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"What purpose can one life have to sway another? What choices can we make that can change the fate of ourselves, or what we view at ourselves as an identity?"

"Would you be truly happy, accepting your own identity- your own kinks, your own faults imposed by ourselves and others? Can we truly find our way in life?"

"Humanity might be foolish, but who's to say that ALL life in our universe has not their own sets of mistakes that can be repeated over and over again until we get a result that allows the cycle to move on?"

A small humanoid shaped create with a slightly larger head is seen with green eyes is seen. It sounded like an older man with a bit of small rasp to it. "In these times, mortals such as the Keronians have forgotten the ways of the past. We were in a demand for years for control of the universe, to give us a feeling of peace. But to some, there's no such thing as Peace..." The man soon had green eyes starting at glow with a bit of red to it as he admits, "There's never such a thing as Peace- only a calm before another storm hits when reality breaks through. But for this story... It'll take many storms for people to weather before they say can be sure to say that they are experienced in the way of their reality. After all...disaster always yield results in development."

Gamma Planetary System: Time (1312 hours or 1:12 PM) Date: November 2nd, 2010

A large green milky way galaxy shaped like a star is seen in the system as another man's voice- an elder sounding similar to Iroh from Avatar if you want a mental comparison- commented the following...

“The Gamma Planetary System. To the outsider, it looks like a giant star, but its home to many planets- Maron, Axolotl, even Angol- there’s plenty of planets to be seen. But let’s focus on the one we’re looking for.” He soon sets the view into the system before panning around before noticing a blue planet with green stars. “Oops! That’s Maron. Guess my Universal Positioning System needs tweaking. Excuse me…” The view soon shifts towards a green planet with yellow stars “Ah here it is; Planet Keron. Let’s see here…”

Keron: Populated Area (assumed Capital of the Planet or region)

“Ah, here we go! This is where we came from; the Capital of Keron…or at least what we assumed as such. Our kind, known as the Keronians, reside in the planet. We resemble frogs you see but more humanoid Anyways, let’s see here…there should be a jungle locale somewhere.” The same elder let out before there was a form of jungle locale seen over at the southern region. “Ah hah! There it is; The South-Western Jungles. Let’s investigate here.”

South-Western Jungles: Jungle Path

Two figures soon walked out onto the middle of a path before one of them stopped. "This is the place. I can feel it." One of the figures admitted- sounding like a young man.

"Are you sure?" The other one replied, sounding like a young girl. "It seems like any other jungle around here."

"Yeaaah, but I'm sure of the place this time." The male commented. The figure looked to be mainly black in color with a white belly, face and a round tadpole-like tail as the male explained. The belly looked to have three red marks on the belly underneath a black star with closed wings. When the arms were seen, it looked to have red wristbands. The face itself, most of the face (at least above the nose area and up to between the eyes) is seen as white with a bright round blue eyes. While most of the face looked to have some sort of red paint on it, the red hat looked to be on his head with flaps positioned like a dog with dangling ears and a smaller symbol on his forehead is seen as the male commented, "I know we took a few wrong turns but I'm sure of it this time. We're on our way to our old home."

"You sound so confident about it the last time too!" The other tadpole replied. The figure looked shorter than the black one with mostly ivory skin. The person had an identical shape hat and even symbol- the only difference is that the symbol is white in color with the hat blue. She had no red markings or wristbands on her but has yellow-brown irises for eye color. She looked a bit huffy as she admits, "And the last time before that one too. Are you sure we're not lost?"

"Sure I'm sure- just got turned around, that's all." The black and red Keronian answered. "That reminds me, sister. Do you know how to fight?"

"That's a silly question- of course I do!" The Ivory tadpole answered. "...You're going to teach me again as a refresher, aren't you?"

"Well sure." The black and red Keronian admitted. "What we're looking for is hiding in the jungle somewhere. We gotta brush up on the basics a bit. Thankfully I wrote it down in that special class they gave us."

"You so did not go to a special class!" The female let out with an angry look. "You just got it from that old Major guy! He taught us how to use energy into combat!"

"Okay, okay, maybe I embellished the truth a bit." The taller tadpole said while rubbing his head. "It would be a cool story to tell though."

"Well admitting to it, we do need a refresher often." The female admitted. "But where could we find some dummies to practice on?"

"Well at least there's some slimes we can practice on around here." The male replied. "Come on- let's get some practice in, Omimi."

"Um, okay Omnini." 'Omimi' replied.

~

After a while of explaining and some practice fights with slimes unfortunate enough to get in the way... The two siblings continued on their way as Omnini admits, "I think we got the basics down for sure."

"Well let's keep going on ahead then!" Omimi let out while bouncing in one spot a bit.

The two continued on their own before something in the bushes were seen... looking at feline-like eyes before narrowing them.

Deeper into the jungle, Omnini soon admits, "So you wanted to know why we're here?"

"Besides for it being one of life's greatest mysteries?" Omimi let out with the older brother giving a bored look at that statement. "Heheh- kidding. Anyways, you told me a few times- we came to this jungle to look for the one who killed our parents, right?"

"Yep- the being who lived in this jungle killed our parents when we were very young." Omnini admitted. "The old Major saddled us with this mission- something about 'Locate the presence of the beast you've seen before and either eliminate it, or save it."

"E...Eliminate it?" Omimi parroted meekly. "As in...kill it?"

"We can't let get it away after what it did to our parents." The male's eyes were off 'screen' as he looked a bit angry (and his tone a bit dark). "As if I let this thing live."

"O-onii-san (Brother)...you...please don't." Omimi admitted, recognizing the tone of his voice. "Basasa-obaachan (Granny Basasa) told us to-"

"Do you always have to use the Japanese honorifics?" Omnini admitted with a stern look to his sister. "You can speak in a normal language- why do you need to speak like a Japanese person?"

"Sorry to be blunt but it's because Grandfather often uses this stuff whenever he speaks with people in a polite manner." The ivory tadpole replied. "It's to sound nice."

"But you sound like a total we-" Omnini soon felt something as he looked around. "...Something's here."

"Really? I don't." Omimi let out. "But seriously, do we have to kill it?" The Ivory tadpole continued her line as Omnini looked around. "Granny always said that forgiveness is the main way to heal from emotional damage. We can hate all we like but we can't kill it!"

"Are you serious?? After what the that thing to our parents? You're joking!" Omnini let out frustrated at her sister. "I saw what I saw! There can't be a reason for an animal like that to kill our parents! That's just...!" Omnini immediately paled upon noticing something while looking at Omimi as he looked nervous.

"But brother, I think we should..." Omimi soon noticed her brother's expression before turning around and noticing something in front of her. "Wh...What is THAT?!" She whimpered.

"Th-that's...!" Omnini looked to be at a lost of words before noticing a being lifting his arm up to attempt to swing downward on them. The next thing out of Omnini's mouth was this;

“Omimi, watch out!!”
“WHOA!”

Two beings Keronians immediately hoped away as a loud roar from a tiger was heard as –Last Hunter- begins to play as several blades of grass and dirt were kicked up. Emerging from the shadows, the being that tried to attack them was a blue tiger was seen trying to attack Omnini and Omimi with its claws- however, the tiger looked to resemble a Keronian- but the hat looked to be damaged with several cuts including a couple of holes seen on the top of the head to allow the ears to be seen. The being looked to resembled a keronian but with blue fur and black stripes and even a tail seen. The hands looked to resemble paws before it used it to try to attack Omimi, damaging her hat by tearing off the flap with a claw. “HEY!” The older brother went out.

“Aw man, it trashed my hat!” Omimi let out, looking at the torn hat before recovering the flap and giving a startled yelp from the being who attacked them about to lunge at her. “EEEP!! Backing off, backing off!"

"Wh...What is this??" Omnini blinked before noticing the being's appearance. "It likes like a Tiger, but...it's a Keronian!"

"Is it really the same thing that attacked mom and dad? The same...person you saw?" Omimi admitted as she retreated to her brother's side.

"It has to be...!" Omnini let out with wide eyes. He looked surprised... In the image in his mind, he looked shorter as a being in the shadows was seen as he admits, "I just...I didn't...!"

"Well, now I'm definitely sure that we can't kill the person!" Omimi let out in comment. "Tiger person or not, it's still people!"

The tiger-Keronian soon roared again before the two gave startled looks as they soon dodged a biting attack. "WHOA, that thing's using more animal than people instincts!" Omnini commented. He soon noticed something before was aboutto be bitten before he soon used an aura like ability to create a sphere of black unknown energy before letting the hybrid bite it. Omnini gave a determiend look before he tightened his grip to make the sphere small before making it explode from inside of the mouth of the beast, causing it to howl in pain as it looked to be injured with its jaw misalligned.

"You made your energy explode??" Omimi blinked. "I didn't know you can do that! You gotta teach me sometime!"

“Later, but right now priorities- Don’t let it claw or bite you!” The older brother called out before the two jumped back before the two soon jumped back before the tiger Keronian soon looked to be pain before it soon used its hands and pushed the jaw back into position. It gave a growl before lunging before showing a pair of yellow eyes before it tried to attack Omnini. He soon continued the barrage of energy spheres, but unlike the last time ithe monster was using impressive reflexes to dodge, duck and roll out of the way. The male tadpole looked frustrated before he used one of the spheres to make the hybrid dodge it before using it to throw it again. The male looked smirked, but then noticed the being knocked the sphere away. “Dang it! Flinging these things just won’t work!”

“Well let my try punching it then!” The youngest commented before rushing towards the blue being. Omimi took advantage of her size to dodge a swipe before delivering a punch to the chest region, which showed to have a pair of feathers as a symbol on the stomach. Omimi soon grabbed the tail which caused the monster to yelp before Omimi used a punch at it to cause to fall limp. “Got it!”

“Okay…! Let's try a boomerang style orb” Omnini nodded before he soon spun the sphere he created fro mhimself before lobbing it, bashing the monster before bounces off it to return back to the tosser to be reabsorbed. “Did we get it for sure?”

“Uh…” Omimi tried to say before the being shook its head before rising up and giving a stance at the two, albeit slightly tired. “Nope!”

“Damn; how are we supposed to beat it then…?” The black and red tadpole let out.

“Hey, watch the language, Onii-san!” The white tadpole let out before noticing the tiger looked to be in pain, trying to cover its ears before it looked to be resisting. “Hey…what’s wrong with it?”

“It’s ears…maybe there’s something controlling it.” The older sibling let out before noticing it. “Wait- does that mean that it doesn’t want to attack us?!”

Omimi soon looked around before to say, "But what would it do to make it control it?" ...Then it donned on her "Maybe it's some sort of sound control! It's covering its ears, right?"

“Grrr…!” The being let out, trying to struggle before it looked to be trying to say something- mixed with a woman's voice; “Grr…Grrru…Gruun…”

“Grun?” Both of them went, parroting. “Run??”

“Gr…Run…!!” The being said before it soon let out a loud roar before attempt to attack the two with Omimi narrowing dodging again, but with the other flap torn off.

(‘It…talked?!’) Omnini let out mentally before noticing Omimi looked really startled.

“What’s going on?!” Omimi let out as the two ran. “A talking Keron Tiger telling us to run away? Why?!”

“You were right!" The male let out disturbed. " It was being controlled! I’m thinking that the poor thing was used by someone to kill us intentionally!” The older tadpole let out as the two ducked a branch. “You know, under someone else’s control! That means this thing was used to kill mom and dad! It wasn’t its fault!”

“WHAT?!” the youngest replied before dodging a claw swipe. “I thought you said that thing attacked mom and dad on purpose!”

“It did- but I didn't actually think it was because it was being forced under someone’s orders!” Omnini let out. “You saw how it was trying to cover its ears and tried to warn us? That thing’s on our side!”

“So it was ordered to attack mom and dad, and now it was taking care of us?!” The female responded.

“Of course; and if it’s trying to warn us…" The male soon had an idea. "We need to erase its memory! We need to induce amnesia on it; it will forget the sound it learned that controls it!"

"I guess we're going to do the same thing we often get done unintentionally!" Omimi answered in mid-run.

"Exactly- go aim for the head!” The black and red tadpole barked out.

“Okay!” The younger tadpole answered with a nod.

The two soon continued running before Omnini soon symthesis and created orbs before tossing on up and making part of the branch fall off via detonating the orb, making the tiger-Keronian woman get hit to slow it down before it soon recovered- with the two further ahead.

~
Omnini and Omimi were soon at a clearing near a large tree before they took a stance. The older brother soon suggested, “Okay, we need to time our attacks accordingly.”

“Why?” The youngest asked in response.

“Because then we can combine our attacks into a power combination.” The older brother answered. “Let’s try ‘Volleying Backlash!’”

“Um Volleying Backlash? How do we do that?” Omimi asked.

“Errrg…look, all we have to do is use two attacks that could work together.” Omnini let out. The female gave a bit of a ‘…’ above her head. “…Do you know how to use Palm Strike?”

The youngest nodded before asking “Sure, why do you ask?”

“Don’t worry- all we have to use is the attacks- simple as that.” The male commented.

“Do you think we can deal damage then?” Omimi asked.

“I know we will, but we’ll have to attack with the rights attacks together to get the best result.” The male nodded

“Um, alright then.” The female nodded. "But...I don't don't know how to do the timing!"

"Oh for god's sakes..." Omnini muttered. "The one who taught me how to make my energy orbs explode also taught me how to synch up techniques. They say just be connecting our energy, we can essentially 'Link up' or something. But he also mentioned that we can team up with some techniques. Just imagine your energy meeting up with mine."

"Oh, I can do that!" Omimi let out before a white aura-like substance formed from her before it soon synched with Omnini's black aura-like substance as well before it looked to be synched into a green light line. "WHOA, why do I feel all tingly!"

"So this is Linking..." The Older brother muttered.

Linking: To those who don't care much about the term or where the ability of the game came from, (Tales of Xillia 1 and 2) Linking allows party members to link up to allies using energy (internal, synthetic or otherwise a specialized catalyst/device) to join forces and attack opponents in unison- usually as a pincer attack or otherwise. It is also the only way to use more powerful attacks such as Volleying Backlash.

Link Artes: During this adventure, Link Artes are utilized in the same manner as you expect from Tales of Xillia; to create powerful attacks. Certain attacks or spells can be used in conjunction to create fierce spells or devastating strikes. Using different artes can result in different attacks and special commands. Try to find what artes work with which one; however, it won’t always work if there’s no affinity or bonds with each other… (Note: Some of the attacks you see are Link Artes or Commands you see the Tales or Kingdom Hearts games)

“Okay, let’s start off with something easy.” Omnini let out before noticing the tiger was about to lunge at Omimi who wasn't paying attention before he soon yelled out, “No you DON'T!”

The male soon soon used Orb Toss- summon a black energy orb before striking the being with Omimi noticing an idea bulb. "I got the idea! Go for it!"

Omnini nodded soon created a large orb of energy before he struck it with a kick, hitting the tiger with its size before Omimi soon used the palm to propel it back into the sky forward with both siblings calling out, “Volleying Backlash!” As the two called it out, Omnini soon smacked the orb into the enemy with Omimi catching the orb to absorb it. The orb soon collided with the tiger who was pushed back before it recovering. “Hey, it worked!” Omimi let out with a chipper smile.

“Yeah, but it’s getting back up!” Omnini let out before the two dodged another attack.

“Um, can we use another one of those double attacks?” Omimi asked.

“Er…We can only use it one at a time, and even then at certain times.” Omnini commented. “Unless we got something that can help boost.”

“Um…something like this?” The youngest suggest before showing a blue item packet- it looked to be a special blue hexagon with a sword in the center of it. “Mrs. Basasa gave me this thing.”

“A Link Treat?? Use it!” The older brother called out as the younger sibling tossed it into the air for the blue light before something went off. “Alright, let’s try another one!”

The younger of the two soon used Cerberus Strike while the older one used Orb Toss. “I got an idea!” Omimi let out as she seemed to get it before he soon shot three orbs at Omimi who punched them in succession. “Cerberus Barrage!”

The three orbs soon collided with the monster before it pushed the monster towards the tree to stun it as the theme ended.

~

Omnini and Omimi soon looked up and noticed a tree branch. Omnini threw an orb at his sister, who punched at it at tree before the monster was about to recover. However, the impact from the energy caused the branch to loosen and soon collapsed before the monster soon got hit by it at the helm, forcing it to collapse from the blow. Omnini carefully approached it before pressing on the head before feeling around for a pulse. “…There’s a pulse. It’s still alive.”

“But…what do we do?” Omimi asked. "Are we still gonna kill it?"

"Not a chance- I can't go after someone if they were being controlled in the first place..." Omnini admitted with a down look. "Poor lady... she must really be messed up bad if she got made into that."

"Made?" Omimi blinked. "You mean...she's a spliced Keronian?" She looked concerned as she added, "But I thought you're not allowed to splice creatures with citizens from anywhere! It's one of the major rules for scientists in the Keron army, I think! If we tell people if she's still alive, she's going to get captured and kept in a lab- or worse!"

"I know, I know...!" Omnini let out thinking with his fist on his forehead to try to think. "Hmmm..." He got an idea before to say, "Wait. We could do something after all to protect her."

"We can?!" The ivory tadpole let out, looking happy. "That's great! What's your idea, brother??"

“We're going to get into big trouble about this if the people finds out about what we did...” The male commented before giving a more serious look. “We’ll fake the report- we say we killed it.”

“Fake a Report? But…isn’t that lying?” Omimi asked.

“That part of it is; however, the report asked for a sign of a an specimen from within the jungle. There was a hybrid in the jungle- it doesn’t ask if it’s alive or dead. Plus we’ll be protecting it.” The black and red tadpole admitted as he soon cut a small sample off from it and put it into a baggie. “We tell NO ONE of this.”

"But wouldn't the army be angry that we're lying?" The female tadpole admitted while looking troubled. "We're going against the protocol and what Mr. Nagaga drilled into our heads- honesty is the best policy. If we lie, then we'll end up being delinquents, or worse- traitors!"

"Ugh... maybe we can get our heads smacked again if possible." Omnini admitted. "We tend to forget things whenever we get our heads smacked around."

“But what if we convince ourselves that it’s dead?” The snowy tadpole let out. “We could end up thinking on something unpredictable.”

“…If it happens, it happens.” Omnini commented. “We’ll keep it to ourselves and if we forget, then that means that she’ll be further protected until we remember it for sure.”

“…Umm…okay.” The female nodded. However she soon noticed something. “…Huh? Wait a minute…”

“You recognize this place?” The male let out before he sees Omimi walking down the path with Omnini and Omimi following along. “You know, this is where we lived before I ran away with you when mom and dad were killed.”

“It is?!” The younger sibling let out before she ran down the path with Omnini after her. It wasn’t long until they soon came to a home…

Jungle Home

The two soon came across a lone house sheltered via trees with some vegetation. It wasn’t long until the two emerged from the location before Omimi soon looked around as –Treasured Memories- plays. “So this is our old home?” She asked with her brother nodding. “Were we really born here?”

“Yeah; according to mom, this is…was our home.” Omnini explained, albeit sentimental. “…I think we should look inside- you know, to shoo out anything that might have been living here.”

The younger sibling nodded as a result as the two soon looked into the home. Inside the room looked to be gathering dust as the black and red tadpole followed her inside. Omimi soon looked around- aside from a collecting dust, she looked around before walking into the kitchen, seeing some pipework and some sort of makeshift heater. Nearby was a doorway with marker ink on it, indicating that it was used as a scale to tell how high a person was. Omnini looked around before he placed near the wall to tell how tall he was compared. “…I really have grown up since I was here last.” Omnini muttered.

The height soon shows to be towering over the notches as a (much) smaller version of him is seen with two silhouettes marking the heights with a marker. Another Keronian- a snowy white infant that’s presumed to be Omimi- is seen getting a height comparison done as well. Around the hallway, the dust seen upstairs were seen as Omnini looked around. He gave a bit of a sigh before looking around a bit more before finding another bedroom and a crib. Omnini looked at this before finding a small Keronian doll in it, also gathering dust before he sighed at this. He walked back downstairs as Omimi asked, “Everything alright?”

“Everything feels smaller now; like it was such a long time ago…” Omnini let out, down for some reason.

“Brother…” The youngest sibling let out, worried. “Do you think we should leave here then?”

“…No- there’s something here we need to attain- something we could use for our fights ahead here.” The male answered as the theme ends.

Omnini soon led Omimi to a new room- looking like a form of blacksmith before the two noticed several blades hanging on the wall- both of the blades looked to be part of the blades so short it could be mistaken for daggers, and looking if the brown handles weren't present, can form into a circle. However, one of them, looked to have a single edge with part of the structure looking like the black side of the Yin and Yang symbol (Black with a white dot the sword) while the other (white with a black dot near the bade of the blade) carries as well as Omimi. “This is it. These blades were used by mom and dad; The Yin and Yang Swords.”

“Uh, hey, why it isn’t called a blade anyways?” Omimi asked.

“Swords are usually the complete product of the weapon- blades are usually the sharp parts of the sword.” Omnini commented. “That answer your question?”

“…Ooookay then.” Omimi nodded. “I’m not the weapon user.”

“You are- technically mom and dad are dead, so we inherit the weapons.” Omnini explained. “Let’s hurry and take them.”

“Okay!” Omimi nodded before she hopped up to retrieve the white sword.

Omnini retrieved the black weapon before looking over it. “…It’s a little short to be a sword, or even a shortsword.”

“You mean it’s a dagger?” Omimi let out. “Uh, I may not know much about swords, but the guard looks to be a little fancy to be a dagger. Maybe there’s a switch we can press to extend the blade.” Omimi soon noticed a switch before pressed before it extends to proper sword with the blade showing a more proper sword structure- with the weapon showing to have, at the end of the blade, what it looked like at its base form. “Whoa!! Called it like a mile away!”

“I’ll say.” Omnini nodded before extending the blade himself (again with the weapon showing the blade of it looking like a normal blade. “Dad makes some fantastic blades, plus it must be built for easy storage too.”

“…” Omimi soon gave a bored look before to say, “You never mention mom or dad around me.”

“I’ll tell you someday, but for now, let’s report back to HQ.” Omnini commented. “But first…maybe we should ask those elders about a new hat- yours looked a little...torn. And I don’t think you and I would like to watch through a Military Tribunal*.”

“Oh it only concerns lost and snatched hats! It didn’t mention about damage!!” Omimi let out in defense. “You know better than to freak me out! And stop changing the subject!”

*Note: Keroro 304- Keroro loses his hat to someone named Kana. He gets it back, so don’t worry.

“I’m not changing anything.” Omnini commented as he walked outside of the room while returning the sword to is original length. "Come on- let's head for home."

~

At least an hour later, the exit of the jungle was in sight as part of the city looked to be either started to develop or part of the trees as Omimi soon admits, "Hey brother? How come we were near a jungle?"

"I guess you can say that this city's been known to be close to nature." Omnini shrugged. "Come on, let's go talk to Mrs. Basasa. Maybe we can get you a new hat."

"Probably..." Omimi let out before showing the only flap of her hat she retrieved.

Taking in the neighborhood, the two walking by until they soon made it towards a street sign labeled 'Persus Avenue' as the two walked down it...before arriving to a house further down it. It looked to be a fairly large shroom with some black spots on an orange cap. "...Mrs. Basasa is going to give us a lot of lip for getting your hat damaged." Omnini admitted to his sister.

"Don't remind me..." Omimi replied, now a bit nervous.

"Well, time to face the music then." The black and red tadpole admitted with a stern look.

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"What purpose can one life have to sway another? What choices can we make that can change the fate of ourselves, or what we view at ourselves as an identity?"

"Would you be truly happy, accepting your own identity- your own kinks, your own faults imposed by ourselves and others? Can we truly find our way in life?"

"Humanity might be foolish, but who's to say that ALL life in our universe has not their own sets of mistakes that can be repeated over and over again until we get a result that allows the cycle to move on?"

A small humanoid shaped create with a slightly larger head is seen with green eyes is seen. It sounded like an older man with a bit of small rasp to it. "In these times, mortals such as the Keronians have forgotten the ways of the past. We were in a demand for years for control of the universe, to give us a feeling of peace. But to some, there's no such thing as Peace..." The man soon had green eyes starting at glow with a bit of red to it as he admits, "There's never such a thing as Peace- only a calm before another storm hits when reality breaks through. But for this story... It'll take many storms for people to weather before they say can be sure to say that they are experienced in the way of their reality. After all...disaster always yield results in development."

Gamma Planetary System: Time (1312 hours or 1:12 PM) Date: November 2nd, 2010

A large green milky way galaxy shaped like a star is seen in the system as another man's voice- an elder sounding similar to Iroh from Avatar if you want a mental comparison- commented the following...

“The Gamma Planetary System. To the outsider, it looks like a giant star, but its home to many planets- Maron, Axolotl, even Angol- there’s plenty of planets to be seen. But let’s focus on the one we’re looking for.” He soon sets the view into the system before panning around before noticing a blue planet with green stars. “Oops! That’s Maron. Guess my Universal Positioning System needs tweaking. Excuse me…” The view soon shifts towards a green planet with yellow stars “Ah here it is; Planet Keron. Let’s see here…”

Keron: Populated Area (assumed Capital of the Planet or region)

“Ah, here we go! This is where we came from; the Capital of Keron…or at least what we assumed as such. Our kind, known as the Keronians, reside in the planet. We resemble frogs you see but more humanoid Anyways, let’s see here…there should be a jungle locale somewhere.” The same elder let out before there was a form of jungle locale seen over at the southern region. “Ah hah! There it is; The South-Western Jungles. Let’s investigate here.”

South-Western Jungles: Jungle Path

Two figures soon walked out onto the middle of a path before one of them stopped. "This is the place. I can feel it." One of the figures admitted- sounding like a young man.

"Are you sure?" The other one replied, sounding like a young girl. "It seems like any other jungle around here."

"Yeaaah, but I'm sure of the place this time." The male commented. The figure looked to be mainly black in color with a white belly, face and a round tadpole-like tail as the male explained. The belly looked to have three red marks on the belly underneath a black star with closed wings. When the arms were seen, it looked to have red wristbands. The face itself, most of the face (at least above the nose area and up to between the eyes) is seen as white with a bright round blue eyes. While most of the face looked to have some sort of red paint on it, the red hat looked to be on his head with flaps positioned like a dog with dangling ears and a smaller symbol on his forehead is seen as the male commented, "I know we took a few wrong turns but I'm sure of it this time. We're on our way to our old home."

"You sound so confident about it the last time too!" The other tadpole replied. The figure looked shorter than the black one with mostly ivory skin. The person had an identical shape hat and even symbol- the only difference is that the symbol is white in color with the hat blue. She had no red markings or wristbands on her but has yellow-brown irises for eye color. She looked a bit huffy as she admits, "And the last time before that one too. Are you sure we're not lost?"

"Sure I'm sure- just got turned around, that's all." The black and red Keronian answered. "That reminds me, sister. Do you know how to fight?"

"That's a silly question- of course I do!" The Ivory tadpole answered. "...You're going to teach me again as a refresher, aren't you?"

"Well sure." The black and red Keronian admitted. "What we're looking for is hiding in the jungle somewhere. We gotta brush up on the basics a bit. Thankfully I wrote it down in that special class they gave us."

"You so did not go to a special class!" The female let out with an angry look. "You just got it from that old Major guy! He taught us how to use energy into combat!"

"Okay, okay, maybe I embellished the truth a bit." The taller tadpole said while rubbing his head. "It would be a cool story to tell though."

"Well admitting to it, we do need a refresher often." The female admitted. "But where could we find some dummies to practice on?"

"Well at least there's some slimes we can practice on around here." The male replied. "Come on- let's get some practice in, Omimi."

"Um, okay Omnini." 'Omimi' replied.

~

After a while of explaining and some practice fights with slimes unfortunate enough to get in the way... The two siblings continued on their way as Omnini admits, "I think we got the basics down for sure."

"Well let's keep going on ahead then!" Omimi let out while bouncing in one spot a bit.

The two continued on their own before something in the bushes were seen... looking at feline-like eyes before narrowing them.

Deeper into the jungle, Omnini soon admits, "So you wanted to know why we're here?"

"Besides for it being one of life's greatest mysteries?" Omimi let out with the older brother giving a bored look at that statement. "Heheh- kidding. Anyways, you told me a few times- we came to this jungle to look for the one who killed our parents, right?"

"Yep- the being who lived in this jungle killed our parents when we were very young." Omnini admitted. "The old Major saddled us with this mission- something about 'Locate the presence of the beast you've seen before and either eliminate it, or save it."

"E...Eliminate it?" Omimi parroted meekly. "As in...kill it?"

"We can't let get it away after what it did to our parents." The male's eyes were off 'screen' as he looked a bit angry (and his tone a bit dark). "As if I let this thing live."

"O-onii-san (Brother)...you...please don't." Omimi admitted, recognizing the tone of his voice. "Basasa-obaachan (Granny Basasa) told us to-"

"Do you always have to use the Japanese honorifics?" Omnini admitted with a stern look to his sister. "You can speak in a normal language- why do you need to speak like a Japanese person?"

"Sorry to be blunt but it's because Grandfather often uses this stuff whenever he speaks with people in a polite manner." The ivory tadpole replied. "It's to sound nice."

"But you sound like a total we-" Omnini soon felt something as he looked around. "...Something's here."

"Really? I don't." Omimi let out. "But seriously, do we have to kill it?" The Ivory tadpole continued her line as Omnini looked around. "Granny always said that forgiveness is the main way to heal from emotional damage. We can hate all we like but we can't kill it!"

"Are you serious?? After what the that thing to our parents? You're joking!" Omnini let out frustrated at her sister. "I saw what I saw! There can't be a reason for an animal like that to kill our parents! That's just...!" Omnini immediately paled upon noticing something while looking at Omimi as he looked nervous.

"But brother, I think we should..." Omimi soon noticed her brother's expression before turning around and noticing something in front of her. "Wh...What is THAT?!" She whimpered.

"Th-that's...!" Omnini looked to be at a lost of words before noticing a being lifting his arm up to attempt to swing downward on them. The next thing out of Omnini's mouth was this;

“Omimi, watch out!!”
“WHOA!”

Two beings Keronians immediately hoped away as a loud roar from a tiger was heard as –Last Hunter- begins to play as several blades of grass and dirt were kicked up. Emerging from the shadows, the being that tried to attack them was a blue tiger was seen trying to attack Omnini and Omimi with its claws- however, the tiger looked to resemble a Keronian- but the hat looked to be damaged with several cuts including a couple of holes seen on the top of the head to allow the ears to be seen. The being looked to resembled a keronian but with blue fur and black stripes and even a tail seen. The hands looked to resemble paws before it used it to try to attack Omimi, damaging her hat by tearing off the flap with a claw. “HEY!” The older brother went out.

“Aw man, it trashed my hat!” Omimi let out, looking at the torn hat before recovering the flap and giving a startled yelp from the being who attacked them about to lunge at her. “EEEP!! Backing off, backing off!"

"Wh...What is this??" Omnini blinked before noticing the being's appearance. "It likes like a Tiger, but...it's a Keronian!"

"Is it really the same thing that attacked mom and dad? The same...person you saw?" Omimi admitted as she retreated to her brother's side.

"It has to be...!" Omnini let out with wide eyes. He looked surprised... In the image in his mind, he looked shorter as a being in the shadows was seen as he admits, "I just...I didn't...!"

"Well, now I'm definitely sure that we can't kill the person!" Omimi let out in comment. "Tiger person or not, it's still people!"

The tiger-Keronian soon roared again before the two gave startled looks as they soon dodged a biting attack. "WHOA, that thing's using more animal than people instincts!" Omnini commented. He soon noticed something before was aboutto be bitten before he soon used an aura like ability to create a sphere of black unknown energy before letting the hybrid bite it. Omnini gave a determiend look before he tightened his grip to make the sphere small before making it explode from inside of the mouth of the beast, causing it to howl in pain as it looked to be injured with its jaw misalligned.

"You made your energy explode??" Omimi blinked. "I didn't know you can do that! You gotta teach me sometime!"

“Later, but right now priorities- Don’t let it claw or bite you!” The older brother called out before the two jumped back before the two soon jumped back before the tiger Keronian soon looked to be pain before it soon used its hands and pushed the jaw back into position. It gave a growl before lunging before showing a pair of yellow eyes before it tried to attack Omnini. He soon continued the barrage of energy spheres, but unlike the last time ithe monster was using impressive reflexes to dodge, duck and roll out of the way. The male tadpole looked frustrated before he used one of the spheres to make the hybrid dodge it before using it to throw it again. The male looked smirked, but then noticed the being knocked the sphere away. “Dang it! Flinging these things just won’t work!”

“Well let my try punching it then!” The youngest commented before rushing towards the blue being. Omimi took advantage of her size to dodge a swipe before delivering a punch to the chest region, which showed to have a pair of feathers as a symbol on the stomach. Omimi soon grabbed the tail which caused the monster to yelp before Omimi used a punch at it to cause to fall limp. “Got it!”

“Okay…! Let's try a boomerang style orb” Omnini nodded before he soon spun the sphere he created fro mhimself before lobbing it, bashing the monster before bounces off it to return back to the tosser to be reabsorbed. “Did we get it for sure?”

“Uh…” Omimi tried to say before the being shook its head before rising up and giving a stance at the two, albeit slightly tired. “Nope!”

“Damn; how are we supposed to beat it then…?” The black and red tadpole let out.

“Hey, watch the language, Onii-san!” The white tadpole let out before noticing the tiger looked to be in pain, trying to cover its ears before it looked to be resisting. “Hey…what’s wrong with it?”

“It’s ears…maybe there’s something controlling it.” The older sibling let out before noticing it. “Wait- does that mean that it doesn’t want to attack us?!”

Omimi soon looked around before to say, "But what would it do to make it control it?" ...Then it donned on her "Maybe it's some sort of sound control! It's covering its ears, right?"

“Grrr…!” The being let out, trying to struggle before it looked to be trying to say something- mixed with a woman's voice; “Grr…Grrru…Gruun…”

“Grun?” Both of them went, parroting. “Run??”

“Gr…Run…!!” The being said before it soon let out a loud roar before attempt to attack the two with Omimi narrowing dodging again, but with the other flap torn off.

(‘It…talked?!’) Omnini let out mentally before noticing Omimi looked really startled.

“What’s going on?!” Omimi let out as the two ran. “A talking Keron Tiger telling us to run away? Why?!”

“You were right!" The male let out disturbed. " It was being controlled! I’m thinking that the poor thing was used by someone to kill us intentionally!” The older tadpole let out as the two ducked a branch. “You know, under someone else’s control! That means this thing was used to kill mom and dad! It wasn’t its fault!”

“WHAT?!” the youngest replied before dodging a claw swipe. “I thought you said that thing attacked mom and dad on purpose!”

“It did- but I didn't actually think it was because it was being forced under someone’s orders!” Omnini let out. “You saw how it was trying to cover its ears and tried to warn us? That thing’s on our side!”

“So it was ordered to attack mom and dad, and now it was taking care of us?!” The female responded.

“Of course; and if it’s trying to warn us…" The male soon had an idea. "We need to erase its memory! We need to induce amnesia on it; it will forget the sound it learned that controls it!"

"I guess we're going to do the same thing we often get done unintentionally!" Omimi answered in mid-run.

"Exactly- go aim for the head!” The black and red tadpole barked out.

“Okay!” The younger tadpole answered with a nod.

The two soon continued running before Omnini soon symthesis and created orbs before tossing on up and making part of the branch fall off via detonating the orb, making the tiger-Keronian woman get hit to slow it down before it soon recovered- with the two further ahead.

~
Omnini and Omimi were soon at a clearing near a large tree before they took a stance. The older brother soon suggested, “Okay, we need to time our attacks accordingly.”

“Why?” The youngest asked in response.

“Because then we can combine our attacks into a power combination.” The older brother answered. “Let’s try ‘Volleying Backlash!’”

“Um Volleying Backlash? How do we do that?” Omimi asked.

“Errrg…look, all we have to do is use two attacks that could work together.” Omnini let out. The female gave a bit of a ‘…’ above her head. “…Do you know how to use Palm Strike?”

The youngest nodded before asking “Sure, why do you ask?”

“Don’t worry- all we have to use is the attacks- simple as that.” The male commented.

“Do you think we can deal damage then?” Omimi asked.

“I know we will, but we’ll have to attack with the rights attacks together to get the best result.” The male nodded

“Um, alright then.” The female nodded. "But...I don't don't know how to do the timing!"

"Oh for god's sakes..." Omnini muttered. "The one who taught me how to make my energy orbs explode also taught me how to synch up techniques. They say just be connecting our energy, we can essentially 'Link up' or something. But he also mentioned that we can team up with some techniques. Just imagine your energy meeting up with mine."

"Oh, I can do that!" Omimi let out before a white aura-like substance formed from her before it soon synched with Omnini's black aura-like substance as well before it looked to be synched into a green light line. "WHOA, why do I feel all tingly!"

"So this is Linking..." The Older brother muttered.

Linking: To those who don't care much about the term or where the ability of the game came from, (Tales of Xillia 1 and 2) Linking allows party members to link up to allies using energy (internal, synthetic or otherwise a specialized catalyst/device) to join forces and attack opponents in unison- usually as a pincer attack or otherwise. It is also the only way to use more powerful attacks such as Volleying Backlash.

Link Artes: During this adventure, Link Artes are utilized in the same manner as you expect from Tales of Xillia; to create powerful attacks. Certain attacks or spells can be used in conjunction to create fierce spells or devastating strikes. Using different artes can result in different attacks and special commands. Try to find what artes work with which one; however, it won’t always work if there’s no affinity or bonds with each other… (Note: Some of the attacks you see are Link Artes or Commands you see the Tales or Kingdom Hearts games)

“Okay, let’s start off with something easy.” Omnini let out before noticing the tiger was about to lunge at Omimi who wasn't paying attention before he soon yelled out, “No you DON'T!”

The male soon soon used Orb Toss- summon a black energy orb before striking the being with Omimi noticing an idea bulb. "I got the idea! Go for it!"

Omnini nodded soon created a large orb of energy before he struck it with a kick, hitting the tiger with its size before Omimi soon used the palm to propel it back into the sky forward with both siblings calling out, “Volleying Backlash!” As the two called it out, Omnini soon smacked the orb into the enemy with Omimi catching the orb to absorb it. The orb soon collided with the tiger who was pushed back before it recovering. “Hey, it worked!” Omimi let out with a chipper smile.

“Yeah, but it’s getting back up!” Omnini let out before the two dodged another attack.

“Um, can we use another one of those double attacks?” Omimi asked.

“Er…We can only use it one at a time, and even then at certain times.” Omnini commented. “Unless we got something that can help boost.”

“Um…something like this?” The youngest suggest before showing a blue item packet- it looked to be a special blue hexagon with a sword in the center of it. “Mrs. Basasa gave me this thing.”

“A Link Treat?? Use it!” The older brother called out as the younger sibling tossed it into the air for the blue light before something went off. “Alright, let’s try another one!”

The younger of the two soon used Cerberus Strike while the older one used Orb Toss. “I got an idea!” Omimi let out as she seemed to get it before he soon shot three orbs at Omimi who punched them in succession. “Cerberus Barrage!”

The three orbs soon collided with the monster before it pushed the monster towards the tree to stun it as the theme ended.

~

Omnini and Omimi soon looked up and noticed a tree branch. Omnini threw an orb at his sister, who punched at it at tree before the monster was about to recover. However, the impact from the energy caused the branch to loosen and soon collapsed before the monster soon got hit by it at the helm, forcing it to collapse from the blow. Omnini carefully approached it before pressing on the head before feeling around for a pulse. “…There’s a pulse. It’s still alive.”

“But…what do we do?” Omimi asked. "Are we still gonna kill it?"

"Not a chance- I can't go after someone if they were being controlled in the first place..." Omnini admitted with a down look. "Poor lady... she must really be messed up bad if she got made into that."

"Made?" Omimi blinked. "You mean...she's a spliced Keronian?" She looked concerned as she added, "But I thought you're not allowed to splice creatures with citizens from anywhere! It's one of the major rules for scientists in the Keron army, I think! If we tell people if she's still alive, she's going to get captured and kept in a lab- or worse!"

"I know, I know...!" Omnini let out thinking with his fist on his forehead to try to think. "Hmmm..." He got an idea before to say, "Wait. We could do something after all to protect her."

"We can?!" The ivory tadpole let out, looking happy. "That's great! What's your idea, brother??"

“We're going to get into big trouble about this if the people finds out about what we did...” The male commented before giving a more serious look. “We’ll fake the report- we say we killed it.”

“Fake a Report? But…isn’t that lying?” Omimi asked.

“That part of it is; however, the report asked for a sign of a an specimen from within the jungle. There was a hybrid in the jungle- it doesn’t ask if it’s alive or dead. Plus we’ll be protecting it.” The black and red tadpole admitted as he soon cut a small sample off from it and put it into a baggie. “We tell NO ONE of this.”

"But wouldn't the army be angry that we're lying?" The female tadpole admitted while looking troubled. "We're going against the protocol and what Mr. Nagaga drilled into our heads- honesty is the best policy. If we lie, then we'll end up being delinquents, or worse- traitors!"

"Ugh... maybe we can get our heads smacked again if possible." Omnini admitted. "We tend to forget things whenever we get our heads smacked around."

“But what if we convince ourselves that it’s dead?” The snowy tadpole let out. “We could end up thinking on something unpredictable.”

“…If it happens, it happens.” Omnini commented. “We’ll keep it to ourselves and if we forget, then that means that she’ll be further protected until we remember it for sure.”

“…Umm…okay.” The female nodded. However she soon noticed something. “…Huh? Wait a minute…”

“You recognize this place?” The male let out before he sees Omimi walking down the path with Omnini and Omimi following along. “You know, this is where we lived before I ran away with you when mom and dad were killed.”

“It is?!” The younger sibling let out before she ran down the path with Omnini after her. It wasn’t long until they soon came to a home…

Jungle Home

The two soon came across a lone house sheltered via trees with some vegetation. It wasn’t long until the two emerged from the location before Omimi soon looked around as –Treasured Memories- plays. “So this is our old home?” She asked with her brother nodding. “Were we really born here?”

“Yeah; according to mom, this is…was our home.” Omnini explained, albeit sentimental. “…I think we should look inside- you know, to shoo out anything that might have been living here.”

The younger sibling nodded as a result as the two soon looked into the home. Inside the room looked to be gathering dust as the black and red tadpole followed her inside. Omimi soon looked around- aside from a collecting dust, she looked around before walking into the kitchen, seeing some pipework and some sort of makeshift heater. Nearby was a doorway with marker ink on it, indicating that it was used as a scale to tell how high a person was. Omnini looked around before he placed near the wall to tell how tall he was compared. “…I really have grown up since I was here last.” Omnini muttered.

The height soon shows to be towering over the notches as a (much) smaller version of him is seen with two silhouettes marking the heights with a marker. Another Keronian- a snowy white infant that’s presumed to be Omimi- is seen getting a height comparison done as well. Around the hallway, the dust seen upstairs were seen as Omnini looked around. He gave a bit of a sigh before looking around a bit more before finding another bedroom and a crib. Omnini looked at this before finding a small Keronian doll in it, also gathering dust before he sighed at this. He walked back downstairs as Omimi asked, “Everything alright?”

“Everything feels smaller now; like it was such a long time ago…” Omnini let out, down for some reason.

“Brother…” The youngest sibling let out, worried. “Do you think we should leave here then?”

“…No- there’s something here we need to attain- something we could use for our fights ahead here.” The male answered as the theme ends.

Omnini soon led Omimi to a new room- looking like a form of blacksmith before the two noticed several blades hanging on the wall- both of the blades looked to be part of the blades so short it could be mistaken for daggers, and looking if the brown handles weren't present, can form into a circle. However, one of them, looked to have a single edge with part of the structure looking like the black side of the Yin and Yang symbol (Black with a white dot the sword) while the other (white with a black dot near the bade of the blade) carries as well as Omimi. “This is it. These blades were used by mom and dad; The Yin and Yang Swords.”

“Uh, hey, why it isn’t called a blade anyways?” Omimi asked.

“Swords are usually the complete product of the weapon- blades are usually the sharp parts of the sword.” Omnini commented. “That answer your question?”

“…Ooookay then.” Omimi nodded. “I’m not the weapon user.”

“You are- technically mom and dad are dead, so we inherit the weapons.” Omnini explained. “Let’s hurry and take them.”

“Okay!” Omimi nodded before she hopped up to retrieve the white sword.

Omnini retrieved the black weapon before looking over it. “…It’s a little short to be a sword, or even a shortsword.”

“You mean it’s a dagger?” Omimi let out. “Uh, I may not know much about swords, but the guard looks to be a little fancy to be a dagger. Maybe there’s a switch we can press to extend the blade.” Omimi soon noticed a switch before pressed before it extends to proper sword with the blade showing a more proper sword structure- with the weapon showing to have, at the end of the blade, what it looked like at its base form. “Whoa!! Called it like a mile away!”

“I’ll say.” Omnini nodded before extending the blade himself (again with the weapon showing the blade of it looking like a normal blade. “Dad makes some fantastic blades, plus it must be built for easy storage too.”

“…” Omimi soon gave a bored look before to say, “You never mention mom or dad around me.”

“I’ll tell you someday, but for now, let’s report back to HQ.” Omnini commented. “But first…maybe we should ask those elders about a new hat- yours looked a little...torn. And I don’t think you and I would like to watch through a Military Tribunal*.”

“Oh it only concerns lost and snatched hats! It didn’t mention about damage!!” Omimi let out in defense. “You know better than to freak me out! And stop changing the subject!”

*Note: Keroro 304- Keroro loses his hat to someone named Kana. He gets it back, so don’t worry.

“I’m not changing anything.” Omnini commented as he walked outside of the room while returning the sword to is original length. "Come on- let's head for home."

~

At least an hour later, the exit of the jungle was in sight as part of the city looked to be either started to develop or part of the trees as Omimi soon admits, "Hey brother? How come we were near a jungle?"

"I guess you can say that this city's been known to be close to nature." Omnini shrugged. "Come on, let's go talk to Mrs. Basasa. Maybe we can get you a new hat."

"Probably..." Omimi let out before showing the only flap of her hat she retrieved.

Taking in the neighborhood, the two walking by until they soon made it towards a street sign labeled 'Persus Avenue' as the two walked down it...before arriving to a house further down it. It looked to be a fairly large shroom with some black spots on an orange cap. "...Mrs. Basasa is going to give us a lot of lip for getting your hat damaged." Omnini admitted to his sister.

"Don't remind me..." Omimi replied, now a bit nervous.

"Well, time to face the music then." The black and red tadpole admitted with a stern look.