Why Daddy Why
By Ar-Elenriel
Disclaimer: I do not own TOS or any of the characters.
Chapter 10: Making Friends.
Lloyd stared in awe at Zelos who was in the middle of building the tallest tower of blocks he had ever seen. Of course he recognized what it was supposed to be of course. The tower of Salvation where he lived with Mommy and Daddy. Zelos looked at him and grinned merrily. "Lloyd wanna pway? I got lots more bwocks hewe." Zelos took another block and carefully placed it on top of the tower. He looked around to see if Raine was watching and then grinned impishly at Lloyd. "This is even funner." Zelos smiled as he removed one single block from the center of the tower. With a crash the tower came tumbling down. "That is the funnest part of building block towers. Now we can build another one together."
"Zewos why you knock block tower down?" asked little Collette. "Towers are no supposed to go boom on floor. Collette sat down on the floor and began to help Lloyd and Zelos rebuild the block tower. Raine smiled to see the toddlers amusing themselves so happily and turned to continue Genis and Sheena's reading lessons. Genis had began teaching himself to read six months earlier and had already progressed to reading texts that most of her 12 and 13 year old students could not easily understand. All of the sudden Genis became distracted from his lessons and toddled slowly over to where the other children were playing
"Lloyd Zelos I think the Tower will work better and fall down with a much louder crash if we try building it a different way." Genis proceeded to show the other toddlers a new method of building the block tower that did indeed create a much louder and more satisfactory crash that startled Raine and Sheena. All of the children grinned as Raine jumped at least seven feet in the air and fell to the ground with a thump.
Thank goodness this was Wednesday and the children's parents would be picking them up this afternoon. Raine enjoyed working with the littlest citizens of Symphonia but they did take a lot of energy to teach. It was at that moment that the parents of the pre-schoolers started arriving. Chief Fujyibashi and Mylene Wilder arrived first to pick up little Sheena and Zelos. Zelos looked up and saw that his mother was there to pick him up from school. He loved his mother but, he was enjoying staying with Dirk the Dwarf in the woods outside Iselia He had been learning how to carve with the little pocket knife his father had given him and had enjoyed playing with Lloyd, Sheena, Genis, and Collette (especially Sheena)
Zelos looked over at Sheena, maybe he had better tell her now what he felt about her. To him he was the prettiest girl in the entire school, and other than his mother the prettiest girl in the entire world. "Sheena, I wanna talk to you before you grampy takes you home to Mizuho. I gotta tell you sompin. I wike you, you is pwetty an smawt, and the nicest giwl in the whowe world over dan mine mommy." Zelos blushed; he had not meant to say all of those things to Sheena loudly enough for her Grandfather and his mother to hear. Sheena was blushing too. She did not know what to think about Zelos. Boys were so incredibly silly sometimes. The Chief and Mylene Wilder both grinned to see that their children had clearly made friends with each other. But, it was time to go, if they did not leave now they would miss the transporter to Tethe'Alla.
"Come on Zelos, time enough for flirting with Sheena later, we need to go home. Daddy is expecting us in time for dinner." Mylene lifted little Zelos into her arms and motioned the Sebastian the butler to grab her son's bags Zelos waved goodbye to his new friends as his mother carried him outside to the transport
"Come along Sheena, we are having Miso soup for dinner, and Kucinawa's mother is making sticky buns for dessert." Chief Igaguri lifted his small granddaughter onto his broad shoulders and carried her off to the transport.
"Bye Bye Lloyd, Collette, and Genis. See you Monday Fessor Raine." Sheena waved goodbye as she was carried out the door. "Grampy we forgetter mine wittle purple backpacky." The Chief came back into the school and grabbed Sheena's bags in the hand that he was not using to hold Sheena steady with. Kratos was the next parent to arrive. Surprisingly Anna and baby Martel had decided to come along for the trip this time. They would be travelling by Rheiard of course.
"Mommy, Daddy, I had a weally good time at school. This is mine fwiend Genis and mine fwiend Collette. Fessor Raine is teaching me weading. We builded a bwock tower wif Zewos and Sheena. Grammy Phaidra maked banana cake wif us. We wented on a hike wif Fwank. I wike having fwiends." Little Lloyd said all of this in a single breath as Kratos, Anna, Raine and Frank looked on with amusement in their eyes. Collette looked at Lloyd in awe. She had never seen anyone say so many words in one breath before.
"Come along Lloyd. Mommy and I are very glad you like school. But, we need to head home. Mithos is making seafood stew tonight, and Yuan is baking you a welcome home cake. We don't want to miss that." said Kratos scooping little Lloyd up into his arms and flying him overhead. "Besides your sister wet herself on the way down here and she smells like the bottom of a swamp." Kratos grinned up at his son as he thought of the memory of the first time Lloyd had encountered his little sister.
"Bye Collette, I see you Monday." Lloyd walked up to Collette and hugged his little friend tightly. "Genis, see you Monday. I is gonna teach you how to fish after school. "Lloyd also gave Genis and Raine a tight hug as well. " Bye Mr Brunel, I see you and Grammy Phaidra Monday. Lloyd waved as his family walked out the door. Anna cuddling her small son tightly.
Frank looked at Raine and grinned. The Professor was looking a little tired after dealing with a large group of active children all week. "Raine why don't you bring Genis and come over for dinner. Your assistant teacher has just arrived from Ozette. Her name is Presea Combatnir. Her sister Alicia is engaged to Duke Bryant who serves the king of Tethe'Alla. She is a kind young lady, and has a way with children. I think you will like her. She is about the same age as you." With that Frank Brunel took Raines arm and with Genis and Collette following headed home.