A/N: It's nice to get back to you and hope you like the new chapter! For those of you who have forgotten I do not own anything except these documents and some ideas everything else belongs to melodyhina123 and the Tales studio. Please review! And I am REALLY sorry for accidentally just re-posting chapter six...

Marble

Lloyd lay under wood and metal, and saw as the villagers formed up and the giant monster made it's way slowly into the town, groaning and moaning the whole way through the gates. The Fish-cutting and catching lady hefted a battle ax easily, the men had swords, and the item shop lady had a spear in addition to her dagger.

Then it started, the fish lady charged with her ax at the large green and mottled beast. As the monster swung at her with it's large deformed yellowed claws, she swung her ax up and into it's right phalanges. The monster pulled back in agony and blood sprayed in the air, it pulled it's arm back, making the fish lady let go and lose her balance.

As her dear friend distracted the monster, the item shop lady ran around the back of it holding the spear above her head, and listened as the sound of swords ripping through flesh split the eerily silent moment of adrenaline. Two of the men of the village were hacking at it's legs and the monster brought it's left arm over in a wide arc, shredding the first man's flesh into bits and nastily decapitating the second with it's wickedly sharp claws.

The item shop lady saw that but with the recent events didn't have the time or emotion left to even shed a tear for her husband and his brother as their bodies fell. She ran up behind the surprisingly short monster, considering the wingspan, and pole vaulted using the spear onto it's neck. It felt like slow motion to her, just watching the thing's arm swinging up at her, she pulled her knife out and just before the arm hit her she plunged it into it's eye.

Then it hit her, literally, she could feel each individual spike plunging into her body, each bone of hers snapping slowly and each and every droplet of blood trickling out of her. As slow as everything was at first it was now just as fast, she felt herself flung like a rag doll under the force of the swing.

She hit the ground and rolled, eventually bumping into Lloyd, who stared at her in shock and said "...I told you to leave..." she just smiled painfully at him, a little bit of blood making it's way down her lip, "you know me, and I know I'm going... to join my... husband... here..." she handed him her knife and took her last breath, then lay still.

Lloyd rolled the knife in the palm of his hand for a moment before he heard a roar, almost a scream... Marble's scream. Lloyd's head whipped upwards and he saw the beast stumble and clutch it's face and collapse to it's knees. The men and women took advantage of this and got close to it, it pulled it's arms away and there was a bright orange light, and a great force blew away from it.

Lloyd was covered with a spatter of blood, human and non-human, he also stood because all the scaffolding had been blown away with the blast. He walked over to the spot of where the monster was, but there were no survivors, everything within a ten-yard radius was dead, even the earth didn't feel alive.

Lloyd walked over to the spot where saw Genis fell, and heaved a great sigh of relief when he found that his friend had been far away enough that he was unharmed and only had minor bloodstains. He picked Genis up and set off, knowing that he would return in time, to rebuild his home, but he had to find Colette first.

A/N: Did you like it? I hope you did and yes, I did feel that I needed to make it a full chapter to capture the full feeling of the tragedy, please review and like always, I'll get back to you soon. Good night!