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10) Kratos Lesson Number Two

(Now imagine the chibi Kratos with a dunce hat.)

It's been two days since Lloyd and Zelos' training. A test to reveal their counterparts strength, while keeping their personalities too. First comes Lloyd:

Now we all know that their skills hasn't changed physically. So do we assume that Lloyd knows magic?

No.

"Concentrate, Lloyd. Use your mind to surge mana in your body. Then release."

Kratos' advice wasn't helping him at all, as he is not used to this body and using magic.

He gave a deep sigh and dropped his concentration, "I can't do it! It's too hard!"

"Everything is hard, but it isn't impossible. Be strong, Lloyd and feel the mana surge...like this."

Kratos closes his eyes and swings his arms, three fireballs effortlessly flowed out of his body. The mats that surrounded the training area absorbed the three burning flames. He opens his eyes and said, "Your turn."

"Well...here goes." Lloyd, in Zelos' body, stands straight and closes his eyes.

"Your mind is flowing with power, remember that, Lloyd. Find your place where you feel most comfortable and release."

His concentration feels so stressful that he starts to sweat. The mana inside him releases through his body like wind, he can feel it now. The mana feels so powerful and it feels like something is coming out of his body. So powerful that it created those summoning circles that you see in the game.

"Find that source of mana and release. Release...release...RELEASE!"

So powerful...release...release it...release it NOW!

"Fi...fi...fire...BALL!"

BOOM!

Lloyd finally felt that comfortable feeling.

Kratos just sighs of disappointment. "Lloyd, you did it again."

"Lloyd!" Zelos in Lloyd's body yelled, "Can't you do that somewhere else? You're stinkin' up the whole place!

"Sorry! I'm just learning how to use magic!"

"Hey, Kratos! Make him do it somewhere else!"

"No."

"It's the fifth time he farted that loud! I don't even fart that loud!"

"He told me to find my comfortable space," Lloyd said, "so I did."

"Hey, next time, release with your hands, not with your ass!"

"Enough, you two." Kratos says as he rubs his eyes, "Try again, Lloyd."

"Ugh, hey Kratos!"

"What is it, Zelos?"

"My arms are tired. Can I rest?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Your skills as Lloyd is still unrefined, you must be as reckless as he is."

"Hey!" Lloyd stopped concentrating, "That's in insult!"

"Don't deny it."

"Grr..."

"Doing sword rain is so hard..."

Next is Zelos:

Now do we assume that Zelos would go brawn over brains?

Maybe.

"Maybe if I swing 180 degrees like this, and if I give it a diagonal slash, I'll replicate his swordplay?"

"Try doing that four times fast." Kratos instructed. "With a follow through."

"Here goes! Tah! ... Hah! ... Tah! ... Hah!"

"You're still too slow," Kratos pointed out, "try following Lloyd's philosophy."

"He has a philosophy?"

"Well, I wouldn't call it a philosophy, it's the way he believes about his swordplay."

A huge fart is heard from the other side of the room.

"You're doing a good job, Lloyd." Kratos yells with a straight face, "Keep going."

"I may need to use the bathroom soon, Dad!" Lloyd yells back.

Kratos, ignoring him, turns to Zelos and tells him those times when he trained Lloyd from before.

"So..." Zelos lifts up one sword, "If one sword has the power of 100," then the other, "then having two has the power of 200?"

"Correct."

"Sorta lame, but I can go with that."

So why did they just start training if they just found out that Yuan was a fake? Okay, fine. Let's flashback...or go back a couple of days...or something.

"A fake? Yuan is a fake?" Lloyd snapped.

"Yes, see these monitors over there?" Kratos points to the silver boxes that shows pictures from inside. "I've been closely monitoring the imposter's actions since he somehow appeared five years ago."

"Mahn...neetours?" Lloyd says with his retarded Zelos voice.

"A monitor is a screen that displays images from an another source. Like this one." Kratos points to one side of the celing. It had some kind of small machine with a small piece of glass. Some circly thing inside the glass starts to get bigger. "This is called a camera."

"Kah...meh...ra?"

Zelos, in Lloyd's body, slaps his own body right beside the head, "Shut up and pay attention."

"Ow..."

"The man's name is unknown and we've sent Cruxis members to unveil this identity. They had to endure the same situations as you are experiencing now. But for some reason they started disappearing after a certain time period and leaving us stuck in the middle. It seemed that they knew the real identity of the man but didn't make it to tell the tale.

"Then Yuan and I we're dispatched. We switched bodies, endured it and sucessfully changed back, but we didn't get a chance to unmask this mystery man.

"Yuan found out who he was but for some reason, this person had the power to take over his body and Yuan's soul was sealed somewhere. We only know one thing about him, his change in personality. We're assuming that he's been into alot of people with different personalities. So we're talking about a soul shifter here."

"How do you know that Yuan isn't Yuan?" Zelos asked.

"I was there. He was about to tell me until he took him."

Lloyd, in Zelos' body, raises his hand.

"Yes."

"Uh, can you repeat it again?"

"...No."

"Well, uh...can you at least speak it in English?"

"We all speak English. You're just not comprehending."

"Uh..."

"It means to understand what is said." Zelos blurted.

"I know what that means! I just..."

"Moving on." Kratos interuppted, "It's been nearly two weeks after your transformation. We're been observing changes after three weeks. And you've been seeing him every five days. Week 3 has always been the changing point in this situation. That's why I was sent to assist you in your processing of getting your bodies back. Knowing you guys, this is going to take a while to manage..."

Zelos frowned, "We're not going to get our bodies back, aren't we?"

"Look on the bright side: You're still together."

"And what does that supposed to mean?" Lloyd asked.

"As long you're with your counterpart, and you keep a boon relationship with your counterpart, what can go wrong?"

"Everything." Zelos blurted again.

"Not necessarily." Kratos added. "You may not like the person right next to you, but you must respect one another. It's a one way street."

"So uh, if you-" Lloyd starts to say.

"We're getting off the subject," Kratos interuppted again. "That spar you just commenced was perfect, no one would notice. I was surprised that you kept your secret to few people, but don't be sure of that. I'm going to teach you some things that will hone your skills as being someone else. It's not going to be easy."

Lloyd's turn to frown. "I was afraid you were going to say that..."

"It's getting late. I'll give you a complete briefing tomorrow-"

"Wait! All of those things you said to us was just the beginning?" Lloyd yelled.

"Yes."

"You could of at least told us the whole thing! I would have listened!"

Eerie silence.

"Once again, it's late. You need energy for tomorrow." Kratos turns around and snaps his fingers.

The room that looked like a training room now transfigured into what it looks like Kratos' room,because they started seeing silver again.

"We could of just walked back." Zelos again blurted out.

"Good night." Kratos says in his monotone voice. He enters one of the silvery doors and shuts it behind him.

And then they were alone.

In Kratos' room.

Wondering where are they going to sleep.

"Hey! Look! Two beds!" Zelos pointed.

The room that they thought had one bed, now had two.

"I got the left bed!" Lloyd, with his idiotic Zelos body, began to jump to the bed.

"Fine..." Zelos, in Lloyd's body, walks to the bed at the right side.

Lloyd noticed Zelos' grim look on his face, "Hey, what's wrong?"

"Huh? Oh, nothing. Let's get some sleep, shall we?"

"Uh...okay?"

Lloyd and Zelos nestled themselves in their beds and at the blink of an eye, the lights went out. Lloyd and Zelos both whispered something to themselves...

"Good night, Colette..."

"Good night, my hunnies..."

Skeith: (sticks head out of a door) Hey, I've finished crucifying Lloyd. Anybody know where Zelos is?
RW: Zelos? Nope, haven't seen him.
Sheena: Wow, RW. Your hair just got longer!
RW: Oh, ...uh...you noticed? Well...uh...you like it?
Skeith: Hey! I'm looking for...wait.
(RW gulps)
Sheena: What's wrong with you?
Skeith: Something doesn't feel right... (Approaches RW)
RW: What?
Skeith: Aha! (Pulls RW's hair out)
RW: Ahhhh!
Sheena: Hey! What did you-
(Skeith pulls out RW head, revealing a mask)
Zelos: No! Not me!
Skeith: I got you now! C'mere!
Zelos: Sheena! Help me!
Sheena: Wait, if you were acting like RW, then...where's the REAL RW?
(Background music)
Skeith: Meh, beats me, I'm going. (Drags Zelos)
Zelos: No! Don't let him take me...!
Sheena: Eek! Where IS RW?

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Lloyd: Saseruka! (Japanese translation: "I won't let you!")
(Isn't that better than, "No way!"?)

(In the PS2 version, if you choose Zelos in the Flanoir event, both Zelos AND Sheena will acquire biker clothing if you go to Altimira. Born to be wild, baby!)