Why Daddy Why
I do not own TOS or any of its Characters. By the way for any of you Kranna fans who are expecting her to die in this story. No such luck. I decided to keep her alive. Just for the sake of the story. Lloyds why questions would not be quite so annoying without Anna's calmness to off set Kratos' annoyance at Lloyd. Quite handily Kratos knows Boltzmans cure.
Chapter 4: Why is Marmar Hurted?
Kratos walked slowly through the Katz Village allowing his small son Lloyd to keep up with him. They were headed towards a small cottage on the edge of the village that Kratos had built for his family. This was the morning that the family would discard their Katz costumes and head for Iselia where there was a dwarf that could make a temporary Key Crest for Anna's Cruxis Crystal until Mithos Yggdrassil could be made to accept the fact that Kratos was married and had a human family. "Daddy where we gonna go? "Asked little Lloyd who was as usual adorable in a light blue Katz costume.
"Lloyd we are going to Iselia so we can find a cure for Mommy's being so sick all of the time." answered Kratos as they entered the front door of their small cottage. Anna looked up and smiled at her husband and son as they entered. She had clearly been packing all morning and had both dust and feathers in her brown hair.
"There the two of you are. I had begun to think that you had been eaten by a hungry wolf or something." giggled Anna as she smoothed her hair back from her face. "I have our packs all ready Kratos. Did Yuan loan you some Rheiards for the journey?" Anna asked as she piled their packs in the corner.
"Yes Love I borrowed the Rheiards, and we should get going now." stated Kratos as he lifted a heavily loaded pack onto his shoulder. "Lloyd can you carry your own pack, or does Daddy need to carry it for you? "Asked Kratos looking at his small son who was struggling to put on his backpack.
"Yeth Daddy I can cawwy it mine own self." said Lloyd as he finally managed to get the back pack on his shoulder properly. "Is I widin wif you or Marmar Daddy?" asked Lloyd who was beginning to be excited about the trip.
"Lloyd I think you need to ride with Mommy. Daddy needs to be prepared in case of the Desians attacking us again." said Kratos as he assisted Lloyd up onto the Rheiard behind Anna. He waited until Anna had started her Rheiard up and then mounted his own Rheiard carefully. "Anna I need you and Lloyd to ride behind me. This way if we are attacked I am on the front lines of battle. You can focus on keeping me healed and on protecting Lloyd." said Kratos setting up battle tactics in case of the Desians attacking them.
" Kratos when will we be able to finally stop running from the Desians" whispered Anna as she cuddled her small son close to her chest. She looked wearily up at the sky and sighed. Her distress was apparent in every line of her body as she lifted the Rheiard off of the ground.
"Is Mithos ever going to simply accept us? Will he accept what we are to each other? Kratos it isn't like either one of us could help it. We are soul bonded, and we share a child. When are you going to tell him?" stated Anna including all of her questions in one sentence as they flew towards Iselia.
"Anna my love I will tell Mithos as soon as we have a key crest for your Cruxis Crystal. I want to be sure that you won't be turned into a monster before I do anything about Mithos." Kratos stated as they landed the Rheiards outside of the dwarf Dirk Irving's house.
As they landed a squat middle aged dwarf came out of the cave. "Are you the fine craftsmen of Key Crests Dirk Irving?" asked Kratos raising an eyebrow at him.
"Why yes laddie, I be Dirk." answered the dwarf with a burr in his voice. "What is it ye be needin my skills for Lad?"
"I need a key crest for my wife's Cruxis Crystal sir. Just until I can get back to Derris Kharlan and obtain a proper Rune Crest for her. I will pay whatever you ask." Kratos said. The strain was apparent in his voice as he looked at his beautiful wife. "She needs it desperately, she risks becoming an exubelea in a few short months if I do nothing."
"Don't worry laddie. I always be makin a point to help the needy. Ye need not pay." said the dwarf as he stomped towards his forge. " I'll be havin it ready for ye tomorrow. Why don't ye stay at the inn in the village for tonight?"
" Thank you kind sir." said Anna as she and Kratos headed out the door and into the Iselia Forest. They carefully began to sneak past the Desian Ranch when all of the sudden Anna and Kratos found themselves surrounded by Desian soldiers. A tall white haired man came up through the ranks escorted by a turquoise haired half elven male. They stopped in front of Kratos and Anna. The white haired male got a sadistic look on his face as he reached for his sword.
"So prisoner A012 we have finally found you! Lord Yggdrassil will be so pleased stated the white haired male. "This time I will unleash that pretty bauble of yours as laugh as you kill you husband and son." By the way Kratos you are a fool if you think we will not kill you because you are Origins seal. If that fool Yggdrassil loses his control over Origin all the better for me. I Kvar will take over Cruxis and make the entire world suffer even more than Yggdrassil has ever dared to dream." With that speech Kvar murmured the words that would quickly turn Anna into a monster.
As Anna turned into a horrible monster Kratos drew his sword. "Die Kvar" he screamed. "DIE for harming my wife, and for betraying Lord Yggdrassil." With that Kratos carefully aimed his sword at Kvar's heart and threw it. The sword flew straight as any arrow and pierced Kvar through his cold, cold heart.
"Good performance Kratos.' stated a tall blond half elven male as he came towards Kratos. " Kratos what is wrong?" said Yggdrassil. He looked at his friend who was attempting to defend a three year old Lloyd against Anna who had gone mad with pain and was hitting out at anything in her path. " What can I give as a reward for saving my power Oh Dear Friend Kratos."
" Shut up Mithos Just Perform Resurrection on my wife Damn It!' screamed Kratos as he again parried one of Anna's blows.
" Wait a minute you got married to the Angelus Project? The Angelus Project that I didn't even know about. The one that was an attempt to wrest my power from me? "Mithos questioned.
"Yes I married Anna." Will you hurry up?" growled Kratos as he again prevented his wife from attacking their son. To top it all off tiny Lloyd began to scream hysterically in fear for both mother and father. The screaming of course was the one thing that was guaranteed to grate on both Kratos and Mithos angelic hearing. Mithos sensing the building hysteria of the small child, and having full knowledge of what this behaviour would do quickly cast a sleep spell and than moved to perform the Resurrection spell on Anna.
" I see that I shall have to obtain a Rune Crest for Anna. From the looks of things you family may be what I need to renew my faith in humanity. Your wife is the one thing that I have not seen in 4,000 years a truly pure creature who does not discriminate against anyone." stated Mithos. " Of course I will have to get to know her better of course. I have also come up with a new way to bring Martel back Kratos. Yuan was getting really sick of us taking all of these innocent lives so we began to talk about other ways to bring her back. "
Kratos who was cradling his injured wife close to his chest whispered " Mithos how on earth do you intend to do this?" inquired Kratos. Kratos then kissed Anna who was slowly coming back to consciousness. He than lifted Lloyd and placed his sleeping form into Anna's arms.
" Why the Angelus project of course. Just not in the way you think. I have spoken with Martels spirit inside her exsphere and with Maxwell too. Maxwell is responsible for placing souls inside the bodies of unborn children. This is common knowledge right? Well the plan is to have you and Anna conceive a daughter (Maxwell will make sure it's a girl) and than Maxwell will place Martels soul into the baby instead of a newly created soul. If it works I will bring the worlds of Tethe'Alla and Sylvarant back together and re- plant the Holy Kharlan Tree."
" I would be entirely responsible for mothering your sister." stated Anna as she stared at Mithos. " I would only agree to your plan if you agreed not to interfere with how Kratos and I raised her."
' Agreed" said Mithos. " I will be back in about an hour with your Rune Crest Lady Anna. Also Kratos could you pay visits to the other Grand Cardinals. Tell all of them except Forcystus that they are fired. Have the dwarves begin making key crests for the prisoners on the human ranches. I need Yuan and yourself to prepare Tethe'Alla and Sylvarant for Re-unification. Forcystus prepare all of the Human Ranches for shut down." with that Mithos disappeared in a cloud of feathers.
Lloyd slowly awoke from his nap, he snuggled closer to his mother for an instant and than got a scared look on his small face." Why bad mens hurt Marmar? Who that blond guy wif wings? Why Marmar turn into a scawy monster ? " asked Lloyd look at his Daddy with a confused look in his small eyes.
" Those bad men were Desians Lloyd. They hurt Mommy because she used to be a prisoner on one of the Ranches where they grow Exspheres on people. They turned her into a monster to punish her for running away, and because she is human. The blond man was Daddy's boss Mithos who is being nice to Daddy now. Daddy saved him from getting killed. The bad men were trying to take control of Daddy's company from Mithos." said Kratos effectively answering all of Lloyd's questions at one time. Then he gently hugged Lloyd and Anna close to him.
Anna snuggled closer to her husband. " Kratos I am freezing could you build a fire? Do you think we will be safe now? Mithos seems to have changed his ways but can we really trust him? Also don't you think that we should change Lloyd into dry clothes and make him something to ear?" said Anna apparently all in one breath as she leaned over to kiss Kratos.
" I didn't know that two small people could ask so may questions." said Kratos as he started a fire and put some porridge on for Lloyd while Anna changed him. " Anna I do think that we will be safe for now. It appears that Mithos actually seems to like you, and he has come up with a plan that has a 99 chance of success. It is one sure method of guaranteeing that the mana signature is correct and that Martel really wants to come back. I think that we can trust him for now." stated Kratos as he began to set up a small three person tent. " We better set up camp. If Mithos is being truthful Love, it will be awhile until he gets back from Derris Kharlan. I am expecting Yuan sometime tonight don't be startled when he arrives dear." said Kratos cuddling his sleepy wife closer. With that Kratos drew his sword and began to await the arrival of Yuan and Mithos and the dawn of a new age.