Bonds of Trust
Devastation
"Where am I?" I looked around the area and laughed at my stupidity. "I know where I am. I'm outside the inn. I'm on duty." I looked out towards the ruins where my friend went and shut my eyes. "Nothing has happened, so nothing will."
A laugh came from behind me and I turned around. "That's what you think you fool. Someone is going to die. Actually, that is incorrect. Lots of people will be joining your father."
A dark figure in the form of a teenager, much like me, continued to laugh. I reached up to kill him when a blast went off. I looked over my shoulder and saw black smoke fly into the sky. It was like an atomic bomb went off, and while I was on duty.
"No!"
The figure laughed. "I thought you would like that little show Lloyd. This is a warning. It hasn't happened yet, but if you don't act, someone…no…lots of people will die."
"Raine!" Lloyd screamed as he shot up from under the covers. He took his dream seriously and walked out of the inn. Mighty was sleeping, he had been out here for 45 minutes. He sighed, but he couldn't get rid of his nightmare. He had to tell someone.
"Mighty! Wake up!" he yelled as he shook his friend until his eyes came open.
"What is it? Break time?" he asked.
Lloyd shook his head. "I had a dream. There's going to be an explosion at the ruins. They're all going to die!"
Mighty smiled. "Lloyd, it was just a dream."
"I had one before my father died. I'm not ignoring this one."
Mighty looked up at him in fear. "Do you think we should go get the others?"
Lloyd shook his head. "We have to go now. I don't know how much time we have left." Mighty didn't reply and followed Lloyd toward the ruin area Raine and her team were visiting. "We have to hurry. I don't know how much time we have left."
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Why was he afraid to get caught? Is he afraid to get caught? Why did Kvar not show his face when he shot Kratos? And why did he shoot him with his back turned?
"Yuan, you have been up all night. You need to stop and get some rest."
Yuan smiled. "Thanks Botta, but I can't rest on this. There are so many unanswered questions. I have to figure this out."
Botta sighed. "You'll be able to think better when you sleep."
"Not today. I'm getting close to figuring out some of these questions and then, everything goes blank. It's like my mind is playing games on me."
"Probably because you are tired."
Yuan laughed. "Maybe, but if I sleep now, something could happen."
Genis popped his head in the open door. "Who's supposed to be on the look-out?"
Yuan looked at a near by clock and realized it was supposed to be a new person. "I think it is Lloyd. He probably slept through it and poor Mighty is waiting for a change."
"But, Lloyd's not in his room. I checked five minutes ago."
Yuan looked up at Genis. "What?" He stood up and walked to the boy's room and saw that Genis was telling the truth. He looked around for any idea where he would have gone. According to Genis, no one was on guard now. "Where is Mighty? He was on guard before Lloyd was?"
Genis shook his head. "I don't know. Did the leader guy take them? Please tell me he didn't!"
Yuan didn't reply and ran out of the inn, hoping for anything to come out and tell him that the two boys were okay. He looked into the night, but with the clouds blocking every form of light, it was impossible to track something down.
"Yuan." Botta yelled from behind him.
"What is it? Do you know where Lloyd and Mighty are? We need to find them before it's too late."
"Anna's gone too."
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"Alright, Raine lied when she said it was a mile away! We have been running forever Lloyd." Mighty said as he came to a stop and placed his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath.
Lloyd stopped and did the same, not wanting to leave his friend behind. "I know! We have been running for what, ten-twenty minutes? Where is this place?"
Lloyd got an answer, but not the one he was looking for. A huge explosion was heard and it easily caught the two boy's attention. Lloyd could feel his heart stop as he looked out at the place where the bomb went off. He shook his head in disbelief and ran over to the area. Tears were filling his eyes just thinking about all the possibilities that could have happened, more than likely the worst. No one could survive a blast like that, and he knew it.
"No…please…this can't be happening!" Lloyd said as his vision began to get too blurry.
"Lloyd! What are you doing? Get away from there! Things are going to fall on you and kill you!" Mighty yelled from a few feet back. "Please stop Lloyd!"
He fell to his knees, knowing that everyone was more than likely dead. He saw a shadow begin to form in the ground and he looked up. He was too close to the blast and a large rock was getting ready to fall on him. He shook his head; he didn't care. However, someone did because he felt a sharp pain in his back and found his face in the dirt.
"Lloyd, what the hell are you thinking? You could have been killed?" Mighty yelled from on top of him. "There is nothing we can do now. We have to leave before we get killed as well!"
Lloyd shook him off and stood up. "I can't! They need my help! Please help me!"
Mighty sat there, stunned that he would want to go and help people that were already dead. "Lloyd, they're dead, there's nothing was can do about that. We have to get out of here before we get killed as well!"
"I don't care if I die! I want to find them!"
"Lloyd! What are you doing?"
Hearing his name from someone other than Mighty, he turned around. "Mom? What are you doing here?"
"Getting you out of trouble like I usually do. Let's go or you both are going to be killed!"
"I can't leave them Mom! They might be alive!"
Anna grabbed Lloyd's arm and dragged him away. "Do you want to die? If you go in there, you're going to be killed! I won't lose the last thing I have left Lloyd."
He wanted to fight back, but he let his mother drag him away with Mighty on their heels. About halfway back, they stopped and turned to see the destruction.
"Those people never had a chance." Lloyd said as he cried into his mother's shoulder. "This is all my fault!"
Anna stroked his hair, trying to get him to calm down. "It's not your fault Lloyd. You didn't plant the bomb, so you don't have to feel guilty at all."
"I'm sure someone survived Lloyd. Don't feel too bad." Mighty replied, trying to cheer him up a bit. "We should go tell the others what happened."
"You don't need to."
"Yuan! Did…did you see…"
"I saw what happened, and I am afraid so did Genis. I hate to admit this, but I don't think Raine survived."
Lloyd went back to crying. "No! I could have stopped this! Now Genis won't ever talk to me again!"
Mighty could feel the tears coming to his eyes as well. Genis had lost two close people, Edect and now Raine. He wouldn't believe Yuan until he found out for himself if she was. He didn't want to let Genis down, so he had to have some sort of hope for him.
"Lloyd, I doubt that you knew what was going on." Yuan said calmly.
"I knew this was going to happen. I saw it in my dream, just like I saw my father die in one."
This news sparked Yuan's attention. Had he really seen everything that happened? He looked at Lloyd. "Tell me what you saw. This might be very helpful Lloyd."
They walked back to the inn and Mighty went to go check up on Genis while Lloyd sat with Yuan and Botta.
"I…I had a dream a few hours ago that I saw a bomb go off where it did tonight. I was asleep, on duty, when it happened, which is how I saw Mighty when I walked outside. There was also a figure that I couldn't make out in the shadows. He laughed at me and told me that the dream was a warning and told me to stop it from happening."
Yuan looked taken back and looked away from Lloyd. "So, it was like he was talking to you in your dream, correct?"
Lloyd nodded. "Yeah, it was like I wasn't asleep at all."
"What did the shadow look like?"
"He was a little shorter than me and his hair was kind of spiked, but not too much. As for the color of his hair I don't know, but he also wore some kind of shades over his eyes, so I couldn't see them either."
"Was he in your other dream?"
"He was more of a blob in the darkness, so I didn't see hardly anything. Kvar was the only person in my dream I could make out, other than Dad."
"What happened in that one?"
Lloyd took a deep breath. "I was pinned against the wall and Kvar was in front of me. That shadow figure held a gun to me, but Dad knocked it away. Then Kvar picked it up and shot my Dad! That's when I woke up."
Yuan took a second to think about what he said and wrote it all down. He had more of a description for this guy and now they could scratch more people off their list.
"Is there anything else you can tell me about those dreams? Was anyone else in there?"
Lloyd shook his head. "No, that's all I heard and saw. I'm sorry."
Yuan smiled. "Lloyd, this has actually helped a great deal. Your description will probably help, even if it was un-detailed."
"But, is it the leader? He looked like, a kid…like me?"
Yuan wrote that down as well. "Come with me. I have some audio of his voice. Let's see if it is the same person. Does he sound familiar to you?"
As they walked, Lloyd nodded his head. "He does. It sounds like Mithos…but his hair was longer."
"Maybe it's not anymore, or maybe it's not Mithos."
They reached the room that Yuan had kept the projector in. He played the part that he had and Lloyd listened.
"That voice, it sounds so…familiar."
"Is that the same voice in your dreams?" Yuan asked.
Lloyd thought, then nodded. "It is. That is the same voice, so I guess I have seen the leader."
