Alright, I fixed everything, and I'm back on track now. Here's the new chapter!

Chapter 3: Attack on Altamira

"When will this stop?" Faith plopped into an armchair with a huff, angry at the thunderstorm for making them go inside the hotel. Lloyd couldn't agree more, they had been having so much fun on the beach. With all that had been going on with the centurions they hadn't gone there in a while. They were all getting along well, but the trio seemed very secretive, especially Kristina. He and the others knew they were the children from the photo, but he knew they had to have a good reason. Lloyd's group did when they were on the journey of world regeneration. So they probably did too.

Colette looked over at her. "Just be patient Faith. It's only been half an hour since we came in."

"Yeah you're getting worse than Kristina," Ricky said. Kristina's head snapped up to glare at him.

"Hey! I can hear you! I am not impatient!" Her two friends laughed, making her more annoyed.

"Are you kidding me? You get annoyed if it takes us more than two minutes to get ready!" Faith laughed.

"Yeah, and you can't read above a fifth grade level," Ricky pointed out.

"That has nothing to do with anything!" Kristina yelled. Genis started to laugh along with them.

"That sounds exactly like Lloyd!" He said.

"Hey! That isn't like me!" Lloyd disagreed. "I can read in an eighth grade level."

"And you're a high school graduate," Sheena pointed out.

"What ever," Lloyd huffed.

"And I'm still trying to teach Kristina the multiplication table," Ricky added.

"Lloyd barely knows his," Genis said.

"You guys are so mean," Kristina and Lloyd whined in unison and crossed their arms.

"Lloyd, can I talk to you in the other room for a minute," Raine asked suddenly standing up.

"Huh? Um, sure, I guess," Lloyd followed her into the next room, confused. She closed the door behind him then began talking.

"Lloyd I'm worried that you're becoming too attached to the children. Remember these are wanted criminals."

"Professor, they have to have a good reason. They're nice kids."

"They've killed, stolen, and broken out of prison."

"So have we." Lloyd knew that the only prison they broke out of was Cruxis, but still. They were awesome kids. He knew it couldn't all be out of cold blood. "We can trust them, I know it."

Raine sighed. "I hope your right." She looked out the window into the other room. The trio looked innocent, but she had learned never to judge anyone by their appearance.

"I am. I know it."

When they walked back in the room, everyone was laughing and joking, each had started their own conversation. Lloyd could see Kristina yelling about something Faith did, Ricky talking to Genis and Colette about some school related thing he probably wouldn't understand, Emil, Marta, and Regal were in a conversation, and Zelos and Sheena were surprisingly able to keep up a conversation without violence. Lloyd smiled about how well everyone was and walked over to see what Kristina was freaking about. Maybe he could talk to them about the criminal record they had. He knew they were good. He could feel it in his gut.

When you have a good heart, you can see into other's, see their truths, their lies, their doubt, their fears. You can see a good or bad heart. It's easy. Lloyd has a good heart, and he feels a need to protect other good-hearted ones. But what he can't learn is that his protection can't always protect them from the bad hearts.

Scene Change

"Are the troops ready Ralf?" Jasmine asked her second-in-command, which was a muscular man with a thick head of brown hair.

Ralf and Jasmine were in a great throne room banners hung off the walls, a great red carpet led to three thrones, a grand chandelier hung from the ceiling, and the walls and floors were a dark blue marble. Jasmine was sitting on the rightmost of three thrones. He stood and grinned.

"Yes, lady Jasmine," he answered.

"Good, send them to Altamira, and attack. But leave the two dual swordsmen for me."

He nodded and ran out of the room to report the news. She stood from her throne and unsheathed her sword, gazing at her smirking reflection.

"This will be fun." (A/N: I was very tempted to leave it at this. But that would be mean.)

Scene Change

While Kristina was yelling at Faith about licking people is not allowed, she saw Lloyd walk over. But before he could open his mouth, screams and crashes erupted, and a pack of monsters shattered the windows, ready to attack. Everyone jumped up at once, and drew their weapons. She, along with some of the other Heroes of Regeneration, ran into the thick of things. Faith stayed back to cover Ricky, and she noticed that the two Sages stayed behind to cast as well. As she was slashing away at the monsters, she made sure she saw each of the heroes of regeneration's techniques. Just in case they ever turned against them. Sheena was swift and used charmed cards, Lloyd was quick and powerful, Zelos could use spells but favored swords, Regal used brute strength, Presea's axe made her slower, but she was very strong, Colette was weaker, but deled a lot of damage at once. Emil and Marta worked together, he was strong and covered Marta when she was casting healing spells.

Kristina ducked under the arm of a bear and stabbed its back. She smirked.

At least use good monsters in an ambush, she thought to her self.

"Behind you Kristy!" She heard Faith's shrill voice shout to her from across the room. Out of instinct, Kristina turned and slashed with her sword. It didn't do much but scratch the metal armor that the man was wearing. She blinked. Had the ambusher's soldiers been hiding in the clump of monsters? She didn't have time to analyze it since the soldier was determined to take her down. She parried each slash of his sword easily, and when they had their swords pressed up against each other, she gave him a quick kick in the stomach to knock him back. When he was on the ground she slit his throat. Kristina smirked again, but was caught up in the arms of a brute soldier. The young girl kicked and struggled against him as he laughed. Then she heard him scream, and he dropped her and fell to the ground. She grinned and turned around, and was shocked to see it was Regal.

"Are you okay?" He asked and helped her up.

"Yeah, thanks." He nodded and ran off back into the fray, leaving Kristina staring for a few seconds. She's not use to strangers helping her. But she shook her head and ran off outside the hotel where most of the attackers were. She found herself ganged up on by a group of soldiers, and found it hard to concentrate. People were screaming and running around franticly to get away. She saw many people killed ruthlessly, and others dragged off somewhere, children included. It made her heart ache to see all the death of innocent people everywhere. Kristina couldn't take it anymore. She fended off a few more soldiers and ran over to a group of people and led them to a deserted corner in the area. She stood protectively in front of them and attacked any soldier or monster that dared to come near. After a while, Faith, Ricky, Genis, and Raine took her place casting in front of the people to protect them. While she fought, she guided any people that she could to the corner. By now it was pouring and the lightning that flashed in the sky was the only light. The thunder did nothing to drown out the screams and the sound of the battle.

Kristina finished off a soldier, and something made her look up. Through all the chaos, she saw her. The leader. She was in black battle armor, sitting on the back of a tame dragon. She flicked her sword high in the air, turning it into a whip, a crack echoed through the air. The young women laughed sadistically. Behind her, a flood of monsters and soldiers came running into the battle. The thief glared and clenched her jaw.

Just when things were calming down, she thought. She ran towards the woman, swords ready, but a scream stopped her in her tracks. She ran over to look out at the beach, and saw a young boy being drove into the water. The waves were fierce, so tall that they covered the whole beach, taking in everything there, including the boy. It was to rough for him, or anyone to stay above water. Kristina franticly looked around to see that no one was looking, and felt the crystal that she covered on her neck. Her black wings sprouted from her back and she flew down to the ocean. The bitter wind made it hard to stay in the air and the waves made it hard to find the boy. But she did, and she placed the sputtering boy on dry land. She hovered there for a few seconds, trying to catch her breath. She heard someone scream her name, and looked up just in time to see the wave that looked black in the lighting sweep down and pull her down into the ocean.

Scene Change

Faith was still in that corner, protecting the people with the Sages and Ricky, and doing her best to heal everyone when she saw Kristina. She had been running to attack the leader when she stopped to run to the beach. It startled her when she saw her friend take out her wings and fly down to the ocean. But she understood when she saw the boy; he couldn't have been more than four years old. What scared her though, was when she saw the wave. It was the biggest one, and looked pitch black in the storm.

"Kristina!" She screamed. But there was no time, because the second she looked is when the wave hit her. She ran to the beach, but the continuing waves didn't let her get far. She screamed her friends name over and over again. Then she heard other screams. The monsters and soldiers ran, as well as the leader. Faith looked around to see what was going on as Kristina washed up on beach. Ricky joined her and started to get her, at the same time the young blond saw the reason for the retreat.

Ricky carried his best friend over and stared at the same place as Faith. They both groaned. It was the Papal Knights.

Don't worry, Kristina's wings will be explained eventually. This is my first battle scene really, so tell me how I did. =)