Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I still don't own Tales of Symphonia or either of the Aurion Men (regrettably)
Spoiler Warning: Tower of Salvation spoilers, Colette spoilers, a minor Sheena spoiler, and even more Kratos spoilers.
Me: Well folks, we've reached one of the big plot points of the game and now poor Lloydie is going to have some issues with that along with a new dream about you know who. On with the story!
It had been two days since Lloyd, Genis, Raine, Sheena, and Colette arrived in Sheena's home world of Te'the'alla, a parallel world to Sylverant.
Lloyd looked around the campsite. Near one of the tents was Raine reading an old looking book and to Lloyd's right was Genis blushing and stuttering his way through a conversation with one of the group's latest additions, a young axe-girl named Presea.
The brown haired swordsman looked to his left and saw Sheena slapping the group's other new member, Te'the'alla's Chosen, Zelos Wilder.
Lloyd looked across the campfire and saw Colette standing there, giving a blank stare with her now soulless red eyes.
Before arriving at Te'the'alla, Colette's World Regeneration Journey had come to a close at the Tower of Salvation. However the price to succeeding was sacrificing her humanity, heart, and memories to become a true angel.
Lloyd tried to stop her but Colette assured Lloyd that everything was going to be okay. It was then that the group learned of the Truth behind the World Regeneration, the Chosen was forced to become a lifeless shell so that they will become a vessel for the Goddess Martel.
The group defeated the Angel, Remiel, but it was then that Kratos betrayed them and revealed to them who he really was, one of the Four Seraphim of Cruxis.
Lloyd and the others were forced to fight their former companion but Lloyd could tell that Kratos held back, the traitor could've killed them all with a few sword swipes but he didn't.
The group lost the fight and was almost killed by Kratos. However…
"D-Dammit."
In the Tower of Salvation, Lloyd was on his knees. He looked behind him and saw Raine, Genis, and Sheena in the same condition he was, too tired to fight.
Lloyd then looked at Kratos, the boy didn't understand. How could the man that taught him so much, the man that helped him avenge his mother by defeating Kvar, the man that was like an older brother to him be a traitor?
Kratos raised his sword over Lloyd, ready for the final strike. But he hesitated, almost like something inside him was telling him that he shouldn't.
'If Kratos wanted to kill us why didn't he? Also why did he keep telling me to "Not die" throughout our journey? Why…'
Lloyd yelled in frustration gaining everyone's attention.
"Lloyd? Are you alright?" asked Sheena
"Ye…yeah I'm fine. I'm just upset about…"
"About Colette's condition?" asked Raine
"Yeah… She's been my friend since I was a kid and to see Colette like this…" Lloyd told the group, hiding one of his concerns with another
Sheena placed a comforting hand on Lloyd's shoulder.
"Don't worry Lloyd, we'll find a way for Colette to get back to normal. We're not going to leave her like this."
"Yeah, I wanna see my cute little Hunny smile!" Zelos said, infuriating Sheena
The purple clad kunoichi growled and slapped Zelos yet again.
"This isn't the time for flirting you stupid Chosen!"
While Sheena and Zelos argued, Lloyd stood up and walked to one of the tents.
"I'm going to go to bed guys. See ya in the morning."
'Unless Sheena and Zelos' arguing keeps me awake' Lloyd added in his head
Thankfully for Lloyd, he slept like rock. But unfortunately for him, just because he was in a different world, it didn't mean he wasn't going to be haunted by the same dreams.
Nothing was blurry; Lloyd could clearly see where he was.
It was the Ossa Trailduring the night with a small campsite nearby.
"Daddy, daddy what's dat star?"
Lloyd looked and saw a figure hidden in the dark and a little boy with messy brown hair on its shoulders. No sound came from the figure but the little boy responded anyway.
"Wow thewe's a person up thewe? Why awre they in the sky?"
"It's not a real person sweetie. But that constellation is named after a real person." Said a familiar female voice
Lloyd turned around and saw the woman again. Unlike the last dream, she wasn't transforming into a monster or in pain or anything. He was glad to see her smiling and happy.
The figure took the little boy off its shoulders and the later ran to the woman.
"Mommy, mommy, me and daddy wooked at the stars!"
"Yes I can see that. Did you enjoy yourselves?"
Lloyd looked at the woman smile and laugh with her son. He wondered if things were ever like this with his parents.
"Now if your "darling" father would be so kind as to cook for us, we can have dinner." The woman said, as she looked at the dark figure
"Yay food!"
The woman laughed at her son's statement and looked at the figure, it seemed that it didn't want to cook.
"Well dear, you have two options. You could cook or I can cook the only recipes that I know, the ones with the tomatoes in them."
Immediately the figure ran past the woman and went to the campsite.
The little boy looked up at his mother with curious eyes.
"How come daddy wan when you mentioned 'matoes?"
"Well sweetie, daddy doesn't really like tomatoes."
"Me too! 'Matoes awre icky!"
"Lloyd, get up!"
Lloyd sat up at the sound of Genis shouting in his ears. The former glared at the later who was smiling ear-to-ear.
"I knew that would work! Come on, everyone else is awake and we're ready to get to Sybak."
"Alright, alright… but first…"
In that instant, Lloyd smacked Genis on the back of the white-haired boy's head.
"Ow!"
Me: And that folks is chapter four. Hope you liked this. Sorry if little Lloyd's baby/toddler talk is… erm… confusing, but baby/toddler talk is hard to type. Also to those of you who probably didn't know, you can lose your fight with Kratos at the Tower of Salvation (1st visit) and that's where the "Kratos stopping himself from killing Lloyd" scene came from Anyway R/R and I'll see ya soon.