Chapter 3: The Second and second last Monster

The next day, everyone got up and Lloyd being very determined got up the earliest to train.

The sun was shining strongly but that didn't distract Lloyd, he was determined. The next monster was probably going to be tough, very tough…

Everyone gathered to the front to regroup and make sure that everyone was ok and not injured. Apparently no one was. But they were all silent, they gathered to the exit and hopped onto their Rhiards.

On their way they decided a plan, Presea and Genis will make sure that Raine is safe for she will strengthen their status and heal them, Zelos will attack from the side, Sheena will distract the monster and whenever she was about to summon, Zelos would cover her, and Colette, Lloyd and Kratos will cast judgment and angel feathers and holy song. Also Lloyd and Kratos will attack. Hopefully, nothing will go wrong.

So they entered again the creepy and dark cave, this time Sheena tried to hide her frightened ness so she won't break Lloyd's concentration, 'It's so quite, why is everyone so worried? We thought of a plan, and we're prepared…So why? The silence was so scary, maybe scarier than the monster was….Sheena, just calm down, you shouldn't worry so much…'

It was true, no one made a sound, all you could hear was the water dripping and the bats and rats squeaking.

Finally they made it to the fortress and passed the room where they fought the first guy.

The next room looked almost the same as the first, but better paint job, I mean blood job…

Raine looked as if she was about to throw up, "This is sick, it seems like a lot of people died here, the walls are painted in blood,"

Then Genis stood up after tripping over something, "And bones, they seem fresh, I wonder how often people come here."

"Hmm…I wonder where the switch is-" Said Colette being as careful as possible, but fell over the switch.

"We can always rely on Colette to find these things," Kratos said shaking his head.

The floor shook, the walls came in to create a stadium, the floor they had to fight on was covered in blood covered skulls, but Lloyd noticed that there was only on black one, and another purple one.

No time to think, a dragon came from the ceiling…

"Hello inferior beings!"

A/N: Can't get enough of that!

"What are you doing here? Are you the one who destroyed my little brother? Bleh, he was just a weakling anyways, you won't be able to defeat me that easily!" Called out the monster, the floor shook, everyone stood still though, no one panicked, they were as calm as ever, "What? No quivering in fear? You people have guts, but that's not enough to destroy me!"

The monster flew up, the ceiling began to be removed, now Raine was panicking, "Ok, that's wasn't expected, I guess Zelos, Regal and Presea can only attack when he gets low, Colette, Kratos and Lloyd will fly up. Genis, Sheena and I will cast spells, ready everyone!"

Everyone nodded and took their positions getting ready to fight.

The dragon immediately flew up, he flew in a special dance, as if doing a ritual, Raine was cautious about it and cast, "FIELD BARRIER!"

Just then everyone noticed that the dragon was speaking, "Arise from the depths of hell! Skeleton soldiers!" And slowly about a quarter of the skulls arose.

"Damn it!" Zelos said getting ready to attack the skeletons.

"I've never seen so many bones…" Regal complained.

"This has just lowered our chance of winning," Presea said guarding herself against the skeleton.

"Oh you guys, I'll strengthen you!" Colette then started praying and chanting, "Thy faithful servant asketh for thy blessing, honor us with the splendor of thy...uh...whoops! I messed up, heh heh! ...Wha-?" Then the dragon hit her with it's tail, but luckily, she controlled herself and threw her rings.

"That's ok Colette, let's just make sure he doesn't hurt the others." Kratos said diving in for an attack.

"Oh Holy one, cast thy purifying light upon this corrupt soul. Light of

judgement, Judgement!" Called out Lloyd and damaged the dragon as well as killed like five skeletons.

"Good job son now let's- Ouf!" Kratos just got hit by the dragon's tail.

"You won't pant beat me that easily!" Then a green light glowed around it, "Ah, much better…"

Zelos looked up to see that he recovered, "Crap!"

"Darn it! How did he do that?" Regal yelled.

Sheena quickly thought, 'What the? I wonder what his secret is?'

Genis was worried, he then thought that he should try attacking again and see what happens, "Infinite Powers, grant me thy strength, Meteor Storm!"

"Oww!" The dragon moaned, but then he recovered again and hit Colette and she knocked down and accidentally fell on the black skull, and it cracked and it moaned in pain.

"How did you know?"

"Nice job Colette!" Sheena yelled, she had an idea, and summoned, "I call upon the maiden of the mist. Undine!"

"What is it?"

"Attack!"

"yes, TRIPLE SPREAD!"

And then the skull broke and the dragon fell and nearly squishes Sheena, Lloyd jumps and saves her. But, the dragon just didn't move, but Raine could still hear its heart beat, and Presea just killed the last skeleton.

They noticed that the skulls turned white, except for one which was still purple, "Oh yeah," Lloyd said, then he slashed the purple one and it disappeared.

"Well, that was tricky, but we won, and no one is really injured," Kratos said, "Ok then let's go to the next room, we're ready."

So they continued to walk, they reached the next room, it was huge!

"Wow, this looks nicer and is way roomier."

Then they heard a nice calm voice.

"Hello, please come in." So they walked into a door and they all were separated.

"Sheena? Dad? Colette? Where are you guys?" Lloyd called out, he was in a small room, but it was dark, very dark.

"Welcome Lloyd, don't worry, you won't die, you're friends won't die either, yet…"