Me: Chapter Two! There's a time skip of 14 years. Sorry about not updating sooner but I've been busy-kana.

Jack: "Kana"?

Me: None of your business-kana.

Mike: Why do you keep saying "kana"?

Me: Because I want, can and will! Now, say the disclaimer-kana!

Jack & Mike: He doesn't own.

Me: Hehehe-kana.

The Aurion family has settled in the Iselia area. Kratos is a mercenary and Anna works in the "Halo" store. We see Anna watching the store…

"ZZZZZZZ…c'mon Lloyd, eat your tomatoes…" Ok, she is sleeping on the job.

"Anna! Wake up!" Shouted one of Anna's coworkers, who shall be known henceforth as Random Female Non-Player Character 1, designation: 'Sophia'. "If the boss catches you sleeping again he's gonna fire you!" She said exasperated. Anna yawned, rubbed her eyes and stretched her arms.

"That was a good nap." She said. Sophia sighed exasperatedly and fixed Anna with a stern glare.

"Don't you care about your job?! Honestly! This is the third time this week this has happened and it's only Tuesday!" She asked. Anna smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of her head.

"Sorry, Sophia. It's just that I haven't slept all that well lately." She said and her smile dropped a bit. Sophia sighed again, only this time it wasn't in exasperation but in understanding.

"He left on another job, didn't he?"

"Yeah. I know it's his job and all, but I miss him."

"It'll be ok, Anna." Just as Sophia said that the bell that signified a customer jingled. They turned to the door and saw a man that was taller than Kratos by about six inches and looking like the Grim Reaper, complete with hooded cloak. "Welcome to Halo, how may we help you?" Sophia asked. The man, who had been browsing through the merchandise turned to look at them.

"I would like to purchase some Apple and Orange Gels and Life Bottles." He said.

"How many would you like?"

"Twenty of each."

"Will that be all?"

"Do you sell ingredients?"

"Certainly. We have chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, bread and eggs."

"I'll take 20 of everything except tomatoes and throw in twenty Magic Lenses."

"Very well, wait a moment while I go fetch the ingredients. Anna, can you charge him?" Sophia asked. Anna, who was really close to falling asleep AGAIN (I wonder where Lloyd got his ADD and penchant to fall asleep in important places…not that school matters all that much…please note the sarcasm.), bolted up and nodded with a smile.

"…what do I have to charge him for?" She asked sheepishly. Sophia sighed for the umpteenth time that day and gave the list to Anna. "Ok, that'll be…18600 Gald." The man nodded and took out a rather large money pouch. While he took out the money Anna got bored, so she decided to initiate a conversation. "So…what brings you to Iselia?"

"…Work." He grunted in response. "I am, what you may call, a sword for hire. I was escorting a man to this village so that he might pray at the Martel Temple for continued success in his economic ventures and I thought 'what the hell, let's look around for a while' so I walked around the village for a while but then I remembered that I was running low in supplies because, between the two of us, that guy eats like a pig and keeps running straight into monsters every hundred yards. Now, I'm just restocking before I leave." He said, still counting the Gald. Sophia returned with the requested items in a rather large sack. "You know what, screw it. Here's 20000 and keep the change." He said and dropped the money on the counter. Just as he was about to exit they were all blinded by a bright light coming from the direction of the Temple and while they blinked the spots out of their vision Random Female Non-Player Character 1 (Seeing as Sophia is no longer a random NPC.) barged in.

"Desians! They passed by the school. I think they were headed for the Temple!" She yelled. Anna paled at the news.

"Oh shit, Lloyd!" She yelled.

"Calm down, I'm sure he won't do anything stupid." Sophia tried to calm Anna down, only to have said woman look at her with a raised eyebrow. "Then again, this IS Lloyd we are talking about." She said with a sweat drop.

"You're right. Even LLOYD isn't THAT stupid, right? He wouldn't do something as incredibly idiotic as following the Desians." Anna said with a nervous chuckle at the end.

"Lloyd, can you tell me again WHY ARE WE FOLLOWING THE DESIANS?!" Asked a pipsqueak with silver hair. A tall teen with brown hair and chocolate brown eyes grinned confidently.

"C'mon Genis, we have to make sure that the Desians don't hurt anybody in the Temple." He said. "And don't worry; if we run into trouble I'll just kick everyone's butts." He said grabbing his left hand. "It would be a shame to waste something my mother gave me, don't ya think?" Genis shook his head and muttered something along the lines of "momma's boy" and got a nice bump on the head for being a smartass. "Besides, Colette has to receive the Oracle. Isn't that right, Colette?" He asked a blonde girl that was looking at the beam of light shooting up from the Temple. She was Colette, daughter of the Mana lineage, Chosen of Mana, the only hope for Sylvarant…

"…It's really bright." A complete and utter airhead. Her friends seem to share my opinion, at least to an extent, because both sweat dropped.

"Shouldn't you act a bit more chosen-like?" Genis asked with a twitch on his right eye.

"Oh, ok." Colette said with a slightly retarded smile. They heard weird noises coming from the Temple and saw a guy in a dress- sorry, a robe (Rolls eyes.) going down the stairs. "Oh no! It's the pastor!" Colette gasped. The pastor says some random things and dies. "I have to go and accept the oracle." She said. Lloyd and Genis decided to accompany her, albeit with a little reluctance on Genis' part, and climbed the stairs to find another guy in a robe, coughdresscough, threatening an old woman.

"Where is the Chosen?" The guy with the spiky hair asked. Now, a normal, INTELLIGENT, person would've remained quiet and then Spiky would probably get bored and leave…

"Run, Colette!"…must run in the family…

"Chosen One, your life is mine." Am I the only one that thinks that this sentence sounds so wrong in so many ways?

"I won't let you Desians get away with anything." Lloyd said while unsheathing his "swords" (I have a branch in my house that looks more dangerous than that...).

"He thinks we are Desians." One of them said cryptically. Lloyd and Co. had 'WTF' expressions and instead of being nice little antagonists and explaining what the fuck was going on they laughed. "Well then, die at the hands of the Desians you so hate…GET THEM!" Another one of them yelled. 2 minutes later the "Desians" that were still alive ran with their tails between their legs behind a giant soldier. "Do not get in our way." Kind of late for that, don't ya think? 30 seconds later Lloyd and Co. were kneeling injured.

"Damn it." Lloyd grunted. The BDSM freak (Admit It.) prepared to hit him with his spiky ball of DOOM (Kidding.) and Lloyd closed his eyes. Instead of feeling a lot of pain he heard the sound of metal against metal and a rather loud "thump" noise. He opened his eyes and there stood the coolest guy in the whole freaking game… "Dad?"

"…Stay back, Lloyd." Kratos said. Exactly 26.2 seconds later the BDSM freak was dead (I never understood that…I reached that guy with Lloyd at level twelve and you can't defeat him, but Kratos joins at level four or so and you can win very easily…weird.) and the guy with the…uh…robe, yeah that, orders the retreat. Kratos turns to look at the party. "Are you alright? Hmmm, no one appears to be hurt." Genis, who had never actually seen Kratos began jumping like he had a giant tarantula walking on his crotch…bad visual, sorry.

"Is this your dad, Lloyd?" Yeah, he kind of established that already. Lloyd, deciding to be intelligent for once, ignored the little pest and turned to talk to awesomeness incarnate.

"Dad, when did you get back? Did you finish your job?" He questioned his father.

"The client decided to cancel, so I came here. I just arrived now, to be honest." Kratos answered. They were talking so comfortably that they didn't notice one of the "Desians" was still alive and was about to stab Colette to finish the mission until it was too late. The guy would have succeeded if not for the throwing knife that became lodged in his cervical vertebrae. They followed the most likely trajectory and saw the same guy Anna met earlier with his hand still in a throwing position. "Who are you?" Kratos asked with a hand on the handle of his sword. As far as he knew, he just killed the "Desian" to kill Colette himself. The man relaxed his posture and looked at them with a smirk.

"Give me your name and I'll give you mine." He replied with a somewhat arrogant smirk. Lloyd barely resisted the urge to punch the tall guy.

"My name is Kratos." Kratos said, still not dropping his guard.

"Well, I am a man of my word. My name is Damian." He said removing his hood. Genis and Colette gasped when they saw that he wore an eye patch over his right eye. They assumed that he had lost that eye based on the vicious looking scar that snaked from his forehead to his jaw. Speaking of snakes, they were more shocked when they saw that the pupil of his exposed eye was vertical like a reptile's. "If you are done staring at my face, I am a…sword for hire. For 40000 Gald and a place to stay I will accompany the Chosen to accept the Oracle. So, what say you?" He asked still with the same smirk.

Me: There-kana.

Jack: Stop with the fucking "kana"!

Me: Never! You can't stop me-kana!

Damian: Why are you saying "kana", my Master?

Me: If you simply MUST know…I've been watching "Higurashi no naku koro ni" and one of my favorite characters of the series says it constantly-kana.

Damian: Fair enough. Read and Review.