Cat-Alin: .. I don't know why, but .. I like Collet's Theme!
Shihna:
What?
Cat-Alin:
I don't like Collet, but I do like the music of hers in the OVA!
Shihna:
That's bad?
Cat-Alin:
WHY does COLLET get to sing!? Why not a special where Kratos sings, like, 'Mountain Road' or 'Together' or 'Mirai ni Kaji o Tore'!?
Shihna:
Because they all are used in Koisuru Tenshi Angelique!
Cat-Alin:
Dammit!
Shihna:
Cat-Alin doesn't own Tales of Symphonia, nor Namco, nor the OVA. If she did, Kratos would sing ..

Kratos layed Lloyd carefully down onto the bed with the darkblue sheets and put a hand to hover over his son's chest. He began to mutter something continously.
The door zipped open.
"Kratos-dono!" the angel said. "Yggdrasill-sama has summoned you!"
Kratos stopped muttering and glared at the angel.
"I desire to finish this first."
"B-but, he says it's urgent!" the angel stuttered, knowing to well what happens to those who the angel glares at like that.
Kratos growled and covered Lloyd with the blanket and quickly made his way to the leader.

"Kratos, you have come so quickly." Yggdrasill said. "I am pleased."
The seraph kneeled down onto one knee.
"Yggdrasill-sama, I want to apologize for the taking of the Chosen." he said quickly. "It is not Lloyd's mistake. It seems that the Grand Cardinal Rodyle has taken the Chosen to his hideout in the skies of Tethe'alla."
Yggdrasill waved his hand.
"I was not going to blame your precious son, Kratos." the Leader said. "I merely brought you here to ask you .. you have noticed the change of the Chosen's condition?"
Kratos nodded.
"Yes."
"You have warned the Chosen, yes?"
"I told her to remove the crest, if she wants to 'live'."
"Good .. so, you do know what has made the change."
"Yes. The keycrest. But-"
"Yes." Yggdrasill stopped him. "It would have happened, regardless if the crest had brought back the Chosen's soul or not. I have no intention on blaming your son's dwarven skills for that."
Kratos nodded.
"And I assume, you have taken the boy with you after the incident in Ozette?"
".. Yes. Right now, he is resting in my chambers. I wanted to heal his wounds, when you called." Kratos confessed.
"Do that. And then, let him rest to fully regain his strength. He will have a great honor to receive later on." the Leader of the Angels said and dismissed the seraph.

Kratos hurried back to his chambers and after making sure that Lloyd was resting, although still wounded, he took out one of the thick, ancient looking books from a shelf and leaved through it.
Upon finding what he searched for, he stepped to his son, his hand once more hovering over the boy's chest. He started to mutter continously again. His hand began to glow and the bruises started to pale, the wounds closing themselves.
The boy threw his eyes open and jerked up.
"Collet! Let her go!" he yelled and noticing the sudden change of area, he started to struggle. "Where am I? Who took me here!? Let me go!"
"Lloyd!!"
The boy flinched and looked at his father.
"Oh .. Dad .. it's you .." he mumbled and sighed, holding his head.
Kratos put the book back into the shelf and returned. Lloyd looked horrified.
"I, I'm back on Derris Quaran? Why? What happened? I didn't get Collet back, I'm sorry! I got attacked and couldn't reach Collet anymore and" he spluttered. "Oh dear Martel, am I in trouble for letting Collet get taken away!?"
"No."
"Are you in trouble!?"
"No, Lloyd-"
"I swear! I didn't want to lose Collet! I tried to get her back, my wings-" Lloyd flinched. "Yeah, my wings errupted from my back and I tried to get a hit at Rodyle, but he threw a bomb of some sort at me and my wings evaporated and I fell and .. Oh, Dad, I'm SO sorry for letting Collet get taken!"
Kratos calmed the boy down.
"Do not worry. Neither Yggdrasill, nor I am blaming you for letting Collet get taken away."
".. Ok." the boy said, gasping for air, he was still so excited and worried.

"Your wings have shown themselves-"
"Ah! I showed my wings infront of everyone!" Lloyd realized and was about to panic again, when Kratos grabbed him by the shoulders and held him steady.
"Lloyd, calm down!" Kratos sighed. "Yes, your wings have shown themselves in a rather bad moment, thus everybody in your group now knows you have wings. So, alas, they probably know you're a part of Cruxis now."
"WHAT!?" Lloyd yelled. "B-but I never agreed to be part of Cruxis! I agreed to become an angel, so I wouldn't 'get my head chopped off, if I left these rooms' as you told me! I never said I'd work for Cruxis!"
Kratos called an angel and ordered him something, after trying to calm his son down again.
Lloyd was breathing fast, trying to get all the information in his head and grasp it.
"Lloyd, relax. Your wounds are healed, but you need to calm down." Kratos warned him.
Lloyd took a shaky long breath and sighed.
"Oh .." he mumbled. "I still can't believe I'm not able to protect Collet!"
Kratos frowned.
"Listen, Lloyd. Relax. Rest a bit. Yggdrasill will want to see you later on." Kratos said and held his finger up as a warning for Lloyd to not freak out again.
"But .." Lloyd said, trying to remain calm. "How can I relax and rest, if I have so much stuff to think about?"
The angel came back with a tray with a keg and a mug on it, he put it onto the table next to the picture of Anna.
Kratos got up and typed on a little panel, locking the door. Then, he sat back down next to the boy and put a deep-blue liquid into the mug.
"Here. Drink this." he said and gave the cup to Lloyd. "It's a potion that will let you relax and sleep a dreamless sleep. You will be perfectly rested."
Lloyd took the mug and hesitated a moment, before drinking it. The emptier the mug got, the sleepier Lloyd felt and Kratos had to hold the mug a bit up, so Lloyd would take the last gulp, before the boy fell asleep, leaning on his father's shoulder.

Lloyd opened his eyes after a long sleep and noticed Kratos sitting next to him, propped up against a pillow and stroking his hair a bit.
"I remember the day you were born" Kratos said, when he noticed that Lloyd was awake. "Anna and I had found shelter in an Inn in Luin."
"Luin ..?" Lloyd asked.
".. Anna was born there as well." Kratos smiled a bit. "She got into labour at about three in the morning. You took quite some time to get into this world, you lazy bum."
Lloyd looked embaressed, but he wasn't annoyed. Kratos was grinning, so he knew he didn't mean it seriously. The boy blushed a bit.
"Did .. did it hurt?" he asked.
"Yes, Anna was in pain when you were born." Kratos answered. "But she was so happy when you were out that she forgot all the pain. I almost had to beg her to get you in my arms once."
Lloyd laughed.
"We had discussed some names for you and after noticing your eyecolor, we decided on the name 'Lloyd'."
"Why my eyecolor?"
"Because your hair was the chocolate brown color of your mother, we figured you'd probably have her eyecolor as well. But your eyes weren't green, they were my brown."
"Who of you suggested my name?"
"Anna did." Kratos said and Lloyd looked excited about the thought that his name was given to him originally by his mother. The seraph grinned. "Be glad we agreed on Lloyd. I would've called you Kratos Jr."
"Dad, that's really old-fashioned .." Lloyd smirked cheerfully. "But considering your really old age, that's understandable."
Kratos and Lloyd burst out laughing.

Lloyd gulped. He tried to calm down, Kratos was fastening the tiara-like pendant behind his head.
Lloyd was dressed in a wide, white robe with golden and purple wave-like molding around the hemline. The tiara-pendant was golden and his hair was not standing up as usual, but sort of falling down now.
"Don't worry, Lloyd. The ceremony is easy." Kratos calmed the boy down. The seraph was dressed in an outfit that resembeled his Cruxis Uniform, but without the belts and it was dark, a black sash thrown over his shoulder and tied loosely with a belt around his waist.
"I know .. I just don't feel very comfortable with this." Lloyd confessed. "I didn't do anything great. I totally messed up my assignment!"
"Probably he is thinking that giving you this ceremony and title will boost your self-esteem and give you the confidence to fulfill your duty this time." his father guessed.
"But I don't want to be a in a high position in Cruxis! I actually want to get out!"
"That's not going to happen."
Lloyd sighed annoyed and an angel entered.
"Excuse me, but the ceremony is about to begin. Everything is prepared." the angel said.
"Very well."

Kratos put an arm around Lloyd's shoulder and led him outside of the chamber. Lloyd gulped when he saw the long entourage of thousands of angels standing in two lines, making a passageway that Lloyd had to walk through, Yggdrasill at the end, he dressed in a golden robe, smirking to himself. Kratos gave Lloyd a tiny pat on the shoulder for encouragement and took his place to the right of Yggdrasills.
Lloyd slowly walked through the passage and knelt down, when he stopped in front of Yggdrasill.
"Lloyd Aurion" the Leader of Angels said loudly. "You, who has just been recently in our grand Organization of Cruxis, have proven well to us. Your angeltransformation is not yet finished, but soon you will be a complete angel. I therefore will grant you the title of 'Seraph' for I wish for your duty to lie completely with me and do your best for us. Do you accept this title and the therefore standing duty?"
"I do." Lloyd said, humbly.
"Will you continue to please Cruxis' needs and do anything that will help us?"
"I will."
"And you will show no regret for losing your humanity or your permanent living on either of the planets?"
".. I shall never regret .. Yggdrasill-sama." Lloyd said, hesitating a bit.
Yggdrasill smirked happily.
"Then, you are now known as the fifth seraphim in Cruxis and can do as you like." Yggdrasill said and the angels started to cheer out in a perfectly stiff way when Yggdrasill casted a spell onto Lloyd, that made the pendant glow golden and something got carved into the stone by air.

Lloyd got up, his eyes still more on the floor than looking at Yggdrasill.
"I wish for you to continue to watch over the Chosen and bring her here at the next best opportuinty." Yggdrasill said and Lloyd nodded. "If you desire for help from your father or me, let us know."
The Leader left and Lloyd sighed, looking over insecure at his father. Kratos smirked and gave him a thumbs-up sign to show that he had done good.

Lloyd gasped, when he saw his own private chambers next to his father's. The scheme was a red-black and was furnished similar to Kratos' rooms, except that the room was smaller and there was a group of three chairs instead of five around a fire.
Kratos motioned the boy over and sat down with him on the sofa, a thick book on his lap.
"Lloyd, I know you may not like studying, but considering that you are now officially a seraph, you should know the angel language." he said.
Lloyd looked horrified.
"I need to study ..? Oooh .." he moaned and sulked.
"Can't be helped. Unless you want Refill to teach you."
"No way!" the boy disagreed quickly. "Besides, if I'm now known as an angel to them, I don't think she'll like me in her classroom or anywhere close to her and the others."
"Plus, you should get a bit more knowledge up there." Kratos said, knocking his son lightly on the forehead. "So, better read this until tomorrow."
Lloyd looked at the thick book on his father's lap and paled.
"Dad, I can't even read ten pages in front of class, because I get bored of books. You want me to read that until tomorrow?"
Kratos nodded and started to tell Lloyd the basics of the angel language.

The next morning, when Kratos got up and went into Lloyd's room, he didn't find him in bed. He looked around and saw him on the sofa, his head hanging low and sleeping. Kratos smirked.
"Lloyd, wake up." he said and shook the boy a bit.
Lloyd started and looked around sleepy.
"Mh? Oh, morning, Dad .." he said and yawned. "I managed .."
"What?"
"I managed to finish that book .." Lloyd mumbled, closing the book finally. He looked really tired.
Kratos smirked.
"And I've got the language of angels pretty much in my head." Lloyd tapped his temple and smiled. "Ah, and everything is turning .."
Kratos grinned and steadied the boy.
"Alright. Want to rest some more, before going back to the Chosen's group?"
"What? But how?" Lloyd said, sounding more awake. "They saw my wings. And if I suddenly come back .. they'll never believe that I'm fully on their side."
Kratos waved his hand.
"Don't worry. Go back and answer any questions they have. Truthfully."
"Tell them I'm with Cruxis, so I can get Collet to give up her soul again and let Martel be resurrected?!"
Kratos laughed.
"Maybe not that. Just go. We will still be in contact." the seraph assured him.
".. Where are they now?" Lloyd asked.
"On their way to Mizuho. They spent the night there." Kratos told him. "And Lloyd: Make sure they don't form pacts with every summonspirit."
"What? Why?"
"A mana link will be broken, if they form a pact with two counterparts."
"Oh, ok." Lloyd said, remembering what the book had said about mana links.
"It is alright for them to form a pact with Volt. Otherwise, you will never get the Chosen back." Kratos said. "Well .. you would, or any other angel. But not with the group."
Lloyd nodded and stepped onto the teleporter.
"Dad, next time I'm here, you have to teach me how to teleport!" Lloyd grinned.
Kratos returned the grin.
"Alright. Watch out for yourself, Lloyd." he said and waved a bit.

Lloyd looked around quickly where he was. He got teleported to the entrance of the Gaoracchia Forest on the Ozette Side.
"Alright, now to hurry and catch up." he said and entered the forest, running along the right path and came to a stop in front of the japanese village. He entered it and wanted to ask one of the people where Refill was, when he saw the group coming out of the vice-chief's house.
Shihna looked rather pale.
"Hey, guys!" Lloyd called and waved to them.
They spotted him and Genius wanted to run ahead, but Refill stopped him and they all slowly walked over to him.
"Hello, Lloyd." Refill said, sounding more distant than ever. "Back from your trip?"
"Um .." Lloyd answered, caught off guard. "Guys, um, I know I disappeared suddenly and .. uh .. well, I'm here to join you again and rescue Collet."
"Why do you have wings?" Refill asked suddenly.
Lloyd flinched.
"W-what?"
"You know exactly what I mean, Lloyd Irving. Talk!"
Lloyd sighed and rubbed the back of his head.
"Alright .. alright, I'll tell you .." the boy said.

Cat-Alin: Hehe, this story is starting to get a lot of fun now!
Shihna:
And you still don't know how to work our everything.
Cat-Alin:
No .. But I'll think of something.
Shihna:
Mhm .. Reviews please, dear Readers?