Kratos: When I find myself on an authors note, it's usually a bad thing…

Me: Kratie! (glomp)

Kratos: This is what I mean! get off! You know I can't stand fan fictions!

Me: But, this fanfic is for you…

Kratos: And that's a good thing?

Me: I wrote this one to make you happy…

Kratos: …

Me: See. (points) I brought Anna back for you…

Anna: Kratos! (glomp)

Kratos: Anna?!

(hug.)

Me: Aww! How cute! And to think, you just snapped at me about this…

Kratos: … I apologize.

Me: Yay! (glomp again)

Anna: Hey, he's mine!

Kratos: (sigh) she owns nothing…

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Kratos Aurion looked up at the sky. ' An age of lifeless beings? What is Mithos thinking?!' he sighed to himself. He looked at his surroundings. The city to his side looked so peaceful. 'That's Luin, right?' he didn't spend much time outside of Derris-Kharlan, so he wasn't sure. He wasn't really suppose to be on Sylvarant, but Mithos had put him in an extremely bad mood.

Mithos had told them of his latest, pointless plan: create an age of lifeless beings. What good would that do? All it did was give them more work. Kratos didn't really care, it wasn't like he had any ties to this world. When was the last time he had gone to Sylvarant of Tethe'alla? 2000? No, 3000 years. There wasn't any reason to go there, so he hadn't really thought about the worlds in a long time.

Even if he had wanted to go, he probably couldn't. anytime he mentioned going to one of the world, Mithos found something for Kratos to do, forcing him to stay. The same went for Yuan. It's not like they couldn't force their way out of Derris Kharlan, they just didn't feel the need to. Kratos had no idea what went on outside of Derris Kharlan, and he really didn't care. It wasn't his problem.

He sighed. "I should probably get back to Derris Kharlan and talk Mithos out of all of this nonsense…" he said to himself as he turned back to the entrance to Derris Kharlan. He paused.

He turned again to the village. Something was pulling him to it. Curiosity, most likely. Kratos turned away, annoyed. "Like I have time for sight seeing…" he said to himself, walking away from the city. He stopped and turned slightly. He sighed, giving in to his growing curiosity, and headed toward Luin.

Walking through the entrance, he looked around, taking in the sights. It had changed a lot from the city it was formed from 4000 years ago.

"Welcome to Luin, the city of hope!" came a cheerful voice to his side. Kratos turned to the woman smiling at his side. Kratos nodded. "Is this your first time here?" again he nodded. "I would be happy to show you around. Is there any specific place you wish to go?"

"No. that won't be necessary. I'm just… sightseeing…" it sounded weird to him. It's not something he ever pictured himself doing. The woman smiled at him.

"Alright then," she said sweetly, "have a good day, sir. Let me know if you have any questions."

Kratos walked into the city as the woman turned to another passerby. 'Are all people outside of Derris-Kharlan that… friendly?' he wondered. 'all anyone ever does on Derris Kharlan is argue.' He heard some people yelling down the road. 'ah, sweet normalcy…' he thought sarcastically. 'I've been spending way too much time on that stupid comet…' he realized bitterly. He heard a woman scream and stopped to listen.

"Stop! Please! Don't touch me!" she screamed.

"Get back here, bitch!" a man yelled.

"I said don't touch me!"

Everyone around turned to each other, wondering what to do. Kratos sighed. He guessed things like this didn't happen that often around the peaceful city. He walked in the direction of the screams.

"You'd best stay away from her." said an old man to his side. Kratos turned to look at him.

"Why is that?"

"She's an escaped experiment." the old man explained, "That's why we try to chase her off, but she keeps coming back." he shook her head. "Worthless woman…"

"…" Kratos turned away from him, a look of knowledge in his eyes. "Really? I'd say 'unfortunate.'" he said. The old man looked at him. Kratos continued down the now deserted road.

When he reached the end of the road, he peaked around the corner. A girl with long brown hair and a torn brown dress on with brown gloves on her hands was cornered, sitting on the ground with her back against the wall. Two big men were standing in front of her, holding bloodied swords. They glared down at her.

"We told you to leave, bitch!" one of them snapped. The woman glared.

"No! I won't leave! This is my home!" she yelled defiantly.

"Not anymore, it's not." the second man said.

"Forget it!" the first one yelled. "I've had enough of this! You had your chance," he raised his sword into the air, "but now, I have no problem killing you! Die!"

"No!" The woman screamed. She closed her eyes and tried to back away.

Kratos jumped in front of her, blocking the killing blow.

"Who the hell are you?!" the man yelled.

"I don't think that's really important." Kratos said. He pushed the man back.

"What do you think you're doing?!" the woman yelled. "You'll be killed!"

"You-!" one of the men yelled angrily. He charged at Kratos, who dodged out of the way easily.

"You don't want to test my patients…" Kratos said.

"Look out-! Ahh!" the woman screamed. Kratos turned to see the second man coming at him from behind. Behind the man, the girl was on her knees, fresh blood pouring on her brown gloves. Kratos attacked him and the man was down. He turned to the other man and defeated him too. When the two men were on the ground, the woman stood up.

"That was… amazing…" she said quietly. Kratos shrugged.

"You should leave. They aren't dead, only knocked out. I don't approve of meaningless killings. You should leave this place and get your hand looked at." he said, walking away.

"… wait a minute!" she yelled, making Kratos jump. He turned back to see her glaring at him, a defiant look in her eyes. "Where do you think you're going?!"

"What does it matter to you?"

"… well… I don't know…" she admitted.

"I'm leaving…"

"Like hell you are!" she grabbed his arm. "Take me with you!"

"What?! Let go!"

They stood there arguing for a while.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Kratos snapped.

"What do you think? I told you I'm coming too!"

"No you're not."

"Yes I am."

"Go find your own way. I have enough problems as it is."

"Then you shouldn't have saved me." the woman said, grinning. "Now, you're shuck with me."

"No!"

"Yes!"

They continued to argue, the woman still latched onto him arm.

"Fine!" Kratos said, giving in. "You can come with me until we find a place for you to stay…" the woman smiled triumphantly. She let go of his arm. "What's you're name?" Kratos asked.

"Give me your name and I shall give you mine." she said.

"… now we're back to me leaving you here…" Kratos said, annoyed. He sighed. "I am Kratos."

"Anna. Nice to meet you, Kratos." she said.

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Me: damn, that was short… I'll have to update really soon to make up for it… but not until I get reviews, right Kratos?

Kratos: Did you say something? I wasn't listening.

Anna: Kratie! That's not nice to say to the authoress!

Kratos: Why? I didn't hear what she said…

Me: (whisper to Anna) And to think, I wondered where Lloyd got it from…

Anna: Wasn't me…

Kratos: I can hear you, you know!

Anna: Whoops!

Me: Review if you want more… review even if you don't want more… just review, damn it!