Siren: Alright! Sequel time! Whoo! Thanks to all our original readers/reviewers! 124 reviews total! (hugs everyone who reviewed) Muse, you can come out of hiding now. She's gone.

Muse: (shaking from fear) Your sister scares me.

Siren: Oh, come on. Just because she asked you if you were gay...and tried to set you up on a blind date.

Muse: She locked me in a public bathroom with a gay guy!

Siren: Well, I guess you shouldn't have said her shirt was ugly.

Muse: Never, ever coming to your house for post-Easter dessert again. EVER. Disclaimer!

(poof) The Great Rabbito: Um...hippity hop? What sound does a bunny make, anyway?

Muse: I don't know. You're the bunny.

The Great Rabbito: I guess, like, a squeak? I don't know. Sirens & Muses don't own ToS. (poof)

Siren: You guys will be our best friends for life if you review!


Rule #1: Never give a two-year-old handfuls of sugar.
Revision #1: Never give a teenager any amount of sugar.

"Come on! Why aren't we being attacked?" Lloyd groaned. The group was walking through the Ossa Trail, while Lloyd complained about the lack of monsters. He'd just learned a new move, and had no one to practice on. However, it appeared that the Ossa Trail had a lack of active monsters.

"Lloyd," Kratos said. "You should be glad there aren't many monsters. This area is much harder to fight in."

"Ugh. Professor, do you know why they're not coming after us?" Lloyd looked around in the brush, trying to spot a group of monsters.

"I assume it's because they know they won't win," Raine said calmly. "Or perhaps there's nothing to draw them out of their hiding spot. You need something to lure them with."

"Lure, huh?" Lloyd rubbed the back of his head. Then he snapped his fingers and ran ahead of the group, waving his arms. "Hey, monsters! Check it out! Tender flesh, all yours for the taking! Free food!"

"Wow, Lloyd, I'm shocked they didn't come rushing out," Genis said sarcastically. Lloyd stuck his tongue out at him.

"Really," Raine said, slightly annoyed. "Kratos is right, the last thing we want around here is to be attacked again. We're lucky that girl didn't reach us, or else we might've lost."

"At least wait until we reach flat land," Kratos told him.

Lloyd groaned. "That could take hours! I'll forget how to do it long before then!" He thought for a few seconds before grinning. "I got it! Genis, can you hand me the food bag?"

"What? Lloyd, you can't use our food!"

"Don't worry," Lloyd assured him, yanking the bag out of his friend's hands and digging through it as they walked. "We never use this stuff, anyway. Aha!" He pulled out a burlap sack.

"What are you using, Lloyd?" Colette asked him. He grinned.

"Watch!" He ran forward, lifted the bag over his head, and dumped it.

Out poured millions of white sugar crystals, covering his body like snow. It stuck in his hair, on his clothes, and made a fine dusting on the ground. He laughed. "Come and get me! This should be enough of a lure! Don't you guys want some candy?"

"Lloyd!" Kratos growled angrily. "What are you doing?"

The young man spun in his tracks to face his comrades. "Come on! I'm just trying to train! You should at least support me, Kratos!"

"Training is fine," Kratos began, closing the gap between him and his son. "Being stupid is something entirely different."

"Um, guys?" Colette said.

"Stupid?! This is a pretty good idea, if you ask me!" Lloyd said, gesturing to the sugar around him. "I didn't see you come up with any other bright ideas!"

"Lloyd, Kratos, pay attention!" Raine barked.

"That's because I don't want to attract monsters," Kratos snapped, ignoring the rest of the party. "I don't engage in unnecassary battles. It's stupid!"

"Look out!" Genis yelled.

"Don't call me stupi-whoa!"

A bear that had snuck up behind them swiped its massive paw at Lloyd, sending him rolling down the steep hill they were on.

"Stupid boy," Kratos muttered under his breath, chasing after his son, with the rest of the group and the bear behind him. He grabbed hold of Lloyd, stopping him from rolling any farther. He had been knocked unconscious and had some scratches from tumbling through thorns, but was otherwise unharmed.

Kratos unsheathed his sword and sliced at the monster, killing it with no effort. The other three reached him just as the bear fell. "Is Lloyd okay?" Colette asked anxiously.

"He's fine," Kratos said, calmly, kneeling down to heal his son.

"I expected you to know better, Kratos," Raine scolded. "I can't believe you let that bear sneak up on you like that."

"I apologize," he murmured, watching as Lloyd's eyes fluttered open.

"What happened?" Lloyd asked groggily, shaking his head.

"You let a monster knock you out," Genis said. "It was kind of funny." Raine smacked him.

"Lloyd, you should be more careful next time. And you, too, Kratos, okay?" Colette gave a worried smile.

"What happened to the monster?" Lloyd asked.

"I killed it," Kratos said, helping him up.

"What?! Why didn't you wake me up so I could try my new move?!"

Kratos sighed.

"Come on," Raine said. "We need to hurry if we don't want to get stuck here after dark."

As they trooped back up onto the path, Lloyd examined his clothes. "Aw, man, it all got rubbed off. Hey, Kratos, can you get some mor-"

"No."

"Come on! You don't even know what I was going t-"

"No."

"…Please?"

"I said, no!"