Mr.Who2123: So sorry for the lack of updates…I was playing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn since I got it on Christmas…and I was so obsessed that I beat it in six days…
Kratos: You have no life…
Mr.Who2123: (Grumbles)
Kratos: Well, she owns nothing related to Tales of Symphonia.
Mr.Who2123: Begin!
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The two, separated groups had found each other after they had successfully obtained their materials. They had found each other near the entrance, where they had talked about the feminine coloring of the blue haired Yuan's wings.
After Sanaro awkwardly carried Anna over the ditch while Kratos and Yuan flew themselves, the now united group pulled out their obtained materials. Kratos showed his huge diamond while Sanaro tossed his bottle of white gold in the air carelessly, catching it every time without a sweat.
"Why don't we stay split up to find a dwarf? I'm sure it wouldn't take much time if we did," Yuan suggested as the group made their way outside. It was a unanimous answer of "yes," considering the fact that each needed to stay split up so the rings could be made.
Upon seeing the white light as the exit of the cave, Anna smiled, and walked a bit faster towards it.
"Why Anna loves the sunshine so much, none of us will know…but it is good to be outside after being in that cave," Yuan whispered softly to Kratos, low enough that Anna couldn't hear. There was barely a response, except the flicker of a smile and a slight nod that anyone would have not noticed, yet Yuan had learned to look for these hidden reactions from his friend, or the Seraph would've thought Kratos was deaf by now.
Once outside, Anna was pounced by two giant canines, each covering her with a flurry of licks. Only when the 'dogs' saw that Kratos and Sanaro were out as well did they stop their attack, and Noishe approached Kratos while Annule did the same with Sanaro. They made a move to knock over their friends like they did to Anna, but the Seraphim were prepared, and merely pet them instead of falling over.
Anna looked up to the sky, seeing it was morning, and that the night was spent in the cave as they searched for their specified materials.
"Should we rest for the day or move on?" she asked as the canines settled down.
"I'm not tired," Sanaro blurted.
"That's because we're angels, stupid," Yuan retorted. Sanaro merely replied with an "Oh…yeah."
"The question is…Is Anna tired? She's the one who's not an angel, you know," Kratos added. The woman shook her head, walking next to Sanaro.
"Let's go right now," she replied, and Kratos nodded. They parted ways, in the same groups as before with Sanaro, Anna, and Annule while Kratos, Yuan, and Noishe were in the other. Before leaving, Sanaro's group decided to go to Sylverant while Kratos' group chose to look in Tethe'alla. Yuan quickly pulled out a small device, giving it to Sanaro.
"I kept this in case we would need to travel between worlds," he said. Sanaro took it hesitantly, confused. "It's a wing pack with a specially designed ship I made. It can travel through the rift between the worlds using the power of the Summon Spirits, and there's a special compartment in one that could hold Annule." Sanaro thanked him, and said goodbye to Kratos and Yuan, while Anna parted by giving Kratos a warm embrace and waving to Yuan.
Sanaro and Anna immediately opened their wing pack, revealing two machines with wings and a booster on its ends. There many, but very simple controls, and a small energy gauge on the right, showing it was completely charged. One was larger than the other due to a cage-like contraption on the end, made to hold a very large canine.
"Well, shall we try out this thing?" Sanaro asked, approaching it. Anna hesitantly nodded and stepped towards her machine, which was colored blue, and sat in the surprisingly comfortable seat. Sanaro was on his silver colored one while Annule flew into the cage, finding it comfortably padded as well.
"It looks like Yuan is really into comfortable stuff," Anna noted as she sat back in the padded seat. Sanaro nodded, and pushed the ignition. The machine rumbled, making very little noise, however, and rose slowly in the air. Sanaro grabbed the steering bars, making him turn right. Anna lifted up and followed his action, turning the bars right. He turned around, hearing a whine from Annule. Apparently, the wolf liked it better when he was flying in control.
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Yggdrasil trusted no one to do anything anymore. His two best friends were gone and had betrayed him, and the Cruxis leader felt there was only one more person he could trust; Sanaro, his spy. He was always there, hidden, and watching out for Yggdrasil.
"I need Sanaro to look for those two," he muttered. He retreated into his quarters, which no angel dared entered, and sat down. The room was large, decorated intricately like it was a king's. His bed had thick, red sheets which were soft as a lemon is sour. Old, oaken wood was used for his desk and chair, red padding over the chair. There was also a large collection of books, organized by color on that grand bookcase. Whenever the Seraph was mad, which was basically all the time, he vented his anger by organizing his hundreds of books. They have been ordered chronologically, alphabetically, and by color many times. Once, he even organized it by how many pages were in each book, or by alphabetically order of the authors.
His mind set, Yggdrasil approached a white washed wall in his room, and knocked on it twice, but so lightly that it was nearly impossible for him to hear.
This was the call for Sanaro to come down and do Yggdrasil's bidding. However, the call was unheard, and no one came. Usually, a hatch in the ceiling opened, and Sanaro would be there, kneeling before the leader, ready to do his bidding. However, the hatch was unopened, uninhabited now for weeks. However, it was weeks since the Cruxis leader had asked for the former spy.
He waited, and when there was no appearance or sign that Sanaro was there, the cruxis leader knocked on the wall again, just as light as before. There was again no response. Gritting his teeth, Yggdrasil clenched his fist, filling it with white, deadly mana. He threw the power at the near invisible hatch, blowing a hole in it. Particles of wood, small and large, flew everywhere in his room, falling to his floor with loud noises.
Looking up, Yggdrasil saw the small, modest room was empty, except for a small note which lay on the tiny bed. The leader flew up, through the hole, and snatched the note. By this time, Pronyma was at Yggdrasil's door, knocking softly and asking if he was alright. The Seraph ignored those callings, his whole mind focused on the tiny note in his hands.
"Yggdrasil,
I am leaving, due to one reason. You care nothing of and trust no one, so I can't care or trust you. You sacrifice lives like they don't matter, and I can no longer help you do this. I am sorry, but Martel's life is not more important than any of those other lives that you have taken so carelessly.
So, I'm leaving to join with Kratos and Yuan. I just want you to ask yourself this, however…is what you're doing truly right? Or are you too selfish to see that what you do is pure evil? Think about that.
Sanaro
P.S. – You suck."
Upon reading this, Yggdrasil became livid. He crumbled the paper, and chucked it against the wall, the force of the blow so strong that it made a hole in the wall, causing another loud crash.
"Sanaro…You BETRAY ME AS WELL?!?" he screamed, and his power grew tenfold in his rage. The floor began cracking under his feet, and the room began shaking madly. The many books fell out of the shelves, littering the room. The chair fell over, cracking under the power of the cruxis leader.
Pronyma heard the hundreds of crashes, and slowly backed away from the door, rethinking that it would be better if the Cruxis leader vented his anger by himself, and not through obliterating the Desian leader. She floated silently to her room, writing up reports that she would have done in a few days; the reports were due next week, but she didn't want Yggdrasil to have any reason to get mad at her.
It was a day after Yggdrasil had discovered his most trusted personnel had left him, and now, he was sitting on his bed, his head down against his bent knees. Yggdrasil's arms held his knees together, and the whole image of him was one similar to a depressed child, which he was in a way.
Among his sadness, Yggdrasil looked up, his ice blue eyes looking at the crumbled note on the floor in another room.
"…And I do NOT suck, Sanaro!" he complained, and fell back into silence.
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Mr.Who2123: And there it is…sorry once more, but blame my Wii and my brother for getting Fire Emblem. Please review!