Chapter 6 Secrets Revealed
After I few days travel, they arrived in Sylvarant, and in the town of Erumen. The town looked similar to Asgard, Lloyd thought, with the many hills and the wind. Ryan's house was small compared to the Aurion's house in Meltokio. There were four rooms, Colette and Ryan each had one for themselves, Zelos and Lloyd shared a room, and the Aurion siblings shared a room until Kratos escaped his sisters and bunked with the other boys. Yuan had run off at one point saying he could take care of himself, and no one questioned him about where he was going to stay.
It was the morning after they arrived when they had sat down to breakfast. Lloyd had changed back into his usual red garb, and now carried his swords with him again. Colette too, had changed back into her old clothing.
Victoria and Ryan sat down across from the three, with little food.
"Are you guys not hungry?" Colette asked, "If we're eating all your food I could make more..."
"No! It's fine," Victoria blushed, waving her hands.
"We're just not breakfast people..." Ryan replied, scratching the back of his head.
Kratos walked in, carrying a plate piled with food.
"Where did you get the clothes?" Lloyd asked.
Kratos was wearing clothing that was similar to the clothes he would wear in the future, other than this outfit had two extra black belts around his waist, and he wasn't wearing a cape.
"Well... I didn't want to attract attention with my suit so... I asked to borrow some clothes from Ryan..." Kratos said nervously.
"I could've given you some of mine... I'm about the same size as you..." Lloyd replied.
"..." Kratos said nothing for a minute, "You know that suspenders must've went out of style a thousand years ago... and your shirt looks pretty complicated..."
"I guess your dwarven style clothes aren't what Kratos would wear," Zelos laughed.
"Why are you wearing those kinds of clothes anyway? You don't look like a dwarf," Victoria asked.
"My foster dad was a dwarf so..."
"Ah. I see. Could be worse. Our Dad left Styra a few days after they married, though I can understand why," Victoria smirked.
"Hmph," Ryan glared at Victoria.
Victoria smirked, "Hey, you could still be working for that idiotic man..."
Ryan shot a glare at the girl before eating his breakfast.
Victoria frowned, "It's not my fault he turned out to be a maniac..."
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Lloyd was sitting outside with Colette and Zelos, the group trying to think up some sort of plan. They tried the Eternal Sword, which ended quickly in failure.
Lloyd was sitting cross legged, the vorpal sword and flamberge in front of him, while the others sighed.
"So we'll have to wait for Mithos to get a pact with Origin or what?" Zelos muttered.
"Well, maybe if we find another coin it'll take us back home?" Colette suggested.
"We don't even know where to look though! It could be anywhere," Lloyd moaned.
"Are you three trying to plot against us?" Ryan asked, standing behind Lloyd.
Lloyd flinched, but turned to look at the man, "What makes you think that?"
"I'm only joking!" Ryan laughed, looking over Lloyd's shoulder, "That sword..."
"What..?" Lloyd said, watching as Ryan walked over, picking up the flamberge.
"This is... Where did you get this?!" Ryan shouted, surprising the rest of the group.
"My Dad gave it to me, why?" Lloyd replied.
"Really now? Can you tell me who made this?"
"I wouldn't know!"
"I don't understand what you're trying to do here, kid," Ryan snarled, "So... Shutdown."
Lloyd was about to respond, when his face went blank, and he stood up, looking similar to Colette when she lost her soul.
"Lloyd! What did-?" Colette exclaimed, jumping to her feet.
Zelos walked up and grabbed Ryan by his collar, "What did you do to him?!"
"Do you think, that we would just let our slaves go around with so little resistance?" Ryan asked, "Once the collar has been removed, a slave can be put into a trance like this, up to three months after the collar has been removed. Though this will cause the slave to receive most memories from the owner."
"Didn't Lloyd say that Styra-" Colette started to ask.
"No. If she did, Lloyd might be dead right now," Ryan said, as Zelos let go of him.
"Get him back to normal, please! We aren't doing anything wrong!" Colette exclaimed.
"I will. Lloyd?"
Lloyd barely responded at all, "Yes, Grandfather?"
Ryan jerked around, "I'm not your grandfather..."
Lloyd looked up, "My father is Kratos Aurion, and you are his father. Wouldn't that make you my grandfather?"
"You're... Kratos' father?!" Zelos exclaimed.
Victoria jumped down from somewhere, landing next to Lloyd, "Kratos couldn't have a son! He's too young!"
"I was born about four-thousand years from now," Lloyd responded dully.
"W-Wait... What?!" Victoria exclaimed, "You're from the future?!"
"Yes."
"Lloyd, wake up..." Ryan said quickly, Lloyd immediately glaring at the said man.
"Y-You-! You've been stalking me this whole time!" Lloyd exclaimed.
"I apologize, I wouldn't have if I realized... that you were from the future..." Ryan said nervously.
"Lloyd, are you alright?!" Colette asked, running up to him.
"I'm fine. Though I can't believe that-"
"I know. Who would've guessed Ryan was bud's grandpa?" Zelos laughed, "How do you look so young anyway?"
"They're angels..." Lloyd said, then he seemed to realize something, his eyes wide and paling, "Kratos..."
"Well, he protozoan's out of the bag now!" Ryan sighed.
"Where is Noishe, anyway?" Lloyd asked.
"... He's around here somewhere," Victoria replied, shrugging.
"Well, if there are any questions, I'm sure Lloyd would be glad to answer them!" Ryan smirked.
"What?! Why me?!" Lloyd exclaimed.
Ryan smirked, "Well, you received most of my memories, didn't you?" Ryan pointed out.
"Well, I doubt I got all of them... You probably have a lot more if you're over a thousand years old."
"I suppose," Ryan sighed, "But besides that, you haven't found any way back to your old time yet?"
"The eternal sword isn't going to work, so we don't have any leads for the moment," Zelos stated.
"And it would take to long to find one of those coins again..." Colette said.
"Coins?" Ryan asked.
"When I picked up this strange coin, we ended up here..." Colette replied.
"Never heard of something like that, sorry."
"When you said complicated, you really meant it," Victoria chuckled.
"I've been wondering, if we were talking about Kratos, who did you think we were describing?" Zelos asked, "The whole angel thing."
Ryan looked both embarrassed and ashamed, "I thought you were talking about me, actually... But, Kratos ends up like that?"
"Something like that..." Lloyd smiled nervously, "Though Yggdrasill wasn't as... uh, interesting."
Colette and Zelos looked at him, "What do you mean?"
"Well, think of Yggdrasill... except much worse," Lloyd replied.
"It's kinda creepy that you know, Lloyd," Victoria said.
"Sorry."
"It's my fault anyway," Ryan sighed, "Well, I guess we're just going to wait for an answer to present itself, hm?"
Well,I finaly got the next chapter up!:D The next chapter is going to be fun to write.... heh heh heh... Reviews are appreciated n.n
