The Hint in a Book

Jessica woke up after seeing a new vision. She thought she was in the clear; after her quest had begun her old one had stopped. In it, the young boy was standing all alone. He looked up at the sky with a heavy heart. The girl could tell he was filled with sorrow. "Why can't I remember? Who am I? Where do I come from? No matter what I tell the idiot chatterbox and the other two bozos, I really want to know. Is my name even Jet? If not, why did that man call me by that name? Damn it! Nothing makes sense."

"Brother!" called Jessica, "Come with me! I'll take you to our mother. She can help you discover the truth. She's a High Priestess at the Temple of Life. That means she has a strong connection to the Guardians of Filgaia. With their help, you'll be able to discover your lost past easily. I'm sure one of them can answer your questions." However, it didn't seem like he heard her; he kept staring at the black sky.

S...S

Jessica awoke in a small one room shack. Her friends were all standing around and waiting for her to get better. Seeing she was conscious, Lyla let out a sigh of relief. The young Baskar was afraid her healing powers wouldn't be enough to rescue a friend in need. Frisky jumped on the bed and began licking her master's face. Jessica giggled a bit and hugged her animal companion closer to her body.

"Well, now that you're awake, I'd say we should be going. It would do no good to be trapped in a place like this. You know, we're all just sitting ducks for Leehalt to attack. That monster; and he once called himself a scientist. Besides, we'll find no new clues just sitting around in the cabin," Vincent stated.

Jessica replied, "Sounds like a plan to me! Let's go!" She raised her arm as if to give a cheer. But in that action, she hit it on a small shelf. Something fell off from the movement and landed next to Frisky. It was a small leather-bound book titled, "Werner Maxwell's journal; post Yggdrasil tragedy."

She opened it up to read. The first page was quite boring. It was written a year following the incident at Yggdrasil. Werner was writing of how he couldn't face his family after the errors of the Council had led to even greater destruction to Filgaia. To read his words, it seemed as if the waters had only left a Sea of Sand after it exploded. He gave no mention about how he had survived; only that he existed.

But after she flipped the pages five years into the future, she found an interesting entry. It was about the project she'd read about at Leyline Observatory; Adam Kadmon. "At long last, after five years of waiting, he has been born. Adam Kadmon, the first artificially created human since ancient times. Our process began simply out of a whim; Elliot wanted to give his young son Jet a friend his own age. So we integrated the creation along with our plans to build a sample of Filgaia's energy. He and I had brought the idea up at the meeting on the form of the sample; as if it was a passing idea. We read up on older experiments from our collection of ancient scientific text. The plan was based on the old Holmcross project, except for the fact that the metal was combined with Leyline energy to create an entirely new substance resembling human flesh. DNA was later added from the donor a few days before the tragic end to Yggdrasil. I then moved him here where he has rested and awaited birth. In his hands, I will leave the Airget-lamh B/V2. It is a converted version of the Guardian Blade that was encased in black by Elliot the day before his death. Underneath is silver and leather straps hold the two sides of it together. The handle on the ARM is covered in a red rubber. With his Filgaian powers, he cannot use normal ARMs."

"Ummmmmmmmmmm…Vincent," Jessica spoke up, "I think you should take a look at this. It was written by your father after Yggdrasil. This means that he survived. If that's the case, Leehalt may have lied to you. Or maybe he didn't know for sure what happened to his comrades. Meaning, there is a slim chance that my father might have lived through it as well." She handed it over to him as she began to think. This Adam Kadmon, he was her next clue. She didn't know what he looked like, but she knew the appearance of his ARM. If she could find someone wielding that weapon, she could find another clue.

S...S

They left the shack for the sole fact that it wasn't safe for them to stay in one place. So for the next week they hid in the woods. Vincent continued to read his father's journal. Never did it mention how he survived, or how the Filgaia Sample looked. Perhaps he was trying to hide that fact in case another person came across the journal. If they discovered the Sample, he would be in danger. Werner always wrote about him with the care of a parent or guardian. Perhaps he did have feelings for the boy; he was more than an experiment. But it could have to do with the original reason that he and Elliot had the idea for this project. They only wanted to make one boy happy. And since they were best friends, it wasn't a long shot to think that Werner took care of the child named Jet when his father was busy with a project. So he and Elliot both probably thought of their creation as more than a machine. Which, in the opinion of Jessica and Lyla, was the responsible approach to a person who wants to create life with their own hands.

But eventually they knew they had to return to the land of the living. So the team packed up their gear and began heading back through Nidhogg. Ironically, it was the day after Virginia had been taken to her father's cabin with the Nanomachine Virus. So, to their surprise, the door was already opened. But no one thought of it seriously. Laura simply believed it had a timer installed to open the pass if it was locked accidentally after a certain amount of time. After all, the scientists had to go see their families and it would do them no good to be locked up all day. Everyone agreed with her hypothesis; Leehalt and his allies could teleport so they had no need of mechanisms but in the past nobody there had that luxury.

The new plan would be to simply seek out the Sample; only referred to as Adam Kadmon in the book. However, there would be difficulty as Werner mentioned giving him a different name to go by, yet never writing the name down in his journal. So they would have to search all over for this young man.

But the first order of business would be to earn some Gella. The team needed cash for Laura and Vincent's ARM upgrades, supplies from Roykman, and stays at the saloon. Unlike the Maxwell Gang, they didn't have the luck of having three places that allowed them to stay for free. Only Baskar, and they wouldn't be going back there every night to get a free room. After all, they also didn't have a Dragon or a Teleport Orb to allow them quick travel from place to place. Besides, their best option was to search as many areas as possible. Only then would they find this Filgaia Sample and the answers they needed.

Teefa's Last Words...

I like the idea of them almost always meeting yet never getting the chance. Well, then it would be an official AU. But this keeps the game continuity with things that could have happened. For example, since we don't know squat about Elliot's family life there could very well have been a similar situation going on. Second, since games 1 and 3 are officially connected, we can make generalizations about the fate of the descendents of the Adlehyde Royal Family (the Shaman/Dorian Race in this fic). Third, there is few facts known about Ekatrina so we can't rule out a kidnapped son. So you can say it's AU but you can also say it's a story directly connected to the game.