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Chapter: 5

The Magic Bullet Trinity Part I

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"Shit! Those bastards already made it close to Beltoshi! Nebilim won't get revived if the Tone Song user unlocks the first seal." the man shouted. The man had red hair and had a black wardrobe and the shirt had a silver seal on his arms and blue lines along the shoulder and a long collar and was standing on a massive disc.

"Relax. The woman doesn't realize anything. Even if it does happen, our power surpasses their power. We also have a Tone Song user, too." the woman said. The woman had blonde hair and her shirt had two purple lines in the middle of her shirt and was also standing on a massive disc. (A/N: In other words, she kinda looks like Regret from Tales of the Abyss)

"Trinity, should we still destroy their Rheairds so they won't even know about everything?" The girl speaking was sitting on a yellow tiger with wings and next to her was a huge purple bird. The girl had pink hair, a black ribbon in her hair with pink lines, and a few pockets with purple lines.

"It's better to just kill them than risk everything." The man speaking was wearing a black and green mask over his face, had black hair, and one side of his coat was grass green and was floating on a massive disc, too. Trinity agreed to do that. Lloyd and the group were just flying to the city and didn't expect those attacks.

"Searing Sorrow!" A massive fireball targeted Lloyd and Colette causing the fireball to erupt and destroy the Rheaird and they fell on the island.

"Lloyd! Colette!"

"Negative Gate!" A dark portal energy appeared between Regal and Presea's Rheairds and destroyed them and they also fell.

"Explosion!" A small fireball went toward Sheena and Zelos and then exploded on contact with the Rheairds causing them to fall.

"Frigid Coffin!" An icicle mini-tornado occurred on the bottom of Genis and Raine's Rheairds and a huge icicle sword struck them. Everyone was on the ground with some pain and the Rheairds were completed destroyed.

"Warren (first one mentioned), Anita (third one), Sasuke (fourth), go into the forest and find the entrance to the Sorlei Church." Trinity said. "Kent, Vharley, Carina, Ralia, Lance, get everything necessary to open the door." she said. "Lance…" He had brown, long hair, a long black robe with blood red lines from the shoulder and down and a red design between them. Oddly, his face is like Lloyd's, he's as tall as Lloyd, and weighs the same as him. "Make yourself scarce." He replied a yes and went along with them.

"What are you going to do?" asked Anita.

"I need to take care of some things first, before I can help you."

"All right."

Everyone was rubbing their arms and legs from pain while Colette saw everyone going a bunch of different directions. "Hey, wait a minute. That's…" After a few seconds she recognized that woman. "Mom! What's she doing here?"

"Colette! Are you okay?" The swordsman asked concerned.

"I'm fine. But that woman up there I saw, she was my…"

"This isn't good." The Professor said.

"What's wrong?" Zelos asked.

"The Rheairds are completely destroyed. Apparently, those strangers up there were trying to make this happen, and it's rare for them to be completely damaged."

"Can't we just get someone to fix them?" Lloyd asked.

"I highly doubt anyone in this world knows how to fix a Rheaird."

"What about Yuan? We could ask him to fix it or just get some new ones." Zelos said.

"I'm not sure Yuan would help us. Well, actually, since he's watching over the tree, I'm not sure if he'll leave considering the tree, Yggdrasill's spirit is Martel." the ninja said.

"Well, let's just look at the Renegades' base and see if they're still there." Lloyd said.

"Probability of reaching their base with our current amount of energy is fifteen percent due to the immense damage we have taken from the power of those beings. It is more efficient if we rest here." Presea said in her monotone voice. Everyone agreed. Some of them were a little scared of Presea's ability to calculate those statistics so quickly, then again what would you expect from her.

"We should rest at the House of Guidance here, assuming they have eight beds available." The president said.

"Colette, are you okay? You've been acting strange ever since we saw those guys." Lloyd said worried about Colette.

"It's nothing. I'm fine." she mildly giggled. Everyone went inside and talked to some of the priests to get some beds.

"Understood. That's 500 Gald per person." the priest said. Suddenly, everyone realized that they hardly had any money. Everything combined was only 1000 Gald. They needed 3000 more Gald. Regal and Zelos are nobles but they left their money at their homes.

"We only have 1000 Gald. What are we supposed to do? Sleep in the woods?" the playboy ex-chosen said.

"Unless we somehow magically get 3000 Gald, there's no choice. Get over it. There's not going to always be an inn we can afford everywhere." Sheena cried. Suddenly, they heard some commotion with one guy saying this is bad.

"Excuse me? What's wrong?" asked the klutzy ex-chosen.

"The chef needs to cook dinner and all of the food and ingredients ran out. At the least we should serve them a fruit salad, but the only fruits we can get in a short amount of time are in the woods. And it's dangerous as there were some mysterious strangers in there. We assume they're a threat."

"We'll get them. But we still need a place to stay." Lloyd said.

"Fine. You get the food; I'll give you some beds for tonight. The fruit is in the northern part of the woods."

"Thank you." Colette said.

"I must say, this is quite a detour we're taking." Raine said. Regal agreed at that comment.

Zelos absolutely hated all forests, especially forests like the Gaoracchia Forest, only a little darker. He didn't have a phobia of them…sort of. He just feared being killed in ominous forests like those and forests like that would cause him to complain a lot. "Damn! I hate this forest! Remind me again why we're doing this?"

Sheena was just about ready to kill him. Then again, what else is new? "You have two options. Find the food and sleep in an actual bed or just sleep near the forest or in it where you'll never sleep and complain all the time. And speaking of complaining, would it kill you to SHUT UP FOR THE LOVE OF MARTEL!" she pierced through the sound barrier with that comment.

"OUCH! Man! You didn't have to yell like that, my banshee."

"What!"

Presea had to stop them before things got worse. "Zelos, Sheena, please quiet down your voices. If you keep shouting at this volume, you'll attract almost half of the forest's creatures." Actually, the outburst was loud enough to attract all of them, but it was best if she didn't say that.

"Sorry." she blushed a little from that. She couldn't help that she had such a bad temper, especially when she has a temper tantrum 99 of the time; it was usually from Zelos's comments. After a little while, they found a four-way fork.

"So who goes where?" Lloyd asked.

"I want to go with Lloyd. Is that fine?" Colette asked innocently.

"Sure."

"I'm going with my brother." Raine said. Genis really wanted to go with Presea but Raine's pretty overprotective of her brother.

Sheena began, "I'll go with…"

"Me!" Zelos shouted.

"What!"

"Actually, for fighting purposes that's not a bad idea." Regal said.

"I agree with that, too." Presea said.

"But…"

"Please listen. As much as you dislike it, you need to pair up with Zelos. Regal's healing abilities are limited by distance. Regal and I can handle the monsters due to our stamina and Exspheres. It's best if you take Zelos in case you're hurt."

Sheena sighed and allowed Zelos to go with him.

"Are you sure you guys are going to be okay?" Lloyd asked.

"Don't worry!" he beamed as he put his arm around Sheena's neck. "We'll be fine! You guys worry too much, you know that?"

"Oh Jizou, please save me!" she muttered. "And get your arm off of me!"

"All right. Lloyd, Colette, go to the northern route. Regal, Presea, go to the western route. Zelos, Sheena, go to the northeastern route. Genis and I will go to the eastern route."

"Colette, could you find anything?" Lloyd called out. Colette was still thinking about Trinity and concerned of what she's doing here. "Colette!"

"Huh? Wha…what?"

"Okay, Colette, you've been acting strange for a while? What's up? And don't lie to me and say everything's fine or do that fake giggle." Lloyd said covering every possibility he could think of.

Colette didn't want Lloyd to worry, but he usually ends up finding these things out later and he takes it much harder from that. "Um, it's…well, do you remember the blonde haired woman that attacked us a few hours ago?"

"Yeah."

"And do you remember that once I was born, my mom had to be sent so far away so that if I were to die on the journey, she would probably take the place of the Chosen? Well, that woman was my…" Suddenly, they heard a rustling in the bushes.

"What was that?"

Colette focused her hearing to find out where the sound was coming from her angel senses. "I hear a roaring from an animal it's coming from the…right!" Suddenly, an orange colored lion-like beast came charging through.

"Damn it! What bad timing!"

"Lloyd, I'll help!"

The beast jumped into the air and slammed its paws down causing an earthquake to occur which shook Lloyd and Colette up. Lloyd told Colette to attack from the air using her angel wings while Lloyd distracted it.

"Ugh! Fierce Demon Fang!" Lloyd slammed his swords creating a powerful shockwave and sends it toward the beast and causing a rock pillar to go up like the first part of a Grave spell. However, the rock pillar didn't have much of an effect on him.

"May thy holy cross purify the darkness within this soul! Grand Cross!" A rainbow glyph appeared under the beast and it erupted and took the shape of a cross blinding the beast. (A/N: Grand Cross in angel spell that Colette learns in the Japanese PS2 version. I just made up some chant for this spell since I don't know what she says during that, if she does say anything.)

Lloyd was trying to figure the enemy's weakness so he alternated his weapon's to find out its weakness. "Flaring Tempest! (Kaenrekuu)" Lloyd somersaults the enemy with flames which burns the beast a little but it recovers.

"Argh! It's still not working!"

Before he knew it, that monster opened its mouth showing its fangs and jumped towards Colette. "Colette, watch out!" Lloyd always hated the fact that he was unable to protect Colette as she got captured three times. He wasn't going to let it happen a fourth time.

Genis and Raine didn't get that far but Genis was still looking for fruits in case one was there. Raine, however was studying the plants and bushes and any other odd "specimens" they ran into. "FANTASTIC! What kind of plant is this! This area isn't really humid yet the plants can thrive here! I must dissect this!" Genis was pretty embarrassed from her sister's behavior.

"Raine…we're here to look for the fruits so those guys can heave dinner and we can sleep at the inn. We're not here to excavate anything or dissect anything. "

"I know that! I just can't help it! The plants are the things that I'm most curious about! Well, second or third curious."

"Do I even want to know what the first or second curious is?"

"Don't worry. It pertains to our journey."

Genis sighed, hoping this would be the one time Raine would be wondering about something that's valid to the journey. "Well, what is it?"

"Lloyd said that we had to meet Kratos at a city above the Hot Springs. But besides Exire, I'm wondering how a city could be floating there all the time. We've passed by there, but we've never seen anything."

"That's true. Is there some secret that we don't know about?" Genis added.

"Hmm. I don't know. I'm also questioning how Kratos got back from Derris-Kharlan. Derris-Kharlan isn't anywhere near the Earth's orbit and the only person who can go to Derris-Kharlan is Lloyd because the Eternal Sword is getting more powerful after we combined the worlds. Unless he found a way where he can travel between Derris-Kharlan and Earth, it's impossible." she stated.

"Maybe he just flew between the two planets. But, there's hardly any air or mana in space." It was a mind-boggling conundrum to them.

"Well, we should still go on ahead to see if there's anything else at the end of the forest." Raine said as they followed the path.

Presea and Regal decided that they should've taken another route because it's as if they were actually attracting monsters. They were okay, though. "Probability of reaching the northern end of the forest with the current amount of monsters here is thirty-five percent." she said.

"This is going to be troublesome! Swallow Dance!" Regal kicked the enemy three times in a circular motion rapidly.

"Fiery Infliction!" Presea slammed her axe and earth broke on the beast and slashed the enemy with two crescent moons or two Inflictions and finally killed it.

Presea walked a little closer to Regal in order for his healing spell to be efficient. "Grand Healer!" Regal and Presea were both healed moderately from that and continued on walking and noticed they weren't any monsters since then. "It seems that the number of monsters that are coming here have reduced immensely."

"Yes. It seems we can probably relax now."

"Actually, we can't relax completely. Those people we encountered with in the sky a couple hours ago may still be around here. We should still keep our guard up as they are extremely powerful considering how much damage they did to Rheairds." He was still worried as he thought he saw Vharley. Of course not, Vharley's dead. But that man's appearance was exactly like Vharley's. How is that possible?

"Regal, is anything wrong?"

:"What do you mean?"

"You seem troubled about something. What is it?"

Regal didn't actually know what to say. He just thought he saw Vharley up in the sky that time. I don't know many people who can actually fully resurrect someone besides Raine. And I don't think he survived. "It's nothing. I was just imagining that I saw Vharley in the sky last time."

"Vharley is dead. The chance of him surviving is close to zero."

"I know. I'm probably just tired. That's all. It's nothing to worry about." Regal said.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I'm fine. Don't worry." Regal glanced away from Presea and acted like he was focused on the path, even though she could still tell he's unsettled.

"All right." The taciturn girl could tell he was lying. He was clearly worried. What if Vharley was alive and he was part of those people. This would cause many problems. Do those strangers have a connection to each of us? Colette seemed worried as she could clearly see the person she was worried about.

Zelos and Sheena were pretty doing okay. Well, physically…for the moment. Sheena was still thinking out of the other seven people in this group; she had to be paired up with the perverted whiny playboy.

"Ugh! It's so dark! I hate forests! It feels like death here!" he whined.

"Will you shut up! I'm tired of going through your constant annoying whining!" she screamed. "Man, why did I have to listen to Regal and Presea about pairing up with you?" she complained.

"Because you trust them." he simply stated. "Come on, my voluptuous hunny. Stop asking yourself questions you already know the answers."

"Power Seal Absolute!" She slammed her ofuda on Zelos's head causing him to fall down badly.

"Damn! You really are a violent demonic banshee!" he teased her.

SLAP!

"Argh! I've told you a million times not to call me that! And I am not one of your stupid hunnies, you stupid Chosen!" she argued. "Ugh! Why do I even bother? The chance of Zelos not flirting me and making perverted comments is almost zero. Great, now I sound like Presea."

"Relax, Sheena! You take everything too seriously." he said while rubbing his face. "You need to learn how to actually have even a small bit of fun!"

"Just…forget it!" she retaliated. "Why aren't you looking for any fruits or anything?"

Zelos responded, "The priest said the fruits are mainly in the north. From what I can tell, we're still a little far from where the fruits are. So I think it's pointless if we're not in the correct area babe."

Sheena merely sighed as they went along the path. However, during the middle of the path, Sheena was tired. "Ugh. What's going on? I never have been tired after walking just a couple yards or so." Sheena had a little difficulty breathing.

"Sheena, are you okay?"

Sheena kept trying to breathe before responding, "I'm fine."

Zelos could obviously tell she wasn't fine, "Sheena, you've been breathing really weird lately. And you've been getting more tired than normal. We should stop here otherwise you'll eventually pass out from exhaustion. And don't be stubborn about it saying you're perfectly fine." he said seriously.

"...all right." she merely let out.

This forest was like hell. It was as if this forest always tries to make someone die. Sheena had a minor headache, just what she needed. She couldn't really see anything. It was extremely dark. "What's happening? I've never been this tired before and I usually still have most of my mana."

Zelos found some wood and cast Fire Ball to make a fire. "First Aid!" Sheena was healed a little and regained some of her strength but it wasn't that effective. "I'm pathetic. Why do I get into these situations? I feel weak and tired and I need someone else's help in order for me to feel better. Of course, if it wasn't for him stopping me, I would've just continued walking due to my stubborn attitude."

"Zelos?"

He responded, "Yeah?"

"…Th…thanks."

"Don't mention it, hunny."

Sheena didn't even care that he called her a hunny. Sheena wished we could get the fruits quickly and just sleep at a bed. She also wondered how Lloyd and everyone else was doing.

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