Well, that went over well. n.n
Colette: Oh dear...
Me: I apologize for the wait, I know it was evil of me... I'm sorry.
Colette: Well...you updated, right? n.n
Me: Now the fun begins..3
Colette: Freakyanimegal owns nothing...n.n'
Father and Son
Kratos sent Lloyd a death-glare that would've killed anyone else on the spot.
"AHAHAHHA-! OH-! OH FOR THE LOVE OF G-! AHAH! HAHAHAAH-!'
Raine smacked Lloyd upside the head.
"OW-!"
"Stop laughing! We have things to worry about!"
"Huh-? Oh!" Lloyd instantly became serious. "How is everyone?"
Raine was already examining Altessa, deciding that priorities were on the wounded. Presea had drifted over to Tabatha's
still form while the others couldn't help but fix their attention on Kratos once they realized there was nothing they could do
for their wounded friends.
"...So uh..." Genis trailed.
"..." Kratos looked down at himself, fidgeting with the long sleeves.
"...How the HELL did that happen?!" Lloyd blurted.
"...That..." Kratos started, "...wait, where's Yuan-?"
"Oh good, for a minute I thought you forgot about me," a voice snorted.
A heavily wounded Yuan had gotten to his feet, looking at the rest of them.
"...Yuan-" Kratos started.
"I hate to do this, but thank you, Lloyd," Yuan muttered, "...I'm sure I couldn't have taken much more of that...even if he
didn't kill me, I doubt it...thank you."
"Uh...no problem..." Lloyd said, "what were you doing here anyway?"
"He came to kill me,"
Their attention was once more on Kratos.
"...Am I right, Yuan?" Kratos asked.
"..."
"...I thought you were the one in Hima," Kratos frowned, "...and being the Renegade leader..."
"W-what? Why would you-?" Lloyd turned to Yuan.
"Heh, HE can explain, I've got to evacuate my men before they're killed..." Yuan scoffed.
"Wait," Kratos started.
"What?" Yuan glared at him.
"...HEALING WIND!"
The half-elf was momentarily stunned as the magic tended to his wounds.
"...You'll need that," Kratos said simply.
"...Heh," Yuan smirked at him, "...idiot. I guess Lloyd really did get it from you."
Both Aurions glared. Surprisingly, however, Yuan laughed.
"What's so funny?!" Lloyd snarled.
"You look like your father and your father looks like you," Yuan smirked, "you don't think that's funny?"
Then both Aurions twitched.
"I'll be taking my leave now,"
With that Yuan left.
"..."
There was silence a moment more.
"...So how DID that happen?" Sheena asked Kratos.
The Seraph sighed, knowing he had to explain.
"...I'd imagine that attack was meant for Lloyd as it contained furkiol," he said.
Genis jolted.
"F-furkiol...?"
"It's a substance that can...cause alterations," he said, fidgeting with his sleeves again, "mana must be issued to it under
control of a spell-caster to incite a transformation. Mithos probably meant to revert Lloyd back and instead...well, this
happened."
"S-so...what happens if mana ISN'T added?" Genis stammered.
They looked at him, curious over the question.
"It would in all likelihood revert the subject to infancy,"
"Wait...you mean a baby, right?" Colette asked.
Kratos nodded as Genis flinched once more. No way...if he had listened to Mithos Lloyd would've been...and that would've
been bad news for all of them, really...
"...Okay, that explains that..." Lloyd said, "..so...why did Yuan try to kill you?"
"..."
Kratos looked around at the group, seeing Raine and Regal tending Altessa, and Presea and Zelos looking at Tabatha.
After a moment or two he sighed.
"I'll explain once everyone can listen," he stated, "though for now..."
He frowned, rolling up his sleeves.
"I...really need some different clothes..."
"But the only one's we have you could probably fit are Lloyd's spares..." Colette said.
Everyone suddenly perked up, then smirked evilly at the Seraph.
"...No," he said, "I am not-"
"It's all we have," Genis said, unable to suppress an impish grin.
"...I-"
"Genis! Lloyd! Help us move Altessa inside!" Raine called.
"W-what? Oh! Coming!"
"Be right there!"
The males sent Kratos one last glance before racing over.
"..." Kratos twitched.
"...You really do look a lot like Lloyd..." Colette smiled sheepishly.
"Hmph,"
"...Man this is weird," Sheena sighed.
"...There's no point in standing around outside," Kratos said simply, heading off.
The remaining people looking at him went inside as Lloyd and Genis helped place Altessa on a bed, Raine attempting to
heal him. After they were situated, of course, Raine shooed them out.
"...So..." Zelos trailed.
All eyes were on Kratos again.
"...I'm not explaining again," he said stiffly, "ask Lloyd. In the meantime I-"
The ex-Seraph caught a bundle which was suddenly thrown into his arms.
"What is-?"
A bright red bundle.
"...Oh no-"
"That's all we've got," Zelos smirked, "well, go change."
"I-"
"Surely you can't intend to continue wearing that?" Regal asked.
Kratos frowned deeply at the 'Judgment' garb which was much too large for his new frame.
"...Well..." he sighed.
He glared at them a minute before turning and walking for the bathroom. There was an eerie silence as the door closed
with a soft click. The group looked at each other, somewhat at a loss.
"...Well, this was quite a day, huh?" Zelos asked, the first to recover.
No one seemed able to answer.
"...I hope Altessa's going to be okay..." Colette whispered.
Genis said nothing.
"...So..." Sheena trailed.
The ticking of the clock became insufferable.
"...Okay, something better happen or-!!" Lloyd cried.
The bathroom door opened, granting Lloyd his 'something'.
Time froze.
"...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!"
Lloyd leaned against a wall to support himself, his friends that were capable of laughing close behind.
"...Tch," Kratos spat.
Seeing Kratos as a teenager was shocking enough, seeing him wearing a red dwarven outfit, complete with the
suspenders, belts, boots and gloves was nothing short of a masterpiece.
"I CAN'T BREATHE! I CAN'T BREATHE-!!" Sheena cried.
"MY HEART-!!" Genis cried.
"He looks a lot like Lloyd..." Presea said.
The laughter instantly stopped, all eyes on Kratos, who did indeed look much like his son.
"...Daaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmnnnnnnn..." Zelos said.
"Hmph," Kratos snorted, looking away.
"Man this is awkward..." Lloyd sighed.
"I'll...just sit over there," Kratos muttered, looking at the chair farthest from them.
"...Hey, wait a minute, where'd you put that other outfit?" Sheena wondered.
"Pardon?"
"You know, that white one,"
"I placed it in the hamper," Kratos stated.
"...Hm..." Lloyd glanced toward the bathroom.
"...Do it," Zelos grinned.
"Do? Do what-?" Kratos started.
"Well we see you in Lloyd's outfit, soooooooooo..."
"W-what? I don't want to try on a CRUXIS uniform-!" Lloyd protested.
"Oh come on, we need a laugh!" Zelos said.
"Well..." Genis trailed, glancing at Kratos again, "..I'm sorry Lloyd, he looks almost exactly like you, except for the hair and
all...so it's just..."
"Kratos does look a lot like you, Lloyd..." Colette flushed.
"...Correction, he looks a lot like ME," Kratos said stiffly.
Silence fell once more.
"...I really do, huh?" Lloyd frowned. "Hm..."
Slowly a mischievous grin spread on the brunette's face...
"...What are you thinking?" Kratos glared.
"...Well, we've got nothing to do right now...so..." he headed for the bathroom, "it wouldn't hurt anything...it'll keep our
spirits up for now, at least, right?"
"W-what?" Kratos stammered. "I-"
"Oh come on, you're wearing my clothes!"
"I don't have a choice in the matter!" Kratos snapped. "There is no point in you-"
"Nope, no point," Lloyd smirked, "but it'll be fun."
"Lloyd-" Kratos started threateningly.
Too late. Lloyd went into the bathroom and closed the door leaving his father fuming.
"...I don't understand him sometimes..." the Seraph muttered.
"...Sooooo..."
Kratos flinched when he noted some of the younger members had gotten particularly close to him, looking him up and down
as if trying to believe they were seeing what they were seeing.
"...What?" Kratos asked.
"...I...I'm sorry!" Colette blurted.
"Wow..." Genis tilted his head to the side, "you really DO have Lloyd's face..."
Kratos shifted uncomfortably.
"Yeah, if his hair was the same..." Sheena mused.
"Please refrain from staring at me,"
"We should fix his hair like Bud's," Zelos grinned.
Kratos slipped away from them.
"No one is going to touch my hair," he glared.
"Ooooohhhhh...now I REALLY want to see!" Genis grinned.
"No-"
"C'mon, just a little-!"
Kratos barely dodged as Zelos attempted to grab him, Sheena assisting and trying to grab the Seraph as he dodged. The
angel weaved through them and then attempted to make a break for it, only for Genis to grab onto one of the ribbons
trailing form the neck of shirt...
THUD!
And Kratos hit the floor.
"...BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH!" everyone laughed hysterically.
"All of you be quiet or I swear I'll kill you all!!" Kratos snapped, red in the face.
Everyone stared...then burst out laughing again, Kratos visibly shaking with rage as he got to his feet.
"A-HEM..."
The group turned to the bathroom door to see Lloyd grinning sheepishly in 'Judgment'...
"...Holy...shit..." Zelos' eye twitched.
"O-oh my-!!" Colette flushed.
"Holy CRAP..." Genis gaped.
"The resemblance is uncanny..." Regal whispered.
"Yes...the hair is really the only difference..." Presea reported.
They stopped for about ten seconds.
"...AHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAAHHAHAHAAHAH!"
Presea had cracked a smile and Regal was chuckling, the rest of them laughing their guts out. Kratos' eye twitched, not
finding the situation humorous in the least. Lloyd laughed nervously.
"Wow this is weird..." Lloyd rubbed the back of his neck, smiling a bit.
"..." Kratos flinched.
Then, of course, silence fell again, the tension and down-hearted feelings pulling them all down into a funk once more.
Sure, they had managed to distract themselves from the reality they now faced with these meager...amusements, but in
the end it couldn't erase the cruelty of the situation... Altessa's injury, Mithos' true identity, the development with Kratos
and the question of why Yuan had tried to kill him...there was far too much on their plate...
Creeeaaaakkk...
All heads turned as the door to the next room opened, an exasperated Raine entering with a hand running through her
hair, as if trying to calm herself.
"He's stable," she said, her eyes on the floor, "but we need to find a doctor as soon as possible-"
It was then that Raine looked up, seeing the bizarre sight of Kratos dressed like Lloyd and vice versa. For a milisecond she
through she was dreaming, surely, before the events caught up to her. Her blue eyes widened slowly, mouth agape, as
she stared at the conspicuous duo.
"...Uh..." Lloyd trailed.
"Kratos' clothes didn't fit, and Lloyd was trying to cheer us up..." Genis said.
Silence fell.
"I...er...I'll go change, be right back," Lloyd flushed, dashing into the bathroom faster than a bolt.
"...A...a doctor?" Sheena spoke up, trying to ease the awkwardness. "I know a good one in Flanior, we went to him when
our chief suffered and injury. We can go to him."
"Flanior? Geez, we're gonna have to get to making tracks then," Zelos said.
"Agreed, we must leave as soon as Lloyd rejoins us," Regal nodded.
They talked while trying to avoid staring at the 'boy' in the corner, the red-clad 'teen' averting his gaze.
"...I'll...go prepare the rheairds," Presea said, leaving the building.
"I-I'll go with her!" Genis stammered, chasing his crush out.
"Y-yeah...same here," Sheena said.
And of course, anywhere she went Zelos followed, leaving the adults and Colette.
"...I hope Altessa will be okay..." Colette whispered, "he saved me..."
"If we hurry he should make it," Kratos spoke up, "as long as we are swift."
Colette bit her lip and nodded as Lloyd re-entered.
"Okay I- Hey, where did everyone go-?"
"We are heading for Flanior to get a doctor," Raine said, "we need to hurry, so..."
Slowly she turned to Kratos.
"...What?" he said simply, glaring.
The woman looked at him a minute and then sighed, rubbing her head.
"We'll have to have Genis and Presea share a rheaird, that way you can use the spare,"
"..." Kratos nodded.
"R-right..." Lloyd nodded, "okay, let's go!"
"I'll need some escorts,"
Lloyd did everything in his power not to say a few choice words to the doctor they had come to with their plea. They told
the jerk someone was dying and he could only think about money! He HATED people like that! However, the brunette
managed to keep his mouth shut as the doctor split up his friends for escorts.
"You four will do fine," he said, looking at the Tethe'allans.
"We'll have to take one of your rheairds..." Regal mused.
"Go ahead and take mine," Lloyd said, "just make sure Altessa makes it."
"I'll stay here with Lloyd!" Colette said instantly.
"I will watch you," Raine nodded.
"I-I'll stay too..." Genis trailed.
"..." Kratos said nothing.
"Okay, we'll meet up with you when we can," Sheena nodded.
"Take...care," Presea trailed.
"Y-y-you t-take-" Genis stammered.
"C'mon, we need to hurry!" Zelos said.
Then in an instant they were gone.
"...GGRRRR! DAMN IT! STUPID, STUPID JACKASS OF A CHOSEN-!!"
SMACK!
"Watch your mouth, Genis!" Raine snapped, a look of rage upon her face.
"S-sorry-!"
"...Well, we might as well get to the inn..." Lloyd sighed, rubbing the back of his neck.
The others nodded before the group headed for the inn. On the way, Lloyd and the others kept glancing back at Kratos,
who met none of their eyes and continued walking as if alone. It really was so strange seeing him like that...especially with
how much the two swordsmen looked alike... Colette fidgeted, looking between Lloyd and his father, unnerved as the rest
of them were. Kratos looked SO much Lloyd-! Er, Lloyd looked so much like Kratos! Of course, the fact he was wearing
Lloyd's clothes didn't exactly help.
"W-well...um...here we are," Lloyd said, walking in.
There was no response from his companions. He sighed and walked in with the lot of them to the front desk, taking the
initiative to talk to the receptionist.
"Hi, uh...what have you got for five?"
"Hm, let me check..."
There was another silenced filled only by the flitting of pages, the woman's fingertips causing flicking sounds to fill the
vacuum of silence that had long penetrated the five of them.
"Okay, I've got two," she said, "there's a three person and a two, you two ladies and the little guy-"
Genis scowled.
"Can share one," she said, handing Raine a key, "and..."
She scurried about a minute before handing a key to Lloyd.
"You and your little brother can share the other one," she smiled.
Kratos and Lloyd visibly flinched, the half-elves burst into coughing as Colette tripped...standing still. The receptionist
frowned in confusion as Lloyd attempted to stammer out words.
"H-he's not- I-" he forced, a mix between shocked, disgusted, and embarrassed.
"Oh? I'm sorry, I just thought...oh you're right, are you cousins?"
"N-n-" he shook his head, "nevermind, thanks!"
Lloyd took the key and bolted upstairs, the rest soon following out of an attempt to escape the awkwardness, leaving the
poor woman severely confused.
"The brother thing again?!" Lloyd groaned once they were out of earshot.
"Well..." Colette bit her lip.
"That's not important," Kratos snapped, "let's just get some rest-"
"Holy-!!" Genis gasped, staring wide-eyed at Kratos.
"What?" he snapped.
"Are you BLUSHING!?" the half-elf cried.
Silence fell like a brick once again. Though this time a cricket chirped somewhere.
"Wha-?!"
Everyone, even Raine (though she tried to look like she didn't), attempted to zoom in to Kratos' face to find that yes, in
fact, there was a faint blush of embarrassment on his cheeks. Needless to say, they were quite certain the world had in
fact ended, since the trip hadn't done it. Kratos shook his head and back up from them, not looking at them.
"W-where is the room?" he snapped, heading off stubbornly down the hall.
"It's right here," Lloyd pointed at the door to his right, still gaping off at his father.
"...Of course," Kratos coughed, turning and heading back with his face downcast.
They stared at him a minute more...
"Are you going to open the door or not?" Kratos hissed, glaring UP at his son.
"Er..y-yeah..." Lloyd turned to the door, "um...good night, everybody..."
"...Right," Raine nodded, "come along, Genis, Colette."
"S-sleep well!" Colette stammered, forcing a smile.
"Tch..." Kratos glanced aside.
"Good night..." Lloyd said as Colette walked down the hall.
"...Well? Are you going to open the door?" Kratos asked.
"Huh-? Oh! Right..." Lloyd fumbled with the key, the door opening with a distinct 'click'.
The swordsmen walked into room, Lloyd glancing down nervously at his father as the Seraph persisted to avoid
acknowledging his existence in the least. Nervously, Lloyd closed the door and walked up to the window to fight off the
nagging feeling of awkwardness...
"Wow..." he found himself saying, "look at that snow..."
As he gazed out at the falling flakes, he barely noted the faint footsteps coming up behind him. After a second he glanced
to his side where Kratos stood, looking out as well.
"...Hey...um..." Lloyd fidgeted.
"I'm going for a walk," Kratos stated, turning from him.
"Huh-? But it's-!" he started.
"I'll be fine, you stay here and get some rest,"
Lloyd glared.
"Like hell!" he snapped. "Either you stay, or I'm going with you!"
Kratos paused a minute...
"..Fine then," he nodded, "...if you wish."
Lloyd blinked. He hadn't expected for Kratos to give in so easily... After several minutes Lloyd found himself following Kratos
through the snowy city, watching the snowflakes fall softly onto the spikes of the Seraph's hair. The twin swordsman
wasn't quite sure why he was following Kratos, or where he was leading him, but regardless soon they stopped.
"...Hey, what's-? Woah!"
Lloyd looked out over the balcony his father had lead him to, gaping out at the city. The homes huddled together like eggs
in nest, all sharing a blanket of snow which seemed to engulf the entire plane of existence. The only things that seemed to
indicate where one 'blanket' ended or began were the lights glowing dimly beneath them, strung together like Christmas
lights on a tree all the while more snow fell to grace the ground beneath.
"...I came here once," Kratos stated.
Lloyd turned to his father, who looked up on the scene with glazed eyes.
"...It was always like this, even when I was a child..." he continued.
"...When did you come here?"
Kratos slowly turned to look at him, Lloyd growing unnerved by the eyes that looked so much like his.
"...I came here shortly after I defeated the Lestuk," he stated, "...I was...trying to...think."
"...How did you get back to normal?" Lloyd asked. "That 'furkiol' stuff? Or does it only-?"
"Furkiol can counteract the Lestuk's spell and return the subject to its original state."
Lloyd, of course, was not known for his brains. Contrary, he was known for having let it wander and never come back (and
the fact he had fallen off a cliff as a kid didn't help), yet he still had his moments where he realized something important. If
one had been paying attention, they would soon realize this was one such time.
"Wait..." Lloyd said, "if that stuff..."
Kratos looked away.
"...You..." the brunette's eyes widened, "you never DID get back to normal, did you!?"
The spiky-haired male said nothing, looking out at the snow.
"Kratos-!"
"Yuan and I were this age when I...met it," he muttered, "...I managed to defeat it, as Yuan and I both believed it would
change me back but...as it told you, that wasn't the case."
Lloyd watched his father in horror. He wasn't sure for who, his father, himself...both.
"...I couldn't...take it," Kratos muttered, closing his eyes, "after that I came here trying to...find myself, I suppose. I
needed...I needed to be alone, I needed to figure out what it was I was going to do with myself after...all that."
After a minute he continued, his breath vapor in the night air.
"...I didn't go home, I don't believe I went home until several years after..." he said, "...I began looking for another way to
reclaim...this, body after the Lestuk disappeared..."
At this he slowly brought his hands up to his face, looking down at them with an unreadable expression bordering on
sorrow engraved in his features.
"...I became involved in experiments on physical- on age, at a laboratory... I was desperate, you see, as it had been a year
since I...since it happened. The project most certainly had an affect on age, though it did not revert me back to normal.
Instead it...simply caused me to stop aging in total. That's how I have lived so long..."
"...That's how Yuan and Mithos too-?"
Kratos nodded.
"It was about nine years after that when I met Yuan again...by then he had grown to the age I was, physically," Kratos
continued, "...it was...quite a reunion, to put a long story short, and at the end of our journey both he and Mithos
underwent the same thing I did and...we stopped aging."
"...So you...you really did lose ten years, didn't you...?"
Lloyd felt his heart plummet. There was the possibility he could NOT change back, that was true, but he found himself
thinking more of what he had said before. He told Kratos he had no idea what he was going through...he had every idea.
He had had it WORSE even, because he ended up alone...he ended up losing everything-
"I won't let the same thing happen to you,"
"Huh?" Lloyd blinked, snapping from his stupor.
"...I won't let it happen to you," Kratos said sternly, "I discovered the furkiol far too late for it to be of any use to me...but I
will not let you share my fate, I swear it."
"...D...Kr..." Lloyd trailed.
"...After Mithos is stopped," Kratos said, looking at the sky, "...we'll take the furkiol and you can go back to your life."
"...You really think that I...?
"I know you can," Kratos stated, "I know you can stop him, I know you can fix the world."
Lloyd flinched. Did he really hear that? Did Kratos really...really believe in him.
"...Mithos and I gave up on fixing our mistakes," the Seraph continued, "...you didn't give up. Even now, you still refuse to
give up...that is what sets you apart from us, and on the right path."
"...I-"
Then the third apocalyptic thing occurred.
Kratos sneezed.
"W-what the-?"
"I...I'm sorry," he said, shaking his head, "...I...as I said, the furkiol put me back to how I was before and at this age I didn't
quite have the endurance against the cold..."
Indeed, his face did look a bit frost-bitten, his lips taking a shade of blue. Lloyd himself felt perfectly fine, but he then
reminded himself that it was a different situation with him...
"Here,"
Lloyd took off his red jacket, handing it to Kratos.
"What?" Kratos scoffed. "No, that's not necessary-"
"Oh bull," Lloyd rolled his eyes, setting it on Kratos' shoulders, "take it. I'm fine."
"...Very well," Kratos sighed, slipping the extra jacket over his own, "...thank you."
"Hey, no problem," Lloyd laughed nervously, "...so...um..."
BAM!
"What the-!?"
"Ugh-!"
Kratos hit the snowy floor, flailing as something large and furry began to lick him without mercy.
"N-noishe-! Get off-!"
Noishe barked and continued to lick Kratos, his tail wagging furiously behind him.
"Noishe-! Come on! Get off of him-!"
The protozoan protested in loud whines as Lloyd tried to pry him off, Kratos attempting to shove the arshis away so it was
no longer a dangers to suffocating him. After a minute they had managed to remove the large furry creature from Kratos as
he got to his feet, brushing off the snow with mumbled curses under his breath.
"Noishe-!" Lloyd cried.
The protozoan whined and then barked loudly at Kratos, his tail wagging frantically.
"Huh...? HEY! You didn't recognize ME after that-!!" Lloyd snapped.
"Of course not, Noishe has seen me like this before," Kratos stated.
"...He has?" Lloyd blinked.
"Noishe is a very, very old creature..." Kratos said distantly.
Noishe barked again, attempting to escape Lloyd's grip to lick Kratos some more.
"He seems really happy to see you...I mean, even more than usual..." Lloyd mused.
"...Heh," Kratos smirked a bit, "...he would."
"Huh? Why?"
"He bet me I would return to this form someday, I doubted him, of course..."
This took a moment to register.
"Wait...Noishe BET you...?" Lloyd stared.
"...He is also very intelligent," Kratos said simply.
"Not that! How did you actually manage to understand him?!"
"..." Kratos replied.
"Oh fine," Lloyd groaned, "don't tell me."
Kratos hesitated a moment before walking up and stroking Noishe's head, the 'dog' barking happily. Lloyd watched the
scene in an almost entranced fashion. A boy, wearing his clothes, that looked so much like he did, gently petting Noishe...
Kratos turned to look at him.
"...What are you staring at?" he asked.
"...U-uhm...nothing?...Heh heh," Lloyd grinned.
"...What is it?"
"Didn't...I say that to you?"
Kratos' expression softened, a crack of a smirk coming to his lips.
"...I believe so," he nodded.
"...Is that why?"
"Hm?"
"Is that why you were staring at me? Because I looked like...you?" he finished.
"...And your mother,"
"...About Mom-"
Kratos sneezed again.
"Woah-! You okay-?"
"Y-yes..." Kratos nodded, bring his hand away from his mouth, "I just..."
"It's cold out here," Lloyd interrupted, "we should go back."
"...All right," Kratos nodded.
With that they departed back for the inn with Noishe at Kratos' side, the teenager pulling Lloyd's jacket closer around him
in an attempt to keep out the cold. ...It was so strange...he hadn't been able to feel cold in so long... He tilted his head so
his hair shrouded his face, and, sure that Lloyd couldn't see, he smiled.
Me: Hm...that made me happy for some reason. n.n
Colette: It was kinda cute! n.n
Me: Why thank you, I think so. n.n Please review if you wish.
NOTE: The Eternal Sword will be mentioned next chapter. I didnt' forget it. lol.