Even if only one, I thank my reviewer Freaky! I feel better that I don't have absolute ZERO... --
Anyways... I think that I should have a muse... not the commonly used Kratos sooo...
I know! My favorite guy person!
Ganz Rothchild!
Ganz:... Wh...why me?
Because I'm totally a chubby chaser. xD
Ganz:... O.O
I was kidding. Anyways... I neglected to do this on the last chapter sooo... do the disclaimer.
Ganz: Mi--
NOT the real name!!
Ganz: Oh... yes, quite right. The owner of Tales of Symphonia... and Radiata stories... is not Rika here, she simply writes this fanfiction for the entertainment and vie-
actually, that's enough. They want the story.
Ganz: Ah... yes, right then. Carry on.
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Raine and Presea
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"It's BEAUTIFUL!!" that gleam was in her eye. They twinkled with fascination and she watched in even more intriguement the people coming in and out of the automatically opening doors. "Absolutely wonderful!!" she watched as people came down the stairs and as more people entered the other rooms.
Presea remained silent.
They went upstairs into the library, and the Professor was scanning the text books rapidly, absorbing the information with in-human speed. (well... not that she was a full human but still...) "What an intereing culture! what advanced studies of the elements!" she exclaimed to herself.
Her 'Ruin Mode' was set, the professor immediately ran towards the front desk, that gleam still evident. "Excuse me..." she started, not fighting the small grin that plastered her lips.
"Hmm..." Presea decided on ignoring her, turning from her and walking down the stairs. Deciding to explore for herself, she started heading towards the sliding doors. She only jumped slightly at their reaction to her approach. "interesting..." she blinked, having shown emotion for one of the very few times.
Walking into the room, it appeared to be a cafeteria. She watched someone exit another door, so she went through the door they just came out of.
There was a small, bluish-tinted room with three doors, she chose the one in front of her and continued on.
"A staircase..." she stated, staring down the spiralling steps that dissapeared behind the wall beside it.
"E-excuse me!" A young-sounding voice came from behind her.
"..." the girl turned, before she could react, there was a collision and she found herself on her back, barely propped up by her elbows.
"..." Presea had no reaction to the blow, the other person, however, was in a heap of dropped books and papers.
The pink-haired girl watched the other person, who had long brown hair tied up in a ponytail, she wore a blue and white schoolgirl outfit with white tights.
"M-my glasses!" she blinked, touching her face lightly, she rose from her position and started feeling around for a wall, walking in circles, "C-can you maybe... help me-whaaa!"
Falling down again, face first in the ground, the girl lifted her head enough for Presea to see the red mark that it left.
Presea blinked, looking down at the ground. The girl spotted the pair of large, round glasses. She walked forward as the other girl got up again. Presea bent down and grabbed them from the ground, she placed them on the girl's face for her before she could bump into her again.
"Hm..." a small, rare smile graced Presea's lips, "Now that's better, isn't it?"
There was a long pause, and the brunette's face kept getting warmer.
"Y-y-yeah, thank you." she blushed, taking a step back. The girl hesitated, "My name is... Leona, what is yours?" she asked hopefully, bowing to her.
"Presea."The axe-holding girl replied.
Leona seemed to be a little surprised by Presea's steangth in holding such a... large weapon.
'She's such a cute kid...!' Leona blinked, 'How can she be so mature and... rediculously strong?!'
Presea watched as she came back to her senses and picked up all of the papers and books that she dropped.
"Um..." Leona started, "thanks again, and... I guess I'll be off!" she said, turning and walking down the winding stairs.
"...Likeliness of tripping a second time: Seventy four percent." Presea calculated, waiting for that second crash.
"Aaaugh!" Leona cried, having dropped all of her text again.
Presea looked around for someone to help, before shrugging when she seen nobody and walking upstairs away from the crash.
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"And... your race please." the man asked, waiting for her to reply. He held his clipboard in his lap. He had brown hair that was sleeked back with a few grey streaks. He called himself Cecil.
The professor hesitated, "I... I'm... an elf." she lied.
"You're lying."
A little shocked by his sudden response, Raine blinked, "But I'm not..."
"If you were any sort of Elven, it would be dark-elven. Which is... technically half-elf." He glared, "you can't lie to me."
The corner her lip twitched, "All right..." she confessed, "... Yes... I'm a half-elf..." the woman said, "So what do you plan on doing to me?" she sighed, standing up.
The man blushed at her choice of words, "I... well..." he blinked, scanning her briefly, "I-I was planning on giving you a job..." he said, scribbling down 'Dark-elf' on the interview sheet.
Raine was shocked into silence, "..." her eyes were wide with surprise, "...you were... going to give me a... job?"
"Well yes. I still am," he cleared his throat as he composed himself again, "that is ah... if you want one here..." he looked up at her patiently.
'They don't... hate half-elves here?' Raine found herself thinking.
...A long pause.
The silver-haired professor found her lips parting with disbelief, 'But... this isn't Tethe'alla or Sylverant... It's likely that they don't have desians here.' she thought, nodding ever-so-slightly as she confirmed to herself.
"Yes, I would like a job here... or at least until furthur notice." she said.
"Oh? you're not going to permenantly live in this town?"
"I'm afraid not. You see... I'm searching for something with some companions of mine and we have no money to fund the trip yet. We also have no idea how far away we will have to travel in order to achieve what we're searching for." she said.
'The millions and thousands of money we have right now... aren't considered real money here. We need something called 'dagols' and we don't have it.' Raine thought, glancing at the ground briefly.
"Ah..." Cecil blinked, looking down at his clipboard for a moment. He pulled out a drawer in front of him and rummaged through it.
It took a moment but he finally found what he was looking for.
"Ah! Here you are." he handed a folded up piece of paper to her.
"...What is this?"
"It's a map." he said. "There are two of them there, a map of the area surrounding the castle and a map of the surrounding regions. I'm afraid I don't have a map of the castle though..." he said a bit sheepishly.
Raine hesitated, "I... Thank you..." her fluent, melodic-sounding voice whispered.
"Don't mention it." Cecil nodded. "But... also, we have a temporary place for you to live while you stay here."
"Hmm?" Raine's ears perked up as she listened. "You...do? What is the cost?"
"It's free for people who are of service to Vareth Institute of magic." he said, leaning on his desk.
"... I thank you again." she said, "when should I be here to work?"
"Well, since you are already a certified teacher, you should be able to go over these lesson plans and be here tomorrow at about five A.M correct?" he said, lifting up some books and pushing them towards her on the desk.
Her face lit up a bit, "...Yes."
"Good. I expect to see you here first thing in the morning." he said. "And... I have someone to escort you to your new apartment." he said.
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Zelos and Sheena
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"Wow... you actually impressed me for once... even if it as a bit shameless..." Sheena watched as Zelos stuffed the dagols and supplies into his bag with difficulty. "You managed to get yourself... One million two thousand and four hundred dagols within one hour. That's a new record for you." The ninja teased.
"Well... I am quite irrisistable." he sighed, a half-smile playing on his lips.
Sheena shook her head, "...Anyway, we still have to check out the castle like you wanted, right?" she asked. "I can look around that place that you were to scared to go near when I'm not with you anymore." she said.
"I was not scared! I just seen some chicks who looked like they wanted to ravish my pure, innocent body..." he sniffled.
"Wouldn't you have liked that?" Sheena raised an eyebrow, grimacing.
"Well... if they didn't look like they were masochists who wanted to chain me to a bed... or if they didn't look like they just killed someone..."
"..." Sheena gave him a blank expression, "... you would have liked it."
"..." Zelos didn't reply, instead, he turned and started walking towards the castle.
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"Sir, if you're here on official business, you should head to the reception room to the left." the heavy-guardsman said.
Zelos gave them an unbelieving look, "who do you think you're talking to? I'm the chos-"
Sheena slapped a hand over his mouth, "Zelos..." she leaned in closer by his ear, "you don't know that there is such a thing as 'chosen of mana' in Radiata." she whispered, "for all you know, it could mean something else..."
Zelos made an almost-pouting expression, "... yeah..." he grumbled, walking, with Sheena, towards the doorthat lead to the reception room.
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"You're all late..." Regal pointed out, as the group came together in the agred meeting place. "...What did you find out?"
"Mister Kain said that I can be a priestess!" Colette cheered.
"In training." Genis corrected, "he said you could train to be a priestess if you agreed to join Olacian Order." he said.
The girl paused, "ah... yeah! So I can still be connected to the gods! Even if the godess Martel isn't really a godess... He said that you must offer your prayers every day!" she said. "It... it doesn't have to be for Martel... she's only Mithos's sister after all..." the blonde gave a sad expression, recalling when they learned the truth.
...There was a pause.
"Ah... Genis..." Raine spoke up.
"Hm?"
"While we're here, I have enrolled you in a very nice institute."
"What?! are you serious?!" Genis grinned, a bit ecstatic, "they let half-elves go to the good schools?"
"The people here don't have desian troubles." Raine pointed out. "So there's also no need for hating helf-elves." she said.
"Cool!"
"And also, I'm a temperary teacher there now too."
"What? You're going to be my teacher again?" Genis looked a bit let down.
"Is there a problem with that?"
"N-no, ma'am."
"Hey, Sheena..." Lloyd started, "Kratos got a job as a mercinary again, you should check that out too." he said.
Looking at Lloyd, Sheena blinked, "I already have." she said. "I'm a bandit for the Void community."
"A-are you serious?" He got into a surprised position, a bit aghast.
"Well... yeah, I can't let my skills go to waste here..."
"...Y-yeah..." he agreed.
"...Maybe you should join Void too."
"NO!" he immediately screamed.
"...?"
"A-ah... oh... I mean I... had bad experiences there is all..."
"Well you're in luck, buddy." Zelos spoke up.
Lloyd looked at Zelos, "what do you mean?"
"I mean... there's something called the 'knight trials' tomorrow and the day after in the castle." he said. "I already signed you up... no need to thank me..." he said, closing his eyes and sighing with a smile.
"Without asking me first..." Lloyd mumbled, not surprised. "Well... what are the knight trials?"
"Well, it's where they hold a tournament and they choose someone to become a knight." Zelos explained, "the winner gets to be under the command of some big-shot... and they go on missions, which sometimes involve going out of the castle area and into the surrounding regions." he said, smirking, "which is why I signed you up. We can safely explore around without being under suspicion... and while having reasons to enter certain places." he said, pausing.
"There's a place called Dwarf valleeey..." he sung, narrowing his eyes.
"Dwarf valley?" Lloyd's eyes lit up, "woa cool!"
"Yeah, I heard that they don't allow enterance unless you're there on business." he said, "which is why you should get involved with the knights... they just might end up with a reason to go there." he said.
"And since dwarvs are really good with forging weapons and swords and stuff..." Lloyd started.
"It's a chance, but they might know something about your sword, Lloyd." Raine finished for him
"Yeah... hey, that was a good idea, Zelos!"
"What can I say..." The red-haired chosen shrugged.
Umm... that was kind of long, but I had to set the scene and stuff.
Ganz: Yes, setting the scen of the story is alws important... but I have to say, where are you going to put that girl Presea?
Well... I have... plans... for her.
Ganz: Plans? What do you mean?
Weeeell... like... you know, stuff...
Ganz: I can't help but be a tad bit confused by what you're saying.
You'll see...
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