Mr.Who2123: I own nothing. Alright, on to the labor!! (Gasp! A new line thing!)
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Yuan turned around after walking a couple steps, and turned the other way. He moved through the doorway that had no door, and walked a couple steps out there, and turned around. The Renegade leader had been walking back and forth for nearly an hour, his head watching the floor and his hands clasped behind his back. He wasn't doing this, however, for fun or because he was thinking. Sanaro was installing the automatic doors while under the doorway, and to make sure that the door wouldn't fall on the warrior when he finished, Yuan would walk back and forth and the door would catch the motion and wouldn't crush Sanaro.
"Are you almost done?" Yuan asked, sounding quite agitated. Sanaro didn't stop his work to look at him, but kept working with haste.
"I'll tell you when I'm done," he replied. Yuan knew he was going to get that answer too, but he was just tired of walking. After a couple moments of pure silence besides the sound of feet and working metal, Yuan looked to his friend again.
"Now?"
"…"
"Well…?"
"No!" the warrior finally snapped back. Yuan sighed, looking at his friend. Sanaro was on the ceiling, actually, using his wings to keep him in the air. The warrior held several pieces of chord and metal in one hand while the other worked on the mechanism expertly. After a moment, his free hand grabbed a chord, and placed it inside the doorway opening. He shifted it around inside carefully, making sure not to let his hands slip at any cost. After hearing a soft click, the door made a loud noise. It buzzed as electrical currents began moving all within the doorway, and the light on the front of the doorway turned on, signaling that it's working.
The automatic door began moving down, but it sensed Yuan's motion, and stayed up. Sanaro sighed with relief and let himself out of crushing range of the door. He let his wings disappear right before he landed, the emerald green dispersing into the air.
"I'm done now," he playfully remarked, and Yuan smiled. A loud howl, followed by barking, sounded from a couple rooms away.
"Annule?" Sanaro wondered aloud, running towards the sound. He passed by a couple automatic doors and through a group of confused Renegades to find Annule in the entrance hallway. The giant wolf caught sight of Sanaro, and ran for the entry doorway with its canine speed.
"Annule! Wait!" Sanaro called, but the wolf had already left the base. Yuan was right behind his friend, and followed him out of the room. The sands whipped up everywhere around the friends, the brown specks flying into the Seraphs' eyes.
"Great…we're in the middle of a small sandstorm," Yuan muttered, wiping his eyes. The former spy caught sight of his friend, and began moving towards the white wolf. However, another canine figure came up next to Annule.
"Look, it's Noishe!" Sanaro exclaimed, running towards the two canines. The protozoan and wolf jumped around each other, both happy to see their friend. When Noishe, however, caught sight of Sanaro, it padded up to him, and lifted its mouth to show him what was inside. The warrior cautiously took a white object within the protozoan's mouth and found out it was a paper.
"Sanaro and Yuan:
Anna is in labor right now. Come to the Luin hospital as quickly as you can.
, Kratos"
By now, Yuan was right next to his friend, and both had read the note.
"What?! We have to go now!" Yuan exclaimed, making his way back to the base. Sanaro hesitated, however, looking at the protozoan.
"How'd you get here so fast…and how did you know where we were?" he asked, eyeing the innocent canine. Noishe, seeming to understand, looked at Annule, and whined. Sanaro left the two canines, after figuring out who helped him, and ran straight for the Rhieard room. He made a quick left from the main hallway, and then turned right for the hangar. Yuan was already there, programming the control to let two out.
Two Rhieards, one blue, one green, came up from the metal floor, waiting for the friends to climb on them. They opened their wings automatically when the floors closed below them and their engines were starting. Sanaro jumped on the blue one while Yuan the green, each gripping their handles. Colorful mana gathered inside the engines, and the Rhieards lifted above the ground evenly.
After a couple more moments, the machines zoomed out of the base, and into the open sky.
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Anna had sweat covering her whole body, making her almost as wet as if she'd just gotten out of the lake. However, her mindset was not on how much she must've smelled horrible, but on the laborious task in front of her.
"Anna, you're doing well. It's okay," Kratos kept saying towards her. His arm was holding onto hers, letting his wife squeeze it when the pain would come to be too much. The doctor put gloves on his hands, and began the procedure. Anna breathed heavily as she began to push, forcing herself to ignore the tremendous pain.
"Anna, it's okay. You're doing great!" Kratos told her when she took a moment to rest. The Seraph put a wet towel on her damp head and let it sit for a moment before taking it off once more.
"Try another push!" the doctor said, waiting for the baby to come out. Anna glanced at the doctor, then at her excited husband, and nodded. She forced another push, but it wasn't enough. Pain racked her whole stomach, and Anna bit her lip to stop the pain. Rasping for more breath, Anna sighed.
"Anna, you're doing great. Just a little more," Kratos encouraged. Anna gave him a furious look.
"If you say that one more time, I'm going to kill you," she said. Kratos backed away, half in sadness, half in fear of his pained wife. She turned her attention once more to the difficult task before her, and began to work once more.
Not long after that moment, the sound of fists pounding on doors racked Kratos' ears. He then heard a voice that turned his sour mood around.
"Kratos! We're here!!! Let us in!" Yuan yelled from the other side of the door. The Seraph came up to it, and told the two to be quiet, as the labor was almost done. Reluctantly, Yuan and Sanaro agreed to abate their noise. Sanaro began to pace back and forth in front of the door, but Yuan just sat down. He was done with walking unless it was necessary.
Kratos turned away from the door once more, and hurried to his wife, who was gasping for breath. She was almost done, was what the doctor said, but she didn't hear him. Her rapid heartbeat completely turned away all other sound, and she closed her eyes to be rid of all sight. All she could feel was the horrible pain racking her constantly.
"Anna, you're doing great! Keep going!" Kratos exclaimed, placing a hand on her seaty one.
"Shut up, Kratos!" Anna exclaimed back, but her anger dispersed in a second. The two both heard the noise loud and clear. It was a heavenly voice to both of them, taking all their attention away from each other and to the doctor who held the owner of this voice.
"Anna…you did it!" Kratos exclaimed, a wide smile coming to his face. He kissed Anna on the head before rushing to the doctor. The doctor was a dark haired man with fat glasses and a thin frame. His white coat hung loosely from his thin arms that held a small, bundled figure that was the owner of the "heavenly noise." It was a small baby, crying its heart out, but Anna and Kratos loved the sound.
"Congratulations, Kratos and Anna. It's a boy," he said, smiling as he gave the child to the no longer sweating Anna. She took the baby carefully, cooing him with her finger. Tears welled in her eyes as she laughed at the wonderful moment. Kratos couldn't help but feel the tears in his eyes as well when he hollered across the room to Sanaro and Yuan.
"C'mon, guys, Lloyd was born!" he yelled. His friends didn't need a second telling to run into the room and crowd around Anna, filling her with congratulations.
"Lloyd Irving Aurion," Anna remarked to herself, smiling at the name. "I love it."
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Mr.Who2123: AHHHH!!!! YAY!!!! I LOVE IT!!! (Coughs) Um, please review.