AN: A story for how the game actually ended.  I originally wrote this in third person POV, but it just didn't sound right. It's much better like this.

Chapter One

I fell in love with a very unlikely man. He calls himself an adventurer, but he's really just a bandit. An extremely self-centered, cynical, and emotionally distant bandit. His faults may not of stood in the way our love, but Ahirman did. He needed to be sealed away, my homeland and my people needed to be saved. I knew what it would take to complete my task, and I was ready for it. I had not prepared for what my marauder would do.

"Why?" I asked incredulously as my heart began to beat once again.

My question fell on deaf ears as he picked up and carried me away from the temple I should have died in. I felt numb and sickly awe-struck while I watched Ahriman destroy his prison. My enemy flew over us, his expression undeniably full of glee, ruining the beauty of the land with his corruption. My numbness eventually gave way to horror; the god I had worked so hard to put away was completely free.

"Put me down!" I screamed, fury now accompanying my fear.

"Elika," he began softly after he released me.

"You have undone everything! Ahriman is free, and the temple is gone!"

"You were dead!" he yelled, attempting to justify his actions.

"I had to die to ensure Ahriman would never escape! I was ready to pay that price!"

"I wasn't!" he snapped.

"Can you think of no one but yourself? You have traded one life for the entire world!"

"I can't live without you, Elika," the Prince answered quietly.

I turned away from him, tears of anger and hopelessness beginning to run down my face. I looked past the barren landscape towards the dark cloud covering the sky.

"You should learn," I responded faintly before sprinting towards the useless fertile grounds.

"Elika, wait!" he called out after me.

I made way to the closest fertile ground, and jumped across the chasm effortlessly. I looked back at the Prince, waiting for him to reach the entrance. I used my magic to blast him away from the gap before he tried to leap across. He met my vehement gaze desperately as he struggled to keep consciousness. I watched him lose his battle before continuing on my way.