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Lloyd and Colette

(OK, the title doesn't sound too much like Hansel and Gretel, but I'll try to do better with the others)

Once upon a time lived a happy family. There was an old woodcutter named Kratos and his two children called Lloyd and Colette. They weren't very rich but they were always together. And then one day, for some stupid and insane reason the old man decided to get married again with an awful woman called Raine. By pure greed she had spent all the money they had in ruins extracts and rare items to analyze them.

FC: Alright staff, any questions about the roles?

Kratos: I resent this role! Why should I be the old man?

FC: Because you're a main character and you're more than 40.000 years old. This, in my opinion, which is the important one because I am the author, counts as old. NEXT!

Raine: Why do I have a bad role?

FC: Because I need someone to satisfy all those Kraine lovers out there and anyway, are you complaining about your rare items and your ruins?

Raine: No, but-

FC: Then everything is alright! NEXT!

Colette: Is this going to be a happy ending?

FC: Yes

Colette: Then, I like it.

Lloyd: What's next?

FC: Just read your script and you'll know.

FC: Now that I have listened to everyone, it's time to get back to the tale.

So where were we…? Oh, yeah. One day the evil stepmother said "We are too poor-" (A/N:Listen Raine, when I say that you say something, I mean say not grumble because you don't like the role!). Now, Back to the story.

The evil stepmother Raine SAID:

-"We are too poor, we soon won't have enough money to buy ingredients for our food, and you don't even let me cook them anyway, so how can we subside?"

-"We'll find a way" The poor woodcutter Kratos answered.

-"We have to let the children loose in the Graochia forest. They won't be eating our food that way!"

Luckily, Lloyd had heard the conversation. He knew they would be set loose in the horrible Graochia forest. So he went outside and took his pebble collection. If they were going to be lost in the middle of nowhere, then at least he would have his pebble collection with him.

The next day, Kratos called Lloyd and Colette and said: "We are going woodcutting together today, so come now and follow me." Both Lloyd and Colette knew what was really going to happen, and knew they were going to be lost. But they followed nonetheless. Sadly, Lloyd's pocket had a hole in it. Raine had been too stingy to repair it. Kratos told them: "Wait for me right here, I'll be just back." They could hear him sob, but nonetheless, he left them alone in the forest.

Lloyd suddenly noticed it. All his pebbles had fallen out of his pocket. Being abandoned is one thing, but he couldn't even bear the idea of losing his pebble collection! So he picked them up, one by one, and at the end, when he picked the last one up and looked up, he saw a house, his house. Both Lloyd and Colette entered screaming "We're back".

Cruel stepmother Raine wasn't happy with this. They were supposed to be abandoned and be fed to whatever monster was hungry over there. So that night, she gave them some bread and looked the room up. Now Lloyd couldn't even get to his pebble collection. The next day, Kratos brought them farther and farther in the forest, and they were eating their bread, but they had to be so careful about the monsters around them, that they didn't eat properly and crumbs fell on the floor.

Kratos once again left them in the middle, of the forest and went back home with silent tears. Later, Lloyd and Colette were hungry. They tried to go back home but they were lost. A ten-foot tall six armed skeleton surprised them, and they beat the hell out of this intruder who didn't even let them be abandoned in peace. The sword dancer then said. "Okay, okay, you got me… Hey, let's say I tell you somewhere you can eat and you let me stay alive… I still need to go to Iselia and hopefully scare someone. Deal?" Lloyd and Colette accepted and he pointed in a direction. "Walk straight that way and you'll get food" he told them. So they left the half undead skeleton on the floor and walked to the general direction he had pointed at.

Kratos: What's with me sobbing all the time?

FC: I decided to make you a bit more compassionate and consider you actually care about your son's life.

Raine: I don't like my role

FC: complain to someone else, it's not like I care. Anyway, you were just a minor role and you won't participate in the second part of the story.

Lloyd & Colette: We're hungry…

FC: Don't worry; you'll eat in the second part

Kratos & Raine: Hey why are you nicer with them than with us?

FC: Because they're the main characters, no go away in your small house and do whatever you want to do.