I'm sorry, everyone. This isn't Chapter 8. I know, kill me. T_T No, this is much later. According to Anna, two years after Kratos 'appeared', they got married and had five beautiful children. In truth, they just started living together. I can tell you Summer wasn't very happy.
This has nothing to do with the original story, just wanted to have a chapter to commemorate the release of Dawn of the New World. I spelled that wrong. : D
WARNING!! THERE ARE HUGE DAWN OF THE NEW WORLD SPOILZ! DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!
In the not too distant future...
"SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
Kratos woke to an extremely loud squeal. As he slowly emerged from his room, he noticed Anna rolling on the floor. Remembering what she told him about 'Stop, Drop, and Roll,' he quickly muttered an one-word incantation, then cried extremely loudly, "Aqua Edge!"
The water materialized out of nowhere and created a downpour on the entire house, causing Anna to start coughing, apparently having swallowed some of the water. Like in most stupid anime, Kratos' strong emotion to save Anna went into the spell, making the Level 1 spell a Level 9001 spell. But Kratos didn't know that.
He ran over to her, kneeling fown. "Anna!" he yelled over-dramatically.
After a moment, Anna randomly burst into laughter. "I'm glad you remembered what I told you about that," she said, getting up, "but I wasn't SDR-ing. I was FOTF-ing." After a minute of confused silence, she added, "Fangirling on the floor."
Kratos sighed. He was just glad she hadn't tried to set herself on fire again. "About what?" he asked, suddenly OOC and curious.
Anna fished out a small plastic bag from her soaking wet A & F tote bag. She then continued to pull a thin box from the plastic bag. "Good thing it's still got its seal on," she muttered, rubbing water onto her pant leg. She then held it out for Kratos.
The box had two people on it: a boy and a girl, one with blonde hair and the other with a reddish hair. And at the bottom, there was a giant logo with "Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World" on it.
Kratos raised his eyebrows as he looked at the back. "This?" he asked, not exactly satisfied. "And why is there such a picture with Regal's leg as the main point?"
Anna quickly snatch it back, looking at the picture he spoke of. "I didn't notice that," she said, trying not to laugh. "But I guess you don't want to see Lloyd go evil around now." That was all the angel needed to hear to take the box back and fly downstairs, where all of Anna's cheap video game merchandise and systems. It took Kratos about six months to accept the fact that there were little figurines of him all over the basement. But he still hadn't gotten past the Kruan fanart she did.
The Wii quickly read the disc and brought up the little jingle before the game started. Kratos blinked. He was staring at the giant head in the upper left hand corner, who looked like a mirror image of himself, except this look-alike's hair was longer and straight, he had green eyes and wore glasses. He also wore this collar that reminded him of Dist from Tales of the Abyss.
Anna giggled as she sat right next to Kratos. "That's Richter," she said, figuring that would be the first thing he even noticed. "He's pretty badass." She took the remote from him and hit 'Start.'
So played the epic opening. Anna was watching, tears welling up. Kratos sat there, wondering what was going on, and why Lloyd looked completely the same after two years.
The main menu appeared, along with soft, sutle music. That's when Anna started crying on Kratos' shoulder. He just sat there, waiting for her to settle down as his shoulder became soaking wet. Just when she stopped crying she started screaming when the prolouge played.
Kratos blinked. That was his voice. What the hell was his voice doing on this thing...? He had finally understood the concept that he was a fictional character, but this was a little weird. Since when did he start talking about the aftermath of the revival of the World Tree? Since when did he know of this stupid group called the Vanguard who started wanting to kill the Tethe'allans and everyone in the Church of Martel? He wondered if the game producers ever thought about what certain characters would know or wouldn't. But he finally came to the conclusion that they just did it for the fangirls who would have been extremely nit-picky if his alleged voice actor didn't do the narration.
So they played the game for awhile. He actually found it amusing; what was the most amusing was how everyone's voice had changed. Well, except for Colette. And he really hated how squeaky Emil's voice was. He wanted to clamp his ears and do a couple Light Spear Cannons on him. But at least Ratatosk-mode Emil didn't sound like that.
He put down the remote to take a breather and just watch Anna play by herself. But as he watched her thought, I wonder what's going on over there....
(...)
Meanwhile, in the New World...
Emil, Marta, and Tenebrae decided it best to visit the World Tree one last time before they went to the Ginnungagap and stopped Richter for good. But Marta didn't know that Emil was planning on not coming back. As they walked closer to the Tree, they spotted Yuan sitting Indian-style on the ground at the foot of the Tree, with several pieces of electronic equipment, not to mention the doll laying right next to him.
Realizing he was probably alone on purpose, they began to back up when Yuan turned his head slightly. "Oh, Rata--I mean, Emil," he said, turning his body some more to see them better. "Your timing is incredible. Can you help me with something...?"
Marta nudged Emil forward, making him take a step. He sighed and slowly walked over, slightly afraid of what the half-elf wanted from him. As he looked closer, he realized the doll was a girl with long, green hair and leaves for ears. "W-what do you need help with?" he squeaked.
With one hand, he moved the doll out of Emil's view, and with the other he pointed towards the top of the Tree. "Do you see anything above there?" he asked, randomly hitting a switch. There was a brief period of static, then the hazy background turned a slight purple.
Emil nodded. "Yeah, what was that static for?"
Yuan stood up, nodding. "Kratos," he called out, "can you hear me? The connection isn't going to last long." Silence. "Kratos?" More silence. "KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS?"
Emil took five big steps back. "What are you trying to do?" he asked, covering his ears.
Yuan quickly knelt down and grabbed a device with a black controller numerous buttons that was connected to a small, purple cube. As he moved the joystick around, he kept his eyes on the purple-ness, checking for any other colors. "Stupid Gamecube..." he muttered as he kicked the cube.
Emil caught notice of some brown. "There!" he cried, not really knowing what Yuan was looking for.
Yuan gasped, realizing that was Kratos' hair. "OHMAHGODKRATOS!" he yelled in one breath, dropping the controller and pushing Emil out of the way. Looking closer, he saw Kratos, lying spreadeagle on the floor. There was even a slight drool from his mouth. "KratosareyoudeadnowaythatcantbetruewhatsLloydgonnasayafterItellhimhisfatherisdeadohshit."
Emil and Marta blinked. Tenebrae just groaned. "And you think I'm crazy," he muttered, shaking his head.
WORST. CHAPTER. EVER. HOMG.
I was just wondering what would happen when he didn't show up in DotNW. Remember, Kratos was hallucinating, so he's not really on the set of Teletubbies. And you can see Kratos in DotNW. Namco didn't scrap that from the US version. You just have to play through it once, then go to the Tower of Salvation before the Marta x Emil scene in Altamira. I WAS SQUEALING THE ENTIRE TIME. : D
And the game is better than everyone says it is. Sure, it could be longer, but it was still very good. I just hate Lloyd and Zelos' voice. . And Genis = Mokuba. LOL.
R&R?