Yuan's Memoirs

'My name is Yuan, a head representative of Cruxis, the organization created to keep the world in balance and yet, I am also the leader of the Renegades, whose main objective is to go against Cruxis. Irony.' said Yuan into his personal recorder in his main quarters of the Sylvarant Base. He continued, 'But I digress. I didn't defy the ones I called my friends just so I could climb up the holy ladder to reach the top and claim Cruxis as my own; I simply wish to do what I think is right, my own way. I am not loyal, I am not a rat, I'm complicated. Which… is probably why I started this journal of mine, these vocal memoirs as I call them… that and other reasons. I started to have dreams, the same dream for many nights… and visions, like she did… oh, I'm sorry. A Half-Elven woman named Martel Yggdrasil and I, were deeply in love…'

Martel put the ring with the initials M and Y on her finger once more, and held her hand up into the sky and let the ring shine with the sunlight. 'It is so beautiful Yuan.' Said Martel. When shall we tell the others?' said Martel.

Yuan answered, 'Maybe we should tell them after what needs to be done.'

'I suppose… I'm just so excited… I never felt this happy.' Martel smiled, and Yuan smiled at her smile, as if they had just married.

'The next year, a great battle occurred. The battle was not recorded at the time, how it started remains in the dark, but it was a turning point of the ancient war people talk of today. Martel, her younger brother Mithos, his mentor Kratos, and I were very much involved in the war; mostly as advocates of peace, though war can leave so little room for such ideals. This long, horrid war caused the world to make its own sacrifices. This war caused a giant tree, which was the source of mana for the world, to wither and die…'

'…It is gone…' Martel cried. 'I cannot believe this…'

Yuan wanted to go and comfort her, but Mithos beat her to it. He held her sister into her arms and whispered, 'Do not worry my sister, this world will not die. We won't need the tree.'

Kratos ran to Mithos, grabbed him by the shoulders and demanded, 'Mithos, what do you plan to do?'

Mithos broke free of from Kratos' crasp and held his hands up to the sky. He mumbled to himself in a fast mode. He then rose his Eternal Sword up into the air and hollered, 'Eternal Sword, crafted for me by the power of Origin, grant me the strength to make things right!' Mithos than looked to his companions, and said to them, 'I have a plan to save the world. If that floating rock Derris Kharlan keeps orbiting the planted, the Earth will crush due to its almost infinite mana! If it continues to orbit, no good can come from it. Without the tree, the Earth is practically done for.'

Yuan rose up and shouted, 'So what is your point? What do you plan to do with your sword that'll fix the situation?'

'Simple, just watch… Origin!...'

'Mithos Yggdrasill was a smart boy, yet very reckless in such matters… he used the Eternal Sword to move the orbiting comet of Derris Kharlan, which had orbited Earth of as long as I could remember, and pushed it away from Earth, nearly towards the Heavens… that solved the problem by a small percentage. Mithos realized that the world could barely survive without the comet, he started to ponder for quite some time. Without a tree of Derris Kharlan, the world would have died for sure. Derris Kharlan from the heavens soon offered a new seed, to grow a new Kharlan Tree… but Mithos decided to delay it's germination, I figured out why the hard way, recently…

'Wha…What is that?' Lloyd asked in a frightened state.

Yuan was speechless, he gazed at the giant monstrous tree, with its vines and roots constantly growing and crushing the landscape and cities of Sylvarant. Palmacosta was completely destroyed, he saw people running for their lives, many got off the port city, others of course sunk to the bottom with their city wraped around a root. He then looked deeper through the tree's trunk, and saw what he believed was Martel, again.

'No…' whispered Yuan, 'This can't be… this wasn't suppose to happen!'

Kratos replied, 'Calm down Yuan, what's done is done… I tried to warn you-'

Yuan grabbed Kratos by his collar and punched him, 'Shut up Kratos! Just Shut up!' He continued to sock his friend, until Regal and Lloyd grabbed Yuan and held onto him until he calmed down. Kratos said he was sorry, Yuan ddn't reply.

'The anger I felt was so unbelievable I couldn't contain it, and Kratos just looked so smug, like he always was. I was never that mad before… except once. Soon Kratos gave us an idea of how to rectify the situation, he and Lloyd's group went off to Forcystus's base to shut it off, leaving us able to use Rodyle's Mana Cannon to destroy the Tree. I 'just sent over the summoner of Lloyd's group, Sheena, to go with some of my Renegade escorts to operate the cannon, I should get a report soon…

'Anyway, back to Mithos and what he did next. After denying germinating the seed, Mithos came up with a new way to salvage the world… which soon became known as the worlds. He used the Eternal Sword the slice the world in two, creating two worlds… more like one world, but with two different dimensions that can't collide very easily. Mithos separated the world, and thus Sylvarant and Tethe'alla were constructed. I believe this was his way of saving the world from it's own destruction and trying to deplete the need for MagiTechnoloy. It was quite a rough year.

'The next year after the separation… was rough… I'd… I would prefer not bring up anymore subjects on that… it was pretty harsh for us… but not as harsh as the year after that, when the female of our group, Martel was assassinated by a human... One minute.' Yuan turns off the recorder, and just sits in his chair, pondering his last entry. 'That day…'

TO BE CONTINUED…