All right, I'm trying to update a little faster. I hope that everyone hasn't gotten upset that it's been taking me so long lately. Anyway, thanks for all the reviews for the last chapter. I hope that everyone likes this chapter, it's an important one. Oh, and just a note for everyone, there will be more drama in the rest of the chapters. I'll try to throw a little humor in too but it's going to get a little darker. That doesn't mean much because it wasn't that dark before. You could probably tell that I was switching from the last chapter, but I thought I'd warn you. Okay, so here's the next chapter.

Chapter 12: Discovery

It had been about two months since Storm's incident with Seles and she had gotten over her anger as long as she wasn't forced to come in contact with Zelos' sister ever again. One things was certain in her mind, she wasn't going to let her around her child if she could help it. She didn't care how much Zelos did like his sister, she was sure that his sister didn't like her or her child.

Storm didn't really want to get up and move around as much as she used to. She was sitting on the edge of the bed one night, waiting for Zelos to join her for the night. He came in after he finished what he was doing downstairs and he sat on the edge of the bed next to her. He looked at her a few moments when suddenly Storm jumped a little bit.

"What is it?" he asked her.

"The baby kicked," she replied as a smile spread across her face. "Wait, I know. Here," Storm added as she grabbed Zelos' hand and placed it on her stomach after feeling around for the right spot.

"What are you doing?" he asked her.

"Just wait...there! Did you feel it?" she asked him as he drew his hand away.

"Yeah I did. Wow, our baby's really strong," Zelos commented.

"You bet," Storm added.

They went to bed for the night, Storm content for one of the few times in her life. She had no idea what the next day held for her.

Zelos went off to work the next day, leaving Storm home alone as usual. Kratos usually came over to check up on her, but today he was on mercenary work for Meltokio. There had been some bandits running though the countryside and he was hired to get rid of them which would be a synch for the seraph. So, Storm took the day off to relax in her quiet house.

Her peace didn't last long as she heard a knock on the door. She slowly got up and made her way to the door. She didn't have any idea who was at the door, but she certainly wasn't expecting who stood in her doorway.

"Yuan! What are you doing here?" Storm asked, surprised by his appearance.

Yuan didn't answer her question right away as he rushed into the house and abruptly closed the door behind him. He looked at Storm and a mixture of emotions ran across his face.

"So, it's true. You are pregnant. Why didn't you tell me?" he asked her, almost angrily.

"I was afraid of what you'd say. I was afraid you'd want to come over all the time," she explained to him.

Suddenly, Storm and Yuan heard the sound of one of the maids moving through the house. Yuan sighed loudly and looked over at Storm. "Maybe we should go somewhere else to talk about this," he offered her.

"Why do I need to explain this to you? It's my own business anyway," Storm replied angrily.

"Why are you acting so defensive about this? There's something else to this whole thing isn't there?" Yuan asked her.

Storm knew that she couldn't keep hiding her worries from him, after all they were his concerns as well. "Fine, but we're going to go outside the city," she told him.

"Fine by me," he replied as he opened the front door for her.

Storm and Yuan made their way to a small wooded area not too far from the city. Storm sat down on a patch of grass and Yuan sat next to her.

"So, are you going to tell me what's bothering you?" Yuan calmly asked, concern was beginning to grow in his voice.

"Well, this might be hard for you, but I'm afraid that this baby might not be Zelos'," she told him.

Yuan sat in silence for a while as he tried to process what she was telling him. He didn't really know what to say or how to comfort her in this situation, but he knew that he was the only one she would be able to talk to about it.

"Okay, there's no guarantee that it's mine, but if it is you can be sure that I'll be here for you and the baby. This is why you didn't want to tell me right?" Yuan asked her.

Storm nodded her head as she looked up at him sadly. "I'm sorry Yuan, but we really can't be together anymore. If it's your child then maybe, but until then I can't do it to Zelos. He's been too good to me and I can't stand hurting him anymore," Storm told him.

"I understand, but can I have one more kiss?" Yuan asked her.

Storm agreed to this as she closed in on him and they exchanged one last long, passionate kiss. This all would have been great and things could have ended between them except that someone had walked over and caught them kissing. Storm and Yuan separated from the kiss and stared at each other for a few moments before a voice boomed out of the woods.

"Storm, what is going on!" Kratos raged as he stormed over to the now ex-couple.

"Dad! What are you doing here?" Storm asked, her voice already past the point of panic and moving on to fear.

"I was heading back to Meltokio after defeating those bandits and I heard some voices coming from over here so I decided to check on it. It's a damn good thing that I did check on it too," he raged. "You have some major explaining to do. I can't believe that you'd do something like this to Zelos."

"Daddy I can explain," Storm began.

"I sure as hell hope so," Kratos replied angrily.

"Don't blame her for all of this," Yuan yelled at Kratos.

"Yuan I'll deal with you later, why don't you leave," Kratos told him as the two stared down each other.

Storm pushed back Yuan and motioned him to leave for the time being. Yuan did as she wished and left the two alone.

"Okay, well back when Yuan and I were off defeating Desians, things started happening between us. I don't know how it happened but we fell in love. I didn't mean to do anything that would hurt Zelos, but love didn't really give me that option. But, you see, we were just breaking up now, we're quitting each other completely and actually we haven't seen each other since back in Mizuho," Storm said, trying to add a small smile at the last comment, but Kratos wasn't smiling back at her.

"I don't really know if I can believe that part. It didn't really look like you two were doing a good job of breaking up," Kratos told her.

"Daddy, I'm telling the truth, please believe me," Storm begged him.

"Storm, if there's one thing about you that hasn't changed about you, one thing that Cruxis has permanently implanted in your brain, it's lying. You can never tell the truth, especially to me," Kratos told her.

"That's not true," Storm shot back.

"Right, like all the times you've lied to me about your past. What about all the things you had hidden from me? You were happy enough to tell Zelos about it all, but you couldn't even tell your own father? Did Mithos teach you to hide everything from me while you were growing up?" he asked her, it was obvious that he was still extremely angry and now hurt.

"Wait, did you hear all of that?" Storm asked him.

"Yeah, and I can't believe that you were going to keep all of that a secret from me, but I suppose you would have told your new sweetheart that," he answered.

"Dad, I'm sorry, but I didn't want you to think any of that was your fault. I didn't want to hurt you," Storm told him tears forming on her face.

"But it was my fault that all of that happened to you, that's why you should have told me. When you kept it a secret from me and lied to me about it, that hurt me," Kratos confessed.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you," Storm said sadly as she looked at her father.

"That's not what matters now. I'm still upset that you would do something like this to Zelos. I'm sure that her doesn't know yet. So, when are you planning on telling him about this. That's the only way that you're going to make this all right," Kratos advised her.

"Well, I wasn't really planning on telling him. You aren't going to tell him are you dad? Please don't say anything," Storm begged him.

Kratos thought this over for a hew moments before coming to his decision. "I'm not going to say anything. You're old enough to make your own decisions about your life. Just remember that he'll probably find out on his own and then he'd be even more upset. It's better that you tell him the truth yourself. Of course, it would have been better if you hadn't done this at all," Kratos said as he sighed.

"I know. I guess my emotions just took over and I didn't even think about Zelos," Storm admitted.

"You know you have a brain and you do use it some of the time, but most of the time you rush into things following your emotions without thinking about the consequences. That's one of your many downfalls that you need to learn to overcome," Kratos told her.

"I know. Now, I think I need to go and think about this," Storm told Kratos as she began to make her way back to Meltokio.

"Yes, and I think I need to have a talk with Yuan," Kratos added as he began to make his way to the field that Yuan was waiting in.

"Dad, don't hurt him or anything, okay?" she asked him, laughing a little.

"I'm not promising anything," he told her.

On her way home Storm thought about what she was going to have to do. Finally she made the biggest decision of her life. She was going to tell Zelos the truth. He deserved to hear it from her. She knew that there was a chance that it could break up their relationship but she knew that he was justified in leaving her. She just wished she could have prevented what happened between her and Yuan.

Storm walked into her house and saw that Zelos was already back and was sitting on the couch relaxing a bit before dinner.

"Storm, where have you been? You look really pale, maybe you should lie down for a little while," Zelos suggested as he had her sit down next to him.

"Zelos, there is something very important that I need to tell you," she began.

Well, that's it here. I decided to leave you all with a cliffie for today. I'm so evil. Well, tell me what you thought. I love to hear from all of you. Thanks!