Cat-Alin: Oh my Martel ..
Shihna: What now? Mikey being more perverted than ever now?
Cat-Alin: No .. freakyanimegal456 is reading this story!
Shihna: Who?
Cat-Alin: freakyanimegal456! THE writer of I Wish!, Plot Twist, The D word, Parental Power, Phantom Problem, Another Aurion, ToS Bloopers, On Santa's Lap, Role Reversal ..!! Ahhhhhhhhh! I'm going into my complete-fangirl-mode!

Lloyd looked around nervously. If Kratos would appear now the others could see him. And that would bring Lloyd into some tough questioning. He could feel Refill's frowning gaze on his back, although he was about two miles away.

"Lloyd."
"WAH!!" Lloyd flinched seeing his father so close before him. "W-w-when did you come here!?"
"Just now. You should pay attention." Kratos said.
".. How can I not spaze out, if I'm worried about Yggy blowing my ass up or not!?"
"Language, Lloyd." Kratos growled.
Lloyd cleared his throat.
".. Is he?"
"What?"
"Is Yggdrasill going to .. do something bad to me because the Chosen has her soul back?" Lloyd corrected himself.
Kratos shook his head.
"No. Of course, we were very surprised when we found out that the Chosen's soul has returned, even though the keycrest shouldn't have worked." he said and smirked in a way at Lloyd, that he didn't quite understand what he meant.
".. Is that why you came? To tell me I'm not in trouble. And neither are you?"
Kratos shook his head again.
"No, that's not the reason." Kratos said. "You felt a surge on your back, didn't you?"
"W-what?"
"When you fell. You felt a surge on your back." Kratos stated.
Lloyd looked nervously behind himself. The fire of the group was still in sight, but it was small.

The teenager nodded.
"Yeah .. I just had this thought that I was going to die from this fall and I needed to do something to stop the fall .." he admitted. "And I felt this hump on my back-"
"Those were your wings."
".. my .. my WHAT!?" Lloyd yelled and quickly covered his mouth.

He hoped nobody heared him. But he just couldn't belive it. Him? Having wings? He got this sudden mental image of himself with the exact same pair of wings as Collet had.

"Lloyd, don't worry too much." Kratos calmed him down. "You haven't sprouted your wings yet. That is good, but also bad."
".. How so?"
"The good part is, that everybody still thinks that you are not undergoing the angeltransformation." Kratos said. "The bad part is, that your wings could sprout fully at any moment."
".. is there a way I can prevent them from sprouting?"
"No, they will sprout sometime."
"I meant, can I prevent it, until it's a good opportunity?" Lloyd corrected himself.
".. Not really."
Lloyd swore in such a strong colorful language that he got a hit on the back of his head by his father.
".. OW! That fucking hurt!"
He got another hit on the back.
"OW!! Dammit, why are you hitting me!?"
"Watch your language and I will not have to repeat that." Kratos said calmly.

"Where you've been, Lloyd?" Collet asked when Lloyd came back, still rubbing the back of his head.
"Who was that with you?" Refill asked and giving Lloyd a big shock.
"W-what? Nobody! J-just a monster! It .. it got a hit at my head." he stuttered, laughing embaressed.
"Oh, you okay?" Collet asked, looking worried.
"Y-yeah .." Lloyd mumbled and sat back down.

".. The Sewers?" Lloyd asked in disbelief the next morning.
They got their entrance refused at the maingate of Meltokyo, saying that they were officially seen as Traitors to the king now. Zelos had told them to follow him to his secret entrance.
"What did you expect?" Zelos asked innocenntly.
"Nothing spectacular. But the Sewers aren't really a secret way into a city." Lloyd returned.
They entered and searched their way through the big sewers, finally coming towards the exit. When three people stood in front of them.
"Finally you're here .." one of them said. "You know, you guys look like a nice bunch of people .. but we got a good offer if we off you."
Lloyd just stared at them.
"Beat it." he said.
"What did ya say!?" another one yelled at the teenager.
Refill looked confused at her student.

Lloyd didn't know himself what was wrong with him. He would've usually yelled at them and already attacked. But he felt so calm .. like he knew they were no real challenge. He didn't believe that they were one, anyway. But .. somehow .. he felt his blood rushing through his veins, like it was carrying a substance that was changing his character, his whole personality.

"I told you to beat it." Lloyd repeated.
"Alright, you're going down first!!" the final one yelled and they all charged at the teenager. He just unsheathed his swords, starting his counterattack.
Abouter five minutes later, all three of the of the opponents were on the floor, Lloyd sheathing his swords again.
"If you don't listen .." Lloyd sighed in a bored voice and then Zelos pushed him a bit aside and strode towards the three. And got hit in the back by a huge bluehaired guy.
"OW!" Zelos yelled.
The man looked at the group.
"Move and the Chosen dies." he growled. "Got it?"
"Wow, wow, wow!" Zelos said and struggled to get free. "You think you will get away with this? Hurting and threatening the Chosen!?"
"Since you plot Tethe'alla's destruction, you are not considered a Chosen anymore." the man growled back.
"Ooooh .." Zelos mumbled and tried to look over. "Hey, I swear you guys, let me die here and I'll come back as a ghost and steal ALL the girls' underwear!"
"YOU PERVERT!!" Shihna yelled at him.
Before she could summon Undine and give his rear a water-based hard wash, Presea jumped forwards and slashed her axe at the man, who dodged just in time.
He gasped when he saw Presea.
"You look like .." he muttered and dodged a firespell from Genius. ".. Move it!" he hissed at the three on the floor and they struggled upwards and ran.

"Where is this elemental institute?" Lloyd asked curiously.
"It's pretty close by. But we should still watch out not to get caught by some guards." Shihna stated and they walked to the institute, where they saw another Ninja, Kuchinawa, a friend of Shihna's.
"What are you doing here?"
"Delivery for Mizuho." he answered and disappaered in a smoke-bomb.
"I really wish I could do that .." Lloyd mumbled.

P-Peep!
Lloyd quickly stopped the sound and peeked underneath his glove.
Kratos: 'Why? Teleportation is much cooler.'
Lloyd sighed and they asked the researchers for a way to get to Sybak without having to use the Bridge.
"An EC!?" Shihna yelled.
"What's an EC?"
"EC. Elemental-Cargo." Presea said. "Can take weight of approximately 30 people or 1500 kilogramm. Third fastest vehicle on Tethe'alla. Used mostly for package-deliveries."
"What!?" Zelos asked raged. "What do we look like!? Package!?"
"Well, since the bridge is down, that's the only way." one of the researchers said. "For a fair you'd need tickets and you're wanted criminals .. and you have half-elves with you."
"Again that ..?" Genius asked.
"That's the way it is in Tethe'alla. We hardly get out, either."

They decided to stay the night at Zelos' big mansion, since the EC would take another day to get.
Refill was intersted in a picture of a pretty lady with her blond hair put up fancy.
"Milene Wilder .." she muttered, thinking that it was most likely Zelos' mother.
Lloyd was standing on the terrace outside and went along his thoughts.
".. Sensei, have you seen Lloyd?" Collet's voice asked from inside.
"I think he went outside." Refill answered.
Lloyd flinched.

He was, of course, happy to see that Collet's soul was back and she was still her typical cheerful self. But right now he had to get his mind clear. Heck, he was usually pretty good at it. But right now, he had to think about .. how he was becoming an angel, how Kratos was his long lost father and Lloyd was actually on the side of the people who were trying to kill Collet's soul.

He jumped up and grabbed the rim of the roof and flung himself on top of it, just when Collet was stepping outside.
"Lloyd?" she asked and looked around. "You here?"
Since she couldn't find him, she went back inside, Lloyd looking after her and he sighed.

He lay flat on the roof, arms crossed behind his head and he thought about his angel transformation. He didn't feel any pain from it, like Collet had. But the thought of him getting wings was just plain .. weird! Maybe that's how Collet felt when she got her wings at the Fire Seal. Except that she was in mortal pain afterwards and Lloyd .. didn't feel any different. Except those times when he felt his characteristics changing or he was about to die and needed to save himself with his wings .. he sincerely hoped they wouldn't reveal themselves when everyone was around and saw them. That would bring him into an awkward questioning.

"Lloyd .." ".. Lloyd!"
The boy felt a hand grabbing his ankle and he jerked up.
It was dark around him now and Refill was standing on the top of a ladder, shaking his ankle.
"Finally you're awake!"
Lloyd yawned and rubbed his eyes.
"What's wrong, Sensei?" he asked.
"It's past midnight, you've been out here in the cold for a long time and you should go to bed - a real bed - now, if you want to be rested for tomorrow." she answered and climbed down the ladder.
Lloyd nodded and jumped down the roof.

Refill brought the ladder away and went into her room while Lloyd still stayed outside.

P-Peep!

"Oh, Martel-dammit, what now ..!?" he swore and checked the message board.
'Wait a minute'
Lloyd sighed and he waited a bit. A slow tap was heard behind him and he turned, seeing Kratos land and putting his crystalblue wings away.
"What are you here for ..?" Lloyd asked bored, crossing his arms, copying his father.
"You don't sound very happy." Kratos countered.
"Well, considering that you never mentioned your relation to me and kidnapped me to finally confess and making me into an angel, which is for the guy who wants to kill my friend from younger days," the boy counted off. "that could make me a bit angry towards you. .. But I'm actually just tired."
Kratos smirked.
"Lloyd, I came, to check on you." he said.
"What? See if I didn't tell the others about the real deal?"
".. No. I meant about your angeltransformation." the seraph said. "See, how it's going."
"Um .. I have no idea what's going on. I just feel these rushes of blood in my veins sometimes." Lloyd said. "Or I act completely different than I'd usually do."
Kratos chuckled.
"That's not the angeltransformation. That's just you starting to use your head more often and clearly." he said. "But the angeltransformation is going on. You haven't eaten anything since breakfast, right?"
Lloyd frowned and thought about it.
"You're right." he remembered. "And I haven't felt hungry at all since then."
"See?" Kratos said. "But I advise you to eat a little bit. Or else, everybody will grow suspiscious. I mean, they do know your appetite."
"Thanks .." Lloyd mumbled. "But when Collet was already at the stage of not feeling anything, she told me that she, when she forced herself to eat something, she couldn't keep it down."
Kratos waved his hand.
"Don't worry about that. It won't happen with you. It only happens because of the strong restisting against the body towards the food and the pain the Chosen goes through. She'd be the only one with those problems. Others can still eat. Just not that much."
Lloyd nodded.
"And one thing .." the boy sighed, taking his glove off and pointing at the communication-device. "Is there a way I can change this thing? It's peeping is a bit noticable. I think Sensei will be suspiscious very soon. Or she is already."
Kratos smirked a bit and pressed few buttons on the device. The instrumental version of Starry Heavens played.
".. Better?"
"... Do I have to answer?" Lloyd asked with a monotone voice.
Kratos pressed some more buttons. Instrumental version of Soshite Boku Ni Dekiru KOTO.
".. Daaad?"
Kratos grinned.
"Only other thing left is a vibrationalarm for messages. But that's not very adviseable, since during a fight it would stimulate your muscles and you'd let go of your weapon."
Lloyd grumbled.
".. As long as nobody notices my getting messages from angels and that I'm working for them, I don't care .." he sighed and Kratos changed the device to vibrationalarm.
"Goodnight, Lloyd." Kratos said and briefly ruffled Lloyd's hair before revealing his blue wings and flying of.
"G'night .. Dad .." Lloyd muttered and went into one of the many vacant rooms in Zelos' house.

Cat-Alin: And she also wrote Legend of Kratos?, Grandkid, Kharlan Kindergarten and many more stories!
Shihna: Alright, I already understand that you think that freakyanimegal456 is a good writer and you love her stories. But you hardly read some of them.
Cat-Alin: I only refuse to read those where there is definite Colloyd .. except that One Shot I thought was actually a Kranna .. or a Shihlos .. Oh God, I still get disgusted with it ..
Shihna: Hey, your motto is 'Everybody has their tastes'.
Cat-Alin: Well, of course! I never said I'd hate anybody for liking a certain pairing. As long as they don't rub it into my nose ..
Shihna: It's 'up your nose'. Dear readers, some reviews, please?