Endless Nights

Chapter 1: Old Times and Lloyd's Confusion

Lloyd jerked awake in absolute confusion, his head spinning in pain as he clenched his eyes shut to keep the light from blinding him. His mouth felt dry, and his eyes felt crusty from his sleep. Yet, the question wasn't about his dry throat or crusty eyes, it was how long he had slept, and where he was, when he creaked his eyes open to look at the area around him.

Decaying wood scattered the ground along with broken glass and destroyed stonework. He was inside some sort of building by the look of things. The pain in his head increased, and Lloyd tried to ignore the pain as he glanced about.

Somewhere off to the right, he could faintly see some stairs leading up to a bit more stable area, and a what appeared to be remains of a carpet decaying just as much as the wood was. Taking a deep breath, Lloyd close his eyes to think about what he was going to do next.

He had no answers for the questions he was certain he will soon receive as soon as his head stop throbbing. It appeared that he was in an old ruin, and he was certain that the chances of finding somebody was slim, and the grumbling in his stomach told him that he need substance soon. Moving his arm, he brushed his hand through his hair, a very old habit he had broken a long time ago.

When he moved his hand back, his eyes widened slightly at the sight of blood. That would explain the pain, his mind replied faintly.

Keeping a groan from spilling out, Lloyd forced his body up. He needed medical items, and to determine where he was. The wound was older, or else there would been more blood flowing from the wound. Stumbling up, Lloyd used his upper body to keep himself upright, using his hand onto a fallen beam. He was careful to make sure that he didn't push on it, so that he didn't gain a splinter in his hand. That was the last thing he needed.

"Oh yes, and if Dart ever learned of that, he wouldn't let me live it down. The great Lloyd, the Wingly, terrified of getting a little splinter." Lloyd grumbled hoarsely to himself, the long years of being silent becoming mute. He wanted to talk, damn it, so he was going to talk!

Even if it was to himself. He had to deal with the lies of Melbu Frahma for over 5 years, he deserved to stat what he thought was important. Grumbling again, Lloyd began his trek through the destroyed building. It took him 3 hours to do so, and it didn't help that he was starting to believe he had been there before.

"But that's not possible. This building almost looks like Indel Castle in the city of Bale...but for this much destruction? Could the Dragoons failed defeated Frahma? No...if that was the case, nothing from the past would have remained..." Lloyd muttered to himself in silent shock.

It was then, that he saw box on the throne that once sat King Albert, and the truth that the building is, or was, the Indel Castle. Walking over, Lloyd saw that there was no dust, no damage done to the box, and Lloyd felt the slight flicker of magic on its surface.

Opening it, he saw a small bag, a letter, and a mirror, a dagger, and a gem inside the box. Lloyd recognize the last three instantly as as the Divine Moon Objects. How did they survive the usage of Melbu's plan?

Taking the letter, hoping it held some idea onto what was going on, he opened it.

Lloyd,

By the time you are reading this letter, I expect that the castle is in ruins, your confused at what happened, and if we defeated Melbu Frahma.

To answer your question is yes. Yes we defeated Melbu Frahma, but at the cost of my father and Rose.

At that time, we thought the danger was over, but it wasn't. Something happen, and the world began to die. At first it was slow, with some creatures dying, then suddenly, complete cities were dead, the water began to grow bad, and finally, the sky turned a blood red during the

day.

I decided to investigate what was going on, to find answers as to what was going on to our world.

Instead, I found the last dragon, a special dragon who could speak to me in my mind. I was confused, but used to the oddities of the dragons. This dragon told me what was going on, and that nothing could stop it.

Well...not now, anyway, but I'll get to that soon.

Anyway, the dragon informed me that you, despite my initial belief, was still very much alive, given the unstable gift, and curse, of eternal life. The dragon then told me that you would arrive at Indel Castle about 200 years later or so, she was confused about the actual time, but still. She told then told me that it would happen again. But it would be worse.

How could it be worse, you might ask? Easy, the Virage would be back.

Apparently, in the future, a group of morons will find a gate to the past, more to the point, the time we, the dragoons, were alive. If used wrongly, it can summon the Moon Child and the Virage into the future.

Now, in the bag is the dragoons. All of them. All 9 of them. The ninth one is yours. The dragon said she will give you her spirit and that you have to find the keepers of the other nine. How, no clue. I just know that it is important to give you this. Also, apparently the time that this all begins is in between a war against two fractions, Light and Dark.

So...that's it. Oh! Nearly forgot something. The Purple Dragoon Spirit broke in half...don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing, but Haschel is claiming that whoever get's it must be trained in Rogue Style Martial Arts...or he's going to kill you when you die...I just couldn't tell him that he couldn't do that...course, he's gotten attached to Shana and Lavitz and Louvia after he learned that I was his grandson...

Anyway, that was all I wanted to share...oh right! The Dragoon Spirits did this strange thing that seemed to gained our personalities that it is possible that those personalities will train any of the new Dragoons...that, and apparently it did the same thing to Lavitz the first time he touched it and so you get to deal with it.

Have fun, Lloyd.

Dart

Lloyd could only stare at the letter for a long time, the first thing to his mind was something very strange.

"I didn't know Dart could write so much." Lloyd muttered to himself, until he saw an added note in a more feminine hand.

Lloyd, if your curious how Dart wrote all of that, I was helping him.

Shana

"I take it back. Dart's an idiot." Lloyd smirked to himself, chuckling at the little note from Shana. Guessing that he was still in shock at the information that he now gained. Sighing, Lloyd opened the bag, and saw a strange black, white, pink, and blue Dragoon Spirit.

"Five Lenus's so called Love Charms say that is my new Dragoon Spirit." Lloyd grumbled, and he picked it up. He felt a warm light enter him, and he couldn't help but smile. The Divine Dragoon Spirit hadn't done that, and he knew that this one truly was his own.

"You are, in fact, correct." a musical voice entered Lloyd's mind, and a projection of a woman came forth. She too, had silver hair but her eyes were the strange color of emerald. She smiled at him, and Lloyd realized that this was the Dragon of Time and Space.

"Correct again, Lloyd." She spoke out, "You may call me...Spira."

"Spira?" Lloyd asked out, and the woman, dragon, Spira, laughed softly at this.

"I know a fellow dragon named Bahamut there, and he calls me Lady of Spira, so Spira is fine." Spira stated, and Lloyd nodded his head.

"Understood." Lloyd said, "So, what am I going to do?"

"Wonderful question. I decided to drop you off at different times so you can learn different fighting styles to teach the next Dragoon Knights. The Spirits will be sent to them, so you just need to find them by the reaction." Spira explained with a smile, "The new Dragoon Knights will be going to a school together, and all I can tell is that some may not know each other that well, or they might know each other well."

Lloyd nodded his head in agreement.

"Very well, but when will I meet them?" he asked, and Spira sighed.

"I do not know, but I do know that they will be over the age of 11, maybe 13 or older...the time is imprecise." Spira told him with a sigh. "I also know that, in the letter Drat wrote with help from Shana, that there are two Lords brawling it out for the control of the people.

Supposedly, there is a Light Lord and a Dark Lord, but in truth, both are Dark Lords. You must prove this to the new Knights. You must. The Red Dragoon idolizes the so called Light Lord, and will not believe you! You must prove it to him!"

Spira ended this with a look of sorrow and pain.

"The boy will be through too much for one such an age. Even during your time, no one would dare harm a child like he will be put through. He idolizes this Light Lord for rescuing him. You must prove to him that this was a lie!" Spira explained, and Lloyd nodded his head. The truth that this boy would be abused was a terrible fate in deed.

"I will do my best, Spira, but we must begin, then. I can work with gaining information during the way." Lloyd told her, "We can't know if we will succeed if we don't try."

"You have gained a bit of Dart's stubborn personality, didn't you." Spira laughed out, causing Lloyd to smile at this.

"I want to prove to Dart that I can do good instead of following orders blindly." Lloyd said, and Spira laughed at this.

"Then let's begin."