Guess what

Guess what? I don't own monster rancher! In fact, I probably never will. Isn't that surprising?

The phoenix rose

We won, completed our quest

Moo is gone

I even got revenge on Naga

I should be happy

The legend was true

The phoenix was real

We should have remembered

A legend may be true, or it may be false

But usually something in between

I should have realized…

What was happening at the time?

Moo was attacking

Monsters were dying

People were scared

Under the circumstances, I guess I should be glad any of it was true…

What did people fear above all?

Death

As we traveled to find the phoenix, we battled

We killed many

Some fought to protect us

And died for it

Others

Far more

Died by our hand

We rationalized

Thinking the phoenix would revive them

So it didn't really matter much

Sure, we saved some

Pixie, for example

But all that ever did was show us

That our enemies were not really evil

Just misguided, scared and tricked

Golem thought Undine would come back again

When the phoenix rose again

We never tried to avoid a battle because of that surety

That it didn't matter

But all I can see are the many lost disks

Under the cold stars

The phoenix rose again

They didn't

In our own way

We did things no different then Moo

The lost disks are

Lost forever

All because of us

Well, wasn't that happy? I was just thinking about how all the characters believed so strongly in a legend, and got this.