To think, all this was spawned by a simple sentence…
Disclaimer: I do not own Tales of Symphonia and now that I now have obtained the title 'Poor college student' you won't get anything if you sue me.
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Title: Tricks
One-shot
Location: Unknown
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"Kratos! Kratos!" Anna's excited voice called from across the campsite. "Come here! This is so amazing!"
The man in question sighed and looked up from the book he was reading. They really should be moving. They had already stayed in this spot for a week. That was a bit too long for his tastes, especially with Yuan in the area.
"What is it Anna?" Kratos said without moving from his spot. Noishe shifted at his back to get a better look at the woman and the young boy she was fawning over
'Lloyd spoke!" she exclaimed, not letting her husband's lack of enthusiasm dampen her own.
Kratos blinked. That was it? Lloyd spoke? He had thought, from all the bouncing, that she had found a bag of gald or something equally valuable. He returned his attention to his book.
"Noishe can speak too."
The protozoan was more then happy to demonstrate this fact to the now irate woman.
"That's not speaking! That's barking! There are no words there! Lloyd, show them how it's done, sweetie!"
The boy giggled and clapped his hands. "Gamozoto."
Anna turned a triumphant smirk on the unimpressed seraphim. "See! He spoke!"
"Technically, that was not a word anymore then Nioshe's barks were," Kratos flipped a page in his book. "And he has been making sounds like that for weeks."
"Weeks!" Anna shrieked in shock.
"Yes." Kratos calmly replied as he reached over to pat a now whimpering Noishe's head…
….and froze at the enormous killer intent suddenly directed at him. The seraphim slowly looked upto see flames, almost literally, shooting out of his wife's eyes.
"He's been speaking for weeks and you didn't tell me?"
Kratos decided now would be an excellent time for a walk. He may be immortal but that doesn't translate into invincible. Right now Anna looked like she would have absolutely no problem proving this point to any non-believers.
"Noishe?" Kratos quietly asked as he slowly stood. "Look after Lloyd."
The protozoan made a soft whimpering noise and slunk away from the doomed mercenary. In a heartbeat Kratos was gone. It took less then a split-second for this to register in Anna's mind then she too disappeared from sight, chasing after her husband and filling the air with incoherent threats. Noishe was glad he couldn't hear them properly. What little he did catch didn't sound very pleasant for a certain blue-winged angel.
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As with all my other fics, constructive criticism is welcomed.
Oh yes. In case you were wondering, the sentance that inspired this fic was:
"Before you are two years old all you can do is cheap pet tricks." Man I loved my psycology class! --grins--