In the previous chapter, I forgot to mention the sword the Lord Irving struck our heroes with. It was a complete carbon copy, the negative Eternal Sword. Not as powerful as the real Eternal Sword and also lacks Origin's power. That is why Ganondorf didn't use it to create a portal from the Great Sea to the world of Symphonia. Where are we now? You're about to find out.
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: A BRAVE NEW WORLD
Remember that portal that just appeared out of nowhere and sucked almost everyone in sight into it? It was all because of the Crown of Earth. The Crown of Heaven and the Crown of Earth works like this: On all the sides of these crowns are four lines that run vertically. If one were to align these lines, then the portal would be opened. Furthermore, this would only work if the Crown of Heaven's lines were in the same position of the Crown of Earth's lines. It is said that the portal would appear where the Crown of Earth was and vise-versa. Since Ganondorf was creating unstable mana links by creating his four angels, the portal could be sometimes misdirected. All the way back in chapter two, I introduced two lab assistants of Genis Sage: Charles and Xavier. Xavier was fooling around with the Crown of Heaven and created a portal to the world of Symphonia by aligning the lines.
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Narrator (me): "Xavier just popped out of the portal near the little town of Iselia."
"Where the hell am I?" Xavier asked. He dusted himself off and looked around. "This isn't the lab…wait…I did it! I activated the relic! I created a portal to another…"
He saw the portal was closing. "Damn, the portal!" He ran to the portal but it was too late. The portal closed and Xavier ran into a tree.
"Ah, son of a--"
He glanced over to the little town of Iselia which was still on fire and saw two boys walking away from it in his direction. He decided to try to get to know these people. When they came closer, Xavier didn't know the guy in the red but the little boy with him looked really familiar.
"Professor Sage?" Xavier asked.
The little boy stopped. "No, I'm her brother."
"Uh…do you know where the professor went?"
"She's probably in Triet."
"Is that another town?"
"Yeah, it is."
"Are you heading there?"
"Why?"
"Let's just say I'm new to these parts and I need some help getting around."
The little boy turned to the guy in the red who looked really sad.
"Lloyd, is it okay if this guy comes with us?"
"Um…sure, go nuts," he replied sadly.
"I guess you can come."
"Sweet!" Xavier exclaimed.
"Just don't do that…" Genis replied.
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From that moment on, Xavier was travelling with Lloyd and Genis. He learned about what happened in Iselia and learned about the journey of regeneration. When Lloyd was captured by the renegades, Genis went to get help while Xavier infiltrated their base. This is a scene when Lloyd meets Yuan in the renegade base after they were done talking.
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"Everybody, freeze!" Xavier exclaimed, holding his Jambiya (it's a dagger). "This is a hold up!"
Yuan and Lloyd looked at Xavier funny.
"Is he a friend of yours?" Yuan asked.
"Yeah…he is…" Lloyd replied.
"Alright, you with the blue hair, let the guy in the red go!" Xavier cried.
"We've been travelling around together all this time and you still call the 'guy in the red'?"
"Fine…Lloyd," Xavier said with emphasis. "Are you happy now?"
"Why must I constantly be interrupted by people?" Yuan yelled.
"Uh…it's because you don't keep the door locked."
"Silence!"
Botta steps in and the scene continues as normal.
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After saving Lloyd, everyone went to Triet's inn, where they had a group meeting. He got to know everyone. Colette was a klutz, Kratos was a tight-ass, and Raine was, well…Raine. Xavier was surprised when he saw that Raine was the egghead, and was the complete opposite. Everyone was surprised to hear that Xavier knew Raine.
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"You said you were new to these parts," Genis said crossly. "How could you know my sister was a professor? Not everyone knows what she looks like."
"I know Professor Sage," Xavier replied. "Everyone knows her all across the island."
"Island?" Lloyd asked. "What island?"
"Crapcrapcrapcrapcrap," Xavier thought to himself. "Did I say island?"
"Yes, you did," Kratos replied.
"Well, I'm from…an island! Yeah…that's it."
"But there are no habitable islands in Sylvarant!" Genis exclaimed. "See! Look at this map!"
Genis pulled out a Sylvarant map.
"I'm a freakn' hermit, okay? I live on bugs and stuff."
"That doesn't sound very good," Colette said. "Living all alone…"
"That's why I came here."
"You said you wanted to find Raine," Genis said.
"Stupid smart-ass kid," Xavier thought. "Always has something to contradict me. I did. I wanted to find Professor Sage because I read one of her lectures in a book."
"Oh really?" Raine asked, "Which one?"
"The lecture about how the world was created?" Xavier asked hesitantly.
"I will be happy to give you a lecture right now!"
"I'm ecstatic…" Xavier said through his teeth.
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After that lecture, Xavier knew about summon spirits, and the world he was in. Indeed it was a world different than his. Instead on sea, there was land. Instead of peace, there was conflict. The world regeneration was supposed to stop the violence and let peace reign supreme. Xavier continued to travel with his friends, getting to know them more and more each day. He met Sheena who came from another world just like him. When he heard about Teth'ella, he wondered if the Great Sea was connected to the world of Sylvarant as well. He saw Kratos' betray and saw the one who was instigating the conflict: Yggdrasil. He and his friends and travelled all the way through to Teth'ella, meeting more people: Governor Wilder was now rude and obnoxious (but annoyed the hell out of Genis so he didn't mind him). Regal Bryant was a president of his own company and Presea was a twenty-eight year old trapped in a twelve year body. More and more, he saw Zelos betray and come back, and all of them stopped Yggdrasil and saved the world together. Now that everyone was beginning to separate, Colette was organizing a little get together.
In the little town of Iselia (newly furnished), Colette and her friends were making party balloons and decorations. Regal was 'testing' the cake Genis and Presea made. Lloyd and Zelos were building a stage for entertainment and Sheena and Raine were arguing.
"What are they arguing about again?" Lloyd asked.
"Who knows," Zelos replied. "They are always fighting about something."
"Raine was always the one that instigated fights on Greenvale," Xavier said.
"Ah, ha!" Genis exclaimed. "So that's where you're from!"
Ever since Xavier arrived, Genis has been trying to piece together Xavier's origins.
"An island called Greenvale never existed in either Sylvarant or Teth'ella!"
Xavier couldn't get out of this one. He knew he had to tell Genis the truth.
"Genis, you are a smart man in any dimension."
"What are you saying?"
Xavier pulled the Crown of Earth from his bag.
"That was the thing Raine traded in to get a devil's arm!"
"Yeah, but I needed this more than that old geezer. I kinda borrowed it from him."
"You mean you stole it?"
"Hush! Not so loud…I need this thing to figure out how to get home…"
"Where is your home?"
"If I get this thing working, I'll show you…" Xavier twisted the lines so that they aligned, also matching the Crown of Earth's lines. The portal opened in front of Xavier and Genis. Lord Irving stepped out.
"Mwhahaha!" Lord Irving laughed. "You, Xavier, have been proven quite useful…"
"Lloyd?" Genis asked.
"But I'm right here," Lloyd said, behind Genis.
"Then who is that guy?"
Raine, Genis, Kratos and Zelos came out of the portal after him.
"Ganondorf!" Raine yelled. "We've got you this time!"
Lord Irving turned around. "You think you can really stop me?"
"Uh…guys, where are we?" Kratos asked.
"You merely prolong your suffering. The rule of mortals has ended! This world belongs to me!"
A showdown in Iselia! And just when it was finally looking peaceful too. Please R&R.