Coming of Age

Author’s Notes: Here it is, chapter two.

This Chapter’s Warnings: M/F, Underage Characters, Blood (Only a little, and no ‘ooohh… blooooood –licklick-‘ vampy moment), Voyeurism, Solo, Angst

Coming of Age

Chapter Two


In the next few weeks time passed as usual for the group of travelers. Genis continued trying to teach his older sister how to cook, Kratos taught the younger travelers how to effectively defend themselves, and Raine took to studying anything and everything she had not seen before.

Kratos and Lloyd acted no different towards one another, other than the fact that Kratos was a bit more aloof and Lloyd had requested his father’s attention again several times only to be denied and scowled at. Lloyd couldn’t understand why Kratos refused to make him feel good. It was fun and it didn’t seem to cause any harm, so what was up with him?

Having spent all their gald the party had recently been camping out in the wilderness again. It was comfortable enough and better than that tourist trap around the wind seal. Besides that, once they’d gotten to the wind seal Raine probably would refuse to leave it for a few weeks.

The party had stopped for the night not too far from Asgard. The group had already eaten dinner and Genis, who had managed to trip several times through the day, was already asleep. Colette and Lloyd had gone off for another of their nighttime walks and Raine and Kratos were left alone at camp.

Kratos was sitting alone by the fire with his eyes down and Raine had been watching him for a time as though he had somehow become fascinating recently.

“Kratos, what is it that happened between you and Lloyd?” Raine asked, watching him carefully for any body language she might otherwise miss.

Kratos didn’t answer for a moment then looked up suddenly as though he had only just realized he was being spoken to. “I don’t know what you are referring to.” He replied continuing to watch his own feet.

“You’ve been very unapproachable when he is around. I was only wondering what he said or did to offend you. Lloyd may not be the brightest student, but he’s a very good person deep down. I can’t see him intentionally doing anything to hurt anyone.” She said with a thoughtful expression.

“It’s nothing he did, Raine. I’m sorry to have troubled you, but I have no desire to continue this conversation.” He turned back to his thoughts and left Raine looking more fascinated than before.

“If you want to talk about it the offer is still open…” She said, rummaging through her bag for something to read.
“Humph…”


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“I know you’ve been feeling bad with the Toxi-what's-it’s thing and all, but I think you look really pretty lately.” Lloyd said, from just behind Colette.

The two of them were standing atop a small cliff looking down on the plains and Asgard in the distance. The town was beautiful, it was still fairly early and the windows of all the shops and inns and houses were light with softly glowing lamplight. It seemed to sparkle in a way.

“Do you really think so? Thank you.” She said, turning to him and smiling before turning back to the view of the city.

“Sure, it’s kind of like you’re glowing or something. It looks really nice.” He said, walking forward to her side and putting a hand on her shoulder.

“You’re so nice, Lloyd. I’m glad you came along with us, I would have missed you.” She replied, smiling her cute little chosen smile.

“I’m glad to, it’s been fun and I’ve learned a lot.” He said. She smiled and laughed a bit. Lloyd thought she had the perfect laugh for an angel, clear and sweet, like the sound a twinkling star should make.

“Colette…?” Lloyd had been thinking for a few days about something Kratos had told him and now seemed as good a time as any. Besides, Colette was so nice he knew she wouldn’t make him feel bad, even if the answer was no.

“Yes, Lloyd?” She turned to face him again.

“Colette, do you like me?” He asked, suddenly losing a bit of his nerve in the face of the actual question. He lowered his eyes again and rubbed his shoulder with one hand nervously.

“Of course I like you, don’t be silly, Lloyd, you and Genis are my best friends!” She laughed again.

“What I meant was… I mean, do you love me, Colette?” He blurted it out a bit to quickly and found himself blushing slightly.

“Of course I do. I like you more than anybody, Lloyd.” She hugged him and he blushed again feeling the same odd feeling in his groin as he had when he’d been watching Kratos.

“Colette, I want to show you something. I think it’ll be different, but I’m sure I can figure it out… Come over here for a second.”

“Ok…” Colette said cheerfully following Lloyd

Lloyd retreated slightly and began to remove his twin swords and unbuttoned his pants. Colette stood watching him, utterly confused by what he was doing. She peered at him awkwardly as he re-approached her, and his face was as bright red as his shirt.

“Lloyd, are you feeling alright? You look kind of sick… Maybe we should go back...?”

“N-no Colette, I … I’m not sick… I …” Lloyd stammered

“Are you sure? Professor Sage can heal you…”

Lloyd lunged forward and hugged her, “Colette you have to promise that what I’m going to show you will just be between you and me, okay?”

“Okay Lloyd, what are you going to show me?”

“Come here.” Lloyd led Colette to the small outcropping of rock where he had left his swords. “Sit down.” Lloyd and Colette sat and it took Lloyd several moments to finally begin speaking.

“ Say, Colette? Do… Do you remember that lecture the professor gave about the differences between girls and boys?” Lloyd stammered, his face turning if possible redder.

“Yes. That was where we learned about the love between men and women and how babies are made.”

Lloyd lowered his head. “Well um… I learned something and I … I wanted to see if you could help me with it…”

Lloyd beckoned to Colette and she shimmied closer, Lloyd with his head still bowed said
“Do you know about the stuff down here?” Lloyd gestured to his on genitalia that had been painfully constrained for the past week, his own attempts to quell the beast had utterly failed and now the little monster inside him wanted nothing more than for his childhood love to assist, and of course since Colette had paid attention to that class he was certain that she could help…

“Yes. “Colette said plainly. “ The professor said that when men and women…”

Lloyd blushed even deeper. “Well mine’s doing something weird… and umm…” Lloyd slipped a hand in to his trousers.

“Can I see? Maybe I can help…”

Lloyd’s insides froze and his head snapped up, Colette looked so innocent, staring at him concernedly. And he decided.

“It keeps twitching and um…” Lloyd spread his legs to show Colette, and she looked at it with interest. “ Now it’s hard and it’s embarrassing….” Lloyd suddenly remembered the old lady in Palmacosta who had seen it and slyly asked him to spend the night in her hotel room.

Colette leaned forward on her hands and knees to get a better look, then she reached forward and touched it. After being rock hard for almost a week straight the slight touch of Colette’s fingertips sent Lloyd almost to the edge. Lloyds head flung back and cracked sharply on the slightly jagged rocks supporting his back

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Kratos had tonight, as he had done every night up ‘til now, trained his angelic hearing on the kids as they went for their walk. It was necessary incase the two were attacked in the wilderness, neither of them were careful enough.

Tonight the two had gone a bit further than usual and Kratos could only make out about half of their conversation. Even so, he didn’t like what he was hearing. Something about ‘boys and girls’ and ‘twitching’. Things could be getting out of hand.

He felt a bit better upon hearing a sharp crack. One of them had fallen on something, most likely Colette. If there was a mood to break that would do it. He smiled to himself and glanced over at Raine who was once again staring at him.

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“C…Colette….” Lloyd’s head was now resting comfortably against the rocks. Colette was cautiously rubbing the hardend shaft, giggiling slightly when it twitched under her control.

“Does it feel good Lloyd?

“Y-yes I-it does…” Lloyd stammered, as a matter of fact, though he couldn’t admit it, it felt great.

Colette on a sudden inspiration leaned down and kissed the very tip of Lloyd’s fledgling manhood. Lloyd bucked and Colette afraid that she had done something terrible recoiled and pressed her hands to her mouth as if to seal some evil spell form her lips.

“Did I hurt you?”

“N-no Colette it just… Just felt … Really… Good.” Lloyd was panting audibly now.

“Oh, okay, so I should do that more?”

Lloyd looked pleadingly at her and she smiled bending down to continue the treatment, kissing slightly. Lloyd’s breath came short and fast and he only barely resisted the urge to grab Colette’s hair and guide her along.

Another stroke of inspiration came to her and she silently thanked Martel for giving her this chance to be with Lloyd, as the world regeneration journey was to ultimately claim her life.

Colette asked Martel to guide her as she allowed her tongue to gently caress Lloyd’s arousal. Slowly bringing small cries out of the young swordsman.

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Kratos had to listen, he couldn’t help it. By straining his hearing he could pick up every sound and as horrible as it was he couldn’t stop them. If he did so he’d have to explain why he could hear them in the first place, and on top of that he needed them to trust him if his plans were to be carried out. As long as they were just playing around it didn’t matter…

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“Wow…. Colette, where did you learn that?” Lloyd asked, astonished. It had taken Kratos’ treatment before he’d even realized that could be done and here little Colette seemed an expert compared to the mercenary.

“I trusted in Martel and she showed me how.” Colette grinned

Lloyd looked amazed “Wow, you mean the goddess Martel… Showed you that stuff?” He’d have to remember to pay more attention to the book of Martel.

“Uh huh, and some other stuff to.” Colette drew close to Lloyd and rocking back on the balls of her feet and reaching up ward toward her neck she undid the fastening on the vestments covering over her ‘Chosen’s Tunic’ and slid them off, putting them to one side. ‘Oh goddess Martel, help me to present Lloyd with this gift.’ Lloyd stared in fascination and Colette undid the buttons on her tunic.

“Colette, what are you…?”

“Shh, Lloyd, Martel has given me the courage to give you something…. Something that after the world is saved I won’t be able to give you anymore, so I’m going to give it to you tonight before it’s too late…” Colette seemed close to tears but none fell, infact she smiled.

“Lloyd, give me your hand…” Taking Lloyd’s hand Colette guided him toward her exposed breasts, small and pink as they were, they caught and held Lloyd’s attention.
Colette prompted him to massage them, as she ran her hand down her front to her tights that were still on and slipped her hand into them, Lloyd’s breath caught in his throat.

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Still Kratos couldn’t keep himself from listening to the two teenagers as they innocently explored each other’s bodies. He tried to keep from imagining what his son was doing his first time with a girl. He crossed his legs and put a hand in his lap to hide himself from Raine.

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“Does that feel good?” Lloyd had taken up the position that Colette had been in moments before, and cautiously stimulated the tiny kernel of flesh that she had shown to him. A small moan was the only response that he received so he began to rub just a little faster, taking Colette’s advances into account he leaned forward and ran his tongue across the pert pink nipples that protruded oddly from Colette’s now firm breasts.

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‘Sweet Martel, don’t let them do this… Not now…’ Kratos put a hand over his face, both to hide the slight blush he knew Raine would notice if she kept staring at him and because he could feel a headache beginning to arise. He could also feel something else beginning to arise… He kept the hand on his lap right where it was.

“Kratos… Are you sure you’re alright? You seem troubled. If you’re worried about the children I’m sure Lloyd can take care of himself…” She said thoughtfully, thinking about the times Genis had told her about when Lloyd had taken on an entire pack of wolves on his own

“I know he can.” The answer came a bit to quickly and his blush deepened.

“If you’d like to talk…” She began again.

“Leave it alone, Raine.” Kratos said firmly, removing his hand from his eyes and turning his gaze to her for a moment. She considered asking about the blush, but thought better of it. It may have just been a trick of the firelight after all…

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“Wow Lloyd your really good with your hands!”

Lloyd blushed “Well…” Lloyd’s groin was now hard again and there was nothing he could do about it.

“Lloyd, would you like me to show you what else I know?”

Lloyd was taken aback “there’s more?”

“Of course Lloyd there’s intercourse, and professor Sage said it feels really good!”

“Well I suppose if you know how it works, than I suppose if it feels good we could…” Lloyd was cut off, Colette had put a finger to his lips.

“Okay Lloyd I can show you but…”Colette trailed off thinking

( “Genis Tell the class why it some times hurts during intercourse.” Raine had asked her brother. Genis stood his beat red face hidden underneath his silver hair.

“Yes Raine. When females that are virgins, which are women that have never had intercourse, decide to have intercourse, the hymen which is the protective membrane in the inner area of the vagina, is broken.” He sat down quickly, ignoring the giggles from a few of his fellow students.

“That is correct, Genis, to prevent this constant manipulation of both the nipples and clitoris are necessary simply to prevent the woman from noticing the hymen being torn.”)

“But…?” Lloyd said concerned.

“Never mind Lloyd.” She had forgotten what else the professor had said

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That was it then, they were going for it. It wasn’t too much of a problem after all, they were young, nothing was likely to come of it. Still, those sounds… They were so naïve, so innocent, he really should do something about it. Then again, the girl would either die or lose herself by the end of this, who was he to condemn her to die a virgin?

He glanced over to Raine who was blissfully unaware of what was going on about half a mile away.

“Do you suppose it’s really safe to let them alone like this? They’re teenagers after all, we have no way of knowing what they could be doing out there.” Each other for instance, he thought.

“I trust them, Kratos. I’ve known them both for years, they’re both good kids. Good kids with teenage hormones, but I think Colette is intelligent enough to abstain… Is that what’s been bothering you?” She asked him, obviously happy to have gotten to the bottom of things.

“Somewhat, yes.” He replied, returning his head to his hand. He heard Colette cry out and even the professor looked around as though she’d heard something.

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“Did I hurt you Colette? Are you okay?” Lloyd was now on the verge of panic. The two were on the ground now and following Colette’s prompting he had first gotten his member stiff again and than inserted it into her welcoming passage. But Colette had cried out and Lloyd’s erection now sported a thin coating of blood.

“Of course Lloyd, it was supposed to happen that way,’

“Alright if your sure,” Lloyd wiped off on a rag in his coat pocket and soon he was sliding back into Colette’s tight passage, stopping only when he came upon resistance. Colette cried out again, but this time in ecstasy, even Lloyd had to admit this was better than what Kratos had done to him.

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“Excuse me for a few moments, Raine.” She nodded and Kratos moved off into the forest. He found a secluded area not too far from camp and sat down, unbuckling his belts and easing his hand under his clothing, preparing to scratch the itch that had been plaguing him.

There was nothing he could do about the kids, after all, he would just have to ignore it the best he could.

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“Colette, you… f-feel so good.” Lloyd stammered, his breath coming in rough gasps as he thrust into his childhood love with deep and steady strokes. His pace increased as he climbed closer and closer to the top. Colette was moaning now, whispering his name as waves of passion passed through her body.

“Oh, Lloyd… I love you so much…” she whispered, her hands moving behind his neck and locking together, pulling him down into his first kiss. Colette had seen this done between people in the village and now, as Lloyd brought her close to the culmination of her passion she had an undeniable urge to share this with Lloyd as well.

Their lips met and it was amazing. Lloyd thought she was the most spectacular thing he had ever tasted. He leaned forward a bit for better access to her mouth and she cried out again as he brushed a place that felt like nothing she had ever known before.

Colette broke their kiss and mewled Lloyd’s name as a feeling of ecstasy flooded her body, overwhelming all of her other senses and making her young frame tremble in pleasure Lloyd bit down on his lower lip as he felt Colette tighten around him. His pace quickened and he felt a heavy tingling feeling in his stomach just before, for the second time in his life, he reached his climax.

“C-Colette…” He closed his eyes, reveling in the feelings that were washing over him, setting fire to every nerve in his body. He began to pull out, then with another hard thrust brought another cry and further tightening from Colette.

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Kratos was busy at work, stroking his shaft franticly, focusing all his attention on the noises his son and the chosen were making. Their panting and moaning was too much for the angel to handle without some outlet for his own sexual frustrations.

It wasn’t fair that they had each other like this. He’d have to put a stop to it soon anyway, he couldn’t know what this might lead to if he didn’t. Still, there was something about listening to them like this, a feeling of wrongness that just made it all the more infuriatingly pleasurable.

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Colette and Lloyd now laid together on the ground, amongst the soft grass and fallen leaves holding each other in their arms, each of them panting softly. Lloyd sighed.

“Colette, we can’t tell anyone, right?” Lloyd said, hugging her a bit tighter.

“I know that, Lloyd. Let’s just stay here a little longer though.” She said, sighing and snuggling a bit closer to him.

“Yeah…” He closed his eyes and fell almost immediately asleep, content with his arms around his young lover.

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Kratos had finished and cleaned off now. He fixed his clothes and headed back over to camp. Raine was still sitting there reading and she gave him a knowing look when he returned to camp almost twenty minutes after he’d left.

“I was starting to wonder if you would be back anytime soon. Did you enjoy yourself? It’s your watch, you know.” She reminded, covering her mouth as she yawned.

“Yes.” Yes to which, he didn’t say and she didn’t ask. “I’m going to check up on Lloyd and the chosen. I don’t like them being out this late.”

“I was going to suggest it, they’re almost always back before this.” She nodded and returned to her book.

Kratos intentionally headed out in slightly the wrong direction, not wanting to seem as though he’d come straight from camp. He shouldn’t know where they were and he didn’t want them asking anything strange. He turned once he was into the forest a bit and within about ten minutes he found Lloyd sleeping peacefully under a tree with Colette in his arms.

“Alright you two, you need to come back to camp.” He said, keeping his eyes off of them and ignoring both of their states of undress.

“Kratos… I…” Colette seemed speechless.

“Don’t worry, I’m not looking at you. It isn’t safe to sleep out here, and I’d advise you not let Raine or Genis know what you’ve been doing, or let Lloyd know I was here.” He turned and left, not once even glancing at the chosen and his son.

The two showed up at camp around twenty minutes later, smiling and sleepy. They both slept in their usual places, Lloyd next to Genis and Colette on the other side of Raine, neither giving any indication of what had happened.

Kratos sat in his usual position as the night guard with his back against the tree nearest to camp. Tomorrow they’d get to Asgard and after that he’d just have to watch them closely. This journey was just getting more and more difficult. And now he had to add another bit of information to his already overfull mind, he had to pretend that he didn’t know what had happened tonight…