Me: I've had this idea in my head for so long and now here it is.
Zelos: And it's about me?
Me: And Lloyd
Zelos: I'm cool with that. *puts arm around bud's shoulder*
Lloyd: What are you planning?
Me: : )
Lloyd:umm..okkk Menrow owns nothing and TOS belongs to Namco
Me: OMG! I just saw a trailer for the second episode in the Teth'ella arc! I'm so excited I have to pee! *runs from room*
"I can't believe this has happened. I fought so hard to protect you. And now your gone from me."
Kratos knelt down in the pool off blood seeping from the monster that was once his wife.
"What have I done Anna. If I was just slightly faster, I could have separated that damned half elf's hands from your chest." He put his hand on her Exbula head. Where was his son and his friend. He had seen them come off the cliff side but they were no where to be seen. He shook his head, lifting a tiny shoe that laid in the blood.
"No. Why. WHY!" He gripped the shoe tightly. Tears streamed down his face. It was Lloyd's shoe. He heard a rustling in the bush, grabbed his flaming sword and charged towards the noise. His eyes widened and he dropped the blade instantly. His attack nicked the top of a brunette head. In the bushes was Lloyd, collapsed on Noishe, a green and fairly large creature. His leg was wounded and he whined, being unable to walk.
"Noishe..Lloyd." He took the boy from the creature's back and held him tightly. Kratos could sense the mana in the boy and realized he is alive.
"Thank you Anna." He rubbed the blood from Lloyd's face and petted Noishe.
"You did well. I could never thank you enough either Noishe." The 'dog' whined and Kratos healed the wounded leg.
"I thought for a moment you were lingering Desians." He smiled at his son's face as the boy began to wake up and he sat down, crossing his legs to sit his son on his thigh.
"Daddy?" The boy looked at his Dad and started crying. His arms stretched against Kratos's chest. Lloyd's arms where so small, they fell short of Kratos's sides. This was how the toddler hugged though.
"Shuu. It's ok Lloyd. I'm here now."
"Is Mommy ok?" He cried. Kratos closed his eyes and pulled his boy back against his chest. He couldn't lie to his son. He wasn't ever able to. He wasn't able to lie to him now, no matter how much he wanted too.
"I'm sorry Lloyd. Mommy is gone." Lloyd knew what Daddy meant by this. He had a pet bug once and it had scared Anna, causing her to stomp it dead. Lloyd cried more.
"I want Mommy!" He looked over at his friend and the animal lowered his ears, tilting his head down. Kratos put his gloved hand on the creature and petted the wet fur. It had been raining and still was. They say that weather reflects people's emotions, but Kratos never believed that. Today however, he felt like the rain reflected his heart perfectly and he hated this for his son.
The thing he had to worry about right now. Continue running or go back to Crusix. He felt dead inside, even with the love of his life in his hands. He knew he couldn't raise Lloyd alone. Wait though. They were after Anna for the exshpere. Without it, they would stop chasing them. Would he really give up something that was part of Anna's life as he was He looked down and Lloyd lifted his head. His small hand set on Kratos's face and wiped away the tears.
"Don't cry Daddy." He said and started to tear up again.
"When Daddy cries, I cry." He said and Kratos stood up, holding Lloyd.
"I'll stop Lloyd." He glanced back at Anna's dead body. Then, he saw that her neck was bear other then the hole where the gem was attached to her once human neck.
"Where is it." he glanced at his boy, who had fallen asleep against his shoulder and sighed in relief. He didn't want Lloyd to see his mother like that. He searched around the area for a half hour before ending up back to the spot. He signed and glanced at the boy on his back, a bit of drool coming from his mouth and onto his judgement uniform. Then he found the exshpere. He pulled his boy around and lifted the small hand. The exshpere was embedded in the back of his hand.
"No..how did this happen." He looked at the now rotting corpse and lowered his gaze, rubbing the gem and hand gently between his fingers. Anna had to have gave it to him to prevent Kvar from having it. She knew he killed her for it, and she wasn't going to let him have it.
"Lloyd. Lloyd wake up." The boy stirred in his arms and opened his little wine eyes.
"Daddy? Is something wrong?" The boy looked at from his Dad's eyes to his hand.
"Where did you get this?" He asked.
"Mommy gave it to me. She said to give it to Daddy. But that man put it on me." Kratos looked at one of the dead Desian bodies. He was under the Exbula's hand, having been killed at the bottom of the cliff and not at the top where she lost control. Kratos gripped the tiny hand tightly.
"Daddy?"
"Don't worry Lloyd. Let's go." He said, his son obviously picking up on the man's uneasiness. Right now, he had to get his son to a safe place. He only knew of one place that he didn't find safe, but trusted. He entered a metal door in a strange base, located in the Teriet Desert.
"I'm busy." The man at the desk said, not looking up.
"Yuan." The man's head shot up at Kratos's voice. He saw the dirty and scratched up child, the blood on the white uniform of the man holding him.
"Kratos. Lloyd. What happened." He said, standing up and walking over. His blue ponytail trailed behind him with his cape at his quick pace to check on his friends. He saw the empty and helpless look in his old friend's eyes and lowered his head, glancing at the 3 year old.
"They got her didn't they."
"I killed her Yuan. They removed her exshpere and begged me to kill her." Yuan's hand rose to the man's shoulder as his auburn head rested on his.
"Is Lloyd ok?" He looked at the breathing child. He looked worn, beaten and tired, but appeared to be sleeping peacefully. Then he saw his hand.
"Did they do this?" The older man didn't answer.
"They knew that unless the exshpere was in use, they couldn't track it." He said and rubbed the boy's head.
"He needs a bath." Yuan said. He could tell that Kratos was almost dead inside so right now he could only worry about Lloyd. He showed the family to a bathroom. Yuan smiled hearing Lloyd laughing in a bathtub, Kratos washing him. He leaned in the doorway and set some clean and dry clothes on the sink.
"What are you going to do?" The half elf asked.
"Continue what I was doing. I need to find an keycrest for Lloyd though now.."
"Oin." Lloyd waved at at the half elf by the door and Yuan waved back. He was a man with more of a professional aura around him. It made Kratos laugh inside seeing how his boy could even break Yuan. Expecully when he would call him and couldn't pronounce his name.
"I'm not going back if that's what your suggesting." Yuan came over and knelt down, holding his hand on Lloyd's forehead as Kratos rinsed his hair, preventing soap from going in the toddler's eyes.
"Kratos. I don't think a normal keycrest will work. Remember, it's part of the Angelus Project. and, from how Lloyd's been growing, he's obviously inherited your genes. I don't want to see him suffer from.." The renegade leader trailed off.
"You think I should get a runecrest." Yuan nodded. His lover had long ago suffered from a disease that was caused by a gem called a Crusix Crystal. The Angelus Project, the one on Lloyd's innocent hand, was evolving into one. Better safe then sorry.
"Will you get me a mana fragment?" Kratos asked, lifting his boy from the tub and drying off his head with a towel.
"You know Yggdrasil doesn't trust me. I can't just go get one." Kratos let out what sounded like a low and annoyed groan.
"I don't want Lloyd.." He felt two firm hands grab his shoulder's behind him.
"Kratos. Right now, you have no where to go. Yggdrasil won't stop following you either. The best thing for Lloyd would be to go back and stop running. Let him settle down for a while."
"Yuan." He said and turned, looking up at the half elf.
"I understand where you are coming from. Why do you think I'm working down here." Kratos looked at his son playing with his hair and running his fingers through his knots and sighed.
"I hate it when your right and it's the thing I don't want most." He pulled the shirt over his son's head and buttoned the collar around his neck. He stood up and looked at Yuan, sighing as he rolled his sleeves back down.
"Once I go up there though and get the crest made, I won't be able to leave. Not without him sending someone after me."
"Most likely Pronyma." Yuan said in resentment. She was one of the Five Grand Cardinals and being the only female, she often flirted with everyone in Crusix. Lloyd held up his arms.
"Can I come up tere Daddy? Kratos smiled, putting the boy on his shoulders. He enjoyed being up high from the ground. They men looked at each other before going to the city of angels they both couldn't stand being. The place was full of angels yet, empty of life. Everyone here were lifeless, having no emotions or other qualities that made them..living.
"So you come crawling back." The tall, blond angel turned from the window.
"I don't want that human running around here. Get rid of him Kratos." Kratos's eyes narrowed.
"That's my son your talking about." Yggdrasil returned the glare and appeared in front of the human.
"I don't care." Yuan cleared his throat.
"Lord Yggdrasil if I may say something." The half elf glared at the blue haired man.
"What do you want." He snapped and Yuan knelt down, putting his hand on Lloyd's head and looking up at Kratos. Kratos shook his head.
"Your trending thin ice Yuan." Kratos said and Yuan closed his eyes.
"Have they?" Yggdrasil put his hands on his hips.
"Explain yourselves." He demanded.
"Lloyd. Do you have your wings? Can my and Daddy see them?" Yuan asked and Lloyd drilled his head into his father's pants.
"But. Daddy doesn't wike wings." Lloyd said. Anna had insisted that Kratos show Lloyd his son all he was. Kratos hated that his son ever knew him as more then his father. He had planned on hiding this secret forever. He viewed his wings as his 'sin'. A punishment of trading up his human traits and working for what Crusix stand for. He didn't know how to react when he saw signs of begin an angel in his son.
They had only began over the last recent year. Lloyd would wake up at night, crying about pains in his back. Then he began to get less tired after playing around, like he had more energy. After a few months of that, Kratos was able to see his body's mana forming and storing itself in his child's back. He hadn't yet seen any wings on the boy yet. If he is now equipped with that exshpere though, it's possible that it would have enhanced this part of him and his wings just can't come out on their own.
"Explain yourself." Yggdrasil was losing his patience. Kratos lowered his head and closed his eyes, nodding to his son and Yuan. Lloyd's eyes widened as he grabbed tighter on Krato's leg. Yuan ran his hand down Lloyd's back and a tiny pair of wings erupted gently from his back. It was like when Kratos, a human, had been turned into an angel over 4000 years ago. His body wasn't suppose to harness such amounts of mana. therefor, his back became sensitive and his wings would revel themselves when touched. He soon got out of this though as his wings became part of his body. Yet, this didn't surprise the man. His wings, blue and separated into a different form of feathers, his son's looked nothing like them. They looked like normal, bird-like wings of the lower angels around here, yet they were made completely of mana, like those that had now froze behind Yggdrasil. He grinned.
"I guess he takes more after his father then mets the eye. Fine. He can stay here for now. But when he gets older, he will be serving me, nevertheless of what you say Kratos." He glared at the wine-eyed man. He liked Kratos a lot. He had been his once teacher and a close friend. But now, he had a constant eye on the man after he ran away over 3 years ago.
"Leave me now." He said, turning his back to them. Kratos lifted his son in his arms and they left the throne room. They took to Kratos's room and set the boy on the bed. He studied the boy's wings. They were so small, just like his son. Yuan crossed his arms under his cape.
"They don't look much bigger then the length of your hand. I'm sorry Kratos. It seemed the only logical option at the time."
"I know you were just thinking about what would be best for Lloyd. Your a good uncle." He laughed slightly and Yuan shook his head.
"We've been over this already." Kratos put his hand on his son's shoulders.
"Come on 'Oin'. Your family to Lloyd also." Yuan walked over and looked at the child as he was looking around behind him, trying to see the wings that he could feel.
"I'm sorry Daddy. I know you not wike wings." The boy started to sniffle. Kratos sighed and ruffled his boy's hair.
"Not yours Lloyd. Your wings are beautiful. Anna would have found they beautiful as well." He lowered his gaze, thinking about his dead wife. He was not only a single parent now, but Lloyd lost his best friend. He did everything with his mother, due to the fact that Kratos was distant and a bit nervous about being a parent. Yuan notice Kratos grasp something in his uniform and walked over, lifting Lloyd.
"Let's go see around Welegia ok. Daddy needs to think ok." Lloyd looked back at his Dad and then up at Yuan.
"Ok Oin." He took him from the room and Kratos sighed, taking out a locket from under his uniform and sitting down on the bed.
"Anna. I'm sorry. I promised not to come back here and yet." The desperate man rested his head on the palm of his hand.
"I'll continue to protect him. I won't let Kvar have him, or that exshpere." Yuan walked, the boy following behind him, his wings flapping exsitedly.
"Oin. Can I fly now?" Yuan looked down at the boy and glanced at his back.
"No Lloyd. Your wings are to small. When you get older." He continued and stopped suddenly, seeing that same woman he despised coming forward. The green haired woman stopped, seeing the toddler trailing behind the cape.
"Lord Yuan. What is that?" She said harshly, looking at Lloyd.
"It's none of your business Pronyma. Continue on." She ignored him, kneeling down and the boy pulled back from her.
"Those eyes. This is Lloyd isn't it?" Yuan moved, blocking the boy from her view.
"It is." He said sternly and she waved.
"Good bye young Aurion." The boy lowered his head.
"Bye." He said softly. She stood up and smirked.
"The chosen is here as well."
"Which?"
"His mother died yesterday. I got him after the funeral. Yggdrasil felt it was necessary to approach him immediately."
"This has been a bad week for us it seems." Yuan said.
"Where is he?" The woman tilted her head.
"He's in one of the spare rooms. Boy won't stop crying." Yuan lowered his head.
"His mother died. What do you expect." She rolled her eyes and left.
"Oin. What's a chosen?" Lloyd asked. He looked down at the boy. Maybe it would be a good idea to introduce the boys. They both were suffering at this moment and both had similar lives. Unlike Lloyd though, the Chosen had no one.
"I don't wike her." The small angel said and gripped Yuan's cape.
"Pronyma? She only cares about what's good for her and Lord Yggdrasil. Come with me Lloyd. You want to met the Chosen?" Lloyd looked at the cape.
"Are they nice?" He asked as the metal door opened. One the bed was a boy, much older then Lloyd. His face was red from crying like the hair on his head.
"Chosen?" Yuan said and the boy glanced up. He looked at the half elf and noticed the light glow of the wings behind him.
"I don't want to talk to anyone. I told that woman already. Leave me alone." His high and cracky voice spoke. Anyone could tell he had been crying for a while. Lloyd's wings lowered. Yuan stepped aside,
"I'll be back. Stay here." And the boys were alone in the room.
"Are you the Chosen?" The young Aurion asked.
"Why? Who are you?" Lloyd stepped forward slightly.
"My name is Woyd." The redhead raised an eyebrow.
"Lloyd." They boys looked up at Yuan reenter the room.
"He can't pronounce his L's. He's living up here for now." Lloyd walked up to the Chosen.
"How owd are you?"
"Eight."
"Wow. I'm onwy three. What's your name?" Lloyd smiled. The older boy looked at the small boy and looked at Yuan. He readjusted his cape.
"Go ahead Chosen. He will someday work for us as you will." He slide off the bed and lowered his head and mumbled something.
"I can't hear you." The little angel said and stepped back.
"Wow. Your big also. I hope I get to be big wike you someday." He held out his hands,
"I'm going to be this big, wike Daddy." The chosen looked at him.
"What about your Mom?" Yuan's eye widened suddenly and Lloyd lowered his head.
"Mommy's..go.." He started to cry. The older one lowered his head.
"I'm sorry. My Mom's gone also. I have no one now." Lloyd ran froward and suddenly grabbed the other child into a hug. His arms didn't reach around this boy either. Yuan blinked and chuckled slightly. Lloyd was always friendly to everyone he met, but this was the first time he had actually hugged a stranger. He may have been pulled to the chosen, because they both recently lost their mothers. The older boy frowned and then tensed up as Lloyd put his hands on the boy's cheeks and wiped them.
"Don't cry anymore. I'm here now ok?" The redhead pulled back and wiped his face in his black tux shirt.
"Zelos. My name is Zelos Wilder."
Zelos: I was just to pretty as a kid also
Lloyd: Your really narcissistic aren't you
Raine: Lloyd! You used it correctly!
Genis: He's officially smarter then Menrow
Me: Hey! I can't help it that spelling/grammer/vocab isn't my best subject
Raine: If you would study, you wouldn't have to worry about this. And you spelled grammar wrong
Me: No! Go away! *shoos off the peanut gallery* Anyway, I had learned that my stories tended to lack detail, so I'm trying harder with that. How was it? Review 3