Disclaimer: I don't own Tales of Symphonia
Chapter 2 Meeting Kratos"Owww…" Yeah, I'm smart; I go into random portals that lead to God knows where. Smart move Kira, smart move… I thought as I landed on something. Well, at least it's a soft something.
"Get off me." A muffled and extremely pissed voice said.
"Oops, eh heh heh. Sorry about that." I sheepishly replied and gtt off whomever I fell on, and helped him up. "I'm really sorry I didn't mean to-" I trailed off as I realized who I'm talking to. It was Kratos! Kratty Krattie Kratos the mercenary/Seraph from Tales of Symphonia! I didn't have much time to think about what luck I had to end up in a dimension that I was actually familiar with when he spoke again.
"What are you?" He questioned, looking at me strangely.
"Huh?" I looked at myself and finally noticed that I'm wearing a white shirt and a white skirt with silver pants underneath, and I even had a fluffy white foxtail. I'm also wearing silver-colored gauntlets and boots. I looked around and noticed that we're on Derris-Kharlan in the creepy city filled with lifeless angels.
"Oh you mean the whole fox demon thing." I answered a couple minutes later, briefly forgetting about his question.
"You are a fox demon?"
"Well… yeah. I guess I am."
"Guess?" He echoed.
Should I answer him? Well why not? This is Kratos and he's probably one of the few people that can help me, especially if I'm on Derris-Kharlan. "Well ummm this is gonna sound strange but bear with me. I died and then some cat demon guy named Kuro kidnapped my soul. He said my soul was perfect for some experiment and how I'm now a powerful healer, he died and I ran away from some guys who were shooting arrows and randomly picked a dimension to go into, then I fell on top of you. Thanks for breaking my fall by the way." I say extremely fast and examined my nails at the end. I noticed that they're claws now and I'm lucky that these gloves are fingerless. Hey now I can actually claw someone's face up! I thought smiling.
He raised an eyebrow at my explanation.
"Soooooo if your going anywhere can I just travel with you for a while?" I hope he's going on the Chosen's journey soon… or else I'm as good as dead!
He started to walk away but I'm not letting him leave that easily.
"Hey Kratos, I said can I travel with you?"
That was a smart move on my part. You don't say someone's name, especially if that person is as smart as Kratos, when they don't tell you their name. Now, because of my mistake, I have a sword at my throat.
"Whoa," I squeaked and raised my hands in surrender, and dropped my bow, "Don't kill me."
"How do you know my name?" It wasn't said as a question as much as a statement, which meant 'Answer me before I slit your throat.'
"Well, I've heard about you that's all." I answered weakly.
"Lies. You just said you came from another dimension. How could you possibly have heard of me?"
"Ummm…" I really need to take courses on lying because I suck at it. Might as well tell him the truth. I don't think I can come up with a good lie to fool him now that he already doesn't trust me.
"Stop stalling."
"Okay Mr. Grumpy, I know about you from a game called Tales of Symphonia. It's a made up game where I come from and you happen to be one of the characters."
"Nonsense."
"Oh really… well then how would I know about Anna and Lloyd?" Smart move number two. Piss off Kratos when he has a sword at your throat.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't slit your throat right now." He threatened and pressed the blade closer to my throat.
"Ummm well I," Think Kira think. "What if I told you that your son isn't dead, and that I know where to find him." Oh God. Now I really hope he hasn't already gone on the Chosen's journey.
"What?" He asked, shocked.
"Yeah I know where he is," I started to say as I slowly pushed the blade away from my neck, "He lives by-"
At this time, Yggdrasil happened to be walking by and noticed Kratos and me. I am so damn lucky.
"Kratos who is this? …What is she?"
I sighed, "Is everyone gonna ask me that?"
"Lord Yggdrasil," Kratos said and bowed, "This is a girl that wants to join Cruxis."
Wow. Did Kratos just save me? Yes! I'm not gonna die WHOOT!
"And why should I let her join Cruxis?"
"She is a very gifted healer and will make an excellent addition to Cruxis."
He raised an eyebrow and looked over me skeptically. "Is that so? Very well, I trust your judgment. Be forewarned she is your responsibility. If she betrays us, she will be killed and you will be punished. Take her with you on your journey to help to Chosen."
"Yes, Lord Yggdrasil." Kratos then turned to me. "We need to find something to hide your ears and tail…" He said and started to walk to a seemingly random building.
"Hey, wait up!" I yelled and ran to catch up to him. "Why did you save me back there?"
He stopped and looked over his shoulder.
"You have useful information that I need. You will tell me everything you know or I will kill you." He started walking again and a few minutes later asked, "What is your name?"
"Name's Kira."
"Do you have a last name?" He asked as he went into a room filled with different clothes.
"No." I said as I thought about it. I don't like my last name and Kira Clark is dead, so technically I don't have a name.
"You need a last name if you're to come with me on the Chosen's journey. It would be very suspicious if you didn't." He pulled out a silver-colored trench coat and baseball cap, "Put these on. It's not a great disguise but it will do," He paused. "Unless you know of a better way to hiding your ears and tail."
"Ummm not really. I mean I heard some demons can hide their demonic features but I've been a demon for less than an hour so I don't know how… do I really have to wear the hat?" I said the word 'hat' with disgust.
"If you don't have a better idea then, yes."
I sighed in defeat and put on the trench coat. I didn't really mind the trench coat, in fact, I liked it, but I hate hats with a passion. I growled at the hat in disgust and grudgingly put it on.
He sighed." Stop acting like a child."
"Give me a break, I'm only seventeen."
"Nevertheless, stop complaining. I just saved your life so that's the least you can do."
"Yes father." I said with a small smirk. Since he won't kill me yet, why not piss him off a little. I do love to mess with people's heads and at least he's intelligent enough not to go insane and kill me… or is he? Well only one way to find out!
He twitched. "… Don't call me that…"
I smirked. "Well you did say I needed a last name and you could pull off being my father." Well he really doesn't look anything like me and is honestly a little too young to be my biological parent but he could pull off being my foster parent.
"No."
"C'mon Kratty. Just think, it'll be the perfect cover-up. You be a traveling mercenary who found a five year old orphan and adopted her."
"…"
"C'mon, it'll work!"
"No."
I crossed my arms and looked away. "Then you think of something better because I can't fight and you couldn't use the excuse of me being another mercenary."
Kratos sighed in defeat and put one hand on his face. "Fine. But don't call me…" He twitched "Kratty."
"That's the spirit!" I said completely ignoring the 'Kratty' topic. I honestly liked adding a 'y' or 'ie' to the end of people's names. It made me smile whenever I said the names, and them being annoyed is just a bonus!
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"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"How much longer?"
"About three hours."
"Grreeeaaaatt." I said as we continued to travel to Iselia. We couldn't just warp there because it would be too suspicious and traveling with Mr. Talkative is so much fun. Not. Why does Kratos have to be so anti-social? It's very depressing. So far all I'd gotten him to say since we left Derris-Kharlan is no, about three hours, his classic "…" and stop acting like a child. I do happen to like acting like a child… maybe more than I should but Kratos' anti-social nature isn't helping either!
5 minutes later.
"Hey look. It's a cute little bunny!" I went up to pet the bunny, forgetting that the bunnies here are evil and want to kill me.
"What? Move!" Kratos yelled and pushed me out of the way to kill the bunny.
"Hey! What'd you do that for!" I yell.
He glared at me as he sheaths his sword and states, "Are you really that stupid? That 'cute little bunny' as you put it was a monster that will not hesitate to kill you."
"Oh yeah… I forgot." I said sheepishly with a sweat drop.
"You really are a child."
"Will you stop calling me that."
"I will once you stop acting like one."
"…Jerk…"
Kratos doesn't reply and we continue to walk in silence until 2 more evil bunnies appear.
"Kratos kill the evil bunnies." I ordered and darted behind a bush. After he kills them, I came out from behind the bush. "Well that was fun! Now onward to Iselia!" Before I took two steps toward Iselia, he grabbed my wrist. "Huh? Now what Kratty?"
"Stop calling me that."
"No can do! I like to call you that! Anyway it's just a nickname." I smirked evilly. "Unless, you want me to call you Daddy."
He flinched at that and changed the subject. "Can you fight?"
"Well ummm not really… I took archery at camp but I've never used this bow or killed anything."
"Do you know any spells?"
"No… I never really tried any."
"We'll rest here for the night."
"Wha? I thought we were almost to Iselia. Why not just rest there?" I asked, confused.
"If you are to be of any use, you will need to learn how to defend yourself. We will rest here for the night and I'll teach you some spells and self-defense in the morning."
"Well… okay then, your call."
He started to gather wood for a fire and I just curled up and went to sleep.
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"Wake up Kira."
"Nooooo. Go away evil bunnies before I have Kratty kill you."
"…"
"OUCH! That really hurt ya jerk…" I muttered the last part as I looked up at the man who just KICKED ME because I wouldn't wake up. He's so evil.
He smirked in response and tossed me my bow. I never really got a chance to look at it before but I now see that it is light blue with sapphires embedded in it. The bowstring looks strange. It seems like energy is pulsating through it.
"Follow me." Kratos said and leads me to a forested area with targets etched into the trees. "Now hit the targets."
I nodded and pulled back the bowstring. I stared at the arrow that happens to magically appear. It was first a dark blue then it turned into a solid blue-tinted arrow. I aimed at the target, fired… and hit a rock… three feet away. "I guess I shoulda mentioned that I only went to camp once…" I said with a sweat drop. I turned around to face Kratos who has a hand covering his face. I swear he just muttered 'why me?'
"Try it again." He said with a sigh.
I did and this time I hit the tree next to it. I tried it a third time and hit the tree itself. "Sweet. I hit the tree!"
"But you didn't hit the target…"
"…Killjoy… At least I'm getting better. Kuro did say that I was a natural healer. He didn't say anything about archery."
"Then let's try some healing spells. First, you focus on the mana within and around you. Then you say the spell and cast it. It's simple enough, just remember to concentrate."
"Kay then." I replied and I tried to focus on the mana. Ummm mana… it should feel like energy so if I concentrate…
"What spell am I supposed to use?" I asked, turning to look at him.
"It differs from each person what spells and techniques they can learn. The most basic healing spell is First Aid, so try casting that."
"Okay!" So feel mana, check. Now to say the spell, "First Aid!" I yelled and I look at Kratos who turned a faint green for a split second and just as quickly, it vanished. "Sweet I did it!"
"I do admit that I didn't expect you to get it on your first try, but do you realize how long it took you to cast it?"
"Ummm 15 seconds?" I said not really grasping what he meant.
"10 minutes. Try it again and do it faster. At this rate, your healing will be as useless as your archery."
Did he just call me useless? That's it. Kratos or not you do not go around calling me useless, I think as I take my bow and fire arrows at him. "Arrow of Light!" I shouted as I shot a huge yellow arrow at Kratos. He dodged by stepping behind a tree.
"Well it seems rage improves your aim exceptionally. But next time try to remember who your allies are."
"What do you mean ally? Weren't you just trying to kill me yesterday?"
He sighed, "Did I not also save your life yesterday?"
I sweat dropped. "Well yeah, but how do I know you won't kill me in my sleep."
He smirked. "Enough talk. Try First Aid again."
"But I like to go off-topic…" I muttered and casted First Aid again.
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"Can I… stop now?" I panted as I cast First Aid for the 30th time that day. Kratos is not too kind when it comes to training. I've cast Arrow of Light at least 20 times and most of my arrows hit the targets, but one in this whole day has hit the bulls-eye. I really suck at this.
"It seems that it would be best if we called it a day. Now you can remotely hit your target's and you truly are a natural at healing."
It's true I have gotten better at healing. It only takes me a few second to cast First Aid instead of 10 minutes. I bet I can even cast it faster than Kratos. Too bad I feel like I'm going to faint now. He got me up at dawn and now it's dusk and I only had one apple all day since dear sweet Kratty didn't bring food. Isn't he supposed to be the calm collected one who's always prepared? Well he's not when it comes to supplies. We brought nothing but our weapons and 10,000 Gald and can we go into Iselia to get supplies? Nope. It would be too suspicious. At least I found an apple tree though.
"Hey Kratos," I called from in the tree, "Do you want some apples too? You haven't eaten since we left Derris-Kharlan."
"No. I'm fine, I don't ne-"grrrrrrrrrr. He stopped talking and a light blush appears on his face as his stomach growls.
That did it. I fell out of the tree laughing my head off. He really is adorable when he blushes. As I'm on the ground laughing, tears are streaming down my face and I try to speak, "You…hahaha the mighty Kratos hahaha." I failed miserably at talking and gave up. A couple minutes later I'm calm enough to speak, "I'm sorry," I started, on the edge of breaking into laughter again, "I just could never see the mighty Kratos denying the fact that he forgot to bring food."
He grabbed an apple off the tree and walked away. I couldn't help but have another laughing fit.
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It's night and we just set up camp. We are officially 20 minutes away from Iselia and Colette will receive the oracle tomorrow. Kratos has started a fire and is now telling me my background story. What town I came from and how long we've known each other and all of that good stuff. I don't really know what else he's saying because I've zoned out and started thinking about how I'll never get to play Twilight Princess. I sighed.
"Are you listening?" Kratos asked, irritated.
I sighed again.
"Kira."
"…"
"Pay attention!" He snapped.
"Huh? Wow Kratos, you've never seemed like the type to snap."
"I've never had to baby-sit someone like you."
"Hey… that's just mean."
"I'm not exactly a nice person." He said with a far away look in his visible eye. Oops. Note to self: Don't call Kratos mean unless you want to bring up some of his bad memories.
"So what were you saying?" I chirped happily, hoping to bring him back from whatever memory he was thinking of.
He turned his attention back to me. "The story is that I'm a traveling mercenary who happened to find you, an orphan, and take you under my wing."
"Awwww. That's so sweet."
"We should change the story."
"No you shouldn't." I replied, maybe a little too quickly. I liked the story. It gave me a good reason to harass Kratos on this journey, and I do love to mess with his mind. "Think about it. Would you rather trust the Chosen with a cold mercenary who comes out of the blue and offers to protect her, or would you trust her protection with a mercenary who is kind enough to take in an orphan?"
"Her?" He echoed. Damn him. I never told him all that I know and now he's going to ask me about his son. Why can't he be as dumb as Lloyd sometimes?
"Yeah. Isn't the Chosen a she?" I replied sheepishly.
"You're a horrible liar."
I rolled my eyes. "And your ability to pick out every little detail in my speech is annoying."
"How do you know the Chosen is a girl?"
"Well… you see… your son happens to be close friends with the Chosen."
"…"
"Yeah. Your son's name is Lloyd and a dwarf named Dirk raised him. His friends are Genis and Colette, the Chosen. He lives in a house right outside of Iselia."
"And you know all of this from a game?"
"Yeah… I haven't really played it in a while but I do remember parts."
"You should get some sleep."
"Do you like to change the subject?"
"It's almost midnight and I will wake you up at dawn."
"Fine then, goodnight Kratty."
"…"
With that conversation over, I curled up next to the fire. "Kratos, when we get to Iselia we are getting blankets."
He said nothing in response and I drifted off to sleep.
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"Wake up Kira." Kratos said while he shook me. "Kira wake up."
"Nooooo all the pink monkeys must die…"
"I'm warning you."
"I do not negotiate with monkeys."
"…"
"OUCH DAMMIT! Stop kicking me!" I yelled when I'm woken up again by a kick in the side. "You are truly evil," I stated as I glared at the smirking mercenary. I swear he enjoys it too much.
"You wouldn't wake up. It's time to head to Iselia."
"Finally… I was getting tired of eating nothing but apples."
"You only had to eat apples for a day."
"A whole day? No wonder I'm tired of it!" I said and I skipped happily past Kratos, towards Iselia.
"…"
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Okay that was Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 has another ingenious name, Chapter 3 Iselia.
My God I'm talented. I make up great chapter names. Anyway reviewing is nice and great and it will make the story better if you do it. Seriously, I will take into consideration whatever you write.
As far as updating goes I already have a lot written but I have to proofread and come up with names for chapters… so I'll probably update fast for a while.