4th Combo [Dream]

[redcladidealist]

Warnings: Blood and death
Effects: None

Smoke billowed from the burning ruins of the city, obscuring the darkening sky. The stench of death filled the air, its source obvious as Lloyd stepped over the broken bodies. A girl-

Rise.

-lay sprawled on the street, unmoving as blood pooled around her. A man with blond hair and a whip-

Dino.

-stared sightlessly up at the sky. Two slashes through his torso made it obvious how he had died.

Blood dripped from Lloyd's swords. He moved on.

"Lloyd!" Someone wasn't dead. A man with red hair sat on the ground, cradling the body of a woman in his arms. The woman looked familiar, with her dark hair and strange clothes - Sheena - but Lloyd was more interested in the man.

The man who was still alive.

"How could you do this?!" the man shouted at him.

Lloyd smiled and raised his swords. "Do I really need a reason?"

A hand fell on his shoulder as someone came up behind him. Tall and strong and intimidating, but Lloyd wasn't afraid. Kratos was on his side in this. "Lloyd, quit wasting time."

He was right. This needed to end. Lloyd took a step forward, then ran his sword through Zelos's chest.

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"NO!" With a shout, Lloyd bolts upright in his bed. The view on the Dreamberry spins as he accidentally knocks the thing off his pillow - then abruptly the feed shuts off.

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[foreversorryorz.livejournal.com]

[Emil was woken up by the strange sounds coming from his Dreamberry. He was curious so he grabbed it from the stand next to his bed. Shocked couldn't even begin to describe was he was feeling as he watched this. What was going on?!]

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[foreversorryorz.livejournal.com]

[He didn't recognize the first two people but the red head was unmistakably Zelos. And then- He couldn't look, he closed his eyes only to open them again as he heard Lloyd yell out. The image, it was gone... W-Wait was that a dream? No, nightmare was closer. So then, none of that really happened. Still, it made him mad. The way he smiled as he killed his friend-]

... Lloyd, that was just a dream right?

[Suspicious, but can you blame him?]

[redcladidealist]

[The fear that it wasn't hits Lloyd like a lead brick in the gut. It takes him a minute to grasp a rational thought.]

I- Yeah. It... it has to be. I wouldn't-!

[foreversorryorz.livejournal.com]

[And that was all it took. He couldn't hold himself back anymore as his eyes once again changed to red]

Hmph, more excuses already?

[Action]

[demonspear.livejournal.com]

[Zelos watched the dream with a serious look on his face. His heart pounded hard and his stomach literally dropped the minute that sword went through his chest. Well uh, that did actually happen after all. But there's no way he's going to tell Lloyd that, not for now at least.

He opened the door to Lloyd's room as soon as he heard that shout.]

Hey, hey! [Goes over to hopefully calm him down a bit from the panicking experience.] You okay, bud?

Re: [Action]

[redcladidealist]

[Lloyd is shaking and breathing hard, pale and wide-eyed as he looks up at the door.] Z-Zelos.

[A dream. It was only a dream.]

Y-yeah. I'm fine.

[He's lying.]

[Action]

[demonspear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and Colette's an expert on how to not trip and fall on a daily basis. [Gotta love sarcasm. ♥]

Obviously something's buggin' you.

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[redcladidealist]

I just... [He swallows dryly.] It was just a bad dream, that's all.

[Doesn't realize that Zelos saw it.]

[popstar]

[No words escaped Rise's mouth as the dream ended. Her mouth was dry and it takes a while for her to collect herself once more. Noireau, who slept at the foot of her bed that night, crawled up by the girl in an attempt to comfort her. Even the Malamute knew that something was amiss.

Finally, Rise gathers herself enough to place a call on Lloyd's Dreamberry, stroking the dog all the while to keep her calm.]

Lloyd? What's... what's going on?

[redcladidealist]

Rise?

[Even though he knows it was a dream, it is so relieving to hear her voice.]

Nothing. It was just a bad dream. [Still, he can't keep from asking...] Are you all right?

[popstar]

Yeah, I'm fine. [A pause.] Sorta.

Seemed like way more than a bad dream to me...

[video]

[lethal-smile.livejournal.com]

[Hakkai found the dream particularly disturbing considering his own past. He meant to say something when he pressed the record button, but... the words just wouldn't come.]

[video]

[redcladidealist]

[Wait. That's that guy's face. The one who helped him and Zelos fight the yeti. Lloyd's heart is still beating a little rapidly from his nightmare, but he manages a shaky greeting.]

H-hey.

[video]

[lethal-smile.livejournal.com]

Ah... are you all right?

[It's all he can think of to say. He's embarrassed for watching the dream. It's really none of his business, but this is Zelos's friend, so...]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry.

[charientisms.livejournal.com]

[...Ah, how curious. And to be quite honest, he is bored. There is little to currently do but take care of the day-to-day and watch this peculiar device, and so--]

Ah...Perhaps dwarfed by something else entirely, I see.

[redcladidealist]

[You. Lloyd remembers you.]

I'm not a dwarf. I told you that. And what does that have to do with anything?

[charientisms.livejournal.com]

Much like not everything is as it seems, not everything has the same meaning at base, you understand!

Or perhaps you do not. Ah, shame.

[beats-zelos.livejournal.com]

...Lloyd?

[Kind of...unnerved now. Not that she thinks that he would ever hurt her, but still--]

[redcladidealist]

[Damn it, Sheena too?]

Sheena...

[So awkward. What do you say to someone who just saw you kill them in a dream? Lloyd rubs the back of his head.]

I'm sorry.

[beats-zelos.livejournal.com]

Ah...

[Awkward...]

There's no need to be sorry. [Even though she's never had dreams about killing people before.]

[ofredemption.livejournal.com]

..Lloyd?

[redcladidealist]

[Still a little shaken up from that dream, Lloyd scrubs a hand across his face. He hopes he doesn't look as pale as he feels.] Hey, Haseo...

[Video]

[chiavarone.livejournal.com]

[Quietly, concern in his voice]

Lloyd?

[Video]

[redcladidealist]

D-Dino... [He swallows. It's hard to get the image of Dino's lifeless body out of his mind, or the blood that dripped from his swords.

But he doesn't know how well Dino really knows him.] I wouldn't do that. You know that, right? It was just a dream...

Re: [Video]

[chiavarone.livejournal.com]

I know. [He's not concerned for himself or the nightmare becoming reality. Dino just wants to make sure Lloyd isn't too upset by it]

Are you all right?