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Chapter: 4
The Group's Back Together
Lloyd, Colette, Genis, Raine, Presea, and Regal decided to go back to Meltokio and go into his house to find him. At the least, maybe Sebastian knows, hopefully. They entered Zelos's house finding Sebastian.
"Oh, Sir Bud, what brings you here?" Sebastian asked incorrectly saying Lloyd's name.
"My name isn't….Oh, forget it. Do you happen to know where Zelos is?"
"I believe Master Zelos has headed toward the Meltokio Coliseum Arena. He said something about they're rumors that he was fighting in the coliseum and almost killing some other contestants, even though he hasn't even been competing in the first place. I also saw Miss Sheena there, too for the same reason. It's also as if they were their clones and the citizens also saw Sir Bud and Miss Colette fighting, too." The butler informed.
"Do you think they're the clones following Nebilim's orders?" the angelic girl asked.
"Most likely." Raine explained. "We should head there and see what's happening. I bet the clones will want to fight their counterparts or the real ones."
"Does that mean when we have to fight them, we won't have you to heal us?" Lloyd asked surprised. The only reason we actually won all those fights was from Raine's healing arts helping us.
"You'll have to rely on Zelos's healing arts and Colette's Holy Song. And possibly Undine." The Professor explained to the young swordsman. This might cause a lot of problems to them.
"All right. Anyway, let's go." Lloyd said. The whole group ran to the place where you register for the Meltokio Coliseum Tournament and saw Zelos and Sheena talking to the woman that registers for the group match and arguing with each other at the same time. Honestly, it seems their goal in life is to keep fighting. Sheesh!
"Zelos! Sheena!" the angel cried, but was ignored due to how loud they were fighting with each other. "Guys!" That still didn't catch their attention. This was just ridiculous!
"I'll handle this." The Professor said. When Raine is involved things just get even more hectic. "GUYS! SHUT UP!" she roared. That yell was so loud everyone in Meltokio could hear it and some people temporarily became deaf in one ear, specifically everyone near the Coliseum area.
"Ow!" yelled the ninja. "I've apparently become deaf in one ear." Sheena then noticed Lloyd, Colette, and everyone else was there. "Hi, guys!" Zelos then noticed everyone was there and asked her how long have they been standing there. But she couldn't hear nor the group except Raine.
"If they could speak, they would also say hi." Raine explained as they were regaining focus of what's happening on Earth.
"Damn! I didn't know my Gorgeous Ultra Cool Beauty had such a loud voice to make everyone deaf!" Zelos exclaimed.
Lloyd then could focus, "We are not dead! We're just deaf in one ear!" Zelos, Sheena, Raine, and Presea just rolled their eyes, since they're the ones who actually heard everyone clearly a little. Colette merely hugged Sheena saying she missed her and replied the same thing.
"Hey guys. What are you doing here?" asked Sheena curiously.
"Well, we came here to help fight those clones in the Meltokia Arena made from the Replicantis." Lloyd said while rubbing his ears.
"Wait, how did you know the clones were fighting in the Arena?" Zelos asked.
"And what's the Replicantis?"
"We'll explain everything later." Raine said. "Right now, we have to get to the Arena, assuming if the registration lady will let us." The lady was still getting over her loud voice so they just went past the guard. "Was my voice really that loud?" Surely it couldn't be that much deafening. It's impossible.
"Yes…" Presea bluntly said. The Professor blushed a little while running to the area where the contestants fight. Once they arrived, they saw the Lloyd (nobleman), Colette (maid), Zelos, and Sheena (both biker) clones.
"All right, we're here!" the young swordsman shouted while almost being shot by the two chakrams from the Colette clone.
"I'm surprised you damned bastards made it this far. It was a diverse story for the bastards of the past that tried to stop us." Declared the Sheena clone in a strong voice.
"Who are you? What are these jewels that appear when we destroy the other clones? What's the Replicantis?" Presea demanded.
Zelos and Sheena were obviously confused. "What jewels?" Zelos asked while unknowingly almost being hit by a Demon Fang from the Zelos clone.
"Die!" yelled the Colette clone.
"Lloyd, we don't enough time! Let's just destroy them!" yelled Genis.
"All right, then we'll…."
"No." the Lloyd clone declared. "We will only fight our real counterparts. Otherwise, we will kill all of you!"
"Should we do that?" asked Colette.
"Well, of course." Zelos declared.
"How are you so calm about it?" Sheena asked.
"You've got me, The Handsome Warrior, Zelos! Besides, my healing arts can help you and so can Colette and you."
"What if the Colette clone uses her Toss Hammer and one of us gets poisoned and I don't have enough strength to summon Volt and we don't have any Panacea or Miracle Bottle?" She asked. Knowing him, he would probably say, "Whoops, never thought about that."
"Ooh, never thought about that. Oh well, we'll be fine, my voluptuous hunny!" he said.
"Ugh! I told you not to call me that, idiot!" She said while smacking him to death.
"Hey, ow! Ow! Stop!...ow! Ouch! Man, you really are a violent demonic banshee." He whined.
"WHAT!"
"Guys, focus! They're coming!" Lloyd shouted, hoping it would reach them.
"Angel Feathers!" the clone's wings glowed pink and her pink chakrams targeted Lloyd, hit him, and he fell back, but got back up and ran towards the Colette clone and performed a powerful Fierce Demon Fang. Zelos ran up to Lloyd's clone and used his Super Lightning Blade, which caused him to be struck by lightning and blown by the wind, unfortunately those two were about to get hurt from the Sheena and Zelos clones.
"Guys, watch out!" Sheena shouted. Unfortunately, the Sheena clone swiftly attacked them with her cards and blew them away from her Demon Seal and Colette, who was running toward Lloyd, was a target for Zelos's spell.
"Thunder Blade!" A purple sword struck Colette and Lloyd and the sword sent out lightning strikes about five feet.
"Colette, Lloyd, are you guys okay?" asked a concerned Sheena.
"We're fine." said Colette. Sheena ran up to the Zelos clone and quickly tried to annihilate him.
"Life Seal! Power Seal Absolute! Pyre Seal!" she then quickly ran to her clone and used that same combo and tried to do that to the Colette but gone stunned by her Hammer Rain; four of the hammers were Toss Hammers. Luckily, she wasn't poisoned.
"Holy Song!" A purple light glowed next to Colette and spread throughout the battlefield healing everyone a little and their weapons and clothes got stronger. Zelos quickly rushed to the back and cast a First Aid spell on Lloyd. The Lloyd clone unleashed his Tiger Blade on Zelos followed by a Sword Rain Alpha, which had many thrusts, and a Raining Tiger Blade which was the same as the previous attack followed by a Tiger Blade. Sheena was trying to summon so she went to the back, "I call upon the hammer of godly lightning. I summon thee, come Volt!"
A ball of electricity with eyes came and two violet glyphs were carved on the ground. One glyph was under the whole group, making them immune from Physical Ailments, in this case it's just poison and the other glyph surrounded the clones and countless lightning strikes were raining upon them. Lloyd ran up to them and used his Hunting Beast; Lloyd spiraled around and a lion knocked them toward the end of the Coliseum battlefield.
"I'll show you my true power!" yelled Zelos. A shining blue glyph was carved under the Zelos and Colette clones. "Divine Judgment!" Several light beams were raining down on them and the glyph erupted a little for a few seconds destroying the Colette clone. "One down, three to go."
"Good job, Zelos! That was cool!" Colette complimented.
"Why thank you, my little angel!" Zelos flirted.
"Zelos, watch out!" Sheena yelled out. However, he got knocked down from the Sheena clone's Cyclone Seal. Zelos floated into the area from the cards and the cards exploded mildly causing him to fall. "Honestly, you need to focus on what's happening out here!" Sheena exclaimed in an annoyed tone. After that, she ran up to the Zelos clone and kicked him three times rapidly and used her Demon Seal, causing a spirit to appear during the cards' explosion. But her clone used Cyclone Seal on her to float her and it blew up causing her to fall back. Lloyd ran up to the Zelos clone too, but his clone used a Double Demon Fang on him, causing two shockwaves to hit him and make him stagger.
"Healing Stream!" A blue circle was carved around Lloyd and Sheena and the stream circled around like wind and healed them of their wounds. Lloyd and Sheena felt better and had more energy, enough to summon again. "I call upon the maiden of the mist. I summon thee, come Undine!" An aqua-colored circle appeared under everyone curing their health and a blue-skinned woman appeared also.
"Ready!" Undine summoned four geysers; the first geyser hit the Sheena clone, the next two missed, and the last one hit the Zelos clone and destroyed it.
"The common element between the real Zelos and his clone, both idiots." She remarked.
Zelos pretended to be offended, sorta "Ouch! You're harsh, Sheena." Everyone charged for the Sheena clone, but noticed she was trying to summon, probably a clone Summon Spirit, if that was possible. "Ancient ruler of the elements. I summon thee, come Maxwell." An old man wearing some dark colored garments was summoned in the air and he called upon dozens of fiery meteors.
"Guardian!" yelled Lloyd and Zelos.
"Guardian Seal!"
"Damage Guard!" Colette quickly went to the back dodging the meteors and quickly cast a Holy Song to heal everyone. It wasn't much, but still. Zelos also had to cast his Healing Wind. A green circle was carved under everyone and the wind circled around it and healed everyone gradually. Colette ran up to the Sheena clone and used her Whirlwind Rush; Colette struck her with her chakrams two times and spiraled them.
"Judgment!" yelled Zelos. Shining beams of light came raining from the sky and one beam hit the Sheena clone. But the Lloyd clone was near Lloyd, Sheena, and Zelos and he used a Raging Beast; he pulled them into his range and a lion blew him away and quickly performed a Beast Sword Rain; he thrust his sword multiple times and a lion blew them away again. The Sheena clone used her Tethe Seal Lightning on the Lloyd clone.
"Lloyd, Sheena, Zelos, are you okay?' asked Colette concerned.
"Don't worry, we're fine! You just destroy my clone first." the ninja shouted. Colette couldn't risk it, so she cast her Holy Song but the end result was way different.
"Thy faithful servant, asketh for thy blessing, honor us with a special…" Colette was finished but nothing happened and was confused. "Sorry guys, I messed up. What?"
She then noticed a purple light under her and it spread throughout the whole battlefield and at the same time light beams came raining from the sky and one hit the Lloyd clone and weakened him and one destroyed the Sheena clone. "I guess that was my Holy Judgment. I still can't control it."
"It's all right! Now my clone is the only one we have to deal with!" Lloyd said. The Lloyd clone used his Lightning Thrust and Lightning Tiger to stun Lloyd; basically a mimic of Lightning Blade and a Tiger Blade with a lightning strike. The Lloyd clone used a Demonic Chaos on Lloyd; a bunch of Demon Fangs were attacking Lloyd and after that he spiraled in the air by using Tempest and hurt Lloyd and Sheena.
"Air Thrust!" Blades of wind were slicing the Lloyd clone, but he went into his Over limits. The clone then thrust his sword into Lloyd about fifteen times and finished with a Tiger Blade. Apparently, he used Sword Rain Alpha into Raining Tiger Blade and finally a Fierce Demon Fang. Lloyd was exhausted and before he was going to get healed, he used his special attack. A rainbow glyph was carved on the ground and his sword transformed into the Eternal Sword and blue light was spiraling on the glyph and jumped in the air.
"I'll show you, Divine Justice! Falcon's Crest!" He jumped back on the ground placed his sword on the ground causing the blue light to once again spiral and destroy the Lloyd clone. After all the craziness was gone, Raine noticed there were four jewels on the ground like last time and picked them up.
"What are those jewels, Raine?" asked Sheena.
"I'm not sure, but look. This one has a design that looks like the Nebilim, this one's the Evil Eye, this is the Fafnir, and this is the Gates of Hell. The other clones we fought also had jewels with a design of the other Devil's Arms. "
"So have you figured out what they're for?" asked Zelos.
"Not yet, but these will be of use later in our journey?" Raine explained.
"By the way, could you explain everything about the Replicantis and Nebilim and stuff?" asked Sheena.
"In short, the Devil's Arms are missing and Kratos told all of us to come to the floating city above the Hot Springs besides Exire, because of the possibility of Nebilim being summoned again and my clone told us about the Replicantis. It's probably something that creates all of the clones."
Zelos merely said jokingly, "Make all of the clones of me as much as they want, but it won't be as good as the original."
"Yeah, the clone Zelos is probably saner and has a brain." Genis mocked.
"I heard that, you brat!"
"Stop playing around! Anyway, we need to go above the Hot Springs to find Kratos." Raine said.
"The chance of finding the city without rest successfully is twenty-five percent." Presea calculated.
"Why don't we rest at my mansion? It's not that far." Zelos suggested.
"Then, we must cover your face first." Regal said.
"Oh, not again!"
After a couple minutes, Zelos had that weird mask on his face and those blue gloves and headed toward his mansion, while interrupted by his groupies, Selena, Michelle, and Tara. "Oh, Zelos, you…" Selena couldn't recognize Zelos with that mask.
"Aw! Where's Zelos? Why do they have that man instead with that country mask?" Tara whined.
"They're stupid." Michelle said. After that the groupies went away trying to 'find' Zelos.
"Their love is so shallow." Zelos whined.
"Oh, forget it! Let's just get inside." Sheena said. Everyone went inside and saw Sebastian cleaning up the mansion.
"Master Zelos, I see the rumors were false, right?"
"Right. Anyway, we need to stay here, so arrange some beds upstairs, okay?"
"Understood. Sir Bud, please make yourself at home."
"My name's not Bud!" Lloyd shouted.
"I don't think he's going to listen." Sheena said.
"Well, I gotta try, at least. It's just plain weird being called Sir Bud."
"Blame Zelos. He's the one who called you his bud and it stuck to Sebastian." And it's sort of Lloyd's fault because he won't even tell Sebastian what his name is, but that's just how Lloyd is. He's stupid, ignorant, kind, thoughtful, caring, lo…I'm getting off track here. That's not what I think about him usually. "Uh…I'm just going to walk around the mansion." she stuttered.
"Okay." he merely said.
"Lloyd?" called out Colette. "Do you think we could go outside to walk for a little bit?"
"Sure!"
"Okay!" Lloyd and Colette walked out as Sheena saw them. Well, I can't get in their way, so I'll just ignore the way I'm thinking about him. What's this? A portrait of a woman, Mylene Wil…
"Hey Sheena!" yelled Zelos. Sheena actually jumped after that outburst from Zelos. He was probably trying to give her a heart attack.
"Zelos, what are you doing here?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to see my favorite hunny!" he jokingly said.
And Sheena's reply to that was a powerful smack on face. "I told you for the billionth time not to call me that! What do you want, anyway?"
Zelos raised his eyebrow and said, "You really want to know?"
SMACK!
"Ugh! It's impossible trying to talk to you!" Sheena said as she went upstairs to her temporary room for the night.
"Ouch! Sheesh, I didn't mean anything like what you were probably thinking." he whined to himself as he saw Lloyd and Colette coming back.
Meanwhile in another place
Once again at the oracle, four out of nine spaces were filled and the woman touched four more and they all glowed. Eight out of nine were glowing and one was left.
Mane se tru ne tre nutre pru
Nune kraunu se neferse ner
Pametha ne pame na sere
Praunu krauna trene krau nu serefer
Sorry, it took so long. The chants up there are Tear's (Tales of the Abyss Character) chants of Holy Song, Revitalize, Judgment, and Grand Cross. By the way, I'll pretty much explain the Lloyd Colette scene in other chapters.