Forever Strong: The Unbroken Promise
A/N: The original chapter got mixed up by with the last chapter, thereby deleting on . Due to a history of viruses on my computers, I do not have the original of the second chapter. Until--if ever--this chapter gets rewritten, here is a summary of what happened during this chapter. It's hardly acceptable as far as a story goes, but I hope it can suffice as a piece of the plot-puzzle.
The second chapter followed the two as they went to a reunion of sorts with all the other original eight heroes at Lloyd house where they were having a picnic. Sheena caught up with the others while Jay-Arr had to keep Rinn tabs on Rinn and Noishe for a bit so they didn't eat the buffet.
As in the original, Colloyd was shipped in this story and as a product came the twelve-year-old blonde haired, brown eyed, klutzy dual-swordsman ironically nicknamed Lucky. He and Jay-Arr are have a relationship similar to Zelos and Lloyd (naturally) so after a while wander off into the Iselia woods where Lucky shows him the spot where their parents fought off "a demon from hell" (the Sword-dancer). Lucky insists the grounds are cursed because the monster set foot there, so is terrified to go too close to it in fear of it coming back.
Of course, his friend plays on this fear by crying wolf--or Sword-dancer, really--until, of course, there actually /is/ a monster. Lucky, being too inexperienced to help fend off the creature, is instructed by Jay-Arr to get away, and they try the ol' distract-and-attack in which Lucky climbs up a tall tree and distracts the monster while Jay-Arr tries to cast the crap out of it with his... elementary spells, at best. The creature is a water monster, however, Jay-Arr doesn't know any lightning spells. Not good.
He tries multitudes of different attacks but nothing seems to work. Exasperated, he continues trying spells, when he hears a voice and a hand on his shoulder, "Hope you're ready for this one, kid." Mana swarms around him and he hears, "Thunder Blade!" cast from his own mana. With the monster effectively killed off, Lucky climbs down and is amazed at his friend's skills. Jay-Arr, on the other hand, was a little unnerved, to say the least.
Just trying to get away from the area, he challenges Lucky to a race back to Lloyd's. Unfortunately for him, Lucky uses Noishe to propel him to an easy victory.
Upon their return, they try to explain what happened, leading only to more banter between the original eight. That's when Origin summons Sheena back to the Torrent Forest, saying he has something for her, and the two excuse themselves early and head off. ...Which is where chapter three picks up...