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Here you are chapter IV, I know its been a bit longer than my last chapter to get out, but you guys still haven't reviewed, the chapters are written I just am waiting to post them! Currently about halfway through with writing chapter VI and not sure when I'll post it to my Doc Manager.

Chapter IV: In Which My World Is Forever Changed

The Akuren Princess: Hey Zelos, will you do the disclaimer for me?

Wilder Zelos: Of course my lovely hime* hearts in his eyes*

Fujibayashi Sheena: Oh no you don't *grabs ahold of Zelos's ear and drags him off the paper*

Wilder Zelos: "Whaaa let go let go let gooooo..." *flailing his arms and legs, in a failed attempt to rid himself of Sheena*

The Akuren Princess: "Uh, okay then…how about you Genis?"

Sage Genis: "M...me?"

Combatir Presea: "Yes, I believe she is talking to you Genis" *looking over at the boy and smiling warmly*

Sage Genis: "PPPP…PPre…PPresea..."

Combatir Presea: "Please do it for me?"

Sage Genis: *nods, his face beet red, then taking a calming breath, but an evil thought hits his mind and he can't help but spew it, along with his feelings about a certain breed out into words* "if you stupid Hu…"

Sage Raine: *Smacks Genis on the back of the head* "Watch your tongue Genis"

Sage Genis: *holding his head* "oww Raine…ngh*

Combatir Presea: "The probability of Genis getting smacked for that comment, one hundred percent…"

The Akuren Princess: *sigh* "who else is left to do the disclaimer for me?"

Ka-Fai Yuan: "Miss Akuren, I will gladly accept the task of disclaiming for you"

The Akuren Princess: *looking up at the Seraphim gracing her presence* "Oh, thank you Yuan"

Ka-Fai Yuan: "Not a problem" *takes Airen's hand and kisses the back of it lightly, his lips ghosting over her skin*

Yggdrasill Mithos: *seeing Yuan's display of affection, seething and then screaming at the top of his lungs* "CHEATER!"

Ka-Fai Yuan: "Crap, I'm in trouble now" *runs off the page terrified of his lord, screaming at the top of his lungs and vocal range the whole way* "I am no cheater! I am Yuan, I am a four thousand year old half-elf Seraph that serves and is engaged MARTEL, and you, my future brother-in-law scare the living shit out of me, YGGDRASILL MITHOS…..!"

Yggdrasill Mithos: *acting all snobbish* "Ha serves him right; you won't cheat on my sister and get away with it!"

The Akuren Princess: "MITHOS!" Now that you've scared my disclaimer off the page, I guess you'll have to do the disclaimer"

Mithos Yggdrasill: *shifting to his older leader of Cruxis form* "You cannot order me around, I created this world! Therefore, I will not, GLORY TO THE COMING AGE OF HALF ELVES!"

Yggdrasill Martel: "Yggdrasill Mithos! You will not act that way in front of a lady, especially after running my fiance off, it will take me hours to get him to come out of hiding. You WILL do this disclaimer, do you hear me?"

Aurion Kratos: *eyes widening when he hears Mithos scream his old catch phrase, but says nothing, prepared to stop his old friend should the need arise, his hand grasping the hilt of his sword with white knuckled force, however he is shaking his head not believing what he is hearing out of Mithos's mouth*

The Akuren Princess: *thinking to herself* 'I thought he left that glory to the coming age of half elves in the past' "Oh and by the way, you did not create this world, you were the one who split it in the first place, Lloyden and his friends plus your two Seraphim's who you are on a first name basis with, reunited and created this regenerated the world" *finishes her rant while smirking at the scolded Mithos the whole time*

Yggdrasill Mithos: *shifting back to his fourteen-year-old self, looking at the floor, knowing he's in deep shit* "yes sis…" *picks up his head and locks eyes with The Akuren Princess, anger flashing , then pure defiance as he stares her down. The sweet, but scolding voice of his sister pulls him from his staring contest with the authoress*

Yggdrasill Martel: "We are waiting young man…"*tapping her foot, her arms crossed over her chest, taking on a very Kratosy look*

Yggdrasill Mithos: "The Akuren Princess DOES NOT OWN Tales of Symphonia, *shifting to his other form* and she never will rule over me!"

The Akuren Princess: Martel, how do you do it…*shakes her head sighing* "Anyway, now that I have my disclaimer, read on my viewers, read on…"

"Speaking"

'Thinking'

(Kratos's PoV – His and Lloyden's house)

A waiting game, that's what this was, and patience was what was needed and missing at this point in time. The unconscious innocent that I'd rescued from the storm still lay in my bed, recovering. I put another log on the fire, knowing it would help keep the dampness out of the room, and then went about my business. I removed my sword rack, placing it in my son's room on his wall for safety reasons, I also took the two possessions I found in the pockets of her clothes, and laid them on the small table by the fireplace. A small black book, and a pure silver dagger, intricately carved and a line of Mythril running down the center of the blade were all that I recovered. A single diamond adorned its hilt, gleaming in the fires flickering light.

I sighed, leaning my full weight onto the wall behind me, resting one arm on the mantle, the other secured to my sword hanging silently at my side, waiting for a command. I turned her clothes every so often, preventing them from burning, and so they evenly dried. Other than doing that I had nothing else to do. However I noticed my muscles were starting to lock up, it'd been four thousand years since Id experienced that. I had to get up and stretch, and could no longer be the statue that I'd accustomed myself to be.

My features still hadn't changed, and it didn't look like I was aging at all, on the outside that is, on the inside I had no idea, but even that being the case, it was a relief to know I didn't look as old as I felt. If I were simply regaining human qualities without losing the angelic ones, like the expanded life, the not feeling pain, etc, now that would be the best of both worlds. Living forever didn't seem so bad, now that my son would forever be by my side. I had plenty of time to ponder the pros and cons of these outcomes, and now that I had to wait for my newly acquired ward to awaken, that could be done. Lloyden was nowhere in sight, and neither was Colette, so for the time being I had some peace and quiet. However, for how long that peace remained un-shattered I did not know.

I stood there quietly, patiently looking after my newly acquired ward as she lay unconscious in my bed, sleeping peacefully. This in turn brought on thoughts of Anna, sweet memories, and the pain that accompanied them. "Anna, what do I do now?" I questioned, it coming out in a sigh of a breath. I pinched the bridge of my nose, staving off what would have been a migraine. I wasn't used to pain, and now that everything was chaotically coming down upon my head and wreaking havoc on my mind and body, I had no choice other than to act before the oncoming pain hit me, rendering me defenseless.

Regardless of what pain I put my body through, and choose to endure because of my choice to save this girl, I will never regret the choice. Something pulled me to save them, something that I wasn't all too sure of what it was, but I knew that it was the right thing to do. I, the Angel of Death was getting…dare I say it…"soft". All I could do is give her medical care, and wait on her body to heal itself, for her to slip out of the unconscious state so the questions I had and the questions my son inevitably would be pounding my ears with, she could answer for him, for myself, and give a proper explanation as to why they were falling out of the sky during a storm completely unconscious.

I must have stood there hours, for the first time in four-thousand years, my back hurt, my muscles ached, and I wanted nothing more than to lie down. Unfortunately I couldn't because I was on "ward duty" and my bed was occupied. Knowing I had to check in on my son and future daughter-in-law downstairs I crossed the room to where she was laying, casting a quick first-aid, checking her pulse with my fingers to her wrist. Everything seemed as normal as a recovering person's vitals could be so I wasn't really worried.

I threw another log on the fire, putting the ember screen over it to prevent our home from going up in flames and padded my way silently to the door. She looked so peaceful lying there, besides the tremors that were wracking her body, and the slight grimaces of pain that flashed across her features every now and again she was fine. I closed the door over, but I didn't let it latch, allowing me to hear into the room if a situation should arise.

Making it downstairs, I noticed I was still in my wet, bloody clothes. Letting out and inaudible sigh, I turned around and went back up the stairs to my sons room. There I went rummaging through his closet, knowing Id stashed a tee-shirt and my pants somewhere in there, and it would be a miracle if it wasn't buried by my sons shit. I was right, it was buried, I'd have to remind myself to force him to clean some of it out, my Martel, was he a pack rat…

I managed to find my clothes, after a bit of digging, and yes being the "fatherly figure" and wanting to "teach" him "life-lessons" I left the huge pile of accumulated shit on the floor in front of his closet. I settled on Jeans, dark in color and a bit baggy for my slim but muscular figure, and my tank-top not unlike the one the unconscious, and my son were wearing, which was black and form fitting, loser than my "merc" outfit, or my "Cruxis" outfit, but still form fitting and left very little to the imagination, and over that I threw on a black lose silk button up long sleeve shirt, leaving it unbuttoned.

I ended up in the bathroom, towel drying my hair and looking into the mirror. I didn't recognize the man that stared back at me. I hadn't realized that in the short while that I'd been getting my human side back that my body had started re-growing hair again… My Martel, I was scruffy looking, looking around in the closet, I found what I was looking for. Lloyden's shaving cream, a brand new razor fresh out of the package, and aftershave, which I was going to use no matter how pungent the smell. I never had to worry about razor burn as an Angel, feeling nothing rocked to a point, but now, everything had changed in just a little expanse of time, and I had no idea how to survive…

Shaving after four thousand years…what a hassle, I'd have to ask Yuan if he was having the same issues as well, I hadn't seen him or Martel in a very long time, maybe it was time to get together. If this was some change within my body's chemistry and it was temporary, I could live with it, but if it was going to be permanent, I wanted Lord Yggdrasill to put me through the process of Angelification...no matter how painful it would be. I hoped he had refined it a bit more than his first attempts and experiments on Yuan and I, because I liked having my emotions back…just not everything that came with becoming "human"…

After finishing the battle between the shaving cream, stubble, after-shave and myself, I ran a comb through my hair and then shook it to attain the style I'd been wearing the past four thousand years, my bangs covering one eye and the other side falling around my face, the back sticking up at odd angles before it ended neatly at the nape of my neck. How did Yuan deal with all that hair! It would drive me insane!

Wait…my hair is longer...it hadn't grown in over four thousand years since becoming an Angel, the very start of my existence as a "superior being" and it was a slightly darker shade that it was previously, I could tell, my eyes picked up the subtle changes in the brighter light of the bathroom. I decided to leave it, maybe it was just something that came with the radical changes and it wouldn't be a permanent change. I could only hope and pray that it was the proper reasoning and I had nothing to worry or fear.

After one last look in the mirror, I was satisfied at how I looked, the changes weren't so drastic that anyone could see them, only those with a trained eye, Raine, Yuan, Martel, Mithos, Genis, Regal or Presea would be able to Colette and my son Lloyden would not, so for the time being, my secret was safe. I stripped off my shirt, covered the mirror, shut the door, and wrapped a towel around my waist for my next act. I took a deep breath, slowly letting the hiss of air escape through my clenched teeth. I willed myself to relax, closed my eyes, and concentrated on the gathering of mana through my body to two single points just on the inside of my shoulder blades.

Loosing that mana, I felt the painful pinch of my skin before it felt like it was being stretched impossibly tight. I bit my lip, my canines piercing the corner of the sensitive skin, blood welling and dripping down my chin, where it fell to the floor with the force of gravity, splashing rather unceremoniously on the Marble. A flicker of fire raced through my body along with a tearing sensation. My whole body wincing with my muscles contractions and releasing when they would relax. I was out of control of my body's functions…uncontrollably shaking with the excruciating pain that radiated through my body, which wracked my frame to the bone.

The next moment my wings had slithered out of my body, blood seeping out of the two jagged holes where they had emerged from, and coating my "wings" and spattering the walls and floor. I turned in the mirror, looking at the damage that my wings caused, visibly wincing when I laid my eyes on it. My eyes widened with the next change my eyes laid on. I was speechless, staring at my backside…my wings were completely changed, no longer the pure mana wings that Ka-Fai Yuan, Yggdrasill Mithos, Brunel Colette, Aurion-Irving-Lloyden, and Wilder Zelos wore, and the wings that used to adorn my back. No, this was a huge change…

They were more like Remiel's, feathery and solid, instead of segmented mana, black or a dark red in color, I couldn't be sure with the blood coating them even in the bright light of the bathroom. Each individual feather that created the outer most layers was adorned with the ethereal blue translucent mana feathers, that I was used to seeing on myself, instead of being fully translucent blue and comprised completely of mana as they used to be.

I was shocked, I had no idea when this change happened either, and I was going to question what the hell was going on, and get answers out of my former boss.

No wonder my wings hurt when they exploded from my back last night, being completely solid, unable to be pulled back within my body at the mere thought that it used to take, even Lloyden and Miss Brunel could pull their wings in with less of a thought processes that I now had to have. This was going to be troublesome…

Now I'd have to concentrate, and I could feel each feather as it slid back into the confines of my back. This wasn't getting any easier…and for once in my four thousand years, I was at an utter and complete loss, no plan of action, no calculating mind, I was a blank, uncomprehending being, and at the rate these changes were occurring there was no set path, no way to know what the future held for me.

I took a few moments, just breathing, concentrating my being on listening to the slowly thumping heart in my bedroom, using the rhythm to relax my body. Closing my eyes I stood perfectly still willing my new wings to fold and slither into my back, a feeling that would take another few months to get used to.

Moments later I opened my eyes, my wings safely tucked back into their place, hidden from prying eyes. Funny thing was I could feel them, just under the surface, the brush of silken feathers against the inside of my skin made a chill run down my spine. Taking another calming breath, refocusing on the heartbeat upstairs again to regulate my own, I set out to accomplish my next task.

Cleaning the blood off the floor, walls and any other surface that it had splattered onto was my top priority before I cleansed my own bloody backside. I took a wet rag, pouring a bit of antiseptic to prevent the spread of disease, and dabbed at the now drying blood on the floor and walls, removing every trace of blood as to not start a panic for the next person who entered the bathroom.

The events that led to this moment had an undesirable outcome for the look of the bathroom.

To someone entering the bathroom, it looked like someone had been murdered in there, high-velocity blood spatters coated every surface that I had not covered before allowing my wings to harshly escape from the confines of my shoulder blades.

I would need a shower to get the blood off my back where it had ran down, and caked on it in places. I started the shower, letting the towel around my pants drop from my hips, and taking off everything else. I stepped into the hot water…another feeling that I was going to have to get re-used to, I both loved and despised these changes. I let the water run down my back, caressing my skin, relaxing my muscles, and washing away the blood of the day.

The water stung, the torn, jagged edges of my skin were still quite sensitive from when my wings crudely erupted from my body moments prior, and it was going to take a bit more than a few moments to heal. I hoped my Angelic healing would kick in and that the process would be completed before I stepped out of the shower.

I lathered up my body and hair, allowing the soap to flow down my backside, washing away the drying blood, it becoming liquid again, turning the water and soap blood red, as it trailed down my body and joined the rest of the spattering water in flowing down the drain.

I wanted it to wash the numerous sins off my body, to cleanse it and then I could watch them go down the drain. I would never be pure again though, my kill count was numerous, and I don't recall how many people I actually put an end to, but I remember each and every one of their faces, how they looked when they pleaded with me not take their lives, heh, they would forever haunt my waking and sleeping hours for the rest of my existence...

I was ashamed, I'd done so much to so many, and even after I'd "repented", it still wasn't enough. I will never be rid of the sins I have committed, all I can do now is live with them, pray I will be forgiven someday, take care of the ones I love, and not make the same mistakes twice.

Another thought crossed my mind, how the hell was I going to explain these sudden, chaotic, changes in my body's ability to now feel again? The emotions that I was currently re-gaining were one thing, and the changed wings that were sure to be noticed the next time we took to the air, or a situation forced me into exposing them.

Lloyden's questions that were sure to come after he noticed the other being under our roof would include, who, what, where, when, why and how everything went, down to the tiniest details of every second of every minute of every hour of the day…

Martel have mercy…this was going to be the death of me…

The Akuren Princess: Alright that takes care of this chapter

Aurion Kratos: Yuan, that was some speech in the disclaimer *smirks*

Ka-Fai Yuan: "S...Sh…Shut uup…" *Trembling in Martel's arms*

Yggdrasill Martel: "There there, it's alright Yuan he can't hurt you."*looking up at her younger brother, anger flashing in her eyes* "Mithos, see what you've done, I waited four thousand years for you to revive me and you fail me, and then your arch nemesis for three years ends up reviving me in the end, fixing the world, and you go scaring my fiancé, and your friend off the face of the page" *in a scolding manor

Yggdrasill Mithos: "But Martel he…."

Yggdrasill Martel: "I don't want to hear it right now Mithos, Yuan is scared of you, and I suggest you apologize young man"

Yggdrasill Mithos: *mumbling* "I am sorry Yuan; I won't and I can't guarantee you I won't scare you again…" *turns an evil grin on Yuan*

Ka-Fai Yuan: *scared shitless* Ahh! Help me Kratos! *leaps out of Martel's arms and right into Kratos's, Kratos catching him bridal style*

Ka-Fai Yuan: "Help me Kratos…Mithos is going to scare me" *terrified*

Aurion Kratos: *shaking his head* "He will not harm you Yuan, I will not allow him to, and neither will Lloyden, nor any of the friends we've made over the years, don't worry my old friend" *he states, his lips inches from Yuan's, their foreheads just touching*

Aurion-Irving-Lloyden: *not looking where he's going, slamming into Kratos's backside* "Dad!"

Aurion Kratos: *the force from his son crashing into him sends his lips into contact with Yuan's, his eyes widening in shock, before pulling away abruptly, fast but not fast enough for Lloyden to avoid seeing it"

Aurion Irving Lloyden: *eyes wide in shock* "MY EYES THEY BURN!" *covering his eyes staggering around, continually screaming his eyes are burning*

Aurion Kratos: * thinking to himself* 'I just kissed my best friend and I liked it…oh Anna, Airen FORGIVE ME!' * The love in his eyes for Yuan apparent, he looks into the others eyes then slowly leans in again*

The Akuren Princess: *to herself* 'this is kind of hot…'

Yggdrasill Martel: "YUAN!" *looks on in terror before she gathers the courage within and yanks Yuan away from Kratos*

Aurion Kratos: *stumbles slightly as Yuan is ripped away from him* "Yu…an…" *slightly panting, his cheeks flushed and his breathing rather ragged*

Ka-Fai Yuan: *breathing just as hard as Kratos his face also flushed* "Kra...tos…"

Aurion Irving Lloyden: *still screaming and stumbling about his hands covering his eyes* "MY EYES THEY BURN…"

Yggdrasill Mithos: *screaming randomly*GLORY TO THE COMING AGE OF HALF-ELVES!" then realizing what his two Seraphim's have done…*"YUAN! YOU, YOU…CHEATER!"

Random Troller: BURN!

The Akuren Princess: Anywho…please review and ignore the "My Eyes They Burn" AND the other maniac screaming "Glory to the Coming Age of Half-Elves", and calling his soon to be brother in law a "cheater" Hope you enjoyed this chapter Ja Ne!