He everybody sorry this took me a while.

I'm also sorry that my last chapter was so short, but I wasn't ready to move on just yet.

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DISCLAIMER: I don't own Tales of Symphonia, yet. But I'm working Namco down, it'll only be a matter of time. Muwahahahahahahahaha.

Chapter 3 Something's Wrong

The road was rocky and steep, and Noishe was having trouble walking along the path that lead from Dirk's house to Iselia. Lloyd had let Sheena ride Noishe, being the gentleman he is, as he went of ahead to scout.

"Hey, you wanna know something Noishe?" She whispered into Noishe's ear. "I love Lloyd, but I just can't seem to tell him."

Lloyd came running back and said with a smile, "All clear." "Everything is perfect, maybe I can finally tell her."

There was a sudden rustle in the bushes behind Lloyd, and they both leapt in surprise as Noishe ran off. Lloyd pulled out his favorite swords his Material Blades while Sheena pulled out her Divine Judgment cards.

"Come out who or whatever you are!" He yelled to the bushes. No answer came, and this made them both uneasy.

After a couple more seconds they both let down there guard a little, but only to soon as a familiar green ball of mana went zipping past his head right towards Sheena. Fortunately she was quick enough to summon a light green transparent shield to protect her.

"Sheena!" He screamed in a fit of rage.

"Impressive as always. I would expect nothing less from the hero's of Symphonia." A familiar voice came from the bushes as the figure stepped out.

"Forcystus!" Sheena exclaimed. "How…how come you're still around?"

"That's for me to know and you to find out." Forcystus said with an arrogant smirk.

Lloyd charged forward, but Forcystus just stepped aside as Lloyd tried to slash him and hit Lloyd in the ribs with his right modified arm.

"Damn, he's a lot stronger than when we last fought him." Lloyd thought, for at the moment he was having trouble gasping for air.

"Lloyd!" Sheena yelled. "I'm gonna take you out. I call upon the servant of mother earth. I summon thee come Gnome."

Nothing happened. Gnome wasn't showing up. "Damn. What a perfect time not to be able to summon." Sheena muttered under her breath.

"I almost forgot about you Grand Summoner, but maybe I should take care of you before the swordsman dies." Forcystus taunted.

Forcystus bent down and after a minute of chanting screamed, "Cyclone!"

A green cyclone engulfed Sheena as the wind around it began to tear at her skin. She could feel the wind like a thousand needles hitting her in one spot at a time.

Sheena crouched panting for air while Lloyd lay immobile for the time being. Forcystus on the other hand had not taken a single hit.

"Damn. I never fought this guy, but from the way Lloyd told it he wasn't this strong. And why can't I summon Gnome." She thought as Forcystus strode casually over to her.

"Inferior being need to be punished." Forcystus exclaimed. "We, the Desian Grand Cardinals failed to punish you once, but we will succeed this time."

With that Forcystus opened his arm to allow the ball of wind mana to come out, but Sheena used all the strength she could muster and swiveled around Forcystus and hit him with Power Seal, followed by Life Seal to regain some of her health, and finished with Pyre Seal. Forcystus landed face first into the ground.

Sheena ran over to help Lloyd so they could finish him using a summon spirit and Falcon Crest would severally lower his health. However Sheena was hit squarely in the back by Forcystus' ball of wind mana taking away Sheena's conciseness from her.

"Sheena!" Lloyd yelled at the top of his lungs. Finding his second wind he got up and ran to Sheena's side letting her rest in his arms.

"I believe I told you before, I am one of the five Grand Cardinals, I won't die so easily." Forcystus mocked.

"Just like I said before too, YOU BASTARD!" Lloyd yelled running towards Forcystus again and just before he got to him stuck his sword into the ground and pole vaulted over Forcystus and landed Falcon Crest and finished him off with his trusty Demon Fang.

Sheena awoke to find herself in Raine's house with Lloyd looking at her when she woke up.

"Professor, she's awake." Lloyd called to the next room.

"Ahh. Good." Raine said. Sheena turned to Lloyd and he just collapsed onto the bed where Sheena was resting.

Sheena moved Lloyd into the bed and just looked at him for a couple seconds and then moved to Genis' room and took a nap.

A couple hours later the three of them were in the kitchen discussing what happened.

"So you two barley beat Forcystus with just you two and he said, 'We failed to punish you once, but we will succeed this time.'" Raine said trying to sort things out.

"Yes that's exactly what he said to me, which means the Desian Grand Cardinals are back." Sheena said with a grim look on her face.

"Maybe this is just the opportunity these two need to get together. I know Sheena harbors feelings for Lloyd, and vise versa." Raine thought to herself, almost going into relical mode. "Well what we need to know then is who were dealing with and if it's a lot worse. I'll go to Mizuho and have their information network look into it." Raine said with a smirk.

With that Raine dashed to her room and pulled out her wing pack, and dashed out the door and onto Mizuho without Lloyd or Sheena saying a word.

"Did she just do what I think she did?" Lloyd asked turning to Sheena.

"I guess she did. Anyway it's been a while since we had something to eat, you want some sandwiches?" Sheena said getting up and heading toward the kitchen.

"Huh, uh, yeah that's fine." Lloyd said with a distracted look in his eye.

"Something's up, he's not normally this distracted. Well I guess I'll see if I can get anything out of him after lunch." Sheena thought starting to look for ingredients.

Lloyd, however, thought something quite different. "That fight back there was to close for comfort, we nearly died. If we've got to stop the others then I must tell Sheena before it's to late."

Neither of them said much over lunch, for they were both preoccupied with what to do after the meal was finished.

Sheena got up to leave when a slight tug came from her arm. Lloyd had grabbed it to stop her. He stood up and she turned around and looked at each other for a few seconds as they both turned crimson, but it didn't matter anymore.

Lloyd pulled her towards him and embraced in a hug as he whispered, "I'm sorry."

"What for?" She asked while her face kept getting hotter and hotter.

"I'm sorry I wasn't able to protect you when you needed me." He said as his grip around her firmed up.

"It's okay Lloyd, it's okay." She said rubbing his head.

"No it's not okay!" He snapped. "Well I guess it's now or never." He thought still holding her firmly.

"Why not?" She asked as they backed away from the hug and looked at one another.

"Because," He started.

"Yes." She replied.

"It's because I…I love you." He finally admitted.

Almost instantly Sheena bowed her head and tears began to roll down her cheek. "Oh no, what have I done." Lloyd thought until she looked up.

"Lloyd you don't know how happy this makes me." She said still crying tears of joy. "You see Lloyd I love you too."

Lloyds' worries, fears, and problems all vanished as a smile came across his face and the distance between them got smaller and smaller until they shared their first passionate kiss.

After a couple minutes of kissing they both started to feel the pull on their wounds for rest.

"Hey Sheena." Lloyd said.

"Hmmm?" She replied.

"We should get some rest, I mean the Professor will be gone until tomorrow at most, and I was thinking that maybe I could join you." Lloyd suggested.

Sheena, a little hesitant at this request only looked at him and thought, "Would he try anything? Nah, he's to oblivious he wouldn't even know."

"Okay." She said after a while.

Lloyds' smile brightened up as they headed for Genis' room and lay on the bed. Sheena placed herself on top of Lloyds' chest who had started snoring. She quickly fell asleep for the first time in a long time in complete joy.

Lot's of fluff and a some major tiwists in this chapter, but the next one will have the biggest twist of all. What about Colette.

Anyway keep R&Ring.

See Ya Later Space Cowboy.