Hello again!

Here's the second installment of my Symphonia/Earth crossover. Sorry I took awhile to update, I've had no time. Thanks to all who reviewed.

Sichugirl – I plan on it! Heh, heh. Poor Kratos. It won't be just him, either…

Ok, moving on, it's disclaimer time. I do not own any bit of the ToS story or characters. Only my story, and my characters.

…Man, I am tired this morning. At any rate, let's get this chapter over with before I pass out from exhaustion.

A/N – There is a reference to Inkheart in this chapter. If you don't get it, read the book. Good book, you should read it anyways. I don't feel like explaining the whole thing here, so go read it yourself.

TWO WORLDS, ONE SOUL
Chapter 2 - Introductions

"You mean to tell me that you have the real Tales characters unconscious on your deck?" Kyle asked incredulously.

"You think I would lie to you?"

"You have a point there. I'll be right over." Kyle hung up.

Aaron hung up, and turned toward his window.

"Holy crap! What if someone sees them!" he quickly opened the door and dashed over to our heroes.

"They look exactly like they do in the game…Sweet! I wonder if their wings are really made of light, or if they're feathers or something…" Aaron talked to himself as he slung Genis over his shoulder and grabbed the back of Lloyd's collar and dragged him inside. He laid the two of them out on his couch and went back outside. As he was trying to figure out how to lift the very heavy Kratos, Kyle came flying up the driveway on his motorcycle, his hair streaming out behind him.

"Hey Kyle! Give me a hand up here! Kratos is heavy!" Aaron yelled down to his best friend. Kyle took the deck stairs three at a time, then skidded to a halt when he saw whose weight Aaron was struggling to lift.

"Would you please pick up your jaw and then pick up Kratos? My legs are going to give out any second!"

"Oh right, sorry." The pair of them got under Kratos' arms and hoisted him into the house. "But seriously, how often do you get to meet the character from your favorite videogame live and in person?"

Aaron stopped to think about that. How had they gotten here? Was it a random galactic fluke, or had it been something else? "I'll bet that Lloyd was just screwing around with the Eternal Sword and just sent himself here by accident." He mused.

"Hah! What are the chances of that? I'm gonna go get Raine. You wake up the others." With that, Kyle headed back out to the deck.

Aaron wondered what the best way to wake them was. Not cold water, he didn't feel like cleaning the carpet, and they might be a little mad. A light bulb went on above his head.

"Oh, sorry. Hit the switch by mistake," said Kyle, walking in with Raine in his arms.

"I'd be really careful, if I were you. If she were to wake up now…" as if he had cursed it by saying it aloud, Raine stirred and opened her eyes. With her blurred vision, she saw only Kyle's long red hair and one thing registered.

"ZELOOOOOOOOS! Put me down, you filthy pervert!" There was a resounding smack, and Kyle reeled back against the wall, holding his face. Raine's scream had awakened the other three, and they sat up, rubbing their heads.

"Ooh, my aching head…" said Lloyd "What happened?"

"You happened, moron. Where the heck did you send us?" said Genis grumpily.

"Hell if I know." said Lloyd. Seeing Aaron for the first time, he exclaimed, "Who the heck are you?"

A thought tempted Aaron. He couldn't resist. "Give me your name, and I'll give you mine," he said, with more than a slight smirk on his face. Kratos, finally awake, noticed something odd about his smirk. He had an 'I know something you don't know' look about him. The seraphim was worried.

"Hey, that's my line!" said Lloyd, annoyed.

"Oh, we know that." Added Kyle from the corner, as he tried to fend off a furious Raine.

"Cut it out, Raine. That's not Zelos." Aaron said angrily. The Symphonia company reeled.

"How do you know who Zelos is?" asked Lloyd.

"And more importantly, how do you know me?" said Raine, still yelling at the top of her lungs.

"Would you please calm down? I'll answer all of your questions, and you can probably answer a few of mine." Aaron began. "Now, please. Sit down."

Kratos, Raine, and Lloyd took seats on the couch. Genis sprawled out on the floor.

"All right, here we go. You are no longer on Sylvarant. You are not on Tethe'alla either. Oh, I'm Aaron, By the way. The gentleman you so unkindly slapped, Professor, is my good friend Kyle. There's no need for introductions on your part, we both know all of you a lot better that you think. You…" he said, indicating Kratos, "are a 4,000+ year old angel named Kratos Aurion, former member of the Four Seraphim of Cruxis, an ancient hero of the Kharlan War,and just so happen to be that father of that young man in red over there."

Kratos' face drained of all color. "How in hell do you know that?"

Aaron sighed. "Didn't I tell you that I would be getting to that? At any rate, aforementioned young man in red over there is Lloyd Irving, son of Kratos and Anna Aurion, the Eternal Swordsman, and current master of the pact with Origin. You-" he motioned to Genis "are Genis Sage, younger brother to Professor Raine over there, both of you are half-elves, kicked out of heimdall and banished to Sylverant… Kyle, do me a favor and keep her where I can see her, I don't want her dismantling my house."

"Heh. That's the professor all right," said Lloyd, apparently not caring that this man knew so many things about him. Raine smacked him.

"Now, to explain how I, or rather, we know so much about you guys. Not just you five either…we both know lots about Colette, Regal, Sheena, Presea, Zelos, Mithos, Yuan, Botta, et cetera et cetera. We know about the Eternal Sword, the world regeneration, Yggdrasil, Marte, Derris-Kharlanl, and the Great Seed too." Added Kyle, having finally convinced Raine he was not doing was she initially thought he was. "I don't want to sound superior or anything, but…people in our world created everything in yours. Every little bit."

"You're lying." said Lloyd flatly.

"Your people certainly have a high opinion of themselves." Kratos said coldly.

"Who do you think you are, anyways?" objected Genis.

"It's simply impossible." Said Raine indignantly, "We all know that the world was created by the goddess Martel and…"

"Raine…Shut up." Aaron said. "I have told you, I'm going to explain everything. He dodged Raine's flying slap and got her in a headlock.

"Kyle, would you kindly hit the power button on my Gamecube?"

"Sure, buddy." Skirting the struggling but immobile Raine, he pressed the button. As the opening movie started, the company's eyes go wider and wider.

"That's…that's…Can it be possible?"

"What the hell…"

"Interesting…very interesting…"

" Cooooooooooool!" Raine smacked Lloyd with her free leg.

Kyle spoke up. "Look. This is a computer-generated game. Created and programmed by people in our world. Either we somehow miraculously created this thing precisely to the standards of some real alternate universe…"

"You know, Kyle, that's actually not to hard to believe. You ever read Inkheart?"

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with-"

Aaron cut him off. "Fenoglio said that the world he created in his novel had already existed, he just catalogued a section of it in his book."

Genis got it first. "So, your people just made the videogame and it changed a section of what happens in our world?"

"I suppose that's the best way o put it. We didn't create you. Sorry if I sounded arrogant or anything." Said Kyle.

"You are forgiven. I see how you might think that. This is very true to reality." Kratos said.

"Thank you." Said Kyle. "Now, I've got one question. How the heck did you guys get here?"

"Well, uh…I sorta…um, what I mean is…" stammered a very flustered Lloyd.

Aaron sighed. "Let me guess." He said "You, Lloyd, got bored with the monotony of a saved world, and decided to use the Eternal Sword to create some excitement, and accidentally brought yourself and your friends to our world. How, you're not quite sure, but it's happened nonetheless."

"Yeah, you pretty much got it." Said Genis.

"Hey…where's the Professor?" asked Lloyd.

Aaron blanched. "Raine…loose…in our dimension…in my house…" he whipped around to face the Symphonians. "FIND HER! BEFORE SHE FINDS ANYTHING!" Lloyd and Genis stared at him blankly. Comprehending him, Kratos rushed off. Knowing Raine, she would love to dismantle anything of this world's technology she could get her hands on.

Suddenly, Aaron heard what could possibly be the worst thing in the world.

"Oh! Amazing! I must see how this works!"


What has Raine found? What will happen next? Will they ever get home? And what's happened to the ones left behind in Symphonia? You'll only find out if you review, cause I won't write more until you do!