3.09
Climax
This, Kratos decided, will end it all.
For four millennia, he had wandered this earth looking for a purpose.
After four millennia, he found one.
Lloyd.
Every large smile the infant gave him.
Every giggle erupted from his adorable form.
Kratos—for the first time—truly loved.
Anna, Kratos loved too—but it wasn't the same.
She was his spouse, his wife, his lover. Nothing more.
But Lloyd, oh sweet, innocent Lloyd.
He was his flesh and blood, his child, his emotions, his love, his life…
His everything.
And he's gone to heaven with his mother.
Gone. Ripped out from under him.
Everything Kratos lived for was taken away within those moments at that cliff.
And why?
For an exsphere.
Kratos, after discovering his child was dead, cried.
He killed everyone at the Iselia Ranch and the Asgard Ranch. Unknown to him at the time, Kvar escaped.
After this, he cried until he could cry no more.
And then he wandered, heartless, mindless, soulless.
As his everything was in heaven, and that's where he wanted to go.
But as Kratos, so tired and weary of life, approached the Oracle on the day he wanted to die—
He saw someone he never thought he would.
He saw someone he needed so badly.
Lloyd.
And Kratos began to live again.
Word Count: 217
Table: 3
Prompt: Tired.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I don't own them. (As in, Tales of Symphonia.)
Author's Note: How many of you correctly guessed the prompt?