"GIVE ME YOUR COMPUTER!"

"What? No!" The two brunettes fought over the poor laptop, the curlier haired one snatching it away and running into her closet, slamming it shut before the other one could steal it back. Leaning back against the half-finished map of the Kingdom Hearts worlds, she clicked on her roommate's internet browser, all the while cackling evilly.

The moon set lightly over a couple sitting next to a campfire. Under a blanket on the other side of the fire was a small child, sleeping quietly.

"Kratos?" The woman glanced at the man sitting next to her.

"Yes?"

"If I was an angel, what color do you think my wings would be?"

Kratos paused for a moment, not sure where the question came from, "All angel wings are colored differently depending on the mana of the angel."

"I know that." she giggled, shoving him lightly, "I'm asking what color you think mine would be."

"I don't know." Kratos said. "It's easier to predict for a magic user."

"What do you mean?" she asked, confused, "I thought it wasn't easy to predict at all."

"Well, in Yuan's case it was."

She pushed herself up and onto her knees, grinning at him, "Oooh? This I have to hear."

"It's not a very long story." Kratos said, "His wings were purple, and he's a lightning mage. When lightning magic is cast, the spell circle is purple, meaning the color most often associated with lightning magic is purple."

"Oh." she frowned, "Well, that's more boring than I thought."

Kratos rolled his eyes.

"Can you tell me about the day you got your wings?" she asked him, smiling.

"That story is a bit longer, you know." Kratos said, "And it's getting pretty late."

"I'm not tired." She insisted, "Please?"

Kratos sighed, "Alright."

She grinned, settling back in next to Kratos as he began to speak.

"Martel, Mithos, Yuan, and I had just escaped from the Coliseum in Meltokio and were making our way out of the city." Kratos said, "At this point, Meltokio didn't have its giant wall around the city, making it much easier for prisoners to escape."

"You were prisoners?" Anna asked, surprised.

"Yes, but that's a completely different story, one I'll tell you another time." Kratos said.

Anna nodded, "Okay."

"Mithos was being very quiet, which was strange for him. He was usually the loudest of all of us, always suggesting new things to do and new places to go. Yuan was convinced he was just angry about the way they'd been treated in the Coliseum. I had been put in a different section of the prison while we were there because I'm a human."

Anna nodded, keeping silent so she wouldn't interrupt the story any more.

"Finally, Mithos told us all what he'd been thinking about all day. Before we'd been arrested, we'd been in the public library looking for information."

"Oooh, information on what?"

Kratos gave his wife a look, "Anna."

Anna clamped her hands over her mouth.

Kratos just smiled softly and continued. "Mithos had found a book talking about angels. The book had said that angels were sometimes seen around the Tower of Mana, then known as one of the largest libraries in the world. The book had detailed the good deeds of angels. Mithos was still young at this point and was sure that if we found an angel and asked them to stop the war that they would. We didn't have anywhere else to go, so we got on a boat and headed towards Sylvarant, essentially sneaking onto the continent through a war camp because we were all Tethe'allan and would have been stopped if we'd tried to enter Sylvarant any other way, and then headed towards the Tower of Mana."

"So, you guys started to believe Mithos about the angels, or what?" Anna asked, "I mean, you came all the way to Sylvarant."

"This was actually the first time we'd been back in Sylvarant since Mithos was old enough to walk on his own." Kratos said, "But yes, I suppose we all had hope. We mostly knew we needed to get out of Tethe'alla; the soldiers were all looking for us."

Anna opened her mouth to ask another question, but one look at Kratos's face made her just mutter, "Later, right," and shut it again.

Kratos just chuckled and continued, "We made it to the Tower of Mana with good time and without alerting anyone from Sylvarant that we were from Tethe'alla. The Tower was relatively busy, being the middle of the day. Mithos, being the small child that he was, walked right up to the closest librarian and asked, flat-out, 'Where are the angels?'"

Anna giggled.

"It took us a little while to convince the librarian that we weren't looking for angels and that Mithos had just gotten overexcited, and perhaps longer to explain to Mithos that we'd lied to the librarians. This of course while trying to be quiet enough not to alert the librarians that we were admitting to a 12 year old boy that we'd lied to them."

Anna's giggling grew a little louder.

"Finally we were able to convince Mithos, and began to look around the library together. It didn't take us long to find a statue of an angel near the top of the levels and levels of shelves, next to the section on all the myths about angels. There were very few people up here, so we let Mithos look around on his own while we looked through the books. Mithos wasn't as interested in the books as he was in the statue and was, essentially, inspecting the thing. He managed to find a button on the side of it, disguised as part of the base, which pushed the statue to the side and lead to a small cavern."

"Oooh, this is getting mysterious!" Anna grinned.

Kratos rolled his eyes, "Not really. Yuan and I had wandered to a different shelf by this point, and Martel was so absorbed in her book that she hadn't noticed the statue moving or Mithos walking into the tunnel that lead to the cavern. By the time she did notice, she screamed at the top of her lungs for Yuan and I before running into the cavern herself. The angel statue seemed to respond to the screaming and Yuan and I were barely able to get through before it shut the entrance."

"So, now you're trapped in a cavern." Anna frowned.

"Essentially, yes." Kratos nodded.

"That's one freakin' weird angel statue." Anna shrugged, "Go on."

Kratos decided not to comment and simply continued the story. "Inside the cavern was a red crystal growth that spread out against one of the walls, and Mithos was unconscious underneath it. Martel was fussing over him, trying to heal him, but there didn't seem to be anything wrong with him—he was just sleeping."

Anna frowned, but said nothing.

"All of the sudden, a voice began to ring in all three of our heads." Kratos spoke, "It demanded to know why we had invaded its sanctuary and who we were. Martel was the most coherent of us, fueled by the adrenaline from worrying about Mithos, and was able to explain the whole story despite the absolutely excruciating pain in all of our heads due to the voice. The voice seemed to understand that what we said aligned directly to what Mithos had said. After that, it said something about giving us the power to reach our goal before all three of us passed out as well."

"I'm having trouble imagining you passing out." Anna commented.

Kratos ignored her and continued, "The story's rather anticlimactic from there. When we woke up, we had Cruxis Crystals attached to us. We didn't have a name for them at the time, and it didn't take us long to figure out what had happened, and not much longer after that to figure out that we weren't aging anymore."

"But Mithos was only 12… He was stuck like that?" Anna asked.

Kratos glanced at her, surprised he hadn't mentioned that before, "Yes. He eventually found a way to change his age with magic, but he was 12 for a very long time."

Anna frowned. After a pause, she spoke up again. "Do you ever regret it?"

"Regret… going after Martel into the cavern?"

"Yeah." Anna nodded.

"Sometimes." Kratos nodded, "If we hadn't gone into that cavern, the majority of what is going on today wouldn't have happened. But at the same time, many of the good things for the world would not have happened either. I'm not sure we would have been able to stop the war without the Crystals, so in a way, the voice granted Mithos's wish to have the power to stop the war."

"Well, I'm glad you got the Crystal, even if it indirectly lead to both worlds' suffering." Anna smiled, leaning against him.

"And why's that?" Kratos asked.

"Because if you hadn't, you'd never have met me." She grinned.

The door flew open, sending the curly-haired brunette falling backwards onto the carpet as her roommate glared at her, "Cami. Give it back. Now." She snapped.

"Fine, fine." Cami handed it over, "You can have it."

"What did you do?" she asked, inspecting her computer for abuse.

Rolling her eyes, Cami hopped onto her bed, grabbing her own laptop, "Nothin'."

Her roommate glared from across the room, "I'm having difficulty believing that."

"If you must know, check BFaC." Cami said, "And Jasmine? You don't have to worry about updating for awhile."

Hey guys! In case you didn't figure it out, this is NOT Jasmine. This is her roommate, Cami (Darkness-Chill), sneaking (literally) onto her computer. The battle didn't go down exactly as above, since I stole her laptop while she wasn't in the room to upload this, but I like my version better. :P

Jasmine's had no time to write lately due to her dad being in the hospital, so I formulated this ingenious plan in my mind. And then executed it much later than I wanted to, but I haven't had much time to write lately either.

Anywayyyy, hope you guys enjoyed this guest chapter. Jasmine'll be back with an actual story update soon.

Jasmine, hope you liked.

Everyone else, review her story. She deserves three million more reviews that she has. :D

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