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It started off rather as a normal day, wake up, shower, get breakfast, go to school, do my last exam, get ready for my week of no school. But it seems that my week off wasn't to be. One day I go to sleep, the next I wake in a thunderstorm on the top of a cliff. Being half-asleep still, I wasn't all there, in the literal sense as well. It was like both earth and Sylvarant both wanted me there. I was the rope in the game of tug of war.
As I was slowly coming into full consciousness, I saw coming up the nearby path three figures and a large dog-like creature. They were running like the hounds of hell themselves were upon them. The flash of lightning illuminating their faces shocked me into a fully awake state. It was three people who I recognized almost instantly, Kratos, Lloyd, and who I assumed was Anna.
Anna was interesting. She was rather plain, the only thing that stood out most was a vibrant aura of kindness and a glint in her eyes of a strong sense of what is right and wrong. Kratos, it seems, was the only one who could see me in my semi-corporeal state, must have been the angelic abilities, or him being able to use mana.
The Desains came next, quietly, efficiently, like an unstoppable juggernaut they came in large numbers. Kvar lead them. I know he saw me, as he kicked me in the head on his way past. (I now assume that only those with high levels of mana could see me while I was in that form) The kick sent me rolling to the nearby edge of the cliff. (Odd that, they can affect me, but I can't do anything to them, I couldn't even stand)
By the time when I managed to look back at the fight, I saw something that I will truly remember for as long as I live; Lloyd had wings, (Much smaller then at the end of the game though) and was casting magic. It didn't last long. Soon Kvar had removed Anna's exsphere and she changed into an Exbelua. By this point I could watch no longer, I closed my eyes and but a few seconds later I found myself falling, the back of my sweater in Lloyds hands, him in his mothers arms, and Kratos yelling up a storm.
I never felt it when I hit the ground, but at this point I was fully awake and not half-ghostly. It took about five minutes for Dirk to get there. Just as he came into view I felt my consciousness slipping. I woke up some hours later and helped Dirk bury too Anna, Lloyd luckily was asleep still. This was 15 years ago. We later found Lloyd had hit his head and lost the use of his Angelic gene and magic along with a good hunk of his I.Q.
I'm going into Iselia today. It's the Oracle; I might try to see if I can't help the chosen.
This country life isn't for me.
-Last entry
Matthew Irving (adopted, such as it were)