Chapter 4: Genis and Raine
I think I'll try doing it from Genis' perspective. He's not as immature as most of the guys in my grade (who actually are mostly 13 years old now) so it should be easier.
-story-
"Genis! Wake up! We have to get going to stay on-schedule!"
"Raine, why do you have to punish me because you spend forever looking at ruins?"
"Because you're my little brother."
"So that means I don't need to sleep!"
"No, it means you do what your big sister says or she drags you out of bed and onto the rheaird by your half-elven ear."
"Okay! I'm up! Where are we going today?"
He grabbed his clothes from next to his bed and dove under the covers to change them.
"Meltokio."
"The sewers, you mean? Didn't we do them last month? Did you lose your notes?"
"No, I have all my notes in a file that I gave to Regal. That's why we go to Altamira every month or so. Did you see Colette at Zelos and Sheena's wedding?"
"Oh… Okay." They didn't have to discuss what Raine was expecting.
Genis crawled out of his bed and over to his duffle bag, out of which he pulled level 10 hair gel. Raine had her own bottle. It was the only way to get his hair to spike like that. When he was done with that, he cooked breakfast and they flew to Meltokio.
-we now interrupt this storyline with a special Sheelos section-
Sheena and Zelos were walking through the streets of Meltokio. Suddenly, they heard an extremely muffled scream. They started running, Sheena a bit faster than Zelos, toward the scream, which seemed to be coming from the Middle District. On the big stairs that led to the Middle District from the Upper District, they met Lloyd.
"I'm so glad I found you two! Colette's having her baby! She's asking for you, Sheena. She needs your elemental stones!"
They ran to Lloyd and Colette's house, and Lloyd let Colette to their bedroom, where Colette was lying, helpless, on the bed. Sheena reached into her sash, where she kept her stones, and shoved the rings onto Colette's fingers. There was a knock at the front door, and apparently Zelos answered it because in a matter of seconds Raine ran into the room. Zelos and Genis were left outside. Lloyd soon joined them, having been shoved out by Raine.
-we now return to our story-
Genis flew with Raine to Meltokio, where they ran to Lloyd and Colette's house. Genis didn't know how, but Raine said that she knew that Colette was having her baby. When they got to their house, Zelos answered the door, and Raine ran to the bedroom. He and Zelos had a very feeble conversation going when Lloyd was pushed out of the bedroom by Sheena, probably on Raine's orders. What felt like hours later, Sheena came out of the bedroom, smiling. "It's a girl. She has Lloyd's eyes and Colette's hair, and she's the sweetest little thing you've ever seen."
Lloyd ran into the next room, but Zelos and Genis just walked. Genis smiled when he saw her. Colette was smiling and hugging her baby. She gave her to Lloyd to hold, then he gave her back to Colette. Genis noticed that Colette was wearing an assortment of rings. They were the same ones that Sheena had gotten from summoning.
"What are you going to name her?" Sheena asked.
"I don't know. What do you think, Lloyd?"
"How about Anna? That's a good name."
"Okay. Her name's Anna."
Raine left the room. She returned just a few minutes later with Kratos. "This… is Anna?"
"Yes," Colette answered, "Isn't she sweet?"
Kratos smiled. "Just like the first Anna…"
"Yeah. Kratos, what color was Anna's hair?"
"It was golden-blonde. I think her gold and my red sort of… canceled each other out. It was… just lighter than that Anna's hair."
"Oh. That's good, then."
There was a silence then.
"I made this for… Anna. It's an angel charm."
"It's beautiful!"
Colette put the little bracelet around Anna's wrist. Then Genis remembered.
"Oh! A couple weeks ago, we visited Gaoraccia , and we stayed in Ozette. Presea said to give this to you. It's one of her octagonal turtle charms, made of Linkite wood."
"Oh! It's really pretty! I'll have to thank her soon." Colette tied the ribbon around Anna's neck.
After all of that stuff was over, they left and went to Altamira to tell Regal. He was in a meeting, but they said that it was an emergency. When they told him, he got on his rheaird and flew to Meltokio. They flew to Ozette to tell Presea, who just smiled and said, "I wish her well." She asked a couple questions, like how Colette was doing, what Anna looked like, and what Anna's personality was like, but she wasn't in any hurry to see someone who would be around for a long time.
Kratos had said that he'd go to Dirk's house, Iselia, and the Triet Renegade base, but Genis and Raine still went to the Flanoir Renegade base to ask if Yuan was there. He wasn't, so they figured that Kratos would handle it. Then they went back to Meltokio and spent the night at Zelos' house.
-author's note-
I'm going to start saying when there's an author's note now. Sorry this chapter took so long. First I went on vacation for 2 weeks, then school started. I'm going to a family reunion today, so don't expect anything for at least 4 days.
I read Fruits Basket now. It's this manga series. It's really good.