Eria's POV

Clearleaf led us to a small house.It had a kitchen, small living room, two bedrooms, and a bathroom. It was then that I realized that while the creatures that lived here seemed really primitive, they actually had technology to match ours.

"Eria, you take that room." Nick said, pointing to the room to the right. "Terri and I will take the other one."

I looked at them in confusion. "Why?'

"Eria, your a fifteen year old girl and even if I am your brother, people could get the wrong impression if we share the same room. Besides, you can't tell me that you don't want your own room." Terri explained, moving towards the room that he was sharing with Nick.

I grinned, knowing that he was right as I moved to my room. "Alright, night!"

"Good night sis." Terri smiled back as Nick followed him into their room.

I sighed as I closed the door behind me and laid down on the bed, quickly falling asleep.

Clearleaf came early and like my brother had promised he would, Terri came to wake me up. Clearleaf seemed to think it was funny that I had such a problem about getting up on time and as we walked towards the fields, began to tease me about it but I was so used to Terri making jokes about it that I just ignored it till the vinrid stopped.

"Here!" Clearleaf threw a bag to all of use before leading us closer to the fields. "Your job is quite simple. Just pick the ripe soozu and place it in your bag. When its full take it to the store house over there." He pointed towards a large building where I could see dragons, vinrid, and zakio loading the crop into the building. "There will be others working in the fields too so if you need help, just ask them."

"Alright. Thank you." Nick nodded. Clearleaf grinned and took to the air, going to a less occupied part of the field. Walking towards one of the tall plants, Nick pulled the soozu from the stalk and looked at it. "So this is soozu? It looks like corn to me."

I laughed as I noticed he was right. "Guess they have different words for things we are familiar with."

"Guess your right." Nick laughed, putting the crop in the bag he was given.

"Can we just get this done?!" Terri said impatiently, already having pulled several ears of soozu and placed it in his bag. I nodded and began to help the harvest.

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Three hours we've been picking the soozu. It gets boring quick but this was how we were supposed to help so I shouldn't complain. We ran into Tycu and his two remaining hatchlings, Neku, a red female, and Dizun, a dark blue male, and helped them till Tycu looked up suddenly. The orange dragon's mouth fell open as he looked over the mountains that surrounded the valley and when I looked at what he was watching, I noticed a black scaled dragon flying towards the fields.

"It can't be...Ash?" Tycu muttered as the black dragon stopped and released a stream of flame on the crops. Tycu took to the air immediately followed by Neku and Dizun.

"You three get out of the fields!" Neku warned before following her father and brother. Nick nodded and signalled for us to follow him.

"Whats going on?" Terri asked, looking back as Tycu confronted the black dragon he had called Ash. I was confused on what was going on but I hoped they would be ok as we headed back to the safety of the house as I noticed aqui, phoenixes, zakio, and vinrid make their ways to the fields...

Third Person POV

The kids were all outside while their parents tried to find out what had happened to Tiamatt, Kratos, Terrance, Eria, and Nick. They were still wondering what they could do to find their friends and soon decided to head towards the forest to search the area where the Aurions and Nick had disappeared.

They moved quickly through the town, luckily avoiding any curious adults and Anna, who was walking around the small town. It didn't take long before they reached the Aurion house and the clearing it was located in.

"Alright, look for anything strange." Kit said, scaning the ground.

The other kids nodded and looked over the area. After an hour, all they had found were a few small shard of the Oblivion Blade that Terran had missed and some areas of scorched grass.

"What exactly do you think happened here?" Seth asked, looking at the burned earth.

Mica scanned the grass, looking confused. "I'm not sure but...what ever creatures attacked them weren't natural."

"Of course they weren't!" Lisea snorted. "I've never of creatures like that before except maybe Fire Elementals and Bombs. But what Terran described didn't seem like either one of those."

"Thats not what I meant." Mica sighed, kneeling on the ground and running a hand over the scroched ground. "What ever those monsters were, they weren't born or evolved from anything. They were created."

"Created? How is that possible?" Arx asked, confused.

Alcana shook his head. "Who ever did it has to be powerful. Its no wonder the Oblivion Blade was destroyed though I'm sure other factors were involved."

Ryan nodded, looking at the small shards of metal they had gathered. "Only question now is, where are they?"

They all nodded with a sigh before there was a strange explosion of white light and the sound of something hitting the ground was heard.When the light faded, the kids all gasped in shock as Tiamatt lay unconscious on the ground.

Arx's eyes widened and he ran to her side. "Aunt Tia! Wake up!"

Tiamatt moaned and opened her eyes as she pushed herself up to look at her nephew. "Arx? Am I home?" She looked around her for Kratos but didn't see him, only the kids. "Where is Kratos? Did he get left behind?"

"What are you talking about?" Kit asked, confused as to what the Cetra meant. "Hey where's Terrance and Eria?"

Tiamatt looked at Kit in shock as she stood up. "They haven't returned yet?" Kit shook her head. "Damn it! I hope their safe."

"I'm sure they are." Alcana reassured her. Tiamatt nodded sadly. "Prehaps we should return to Lloyd's and then you can explain what happened."

Tiamatt nodded with a laugh. "You know, you're really serious for your age. Too much like Vincent. Its ok to act like a kid everynow and then." Alcana sighed as he turned back towards the path that would take them back to Lloyd's.

When they got there, Tiamatt basically had her ribs crushed by Terran who was relieved to see his daughter.

"Dad, please! I'd like to be able to breath!" Tiamatt gasped, causing Terran to release her. "Thank you."

"Where is Kratos? Eria? Terrance?" Terran asked as Tiamatt was hugged by Hiro and Aya.

"I don't know. Kratos and I didn't end up in the universe as the kids and when I came back, Kratos wasn't with me. I don't know where he is." She explained, looking worried.

"Maybe Dad ended up in a different part of the woods?" Lloyd said after thinking for a moment.

Tiamatt nodded. "Yeah, hopefully. I'll see if I can find him."

Hiro and the others were about to say they'd help but Tiamatt was already out the door heading back towards the woods in hopes of finding her husband...

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Anna, not really understanding what was going on with the gate situation, walked around Iselia, worrying about Kratos and Tiamatt. She couldn't help but feel slightly jealous at Tiamatt, even if she was happy that Kratos had moved on after her death. Still, Anna was alive again but her husband was married to another woman and while she didn't want to break them apart...she wanted him back.

"No Anna, he's got Tiamatt now and two kids. You can't interfer." She said outloud to herself, not noticing as she slowly left Iselia. "But...we had a family together too. And wasn't I his, first?"

Anna sighed and shook her head, trying to clear her head of the thoughts that could only cause problems for the people she loved and called her friends. Finally, she looked up, her eyes widening at the sight of the abandoned Human Ranch and slowly wandering to the cliff where she had fell after Kratos tried to stop her from killing Lloyd.

She sighed again as she looked at the back of her hand where her keycrestless ex-sphere had sat before being removed by Kvar and casuing her to transform into an exbula. She could still feel the pain that the sword caused as it pierced her heart and the look of heartbreak on Kratos' face at the deed he had done. But if he hadn't, she might have killed Lloyd.

It was hard to believe that had happened thirty years ago and Lloyd was now grown up with his own family and Kratos had moved on to someone who shared a similiar pain and someone that she considered a friend even though they had only briefly met. Back then, she wanted Kratos to move on and be happy but she was trapped in an ex-sphere then. Now, she was alive again and know that, she couldn't hold back a feeling of jealousy.

Anna continued to look at the old building until her attention was drawn to a bright flash of light at the base of the cliff. Running to the edge and looking over the edge, she saw Kratos unconscious down below. She raced down the cliff to him, knelling beside the Seraph and shaking his shoulder.

"Kratos! Wake up!"

The angel moaned and opened his eyes, blinking slowly as he sat up only to gasp in shock as he saw the woman in front of him. "Anna?"

The brown eyed woman smiled and nodded. "Yep, its me Kratos."

Kratos continued to look at her in shock, slowly reaching a hand out to touch her face. "I can't believe it..."

"Believe it!" Anna laughed standing up.

Kratos stood up beside her and pulled her into a tight embrace, surprising her. "I missed you so much, Anna. I'm so happy that you're back!"

Anna tried to say something as Kratos leaned towards her but before she knew it, Kratos was kissing her and while she tried to remind herself that he had Tiamatt and she needed to remind him of that, she couldn't help but give into him.

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Tiamatt was wandering throught the woods, looking for any sign of Kratos but she was having no luck. At least untill she noticed a flash of light a little further into the woods.

"Kratos!" Tiamatt took off towards where she saw the flash which was deeper in the woods then she thought. When she finally did make it to where the light had originated from, she stopped, shocked at the sight before her.

Kratos had his arms tight around another woman. Not only that but he was kissing her, the strange woman melting in her husband's arms. Tiamatt felt her heartbreak as they finally broke the kiss and Kratos smiled softly at the unknown brown haired woman before he heard a sob and looked up to see Tiamatt. The Seraph gasped as he realized she had seen him kissing his late wife, Anna. Anna, curious as to why Kratos had a horrified look on his face, turned and gasped at Tiamatt, who turned around and ran into the forest.

"Tiamatt!" Kratos yelled after her, releasing his hold on Anna to run after the Cetra but she had already disappeared deeper into the forest...

Ok, ok...just to tell you, I've been planning this for a while now. Just another twist! Hehe! Read and Review please!