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Evelyn Dark: I'm sorry if it's been such a long time since I last posted, but I have pretty good excuses. 1.) My internet was having technical difficulties that we could not identify 2.) The internet guy has no clue what he is doing and 3.) He thought our DSL contraption was broken. Please it wasn't, what an idiot.

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Written in Stone╫

Written by: Evelyn Dark

«Chapter 4»

The Fire Temple

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After my few moments of kissing the ground I got tired of hearing Lloyd asking my why I'm kissing the ground. Getting up and whipping the dirt from my lips I turned around to glare at Lloyd.

"I'm not crazy," I said before turning around and walking away. Taking my way towards the inn I thought it be best to check in and get a room before those people get the good rooms. Rummaging in my little Gald bag I got out silver Gald which I think was 100 or 500 Gald, oh well if it's 500 she just gets a tip. Handing over the Gald piece the woman went back to a set of keys and got one out giving it to me.

"Have a nice night," She said monotony, giving another weak smile I grabbed the keys and looked at the wooden key tab that showed my number.

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Hearing the door slightly creek I freaked out and ran up the stairs to room #3, having my hand on the door knob I was interrupted by Lloyd's voice. I silently cursed to myself, he's the last guy I want to see right now.

"Hey Yomi, I never got to ask you why you're here?" He said, turning around trying to put a bored look on my face I looked at his smiling face and his entourage.

"I came here to sight see," I said sarcastically, and since Colette is such a blonde she actually didn't catch the sarcasm.

"Really! Well we are going to the Fire temple to regenerate the world," She replied with a happy smile on her face. Raising an eye brow I took my chance to hike up my likely hood of joining the group.

"Is that so, then you wouldn't happen to be the Chosen of Regeneration; since you're wearing priestess clothing." I said, hoping that her clothing really is priestess clothing.

"Yup, I'm Colette Brunel." She said very happily, with that smile still on her face but I think it's gotten wider. Greeeaaat. Stepping from behind Colette came Raine, with her orange elven clothing, her black pants, and really strange silver boots.

"So you are Yomi?" Raine asked. What are you deaf, didn't the red guy already say my name. Instead of saying that I just nodded. "Hmmm… I would like to thank you for aiding Lloyd at the times you two were together in the Triet Base."

I just shook my head at her thanks.

"Nah, I should be the one thanking you. If you guys didn't come any sooner I would be dead now. Another lesson I've learn, don't put your arm in front of a swinging sword unless you have something to protect you arm like a shield or gauntlet." I said with a nervous laugh, my arm still aches.

"Yes well you magic was quite helpful," she said, looking at the guys I could have swore they cringed; even Kratos okay maybe just a twitch. Must have been pretty spectacular, I'll ask Genis about that some time later. While Raine and I were talking Colette was able to sneak up on me and take my arm in surprise.

"Would you like to come with us to the Fire Temple?" She asked really sweetly.

Score, this is my chance.

"I wouldn't want to be much of a bother," I said, trying to make it seem that going to the Fire Temple wasn't on my mind or that I want to join their little rag tag group.

"No you won't, I heard from Lloyd that you pretty much took on those Desians on like a pro and that you took on most of them," she said with a giggle. I couldn't help but blush at the praise; it isn't every day that I get praised for killing or knocking out a bunch of half elves. Now that I think about it, I kind of feel a bit of regret for doing that; then it's gone in a flash. I can't really feel any sadness or remorse for someone I have never met or gotten to meet personally.

"It was the adrenaline," I mumbled in embarrassment.

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So after a few minutes of talking it was decided that they would allow me to come, but I have this aching feeling that it won't turn out as I plan it to. And it also happens that since there is only three rooms in this little town inn, that I was so gracious to allow someone to sleep in the same room that I paid for. Not that I don't regret being hospitable it's that who I was pared up with, I would have thought that Raine would have the decencies of at least letting me sleep with someone that's the same sex. But of course she doesn't trust me with the chosen, nor does Kratos—bastard mercenary. Then there is the fact that she rather be the one to share a room with Colette and instead having one of the boys and a bastard mercenary. Then there's the fact that she doesn't trust Kratos to be with either boys—guess she thinks he's a child molester as a side thing for pleasure, and he prefers boys—so who's left with the bastard mercenary. If you guessed me then you just won the lottery prize of a million Gald.

Yeah that's the situation, so here I am laying on my bed after a heated glaring contest between K-Man the boy molester. Of course being the competitive person that I am, I just have to do my best in winning the contest. So after many uses of my 'evil' glare and his use of the 'Aurion' glare, I came out victoriously by cheating.

Yes! Out of nowhere I just had to holler rice cream ball that made even the stone cold seraph blink, grinning victoriously I flipped onto my bed keeping my back with him. Let's just say that our little encounter won't stop me from being on his 'kill' list.

So I'm just laying thinking over my little adventure, even though thoroughly tired my mind just won't stop turning over everything that I've done so far. It's not that even though my mind is turning over things, I still wouldn't be able to go to sleep after anything. I just happen to have this problem that I have to lay in bed for like two to three hours before my mind just shuts down for the night.

So why not just relay over things that I've done and review them. Looking over things that I did wrong and how I could fix it or things that I just didn't notice at the moment. Really strange I know, but if I don't think about it now it will haunt me every waking moment of my entire life.

I just happen to have this problem where I can remember all the horrible things that I have done, things I'm not really proud of; yet I can't really remember much of my good moments in life. I mean I even remember the time when I live near Seattle, Washington.

My mom was driving my sister and me somewhere on a red bridge. Then out of nowhere the lights of huge semi just came out of the fog that was covering the bridge, thankfully my mom swerved from the wrong lane to the right one. That folks was my little brush near death, and I was only about 4 years old.

Pretty remarkable for someone to remember stuff from when they were only 4 years old or maybe 5; somewhere around there. So I just laid there trying to remember those color hues during my times at the Triet base, the white misty place that I met Fate, that thing that tackled me in the forest near my home, how I called Yuan a cherub, the Rheaird……

Wait I called Yuan a cherub, that's why he was shocked. Crap, crap, crap, crap. I just totally gave away the fact that I know he's an angel. He's not going to let me live that's for sure, especially since Kratos came to my aid…Okay he didn't really come to my aid, but it doesn't matter I'm in cahoots with the Regeneration Group. God how stupid can I be, I have to watch my back……

I feel so stupid at that moment, because the synonym for Cherub is angel and seraph. How I know that, well I kind of really got bored and started to read the thesaurus. The upside to it is that I know some pretty cool words that just mean average normal words people say every day. The down side is that because I knew the word I carelessly used it in the right sentence form and meaning. Now I got a 4, 000 year old Renegade leader whose best friends to my roommate, who I'm sure wants to kill me. At least that's what I think anyway, but it doesn't hurt to be prepared for the worst. Who am I kidding; I can't even image the things the man could be thinking now. Now I definitely can't go to sleep. It took a few couple of hours before I finally slipped into blackness as what I call my deep sleep, me just closing my eyes and laying down is my light sleep.

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Finally drifting back to my light sleep, I just laid there listening if my roommate was still there. Hearing nothing I groaned as I got up and looked at his neatly made bed, decided it is best to get up and be nice by doing my bed. If I didn't do I, it would bother me the whole time, I don't do my own bed but when I'm somewhere else I just have to clean up messes I make or be very neat. Too bad I couldn't be like that at home for my neat freak mother's sake, she may have a thing for cleanliness but she rocks. Even though she looks like a sweet fat woman, she is quite the opposite, at least to me; always insulting me all the time. I guess that's where I get it from, who knew.

Exiting from my room I walked up to the jubilant woman at the counter, I just got a dull look from her again as she went back to looking at her nails. I decided that I would ask if she knew where the Regeneration group went, instead of wasting my time by looking for them myself.

"Um… Excuse me; do you know where the Regeneration Group is?" I asked as nice as I could. Looking up at me after a few minutes, minutes that I could be using that she just wasted; she just blinked before going back to examining her nails.

"The Chosen's group left like an hour ago for the Fire temple, they woke up about 2 hours ago and started to have a very heated argument. I'm surprised you slept through it." She said monotony, my eye twitched in agitation.

"DAMN THOSE TWO!" I yelled slamming my balled of hands to the counter, I bet they were having a heated discussion about me joining them. Raine and Kratos will be a serious problem, but if I have some good logical reasoning they can't say no. If I can get the Chosen to verdict for me, I might have a chance. Guess I have to save some more asses to convince them that I will not kill them, hurt them maybe but not kill.

"What is the direction to the Fire Temple," I asked her very peevishly, using my 'evil' eye to intimidate her into talking; hopefully it would work. She just looked a bit startled and thankfully answered my question.

"If you go out into the desert and go around Triet you'll see a huge cliff on the horizon. The Fire Temple lies below it."

"Thanks!" I yelled, running out the door and into the streets of Triet. Right now I need to pack up or I might seriously die of dehydration in the desert. I have a feeling it's going to take me a while. So hitching my way to the stalls, I got rid of the perishable foods that was wasted and bought some more bread and lots of water bottles. Just about 5 bottles, I won't be that thirsty; thanking the guy at the stall I stuffed my food in my messenger bag making sure that the wing pack was still hooked to the side of the bag and headed for another stall for a blanket. I can sleep on the floor flat just fine but I'm gonna need a nice warm blanket for the cold nights in the desert. And the guys in my school say that reading is a waste of time, were else do I get my information on things or places that I might have never met or been if I wasn't sucked into this place. Last stall I hope to go to before heading off is the armor place for some gauntlets, because my last little wound isn't something I can forget. Getting some for my lower legs just for the heck of it I put them on, getting the feel of them before heading off out of the gate.

"Fire Temple here I come," I said as I looked out into the Triet Desert, breathing in the desert smell all ready regretting doing this. But once I set my mind to it, I can't chicken out I've got something at stake here. I was already starting to miss my friends, and they aren't that hard to miss.

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God I hate the desert, I can't wait until I get to Palmacosta. I love humid, wet, rainy, breezy, okay scratch breezy. I don't like the wind, not ever since a certain Christmas parade the wind would not stop blowing. No matter how many times I yelled at whatever god that controlled the weather; either the GOD or Zeus. Not that I'm saying the Roman god is real or anything, but if he were; I'd be pissed if some teenage kept yelling at me about the weather and yelling threats. So I'd be evil and just make the wind worse. I swear every time I yelled it just got worse, then after a few moments it would settle until I got mad again and yelled. That was before the parade route of course, we don't talk when we march; very unprofessional.

So I was pissed, it was suppose to be a nice weather; not a single snow in sight. The wind was pretty bad, I kind of felt bad for the banner peeps. Since they had to push the banner against the "I blow over a flute player' kind of wind and that flute player was me. I wonder how Mrs. Lovington was doing pushing our handicap. Whoa getting, too, far from the topic at hand, the point is I loathe hot weather.

So keeping my eyes on the big huge rock cliff, that should have the fire temple against; as the woman from Triet said. I trudged along the sand, squinting because the sun was starting to get into my eyes. Okay was it the sun rose in the East and set in the West or was it the other way, either way I'm either going East, West, or because of some deranged way the sun either sets in the North or the other place.

Hiking my pants to my belly button I picked up my pace. The reason I did that was, because I seriously need a belt.

My spider senses are tingling!

Stopping for a second I looked around, that feeling of someone watching me hanging over my like a curtain. Sweet I made a simile, anyway; looking around for a few moments I heard the crunch of the sand and twirled around with my leg out for a kick. Leaning down to let my leg go high I put my hand to the ground to support myself.

"Gah!"

"Don't make me Kung Fu your ass!" I yelled going into a crane position, which I only know from playing SoulCalibur 2. I stayed there perfectly, for only a few seconds before I stumbled to two feet. Glaring at the person on the floor, I felt like doing one of those anime sweat drops at the moment. There on the floor was laying a perfectly harmless man, who looked more prepared for this desert trek than I did.

Angela has just earned the title

Knock out trainee

She's good, but she knocks out the wrong people.

Sadly my back kick, I think that's what I did, knocked the poor man out. Looked about 23, relatively young man to be walking around here, and weaponless. I'm younger than him; big deal I have a special duty to do, I can do magic and I have a cool pointy stick.

Grimacing a bit, I bite my lip in nervousness as I walked around the guy and knelt down beside him. Putting two fingers to his neck I sighed in relief when I felt a pulse, good thing I didn't kill him. Not wanting to leave him here, I started to pace while I thought of what to do.

Now then what to do with this guy, I could leave him here to die and be eaten by the monsters around here or I could wake him up then leave him here to fend on his own. I like the first one buuuut; it's not the right thing to do. Now then how to wake him up……. A ha, I can use that water spell. ……………………………….. As soon as I remember the name for it. Crap………Water spout… Water ball… Water blade… YES! That's it Water blade, now then I could use that, but I'll have to dull it down as to not drown or kill him.

Walking backwards a few feet I put my hands in front of me as I closed my eyes trying to imagine calm flowing water, letting that nice cool flowing liquid go from my chest to my hands I opened them to get a glimpse of that purple color as I casted Water blade.

"Water blade." I said trying to make my voice seem calm and gentle, just like I want the water to be. Right from my hands spouted water, which drenched the man. After a few seconds he started to wake.

"Heeeyy …Stop!" he hollered, spitting out the water that got into his mouth as he attempted at stopping the water with his hands—like that's gonna help. Doing as he commanded I shut the passage of the cool flowing liquid from my chest to my hands.

I just stood there for a few seconds, as he whipped the water from his eyes. Rolling my eyes, which I seem to be doing a lot lately, I turned on my heels towards the cliff off into the distance.

I have more important things to do instead of deal with this hooligan.

So I kept walking my eyes trained on my destination, after a few minutes I started to hear the crunching of sand behind me. I bet it was that man, sheesh I didn't mean to hit him but he snuck up behind me. I have serious problems about that, but strangely I have this extra sense that lets me sense a person coming from behind me or anywhere really. Sighing I whirled around with a glare, startling the guy that I knocked out.

"Listen I'm sorry that I knocked you out, but I'm in a rush to get to the Fire Temple and you stalking me isn't helping that my spider senses are tingling!" I yelled at him, he blinked a few times at me in shock. I couldn't take this anymore; I'm very stressed at this moment so I turned on my heels before I really killed him this time. Well it was starting to get dark and I'm pretty sure that walking out here in the desert while it's freaking cold during the night isn't very smart since I won't be able to see the sand in front of me. So I kept going anyway until right about sunset that I arrived at a ruiness place. I could only guess that this is the Fire Temple, not a place that I would visit for sightseeing but some place I must go down to.

Looking around a little suspicious I went to the little cellar entrance to the bottom part of the place, and pretty much the Fire Temple. Making sure to go down the steps safely I didn't want to fall down and damage myself, it's bad enough that after so many times of falling up the stairs in my school I still continue to do that. I'm not a klutz it's just that my foot always catches the steps and make me trip, anyway going down the room I found myself in a very well preserved place-- I'm sure that Raine gawked over. Walking through the halls totally in awe, only when I heard the rumbling of a battle and some yells did I remember that I have to go help them fight that tiger dinosaur fire thingy. Gosh I don't remember the guardian's name, I'm not that good.

Rushing through the halls to the still open door, thank goodness, I ran to find the fire guardian swipe Lloyd into the wall with its tail. Raine was busy healing Kratos' wounds, and Genis was helping Colette up who also looked pretty beat up as well. So Lloyd was all alone to fend for his own, everyone too busy to see that the fire guardian walking over to the unconscious form of red to make the finishing blow. Totally freaking I did the only thing that I could think of to catch its attention from Lloyd.

"THE PHAAAAANTOM OF THE OPERA IS HEEERRRE, INSIIIIDE MY MIIIND," I sang, trying my best for it to sound nice. Well if it did or not I got the Tiger cat thingy fire guardian's attention from Lloyd. For a moment there, I just grimaced. Regretting opening my mouth for the moment, because sure enough I caught the fire guardian's attention. Freaking out for a second, it was thankful for my fear driven reflexes to kick in for me to dodge, with a scratch or two from his horn things that he shot out at me—talk about rude.

Main weakness of fire is water and ice, most likely to make a mark would be ice. Thank you Pokémon.

Thinking over that for a second I was lucky to come up with a quick spell, because I doubt my rapier would do much harm on the thing. Planting my feet firmly on the floor I put my hands in front of me as I concentrated on the spell. Feeling that strange purple hue on me, I let the icy cold chill fill my chest and pushed it to my hands directing my eyes on the ground underneath the guardian.

"Icicle," I yelled with much strength and gusto, soon crystal white ice erupted from the ground under the guardian enough to get the thing. Sadly it didn't kill him, just gave the thing a flesh wound—in not the most comfortable position. Clenching my teeth I got mad again, everything here is starting to make me mad. I guess my little long trek through the desert took a lot out of me, and totally took out the strength of my spell or I just plain suck—I'd like to go with the first one.

Then right there a sharp pain erupted in my head, jerking around I put my hands to my heads in hopes of lessening the pain; no such thing. It was so painfully my vision was starting to black out and I could feel my legs giving out on me.

No not now, not in a middle of a battle. I'm going to kill myself and my chance of going home. Why now!

GET OUT MY BODY HUMAN!

And that was the last thing I heard before going unconscious, talk about suckish.

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Evelyn Dark: OOOOooohh a mysterious voice, whom could that be. Will Angela be able to find a way into the group, will she survive this ordeal, and what did that mysterious person mean by, get out of its body. Well tune until next time as we experience the truth, mysteries, and the untold tale of time.

'My spidy senses are tingling' © Spiderman™

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"Hello!"

Looking around to find the source of the 'Hello' I nearly stepped on Noishe's tail. Backing away quickly I put my hands to my mouth and gaped.

"I'm soooo sorry, Noishe. I didn't know you were there," I said apologetically.

"You should be! I've already had that klutz of a chosen step and fall on me all the time! I don't need to be misused anymore!"

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--Ren'ai, Pi-su, ken Koudou--

--Love, Peace, and Justice--

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