Chapter three
Yuan: GET BACK HERE WITH MY CAPE!
Me: NEVER! -standing on top of a house- THIS HOUSE IS NOW MY EVIL BASE IN WHICH I SHALL PLOT THE DOWNFALL OF YUAN SO THAT I CAN STEAL ALL HIS CAPES, BWAAAAAHAHAHAMAHA!
Yggy: You have the strangest evil laugh...
Me: True...Now you must disclaim stuff, Yggy!
Yggy: -sigh- Stop calling me that...
Me: Um...no.
Yggy: T.T...Darkstorm doesn't own anything. Namco owns everything, including me. Thank goodness. I'd die (again) if this girl owned me.
Me: I PWN YOU!
Yggy: T.T...whatever you say...anyways, Darkstorm does own Claire, Destin, and REG. Crescent Ivy Moon owns Melinda.
Me: NOW ON WIF DA FICINESS!
Yuan: RETURN MY CAPE AT ONCE!
Me: NEVER!
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Claire stood in a lone cell, glaring at the guards' backs as if glaring would burn a hole through them. She looks down at the special exsphere now imbedded in her, right by her neck like Colette's Cruxis Crystal and Presea's Exsphere. "Stupid thing." she hisses. Then she remembers something 'Don't exspheres make you stronger? Maybe I can escape...but first I need a plan.' she thought.
Claire glanced around and her eyes fell on two wooden staffs. She picked them up carefully, and tested them. They were strong and hard, but light weight. 'How could the Desians have not noticed these? Idiots...oh well, they could be useful...' she thought. She smirked, a plan forming in her mind. She wouldn't be in this Desian base waiting to become a monster for very long at all...
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A dark figure watched as Kratos appeared in the ruins where the Tower of Salvation once stood. He was hidden behind the great Yggdrasill Tree, which was the source of eternal Mana for Symphonia.
Said figure was tall with long black hair and red eyes. He wore all black, including a black cape. He wore gloves with holes at the fingers, and in his right hand he held a large scythe. The man stared at Kratos, wondering if he should wait for Kratos to sense his presence or if he should show himself.
The answer came quickly enough, for the man saw Kratos look at the tree. He must have felt the man's demonic aura. The man stepped from behind the tree "So you did come. I thought you would...although I'm sure REG tried to stop you. Kratos Aurion, I have something I must tell you."
Kratos tensed up a little. "How do you know of me?"
The man sighed "I am Destin, the guardian of the Netherworld." his eyes shined "I suppose you don't remember our little meeting at Origin's seal...although Yuan made it rather short. Now listen, I come in regards to the one known as Anna."
"Anna?" Kratos asked.
Destin smirked "Yes. Her soul is no longer in heaven or hell. I thought she'd simply vanished, perhaps as an effect of her exsphere still existing...but it is not so. I can feel her soul again. I don't know how she vanished for nearly two years...but she's been reincarnated somehow. I sent you those dreams because there is need to find her."
"You are not going to kill her." Kratos stated.
"No, no, no, you have it wrong. I fear someone, most likely REG, reincarnated her for evil intention. That is why I must meet her. To be sure she is not evil and not so naive that she's tricked into helping REG. I have no intention of killing her."
"And how do you expect me to help?"
"Well...you know Anna. Even if she doesn't remember who she was, she will be drawn to the places she enjoyed the most. If anyone knows where those places are you would." Destin pointed out.
"Okay..."
"Now none of this, my old friend. Kratos isn't supposed to know anything. I guess I'm going to have to kill you both now. And I was so hoping you'd join me, Destin..." a voice stated. Kratos and Destin spun around to face a girl with black hair and icy blue eyes. She was about 16, and wearing all white with black symbols on the sleeves.
"REG." Destin hissed. He stiffened up, and seemed ready to defend himself...but Kratos noted that something in his voice showed a quiver of fear.
'What could make the keeper of death himself scared?' Kratos wondered. He decided he'd have to be very weary of this girl.
REG smirked "I should have tried harder to kill you on Derris-Kharlan...then I wouldn't have to kill Death. You know Destin, you could have been a great partner...but I guess not." REG shot a blast of Mana at Destin, it became a barrier and trapped him. "I know all to well that you will come back more powerful if I kill you...and so I'll just leave you here. You won't be able to warp or do anything...and the pain...this torture will be much worse than any death." REG laughed coldly. "Now for the angel." she said. She turned to Kratos...
Only to see he was gone...
She scowled "Kratos, you allude me yet again."
"Sorry to disappoint you REG, but I'll be going to. Heh, lesson one...never turn your back on your enemy!" REG spun around to face the barrier Destin had been trapped in, but it had been shattered, and Destin was gone too. "Curse you Aurion! I will send you to the pits of h3ll next time I see you! Destin I will make your like a living death!" she yelled, throwing a ball of pure Mana at the ruins in her fury. There was a large explosion, and as the dust cleared, REG was gone.
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Everything was now quiet in the Renegade Base. It was night time, so the only people awake were the night guards...and Melinda. She was laying in bed in the room Yuan let her stay in. She couldn't sleep. Every time she got close to falling asleep she got this odd feeling that something was coming and she snapped back awake. It was getting annoying, and Melinda was getting tired.
Then she heard movement, it sounded like the guards had seen something. Melinda sat up, and decided she'd like to see just what was going on. She got up and headed towards the door of the base. When she got close to the entry room the heard voices.
"So you think Yuan will help us?" a voice she didn't recognize asked.
"Yes. The Renegades and Mizuho are the two best places to find out about anything." a second voice, one she recognized VERY well stated.
"But will Yuan let us use his resources?" voice one asked.
"Most likely."
"Oh...and I have something I must tell Yuan as well. I kinda forgot to tell you, since REG attacked us. Martel has been reincarnated too."
"I already..."
"No, I mean the soul was taken out of the guardian of the Yggdrasill Tree and reincarnated."
"Okay...and there is nothing else you forgot to mention, right?"
"Hm...no, I'm pretty sure that's it!"
"Your memory is worse than Lloyd's..."
"...That is an insult to me and your son...man...you're mean..."
"Perhaps I am..."
"What are you doing here?" Melinda spun around to see Yuan behind her.
"I...um...heard the guards running around and knew something must have been going on..." Melinda said truthfully.
"So that's Yuan." Destin mused. He walked up behind Melinda when he heard Yuan's voice.
"Hello again Yuan." Kratos said calmly.
Melinda tried not to stare, her ultra favorite ToS character was standing before her.
"It would seem we do not need to search for the first of the two. Oh, and I need to talk to you Yuan!" Destin stated.
"Why are you here Kratos? I thought you'd decided you were going to stay on Derris-Kharlan." Yuan stated.
"I think he's ignoring me..." Destin said, looking at Yuan, then looking at Kratos as if begging him to make Yuan listen.
"There's been...some changes since then." Kratos stated.
"You're ignoring me too, aren't you?" Destin said.
"Um...What's going on?" Melinda asked, still staring at Kratos.
Kratos turned to face Melinda. For a split second Kratos looked shocked, but he quickly got control. "Anna..." he said quietly.
"What? Um...erm...Yes! I am Anna!"
"I thought you said you were Melinda..." Yuan said, raising an eyebrow.
"She already knows?" Destin mused.
"Knows what?" Yuan and Melinda asked Destin.
"Have any of you been listening to a word I've said!" Destin snapped.
"Nope!" Melinda said.
"...I don't even know who you are...or what you're doing in my base!" Yuan exclaimed.
"..." Kratos said nothing.
Destin mumbled a little and explained all about the reincarnations.
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Claire smirked as the smashed through the glass. It hadn't been made to withstand much more than bare fists, because most Desian Prisoners don't have a chance to get anything they could use as a weapon. She used the two wooden staffs like her twin swords that she'd left at home and knocked two Desians unconscious. Then she snuck out of her holding area. 'Okay...from what I've seen this base isn't like the one in the game...now lets see...left or right? Hm...Eny Mini Miny Mo...okay, straight it is!' she thought, going down the hallway in front of her.
She continued straight until she come to a big, dark room. She heard movement, and stiffened up. The lights flashed on and two Desians jumped at her. She had guessed something like this would happen and she jumped to the side. The two Desians landed in a pile on the floor. They got untangled from each other and attacked again. She cracked one on the side of the head and he fell like a sack of potatoes. "No, Bob! You'll pay for that!" the other one said.
"Bob? You're kidding, right?" Claire asked, while trying to block the Desian's attack. The Desian's sword cut her light arm. She let out a feral snarl "Okay, now I'm mad." she hissed, then she jumped on the Desian and tried to beat the crud out of him. She continued attacking even after he was unconscious. "No one draws my blood except sensei." she hissed after she was satisfied that he was nearly dead. The looks down at him and notices that he'd been holding a key, "I'll take this...just to make you mad." she said with a satisfied smirk. Then she continued through the room and into the next hallway. When she came to the next room she got a huge surprise...
She now knew what REG meant when she said 'the prisoner'
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Yuan and Yggy: O.O WHO IS IT!
Me: The person who is known as the prisoner is...wait I can't say! It will ruin the fun!
Yggy: Darn...-.- Please review.
Me: I'm so evil...BWAAAAAHAHAHAMAHA
Yuan: You really need a better evil laugh...
Me: But I like it! It's...original.
Yggy: It sounds like you landed on a dog with a rheaird, then kicked the dog, and the dog was still alive and maked that sound from the pain.
Me: ...I don't sound like some smelly dog! An injured cat maybe, but no dog!
Lloyd: ...That was really random.
Me: I like cats better.
Colette: What's wrong with dogs?
Me: ...What don't you people get about 'I. Like. Cats. Better!'
