Lloyd Irving

[Lloyd's face is pale, panicked, when the video feed turns on.]

Guys, we have a problem. Cruxis is here.

[He swallows.]

And so is Kratos. He's taken over. It isn't Yggdrasill anymore, it's him. He's-

[His eyes abruptly widen, no longer looking at the Dreamberry but something off screen.]

Damn it, they're back!

[There's a flash of steel as he pulls a sword out, then the feed abruptly turns off.]


[ooc: Backdated to after this.]

( Little Lloyd in Somarium again. )

Poking a few buttons experimentally as he continues to trot toward Espoir, the boy's face lights up when a light on it suddenly starts blinking. And as for the rest of Somarium? Have an eight year old kid grinning on your video screens.]

It's working! I did it! At least, I think I did. That's what that light means, right? Man, this thing is so cool!

Okay, so I have a question! Two questions! Where am I, and has anyone seen my Dad?


[ooc: Lloyd was an idiot and used his card of youth again. O o p s.]

The dream starts off simply enough, with the figure of a glowering forevveraglub standing with arms crossed. The scenery around him is indistinct, perhaps a field or a forest. rainbowpalette, a girl, is standing in front of him. Neither one looks happy, but the girl is particularly upset. Eridan snaps something at Kanaya, who looks like she's almost in tears.

For a moment, the dream fuzzes and goes out of focus and...

You know what? This sort of dream is best represented with ( a series of horribly drawn MSPaint pics~ )

Damn it, I think Zelos is in a sleep coma again. He's not the only one, either. Colette's still asleep- [At least that's what he thinks. He's a little out of the loop, completely unaware that he'd been in a sleep coma, too.] -and Dino was in one, and Zack's friend, and other people. It's like they're contagious or something.

Is that what's really going on? Are people just getting sick with something we've never heard about?

[Man, now he really wishes Professor Raine was here. Even if she didn't know how to heal it, he knows she could figure out what it is. Then maybe they could figure out what to do from there.]

( No longer six years old. )

[A little while later, after he's snuck out of Kratos's house, trying not to wake the man up, the teenager turns his Dreamberry on. His face is still a shade of mortified red.]

Damn it, what does this place have against normal?

[There's a goofy grin on Lloyd's face when he turns the Dreamberry on. His cheeks are also slightly flushed - but maybe he's just happy?]

DAAAAAD! I found dragon juice! It's really, really good!

[The view shifts away suddenly, and for a moment there's only stone. Then it shifts again - wait. Is Lloyd climbing out of a window? Dressed only in pants and a black undershirt?]

I'm gonna find dragon berries an' bring some home! We can grow 'em everywhere!



[OOC: Backdated to just after this. Lloyd is very drunk!]

Warnings: Violence and death.

Metal crashed against metal in a desperate cacophony. Lloyd struggled to push Kratos's sword away, but the razor sharp edge only slid closer to his throat.

( Why...? )

[Lloyd watched the end of the "dream" with wide eyes. Was it a dream? It wasn't a memory. He remembered how that battle had gone, and it hadn't gone like that. But he didn't remember this dream. He must have forgotten it.

With a shudder he turned the Dreamberry off. He was so glad it was only a dream.]

Warnings: Blood and death
Effects: None

( Smoke billowed from the burning ruins of the city, obscuring the darkening sky. )

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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.