Back again! Who rocks? Wait, why am I so happy? Oh, well, it's a mystery to me, too.

I don't own Tales of Symphonia! (Even that didn't dampen my mood…maybe I'm sugar high!)

In other news, this was my fastest prepared chapter! (only three days!) Then, the internet computer (thankfully this was just on my computer) which meant that I couldn't post! Waaaaa!

I was standing on a platform, hurtling down a bottomless pit at an obscenely fast speed.

Out of the darkness, a pair of luminous turquoise blobs came, stopped around where Raine was, then shouted over the rush of the air, "Fly, Nia…for Martel's sake, fly!"

Yeah, seemed like a good idea. I manipulated the air around me, so it supported me and then I got some fire out to cast some light on the situation.

Of course, the blue blobs were Kratos' wings.

"Hello." I said.

Yes, my brain was still recovering from a blood rush and couldn't think properly. Luckily, at times like this, Kratos' intellect can cover for two people.

"Don't worry, Stephen's safe, as is everyone else who got stuck in the Derris-Kharlan traps. There's an air duct big enough to walk through, about twenty meters up on the right, so keep an eye out."

I obediently followed instructions and found this air duct. When I was in the air duct my brain had recovered, although it was still high on adrenaline. I was greeted by the rest of the group, minus Lloyd, Colette and Genis, obviously.

"Are we going to save Genis?" Kratos asked coldly, back in mercenary mode.

"Moody angel. Still, I can see why he has all of the fangirls after him…" I muttered, just loud enough for everyone to hear.

Kratos turned bright red, but quickly rushed ahead to avoid everyone seeing. I felt my mission was complete.

Navigating through the many air ducts of Derris-Kharlan wasn't a problem as long as we followed Kratos.

As we were walking, I asked Kratos, "Have you opened the door for Lloyd?"

"…"

"You forgot!" I screeched.

Kratos and Zelos covered their ears because of their angelic hearing.

"Kratos, you go and open the door."

"What about Genis?"

"We'll save him?"

"And how exactly do you plan to do that?"

"Okay, okay. I'll open the door, and you save Genis."

"Do you know where to go?"

"Now's a good a time as any to find out."

Kratos sighed. "Follow this shaft until you can go straight up. Go up, left, left again and-" He was cut off.

"I know which way to go." Zelos butted in.

"Yeah…and he's got the dagger." I added.

Then I noticed everyone staring at us as if we're mental. Which may be true for me, but…

"What?"

"How can you hold a conversation that long, that fast and still understand it?"

I sighed in exasperation.

"I'm going. Zelos, lead the way. Wait…I get stuck with Zelos!"

I followed Zelos all the way to the room, watched him stick the dagger in the door and realised I didn't actually need to come. I hate doing pointless things. Especially if it means coming within ten miles of Zelos.

We rejoined the group and made our grand entrance, saving Lloyd's sorry butt. More precisely, Genis saved Lloyd, by using Fireball on Mithos and I felt like throwing in my own fireball for the sheer heck of it.

"You're alive? But those traps…" Lloyd asked.

"Kratos saved us." I said with a smile.

"Lloyd, let's defeat Mithos, together." Genis said.

We jumped off the platform that was fairly high off the ground and turned to face Mithos. Pronyma stepped directly in-between us and Mithos. Obviously we were fighting her first.

I thought it was slightly unfair. In the game, Pronyma is outnumbered four-to-one. If Stephen and I hadn't interfered, they'd have six-to-one, with Colette still imprisoned and someone holding all the items. Now, though, we have nine-to-one, with Raine holding the items, which obviously don't affect her ability to cast magic. Ten-to-one then…I like those odds!

Let's put it this way: within ten seconds of actual fighting, I no longer thought it was unfair. Turns out that Agarazium really, really, hurts.

(A/N I lost the sheet with Pronyma's attacks, so I had to go all the way back to read chapter 10…that was so long ago!)

I stayed mid-range, hurling 'distracting' hurricane-force winds at her.

Our close range fighters, namely Lloyd, Presea, Zelos, Sheena, Regal and Stephen were all crowded around Pronyma. Actually, Presea got a lot of room, since everyone didn't want to be hit by a giant axe.

"Stephen, Zelos, go mid-range you idiots! It's crowded enough around there." I shouted.

"Nia, you're doing that rounders thing again." Stephen shouted back to me.

I always shouted orders, or encouragement during a rounders game. I was easily the most communicative person on the team.

(A/A/N Rounders is a British version of baseball, from what I've gathered from American movies.)

Once Zelos and Stephen moved, our mid-range fighters consisted of Stephen, Zelos, me and Kratos. (Who was there all along because he's clever.)

Finally, Raine and Genis were casting spells from as far away as possible.

Normally, Sheena would keep to basic attacks, occasionally throwing in a Life Seal to steal some of Pronyma's health and to top hers up.

Lloyd was going mad on techs. His swords were a blur, moving from Double Demon Fang to Tempest in approximately 0.2 seconds.

Presea was just swinging her immense axe. I don't know all of Presea's techniques off by heart, so I watched as she shouted her various tech names and swung her axe. I still didn't catch which one was which, though.

Regal was a similar story, except I knew absolutely nothing whatsoever about his techs.

Zelos and Kratos were doing similar jobs, helping Raine heal, or just casting occasional spells.

But Genis was the one really doing damage. He was pelting Pronyma with spells like Grave, Spark Wave and Freeze Lancer, casting them in a matter of seconds, thanks to Speed Cast, Rhythm and Randomizer, three of the EX Skills Genis happened to have on.

(A/A/A/N If you have a copy of ToS handy, try it! You need Lv1 – Tough, Lv3 – Rhythm, Lv4 – Speed Cast, and Randomizer should be a new EX Skill found because of Tough and Rhythm. Don't say I never give you stuff!)

Raine, was as normal, either healing, or casting Photon. Because Pronyma was weak against light attacks, she was trying to do the latter more often, and let Kratos and Zelos take care of healing.

Five times Pronyma aimed Aqua Laser at me, luckily Stephen brought it towards him those five times.

Finally, when I thought I'd collapse from sheer lack of mental energy, Pronyma fell to the ground, not quite dead.

Our attention turned to Mithos, who was watching the cocoon like structure, in which Colette was currently imprisoned.

"Let her go!" Lloyd's request fell on deaf ears.

We heard the sound of an airtight seal being opened, and Colette's body stepped out.

I thought it was sadly ironic that Colette was never able to escape her fate as a Chosen.

"Colette?" Lloyd asked, daring to hope.

When Colette opened her mouth, it wasn't her voice, heavy with despair, that said, "Mithos, what have you done?"

The tone of Martel's voice made tears well up in my eyes.

"Oh, this. I changed my body to a form befitting the leader of Cruix. I'll change back." Mithos suddenly looked twelve instead of twenty.

"No, not that. I've watched you for four thousand years, unable to do or say anything, watching all the people you've made suffer. I'm going to give this girl her body back."

"You aren't happy with that body, are you?"

"Mithos, listen to me. This is my true last request. Please, reunite the two worlds, and end all this suffering." Something sparkled and everyone sensed Martel had left.

Mithos seemed to be sobbing, but those sobs soon turned into malevolent laughter.

"You just didn't like this world, did you? We'll go away on Derris-Kharlan, somewhere far away."

"I think he's snapped." I muttered.

"What will happen to the world if Derris-Kharlan goes?" Lloyd asked.

"Eventually, with out it's mana supply, everything will die."

Colette started with alarm. "I can still hear Martel's voice. She wants us to stop Mithos, even if…"

"You're lying! Martel would never say that." Mithos argued.

Colette was indignant with being called a liar. "It's true! Martel wants us to reunite the worlds."

"Shut up!" Mithos shouted as he shot a ball of mana at Colette.

I lost Lloyd's angry remark, but needless to say, we found ourselves in battle with Mithos. (again!)

My fastest ever chapter! Three days. So, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the teachers who are on the Duke of Edinburgh and didn't leave work for us to do. I also want to thank the supply teachers for being so understanding, although maybe there should have been a limit to this. (Some people had phones out in class and the teachers couldn't really have cared less)

Review, please. Special thanks to GenisAddict who has now reviewed twice in a row! And thanks to Sunfrost, whom I couldn't reply to since he/she (sorry!) hasn't got a signed username.