A/N: …Okay, I've survived without flames for one chapter! I wanna keep this up!
bluedranzer77: Thank you… Don't stare to much, you'll strain your eyes, you know:waves hand in front of bluedranzer77's face:
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I proceeded to be annoying and started humming the theme song to the Beverly Hill Billies. It's the kind of song that gets stuck in your head, you know? Apparently, this tactic works on our favorite chosen, so I can provide hours of crude and irritating entertainment!
As we evaded the giant slug (which, consequently, is a real, huge, trailing squishy thing) I elbowed Kratos out of the way to get down the stairs. I swung my boomerang-blade (I'm calling it that, because it looks like a cross between a sword and a boomerang. Thank the gods for Yuan-sama!) and yelled happily.
"Booyah!" Kratos sweat-dropped, being the pain-in-the-$$ he is, and glared.
"You really should be more serious." Okie-dokie. I feel like screwing around. Lloyd is hyper, and Colette fell down the stairs. Genis is blissfully ignorant of us idiots. And by "us idiots" I mean everyone except Genis and Kratos.
Of course, when you're talking about idiots, that's pretty default. Yep. D-e-f-a-… How do you spell default again? I do believe I've forgotten. Anyhoo, I put on my sly grin of doom.
"Now, Kratos, what fun would that be?" See, here's the fun with guys. Were a moderately skimpy outfit, put on a sly smile and get up close to their face, and you can seriously screw up their mind. BWAHAHAH.
He ignores me. Dammit. He's supposed to go red and… and… submit to my evil womanish power!
Shoot.
I glare and he smirks slightly.
Lloyd comes up to Kratos.
"Seriously, do you know her?" He looked down.
"Yes…" he twitched, "Sadly." That big meanie-banana! (Don't ask, it's something I say.) I use my next best tactic.
I start fake sobbing.
"Kratos, don't you love me! Wah! You're a big meanie!" I don't add on the banana part- I don't want my group to think I'm mentally unstable too soon. There's nothin' like the benefit of the doubt, if you know what I mean.
Speaking of benefit of the doubt…
I have a feeling Colette will trip again soon. But that's just 'cause of the game, o' course.
"What's that?"
"It's a rock, Lloyd."
"I wonder what it- oops!" As Colette trips towards the Golem, Lloyd and Kratos rush up and start hacking away at it. I come up and whack the thing.
Wait…
"Aqua laser!" A blade of liquid shoots from my swordy-thing and hits the Golem, disintegrating it's legs. Hm… I do believe that that attack was never in the game-
Or I just never got it. I'm betting on the latter here, folks.
It now hits the ground, damaging and cracking where our two favorite sword-wielding father and son were slashing it. Colette uses Pow Hammer. Hee hee. When my friend first showed me that, I went into fits of giggles. I don't know why… But, anyway, the little red hammer kills the golem. Colette throws one of her Chakrams up into the air and attempts to catch it, successfully dropping it. Wow. I never thought anyone could be so… Clumsy.
I okay, the Golem curls up into a little ball and turns into a block with a flash of light.
'You're a level 15 now,' says a certain little voice.
'Really?' I think to my mental perpetrator.
'Yeah, you picked 'times two exp' for one of your upgrade-things.' I chuckled. No wonder…
I freeze. My leg reeeeeally hurts. I look down and see it bleeding, 'cause a shard of rock is stuck in it. Hot damn. I pull out the rock and flinch. Wow. Urm, has anyone ever told you how much it hurts to have a giant shard of monster rock wedged in your flesh and then to yank it out? Yep, colorful wording thar.
Whoo, pirate lingo.
Funky.
Anyway. I search my little messenger bag. Nope, no apple gels. I poke Kratos.
"Yes?" I must've poked hard- he's a little pissed.
"D-do you have any apple gels?" I gesture to my leg. He nods and tosses me a container. It looks like plastic, and the thing inside resembles a half-sphere made out of Jell-o. I wonder if it tastes like Apple Jell-o. Cool.
I unwrap the plastic stuff and toss it. I'm sort of expecting one of my annoying little friend to pop up and yell,
"Amy, no littering! Amy, no littering! Pick-it-up-pick-it-up!" But, thankfully, no one does. Actually, once I remove the thing, it sort of disappears.
Cool, again.
I gulp it down. Oo, it does taste like apple-flavored Jell-O!
Yurm. Yurm yurm YURM!
Thank you, gods.
My leg heals. It's sorta like that scene from Harry Potter where the Phoenix cries on Harry's arm and it heals. Freaky… Dah…
I get up and thank Kratos.
"Thank you, Mister Aurion-Irv… Eeek!" He almost slashes me to stop me finishing the sentence.
Dung-heaps.
You know, for some reason, I'm thinking of meat tenderizer- maybe that's because Kratos is trying to kill me. I wonder if he's a good cook! If he's not, I could always torture him with tomatoes.
Speaking of which, I pull out a tomato. I love them! Squee.
Oh, and by the way- the boys and Coley-ette have finished the chore of pushing them down. I always wonder- what if someone fell down one of those? I guess you really can't in the game, but currently I can. I'm hanging my legs through them. Kratos groans, comes over and makes me get outta there.
"You ruin my fun…" I say.
"That's my job," he grumbles. I smile.
"I thought your job was being an an-" He glares at me. I'm still carrying a tomato here, so he can't exactly hurt me. I join up with the rest of the group and we head down the stairs. I look over the edges of the platform we're on. As far as I can tell, it's just empty space underneath the temple. What'd they do, find a black hole and decide to build a church under it?
That wouldn't do very good on their resumes for a new job.
Like, I used to work on a church under an unholy black hole. Or something like that. I'm not funny, am I?
(During this part in the fanfiction, my little brother started singing "Secret Agent Man". Dang it. I have no door on our computer room.)
We approach the floaty red ring with non-existent caution. I grab it off the pedestal and give it to Lloyd. He shoots it at me, apparently testing it out. My cape thing sets on fire.
"EYAH! LLOYD!" I whacked him with my free hand and stamp it out, then put it back on after using "First Aid" on it, which actually works! It repairs itself.
I glare at him, and he shrinks behind Kratos. I smile, luckily, they don't know what yaoi is.
"Ah, this would be a perfect moment for a Yaoi story…" I use my hands to frame them, and they jump away from each other.
"What is yah-oy?" Asks Lloyd.
"You'll find out when you're older."
"Though I don't even know…?" Kratos glared at me. I smiled.
"Much, much older, my good buddy." I slung my arm around his neck. He glared and shrugged it off.
"That's cold…" I say, smirking.
"If you think that's cold, after the years you've known me you must be frozen." I glare.
"Meanie-banana."
"Excuse me?"
"I said that you were a messed-up bas-- er, yeah."
We walked up to the glowy evil shocky door of DOOM.
After Lloyd uses the sorcerer's ring, I push it open, and step onto the warp panel.
Okay, imagine this- you first get a migraine, then an ache in your shoulders as if you're carrying a heavy backpack, then a stomach ache, then a stitch in your side, leg pains and the feeling when you've worn sandals for a hike. Then, it all goes away and you feel like someone's pulling on either side of you. You disappear with a searing pain in your forehead.
That is what teleportation is. After I get dispensed into the messy room, the others get out gracefully, and I'm kneeling on it. Urgh.
I stand up. I look around. Everything is rune-covered and evil-looking, but I suppose here it's holy. Something that looks like a swastika is engraved on the wall. Nazis? OMFG, the angels are NAZIS! Or maybe the pastors… I dunno.
I see there's a little, um, red light. It floats towards Colette's neck and turns (with a annoyingly blinding flash) into a Cruxis Crystal. I 'hmmph' and turn to a ball of light that is descending from the ceiling. Remiel- with his awesome pope hat of doom.
Why do I add "of doom" to everything? 'Cause I do.
After an annoying bit of talking, and Remiel droning on in "I'm a Holy Bastard" mode, I shoot him a glare. He cringes slightly, but no one notices.
He makes to disappear in a feathery light, but Colette just has to make him stay for a minute.
"Wait- Please wait! Um, are you really my fa-"
"Travel south to the seal of fire, my daughter."
"So you really are my fa-"
"We will meet at the next seal, my beloved daughter, Colette."
He disappears. What a meanie! Lying to a little girl.
I grumble Kratos and I leave. I'm going to have to leave Lloyd and Genis to their torturing. Colette, just like in the game, will hang there for a little. I walk side-to-side with him.
"Kratty?"
"Yes…?"
"You know Yuan?"
Kratos froze.
"Of course I do. We went on that journey with him, remember? Where Martel…" He trailed off.
"When are we going to go to a renegade base? I know we will manage to somehow…" I grinned.
"Why?"
"Yuan's got cool hair. I'm gonna bring a scissors and-" Kratos groans and tunes me out.
"Speaking of hair, you've got pretty cool hair too!" I smile brightly and go up behind him, lacing my arms around his neck and burying my face in his copper hair. He growls and pushes me off.
I sigh.
"Sorry, Kratos- I forgot about… You know, Anna…" I grinned before running out of sight.
(Kratos' POV)
How did she know about that? If Mithos knew, he'd have me killed…
(Amy's POV)
I smiled at the sky, twirling around. All is right in the world. I found my way into Iselia and entered Colette's house, where she, Kratos and her family, the mayor and Raine were congregated.
I sat down in the seat next to Kratos and grinned.
"Sup?"
"Isn't, ah, Amy supposed to come on the Journey, too, Mister Kratos?" asked Colette.
I look at him with surprise. He nods.
Somehow, that face says-
"You're coming, Amy."