AN Thank you for the suggestions, don't worry though, you weren't offensive. And that was just a prologue. Here comes a real chapter.
It was a beautiful day in Iselia. Birds were chirping, people were running about, buildings were....on fire! And amongst the chaos that was the now burning town of Iselia stood but three figures that were not moving. Two of them were in full armor with cruel blades in their grips. They wore strange, steel helmets on their heads, and on there bodies they wore red uniforms with black pants. It was obvious from looking at them that they were soldiers of some kind. As for the other, she was but a small girl. She had long, golden hair, and wore a white outfit with blue lining that resembled that of a priest. However if you were looking at her you would notice something odd, she had a large, bloody gash in her side. Suddenly, she called out at her attackers, the men with the cruel blades.
"Why did you burn the town?" She called, her voice filled with sorrow and concern. "Why would Yuan order have the Renegades do this?"
"Silence, you inferior being!" One of the men barked at Colette. "You should be honored that your village was considered a threat. Now, where is Lloyd Irving, and you mentioned Lord Yuan, where is he?! If you don't tell us..." The two men raised there blades from their resting position on the ground. "You, the citizens of this village, and the aforementioned criminals will all be killed!"
"Never, I won tell you where they are." Collette picked up her chakrams. Filled with confidence, she yelled out at the men. "If you want to kill them, you'll have to defeat me first!"
"So be it, Die" The two men rushed Collette, their blades drawn in a defensive position. As soon as they were within striking distance they began they're attack. They slashed with great power and accuracy; a normal knight would have been dead in seconds, but Collette was anything but ordinary. She was able to block the worst of every slash they made, after a full 20 minutes of this the two men backed off, full of exhaustion. Then a great cry pierced the silence caused by the stop in the battle.
"Judgment!" Collette pushed all of the mana out of her body and into this one attack. Beams of light in all the colors of the spectrum shot out of the sky, piercing through the dark, smoke filled clouds, and rained down upon the assailants. One beam struck one of the men, it pierced his helmet and the rest of his body with ease. The other man was more evasive and managed to dodge every beam that came his way. He made his way through the barrage of light and as soon as he was within a foot of Collette he brought his sword up to the sky, ready to deliver the final blow.
Just as he was about to turn Collette into mince meat, he stopped. His eyes were wide open, his body was stone like. Now he was holding onto a metal blade coming out of his stomach.
"You bastard! Don't you dare lay a finger on my friends." The owner of the sword imbedded in the man, Lloyd, said before delivering the coup de grace. "Collette, are you okay? Why is the ! You're injured! Hey someone get me a lemon gel, quick!" A merchant ran over to them. He quickly produced a lemon gel from his pack.
"Thanks." Lloyd began to rip the gel into pieces and slowly smeared on and in the wound.
"Thank you Lloyd." Collette quickly said, a note of embarrassment in her voice. "No matter what happens you always seem to be there, just in the nick of time. I've owed you my life countless times."
"Don't worry about it." He kindly reassured her. "Alright, now you." He pointed at about half of the villagers. "We'll work on dousing the fires. The rest of you get water, food, and start cooking. Today's going to be a long day."
Lloyd and the villagers worked as hard as they could. By the end of the day all the fires were put out and they started working on rebuilding the town. The villagers were amazed at how well Lloyd worked despite a bandage wrapped around his hand.
"Lloyd, how can we ever thank you? If it were not for you, our village and Collette would have been killed." Frank, the new mayor, thanked Lloyd.
"There's no need to thank me. It's probably my fault. The Renegades must have been after me." Is what Lloyd a said, but what he was thinking was more like. 'Damn, why would the Renegades come after me? Yuan knows I can defeat their soldiers without too much trouble. So why would he only send three men?' Lloyd stayed until dusk and then He Collette headed towards the forest.
Suddenly Lloyd stopped in the middle of the trek to Dirk's house. "Um Collette, can I ask you a question? I didn't want to alarm the villagers, but I must know. What happened when those Renegades came?" Lloyd asked rather abruptly
"Well, originally there were three of them. When they entered the village they immediately killed the militia. Then they started asking for you and threatened to kill the villagers if they refused. I threw my chakrams at one of the men and knocked him unconscious. The one remaining militia man stabbed him with his spear. That gave the other was time to attack me though, and make this." She pointed at the healing wound in her side. Now Lloyd, can I ask you something? Why do you have a bandage on your hand?"
"Wha-oh this? I just a cut myself when I wa-was training." Lloyd said, stuttering a little and looking very nervous.
"Oh, okay." Collette responded cheerfully. But as soon as Lloyd turned his head Collette tore off the bandage. There was his hand, not cut, and still with an exsphere on it. "I knew it. You couldn't throw it away could you?"
"Not quite, as soon as I went to take it off, I felt something strange. I felt like I was going to need it again in the future. Strange huh?" Lloyd turned his face to the ground. "I guess I've become a hypocrite. I encouraged people to throw them away and I went on a guest to destroy them. But in the end, I can't even get rid of mine. Pathetic ain't it?"
"No, it's not at all. By using that exsphere you managed to do wonderful things. Besides it was your mom's memento." Collette reassured him.
"Thanks Collette. But it's still an excuse. When I fought Mithos I was fighting him saying that no one can use excuses to run away from problems. And yet I'm running away from my own." Lloyd ounce again looked at the ground.
"Don't worry about it. Just destroy it whenever you feel ok to." Collette also, ounce again reassured him. With that, they finished their walk to Dirk's home.