An idea struck me when I was playing the Definitive Edition of the game and that resulted me in making a plot for this fic from start to finish. Well, with some temptation to play more in between the plot writing but I somehow managed to finish it anyway. Anyways, here's to my first multi-chapter Tales story!

Disclaimer: Not sure if there are any changes if I truly own the series but seriously, I don't own the characters and only the plot for this story.

Forgotten Mission

Chapter 1 – Insomnia

Two years had passed since Yuri and his friends defeated the Adephagos to save their world. The blastia which had been an important part of the humans' daily lives had become useless in exchange for the safety of their world, but it was the job of the Empire and the Union to make sure that the humans could survive even without blastia. The leaders of the world had already been busy handling the protection of their towns and cities as they could no longer rely on barrier blastia, so they had a few select mages to help with developing a new type of technology to help with people's daily lives.

Proposals were made about how people could utilize the nature's power for their daily needs or how the spirits could be used to power some strange device. Only a certain mage decided to think differently in a way that no one dared to think, but they knew that their research's secrets would led them to a place they desired the least. Either that the origins of their research were meant to be kept secret, or those facts had to be twisted a little. They had to get the patent rights no matter what, because they had been promised the money and the possibility of being a noble.

Just as the mages were working for humanity's sake, the guilds were doing all they could to help other people. Brave Vesperia, the guild praised and blamed for their efforts to save the world by sacrificing blastia was one of those guilds. With the small guild slowly growing due to the fame they earned from their travels, Karol managed to earn them enough money from various jobs to build an office in Dahngrest.

A small two-story building was enough for the small guild to get by, with the first floor as the main office and the second as the three founding members' small bedrooms. Karol was mostly present in the office while training their new recruits as Yuri was mostly helping the people in the lower quarter and Judith was more frequently travelling around the world with Ba'ul. The group would meet once in a while when they had a big job to do together and they would sleep over in Dahngrest before they left the next morning.

The time had come once again for the three founding members and dog to gather at the office, but it wasn't for a job. Yuri had himself chased out of the capital by the knights once more, so he needed a place away from the Imperial Knights. Judith had just finished a minor delivery job and was staying over before leaving again. Karol had just finished with his personal training menu for the latest two recruits and the small office had already been his only home since they managed to buy it.

As lively as the night in Dahngrest was, all the noises weren't bothering the guild's growing leader at all as he slept through the night. Yuri wasn't in his usual night walk mood after being chased by the three most hardworking knights until he managed to sneak into a cargo ship just to get across to Capua Torim. Repede had already fallen asleep ahead as the excitement his human friend had caused had worn him out as well.

Judith was left restless on her bed as she couldn't get much sleep unless she was too tired to stand. Her possible option was to ask Yuri as her sparring partner, but the lack of noise from the room next door was telling her that the swordsman had already fallen asleep. She could talk to Ba'ul until she was tired enough to sleep, but her quiet mind told her that Ba'ul was resting somewhere as well.

It wasn't her first time lacking sleep, but it bothered her that she couldn't sleep when she actually wanted to. She had assumed that once her mission to destroy the hermes blastia was fulfilled, she could live her life without worry and sleep in peace. The destruction of the Adephagos should've made all blastia, hermes type or not, completely useless and completed her mission. It had already been two years since then, but her insomnia still persisted.

Her mission was only to destroy those hermes blastia, right? Or was there something else she had to do but she couldn't remember? Those two questions had been popping out in her head whether she couldn't sleep at night, but she couldn't find an answer to them. She felt like there was something else she had to do and it had to do with Hermes' research, but she couldn't remember anything about it.

Letting out a tired sigh, the Krityan sat up on her bed while hugging her legs as she looked ahead at the spear sitting at the corner of the room. The Brionac, the spear she was holding when she woke up for the first time in Myorzo, the spear she used to defend Ba'ul from the other Krytians' curious stares, and the spear she used to pledge her oath for her mission. The spear was her beginning and the start of her new life after the Great War.

Judith moved over to the edge of her bed and took the spear in her hands, "To fix… something…" she ran her hand on the spear's handle as she held it up to the moonlight from the other side of the window, "There's something else you wanted to fix… right Dad?"

Judith put the spear against the wall before closing her eyes, trying to recall the events most people would try to forget. She didn't care if she had to remember a past trauma as long as she could remember what she should have done next. Every time she did this, however, the only thing which came to her mind was the image of her father standing in his study while repeating the same words over and over.

"I have to fix this… I have to… fix everything…"

The future chapters might contain some pairings and most likely Yudith, unless I decided something else about the romance part midway. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed the short intro chapter!