After what, three years of not updating this story, it's fairly obviously that the update is far from happening, to put it bluntly. I hate to have left readers hanging and I greatly appreciate the encouraging reviews and those that have been fond enough of this story to favorite and/or put this story under their alerts. to my younger self, it was incredibly encouraging.

Honestly, it's not that I haven't tried to update this story. I really have, all of these years I've told myself that I would finish this just for the readers, but the longer time went on, the more I felt I couldn't follow through. Every time my pen hit paper I just drew a blank and this was for several reasons.

The foremost is that I'm a different person ins several respects which also leads to that my writing style is drastically different from what it was while writing this story. Consequently, I can't even read this story without feeling embarrassed at myself. I won't hide that I sort of hate it now, in all its amateurish glory. I would like to think that I have more finesse to my style acquired from various ventures in different writing pools and different fandoms as well as my continued penning of my own original work.

In a rather large window of time where I sadly lost access to the game, I could no longer relate as much to what I was writing for this story and my attempts to continue went further awry.

This is where I give any lingering hopefuls a choice. I have more or less dropped all stories on this account, but that won't stop me from trying if prompted and given the right inspiration. I can't promise that anything will come from future attempts, but I promise to try to produce something.

I can simply post up the incomplete remains of the last chapter in progress thus far and simply have you know that everyone ends up together happily ever after in the end or I can try to rewrite the story.

It will likely be almost entirely different aside from the fact that Zelos and Lloyd get together at the end, but will probably deal with some of the same dynamics, e.g. Zelos's feelings of abandonment and desire for affection and Lloyd's misplaced sense of normal now that the whole debacle with Mithos Yggdrasil is over. The YuanxKratos is debatable and probably won't have such a strange and somewhat creepy omniscient presence over what takes place in the relationship. Hopefully a revision would involve the humor as well as take on a more serious tone that isn't fueled by the somewhat terrible scripting of the game.

A revision would also mean the loss of the childish and exceedingly manic tone my author's notes took. Even I frighten me sometimes.

Of course, there is a third option in which some could have their cake and eat it too. I could post up that unfinished chapter, complete with the sections in which my writer's block broke the fourth wall and where I desperately tried to continue and failed and attempt a rewrite, but I'm going to leave it up to the rest of you.

Not that I think anyone is interested. I suppose this is to satisfy my insatiable curiosity as much as yours. If that curiosity does so exist.

I apologize for the fact that this author's note is so long and late in coming, but it's really only now that I've been able to work past the latent stubbornness of insisting on finishing as well as my sense of.... helpless distaste when I look past on previous chapters.

-DarknessGryphon