Mr.Who2123: You readers are so lucky…I'm updating for the third time! I own nothing.
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Kratos had gotten up early despite his lack of sleep. He just couldn't sit still when he knew Yuan and Sanaro were coming to visit the family. He looked over at the crib on the opposite side of the room, seeing a small Lloyd sleeping. The small boy had grown in a year…almost too fast for the Seraph. He loved this time with his wife, but it moved by so quickly that he feared it might slip from his hands.
"Anna, let's get up…I cannot sleep," Kratos whispered. His wife moved slightly, but made no evidence that she even heard her husband. After a moment of still, Anna opened her eyes.
"I could sleep the day away," Anna moaned back, but sat up anyways. She rubbed her eyes before letting them drop to her sides once more. Kratos smiled it his wonderful wife, and leaned over to give her a kiss on the head before standing up. He went to the bathroom to get changed while Anna grudgingly got out of bed. She had lost all of her pregnancy weight, and looked as beautiful as she did before she was pregnant. Smiling at the sleeping boy, Anna yawned before grabbing an outfit herself. She changed on the spot, and finished before her husband, who emerged from the bathroom while she was brushing her hair.
"You're slow at changing," Anna smiled, and put her hair into a ponytail. Her bangs were too short of length, and fell in front of her face. Kratos made an inaudible grumble, and walked over to the small child. He was sucking his thumb with one hand while the other clutched that same red blanket from one year ago.
Both father and mother had discovered quickly that Lloyd loved red. The boy loved his red outfits, his red toys, his red blanket, and Kratos' reddish hair. Whenever the Seraph had enough humor in him to swing Lloyd onto his shoulders, the young boy would always pull his locks with giant strength for such a small child. Kratos would suffer from headaches after that, and had begun to lessen those times.
Anna stepped into the kitchen and began cooking like she always did. The young mother loved to cook for her small family, and made each meal with heavy care. Kratos gently tapped Lloyd on the shoulder, and the toddler woke up quietly. He saw Kratos and made a smile. Then, he began to splutter strange noises and happy cries when Kratos lifted the boy into the air happily and placed him in his arms.
He clapped his hands when Kratos tickled his sides with a finger, and tried to grab it with all his might. His hands whirled around while he continued to make inarticulate noises. The Seraph gently placed Lloyd into a high chair next to the table, and the young boy grabbed the toy already on the tray. It was his favorite toy, a red, shiny bouncy ball. It was perfect for him as well. It was too large to swallow, to soft to harm anyone, and it was red.
Happily, Lloyd bounced it on his tray, laughing as it did so. Kratos couldn't help but chuckle at the beautiful sight. When Lloyd threw the ball, it landed on the floor below him, and Lloyd began to make worried noises.
"Uah, uah, uah!!" he said. To the mother and father, it had the tone as if someone was saying, "Look, get that!" Kratos complied with the young boy's request, and leaned over to grasp the ball. He placed it onto the tray, and Lloyd immediately made happy noises.
"Time for some oatmeal!" Anna exclaimed happily, stirring a pot of the brown breakfast. Kratos smiled with satisfaction and Lloyd gurgled in all the happy noises. Carefully, the young mother scooped the warm porridge, and placed it in a bowl for Kratos. The Seraph stood from his chair and took it happily while Anna scooped a much smaller bowl for Lloyd. She placed it on the tray of the high chair, and Lloyd looked at it with puzzlement. He looked up to his dad to see him eating it, and the little boy immediately understood. Picking up the giant plastic spoon, Lloyd thrust it into the porridge, and the breakfast bounced out of the bowl and all over the high chair. Lloyd squealed with happiness at the flying food, and lifted his spoon. There was iota oatmeal on the spoon, and the young toddler shoved it into his mouth. His mouth grew in size with the spoon in there, and Lloyd squealed happily after he took it out.
By this time, Anna had already scooped some food for her, and watched Lloyd with love and humor in her eyes.
"How did we get such an amazing child?" Anna asked, more to herself than to Kratos. The Seraph nodded in response, finishing his food while he watched Lloyd.
The door was knocked on three times, and the family each looked to front room. Kratos quickly set down his spoon and gave his empty bowl to Anna while he walked rather hurriedly to the door. Lloyd continued to make a mess with his oatmeal and spoon, now forgetting about the strange, unheard of noise in the first place. The Seraph peeked through the small door hole, and saw two anxious friends, waiting impatiently. Kratos threw open the door, and greeted his friends warmly.
"Sanaro, Yuan…it's great to see you," he said, giving both of them manly hugs that only Kratos could pull off. Lloyd noticed the commotion, and looked to his mom for answers. Anna picked up the dirty boy and cleaned his face with a wet towel before bringing him over to the men.
"This is Lloyd," Anna interrupted. Sanaro and Yuan looked at the confused boy, and grinned at his growth.
"He's so big now," Sanaro remarked. With Anna's acceptance, he took the boy into his arms and bounced him around while Lloyd squealed happily. The little toddler began to like these new strangers. Yuan reached for the boy, but Sanaro took a step away, as if protecting Lloyd.
"Let me hold him," Yuan remarked.
""You'd drop him," Sanaro replied.
"Would not,"
"Yeah you would," Sanaro bounced Lloyd about a bit more, creating even more happy giggles from the boy. Kratos and Anna continued to watch the quibbling with confusion.
"They spend too much time together," Anna whispered in her husband's ear. The Seraph smirked and nodded. Finally, he decided to intervene.
"Give Lloyd back to me before you start hurting each other," the man said. Sanaro and Yuan glared at each other, and the blond warrior gave up the adorable boy with reluctance. Now with Lloyd back in Kratos' arms, he looked to the guests. "If you want to play with Lloyd, you have to share him, alright?" The surlier Seraph felt he was around a bunch of six year olds, but he didn't make a remark about that. After a sworn oath from the Renegade leaders, Sanaro and Yuan both took Lloyd and ran with him into the play room. Lloyd squealed happily as they did so.
"They're a bunch of kids…," Anna said, smirking. "They're almost more immature than Lloyd."
Back in the playroom…Sanaro, Lloyd, and Yuan were having a grand old time. The blue haired Seraph put the toddler on his shoulders, and jumped around while Sanaro made funny faces at the boy, creating more giggles from him than the toddler.
"Uah, uah!" Lloyd yelled after awhile, and pointed to a pile of red building blocks. The Seraphim stopped, looked to each other, and shrugged, complying with the smart boy. There were hundreds of blacks strewn about the room, and the Seraphim went right to work in building something. The Seraphim divided the blocks in two, and placed Lloyd in the middle so he could see each building. With Sanaro's half of the share, he created a big castle with a moat, bridge, and towers. Lloyd looked at it, clapped his hands in approval and glee, and accidentally toppled it over. Yuan was making something more known to him.
It was an exact replica of the Renegade base. With all the circular blocks, he managed to create a dome, and put designs on it. Lloyd looked at it with his big, brown eyes in wonder.
"It's the base," Yuan said happily as Lloyd touched it carefully, as if he might break it.
"Auuuuuuuh…," Lloyd said, as if he were saying "Wooooow." Then, as he shifted himself to crawl closer to it, Lloyd toppled over again…and destroyed the Renegade base. Both Seraphim found themselves dejected while Lloyd squealed with happiness. Just as the boy was to grab something else to play with, the whole house shook madly. Sanaro and Yuan were both almost thrown to the floor, but they managed to stay up and hold Lloyd, who began crying.
"Calm down, it might just be an earthquake!" Yuan yelled. The sound of breaking wood and fissuring earth nearly drowned his voice. With a glance at each other, Yuan and Sanaro pulled out their wings for stability, and picked up Lloyd together as they half flew, half ran out of the room, and out into the entry room.
Kratos and Anna were waiting, with the father yelling for the three to get outside quickly. Of course, they complied and did so, just making it outside before the door collapsed. The couch was overturned, the pots and pans flying everywhere, and the floor cracking under the huge force.
"What's going on?" Sanaro yelled, just outside the cracking house. Kratos solemnly pointed upwards. There were ten angels, each casting Ground Dasher on the house, and destroying it completely.
"They found us!" Kratos exclaimed, as he unfurled his blue wings. Yuan handed the crying and scared Lloyd to Anna, who ran farther away into hiding. Noishe followed the mother while the three Seraphim stood poised for battle, each with their weapons out. Before the spell finally ended, the house collapsed into a pile of log and furniture. Kratos couldn't hide the sadness on his face as he stared at the pile of what was once his home.
"…Kratos, stay with Anna. She needs your help more than we need it," Sanaro said. Kratos nodded and left without a thought. He gently helped her out of the area into a safer place while Yuan and Sanaro took out the angels.
It started when the spell ended, and the mage angels suddenly disappeared. In their place, ten angel commanders appeared, each with two blades and a hand at magic.
"They just had to make it harder," Sanaro whispered, and jumped in the air, using his wings as support. Flying right into the mass of them, Sanaro began hacking away with his blade, dodging swords, and avoiding any spells that may have been cast. He knew exactly what he was doing as he just fought on and Yuan stayed where he was.
"Let's see what Yggdrasil says to this spell," Yuan muttered. A light purple magic circle appeared under him as he spoke the words of the attack.
"…Bring down the thundering judgment upon these lost and corrupt souls and send them back to the thundering death they deserve…INDIGNATION JUDGMENT!" he finished. The circle grew larger, and then suddenly disappeared. Sanaro noticed the incantation, and used his speed to get down to Yuan in a second. The angels were left confused while the lightning blade of judgment came down upon the middle of them. Purple lights surrounded the whole mass of them, capturing them inside.
The light magnitude grew tenfold, bursting the angels in all the outside rings first, then the one inside of it. Six angels fell onto the crumbled house, not even alive. Next, the most inner circle of light destroyed the remaining four with its strongest strike. With everything dead, the sword disappeared, and the two Renegade leaders smirked at their easy victory.
"I bet those mage angels had already reported to Yggdrasil…," Sanaro added, and dampened their moods. "I wonder what we're going to do with Kratos and his family." Yuan looked at the clearing which the Aurions had disappeared through.
"They can't stay in the base…it's no place of protection…and I don't want to Yggdrasil to find it," Yuan replied. Sanaro looked at Yuan with anger and surprise.
"And do what? Let them get hurt while we live comfortably in it?" he angrily retorted. Yuan's face became one of rage at the comment.
"The angels are going to look for Kratos now…and if they find them, they'll destroy everything close to them. Do we want to risk the chance of hundreds of Renegades dying?" he snapped back. There was a halt, and Sanaro averted his eyes.
"It's not right…," he muttered.
"Sanaro, nothing's right anymore! We have to constantly run for our lives, the world has been split apart, and Yggdrasil is killing thousands of people to bring back his sister…why do you think anything would be right anymore??" he yelled. Sanaro remained silent, giving his friend a saddened glare before turning to the direction that Kratos had hid in.
"Sanaro…" Yuan began, his rage calmed, and regret climbing up. "I didn't mean to yell like that…"
"I know. C'mon, let's go find them," Sanaro interrupted. Yuan hesitated, looking behind at the destroyed remnants of the house before following.
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Mr.Who2123: Yes, a year fast forward…and we'll getting a couple more of those. Fluff is going to be short. Very short. But I have thought about making a fic of all one-shots on Kratos and the Aurion family while they have Lloyd. I think it would be cute to have that, because it's not a story, and I can kind of update whenever I get an idea, so I'm not always worried about a lack of them. I loved this ending. Wow, I really liked it. Controversy is always interesting to me, and an occasional argument between friends is always fun to look into. I just liked it a lot. What Yuan said also goes with the "Life isn't fair," quote which is pretty true. Well, please tell me about my "Immature Yuan and Sanaro fluff with Lloyd." I thought it was kind of extreme, but cute anyways. ;D