EternalIdealist

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✦✧   “R-real home!? You’re a renegade!?” He sounded shocked, staring at his friend. He was just staring at his best friend in complete and utter shock. Lloyd never once appeared to be a renegade.. this was a joke, right? However.. judging by the look on the other’s face, he felt it wasn’t a joke, swallowing gently before looking at Lloyd.

 “I.. remember you killing the man who was hurting me.. W..what did you do.. Lloyd.. are you going to hurt Colette like the other renegades want..?” He was worried, looking at his friend with large, sad eyes.

His expression was serious and calm while nodding to show that this was the truth and not a joke. He wasn’t even doing one of his trademark goofy smiles. Hearing the next words coming out of his friend’s mouth, he sighed before walking over to take a seat on the couch.

✦✧   “L-lloyd!?” Genis sat up before hissing in pain and touching his throat. That’s right.. He had been assaulted and his throat was still sore from it. He had almost died, but now, he was alarmed. This wasn’t Lloyd’s home in Iselia. This wasn’t at all the place he remembered visiting while he spent time with Lloyd after school.

  No, judging by the cold air, they were either on a mountain or in the desert at night.. He shivered a bit, wrapping a blanket around himself. This was a chilling place indeed.. So.. why were he and Lloyd here..?

  “Lloyd.. where are we..? This isn’t Iselia.. this isn’t any place we’ve been to.” He looked at the other, fear in his eyes. Were both of them.. dead? Was this the afterlife?

Of course he knew that Genis would question their current surroundings considering the number of times the other came over after school over the years since his ‘fake adoptive parents’ volunteered to babysit him due to Raine being busy which would have left Genis being alone at home.

✦✧   Genis’s eyes were wide and he slowly reached out to Lloyd before finally, his eyes closed. He had passed out, seeming to float in an endless dream where he was in pain because of what had happened to him. He slowly took a deep breath, gasping loudly when he finally awoke. He was in a bedroom of sorts, looking around in surprise. Where was he?

Lloyd had actually took the unconscious Genis home with him to get him cleaned up as well as explain since there was no possible way he can hide this. And by home, it was his home at the Triet Desert Renegade Base rather than the modest cottage back in Iselia. He already called for one of the females to assist in cleaning up and healing his friend as well as providing him a clean change of clothes while he discarded his already ruined red outfit to the waste disposal unit to take a shower.

Dressed in a black sleeveless top and grey jogging pants, he entered his room and noticed that Genis was now awake.

This was not a normal part of a Chosen’s Journey of Regeneration, but Kratos could not say that he was complaining either.

Several years ago now, this is where he had met her: Anna. The woman who would become the light of his life for the few brief years they found themselves together. And in here, the man who took her away.

In truth, Kratos would always blame himself for Anna’s death. It was his blade, grasped by his hand, wet with her blood. No matter how it got there, it was his fault.

And their son…

His eyes refocused, determination setting into the lines of his jaw. There was an undeniable note of agitation in Lloyd, too, something Kratos found peculiar given the boy’s demeanor up until now. There was nothing for it but to watch closely, however, and that could only go so far when Kvar prowled within this place.

“Keep your focus,” Kratos reminded the group, eyes straying longer on Lloyd. “If your guard lowers for even one moment, then we will lose all that we came here for in the first place, and the Chosen’s Journey will end.” At the end, he had his own role to play right now, regardless of how he felt.

“...R-right.” Kratos’ words had been enough to shake off a bit of that tension though it had not outright vanish completely.

Moments after through Raine’s hacking skills to being chased and cornered by Kvar and his men in a room where humans were being processed into Exspheres and Exsphere host bodies, there had been a moment of the Cardinal gloating his evil deeds as if proud before turning those disturbing evil eyes directly at Lloyd as if gazing into his soul.

“Hmm...this is quite interesting now that I’ve got a good look at you, boy.” Kvar was now smirking. “That inferior brat thought to have been eaten by the monsters along with his pitiful mother 14 YEARS AGO IS STILL ALIVE and in possession MY Angelus Project.” That smirk now morphed into a sneer. “You have no right to use that. Return it to me now and if I’m merciful...I might allow you a quick and painless death.”

“Murderer.” Lloyd muttered under his breath.

“Hmm? What was that, boy? Would you speak up? Mumbling is rather impolite.” The squinty eyed Cardinal was making a mocking gesture as if he couldn’t hear.

-While ‘Irving’ is still being debated whether that is Anna’s or Dirk’s last name, Lloyd being adopted by Yuan takes the ‘Ka-Fai’ surname. However in public especially in the presence of Kratos and those affiliated with Cruxis/Desians, he uses Botta’s last name as a cover. Botta’s last name can be determined by anyone since I have yet to come up with one for him.

-Lloyd has a long scar across his back courtesy of Kvar via protecting Sheena near the ending events of the Asgard Human Ranch. The blow was near fatal and it’s owed to his mother’s Exsphere that he’s still alive.

-Unlike his Canon counterpart, Lloyd has many years worth of training as a Renegade. He’s a little more built as a result of that training. What also comes with that training is his Exsphere already being strong at the beginning. A consequence of that early training is the golden glowing eye effect accompanied with ‘berserk mode’. Makes him on par against an Angel and Desian Cardinals, but at the cost of self control. Takes a lot to bring him back to normal or just simply knocking him out without getting killed in the process.

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