Vyser: Well now, I got more than seven reviews. You know what that means?
Zeek: You're going to start the next chapter.
Vyser: Yeah! Now, just a little heads up. There isn't going to be a lot of action in this chapter. I'm mainly going to work on the romance, for a few reasons.
Zeek: Oh joy.
Vyser: Start the disclaimer!
Zeek: Pushy. Vyser doesn't own Tales of Symphonia, or the characters that you the reviewers submitted. He only owns characters like Sane and myself.
Vyser: I hope I do this right. Oh, I also am using a new scene transition.
Chapter 26: Moonlit ReflectionsThe ladies reached the inn after there rather, interesting, experience at the Hot Springs. Lloyd, Zeek, Zelos and Jet were no where to be found, Sane, Genis, Duke, Ryu, Heath and Locke were sitting in the lounge of the inn playing cards. The inn had three floors; there was a lounge, a restaurant, and a gazebo near the water, a library, and a game room. The ladies of the group approach the card-playing guys.
"Where are Lloyd and the others?" Asked Sheena as Sane gulped.
"And who are these guys?" Colette asked.
"Also what were you guys doing!" Yelled Sera towards Sane.
"What is this? Twenty questions?" Commented Duke as Ryu chuckled a little.
Sane quickly explained what had happened, concerning the demon beast, him flying into the air, meeting Duke, Ryu, and Heath and Zephyr retrieving the demonic beast.
"…. And so me 'dropping in' was not really my choice," Explained Sane as he had his head covered. "As for Lloyd and the other guys, it might've just been an accident."
"So where exactly are Lloyd and the others?" Asked Raine.
"They said to not to tell you," Heath replied while shuffling the cards.
"Well, deal me in," Said Elemmírë as she and Sage sat down.
"Me two," Sage added as Heath handed the cards.
Meanwhile on the second floor, we find Lloyd, Zelos, Zeek, and Jet hiding near furniture.
"Man why we hiding here?" Asked Zeek as he stood up.
"Because the girls are after us," Zelos answered as he pulled Zeek down.
"Not that, I mean why here? I'm betting there are better places to hide," Replied Zeek.
"Hey, couldn't we rent some rooms and hide out in them," Lloyd suggested as the other three guys got an embarrassed look on their faces.
"Not a bad idea," Replied Jet. "Only one problem, who is going to get to rent the rooms?"
Later when the sun was down and the full moon was high in the night sky, we find Lloyd sitting on a bench outside the inn looking at the water following in front of him. Unknown to Lloyd, a certain person just saw him and walking towards him quietly.
"Today was just weird," Lloyd stated as he looked up into the starry night.
"Lloyd," Said a familiar voice as Lloyd looked over and saw Colette walking over to him.
"Colette, listen about today, it was just weird and I didn't mean to, you know," Said Lloyd with a huge blush on his and Colette's face as Colette sat next to him. "It was an accident."
"Lloyd, it wasn't your fault," Colette replied as she looked at the water. "Its in the past, let's put it behind us."
"Yeah," Said Lloyd as he dug into his pocket. "Oh, I just remembered this."
Lloyd pulled out the bracelet that Colette was looking back at Forest Grove and handed Colette the bracelet.
"You got this for me?" Asked Colette as she put the bracelet on. "Thank you Lloyd. It's pretty like this site."
"Yeah," Lloyd replied as the two moved closer together.
Sera was at the gazebo watching her own reflection in the water, suddenly another reflection appears in the water next to her. The reflection is Zeek.
"Okay, get it over with," Zeek said as Sera looked a little confused.
"Get what over with?" Asked Sera.
"Look, I know no apology could make up for what I did today," Explained Zeek. "So please take your revenge. And please hurry up."
"All right," Sera replied as she clenched her left fist.
WHAM! Right in the left eye!
"Ouch! Nice left hook," Complimented Zeek as he placed his hand over his eye.
"You okay?" Sera asked, as Zeek laughed a little.
"Yeah, its just I never thought that I'd actually feel something like this," Answered Zeek as he looked out at the water. "Even though it hurts, it feels good to repent."
"Really," Sera replied as she slowly shivered. "Cold tonight."
"Here," Said Zeek as he handed his scarf to Sera. "It's not much, but better than nothing."
"Thanks," Said Sera as she wrapped Zeek's scarf around her and gazed at the water in front of her. "It's a beautiful night."
"I've seen something more beautiful," Zeek replied as he turned his good eye towards Sera.
Zelos and Jet took a chance to go to the game room and play a game of pool. Which was successful, since they played five games with Zelos winning four times.
"Up for a rematch?" Asked Zelos as he was balancing the pool stick in his palm.
"Uh, we might want to leave before we get caught," Jet replied while Zelos had his back turned.
"You're just chicken of losing to me," Stated Zelos as he turned around and saw Sheena and Suzu right in front of him and dropped his pool stick on Jet's foot.
"Ow! Watch it!" Yelled Jet as he was hoping on one foot.
"Hey Zelos," Said Sheena as she cracked her knuckles.
"Oni-Chan," Suzu said. "It's pay back time."
"Not the face," Replied Zelos as he covered his face.
"Haven't I had enough torture seeing you sister at the spring?" Pleaded Jet.
"Nope," Suzu answered as she and Sheena walked closer to Zelos and Jet.
A huge ruckus interrupted the card-game that Sane, Duke, Ryu, Heath, Sage and Elemmírë. Genis was sent to bed.
"Hey keep it down in there!" Yelled Sage towards the game room.
"Hit me," Sane said as Elemmírë passed him the card and his eyes widen slightly. "Four aces."
"Hold on, Ryu is still in," Replied Duke as Ryu laid down his cards and revealed that he had a royal flush. "Nice hand."
"Dang it!" Yelled Sane as he threw the cards on the ground.
"What can I say, Ryu is a master card player," Duke explained as Ryu flew in the air with triumph.
Raine had sent Genis to bed, and was heading to the library to see what books they had. Locke was in the library reading up on some Magitechnology.
"Hello Locke," Greeted Raine as Locke looked up from his book.
"Raine, I did expect you coming," Locke replied as he put the book down.
"Oh yes the mind reading," Said Raine as she sat down.
"Raine, I need to talk to you about something," Locke said, as Raine looked intrigued.
"Of course, go ahead," Replied Raine as Locke smiled a little.
"It concerns what I learned from Skull," Locke explained as he looked down. "I mean like he said, he always leaves his scar. And apparently he left a huge scar upon me."
"Locke I don't know what to say, but," Replied Raine. "No matter how horrible things get, you have to try to accept them and go on."
"You're right, I need to look to the future," Locke exclaimed.
While this is going on, we find Kai struggling to get to the Renegades base. Although, his success, was horrible.
"Dang it!" Yelled Kai as he pushed a branch in front of him. "This would be better if Claws didn't want this once desert to be a forest!"
Kai quickly lowered his hand and got smacked by the branch right in the face.
"Eeeerrrraaaagggghhhh!" Yelled Kai as he slashed the branch from the tree with his sword.
After slashing many parts of trees off, he finally found the renegade's base, unfortunately he was too tired.
"Need sleep," Kai muttered before fell behind a tree and went to sleep.
Meanwhile, inside the Renegade base, we find Yuan fixing his office, while Kratos was looking on some files.
"Dang it, Skull messing up my office," Yuan stated as he fixed the nearby table.
"Yuan, this file here that Skull opened says that you put a rare Cruxis crystal on Sera," Said Kratos as Yuan looked a little worried. "You mind explaining this."
"The thing about that is, no," Yuan replied as he finished with the table.
"That made no sense," Said Kratos when all of a sudden on the computer screen the little Drag appeared. "Who are you?"
"My name's Drag," Drag answered. "Listen, I know that Skull took down many of your Renegades."
"How do you know that?" Asked Yuan as Kratos looked at the screen.
"Well, I was once a Dreamos," Explained Drag as Kratos and Yuan looked a little confused. "Something wrong?"
"Someone of your size was in the Dreamos?" Asked Yuan, as Drag looked angry.
"I was taller!" Drag yelled before he calmed down. "Anyway, after I meet Lloyd's group, I was working on reversing a spell that I had cast earlier. I'll get to the point, I found a few people who wish to join in helping you fill the ranks of the Renegades."
"That's excellent, we could use more help," Kratos said.
"Anyway, the four will be heading their way tomorrow," Stated Drag before the screen went black.
"At least we'll get new Renegades," Said Yuan.
"You still didn't fully answer my question," Kratos said as Yuan started to make his way to the door.
"Well look at the time, I've got to file some other reports," Yuan stated as he quickly ran from his office.
Kratos just sighed as he calmly and slowly followed Yuan.
Vyser: Well another chapter finished.
Zeek: Why did you make me get hit? You are evil
Vyser: It could've been worse.
Zeek: How so?
Vyser: Well, you could have been struck by lightning, or a shark could have bitten you.
Zeek: Whatever, anyway, please review.
Vyser: Not asking for a limit this time. See I'm not evil.
Zeek: Yeah right.
