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To Recover

Disclaimer: I do not own Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World but if I did then if you chose Zelos as you mate, Lloyd and Zelos would have ended up together.

Summary: After the failed rescue mission, Raine advises Emil to take Marta and Ratatosk to somewhere where the Tetheallans won't find them. Emil ends up taking them to the hot spring to get their mind off of the murder, but it turns out those assassins have other plans…

Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama with some Suspense

Pairing: Emil/Marta, Regal/Raine, Lloyd/Zelos with minor Sheena/Colette, Genis/Presea and Emil/Ratatosk

Warning: Shonen ai, swearing, and violence

Another long awaited chapter LOL.

Emil was waiting in the room he ordered at the hot springs waiting for Marta and Ratatosk to return from their individual baths. The past few days were horrible. Marta would not stop crying over her dead father and Ratatosk wouldn't stop blaming himself for not keeping his promise…even though it was Emil that made the promise that he would prevent Commander Brute from being executed. Ratatosk knew this was going to happen, but it didn't change the fact that his mood dropped considerably upon Marta becoming a wreck. She shut down when she was forced to accept that her father was dead and not coming back.

It got so bad that the group worried for Marta's overall health thinking she might do something stupid again. Raine ended up suggesting to Emil to take them both away from Meltokio and away from the discrimination that was behind the city walls. The green haired summon spirit took the offer and forced them both out of their room and onto the Rheairds. The hot spring was far away from the capital and Zelos gave the man in charge a heads up for his guests.

The soldiers have been looking for the trio since, but they didn't bother checking at the hot springs. Even if they were safe until the group could clear the chaos that happened, it was going to be a while before they recovered from the emotional trauma. Even the warm hot springs wouldn't be able to get their minds off of the hell they had seen.

Emil knew he was being a coward when he refused to speak to Marta about the issue. Trying to the subject made it worse. He had never seen her so distraught in his life. Knowing that what he said wouldn't get through to her, he ended up seeing Ratatosk after the latter tried his best to comfort her and failed miserably.

"Umm…Ratatosk…?"

"What the hell do you want?"

The green eyed summon spirit should have expected him to snap at him. Those sad red eyes though showed that he was suffering though…

"Don't…blame yourself for what happened…it was my fault…"

"It was your fault!" Ratatosk snapped as he grabbed Emil by the scarf and pushed him against the wall. "Why the hell did you make a promise you can't keep? Now Marta is in that state and there's no way to snap her out of it!"

"I did my best!" Emil responded rather calmly. That pissed his twin off even more as it made Ratatosk want to strangle the green eyed summon spirit. "Besides, Commander Brute knew he wasn't going to make it out of this alive. If he didn't die a few days ago, he would have been executed by now with little to no fuss. He warned Marta, but…"

"…So you're saying that Marta had this coming?"

"…"

"And you're supposed to be her biggest support…and yet…you couldn't even fulfill the one request she wanted."

"!"

Ratatosk released Emil's scarf as he turned away.

"W-Wait, where are you going?"

"I'm going to go train. I'm tired of staying cooped in here like I'm under house arrest. I'll probably be back around dinner time."

"Wait!"

Emil tried to reach out to his other half but he was gone in a flash. He exited the room they shared rather quickly like that time. Emil sighed in defeat as he rested on his bed. He felt like the incident a week ago was happening again with Ratatosk growing distant from him and everyone else again. It wasn't his fault that Commander Brute died…it was just bound to happen. Then again, the way he died and his final words did bug him. What was it about a red rose was he trying to say? It made no sense and it was obvious that the person who killed him wanted to keep him quiet. Something told Emil that something big was going to happen and Commander Brute's death was only the beginning.

The blonde couldn't think of anything else though. He was tired from the feelings he had stuck in his chest. He wanted to speak to Tenebrae about it, but chose not to. It's not like he was trying to comfort the other two who needed a friend in deed…

…I'll just go to sleep…

Going to sleep was a bad idea. Emil woke up in a black darkness that was so black that he couldn't see his hands in front of him. He heard a familiar scream coming from one direction.

"Marta!" Emil shouted as he rushed in the direction of her voice. He stopped when he saw a man with white hair and beautiful white wings that gave him light in the dark abyss. He had Marta in his possession with a crazed look on his face. He seemed to have talons as they were placed at her throat.

"Emil!" She cried out as she struggled to break free from the man but failed. His grip on her was too strong.

The green eyed summon spirit took his sword out and pointed it at the man. "Let her go whoever you are!"

The white haired man gave a disinterested look at Emil as he looked at the girl. "You dare point your sword at me? You have guts…but then again, if you're part of him, I wouldn't be surprised that you would defy us."

"Us?"

He chuckled as a response as he held his girlfriend hostage. "Oh, you didn't know there were two of us?"

When he said that, another figure emerged from the shadows. He had one gold eye with the other covered behind his bangs. He looked to be the exact opposite of the white haired man. Where he looked angelic and brought light to the darkness, this man wore all dark clothes and dragon wings that concealed him inside the darkness with only his single gold eye that shined just as bright as the man in white. Emil's focus wasn't on his appearance. In his arm, he held Ratatosk hostage. His other half unlike Marta looked like he was just in a battle with him all battered and bloodied. He tried to reach out to Emil and call out to him, but he was too weak to do even that.

"Ratatosk!"

The two men just chuckled, as they stood on opposite sides of each other ready to kill their hostage.

"It's not that hard to defeat us." The black haired man said with a chuckle as he held Ratatosk close. "All you have to do is impale us with your sword."

"Of course, the minute you kill one of us, we'll kill your precious someone." The white haired man finished as he held Marta closer.

"So, who will you choose?"

Emil didn't know what to do. What was with this sadistic decision? He couldn't choose between his beloved and his twin. They were too important to him.

The two men just chuckled evilly as their laughter started to fill the abyss. Emil looked down and noticed that there were roots growing from underneath him. He jumped back, but when he did, he saw the roots go over to the two men and their hostages. The two men ended up throwing the two into the roots. The roots ended up tangling Marta and Ratatosk together hoisting them up in the air.

"Marta! Ratatosk!" He called out as he hacked at the roots trying to get to them. With each one he cut though, more kept growing in front of him until it was impossible to advance anymore.

"Looks like you won't be able to choose after all. Keh heh heh…"

As Emil hopelessly fought with the vines, he could hear both of them screaming for help. He didn't know why Ratatosk would scream, but since it was his dream and what happened recently, anything was possible. Emil ended up losing his sword in his frenzy causing him to fall to his knees. Not being able to advance anymore, he ended up letting a skyward scream that ended up waking him up in the real world.

Emil woke up to an explosion outside. His head shot out of bed and he looked outside to see smoke.

"Lord Emil, get up!" He heard Tenebrae shout as he hovered over him. "Lord Ratatosk and Lady Marta are in danger! They need your help!"

"W-What is happening?" Emil questioned as he searched for his sword.

"Apparently the Tetheallan knights have found you despite the groups attempts to prevent them from finding you. There are many soldiers, but if you all work together, you can hold them off."

"Dammit! Why now?" Emil cursed as he took his sword and rushed out the door. Why did that awful dream had to happen around this time? It was messed up…like it was a prophecy that would happen in the future.

Soldiers were stomping the hot spring area searching in every room for the attackers. Emil didn't hesitate to engage in a fight with them. He called forth Onion to deal damage with him as well as calling fourth the fire sorcerer known as Ashura and the Vorpal Bunny that he nicknamed Kyubey to back him up. With the black bunny kicking the soldiers, Ashura casting powerful fire spells and Onion biting on his opponents, Emil had an easier time mowing through the soldiers. What worried Tenebrae was that Emil was demonstrating the personality that Ratatosk had in the past…it's almost like their personalities switched recently and that was not a good thing.

"Marta! Ratatosk!" He continued to call out through the inn. He didn't understand why they weren't responding to him when this place was small. Maybe they were captured already and they were waiting for him to come out and surrender.

"Lord Emil, please be careful. The aura you felt at the execution is also here." Tenebrae warned the green eyed summon spirit.

It was too late for a warning though. Emil turned around and noticed that his monsters disappeared in a ray of light. They weren't killed or anything. Someone forcibly dismissed them.

"W-Wha?"

"Don't move! We got you surrounded!"

Emil gasped when he saw more soldiers coming his way. They all pointed their spear toward him and it looked like they weren't going to let him off the hook. Emil backed up against the wall hoping that there might be a switch to get away from them. This wasn't Sybak or Meltokio though. This is a simple inn with no trap doors to run away from.

A little help here Tenebrae? Emil thought to himself.

I'm sorry Lord Emil, but Lord Ratatosk is requesting my assistance.

"Dammit…"

Emil was going to fight through these tough looking soldiers if it meant he could get to Marta and Ratatosk. He didn't have to though because he saw some soldiers being struck down by a huge sword. When the soldiers turned around, they were hit in the face by a huge boomerang that hit any soldier that did not duck. When they did duck, they were the only ones that were killed by the huge sword that came down on their neck.

"Gahhh!"

Emil stared down at the people who dared to help him and risk being branded as traitors. It was two guys and for a second, Emil thought they were the ones from his dreams, but he was wrong. One was a human that looked to be in his mid twenties that was rather thin despite wielding a two handed blade with one hand. He had brown hair and a cocky smile plastered on his face. The other looked to be an elf with silver hair and blue eyes that just got his boomerang to come back to him. He didn't look to be a magic user with the way he used his weapon like a pro.

"W-Who are you?" Emil ended up asking as the human turned his direction and smiled.

"Just a pair of mercenaries ready to help you out."

Me: TBC with 2339 words.

Li: Why did it take so long?

Me: Uh…motivation…I did not expect the idea to come to me today because well…I'm working on a Pokémon Conquest story that's only on Adult . Net for obvious reasons. And the idea came when I watched Tales of Festivals. Seriously, just seeing that Emil is not hated in Japan like he is in America made me gain my motivation back and write this chapter. It's still short but good enough to know that it's not forgotten and the plot still thickens. Notes!

1. So the names of the monsters are references to other animes. Ashura is the named of the genderless god of RG Veda and Kyubey is that little monster from Madoka Magica.

Tune in to find out what happens next…eventually.
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