Mr.Who2123: Hello! I'm up at eleven, and about to fall over asleep, but I MUST write!

Kratos: I'm leaving…

Mr.Who2123: NOOOOOOOO!

(Kratos begins to leave, but a 20,000 volt fence is around him, and it hits the ceiling

Mr.Who2123: FOOL! JUST BECAUSE I'M TIRED, IT DOESN'T MEAN I LET MY SENSES DOWN! MWAHAHAHAHA

Kratos: idiot…

Mr.Who2123: We're sorry you had to see me like that (cough, cough) Now, it is time for the disclaimers! Come, my chinchilla Jack!

Jack: …

Kratos: Chinchillas can't talk you idiot…

Jack: You callin' me dumb ya foo?

Kratos & Mr.Who2123: o.O

Jack: Anyways, Mr.Who2123 (Peace out to you) does not own da Tales of da Symphonia, but she dus own her O.C.s, man!

Mr.Who2123: Wow, you're like a gangster

Jack: I'm a gangsta, and I'm in the Chinchilla Crib!

Mr.Who2123 & Kratos: …

Kratos: What do you feed your animals?

Mr.Who2123: hay, fruit, magazines, the internet, and stuff like that. Why?

Kratos: …

Mr.Who2123: Let's begin!

Jack: Yah, let's go, foo!

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Leon widened his eyes at the sight in front of him.

"It's huge! How are we going to find the pendant here?" Leon asked, walking around the plateau.

"We better start searching," Kratos just said, and walked towards the center of the large mountain like structure. Leon sighed deeply, and followed Kratos. A few trees were in the middle of the plateau, but the rest was barren, or a plain. The trees were in a circle, and in the middle was a bush.

"It's probably in the bush!" Leon exclaimed as he ran over there. Leon looked through the push, and then caught a glimpse of something.

"Hey, I found it!" Leon yelled, reaching for the shiny object. Kratos stared at the bush. Vernandi wouldn't place something so special in an obvious spot, unless…

"Leon! No, it's a trap!" he yelled, running after the boy. Leon ignored his mentor, and grabbed the object. Instantly, a strange sensation filled Leon, and then a shock like no other. Thunder came from the circling trees, and sent their fury upon the boy. Leon screamed in pain, and squirmed on the floor. Kratos watched in horror, and looked at the unyielding trees.

Snapping into action, Kratos grabbed the pendant in Leon's hands, and chucked it into the bush. Abruptly, the trees stopped, and looked as if nothing had happened.

"Leon, are you okay?" Kratos asked, almost yelling with the worry in his voice. Leon was out cold, and Kratos tried to calm down. Was he dead, or something else Kratos couldn't help? Kratos dragged the boy to the bags that they'd brought, and rummaged the bag for a lemon gel.

Kratos only had one, but he needed it now. He found the lemon liquid substance, and let it slither down his throat. Leon coughed, and tried to sputter, but he was too weak, and his coughing stopped. After Kratos got the gel down Leon's throat, he didn't wake up.

"Leon! Don't die! I need you to help me! You can't die!" he yelled at the boy. Kratos put his head down to Leon's heart, and listened. No beat.

"Leon! No! Don't die!" he screamed at the dead boy. Kratos felt the tears coming, but he forced them back like he did in Meltokio.

"I thought I could make a promise to myself, but I can't trust myself," he muttered as he set down the boy.

Kratos stared at Leon, and thoughts ran through his head.

"Hey, Kratos! Watch this!" Leon yelled as he tried to do a flip, and failed horribly, and ripped his traveling clothes. "Dang it!" he yelled at the rip on the knee.

Kratos stifled a laugh, and knelt down next to the boy, and inspected the rip.

"It's not too bad," he replied. "You shouldn't be mad about your clothes." Leon looked down at the rip, and shook his blonde head.

"That's not why I'm mad," Leon replied as he stood up and gathered his weapon.

"Why are you mad, then?" Kratos asked curiously, continuing their walk towards the plateau.

"I didn't get to impress you," he muttered, looking down the whole time.

"You don't have to impress me!" Kratos exclaimed. Leon paid no heed and continued.

"I want to impress you, because I want to show you that I can be useful!" he yelled, his spirits lightened in his explanation. Kratos smiled.

"Leon, you are useful just being you. You don't have to prove the world anything. Everyone has a use in life," Kratos answered, ruffling Leon's already messy hair.

"I feel I'm not important, though," Leon moaned, his spirits brought down once again.

"Leon, you're important to me, so you don't have to prove it, you mean the world to me," he smiled at Leon. Leon tried to smile and force back a tear at the same time.

"Thanks, Kratos," he said.

"Leon," Kratos murmured, smiling at Leon. A tear came down his cheek, despite the strong force that held it back. "You mean so much to me. You were the only friend I had." Kratos set Leon down, and walked back into the circle of trees. He was going to find the pendant, and then bury Leon in the bushes, where he died.

Kratos saw the pendant on the bush; it glinted with power and grace. It almost tempted Kratos to just grab it, but he couldn't forget what happened to Leon.

"The trees are protecting the pendant, but how do we stop them?" he asked himself as he walked to one of the trees. Kratos looked at every inch of the tree, and couldn't notice anything out of the ordinary, until…

"A symbol?" he muttered to himself. On the very bottom of the trunk, a small red symbol shaped in a circle was enchanted into the trees. Kratos knelt down, and noticed they were seals that protect the pendant no matter what.

Kratos checked all the other trees, and understood what they were, now. Elemental seals were around all five trees. There was wind, fire, water, earth, and thunder.

"How do I break these seals?" Kratos muttered to himself. This was something yet to be discovered, for the seals were advanced magic, and no ordinary magician could break the seals.

Leon groaned very softly, and looked around. He couldn't even move, and felt weaker every moment.

"Kratos?" Leon asked, but his very limited strength kept him from even saying anything else. Leon moved his hand to his neck very slowly, and rubbed the sore muscles. Then, he stopped, and put two fingers on his pulse. It was dead, and there was nothing else when he put his hand to his chest. What the heck happened?

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Mr.Who2123: This story is so complicated…I have a lot to explain!

Kratos: You've got the dreams, the shadow powers, the heart thing,-

Mr.Who2123; Stop! I know I have to explain, but it will be awhile! Mwahaha!

Kratos: You're evil, you know? You put me through torture for fun.

Mr.Who2123: Maybe…

Jack: Yo, was sup, foo!

Kratos: That chinchilla is on my nerves! (Pulls out Last Fencer)

Mr.Who2123: Chuck!

(Chuck Norris flies in, and kicks Kratos in the legs, making Kratos fall flat in his face)

Mr.Who2123: Thanks, Chuck. You can have my next litter of baby chinchillas!

Chuck: Thanks, and remember kids, if there is a chick that you think is sexy, just make her break her back, and she'll fall in love immediately!

(Chuck Norris flies away as usual, I don't know how, though)

Jack: What da heck?

Mr.Who2123: Life is messed up! Oh, and review!