Chapter 1 Don't forget the past
Lloyd roamed the earth still searching, still collecting. All the exspheres were still not in his grasp. They had not all been destroyed. Those spheres that contained stolen human lives! People struggling to pass on to the afterlife! 5 years had passed. 5 long, lonely years of searching and destroying. Exsphere after exsphere had been found and destroyed. Lloyd's only companion was his pet Noishe. How Lloyd missed all the others. He missed his childhood friends, Genis and Colette, his teacher Raine. Lloyd missed his otherworldly friends. There was the quite Presea, mysterious Regal, sassy Shenna and Zelos. Who could forget Zelos. Lloyd smiled at the memories. Lloyd had grown a bit over the years. He became taller and even stronger. His swordsmanship was surpassed by none. However, there was still his boyish quirkiness and of course he remained, well, stupid. He even wore the same red jacket and suspenders. Then he paused and remembered the two men who had made him who he was. Kratos and Dirk, his two dads. Dirk, his father. The man who raised him and fostered him since he had found Lloyd by the river. Then there was Kratos. Lloyd was Kratos' blood, his son, and Lloyd's real father. Lloyd didn't know him for very long but had learned a great deal from him.
"Whine, whine." Noishe budged at Lloyd's arm.
"Yeah, I miss them all too. But I made a promise that I wouldn't stop searching until I found all the exspheres and that's a promise I'm going to keep! I can't just sit by and let countless people suffer in those exspheres! I will find them all and then we can live happily ever after with our friends. But until then…"Lloyd's voice trailed off. He didn't know how long the adventure would take. He wanted to see his friends again so bad! But then he thought of all the lives trapped in the exspheres. He knew he had to cover every inch of the earth, until everyone was set free. Besides, everyone was on their own journey. They had their own problems and goals to deal with. They wouldn't want to be distracted and neither did he. He continued off and set off to continue his on going search. The day's sun was beginning to set into evening and the air was cooling off. Lloyd looked for a good place to set up camp. The world looked the same since the revival 5 years ago. However it was greener and flowers and crops tended to be in more supply. Must be the mana. Even though it looked a lot the same, it didn't feel the same. It was a lot more peaceful now that Cruxis was gone. There were no more Human ranches and human cultivation plants. No more lives had to be sacrificed for Mithos' selfish plan. Colette was the last Chosen. War and fighting had come to a halt but that didn't mean there were no more battles for Lloyd to fight. The monsters were still a part of the two reunited worlds. He had thought that with the reuniting worlds people would stop fighting. Lloyd ran into a few people with exspheres who refused to give them up. Lloyd had to get rid of them. The people he had to hurt in order to get their exspheres haunted him. He didn't want to hurt anyone now that the two worlds were together but had to accomplish his goal of retrieving those exspheres.
But tonight, Lloyd will learn another truth. Just because Cruxis is gone does not mean there is no more evil in the world. There are still those who crave power. There are still those that hate. Lloyd had no clue that this truth would come attack him that night.