Ch. 11: Battle of Destiny (part 2)

SilverMoon: I apologize for not making the chapters longer...
Lloyd: ...
Other Lloyd: Wow..did you shut up for once?
Me: No..I just taped his mouth shut.
Other Lloyd: Wow...-whispers- shes eviler than I am!
Me: Your not even evil!
Other Lloyd: Oh shut up...
Me: Fine, than you have to do the disclaimer.
Other Lloyd: -sighs- SilverMoon does not own ToS or Namco...

"Yes, you may." Yggdrasil smirked. Lloyd looked back at the group and pulled out his swords. His friends just stared back as they pulled out their weapons as well.

"I hope you are prepared to die here." Lloyd said as he got into his fighting stance. "Because, theres no way you can win against me."

"Now now Lloydie, you don't want to get too full of yourself now do you?" Zelos asked grinning carelessly. Genis sent him a 'don't get too full of yourself either' glare. Before Zelos had time to reply, Lloyd had already shoved his fist into Zelos' face. "How dare you!" Zelos shouted rubbing his nose. Meanwhile Raine was getting ready to cast Ray but was soon interrupted by Lloyd.

"He's fast." She stated as she dodged the hilt of Lloyd's sword. 'And stronger too' She thought in her head.

"Don't go blanking out now...Professor." Lloyd taunted as he hit her in the stomach with the back end of his sword. "You wouldn't want to get...injured." But just then, Kratos came up behind Lloyd and brought his sword down. Lucky for Lloyd, he dodged it. "I'm faster than you think!" Lloyd said, moving out of the way of another one of Kratos' attacks.

"Now now Lloyd. Don't go too hard on Kratos. I need him." Yggdrasill said. (A/N: Finally figured out how to spell his name!! XD)

"Yes Yggdrasill-sama." Lloyd jumped back, barely dodging a swipe from one of Sheena's cards. He got into a stance and started to perform Judgment. Before the anybody could stop him from beginning, seven angels came and warded off everybody while Lloyd casted his spell. "Judgment!" He shouted as beams of light rained down from the sky, knocking almost everyone out. That excluded Kratos, Regal, and Zelos who continued to fight on. Zelos then saw it, an opening. Yggdrasill's guard was completely down.

"Kratos, Regal!" Zelos nodded towards Yggdrasill who was sitting on his throne watching the battle. "I got him." Zelos said. He made it look like he was going to attack Lloyd but jumped over him instead and charged at Yggdrasill.

"No!" Lloyd shouted as he watched Zelos fly over him. Then there it came. The sickening sound of a blade being plunged into ones heart. Lloyd felt it, the pain and the blood going through his body. But then, he returned to his normal self.

"We did it! He's dead!" Zelos said happily.

"..." Lloyd could say anything. He could already feel the warmness of the blood that was currently flowing down his chest. He dropped onto his knees and fell forward with his hands out in front of him. He coughed up some blood.

"Lloyd?" Kratos knelt down by him. Then he saw it, the blood. "What happened?!" He shouted worriedly.

"I was...attached to...Yggdrasill...in a way." Lloyd managed to choke out. "He warned me...earlier. So...I came prepared to die..." Lloyd grinned. "I guess, I was a fool...I'm sorry..." By then the rest of the group had woken back up and ran over to Lloyd's dying form. Raine rolled Lloyd onto his back and attempted to heal him.

"..." Raine stayed silent.

"Is he going to be okay?" Kratos asked, his eyes wide with fear for his only son.

"...Its...no use..." Raine said. She stood and turned towards the wall, tears forming in her blue eyes.

"Dad..." Lloyd reached his hand up and poked Kratos' forehead. "Don't...worry...I'll...be back." He smiled. And then that was that. It was over. Lloyd was dead and so was Yggdrasill.

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The next few days were spent preparing for Lloyd's funeral. Everyone was silent as they sat around the warming fire in Dirk's house. "So..he's really dead...?" Dirk asked, the sorrow just pouring out of his mouth.

"Y-yes..." Kratos said, not taking his eyes off the fire. As you can guess, he was the one who it was the hardest on. Although he hadn't cried, the group could just guess by the look he always had on his face ever since the incident.

"If only we'd known..." Genis had said a few days ago.

"If only I hadn't been so careless to let him out of my sight even once." Kratos sighed to himself, still staring mesmerized at the fire.

"Theres a lot of 'Ifs' aren't there..." Zelos muttered.

"I'm just wondering what he meant by "I'll be back"." Raine said.

"Perhaps it meant what it was supposed to mean." Regal stated, thinking hard about it.

"Come on people! We have to cheer up! I'm sure Lloyd wouldn't want us to be upset." Colette said, trying to make everyone happier. Although, it didn't seem to work. "I'm sorry..." She muttered, looking down at her feet. Raine put a hand on her shoulder.

"Its okay, you're right anyways." She said. "I'm sure Lloyd wouldn't want us to be sulking." Raine smiled.

"Yeah, we've gotta be happy for his sake too!" Genis said enthusiastically. Kratos finally looked up from the fire.

"Yes. He did say he'd be back didn't he? Shall we try to find out what he'd meant?" Kratos asked.

"Yeah!" The rest of the group shouted. An thus began the second journey that they'd started together. Little did they know that it would be much harder than the last.

Me: OMG! I finished it!
Lloyd: -licks tape off mouth- Wow..you actually made it?
Me: -slaps lloyd- Can you try to be nice? -pulls out paddle
Lloyd: Yes mommy! -whimpers and hides behind Kratos-
Kratos: So, tell us what you think or thought about the story!
Me: Also, tell me how I can correct any of my mistakes in the story!
Lloyd: I guess its my job to say that you have to review, so review!
Me: One more thing. I am going to make a sequel so don't worry! I'll probably have it up sometime next week or the week after, mm-kay? Now...REVIEW!!

-SilverMoon888