Mr.Who2123: Welcome my friends!
Kratos: They're not your friends. You don't even know they're names…
Mr.Who2123: Oo! My name is-
Kratos: Disclaimers…
Mr.Who2123: Oh yeah. I want Chuck Norris!
Kratos: No! The memories of round house kicking!
Chuck: Hello, children! I am a super cool kung fu dude who likes to kick people!
Mr.Who2123: Mr.Norris, this isn't your class, this is the disclaimers
Chuck: alright then. Mr.Who2123 does not own Tales of Symphonia, but she does own her O.C.s, so don't take them, or you'll face the wrath of Chuck Norris!
Mr.Who2123 & Kratos: …
Chuck Norris: Let's begin then!
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Kratos stared at the seals on the trees, until he ran out of ideas on how to break them. Anguished, he walked back to the "dead" Leon.
"Kratos?" a barely audibly voice whispered at the area where Kratos laid down o. Kratos froze, and stared at the alive Leon.
"Le…Leon?" he choked, tears beginning to form. Leon nodded weakly, and Kratos dashed to his friend, and knelt beside him.
"How are you alive?" Kratos demanded, his tears making him stammer.
"I don't know," Leon replied weakly, and smiled at Kratos. "I don't have a heartbeat." Kratos nearly stopped breathing.
"What?" he yelled in shock, his happiness replaced by confusion.
"I know," he said softly. Kratos grabbed his bag, and found a couple apple gels.
"Here," he said, and handed him a couple. Leon accepted, and began to eat the gel. Kratos watched as he tried to eat, but his muscles were weak, and he had trouble swallowing. Kratos slapped Leon's back when he put the substance down his throat.
"What happened?" Kratos asked. Leon made a small shrug, and sat up, his energy coming back.
"When I grabbed the pendant, I felt power, then pain, and the…nothing," he explained, stuffing the second gel down his throat.
Kratos mulled over what Leon just said.
"It might be the pendant, but I doubt it. It wouldn't give invincibility. It might have been something at the temple…"
"What happened at the temple?" Leon asked his voice still weak.
"You passed out, Leon. The druids' presence was too much for you," he replied, his memories coming back.
Leon was walking beside Kratos, especially happy to have learned an advanced technique from Kratos. They were still on their way to the Western Temple, and Leon wanted to fight the druids, despite Kratos' comments on how they won't fight.
"When they come up to me, I'll-," Leon froze, and stared at the bushes to his left. He had heard a rustling, and saw movement in the bushes.
"What is it?" Kratos asked, also staring into the bushes. The rustling stopped, and Leon shrugged.
"It was probably just an animal," he said as he continued onwards. Kratos left as well, unaware of the monster following them.
A few minutes later, Kratos heard heavy footsteps behind him.
"Leon, get back!" he yelled as he drew his flamberge. A giant bear that stood on two feet was behind them, its claws lifted threateningly. Leon, however, had other plans, and wanted to test his strength. Leon ran passed Kratos and straight at the bear with his rapier.
"Take this! Lightning Blade!" Leon thrust his rapier in stabbing position, and struck the bear. Just as it was about to hit Leon, though, thunder came down, and struck the bear, confusing the beast. It lashed out wildly, sharp claws trying to swipe at Leon. He lifted his blade to defend, but the bear just struck the sword away as if it was nothing.
Leon backed against a tree, and braced for the blow. Kratos, seeing his friend was in trouble, lunged himself at the bear, and took the deadly blow.
Leon felt blood trickle down his arm, but it was not his own. Kratos had stood in front of Leon, and took the blow.
"Kratos!" Leon yelled as he grabbed the rapier. Kratos breathed heavily, but smiled at Leon.
"Finish him, Leon," Kratos said, and rolled out of the way from another attack. Leon grabbed his rapier, and struck the bear again, and killed it after the thunder fell upon it again.
"Good job, Leon,"Kratos said, and sat down to tend his wounds. "You're growing strong!"
Kratos' thoughts were scattered when Leon was shaking his shoulder.
"Hey, Kratos, you just kind of blanked out!" Leon said. He sounded a lot better, and Kratos shook his head.
"Sorry, just thinking. Why don't we head to the trees, now?" he suggested. Leon slowly got up, and nodded. Kratos explained how the pendant is protected by the five elemental seals, and Leon listened intently.
"So, how do we break them?" he asked now looking at the seals at the base of a tree.
"I'm still figuring that out, but we can find out," Kratos replied, putting a hand through his hair.
"What's this?" Leon said as he cleared some leaves of the base of the tree. A small round plate of metal was on the bottom, and was curved in the middle to hold a sphere.
"Maybe we put something there?" Leon suggested, feeling the smooth surface. Kratos nodded, and looked at the metal as well.
"Probably an orb of some sort. The only problem is that we have no idea where the orbs are. They could be scattered across the world for all we know," Kratos muttered. Leon sighed.
"It's going to be a long journey, I'm guessing," Leon said, and stood up. Kratos thought for a moment. Where would the orbs be? Kratos walked absently around the plateau, wondering where they could be. Suddenly, a rock tripped the young swordsman, and caused him to get a bruise on his nose. Kratos was flat on his face, and Leon was laughing relentlessly.
"It's not funny!" Kratos protested, but Leon continued his bursts of laughter. "Whatever," he muttered, and then looked back at what he tripped on. A rock was in the grass, it was warm and smooth-warm? Kratos picked up the rock, but it was stuck to the earthy floor.
"Hey, Leon! Come help me lift this!" he called to Leon who had discontinued his fit of laughter, and knelt down next to Kratos.
Together, the friends lifted the rock, which was not a rock at all, but a hidden passageway, down into the deep earth. Stairs were going down, deep into the core of the plateau.
"Leon, I believe we found out first seal," Kratos grinned. Leon jumped down onto the stairs.
"Let's go!" he shouted, and ran down the stairs.
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Mr.Who2123: I know, kind of short, but my wireless mouse wouldn't let me do anything, and wanted to end early.
Kratos: humph
Chuck Norris: Remember kids, if-
Mr.Who2123: Not yet! It's in the end! Didn't you read the script?
Chuck Norris: Maybe
Mr.Who2123: Whatever, anyways, I'm going to sleep on Kratos now
Kratos: …no you don't (pulls out Last Fencer, then thinks) oh, crap…
Mr.Who2123: Chuck!
(Chuck Norris round house kicks Kratos in the right shoulder, and Kratos does a twist, then lands on floor)
Chuck Norris: Don't mess with Chuck!
Mr.Who2123: …you pissed him off, Chuck
(Kratos, who has had enough of Norris, gets up, and begins to kill Chuck with his sword by using the super lightning blade combo glitch thing)
Chuck: Remember kids, if your friend is mean to you, just throw rabid fan girl on them, and you'll feel better! (Chuck dies)
Mr.Who2123: He's getting on my nerves anyways
Kratos: …Review or I'll use the S. Lightning Blade combo on YOU!