Genis, tears still in his eyes, sat in the tent next to Lloyd. Lloyd had, miraculously, managed to stitch Genis' tongue back in, but he would not be able to taste very well. He would also not be able to talk very clearly for a few weeks, either, and he would never talk the same again. Lloyd, still beyond pissed, glared at him. Not in a mad way, but in a very concerned way. He shoved a paper and quill at him.
"Genis," he said sternly, "Write down what you saw, who did this to you…" He began stuttering. "Everything!" he shouted at last. Genis, still tears in his eyes, cruel memories dancing in his head and taunting him, jotted down as fast as he could. In a few minutes, he shoved the paper at Lloyd. Reading over it, he screamed. "Kratos!" he said. "I should have known he'd… but Colette…" Now Lloyd had tears bubbling in his eyes.
He turned away from Genis, not wanting him to see him cry. "I bet he forced her into this… he…" Genis, not saying anything else, put his hand on his shoulder. He begged to say any encouraging words, but, even if his tongue hadn't been harmed, he still couldn't say a thing. Now, Lloyd's sadness converted to anger.
"Come on, Genis," he said, "We're going to find Kratos, and when we do, we're going to make him pay for what he did… to you, to Colette, and to me. To everyone…"
Colette went into the bathroom stall and cried. "I can't believe what I've done…" she whispered to herself. "I just hope that my plan will work so that I can get back to Lloyd and Genis." She quickly washed her hands and left the bathroom, putting her sweet act back on for Kratos who, as presumed, smiled back at her when he saw her.
"Your food is here," he said. Colette smiled. She moved the plate aside. "Skip the food," she said, wondering if she sounded too wild, "I want to go find that house right now! You've turned on my wild side!" She realized that that was a nice touch. Kratos looked startled at first, then, realizing what his reward could be in all of this, grabbed her hand, ignoring the fact that there was a bill to be paid. "Babe, I'll do anything for you."
Running quickly away from the restaurant, Zelos noticed them. "Hey!" he shouted, "You two come back here!" Zelos was as fast as both of them and, even though they had a head start, he quickly caught up. He grabbed Kratos' shoulder quickly and whipped him around. "Sir!" he shouted. But before he could say anything more, Kratos' need him in an area that "shouldn't be knee'ed."
Once more, they were off. The shouting of pedestrians tipped off the local guards, and within moments there was a chase scene. A man in golden armor, probably the guard commander, was ahead of them all. "Get them! Get them!" he shouted, as if it wasn't obvious as to what they had to do.
Soon, Kratos and Colette had outrun the guards and were in a building now. Their backs were to the wall and they looked out the window. Then they heard footsteps. An old woman walked down the stairs. "Oh my," she said, "Are you confused? Ho ho ho. You youngsters don't live here!" Kratos glared at her. "Now we do." He pulled out his dagger and prepared to stab the old woman, but Colette – overcoming her clumsiness for a bold moment- flung herself at his arm and grabbed the dagger, her knees on his stomach, crushing his kidneys intensely with her forced wait. She put the dagger to his neck. "Colette!" he said, panicked now and embarrassed at being overcome by a woman. "I thought this is what you wanted!" She frowned. "I made a mistake," she sad, "And you didn't have to do what you did to Genis!"
Kratos' eyes widened. For a moment he thought that she would take her revenge by doing the same to her, but she lowered the dagger. "Here," she said, scaring him by jamming the dagger into his sleeve so he couldn't move his arm. "I won't hurt you. I'll leave that to the guards," she said, "I'm going to go find Lloyd and Genis."
And with that, she ran out the door shouting, "He's in here! He's in here!"
And then she tripped.
