Yahoo! I'm looking at about three weeks of three lessons (except in Welsh!) and then holidays! I have a new GBA game, Final Fantasy IV (double woohoo); it's awesome! I'm hoping that this fanfic will be done before the holidays, and I can either focus on a sequel or Kratos' life story…K's life story it is, skip a couple of (thousand) years.

I don't own Tales of Symphonia! So get off my back! Or Chad Kroger's Hero.

As we were climbing up Derris-Kharlan, a song came into my mind.

I'm so high, I can hear Heaven. (Heaven, Derris-Kharlan, same place!)

I'm so high, I can hear Heaven.

Oh, no, Heaven. Oh, no, Heaven, don't hear me.

And they say that a hero will save us,

I'm not gonna stand here and wait,

I'll hold on to the wings of the heroes,

Watch as they all fly away.

I was thinking about Mithos, and how he must have been before Martel's death.

Someone told me love would all save us,

How could that be, look what love gave us,

A world full of killing and the spilling,

That world never came.

And they say that a hero will save us,

I'm not gonna stand here and wait,

I'll hold on to the wings of the heroes,

Watch as they all fly away.

Isn't that song so suited to Tales of Symphonia?

We entered the 'rock room' as I have now named it; it's other names being the 'see-saw room' and 'how-the-(beep)-do-you-get up-there?' room. (Twice I've spent ages trying to get to where the rock is; you think I would have remembered it the second time!)

To save us the time and effort of getting up there, I simply flew up and scorched the vines. This caused the rock to fall down on the 'see-saw' and make sure it stayed at the right level that we wanted.

Going through another we arrived in a room that looked oddly like a church, with high, arched ceilings. My brain wasn't working properly, and failed to recognise where I was. I got knocked onto my back by an angel with black wings.

"Nia, concentrate! Here and now!" Stephen shouted.

I snapped back into a state of mind that resembled alert. Then I proceeded to destroy the angel that had attacked me. Following our battle a church bell rung. Then I remembered where we were.

"Shizer. Lloyd, remember that there's an exit over there. If…" I was cut off by the simultaneous flapping of about fifty wings.

"Run!" Stephen said. Most of us got out of the only exit.

Of course, Regal kicked down the pillars on either side of the door, blocking the angels. That's when I noticed who else was still inside the room.

"Stephen! You…you knew! How could you?" I shouted.

"I'll be fine, you know that. You also know what you must do."

"You like to make things tricky, don't you? I…"

"Come on, hurry up!" Genis shouted from the teleport.

Eight little monkeys bouncing on the bed,

Two jumped off and banged their head,

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,

'No more monkeys bouncing on the bed!'

Six little monkeys bouncing on the bed…

I ran on to the teleport. We were in a room with narrow walkways all over. Nothing particularly fascinating in here, so we walked onto another teleport.

This room was quite dark, and I could barely see where I was going.

I summoned fire to the palm of my hand. "That's better." I said to myself quietly.

Then my jaw dropped. In front of me was a walkway, about 5 meters wide. On either side – a bottomless black pit.

"Well, that's original." I muttered sarcastically.

The remnants of a tree root were hanging above the walkway. Not just any old tree. A three thousand foot tree high on Miracle-Gro (don't own!) would be proud of this root.

"Why do remnants have to be so powerful?" I muttered to myself. I was thinking about the remnants of Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII (how many times must I say, 'I don't own!') as well as this tree.

Lloyd tried to walk across, but the tree root suddenly moved and whacked him back the way he came. (Luckily not to the sides!)

"Now what?"

There was silence for a full minute. Sheena had her head down, her face showing confliction.

Finally, Sheena's voice broke the silence. "I think I can destroy that overgrown root. Using the Summon Spirit's and my mana I can create my own version of the mana cannon. When I give the signal, run underneath."

Sheena summoned the Tethe'alla summon spirits and told them to gather their mana in front of her. She then aimed and shot it at the remnant of the Kharlan tree.

"Now!" She shouted.

We all ran across the walkway. We could see Sheena weakening as held up the stream of mana.

Zelos ran back across the walkway, a split second before the root crashed through, stranding both Zelos and Sheena. Sheena's knees buckled and she began to fall forward, into the pit. Zelos jumped, snagging one hand in a rock crevice and grabbing Sheena's wrist with his other hand.

"Sheena, Zelos!" Lloyd shouted.

"Don't worry about me, Lloyd. I'm just resting. I'll climb out and help you take on Mithos. So you'd better save me a piece of the action, okay?"

"You'd better be there, Sheena." Lloyd said before we hurried out the door.

Four little monkeys bouncing on the bed…

Why didn't we stay until after Sheena and Zelos had fallen? Thinking about it, I decided that we didn't want their deaths to be final. Which, of course, they weren't, but I was the only one who knew that.

How would I fake my own death? I looked around at the small group we had left: Genis, Presea and Raine. I definitely couldn't 'die' with Genis, because I had good reflexes. Presea was a no-go, unless I purposely got snagged by the vine, but someone may point out that I could burn it. That left Raine.

Who was next to go anyway?

"This door's locked." Lloyd said.

"I can go through the hole up there. I'm the only one small enough to get through." Presea said.

Compared to the rest of us, Presea was tiny. She was an inch shorter than Genis, even! We agreed that Presea should go through the hole and open the door from the other side.

The rest, we all know about. (OK, I'll forgive WSM for not knowing…) Presea got tied up by a sentient vine, we couldn't help her because the door was closing, and Presea couldn't sever the vine with her axe because she'd used it to keep the door open for us.

And then there were three little monkeys bouncing on the bed…

We came to the computer room. Raine immediately ran to the console in the middle of the huge room.

"Can I help?" I asked. I knew from experience that people working on computers appreciated it if you asked before touching anything.

"I'm not sure that you should…" Raine started.

I typed in something on the computer, and the first door in the multi-layered steel door opened.

"You know what I'm doing, don't you?" Raine asked. I nodded. "Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you."

After another minute of hacking the second stage opened, revealing a monster, which was easily dealt with by Lloyd and Genis. Two corner tiles of the room fell into nothingness. I quickly counted the tiles.

Including the tile that housed the computer there were now seven tiles.

"Nia, Professor!" Lloyd shouted.

"Just a computing error. We're opening the next door."

It opened and another monster was inside.

"Another computer error?" Lloyd asked.

"No, now hurry up and kill that thing!" Raine sounded beyond stressed!

After the defeat of the monster, the floor tiles started falling down randomly, but always leaving one tile, ours.

"You didn't make any mistakes, did you? Dammit, I'm sick of people being sacrifices!" Lloyd said.

"Since when did anyone become a sacrifice?" Raine asked.

"We all chose to help you. We all chose…Lloyd, I wish you luck against Mithos."

"No, I won't leave you!"

"Lloyd, this room will collapse soon. If you are still here when this happens, then everyone who help you, all those lives, will have been for nothing." I said.

"Thank you…" Lloyd said, but didn't move.

"Go!" Both Raine and I shouted.

Lloyd and Genis forced themselves out of the door, as the tile beneath my feet fell…

This was a really hard chapter to write, and if I don't get at least one review, I am going to…(well, it worked last time…) kill Zelos! Wait, I have a threat that I can carry out! If no one reviews, Pronyma won't die!

But every one who has reviewed does deserve some credit, so thank you: Bloody Jack Lover, WSM, Sunfrost, GenisAddict, FiressOfFlames,Scientific Angel, Alexa Aurion andJana-Yggdrasil.