Me: I'm back for the next chapter

Zelos: Are you alright my sweet? I knew my presence was powerful but..

Mithos: MenrowSpirit owns nothing and Tales of Symphonia belongs to me...ehh Namco

Zelos: Why is he here?!

Me: He's pretty

Mithos: *Smirks*

Genis shook his head, "Wait wait wait. This isn't even possible. Kratos is too young and why would he try to kill his own son?!"

"I think he was protecting me." Lloyd said and held his arm, the other hand on his forehead.

"I know it probley sounds illogical to you but I think he was fighting us to keep me away from here."

"No way! That guy is a traitor. No good parent in their right mind would want anything but the best for their child! I won't believe that.."

He was suddenly grabbed by the collar by his fried, who was by now standing.

"Don't talk about Dkr.." Lloyd was lost in his words. He had started to say that d word but then couldn't finish saying the man's name.

"I don't know what to do Genis. We..we need to get out of here and back with the group."

Genis lowered his gaze, "I'm staying.." He mumbled.

"What?" He pulled from Lloyd.

"I'm staying Lloyd."

"Here?! With Crusix? Why the hell?" He smacked his friend in the head.

"They are our enemy! What about Collette. Didn't we both want to save her?!"

"Yggdrasil..." Genis finally said.

"What about that bastard?!"

"He is Mithos." Lloyd released the boy and stepped back.

"That bastard is is your friend?! I'll kill him!" Genis put his arms up, holding Lloyd back.

"You can't Lloyd!"

"I will. I'll kill anyone that betrays you like this!" Lloyd stopped.

"It's ok if I'm betrayed but not you Genis."

Genis shook his head," It's not ok for you either!"

Lloyd lowered his gaze. "I couldn't protect you Genis. After I promised over and over again. In the end, your still crying."

Genis's eyes widened and he wiped his face," N No I'm not." Lloyd stooped trying to leave and put his hands on Genis's shoulders.

"Let's just think about this for a moment."

Genis was going to have a heart attack. His friend, Lloyd. LLOYD of all people, wanted to think instead of acting on instinct like he normally does?! He knew that..this was now serious and it worried the half elf. They both sat on the bed. Genis told his friend about his 'promise' to Mithos. How he didn't want to disappoint Lloyd but he was starting to believe Yggdrasil's way to unite the worlds is best.

Lloyd was deep in thought and it worried his younger friend. He never seen Lloyd like this, confused...if somewhat depressed. Yet he didn't shed a tear in front of the boy.

"In a way, I'm most like you now then we've ever been."

"What?"

"Your a half elf...and I'm apparently half angel. We were both bretyred by someone we trusted but we want to stay with them. And we were both to weak to protect ourselves from it." Genis lowered his head. He wanted to scream. Yell at Lloyd not to give up but he knew...Lloyd was right.

The door opened and Kratos entered the room.

"Good your both here. I want you two to leave."

He was thrown off by by neither of them saying anything, moving not even a bit. He folded his arms.

"Genis. I understand that I can't make you leave. But Lloyd. I demand that you leave Welgeia at once."

Lloyd stood up and walked over it him.

"How long?"

"What?"

"How long did you know that..."

He lifted the chain in his hand. He bit his lips, forcing himself not to cry.

"That I was.."

Kratos didn't expect this. Lloyd grabbed onto the man and leaned against his chest, which he could easily do, being at just the right heigth for it. He drilled his face in deeper into the buckles that wrapped around his Crusix uniform.

"Lloyd.."

"Why did you leave me?!" His hands gripped the white uniform tighter.

"Didn't you love me?" Lloyd said blankly, feeling utterly lost and confused. He almost felt like, nothing in his life was right anymore. He wasn't strong enough to protect Genis. And he couldn't protect himself. He couldn't even protect Collette's soul once. He probley would fail again. He wasn't smart enough to figure out how to save the worlds. Apparently, maybe he wasn't enough for his Dad....either.

Lloyd had not relized that he said that last part out loud, earning him a firm pair of hands on his shoulders.

"Lloyd!" Kratos yelled at him, pushing him back.

"Don't you ever say that! Your better then me! Your more then I deserve."

Kratos lowered his head, not used to being so riled up with emotion. He thought these feelings were long dead inside him.

"I never wanted to leave you. When Anna turned into a monster and tried to kill you, she you and Noishe fell off the edge when she had momentarily regained herself..after I had struck her down."

Lloyd remembered what Kvar had said about his parents, 'I didn't kill your mother. Your father did.'

"When I descended down the cliff and find only desian bodies, half-eaten by monsters. I assumed, you had died as well."

His gripped tightened and started to hurt Lloyd a bit.

"Then, Yggdrasil saved me." Genis was now pulled into the story.

"What?!"

"After that, I wondered the world for weeks. Not really going anywhere, just walked. Thinking about how everything I had lived for, was gone. So I tired to end it."

Lloyd's body began to shake. Kratos tried to ..kill himself?! This made him so angry that almost all his hate for the man was burned away by it.

"When I did, Yggdrasil saved me. He did not want me to die and therefor, I returned to Crusix. Everything was meaningless. I thought that aas long as Yggdrasil put the worlds back once Martel was revived, it was fine. Until I saw you again."

He lifted his hand and ruffled the boy's hair.

"This same brown hair like Anna's. It's ability to define gravity. There, standing at the Temple of Martel on the head of this boy...I thought that maybe, when I heard your name but once I save Anna's grave, I was certain. That my son was alive and I had to protect him from Crusix."

"That is why you attacked us and kept us from proceding further." Genis said.

"Is that why you really wanted us to stay in Iselia?!" Kratos looked back at the half elf.

"Your going to stay for Mithos? You believe in his ideals don't you." Genis lowered his head. Lloyd looked back at his friend. "Genis?"

"I'm sorry Llyod but..your plan is flawed!" He yelled, hands begining to sweat. "What?"

"Your idea to reunite the worlds is good, but it will do nothing for us half elves. We will continue to be mistreated and exiled. But if there are more people on one planet, there is more discrimination."

"So you believe that Yggdrasil bastard over me?" Genis shook his head and ran from the room.

"I'm sorry Lloyd!" Lloyd lowered his head.

"You should leave.."

"No." Kratos blinked, looking at Lloyd. "What?"

"I I'm not going back.." Kratos grabbed the boy's wrist, "You can't stay here! I won't let you."

"D.." Kratos stopped. D? Lloyd was talking to him right?

"I promised to protect Genis a and I want to stay with you d.."

Why was he stuttering so badly? Damn it.

"Dad." He finally said. He felt a heavy weight lift off his chest.

He loved Drik, the adoptive father that had raised him but something about knowing his real Dad. That Kratos cared for him.

"I want us to be a family again!"

He finally yelled. Kratos was not used to this. Lloyd seemed like a different person, not the confident, stubborn teen he was on the trip.

"Lloyd."

"Just listen for a minute."

The boy pulled nervously at his blank top,

"I'm so confused. All of this, but I know that I don't want to leave you again. And I promised Genis that I would protect him. Even if his friend is that bastard. I will protect my friend! and my Dad." He said.

"So I want to stay."

"What about the Chosen and your friends?" Lloyd's hand twitched.

"I I'll be helping them. I'm just going to be doing it from the inside. How can I save the worlds if I can't protect or save the people I have infront of me." He said, specifically talking about two people in particular.

Kratos was torn as well. He was happy that his son wanted to be with him, even after what he had done, he was forgiving. But he felt frustration that his same son was being so irrational. Kratos walked forward and pulled his son against him.

"If your going to protect Genis, then I'm going to protect you...my son."

Lloyd's eyes reached their holding capacity and broke free. It was ok to cry infront of his dad right? As long as Genis was gone, not to see him sink so low. Hearing Kratos call him his son lifted everything from his mind. His anger, his guilt, his pity and confusion. He just felt that strange feeling in his heart from earlier.

It must have been the feeling of acceptance. Kratos and Lloyd turned to see Yggdrasil standing in the doorway, Genis by his side.

"What a touching reunion. But who said I would allow it?"

The lord said. He indicated Kratos to come over with his finger and Lloyd watched his father obey and Yggdrasil slapped him across the face.

"Dad! you bastard!"

Yggdrasil grabbed Lloyd's shirt as he tried to defend Kratos and threw him back into the bed.

"Mithos please stop!" Genis begged. The lord sighed a bit in annoyance.

"So. You still trust Lloyd more then me."

"NO. It's not that but Lloyd."

Lloyd sat up and spit some blood to the side.

"I will protect Genis. He can trust me. SINCE HE OBVIOUSLY CAN"T TRUST YOU!"

Lloyd grabbed the sword from Kratos's hilt and struck Yggdrasil. The angel laughed and deflected the sword and grabbed Lloyd's collar. He punched the boy in the stomach and slowly began to drain his mana.

"Lloyd!" Genis started crying.

"Stop. Your both my friends."

"Lord Yggdrasil." Kratos spoke up as he knelt down. "Do not punish Lloyd. I will take his punishment. Just let him leave." Yggdrasil grinned devilishly and held up his hand and sent a magic blast at the boy. Genis tried to blcok it but wasn't fast enough to use his spells.

"Both of you stop please." He stumbled backwards, unable to really hold back Yggdrasil's blast and crashed through a window.

"Genis!" Yggdrasil yelled and Lloyd already had jumped out the window after him.

"Lloyd!"

The two men ran over to the window. Kratos reveled his wings and Yggdrasil held him back.

"Wait."

"Lor.."

"Let's see if he's really your son." Kratos gasped slightly in irritation.

"Genis!"

"Lloyd! Your such an idiot!" Lloyd managed to pull himself against a wall and jump of it, launching him into Genis.

"Your acting without thinking again!"

"Genis. I have to protect you. If you die, then I'll lose a major piece of me." Genis's eyes grew, knowing they couldn't escape this.

"Lloyd..I'm sorry. In the end, I couldn't even protect you! I wanted to be strong like you but I'm still a coward." Lloyd gripped Genis and smacked his head,

"You dummy. Your the bravest half elf I'v ever met."

His hands shook in fear on the boy's arms. Once again, he had failed to protect someone. He caused Genis's death and know his Dad would be punished for it.

"Please. Let me save Genis!"

He yelled into the air. Genis saw the mana of his friend build up to his backside and Lloyd screamed in pain and frustration. "I don't care if humans can't.. LET ME FLY!"

He seemed to yell at himself and his gripped tightened on the half elf's arms to where his nails were beginning to draw blood.

"Lloyd it hurts!" Genis said and noticed the ground getting closer. Genis's eyes widened as blood splattered on his face and on Lloyd's body.

Something had ripped through his friend. His friend's back and all he could do was stair.

"Lloyd!" The human grabbed pulled the boy into him and suddenly shot up towards the window they had fallen, or jumped, from.

Kratos and Yggdrasil stepped back and Lloyd put Genis down before blacking out on top of him.

"Lloyd..." Kratos's face grew ashamed and Yggdrasil grinned,

"I knew it. He really is your son Kratos." He looked at the man,

"If he wishes to stay, he will be taking direct orders from me. It appears that Genis brings out the better in him." Kratos lifted the teen off Genis as the lord left.

"Kratos! L L.." Genis couldn't speak. His mind was empty of thought. He had seen fear in Lloyd's eyes as they fell. A feeling he had never seen in his friend before and it scared him. He laid the teen on his stomach. Genis stared at the bluish-green angel wings that were now protruding out of Lloyd's back.

Lloyd's pain had saved him.

"He really did fly that day?! He's a half angel!" The half elf wasn't sure what to think. There had never been someone like Lloyd before and he, himself, was in a state of shock. Kratos frowned and rubbed the boy's head.

"I hope it wasn't too painful."

He gripped the hair tightly a moment.

"There is a bathroom connected to my room through that door. Get me a wet rag."

Genis nodded and hurried. Kratos ripped the remains of his shirt off the boy's back, careful not to touch the wings.

Kratos was worried. The boy's breathing was heavy and irregular and his back was red with irritation where his new appendages had just been made. Genis tripped and then stood up, running back over.

"Here."

Kratos took it and began to wash the blood, that was now starting to dry, from the boy's back. He stopped a moment and realized something he had missed.

"What's with the face?" Genis asked.

Lloyd's back was already healing itself at a fairly fast pace.

"I never would have guessed my angelic blood was hereditary."

"Lloyd really is a half angel. And your really are his father?" Genis said, looking at Lloyd, worried.

"Healing wind."

The wounds began to shrink around his wings and then he stopped. It was best to allow his body to heal itself the rest of the way.

"Genis."

Genis looked at the man.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm shaken but fine, thanks to Lloyd." Genis started to cry.

"I hate it!" He hit himself in the forhead ad few times with his hands,

"I hate that Lloyd's pain saved my life. It's not fair." Kratos smiled slightly,

"Your a good friend Genis. I'm glad Lloyd has you."

The half elf blinked. This was a different Kratos. He didn't have a thing against the man when they were traveling but he felt suddenly different towards him. Like an actual companion.

"Is he?"

"He will be fine. He needs to sleep. Come. You better talk to Lord Yggdrasil."

"But."

"I will lock the door." Kratos affirmed the boy of Lloyd's safty. He took the half elf up to the chamber where Yggdrasil's throne was. He was quite fond of the room choice. It had the best view for peering down onto the world.

"Kratos." He said a bit annoyed to see the man. He noticed Genis. "Genis. come here." The half elf started forward and stopped a bit short of the angel.

"Are you ok?" He said. Genis nodded.

"Good. I was worried."

"Mithos! Why did you attack Lloyd. He was only worried about his father!"

Yggdrasil looked at the human man. "He knows his place." He said. the blond man turned and beckoned Genis to come closer, which he did.

"I'm sorry I hit you. I never expected you.."

"If I was just a bit faster I would have been able to deflected the attack. It's my fault." Genis said. Yggdrasil lifted his hand and put it on the boy's shoulder.

"Will you...still stay with me."

Kratos saw something in his lord he hadn't in a while. The fear of abandonment. Other then Kratos, Mithos really had no friends. He hadn't realized how important Genis had become to him.

"Will you. Let Lloyd go?"

Yggdrasil frowned.

"If he wishes too. I have a feeling he will be staying though."

Yggdrasil grinned. Kratos had an uneasy feeling inside him. He knew something was going through that phycotic mind of his and he wasn't too late to stop him.

"Kratos. Take Genis to the slee.."

"I want to stay with Lloyd." Yggdrasil's frowned.

"I want to make sure he is ok." The man smiled and put his hand on the boy's face.

"Of course."

He then ran his finger down the chin slightly,

"So young." He mumbled.

"..." Kratos said nothing.

"Go back to your son. I need a word with Genis."

His lord ordered. "As you wish." Kratos said without argument and left.

Lloyd woke up, finding the room dark, then again, it wasn't very bright to begin with. He noticed Genis sleeping in a makeshift bed on the ground. He was holding his kendema as if he was on night watch.

"G.."

He stopped, his body hurt all over and his back felt heavy. He gasped slightly. His wing hung off the side of the bed where he could visibly see it.

"I I have wings?"

He yelled and bit down on his tongue. Genis did not need to be woken up. He lowered his gaze.

"It was just like that time. But this time, they stayed.."

"So this has happened to you before?" He turned his head to see Kratos standing by the broken window, looking out it.

"When we were little. Genis fell off a cliff and I tried to save him. I didn't really see them that time but I could have sworn. I always somehow felt they were there. Usally I would never think about it but whenever I wished I could fly, I would feel it."

Kratos looked back at his son, laying on the bed and smiling.

"What?"

"I flew. I finally got to fly."

"Not quite. It was by luck that you were able to shoot yourself back up to this heigth. It wasn't real flying though."

Lloyd kept smiling anyway. For a moment, he was like Collette, smiling through his pains as she had hers.

"I should have known. You were showing signs long before this."

"I was?"

"A recent one? The wound you received from those dragons. While it did damage you, it didn't do as much as it normally would have. You should have atleast serious burns."

"Is that it?"

Kratos turned and walked over.

"No. On the journey, you started to get less sleep. You tossed but didn't sleep."

"You noticed that?"

"I watched you as you slept."

Normally, this would bother Lloyd, but now knowing who Kratos was, he found it making him quite happy.

"Towards the end of the seals, you only slept when your body was completely exhausted."

"I could have just had insomnia."

"Warm milk." Lloyd blinked.

"You often got up to get some warm milk when you couldn't voluntarily go to sleep. Anna used to do that for you when you were very little."

"Mom did? I was always wondering why I enjoyed it."

He blinked and the tried to sit up.

"Lloyd don't move."

"I'm kinda fine." He managed to turn around and sit up on the bed.

"Is that all? Those aren't very uhh." He lost the word.

"Major signs." He used his best substitute.

"No. Not long before I lost you, you were obsessed with flying. you wanted to go and touch the stars."Lloyd blushed slightly.

"I did."

"Yes. Of course You got mad when I told you that humans can't fly."

Lloyd laughed. "Sounds like something Genis told me." He said, looking at the sleeping boy.

"Lloyd."

He looked at his Dad, now sitting on the bed.

"It didn't hurt did it." Lloyd lowered his head. He knew Kratos would feel guilty if he said yes but if he said no, he would be lieing. He mumbled something.

"What?"

"Dwarven vow # 2. Lieing is the first step to thievery. It hurt alot. But not as much as the thought of Genis dieing or you being punished for what I did."

Kratos lifted his hand and rubbed the boy's head.

"They're beautiful." Lloyd turned even redder.

"Your wings. They bring color to this bleek, lifeless world."

Lloyd smiled and grabbed his Dad's hand, "Dad, your embrassing me."

The smile grew on Kratos's face. It was a title he didn't mind being called and no longer seeked to be until now. Not Lord or Lord Kratos or Lord Aurion.

"So Dad." He looked at Lloyd.

"I was wondering. Is my name really Lloyd Aurion now?" Kratos smiled.

"What do you want?" Lloyd blinked.

"Lloyd Irving Aurion?" He smiled.

Kratos nodded, "That..fits you."

Me: Yeah. working on next chapter

Mithos: Will it have more me?

Me: It might

Zelos: what about me?!

Me: *faints from Zelos placing his hands on my keybord

Mithos: . review