Hey there all loyal minions, I mean fans.

New chapter and to answer some questions of reviewers,

Sakura Irving- No I'm going to wait until they are married for that.

Fan Fan Girl- Wait a couple more chapters answers will come.

Godsbane- Sorry but I didn't know at the time, but I'll remember it.

Anyway on with the DISCLAIMER: I don't own ToS, yet I still need more time.

Chapter 4 Kratos Returns

Colette was humming to herself with her normal smile on her face as she went about doing her chores around the house. She stood up and looked at the clock.

"Oh my, is it that late already?" She said to herself. "I need to hurry if I'm going to help the Professor pack for her journey."

With that Colette hurried out the door and across the dirt roads of Iselia. The sun was shinning, the birds were singing, and everyone was helping to rebuild the city that the Desians had burned. Nothing could have possibly been better.

"Wow! What a perfect day, maybe if Lloyd's around I can get closer to him and maybe tell him what I feel." Colette thought as she skipped merrily down the road.

When she got to Raine's house she knocked on the door to be as polite as possible. She was surprised to find that not only was it not locked, but it also slightly creaked open. The light from outside crept into the darkness of the house.

Colette crept slowly inside to take a look around, as she lit a couple candles to let in some more light.

"Wow, this place is a mess, it looks as if she was in a hurry for something, there's still dishes and food on the table." She thought.

A sudden snorting noise gave Colette a start causing her to jump nearly 10 feet in the air. She clenched her ear in pain with one hand and pulled out a chakram with the other ready for anything.

She then realized that the sound was coming from one of the bedrooms, so she went to investigate. She started with Raine's room thinking, "Maybe she just took a little nap."

She peeked inside to find no one in the bed, but the noise was definitely getting louder. She also noticed that her rheiard was missing.

She put her ear to the door and knew that that is where the noise was coming from and was distinctly now snoring.

She turned the knob ever so slowly as not to disturb the person sleeping in there, but when she looked she wished she hadn't. Her jaw dropped as she looked in horror to find Sheenas' head lying on top of Lloyds' chest.

"What?" She thought unable to speak out of horror and shock. "What's he doing with her, he's supposed to love me. I've been his friend for as long as I can remember, and yet here he is not with me." She could feel the hot tears welling up and could barley keep from crying out.

She tried to be as silent as possible, but was to late, she had tried to turn around and dash out the door, but tripped and sent the door slamming into the wall waking both Sheena and Lloyd with a start.

Sheena looked at Colette as she picked herself up and their eyes dueled in conflicting emotions. Sheena was dueling with confusion and sorrow, while Colette for the first time was dueling with sorrow and a blind fit of rage.

"Colette." Lloyd said breaking the duel. Colette turned to him and dashed out the door crying like she never had before.

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"I can only blame myself." Raine said as Sheena and Lloyd only looked down in worry. "I forgot Colette was coming to help me pack for my journey to help all the half-elves. I also didn't think this would happen if she saw you the way she did."

"Anyway, what happened in Mizuho, did they find anything." Sheena asked.

"More bad news I'm afraid, all the Desian Grand Cardinals are back, Kvar, Magnius, Rodyle, and Pronyma. They are also more powerful than we could have possibly imagined, but they are the only ones we know of. We don't know if Mithos is back or not, but we do know that there are no Desian soldiers." Raine said with a heavy heart.

"Well that does present a problem." A familiar voice said at the open door. They all turned to see the Kratos leaning at the doorpost.

"Dad! What are you doing here?" Lloyd asked with his jaw still hanging open. "And how did you get here?"

"I'm here to help, and I can not tell you how I came to be here just yet, that is a tale for a later date." Kratos said as impassive as ever.

"At any rate how do you intend to help?" Raine said her heart lifting in joy.

"We must first gather everyone else before we can do anything." Kratos said as he looked at Sheena holding Lloyds' hand. "I see some things have progressed since last I left. The other purpose for being here will have to wait then I see."

"Well then where to first?" Sheena asked letting go of Lloyds' hand.

"I suggest Meltokio, Colette will probably not want to come until she's feeling better, and Zelos may just be the person to cheer her up." Kratos suggested.

"Well I guess that idiot chosen, has always had a knack for making people laugh, so let's get going." Sheena admitted.

They all left without saying anymore words and hurried as fast as they could to Meltokio.

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"Master Zelos you have some guests." Sebastian said in his normal butler fashion.

"Who is it?" Zelos said in an annoyed voice. Personally he had been getting tired of all his visits from half-elf applicators and nobles who kept rebuking him for his foolish stances.

"One of them addresses himself as a "Mr. Bud", while another knows you as the "Idiot Chosen"." Sebastian replied.

Zelos merely sat there and smiled wider and wider. He jumped up and ran downstairs to see his companions that had separated only a little while ago, yet he was still missing them.

"Yo, Lloyd! It's been a while hasn't it?" Zelos teased.

"Come on Zelos, it's only been what two, three days." Lloyd teased right back.

"Sheena's here too right? I haven't seen my voluptuous hunny for soooo long." Zelos said with his normal perverted voice.

"Yeah she's here, but keep your hands to yourself." Lloyd said in a half serious half joking manner.

"Man you take the fun out of everything." Zelos sighed.

"Zelos were here to request a favor of you." Kratos piped in.

"Hey, you didn't tell me Kratos was here too. When and how did he get back?" Zelos said in a state of shock.

"No time for that, we need you to go and cheer the cho…I mean Colette up." Kratos caught himself.

"What happened?" Zelos said worriedly.

"Just talk to her, we don't want to talk about it right now, and don't try anything unless you want Sheena, Colettes' family, or me after you." Raine said raising her staff.

"All right, all right, let me just get my stuff." Zelos said running up the stairs and rushing out the door.

"Lloyd, Sheena, I want you two to head back with Zelos, Kratos and I can handle the rest of them." Raine said with a slight blush.

With that Raine and Kratos left right behind Zelos leaving Sheena and Lloyd alone.

"What's wrong Lloyd, you still worried about Colette?" She asked looking up at him.

"Sort of. I was actually more worried about the two of you, I mean I'm worried she might not ever forgive you." Lloyd said. "Just still know that I love you and I always will no matter what." As he embraced her for another kiss, and they left.

"Hey, Sheena." Lloyd said on their way to Iselia.

"What is it Lloyd?" Sheena asked.

"Why do you think the Professor wanted us to go home?" Lloyd said sounding quite oblivious.

"I dunno, maybe we'll find out later." Sheena said.

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"We'll meet at the school is that okay with you two?" Raine asked Genis and Presea.

"That's fine with me sis." Genis replied.

"Understood." Presea merely said.

Genis and Presea went down the grass hill to Preseas' house to get their rheiards, while other people from Ozette worked on rebuilding the town.

"Why did you ask me along, you could've easily persuaded everyone else?" Kratos asked Raine who was now slightly crimson.

"Well…I…I just wanted to be with you, because I love you Kratos." Raine said looking down to hide her face.

"Well I guess Anna would've wanted me to move on and I've been trying to for a long time. You are the closest to Anna and I must leave the past behind me." Kratos said bringing Raines' gaze to meet his own.

"I guess what I mean to say is that I love you too." He said with his first genuine smile, as they pulled in for a kiss.

Wow a pretty long chapter compared to others, but yes I will have other pairings in here

It will however still mostly be Sheloyd.

The next ones will be short, I think.

See Ya Later Space Cowboy.