Vyser: Well, now thanks for the reviews. I quite all right about what you guys said, though, I'm not so sure about Tech.
Tech: 'Smashing everything in sight' I'M NOT AN OLD GEEZER! I AM ONLY 30! AND THE REASON WHY I'M SO STRONG IS BECAUSE I REPLACED MOST OF MY BODY PARTS WITH MACHINES!
Zeek: Shouldn't we stop him?
Vyser: He needs to vent his anger, anyway, I checked the reviews and it appears that you reviewers seem to want the Forest's Secrets!
Zeek: Vyser doesn't own Tales of Symphonia, or the characters that you all submitted. He just owns the Characters that he made.
Chapter 14: The Forest's Secrets"Forest Grove seems to be the best way to go," Said Zeek.
"How do you figure that?" Asked Lloyd.
"Would you like to go to a place that has fire in its name?" Asked Zeek.
"Point taken," Said Lloyd as the group began to walk towards the south.
Unbeknown to our heroes, a small floating camera is hiding behind a tree watching our heroes. We now return to Techno City, where we find 9 watching a screen that has the picture of Lloyd's group.
"Well they're heading towards Forest Grove," Said 9 as he begins typing something on the keyboard and the screen changes to a screen that has Claws on it. "Claws I presume."
"Tech? Oh wait, you're one of those Tech androids aren't you?" Asked Claws. "What do you want?"
"I have surveillance that leads me to believe that Lloyd's group is heading in your direction." Said 9 as Claws nods, "Also before Tech entered the containing unit, he wanted me to ask you if you got the new test machines."
"Delivered earlier, and don't worry I got an idea to deal with Lloyd and his companions," Said Claws as the screen went black.
Meanwhile back with Lloyd's friends, the sun has finally risen over the horizon. The group is walking the field, most exhausted from the constant battles. Let's listen on what they're saying.
"Hey, Genis, didn't this used to be the way to Tiret?" Asked Lloyd who was rubbing his forehead.
"This is the way, but it could have changed when everything else changed," Answered Genis.
"Makes as much sense as anything else now a days," Said Raine.
"Maybe we should try to find something to eat," Said Colette.
"Let's get something when we get to the town," Said Genten.
Soon, after much more walking and complaining, the group finally makes it to Forest Grove. When they get there, they're amazed to see that the town is actually covered with trees. The buildings are carved into the trees; flowers bloom the streets, many people doing their own different things.
"Wow, this place is beautiful," Said Colette as she knells down to sniff some of the flowers.
"To think that a dessert was once here," Said Sera.
"I think I can like it here," Said Luna as someone's stomach rumbles.
"My stomach says, let's find someplace to eat," Said Jet as everyone begins looking around for a restaurant.
When the group finally finds a restaurant, they enter and eat. Outside the restaurant, a muscular cloaked person is sitting down reading something from a folder. An hour passes, and the group finally leaves the restaurant, the cloaked person follows the group to the nearby inn. When night falls, almost everyone in the group is asleep. Almost. We find Zeek, waking up from a bad dream.
"Why another nightmare?" Thought Zeek as he sees everyone else asleep. "I need some fresh air."
Zeek then dresses himself in his normal attire, then leaves the room. He doesn't notice that he's not the only who left to get some air. When Zeek leaves the inn, he finds Luna standing outside.
"Luna, why are you up?" Asked Zeek.
"I just needed some to get out of the room," Said Luna as she turns her head to the sky. "Let me guess, bad dreams."
"Yeah, it's the same that I always have," Said Zeek.
"I sometimes wonder if maybe, there are other Wolven out there," Said Luna.
"I'm sure there are," Said Zeek.
"Well, there is always that guy named Claws," Said Luna as Zeek sighed.
"Its late, I'm going back to bed," Said Zeek as he was turning to head back into the inn. "You coming?"
"In a little," Said Luna as Zeek shrugged and entered the hotel.
Just as Luna was about to head back into the inn, a black cloaked person blocks her way.
"What do you want?" Asked Luna as she reached for her weapon.
"Relax, I came here not to fight, but rather to offer a deal," Said the Cloaked Person as he walked away from the door. "If you want what you truly desire then you will follow me."
As the figure walked away from the inn, Luna looked at the inn then at the cloaked person. Luna thinks for a second and follows the cloaked stranger.
"My plan is going smoothly," Thought the cloaked person as he led Luna into the clearing in the forest, which was probably the park. "I see that you chose to follow me."
"What's this all about?" Asked Luna as placed her hand on her lance.
"I couldn't help but over hear your conversation," Said the Cloaked person. "I heard your name is Luna, I know that you are a Wolven."
"How'd you know?" Asked Luna.
"Because, I'm a Wolven," Said the cloaked person, as Luna looked shocked.
"Really?" Asked Luna.
"For our blood, would you help me?" Asked the cloaked person.
"Alright sir, what is it that you want?" Asked Luna.
"Please, no need to be so formal, please, call me Claws," Said Claws, with the cloak still over his head.
The next morning came too soon, when everyone woke up Luna was nowhere to be found.
"Hey, guys, have you seen Luna?" Asked Lloyd.
"Don't look at me," Said Zelos.
"I saw her here last night," Said Zeek.
Just then Luna enters the room.
"Luna, what were you doing?" Asked Sage.
"Just going for a walk, so what are we doing today?" Asked Luna.
"Good question, what are we doing?" Asked Torii.
"Well, maybe we should take this opportunity to explore the town," Suggested Elemmírë.
"It seems calm enough," Said Sheena, "It seems to be the best plan."
The group then breaks up into four groups. Lloyd, Colette, Genis, and Sage were going to check out the east part of Forest Grove, Zeek, Torii, Sheena and Suzu were going to the north, Raine, Elemmírë, Locke, and Genten are taking the south, Sera, Zelos, Jet, and Luna have the west. They were going to meet in the middle of town when done. Lloyd's group found the shopping area, and was checking out some of the various stores.
"What's this?" Said Lloyd picking up a pack of cards.
"Looks like trading cards," Said Genis as he took the pack and looked at the cover, "Hey Lloyd, doesn't this look like Claws?"
"Well, I guess we know who villain of this area is," Said Lloyd as he looked around. "Hey, where's Colette and Sage?"
Colette and Sage were at another store looking at some charms. Colette was looking at a yellow bracelet that had a star on it.
"This looks nice," Said Colette, "What do you think Sage?"
"Looks of high quality," Said Sage as Lloyd and Genis were entering the store.
"There they are Lloyd," Said Genis as they approached the two girls.
"Lloyd, what do you think of this bracelet?" Asked Colette.
"Well, it's pretty nice," Said Lloyd as Colette put the bracelet down.
"We should get back to the others," Said Colette as she, Genis and Sage were leaving. "Are you coming Lloyd?"
"You guys go ahead, I saw a sword charm I like," Said Lloyd as the others left.
As soon as the others were out of sight, Lloyd quickly grabs the bracelet and heads towards the counter.
"I'd like to buy this," Said Lloyd as he paid the shopkeeper behind the counter. "Thanks."
After buying the bracelet, Lloyd quickly hides it in his pocket and races to catch up with the others.
Meanwhile, on the west side of town, Sera's group found a temple like structure and was looking inside. On the inside of the temple was a huge statue of a wolf howling towards the ceiling.
"The sign says here that this statue was dedicated to the fallen Wolven," Said Zelos as he was reading a sign.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Asked Sera.
"I guess so," Said Jet, "Still it is very impressive."
"It's now or never," Thought Luna as she walked towards a door on the other side of the statue.
"Hey where'd Luna go?" Asked Sera.
"Over here!" Yelled Luna as the three headed over to her.
"Why do you keep disappearing?" Asked Zelos.
"Guys, it says here that behind this door tells about the past of the Wolven," Said Sera as she pointed towards a sign next to the door.
"Let's check it out!" Said Luna as she grabbed Zelos and Jet's hands and pulled them into the room Sera then followed.
The other three groups meet up in the middle of town. Zeek's group had been to what was a museum that had all sorts of forest related art. Raine's group found a library about many different things about the forest.
"Hey where's the other four members of our group?" Asked Genten.
"Perhaps we should try to find them," Suggested Locke as the group heard a familiar laugh.
"That can't be who I think it is, is it?" Asked Zeek as everyone looked behind them to see Claws wearing some forest green clothes and had earrings on his ears.
"Long time no see," Said Claws, "How long has it been since we last met each other?"
"Claws, to what do we owe this unpleasant visit?" Asked Genis as everyone went for they're weapons.
"If you want to find out, then follow me," Said Claws as he began to run to the west part of Forest Grove. "If you dare!"
Everyone was a little nervous, but decided that they should follow Claws. They found him in front of a temple, as if he was waiting for them. Behind him, the doors were closed.
"There's nowhere left to run Claws!" Yelled Lloyd as Claws just laughed.
"Yeah for you," Said Claws as he snapped his fingers. Suddenly, four walls rise up around the group. "And if you think that's something, then watch this!"
As Claws snapped his fingers again, three wolf like monsters jump off of the temple's top and land in front of the group. The three wolves' hair colors were red, dark brown and auburn. Around their necks were three collars with dark crystals on them.
"Say hello to my pets, and thanks to the dark spirits, they're even stronger now!" Yelled Claws as the three wolves began to charge.
Vyser: Well, this chapter was hard to write.
Zeek: Why is that?
Vyser: One, I had to change quite a few things, and two, Tech keep on trying to write hate letters.
Zeek: Oh, boy. Please review.
Vyser: See ya next time!
