I do not own Tales of Symphonia. (sighs)

My friend, Eon, helped me. Yup.

Dirk looked up as Lloyd let off a particularly loud snore. Looking at the grandfather clock in the corner, he noticed that it was already way past noon and Lloyd didn't seem to be able to get up at any time. Sighing, Dirk started walking up the stairs to wake him up before he got into too much trouble.

The sight that greeted him at the top of the stairs was a drooling Lloyd. He walked quietly over to the bed and leaned over Lloyd. "Lloyd, wake up," Dirk said as he poked him. "Lloyd…LLOYD! WAKE UP!" Snore. Dirk sighed in exasperation.

A knock was heard from the door downstairs. He walked downstairs, and opened the door. Genis was there. "Hi, Dirk! Is Lloyd there?" Genis greeted Dirk. Dirk pointed inside. "He's upstairs. I can't get him to wake up, maybe you can do something," Genis sighed. "Oh, boy…" Walking past Dirk, he tromped up the stairs. He crept over to Lloyd silently, and pulled a horn out of his pocket. Taking a deep breath, he blew: HONK! "Ah!" Lloyd sat up with a start and looked around wildly. "Muffins!" Genis sweatdropped. Lloyd looked around some more as he fully woke up. "Oh, hi Genis!" Lloyd greeted him with a smile. "What are you doing here?"

"Lloyd! Don't you remember! We were supposed to help old lady McDonald today!" Genis exclaimed impatiently. Lloyd's face remained blank for a while, then realization struck him. "Eh! Oh crap, I'm late!" Lloyd jumped from his bed and scramble around to find his clothes. Genis shook his head. "I'll be waiting outside, Lloyd."

After about 15 minutes of loud thumps and Lloyd yelping in pain from running around and falling down the stairs, he finally ran out to meet Genis. (With a criss-crossed bandage across his forehead.) "C'mon, let's go!" He called out to Genis as he hopped onto Noishe.

Complete and utter chaos greeted them as they arrived at Iselia. Chickens were running rampant throughout the village, with several Colette shaped holes in the wall. Colette herself was running around trying to catch the chickens. (Note: Trying) Lloyd and Genis hopped off Noishe, and ran over to Colette. Colette looked over to the approaching pair. "Hi, guys!" She said cheerfully. "Oops!" She tripped over a pebble and landed on top of one of the chickens. Genis sweatdropped and helped Colette up. Lloyd looked around at the chaos curiously. "Hey Colette. What happened here?" Colette looked at the floor sheepishly. "Well, I tripped….and the latch came off the gate…and I let the cows out too…" A bunch cows came careening past, each clutching a slightly crushed beer bottle. Genis stared at the passing cows. "Why do they have beer bottles?" Lloyd stared at Genis.

"Beer! Why are you asking about beer? Why in the heck does Old Lady McDonald even have cows in the village!"

At this point, Old Lady McDonald burst out of her house, shaking her cane and yelling; "Come back here, you good-for-nothing cows! Gimme back my beer!"

Lloyd and Genis stared at Old Lady McDonald. Suddenly, Colette poked Lloyd and said; "Hey, look Lloyd! The cows just made a giant hole in Professor Raine's house!" Genis and Lloyd spun around and saw that, indeed, there was a gigantic hole in the side of Genis and Raine's house. Genis cautiously approached hole and peeked in. He saw Raine absorbed in the book, apparently she hadn't noticed the damage that the cows had just caused to her property. "Thank Martel…" Genis muttered in relief.

After an hour, they had finally rounded up the majority of the chickens. Genis counted them slowly. "One, two, three….Hey! There's 13 missing!" Lloyd looked around and spotted a group of chickens, congregating near the lake at the Professeor's house. (She still hadn't noticed the hole) Genis looked up at Lloyd. There was a chicken perched serenely on his head. Should I tell him, or not…Nah! Genis thought to himself. He then noticed that the Colette was nowhere to be seen. He spun around and saw that Colette was walking towards the chickens. Genis jogged over, Lloyd following closely after. "Hey, um…how are we gonna round up all the chickens?" Lloyd asked. Colette approached the chickens. It appeared that they were making some kind of Conga line. "The Chicken Dance!" Lloyd burst out. Genis sweatdropped, then took out a water bottle out of his other pocket (Don't ask.), then drank. (Sweatdropping is thirsty work, y'know)

Colette crouched down and reached for one of the chickens leg. The chicken gave a squack when Colette grabbed it's leg, then clucked something that sounded like a 'Code blue!' The other chickens started to flap theirs wings, then they were flying. (Quickly gaining height, I might add) Lloyd and Genis stared incredulously at the flying chickens, then ran to catch Colette. Lloyd grabbed onto her boot, and Genis grabbed onto his. They were still rising, though it looked like the chickens were having trouble. With an exhausted sqwack, the lead chicken stopped flying and dropped like a stone. The chickens underneath gave up and stopped flapping. Genis noticed this and looked down. "Oh shoot…"

Lloyd looked down at Genis. "What 'shoot?'"

Genis gulped. "We're going doooooowwwnn!" They fell into the small pond near Genis' house. Raine looked up from her book, and ran outside. (Pausing to look at the hole on the way. Yes, she just noticed) She ran towards the pond, where Genis was trying to get his hair out of his eyes, Lloyd, who had a lot of hair in his face, was crying "I'm blind!" and Colette was happily splashing.

Raine looked at the trio in exasperation. "What happened here?" She surveyed the scene, which was pretty ludicrous; unconscious chickens scattered all over her yard, three of her students in her pond, and a really, really big cow-shaped hole in the side of her house. "And Lloyd, why in Sylvarant do you have a egg in you're hair for?" Lloyd, who had just noticed this, plucked the egg out of his hair. (Which was starting to stick up again) Genis stifled laughter. Lloyd looked at him suspiciously. "You knew something about this, didn't you?" Genis shook his head, not trying himself to keep a straight face if he spoke. Raine sighed exasperatingly and went inside, stepping through the hole.

Lloyd looked up suddenly. "Hey Genis. Why are you carrying a horn in you're pocket anyways?"