Summary: My life, my death, they have all been tied to HIM and if my sacrifice can seal him away then I will gladly die for that cause. Siegfried viewpoint as he is crystallized. Short one-shot.

Disclaimer: Don't own anything except a copy of the game OK everyone...good then we will begin.

"With this...it ends"

So this is it, my final moments. I was sure that my life would be flashing before my eyes but maybe it is a blessing that those stories aren't true...the life I have led would make even the heartless give pause and weep. The vile and despondent acts that I have committed, the murder of my father and the subsequent slaughters to give power to the monster standing opposite me, all in a vain quest to find and defeat a murderer that was lurking, always, in my heart.

"Our kind must not exist in this world; not ever again."

I felt the cold touch of crystal as it started to spread over my skin. The pain was unimaginable as the crystal spikes burrowed their way into my skin, piercing flesh to make the transition permanent. I wouldn't allow the pain to show on my face, I didn't want the monster opposite me to see what pain my decision was causing to myself. It started at my feet and began to slow work its way upwards. I stared at Nightmare as the creature was quickly covered in the pale crystals.

So I am forced to endure the slow agony whilst he is delivered a quick death, it must be my punishment for all the sins I have committed in my life.

I remembered every sin, every murder and act of cruelty that had been delivered by my hands, as Siegfried and as Nightmare. I finally remembered it all, the murder of my father in my pride filled youth. The clouds shifting and the cold unforgiving moonlight shining on his sightless eyes. Those eyes still burn in my soul, like a thousand white hot fires burning forever twisting my in an agony far worse than this crystallization. My guilt that will end with this absolution, the pain was worth the clearing of my soul.

I nearly succumbed to screaming as the crystals bit into my most sensitive area, they were now around my waist and gaining momentum, it has seemed like hours when I know it had only been a few seconds. I realised that the slowing of the crystals had been three fold in design, to give me a chance to view my life as it was, a mess of murder and redemption, to watch my most hated enemy fall and...to become one with the crystal, to see what it would do to this fractured and impure world.

It was going to heal it. It would spread and encompass everything and every one in a shining and peaceful future. No more wars, no more killing, no more anything. Humanity would sleep in an eternal cocoon, dreaming dreams of a better life. No pain, no death just existence.

The Perfect world.

Siegfried gasped as his lungs filled with crystals, he was still conscious but barely. As the crystals shot over his eyes he had one last thought before the eternal crystal sleep of the dead.

My absolution...so long in coming...it's finally here.

Thank you

A/N Thanks for reading my fleeting plot bunny. Please R and R, no flames thank you.