'Life is an adventure, so pack plently of rope.'
-Stormtracer

It's funny,isn't it, how just when you think you have life all figured out it goes and bites you in the tail. That happened to me, and now I'm stuck wondering how life would've turned out if I'd just stopped and thought for a moment.

I guess you must be wonderin' what I'm talking about,or at least who I am, so I might as well say it.

I'm Arc Aedialoa, and I'm dead.

Well, not yet anyway....But I'm pretty close.

Arc vainly tried to swim to the surface, but found he was just to tired to manage it,letting the dark blue ocean drag him closer and closer to it's heart...

See? Pretty soon it will be all over. No more Arc, no more worries, no more chasing after a half-baked revenge plan.

What? You still don't get it?

I guess I'm not as good at explaining this as I thought...

You don't know why I'm here? Good question. Now it makes sense. Well...after Dare proposed his plan to us, we traveled arund the island looking for answers. Very well found them, I'd say.

I guess you could say I grew sort of close to Lotus through the whole thing, and I think I realized things had to change. I'm not so hot-headed now, and I guess not as arrogrant.

Slowly Arc closed his eyes.

...anytime now...

I wish I could've seen Lotus one last time....I mean, and the rest of the gang.

.....anytime soon.....

I can't believe that I keep forgetting....Stormtracer's gone. The old bird never even lived through the battle.....and Reo.....

I.....I miss how it used to be. I miss taunting Storm, I miss threatening Reo...I'll never do that again. And now Lotus will be left all alone....

Ah well, she'll trudge on. She did mention that she...was...going to be mated to that guy Spirit.....

I'm sorry for all the bad things I've done, and I'm sorry for just letting people die around me.

Anytim-

And then everything disappeared. The pain, the sadness, everything.

Arc saw himself back with his friends....laughing and grinning like there was no tomorrow.

"I had the weirdest dream last night."

"Was it about me?" Joked Stormtracer.

He grinned again. "Nah,that would make it a nightmare. In the dream I thought I was dieing...."

Then they all laughed at Arc's ridiculous dream,then the colours slowly melted together and faded in darkness.....