Across the Plains
Thorro
Disclaimer: I do not own Tales of Symphonia in any sort of way, and this story is a good reason why. Is it not?
Warnings: More cheese!
Lloyd ran around a corner and rushed down the allyway. He stopped and leaned his back against the wall of a house, his chest heaving up and down from breathing heavily. What was so wrong about stealing a cow? Everyone's gotta eat! Of course his perfect father wouldn't know anything about this, would he?
Lloyd's heart stopped as he saw a shadow on the ground from a figure that was sitting on the roof above him. Had Kratos found him? Was he going to recieve his judgement now? Lloyd slowly turned around and looked up. Bright blue eyes sparkeled back at him. Lloyd fell backwards from the shock of coming face to face with Zelos.
"Hiya buddy!" Zelos yelled, waving at Lloyd with a big smile on his face.
Lloyd quickly placed his finger over his mouth to motion for Zelos to be quiet, for fear of Kratos finding him. "Be quiet Zelos!" Lloyd hissed at him. Zelos stuck his bottom lip out, and it quivered.
"Fine! But I want to tell you something before you die." Zelos replied in a hateful manner.
"And what would that be?" Lloyd asked coldly.
Zelos stood up straight, still ontop of the roof. He closed his eyes and pointed to himself, then flipped his hair, knocking the hat off his head, and causing shimmering sparkles to surround him. "I saved money on my horse insurence by switching to Giddy Co." He said proudly.
"What!" Lloyd shouted at him.
Zelos ran to the other side of the roof and waved his arms above his head. "Oh, Kratos! Your ungrateful thieving son is over here!" Zelos shouted, hearts surrounding his head.
Lloyd saw a cloud of sand over the roofs moving quickly towards him. Lloyd tried to run out of the alleyway, but as he turned the corner he came face to face with blazed over scarlet eyes. Kratos tapped the whip in his hand at a steady pace. Lloyd fell to the ground and cowered in front of Kratos in a begging position. He quickly thought up a lame excuse for why he had stolen the cow.
"It was for the good of the people!" He yelled. Kratos stopped tapping the whip on his hand and his eyes became more gentle. "There was a starving family, so I stole the cow so the family could eat. I wouldn't have originally bothered but the family had small twins." Lloyd lied, hoping that it would be enough for his father.
Kratos put away his whip, the kneeled and looked Lloyd in the eye. "It would seem that you take after me." He said. Kratos then leaned forward. "That is, if it was true." He said low enough to where only Lloyd could hear him. Kratos stood up and glared down at Lloyd. "I know every trick in the book Lloyd. I was once a teenager, too." Kratos said calmly.
"Wait so you..."
"I did in fact steal, but it was for the good of the people." Kratos replied with a colder tone in his voice. "That is why you are going to clean the horse barn for the next year." Kratos said quickly, catching Lloyd off guard.
"Eww! Horse feces!" Zelos yelled from a nearby roof.
An old man with a cane was paying more attention to Zelos than Kratos and Lloyd. A young girl stood next to him shaking her head as if trying to stop him from doing something. "I'm gonna climb up there next!" The old man said cheerfully. Zelos seemed to notice that he had a fan, and he batted his eyelashes at him.
Suddenly, a girl ran up behind Lloyd and held a piece of paper to his neck. She had a dark purple tint in her black hair. Her outfit was light purple, and looked like a robe. A large portion of her chest was visable and seemed to attract Zelos' attention immediately.
"Don't make one move Thorro! If you do, I'll give your son a papercut!" She yelled at Kratos.
"Thorro!" Lloyd yelled out in surprise. "Dad! You're Thorro? The man dressed in black with the black mask, and a black cape that seems to charm all of the women all around the area? You're the Masked Man Thorro?"
"I guess my secret is out." Kratos replied, slightly irritated.
"Kratos! You're my hero!" Zelos yelled in a fangirlish way.
"Yeah, he's Thorro. The man that stole my city's slaves and let them go. He's a thief!" She yelled.
Author's Note: Yep, Kratos is supposed to take after Zorro! I think that Sheena is just going to be Sheena. I couldn't think of any female western character to base her off of. Anyway, I should be posting the next chapter soon. Maybe I'll have the Desians... Nah! Too early for them.
Fan Fan Girl, I generally try to keep Anna as an intellagent character. In the game Kratos seemed to have really been in love with, the scene with Kvar can prove that. But I figured that if he loved her so much then he would act like her to keep her living on. That's my theory on why Kratos is the way he is. That's why in my fic, The Day of Fate, that he acts like Lloyd. I guess you could say, it's kinda like a RegalxAlicia thing. But Kratos isn't really punishing himself for killing Anna, he's just finding a way, his way, to keep her close to him. And this is why, when people pair Kratos with someone that it pisses me off. He's not the type to go after someone else after what happened to him. Even though, yes I do have a Kraine pairing, it's all Raine. She's gonna get her heart broken! WHEE! But anyway, I'm glad you like the story so far!
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