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Kalas, Xelha, Gibari, Lyude, Savyna, and Mizuti were standing near the Red Flower on the third floor of the Zosma Tower. They had been there for quite a while, and nobody could figure out why Kalas's Guardian Spirit wasn't taking them up to the fourth floor.
"I think Kalas and Xelha should be in for sure, but who else?" everyone heard the Spirit think. "Lyude's the strongest, but Savyna has water and fire, and Gibari has some fire and more time to choose..."
The Spirit kept on mumbling, and although everyone could hear her, nobody was quite sure what she was talking about.
"Um, Guardian Spirit?" asked Kalas, "What are you doing? We need to get up to the roof and stop Krumly before it's too late!" Everyone else nodded in agreement.
"Hold on, hold on! I'm not going to loose to them this time!"
"This time? Them?" asked Lyude, "What do you mean? This is our first time here. We don't know what's going to be up there."
"Um...right...first time...just forget what I said earlier. You don't happen to have any fire or water attacks, do you Lyude?"
"Well, no, actually. There's some Vinegar in the bag, though." Lyude said, still confused about what the Spirit was talkling about.
"The Great Mizuti be possessing Fire and Water bursts!" said the Great Mizuti proudly.
"Um, anyone else?"
"Just leave it to the Great Mizuti!" The Great Mizuti declared.
"Savyna, you have water and fire, don't you?"
"Yes," said Savyna. She wasn't much of a talker.
"And so do you, right Gibari?"
"Yeah, but more water than fire." Gibari responed.
"What are you doing, anyway?" Xelha asked the Spirit.
"Um, nothing. Absolutely nothing." The Spirit responded somewhat defensively.
"Why you be ignoring the Great Mizuti? The Great Mizuti be strong! Powerful! Invincible!"
"Um, about that Miz- the Great Mizuti. I actually don't think you're as good as you think you are..."
"Nonsense!" The Great Mizuti yelled. "I be the strongest fighter here! I be a Child of the Earth!"
"Well, when you first joined, I didn't actually like you all that much. I still don't. Maybe if you took off the mask and proved that you're not some kind of enchanted doll, I would like you more. But since I don't like you, I never use you, and you're a full 10 levels behind everyone else..." The spirit explained.
Mizuti seemed hurt, but before she could say anything Savyna cut in.
"Levels? What do you mean levels?" She asked.
"Um...nothing. Savyna, do you think you could attack slower? I don't ever have enough time to choose your next magnus. Or maybe I should use Gibari..."
"Why not Lyude?" Xelha asked. She was the only one who had accepted that that the Spirit would not explain herself. "He's probably stronger than I am, especially considering his military background."
"Well, I would use Lyude, except Namco had to decide not to give him any Elemental attacks besides Light and Dark. Stupid Namco."
"What's Namco?" Lyude asked, curious about the thing that gave him less Elemental attacks than everyone else he knew. Except Savyna. But for the sake of the story, we will ignore this detail.
"Namco? I didn't say Namco. Why would I say Namco? You're crazy. Go kill that frog thing so you can level up." said the Guardian Spirit quickly. Lyude, more confused now than ever, went off to pick a fight with a nearby frog thing so he could 'level up', whatever that meant.
"Guardian Spirit, I feel like you're keeping something from us," said Kalas calmly. He had spoken surprisingly little, as if the authoress had forgotten about him until just now
"Gee, ya' think?" said Savyna, who had never used the word "gee" before.
Glaring at Savyna, Kalas continued, "The bond between us needs to stay strong so that we can reach our full potential. If I can't trust you, and I do, then-
"Yes, yes, we've gone over this. Has Lyude killed that frog thing yet?"
Slightly frustrated, Kalas continued, "If I can't trust you, then our bond will weaken-"
"Yes, I know. And to tell you the truth, you shouldn't be the one talking after the whole Lava Cave thing. But that's not important. Gibari, exactly how many fire attacks do you have?"
"Only three or four," Gibari said, trying to figure out what exactly was going on.
"Ugh, that's not good enough. Savyna, do you really have to attack so quickly?"
"Yes." Savyna replied, not bothering to explain any more.
"Stupid Namco!"
"What is this Namco?" Lyude asked, having killed all the remaining frog things in the room.
"Namco? What are you talking about. Lyude you have to stop thinking about Namco. What's Namco?I don't know what Namco is. Go kill a frog thing."
Lyude faltered for a moment. "I..You...Namco..."
"Lyude! Frog things! Now!"
"But...I killed them all...and...and..." Lyude was at a loss for words.
"Never mind. Mizuti, give all your Fire and Water bursts to Xelha."
"But the Great Mizuti be needing these to kill Malpercio!" Mizuti protested.
"Give them to Xelha. She needs them. You can have all the Level 1 and 2 magnus cards I never got rid of."
"The Great Mizuti understands! The Great Mizuti be so powerful that she doesn't need the strongest attacks, and Xelha be weaker and needs them more!" The Great Mizuti explained to herself.
"...You know what? You just keep telling yourself that, ok? Now give your magnus cards to Xelha."
The Great Mizuti, thinking she had been correct, happily gave her magnus to Xelha.
"Good. Lyude, take all the Vinegar you can. And are there any Fire items you can use?"
After searching through the bag, Lyude replied. "There's a Hair Dryer, but I think that's it."
"I hate you, Namco."
"What is Namco?!" Lyude asked paranoid-ly, "Is it here? Can it see us?"
"Lyude, you have to pull yourself together, nobody knows what you're talking about. Now, does anybody have any Fire items they can give Lyude?"
"Lyude, I though I had that Hair Dryer a minute ago..." Xelha said.
"Did you steal from Xelha?!" Kalas asked Lyude accusatorily.
"No, I don't know how I got it! I swear!" Lyude said.
"The Great Mizuti does not like theifs!" said the Great Mizuti.
'Uh, guys? I gave it to Lyude earlier and gave Xelha a Chronos Blow instead."
"Huh? How did you take it from Xelha without her noticing?" Gibari asked.
"I do it all the time. I just go to the Menu Screen and-never mind."
"Menu Screen?" Savyna asked.
"What are you talking about, Savyna? You're going crazy. Like Lyude. You guys should go kill a frog thing."
"All the monsters on this floor are dead," Xelha said, unsure of how to defend her companions.
"Just go down to the next floor, then."
"I'm pretty sure we killed everything on the way up," said Gibari, confused that the Spirit didn't already know that.
"Just go down to the next floor and they will have all magically re-spawned"
"I know you're a Guardian Spirit and all, but things don't just come back to life if you leave for a minute," Kalas said.
"In my world they don't, but Namco has decided that they can in Baten Kaitos."
"Namco...Baten Kaitos..." Lyude said, starting to twitch, "What are these things?
"Lyude, you need to stop acting crazy. Go kill a frog thing,"
"Guardian Spirit?" Kalas said, "Not only do we all know you're the one talking about Namco and all, but all the monsters below us are dead. If you really want Lyude to attack more frog things, we need to go up to the fourth floor. So lets move it already!"
"If you don't believe me, go down to the second floor. All the enemies are alive again. I don't know why, but they are."
Kalas, becoming very impatient, stomped over to the moving yellow block and descended to the second floor. The rest of the party waited in silence. After a few moments, the yellow block rose to their level, but Kalas was not on it.
"Maybe we should go after him..." Xelha said.
"He'll be fine. If the clam at the top attacked him, he can take it."
"But, there are no monsters down there," Lyude protested, "Something must have happened!"
"The clam attacked him, that's what happened. He'll be back. Just stay here while I try to decide who's going to fight with Kalas and Xelha."
"The Great Mizuti will do it! These monsters be easy. Weak. Piece of pie!" said, you guessed it!, the Great Mizuti.
"I think I might try Lyude again, even if he doenst have water or fire attacks..."
"What do you mean "again"? We've never done this before."
"Right...never done this before..."
"Where's Kalas?!" Xelha asked, getting more worried by the moment.
"He'll be here in three...two..."
The yellow block rose, and a white-faced Kalas stepped off. "They're back...they're all back. Every one of them..."
"I told you, but did you listen? No. Xelha, give him some Shish Kebabs. And I think Lyude needs one, too."
"I feel fine, I don't think any enemies have hit me in a while," Lyude said.
"Yeah, but you're down about 150 health. Just use a small one and you'll be fine."
"How do you know that?" Lyude asked, "Does it have to do with Namco?"
"I just go to the Menu Screen and go over to your status- I said nothing. You know nothing."
"Menu Screen?" Savyna asked again. She had been unusually quiet lately, as if the authoress had forgotten about her as well.
The Guardian Spirit was quiet for a moment. "It's nothing. Really. Forget about it. There are some things you shouldn't know."
"Look, standing here isn't going to get any-"
"-thing done." Gibari said.
"Why do I feel as if an hour has passed in an instant?" Xelha asked.
"Sorry, it was dinner time, so I paused this."
"What is that supposed to mean?" asked Xelha, finally becoming really frustrated and confused.
"...don't worry about it. Anyways, lets go up to the next floor!"
"Finally!" exclaimed everyone. Except Lyude, who was too busy thinking about Namco and Menu Screens and dinner and the pause-ation of the world to say anything.
The six heroes climbed up the stupid block pyramid and crammed themselves onto the yellow block. The block slowly rose to the next level and everyone stepped off. They looked around for a moment.
"Why were you so worried? There aren't even any enemies up here!" Kalas said, happy not to have to face more magically re-spawned frogs and clams.
"Right, no enemies. Just...keep telling yourself that.."
The group decided to start pushing the blocks into the walls. Kalas decided to put the first one in himself. After it was in place, the floor started moving. After the floor and finished shifting, Kalas, Xelha, Savyna, Gibari, Mizuti, and Lyude all walked over to the other side of the room so that they could push in the next block. This pattern continued for a while because the characters were too dull to realize that they could just have one person stay on a certain side so that they could take turns pushing in blocks and the whole process would go a lot faster.
"Stupid Namco. If these people really existed, I bet they would have figured that out by now." The Guardian Spirit said for the third time.
"What do you mean, 'if they really existed'?" Savyna asked, not liking that her existence was being questioned.
"Namco...please...what is Namco?" Lyude asked, becoming more and more paranoid by the seconcd, "Please...I have to know...Is it here? Please..."
"Pull yourself together, Lyude! You need to be in good shape to fight Ung- forget what I just said."
"Ung? Does Ung have to do with Namco?" Lyude asked, trying to find a message in the word.
"No, that has nothing to do with it. Well, actually, it does, but...just don't worry about it."
"Guardian Spirit? I think Lyude is going to snap soon..." Xelha said while watching Lyude rock back and forth while mumbling "Namco...Namco..."
"He'll be fine."
"But, I really think he might-"
"I said he'd be fine! Now go push that other block into the wall!"
Xelha sighed and walked over to the last block. She pushed it in and everyone waited while the floor moved. The group noticed that the Guardian Spirit was getting extremely apprehensive. Finally, the floor stopped shifting.
"What is THAT!?" asked Gibari, referring to the two giant wooden monsters that none of the 6 characters had noticed until that point. But before anyone could answer, the monsters attacked...
The second (and possibly last) chapter will be posted as long as I get at least 2 reviews. (I have such high hopes. don't I? Haha.) The next chapter will feature Lyude going psycho! You don't want to miss that, do you??? Of course you don't. So review!