"Speaking"

'Thought'

Arte

Chapter 5:

Goros, the Knight General

Last time...

Lloyd, Genis and Guy reached Menosan in search for the elf who gave Genis the Auracite. Within their search for him, they met a scientist named Gerald, a friend of the elf named Heimal. The heroes learned that Heimal was once a villager, until he suddenly attacked the villagers, nearly killing them. He was banished from the village since then. They did not know why Heimal came back in the village, unsuspected.

Soon then, the heroes decided to show Gerald the shard of the Auracite, giving to by Heimal. As Gerald started to observe the shard, holding it with his hand, he suddenly felt a shocking surge through his arm, forcing to let go of the shard. He described the surge as something dark. Before the heroes could know what made him feel that dark energy, an explosion was occured outside of the academy. So, the heroes ran off outside to see what was going terribly wrong.

Upon going outside of the academy, the heroes stopped dead-track at the scene in front of them, making a soft gasp. "No... Not again!" shouted Lloyd.

It was the warriors in lighted, black armors. The pawn warriors, as what Guy explained to them. Along with them were a few warriors in different armors. The Rookie warriors. The ones where Lloyd and Genis fought back in Sylvarant and Tethe'alla. It seemed that the Dark Raiders were attacking Menosan, fearing the villagers and destroying a few of its residence.

"Alright, you filthy rats!" shouted one of the Pawn warriors. "Which one of you has a shard of the Auracite! Our Lord Chaos wants you to be taken in!"

Genis slightly looked at the shard in his hand. "But... But how did they knew about...?" he started to ask.

"Tch...! Just as I thought...!" said Guy, biting his lower lip a little. "They were using some kind of device to easily found the Auracite without any difficulty. So that's one of the reasons why it's so hard for us to find them from the Dark Raiders..."

Lloyd, unable to bear against the scene in front of him, decided the only choice they had in option. "We can't just stay here and do nothing! We gotta save the villagers!"

Genis nodded in agreement. "Lloyd's right! We can't let them destroy the village, like what happened a long time ago..." he said, remembering the story that Guy told them about on Menosan, a long time ago.

Guy nodded, as he drew out his sword in hand. "Ok, guys! Let's give them a beating that they'll never forget!" he shouted, as he charged at the Dark Raiders. Lloyd and Genis followed him, with their swords and Kendama in hands.

The warriors all noticed the three heroes charging at them. "Wait... That man..." said one of the Rookie warriors, noticing Guy charging at them. "So... This must be the Main Security System Unit of Traverse Town..." Smiling at the heroes, he took his focus on them, lifting his arm up, signaling all the warriors to turn on them. "Everyone... Destroy those fools!" The Pawn warriors answered by charging at the heroes, in the exact same response, while the rest of the Rookie warriors stood there, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

Like the last battle, the warriors, a total of 10, took on the heroes seperately. Lloyd faced against four of them and Genis and Guy faced three of them each. In Lloyd's battle against them, one of the warriors charged at him. Lloyd easily founded a weak point and dodged at the side, slashing the warrior's back in an counterattack, as he fell to the ground. The two others charged at the same time, but this time, one of them jumped from the ground and attempted to strike Lloyd down from the sky, while the one on the ground attempted to make a distraction for the air-born warrior. Lloyd founded a flaw in their plan and blocked both of their attacks, both on the ground and the sky. Lloyd pushed the one in the sky off with his blocking sword and pushed the other on the ground as well, slashing him in the process. He then charged at the warrior in the sky, when he landed on the ground. "Take this! Tiger Blade!" When Lloyd was at the close range of the warrior, he uppercutted him with his sword, sending him flying up. He jumped from the ground and slashed him horizontally, before striking him back to the ground with a hard downward slash. He landed on the ground, after defeating the warrior.

He turned to the last warrior remaining in his side. "Heh! What's wrong? You scared to fight me?" taunted Lloyd.

"Grr...!" growled the last warrior. He let his hand out in front of him and a ball of energy was formed in front of his hand. "Scare this, you insolent fool!" The ball of energy eventually turned into a beam, that shot straight at Lloyd.

"Holy cow!" yelled Lloyd, as he quickly placed his swords in from of him, attempting to block the beam. The beam hitted his swords in a blocking stance, but it managed to pushed Lloyd away in a few feet. As the beam stopped, Lloyd changed the stance of his swords back from defence to offense, after having a few small damage from the sudden push. "Whew... That was close. But too bad that won't stop me!" He grinned, as he charged at the warrior with his swords ready.

The warrior cursed under his breath. "Damn it...! Come on, you stupid, slow beam...! Recharge!" he shouted, as he looked at his beam-fired hand, waiting for it to recharge for another blast. But it was far too late, as Lloyd reached the warrior and ended him with a quick slash. "Aaargh...!! Lord Chaos...!!" he said his final words, before falling to the ground.

Lloyd smiled, as he hold out a peace sign with his hand. "Heh heh! Not so tough now, are ya?"

Meanwhile, in Genis' side, the warriors patiently waited for a good moment to strike at, what they thought, the defenceless mage. Genis looked around himself at the warriors and smirked. "Don't underestimate me, you amatures! I'm not some normal kid, you thought!" Genis shouted at them, as he started to cast a spell. It was the right moment for all three warriors to attack, charging at him in full speed. However, they were too slow, as Genis finished casting the spell. "Turbulence!" he shouted, as a gust of wind appeared below his feet. Just as the warriors reached him, the wind enlarged up high, knocking the warriors in the air. Genis smirked once more, as he casted yet another spell. "Fireball!" Three balls of fire appeared and flew straight at the warriors individually, burning them in the fiery depths of hell. "Hah hah! Don't mess with me, just because I'm a kid!"

Meanwhile, in Guy's side, he was surrounded by three warriors, like Genis. One warrior charged at him with a sword in hand. As he reached Guy, he swung his sword horizontally, but Guy managed to jumped off the ground to avoid the attack. He landed behind the warrior and slashed him on the back, making him fall to the ground. "Hmph... Who's next?" taunted Guy to the two remained warriors. One of them let out his hand and a beam was shot out of it, shooting straight at Guy. Guy made no worries for that attack, however, as he moved his sword in front of him, blocking the beam with it. He was been pushed back a little, but no serious damage was made. "Not for long!" Guy swung his sword to the ground and formed a powerful shockwave, which was going straight to the warrior who attacked him. "Demon Fang!" he shouted. Since the arte was slow, the warrior dodged to the side and ran up to Guy, attempting to attack him head-on. However, as he reached to him, Guy quickly went behind him, before the warrior could get him. "How about this! Crescent Strike!" He slashed the warrior upwards, forming a moon on on him. Then, he slashed him downwards and cutted the moon off in half, killing the warrior with it. "Hmph... Is that the best you can do?" he said, smiling.

The last warrior was too scared to stand up against Guy. So, instead of fighting him, he ran back to the Rookie warriors. "Please! Let me live! I don't want to die at the hands of these guys! They're too strong! Please, let me out of this infernal battle!"

One of the Rookie warriors looked down at the Pawn warrior. "... Your wish is at our command..." He answered. But instead of letting him free, the Rookie warrior punched him to the side of his head, as he flew straight to a wooden wall, unconscious. "... You are a disgrace of our lord..." He looked back at the three heroes, giving them a look of interest. "Interesting... You three have fought well against the Pawns..."

The three heroes looked at the five Rookie warriors, readying themselves against them. "Oh yeah? Well, get a piece of us now, you bastards!" shouted Lloyd.

One of the Rookies began to walk up to them, but the other one stopped him from doing so. "... There is no need to attack them..." he said, chuckling slightly. "... The General is here..."

Guy raised an eyebrow, hearing what the Rookie warrior said. "... General...?"

All five warriors stepped back to the side, revealing one person behind them. The person stepped in on the battlefield, revealing himself to the heroes. "Hm... This is impressive... So you must be the three heroes from Traverse Town, whom I heard of recently..." The man let out a soft chuckle.

This man wore a green general shirt and a pair of green pants. He had a half black, half white hair, with a small ponytail on the back of it, a mustache that went down along his cheeks and a pair of black eyes. Guy remembered that man before. "You... You must be...?"

The man smirked. "Ah... General Cecil... A pleasure to have met you once more... And yes... I am Goros. One of the Knight Generals of the Dark Raiders!" introduced the man, named Goros, to the heroes. "And I have heard that you three are responsible of stopping the attack on Traverse Town... I expected nothing less to General Cecil. But you two..." He looked at Lloyd and Genis. "... You two are almost at the same level as General Cecil... How interesting..." He cackled suddenly. "Hah hah! How laughable! You two were only on Terendos for a short while and already, you are capable to stand up against the Pawns! I'm impressed. But not as impressed as defeating me."

Lloyd growled in anger. "Who ask you?!" he shouted.

"Who ask me...? What a foolish question... I have no need to ask you any further of this, pathetic fools."

Guy took a step in, looking at Goros with a slight glare. "Goros... Tell me... Why are the Dark Raiders trying to get the Auracite for? What is their true purpose in them?! What do they want with the crystals...?"

Goros smirked in amusement. "Guy, so curious for all of this... But unfortunately, I have nothing to tell you about. There is no reason to tell you about all of this for now..."

Guy gritted his teeth. "Why you...!"

"Heh! Well now... Do you three have a chance to defeat me? A General of the Dark Raiders? You have no chance against me. You three are merely at a level of a Pawn."

"What did you just say?!" yelled Genis, as he clenched his kendama and gritted his teeth in anger. "If you try and taunt us one more time, you'll be sorry that you'll ever mess with us, you son of a...!"

"Hmph... I have no time to play with you fools..." Goros said, as he turned around from the heroes. He was about to leave, until a small hint went into his mind. "... So... You have the shard of the Auracite..."

Genis widened his eyes, as he looked down to the shard in his hand. "... Yeah... So...?"

Goros turned back to the heroes, with a devious smile. "... I want the shard. Hand it over and you and that village will be safe from harm..."

Lloyd flinched at what Goros said. "Safe... from harm...? What the hell are you talking about?! From what I know, you and your goddamn army attacked my home world! OUR home world! And you think that we should listen to you so you could leave Menosan alone?! From what I know, you're just going to destroy it even if we're giving this to you!"

Goros could only smirked at Lloyd's comment, thinking of how feeble it was. "How inferior... An inferior being trying to save this village... How pitiful..." He chuckled a little. "If you wish... to save this village from the Dark Raiders, such as us..." He stretched out his arm to the side, opening his hand up. Then, suddenly, in a blink of an eye, some kind of ray gun appeared in his hand. "... Then allow me to introduce you to... death..." With this sentence, he charged up the gun and pointed at the three heroes.

Guy suspected it and looked at Lloyd and Genis with warning. "Lloyd! Genis! Be careful! His ray gun could severely damage you! Avoid its attack as soon as possible!" With a quick nod from both the heroes of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla, Guy began to charge up to Goros, redying his sword.

"Hah hah!" cackled Goros. "Always so persistant, General Cecil! But now, it's time to be shot down!" He fired his gun at Guy, as a ray beam came out of it, flying straight at Guy.

Guy managed to dodge the ray in a quick speed and jumped from the ground and into the air, attempting to strike Goros from the air. However, he wasn't that fast enough to get to him. Goros lifted his gun up at Guy and shot a ray beam at him, which got him to the pulp. "Urgh...!!" Guy groaned, as he fell from the sky and into the ground, with the damage he had from the ray beam.

"Guy!" yelled out Lloyd, as he charged into Goros after Guy got hurt.

"Lloyd, wait up!" shouted Genis. Seeing that there was no other way to get Lloyd to stop, he had no choice but to fight as well. "I'll back you up, Lloyd! Be careful!" he said, as he began to cast a spell.

Lloyd continued to charge at Goros. Just only half way there, Goros shot a beam at Lloyd, which he dodged quickly. "Hmph! You think you can stop me? Think again, fool!" Goros said, as he shot another beam at Lloyd. He dodged the other beam and reached Goros, attempting to strike him with one of his sword. However, Goros blocked the attack of Lloyd's sword with his gun. "Hehe! Think again, fool!"

"What...?! Damn, that thing is as hard as a rock!" Lloyd shouted, seeing that his sword couldn't cut the gun in two. He tried to slash Goros in another way with his other sword, as the first one was blocked by Goros' only weapon.

Goros smirked, however, as the gun splitted in two, with the second half blocking Lloyd's other sword. "Hah! Not expecting it, do you?"

"What?! It splitted in two?! But how?!" shouted out Lloyd.

Goros managed to push one of his gun off of Lloyd's sword, making Lloyd to back off a little. He aimed both of his guns at Lloyd. "Say farewell!" he shouted, as his guns shot out multiple of ray at Lloyd.

Lloyd groaned in pain, as the ray beams hitted him in many ways. After the beams stopped firing, he fell to the ground, unable to withstand the pain that he received. "Urgh...! Damn it...! My body...!"

"Lloyd!" shouted Genis, as he was about to cast a spell on Goros. "You'll pay for that, you bastard! Stalagmite!" Even living a few days in Terendos, Genis managed to learn one of his mid-spells.

The ground below of Goros began to form a large crack around him. Sensing something that would come out of the ground, Goros could simply smirk. "A mid-spell? Get serious." Assembling his two guns together to form a single one, he jumped out of the ground before the large, earth spike pillar came out below of him. He aimed at the pillar and shot a few times at it, making it break into hundreds of rocks, from small to large.

Genis was shocked, as the pillar broke into small to large rocks. "That gun...! What kind of gun is that...?!" he said. Before he could react, Goros grabbed one of the large rocks that flew up to the sky with him and threw it at Genis. Genis noticed it quick late and tried to defend himself, by moving his arms in front of him, forming a guard. But as it hitted him, Genis was sent back a few feet away on the ground. "Aarrgh...!!" he groaned in pain.

Goros landed on the ground after his attack on Genis. He looked around himself and could only see the fear of the villagers and the defeat of the heroes. "Heh heh heh... Like I said... You fools are only in a level of a Pawn. There is no possibility for you to defeat me, even with all of your efforts!" He began to cackle evilly at the defeat of the heroes. Then, he noticed Guy standing up from the ground, holding his side with his hand. It didn't look like he was in a good shape. "General Cecil... Fighting back so soon?"

Guy could only pant, as the pain overtook his body and was able to stand up, even in this condition. "Grr... No... I can't give up yet...!" he said.

"Hmph..." Goros could only think feeble of Guy, as he aimed his gun at Guy. "You shouldn't have gone against me, General. It will be the death of you, if you continue to resist." As he said that, he shot his gun at Guy, which the ray hitted him on the head. Guy was thrown back from the blast to his head, as he fell to the ground backwards. "Why do they even called you "General"? You're not even close to a Rookie level. I guess that must be how all great heroes from different worlds ended up becoming weak all so suddenly..." He walked towards the fallen General of Traverse Town. "Look at you... You are the quickest swordman from your world, from what I heard. Now, you're becoming a weak warrior with feeble skills."

Guy lifted his head up at Goros, with some efforts. "Ngh...! Why...? Why are you... Why are the Dark Raiders doing this...?!"

As Goros stood close to Guy, he aimed his gun at him. "Why? Why, you said? That's a laugh... It was our decision to bring havoc in this pathetic world... Once we find the Manacite..."

Guy flinched, as he heard the name "Manacite" from Goros. "... Why are you searching for it...? What is special about the Manacite...? What are you going to do with them...?"

"That is none of your concern, Guy." He said, as he fired his gun at Guy. Guy groaned in pain from the blast. "We have our own ways. And we cannot let anyone stand in our way..." He shot Guy with his gun several of times, cackling all this time just by shooting him while he was down.

Guy could only yelled out in pain from the multiple of blast from the gun. As the firing stopped for now, he looked up to Goros in a painful expression. "... Urgh...! Goros... Tell me...! Tell me, or else...!"

"Or else, what?" Goros responded with another shot, making Guy groan once more.

Lloyd was listening the conversation, while he was down. He couldn't bear another pain coming from Guy. He tried to lift himself up from the ground, with all of his efforts that was left inside of him. "No...! Guy...!"

"Guy... My dear, Guy... You shouldn't be curious of our plans... It's none of your concern... And to make sure that you will shut up from speaking of it..." Goros aimed the gun at Guy's head, readying for a headshot. "... I will put you out of this life... Forever..." Guy tried to move himself out of the gun's view, but with no luck. He was lying still on the ground, without any energy left. "Good bye... General Guy Cecil..." Goros was about to pull the trigger of his gun...

... Until...

An arrow flew straight at him. He noticed it and tried to dodge it, but it nicked his shoulder straight. He let out s small groan of pain. "Grr...! What...?! What is this foolishness...?!" He looked up to the direction of where the arrow flew and, by his surprise, saw someone up on a roof of a house. "What?!"

It was a man, with long, pale blue hair, with a ponytail attached on the back, and a pair of blue eyes. He wore a blue, judo top and a pair of pale brown pants. He also wore a pair of brown boots and brown gloves. He also got an arrow carrier hanging around him to his back. He was seen holding a bow in his hand, as he had shot an arrow at Goros. "Don't you try and kill anyone." he said.

"Grr...! Who do you think you are?!" shouted Goros.

"Who I am? My name is Chester. Chester Barklight. And I am here to stop your terrorism right here, Knight General of the Dark Raiders!" said the man, named Chester.

"Hmph... Do you think a little scratch from the shoulder can stop me?! You have to do better than that to be able to defeat me!" Goros then lifted his gun up and aimed at Chester. "You can say bye bye to your infamous attack!" However, unsuspected to Goros, a slash on the back was made, as he groaned out of pain and kneeled down on the ground. "Aaargh!! W... What?!" He turned his head and saw Lloyd, who was clearly standing up and had his swords in hand, panting out of efforts. "You...!"

Lloyd was heavily panting from the damage he took from the blast of the gun. But he still managed to get up with all of his might. "Heh... Take that..." He slowly smiled.

"Grr...! You...!" Goros tried to stand up, so he could attack Lloyd, but the blow on his back was fatal. He could not stand up in this kind of condition. "Damn it...! How could I have been so... distracted...?!"

The two Rookie warriors ran toward Goros, giving him some assistance. "General Goros!" shouted one of the warriors. "You are injured... Let us take you to safety..."

"It is too dangerous for you to move on... Let us get out of here as soon as possible..."

With the condition that he was in, he had no other choice. "Very well, then..." He looked at the rest of the Rookie warriors. "You three! Take care of the rest! Kill everyone in sight!"

"Yes, General..." answered the three remaining warriors.

Goros looked back at Lloyd. "Hm... That appearance... So... You must be... Lloyd Irving..."

Lloyd widened his eyes, when he heard of his name from him. "How... How did you know my name...?"

"Heh heh heh... You are one of the three heroes that must be destroyed at all cost... You and Colette Brunel will suffer..."

Lloyd widened his eyes even more, at hearing Colette's name. "Colette?! You know where she is?! Tell me! Tell me where Colette is!"

Goros cackled. "I have no reason to tell you about Colette's whereabouts... All I care is that you two will die... Once and for all..." With a wicked smile, Goros and the two warrios disappeared from sight.

"Hey! Come back here and tell me!" shouted Lloyd. But it was too late. Goros was already gone. Gritting his teeth and slammed his fist into the ground, he yelled out of frustration. "AAAARRRGGHH!!! DAMN IT!!!" Once again, Lloyd couldn't learn where Colette was. "Colette... Where are you...?"

While he ignored everything around him, because of not gaining the information on Colette's whereabouts, one of the warriors crepted behind him, an attempted to slay him to the ground. However, an arrow was shot towards him. He noticed it and backed away from the arrow's range, as it struck the ground. "Hey! You there!" Chester shouted out to Lloyd. Lloyd looked up to Chester. "Don't just sit here! Fight!" Thanks to Chester, Lloyd snapped out of his depression and stood from the ground, with some efforts. With his sword ready, he faced the three Rookie warriors.

"Tch...! Alright...! There's no time to sulk around... I gotta fight for this village!" said Lloyd, as he got on his fighting stance.

At the same time, Chester jumped from the roof and landed next to Lloyd. "Hey, you ok? You looked beat up." asked Chester.

Lloyd nodded. "Yeah, I'm alright. Don't worry about me. I can handle things as long as possible."

Chester smiled in encouragement. "If you say so... But..." He pulled out a red gel from his pocket, as he handed to Lloyd. "Take this."

"Wait... Isn't that...?" Lloyd wondered, as Chester handed him the gel.

"That's right. It's an apple gel. Eat it up and you'll be back in full strenght."

"Uh..." Lloyd looked at Chester for the moment, then nodded. "Alright. If it takes the strenght to get back on my feet." He took the apple gel in his mouth and swallowed it, feeling the energy restoring in his body. It is healed, slightly. "Alright! I'm ready!"

"Good. Cause here they come!" Chester shouted, as the warriors charged at them. One of them slammed his sword at Lloyd and Chester, which they easily avoided it, by going to the sides. The two others ran toward the two heroes seperately. On Chester's side, the warrior prepared his hand in a beam shot, as it fired a beam at Chester. Chester jumped from the ground, avoiding the beam, and grabbed an arrow from the carrier and placed it on the bow, stretching the string with it. "Here! Have some of this! Hell Pyre!" He shot off the arrow at the warrior, which turned into a fire shot. The warrior quickly took notice of it and blocked the Arte with his sword. But just as he blocked it, Chester was already gone. Searching around himself for Chester, he didn't notice that Chester was just above him, preparing for another arrow shot. "Hey Up here!" Chester shouted. The warrior looked up above him, but it was too late, when Chester shot another arrow at him. "Gale Shot!" Following the first arrow, he shot several more of them following the other. As the warrior looked up, he was struck on the shoulder by the first arrow. And eventually, got struck by most of them. And the final arrow struck his head, making him fall down on the ground, dead. Chester landed on the ground next to him. "That takes care of that."

Meanwhile, with Lloyd, he was blocking the attacks that the warrior made against him. He had to find a way to get an opening shot and bring an end to that battle aginst the warrior. As the warrior made yet another attempting slash at Lloyd, which he blocked it, Lloyd pushed the warrior off of him and charged up to slash him afterwards. However, the warrior managed to block the attack right after getting pushed back. Lloyd cursed under his breath and jumped back a couple of feet away. The warrior stretched out his hand at Lloyd and an energy is formed on it. "That attack... Uh oh!" Remembering that sort of attack, he ran to the side to avoid the attack range. A large beam was fired and the warrior turned toward Lloyd's direction to catch him in the beam blast. However, the amount of time of the beam was fired had been depleted, as the beam stopped firing. "Now it's my chance!" Lloyd turned towards the warrior and charged up to him. Then, he jumped and spinned himself around vertically. "Tempest!" Using an Arte, the spinning attack Lloyd made charged up to the warrior, slashing it multiple of times. The warrior then fell to the ground dead, after the attack was done. Lloyd landed on the ground with a smile. "Is that the best you can do?!"

After the two heroes managed to defeat the Rookie warriors, only one left standing. They turned to the last remaining warrior. With a quick nod from Chester, signaling for an attack, Lloyd charged up to the warrior, as Chester shot an arrow at him. As the arrow came first, the warrior blocked it, followed by another block from Lloyd's attack, in a quick speed. "Hm...! Lloyd Irving... You have gotten clever...!"

Lloyd smirked. "Heh heh... And you have gotten sloppier! Chester! Now!" Lloyd signaled to Chester for another attack. Chester nodded and he shot off another arrow at the warrior. The warrior turned around and blocked the arrow just in time. But huge mistake. Lloyd managed to thrust his sword into the warrior.

"Argh...! Aaargh...! Lord... Chaos...!" said the dying warrior, as he fell to the ground.

Lloyd pulled his sword from the warrior and smiled. "You picked the wrong guy to mess with."

Chester sighed of relieve, as wiped the sweat off of his forehead with his arm. "Hmph... Those guys sure are tough. Not to mention that they're Rookie warriors of the Dark Raiders."

Lloyd looked at Chester, as he sheathed his swords back inside of his sheath. "Hey... Who are you, anyway?" he asked.

"Oh? Who me? My name is Chester. Pleased to meet you." Chester introduced himself, as he handed out his hand to Lloyd.

Lloyd gladly grabbed it and shook it a little. "I'm Lloyd Irving. Pleased to meet you too." Chester nodded. Right after they shook hands, Lloyd realized a certain something. "Oh no! Guy! Genis!" He ran toward the fallen General of Traverse Town and kneeled down beside him. "Hey! Guy! Can you here me?! Guy!" Guy's eyes were closed. The brutal damage and the exhaustion from the fight worn him out.

Chester walked up to the two of them and saw the condition that Guy was in. "Oh boy... He doesn't look very good... Hm..." He dug something inside of his pocket and pulled out another red gel. The same gel that he handed to Lloyd. "Here. Take this apple gel. Shove it in his mouth and he'll recover slightly." he said, handing Lloyd the gel.

Lloyd nodded, as he took the gel from Chester and placed it inside of Guy's mouth. "Come on, Guy. Eat this. This will heal you, probably..." After he put the gel in Guy's mouth, Guy started to munch down the gel and swallowed it, with some efforts on doing so. After a few seconds, he slowly opened his eyes. "Guy! You're alright!"

"Huh...? Lloyd...?" said Guy, as he looked aroun with his eyes. "... Goros... Where is he...?"

"Goros retreated, Guy. But you're safe. That's a good thing, right?"

Guy slowly smiled a little. He couldn't smile even more, because of the pain and exhaustion that he had. The onyl thing that he could do was nodding. "Yeah... That's a good thing... Really..."

"Good." Lloyd nodded. "Now, let's go get Genis. He must be badly hurt as well." he said, as he stood up from the ground.

"There is no need for that." The three conscious heroes heard someone. They turned to the direction of the voice and saw a man with gray hair and green cloak, holding Genis in his arms. "I already have the little boy in care. There is no need to waste gels, when you can rest for the day."

"Hey, who are you?" asked Chester.

"I am the mayor of the village, Menosan. I am Rekos. And I saw what you all did, in the battle against the Dark Raiders. We thank you for protecting us."

Lloyd showed off his goofy smile and scratched the back of his head. "Heh heh! It's not a problem! We always protect people from danger!"

Rekos nodded. "Allow me. I want you all to come with me in my house. There is something that I like to explain all of you about."

"Explain to us? Of what?" asked Chester.

"You'll see. Now, follow me." Rekos said, as he walked away from the three heroes and went to the direction of his home.

Lloyd and Chester looked at each other, thinking of if it's a good idea to follow him. Then, they looked down to Guy, who tried to stand up from the ground, but with no success. "Ngh... Let's... Let's go follow that guy... He might help us with something... You know...?" Guy said.

Lloyd and Chester nodded, as they helped Guy out to stand up, by lifting each of his arms around them. Then, the three heroes walked off to follow the mayor.

What does the mayor want with them? What is the explanation? What could it be?

End of chapter

Yo, guys! It's me! Anomynous Nin! And I'm back from the long days of hard working school! Now then... Uh... Well, I got nothing to say, so... Uh... Well, there's only one thing to say about.

I'm planning on putting Luke in the main team. But I don't know if it's alright. What do you guys think? Should I put Lloyd in the main team for the rest of the journey? And also, the second chapter of the skits will be set up soon. So stay tune for more of the story.

Well, see ya! And review, please!