I'm so sorry it took me so long to update! I've been completely and utterly brain dead. Writers block ultimately sucks. Anyway I'm sorry it took so long, but I hope everyone enjoys!

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I fear that my sanity level has been steadily declining. For some odd reason I feel as if I'm just realising what has happened to me, as if I'm just realizing now that this is never going to end.

Martel will never be ressurected, and I'm finally accepting it, I think Yuan may have too. Perhaps that is why he doesn't want to stay with the Chosen. She wouldn't be able to become Martel, she would die, just like all the others, but I couldn't help but to keep trying. I couldn't help but to hope...

For some reason, I keep thinking about how many people like the Chosen are going to fail their quest, not one has been able to revive Martel yet. Sure, some of them will make it, and "saved the world", but none of them would really help.

Now they all lay at the tower of salvation, and they will remain there forever. Mithos is talking about trying to make the surviving Chosens into lifeless beings. That was his latest plan to free the world of discrimination. I didn't exactly approve of it, but what did my opinion matter? I respected Mithos and his choices. Either way, my only concern was to revive Martel...for Yuan's sake.

I looked over to the beach, watching the water reflect different colors of the setting sun. Tomorrow we are planning on releasing the seal of water. The Chosen had wanted to go on and complete it today, but I insisted on waiting until tomorrow. She agreed, but reluctently.

" I'm sure that once she realises this was her last night of being able to sleep, she'll thank me." I sat in silence for a moment, realizing what I'd just done. "And Kratos's sanity level decreases yet another notch as he begins a conversation with himself... and starts referring to himself in third person." I put my hand up to y face. " If Yuan saw me now he would think that I'd gone completely mad."

"You have gone completely mad Kratos. A long, long time ago."

I turned around. Yuan was standing right behind me. When in the hell did he get there? I noticed he had changed back into his normal outfit, and his hair was tied back in it's usual style. I was a little disappointed though, I really did like the way he looked back at the seal. I grinned at him.

" I'm not any more insane than you, Yuan."

"Ah, but I am not the one sitting here in the middle of the night talking to myself. And when you are supposed to be playing Mr. I-know-nothing-about-you-future with that girl."

I sighed. He did have a point there. The Chosen's hearing would have gone up at the fire seal. I'd have to watch what I said for now on...but if she could hear me talking to myself... then she could hear Yuan too. So what was he doing here? Surely he wouldn't be randomly walking around this particular area in the middle of the night for no apparent reason at all. Maybe there was something he needed to talk about?

" What brings you here anyway? Did Mithos send you?"

Yuan glanced over his shoulder, looking around for something behind him.

"No, Yggdrasill didn't send me"

"There's no need to say his name like that you know"

Yuan turned back towards me and sneered.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot. Lord Yggdrasill "

He rolled his eyes and turned his head again. What was he so nervous about? If Mithos didn't send him, then why was he here?

"Yuan, is there something wrong?" I waited for a reply "...Yuan?"

Yuan was staring at a bush ten or so yards away, nodding. I looked at Yuan in confusion. Did he just i nod /i at a bush? I tried to follow his gaze, but he quickly turned around.

"Well, I better get going. You are heading towards the seal of water tomorrow right? I still need to get ready. You have no idea how long it takes to get my hair to lay flat like that. I also need to make sure Undine let's me in and all. After that pancake incident ,Efreet was still a little angry with me, and I almost missed you two."

Yuan shuddered slightly at the memory before pulling out his wings and turning away. That was it? He was leaving? What was the point of him coming in the first place? Maybe he was a little more lost than I thought. Before taking off Yuan stopped.

"We need you to be around in the future Kratos. Don't do anything stupid."

Yes, Yuan had definitely lost it.

"What?"

He looked over his shoulder at me ever so slightly.

"Just be careful."

With that he took off. What in the hell was wrong with him? I glanced back over to the bush Yuan had been staring at. What was so interesting about it that it had obtained a nod of approval? I was about to turn away when I heard a sound. I froze, looking back at the bush. What the hell? I kept staring at it, not moving, not blinking. I must be just as crazy as Yuan. I could have sworn that bush just...I heard it again. Now I was sure of it.

The bush was breathing.

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What kind of bush is that anyway? Yeah, kind of obvious what's going to happen...I think.

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