed again and closed her eyes.
Overhead, a single red shooting star fell across the sky.

The rheiard motor shut off, and Raine clumsily fell from the seat and almost tripped as she landed. "Ugh...I'm still woozy from what happened last night..."
"Raine!" Genis ran to greet his sister. "You're here, you're here!"
"Sorry for making you wait, Genis," said Raine, plastering a smile on her face. "Lloyd, Sheena, everyone. Thank you." All the while, she never made eye contact with the mercenary. Neither did he.
"The parade is supposed to start at one," Regal said, checking the clock. Cacao had assured the group that the parade was something they wasn't in their best interest to miss. "It's almost 12:45."
"That's good!" Genis ran around in circles, excited. "C'mon, let's go find a good spot to watch!"
"Hmm, that curb is reliatively empty," Lloyd pointed out. "But seriously, Raine, are you going to be okay? I mean, after this morning, no one can be too sure about your health..."
"My health is fine, thank you, Lloyd," Raine assured him. "I'll be fine, really." She smiled brightly, to prove her point. He just stared, and then shrugged.
"You shouldn't strain yourself," he commented.
"Yeah, we wouldn't want to force feed you gels," Sheena joked, though she had no clue of what happened earlier in Altamira.Raine laughed nervously. Kratos just looked away, trying his best to restrain a blush.
"Hey, the parade's starting, the parade's starting!" Genis jumped up and down, Colette doing the same. "Wow, look at that float!"
"Uh-huh," Zelos mocked their enthusiasm. "Say, look at that luscious hunny-kins..." His mock enthusiasm instantly evaporated as he became infatuated with half-naked girls on floats.One could also say there was a bit of a drool at the edge of his mouth.
"Ugh, disgusting," Sheena scoffed. "You're supposed to be HOW old now..?" Of course,Tethe'alla's former Chosen was too busy oogling to reply.
"Martel, look at the size of them hooters!"
"Remember that there are children among us, Zelos," Regal admonished sternly. "Try to control yourself."
Meanwhile, the crowd had jostled the companions into quite uncomfortable positions. They had all been squeezed together by the massive crowd. Genis dropped his ice cream cone on another guy's flip-flop, and Colette had been shoved into Lloyd several times. Raine and Kratos were squeezed together by the large crowd, rather uncomfortably, and there was some sort of hostile silence between them. However, Professor Sage had to admit he was very well toned, and was very warm.Kratos could say the Raine was very well...filled in...and had a mad desire to hug her. He forced himself not to think so.
It had been a few hours already, andeveryone except Zelos, Genis, Lloyd,Colette, and Presea (suprisingly) were bored out of their minds. The parade wasjust about over, and as the last float went by, the giant crowd began to disappear. Being at thefront of the crowd, it would be awhile before the groupcould leave.
"Hey, lady!" Someone called from thethinning crowd. "You, with the silver hair!"
Raine looked at the direction of the voice. A rather handsome man with green tinted hair waved to her and pushed his way over to her. "You're pretty," he said, smiling the whole time. "Want to go have a drink with me?"
"No," Raine said immediately. "Thanks." She added as an afterthought. "I'd really rather not. Thank you, though, for the offer."
"Aww, come on," the man grabbed her wrist. By his foul breath, the Professor concluded that he was a heavy drinker, and probably already drunk. "Make this man happy, will you?" He forcefully yanked Raine toward him.
"Let go," Kratos said coldly, stepping in front of Raine. "Before I kill you."
"If you don't get out of my way, I'll strangle you with your own intestines," the man said, and then laughed a high pitched laugh. "You'll never stand up to someone like me."
"Oh, really?" Kratos stood still. "Would you like to try?"
"Mind if we pitch in?" Lloyd stepped up to the drunkard. "You'll have to go through all of us first, before you get the Professor."
"A professor, eh?" the man's eyes widened. "That makes it all more interesting. I'd like to get to know your 'Professor' more, then."
Kratos scowled and made a motion to unsheath his sword, finding that it wasn't there. He had left it back at Cacao's.
"Ooh, the big man thinks he has a sword! Has he been playing 'Castle' with his wittle bitty friends?" the drunkard scoffed. "How very mature of him! This girly here doesn't need a guy like him."
"Let go!" Raine yanked her hand out from his grasp and was just about to slap him when Zelos kicked the man where it seriously counted.
"I don't mind guys who are surrounded by hunnies, much like myself, when the girl doesn't mind. But guys like you-" the former Chosen sneered. "Are just sick."
"You're the one that's sick!" the drunk man screamed.
"Oh?" Lloyd picked up the man by the collar and threw him into the street. "Where you belong," he said angrily. "In the streets."

"..Thank you," Raine muttered as they headed back to the hotel. "Everyone."
"Nah, think nothing of it," Zelos said cheerfully. "Just give 'lil old me a little kiss and we'll call it even, mmmkay?"
"Still as perverted as ever," said Sheena disapprovingly.
"Not as sick as the other guy," Zelos retorted. "He seriously was sick."
"We know," said Presea. "Men like him are disgusting."
"Actually..." Zelos said slowly. "I don't think he WAS a man."
Regal stopped walking. "He..She...was a woman?"
"Yes," Zelos said disgustedly. "I noticed when I kicked him. Either he was a woman or he wasn't packing mighty heavy."
"Ugh, TMI (too much information), TMI!" Sheena said loudly. "Thanks for telling us, now we're going to have trouble eating tonight."
"No problemo, my voluptuous hunny."
"Just shut up, will you!"

The city was engulfed in flames. Freya coughed, blood spilling onto her hand. "Ugh...So..." She said those words with great effort. "The curse is finally..." Red flames danced around her, as she lay on her bed, too weak to even move. "Taking effect..." She laughed weakly, but it came out as a rasping cough. The fire consumed her, and she whispered her last words.
"Don't die, Troy."
...
Troy arrived in his hometown to find it nothing more than a wasteland of ashes and blackened stumps. Everything was dead, desolate, and empty. Feeling sick to his stomach, a bottle of elixir, said to cure the curse inflicted upon Freya, clutched in his hand. He had this feeling in his heavy heart that the elixir wasn't needed anymore. After slaying countless demons, journeying to the ends of the earth...
There was nothing more than a burnt patch of ground remaining of his home. Walking in this darkened remain of a house, he came upon a room that used to be his own bedroom. Strangely, only the bed remained standing. And there was a sight that remained with him to his dying day. A human skeleton was sprawled carelessly across the top. It was a grotesque scene, and it sickened the hero. What scared him more was that the skeleton was what was left of Freya.

Raine sighed as she stepped into the shower. The curse had spread down to her thighs, her entire back etched with the satanic pattern. She growled as it ached dully. Stupid marking...She closed her eyes, the warm water spraying her back. His eyes...When that man had grabbed her hand earlier that day, she had seen something so close to rage, burning so fiercely in his eyes. Perhaps there was hope..? she had thought. But maybe because of the...curse...
The Professor used a whole bottle of strawberry-scented shower gel that day, trying fruitlessly to wash off the marking to no avail.

"I really hope the Professor's okay," Colette said, fidgeting with the lining of her "Lovely Maiden"dress. "She's been in the showers for an awfully long time."
"Maybe she's just trying to wash off that guy's fingerprints,"Zelos shrugged."I mean, come on, she IS the Professor after all."
"The jerk," Lloyd spat angrily. "Thinking he was good enough to hit on the Professor. Makes me want to pummel him." He pounded his fist into the couch.
"Raine is strong," Kratos said,trying to be reassuring. "I don't think she would-"
"I know," Regal said slowly. "Kratos, you say you saw a mark on her neck? How come you can see it, and none of us can?"
The Seraphim shrugged.
"And this 'cursed book'?"asked Presea. "How is this related?"
"I think I can answer that part," Genis responded. "Raine kept reading this book called 'Magic Mirror', and there was in fact a mirror right inside the cover. She started feeling funny right after finishing the book." He looked around at the transfixed eyes at him. "She told me clippets of the story, sometimes, when I asked her what was so good about the story. Seems this character named 'Freya' had the same symptoms as what Raine said..."
"I see,"said Regal. "What happened to this 'Freya' character?"
"I...don't know," Genis shivered.
"Perhaps we should ask Raine about the story?" asked Sheena.
"But if she doesn't want to answer that, what should we do?" Kratos said grumpily. "We can't just pry the information out from her when she's like this."
"True," said Lloyd. "But the Professor will listen to you. Or Genis. Or Colette."
Kratos' face was suddenly quite flushed.
"Whew, it must be hot in here," Colette said cheerfully, noticing Kratos' red face and thinking it was from the dreaded summer heat. "I'll open up some of the windows."
"Thank you," Kratos said gratefully, seizing this opportunity to act like it was it was too warm in the air conditioned room.
"Feh," Regal coughed.
"What's all the commotion?" Raine said, her hair damp as she entered the room. She narrowed her blue eyes suspiciously.
"Nothing, nothing," said Sheena.
"Doesn't seem like nothing."
Genis sighed. "Sis...I have a question to ask you."
"Well, I have an answer," said Raine calmly, straightening the cushion beside Genis and sitting down in it.
"We want to know more about the book you were reading. 'Magic Mirror'," Kratos finished. "And how your situation is related to it."
The Professor's eyes widened, and then narrowed to slits. "Nothing's wrong with me, I'm perfectly fine."
There was an eerie silence.
"Professor-" Lloyd began. "We don't want to see you suffer this way."
"Please, Professor," Colette begged. "We want to help."
"As I have said before," the Professor said stubbornly. "There's nothing wrong with me, so please don't worry." Fearing more questions would wear her down, Raine quickly left the room, leaving all the others behind.

Taking her rheiard asfar as possible, Raine decided that Fooji Mountains would be a good place to think over her current situation.After all, the air was clean and clear, it was quiet, andmonsters haddeserted the huge rockquite some time ago. It was the perfect place!
"Alright, let's start at the beginning," Raine mumbled toherself, sitting down against a cool, large boulder.Picking up a pointed stick, she drew lines in the soft soil. "I readMagic Mirror and then all sorts of things started happening..." She drew more lines in the soil. "This curse of mine is starting to sound a lotlike Freya..."

TO MY REVIEWERS...

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Lisette- I think Raine is more independent now, lol I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Rice8369- Um...that's a real good question. I think I make Raine go through all that pain because it seems sort of...'unmanly-ish' for Kratos to go through all that sort of pain, I guess...And after all those fairy tales and stuff I read (and watched! -said in very high squeaky voice) I think that's why Raine goes through all that crap I put her through, and not Kratos. I really really want that ToS manga! Kratos going historical with Raine...can't wait! lol I don't really like Kranna fics (actually, I really don't like them), maybe it's because it see no point in a living person and a dead person getting together, or a living person thinking about nothing but a dead person..it's like...Get over it...or...suck it up already...But that makes me sound really really cold and stuff (which I hope im not, anyway).

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Amazon Bunny- I FINISHED! AND PROOFREAD!

Kratos- And yet words still clump together?

Amazon Bunny- That's cuz of some bug in my computer.

Raine- 'still drawing lines in the dirt'

Kratos- Raine, darling..'sweeps Raine up bride-style' Tell me what's wrong.

Raine- I LOVE YOU!

Kratos- I LOVE YOU TOO!

Raine and Kratos- 'snogs'

Amazon Bunny- O.O 'slowly backs away' Did you all notice the relationship between the cursed book and the situation I threw Raine and Kratos into?
The character Troy represents Kratos.
The character Faithe represents Anna.
The character Freya represents Raine.
A twisted, wierd storyline, I know.

Raine and Kratos- 'snogs'

Amazon Bunny- Did you hear? I tried out for the school play (it's for all 8th grade speech classes) and I landed the 'Enchanted Gerbil' character. How fitting. The gerbil's name is Lola, and I only have 8 lines.

Raine and Kratos- 'chokes while snogging'

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