"The next morning I awoke from a thousand nightmares that I don't remember enduring but I knew that they had occurred. My eyes felt weary and heavy as I yawned loudly. I went into Mother's room to check on her and I discover that she was still a sleep. I pulled up a chair next to her bed and stared at her while she slept so peacefully and I realized that what she looked like when she was sleeping was completely the opposite then what she was awake, she seemed to be at true peace not a fake peace that she only pretended to endure. I brushed away a couple of crimson strands from her face and her blood red lips moved slightly, I hurdled back in my seat in surprise. After that I decided to I should return to work and it was a risk to try to desert her to return my occupation but I decided to do anyway. I silently whispered a farewell to her even though I doubted that she would hear it."
" That afternoon, I returned from a day as a mercenary, it was later than I usually return about between eight or nine I suppose. Since I was already late enough and mother would get upset again, I tried to rush home as quickly as my feet would carry me across the tremendous fields of green. I would have arrived there faster but then I sensed that same presence that was watching me last night, I stopped right in my tracks and muttered to him, ' Come out, unless you are wishing for death.' That day luckily I had my rapier in my possession, and my hand was clutched onto it tightly. There was no answered and I heard his footsteps tracing away from the area, but not to his knowledge did he know that I knew exactly where he was heading. You see my sense of hearing was very sensitive even before I joined Cruxis so I could hear his footsteps mounting through the thick grass. He was pretty fast for when I was chasing him though the fields all I could see was his odd colored silky hair lashing behind him rapidly. I finally caught up to him, since this was my opportunity I grabbed the handle for my rapier and thrust it into his lower abdomen sending him hurdling backwards onto a solid mound of fresh grass. I stealthily enclosed him, pinning his thin but muscular body down onto the field roughly. A gasp arose from my lips as I stared down at whom I had just captured. This man, he was the definition of pure beauty that he had never seen on a man, nonetheless a woman. This man's beauty outwitted even my mother's fragile beauty. His skin was pale, so pale that he looked as if he was a corpse arisen from a grave but it wasn't pale in a appalling or frightening way, it made his skin seemed smooth especially over his facial area. His pale hazel eyes I had seen staring at me that one night seemed to be full of vibrate color and his silky hair that was now thrashed into the ground which looked like silk that only royalty would wear amongst their finest accessories. His garments seemed to befit a highly respected knight that had just crowned as king. His face twisted stubbornly when he looked at me, his forehead bathed in hot sticky sweat. ' Very well done, Kratos Aurion,' his voice seemed to articulate richly, ' you have managed to catch up with my stealth, you're defiantly not bad for a mortal.' 'A mortal,' I questioned silently in my mind, 'what the hell is he?' My eyes searched him silently for the answers of all my questions that I dare not ask him. ' Why were you stalking me,' I demanded, trying to act as if I was furious, ' how do you know my name?' A smirk spread across his bloodless lips as he retorted sarcastically, ' I think you're sexy.' My face flushed slightly before I caught on to his sarcastic gesturing. ' My leader wants you to join us,' he spouted out bluntly, his clear eyes never leaving mine, ' my leader wishes for you to consider joining Cruxis.' 'Cruxis,' I questioned to myself again, ' what the hell is Cruxis?' He looked at my blank expression and read me like a book. ' Cruxis is a group that is going to regenerate this filthy realm,' he explained to me as clearly as he could, ' it is made up of Mithos, his sister Martel, and me, Yuan.' I asked him angrily, 'And why must I be next to join.' Yuan shrugged, ' I guess Mithos sees potential in you, how am I supposed to know.' ' So this Mithos is your leader?' I asked more openly. ' I guess, since he founded Cruxis,' Yuan said thinking about this a little, ' yeah, you could address him as that.' I got off of him getting all that I needed at the moment out of him and told him, ' I decline, I'm too busy.' Yuan and I both stood up almost at the exact same moment, Yuan brushing himself off, and answering, ' Alright, I'll be taking my leave than.' Out of absolutely nowhere, wing sprung from his back. His wings fitted him as wings would fit an angel but they looked nothing of the monuments that I had seen before of angels in the stain glass of massive churches the lined the streets those days, they looked as if they were formed from pure crystal they complimented his beauty. They were not white though and they bore no feathers, they were mostly a tint of azure blue and light shade of pink. He smiled at me and then his wings lifted him from the ground, as he seemed to drift slowly through darkness of the night sky, his wings seeming to glow. It was like watching a bird take flight."
" I almost forgot all about Mother as I returned home, my mind infatuated with the thoughts of Yuan. I went up to the tiny oak door and knocked slowly upon it, no answer. I knocked again but this time the old door creaked open and I let myself in. My eyes widened my pupils' small the surprise that I saw seemed all too grave for anything that would happen in "Kratos's" life. Then it was that day I realized that that encounter with Yuan was anything but mere coincidence, my life was probably destined to end up like this. I saw our house was completely destroyed. Vases shattered, glass blanketed the ground from which I walked, but Mother was nowhere in sight. I checked in the kitchen and all the food was tossed onto the floor and chunks of food was gluttony eat and thrown with the rest of the scattered tile and silverware. My heart was pounding faster than my head was spinning, pounding against my chest. I knew where she was but I didn't want to know. I ran into mother's quarters and burst through the door to see her body sprawled out upon floor. It was a grotesque image, mother's fresh white night gown was sullied with the crimson blood that complemented her dark amber hair and the wound was sloppily dug into her heart. I was in complete shock from what I was seeing, I knelt down next to her limp body, her eyes were gorged open widely, veins galore popped out through them and a bloodless lipped smile spread through her lips. My face distorted in a sorrow that I had never endured before, a never-ending stream of tears trailed down my face. The pearls that mother had always worn wear torn from her neck and the ripe loafs of her ears were ripped out. I peered over at a thief who was scrounging through mother's jewelry box and instantly ripped out a dagger that was wedged into mother's heart, and let the heated blood spill out. ' Are you the one that did this?' I hissed at him, clutching the dagger in my left hand. He turned around and screamed when he spotted me, dropped a few of her pearls and emeralds onto the ground, shouting violently waving around a puny kitchen knife, ' Get away from me, I didn't do it!' He could see right through my dark eyes, that psychotic glare of a serial killer; he knew that he was going to die. I knew quite well that he wasn't the killer but my body moved it seemed almost entirely on it's own, he was just merely at the wrong place at the wrong time. I licked my voluptuous white lips with my slender tongue, and my blade clashed with his body and I sliced through him and cut his body into ribbons like a mad man. I had never been so enraged yet so sorrowful at the exact same instant, I felt like my heart had completely died and only a lust for avenging her was left, burning with that and that only as a desire. I stared at what I had done, his organs were pulled out across the rugged carpeting that was already stained with mother's blood, his head was split open and only the fluids of his brain dripped down his face, into his bloodshot eyes and his slender legs and his scrawny arms were detached completely from his body and I toyed with his heart in my hand. A grim smile coveted my face and I crushed the thumping organ with only one of my hands."
" I placed my bloody hand gently over my Mother's widespread eyes and when her eyes were closed, it made her seem like the angel that I already knew that she was. I let the tears flow when I looked at her peaceful expression; it pained me that this was the last time that I would ever see her smile again. Maybe it was better this way, maybe she always had preferred to sleep eternally than live life the way that she had. I was horrified that out of all things that she was…smiling, maybe she had known that father was dead this whole time. Later I made her a grave out in our backyard, the flowers that she had planted so carefully in the soil had grown up nicely. I wasn't very rich so I searched around almost all of Sylvarant for the smoothest, most sturdiest stone and when I finally found it I carved her a gravestone and I put a vase of red roses, that were the delicate color of my mothers' stream of curly hair. I usually visited her grave at least ten times each day, praying to her and talking to her. Than one forsaken day when I was finished with my shift that day and I was knelt down beside her grave, I saw Yuan there his hand reaching out for mine and he said in the most angelic voice that I had ever heard from a human, " Are you ready?" I half smiled my hand conjoining with his, but little did I knew the hardships that were going to confront me, when I joined Cruxis."
Sorry Mother that I wasn't able to keep my promise… but I'm moving on now.
A/N: I know that Yuan isn't exactly in character but I did it on purpose because he's going to go through some major character development.