Chapter 2, uploaded! Whoo!
Disclaimer : I don't own Tales of Symphonia...
I awoke early the next morning. Sheena, Raine, Colette and Regal were already up. I stretched my limbs and joined them.
"'Morning, everyone..." I said in a tired voice.
"Good morning, Mist. Sleep well?" Sheena asked me.
"Yes, actually." I heard Lloyd moaning as he was pulled out of sleep. Zelos, Genis and Presea woke up right before him.
"We need the mana fragment to cure Colette's illness. We have to go to the Tower of Salvation, there should be a portal leading to Derris-Kharlan." Raine said, grabbing her things.
"Oh yeah, that's right. Hear that, Colette? You won't turn into an exsphere!" Lloyd said happily.
"Thank you so much, Lloyd! I'm so happy!" The blonde giggled and smiled.
There was definetly something between those two. I laughed soflty while watching them.
We climbed the stairs leading to the entrance of the Tower of Salvation. Zelos used his Cruxis Crystal to open the door.
"Oh yeah!" He said proudly as the door slid open. Everyone ignored him, except for Colette, who grinned.
This was the first time I had ever entered that place. Walking up the stairs, I noticed the coffins floating around. The village elder had told me about this. I felt a shiver go up my spine.
"I don't like this place at all..." I muttered.
The area at the top of the stairs had a sword in the middle.
"This strangely ressembles Sylvarant's Tower of Salvation..." Raine said, looking around.
Colette let out a small gasp. Her happy face turned to a scared face.
"This...this is...it's the same place!" She cried.
"Guys, look! I broke that!" Lloyd pointed to a broken pillar.
At the center of the area, there was a purple sword glowing.
"The...Eternal Sword?" I said. The storyteller had told me about this.
"That's what it looks like. Lloyd, take it!" Zelos said.
"But...who would just leave it there?" Lloyd said.
"Who cares about that!"
Lloyd hesitated, but approached the sword. He tried to grab it, but he was pushed back by something.
"What the..." He began.
"That was quite foolish of you." A voice interupted him. An auburn-haired man stood on a small balcony-like area.
"Kratos!"
I looked at the man for a moment. He looked awfully familiar. He had wings...blue wings. I quickly took out the blue feather and looked at it, then looked at his wings.
"It...no...what...it can't..." I stuttered. Was this man, Kratos, my father? The man I searched for all my life? He looked at me for just a split-second, then went back to Lloyd. They were now fighting, with the help of the others. I just stood back, not being able to move any of my muscles.
"Mist! What's wrong?" Genis came to me, after successfully hitting Kratos with Gravity Well.
"It...can't...no..." I still couldn't do anything but mutter incomprehensible sentences.
Everything else was a blur. A few other angels came from behind and attacked us. I was rendered unconscient when one of the angels struck me in the head.
"Ugh...where am I?" I asked, waking up in a cell.
"I...don't know." Sheena said. She was sitting beside me. All the other girls were also in the same cell.
"What was wrong with you, back there?" Raine asked.
Gasping, I searched for the feather. Thankfully, I still had it. I looked at it for a moment, before deciding to answer Raine's question.
"This feather...was given to me by my father. According to the elder, he was a member of Cruxis. That man...Kratos...his wings were the same color..." I said, trying to hold back some tears.
"There could be more than one member with blue wings, you know." She said.
I thought about that for a moment and realized she was right. There could be more than one member with blue wings. I was mad at myself for not thinking about that earlier.
"That's true. I'm relieved, then. This man...tried to kill us. I don't know what I'd do if he was my biological father..."
"Kratos was formerly in our group. But...he betrayed us, the first time we visited the Tower of Salvation. Turns out, he was deceiving us right from the start." Raine said. "Well then, we should think of a way to get out of here." She added.
"Hey! Can you hear me?" Lloyd's voice came from the left wall.
"Yeah! Did you find a way out?" Sheena yelled.
"No..." He began. There was a blast heard, then Lloyd appeared on the other side of the bars.
"Wow! How did you do that, Regal?" He asked, amazed.
"I used to fight with my hands. And since the exsphere can increase one's strenght dramastically, this result is to be expected." Regal answered calmly.
"Why do you fight with your feet, then?"
"When I received these shackles, I vowed never to use my hands to kill again. I used them to save you, this time."
Lloyd opened the lock to our cell and we were soon out of there. The place we were in now looked like a really advanced technology was being used. Around us were angels, each looking lifeless.
"This must be Welgaia. I think we can get a mana fragment here." Raine said. "Let's try this building."
We entered the first building we saw. Inside was what seemed like a warehouse. There was an angel guarding it.
"Hmm...let's pretend Colette and I hold you guys prisoners. Colette's an angel and we're half-elves." Raine suggested.
We walked toward the angel.
"Excuse me...but could we get a mana fragment?" Colette asked.
"Why do you need a mana fragment?" The angel asked.
"Uhm..." Colette began.
"We need it for an exsphere project. These are our...prisoners." Raine interupted.
"Very well then. Please show your identification."
Just then, the communicator next to the angel turned on and Kratos appeared on the screen.
"We need a mana fragment for the Chosen project. I've sent courriers to retrieve it." He said.
(A/N: I'm not sure that's why Kratos wanted a mana fragment... my memory is awful -.-)
"Yeah! We're...the courriers." Lloyd said.
"But you just said you needed some for an exsphere--"
"Silence, inferior being. Yes, we are the courriers. It just so happens that we need the mana fragment for an exsphere project as well." Raine said, sounding very confident.
"But..."
"You don't want to make Lord Yggdrasil wait, right? He's scary when he's angry." Genis said.
The angel gulped and nodded, then went to get something from behind. He handed something to Raine.
"Make sure you give it to them..." He said in a shaky voice as we left the building.
Alexa Aurion : Hm...haven't thought about that...well, I guess so, since it could just fly away...
There's going to be one or two more chapters, then I'll finish it.