Chapter 16

Kratos and the others had finally entered Izoold. They headed straight to the docks. Standing right on the dock happened to be none other than Sheena and Zelos.

"Whoa what are they doing here?" Genis shouted

Colette began to run up to hem as Zelos turned and saw them.

"Hey, guys. Whats up?" Zelos called out "miss me?"

Colette tackled Zelos with a glomp. Both of them were on the ground.

"Hi" Colette said, embarrassed

"Wow" Zelos blushed "i guess you did miss me"

Zelos began to put his arms around Colette when Sheena ran up and gave him a kick in the face.

"Pervert!' she yelled

Shinuji was wide eyed. Ein walked up to all of them and looked up at Sheena.

"What does pervert mean?"

"Ummm..."

As Sheena was trying to figure out how to explain it Zelos got up off the ground and walked towards Shinuji.

"Ha ha, who's this guy?"

"Zelos, this is Shinuji" Presea explained "Shinuji this is Zelos"

Shinuji held out a friendly hand and smiled. Zelos took it and shook it.

"So your new to this group" Zelos pointed out

"I guess you could say that" Shinuji was a little embarrassed saying that.

"Well we can't be traveling together unless you have a nickname."

"Nickname..."

"Hmmm..."

"I see we have a Bi sexual on our hands." Shinuji butt in to Zelos' thinking

Everyone stopped and looked straight at Zelos. Zelos stood there surprised and blushing.

Zelos turned to Shinuji and coughed.

"Uh, just because I like to give nicknames does not mean I'm gay!" Zelos shouted he then moved in closer to Shinuji and Whispered, "Say, how about I give you a cool nickname and you don't mention this to anyone."

"Hmmm... let me think about this"

"Come on."

"I think I will use this opportunity on something in the future."

Zelos' jaw dropped to the floor. "Fine, but you still get a nickname"

Zelos walked out in front of everyone as if he was important and shouted out.

"Ok, everyone. Shinuji's new nickname is officially 'Fat kid'".

Shinuji stood there blushing While Raine glared at Zelos.

"What?" Zelos questioned

Kratos stepped up.

"Anyway, what are you two doing all the way over here?"

"We wanted to visit Lloyd, as soon as we found out he wasn't at Dirks, we decided to go out looking for him." Sheena Answered

Genis began to laugh "You do know, Lloyd got his own house in Iselia"

"What?"

"Ha ha! You should have stopped by."

Sheena didn't look too happy

"Well, were is he now?"

"Were not sure, He got upset and ran of with this... "mysterious man" we have trying to track him down ever since"

Genis nodded and Sheena looked worried but tried to hide it.

"I'm coming with you" Sheena demanded

"Hey, Don't forget about me!" Zelos shouted

"as long as you don't weigh us down" Kratos explained

"have we ever?"

-ZELOS AND SHEENA HAVE JOINED THE PARTY-

"OK" Ein exclaimed. "The boat is this way!" He pointed in the direction of the docks.

Everyone started to followed him until they reached a huge beautiful looking boat. It was brightly painted and looked fit for a king.

"Whoa" Zelos said staring at the boat

"We're actually going to ride this?" Colette asked

"HAHA, Of coarse not! What do you think i am, rich?"

Everyone glared at him.

"I'm sorry I got your hopes up. Thats the boat we will be taking." Ein pointed to a group of smaller boats which just happened to be...

"W-WASH TUBS?" Raine said, frightened

Ein sighed and began walking to the boat shaking his head.

"Whoa, one question, how do you expect us to get across this ocean alive?" Zelos asked

"Hey, Me and my friends made it here safe..." Ein paused

"your friends? Didn't you come alone?" Genis wondered

"No... I came here with my friends, looking to get help from the people here in Izoold and well. That monster got them.

Colette looked down at the ground

"I'm so sorry to have brought that up" Colette apologized

"It's ok"

Kratos walked towards one of the washtubs and cautiously got inside. Everyone else got inside there own washtub and looked up at Raine who was still standing on the docks.

"Whats wrong Raine? Aren't you going to get inside?" Genis asked impatiently

Raine kinda sat there and smiled "Well I guess I will have to stay here seeing there is no more boats left!"

Everyone looked around them to see that she was right.

"What are we going to do?" Colette asked aloud "We can't just leave her here!"

Shinuji brought his boat closer to the docks were Raine was standing.

"Well... We could share a boat, if you want to." He smiled nicely

"Oh! Uh, okay!" Raine immediately hopped inside his boat and surprisingly, the bath tub didn't sink.