"YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE INNOCENT LITTLE ANIMALS?" The girl he was serving yelled, attracting the attention of several other people. This girl was not normal in any way, shape or form. To start, she was taller than the average person and claimed to be thirteen. Second, she had brown doglike ears on the top of her head. More like wolf ears, but you could tell they were a dog's ears and not a wolf's. One of them, at the top, bent over a bit. And he couldn't see if she had normal ears underneath her brown hair.
"Kid, it's two hundred Gald for one Orange Gel, take it or leave it," The shopkeeper looked behind her. "I've got a line of people who will actually pay, so-"
"You want to take it outside?" She asked.
"Pardon?" No one in all of Tethe'alla was used to some English slang that existed on Earth. "Girl, just go before I call for the Papal Knights."
"Riiiiiiight, those guys," The strange girl shook her head. "Guess I'll have to spread some nasty rumours about a man who molested the animals he tested his products on…"
"That's just ridiculous," The man said. "Just get out of my shop."
"Fine, fine," she said. "Be that way."
So, she left, but not before yelling at the door. "By the way, my name is not kid or girl. Whoever would name their child that is a moron. My name is Kristen!"
"Damned dream needs to end soon," Amanda muttered as she walked to the House of Salvation that was around Luin and Asgard. "I might as well try to run into the Chosen while I'm still here. Wish I was in Tethe'alla… then I could actually meet some people worth meeting. Like Zelos."
Upon arrival at the House of Salvation, memories of the game's OMG MAJOR SPOILERZ floated back to her, like Martel being a half-elf and the humans always calling the half-elves worthless scum that the Goddess would never waste time on.
"El oh el," Amanda snickered as she walked into the actual building and gaped as she saw Sheena praying in the churchlike building. "HEY! SHEEN-WEEN!"
Stunned, the overly busty woman turned around and glared at Amanda.
"What? You again! Are you stalking me?" Sheena demanded.
"No, but your mom is!" Amanda said, not caring if it made little sense. Anything for a your mom joke.
Then, another group walked in behind Amanda. A rather familiar group. Sheena looked behind Amanda and then began feeling anxious.
"Hey," Lloyd said. "It's the assassin." Does he ever get tired of stating the obvious?
"Why is she here?" Genis wondered out loud.
"Probably for a cheap rest. House of Salvations always have inexpensive stays," Caroline said, then looked at the red-clad girl in front of them. "'Kiss it'?" She read the back of Amanda's shirt, then saw the black cat ears atop her head, almost like her own grey wolf ears.
"Kiss wha-" Amanda turned around, then saw Caroline. At the same time, both of them screamed, 'YOUR MOM' and embraced in a friend sort of way, leaving everyone else present confused.
"You know her?" Sheena asked Caroline, quickly realising that if the saying, 'Birds of feather flock together' was true, she'd get called Sheen-Ween again.
"Know her? Come on! Amanda's like, my one of my best friends," Caroline squealed as she hugged Amanda again. "How did you get here? I mean, this entire thing is crazy! WE ARE IN TALES OF SYMPHONIA."
"Is she also from Palmacoasta?" Kratos asked, wanting to get everything straight.
Amanda was about to reply, 'HELL NO.' when Caroline whispered in her ear that her cover up story until they broke the news about being from a different world to everyone else.
"Um… yes." Amanda said, a grin forming on her face, the kind of smile you get when you're lying.
"So, Sheena," Caroline turned to the assassin. "Want to join our circus- I mean, party? You'd be able to get a closer chance to keep an eye on Colette and assassinate her when necessary."
"What? That's stupid! Why would we let her in our party?" Lloyd demanded.
Raine muttered something in Lloyd's ear, since he apparently didn't catch onto the plan that Caroline had oh-so-obviously made. Which, for all you slow ones, is if Sheena was in their party, they'd know where she was and be able to keep an eye on her? But in reality, Caroline and Amanda just wanted to talk about Zelos in front of Sheena and make comments about attacking with cards.
"Um, no," Sheena said.
"TOO BAD. YOU'RE COMIN' WITH US," Amanda leapt for Sheena and succeeded in knocking her over. She then proceeded to tie Sheena up with a rope that she had found laying around, then began dragging Sheena along to the rest of the group.
"Ok, that's one way to do it…" Genis said. Kratos just stared with a blank expression on his face. Raine had a, 'Wtf' look.
"Um, miss cat ear person…" Colette began, not knowing Amanda's name.
"Her name is Amanda," Caroline corrected.
"Right. Miss Amanda, you shouldn't really be dragging Miss Assassin around…"
"It's Sheena!" Sheena yelled just as Amanda yelled, 'HER NAME IS HAM'.
"Oh, ok… Amanda, please don't drag Sheena Ham around, it's not going to make anything better," Colette finally finished her short little speech.
"I'll stay in your party if you let me go," Sheena said desperately.
"Do I get to see Corrine?" Amanda asked. Caroline squealed, 'Corrine!'
"How do you know about Corrine?" The captive summoner demanded. Amanda and Caroline exchanged shifty glances. When they didn't reply, Sheena said. "Fine. Let me go, I'll show you Corrine and I'll stay in your party."
"YES," Amanda untied Sheena, who got up… and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "FU."
"Well, we can't always have it our way," Kratos said. Then Amanda noticed Raine and Kratos.
"YOU'RE RAINE AND KRATOS," She screamed. Literally, screamed. Everyone covered their ears, but after the scream had ended, uncovered them and were able to hear her next comment "HEY. IN A STORY I WROTE, YOU GUYS HAD KIDS WHO HAD PHYSICAL PROBLEMS AND THEN RAINE DIED."
An awkward silence followed this comment. This is why people who very much like shippers should not end up in whatever book, TV show, game or whatever they support pairings in. Kratos and Raine edged away from each other as Caroline snickered.
"So," Colette broke the awkward silence and changed the topic, much to the relief of the overly 'shipped' Kratos and Raine. "Do you want to join our party, Amanda?"
"What a dumbass question! Hell, yes!" Amanda stood between Kratos and Raine. She was taller than Raine, but shorter than Kratos. "Let's go release some SEALS, baby! TO ASGARD!"
Caroline laughed. "Asgard"
"Asgard."
"Asgard."
"ASS GUARD LOL" Amanda finished the stupidity. "Ok. To the fake Wind- I mean, next Seal."
After staying at the House of Salvation for a night, they set off the next morning with some uneventful travelling. Apparently, Lloyd not taking a bath recently had led to him repelling all monsters and bandits. It was very boring. Until they got to Asgard, where they watched Raine spaz over the ruins, have Lloyd find Linar and Harley, learn some pointless information and then the fight between the party and the fake Wind Seal Guardian ensued.
Raine, Caroline, Amanda and Lloyd were fighting, as Kratos, Genis and Colette stayed off the side in case the four who were fighting now ran out of Life Bottles and were all KO'd. Unlike in the actual game, it's possible to not lose as long as there is one alive party member.
The fight itself was predictable, as half the fighters knew all their enemy's moves and how to dodge them. Lloyd kept using Sword Rain at the request of Amanda, since she had always wanted to know how Lloyd was able to jab that fast. And because she wanted to try out a Unison Attack and Sword Rain was the fastest way to get the Unison Attack Gauge in the game up to max. Since she couldn't see the fake Gauge, she didn't know it was already full.
"UNISON ATTACK TIME," Caroline yelled, throwing two of her boomerangs at the fake Wind Seal Guardian while yelling, 'Haha, take this!'. Raine used Photon and Lloyd decided to use Beast instead of Sword Rain, much to Caroline's amusement. She always did like seeing the little beast pop up out of nowhere. Amanda went last because she had a delayed reaction in the Unison Attack, then used Fireball, yelling, 'AXEL TIME.'
After repeating basically the same thing over and over again, the fake Wind Seal Guardian died. Amanda and Caroline high-fived each other while Lloyd was begging Raine to be healed. Then it was announced that the thing wasn't the Wind Seal Guardian and that the ruin-map thing that the thing had dropped would tell them where to go to find the real Wind Seal.
With their newfound information, the party then decided to stay at an inn while Raine and Linar went to go decipher some ruin. Amanda made a snide comment about what they really were doing all night before they all went into their respective rooms to get some rest.
I'm lazy. But I'm updating. It's the thought that counts, riiiiiight?