Hey everybody! Thanks, to you who wrote my your messages of encouragement! I am proud to be writing again! But don't let me get lazy! Ok, now that I've used three "!" and I'm satisfied I'll get on with what you're here for (I hope)…

"Indignation"

Mithos was defeated. Dhaos was defeated. The Darkness was defeated. With the fall of Darkness, the Light reins supreme. But a Shadow cannot exist without the Light. Without war, we would not know the meaning of peace. Without death, we cannot know what it means to live.

So it is with the Darkness. With out the Light we would know neither of Darkness, or Light.

But when the Darkness swallows the Light, what little Light there is, shines all the brighter. And so it is with the Darkness. With the Light seems near blinding, what little Darkness there is, becomes Black, like an area of the world that was not created, or destroyed, just forgotten.

The Darkness was defeated. And the Light reigned supreme. But one dot of Darkness remains. Small, Hidden, but very powerful. Its own defeat enrages it. The very idea that something more powerful than it exists is like slow torture.

The Darkness always comes with The Light. Perhaps even with good intentions. But Darkness is Darkness; it will eventually show it's true charter, when as little Light as possible is around…

"Fundamental"

"Sheena… I hate deserts!" This was not an extremely odd thing to say considering Lloyd and Sheena were indeed, IN a desert. "I mean seriously! What have they got going for'um? There hot, There's very little water, and creatures in the desert are meaner because there's no food ANYWHERE" Lloyd said franticly, wiping the sweat from his brow.

"Lloyd…" Sheena said, pausing for a moment "two days ago you said you couldn't wait to get tot the desert because it would be a nice break, also, you mentioned something about absolutely loving, and I quote 'the sun, the mystery, and simple and sweet allure of vast open spaces'…"

Sheena looked at him, closed her eyes, and put her hand on her head in distress. There was a long awkward pause before Lloyd said

"Anyway, I think we should set up camp."

"But it's still daytime" Sheena said, in a somewhat confused voice

"That's the point! It's cooler at night, plus we can use the stars to navigate!"

"Well I guess that makes sense…" And so it was, that they set up camp, in the middle of the afternoon. They set up the same as always, they slept on opposite sides of a fire that was in the center.

Now, Lloyd being the blunt and honest person he was, and Sheena being the good listening and inquisitive person that she was, it was not unusual for the them to spend three or four hours talking. Being the middle of the day and neither of them were very tired, they talked for nearly six hours.

Of the many things they talked about that day, most notables were a certain comment Sheena made that night

"Lloyd, do you think we did the right thing? I mean, about Mithos… Could he have changed? Could he have become different? Overtime? I changed. Is it possible that we did the wrong thing? Yes, I know he hurt many innocent people, but seeing him pled for death…"

"Sheena" Lloyd interrupted "A long time ago my dad told me a story; in a certain village, far away, the only way that a boy could become a man, was to scale a very tall mountain. It was a certain boy's rights of passage one day, so he packed up and headed up the mountain. After days of travel the boy finally reached the snowcapped summit. He was about to head back down the mountain when he heard a voice. He searched for a while, until he found a rattlesnake. It was the snake who was talking. The snake said 'please! Bring me down the mountain! I'll die if I'm up here much longer!' The boy quickly refused saying that the snake would kill him. But the snake said 'If I kill you I'll never make it off this mountain'. This made sense to the boy, so he started down the mountain, with the snake. When they reached to bottom, the boy set the snake on the ground. The snake, warming up in the sun, coiled up. Suddenly, he jumped out and bit the boy in the neck. The boy, realizing what had just happened, said ' Why did you do that? Now I'm gonna die! And I saved your life!' The snake, said to the boy, in his dying moments 'I bite you because I am a snake, that's who I am.'" Sheena, amazed by Lloyd words of wisdom said

"Lloyd, I think that's the most intelligent thing I've ever heard you say!" and she smiled, breaking the otherwise somber moment.

"Come on Sheena Gimme a break!" Lloyd said, hanging his head in disappointment.

"Interruption"

"I can't accept it… I lost. I the great and mighty warrior! I cannot, will not, accept that I lost!"

This sprit of Darkness, now separate from the Light, dwells on its defeat. If capable it would destroy everything just to prove to itself that it was able. This is the most pure, true, and otherwise pitiful state of the Darkness. Living in the past, trying, straining for a way to change it's past. It exists as nothing more than energy. It is incapable of anything but thought in this state. Existing as nothing more than a sprit. Not existing on any physical scale.

But wait! What's this great amount of human sprit? Though distant, further than any scale can measure, there lies a great amount of human sprit. 50, no, 60, no! Many sprits perhaps over 100!

"This should be enough"

The Darkness was not held by linear boundaries. Though the collection of sprit was far away, soon very soon he would be near enough to…

All right then! Hope you guys enjoy this as much as I did writing it

Time taken: 2 days (thanks mainly to anime box sets!)