A late happy new year everyone! I'm so sorry it took so long to update, but I've been very busy and I had a writers block for this story. But it's finally here, the first real chapter :D But it's really not that good, I really dislike it. But I thought I should update, it's been so long.
- Cataclysmic Eclipse: I would love to hear your critism! I can try to improve my story then :)
- DarkMiss 13: It's really been a long time since I last played ToS, so you're right, a couple of things just aren't right to the plot. And Sheena's not there, they already fought her. And I totally forgot about Izoold. Thanks for mentioning it ;) When I've posted the whole serie, I'll change it, but first I wanna finish it :P
- Li-chan0767, TwilightSeraphim: thanks for your reviewing :)
If someone has a idea for a title (you know, instead of "Anna's Back!" just say so. I really dislike this title, it's really stupid :P
Totally forgot to say in the other chapter, but I wanna thank Li-chan0767 for beta-reading. Thank you! :) Anyway, on to the chapter ;)
Chapter 1
When Anna woke up again, she noticed she lay in a bed. She opened her eyes, and immediately saw Kratos' face. He sat in a wooden chair, next to the bed. Then Kratos noticed she was awake. "Good, you're awake." Anna smiled. "As cold as ever, aren't you, love?" Kratos smiled lightly. "How do you feel?" Anna yawned. "Good. How long have I been asleep?" Kratos' smile disappeared; he knew Anna wouldn't be happy about it. "A day." He was right. Anna looked Kratos shocked in the eyes. "Why didn't you wake me!?" Kratos didn't answer. He got up. "I'll leave you for now. I'll be outside." Then he walked out of the room. Anna sighed. Great. She had been asleep for a whole day. What would her son think of her? She got out of bed, when she noticed some clothes lying on a table. She walked over to it. Anna examined it briefly, and then put the clothes on. When she was done, she walked to a mirror.
It was a long, dark blue skirt with light blue lines on it. Her shirt was the same light blue as the lines in her skirt. She had dark blue boots. The clothes were simple, yet elegant. Anna looked gorgeous in it. She smiled, then walked out of the room.
When Anna got outside, everyone was already waiting for her. They turned to her when they heard her. Anna smiled. "Well? How do I look?" she asked. Raine just smiled, while Colette and Genis bounced up and down in excitement. "You look so pretty!" Colette said. Lloyd just grinned, without saying anything. Anna then turned to Kratos. He hadn't said anything yet. When he saw her looking at him, he said: "You look… pretty." Anna smiled. Kratos rarely said something like that. "Thanks," Anna said. Then Raine grabbed two swords and gave them to Anna. "If you're going with us, which I'm sure you will, you must be able to defend yourself." Anna examined the swords. "They're not the best, but they'll do," she said. Raine looked questioningly at Kratos, who just "hmph"ed. "Aaanyway," Lloyd interrupted, "Let's go to the seal!" Anna immediately walked over to Kratos. "We need to talk," she whispered in his ear. Kratos just nodded. He knew what was about to come. He had to think of something to say. She couldn't be involved. "Let's go," he said out loud. Everyone nodded while Anna strapped the swords around her hip. As if on queue, they all started walking at the same time.
They were almost at the seal when Anna saw the chance to speak with Kratos. She went over to him. "What do you think you're doing!? Leading the Chosen into Cruxis' trap! I thought you had left them! I…" Before she could say anything else, Kratos spoke. "I did leave Cruxis. The only reason I'm allowing the Chosen to go to all the seals, is in order to stop them." Anna opened her mouth to say something, but Kratos silenced her. "Do not say anything anymore about this topic." His eyes went to Raine, who was trying to listen to them. That wasn't the only reason Kratos didn't want to talk about it anymore. He hated lying to Anna. He loved her; it hurt him to keep something from her.
Anna's eyes followed that of Kratos, and immediately went to another topic. "So, what háve you been doing all this time?" Kratos sighed. He knew Anna wasn't going to like it. "I've been a mercenary." While he said that, he unconsciously took a few steps away from her. Anna's eyes started to twinkle. But not in a good way. "What!?" she yelled. The group stopped walking, and turned around to Kratos and Anna. What they saw, surprised them all. Anna was chasing Kratos, with her swords in her hands. "Come back here, Kratos Aurion!" she yelled. Kratos just kept running; he knew that if he stopped, he would be in trouble. Everyone stood there for a few seconds, watching them. Then they tried to stop Anna, while trying not to laugh.
When Anna had finally calmed down a little, they continued their journey. Anna was still pissed. "A mercenary… He could've been anything he wanted, and he chose to be that… Stupid, stupid Kratos…" She kept saying. She walked at the back of the group, but everyone could still hear her. Lloyd walked over to Kratos. "Hey, Kratos? Is she always like that?" Kratos didn't look at him, when he said: "I'm afraid so…" Suddenly they heard Anna shouting: "I heard that!" Kratos ignored her. That only pissed Anna off more. "Humph! Ignoring me like that… Idiot. Why did I ever marry him?" Kratos ignored everything she said.
Then Anna screamed, as she felt the ground underneath her feet disappear. She fell in a hole, while the group ran over to the place Anna had been mere seconds ago. When they looked into the hole, they saw Anna lying on the ground. "That hurt…" she said as she got up. It was a deep hole; Anna could never get out without help. Just as she was about to say something, she heard some noise. She then heard Lloyd yelling something, making her unable to tell where the sound was coming from. "Be quiet!" she yelled back. And he was. But the noise was also gone. Anna stood still, listening intently if the noise would return. And it did. It came out of the wall. Anna moved to the sound, and placed her hand on the wall. That's when it cracked open. And out of it came hundreds of little spiders. Anna screamed, and ran to the other side of the hole. "Spiders!" She heard Kratos sigh; Anna's always been afraid of spiders. "Kratos! Get your ass over here and save me!" she yelled. The spiders were getting closer and closer.
"Demon fang!" Anna heard Kratos yell, while he jumped down. He slashed at the spiders the moment he hit the ground. The spiders squeaked as they were hit, and then they disappeared in smoke. In one slash, they were all gone. Kratos resheathed his sword, then he fell face-first on the ground, with Anna glomping him. "Kratos, you saved me! I knew you would! You're my hero!" Kratos just sighed. "Anna, get off of me, will you?" Anna blinked, then grinned sheepishly. "Right. Sorry." She got off of Kratos, and they stood up. Kratos grabbed Anna around her waist, then jumped out of the hole. When his feet touched the ground, he let go of her. Colette looked worried at Anna. "Are you alright?" Anna nodded. "Yes, I am. So, you don't have to worry about me." She smiled to Colette, who smiled back. Raine started walking. "Let's get moving," she said. Everyone nodded, and continued their track to the seal like nothing happened. There did change something though; Anna kept glomping Kratos' arm like there was no tomorrow.